After the high temperature of thirty-eight degrees during the day, the night finally cooled down. Under the moonlight, the entire Zhili Plain was silent. The fighting and artillery fire seemed to have never happened during the day. There was only the Anxin of the Night and the Gentleness of the Moon in the World. Everything had fallen asleep.

Major Wang Jiongwu, deputy artillery battalion of the 142nd Division, stood by the North Canal, and missed his home. The North Canal is actually the northernmost section of the Grand Canal, with a canal of more than 1,700 kilometers. At this point, he finally reached the end. His home is in Shengzhou on the other side of the canal. For Wang Jiongwu, who participated in the revolution at the age of seventeen and was only 24 this year, his life was exciting. When he first participated in the war, he was at Meiling Pass in Quzhou. That time, he ambushed the Qing general Feng Guozhang. At that time, he was a platoon leader of the choreography, and he was actually a student soldier. The inverted firepower points arranged by the Qing army on the Banner Mountain were knocked out by battalion commander Nie Litang and he took him one by one.

The rivers of the North Canal under the moon are vast, which is somewhat like the southern river. Under the moonlight, Major Wang Jiongwu stood next to the cannon position by the river. In addition to homesickness, he also remembered a lot of past events. Hangzhou fought to Yanzhou, Yanzhou fought to Quzhou, and Quzhou returned to Hangzhou. He went around this. This was the journey of the Yanzhou Revolutionary Army. However, he, a student soldier from the Yanzhou Revolutionary Army, eventually became an artillery officer, and was then transferred to Beijing. Unlike the propaganda view of the Political Department, he did not think there was any difference between the Qing Dynasty and the Japanese. Both were alien races, and both wanted to destroy China, and they all wanted to rule China. The former had been defeated by himself, while the latter∟, ww○w. He had not yet come to power and would never come to power more than 500 years ago, General Qi led Zhejiang soldiers to kill the Japanese pirates. Today he also wanted to kill these Japanese pirates to the point of falling water.

Wang Jiongwu thought about killing the Japanese pirates, but the Japanese pirates also thought about killing the Fuxing Army. The Japanese army with this kind of thought carefully touched the Fuxing Army trench one kilometer away at night and began to creep on the ground. The inspiration of the Fuxing Army. The Japanese army attacked at night also prepared some camouflage cloth. However, these camouflages were not military uniforms, but cloaks. The hats on their bodies were also removed because of the conspicuous yellow circle. After all, it was not important to wear hats or hats compared to success.

In the evening, Lieutenant Oshima, who was holding the sign of the corpse of his soldiers, had been here. He was more familiar with the terrain and now climbed in the front of the team. He clung to less than a hundred meters with difficulty against the still hot land. The lieutenant suddenly felt that he had pressed something. He knew something and quickly raised his hand back and signaled to stop moving forward. He didn't expect that Chief Cao in the rear would have misunderstood. He thought he was waving, but after he pounced on it, the two of them were tragic.

With a "bang...", the infantry mine buried in front of the trench suddenly exploded, and the rare tranquility at night was immediately broken.

When the mines exploded, the soldiers stationed in the trench immediately greeted the front with machine guns. Maxim's unique dull gunfire sounds hit like a drum, awakening more people. The machine gun fired, and the mortars also fired lights into the sky, so everything flashed, light and dark, light and dark... Under the flares, barbed wire in the distance, artillery dragged to the nearest, and black figures.

The night woke up, roared, and the moonlight was dispersed. A slalom machine gun bullets shot towards the front of the trench, and the mortars began to fire rapidly. They were targetless and just hit a fan like gambling, without a correct head; then the rifles began to sound crisp and monotonously. With the light of the flares, they shot all suspicious places. With so much firepower, the pungent smell in the air immediately spread.

