Wang Guangyu did not disappoint Yang Zhen. After the arrival of the supplementary backbone, in order to weaken the combat effectiveness of the 40th Wing, the main force of the Japanese army, Wang Guangyu not only went to the front line to personally supervise the battle, but also put all the troops, including all the miscellaneous personnel of his 1st brigade, into the front-line position, except for the last company as the general reserve.

After Wang Guangyu's hand, behind each position, a sufficient infantry company was guaranteed as a reserve. Behind the ridge line at the summit of the main peak, Wang Guangyu even arranged a company from the troops urgently transferred by Liu Changshun's department, plus his own guard company as a reserve.

However, considering that the battle at this stage was not to defend the position, but to kill and wound the Japanese army to the greatest extent, and to give the 40th Wing full bloodletting. Wang Guangyu changed his previous style of fighting for every inch of land, took the initiative to give up some secondary positions, and shrank all his limited forces to a few main positions. And a hedgehog tactic was adopted, and the firepower of several main positions was strengthened as much as possible.

In order not to always be in a situation of being passively beaten, while holding the main position, Wang Guangyu also continued to carry out tactical counterattacks with a small number of troops and multiple batches at night under the cover of artillery with all his might, striving to kill and injure the Japanese army's vital forces to the greatest extent.

Wang Guangyu's tactic made the captain of the 40th Wing, Rio Komatsuzaki, very tricky. Although the 40th Wing captured the opponent's need to cover the position, Komatsuzaki Rio Daisa also sensed that it was not his own. Rather, the opponent consciously gave up out of tactical needs.

Although it was not clear for a moment that the opponent had given up these positions, which he had fought for one by one in the battle with the Noji detachment, Komatsuzaki was keenly aware that his opponent's move definitely contained some kind of tactical intent.

Because when he was about to take over the attack of the field detachment, Lieutenant General Nemoto repeatedly warned him that the enemy army in front of him was the main force of this anti-Manchu anti-Japanese armed force, and that he was not only very firm in his will to fight, but also extremely cunning. The 89th Wing was made to lose its combat effectiveness by adopting extremely intriguing tactics.

And the end of the field detachment that fought hard with it was not very good. Although the field detachment forced the opponent to adopt a hard-fought and desperate defense tactic, its own casualties were also extremely heavy. After three days of attack, a detachment the size of a wing was simply beaten into a brigade. However, it only won some minor tactical positions, as well as some forward support points. None of its main positions could be taken.

Although Hiroshi Nemoto believed that in terms of the combat effectiveness of the imperial army, the casualties of the field detachment would be large, and the casualties of the opponent would not be light, at least twice as many as the field detachment. But the total strength of this cunning anti-Manchu force is at least 10,000 men, and even if the casualty ratio is 1 to 2 when fighting against the field detachment, at least thousands of troops should still be combat-ready. Let him be more careful not to fall into the trap of his opponent.

Lieutenant General Nemoto's words, Komatsuzaki Takeo Osa, who had memorized those words, did not believe it at all, and the opponent had to abandon some of the secondary positions because of the excessive casualties of the troops, and it was difficult to continue. He prefers to believe that this is a conspiracy with ulterior motives against the Forty Wing.

After Wang Guangyu took the initiative to abandon part of the flank positions and change tactics in order to shrink his forces, the attack of the 40th Wing did not intensify, but became cautious. In addition to holding part of the position abandoned by Wang Guangyu with part of the troops, the main forces were put into the attack on the main peak with the squadron as a formation. As for their own flanks, only heavy surveillance methods were adopted.

Komatsuzaki changed his previous all-out attack and adopted the tactic of adding fuel to the army, gradually increasing his troops to fight for the main peak position, but Wang Guangyu was extremely passive. In desperation, Wang Guangyu could only draw part of his troops from the front and constantly launch counter-assaults from the flanks of the 40th Wing. At the same time, the mountain artillery battalion of the brigade was ordered to cover the main peak position with all its might, regardless of the Japanese planes in the sky.

In the previous battle, due to the Japanese aircraft, the artillery, which had been silent for most of the day, suddenly opened fire during the day, which also brought unexpected casualties to the Japanese army. A squadron of Japanese troops that was attacking the main peak was covered by the sudden dense artillery fire in the blink of an eye.

