After the loss of the first line of Zhangjiayingzi, Gou Zaihe not only added a single soldier to the first line of the stone table. Instead, the only heavy machine gun there was drawn and reinforced to the front of Balachrud to resist the increasingly fierce Japanese offensive.

As a result, under the cover of Zhangjiayingzi's artillery fire, when the Japanese troops who concentrated superior forces suddenly launched an attack, there were only three light machine guns, and the defenders, who were absolutely inferior in terms of firepower and strength, were completely broken through in less than 20 minutes. The defenders were all killed.

If he wasn't stubborn, if he could be more flexible in his tactical use. Even if he listened more to his own suggestions, he would not be in the current situation. In fact, Yang Jicai also knows that Gou Zai merges not very much with himself. He believed that the chief of staff was the head of a staff officer and had no right to change the deployment of his superiors without authorization.

As the chief of staff, his own work should be based on the overall deployment of his superiors, rather than changing or correcting it himself, and the chief of staff is not the chief military officer. Especially in the absence of Wang Deyao, he changed the deployment without authorization, which was very unacceptable to him.

For Gou Zaihe, Wang Deyao's deployment is the deployment of his superiors, and both he and he must abide by it. However, although I reluctantly accepted the change of deployment without authorization, I did not really understand and support it in my heart. Even, there are some disguised rejections. believes that his move is contrary to the deployment of his superiors.

Therefore, on some issues, they do not accept their orders in their entirety, but are very selective. Unless he clearly tells him that Wang Deyao has sacrificed, and now his superiors have appointed him as the supreme military commander of the entire Alukorqin Banner, then he will truly obey him completely.

And now, I am afraid that his instructions are somewhat unjustified in his eyes. It was more in this battle that he chose to believe in himself. Where there is a conflict between his own ideas and his own commands, he trusts his own judgment more often.

This is also the reason why he repeatedly does not take his orders seriously during the war. Because in his opinion, he, the chief of staff, who is younger than him, is not a military commander. Even in accordance with the command regulations of the chief of staff of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, which has extremely heavy powers, it is against the principle to issue any combat order without consulting the military commander.

The danger that appeared in the direction of the stone table was absolutely inseparable from his thoughts and mentality. If all his deployments were to be carried out according to his own requirements, at least he would not fall into the passive situation in front of him. A platoon, as a warning force, is enough. However, defending the key parts of the flank is tantamount to actively exposing the weaknesses of one's flank.

Of course, the Japanese army was able to break through successfully this time, and the tactics it adopted also caused a passive situation in a certain way. Under the cover of the frontal assault on Balachrude, the Japanese secretly mobilized two infantry squadrons and lurked for four hours less than a hundred meters in front of the first-line position on the stone table.

It was not until the arrival of new reinforcements from the Japanese army in front of Balachrude that they intensified their attack on Balachrude and attracted all eyes before they suddenly attacked. Before the attack, the Japanese did not use any artillery cover. Even the artillery deployed in Zhangjiayingzi focused the artillery attack on Balaqirude.

In the direction of the stone table, there was no reconnaissance of the battlefield other than a tentative attack at the beginning of the battle, set before the attack was launched. Of course, the stone table is close to Zhangjiayingzi, and the terrain is lower than Zhangjiayingzi. The Japanese army controlled Zhangjiayingzi, and could clearly look down on the stone table from the commanding heights.

But after all, it was night, and it was impossible for the Japanese army to really reconnoiter the deployment of troops and the fortification situation in the direction of the stone table. In addition to the constant harassment with shells, even if they controlled the commanding heights of Zhangjiaying, the condescending Japanese army did not conduct any tactical reconnaissance. Even before the attack, not even the telephone line from the stone table to Balachrud was cut.

Without conducting any battlefield reconnaissance, it would be a risk to suddenly concentrate a large number of troops to attack the direction of the stone table, which had been calm before. But it was precisely because of this that the Japanese army succeeded in confusing Gou Zaihe and letting him relax his vigilance in the direction of the stone table, which was actually the most dangerous on the entire battlefield because it was too close to Zhangjiaying.

In this case, even if he was there, it was difficult to accurately judge the direction of the Japanese army's main attack in a short period of time. The Japanese army's hand is indeed quite beautiful. At least on the surface, there are no loopholes in this battle plan that can be exploited. And in just four hours, it almost brought the deadliest impact to the battlefield of Alukorqin Banner.

At the front of the stone table position, a large number of mines planted before were swept away by the Japanese troops on the commanding heights of Zhangjiaying with inconspicuous piecemeal shelling long before the Japanese troops secretly entered. The entire minefield, which was not wide, was basically cleared during the four hours of Japanese shelling.

The lack of reserve mines on hand of the forward troops, coupled with the fire blockade of the Japanese troops on the front line of Zhangjiayingzi, made it impossible for the garrison to re-lay mines. The large number of minefields laid out in front of the stone table did not serve any of the purpose that the original defense forces expected them to play when the Japanese moved into the lurking area.

Although half an hour before the start of the battle of the stone table, the hot and cold shelling in front of the Japanese troops on the front line of Zhangjiayingzi, and the offensive of the Japanese troops on the front of Balakirude was more and more stressful, his side was unusually calm, and he felt the abnormal defenders on the front line under the request of the platoon commander.

