Changshan County, the 11th Japanese Army Command.

With the major divisions being transferred to the 11th Army, Okamura Nishi now has the most elite troops among the Japanese invading China. However, facing the arduous task of taking Mao Liangwu to capture Wu Ming alive, Okamura Nishi's pressure on Okamura was also extremely heavy.

After hearing the news of the failure of the first battle, Okamura Yanji was not too surprised. He had long experienced the strength of the New Second Army. If the other party did not rely on the geographical advantage to defend it, he would feel nervous and suspect that there was a fraud.

Major General Shigemasa Aoki, who took over as Chief of Staff of the 11th Army, walked to Okamura Yanji and whispered:

"The 32nd Division and the 116th Division's regiments have reached the predetermined attack position. In half an hour, they will launch an attack on the New Second Army defenders in front of them, and strive to create the illusion of a multi-way attack by the main force. In addition, the Third Division has entered Shizikou, north of Changshan. Although the straight-line distance from Changshan is only six kilometers, it has been harassed by the New Second Army guerrillas more than ten times, and more than 100 imperial troops have died!"

Okamura Yanji nodded: "Mao Liangwu, located in the heart of Qianligang, is easy to defend but difficult to attack, but the defense is not flawless. There are multiple mountain roads to go to. After all, the New Second Army has only one army and its strength is relatively limited. I believe that more points will bloom, prompting it to continuously divide its troops and consume it. It will definitely be able to successfully capture Mao Liangwu and capture Wu Ming alive!"

"The most urgent task is to capture Fangcun in the southwest of Maoliangwu... As long as we can capture Fangcun, there will be a bridgehead to attack Maoliangwu, and victory is just around the corner. Tell Fujita Jun that although he is just a feint attack, his military strategy is in vain and real. As long as he can be out of power, he can completely change from feint attack to main attack!"

"Hayi—"

Aoki Shigemae bowed and turned around to send a report.

Shizikou is located at the bottom of the hilly valley on the southern foot of Ruoling, six kilometers north of Changshan County. Although the straight-line distance in the air is only six kilometers, Wangshan ran a dead horse. The troops set off at 8 am and arrived at Shizikou until 2 pm, with a total mileage of at least twenty kilometers.

Fortunately, although the winding mountain road was rugged, it could at least pass through cars, so the artillery barely arrived with the troops at the same time. Three kilometers ahead from the Lionkou is the Guchongkou and Shantou Peng defense line defended by the New Second Army. However, there is basically no road there, and once you go deeper, the transport of cannons will become a problem.

After receiving a telegram from Chief Aoki, Fujita nodded: "Yoxi, it seems that the first achievement of capturing Mao Liangwu this time will be obtained by our Third Division! Order the artillery to open fire, and I will completely erase the defense positions of the Chinese people from the opposite mountain."

With the order from Lieutenant General Fujita, the artillery troops of the 3rd Japanese Division launched fierce artillery bombardment on the opposite Kuchongkou and Shantoubu area.

"Dongdong--"

The dull sound of grenade popping out of the chamber sounded, and the 24 91 105mm field cannons of the Third Division and the 36 75mm field cannons belonging to the Third Field Artillery Regiment. In addition, the 64 70mm Type 92 infantry cannons of the four infantry regiments of the Third Division opened fire together, and the artillery positions were quickly shrouded in choking smoke and dust.

Before the first round of grenades could land, the Japanese artillery, who had a very tacit understanding, completed a series of actions such as pulling the gun bolt, retracting the shell, plugging the grenade, closing the gun bolt, and pulling the gun rope.

The flames at the muzzle flashed again, and countless grenades rushed towards the defending positions ahead at a distance of 0:00 seconds.

"Swish swish--"

The squeaking scream cut through the low altitude, and the grenade exploded on the hill opposite at an altitude of more than 200 meters.

Amid the bursts of explosions, the entire mountain was trembling violently. As the shells exploded one after another, the fishy red fire balls rose into the air, and various debris waving everywhere in the sky.

The fortifications on the hill that were hit directly flew into the air one by one, concrete blocks, weapon parts, and human flesh flew around like raindrops.

Under the intensive bombing, several bunkers standing on the hill could not withstand the ravages of modern weapons and collapsed in pain groans.

"Kill and give it to me!"

Fujita Jin, who had been closely observing the shelling effect, saw that several sections of fortifications had collapsed, nodded with satisfaction, put down his telescope, pulled out his sabre and shouted: "Kill me!"

As the sharp whistle sounded, three brigades of Japanese troops who had been waiting for battle were howling and rushed to the high ground ahead.

At this time, on the defending positions, Lieutenant Colonel Chen Liwei, the commander of the 3rd Brigade of the Independent Division, who was responsible for guarding the positions on the line, immediately ordered the regiments to send troops to the front-line positions. At the same time, heavy machine guns entered the machine gun bunker, mortar, and grenade launchers on the ground, and entered the preset position when the enemy rushed to the minefield in front of the position and then fired.

