The sound of gunfire "Room..." sounded quickly on the battlefield. In less than half a minute, the second line of defense that pacified the defense of the Second Battalion of the garrison was filled with smoke.

The Japanese who occupied the first line of defense immediately advanced forward and shortened the attack distance as much as possible.

At this time, Colonel Ishida also stood on the first line of defense that his subordinates had just captured.

Standing here, he could clearly see the second line of defense of the National Salvation Army. But under the cover of gunpowder, he could not see clearly the specific situation on the blocking position.

The chief of staff on the side suddenly spoke: "Sir, I think the terrain of the second line of defense of the National Salvation Army is similar to the first line of defense. I am worried that they will also build a machine gun castle there!"

"I just went to the machine gun castle on the first line of defense to see. The National Salvation Army used the terrain to dig a large number of castles around the line of defense, and all of them were reinforced with wooden boards. The top of the castle was covered with thick soil. Ordinary shells were shot without any effect unless we used mountain cannons and heavy cannons!"

"The terrain in front is very suitable for defense. There are too many places to be used to build a castle. I am worried that the National Salvation Army will hide firepower in those places. When the offensive troops rushed to the front and back, they suddenly opened fire, allowing the Second Battalion to repeat the mistakes of the First Battalion!"

Although Colonel Ishida did not speak, his brows became deeper and deeper, and it was obvious that he listened.

After staring at the battlefield for another half a minute, he replied: "The front blocking position must have hidden the castle. Let the artillery troops fight for five more minutes, and all the places around the defense line that may have been built by the National Savior Army are covered with mountain cannons and heavy cannons."

"We have no way to determine the specific location of the machine gun castle on the battlefield. We can only cast nets everywhere, destroy those machine gun castles through artillery fire, and reduce the combat pressure of the offensive troops!"

"After the Second Battalion starts the attack, the Shantian Artillery Brigade provides them with artillery fire support at any time."

"Don't be afraid of accidental injury. After the attack begins, as long as the machine gun castle is exposed, fire a fire to counterattack immediately!"

"The aviation troops who cover us must also be prepared to attack the ground at any time, and work with the mountain artillery brigade to attack the machine gun fire points exposed by the National Salvation Army."

"If we can eliminate all the national rescue troops defending the second line of defense, the second battalion was accidentally injured by artillery and aviation during the attack, both infantry squads were paddled!"

The Chief of Staff nodded while listening and agreed with the decision of the corps captain. As soon as Colonel Ishida finished his order, he arranged for the commissar to issue orders!

At the front command of the National Salvation Army, the telephone soldier put down the microphone and looked at Chen Zhengyu with a serious report: "Chief of Staff, report from the pacification garrison, the Japanese artillery fire not only covered the entire defense line, but all places suitable for building the bastion near the defense line were also bombed by artillery fire. Two machine gun castles have been destroyed, and a heavy machine gun team and a light machine gun team were lost!"

Chen Zhengyu waved his hand to signal the telephone to return to his position, and then turned his gaze to Zhou Cheng.

There were Japanese planes staring at them in the sky, and the artillery troops behind could not move. Facing the Japanese long-range artillery attack, Chen Zhengyu's mind was already in a mess. He could not think of any solution, so he could only pin his hopes on the regiment commander.

Zhou Cheng was silent for a moment and replied: "I have seen the Japanese shelling through the telescope."

"After learning from one's mistakes, the Japanese obviously learned from their previous attacks, and felt that we had also built a machine gun castle around the second line of defense, so we exploded all suspicious targets on the position to eliminate various hidden dangers that may be faced in the attack."

Chen Zhengyu became more and more anxious as he heard it, and immediately asked: "Then do we have any way to break the deadlock?"

"At the beginning, two castles were bombed. If the Japanese army continued to bomb like this, we would definitely lose a lot of castles when the shelling ended!"

Zhou Cheng shook his head: "The artillery battalion must not be exposed in advance to be bombed, and the ordinary mortars we equipped cannot hit the Japanese artillery positions, so I can't think of a way to break the deadlock, so I can only let the troops in the defensive positions hold on!"

The anxious expression on Chen Zhengyu's face was immediately replaced by a serious look, and he analyzed with a worried look: "If this is the case, the number of Japanese devils we can destroy in the next blocking battle will definitely be much smaller than before, and the casualties will increase a lot!"

Zhou Cheng shook his head again: "The casualties will definitely increase. After all, the Japanese used nearly twice as many mountain artillery and heavy artillery shells in this round of attack than before. But as long as we prepare in advance, the casualties of the Japanese will not decrease due to the significant increase in our casualties."

"Although there is no way for the Japanese to stop the artillery attack, we can find ways to increase the casualties of the Japanese attacking troops and save the current casualties ratio!"

"Order: The heavy mortar company of the Artillery Battalion is ready to participate in the war immediately, and all large-caliber mortars are aimed at the area of ​​100 meters in front of the second line of defense!"

