By premeditating the attack, Yamaguchi's 10th Division was progressing smoothly. In the early morning, the Japanese army, who were ready to do everything, took advantage of the unprepared opportunity of the 27th Army on the opposite side to launch a sudden attack. The bombing of hundreds of cannons brought great casualties to the 54th Division immediately.

At six o'clock in the morning, except for a few guards, most of the 54th Division on the front line had just woken up from their sleep and were busy preparing breakfast. In the eyes of the soldiers on the front line, it was a certainty for the Japanese troops to withdraw from the opposite side. Everyone saw the Japanese retreat in batches these days, and the news from Kanto Prefecture also confirmed this. Thousands of Japanese soldiers boarded the return ships. It seemed that this unstarted war would end sooner or later.

Out of this mentality, the wariness of the front-line troops is much smaller than that before. Most people think that if they suffer some hardships, they can return to the warm barracks, or prepare for the Spring Festival in two months. This is the mentality of most people in the 27th Army, including commander Zhang Zuolin and commander of the 54th Division Sun Liechen.

When the Japanese shelling began, the Fifty-fourth Division was almost unprepared. When the first runway fell, the soldiers who were queuing up to lead steamed buns and millet porridge had no idea what had happened. With a loud noise, countless broken limbs, blood and flesh were thrown high into the sky with the fragments of the pot and bowl, scattered everywhere, and in a blink of an eye, it became a hell on earth.

All the officers and soldiers of the 54th Division who were bombarded were stunned. For a moment, the positions were full of panic and crowds running around to avoid the shelling. This made the casualties more severe. It was not until several officers who came to their senses shouted and commanded the soldiers to hide in the trenches, and the situation improved slightly.

However, the Japanese shelling waves were more fierce than the waves, and the soldiers who scattered could not be safely gathered. Some soldiers who escaped for breakfast were not even available rifles beside them because of breakfast. In the place where the shells were most violent, only three or five people had just gathered escaped in a panic, and the rest were all blown into blood mud by shells.

The 54th Division was almost disrupted under the Japanese artillery bombardment. Although Sun Liechen reacted immediately and summoned the troops to try to gather them to do a good job of defense, it was impossible to do this under the continuous artillery bombardment. Helplessly, Sun Liechen could only take some of the troops that had been collected and retreated decisively, and was ready to find a way after retreating to the second line of defense.

During the retreat, the 54th Division suffered great casualties. Even Sun Liechen's left arm was injured by splashed shrapnel. When he finally retreated to the second line of defense with his troops, the Japanese on the opposite side also began to extend artillery fire and launched an attack of thousands of soldiers.

Compared with the first line of defense, the second line of defense was obviously much better. Sun Liechen commanded the troops to garrison the second line of defense, trying to stop the Japanese here. But what made him sad was that although he finally gathered less than a brigade of troops after hard work. Most of the weapons and equipment were thrown on the first line of defense, especially heavy weapons. Apart from the few small cannons and some machine guns arranged in advance on the second line of defense, the soldiers did not even have a single shot. Most of the retreated soldiers either threw away the weapons in their hands or didn't have time to get weapons at the beginning, and the entire army could not get enough to join the battle.

"Half! Half!"

"Mom, let me slap!"

Sun Liechen, who was bandaged on his arms, climbed in front of the trenches, gritted his teeth and looked at the 39th Regiment of the 10th Division, which had almost no counterattack, and rushed towards the first line of defense without any effort. The Japanese army wearing yellow 45 uniforms rushed over with rifles like a tide. Along the way, they saw the officers and soldiers of the 54th Division who had not had time to withdraw and raised their hands and took down the entire line of defense in just over ten minutes.

The cheers of the Japanese army were so harsh. Several Japanese soldiers even used bayonets to lift the heads of the cut-off people, laughing at Sun Liechen with their weapons and stunningly, making Sun Liechen's face turn into a pig's liver.

"Teacher, let's fight back! Kill these bastards!" A regiment commander's face was covered in tears. In the end, only one company was left behind for his regiment. Most of the people were thrown on the position, and half of the people who had retreated were wounded. Holding a telescope, you could clearly see the face of the Japanese bayonet holding their heads. These were all their brothers!

"Blow! Fuck!" Sun Liechen slapped him and slapped the commander who had already taken out his gun and was about to jump out of the trenches to avenge his brothers: "Just relying on your hundreds of people under him, you will have more than a dozen guns to fight the little Japanese? Do you want your brothers to go to die with you?"

"Teacher! But... the brothers are all dead miserably! Teacher! Revenge! Revenge!" The regiment commander cried loudly, knelt on the ground and hugged Sun Liechen's legs, and with red eyes, he kept saying that he wanted to avenge his brothers.

