There is still some time before dawn, and the battalions of the 306th Regiment are racing against time to repair fortifications.

However, the officers and soldiers of the 306th Regiment and the 19th Brigade soon encountered two major problems. One was the lack of equipment. Even if the people in various villages and towns demolished their own houses and contributed timber door panels, they were still a drop in the bucket. The other was that the groundwater level in Luodian area was too high, and the fortifications could not be dug deep and repaired.

"The fortifications cannot be repaired at all." The 3rd Battalion Commander Hu Hao found Qiu Weida and complained, "I saw water when I dug half a meter down. It was so tiring that it was so sticky that it was tiring. It collapsed directly when it was slightly digging. It was useless to punch wooden stakes and seeped in directly from the crack. This slime soup and mud is really impossible to repair."

"If you can't repair it, you have to repair it, otherwise everyone will be completely destroyed with a bombardment from Japan." Qiu Weida had no choice but to yell at Hu Hao, "If you have any difficulties, just find a way to solve it. What kind of suffering will you complain in front of me? Or you can kill me with one shot, and then fill my body with it as a fortification?"

Hu Hao scratched his head and left with a sad face.

Qiu Weida turned her head and smiled bitterly at Xu Shijiu, "Captain Xu, I'll make you laugh."

Xu Shijiu smiled and said, "Battery Commander Hu is really helpless. The regiment commander, saying something that should not be said is heartbroken. Our army should not have fought a positional battle with the Japanese army in Shanghai. He put the strong national defense fortifications behind him and did not defend it, but he fought against the Japanese army on this plain of the horse. Isn't this promoting his shortcomings and avoiding his strength and seeking death?"

"Who said no?" Qiu Weida also said, "But our soldiers regard obeying orders as their duty. Since there is an order at the top, they can only bite the bullet and put this hundred or ten pounds on it at most."

Xu Shijiu smiled bitterly. In fact, most generals in the national army could still see the situation clearly. They all knew that it was not advisable to fight the Japanese army in Shanghai. However, the commander had made a decision, which was definitely not something that he, a small captain, could change. The only thing he could do now was to help Yue Weida defend Gu's house as much as possible.

Xu Shijiu was not aware that the situation in the entire Songhu was already in danger. He just considered it from a military perspective and believed that Gu Jiazhai was a tactical point that threatened Luodian's back. If the Japanese army wanted to cross Luodian and go directly to Jiading, they must first clear the obstacle of Gu Jiazhai, otherwise his logistics supply line and wounded transport line would be threatened.

Xu Shijiu said at the moment: "It is absolutely impossible to build a strong fortification that can withstand the bombardment of heavy artillery in the regiment in a hurry, but we can still make a difference."

"Oh?" Qiu Weida was intrigued and asked, "What are the opinions of Captain Xu?"

"Caquered." Xu Shijiu said, "We can deceive the Japanese observers and aviation soldiers through camouflage. Simply put, it is to repair the fortifications and do the bunkers. However, when the Japanese bombing, our soldiers must not stay in the fortifications. The positions can only retain fake targets that attract Japanese artillery fire."

Qiu Weida said with a clue and said, "Are you talking about... a straw man?"

Xu Shijiu nodded and said, "Yes, the straw man, let the straw man put on his brothers' uniforms and put on his helmets to guard the position. When will the Japanese shelling or bombing be over? The brothers will come out of the hiding cotton land, reed marshes or bamboo forests, and go up to the position to fight against the Japanese infantry's attack."

Qiu Weida nodded gently.

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It was finally dawning, and He Zhiying Er walked out of the command post with a saber in his arms. The adjutant chased him and tried to dissuade him, but was slapped by He Zhiying Er. He was just scolded by the Shanshi Zongwu on the phone and was in a bad mood. The adjutant came up to dissuade him at this time, which was purely a boring thing.

He Zhiying Er climbed up the roof along the ladder, raised his telescope and looked southwest. From the map, the direction should be Wudoujing where the brigade in the mountain was fumbled. However, the thin morning fog had not yet dissipated and was too far apart, so he couldn't see clearly at all, and it was only a blur.

After a moment, the deputy captain Kinoshita Hideyoshi followed him up.

"The wing captain, the division headquarters just called and said that the weather outside Wusong was very harsh and the naval aviation was unable to take off normally. The Luwu, which took off from Taiwan and the island, and the Mugenjin Airlines team was going to bomb Nanjing and Hangzhou Amarantha Airport, and today we could not provide us with enough fire support."

He Zhiying Er had a gloomy face and said nothing, but just put down the telescope.

