The frustration of Kimura Hyotaro and Kasuma Shigetaro being blocked did not see the shadow of the enemy from beginning to end, and they did not even find out where the enemy's position was. Let them have nowhere to use their strength.

When Kimura Hyotaro learned that the fire test was fruitless and the losses were heavy, mortars intensively bombarded the hilltop and mountainside. According to the tactics and capabilities of the advance team in the report, according to his understanding, the opponent's guns should be halfway up the mountain. Only by being condescending can you kill the soldiers hiding in the grass.

But after a bombardment, the turf was overturned, and there was no figure to be seen, which puzzled him, and he didn't know where the enemy's attack came from.

"Bombard all the positions ahead where you can hide!"

No enemy was found, and he ordered again.

But before the order could be conveyed to the front, in a piercing scream, a piece of shells flew from the back of the mountain, and in the panic and dodging of everyone, the boom fell, and the earth shook, and the mortar position just now was wiped out in an instant while a huge ball of fire rose, and all the mortars were wiped out in this hit.

The furious shock wave tore apart everything in the surrounding 100 meters, revealing a large area of gray-black ground in the dust drift. There was a figure there, but there was also gone.

"Troops retreat!!"

When Kimura Hyotaro saw the earth-shattering cannon in the telescope, he was shocked and immediately ordered the troops to withdraw from the firing range of the opponent's artillery and move to both sides to avoid unnecessary death.

Half an hour after they were blocked, the Japanese troops in Danyang were already close to Lao Zhao's defensive line.

"General, there is a blocking and interception position of the Shina troops three kilometers ahead."

A second lieutenant reported.

Lieutenant General Guan Guizhi, commander of the 34th Division, which was also formed in advance, looked up at the hills in the distance, raised his binoculars and looked left and right, and ordered: "The Chinese army is very strong, we will not engage with it in short arms first, give orders, and set up artillery." Indiscriminate bombardment of the mountain beam in front!! ”

"Hayi!"

One of the big sas was ordered to leave.

Lao Zhao listened to the report from the front in the command headquarters, and he knew that the war was about to begin.

However, the Japanese army unexpectedly did not advance again, but defended on the spot, as if they were going to fight a positional battle.

What are they going to do?

Lao Zhao looked at the map and pondered. He suddenly opened his eyes and shouted: "Inform the troops to avoid the shelling, and order the artillery positions to bombard the Japanese troops in front indiscriminately!" Let's have an artillery battle! ”

With his command. The 75 mountain and field guns behind the main position began to roar in just a few minutes. Dozens of shells flew towards the Japanese troops gathered three kilometers away, and the place in Putian fell.

In the loud roar, pieces of Japanese equipment were blown up in the air, and the Japanese troops all over the ground fled in panic and rushed to the back.

There is no bunker, and waiting for shelling on the plain is to find death. This is not a deserter.

Guan Guizhi suddenly heard a continuous loud noise, and couldn't help pouting, not paying attention. The front was just the front line of a standard wing, and the other side couldn't hold their breath. Obviously, the force is not strong.

"Order, build a heavy artillery position five kilometers away!"

The explosion, which roared densely in a place that stretched for a kilometer, appeared one after another, and the appearance of bomb craters swept away a large number of Japanese troops.

Dozens of mountain guns, in the intensive bombardment, in just a few minutes. and crippled the vanguard in front. Leaving corpses lying on the ground in smoking craters, they fled back to the rear of the large army.

Seki Kameji has a wealth of artillery experience. He had already heard that it was 75 mountain guns and field guns with a range of only more than 6,000 meters, which was not enough to threaten his temporary headquarters, let alone the heavy artillery positions outside the range.

He still calmly waited for the heavy artillery to be set up, waiting to inflict heavy losses on the enemy.

Lao Zhao waited for each cannon to finish firing the shells, quickly stopped the shelling, and the crowd surrounded. Pushing the artillery, the position was shifted. He would not give the Japanese a chance to destroy their positions, this is also his dependence, and it is also his family background, how could it be wasted like this?

Ten minutes later, the Japanese artillery roared. The shells of the 105 cannon let out a whimpering screech and landed on the position of the hill beam, and the earth rose into the sky, and the smoke filled the air, blasting a large crater on the hillside.

"Hugh is the main yuan, extend the five shots!"

The observer in front shouted over the walkie-talkie.

Subsequently, the Japanese heavy artillery let out a dense roar, and shells flew out of the barrel and flew towards the position several kilometers away. The earth shook and the earth shook the sky, and thick smoke enveloped the position.

In the trenches, in just a few seconds, the soldiers turned into mud monkeys one by one, coughing in the smoke of gunpowder, squatting in the cat's ear holes, blocking their ears, and avoiding the shelling with peace of mind.

The ten 105 howitzers of the Japanese army roared incessantly, and one shell after another fell on the position on the hill, making the ears of the soldiers holding the commanding heights buzz and their chests were bored.

Fortunately, the depth of the cat's ear piercing is enough, they were only shocked, but it did not affect their movements, and their eyes still rotated flexibly, not delaying their actions.

The artillery bombardment, in the roar did not stop, Guan Guizhi at the same time as the heavy artillery bombardment, ordered the 75 mountain artillery to move forward, three kilometers close to the local position, to launch an intensive bombardment.