"Avenge! Of course, this revenge must be avenged!" Sun Liechen's teeth were almost broken. The commander was heartbroken. Is he not sad, the commander of the division? These are all his soldiers! He watched his soldiers fall under the Japanese artillery fire and bayonets one by one, but he, the commander of the division, was powerless.

However, Sun Liechen, as the commander of the 54th Division, was not Qiu Ba who only knew how to act recklessly, otherwise Zhang Zuolin would not have handed over the heavy responsibility of the defense line to him. At present, the 54th Division suffered heavy losses due to the sudden attack by the Japanese, and even lost the defense line and almost all the heavy weapons. He even had rifles and ammunition in his hands. In this case, the reckless counterattack was like hitting a stone with an egg. Moreover, the Japanese on the opposite side were now in a strong momentum. After winning the first line of defense with slight casualties, they would never give up. They would soon launch an attack on the second line of defense.

Sun Liechen knew very well that with the current force of his hands and the strength of the second line of defense, he might not be able to stop the Japanese, and at most he would delay time. The most reasonable countermeasure now is to organize troops to block the Japanese on the second line of defense first, prepare for Zhang Zuolin to dispatch troops from behind to set up a third line of defense, and win the time for the remaining troops of the 54th Division to evacuate safely. Now it is not the time to act voluntarily, and everything should be the overall situation first, otherwise, not to mention the second line of defense, even the third line of defense is probably in danger. If all three lines of defense are lost, Fengtian will defeat the last line of defense. At this time, the Japanese artillery fire can directly attack Fengtian City, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

Just at this moment, the people sent by Zhang Zuolin came to the front line and simply asked the visitor to repay Zhang Zuolin, and explained the situation on the front line and his own arrangements. After the visitor left quickly, Sun Liechen quickly organized people to start the defense and asked the injured to continue to retreat.

At 7:30 in the morning, the Japanese who took the first line of defense took a break. After the cannons behind were in place, they began another impatient attack. This time, Sun Liechen was prepared. Although the Japanese artillery fire was still fierce, the casualties were much smaller under the protection of trenches and fox pits. Except for the unlucky boys who were directly fried, most of them just ate a face of dust and didn't even scratch the oily skin.

It seemed that the Japanese already thought that the Chinese team on the opposite side was vulnerable, or that the Japanese artillery shells were not sufficient. This time the artillery preparation stopped in just ten minutes. As soon as the artillery was stopped, Sun Liechen hurriedly asked the soldiers to prepare for battle.

The Japanese army was still attacking the 39th Regiment of the 10th Division. Hundreds of Japanese troops rushed towards the second line of defense like ants. A sergeant who led the leader shouted loudly, and his expression was very excited. In his heart, the man was no match for the Imperial Japanese Army at all. He could take down this line of defense with just one charge.

"No one is allowed to shoot without my order!" Sun Liechen held a rasp in his hand, jogging in the trenches with his waist bent down, and shouted at the soldiers with a low voice. Except for the wounded and the remnants of the 54th Division arranged to be removed, the garrisoned position was only two and a half battalions of troops. This is the biggest capital that Sun Liechen could afford now. Soldiers without guns and ammunition were basically going to die. It would be better to withdraw and reorganize first. He divided the remaining combatable forces into three parts. There was a battalion guarding the trenches, and another battalion was ready at any time, and there was a half company as a reserve team behind. In any case, he had to find a way to stop the Japanese for some time.

There was only about five miles between the first line of defense and the second line of defense. In a short while, you could clearly see the ferocious face of the Japanese army and the rifle flashing with cold light on their hands.

One thousand meters, eight hundred meters, five hundred meters, three hundred meters... Sun Liechen held his breath and lay in front of the trenches widened his eyes as the Japanese army got closer, but he was slow to issue an order to start shooting.

"Half! Half!"

Along the way, there was a quiet scene on the opposite side. Without a single shot from the Chinese team, the Japanese soldiers easily rushed to a distance of nearly a hundred meters from the position. Perhaps they thought that the Chinese team on the opposite side had already escaped under the powerful Japanese artillery fire. Seeing that the victory was in sight, the happy Japanese soldiers even shouted long live.

"Bang!"

"Bang bang bang..."

"Mom Lebazi! Who! Who fucked the gun? I'm going to kill him!" Sun Liechen, who was planning to wait for the Japanese army to get closer, was calculating the distance. Who would have thought that suddenly the gunfire sounded on the position, which made him so angry that he was smoking in his forehead and angry in his eyes. I don't know which timid guy was nervous when he saw the Japanese army getting closer, pulled the trigger when he was nervous. The first gunfire sounded, and the other soldiers also subconsciously started shooting. For a moment, the position was extremely lively, and even one of the only three machine guns rang out loud. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!