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Chapter 521: Fierce Battle at Honghua Ridge (1)

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    Honghualing. First-line position.

    ??This place is located in the south of Jiujiang and is part of the mountains in northern Jiangxi. It has the unique characteristics of the mountainous areas in northern Jiangxi, that is, the mountains are not high, but they are endless.

    Because of this, the road to Jiujiang is much more difficult. If you don¡¯t take the Honghualing Winding Highway, you will need to take at least two extra days to get to Jiujiang.

    ¡°The thing that the little devil lacks most now is time, so Li Guoyao judged that the little devil would not take any detours.

    ¡°As Li Guoyao judged, although the Japanese army had detected that the Chinese army had deployed defenses here, they still came obediently.

    Li Guoyao watched the entire attack yesterday afternoon. To be honest, he was a little disappointed and a little excited.

    "What's disappointing is that although these little devils are a second-class division, they can't even compare to the 13th Division in terms of combat effectiveness, or even compare to the Botian detachment they faced before. It's really disappointing.

    But what is exciting is that such an enemy army is indeed a soft persimmon, and if it is defeated, it will be a great victory.

    Honghualing bisects the road leading to Jiujiang. Crossing Honghualing to the north is a flat plain. At the marching speed of the Japanese mechanized troops, it can reach Jiujiang in two hours.

    Without the barrier of Honghualing, it would not be too easy for the Japanese army to attack from south to north.

    Therefore, Honghua Ridge is the key to this battle. As long as the Japanese army can capture Honghua Ridge, Jiujiang will be sure to win.

    But Li Guoyao obviously would not give the little devil this chance. In order to defend this strategic location, Li Guoyao deployed two infantry regiments plus an artillery regiment and an air defense regiment on the front line alone.

    In addition, Li Guoyao also placed a large number of reserve troops in the second-line positions. As long as the front line is needed, these troops can reinforce the first-line positions at any time.

    More importantly, Li Guoyao's troops arrived at Honghualing three days ago. Although it has been rainy these days, Li Guoyao still ordered the troops to seize the time to build fortifications.

    After a few days, the fortifications at Honghualing were well built, including trenches, artillery holes, artillery positions, and air defense positions.

    At eight o'clock in the morning, the Japanese army, which had formulated an attack plan, began to take action.

    With the sound of sharp whistles, a large number of Japanese soldiers began to gather not far from the Honghualing forward position, forming up one brigade after another.

    Soon, thousands of Japanese soldiers gathered.

    At the same time, a large number of small tanks were parked in front of the Japanese infantry, a total of sixty or seventy.

    Although the Matsuura Division is a Category B division, it is regarded as the vanguard of the attack on Wuhan and plays a stepping stone role, so the 11th Army Headquarters has strengthened the division's firepower.

    Not only has a machine gun squadron been added to each infantry regiment, but also twenty Type 95 tanks have been added to its attached tank brigade.

    Although the 106th Division also had tank troops before, all the tanks were backward Type 94 tanks. This type of tank had weak combat capabilities and even weaker protective capabilities.

    Although the Type 95 is actually not much better, it has been improved after all, and more than twenty vehicles have been added at once, which really made Matsuura Junrokuro feel happy for a long time.

    After the troops were assembled, the Japanese artillery positions in the rear began to show off their power!

    "Boom boom boom"

    The dull sound of shelling rang out on the battlefield, and several shells flew from a distance and hit the defenders' positions.

    The bombardment was not very intense, but the defenders did not dare to neglect it, because everyone was familiar with the tricks of the little devils. The first few shells were used to calibrate the bombardment of Zhu Yuan. The aim would not be too accurate and the energy would not be too high.  fierce.

    But once the coordinates are adjusted, the shells will fall like hailstones, and life will be difficult at that time.

    In view of this, when the Japanese army just started shelling, Zhang Hao, the commander of the 1st Regiment of the Du8 Brigade in the forward position, immediately ordered the troops to withdraw into the artillery holes, and all heavy weapons were withdrawn, leaving only a dozen observation posts on the entire position.  .

    Sure enough, in less than a minute, the sound of shelling from the Japanese army became more frequent, and the shells became denser.

    "Boom boom boom"

    A violent explosion sounded on the position. The soil on the front position of Honghualing was blown up in all directions, and the position was filled with smoke.

