The sky gradually turned white, the artillery battle at the Qingyi Mountain position seemed to be becoming more and more intense, in addition to killing and injuring the Japanese troops and destroying the barbed wire, the remaining part of the firepower suppressed the enemy artillery positions, although this was blind fire, but the artillery fire of a battalion still gave the Japanese artillery a lot of stimulation, at least, the artillery bombardment was extremely effective in interfering with the shooting of the Japanese artillery.

In the face of the artillery bombardment of the Baxing Army, the Japanese artillery also fired back, but when there was no artillery radar and aircraft to observe, it was difficult for the Japanese army to know the location of the new position of the artillery of the Baxing Army for two or three days, so the grenade shotguns they fired exploded in mid-air like inferior fireworks, and the shotguns that exploded flew everywhere, and finally fell into the white snow with nothing. In addition to the shelling of the imaginary artillery positions in China, the most likely sections of trenches were also the focus of attention of the Japanese artillery, and shrapnel constantly exploded in front of the Japanese trenches, and the shrapnel fell on the cold ground without any gain, just like its companions.

Seeing the grenade shots fired by the Japanese artillery exploding fifteen to twenty meters above the ground in unison through the binoculars, Wu Peifu couldn't help but praise the Japanese artillery in his heart, the timing was really accurate! In the past, when the old Beiyang was old, the artillery of the 3rd town could not be so accurate when firing grenade shotguns. Of course, that is also due to negligence in training, if you practice grenade barrage, you can also achieve this effect with your own shrapnel shotgun.

The artillery admired the enemy's artillery, as the infantry of the 3322 regiment commander Wang Xueqian could only look at the ground and the air were full of shells in the snow and stunned, the artillery preparation time for this attack was one and a half hours, he had three expectations for Wu Peifu beside him, one is that the artillery will blow up the barbed wire of the Japanese army. And when attacking, the barrage can move forward evenly, so as not to hurt your own soldiers. Finally, there is the Japanese artillery, which is best suppressed by it. Otherwise, if a grenade bullet comes down, even if there is a steel helmet, many of his own people will die, and if there are a few more rounds, the company will be reimbursed.

The front-line commanders had different thoughts, but the battalion and company commanders in the assault trenches were already of the same mind, and while the artillery was still bombarding indiscriminately, Zhang Muhan, a battalion commander with sweat on his forehead, was summoning the three company commanders to make a final explanation. “…… When the meeting arrives, don't delay in the first company, second and third company, follow immediately, there will be an artillery battalion in the front section to escort us forward, its barrage is 600 meters wide, it is already big enough, after the first trench without barbed wire, there will be two battalions of artillery to protect us. But remember, the artillery positions are four thousand meters behind us, that is. If you want not to be accidentally injured by your own cannon, you must be 180 meters away from the bullet point. But also remember that the artillery observers may not be able to keep up with us, and it is very likely that the shit luck of that day is shitty. As soon as you get out of the trench, you will hang ...... At that time, no one will tell the artillery about the situation on the front line, so we must follow the artillery, and we can't lose it. Once you lose it, you don't have it to protect it. Even if we are able to move, there will be no fewer dead brothers.

And also. Those firepower points that have not been killed by the artillery must be dealt with resolutely! Once discovered, machine guns must be suppressed, mortars must be fast! You must not be stopped by it, once stopped, and the barrage is lost, the artillery will be covered in vain! ”

Probably this one is extremely important, after Major Zhang Muhan finished saying this, he glanced at the three company commanders, and the first company commander Wang Zhiping kept nodding, but his face was white under the wind lamp; Zhou Zhaolin, the commander of the second company, was expressionless, and only nodded heavily when he looked over; Only Xia Zhiping, the commander of the third company who had just come out of Baoding, shouted: "Yes, sir!" ”

Zhang Muhan swept it at a glance, and then said: "When impacting, you must pay attention to the formation, there is no way to cross the barbed wire, but when the distance between the classes and groups of the barbed wire fence is crossed, it will be widened, so that the Japanese can come over with a cannon." The three towns are old soldiers, when the adults are there, it took a lot of effort, today we go to the battlefield, the adults must be watching in the sky, the adults are not watching, the old and young masters of the whole country are also watching, remember not to embarrass the 33rd Division! Do you understand? ”

"Got it!" Several people's voices were a little uneven.

