The sound of artillery and gunfire poured down like a torrent of gunfire, without stopping for even a minute. Such a fierce and dense fire coverage caused the devils of the 25th Cavalry Wing to suffer a heavy blow. Wing Captain Izumo Osa, after the horse broke his leg with a mortar, and the whole person fell and gnawed on the mud, he was surprised that no one came to support him diligently, he glanced around, and then he was horrified to find that there were more than 3,000 soldiers under his command, and now there are only more than 1,000 left.

More than 500 of these 1,000 people were wounded and were supporting each other and shouting to retreat out of range, while some were frightened, or they had to rein in their horses and feet in time to avoid rushing into the rain of bullets.

On the other side, seeing thousands of devils falling in front of the position, and only a few unlucky unlucky people on his side were hit by stray bullets, Fu Changjiang became uncontrollably excited, and he muttered: "Lose his mother, earned, this time it's really earned, it's earned!" These devils are really stupid, I've seen them die, but I've never seen them die like this. ”

Lin Dahai, the guard next to him, laughed when he heard this, and in the sound of gunshots like popping beans, he shouted loudly: "Tuanzao, how can our regiment be a hero this time, right?" ”

"I don't know what to do, I'm afraid, I'm afraid it's a little difficult, this battle is not difficult!"

Izumo Osano is not here, otherwise he would be so angry when he heard this.

The officers and men of the 3rd Regiment fought happily, but the sequelae also came, but in about a quarter of an hour, the bullets carried by the officers and men who were responsible for the first round of defensive tasks were almost exhausted. It was only when many people habitually touched their bodies with only half of the bullets left in their guns that they realized this, and then it caused a small panic.

On the issue of how to scientifically manage and use ammunition, the Cadet Corps also has a special system, which stipulates that officers at the grassroots level must report to the officer when there is only one-third of the ammunition left in reserve in their units. However, the Japanese army rushed too fiercely, and although many platoon commanders and squad leaders had this concept in their hearts, they couldn't leave at all, which caused such a situation.

The situation was reflected to Fu Changjiang, and he was glad at this time how correct his choice was, if he didn't leave the reserves, then now the whole regiment would have to face the problem of insufficient ammunition, as for whether he could kill more devils, this is unknown.

After a quarter of an hour of continuous high-speed charge, the Japanese finally retreated, and on the battlefield, only a few ownerless horses were left wandering around their dead masters, and the gunfire in the fortifications of the township office finally stopped.

This raid came and went as fast as it came, and the result was that Izumo Daisaku seemed to be a different person after that - not to mention whether he would survive the rest of the battle, and even if he did, then a court-martial's trial awaited him. Although this battle is not over yet, his fate can already be predicted, which makes him naturally start to think about it. As for the initiators Kawabe Shozo and Buqi Chunjutsu, the former has not yet received the order and is leading a large army to move in, while the latter has not spoken for a long time after getting the news, and sighs for a long time: Amaterasu, don't you already care for your people?

"Brothers, cheer up, the battle has just begun, the big army of the little devils hasn't come up yet, this battle still has to be fought!" After the battle was temporarily suspended, Fu Changjiang turned around to cheer up the soldiers. Behind him, the officers and men of the reserve carried guns and ammunition to the soldiers who were short of ammunition, and carried the wounded down to take their place on top of the wounded.

"If the little devils are all playing in this way, we can hold out for at least two hours, of course, the premise is that everyone has to change from rapid fire to point fire," Fu Changjiang was sitting on the ground with the three battalion commanders to discuss, and Zheng Dayu, the staff officer in charge of the lookout post, ran over and shouted: "Tuanzao, the little devil's reinforcements are coming, and this time they are all infantry." ”

The 4th Cavalry Brigade has a total of three wings, of which the 3rd Wing is responsible for the rear of the palace, and the 26th Wing suffered a lot of losses when attacking Lingang, so it was the turn of the 25th Wing to attack Yanrui. Cavalry was once the pride of the Japanese Army, but now it seems that cavalry tactics have become outdated. Immediately behind the 25th Cavalry Wing was the 6th Infantry Wing under the 5th Infantry Brigade, led by the brigade commander Major General Riichiro Katayama, who rode a tall horse at the forefront of the team, and encountered the surviving devils of the 25th Cavalry Wing at a distance of about a kilometer from the position of the township office, he felt very strange and asked, "Has it been defeated?" Where's your co-captain? ”

The convoy stopped, and Izumo stepped out of the crowd with the help of a soldier, and he lowered his head and said, "Your Excellency, I'm really sorry, we failed. ”

"What? Isn't Yan Rui only a small army of the Zhi Na people? ”

"There are really not many people in China, but their firepower is quite fierce, and I want to go down in one go, but the troops have suffered heavy losses and can't be defeated."

Katayama looked at the cavalry around him, and his face immediately changed when he knew the size of the 25th Wing of the Cavalry, and he asked, "The losses are serious, what do you mean, there are so many people left in the 25th Wing?" ”

"Hello!"

"Eight squares! How so? Do the people of China have artillery support? ”

"Nope."

"Got a chariot?"

"Didn't either?"