Lao Zhao listened to the dense explosions at the front in the command headquarters, inquired about the situation continuously, and was relieved to learn that the soldiers were fine, so he ordered the first defensive unit to set up an artillery position, wait for the enemy to approach, and start an artillery battle.

This time, he divided the artillery positions into several pieces, five guns in one position, and was ready to shoot effectively.

His artillery was trained by the advance army, and its level was not far behind, even if it could not catch up with the advance army.

Sure enough, the forward observation post reported that a company of the Japanese army moved forward and approached the position more than 3,000 meters, followed by trucks.

"Come on!"

The shells in Lao Zhao's hands were very rich, and the shells left by the Japanese army in Changzhou were enough to support him to carry out an artillery battle extravagantly.

Fighting broke out in his main position here, and four points along the line were attacked by the Japanese army, and the way of fighting was almost the same, all of them were intensive artillery bombardment, and the Japanese army obviously intended to use the superiority of artillery to suppress the enemy and kill and injure them to the greatest extent.

Fortunately, Sun Tao gave all the captured artillery to Lao Zhao, otherwise, it would really be enough for Lao Zhao to drink a pot.

The flames of war were burning everywhere at this moment. The 34th, 217th, and 218th Divisions of the 216th Division were divided into three locations and launched an attack on the Lao Zhao defensive line.

The 35th Division was supposed to go to Xinxiang, Henan, but because of the defeat here, it also rushed to Nanjing with the previous new divisions and was stationed in Danyang.

Division Commander Lieutenant General Maeda Osamu received that the 34th Division had been engaged, and ordered the 219th, 22nd, and .22nd Wings to make a detour to the flank, assist the 34th Division to open the front to intercept, and go straight to Changzhou, which was only a kilometer away.

But before the 219th Wing approached the battlefield, it connected with a brigade of Lao Zhao's troops, and then, because of the fierce firepower of the opponent, the 220th and 221st Wings gave up the detour and reinforced the 319th Wing, and the three companies launched a fierce attack on this green position.

Shells flew all over the sky, and in the smoke of gunpowder, the Japanese troops all over the mountains launched a charge against the long defensive line under the cover of light and heavy machine guns.

"Don't stop the mortar!!"

Brigade Commander Zhao Changgui in the forward command shouted: "Mountain artillery, suppress the opponent's artillery group, effectively shoot out the opponent's position, and support the three regiments!" ”

The battle broke out fiercely at this moment, because the front was too long, artillery support became a problem, and hand-to-hand combat was inevitable.

The battle here began, and the battle in Jiangyin also began. The Japanese troops of the two divisions surrounded Jiangyin, but there was a fierce battle with the pre-Qin army at a distance of six or seven kilometers.

It's just that the battle here is different from Lao Zhao's, the battle here The Japanese army can't get close to the position for 100 meters, and at the beginning of four or five hundred meters, the sniping starts intensively, so that the Japanese army throws down the corpses in pieces in the not fierce gunfire, so that the attack can only rely on artillery bombardment.

The length of the battle line, there is also insufficient artillery support here, which makes several positions suffer very badly, and in the artillery fire, the damage of the soldiers is inevitable.

In the fierce battle, the 32nd and 33rd divisions of the Japanese reinforcements in Wuxi had been surrounded by regiments and did not know what to do, and at the moment when the encirclement was completed, a group of 5 of the 20 self-propelled guns that had been separated launched a bombardment of the Japanese troops in the encirclement.

The walkie-talkies of the observation post kept ringing, and the coordinates were reported, and then the shelling began.

The 32nd Division, which was moving, was suddenly bombarded with devastating shells, the shells fell, and the Japanese troops did not even have a place to hide.

After two rounds of shelling, the Japanese army was in disarray. The chain of command was then paralyzed, and the radio station that moved with Kimura Hyotaro was affected by the aftermath of the explosion dozens of meters behind him, and with the shock wave, the command regiment in the rear and the number of trucks were destroyed and shredded, making Kimura Hyotaro blind and deaf, and leaving the troops below without effective command.

The shelling made the Japanese army frightened, when did they enjoy this kind of shelling? In the rising flames, the Japanese army ran desperately, looking for a position where they could hide.

Where is there a place to hide? With a shot, there is nowhere to hide.

Qu Jun just held the binoculars, looked at the figures running around thousands of kilometers away, and excitedly only shouted: "Left, left!" Right! Right! Well fried!! "Shouting excitedly, like a child.

At this time, Kimura Hyotaro was extremely embarrassed, the war horse could not be ridden, and he was hit in the belly of the horse by flying shrapnel, and he had been shot by him, and he was escorted by a small team, burrowed into the woods, and fled in terror.

At this time, he had realized that he was surrounded, but he believed that the two divisions spread out a front of several kilometers, how could it be so easy to encircle? As long as he rushed to the 33rd Division and joined up with Tataro Gansu, he could avoid the terrifying shelling.

But he didn't know that they were really surrounded by a tight siege, and the chance of escaping from the ascension to heaven was equal to zero. And the 33rd Division, at this time, has become a pot of porridge, even Ganji Jutaro does not know what to do, in the shelling, it may have been broken, (to be continued......