Gou Zai gathered all the mortars of the regiment, as well as the two mountain guns attached to it and the 92nd infantry artillery company of the regiment, and fired hundreds of shells at the place in one go, and carried out fire reconnaissance and testing. But more than 100 shells were smashed, but they did not cause any movement.

Taking into account the problem of the supply of shells, as well as the increasing pressure of the Japanese troops on the front line of Barachrud. And these artillery, it is impossible to put it only on a point that has been calm for a long time. Especially on the side of the Ao Han camp, when the defensive pressure under the command of the political commissar was also increasing, Gou Zaihe did not pay too much attention, and turned his main attention back to the front of Balaqirude.

After the first line of the stone table was broken through, Gou Zaihe realized that his more than 100 shells actually did not have a single shot, and they all accurately hit the area where the Japanese army was lurking. And the casualties of the lurking Japanese army in this period of artillery fire can be described as heavy. However, the lurking Japanese army was not exposed in any way because of the heavy losses.

The two squadrons involved in the lurking did not groan until death, and the lightly wounded did not make any movements. In the case of the group leader and one squadron leader who led the team were killed, the formation did not fall into any confusion, and the radio remained silent at all times.

Its battlefield discipline and soldiers' tolerance for casualties, as well as the tenacity of its officers and men, can be seen. This point, even the current Anti-Japanese Federation, which has been painstakingly rectified by Yang Zhen, can only be barely compared with it. I'm afraid it would be difficult to do it with any other army.

Despite suffering heavy casualties, the two squadrons of the lurking Japanese army did not reveal any attempts. On the contrary, after receiving the order, under the command of the only remaining squadron leader, the two squadrons merged into one squadron, and with absolute superiority in strength and extremely sudden tactical movements, they broke through the defense of the first line of the stone table in the shortest possible time.

In the face of the sudden attack of the Japanese army with absolute superiority in front of them, a platoon holding in the direction of the stone table, only three light machine guns of the defenders. After twenty minutes of hard fighting, none of them survived in hand-to-hand combat. The direction of the stone table was completely broken through by the Japanese army in a short period of time, and when the direction of the stone table started, it was too late for Gou Zaihe to realize that something was wrong. When a platoon of reinforcements he mobilized rushed to the direction of the stone table to reinforce, in the face of the swarming Japanese follow-up troops, the strength of a platoon did not even raise up to hide from Langhua.

When he was about to concentrate all the artillery fire in his hand to try to block the breakthrough, the Japanese troops who attacked at the same time in Balakirude, the tension caused by the offensive of one Lang higher than the other, and the dense artillery fire from the front line of Zhangjiayingzi, made him abandon the original idea of blocking the breakthrough with firepower.

The reason why he didn't report it immediately when he was broken through in the direction of the stone table was still thinking about regaining the breakthrough and regaining the battle line. But he didn't expect that the Japanese army, which rushed into the depth of the defense line, almost didn't take the entire Balaqirude to the first line of the Ao Han camp, and almost ended it because of his carelessness.

In fact, Gou Zaihe doesn't know yet, he is still very lucky. Perhaps it is more important to disrupt the entire defense in depth of the resistance coalition, or it is considered that the forces to attack head-on from the front line of Balachrud are sufficient. After the Japanese army opened the breakthrough at the stone table, they mobilized a large number of troops to advance in depth, but did not turn around and launch a frontal attack on the front line of Balachrude.

Otherwise, in the case of the presence of the enemy situation at the same time in Butun Maodu, he would not be able to resist the siege of the Japanese on three sides under the condition that he only had one and a half battalions of troops in Balachrude. Especially after the stone table was breached, the Japanese soldiers were already on his ribs. If you don't know if his troops in Balachrude are in danger of being surrounded by the Japanese army. And his depth will also be completely disrupted by the Japanese army.

Now Gou Zaihe is commanding the troops, making an all-out counterattack, trying to re-block the breakthrough opened by the Japanese army. However, due to the insufficient number of troops and the desperate resistance of the Japanese army to open the gap, many counterattacks failed to succeed, forming a situation of adding fuel. The Japanese army has now secured a breakthrough and is mobilizing follow-up forces to continue the assault in depth.

The offensive of the 7th Division on the front line of the stone table was not a simple action against a certain point. During the incubation period, the Japanese troops in other directions did not reduce the intensity of their attacks. And after the stone table direction was launched, the Japanese army even intensified its offensive against several key points such as Balaqirude, Ao Han Yingzi, and Bayan Baote.

The number of troops invested by the Japanese army in the new offensive and the intensity of the attack were not comparable to before. Under the increasing pressure, the forces of the various troops on the front line have been used to the extreme, and it is now impossible to draw more than one platoon of troops to compete with the Japanese army for a breakthrough. And in the face of the continuous influx of Japanese troops from the direction of the stone table, the strength of a platoon is almost a drop in the bucket.

After getting in touch with Yang Jicai, at this moment, he was not only facing a breakthrough on the whole line, but also facing the grim situation of being surrounded, and his heart was about to regret it. The first time was to get artillery support, and try to re-seal the direction of the stone table that was broken through by the Japanese army. The sharp turn of the battle situation made his previous disdain, and he had already disappeared.