The 180th Division faced by the New Seventh Brigade was a type A division of the former Japanese Army Headquarters, which was later eliminated, but the personnel allocation, weapons and equipment of this division and regiment were still equipped according to the standards of a type A division and regiment, and its combat effectiveness was much stronger than that of ordinary type B divisions.

At this time, the 9th Brigade of the Japanese Army, the commander of the 581st Wing, Iizuka Asahoshi Daisa, who blocked the New 7th Brigade, was the wing of the 9th Brigade that was best at blocking.

Iizuka Asaki Asahi Daisa held a telescope and looked at the new Seventh Brigade of the Eighth Route Army of the Gaodi Underground Army, which was adjusting the offensive formation, and he said to the chief of staff of the wing: "Chief of Staff, what do you think of the offensive formation launched by the Eighth Route of the Gaodi Underground Ground?" ”

"Your Excellency, Wing Commander, the offensive layout of the New Seventh Brigade on the Eighth Road of the High Ground is completely detached from the guerrilla tactics of the Eighth Road of the Earth, and the large army launched a general attack, with one regiment as the main attack, one regiment with two wings cooperating, and leaving a regiment as a reserve. It's just a kind of stupid free-range layout, and in the first attack, it will be defeated and fled under the maximum firepower of our wing. ”

"Hahaha, the chief of staff can see that the Tu Ba Lu will be defeated, isn't the commander of the Tu Ba Lu a stupid pig? Ordered the troops, with maximum firepower, to destroy the main force of the Tubalu in the first attack of the Tubalu, and under the three engagements, launch an attack on the Tubalu to eliminate this Tubalu army. The arrogant Iizuka Daisa, with a command knife in his hand, stood on the second line of defense of the position, and commanded condescendingly.

The commander of the new 7th Brigade, Brigade Song, gave the order to attack the high ground occupied by the enemy's 581st Wing, and the commander of the first regiment led the soldiers of each battalion and shouted to launch an attack.

The soldiers used the Japanese weapons they had just replenished in their hands to charge the enemy's high ground with the greatest firepower, and when they were approaching the halfway point of the high ground, the commander of the regiment found that the little devils on the high ground did not move at all, as if they were attacking an empty high ground.

The commander of the first regiment nervously ordered: "Each battalion will approach ten steps further to the high ground, and immediately lie down and prepare to counterattack the enemy's fire strike." ”

Iizuka Osa, who was holding a command knife in his hand, found that the attacking Eighth Route Army regiment paused, paused, and under the order of the commander of the Eighth Route Army, continued to attack, he smiled and said: "The pig has entered the optimal firepower strike range of our wing, and I ordered the frontal blocking troops, increase the firepower to carry out the strike, and we must defeat the first attack of the Eighth Route under this round of fierce firepower." ”

The Japanese soldiers on the high ground received the order to fire and stretched out their guns from their positions, aiming their guns at the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who were rushing up quickly.

The commander of the first regiment had already prepared, and when the enemy's gunfire suddenly rang out, he shouted violently: "All the soldiers find a good hiding point, lie down quickly, carry out a fire counterattack, and must destroy the troops of the devil's forward position in the first attack, expand to the two wings, and forcibly occupy the enemy's forward position with the cooperation of the second regiment attacking the devil's position on both flanks." ”

As the commander of the 2nd Regiment with the two flanks to cooperate with the 1st Regiment to attack the enemy's frontal position, he ordered the troops to quickly launch an attack from both flanks, carry out fire strikes on the enemy, cover the 1st Regiment to continue to increase the intensity of the attack, and strive to break through the enemy's frontal position.

Iizuka Osa, the commander of the 581st Wing of the Japanese Army, who was good at blocking attacks, looked at the firepower attack carried out by the Eighth Route Army in the high ground, pouted and said mockingly: "This kind of stupid offensive formation, under the command of a stupid pig commander, is simply driving a group of pigs to rush up and send them to death, ordering light and heavy weapons to destroy this incompetent Tubalu with the most fierce firepower." ”

In the forward position of the 581st Wing of the Japanese Army, light and heavy weapons suddenly burst out with the most violent tongues of fire, and the bullets swept densely towards the first regiment of the Eighth Route Army that was attacking head-on.

The devils on both flanks of the Japanese army, in the face of the second regiment that cooperated with the firepower attack of the Eighth Route Army, carried out a firepower counterattack, which was no weaker than the firepower of the frontal position.

The 1st and 2nd Regiments of the New 7th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army launched an attack on the enemy's positions from the front and on both flanks.

