Chapter 420: Cliff Crisis

As soon as the rain in Wuhan stopped, Gangcun Ningci got on the plane, and no one knew that Gangcun Ningci was on the plane except for a personal guard who followed him.

In the past few days, Liao Fan ordered the troops to withdraw to the second line of defense in turn, because the news from the scouts proved that the little devil did not have the slightest desire to attack, and Liao Fan had already learned the information, and the commander of the little devil did not know when he died.

The fighters began to have time to take a bath and dry their clothes, which they had not changed for half a month. In just two days, the soldiers' mental outlook was renewed, otherwise the 33rd Independent Division really looked like a unit called Hanako.

There was time to repair the position of the 33rd Independent Division, but the little devil kept his nerves tense, because the unknown number of troops behind the enemy attacked them almost every day, without the slightest pattern.

At the beginning, the army was quite restrained, but it was only logistical harassment of them. Later, it was obvious that the harassment logistics was not enjoyable, and they came directly to their main force, and the little devils were tired for the past few days.

As time passed, 20 days had passed since the Japanese army surrounded the garrison of the 33rd Independent Division, and the Japanese army's logistical materials had finally been seriously insufficient, and the rations used by the soldiers had been reduced to less than half of the initial period.

On this day, Taihang Mountain is still hot, but the slowly blowing mountain wind brings a hint of coolness, a well-equipped Japanese army detachment entered the mountain from the stone gate, and the troops defended by the little devils only knew that this officer was their new commander, and did not know that this person was Gangcun Ningci.

The first thing Okamura Ninji did when he arrived at the front was to boost their morale, telling them that they were invincible Imperial Japanese Army, and that they must now unite to conquer the positions of the Chinese army.

Obviously, Gangmura Ninji was originally a spiritual symbol of the Japanese army, and the news that Gangmura Ninji had just collapsed on the front line spread among the troops, and the morale of the Japanese army began to rise sharply.

The first thing Gangcun Ningci did when he arrived at the front line was to solve the logistics matter, he had already ordered the troops protecting the logistics line to create more than a dozen places for the hoarding of logistics materials, and then sent an elite force to transport the logistics, in just one day, the front line troops of the little devil were well replenished, at least the little devil was able to eat enough.

For the sudden change of the little devil, the third head Hu Guoshan smelled a trace of unusual smell, a few days ago, the little devils have become shrunken turtles, and now they suddenly appear under their noses, there must be a reason for it, Hu Guoshan and Zhao Caizhu did not dare to act rashly.

"Commander, something must have happened on the little devil's side, could this be a trick that the little devil deliberately set for us?" Zhao Caizhu was very uneasy in his heart, the little devil was transporting materials so openly, wasn't he afraid that he would be robbed by them halfway?

Hu Guoshan is also a veteran commander who has been on the battlefield for a long time, and of course he feels unusual about the changes in the Japanese army, and in just one morning, he has gathered all the troops back, and then arranged dozens of waves of scouts.

"Lao Zhao, let the two soldiers enter the city, contact our intelligence officers, and see what news they have there!" Hu Guoshan must find out what happened to the little devil.

"Okay, I'll do it now, do you want to arrange for a soldier to tell Camp Commander Jin to tell them to be careful?"

Hu Guoshan nodded and agreed to Zhao Caizhu's suggestion, now the abnormality of the little devils makes them have to be vigilant, in case it is a trap made by the little devils, they are entangled by the little devils, and these thousands of people in the three groups are really not enough for the little devils.

After replenishing the first batch of supplies and ammunition, the Japanese army began to reorganize and prepare for an attack. The next morning, the birds in the mountains first sensed the danger, and they had already flown to where they had already flown with their families. The silence in the mountains unnerved the warriors on the first line of defense.

"It's a little too quiet!" A recruit said to his squad leader.

"Keep your eyes wide and stare ahead!" The squad leader also beat a drum in his heart, they liked the silence on the frontline position these days, there was no gunfire, and the short peace made the soldiers cherish it very much. But the silence this morning was a little unusual, even a little weird.

There is still cooking smoke in the direction of the little devil's camp, this is the little devil cooking, Ma Wanzhong is holding a telescope and looking at the direction of the little devil's camp, according to a company commander's report, this cooking smoke has been there since dawn, and it is still rising, Ma Wanzhong feels that this does not want to be a little devil cooking.

The atmosphere in the air made Ma Wanzhong feel that the short peace was coming to an end, and the next thing would be that the little devils would inevitably attack, as for the vigilance of the front-line soldiers, Ma Wanzhong was not worried, there were little devils, a group of wolves staring outside, and the group of bison of the 33rd Independent Division would not be able to relax their vigilance.

