Quartermasters can also fight the devils

The bombardment lasted less than five minutes, but it caused considerable casualties to the Japanese troops guarding the circular fortifications.

Colonel Fukuei Shinpei had just asked someone to count the losses, and the result made his heart sink to the bottom. In the sudden artillery attack by the Chinese army just now, a total of 83 people died in the circular fortifications he was guarding, and 151 were injured and could not continue to participate in the battle. His already stretched defense numbers became even more insufficient. The most crucial thing was that after losing so many officers and men this time, he was not able to eliminate even a single Chinese soldier. No, to be precise, not a single Chinese soldier appeared. This was really unacceptable.

Colonel Fukuei Shinpei took advantage of the fact that the Chinese army had not launched an attack at this moment and quickly walked around the position. He needed to appear in front of the officers and soldiers, stabilize their emotions, and try his best to cheer everyone up.

Colonel Fukuei Shinpei had just been patrolling the position for less than ten minutes when he suddenly heard a burst of gunfire from the south of the position. Startled, he quickly trotted along the trench towards the position to the south.

As soon as he arrived at the southern position, Colonel Fukuei Shinpei lay on the edge of the trench and held up a telescope to observe the situation in front of the position, but he found that there was no Chinese army in front of the position, so he put down the telescope and loudly asked a squad leader beside him: "What's going on? Why did you shoot just now?"

Seeing that the captain looked very bad, the squad leader quickly stood at attention in the trench and said, "Sir, just now an unknown number of Chinese soldiers were advancing towards our position. After we fired a few shots, the Chinese army retreated."

After Colonel Fukuei Shinpei understood the whole story, he nodded. He thought that he needed to cheer up the troops, so he tried to be friendly and said to the captain: "Very good, you stay alert, this should be a small reconnaissance unit of the Chinese army."

Before Colonel Fukuei Shinpei could continue to encourage the squad leader, he heard a lot of gunfire coming from the position to the west, and he had to hurry to the position to the west.

For the next two hours, Colonel Fukuei Shinpei basically did not stop his steps. The Chinese army launched harassment attacks on his positions from all directions almost continuously. The Chinese army did not attack by force. Once they exchanged fire with the soldiers guarding the position for two minutes, they would withdraw on their own initiative.

Colonel Fukuei Shinpei knew that this was a harassment tactic of the Chinese army, but he had no choice. Who knew which of these attacks the Chinese army would actually launch? He could only run around between various positions to guide his officers and soldiers in their battles.

The harassment attack of the Chinese army was barely stopped until noon. After this morning's ordeal, the only thing that made Colonel Fukuei Shinpei feel satisfied was that, apart from the loss of more than 200 people in the earliest artillery attack, the remaining officers and soldiers on the position survived the harassment of the Chinese army intact.

At noon, Colonel Fukuei Shinpei finally returned to his command post. When he sat down on the ammunition box, he suddenly felt physically tired. At first, due to being in a state of high tension, the physical fatigue had not yet manifested itself, but when he took a rest and relaxed, this intense feeling of fatigue instantly burst out.

When the guards in the command center saw the captain coming back, they quickly placed the kettle in front of him and hurriedly pried open a box of military canned food for him as lunch.

Colonel Fukuei Shinpei held the kettle and drank heartily. He did not realize until now that he had not had a sip of water for the whole morning. However, when he saw the military canned food, he had no appetite to eat it. He was worried about when the Chinese troops would start the attack, so he really had no appetite at all.

Zhang Wenwu is now inspecting the officers and soldiers who are having lunch at the starting position on the east side of the 100th Brigade. He is very satisfied with everyone's performance this morning. Needless to say, the artillery, after continuous live-fire exercises yesterday and this morning, the accuracy of the artillery has improved rapidly, and the infantry have worked hard running back and forth several times.

But what made Zhang Wenwu unhappy was that even with such long-distance harassment, the infantrymen still suffered more than ten deaths and more than twenty injuries. This made Zhang Wenwu feel that the shooting accuracy of the Japanese soldiers was no joke. He also made up his mind that he must not charge forward during the day because that was not his officers and soldiers' home ground.

At 102: pm, the artillery of the nd Division began to drill again. This time the artillery attack lasted only two minutes. When the artillery stopped, Colonel Fukuei Shinpei was depressed. Should he send soldiers into the trenches? After ten seconds of intense struggle in his heart, Colonel Fukuei Shinpei decided to send some soldiers into the trenches. If the Chinese attacked on a large scale, he would send everyone up. He felt that this should be in time.

Sure enough, the Chinese troops did not appear on the attack route. Colonel Fukuei Shinpei quickly ordered the officers and soldiers who had entered the trenches to withdraw back to the anti-artillery holes, leaving only a few observation posts on the positions.

