Li Bin, who is familiar with military history, is very clear: the lesson of defeat in the Anti-Japanese War was that the defense depth was insufficient. Under the circumstances where the heavy firepower was far inferior to that of the Japanese army, the defending troops had not yet made contact with the enemy when they suffered heavy losses under air raids and artillery bombardment. The thin defensive line collapsed as soon as the Japanese opened a breakthrough.
Moreover, there were no crisscrossing communication trenches, so the reinforcements could only charge forward under enemy fire to retake positions, and as a result, lost ground could not be regained, but instead suffered heavy casualties, ultimately leading to a complete collapse of the front.
Now Li Bin's troop deployment is light in the front and heavy in the back, trying to reserve more troops and firepower to stop the enemy's crazy attack step by step.
Japanese soldiers who had rushed to the first trench were staring blankly at the corpses scattered inside, they didn't dare go down, and standing there was not an option either. Between the second and third trenches, stray bullets kept shooting out from the foxholes, more seriously, some hidden bunkers shot dense machine gun fire and mortar shells that could come flying over at any time.
The devils who were in a dilemma could only lie on the ground, using their rifles and bayonets to fire at the second trench.
The warriors in the second trench, with bullets whizzing past their heads and ears, fiercely counterattacked the enemy. Although the well-trained Japanese army's marksmanship was much more accurate, the distance of only over 40 meters offset the advantage of the Japanese accuracy. Moreover, there were snipers and sharpshooters behind the warriors!
The yellow flower button triggers, a Japanese army grenade soldier falls to the ground. She quickly moves her position, crouching and running a few steps in the trench, leaving her original sniper point. As soon as she ran away, a 75mm shell landed at her original sniper location and exploded.
After moving to the next sniping position, Huang Hua pulled the bolt of her rifle, loading the next round into the chamber. She then peeked out from another vantage point with her sniper rifle. Just at that moment, a lieutenant colonel's insignia appeared in her scope.
"Great! Got a big fish!" Huang Hua was overjoyed in her heart, and she gently moved the muzzle.
A gunshot rang out, and the commander of the 29th Infantry Regiment of the Japanese Army, Tian Linggai, had his skull blown open, with brain matter and dirty blood splashing onto the snowy ground, staining the pure white snow a murky mess.
Snipers and god gunmen fought one shot and changed places, flexible and mobile strikes against the enemy, those devils who were suppressed by strong light weapon firepower outside the first trench were killed one after another.
The first wave of Japanese troops' attack not only lost more than 600 people, but also a battalion commander was killed. The Japanese army, which had no way to advance or retreat, could only start retreating and staying here would only be beaten in vain, so it's better to "transfer" temporarily.
Li Bin saw the Japanese army's first crazy attack being repelled, he knew that the Japanese would start using heavy artillery to launch a fierce bombardment, so he ordered: "The Japanese are going to open fire on us! Everyone get ready to take cover!"
The warriors left the trenches and individual bunkers one after another, and hid in the anti-aircraft caves. The battlefield that was just noisy quickly fell silent. Except for leaving a squad scattered in the second trench to serve as an observation post, no Chinese soldiers were seen on the ground again.
"Fire!" ordered Lieutenant General Tamenori Matsumoto, Commander of the 2nd Division.
The Japanese army's heavy artillery of various calibers repeatedly covered the Chinese defenders' positions, causing the ground to be blasted until the ice and snow melted, and the crisscrossing trenches were blown into a mess. The soldiers hiding in the bomb shelters listened to the thunder-like explosions outside and cursed silently in their hearts. Fighting without heavy weapons was indeed very difficult, as long as the enemy infantry had not yet approached, they could only shrink their heads and take the beating.
The Japanese bombarded the defenders of Goubangzi with all their might, turning their positions into a lunar landscape. The intense flames and scorching heat melted the snow on the ground, turning the entire surface into a muddy mess.
Japanese bombers flying over the Goubangzi array dropped a string of bombs, re-plowing the ground that had been ravaged by artillery fire for a long time. This time, the Japanese prepared for an unusually long time, and Lieutenant General Futaro Nakamura not only poured out almost all the shells of the 2nd Division, but also almost all the shells seized from the Northeast Army after the September 18th Incident were fired.
This time, the Japanese changed their tactics. Major General Hirata, who was in command of the infantry, did not wait for the artillery fire to cease before waving his commander's sword and shouting "Charge!"
Another vanguard of the September 18th Incident, Ishikawa Itarō, also swung his command sword: "Kill! Kill!"?
The Japanese 29th Infantry Brigade, the Independent 1st Battalion and the entire 4th Brigade, nearly six thousand men in total, charged forward with wooden boards under their own artillery support, launching a frenzied attack on the Chinese defenders' positions.
Bombers that had completed their bombing runs circled in the air, occasionally diving down to strafe the ground and directing Japanese artillery fire at the defending positions with accurate fire.
"The devils are coming!" The observation post's brother urgently sent a warning signal to Li Bin.
When Li Bin heard the news, he was stunned: "Damn it! It seems that the devils are determined to attack us at all costs! They launched an attack on us without any regard for their own troops being injured by the artillery fire!"
