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Anhua County is only 20 kilometers away from Dagu Town.

The 36nd Infantry Regiment of the 222th Division of the Japanese Army marched all the way, and it took about 3 hours to reach the outskirts of Dagu Town.

The 36th Artillery Wing drove all the way from Heyuan County to pull cannons and shells, and it took about 3 hours.

Division commander Jing Guanren sat in an armored vehicle and came to the front to personally command the battle of the 222nd Infantry Regiment and the 36th Artillery Regiment to capture Dagu Town.

The 222nd Infantry Regiment arrived first, but instead of attacking the Eighth Route Army's position immediately, it was waiting for the 36th Artillery Regiment to arrive.

After the artillery bombards the tactics of the infantry rushing, it is impossible to have infantry without artillery.

When Jing Guanren entered the headquarters of the 222nd regiment with the lieutenant general's command saber.

The devil's headquarters has been built. Not only does it have an excellent view, but it also has a camouflage net, and all communication equipment such as radio stations have been set up.

"Teacher commander!"

Seeing Jing Guanren walking in, all the devil officers, including the captain of the regiment, Sato Atsuji, raised their hands to salute him.

"Sato-kun, how is the situation now?"

Jing Guanren asked after raising his hand to return a military salute, with a grim expression on his face.

Atsuji Sato stood up straight: "Report to the head of the division, the 224th Infantry Battalion of the 9th Regiment did not attack well, and has now withdrawn. The 222nd Regiment is preparing to take over the 9th Infantry Battalion to attack the Eighth Route Position!"

"Baga!" Jing Guanren scolded, "I know that the attack of the 9th Infantry Battalion is not going well. What I'm asking is how is the defense and strength of the Eighth Route Army?"

"Hi!" Sato Atsuji hurriedly said, "The Eighth Route Army entered the mountainous area of ​​Dagu Town ahead and built fortifications. The 9th Infantry Regiment launched two probing attacks and lost more than 140 infantry. Although the Eighth Route Army has only about one Battalion, but the light firepower of the Eighth Route Army is very powerful!"

Jing Guanren raised his binoculars to look.

I saw a large number of civil fortifications and foxholes built by the Eighth Route Army on the mountain 2 kilometers away, but the Eighth Route Army was not visible.

Behind the mountain is Dagu Town.

Dagu Town is located in a basin surrounded by mountains, and from Anhua County to Dagu Town, there is only one road and a small road that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Putting down the binoculars, Jing Guanren said: "The Eighth Route Army even gave up on the county seat, but they didn't give up on Dagu Town. Such uncharacteristic behavior shows that Dagu Town is very important to the Eighth Route Army. The more so, we must take Dagu at any cost. town."

"Hi!" All the officers nodded in unison.

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"Move quickly!"

Two kilometers behind the headquarters of the 222nd Wing, next to the road.

Wielding a saber, the leader of the Devil Artillery Corps, Tanaka Jiu Erzhong Zuo, commanded a group of Devil Artillery soldiers to unload the Type 75 105mm mountain gun and the Type [-] [-]mm howitzer from the tractor.

The Type [-] mountain artillery is one of the three types of mountain artillery equipped by the Japanese army during World War II.

The Type [-] howitzer is the main artillery of the Mountain Artillery Wing.

Normally, the Mountain Artillery Wing under the Field Division is equipped with 12 105mm howitzers, but in fact many divisions are only equipped with 9.

The 36th Division was only equipped with 9 howitzers and 24 mountain guns.

These two cannons belong to the standard infantry support artillery of the Army Infantry Division. They are relatively light in weight, easy to disassemble and transport, and have a long range. The design is relatively successful.

It has a good performance when fighting in mountains or other complex terrains.

The 36th Mountain Artillery Regiment of the 36th Division is equipped with 24 Type 9 mountain artillery and [-] Type [-] howitzers, with powerful firepower.

It is worth mentioning that the Type 536 cannon weighs only 10 kilograms, has a rate of fire of about 20-8.3 rounds per minute, and a range of [-] kilometers.

When marching on rugged mountain roads, they can be disassembled and transported by mules and horses, but this time the battlefield is in Dagu Town, so the devils did not dismantle and transport them, but directly dragged them by truck.

This greatly saves time and artillery effort.

Under the order of Tanaka Jiuji, the Devils artillerymen began to unload the cannons from the tractor, build artillery bunkers, and move the shells. After more than 20 minutes of hard work, the Devils finally built the artillery position.

"Report to the Division Chief immediately!"

When Tian Zhongjiuer came to the mountain, he looked at the Eighth Route Army position four kilometers away with the artillery mirror, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth:
"The 24 mountain cannons and 9 howitzers of the Artillery Wing have all set up artillery positions, ready to fire at the enemy's positions at any time!"

The artillery positions of the Japanese army were not set on the high ground on the top of the mountain, but on the flat ground on the reverse slope of the mountain.

Because the devil learned from the intelligence that the Eighth Route Army was also equipped with mountain artillery, and even a 105mm howitzer, which was much better than the Type [-] mountain artillery in terms of range and power.

And the quality of the Eighth Route Artillery cannot be underestimated.

Under such circumstances, Tanaka Jiuji naturally did not dare to take the risk of placing the artillery position on the top of the mountain, even if the view from the top of the mountain is good.