Kinoshita Hideyoshi touched his left and right face, which had not yet swelled, and said, "But the 5th Battalion of the Tanks had successfully landed two hours ago. At most half an hour, the 2nd Squadron of the Tanks could arrive at Zhouzhai. There was also the 10th Regiment of the Independent Heavy Artillery, which had also built artillery positions near the Lion Fort."

He Zhiying's face finally became a little better and asked, "Where is the meteorological observation team? Have you arrived?"

Kinishi Hideyoshi hurriedly said, "I am already on the way here and can arrive at almost the same time as the chariot squadron."

As he finished speaking, a rumbling roar sounded on the road extending from the Lion Fortress behind. When Kazukiji and Kinoshita Hideyoshi looked back, they saw more than a dozen Type 95 light tanks slowly driving along the highway. Behind more than a dozen light tanks, four trucks were followed, most of which were meteorological observation teams.

Forty minutes later, a huge hot air balloon slowly rose from the Japanese position.

At this time, the eastern sky was still gloomy, but the mist in the morning had dissipated. The Japanese observers looked down from a height of dozens of meters and could clearly see the positions of the National Army several kilometers away. The 306th Regiment was located in Wudoujing, the West Line Bridge and the Gu Jiazhai position, and they were all visible under the cannon mirror.

Soon, Hitoshiji obtained the detailed information he urgently needed.

The National Army is active in Wudoujing, the West Line Bridge and Gujiazhai, with a force of about 2,000. In addition, the National Army is also active in Shixianggong Temple on the west side of Luodian, with a force of about a few hundred.

Kinishi Hideyoshi said to Kazuchieji: "The leader of the regiment, Godojing, West Line Bridge, and the Chinese army in the direction of Gu Jiazhai were mostly the Chinese army that ambushed the Yamauchi brigade last night, but I didn't expect there was only one regiment!"

"One regiment, the Chinese army actually has only one regiment?" He Zhiyinger was almost mad. If he had known that the Chinese army had only one regiment, he would have concentrated the main force of the regiment to counterattack last night. However, it was still too late to make up for the loss. With the simple fortifications built by the national army, he could not resist the bombardment of heavy artillery at all.

He Zhiyinger turned his head and ordered the adjutant: "Order, the meteorological observation team will immediately calibrate the shooting elements, and then call the division headquarters, requesting the mountain artillery corps and the independent heavy artillery corps to shell Wudoujing and the West Line Bridge!"

"Hayi!" The adjutant suddenly lowered his head and took the order, then slid down from the ladder and conveyed the order.

Soon, the meteorological observation soldiers in the sky calibrated the coordinates of the positions of the National Army in Wudoujing and the West Line Bridge through hyperbolic and triangular positioning methods. According to the shooting orders provided by the meteorological observation team, the 11th Japanese mountain artillery Regiment and the 10th Independent Heavy Artillery Regiment began their first test fires.

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Wudoujing, 1st Battalion of the 306th Regiment.

Battalion Commander Liu Zhenwu was tired of fighting wooden stakes and was about to sit down and smoke a cigarette. A short scream suddenly came from the sky ahead. Liu Zhenwu's face changed drastically. A fish jumped into the trench that had just been dug, and then a shell landed in another main trench dozens of meters away, and exploded quickly.

The dazzling fire suddenly burst out with black smoke. Even though a large amount of mud, sand and gravel burst into the sky, the two soldiers at the center of the explosion disappeared instantly, and one soldier was flew more than twenty meters away by the air waves generated by the explosion. When he landed again, he was only half of his body still there. He screamed twice and swallowed.

In the choking smoke, Liu Zhenwu struggled to get up from the trench, not caring about being dizzy and wanting to vomit. While running into the reed marsh on the riverside not far away, he shouted hysterically: "The little Japanese is going to shoot artillery, the little Japanese is going to shoot artillery, anti-aircraft artillery, anti-aircraft artillery, brothers, please hide quickly..."

The officers and soldiers of the 1st battalion who came to their senses shouted, and followed them into the reed marsh on the riverside. Many officers and soldiers also drilled into the cotton fields or small bamboo forests farther away. In less than a moment, only two hundred straw men in military uniforms and steel helmets were left on the bumpy positions, lying there motionless.

A few seconds later, rows of large-caliber grenades roared onto the 1st battalion's position.

The next moment, balls of fire bloomed from the first battalion's position one after another, and even with a huge explosion, it exploded as if the sky was about to crack. In less than a moment, the entire position was completely covered by rolling smoke. From time to time, a large amount of mud and sand soared into the sky, as if the earth was blown up, a scene of the end of the world.
Chapter completed!