But in the morning, the position was quiet, Ma Wanzhong could even hear the sound of damp rocks dripping water, he had already reported the unusual situation on the front line to Liao Fan, and Liao Fan was not sure what tricks the little devil was going to do.

The smoke from the camp continued for a whole morning, and then shells began to fall on the first line of defense.

"Did you spot the enemy infantry charging?" Ma Wanzhong asked a company commander.

"Regiment commander, the little devil found a large number of smoke bombs at the front of the position, and we can't see the situation ahead clearly at all!" The company commander reported.

"Keep your soldiers steady, load your bullets, and shoot without waiting for an order if you spot enemy infantry!"

The little devils fired a large number of smoke bombs from the first line of defense, and the forward positions could not be seen twenty meters away, but the soldiers knew that the little devils must be approaching them.

The first thing Gangcun Ningci did when he arrived at Taihang Mountain was to resume transportation, the second thing was to learn from all the officers about the position of the 33rd Independent Division, and the third thing was to order logistics to transport a large number of smoke bombs.

The military discipline of the little devils is no worse than that of the 33rd Independent Division, except that the little devils are undisciplined when they are harming the common people, but in terms of operations, once the orders of the Japanese officers are issued, they will carry them out without hesitation.

Under the cover of smoke bombs, the Japanese army began to rapidly advance towards the Chinese position, and the artillery of the little devils did not stop firing shells at the front line, and the smoke from the smoke bombs was already impossible to breathe. But the first echelon of the little devils all had wounded gas masks.

When the first little devil wearing a gas mask appeared in the soldiers' field of vision, a group of soldiers became frightened, because more than 90 percent of the soldiers of the 33rd Independent Division had never seen such a thing as a gas mask, and when they saw the little devil wearing a gas mask, they thought that it was a group of monsters coming out of the smoke.

After a short pause of more than ten seconds, they heard the urging of the company commander before they fired. But these ten seconds were enough time for the little devil's soldiers to charge forward and approach the first line of defense of the 33rd Independent Division.

"Boom Boom"

The little devil threw the grenade into the bunker, the grenade kept exploding, the soldiers on the position were in chaos, and the platoon commanders of each company kept urging the soldiers to shoot back and forth on the position to stabilize the battle line.

However, this was only the first action taken by Gangmura Ninji, whose main purpose was not on the frontal position of the 33rd Independent Division, but in the direction of the cliff.

More than a dozen squads of elite troops of the little devils began to move in the direction of the cliff, they had ropes in their hands, under the cover of howitzers, the little devils quickly approached the cliff, and the fighters above the cliff suffered heavy casualties under the heavy shelling of the little devils, but none of them withdrew from the battle.

The iron hook was hung on the rock above the cliff, and the soldiers guarding the cliff began to throw grenades under the cliff to prevent the little devil from climbing up, but the Japanese artillery never stopped, and the Japanese squad used grenadiers to cover each other, and the soldiers could not form an effective blow to the little devil under the cliff.

"Quick, go and ask the regiment commander for help, and tell the regiment commander that the little devil is coming from the cliff!" Guarding the cliff was a company commander, under the shelling of the Japanese army, they had already suffered more than half of the casualties, if the little devil climbed the cliff, they had no way to hold it, he immediately sent soldiers to Ma Wanzhong for help.

The little devils who attacked the cliff were all carefully selected soldiers, and of course the combat quality did not say, under the cover of artillery, they climbed the cliff through ropes in just a few minutes. Although a company guarding the cliff was well-equipped, the little devil didn't say a word and directly fired back with a grenadier.

The company commander and the soldiers resisted desperately, but there were more and more soldiers who climbed the cliff with the little devils, and the cliff would be broken sooner or later, as long as the little devils took the cliff and held on for more than ten minutes, they would have a large number of troops climb the cliff through the broken ropes, and then go straight to the back of the independent 33rd Division.

The situation was extremely urgent, and the soldiers guarding the cliff were only a platoon of soldiers under the blow of the little devil's cannon fodder, but the position was still in their hands, and the Japanese began to attack the fortifications on the cliff in groups of more than a dozen people.

"Da Da Da"

The gunfire was loud, and dense fire erupted from the machine guns, but within two minutes, the machine guns were hit by the grenadiers of the little devils, and the firepower of the fighters lost their advantage for a while, and the infantry of the little devils began to attack forward with alternate cover.

"Get on the bayonet!"

The little devil had already rushed to the noses of the soldiers, and the company commander, knowing that a white-knuckle battle was inevitable, ordered the soldiers to put on their bayonets and hide in bunkers without showing their heads.

Losing the suppression of firepower, the speed of the little devil's charge increased several times, and in just a dozen seconds, he rushed to the fortifications of the cliff, at this time the soldiers hiding under the cover suddenly burst out, and raised their bayonets upwards in unison.