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Chapter 544 Night Battle!

night.

Moon stars are rare.

The Engineering Wing of the 10th Division took advantage of the night to reach a position about 300 meters away from the forward position of the Xinyi Regiment.

Then, the devil's engineers began to dig forward with soil work.

For the soil work of digging forward, the distance of 300 meters is not close, but the devil's engineers have received strict training, and soil work is good at it.

Engineers play a very important role. In addition to mine detection, opening roads when encountering mountains, and building bridges when encountering water, they also have tasks such as laying mines, setting up obstacles, implementing camouflage, setting false targets, and building military projects.

Even the Xinyi Regiment set up a dedicated engineer battalion.

Li Yunlong, who was inspecting the first battalion, felt that something was wrong, and the surrounding silence was abnormal.

If he was the commander of the Japanese army, he would definitely send troops to harass at night, so that the new regiment of soldiers on the ground could not rest.

Then look for opportunities to take positions at night.

If the devils came and harassed him every once in a while, then Li Yunlong would feel relieved.

Soldiers don't like silence, because the silence on the battlefield is full of greater danger, which indicates that there will be more intense battles in the future.

Li Yunlong realized intuitively that the Japanese army was planning a more violent attack.

After half a day of fierce fighting, the Xinyi Regiment did not suffer much casualties and did not consume much ammunition, but the devils are not fools, most of the losses during the day will be attacked at night.

With favorable terrain, sufficient ammunition, and strong firepower, it would be no problem to stick to Dagu Town for another half a month.

When the strength of the 10th Division is almost exhausted, the soldiers are exhausted, and the logistics supplies cannot keep up, then the new regiment can launch a full-scale counterattack against the 10th Division.

"Fire a flare and see."

Li Yunlong called a mortar team and ordered to the artillery soldiers.

"Yes, Captain!"

The mortar team quickly set up the 60mm mortar, and then put the flares into the barrel.

call out!
As a flare was slowly lifted into the sky, it exploded with a bang, and the surroundings were illuminated like daytime.

Li Yunlong took advantage of the flare and raised his binoculars to look.

Although the surrounding area was well illuminated, it was not broad daylight after all, and the devil's engineers stopped working immediately, so Li Yunlong didn't see the trench dug by the devil.

About 30 seconds later, the flares quickly dimmed, and the surrounding area was once again plunged into pitch black night.

"Fire flares every 15 minutes."

Li Yunlong gave an order to the artillery crew, turned around and walked towards the tunnel, and then got into the tunnel.

Many soldiers of the first battalion slept in the tunnel, and Li Yunlong did not disturb the soldiers. He left the tunnel with a flashlight and walked towards the headquarters.

"Lao Li, did you find anything?"

As soon as he entered the headquarters, Zhao Gang came up with an oil lamp to inquire.

"No situation."

Li Yunlong said with a serious expression: "I reckon that the devils may be restless tonight, and I have already told the first battalion to be on guard."

Zhao Gang said: "Okay then, you can go to sleep for a while, I will watch over here, and I will call you again if something happens."

Li Yunlong nodded, lay down on the chair, and soon lay down with a snort.

Years of military career has given Commander Li a habit of falling asleep at any time.

As a commander, you must keep a clear mind at all times, because every order you give is related to the life and death of many soldiers, so deep sleep is necessary.

Li Yunlong was awakened by a burst of rapid and continuous sound of cannons. He jumped up from his chair: "Where to fire the cannon? Where to fire the cannon?"

Immediately afterwards, the sound of artillery and machine guns rang out in rapid succession.

Zhao Gang looked away from the direction of the first battalion: "It's the direction of the first battalion, and our artillery is firing."

Chief of Staff Wang Dehou grabbed the phone, quickly shook the handle, and said, "Hello, is this the first battalion? This is the regiment headquarters. What's going on with you?"

"What did you say?"

"Okay, I'll report to the head of the team now."

After hanging up the phone, Wang Dehou reported to Li Yunlong:

"A battalion commander reported that the Japanese engineers dug the trench to a position within 40 meters of the forward position, and was discovered by our soldiers in the forward position. Battalion Commander Zhang ordered the troops to fight a shuttle."

Li Yunlong said: "I'll go to the first battalion to have a look."

After finishing speaking, Li Yunlong walked out of the headquarters quickly, looked at the watch on his hand, and it was only half an hour before dawn.

Unexpectedly, he slept most of the night, and Li Yunlong felt energetic all over his body.

Soon, Li Yunlong brought the guards and correspondents to the headquarters of the First Battalion on the top of the mountain.

"Zhang Dabiao, what the hell are you up to?"

"The devil dug the trench to the front and didn't find it?"

Striding into the headquarters of the first battalion, Li Yunlong's loud voice rang out simultaneously.

"I'm sorry, Captain!" Zhang Dabiao hurried up.

"Damn it, I'm going to lose my chain."

Li Yunlong snorted coldly, the battlefield is like this, no one can predict what will happen next moment.

