Traveling through 1937, I came to fight against the Kwantung Army

Tokyo Town,

north,

A huge observation balloon is floating,

This time,

There are four big blood-red characters on it.

"Martial luck lasts forever!"

This balloon was launched once yesterday afternoon and stayed in the air for more than two hours!

Early this morning, it soared into the sky again,

But this time, it’s for real!

More than half an hour later,

A heavy and sustained bombardment began.

At 9 o'clock in the morning,

The Japanese Third Army assembled two independent heavy artillery regiments and all the large and small artillery pieces of the 2nd and 6th Divisions.

More than 10,000 artillery shells have been fired at the Tokyo town and Pingdingshan line!

On the flat top mountain,

In the tunnel, there were two companies of Kang Huaifu's troops, more than 300 people, stationed, ready for battle!

This time the Japanese attack was carried out with great fanfare, and it seemed that there was no secret at all!

Kang Huaifu sensed the enemy's aggressive advance yesterday, so he sent two companies up there, all equipped with gas masks.

In order to guard against the Japanese army's poison gas attacks, the soldiers dug several ventilation holes in the tunnel and set up a large number of partitions!

Although it may not be possible to completely protect against mustard gas, it is better than nothing!

Tokyo Town,

Along the roadside, leaning against the town's ruins,

The 7th Company of Kang Huaifu’s troops relied on trenches and foxholes to hold their ground!

The 7th Company set up three lines of defense in total!

However, under the fierce bombardment of Japanese heavy artillery, most of these three lines of defense had been destroyed!

The shelling hasn't stopped yet.

The Japanese army has dispatched a battalion and a mixed brigade of the puppet army, mixed together, and launched a long live charge towards the commanding heights of Pingdingshan!

Meng Fanlin, a soldier from the 8th Company, was one of the five guards left on the top of the mountain.

Because the Japanese artillery fire was too fierce,

The Anti-Japanese Allied Forces only set up five guard posts!

Meng Fanlin huddled tightly in the anti-gun cave.

He covered his ears with his hands and opened his mouth wide, because this could protect his eardrums!

The sound of explosions began to slowly subside, and the large-caliber howitzers seemed to have stopped!

But Meng Fanlin knew that the enemy was about to charge!

Now it’s only the mountain artillery of the regiment or battalion, and the infantry artillery is still firing!

As another row of shells exploded on the battlefield, Meng Fanlin emerged from the cave.

He felt very uneasy because he couldn't see the situation in front of the battlefield.

When he stood up and raised his head,

He was dumbfounded.

The hillside was filled with Japanese and puppet troops, black and dense.

There is the Sun Flag and the Five-Colored Flag.

The distance is less than a hundred meters!

He could even see the ferocious face of the leading officer!

Meng Fanlin didn't bother to shoot, he ran to the tunnel entrance and yelled into the microphone,

"The Japs are coming! Come out quickly! The Japs are coming!"

With a bang, a shell exploded a few meters away!

His scalp tingled.

This little Japanese soldier is absolutely crazy today. When his own people were charging, they didn't even stop firing even though they were so close! They weren't afraid of accidental injuries at all!

Meng Fanlin finished his words.

I saw grenades flying towards me from the air like rain!

There were three of them right under his feet!

Amidst the loud explosions, he fell heavily to the ground!

At the entrance of the tunnel, several anti-Japanese fighters who had just rushed out were all killed by the grenades thrown by the Japanese!

The Japanese and puppet troops quickly occupied the mountaintop positions!

The whole mountain is filled with enemy flags and shouts of cheers!

Several Japanese soldiers have surrounded a tunnel entrance and started throwing grenades into it!

The attacking force this time was the 6th Division. Although they knew in advance that there were tunnels on the mountain, they still found it very strange!

A large group of Japanese soldiers surrounded the entrance of the tunnel, discussing how to attack!

Just after Pingdingshan fell,

In front of Tokyo town,

Suddenly, more than 20 infantry fighting vehicles appeared, followed by thousands of Japanese soldiers!

Without the direct fire threat from Pingdingshan,

The Japanese army launched an all-out attack!

Front Command,

Upon hearing that Pingdingshan had been captured, the expression of Lieutenant General Machijiri Ryoki, the commander of the 6th Division, began to relax completely.

In just one round, the most important enemy position in Tokyo town was captured!

He couldn't help but feel proud again.

If it weren't for the death of his classmate Iimura Tadashi, Division Commander Machijiri Ryoki wouldn't have thought his opponent was anything big!

As one of the four main ace forces of the Japanese Army, the 6th Division, which was invincible in the China battlefield, was filled with pride from top to bottom!

Before this attack, Machijiri Ryoki boasted that he would take over the town of Tokyo in two days at most!

However, it now looks like it will only take one day!

Pingdingshan at this moment,

The whistling sound of artillery shells has broken through the air!

Daniu now has 14 150mm heavy artillery pieces, but each gun has only 100 rounds of shells!

He divided these 150 heavy guns into three artillery groups.

Although the Japanese observation balloons were still in the sky,

But after the last battle, Daniu organized personnel to compare the observation data of various targets on the northern line and withdrew all 150 heavy artillery back to Heixiazi Valley!

In this way, even if the Japanese observation balloons discovered the artillery group, their heavy artillery would not be able to reach it!

This round of bombardment,

Each heavy artillery fires 20 shells!

Plus the two field artillery pieces of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces and the mountain artillery group!

More than 40 artillery pieces have been assembled!

The first shells fell.

The entire Pingdingshan Mountain was suddenly engulfed in flames, with columns of smoke rising. There were more than 400 Japanese and puppet troops in total, and more than of them were killed in the first volley!

When the fierce bombardment of the flat-topped mountain was going on,

Tokyo Town,

On the battlefield,

Shao Jie, a soldier of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, looked nervously at the Japanese tanks approaching.

After the shelling, there were only three soldiers left in his squad, while two tanks and at least forty infantrymen appeared on the opposite side!

When the tank was only about 20 meters away from him, he suddenly started throwing grenades.

The two comrades also started throwing grenades at the same time. No one was able to shoot at this time.

More than a dozen grenades exploded behind the tank, knocking down seven or eight Japanese soldiers!

Shao Jie raised the lance grenade, the only one in his class. He looked at the approaching tank and threw it out.

Who knew that due to the tension, the grenade drew an arc in the air and passed by the tank, and this attack actually missed!

Shao Jie wanted to cry but had no tears. He hated his own cowardice.

A Japanese soldier had already spotted him.

The sound of gunshots rang out.

Fortunately, the Japanese soldiers also missed.

Shao Jie was so scared that he sat down in the foxhole!

Boom boom boom, the dull sound of heavy machine guns rang out.

A string of bullets hit the side of the Douding tank, directly drilling several holes in the tank shell.

The tank came to a complete stop and couldn't move anymore!

Shao Jie hurriedly glanced back and saw that on the second line of defense, a Type 92 heavy machine gun was continuously firing armor-piercing bullets at the Japanese tanks!

The distance between the two lines of defense is about 100 meters, which allows the heavy machine guns to easily penetrate the side armor of the Japanese tanks!