Zhang Muhan wanted to ask again, but thinking that a few people were about to go to the battlefield, there were so many vain, and after sighing, he suddenly saluted the three company commanders, and then said categorically: "Don't say it, fuck it!" ”

"Yes! Fuck it! The battalion commander has always been a gentleman, and his foul mouth burst out of the company commanders' hearts, and they shouted loudly.

After Zhang Muhan explained everything he wanted to explain, he announced the dismissal of the meeting, and the company commanders hurriedly returned to their own company, and then repeated what the battalion commander said to the squad and platoon commander who was waiting for him. Xia Zhiping, the commander of the third company, forgot all the things that the battalion commander had explained as soon as he left the battalion headquarters, and he didn't think about all those words on the way, so he had to say what he could think of and what he felt was important, and then he also announced the dismissal of the meeting.

When he smoked his fourth cigarette, the adjutant finally reminded him that it was time, and at this time the platoon commander outside was already blowing the whistle, and the soldiers who had been squatting and hiding came out and stood in a row in the trench. Then, more voices rang out, nothing more than the things he had just confessed, and with the last sentence of 'bayonet', there was a click, and the guns in the hands of the soldiers suddenly flashed with cold light, and the rifles instantly turned into guns.

Xia Zhiping, who was standing in the trench, had a blank mind in his mind, and all he could remember was the time of the charge, and when he was about to reach the point of silent counting in his heart, the second voice not far away next to him was 'Rush!' Immediately messed up his mind. At this time, he didn't care whether it was at the point or not, the command knife on his waist was pulled out with a 'chok', and he shouted with all his strength: "Forward!" With that, he jumped out of the trench.

There was no wind in the trench, but as soon as he reached the trench, the people who were blown by the wind breathed tightly, and then looked at the barrage in front of him, Xia Zhiping knew that he had made a mistake with the second company, and at this time the barrage of artillery was discharged, and the shells fell on the front at most more than 100 meters. At the interval of a cannon shot, he saw that the soldiers in his company had a tendency to rush forward quickly, and immediately blew his whistle and shouted: "Formation! Formation! Barrage! Barrage! ”

After shouting like this several times, the squad and platoon leaders adjusted the shock formation, and the speed of the troops' advance began to match the speed of the barrage advance. After all, the hard training in peacetime is effective, even if there are Japanese shrapnel on the head. The soldiers were still in an inverted triangle formation, following the craters in the snow. At this time, Xia Zhiping, who was most worried about the Japanese shelling. When I looked up, I realized that the artillery balloon that floated on the Japanese trench on weekdays was now completely shrouded in white smoke - the artillery was suppressing the enemy artillery fire at the same time. Their observation balloons were also scrapped with smoke bombs, and those smoke bombs with timed fuses exploded around the balloons one after another, so that the Japanese artillery observers could not see the battlefield situation clearly.

Walking on the battlefield full of artillery fire, Xia Zhiping suddenly rose a tingle on his back, and while his steps staggered a little, the command knife in his hand was also held tighter, rushing through the sparse barbed wire that had been blown up, just when the artillery fire extended to the rear of the enemy's trenches. The soldiers consciously rushed towards the Japanese trenches, and at this time, the Japanese soldiers who had just experienced the artillery fire were still hiding in the trenches and did not react, when they suddenly saw the enemy rushing up, they were all panicked and screamed. But it was too late, and the sound of grenades, shotguns, rifles, and various weapons banging and clattering together, and the trench was cleaned up in less than a moment.

Xia Zhiping walked behind with him, and by the time he arrived at the trench, the people in front had already finished their work. The trenches were full of dead Japanese soldiers, and some Japanese soldiers were killed after climbing up, and their hideous faces could not be looked at directly. Seeing that the artillery liaison officer began to fire signal flares into the air, Xia Zhiping hurriedly rushed through the trench with his own people. Go to the ridge of the mountain. According to the previous plan, there were two battalions of artillery to escort the infantry forward in this section, and the barrage was more than a thousand meters wide. The troops will follow the barrage to the other side of the hill, if the barrage is lost at this time. The consequences would be dire.