"Two heavy mortar companies distribute artillery positions in platoons and keep them hidden."

"After receiving the firing order, a heavy mortar shot a shell. After the firing, it will be dispersed and transferred, and the Japanese artillery and aircraft will not be given the chance to lock them!"

"The two heavy mortar companies are equipped with a total of 18 large-caliber mortars, which can fire out eighteen shells at one time that are no less powerful than heavy artillery. As long as two-thirds of the shells hit the Japanese offensive troops, their casualties will increase by at least one hundred!"

"The light mortar troops and grenade launchers participated in the war just now. After the battle, they would be transferred. While protecting themselves, they should try to kill a few Japanese soldiers and avenge the soldiers who died on the battlefield!"

Seven minutes later, the explosion of heavy artillery shells on the defense line was gradually replaced by the explosion of mortar shells, and the sound became much smaller. The Japanese offensive troops entered Zhou Cheng's vision one after another, holding guns, yelling at the defense line, and rushing towards the defense line, at a very fast speed.

When they attacked the first line of defense of the National Salvation Army just now, they encountered no resistance and easily took down the blocking position.

The unexpected victory stimulated every Japanese in the team. They felt that the next attack would definitely be like the previous attack, as they attacked forward, and it was unstoppable, easily taking down the second line of defense with corpses everywhere and defeating the National Savior Army above.

As a result, when the attacking troops rushed to the front 50 meters, the sound of shooting of the pier gun that the Japanese didn't want to hear sounded again.

Although the firepower density is not as good as the blocking battle just now, there are not many casualties in the Second Japanese Battalion.

The moment the gunfire sounded, eighteen large-caliber mortar shells fell from the sky and hit the middle of the team like eyes.

There were many attacking troops with more than a thousand people, and there were four rows of scattered troops alone. Looking down from the air, the Japanese were covered with 50 to 100 meters in front of the blocking position, resulting in all eighteen shells hitting the target, and none of them missed.

The sudden crawler gun bullets mainly harvest the first two rows of Japanese devils, and eighteen shells were responsible for harvesting the rear two rows of Japanese devils.

During the violent explosion, although the Japanese were lying on the ground at the first time, as long as they were in the killing radius of shells, they were still killed by the powerful shock wave...

Colonel Ishida witnessed this tragic scene with his own eyes, his fists tightly pinched, gritting his teeth, and wishing to destroy the artillery position of the National Rescue Army immediately.

He did the same, and he raised his eyebrows and began to give orders: ""The mountain artillery brigade and mortar troops are responsible for countering the artillery positions just exposed by the National Salvation Army, the field artillery brigade and heavy artillery brigade are responsible for destroying the machine gun castle just exposed by the National Salvation Army. The aviation army chooses the attack targets themselves, and the offensive troops immediately retreat fifty meters to make room for the artillery and aviation!"

With the experience of attacking the first line of defense of the National Salvation Army, the Japanese who were hit again were much more orderly, and Colonel Ishida's counterattack and retreat orders were also more timely.

But the power of heavy mortars is too great. The killing radius of each shell exceeds twenty meters. They alone killed and injured nearly one hundred Japanese devils.

With the results of ordinary mortars and grenade launchers and the results of the counterattack of the pacifist gun, the second Japanese brigade's losses in this round of attack actually exceeded that of the first brigade.

Although they achieved more results than the First Battalion, their direct losses were still more than those of the National Salvation Army.

After the Japanese retreated, the Second Battalion also began to retreat.

Because the two heavy mortar companies shared the artillery fire of the Japanese mountain artillery brigade, the retreat pressure of the Second Battalion was much smaller than that of the First Battalion, greatly reducing the losses of the troops in the entire blocking battle.

At the front command of the National Salvation Army, Chen Zhengyu looked very ugly and lowered his head to report.

"The regiment commander, the casualties of the Second Battalion have been counted: a total of 420 people in the battalion participated in the battle, and 213 people were withdrawn, of which 23 temporarily lost their combat effectiveness due to injuries. Currently, there are 190 people left in the Second Battalion to continue fighting, 207 people were sacrificed, including two company commanders and three deputy company commanders!"

"In the battle, one mortar, three grenade launchers, two heavy machine guns, nine light machine guns, and 159 rifles were lost. The remaining combat power of the entire battalion is not as good as half before the war!"

Zhou Cheng took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and then said: "The casualties are indeed a bit big, but the price is worth it!"

"Because the two heavy mortar companies participated in the war in time, the Japanese army directly lost more than 300 people in this attack, which was equivalent to killing two soldiers and killing three Japanese devils. Judging from the casualties alone, the second blocking battle was much better than the first blocking battle."

"Immediately draw 100 new recruits from the recruit battalion to supplement the second battalion, so that they can recover their combat effectiveness as soon as possible and be ready to go to the battlefield for the second time!"

