On the afternoon of July 3, at night and during the day on July 4, the harassment of the National Army's artillery quickly came to the night of July 4.

Under the excavation of the 10th Engineer Regiment day and night, eight tunnels that extended from the Japanese attacking positions, which were more than two meters deep and more than two meters wide, finally advanced under the northern city wall of Hankou!

For this, the 10th Engineer Regiment paid a heavy price of more than 500 casualties!

However, in Shinozuka Yoshio's opinion, the casualties of these more than 500 people were completely worth it, because the casualties of these 500 people won a chance for the 10th Division to influence the outcome of the war!

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Under the nightfall, Yoshio Shinozuka once again climbed to the Toyohe Mountain Observation Center.

This time, in addition to the Chief of Staff Dike, who followed Yoshio Shinozuka to Mount Toyohe, there were also Okada Shi, the commander of the 8th Infantry Brigade and Nagasse Tani Kei, the brigade leader of the 33rd Infantry Brigade.

Seya Kiyo is the captain of the Seya Detachment that was almost wiped out in Taierzhuang!

It is precisely because of the Battle of Taierzhuang that Seya Kit, who was originally arrogant, became very cautious. It can be said that his entire view of war has been completely overturned!

At this moment, Setani Kei was trying hard to persuade Yoshio Shinozuka to be cautious.

"Teacher Commander!" Setani Kitto advised, "It is too risky to invest sixteen infantry squadrons at one time. Sixteen infantry squadrons are equivalent to four infantry brigades. If there is a mistake, Okayama and Songjiang Regiment will be abandoned! In addition, the 40th Infantry Regiment has just been rebuilt for a while, so the combat effectiveness of our 10th Division is very worrying!"

"False loss?" Tsubuki retorted, "General Seya, I want to ask, what can be wrong?"

"If you don't want to tie the tide, we must not pin our hopes on the Chinese army's unaware of the shooting method!" Seya Kit did not despise him because he didn't want to tie the tide to tie the tide, but instead became more sincere.

After a pause, Setani Kiyo continued: "Yes, since the 1920s, as heavy machine guns were widely valued by the world's powers, the infantry's attack methods had revolutionary changes, the dense attack queues were gradually abandoned, and the scattered lines with individual soldiers with intervals of more than five meters or even ten meters were gradually taken seriously. This made the transcendent shooting method invented by the German army in the Battle of the Somme gradually forgotten by the world because of its greatly reduced killing efficiency."

"But this does not mean that the Chinese army has never heard of the method of surpassing the shooting!"

"After all, there are many senior officers in the Chinese army who have studied in the United States or Germany. For example, Zhong Yi, who graduated from the West Point Military Academy in the United States. He is likely to have studied the Battle of the Somme from the West Point Military Academy library!"

Dibujiagui said: "Reading the Battle of the Somme does not mean that you know how to surpass the shooting method!"

After pausing, Thibuguchi said again: "For example, General Seya, you have also read the Battle of the Somme, but you don't know how to surpass the shooting method!"

In fact, it’s not just Kei Seya, but almost no one in the entire 10th Division knows how to surpass shooting!

Yoshio Shinozuka was also an accidental opportunity to see it accidentally in a military publication!

When Seya Kiyoshi heard this, his face turned slightly red and he said, "I don't know how to surpass shooting, but Zhong Yi may not."

"General Seya, this is just your guess!" said Tsubuya. "We cannot cancel an action that is likely to determine the direction of the Wuhan battle because of your simple guess!"

When Setani Kei wanted to say something else, he asked Yoshio Shinozuka to stop him.

Yoshio Shinozuka is like this. He is willing to listen to various opinions before making a decision, but once he makes a decision, no one can change his decision!

Shinozuka Yoshio said: "Seya-kun, I already understand what you mean, but you may not understand that the transcendent shooting method used by the German army in the Somme Battle is actually very difficult to replicate! First of all, is the China heavy machine gun enough? Another way, can their bullet reserves support the huge consumption of transcendent shooting method?"

After pausing, Shinozuka Yoshio said again: "What's more, if the Chinese army wants to use the transcendence shooting method, it must deploy the heavy machine guns to the open area. In this way, it will give the Imperial Army's artillery cluster the opportunity to clear it at a designated location! Seya-kun wouldn't think that the Imperial Army's artillery can't remove dozens of heavy machine guns, right?"

"Hayi!" Seya Kitto paused his head and continued, "Teacher Commander, don't the Chinese army have bunkers?"

Yoshio Shinozuka said: "The Chinese army did build a bunker, but the bunkers have a lot of restrictions on the shooting angle of heavy machine guns. It is impossible to use transcendent shooting methods in bunkers!"

"Sodesna," said Setani Kiyo, "this is really a humble person."

"No, it's necessary to be cautious." Yoshio Shinozuka waved his hand and continued, "But the attack tonight is inevitable! Haven't you noticed that the attack momentum of the Second Army has slowed down? Once you fall into a protracted battle in Wuhan, even the situation in the battle in Wuhan may be reversed!"

After a pause, Yoshio Shinozuka said again: "So, the battle in Wuhan must be decided quickly!"

"Hayi!" Seya Kiyo was shocked when he heard this, and said with a heavy silence, "I understand!"

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In the night, Hiroshi Aso followed Ito Karen and walked forward step by step.

Because the sky was too dark and I couldn't see clearly the ground under my feet, Aso Hiro suddenly stepped on the empty place and fell to the ground immediately. The military water bottle at his waist touched the ground, making a soft sound.

A low shout came from the front immediately: "Baga, be careful!"

Ito Karen also turned around and gave a stern glance at Aso Hiroshi. Aso Hiroshi quickly turned over and got up, hanging his head like a primary school student who did something wrong, followed Ito Karen again.

Ito Karen said in a low voice: "When marching at night, don't step on your feet. You must first step on your toes and then step on them after touching the ground!"

"Hayi!" Aso Hiroshi paused his head and responded softly.

While saying that, Hiro Aso turned around and looked behind him.

Under the dark night, teams of imperial soldiers were hiking forward along the curved tunnel. A helmet and bayonets reflected a faint light under the starry sky.

While moving forward quietly, I suddenly found that Ito Karen, who was walking in front, had stopped and turned around and patted his helmet. Aso Hiroshi stopped and then reached out to pat the helmet of the Imperial Soldier who was following behind him.

After a while, the imperial army that was groping forward stopped and squatted down against both sides of the tunnel.

Hiro Aso squatted down with a rifle in one hand and a knee in the other, and also leaned against the side wall of the tunnel.

Although he had participated in two battles and escaped from death twice, At this moment, Hiro Aso found that he was still so nervous that he was almost suffocating!
Chapter completed!