"But we finally retained a large number of armored units. Although the defeat suffered heavy losses, it was not fatal. We had already established a tight line of defense before the Germans arrived and could obtain the support of the navy. If the Germans decided to continue the attack, then we could teach them a lesson in the defensive state!" A Japanese officer said confidently as he looked at the division's defensive position with artillery positions as the core.

Although there was not enough time to make trench warfare like the Western Front, it was a delegation defense after all, and there were a large number of various war defense guns and machine guns. This time, the Japanese were not afraid of trouble and specially brought a batch of Japanese rapid-fire guns from China. In addition, the friendly support from Britain and France, it was quite strong in terms of anti-armor firepower. There were also many equipment in machine guns. On this issue, Akiyama Haogu was a little unhappy. He really didn't understand why there were German machine guns that could replace the barrels and British machine guns with exhaust tubes, and lightweight British machine guns, and they had to use French air-cooled Hatchais machine guns... This thing is heavy and has a slow fire rate. It has no advantages except for stability!

In any case, the Japanese army has been fighting on the Western Front for more than half a year. As long as they are not dead, they can always learn something from repeated battles, such as how to deploy a defense line. The Japanese defense line is no longer a simple straight line. The trench repair is a winding turn, preventing a shell from falling down and killing a squad of soldiers. Various shelters, fire points, and observation posts are also made into a perfect match, counterattacks and side attack positions. These things are like barbs. Once the opponent breaks through the surface position, they will fall into ambush and be drenched in blood.

Considering the indestructible new tanks and hornets of the Germans, the Japanese were crazy about putting some of the 4.7-inch rapid-fire guns, that is, 120mm naval guns, on the front line... Of course, anti-tanks are a target, and another reason is that the range is not very long. Although the gun performance is pretty good, the elevation angle of the gun stand is too small, so the range is relatively limited. Not to mention the cannons, even compared with some howitzers with longer tubes, the range is no advantage. After all, they are old artillery. Akiyama Haogu remembers that these artillery seem to have a large number of artillery equipped on Japanese warships in the Russo-Japanese War...

But no matter what, the weight of the shell is there. The warhead of more than 20 kilograms is enough to teach any armored unit to be a human being. Of course, this can only be used for defensive warfare. Otherwise, it would be quite difficult to deploy a cannon with a total weight of nearly 5 tons in an offensive war.

The only drawback is that because time is too hasty, it is impossible to deploy a minefield of at least 300 meters wide on the position, nor can it get enough wire mesh to wrap around the defense line. But it doesn't matter, the Japanese are still very confident in the defense line now. They have also fought defensive wars on the Western Front, at least they have no problem when facing the Prussian army. All kinds of enhanced firepower are enough to deal with the new German tanks!

After the attack was frustrated, the Japanese began to move into full defense, and the Germans decided to continue to take a bite. They were ready to attack. But this time, what was different from the Japanese thought was that the Germans did not intend to attack during the day, but chose to attack at night!

It is said that night attacks are the killer weapon for weak troops to deal with strong troops, but who stipulates that strong troops cannot attack at night? And how to say that, the combat quality of German infantry in the first battle can be described as high and terrible. Imagine that in the environment of the Western Front, in a muddy battlefield covered with mines, barbed wire and traps, in the absence of tanks, the German Storm Commando could tear open the opponent's defense line and break through dozens of kilometers in the emperor's offensive? And now, although there are a large number of tanks, the German army has not thrown away their basic infantry skills! For an elite Storm Commando soldier, the Japanese charge was too rough, insulting the term infantry tactics, and it is a real "pig rush"! Fight like a pig!

Boom! When night fell, loud noises came from the German positions. Looking at the fireballs rising from the horizon in the distance, and listening to the sound of artillery shells whistling down in my ears, veterans who participated in the Western Front ran to the anti-aircraft artillery holes. In addition to leaving necessary observation posts, most of the people evacuated the front line. One round of artillery shells fell on the front line, smoothing out the temporary excavated trenches. At the same time, the sound like thunder also obscured the movements of some people.

"The German infantry is about to attack, and we need to go back to the front line." A young man who had just joined the army shrank next to the anti-aircraft shed squadron.

"Hahaha, boy, don't look at you. Just listening to your answers, you will know that you are a newcomer." A veteran who participated in the Western Front said with a smile. "This place is different from Asia. In Asia, when we fight with the Russians, no one will waste shells. Bombing is the horn of attack. But here, the rich Europeans like to shoot a few shots when they are fine. Maybe it's to shock the opponent, maybe it's just to shoot a few shots. Anyway, in their eyes, their shells are abundant and similar to ours."

"When you hear this, the density of the shelling is not large, not enough to completely destroy the entire section of the bunker, and there is no suppression of depth. Therefore, this will definitely not be the horn of the attack, just a single interfering shooting. When the war first started, it would make us sleep well all night, but now we are used to it." The veteran patted the other party's shoulder friendly, but when the Japanese were hiding in the bunker and discussing how long the shelling could last, figures appeared on the battlefield under the cover of artillery fire.

One by one, they carried various tools and figures, and used detonation cables and other equipment to clean up the remaining minefields that had not been cleaned by artillery. Then they used pliers to pull the wire mesh and remove the bolts hanging on the wire mesh. After easily tearing the cordons around the Japanese defense line, a group of soldiers set out from the trench 400 outside and began to penetrate into the Japanese position.

Behind them, under the cover of artillery fire, they were painted in black night battle paintings and equipped with camouflage nets, and began to move forward slowly. This time, their mission was not to charge forward, but to stay behind to provide fire support.

"Discover the target, and the brothers in front have discovered the Japanese outposts and support points." In the dark night, a short and continuous bright line composed of tracer bombs outlines the position of the target.
Chapter completed!