But after waiting for about five minutes, Colonel Fukuei Shinpei did not receive the Chinese artillery bombardment he had expected. Instead, he heard the shouts of Chinese soldiers from all sides of the position. So Colonel Fukuei Shinpei ordered half of the officers and soldiers to enter the position for defense, and at the same time required all officers and soldiers not to open fire unless Chinese soldiers came within 150 meters. The bullets should be saved.

That afternoon, all the officers and soldiers of the Japanese army felt as if they were conducting a military exercise. They kept coming out of the anti-artillery holes and then quickly returning to the holes to avoid possible artillery fire from the Chinese.

The officers and soldiers of Zhang Wenwu's 100th Brigade did not participate in any feint attacks in the afternoon. Zhang Wenwu ordered all the officers and soldiers to have a good rest and refresh their spirits. All the feint attacks in the afternoon were carried out by troops drawn from the 211th Brigade and the 210th Brigade. As for the artillery, they had to fire on time and training could not be delayed.

Colonel Fukuei Shinpei couldn't even eat his dinner in peace. The Chinese army had the audacity to bombard his own fortifications during dinner time. The bombardment lasted less than five minutes and resulted in the deaths of about fifteen officers and soldiers, the injuries of twenty officers and soldiers, and the dinners of half of the soldiers were blown into the air.

As soon as it got dark, Colonel Fukuei Shinpei asked all the soldiers to be alert, especially the sentries on the positions. He arranged several groups of them. He felt that the Chinese army had been harassing them all day and would definitely launch a night attack at night.

Sure enough, starting at eight o'clock in the evening, the Chinese army began to bombard. After three minutes of bombardment, a large number of shouts were heard around the position again. Colonel Fukuei Shinpei could only order half of the officers and soldiers to enter the defensive positions in the trenches again, but this time, he finally waited for the artillery fire from the Chinese artillery again.

Since the artillery had marked all the firing parameters of the Japanese positions during the day, the darkness at night did not affect their shooting training. This shelling lasted for five minutes. As soon as the artillery sounded, shouting sounded again from all around. Colonel Fukuei Shinpei almost cried. He was wondering whether he should send people to the trenches or not.

Colonel Fukuei Shinpei, feeling anxious and worried, came up with an idea. That is, in the circular positions on all four sides, in addition to the normal sentries, as long as the Chinese army made a sound such as a charge, he would send a small team of officers and soldiers to defend each position. The other officers and soldiers would rest in the anti-artillery caves, ready to reinforce the positions where the battle was taking place at any time.

He had no choice. He only had so many people. If the Chinese artillery launched a few more artillery raids, he would be left with no one to guard the position.

The officers and men of the 102nd Division launched a shouting charge very punctually every half an hour. Apart from being quite tiring for the throat, this method of attack did not make anyone feel tired. Instead, everyone was in high spirits. The artillerymen were also divided into several groups, and every one or two hours a group of artillery would conduct a nighttime live-fire training.

The Japanese soldiers on the position were now in great agony. They could not fall asleep because the shouts of the Chinese troops could be heard from time to time around them, which forced them to stay alert at all times. What's more, the Chinese artillery often fired several shells exploding on the position, which made it impossible for them to rest properly.

By five o'clock in the morning, shouts were heard again around the Japanese positions. Now the soldiers on the Japanese positions had become somewhat immune to such sounds. Except for the sentinels who were nervously observing the situation outside the positions, the other officers and soldiers were trying hard to get some sleep as they were really too tired.

After the shouting all around stopped, the Japanese sentries in the trenches breathed a sigh of relief again. This time, the Chinese army was just making noise in the distance and did not launch any actual attack. However, their visual range was limited at night. About 100 meters in front of their position, all the officers and soldiers of the th Brigade were crawling towards the Japanese circular position from all directions.

Just when the shouting stopped all around, Li Zhengying led a suicide squad of more than a hundred people, covered with weeds, and began to sneak towards the trenches of the Japanese army from the north.

The Japanese sentries in the northern trenches were also holding on. They were already exhausted and were looking forward to the soldiers who were going to relieve their shifts to come quickly so that they could go back to the anti-artillery caves at the back to have a good rest. They felt that the Chinese army must want to use artillery to slowly consume them, otherwise, they would not have not had a decent infantry attack in a whole day. The Chinese soldiers were all a bunch of cowards.

After crawling for more than twenty minutes, the soldiers of the suicide squad were less than five meters away from the Japanese trenches. Li Zhengying looked at the soldiers of the suicide squad around him, then waved his hand, and immediately several sharpshooters around him opened fire and knocked down the Japanese soldiers on the trench posts. The sound of the gunfire was like a charge, and all the soldiers of the suicide squad jumped up from the ground and quickly rushed into the trenches.

They fought the Japanese troops in the trenches with bayonets and daggers. After defeating the Japanese troops in the trenches, the suicide squad officers and soldiers divided into several groups and began to attack forward along the trenches and communication trenches. Behind them, more and more soldiers rushed into the trenches from the gap opened in the north.

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