"Let the third battalion of the pacification garrison be prepared for combat. Given that the Japanese will use artillery fire to cover our blocking positions and all machine gun castles before the attack, in order to avoid unnecessary casualties, all the troops defending the castle retreat to the anti-aircraft shed to avoid artillery fire, and then return to the castle to fight when the artillery fire is over!"

When the Japanese attacked the position, he saw that the Second Battalion successfully captured the second line of defense of the National Salvation Army for the second attack, he was not happy at all. He waited for his subordinates to come over to report the information with a tense face.

Compared with the captain of the first brigade, the captain of the second brigade who rushed over was even more ashamed. After walking to Colonel Ishida, his head lowered and his face turned red.

He was also slapped in the face by the National Salvation Army. He originally thought that after he left the more comprehensive artillery fire support from the artillery troops, the Second Battalion would be able to easily take down the second line of defense. As a result, the National Salvation Army actually gave him a blow with more than a dozen heavy mortars.

With other artillery and pneumatic guns, he caused more than 300 casualties to himself in just one minute, which was even greater than the losses of the First Battalion.

Seeing everyone around him staring at him, some people were worried, some people were not concerned about their affairs, some people showed a joke expression, the captain's head was lower than before, and he reported with a stingy report: "Sir, I haven't been beaten well, I'll ask for punishment!"

Colonel Ishida's face had a very serious expression and he didn't speak, and no one knew what he was thinking.

Time passed by second and second, and the captain gradually became guilty, fearing that the captain would vent all his anger on him. Just as he was hesitating whether to look up at the captain's expression, the Chief of Staff's voice finally reached his ears.

"Sir, although the casualties of the Second Battalion are a bit serious, I think the mistake is not in the Second Battalion."

"The National Salvation Army is even more cunning than we imagined. I never expected that they not only built a large number of machine gun castles on the second line of defense, but also arranged nearly twenty large-caliber mortars."

"I carefully observed the entire battle process. One-third of the casualties of the Second Battalion were caused by these dozen large-caliber mortars."

"And these heavy mortar units are very difficult to deal with, and they are scattered on the battlefield in squads and platoons. They are also camouflaged and retreat after a shell is fired. Our artillery troops will definitely lock them and destroy them."

"The air force cannot lock them in a short time and launch an attack!"

Colonel Ishida replied angrily: "Don't worry, I'm not so stupid as to be defeated and troubled by my subordinates."

"The heavy losses of the Second Battalion were indeed not caused by a command error, I know this more than any of you."

"The Chief of Staff is right, the National Salvation Army is even more cunning than I thought."

"Through these two attacks, I probably guessed their playing style."

"Using the machine gun castle hidden in the blocking position to kill and injure our attacking troops in large quantities. After the battle, we retreat and consume our troops little by little through layers of blocking."

"There are six blocking positions here, each blocking position kills more than 300 of us. All six blocking positions can kill our two infantry brigades."

"And our opponent, the National Salvation Army, always evacuated the battlefield. With the protection of anti-aircraft artillery holes and traffic trenches, our artillery fire coverage cannot seriously damage the opponent. This can also be seen from the bodies left by the National Salvation Army on the battlefield."

"There are less than 400 bodies left by the National Salvation Army in two attacks, which means that there are only so many troops that they were killed directly by us."

"Look at ourselves, there are more than 500 soldiers killed in battle, and more than 100 minor and serious wounded people. The direct losses are much greater than those of the National Salvation Army."

"If we continue to fight like this, the National Salvation Army can kill our two infantry brigades with just the price of more than a thousand men!"

The Chief of Staff agreed and immediately put forward his thoughts: "Sir, since the National Salvation Army wants to take the opportunity to consume our troops, we must not continue to be deceived! Otherwise, we will suspend the attack and wait until the encirclement troops are in place before taking action."

"At that time, the National Salvation Army will face our attacks from both sides, and there is no place to retreat even if we want to retreat!"

Colonel Ishida shook his head: "Can't wait!"

"Reduce the time spent on the second line of defense of the National Salvation Army just attacked, and it will be dark in two hours. The air force supporting us has to evacuate the battlefield, so our firepower advantage is not so obvious!"

"And this blocking battle has been fought for so long, but the mountain artillery troops of the National Salvation Army have not participated in the war."

"Information shows that the overall strength of the mountain artillery troops of the National Salvation Army is no less than that of our two artillery brigades."

"I guess this artillery unit did not participate in the war because it was afraid of the planes in the sky."

"After the plane retreats, this artillery unit will join the war."

"If we don't attack now, the main force of the National Salvation Army defending Zhujiazhuang will still be there. With the cover of two artillery brigades, they will have a chance to break out of our encirclement. Then our goal of annihilation of the main force of the National Salvation Army here will not be achieved."
Chapter completed!