Unexpectedly, except for a few times when the opponent fired with a single gun, the artillery that had not spoken a word most of the time dared to open fire during the day, and some of the Japanese troops who were caught off guard suffered heavy casualties in this period of shelling. By the time the attacking squadron retreated, it was not enough to make up a squad at full strength.

Despite seeing a squadron lose most of its forces without a formal firefight, Komatsuzaki didn't show anything out of the ordinary. After suppressing the clamor of his subordinates for revenge, he actually changed his previous caution, and the maximum offensive force was only one squadron's tactics, ignoring the opponent's continuous tactical counterattacks of varying scales on his flank, and invested a full infantry brigade to launch a continuous attack on the main peak position at one time.

Komatsuzaki Rio Osa changed his previous cautious tactics because he knew that the opponent's artillery had actually adopted a daytime concentrated attack method that was extremely rare in the past few days of fighting, which showed that the opponent's position on the main peak was definitely in a critical situation. Otherwise, an opponent who is very cautious about the use of artillery will not risk the destruction of his own artillery by aircraft and open fire in broad daylight.

After sending a large group of troops to attack, Komatsuzaki looked at the opponent's main peak position, which was beaten into smoke by his own covering artillery fire, touched the neatly trimmed snot mustache under his nose, and smiled proudly. I'm very proud of the tactics I have adopted.

He knew that his opponent was risking the destruction of his artillery by air raids, and that he was shooting and shelling his attacking troops during the day, because he had attacked the main peak with all his might, regardless of the heavy guarding of his flank positions. The tactics of making it impossible for the opponent to bear the huge pressure on the main peak position and not be able to draw troops from the flank position to support the main peak position played a role.

He is not the stupid guy of Wild Land Jiaping, he only knows how to take a front-line equal distribution of troops, and take a comprehensive attack to blindly attack without distinguishing between priority and priority. As a result, even if they barely captured one or two positions, they were under the full counterattack of the opponent, and it was difficult to hold them because of the lack of troops.

The confident Komatsuzaki Ritsuo Osa knew that the key offensive tactic he adopted was not unused. It even captured a fairly important high ground on the right flank of the main peak in a short time. It's just that under the opponent's full counterattack, it didn't stand still. Those who lost their troops retreated.

Wang Guangyu, who was in command of the front-line position of the main peak, was suddenly relieved to see that the Japanese army had changed its previous cautious tactics and actually invested in an infantry brigade at one time. Knowing that his tactics of breaking the kettle had succeeded. Although the 12 mountain guns of the brigade suffered heavy losses under the bombardment of Japanese aircraft, after all, the main force of the 40th Wing was forced out.

In addition to feeling sorry for the eight mountain guns lost in the Japanese air raid, Wang Guangyu had to gather his spirit and go all out to deal with the desperate attack of the 40th Wing, which almost did not count the losses. Originally, according to Wang Guangyu's plan, as long as the high ground on both sides of the main peak position could be kept, it would not matter if the main peak position was lost. Because the firepower on these two heights, which are almost the same as the height of the main peak, on both sides of the main peak, is enough to suppress the Japanese troops occupying the position of the main peak.

But now he didn't dare to carry out the plan. Because Yang Zhen's current headquarters is less than three miles behind the main peak. Once the main peak is lost, the Japanese army will be able to reach the place with a condescending charge. The safety of the headquarters made him dare not be careless.

Fortunately, the veterans of the battalion that Yang Zhen temporarily supplemented him played a vital role. After replenishing the veterans of half a company, the combat effectiveness of a reinforced company that served as the defense of the main peak increased significantly. Under the command of Wang Guangyu, the commander of the guard company who took over the command from the former commander of the defending company who had died in battle, after blowing up the fortifications on the mountainside, they all retreated to the peak.

Taking advantage of the steep terrain on the summit of the main peak of the General's Stone Mountain, he stubbornly held the position of the main peak, refusing to retreat even half a step. Because they knew that behind the main peak was the headquarters, and if they retreated, the headquarters would directly face the impact of Japanese artillery fire. And their most beloved commander will also be in danger. For the safety of the headquarters, in the face of the attack of the superior forces of the Japanese army, the main peak guard troops fought to the death.

