A large group of Japanese soldiers jumped into the trench. The first thing they did was to lie on the other side of the trench and shoot at the enemy in front.

Only then did they realize that the trench was so deep that they were already small, and the trench was actually two meters deep, and they could not reach the edge of the trench at all!

It turned out that this was a tactic that Wang Jindong had learned from a German military adviser before, and used by the German army in World War I. They deliberately dug the trenches very deep, and each soldier carried a small stool. Usually, the soldiers hid in deep trenches, and their safety improved a lot. When the enemy attacked, they stood on the bench and could just show their heads and shoot at the enemy.

After the enemy jumped into the trench, he realized that he could not reach the edge of the trench and was completely passively beaten for a short time. The defenders took the opportunity to return and threw grenades into the trench to kill the enemy.

Wang Jindong improved on this tactic. He built a solid cover in every interval in the trench, set up machine guns inside, and after the enemy jumped into the trench, he fired in the trench.

The Japanese did not expect that the National Army would have such a destructive move, with heavy casualties in a short while.

There were many strong fire points built between the first and the second trenches. They opened fire violently at the Japanese troops who had not yet jumped into the trenches, which soon stopped them from continuing to attack and separated them from the Japanese who had jumped into the trenches.

Immediately afterwards, the soldiers of the Kuomintang counterattacked from various traffic towards the remaining Japanese in the trenches, destroyed them, and recaptured the trenches.

After the soldiers entered the trench, they stood on the small bench and opened fire violently at the Japanese army.

After a fierce battle, Nomura brigade was finally defeated.

After this attack, Nomura Brigade lost more than 200 more people.

Oboo was very excited when he saw the soldiers of the Nomura brigade rushing forward. Unfortunately, his excitement lasted too short and almost became darker in a flash.

Obaofu looked at the enemy positions with trenches, as if he saw a vast ocean, and felt a little sighing.

Obofu felt that he could not attack blindly like this, so he called the captains of each unit? Even the captain of Chiba Kotaro, who had bandages on his head and plaster on his legs, was carried over to attend the meeting.

After discussion, Obofu decided to adopt the third strategy proposed by Captain Nomura.

Not long afterwards? Wang Jindong, who was in the war room, received a report from the newly compiled 23rd Regiment. He said that the Japanese in the west of the county town had evacuated.

Director Zhou, who was observing the battle in the command center, has been engaged in political work since he joined the army. He lacked combat experience. He was very happy to hear that the Japanese had withdrawn. He was just about to ask about the situation? When he could take the opportunity to send someone to escort them out of the county town? But he saw Wang Jindong and Chief of Staff Liu smiled.

Wang Jindong smiled and said, "These Japanese devils want to play a trick of three ques and one to trick me into being deceived. Sorry, I won't be fooled."

Chief Liu picked up the phone? He issued an order directly. He said: "No one is allowed to attack without authorization? He must not escape from the position, otherwise he will be killed."

Wang Jindong had already discussed the combat plan with Gao Jiu. Before getting Gao Jiu's consent, Wang Jindong's troops could not leave the county town half a step under any circumstances? He would fight with the Japanese.

The evacuation of the Japanese at the west gate of the county town was indeed a strategy adopted by Aobaofu.

When attacking a town with strong city defense? Surrounding three quarries and one is a very effective tactic. In order to prevent the enemy from defending the city to the death, they deliberately leave a passage for them to escape? The panicked enemy often give up the city and escape from that passage? In this way, the city will be easily conquered.

Obaofu looked down on Wang Jindong from the beginning? Hence, he adopted the tactic of siege on all sides? He wanted to wipe out Wang Jindong and others in one fell swoop.

At this time, he discovered that Wang Jindong's newly formed 187th Division was actually a difficult bone. Therefore, he adopted the tactic of surrounding three quarts and one, in order to shake the enemy's determination to defend the city. As long as Wang Jindong's troops were separated from the strong fortifications, Aobaofu would be sure to quickly defeat the enemy.

After adopting such a tactic, Obaofu concentrated the forces of three brigades and fired all the few artillery shells left. Under the cover of fierce artillery fire, more than two thousand Japanese soldiers rushed towards the positions of the national army at the same time.

Wang Jindong has more than two or three skills. He is a general with rich combat experience, especially good at fighting position wars.

Since the war started, he not only reserved a battalion of the 792nd Regiment, but also divided all the defensive troops into four batches, changing shifts every two hours to resist guarding the trenches in front. This allowed the front-line combat troops to maintain sufficient energy and physical strength and sufficient troops. The other 3/4 of the troops can also be fully rested.

Through rotational battles, all the new recruits have been tested by war. Although the 187th Division's troops were exhausted, their overall combat effectiveness has been enhanced.

Wang Jindong's 187th Division was equipped with a mountain artillery battalion, and other troops were equipped with a large number of mortars. After the battle began, in order to prevent artillery from being attacked by the enemy and causing significant losses, the artillery rarely fired, mainly relying on the frontier trenches to consume the enemy with machine guns and rifles.

The number of Japanese artillery shells carried was limited. From yesterday morning until now, Wang Jindong had a rough idea in his mind that they had almost wiped out their shells. This round of bombing just now should have consumed their last shell reserves. In addition to the news that Gao Jiu had knocked out the enemy's baggage troops, Wang Jindong decided to use his mountain artillery battalion and a large number of mortars that had been prepared for a long time to deal a heavy blow to the Japanese army.

Seeing more than two thousand Japanese troops like locusts rushing up, Wang Jindong ordered the artillery to open fire.

Wang Jindong's artillery battalion had 24 75mm Forbes mountain cannons, and there were at least 50 mortars equipped by other units. The artillerymen had sufficient ammunition, but they were very excited and fired the shells as if they were not expensive.

