Quartermasters can also fight the devils

After the officers and soldiers on the first line of defense of the new 100th Division withdrew to the second line of defense, the second line of defense had a strength of four battalions. Moreover, this time they prepared a double-barreled artillery fire for the Japanese army, which was guaranteed to give the Japanese army a bitter taste.

Major Fujiwara Chiya led the officers and soldiers of the Second Battalion to search forward for a short distance and discovered the second defensive position of the Chinese army. This made Major Fujiwara Chiya happy. He did not expect that his chance to make a contribution would come so soon. So Major Fujiwara Chiya reported the news of the Chinese army's defensive position ahead, and at the same time he made a request for an attack to the regiment commander.

After receiving news that there was another Chinese army defensive position not far ahead, Colonel Tsunahiko Watanabe, commander of the 11th Regiment, directly ordered Major Fujiwara Chiya, commander of the 2nd Battalion, to organize his troops and tell him the time to launch the attack after he contacted the artillery unit.

Regarding this situation, the regiment commander, Colonel Tsunahiko Watanabe, simply sent someone to inform the division commander, Lieutenant General Anriyoshi, and then contacted the field artillery regiment to provide artillery support. He knew that Lieutenant General Anriyoshi valued the rapid occupation of Sanshui. As for the Chinese army's defensive positions encountered on the way, the division commander did not care too much.

When the Second Battalion's Captain, Major Fujiwara Chiya, was organizing his troops to prepare for the attack, the Regiment Commander, Colonel Watanabe Tsunahiko, also sent a messenger to convey his order: "Captain Fujiwara, the Regiment Commander orders your battalion to launch an attack in fifteen minutes. The Field Artillery Regiment will bombard the Chinese Army's position for five minutes. The Regiment Commander hopes that you can lead the Second Battalion to quickly occupy this Chinese Army's defensive position."

After Major Fujiwara Chiya sent the messenger away, he became excited. The regiment commander assigned the task of attack to his second battalion and asked him to achieve results quickly. This was a good thing for him. Just now, Major Fujiwara Chiya had already explained the tactics he had thought of to several of his subordinates in detail, and also arranged the order of the subsequent attack.

It can be said that Major Fujiwara Chiya thought that everything was ready now, and he was just waiting to lead his troops to occupy the Chinese army's positions and accept commendations from the division commander and the regiment commander. Judging from the fighting morale shown by the Chinese army before and his perfect tactics, it was simply like he was picking up credit for nothing.

There was only one person in the entire Second Battalion who was unhappy now, and that was the captain of the Third Squadron, Captain Shohei Otani. His Third Squadron was actually arranged in the first wave of attack forces by the battalion commander, Major Fujiwara Chiya. Moreover, if the Chinese army could not withstand the attack of his troops and fled backwards, he would have to send two teams of officers and soldiers to the Chinese army positions to carry out dangerous inspection tasks. If they fell into the trap of the Chinese army, his Third Squadron would be almost gone.

Captain Shohei Otani knew why the captain chose his squadron to be responsible for the attack at the front, because he was a cautious person at heart, and his combat style was completely different from the captain of the second battalion, Major Fujiwara Chiya, and other officers. For this attack arrangement, the captain, Major Fujiwara Chiya, obviously wanted to change his combat style a little bit, but how could he change his personality? He had been like this for so many years, how could he change it just like that?

When the shelling was about to end, Captain Shohei Otani led his third squadron to attack the Chinese army's positions. This time, Captain Shohei Otani tried his best to change his combat style. He endured the strong discomfort in his heart and ordered his officers and soldiers to charge forward quickly, trying his best to satisfy the battalion commander, Major Fujiwara Chiya.

Major Fujiwara Chiya was also very satisfied with the performance of the 3rd Squadron in this attack. He felt that Captain Otani Shohei had finally come to his senses and lived up to his long-term teachings. He believed that the warriors of the Empire of Japan should have a brave fighting style so that they could quickly defeat the enemy and win.

When Captain Shohei Otani led his troops to within about 100 meters of the New 100th Division's position, the officers and soldiers on the New th Division's defensive position opened fire in unison, suppressing Captain Shohei Otani's Third Squadron at a distance of meters. The casualties of the Third Squadron began to rise sharply.

Captain Shohei Otani was also lying on the ground commanding his soldiers to shoot at the defensive positions of the New 100th Division, but the strength of one of their squadrons was obviously not enough. In terms of firepower, the number of officers and soldiers on the positions of the New 100th Division was still considerable. Coupled with the sharpshooters' precise shooting, the soldiers of Captain Shohei Otani's third squadron also suffered heavy losses.

