The 56th Division of the Japanese Army was formed on the basis of the reserve forces of the 12th Division remaining in the country.

Its soldiers are mainly miners from the Kurume region of Kyushu, so it has the characteristics of courage and tenacity, especially the 146th Wing...... It is the reserve force of the original 12th Division, and it is also the foundation and foundation of the formation of the 56th Division.

Although the 146th Wing is a reserve left in the country by the 12th Division, it does not mean that its combat effectiveness will be weaker than that of the troops on the battlefield.

The reason for this is that the combat units of the Japanese army on the battlefield are often not replenished in time after the battle is damaged, after all, the soldiers have to be transferred from far away Japan, so in an emergency, some non-Japanese soldiers will be requisitioned, such as North Korea, Taiwan, or the puppet army in the Chinese occupation zone.

Although this approach can temporarily solve the problem of insufficient troops, the result is that the combat effectiveness will be weakened to varying degrees, after all, many of those supplementary soldiers are unwilling to die for the Japanese, especially the Chinese puppet army, and many even volunteer to be spies to provide intelligence for Chongqing.

In comparison, the DPRK and the ROK and the Taiwan side are much worse in this regard, because they have been colonized by Japan for a long time, and they have been brainwashed by the Japanese to a certain extent under the Japanese imperial education, and now the Japanese army can even form an army composed entirely of Koreans or Taiwanese, and a considerable part of them are proud to be part of the Japanese army.

Of course, this can't be completely said that the North Koreans or the Taiwanese are spineless...... You must know that they have been colonized by Japan for forty or fifty years, that is to say, the children who have just been born will receive the brainwashing education of Japan as soon as they open their eyes, and by this time they should be forty or fifty years old, and now they are about twenty years old, and they are all the second generation, so in their minds, they will naturally think that the Japanese are originally superior, and it is a supreme honor to be able to fight for Japan like the Japanese, and so on...... So much so that when Japan was about to fall, the kamikaze drones who launched suicide attacks included Koreans and Taiwanese.

So, some things may seem inconceivable to outsiders: how could they work for the people who killed their parents and enslaved their bodies? And it is willing, not only willingly, but also proud of it!

But if we think about it from a different perspective and stand in the environment they are in, it is not difficult to know that they are the result of their misunderstanding of the motherland and being brainwashed.

It is precisely because the Japanese army has requisitioned many foreign supplementary soldiers, especially in the middle and late stages of the war, which is becoming more and more serious, and the training of its own soldiers cannot keep up, so the quality of the Japanese troops fighting on the battlefield is getting worse and worse.

However, it is different for the reserve troops that were not sent out in the country, not only are they all Japanese, but because there is no war, they can train at home with confidence.

This reserve force was supposed to have a shortcoming, and that was the lack of combat experience. But they quickly made up for it...... Many of the wounded soldiers on the battlefield returned home for treatment, and these soldiers, known as "homebound soldiers", were re-drafted into the reserve forces after they had recovered from their wounds.

This makes the reserve force in all respects like a sharp arrow ready to strike, and its combat effectiveness even exceeds that of the troops that have fought on the battlefield for many years.

The 146th Wing is such a force, if it weren't for the critical moment now, Masao Watanabe would not have sent this force to the battlefield, he originally planned to use this force to fight Lashio.

The wing commander of the 146th Wing was Soshiro Kongo Osa, who had been following the battle since the Japanese army began to attack the 159th Heights...... This is his habit, and it should also be said that he must do the work, because since the 56th Division went to the battlefield, all the hard bones that could not be gnawed were finally left to the 146th Wing, so after a long time, King Kong Soshiro consciously paid attention to every difficult battle.

Sure enough, the 146th Wing received this task.

It should be said that at this time, Jin Zesoshiro was already confident, because he had already visited Matsui Kiyosuke before and discussed the process of attacking the 159 heights with him in detail, and even he personally interviewed several soldiers who came down from the battlefield, so he had a clear understanding of the difficulties of the attack and the distribution of the enemy's firepower.

The only thing that was different from what was considered before was that there were still remnants of poison gas in front of the 159 Heights position.

Soshiro Kongo, who has experience in using poison gas bombs, knows one thing, don't think that "the poison gas did not drift away" is just a small problem, and some people even think that it is just a residual poison gas that is not a big problem...... There may not be much poison gas left, and sometimes it is okay for people to walk on the ground, but the problem is that these poison gases can accumulate in pits, holes, cracks in stones, and so on. And these places are precisely the places where the attacking troops can hide from enemy fire.

So the question arises: how can the troops attack?! Do you really want to attack with a gas mask?!

After thinking about it for a while, Kongo Soshiro called Captain Kobayashi to his side and pointed to the map with such and such strokes.

Kobayashi said yes again and again, and then went up with the troops according to the meaning of King Kong Soshiro.

The sound of artillery soon rang out, and this battle was expected and unexpected for Zhang Chi.

It is said that it is expected, because it is almost dawning at this time, and the fact that the sky is about to dawn means that the 200th Division will soon arrive...... Although this is good news, the Japanese side will definitely get this news, so needless to say, the Japanese army will definitely launch a fierce attack on Tangji before the 200th Division arrives.

said that it was unexpected, but Zhang Chi always thought that the Japanese army would have a new way of fighting...... The previous assaults have all proved to be unable to take the 159th Heights, so the devil should come up with a new trick. But what appeared in front of Zhang Chi was the initial tactics...... The Japanese army was divided into three parts, and under the cover of tanks and artillery, pressed towards the two heights and Tangji where the engineer regiment was stationed.

Most of the devil's artillery fire is concentrated in Hetangji on the 311 heights, which is why it goes without saying that they hope to suppress the fire support of the two highlands against the 159 heights with artillery fire.

So it is clear that the focus of the offensive is still on the 159 heights.

What made Zhang Chi even more unexpected was that the Japanese troops who attacked head-on towards the 159 heights were still wearing gas masks......

Although Zhang Chi had never worn a gas mask, he knew that wearing that thing would definitely cause a series of troubles, such as unclear vision, deviation in shooting, and so on.

The firepower of the Japanese army itself was inferior to that of the engineer regiment, and at this time, because the marksmanship wearing gas masks was inaccurate, the Japanese charge did not have much pressure on the 159 heights.

So in just ten minutes, the Japanese army left a pile of corpses and retreated like a tide.

This made Zhang Chi a little puzzled, the Japanese army would not know about this situation, but why did they still do this?!