The Japanese army, who knew they were still far from the Fuxing Army, were still sneaking in the rain of bullets. They had to climb to a distance of 300 or even 200 meters before they would charge on-board. For the Fuxing Army with extremely dense firepower, closer distance was the only way to attack. While these Japanese troops were crawling forward regardless of casualties, behind them, the Japanese mountain cannons outside the range of the Fuxing Army's 60 mortars began to directly bombard the barbed wire in front of the trench. The Japanese army without a blasting tube could only think

It was to use artillery direct aiming and shooting to destroy it. The lesson of the mountains in Liaodong was bloody. They no longer believed that shrapnel can break the wire mesh, especially the wire mesh of the Fuxing Army. For every attack, their only way was to drag light mountain cannons to bombard directly. According to the private experiments of the Japanese army, for the roof-shaped wire mesh unique to the Fuxing Army and the eight-meter-deep layout, the mountain cannon needed 100 grenades to tear a ten-meter-long hole at a distance of two thousand meters.

One hundred grenades, a new mountain cannon takes thirteen minutes to complete. In addition, the mistaken shooting in actual combat is often close to twenty minutes. Therefore, every time the barbed wire is bombarded, the Japanese army will at least arrange for more than two mountain cannons to bombard a location at the same time, in order to open the barbed wire faster so that its infantry can charge on board.

The practical experience of the Northeast War Zone was summarized by a special staff, and then quickly pushed it to the whole country. Seeing the Japanese mountain cannons two thousand meters away bombarding their front lines one by one, Wang Jiongwu immediately understood the Japanese army's thoughts and shouted to the gunners in the artillery position: "Don't wait for the order, just aim straight at the enemy cannon."

He walked behind the gun mount, touched the gunner's tense back, gently pushed him away, and then began to tighten the body of the high and low aircraft, his eyes leaned against the scope, turned it to the flashing fire of the gun, aiming in the darkness at a point that was constantly emitting fire two kilometers away.

With his command, short, broken edges of flames flew into the darkness, and the cannon bomb came out of the bore and rolled up a wave of heat, while the cannon body shook violently, and the sand squeaked under the sleeper.

"Brake hoe!" Wang Jiongwu shouted, then pressed his eyes on the sight. He barely discovered that the shell just now exploded at the point where the enemy cannon fire was lower and slightly lower. So he used to touch it with his hands, magnify the meter, and then issued an order to fire the cannon. The sound of the cannon was still deafening, but these were all ignored. All his energy was concentrated on the enemy cannon two kilometers ahead. Just as he had just fired the cannon, the 80 mortar in the regiment also fired, and another field cannon next to him also aimed straight to fire. The fire flashed dazzlingly, and the hot wind of the Tottenham people flew towards him with dust.

The scope moved and tightened. The fingers held the mechanical handle tightly, and then a shot. The shells burned like a bonfire two kilometers ahead, and the flames flashed just now were extinguished. Wang Jiongwu waited for several seconds. After the light of the flares penetrated into the scope again, the machine gun began to erupt again. Suddenly, in the scope, he saw the fires flashing tenaciously and actively on the other side. "The Japanese pirates are really stubborn!" he cursed in his heart.

"Four shots, rapid fire!" Wang Jiongwu shouted. So, there were piles of bonfires in front of him. In order to see more clearly, he left the scope and picked up the telescope. At this time, another flare was shining. Everything there was illuminated. The enemy artillery and the soil piled on the side were clearly visible. The 80 mortar shells were constantly exploding near the artillery position. At this moment, the Japanese army ambushed in front of his own trench could no longer hold on. Some of them launched a desperate charge, but these people were quickly cleaned up by machine guns, and the latter part retreated quickly. Although the machine guns could not take care of them for a while, countless 60 mortar shells covered them. While the howling of ghosts, these people either exploded or fell to the ground, and none of them escaped smoothly.

"It's really a fucking death!" Wang Jiongwu cursed. Although he was not an infantryman, he knew how strong the infantry front line was. With the artillery regiment where he was, he had to stop even if he was pulled within one kilometer of the trench, let alone those Japanese pirates who had no other than bayonets and mountain cannons.