"What's the situation now?"

Li Yunlong walked to the observation position of the headquarters and looked down. At this time, the flare that had just been fired by the first battalion had not been extinguished. He saw that the open position of the forward position had been dug out by devil engineers, and the trenches were full of people.

Zhang Dabiao's tone was harsh: "The devils seem to be attacking along these trenches, but our first battalion is ready to fight."

Li Yunlong's face was stern. The devils had gnawed away at a distance of less than 40 meters from the forward position. The mortars could only be fired vertically. The distance was too close, and the shells discharged from the chamber were very likely to fall on his head.

……

at the same time.

In the headquarters of the 10th Brigade of the 8th Division of the Japanese Army, Saburo Miura, Abino Ohno, and Tatsuharu Yamaguchi almost laughed crookedly.

Miura Saburo said: "At first, I thought it would be considered a success if the engineering unit could dig to 60 meters from the front position of the new regiment. I didn't expect that the soldiers of the locust army could continue to follow the trenches and reach the front position 40 meters away from the eighth road. s position."

Bino Ohno said: "This means that the attack distance of the locust army has changed from nearly 400 meters to only 40 meters."

Shan Dao Tatsuharu spoke confidently: "My No. 3 Squadron has already reached the front. As long as the No. 3 Squadron successfully enters the Eighth Route Army and starts hand-to-hand combat with the Eighth Route Army, the follow-up troops of our regiment will be able to follow the trenches dug by the Engineer Regiment. , Entering the eight-way position continuously, until the position is completely occupied."

"Yo Xi!" Miura Saburo nodded happily: "Then let's start!"

……

In the headquarters of the first battalion of the new regiment.

As another flare went out, Li Yunlong quickly understood what the devil commander was thinking.

Immediately said to the communications soldier beside him: "Contact the Heavy Artillery Battalion and the 1st Artillery Battalion immediately, and intercept the shelling at a distance of 150 meters to 200 meters from the forward position!"

"Yes!"

The communications soldier immediately picked up the high-power walkie-talkie and called.

"Bah!"

As a red flare rose into the air, Li Yunlong knew that the devil's attack was about to begin.

In the trenches, the front sights of various weapons of the new group of soldiers were silently aimed at the front, and no devils showed their heads.

The soldiers were suspicious, when suddenly there was a sharp whistling sound in the sky, dozens of shells crossed the dark red trajectory in the sky, and fell into the fortifications of the new regiment and battalion.

Accompanied by an explosion sound like landslides and ground cracks, the flames were flickering and the smoke filled the air.

The devil's artillery quality is extremely high, and almost all the shells fell on the positions of the new regiment.

There were no shouts of charge. After the fifth round of shells landed on the new group's position, more than 40 devils from the No. 3 Squadron of the 200th Regiment who were lying down the slope jumped up and rushed towards the new group's position with their rifles in hand. Come.

The Japs' machine gunners were covering fire from a distance.

The new regiment of soldiers who survived the shell explosion showed no fear, and returned fire with the firepower in their hands, smashing the dozens of devils who rushed out of the trench first into a sieve.

As the devils threw dozens of cantaloupe grenades into the new group of positions, more than half of the firepower in the forward positions was muted.

Immediately afterwards, more than 160 devil soldiers poured into the new group of positions like a flood.

The soldiers of the new regiment greeted the devil without hesitation, holding bayonets.

Since it was not yet dawn, the soldiers who came out of the tunnel later could not shoot, and would accidentally injure their own people. The devils rushed forward and got entangled with the new group of soldiers.

The devils of the 10th Division showed super high stabbing skills.

However, many soldiers from the first regiment and first battalion of the new regiment were recruited from various divisions. Some fighters had only participated in the battle for a few months and had not yet participated in decent hand-to-hand combat. Many veterans were transferred to various divisions to serve as squad leaders. Up, but the level of hand-to-hand combat has dropped.

However, as the soldiers of the first battalion continued to emerge from the tunnel and joined the hand-to-hand combat, the devils gradually became unable to hold on.

at this time.

The sound of the artillery instantly tore through the quiet air. Shells from the 1st Battalion and the Heavy Artillery Battalion of the Xinyi Regiment fell from different directions on an area 150 to 200 meters away from the forward position of the [-]st Battalion.

Accompanied by loud noises like landslides and ground cracks, the 50-meter area was blown into a sea of ​​flames, and even the trench fortifications could not pass through.

After more than ten minutes of hand-to-hand combat, more than 160 devils who entered the Xinyi regiment's position were all wiped out.

Due to the addition of the heavy artillery battalion to intercept the artillery fire, the devil's follow-up echelon also failed to pass through the artillery fire interception zone.

As the devils poured three rounds of artillery shells towards the first battalion, the devil's fifth attack failed.

In this battle, the First Battalion finally captured two wounded Japanese soldiers who refused to surrender, and were taken to the new regiment headquarters.

(End of this chapter)