"Bastard!" Katayama couldn't bear it anymore, and with a wave of his right hand, a whip pulled out a red and bright bar from the face of Izumo and the devil who was supporting him. After thinking about it, he asked, "Did you take the enemy lightly and fall into an ambush?" ”

"No, we charged directly, but the firepower of the people was too fierce. Your Excellency, if I could, I think there would be a chariot unit to cooperate......"

"Say no more, chariot? We came from Hangzhou, there was no fuel supply along the way, and we used people to push the chariots forward? Take me to the front! ”

"Hello!"

Izumo cautiously led Katayamari to the front of the position, and when he saw the scene in front of him, Katayamari was stunned - the scene was so miserable, more than a thousand imperial troops fell in a pool of blood in a mess, and some ownerless horses were neighing and digging the ground beside their masters. He couldn't help but ask again: "Are you sure there is a regiment of Zhina troops on the opposite side?" ”

"Hello! Your Excellency, this is a very true thing," Izumo Daisa said, bowing his head.

Katayamari frowned, picked up a telescope and looked at the fortifications of the township office, and saw the muzzles of black holes sticking out from behind the sandbags and the notches of the brick walls, among which there were actually more than fifty machine gun muzzles. He looked at the position in front of the fortifications again, and finally understood why the 25th Cavalry Wing had suffered such a massacre.

"It's so stupid, this Bu Qi Chunshu, he actually ordered the troops to charge in this situation, then, what's the difference between that and sending him to death? If the 6th Wing is allowed to fight, it is estimated that it will be difficult to fight without artillery support. He thought so, and then looked the telescope to the left and right - a frontal attack was not possible, and he wondered if he could open the situation from both sides, otherwise, even if he could capture Yanrui, the losses would be more than allowed. And if the damage in Yanrui is too great, even if it can meet with the 13th Division, it will not be able to cope with the attack of the Shina people in the future.

Yanrui and Baiyun and Lin Gang are in a triangular position, among them, the road to Lin Gang was blocked by three bunkers early, and the road between Yan Rui and Lin Gang is not spacious, so the Japanese army will choose to start from the middle of Lin Gang and Baiyun, and take a big road from Baiyun to Yanrui. Katayama checked for a while, and shook his head helplessly. It is impossible to attack from the southwest, from the southeast? There used to be a swamp not far away, and they who were not very familiar with the terrain were most afraid of this terrain. Because if it causes non-combat attrition, the impact on morale is secondary, and there is no way to write anything in this war report. Only if you storm it, then you can attack it! Who have we been afraid of when the Imperial Japanese Army comes? Besides, I also carried 12 field guns, and with these 12 field guns, I believe that I will be able to destroy the strong fortifications of the Chinese army in advance.

When Fu Changjiang got the report, he immediately lay on the shooting hole and looked at the opposite side with a telescope. His biggest concern now was whether the Japanese would have artillery units to help. After watching for a few minutes, he didn't notice any movement from the Japanese, and his heart gradually tightened - the Japanese delayed attacking, there were only two possibilities, one was because he was frightened by the previous blow to the cavalry unit, and the other was waiting for the artillery to prepare for fire.

"Quick, inform everyone to be vigilant, the little devil may have artillery!"

"Yes!" The correspondent picked up the microphone and began to contact the various companies, and soon this tactical order reached the ears of every soldier.

"Phew-" Fu Changjiang's worst fear finally happened, and as the sound of shells tearing through the air sounded in the sky, the Japanese began to fire artillery.

"Lie down!" "Fast forward to the artillery pit!"

The geological conditions in this area of Yanrui are special, and if you dig the anti-artillery hole, if you don't fix it with wood, you can't dig it deep at all, so when making preparations, the 3rd Regiment can only dig the anti-artillery pit as deep as possible.

The mechanized infantry brigade of the three armed forces had a regiment of self-propelled artillery, including four heavy guns of 150 mm caliber, but in order to rush to Yushan as quickly as possible and cut off the connection between the Japanese army in Yushan and Shangrao, their artillery regiment was left to the military headquarters and was incorporated into the artillery directly under the army. Without artillery to suppress the Japanese artillery fire, the 3rd Regiment could only adopt passive defense to minimize casualties. After a five-minute round of artillery fire, Fu Changjiang counted the number of casualties and found that although the casualties were not large, the damage to the fortifications was particularly serious, and the section facing the main road that was taken care of by the Japanese army was almost leveled.

After the artillery fire stopped, the Japanese army immediately launched an attack, watching the dense devils approaching in an orderly manner with the 38 big covers, Fu Changjiang was anxious, he picked up the walkie-talkie to call the brigade headquarters, no matter who answered the phone, he just shouted vigorously: "What about the reinforcements?" What about our reinforcements? ”

It was Zhang Laishun who answered the phone, he could understand Fu Changjiang's mood at the moment, and all he could do was to tell the truth: "Commander Li has already led his troops over, please try your best to persevere!" ”

"But we don't have much ammunition, we want to hold on, but there is no ammunition, no artillery support, do you let the brothers use big knives to kill the devils who are several times my size?!"

Zhang Laishun stopped talking, according to the information he had, the Second Army of Xue had indeed set off, but whether they could reach Yan Rui before he lost it was not something he could decide-