Ueno nodded in agreement with Seishiro Itagaki's words, at which point the artillery positions were terminated, and most of the artillery and artillery were lost to the bombing. At this time, continuing to feint the opponent's defensive position at the mouth of the valley can only become a live target for the opponent, the key is that the fast-fire firepower of the opponent's defense at the mouth of the valley is very strong, and the Japanese infantry can only be used as a target when they go up, which is meaningless.

As soon as he thought of this, Ueno said: "Your Excellency the division commander, stop the attack for the time being!" Without the cover of Saka Kamipei's artillery fire, the soldiers who feinted to capture us could only be strafed by the new regiment's Canyon machine gun fire, and there was no point in suffering heavy casualties. ”。

"Order the 41st Wing of the front line, temporarily stop the feint, withdraw and hide. The other side has already knocked out our artillery positions, and now they can only temporarily hide and wait for reinforcements to arrive. Although Itagaki Seishiro was reluctant to admit defeat, the current situation did not allow Itagaki Seishiro to continue to order the Japanese infantry to feint, so he could only wave his hand helplessly and order a Japanese staff officer on the side of the headquarters.

The Japanese staff officer who was pointed out by Seishiro Itagaki paused heavily and said, "Hai, Your Excellency the division commander!" He immediately went out and sent someone to inform the 41st Wing of the Japanese army that had feinted to stop the attack temporarily.

And Itagaki Seishiro frowned, looked at the map of Hengshan, and was silent.

A few minutes later, Ueno, who was still the chief of staff of the division, said in a low voice: "Your Excellency, the second air reinforcement fleet that took off from Xinkou will take at least fifty minutes before it can rush to the sky over the mouth of the Jinlong Gorge of Hengshan Mountain to bomb. And the imperial infantry from Pingxingguan and Lingqiu, Guangling three places to the north to reinforce, carrying several heavy artillery, also need some time to rush here. What should we do at this point? ”。

"We can only wait for reinforcements to arrive, our current artillery strength has been completely lost, and the only light artillery fire strength such as mortars and grenadiers can completely cause serious damage to the new regiment base area. What's more, judging from the surprise attack of the Shina Army on the artillery position of Saka Ichipei just now, the number of artillery on the other side exceeded ours. Otherwise, it would not be possible to counterattack with cluster artillery fire so quickly and destroy Saka Kamipei's artillery brigade. ”

Seishiro Itagaki shook his head and said with a wry smile.

Ueno Zheng looked bitter, who would have thought that there would be so many artillery pieces in Li Yunlong's lair to counterattack. There had been no large-scale artillery counterattack before, and both Ueno Masashi and Itagaki Seishiro thought that it was impossible for the other side to have too much artillery in their base areas. Unexpectedly, it was a mistake, in fact, Itagaki Seishiro did not investigate the specific situation of the new regiment base in detail. Otherwise, it would be impossible for Itagaki Seishiro to follow Yoshio Shinozuka's urgent telegram and send troops to attack the Hengshan base of the new regiment so quickly without making all preparations.

"Your Excellency the division commander, are we just waiting?" Ueno said helplessly.

Seishiro Itagaki moved his finger to the topographic map of Mount Heng on the table, and immediately clapped his hands and said, "Is there any information from the small reconnaissance force behind the Jinlongxia Gorge to explore the rear of the Shina base area?" ”。

"For the time being, we haven't received a report from the reconnaissance troops, I'm afraid that in this mountainous situation, it will take time for them to find a path behind Hutou Mountain that can go up the mountain! Your Excellency, Division Commander! ”

Seishiro Itagaki clenched his fists and said, "No matter what, we must find a way up from behind the new regiment base as soon as possible." It is now impossible for us to storm from the front, and it will be up to us to find a way up from behind the base of the Chinese army. Once you can find it, you can raid it from the mountains behind the opponent's base. In this way, when the reinforcements arrive and capture the new regimental base area of Hengshan in advance, then the honor of our Itagaki Division will be maintained. Ueno-kun! ”。

"This, I understand, Your Excellency the Division Commander!" Ueno replied with a heavy pause.

It's just that Seishiro Itagaki and Masashi Ueno both know that what they need now is time!

Thinking of this, the old devil Itagaki Seishiro ordered Ueno Masashi again: "Send some more men and horses, follow the traces left by the reconnaissance troops, and multi-force troops will explore the road separately." In addition, immediately call the reconnaissance force that set out to explore the rear of Hutou Mountain to see how the situation is. ”。

"Yes, Your Excellency the Division Commander, I'll do it right away!" Ueno nodded and immediately sent people to contact each other.

And just when Itagaki Seishiro regretted that the artillery position of his department was wiped out by Wang Chengzhu's artillery counterattack, he stopped the attack and dispatched men and horses to follow the previous Japanese reconnaissance troops to detour behind Hutou Mountain to find a path up the mountain.

At this time, Wang Chengzhu's artillery counterattack also came to a temporary end with the retreat of the Japanese feint troops to stop the attack!

At this time, Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang and others, who were standing on the top of Tianfengling Mountain, picked up binoculars and looked at the mouth of the Jinlong Gorge Canyon.

"The regiment commander, the second and third battalions of the valley mouth of the valley called separately, and the Japanese troops who were feintifying in the formation of squadrons and brigades have retreated. Our artillery fire caused the attack to quickly withdraw. ”

After Wei Dayong hung up the phone from a table placed not far behind Li Yunlong, he reported directly to Li Yunlong loudly.

"Good! It seems that this time Itagaki Seishiro can only temporarily stop fighting. Lao Zhao! Hahaha! When Li Yunlong heard this, he laughed and smiled at Zhao Gang, who was standing on the left.

Zhao Gang nodded and said: "It seems that the huge column of smoke that was blown up by the artillery fire that counterattacked Itagaki Seishiro's artillery position before should be caused by the martyrdom caused by the many shells on the artillery position of the little devil who were hit by our artillery fire." Presumably, we have eliminated most of the artillery carried by the 21st Brigade. Seishiro Itagaki should have had no choice but to order the feint Japanese army to retreat. Otherwise, if we continue to attack, we can only reduce to the fire strafing of our defenders at the mouth of the canyon and the artillery attack of Wang Chengzhu, and it will be meaningless to suffer heavy casualties. ”。

Li Yunlong nodded, and Zhao Gang said well, "Not bad!" Now, Seishiro Itagaki ordered the Japanese feint troops attacking the valley mouth to withdraw, and then it will be up to this old devil to make a move. ”。。

Zhao Gang walked to the table where the map was placed, pointed to the map, and said, "The most critical thing in our current Hengshan base area is the mouth of the Jinlong Gorge Canyon. Because of you, Lao Li, who went out of Hengshan before and traveled around to fight in the north and south of Jin Province, he dragged Yoshio Shinozuka's attention and bought time for the reorganization of the troops I left behind in the Hengshan base area and the construction of fortifications in various dangerous places. ”。

After a pause, Zhao Gang continued: "Therefore, with only one fortification at the mouth of the Jinlong Gorge Gorge, even if more than 5,000 people and horses under the command of Seishiro Itagaki are attacking together, it is impossible to capture our position at the mouth of the valley with all casualties. Therefore, Seishiro Itagaki must find a breakthrough next! ”。