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At the same time, some soldiers quickly took out engineering shovels to dig soil from the cat ear cave that had been collapsed before to reinforce the entrance of the cave.

As a vanguard squadron of the Japanese army groped towards the position, the company lurking in the forefront immediately prepared for a counterattack.

A platoon of soldiers spread out, each holding a basket full of grenades.

When the Japanese army was about thirty steps closer, at the signal of the squad leaders, everyone pulled the trigger on their wristbands, and after three seconds, they threw them at the Japanese soldiers not far away.

In an instant, a large number of people in the Japanese squadron that attacked first were taken away.

Afterwards, the company commander began to order the soldiers under him to open fire and directly kill the Japanese troops in front of them.

In this wave of Japanese attack, the Japanese squadron was instantly suppressed by the firepower of the first company and could not raise its head. It hurriedly left most of the bodies behind and withdrew from the position.

Gao Shujiayi, who was watching this scene from behind, suddenly turned pale.

Immediately order the first battalion to advance.

At the same time, the Second Battalion prepared a reserve force.

After receiving the order from the regiment commander, the captain of the 1st Battalion, Ippei Nagano, knew that he had no choice, so he decided to command the troops himself to break through the defensive positions of the opposing Chinese army.

After all, Nagano Ippei also saw the first round of exploratory attacks.

The firepower of the opposing army was no weaker than that of the locust army, but Nagano Ippei believed it.

As the locust army's large forces began to advance, the Chinese army on the opposite side would certainly not be able to withstand the locust army's powerful offensive and would retreat.

With Nagano Ippei personally commanding the remaining two squadrons, under the cover of the machine gun squadron, they began a fierce attack on the Eighth Route Army positions.

In the rear, when the regiment commander Zhang Jing saw that the Japanese army was preparing to launch a forced attack, he immediately realized that the most intense battle was about to begin.

He immediately ordered the artillery company to open fire on the Japanese troops attacking the front line.

Afterwards, in the rear, the soldiers of the artillery company began to continuously fire artillery shells towards the Japanese attack route.

When Ippei Nagano was commanding his troops to attack the Eighth Route Army, mortar shells fired by the opposing Eighth Route Army continued to explode in the surrounding area.

For a moment, Nagano Ippei's blood boiled to his head, and he forced the Japanese soldiers under him to occupy the positions of the Chinese army on the opposite side regardless of casualties.

When the company commander saw that the Japanese were starting to go crazy, he immediately knew that he could no longer hold back, and immediately ordered the entire company to counterattack.

At the same time, the grenade launcher platoon directly under the regiment headquarters also began to support the front line. When they found that the Japanese were about to break through the position, they aimed and fired a rocket launcher shell directly.

At the moment of the explosion, shrapnel and steel balls flew all around instantly, and steel balls kept hitting the Japanese soldiers on the attacking route.

For a moment, the Japanese soldiers at the front were wailing all over the place.

The Japanese offensive momentum was immediately suppressed.

When Nagano Ippei saw this scene, he immediately understood what secret weapon the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side was using, which could actually cause more casualties to the Locust Army than the mortars of the Chinese National Army.

After some thought, he ordered the third squadron behind to take over the attack from the second squadron, while the Japanese soldiers from the second and first squadrons launched flanking attacks respectively.

Li Shijie, who was watching the Japanese army preparing for a roundabout attack in the rear position, immediately ordered the second and third companies to defend on the left and right respectively.

At the same time, the machine gun company split into two parts and began to support the two companies on both sides.

An hour later.

At this time, the front of the entire position was filled with the corpses of Japanese soldiers, some of whom were lying on the ground wailing.

During this one-hour attack, the Japanese army suffered several setbacks.

Seeing that the attack of the first battalion was ineffective, the commander of the regiment in the rear, Gao Shujiayi, immediately ordered the second battalion to press forward.