In the dark night, the Japanese troops attacking at night were orderly hidden in the vegetation and trenches below the Luotang Heights, and the Japanese lieutenants who led the team, as well as the leaders of various squads and soldiers, were staring at the towering Luotang Heights.

The troops of the Fifth Division were indeed the elite of the Japanese army, and the toughness of the soldiers, the quality of the troops, and the ability to bear losses were among the best among the Japanese troops.

The Japanese soldiers who participated in the night raid took out grenades, grenadiers, bayonet guns, steel helmets, water bottles, 65 bullet boxes, bayonet sheaths, and other equipment, all of which were prepared in accordance with the standards before the impact.

Waiting for the officer's order to attack, two infantry squads, a team of more than a hundred people, did not make any movement while they were on standby.

The hidden location is easy to find, the night attack troops are located under the Luotang position, here are all mountainous terrain, and the Japanese army has also been stationed, the trench under the anticline of the high ground, the ditch has become the best concealment fortification of the Japanese army.

The night wind blew in the middle of the night, blowing on the faces of every Japanese soldier, and these soldiers, who had just finished the hard fighting in the afternoon and had been faithfully ordered to launch a surprise attack, were now in a state of high mental stress.

There was also a thick smell of blood and gunpowder in the air below the Luotang Heights.

The Japanese lieutenant who led the team, Lieutenant Saito, together with the two squad leaders and Jun Cao, was at the forefront of the hidden area, observing the Chinese army under the high ground, the Japanese army's white-edged raid and impact tactics, and strictly reconnoitred and arranged before each attack, although the scale of the attack was not large, but the lieutenant Saito who led the team was extremely careful, and he fought more than once or twice in the battle of white-knuckle assault, but this time, Saito was the most nervous.

The two squads under his command were drawn out of the garrison in the midst of heavy casualties, and every soldier and pawn, Saito regarded them as treasures, and he did not dare to fight easily, but he knew that if the two squads under his command were exhausted, the pure infantry units under the Kunlun Pass garrison could not even get together the soldiers of the two formed squadrons.

There was only one brigade and three infantry squadrons in the garrison formation, and now one squadron has been annihilated, and there are not many infantry units left.

Saito knew that he had a great responsibility, and he also knew that the situation was critical.

If he rashly launched an attack and suffered losses, and the troops guarding the pass were without infantry, it would be no different from a lamb to the slaughter, and Saito was fighting with 120,000 spirit to deal with this white-knuckle night attack.

Lieutenant Saito, in the hidden trench with the commander of the detachment and the two squad leaders, dutifully and carefully discussed the steps of action.

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In the trench, there was a very small discussion, and Lieutenant Saito, the two squad leaders, and the commanders of the subordinate command detachment worked out an assault plan.

"There are suspected Chinese troops on the high ground."

"Send three people to search the positions of the Chinese army!"

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Before the attack, the squad leader under Saito and the veterans of the direct command detachment also attached great importance to the preparations, and several people discussed for five or six minutes before they began to act.

In the end, Lieutenant Saito transferred two soldiers and one soldier from his subordinate command detachment that had been damaged by the bloody battle in the afternoon, and the three of them were assigned the reconnaissance and detection tasks before the assault......

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On the Luotang Heights, in order to firmly grasp this piece of hard-won high ground in their own hands, the Teaching Brigade and the 598th Regiment have completed the defense arrangements, and the highland top of Luotang is temporarily garrisoned by the Teaching Brigade, and the Teaching Brigade is all stationed on the Luotang Heights, and the 123rd Squadron uses the original Japanese trenches to undergo some urgent transformation and is stationed on the top of the high ground.

Zhang Wei also ordered the troops to repair the civil fortifications left behind by the Japanese army, and set up a temporary command post for the teaching brigade in a position with a good view and overlooking the front of the anticline position

The commander of the 598th Regiment, Gao Jiren, has withdrawn to organize the 598th Regiment to move forward, and the main body of the high ground has been garrisoned by the troops of the teaching brigade, and no more troops can be put down, he left the strength of an infantry company, which was finished on the anti-slope position, and the rest of the troops were withdrawn by him, and the work of cleaning up the battlefield took a lot of time, and the Gao Ji people are now busy in front of the front line of the whole regiment.

After the basic arrangement of defense, the officers and men of the teaching brigade rested in the positions, seized the rare battle break to recover their vitality, and gnawed on the dry food sent by friendly troops, many officers and men of the first and third squadrons after the bloody battle in the afternoon, because they were too tired, fell asleep in the trenches while eating, chewed dry food in their mouths, and fell asleep by leaning on the trenches.

Zhang Wei was the same, he fought all afternoon, rectified, cleaned the battlefield until the evening, and the iron man couldn't bear it, so he asked the herald to pull a simple bed with ammunition boxes and planks, and fell asleep upside down, and asked Mu Chao to take it first in defense.

Fortunately, the officers and men of Mu Chao's 2nd Squadron, who did not participate in the afternoon attack in the position, supported the girder and made up for the lack of physical exhaustion of the officers and men of the 1st and 3rd Squadrons.

The offensive battle in the afternoon consumed too much energy and physical strength of the officers and men of the 1st and 3rd squadrons, and there was silence on the main position in Luotang, teaching the officers and men of the brigade to quietly guard the high ground and guard the results of the battle in exchange for blood.

The anti-slope position, which is now the frontal position faced by the Japanese night attack troops, is garrisoned by soldiers of the 598th Regiment, and the main position and the top of the high ground are guarded by the teaching brigade, and the anti-slope position of the Japanese army has now become the positive slope of the teaching brigade.

There are many corpses of Japanese soldiers piled up on the anticline position of the Luotang Heights that were once raided by Zhang Wei, and the traces of a large number of mortar shells after being detonated are still there, all kinds of large and small craters, as well as the mortar ammunition reserve of the Japanese army, are all traces left by Zhang Wei's raid, when cleaning the battlefield, the corpses of the Japanese soldiers on the top of some high ground are not easy to move down, and some of them are broken corpses, which are not easy to deal with, so the officers and men of the 598th Regiment disarmed these corpses and directly pushed them to the positive slope position.

The officers and men of a company left by the Gaoji people were stationed on the current positive slope position, and like the teaching brigade that used the Japanese fortifications, this company also used the remnants of the Japanese army to dig two trenches and foxholes with the mortar fortifications left by the Japanese army, and the officers and men of a company relied on these fortifications and were stationed in the positive slope trenches.

The Luotang Heights, which were recaptured by the Chinese army, formed a defensive configuration in which the 598th Regiment was responsible for the positive slope and the Teaching Brigade was responsible for the main position.

After getting out of the trench, the three capable search soldiers sent by Saito jumped forward, crawled, and quietly leaned to the bottom of the oblique position on the Luotang Heights.

In the dark night, three pairs of eyes, staring directly at the position of the 598th Regiment on the positive slope, carried out reconnaissance and reconnaissance to detect the enemy, three Japanese veterans, Jun Cao, when observing the enemy's situation, vaguely found some Japanese corpses and stumps that were pushed down from the top of the Luotang Heights, and the eyes of the three people all showed a fierce light......