When Major Fujiwara Chiya saw that Captain Otani Shohei's Third Squadron was pinned down in front of the Chinese army's position and unable to move, he immediately led the remaining troops to rush upwards. He needed to strengthen the offensive firepower of the attacking forces in front and try to occupy this defensive position of the Chinese army in one attack.

Lieutenant Colonel Fujiwara Chiya excitedly raised his command knife and shouted loudly to the officers and soldiers around him: "Charge, charge, quickly."

Suddenly, a loud noise came to Major Fujiwara Chiya's ears, and the officers and soldiers running in front were suddenly blown into the air by the explosion. Major Fujiwara Chiya cursed in his heart: "Baga, what are the artillery units doing? Who asked them to fire?"

Before Major Fujiwara Chiya could shout out, he felt as if he was flying, and the scene in his eyes was changing rapidly. Sometimes it was the blue sky, sometimes it was the yellow earth, and then, Major Fujiwara Chiya was gone. From God's perspective, Major Fujiwara Chiya's upper body was blown into the air by the explosion, and then fell heavily to the ground. As for Major Fujiwara Chiya's lower body, no one knew where it flew to.

The officers and soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Squadrons of the 2nd Battalion were completely covered by the explosion. This confused Lieutenant General Anriyoshi, commander of the 5th Division, and Colonel Watanabe Tsunahiko, commander of the 11th Regiment, who were watching the battle with great interest in the back. How could this army bury the explosives in such a far place? This did not conform to the previous setting.

Captain Shohei Otani and the officers and soldiers of the Third Squadron were also frightened by the explosion behind them. When the explosion sounded, Captain Shohei Otani and the officers and soldiers around him subconsciously lay down close to the ground, but the shock wave of the explosion made them very uncomfortable. The officers and soldiers who were closer to the explosion had their ears and noses bleeding, and they looked particularly scary.

After the explosion passed, Captain Shohei Otani was breathing heavily with difficulty. When he felt a little better, he looked back to see what was going on. How could such a huge explosion suddenly happen behind him? He didn't even hear the whistling sound of a shell passing through the air. It was too sudden.

The dirt from the sky was still falling down. Captain Shohei Otani squinted his eyes and tried to look behind him, but the distance was still a bit far, and he couldn't stretch his neck to observe the situation behind him. The shooting from the opposite Chinese army's position could take his life at any time.

But Captain Shohei Otani was still clear in his mind. He knew that the explosion was most likely caused by the Chinese army. Now he didn't know what had happened to the captain and the troops behind him because of the explosion. He hoped that the losses were not too great. If the reinforcements behind did not come up, his third squadron would not be able to hold on for long.

"Mr. Watanabe, go organize the troops to quickly take over the attack of the Second Battalion. Also, let the troops in the front withdraw quickly. I will let the artillery units provide you with artillery cover." Lieutenant General Anriyoshi, commander of the Fifth Division, gave the order to Colonel Tsunahiko Watanabe, commander of the Eleventh Regiment, who was still in a daze, with a very bad look on his face.

After hearing the words of the division commander, the regiment commander, Colonel Watanabe Tsunahiko, finally recovered from his shock and quickly turned around and ran to the Third Battalion that was waiting behind and preparing to march forward. This really made him angry. The Chinese army was too despicable. They actually used all kinds of tricks to plot against his own troops. They were simply making a fool of him, the regiment commander of the Imperial Japanese Army.

The Chinese army is just like street hooligans, without any quality or integrity, and only uses some despicable tricks. Can't they fight me openly? If we fight head-on, I will chop you all into pieces.

Captain Shohei Otani led his third squadron officers and soldiers to hold on in the front. He was ready to order the troops to withdraw without authorization. He felt that he was wasting the lives of the brave men of the Empire of Japan. Couldn't the captain see that his squadron was about to collapse? Although he didn't know the specific losses of his troops, he could still tell from the shooting sounds around him that there were not many people left in the third squadron.

Just as Captain Shohei Otani was about to order his troops to retreat, he heard a sharp retreat whistle behind him. This sharp and piercing whistle was the most beautiful sound in Captain Shohei Otani's ears. He knew that he was being ordered to retreat. Even if the captain criticized him for not achieving the predetermined goal, it didn't matter, as long as he was not disobeying military orders.

When Captain Shohei Otani led his troops to slowly retreat, the artillery units in the rear fired a burst of covering artillery fire at the defensive positions of the new 100th Division, helping the attacking troops in the front to retreat quickly.

However, as Captain Shohei Otani's 3rd Squadron crouched and retreated, they were all stunned when they passed the explosion area behind them. The scene here was too scary.