The Japanese are the best at covering infantry charges with artillery fire, and long-range firepower such as machine guns and mortar grenadiers are sneak attacks from the flanks and rear. Tang Cheng, who was lying in the trenches, pondered the small victory just now, although they had discovered the enemy a little late just now, but the machine guns were very well coordinated, and they used strong firepower to attack the Japanese army, which was the only magic weapon to crack the Japanese attack.

Tang Cheng, who had found a way to crack it, immediately fell into deep thought, it was a good way to use strong firepower to get close to the Japanese army, but Tang Cheng could not guarantee that when he used strong firepower to intercept the Japanese infantry, his machine gun fire would not be destroyed by the Japanese mortars or grenadiers. Once the Japanese army is close to the enemy and is destroyed by the heavy firepower of the Japanese artillery, the fierce Japanese infantry will definitely take advantage of the situation to enter the position, and what awaits them in Tangcheng at that time can only be a tragic close combat, and close combat is precisely what the garrison regiment is not good at.

"How did I forget it" Tang Cheng suddenly stretched out his hand and patted his head, Xie Bo's notebook has a relevant description, in addition to strong firepower interception, there is another magic weapon to deal with infantry charges, that is, mines. Tang Cheng did not have mines in his hands, and even the 173rd Division in the next position did not have mines, but Tang Cheng had hand grenades, and in Xie Bo's notebook, it was recorded that grenades were used instead of mines. Although the power of grenades was not as powerful as that of landmines, and Tang Cheng had never seen the power of mines, he believed that what Xie Bo recorded in his notes would definitely not be fake.

The soldiers who had released the position to collect ammunition brought back more than a dozen intact 38 rifles, hundreds of rifle bullets and some Japanese-style grenades, and Tang Cheng asked someone to separate those grenades and send them to Liu Goat's side. "Go and tell the regiment commander that we will exchange these grenades for grenades with him, and then capture the grenades and send them over." The two soldiers who were sent by Tang Cheng to Liu Goat's side left with the captured Japanese-style grenades, and before leaving, Tang Cheng gave a lot of instructions.

More than thirty grenades were brought back by two soldiers sent to Liu Goat's side, which were part of the grenades that Liu Goat had stolen from Zhou Yuan's 173rd Division in the morning with the Tang Cheng affair. The garrison regiment's weapons were all supplied from the provincial capital by Ge Kunshan's connections, and when the Japanese army came, Ge Kunshan also disappeared immediately, and without Ge Kunshan, the garrison regiment lost the way to obtain ammunition supplies. The ammunition needed by Liu Goat can only be supported by the hardships that Lao Xu usually saves, and if it were not for the fact that Tang Cheng was imprisoned by Jin Dapeng as a handle, the garrison regiment would probably not be able to survive today's battle because of the lack of medicine.

"Don't be in a hurry, wait a minute, wait until it gets dark, and then send someone out now can only send you to death." With the concentrated grenades on his side, Tang Cheng now has almost 70 grenades, and he plans to place two-thirds of the grenades at the front of the position as a means of support to prevent the Japanese from easily breaking through the position. Winning a game with very few casualties, the guilt in Tang Cheng's heart gradually faded, watching everyone deploy in an orderly manner according to his ideas, the tension and timidity in Tang Cheng's heart had been swept away unconsciously.

The battle continued, but Tang Cheng was increasingly able to conclude that the Japanese army would carry out a surprise attack tonight, and the target of the raid would probably be his own position. The entire front was in the crossfire, and there were only a few sporadic Japanese stragglers here in Tangcheng, and the sound of firefights and explosions that suddenly lit up from a distance did not interest him. As usual, a few observation posts were left, and Tang Cheng asked his soldiers to sit in the anti-artillery holes or trenches to recuperate, waiting for the arrival of the Japanese attack at night.

I didn't feel it when I was standing all the time, but now Tang Cheng, who was squatting in the trench, was already hungry and tired, and the little thing that Lao Xu was forced to eat had already been digested cleanly, and now Tang Cheng felt that he could eat half a cow. The battle has not affected the position where Tangcheng is stationed, not only Liu Goat, who has been fighting fiercely with the Japanese army, was surprised, but even Zhou Yuan on the main position, Zhou Yuan even sent someone over to see it.

"I don't need your help, just hold the ground until dark." Tang Cheng offered to transfer some men from his own position to support Liu Goat's side, but Liu Goat refused. The Japanese army's attack in the afternoon was mainly harassed by small troops, although it was difficult, but Liu Goat felt that he could still hold it, and these people under Tang Cheng had been used as a reserve by Liu Goat, once the Japanese army attacked at night, Tang Cheng they became Liu Goat's biggest dependence.

"Boom" Tang Cheng's eyes flashed red, and he woke up suddenly, and Tang Cheng, who was squatting in the trench, was covered in cold sweat. He actually fell asleep, fell asleep when the entire defense line was attacked by the Japanese army, and Tang Cheng was in pain all over his body after waking up. The gunshot wound last night, the abrasions in the position in the afternoon, and all the scars all over the body emitted a burning pain in the sweat, which tortured Tang Cheng, who was covered in cold sweat, unbearable.