Under the cover of the fire of other fighters, the 1st and 2nd regiments shot excellent fighters, one shot did not kill the enemy, and another shot, a few shots, there was always one shot that hit the enemy.

The attacking troops of the Eighth Route Army did not take a rash attack, braving the enemy's strong and dense bullets, and sending them to death like a fool's hat, but constantly adjusted the muzzle of their guns, striving to eliminate a devil every time they fired a bullet.

Iizuka Osa, of the 581st Wing of the Japanese Army, who was always armed with a command knife, saw that the attacking troops of the Eighth Route Army under the high ground had fallen to the ground when they had assaulted halfway up the mountainside, and had used most of their forces to contain the firepower of the Imperial Army's position.

Iizuka Osa roared angrily: "The cunning Tsuchihachi Road actually adopted the tactics of attacking the east and west, covering the sharpshooters to aim and shoot, causing a great threat to the soldiers in the forward positions of the Imperial Japanese Army, and the number of soldiers killed in the positions is increasing. ”

He ordered the chief of staff: "Order the mortars, adjust the gun positions, aim at the Tubalu troops lying on the ground to counterattack, and carry out the most fierce artillery strikes." ”

"Boom, boom, boom......", more than a dozen shells flew out of the barrel of the cannon almost at the same time, dragging the flames, and flew towards the position of the Eighth Route Army in the middle slope of the high ground. The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army would not cause many casualties unless they were at the point where the Japanese artillery shells exploded, but the shrapnel flying everywhere did not cause many casualties to the soldiers lying on the ground.

The commander of the first regiment found that the devil's shells had been venting non-stop, and the troops could not organize a strong attack at all, so in order to protect the lives of the soldiers, he had to give an order: "All the soldiers of each battalion, along the slope of the high ground, lie on the ground and lower their posture, do not become the target of the enemy, and quickly retreat and withdraw from the position." ”

The fighters were attacking the devils on the high ground with firepower, and did not suffer major casualties, when they suddenly received an order from the regiment commander to order the troops to retreat in concealment, and the fighters, who had no clue, had to carry out the order on the battlefield and quickly withdraw from the battle.

The troops withdrew to the bottom of the high ground, leaving the battlefield where the devils carried out fire strikes, and some soldiers muttered incomprehensibly: "What kind of battle is this, and it is really a special nest fire to withdraw from the battle before it is enjoyable." ”

After listening to the brief report of the commander of the first regiment, Brigade Commander Song of the New Seventh Brigade frowned and held a telescope, scanning the forward position of the 581st Wing of the enemy on the high ground, and saw the little devil jumping on the position, he scolded angrily in his heart: "Bastard, look at this group of bastards, I will make you happy and I can't go back to your Dongwei Island country." ”

Brigade Commander Song asked the newly established artillery squad leader, "Zhang Min, how many shells do you have in your artillery squadron?" ”

"Report to Brigade Commander Song, there are still seventeen boxes of mortar shells."

"Why can't you understand words? I asked how many shells there were, and it made you stupid. ”

"Brigade commander, there are seventeen boxes of one hundred and two mortar shells, and now the mortars are in place, waiting for your order at any time, and at the moment of order, immediately open fire on the enemy on the high ground." Zhang Min, the leader of the artillery squad, replied proudly.

When the commander of the first regiment heard that Brigade Commander Song was going to use his most precious mortar shell, he couldn't help but come up to him and say: "Brigade Commander Song, this shell is the treasure of our new Seventh Brigade. ”

Brigade Commander Song knew in his heart that his mortar squad had a total of thirteen guns, nine of which were directly or indirectly given to his new Seventh Brigade by Lei Jian, and almost all of the shells were given by Lei Jian's troops.

Behind his new Seventh Brigade, there was only Lei Jian, a newly formed independent regiment of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, whose combat effectiveness was well known to Brigade Commander Song, that it was a newly formed peasant army of young and middle-aged people, and only the cavalry battalion had the most combat effectiveness.

Lei Jian's newly formed regiment, the task is to bring this unit safely to the Jinchaji Military Region, the location of the Jinchaji Military Region, the southern slope of Wutai Mountain, he, the big brother, although at this time was blocked by the Japanese army's strong firepower, but he was still worried about the safety of Lei Jian's troops.

Brigade Commander Song listened to the commander of the first regiment and mentioned the preciousness of mortar running shells, and couldn't help but think of the benefits of Lei Yan, a little brother.

(End of chapter)