Still discharged the impact formation on the snow, still following the barrage unhurriedly. As soon as the troops approached the ridge of the mountain, a Hatch Chase machine gun that had not been destroyed by artillery fire placed by the Japanese began to fire, but compared to the continuous Maxim machine guns, the Hatch Chase machine gun had to stop firing every thirty rounds. The moment the machine gun on the opposite side opened fire, the troops rushing on that side immediately lay down, and the mortars began to bombard the machine gun position without waiting for orders, and the detachment also began to detour to the machine gun position after a short hesitation, and after only a dozen shells, the machine gun suddenly fell silent.

It's too late to applaud, this delay Xia Zhiping looked at the barrage in the distance and was anxious, he was about to lead people to rush forward, not wanting the Japanese trench behind the ridge. Because the barrage of their own side had gone away, the Japanese troops in the trenches had long been prepared, and as soon as they saw the enemy coming, machine guns and rifles rang out like fried beans, and the third company could not raise its head at all.

"Fuck it!" Xia Zhiping scolded, but no one could hear the voice on the battlefield. At this time, something even worse happened, in addition to the Japanese infantry desperately shooting and resisting, the Japanese army's shrapnel suddenly began to explode on their heads, and after the fireworks, the sun turned green, and those shotguns shot straight down, and each shell was harvesting the lives of their own soldiers.

"Mortars ... Mortar! Suppress! Suppress! Machine gun... Machine gun! Suppress!! "Can't count on the artillery behind, Xia Zhiping began to command loudly, at this time the troops were less than two hundred meters away from the opposite trench, and there was only one machine gun that fired, after all, it was only a second-line trench, and the Japanese army was sparsely armed, at most a hundred rifles, and he decided to go hard.

The company commander's shouts were rarely heard on the battlefield, but in fact, without waiting for his orders, the company's light machine guns were already suppressing the Japanese fire, and the two mortars were bombarding the machine gun in the trench at the fastest speed, which was faster than dealing with the previous machine gun. Seeing this scene, Xia Zhiping suddenly stood up, commanded the knife to point forward, and shouted loudly: "Forward!" Advance!! Without waiting for the soldiers to move, he rushed forward.

The company commander took the lead, and the soldiers lying on the snow were surrounded by him, and they all got up and stumbled forward on the snow. The distance of more than 100 meters is not long, but the snow is very deep, and it is not so easy to run to the front. The Japanese army has long wanted to fight a white-knuckle battle with the Shina people, and after the tempering of the Russo-Japanese War, the main division of the Japanese army only feels that its white-knuckle war is already invincible.

The two troops were like waves crashing into a levee, and countless blood splashes were stirred up when they first came into contact, and after this wave of life and death collision, the revival army in white-gray snow camouflage and the Japanese army in dark yellow coats were mixed together. I don't know before I surrender. Once after the confrontation, all the Japanese found out that the bayonets of the Shina people did not look like bayonets at all. It was a bayonet gun, and the triangular blade only had to hit its own bayonet with force. Your own bayonet will be bent; In addition to the shape of the bayonet, the Japanese soldiers who were stabbed after the stab also found that the enemy's bayonet was significantly longer than their own, and its blade was at least 50 centimeters. Of course, this was already the remnant of the Japanese army before they died after being stabbed, and the three-edged bayonet bleed quickly, and as long as the stab was hit, the triangular knife edge with lead could not heal at all.

Longer bayonets, more unscrupulous horizontal bumps, and the four styles of thieves practiced by the troops day and night, this less than 100 Japanese soldiers did not resist for long. was wiped out by three companies. Cut down the last Japanese soldier who was still struggling with a knife, Xia Zhiping sat on the snow and couldn't get up, ran more than 100 meters in the snow, and fought again, he was already a little out of strength. Just as he was sitting on the ground, the shrapnel that had been fired behind him suddenly shifted again, and he hurried into the trench in fright.

The trenches in front of the ridge and behind the ridge were occupied by the Chinese army, and the command post and logistics station were already under the attack of the infantry of the chinensis, and the entire Maudian defense line became undefendable. Wing Commander Okano Daisa, who was expelled from the position, did not think clearly how the Shina people did this. However, when he saw that the north was full of the banners of the Shina Army, and that the counterattacking troops were repulsed again and again by the Shina infantry occupying his own trenches, he suddenly felt that he could not recapture the trenches without the support of the rear.