While the defenders of the main peak did not retreat, the defenders on the two heights on the flanks of the main peak, in addition to constantly launching counter-charges against the Japanese flanks, also did not stop supporting the defenders on the main peak with mortar fire.

Originally, before the main peak guard force was contracted, the main peak and the two flanks of the high ground were horns of each other, and the advantage of their firepower supporting each other was still not shown. When the main peak guards shrank to the summit, Komatsuzaki regretted the tactics he had just been proud of.

When the Japanese attacked on the high ground on both sides, the rain of mortar shells that came over them would only expose the Japanese troops on the open mountainside when they launched the charge, and they were killed and wounded. At first glance, it was a large-caliber machine gun, which posed a huge threat to the attacking troops.

After a day and a night of attacking, the brigade launched by the 40th Wing as the main attacker brought heavy casualties to the defenders on the top of the mountain, but it also paid a lot of money, even two-thirds of the casualties, but still only occupied the mountainside that the defenders voluntarily abandoned.

Over the course of a day and a night, the Forty Wings launched an average squadron-sized attack every hour. The squad-level assault is basically launched once every half an hour. However, the numerous charges launched in these twenty-four hours were repulsed by the defenders with strong support from the flank fire.

Even the Japanese troops who had attacked several times had broken through to the main peak position, but they were still defeated by the reinforcements who had been suddenly reinforced by the other side and had a large number of automatic firearms in their hands. Seeing his subordinates who had always attacked sharply, twenty-four hours had passed, but they still hadn't been able to take the main peak position, and the always calm Komatsuzaki Rio Osa couldn't sit still.

The order given to him by Lieutenant General Nemohiro was very clear, he must take the main peak position of the first line of the little general Shi as the last barrier to Luobei within 36 hours, and open up the offensive route to Luobei. Twenty-four hours have passed, and the attacking forces have still made little progress. According to this attack efficiency, let alone thirty-six hours, even forty-eight hours may not be able to capture the main peak position in front of him.

Komatsuzaki Ritsuo Osa, who had already received a reprimand from Lieutenant General Hiroshi Nemoto several times, gritted his teeth and changed his tactics of focusing on assaults, and changed back to the tactics used by Noji Kahei Daisa, which had been made fun of by him in the general trend, and tried to break through a little bit.

As soon as the battle that launched the attack in the early morning of the next day began, Komatsuzaki Ritsuo Osaku put into hand all the forces of the two brigades that had not been used before and were still intact, and attacked the entire general Ishiyama line, all the positions that were still in the hands of Wang Guangyu.

Komatsuzaki Rio Osa did this, although Wang Guangyu felt a lot of pressure, but a wave of Annai couldn't help but ecstasy rose in his heart. He knew that the Forty Wing was giving it their all. As long as he can withstand today's day, he will be able to basically complete the task assigned to him by the commander to do his best to weaken the strength of the 40th Wing of the Japanese Army.

The battle on the second day was extremely difficult for Wang Guangyu. The Japanese not only concentrated two field artillery brigades, but also a mountain artillery brigade and two mortar squadrons that arrived later to provide fire cover for the 40th Wing. He also changed his stingy attitude in the past two days, and concentrated a large number of planes to carry out intensive bombing of the Jiangjunshi first-line mountainous area.

The bombing intensity of the Japanese air force not only restored the intensity of the first two days of the battle against the field detachment, but also dispatched an entire squadron of Type 93 heavy bombers to drop a large number of incendiary bombs on the defending positions.

However, after a day of fierce fighting, the forest that had grown extremely dense on the first line of the general stone mountain, but had been almost beaten in the battle a few days ago, together with the bushes on the mountain, which was more than one person high, was burned by the incendiary bombs dropped by the Japanese army, exposing the bare mountain soil.

And after this battle, the originally lush general stone line was a bald mountain with no grass for decades to come. It wasn't until decades later, under the call of large-scale afforestation by the state, that this bare mountainous area was barely covered with a little green.

Just when Wang Guangyu was struggling on the front line of General Shi, he didn't know that in Yang Zhen's headquarters, which was located less than three miles behind the front-line position, Yang Zhen was angry at Liu Changshun, the commander of the Second Brigade, and Wang Xiaoming, the acting political commissar who came to report. Not only was Yang Zhen angry with the two of them, but Guo Bingxun, who had always been calm and rarely angry, was also angry at the reports of the two people.