Devil's Army

The Japanese commander who came from Fushun was also frightened by the fierce bombardment of the First Army. This time the bombardment was more intense than the last time, and the number of heavy artillery was also greater than the last time.

It seems that the battle to capture Tieling County will not go smoothly this time.

Due to the unsuccessful performance of Major Matsushita in the last battle to capture Tieling County, the commander handed over the command of this battle to the confident Major Sato.

Major Sato's brigade had lost its offensive power in the previous rounds of 150mm howitzer attacks, so the responsibility of the afternoon attack naturally fell to Major Matsushita.

Major Matsushita thought for a while. Although their artillery pieces were more in number than the Devil's, their caliber was smaller, their range was shorter, and their power was smaller. They would definitely be at a disadvantage in a shootout.

So Major Matsushita gave up the 100mm howitzer to support the infantry charge. He pushed the 100mm howitzer as far as possible to the front line, shortening the range of the 150mm heavy howitzer of the Devil's troops, hoping to blow up the 150mm heavy howitzer of the Devil's troops.

When the infantry of Matsushita's battalion charged in the afternoon, he limited the charging infantry to squadron size, using only one squadron at a time.

The first squadron of the Matsushita Battalion launched the first charge towards the Tieling County position. They slowly approached the Tieling County position under the cover of the accompanying mortars and grenade launchers.

When the Japanese infantry approached the effective range of the 200-meter guns in the Tieling County position, the Japanese machine gunners quickly lay down and began to suppress the positions of the First Army. The grenade launchers continued to bombard the First Army fortifications.

The first and second companies of the first battalion of the first regiment of the fifth brigade were stationed at the two fortifications on the east side of Tieling County.

The Japanese were less than a hundred meters away from the first line of fortification, but no soldiers at the first line of fortification fought back.

The charging devils quickened their pace, leaping towards the first fortification.

"Boom, boom, boom..." Most of the charging Japanese jumped into the first fortification of the First Army and successfully occupied the first fortification.

At this time, a gunshot rang out. The light and heavy machine guns on both sides of the first fortification fiercely harvested the Japanese soldiers who had not had time to jump into the fortification.

The Japs were shot one after another and fell headfirst into the fortifications or in front of the fortification positions.

At the same time, the soldiers in the second line of fortification threw grenades at the Japanese in the first line.

The sound of hand grenades exploding in the first fortification continued one after another, and the screams of the Japanese soldiers in the fortifications were endless.

When Major Matsushita saw that the first fortification had been successfully occupied, he immediately sent the second squadron to continue to reinforce and consolidate the occupied fortifications. However, he did not expect that this squadron was blocked by the fierce bombardment of the devil soldiers' mortars on the way to reinforcement.

Of the squadron that finally charged and the squadron that came to reinforce, less than half of them escaped, while the number of soldiers who escaped from the squadron that occupied the first line of fortification could be counted on two hands.

Major Matsushita was depressed. He lost one and a half squadrons in the first wave of the charge. So many mortar shells were fired, but all of them hit an empty fortification.

However, Major Matsushita still did not dare to use the 100mm howitzer.

The Japanese 100mm howitzers did not fire, and the 150mm howitzers on the First Army side also did not fire.

Gray Wolf walked to the regiment headquarters and asked Wang Chuanfei in confusion: "Brigade Commander Wang, why aren't the howitzers firing?"

"Deputy Commander, the tactics of this wave of Japanese soldiers charging are completely different from the wave of Japanese soldiers charging this morning. I suspect it is another new group of Japanese soldiers. The Japanese have always emphasized firepower first, so this new group of Japanese soldiers must have heavy howitzers. They didn't open fire, maybe they were searching for our 150mm howitzer positions, waiting for an opportunity to blow up our heavy artillery positions. I dare not easily order the howitzers to fire."

"You think too much. If the Japanese could bomb our howitzer position, they would have locked onto our heavy howitzer position and destroyed it when we bombed the Japanese battalion this morning. As for why they didn't bomb our heavy howitzer position, I guess there is only one reason, that is, the artillery's range cannot reach our heavy howitzer position."

"Then Deputy Commander, shall I arrange for the heavy howitzers to bombard the Japs now?"

"Forget it. We fought well just now. We suffered almost no casualties and killed one and a half squadrons of Japanese soldiers. And we can't rule out the possibility that this group of Japanese soldiers will move their heavy howitzer positions forward and get closer to our heavy howitzer positions."

"Don't worry, Deputy Commander. I have ordered our heavy howitzer positions to be moved."

"Well, it's always better to be careful."

The soldiers of the first company threw the bodies of the Japanese in the fortifications onto the position in front of the fortifications and began to consolidate the fortifications that were collapsed by the artillery shells.

The position in front of the fortifications was littered with the corpses of Japanese soldiers.

In this way, the strangest scene in the history of the First Army's battle with the Japanese appeared. Both armies equipped with heavy artillery did not fire.

The Japanese charged towards the First Army's position with the support of light weapons and mortars, while the soldiers of the First Army hid in the fortifications and waited for the enemy to tire themselves out, using machine guns and mortars to continuously harvest the lives of the charging Japanese.

The sun was about to set below the horizon, and the fortifications were densely packed with the corpses of the Japanese.

Major Matsushita had no choice but to withdraw his troops and discuss with his subordinates, preparing to formulate a good plan to occupy the fortifications in one fell swoop the next day.

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