"How's that for the 6th Wing." Osano asked in a hoarse voice. "Did they regain their position?"

"It doesn't seem to be!" Staff officer Takada Shaozo said. "Your Excellency, the best thing to do now is to take a step back and wait for reinforcements from the division commander. A rash and unprepared attack is just ......"

"Just what?" Da Zuo suppressed his anger and asked. "We must not lose to the Chinese army in momentum, otherwise the deterrence we have built up for more than ten years will no longer exist. Immediately call in the white scarf team. Unleash a decisive attack, this time. I'm going to lead the team myself! ”

"Your Excellency! You can't ...... like that" Hearing that the wing commander was actually going to charge personally, the staff officer, the group leader, and the adjutant were all shocked and hurried to stop it.

"For the sake of the empire, for the sake of victory, a qiē is worth it!" Okano, who was kneeling, suddenly got up, then held the command knife in one hand, and walked forward fearlessly in front of the white shirt team, and began to lecture before the attack.

When the Japanese army was preparing for the next counterattack, Wu Peifu had already taken the artillery observers to the front line, and at this time there was already a battalion of artillery moving forward to a more advanced position. At this point, the Maodian offensive carefully organized by the 33rd Division had all ended, and all the Japanese trenches in this direction had been occupied. In the next step, the 33rd Division, together with the 28th Division on the west side, will put on a posture of advancing southward with all its might and outflanking the Japanese troops on the Anbong Line, prompting the Japanese army to send troops to stabilize the northern front.

When Maodian was occupied, the unblown telephone line had transmitted the bad news to the headquarters of Andong Manchuria, and Uehara Yusaku, who had not cared about the attack of the Chinese army, began to look solemn, and the Chinese army defeated the defenders in one morning.

"Has the 3rd Army already moved north?" The chief of staff asked.

"Yes, Your Excellency. The general of the temple has already sent reinforcements, and the Shina army will not be able to break through too much for a while, and it is impossible to return to the flank of the Anbong direction in a short time, and our side is still safe now. The staff officer in the headquarters replied.

"What if the enemy doesn't pause and immediately attacks in a detour to the northwest?" Yusaku Uehara said with great anxiety.

"Your Excellency, it's snowy, and the snow is knee-high, even if no one stops the Chinese army, they won't be able to reach the position behind the flank that threatens our army in a day." The staff officer continued. "As long as the reinforcements sent by the general of the temple can quickly hold back the Shina army, then the troops in the direction of Anbong are safe. At present, the most important thing is to transfer the 5th Army in Pyongyang to Andong, and only by continuously increasing troops to Andong can we curb the further expansion of the Chinese Army's achievements. ”

Everyone knows that Anton's front-line troops are weak and the staff is clear, but this is not a question of whether or not to increase the number of troops, but whether the logistics can support it; a single railway line cannot support the operation of more than 20 divisions and regiments, and what can really solve this dilemma is to open up the second battlefield, that is, the general direction of the additional troops, and the general direction of the brigades. Then it is necessary to solve the problem of those submarines deployed in the Bohai Sea, and even if the submarines are forcibly sent to the brigade to increase their troops. The army's logistics may also be cut off by China at any time, and by then dozens of divisions and regiments have already landed in Manchuria. Nor can the war be sustained.

Thinking of this, Yusaku Uehara couldn't help but have a deep grudge against the navy, during the Sun-Dew War, it was the army that took Lushun regardless of casualties, and finally made the Baltic Fleet fight alone, achieving the prestige of the navy, but now the army needs the navy to protect the sea transportation lines, and they can't do such a simple request, what a bunch of waste!

When General Uehara, chief of staff of the Manchurian Army, was deeply resentful, the Po-6 submarine of Rear Admiral Kozaburo Oguri, who led the submarine to attack the Huludao Military Port, was rapidly rising, but at this time, several huge explosions suddenly occurred in the water. The submarine was swayed by the impact of the water waves from the explosion, and everyone hesitated, after Yoshikawa Osa made the assumption that "it was a torpedo", the soldiers of the submarine were all 'loaded', since it was a torpedo explosion, it must have been another submarine that launched an attack, thinking that those hateful Shina submarines were finally destroyed, even Rear Admiral Oguri's face brightened.