Once the observers of the Eighth Route Army see the artillery positions of the Japanese army, they can immediately call in artillery fire to destroy them.

The artillery fire from the eight routes could not hit the artillery position, and the cavalry had scouted the surrounding land for more than ten miles, and built artillery bunkers. It can be said that the artillery position was very safe.

The news of the completion of the artillery position was transmitted to the Japanese headquarters by the semaphore soldiers with semaphore.

Looking at the Eighth Route Army positions in the distance, Jing Guanren shook his head.

"It seems that Li Yunlong is nothing more than that."

Li Yunlong actually gave up his own advantage to fight a positional battle with the elite divisions of the Japanese army for the sake of Dagu Town, which is extremely arrogant.

The combat power erupted by an elite infantry unit and artillery unit is beyond the imagination of this group of mud legs.

"Li Yunlong killed countless imperial troops, including 4 major generals and 3 lieutenant generals. He even led his troops to capture Taiyuan and killed the commander, Lieutenant General Shinozuka Yoshio. Presumably this person's heart is extremely swollen."

Chief of Staff Ishikawa Jisui on the side echoed:

"So much so that he became extremely arrogant, thinking that with only one regiment's strength, he could contend against an elite division of the imperial army."

The 36th Division was established in 1939. It was stationed in the Lu'an area for most of the past two years, and participated in many battles to attack Zhongtiao Mountain and sweep the Eighth Route Army base.

Although the combat effectiveness and equipment are not as good as the permanent divisions, they have relatively rich combat experience, and they can be regarded as relatively capable divisions in the North China Front Army.

"Then, it's time for Li Yunlong to see what the real combat power of the Imperial Japanese Army is!"

"Hi!"

Ishikawa Jisui, Sato Atsuji and other devils bowed their heads together.

"Order the Mountain Artillery Regiment to fire immediately!"

"To avenge Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka, cut off the heads of all the eight roads on the opposite side and build Jingguan!"

Jing Guanren immediately gave the order to fire.

The semaphore soldiers immediately used the semaphore to issue an order to the rear mountain artillery unit to fire.

The so-called Zhujing Temple is to pile up the corpses of the enemy camp and build a pile of corpses similar to a "pyramid".

Zhujingguan is the most inhumane way for ancient people to treat enemies, because Zhujingguan not only humiliates defeated enemies, but also disrespects the dead in every possible way.

During the Battle of Nuomenkan, after a cavalry regiment of the devils was wiped out by the Mongolian cavalry, it was built as Jingguan.

"A test shot, let it go!"

A mountain artillery shell and a howitzer shell rushed out of the barrel of the devil one after another.

A 75mm mountain artillery shell and a 105mm howitzer shell landed not far from the Eighth Route Army's position with a characteristic whistling sound, setting off a large cloud of mud fog and gunpowder smoke.

Twenty seconds later, the rain of shells arrived as expected.

The continuous shells landed on the position built by the new regiment and the first battalion, covering the entire hill position in continuous gunpowder smoke.

The devil's artillery made a serious move, and the shells dropped like money, intending to completely destroy the infantry defense positions of the Eighth Route Army as soon as they came up.

The power of the salvo of 24 75mm mountain guns and nine 9mm howitzers is indeed terrifying.

The defensive positions built by the new regiments and battalions collapsed as quickly as they were destroyed by the waves of explosions.

Unless reinforced concrete fortifications with enhanced thickness are built, it is difficult to withstand this level of shelling with mere civil engineering works.

Except for the first and second waves of test-fired shells that were distorted, almost all the remaining shells hit the positions of the Eighth Route Army.

The quality of the devil artillery is still very good.

The mountain cannons and howitzers worked together, and the shells fired were cutting down the hills layer by layer, rumbling into one piece, biting every inch of soil like a shrew.

But it was useless. The main force of the first battalion had already taken refuge in the tunnels that had been built, and the few observers who stayed in the position were also in the higher and safer anti-bomb holes.

If the usual way of fighting is still followed, even if there are anti-cannon holes dug in the trenches, under this level of shelling, the first battalion will suffer at least half of the casualties.

In the headquarters.

Lieutenant General Jing Guanren, the head of the division, looked at his watch. The artillery had been firing continuously for 10 minutes, and the ammunition they carried this time was not enough.

"Infantry attack!"

The gunfire didn't stop, and the devil's powerful charge began, and the devil's infantry also made real moves. As soon as they came up, they attacked at the brigade level, madly attacking the positions of the new regiment and battalion.

Only 300 meters away from the Eighth Route position, the artillery of the devils stopped shelling, and the devils rushed towards the position screaming.

At this time, the soldiers of the first battalion came out of the tunnel one after another bowed their waists. Rows of guns were mounted on the trenches, and the bolts of the guns rattled.

In the field of vision of the telescope, Jing Guanren first saw the Eighth Route Army's positions turned into a sea of ​​flames under the intensive artillery fire, and even the soil turned scorched yellow.

Then suddenly I saw many Eighth Route soldiers in gray uniforms appearing in the ruins of the Eighth Route Army's trenches and bomb craters.

Jing Guanren's face darkened slightly, what's going on?

But it was too late to think about it, the infantry had already rushed up to the Eighth Route Army position, and the vanguard was less than 100 meters away from the Eighth Route Army position.

Now the arrow is on the string and has to be launched.