This time, Obaofu spent a lot of money, hoping that through fierce attacks, he could break through the enemy's positions, and at least put strong pressure on the enemy to force the enemy to give up the county town and escape from the west gate of the city.

The Japanese soldiers like locusts rushed to the positions of the national army. The dense shells flying all over the sky sprinkled onto the dense formation of the Japanese army like insecticides.

Obaofu saw from the artillery mirror that the brave and brave warriors of the Yellow Army kept falling down in the violent explosion of shells, and some even got blown up. He couldn't bear to look at it anymore, so he turned his head to the side.

In order to grasp the situation on the battlefield, after a moment, he gritted his teeth and continued to observe. He saw that the originally dense Huang army's offensive team had begun to become sparse, and the corpses of Huang army soldiers were everywhere on the ground.

Seeing this tragic scene, he wanted to issue an order to stop the attack. However, when he saw the brave Huang soldiers still attacking bravely, he continued to observe.

When he saw the soldiers approaching the enemy's position, he seemed to have encountered a fierce fire strike and fell in large numbers. The living people finally stopped and quickly retreated. The retreating Huang soldiers were still constantly knocked to the ground under the fierce enemy's artillery fire.

It turned out that Wang Jindong saw the Japanese army launch the largest attack so far, and he also suppressed all the soldiers of the national army who were on the offside. The sudden increase in a large number of national army completely defeated the enemy's attack with fierce firepower.

Until now, Wang Jinzhong still has a whole battalion of reserve teams in his hands.

When Obaofu saw the attack of the powerful troops he organized, he was defeated, but there was no escaped enemy in the west gate of the county town. It was obvious that his tactics failed again this time.

The soldiers of the National Army repelled such a large-scale attack from the Japanese army. Seeing the Japanese corpses densely packed on the front of the position, they couldn't help but cheer.

It was already noon, and both sides started lunch. It was quiet around the county town.

Wang Jindong is a person who can enjoy it. Even though the battle is so intense, the small stove in the division still cooks four dishes and one soup for him, and even the fatty intestines he likes to eat.

While eating, he listened to the 187th Division's damage.

So far, the 187th Division has lost 672 people in the two battalions of the 23rd Regiment in Lanxi County and Qinglong Town. In the battle against Zhiyuan County, there were no established troops and suffered losses, with a total of 1,042 casualties. The entire division still has more than 6,900 people, and the unit system has basically remained intact. It can be said that the strength of the main force has been basically preserved.

In terms of ammunition reserves, battles of a scale like the one just now can still be carried out 5-6 times.

Outside the county town, Opoufu could not enjoy it as much as Wang Jindong. The orderly soldiers brought him a box of rice, which contained some salted fish fillets in canned food. In this difficult environment, he had nothing to pick on. He also listened to the war damage report while eating.

In addition to the 2,898 Huang army officers and soldiers who lost yesterday, this morning, the Kono brigade was attacked by Gao Jiu's guerrillas and lost more than 270 soldiers. The three attacks launched today lost only more than 20 soldiers for the first time, and the second time, more than 220 soldiers were lost.

The third time was the large-scale attack that just launched, and the Huang army's losses reached an astonishing 912 people.

A Japanese infantry brigade stationed at the Hanbodu Ferry Crossing was also attacked by the Anti-Japanese Army last night. Fortunately, the losses were not large, and only six soldiers were injured or killed.

So far, the entire 128th Brigade of the Japanese Army has suffered 4,178 casualties, which can be said to have lost half of its troops.

In fact, the real losses of the 128th Brigade of the Japanese Army have long exceeded more than half.

The 128th Brigade of the Japanese Army, excluding the 18th Cavalry Brigade, which had long been destroyed, was dispatched this time. The 115th Infantry Regiment, the 150th Infantry Regiment, the 120th Field Artillery Regiment, the 114th Engineer Regiment, and the 114th Light Infantry Regiment.

The most important combat troops are the 115th Infantry Regiment and the 150th Infantry Regiment. The two corpses have lost the most. Their strength is now less than half of the original. It can be said that the combat effectiveness of the entire brigade has dropped to less than half of the original.

Not to mention the loss of ammunition convenience, the shells of the Type 92 infantry cannon have been completely exhausted, and the number of mortar shells is not large.

Fortunately, from the distance, the baggage troops transporting ammunition should be about to arrive.

However, the baggage troops that were expected to arrive at Zhiyuan County at 1:00 noon were still not moving at 3:30 pm. Aobaofu felt that there was a lot of danger and sent an infantry squadron directly under the brigade headquarters to pick up the baggage troops.

Before the ammunition supply arrived, the Japanese army was temporarily unable to launch a large-scale attack, so Obofu had to order the troops to rest temporarily.

The Japanese army did not launch an attack for the whole afternoon.

Wang Jindong was also very honest. He didn't care about so many things, he didn't leave his position even if he was old. He knew very well that although the 128th Brigade of the Japanese army had several teeth broken off, he was still a man-eating tiger. Before he received the affirmative news from Gao Jiu, Wang Jindong decided to continue to fight with the Japanese.

He was in a good mood at this time. After he had enough food and drink, he sat on a chair, crossing his legs, and actually hummed the tune of his hometown.

Gao Jiu and others calmed down after a battle this morning. On the one hand, they were a little tired in continuous combat and needed to be repaired. On the other hand, they didn't have too much ammunition. The most important thing was that the mortar shells were limited, and after a lot of consumption, there was not much left. Gao Jiu and others planned to have a good rest during the day and go to trouble the Japanese at night.
Chapter completed!