The high-pressure air of the submarine blows out the seawater and then rises rapidly from 30 meters on the bottom of the sea, and it only takes more than ten seconds to go up to the surface of the sea from such a short distance. Just as everyone was shouting about boarding, the bow slammed through the thin ice on the sea, and the whole submarine floated up from the bottom of the sea like a dead fish. When the hull collided with the thin ice, Yoshikawa Daisa had already hurriedly turned the periscope. Wanting to observe the situation on the sea surface in the shortest possible time, in the continuous rotation of the camera, he saw a submarine on fire and about to sink in the inverted image. But before he could take a closer look at whether it was his own submarine or that submarine, it sank to the bottom of the sea.

Osa, who couldn't figure out the situation, had to say, "The ice is very thin. Immediately dive to periscope depth, direction 240! ”

"Sink to periscope depth. Direction 240. "Dazuo's order was repeated by the helmsman and the engine, and the submarine began to descend again, and just as he descended, Dazuo finally saw a gunboat 'sudden' approaching. For a moment, his hands and feet were cold, and the submarine he had sunk just now should be one of his other five. Unable to explain this to anyone else, Osa hurriedly ordered the submarine to sink to the maximum depth.

The Japanese would sneak attack Huludao General Staff had long been expected, and several targeted plans were also made. The Japanese attack was very simple, they were either a landing attack or a sea attack, and there were ice floes in all ports of the Bohai Sea in winter, and it was difficult to land and sneak attack, and only the sea could come. When the submarine dock was designed, Yang Rui had been reminded to pay attention to air defense, because the submarines were all in cement caves, and the naval guns could not endanger the submarines, and the real lethality was that the Japanese army sent submarines to attack from the bottom, and the displacement of their submarines was smaller than their own, even if they laid mine protection nets, but the gaps in the flow of their submarines could still be used by them.

In order to prevent Japanese submarines from getting in, after several tests, the lightning protection net of the military port was laid with two layers, and the submarine had to take a broken line to bypass these nasty dense nets when entering and leaving the port, and the Japanese spies only had a map of the Huludao military port before the war, and after the war began, they did not know what the military port became, and even less did they know what the name was in the water, so the propellers of three submarines were entangled in the lightning protection nets, and the gunboats that heard the news easily sank them.

The Bo-6 submarine did not approach the military port and floated, and after seeing the gunboat, it sank urgently, narrowly avoiding the pursuit of the gunboat, but this was only temporary, even if there was no listener, everyone in the submarine under the thirty meters could still hear the sound of the gunboat's propeller on the surface.

When the soldiers of the whole ship were panicking, Rear Admiral Oguri smiled and said: "The people of China can't do anything about us, we are at the bottom of the sea, and they can't see us." Soldiers, the other units have already achieved results, we cannot afford to lag behind, we cannot bring back these two torpedoes. ”

The major general comforted and encouraged them so much, and the officers and soldiers suddenly gained some courage, and Yoshikawa Osa saw this and said, "Your Excellency, what should we do now?" Do you want to wait for them to walk away? ”

"Nope! Let's get out of here. Did you just see the direction? The major general asked.

"Yes, I see it clearly!" Dazuo Road. "We are on the outer side of the military port, but it is already very close, as long as we go further southwest, we can get close to the military port of China."

"Then we'll go there, Yoshikawa-kun, we'll definitely be able to sink the submarine in China." The Major General encouraged.

When the Bo-6 was determined to move forward, Colonel Tian Shijie, the commander of the Huludao Navy, had already gotten up, and he asked Ouyang Lin, the officer on duty, "Is it really the Japanese submarine coming?" ”

"Yes, sir!" Ouyang Lin said: "I will come to give gifts for the New Year, it's hard for them." ”

Seeing Ouyang Lin's poor mouth, Tian Shijie frowned and asked again: "How many ships came, did you kill them?" ”

"Kill three, and I guess a few more are in the water." Ouyang Lin said with a smile. "But they won't be long before they go up to the surface to breathe, and I've let the gunboats stare at it, and there are gunboats outside the harbor watching it. If you let them go this time, it will be difficult to deal with next time. ”

"So much? What a fucking New Year's Day, I came to find death! Colonel Tian Shijie said. Kill them all, and don't miss a single one! I'm going to inform the General Staff and see if I can take advantage of it. (To be continued......)