The position of Lianfang Mountain is so important that the Japanese army will naturally not give in easily. In order to allow the unstable troops to defend Lianfang Mountain, the Isogao Division's aircraft, heavy artillery and tanks all came out, and the Japanese infantry who captured Lianfang Mountain also stabilized their positions. Together, they formed a sea of ​​death on the road ahead of the 150th Regiment.

The enemy's shells were constantly exploding, and the enemy planes in the sky were either throwing bombs or repeatedly firing. The Japanese infantry's light and heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, and the 38th hoods were constantly firing. The officers and soldiers of the 150th Regiment, who knew that they had made a big mistake, rushed forward desperately.

The suicide charge of the 150th Regiment put great pressure on the Japanese army, but in the end it did not advance to the defense mountain half a step forward. One hour later, the entire regiment suffered another casualties. The regiment commander Gao Peng was shot and died, and the 150th Regiment was defeated again.

While the Japanese army attacked Lianfangshan, they also launched an attack on Banbudianzi Village.

The imitation of Japanese fortress built by the Fifth Company played a good role. Although many Japanese artillery shells hit these houses, the defenders of the Fifth Company hid in the hole covered by the door panel, and there were no direct casualties.

The Japanese offensive troops encountered the same problem with the fifth company: the house was obviously bombed by several shells, but the defenders inside still had their firepower.

The Japanese who were aroused by beasts seemed to have walked into Niujiaojian. Their infantry attacked one after another, and the Japanese shells were bombing again and again. But the defenders seemed to be Sun Wuzi who could not be killed. Once the Japanese infantry launched an attack, dense bullets would still be shot out from the corner of the wall.

The Japanese army's attack was repelled again and again, and the defenders hiding in the cave and shooting out were not dangerous. The new recruits who were added a few days ago became more and more confident and braver the more they fought. The rapid growth of these new recruits made Li Qinglin very happy.

There were only a hundred Japanese troops in front of them. They could not capture them but did not give up. They fought for more than two hours from morning to noon, which annoyed Li Qinglin and the others. Seeing that the recruits were no longer afraid and the troops had basically no casualties, Li Qinglin decided to teach the Japanese a lesson.

Taking advantage of the battle, Li Qinglin summoned three platoon leaders and made arrangements in this way. After listening to Li Qinglin's plan, the eyes of the three platoon leaders began to shiny, especially Xiao Liuzi, whose leg injury had just recovered and he was eager to try.

After a while, the Japanese army began a new wave of attacks. The Japanese army still used artillery shells to bomb, machine guns, and then infantry to rush. This time their attack seemed to have some effect. The bullets fired out of the house on the outermost side of the Half Bendian were fewer and fewer, and in the end there was no resistance. This time, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers participated in the attack, one of them was killed and injured during the attack, and finally they rushed into the half-collapsed house.

These seven or eight Japanese gangs rushed in, but apart from the semi-collapsed adobe walls, the scattered adobe stones all over the ground, and the furniture and objects that were blown up, the house was empty, and even the most common corpses on the battlefield were not seen.

When the Japanese were wondering, the holes in the wall were opened, and a dozen submachine guns, mullets, and Czech style suddenly stretched out from behind the half-broken wall. There was no need to order at this time, all kinds of guns fired almost at the same time, and bullets swept across the eight or nine Japanese soldiers standing in the middle of the house like raindrops.

These eight or nine poor unlucky guys didn't even do the move to resist, and in an instant they were shot into sieves by various bullets.

When the Japanese army outside saw that they occupied a temporary stronghold, they were preparing to increase troops here to strengthen the stronghold. However, the fierce gunfire inside the house had already made them realize what was going on in the house, and they stopped their plan to mobilize troops.

When the gunfire in the house subsided, the Japanese army behind launched another tentative attack. The defenders who seemed to have been eliminated just now were "resurrected" again, and bullets were shot out in the corner of the wall again.

The Japanese army was very confused by the half-step of the five company's persistence. They wanted to attack but couldn't, and they wanted to withdraw but were unwilling to accept it. The two armies formed a stalemate. In the evening, when the Japanese army saw that there was no hope of victory, they had to withdraw.

Li Qinglin counted the casualties. In the end of the day, only one person was killed in battle and four people were injured. At least twenty Japanese soldiers were injured. The injured were basically minor injuries, and they were all blue and swollen by the collapsed adobe. The soldiers who died in battle were a new recruit, and he died while guarding a gun hole. There were many people guarding the gun hole, and everyone else was fine. But he was very lucky. When a Japanese heavy machine gun blocked the gun hole, a heavy machine gun bullet flew in through the gun hole, and just hit him in the head.

The troops were in high spirits during dinner. After a day of fighting, the recruits basically eliminated their fear and tension, and they were talking and laughing during dinner. Li Qinglin was very satisfied with this result. If they fought like this one or two more times, these recruits became veterans with battlefield experience. If they were to train their teams in the future, the strength of this team would be absolutely first-class.

On the 22nd, the Japanese army began to launch a general attack on the main position of Hupi Mountain. Under the cover of aircraft cannons, the infantry of the Isoga Division gradually approached the position of the 25th Division.

Learning from the lessons of Lianfangshan’s defensive battle, the 25th Division guarding Hupi Mountain urgently reinforced all fortifications. Although Hupi Mountain has less soil and more stones, the trenches necessary for defense were completed as scheduled. In view of the firepower advantages of Japanese aircraft and cannons, the troops also transported wood and soil from the bottom of the mountain, and built a solid cover in the trenches at a distance.

When the Japanese army's planes and cannons were bombed, the 25th Division left a small number of troops on the surface of the position to monitor the enemy. When the enemy infantry began to charge, the defenders who escaped the enemy's bombing immediately jumped into the trenches and used light and heavy weapons to strafuse the enemy. The 25th Division also summarized the lessons of passive defense in the past. When the Japanese infantry attacked, the defenders also sent small groups of troops to attack both sides of the enemy, causing major damage to the enemy.

The artillery of the Kuomintang also built multiple positions, carefully checking the shooting in front of the positions before the war. When the Japanese army bombed, the artillery often transferred the positions and hid them; when the Japanese infantry attacked, the artillery immediately appeared, and they fired accurately according to the long-determined shooting. This flexible and precise artillery fire completely disrupted the attack formation of the Japanese infantry.

On the 22nd day, although the Japanese army used aircraft to bomb many times and fired more than 300 large-caliber heavy artillery shells, the casualties suffered by the defenders were very small. In the face of the strong and flexible defense of the 25th Division, the Isogai Division suffered major casualties. It was only possible to launch a large-scale attack twice on this day, and all of them returned without success.
Chapter completed!