"He muttered to himself, then looked around at all the warriors: "Brothers! Now the devils are going crazy! They're launching an attack on us at all costs! Now I order: we must launch a counterattack and hold off the enemy! I'll be the first to leave the bunker and take command of the front line!"
After giving the order, he looked at the crowd again: "The Righteous and Brave Army follows me! Advance under the enemy's artillery fire!" After finishing speaking, he was the first to rush out of the bunker and ran towards the command post.
Li Bin's action of leading by example ignited the morale of the Righteous and Brave Army soldiers. Suddenly, a tall Han shouted: "General Li leads by example, our Righteous and Brave Army will follow General Li forward!"
The warriors, braving the enemy's fierce artillery fire, emerged one after another from underground tunnels, walked into their own positions, and fired dense bullets at the devils who were rushing over with a loud noise.
Shells rained down on the trenches, and brave soldiers fell in batches in a pool of blood. The greater threat was still the Japanese aircraft in the sky, bullets swooping down from above, and there was no place for the soldiers in the trenches to hide.
Under the enemy's air bombing and firepower strike, the officers and men in the second trench of the main defense line have almost been killed or wounded, with only a few sparse rifles still firing.
Li Bin, with eyes blazing with anger, picked up a Czech-style machine gun and rushed out of the command center: "Brothers! I, Li Bin, have long disregarded life and death! Those who are men, follow me!"
The warriors let out a collective roar: ??
"It's awesome!"
"It's going to be a fight between the Chinese and the devils!"
"Protect our home and defend our country! If there is an enemy, I will be there! Kill!"
The warriors of the third and fourth lines moved forward one after another to reinforce the first line.
The intense gunfire outside was heard by the special forces captain Fang Juntian, who was hiding in a trench. He felt very uncomfortable listening to the fierce battle sounds. Suddenly, Fang Juntian stood up and said to his soldiers: "Brothers! The others have all charged out! But we old men are hiding here like women! If you're still a man, follow me and charge out!"
The special forces soldiers shouted in unison: "We're going out!"
Fang Juntian, carrying an MP18 submachine gun and with an axe on his back, led the special soldiers who were armed with submachine guns and various cold weapons as they charged out of the bunker.
Li Bin turned his head and saw that all the beloved special soldiers had rushed out. He blocked Fang Juntian's way: "What are you going to do? All of you go back!"
Fang Jun Tian roared: "You come up here yourself! We can't just hide in there like turtles!"
"Go back!" Li Bin roared.
"Sit down! I won't go back unless you shoot me dead!" Fang Jun Tian insisted on not going back.
"Alright! All of you follow me! Protect yourselves well! Listen to my orders, and retreat when it's time to retreat!" Li Bin shouted loudly.
The fierce battle has reached its climax, the Japanese infantry has already rushed to within thirty meters of the first trench, heavy artillery shells exploded in the middle of the position, shrapnel flying horizontally took away the lives of the Righteous and Brave Army soldiers while also mowing down the Japanese who were charging forward in batches.
On the Chinese garrison's position, which was shrouded in smoke and flames, still stubbornly spewed out tongues of fire. The devils were rushing towards the position like a mad tide, only to fall down in batches. On the position that had been bombed into smithereens, there was a strong smell of blood and gunpowder everywhere, and the melted snow water turned the black soil into a muddy mess, which soon dried up under the high temperature and fierce fire. At this time, the shells that fell to the ground all stirred up dry mud like powder.
The devils rushed to the front of the first trench and started laying down the wooden boards in their hands on top of the trench.
"Grenade!" Li Bin, who had already rushed to the third trench, shouted loudly. He picked up a Czech-style machine gun and fired a burst of shots "da-da-da", more than ten devils running from the board fell into the ditch.
A row of hand grenades were thrown out from the second trench, landing in the first trench and exploding, a string of deafening sounds, shattered wooden boards and the bloody bodies of devils flying into the sky before heavily falling back into the trenches.
Special soldiers rushed into the second trench, their submachine guns spitting out scarlet tongues of flame, weaving a dense web of fire above the devils' heads, and those devils running across the boards were knocked down one after another into the trenches.
Hirata's face grew increasingly dark, his "brave troops" were one of the vanguard troops in the September 18th Incident, this "glorious troops" had lost nearly half of its men, those were all some old soldiers who had experienced the September 18th Incident! The "heroic troops" that once defeated nearly ten thousand people with just a few hundred men was now kicked against an iron plate by this irregular army that didn't even count as regular army, kicking themselves in pain.
Ishikawa's face was also unsightly, when attacking the North Great Camp, their independent regiment was once glorious, and each of them became a "hero of the great Japanese empire", but this "hero team" has lost nearly two-thirds, and many soldiers who died in battle were even killed by their own artillery fire!
The Japanese who suffered heavy losses have already entered a state of frenzy! They came pouring in like a tide, regardless of everything.
Yiyoujun warriors and the 19th Brigade of the Northeast Army fought bravely against the enemy's aerial and ground artillery fire, Li Bin gazed up at the devilish planes circling above his head like flies, his heart secretly cursing that damned sun for not setting yet!