The firepower clearance of the Japanese army on the front end was over not long after. The flares no longer rose, and the entire position was shrouded in the bright white moonlight. In this moonlight, only the wailing sounds of the injured and undead Japanese army in front of the trench were sparse and intermittent.

The Fuxing Army returned to peace, while Lieutenant General Jokeguchi Jogo, the 15th Division who witnessed all this three kilometers away, was furious. The attack was initiated according to the headquarters plan. There were probably soldiers from a regiment to conduct a hand-to-hand assault, but they were not lucky. They triggered landmines before entering the enemy trench five hundred meters, causing all their efforts to lurk. If, based on the experience of the Russo-Japanese War, as long as the mountain cannons can break the enemy's barbed wire, the soldiers can still attack without regard for casualties. But who can talk about the mortars of the Chinese army that can hit two kilometers away, and there are also direct-sighting field cannons behind the trench of the Chinese army?

The mountain cannons that fired barbed wire were quickly killed by mortars and straight-sighting field cannons. But even if the mountain cannons were not killed, could their own suicide squads rush to the enemy? Before this, the Lieutenant General thought it was OK, but after witnessing the dense machine guns of the enemy, the Lieutenant General suddenly felt that this was not possible. The number of machine guns of the Chinese army was much higher than that of the Russian army, and they also had the kind of wooden curved cannons that fell like raindrops as soon as they were fired. The distance of these hundreds of meters seemed very short, but it was actually impossible to rush over.

Inuguchi Jogo made a decisive assessment of the Fuxing Army's position with his own observations. Just as he was thinking about how to break through such a fire-intensive position, Chief of Staff Colonel Ryoshuo Matsuyama said: "Your Excellency, the headquarters called us to attack again."

"Nani!" Inuguchi Jogo said angrily, and then when he thought of the entire plan, his tense body softened again. The headquarters' plan was first to attack hand-to-hand combat at night, and if it failed, it would be a strong attack. This put enough pressure on the front line of the Chinese army to cover the flank detour attack. Although the front line was difficult to attack, it was impossible for him to not attack for the entire combat plan.

"Notify the artillery corps and fire the Chinese army immediately, and do not care about the shells." Inuchio ordered.

"Hay!" the chief of staff nodded, but he did not leave after he agreed. The division commander only talked about artillery and did not explain to the infantry.

Looking at the Chief of Staff standing in front of him, Iguchi Jogo immediately understood what was going on. After a while, he sighed, "Go, the infantry will also start a desperate attack."

The surprise attack failed, followed by a strong attack. The Japanese artillery was no longer as cowardly as during the day and could only be beaten. Now they kept pouring shells to the north, only burning the sky red. However, they were not happy for a long time. The artillery fire of the Fuxing Army guided by the airship came back, and everything in the day began to repeat. Although the Japanese army learned the lesson and spread the artillery array very wide and dug the positions very deep. Only the gun barrels were exposed outside, there were still shells falling nearby and exploded, and some explosions caused ammunition to explode. Under this blow, the shells fired by the Japanese artillery were even more messy, and many shells lost their accuracy and didn't know where they landed.

The Fuxing Army had airships, while the Japanese raised the spare observation balloons. Looking at the dense artillery fire in the north, the observers on the balloon immediately feedbacked their direction to the cannon wing arranged at the last. As the twenty-four cannons opened fire, the Fuxing Army's artillery fire stopped. The anti-artillery battle between the two sides came to an end.

When the Japanese army failed at night attack, the front line command center in Wuqing County was busy. The area where the Japanese army attacked was soon marked on the situation chart. When the Japanese army turned from night attack to strong attack, more staff were busy.