"Whew! Woohoo! ......" suddenly heard the sound of shells breaking through the air overhead, and the Japanese mortars began to shell them, which sounded safe in Tangcheng, because their bullets were far away, as long as they shrank in the trenches, they would be fine. Although he knew that it was safe, Tang Cheng still fastened his German-style steel helmet to his head, and then threw himself on the trench and looked at the 173rd Division position next to him. The landing point of the shells was the main position of the 173rd Division, because of Jin Dapeng, Tang Cheng did not have a good impression of the 173rd Division, looking at the fire balls that rose with the explosion, Tang Cheng was a little gloating.

"Boom! Bang! ...... "As the explosion sounded, the position of the 173rd Division was filled with gunsmoke, and the Japanese soldiers almost stepped on the bombing point and rushed up, and Tangcheng, a few hundred meters away, could feel the bravery and ferocity of those Japanese soldiers. After the platoon of guns, a round of grenades was thrown, which was already the usual practice of the national army troops, and dozens of grenades bombarded in the dark, knocking down a large number of Japanese soldiers who rushed forward, and the dense explosions completely disrupted the Japanese army's offensive formation.

"Rush!" While the remaining Japanese soldiers were dizzy by the grenade, a shout of killing sounded on the forward position of the 173rd Division, and one hundred and ten soldiers of the 173rd Division roared and climbed out of the trenches to kill the Japanese soldiers in the smoke. Tang Cheng, who had no good impression of the 173rd Division, did not expect that these guys would be so bloody, and only one counter-charge would crush the Japanese attack head-on, and the thirty or forty remnants of the Japanese army who had lost their souls were devoured head-on by the soldiers killed by the 173rd Division before they could recover from the explosion of the grenade.

The 173rd Division's counter-charge soldiers only broke the first two formations of the Japanese army, and when they crashed into the third wave of the Japanese army's offensive team, their advantage was gone. Just when Tang Cheng thought that the 173rd Division should return to their positions, they shouted again and fought with the Japanese army, everyone was fighting with their lives for their lives, completely ignoring the bayonets that stabbed them, only knowing how to swing the bayonets in their hands at their opponents.

"Lao Tzu went first, and the living brother helped burn some paper, so that Lao Tzu could be a rich man when he got below." Shouts like this came one after another, and one after another, the soldiers of the 173rd Division, who were scarred and unable to fight again, pulled out the grenades on their bodies, and threw themselves into the Japanese army, bringing rounds of flesh and blood flying. The third line of Japanese attack formation was torn apart, and the two heavy machine guns arranged on the flank of the 173rd Division also began to roar "soaring", and the Japanese army's entire three waves of attack combination were completely defeated, and even Japanese soldiers began to turn around and flee.

The Japanese army retreated, and the strong attack was repelled by the stronger resistance of the 173rd Division, Tang Cheng, who was lying in the trench, felt a burst of prostration, and the whole person shrank in the trench panting, and his face was gray and black and had already been whitestained with tears. The tragedy just now was all seen by Tang Cheng, and none of the more than 100 people in the 173rd Division who rushed out of the position to fight a countercharge could come back alive, maybe when they rushed out of the position, they didn't have the intention of continuing to live.

The Japanese attack was repulsed and remained silent, and as night wore on, there was silence in the defenders' positions, and both sides of the war hid in their respective positions and tagged with their wounds. Tang Cheng looked at the dark night sky around him, sat down in the trench and took out dry food and nibbled on it, nibbling on the already cold flatbread, Tang Cheng's tears were still flowing, tears slid down his gray face, but Tang Cheng himself didn't care.

The soldiers of the 173rd Division who were determined to die during the day reminded Tang Cheng of the veterans of the Nationalist Army at the Shanghai Jiekou position, although the scale of the two battles was different, and the shape of the battle was also different, but the outcome was the same. Thinking of the way those soldiers pulled the ring of the grenade and pounced on the Japanese army, Tang Cheng's heart was stinging, and the national army troops with inferior combat effectiveness seemed to have the upper hand in the battle against the Japanese army only by using this method.

"Bang!" "Bang! Boom! "Flares continued to explode overhead, and the miserable white light of death sprinkled all over the position at once -- the Japanese army attacked, and after nightfall, the Japanese army uncharacteristically did not attack but chose to face the night battle." Get ready for battle! Get ready for battle! The Japanese army is coming! ...... "Tang Cheng ran hand and foot in the trenches, and patted every soldier he saw, although these were learned from Liu Goat, but Tang Cheng did it very naturally now.

The cold light of the flares dissipated, but the expected Japanese soldiers did not appear, and scolding began to appear in the position, mostly cursing the Japanese soldiers for having children without assholes and other slang. Not coming now does not mean that he will not come for a while, Tang Cheng, who is already highly nervous, strictly distracted his soldiers, and all of them have already been loaded and waiting for the Japanese army to appear.