As the Japanese army approached the foot of the mountain, the sergeant rushing in front stepped on the landmine and made a violent explosion. The fire support points of the defenders located in the Gu Chongkou and the mountaintop pong began to eject fire tongues, and for a moment, gunfire sounds like beans exploded throughout the mountains.

Time seemed to stop at this moment. The Japanese army hit as if they had hit an iron plate. In the dense rain of bullets, hundreds of Japanese troops were shot and fell to the ground like cutting wheat. At the same time, dense mortar shells and grenade launchers fired from front-line positions fell like raindrops, blowing the Japanese into howling.

The Japanese army, which was attacked by fire, did not panic. The Japanese army behind immediately fell to the ground, or looked for cover to hide. However, before the war began, all the raised hills and rocks in front of the defensive positions were blown up by engineers, which could be said to be unblocked.

So, when these Japanese soldiers fell to the ground, they were surprised to find that they could not effectively avoid the bullets shot from the opposite mountain. Rows of bullets shot from the straits made the Japanese soldiers lying on the ground fly in flesh and blood. Many Japanese soldiers were directly hit in the back and died before they had time to react.

Coupled with the steel fragments that kept coming after the grenade exploded, the Japanese army in the attacking queue was as if they were baptized by the steel storm.

After paying the price of five or six hundred casualties in a row, the Japanese army, who were stunned, began to retreat to the starting position like a tide, but at least more than one hundred people were killed during the retreat.

"Baga!"

Fujita was furious and slapped more than ten slaps at the 34th infantry regiment commander of the charge. Colonel Inetsu, who was beaten to death, his nose and eyes were bleeding. Colonel Inetsu, whose eyes were filled with stars, lowered his head in shame and kept making "Hay" sounds.

"The Chinese army is very cunning, and they have organs in their positions, so although the trenches seem to be severely damaged, they actually suffered minimal damage!"

Chief of Staff Colonel Shinichi Endo suggested: "General, in order to avoid excessive casualties from the troops, please ask the air force for help! After taking down Quzhou City, the engineers repaired the Quzhou Airport as soon as possible. Now two teams of the Third Flying Regiment have been settled, so General Okamura will definitely agree to our request!"

"Yo Xi!"

Fujita Hesitated for a moment and agreed to Chief of Staff Endo's suggestion, but waiting blindly was not something he, the commander of the main division, would do. Therefore, after sending a telegram, Lieutenant General Fujita ordered the artillery to aim at the mountaintop in front of him to bombard the sky.

The shelling lasted for a quarter of an hour, and the Third Division launched another attack, but it still returned in vain. The shelling had to continue again.

An hour later, a buzzing sound came from the southeast sky, and a large group of black dots in the field of view quickly approached the battlefield where artillery fire was everywhere.

"No, the Japanese dispatched the air force, be careful to hide!" The commands of officers at all levels sounded on the trenches and artillery and air defense positions under the 3rd Brigade of the Third Independent Division of the New Second Army.

The deafening roar was getting closer and closer, and twelve Ki-21 Mitsubishi Type 97 heavy critical strike aircraft flew off to the battlefield under the escort of the same number of Ki-43 Nakajima fighters.

Two mid-island fighters were the first to roar and lower the altitude, with a flight altitude of only more than 300 meters, which means that they are only more than 150 meters away from the mountains below. Therefore, the officers and soldiers of the Third Brigade located on the position could almost see the Japanese pilots clearly.

Flying back and forth on the two hills of Guchongkou and Shantoupeng for several times, the Japanese pilot carefully observed and saw that there was nothing on the green mountain. The Japanese pilot was not at ease and shot at the woods and bushes on the mountain. The broken branches and leaves fell like raindrops where the bullets passed.

He aimed at five or six suspicious places in succession to strafuse. Seeing that there was no movement on the ground, the two fighters slowly flew away from the hill. After about two minutes, the twelve Mitsubishi Type 97 heavy critical strikers quickly formed into a neat square array and dived towards the battlefield with thick smoke.

The huge bomber formation had just dived above the position, and the three Type 97 heavy bombers that were heading to the front shook, and twelve 100-kilogram bombs were yelling at the trenches that were storming into the trenches that were lit up in flames.

The power of carpet bombing was very powerful. The entire mountain seemed to be thundered in the sky-sky fireball, and the entire trench made of reinforced concrete collapsed.

One of the anti-cannon holes that were directly hit was instantly razed to the ground, and a squad of officers and soldiers inside were buried and completely integrated with the entire mountain.

The anti-cannon hole that was not directly hit was also shaking violently, and muds and stones on the hole wall hit the officers and soldiers like raindrops.

At that time, the air defense positions arranged in dozens of artificially dug out caves on the top of the mountain suddenly removed the camouflage net, twenty-four 40mm Bofos anti-aircraft guns, and thirty-six Erickon anti-aircraft guns were lifted from the abdomen of the mountain by elevators. In conjunction with more than 60 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns, they were aimed at the air and fired in the air.