Lei Yizhen was tired and he had been deploying details of the entire capital defense battle these days. Beijing was not a good place to defend against the enemy from the south. If the Japanese army moved forward, there would be their troops in every direction, which would put a lot of pressure on the defense. After all, the capital was not Liaodong, and it would be impossible to completely strengthen the walls and clear the fields. What he could do was just along the Beijing-Tianjin Railway. If the people were captured by the Japanese, he would be unwilling to be enslaved or massacred.

After sucking several deep puffs of smoke, Lei Yizhen asked: "What's the situation on the front line?"

"The night attack failed to start a strong attack," said Chief of Staff Xu Dachun. "But the front line said that the Japanese used heavy artillery, and it was probably just transferred to the artillery corps on the front line in the afternoon. These 105mm cannons are very powerful, and now all the cannons on our side have stopped."

When Xu Dachun was talking about the 105 cannon, Comrade Li Chengyuan, the artillery commander, was furious to Beijing, "...Why can't you be dispatched at night? The Japanese artillery balloons must have been raised, otherwise how could their artillery hit me directly? You can send a plane quickly... Yes! Just observe the balloons, you are here in the afternoon. But the work has not been finished, and there is still one left now... Yes. At least one is being directed to the Japanese artillery bombardment... If you don't come again, I will find you Commander Pan!"

Li Chengyuan was out of breath, persuaded and threatened, and finally got the matter of the plane. Then he hung up the phone with a bang, and then said to Lei Yizhen and Xu Dachun a little unsure: "Can this plane fly tonight?"

"The airship can fly." Xu Dachun laughed as he looked nervous and restless.

"Damn, the airship wants you to say. I'm talking about the plane. The Japanese are now shooting so accurately that they must have raised the observation balloon, otherwise they won't even touch the hair." Li Chengyuan is an old artillery soldier and is very proficient in anti-artillery tactics. Because of this, he is very worried about the cannons. He looked at Lei Yizhen and said expectantly: "The Japanese hope to detour, so we can't detour one and give their artillery a thunderbolt?"

Lei Yizhen saw him and said, "Why, do you want to snatch these cannons back?"

"It's not enough to rob it, but it's possible to destroy it. These cannons are farther than us and have great power. I feel uncomfortable no matter how I think I feel, I suggest that the infantry send some people and also detour once." Li Chengyuan insisted.

Seeing that Li Chengyuan wanted to use artillery to pry the infantry again, Lei Yizhen smiled and said, "You, forget what he said at the beginning. When a large army fights, it must be the primary infantry, and artillery is the secondary. You should have the infantry around the artillery. No wonder the Zhouxie..."

Lei Yizhen didn't say that. Li Chengyuan's problem was actually the center of the army's combat. He had been playing with cannons for a long time and knew the power of cannons, so many times during wartime considerations were mainly artillery. However, the Fuxing Army had only infantry divisions and no artillery divisions. The cannons served infantry offensives, not infantry bombardment. To Li Chengyuan, it was simply putting the cart before the horse.

"If you want to attack by detour, you can't just detour the 105 cannons." Lei Yizhen didn't say anything, and Xu Dachun said on the side: "Information shows that the smallest caliber of the field heavy gun that the Japanese army landed on this time is this 105 cannons, 150 howitzers, and 240 howitzers. This entire field heavy artillery force made us detour once. It's not worth it now to detour for only one 105 revolver."

"The Chief of Staff said this." Lei Yizhen affirmed Xu Dachun's words when he saw this. "There are several Japanese corps, and the heavy artillery in the field are almost formed into a division. If you want to detour, you will take him in one fell swoop. It is not a solution to break things."

Lei Yizhen did not say he died, and Li Chengyuan had some hope. After that, his business was to wait for the plane. As long as he knocked off the observation balloon raised by the Japanese army, the Japanese would become blind again.

He was waiting here, and after several phone calls outside, a staff officer's voice was particularly harsh in the noise: "What! Was it going? Where did you go... What, Beicai Village! How many Japanese are there?"

