In the second half of the more than ten miles of the Qiaogou Gorge ambush area east of Pingxingguan, the 11th Infantry Brigade under the jurisdiction of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, which was divided and surrounded and ambushed, had been ambushed by the 28th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army and the independent regiment on both sides of the hill, and suffered heavy casualties.

The remnants of the Japanese 11th Infantry Brigade, under the command of the brigade commander, Major General Tokutaro, retreated to the mountains on the side of the valley road and temporarily formed a position to defend it.

The weapons in the hands of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who were ambushed on the hills on both sides were overwhelmingly firing red-hot bullets, and they entertained the remnants of the devils of Tokutaro I.

At this time, the 13th Wing of the Brigade and the remnants of the 47th Wing of the Brigade of the Command Post Headquarters, which were in a state of embarrassment, were attacked by Ding Weisuo, the 28th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, and the independent regiment of Kong Jie, which were winding for several miles on both sides of the Qiaogou Gorge, and were already on the verge of annihilation.

"Boom !!"

A close-range explosion exploded less than ten meters next to Tokutaro I's temporary field headquarters, and the shell fragments hit more than a dozen Japanese soldiers protecting Tokutaro's headquarters, and these devil soldiers were either killed or maimed by the fragments of the shell.

Tokutaro I, who was directing the counterattack, was pounced on by the staff officers around him, making Tokutaro disgraced.

"Bagaya Road, steady. Don't lose the momentum of the imperial soldiers, the shells of the Eighth Route Army have not yet killed the commander of this brigade so easily! Let go! ”

Tokutaro I, who was knocked down, pushed away the staff officer who was protecting him and cursed.

At this time, the artillery fire continued, and it still made Tokutaro concentrate on it.

"Brigade commander, we can't get in touch with the division commander. The enemy's firepower was too strong, and the hills on both flanks were constantly ambushing our troops trying to move west to the divisional headquarters, and we had already charged several times, but we could not break through the enemy's firepower. At present, the Eighth Route Army has launched a small-scale downhill attack, and each unit has been divided into several units, and there is a danger that they will be divided and eaten. ”

Tokutaro I, who had been calming his mind for less than a few minutes, kept receiving battle reports from Japanese heralds everywhere.

Tokutaro I's brows furrowed, and the current situation was already in an absolutely unoptimistic situation. His 11 Infantry Brigade had a total of 8,000 to nearly 9,000 men, and now there are less than 5,000 men.

Moreover, he was cut off from the division headquarters by the other party, and he was no longer able to contact Gu Shoufu.

However, soon a Japanese staff officer came over and reported to Tokutaro I: "The brigade commander, the division commander has called directly, ordering our department to break west as soon as possible, and then break through to the direction of Pingxingguan with the division and regimental headquarters." The topography of Qiaogou Gorge is not conducive to the combat effectiveness of all divisions and regiments. The ambushed Chinese army was at least the main force of the Eighth Route Army. I am afraid that our 6th Division has fallen into a heavy ambush by the other side. ”。

"It's nature!"

Hearing this, Tokutaro sneered, did the commander of Gu Shoufu's division think of concentrating all the men and horses of the division to break through?

However, Jing Tokutaro naturally didn't dare to say it openly, so he quickly waved his hand and said, "Yo Xi, I know." The troops were ordered to immediately fight and retreat, desperately moving closer to the division commander and the division headquarters. Hurry up and drop! ”。

"Hay, Brigade Commander!" All the Japanese staff officers of the 11th Brigade Headquarters were stunned when they heard this, and with Tani Shoufu's urgent telegram order again, the remnants of the Japanese troops of the 11th Infantry Brigade gathered under the desperate command of the brigade commander, Major General Tokutaro, and there were less than 5,000 Japanese troops desperately attacking in the direction of Tani Toshio's division and regimental headquarters.