"Dongdong--"

The dense anti-aircraft artillery shells broke through the blue sky and rushed straight to the Japanese bomber formation. They rushed directly to the Japanese bomber with the angry artillery shells of officers and soldiers. Balls of black smoke exploded between the blue sky and white clouds, and countless sharp shrapnel flew out from the clouds, swept towards the Japanese bomber formation like clusters of arrows.

The fuselage of a Mitsubishi Type 97 heavy critical strike aircraft that was dropping bombs suddenly shook, and then thick smoke came out of the fuel tank. The plane made a strange scream and turned around and fell to the ground. In just a few seconds, a huge fireball splashed.

The dense firepower network scared all the Japanese pilots. Faced with the ground anti-aircraft fire, they almost instinctively pushed the joystick and stepped on the accelerator. The aircraft engine made a painful moan, and its huge fuselage shook and shot straight into the sky at the maximum elevation angle.

However, the climbing bomber could not turn, which would undoubtedly be hit by ground air defense fire as a living target. A Mitsubishi Type 97 heavy critical striker was suddenly shocked, and hundreds of shrapnel that were coming to pieces broke the tail wings, and the bomber that had lost control made a strange cry and somersaulted to the ground.

The altitude of less than 200 meters did not give the dizzy pilot a chance to jump. It was intimate contact between the Mitsubishi Type 97 heavy critical strike aircraft and the ground, and it exploded into a huge fireball.

A ball of shrapnel swept through the abdomen of a Mitsubishi Type 97 heavy critical striker and slapped hard at another bomber that had no time to pull it up.

"Bangbang--"

The sharp shrapnel easily tore open the skin of the fuselage and rushed into the bullet cabin. With the sound of "dangdang", shrapnel and six 100-kilogram bombs violently collided.

"boom--"

The lead of a bomb was fired, and then five other bombs were detonated. A brilliant fire flashed, and the entire Mitsubishi Type 97 heavy critical strike aircraft suddenly turned into a ball of gorgeous fireworks, and steel fragments fell to the ground like raindrops.

More than 60 crossfire chains caused a fatal blow to the formation of Japanese Mitsubishi Type 97 heavy critical strike aircraft.

The bomber, which was frantically lifting and unable to turn, exposed his abdomen to the fire of 20mm Olekon anti-aircraft guns and more than 60 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns. Heavy bombers, which were extremely clumsy, either turned into gorgeous fireballs or fell like turkeys.

In the end, there were only two Mitsubishi Type 97 heavy critical strike aircraft that left the ground air defense firepower, one of which was dragging rolling black smoke and flew towards Quzhou Airport in a mess.

Now the Japanese fighter fleet went crazy, taking two as a group, the Ki-43 Nakajima fighter jets rushed towards the air defense positions in the mountains from east, south, west and north respectively.

The ground air defense forces were prepared for a long time. The clumsy 40mm Bofos anti-aircraft guns immediately retracted into the mountain through the lift. The 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns formed an air defense team with two pairs of 20mm Olekon anti-aircraft guns, pointing to the Japanese fighter jets that were rushing towards them.

When the Japanese fighter jets entered the dive orbit, all anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns roared, and a dense fire net appeared in front of the Japanese army fleet.

The well-trained Japanese pilot operated the Nakajima fighter aircraft, and flew up and down in the fire net with dexterity, trying to cut into the attack route at all costs!

A fighter jet in Nakajima was hit and snarled at the ground with a strange cry. With a "boom", the fuel and ammunition were detonated at the same time, exploded into a huge ball of fire. The entire fuselage was thrown into the air like a toy, turning into uncountable pieces and flying in all directions!

The Japanese aviation army did not show any weakness, and flew the fighter planes to cut into the attack route. They swept through the fire whip air defense positions, and wherever the aviation bullets passed, blood mist rose.

A 20mm Olekon anti-aircraft gun was burning violently, and the "Dangdang" of metal hit the endless metal shot into Mars!

An aviation machine gun bullet screamed into the gunner's head. With a "pop", it was like a watermelon being stomped. The high-speed rotating bullet twisted the gunner's head into pieces. The headless corpse, which was soaring blood, lay on the shell like a pile of bullets like a mountain of gold and jade pillars.

Japanese fighter jets entered the attack track and fired violently at the target. A piece of flying sand and rocks were raised wherever the bullets went. 12.7mm aircraft machine gun bullets strangled the shooter and the bomb supply man into pieces.

They completely ignored the aviation machine gun bullets screaming and passing by, and the ammunition players transported boxes of ammunition boxes to the flesh-filled air defense position. They didn't know how many raiders had changed, and their fingers were tightly hooked on the plate machine. As the roar of anti-aircraft cannons and anti-aircraft machine guns, yellow shells fell to the ground like raindrops.

The battle was extremely fierce! One fighter jets in the island fell to the ground with a woesh roar, and a straight anti-aircraft machine gun was broken into piles of parts, and a 20mm Erickon anti-aircraft gun flew into the sky in the explosion of ammunition.

After a quarter of an hour of fierce fighting, the Japanese fleet had only two fighter jets left. The Japanese aviation commander who was commanding the battle at high altitude had no choice but to order his return.

The Japanese air force fled with great defeat!
Chapter completed!