Before the staff officer hung up the phone, Xu Dachun stared at the map. He took a picture of the gap between Hudian and Longwan River on the east side of Yangcun Village. "There is Longwan River on the east side, and it is inconvenient to cross the river at night. The Japanese army should have crawled through this gap. They wanted to cut us into two pieces. The front part was Yangcun and the back part was the county town. It was really a good plan."

Xu Dachun said that he had just reported from the staff officer who answered the phone: "Reported that an enemy brigade was found near Beicai, carrying heavy weapons such as mountain artillery and other heavy weapons. There may be an iron car that cannot be damaged by machine guns."

"Iron Car?" Xu Dachun asked in surprise. "What kind of iron car looks like?"

"The iron cart is being pushed by the man." The staff officer said according to the original words on the phone, "It is probably a new weapon of the Japanese army."

"New weapons..." Xu Dachun murmured these three words silently. When he was about to say something, Lei Yizhen asked his staff loudly: "The Japanese army is not just going to the east, but the west? Is there any movement in the Japanese army?"

"There is no report there, there is no abnormality for the time being." The staff members shook their heads and said.

"Give them a call and make them more vigilant." Lei Yizhen said: "If you don't, remove the person from the first trench and wait for the second trench."

Lei Yizhen said this, and the staff officer told him when he heard this. As soon as he left, Xu Dachun asked, "Are you worried that the Japanese will attack the world?"

"This is possible! A strong attack from the front and a detour from the east. Why is there no movement in the west? Isn't it too strange?" Lei Yizhen said, "Under normal circumstances, it should be a feint to attack the west even if it doesn't attack. Now, there is no movement at all." After saying this, he asked again: "What's going on with the iron car I just reported?"

"What the hell knows is going on," said Xu Dachun. "Can you learn from the Spitfire train we used during the Russo-Japanese War."

Xu Dachunzhen hit the nail on the head. At this time, the Japanese army was pushing steel plate bulletproof vehicles in Beicai Village. This was an enlarged version of the steel semi-human shield they used in the Russo-Japanese War. When the trench attacked, it was a sharp propulsion weapon. Countless machine gun bullets hit the steel plate outside the vehicle and made a thud. These bulletproof vehicles were photographed in a row, covering the infantry behind the vehicle's advance, and seemed to be unscathed for a moment.

Lieutenant General Nagaoka learned from the telegram that his new thing could achieve such an effect. His face was full of smiles and his huge beards on both sides seemed to grow a little bit longer. However, while he was excited, the defenders' mortars began to show their might, and huge shells fell from the sky, blowing the Japanese infantry behind the bulletproof car into tears and howling. The urgently drawn the field cannons also began to aim and shoot directly. Once the shells hit the bulletproof car, they would be a sea of ​​fire. The Japanese army pushing the car forward instantly met the great god Amaterasu.

The enemy's artillery fire was fierce, and it was not to retreat or to go forward. But after all, the 9th Division, which was responsible for the attack, had participated in the Lushun attack war. The soldiers with vises saw that the bulletproof vehicle was invalid. As the captain waved his sword, they all shouted on the board and rushed towards the trench. Under the light, the Japanese army left the bulletproof vehicle and rushed into the trench like a madman. After the machine gunner was stunned, he suddenly held his breath and pulled the trigger, and fired against the Japanese army that charged to death.

After the ammunition belt was shot, another ammunition belt was shot. After countless ammunition belts, the water in the water tank of the gun holster began to boil, and the Japanese corpses piled up in front of the trench also accumulated into small hills. Relying on the cover of this hill, more and more dense Japanese troops rushed over. Just when the machine gunners were hard all over and thought they could not defend, nearly a hundred mortar shells suddenly fell on the front of the trench, and countless flames flashed suddenly, and the shouting finally stopped.

"Ah! Ah!" As the flares rose again, the machine gunner shouted and retreated quickly, which made the officer next to him look carefully in front of him. With the light from the sky, the stacks of Japanese corpses made him unable to help but tremble. This was the battlefield, this was simply hell!
Chapter completed!