The 28th Regiment of Ding Wei's Headquarters and Kong Jie's Independent Regiment, which was responsible for the ambush to advance to the second half of the ambush, condescendingly killed four or five thousand Japanese troops by virtue of their geographical advantages and firepower advantages.

By the time Tokutaro stood out from the fire ambush of the two Eighth Route soldiers and horses and moved closer to the regimental headquarters of Tani Toshio's division, the remnants of Tokutaro Itokuro were finally able to lean towards the headquarters of Tani Toshio's division, and there were less than 4,000 people left in the remnants of the 11th brigade.

At this time, Li Yunlong stood on a hill behind the Lao Ye Temple and condescendingly observed the battle in Qiaogou Gorge, and through the telephone line that had been laid up a long time ago, he contacted the ambush situation of various troops to summarize at any time.

"Made, Gu Shoufu, this old devil is not slow! Tell Zhang Dabiao and Shen Qun to speed up, the devil's air support will arrive soon! Seeing that the communications corps in charge of radio contact in his headquarters had just sent Li Yunlong a piece of information about the Japanese army in Taiyuan that had been transmitted by the brigade headquarters, Li Yunlong already knew that Naosaburo Okabe had already dispatched air fighters to carry out air attacks to support and cover the breakthrough of the Japanese 6th Division.

Therefore, Li Yunlong could only force Zhang Dabiao and the others again to deal with the troops attacking and killing the Manxiang blocking position on Ushijima as soon as possible.

"Yes, Captain!" The staff officer in charge of battlefield liaison quickly replied, and then hurriedly called Zhang Dabiao and others to speed up the attack.

In the Qiaogou Gorge, the 36th Brigade of the Ushijima Mansuo Division of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army gathered more than 4,000 people to storm the blocking position jointly constructed by the 3rd Battalion and the 4th Battalion of the 1st New Regiment, and the battle was extremely fierce.

The 23rd Infantry Wing, which was under the personal supervision of the Brigade under Ushijima's command, together with an infantry battalion drawn from the 45th Infantry Wing, launched a fierce attack on the blocking positions jointly defended by the 3rd and 4th Battalions.

The soldiers on both sides almost had to fight each other in close quarters, but fortunately, the soldiers of the third and fourth battalions knew that the devil soldiers of the 6th Division were different from the soldiers of the previous little devil troops, fierce, and the hand-to-hand combat in close combat was no less than that of the new regiment.

Therefore, under Li Yunlong's reminder before the battle, all units gave full play to the firepower advantage of their weapons and tried their best to kill the little devil soldiers of the attacking Japanese 6th Division in a long-range firepower strike.

Therefore, although the joint strong forces of the 23rd Wing of the Ushijima Mandu War and an infantry brigade of the 45th Infantry Wing attacked fiercely, it was still impossible to overcome the blocking position built by the 3rd Battalion and the 4th Battalion of the New 1st Regiment with a total of more than 2,000 people on the valley road in the direction of Pingxingguan.

"Baga Ya Road! Baga Ya Lu, whose troops are this? So hard to beat! ”

Major General Mitsuru Ushijima, commander of the 36th Infantry Brigade of the 6th Division, stood behind the sandbag bunker, holding a telescope forward to observe the attack of his troops, his eyes pierced, and his eyes were full of incredulity, whose troops are this, so difficult to fight?

Ushijima watched at least one squadron of Japanese soldiers rush into the opponent's blocking fortifications, and in less than two minutes, he was eaten clean by the other side, and his indignant expression appeared on his face, which was extremely ugly, and the casualties were too great!

"Brigade commander, you can't fight like this again! If we fight like this again, our 36th Brigade will suffer heavy casualties! Stop the offensive for now, the 23rd Wing has already suffered more than half of the casualties. At this time, the commander of the 45th Infantry Wing under the command of General Mitsuru Ushijima, who rushed to the temporary field headquarters of the 36th Brigade Regiment, Taro Koda, said to Ushijima Manchu with a solemn look in his eyes.