The Japanese who were about to charge were stunned by the dense artillery fire.
Meanwhile, the soldiers of the 67th Division, who were already prepared, also took out their weapons and began to counterattack.
In order to strengthen their defense and take advantage of their firepower, every infantry platoon at the front line had at least one light and heavy machine gun.
Moreover, all the soldiers at the front line had changed to the Japanese's 38-gun covers. On average, each of them had 30 to 40 rounds of ammunition. They had sufficient ammunition and their firepower was not weaker than the Japanese's.
The charging Japanese soldiers were stopped by the artillery fire, allowing the soldiers of the 67th Division to calmly raise their weapons and counterattack. The machine gun fire points began to attack.
However, they were all elite Japanese infantry, and they were not easy to deal with. They took turns to cover and fire as they advanced. With the cover of the night, the Japanese's grenade launchers also began to get busy, preparing to take out the machine gun firing points in front of them.
This was another tactic that the Japanese had never changed. They would attract the enemy's firepower and use grenade launchers or mortars to take them out. If they encountered a solid concrete fortification, they would use field artillery to take care of it.
However, the firepower of both sides had been adjusted. All the commanders of the 67th Division had been specifically instructed to disrupt the Japanese's attacks if they had a rhythm. They had to be especially careful of the Japanese's grenade launchers.
The Japanese Grenadier Division's Grenade Division was very powerful. When they fought with their Grenade, they would hit almost wherever they pointed. It was quite terrifying.
Usually, when the national army fought with the Japanese, the moment the national army fired their heavy and light machine guns, they would be quickly destroyed by the Japanese's grenade launchers, and the defense line would be quickly breached.
But this time, the situation was completely different. From light and heavy machine guns to mortars, the firepower of the 67th Division was much stronger.
Between the first and second lines of defense, the mortars began to fire.
The attacking Japanese squadron found a concentrated firepower attack in just a moment. At the same time, the small-caliber artillery in Song Jiang also kept fire support. The infantry squadron that was ready to attack was directly stunned.
The Japanese could only lie on the ground and smell the soil. They listened to the dense sounds of machine guns and explosions and prayed that they would not die.
On the other side, after taking out the cannons of the 18th Regiment, the heavy artillery unit began to fire towards the Kunizaki Battalion on the east. Their first target was the artillery unit of the Kunizaki Battalion.
With the 155mm howitzer with a range of 15 kilometers, coupled with Ye Qing's guidance, as long as it was the Japanese artillery that attacked Song Jiang, it was within the scope of the attack.
Although the shells weren't very accurate, they still dealt a devastating blow to the artillery of the Kunizaki Battalion.
After taking out the Japanese artillery, the next thing to do was to fire freely. The 20 heavy artillery were divided into three groups and fired at the Japanese in the east, south, and west.
This time, it was the children's turn to be bombed. Moreover, the ones that landed on their heads were large-caliber howitzers. One shot would definitely kill them within a 50-meter radius.
At this moment, Ye Qing had also ended his simple guidance. Without the protection of the artillery, the Japanese would not pose much of a threat to the 67th Division tonight.
However, Ye Qing was a little depressed. The artillery fire of the 67th Division had killed many Japanese soldiers, but none of it had anything to do with him. The killing system did not react at all.
However, tonight's program was far from that. Tonight, he wanted to eliminate the Japanese as much as possible.
Otherwise, during the day, with the current situation of the Japanese in Song Jiang, there would be aviation support after dawn. Although Ye Qing also gave the 67th Army some air defense weapons, the artillery would not be used as casually as at night.
On the personal terminal, the radio signals of the Japanese were quite dense. Many of the deciphered messages were almost all alternating current messages from the 18th Division, the 6th Division, and the Kunizaki Battalion. There were also tactical guidance messages from the command center of the army dispatched to Shanghai.
Among them, there were also messages from the three troops condemning the Japanese army's Mei organs and the Te Gao Ke. The firepower of Song Jiang's national army was too fierce, which was very different from the situation on the report. The three troops requested fire support as soon as possible. There must be enough aviation support for the attack during the day.
However, at this time, the Shanghai dispatched troops did not have sufficient aerial support. Although the national army was retreating, it was not all of them. There were still some blocking troops that were still holding the defense line.
The Shanghai Dispatching Army Headquarters, which was originally attacking from the front and back, could only order the troops on the Songhu frontline to attack again.
There were not many aviation units in Songhu to begin with, and they had lost two aircraft carriers. They had lost dozens of aircraft, and the huge Songhu was filled with battlefields. Now, there were only about 200 aircraft that could be used.
Artillery support required time. Moving the artillery to Hangzhou Bay, then transporting it to the shore, and then sending it to the hands of the three troops would not be able to reach the battlefield in a short period of time.
In the face of the tactical guidance of the three troops, the commander of the Shanghai dispatched army, Matsui Ishigen, was also very straightforward. He asked the three troops to play their own military superiority. They must capture Song Jiang by tomorrow at the latest and cooperate with the main forces on the front line to cut off the retreat of the national army.
In Matsui Iwane's words, if they needed artillery support, wouldn't the firepower of the 67th Division be very strong? He just needed to turn those cannons into the Empire's.
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