    However, it had just rained in the past few days, and the ground was relatively humid. Although the artillery fire was fierce, it did not cause dust to fly on the position, and the sight of the defender's observation post was not affected.

    At the same time as the shelling, two targetsUnder the command of a captain officer, the Japanese troops of the team moved quickly towards the front line of the defenders.

    Since most of the defenders hid in the artillery caves, they did not fire to stop these Japanese soldiers.  Moreover, they were a full kilometer away from the defenders' first-line position, so the observation post did not notify the soldiers in the anti-cannon hole.

    Soon these Japanese soldiers entered the first-line position five hundred meters away, and without any intention of stopping, they went straight to the first-line position.

    500 meters450 meters400 meters

    When this group of Japanese soldiers entered within 400 meters of the garrison position, the observation posts on the front line blew their whistles at the same time.

    The soldiers of the 61st Army had already understood that it was the Japanese infantry who had come up. Then, under the command of each company and platoon leader, they rushed out of the anti-gun holes according to the original plan and returned to their combat positions, ready to prepare.

    After a pattering sound, more than 500 warriors from each regiment and battalion all returned to their fighting positions. All the light and heavy machine guns were set up. The grenades were also taken out by the soldiers. After unscrewing,  Cover and put it in front of you for ready use.

    Seeing that the little devil had entered about 200 meters away from the garrison position, Wu Zhanguo, the commander of the first battalion in charge, shouted with a Jiangsu and Zhejiang accent: "Mother Xipi, cheer me up and get ready for battle!"

    Following Wu Zhanguo¡¯s order, there were bursts of ¡°clicking¡± sounds on the battlefield!

    There was the sound of bullets being loaded, and soon more than 400 rifles and more than 20 light and heavy machine guns on the position were all loaded, and the black muzzles of the guns were pointed at the Japanese soldiers who were approaching quickly.

    "Everyone, please listen to me. No one can shoot without my order. Just keep it close before shooting!"

    After hearing the battalion commander¡¯s order, all the soldiers were very nervous.

    Among them, veterans probably account for a little more than one-half, and the rest are all new recruits. Especially the main forces like the Du8 Brigade and the 1st Regiment have heavy combat tasks and heavy casualties, so the rotation of soldiers is also very difficult.  Being relatively diligent, it is already very rare to be able to guarantee one-half of the veteran rate.

    Compared with those nervous recruits, the veterans are much calmer. Many of them know this rough-looking camper very well. Although he is full of swear words, he is an experienced commander who has not only participated in  After going through the Battle of Songhu and participating in the Battle of Nanjing, he suddenly became the main battalion commander from a soldier who had never attended a military academy. His level was very good.

    A distance of one hundred meters is nothing to these little devils who have been trained all year round. They touched it in less than two minutes.

    Seeing that the trenches of the garrison's position were right in front of them, it seemed that they could rush into the opponent's trenches with just one charge. The little devils were so excited that they wanted nothing more.

    However, just when the Japanese captain gave the order to charge, he heard a clear gunshot from the defenders' position.

    Then I saw a big man walking in front of the team carrying a dog-skin plaster flag suddenly fell to the ground, twitched a few times and then stopped moving. When the soldier next to him turned him over, he discovered that there was a small small mark on his forehead.  The bullet holes were bleeding out.

    Before these Japanese soldiers came to their senses, gunfire suddenly erupted from the defenders' position. A large amount of light and heavy firepower was fired at the same time, and the bullets shrouded these Japanese soldiers like a real barrage.

    "Puff" "Puff"

    The sound of bullets hitting human bodies was everywhere, accompanied by the terrified howls of Japanese soldiers before they were killed and the miserable cries after being injured.

    And the little Japs reacted very quickly. In less than a minute after the gunshots were fired, most of the Japs fell to the ground and started to fight back.

    However, this scene made Lieutenant General Matsuura Junrokuro who was watching the battle so angry that he almost vomited blood. He angrily rebuked: "Baga, how did that stupid pig commander on the front line get into the position of squadron leader? How can he do it at this time?  Stop and rush forward to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Chinese"

    However, his roar obviously could not reach the ears of the forward commander. In fact, the guy could not hear any sound, because just thirty seconds ago he was discovered by a sniper on the defensive position and shot directly  Shot and sniped.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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