Yang Zhen was distressed by the casualties of the backbone who were transferred to the battlefield by Wang Guangyu and prepared to form a new army in the future, but Wang Guangyu's life on the battlefield was enjoyable. The two improvised companies did not disappoint him, at least they were much better than the recruits who had no actual combat experience who had been added to the troops after the first battle of Qunce Mountain. The backbone is the backbone, and aside from military quality, the rich experience in actual combat alone is not comparable to those recruits.

After the counterattack on the whole front was in full swing, Wang Guangyu was very glad that he took the huge risk of the commander's anger and transferred a group of troops from the third regiment to participate in the battle. If it weren't for these two companies, how could he have broken through the Japanese defense line so quickly?

In fact, in the fierce battles of the past two days, Wang Guangyu, who had long had a clear understanding of the combat effectiveness of the 40 th Wing, was actually very well prepared. As early as two days of fierce fighting, he had already figured out the deployment of the Japanese army's troops and the main configuration of firepower. He didn't have to worry about the artillery of the Japanese army, and naturally there were artillery directly under the military region to deal with it.

But in front of the Japanese infantry firepower and troop deployment, that is what he must master as a front-line commander. After two days of fierce fighting with the 40th Wing, Wang Guangyu's understanding of his opponent was much more detailed than Liu Changshun, who had just arrived and had not even had time to rest, so he rushed into the battle because of the defection incident.

Due to the heavy casualties of the 1st Brigade in the previous battles, it only served as a response and assist in Yang Zhen's counterattack plan, and did not strengthen the artillery. The artillery of the 1st Brigade encountered several Japanese air raids in previous battles, and the losses were not small, and basically there was not much combat effectiveness.

Except for the MLRS battery, which had been used cautiously by him and had only been used a few times, only four 75-mm mountain guns belonging to the brigade mountain artillery battalion were used as supporting firepower. Therefore, under the situation that his current strength is very thin and the fire support is also very weak, Wang Guangyu is quite steady in his courage.

Guo Bingxun is not wrong, Wang Guangyu changed his assist to the main attack without authorization, and he does have a competitive heart. But that doesn't mean he's reckless or sloppy. In the final analysis, Wang Guangyu is still quite steady in his actual actions.

Not only did he already have a thorough understanding of the terrain of the first line of Jiangjunshi, but he also went to the front-line position several times before the attack was launched to check the attack route, personally selected the attack route, and adjusted the deployment of troops according to the arrangement of the enemy in front of him. Also after the attack was launched, personally organized fire support in the front-line positions.

This is also the biggest reason why Wang Guangyu was able to make a big breakthrough when he did not have an advantage in troops and firepower.

The route chosen by Wang Guangyu to launch the attack was the junction of the two squadrons that the 40th Wing had suffered the greatest losses in the daytime battle, and at this time it was still at the forefront and had not withdrawn to rest. Wang Guangyu's attack point was well chosen, and the two Japanese squadrons, which had suffered heavy losses in the daytime battle, were very weak in defense in this place due to insufficient troops.

His tactic was also clear, which was to use the strength of the 2nd Regiment to act as a feint under the cover of most of the artillery fire that the 1st Brigade could concentrate at present. After attracting most of the attention of the Japanese troops on the front-line positions, the assault team was formed with the only fully formed company and the three regiments and one company attached to it after the temporary integration of one regiment. Under the cover of two 120-mm mortars, plus two regimental infantry guns and two 90-mm mortars, the Japanese attacked from this weakly armed joint.

At the same time that Liu Changshun's 2nd Brigade launched an attack on the entire line of Japanese troops on the front line of Jiangjunshi, Wang Guangyu did his best to concentrate all the troops that could be concentrated, and even the lightly wounded were mobilized by him, and he also launched a counterattack on the Japanese troops in front of Jiangjunshi at the same time.

The 1st Brigade and 2nd Regiment took the lead in launching a feint attack almost at any cost. The 1st Regiment, which launched an attack five minutes later than the feint, fired at close range from the infantry guns to suppress the Japanese light and heavy machine-gun positions. The 120-mm heavy mortar and the 90-mm mortar formed a mobile artillery group, and accompanied the attacking troops to cover the Japanese infantry guns and rapid-fire guns, and it took only 10 minutes to tear through the Japanese defense line from the junction of the two Japanese squadrons.

After tearing apart the Japanese defense line, the first regiment left one company and the other two companies composed of lightly wounded, engineers, and regimental headquarters miscellaneous personnel, commanded by Li Mingfeng, the political commissar of the first regiment, to build two embankments on both sides of the attack channel that had been opened to block the Japanese counterattack and ensure the smooth passage of attack.

The rest of the company, which was composed of personnel drawn from the third regiment, was attached to two reinforced platoons of automatic firearms and almost one submachine gun per man, and under the cover of the mobile artillery group, the commander of the first regiment, He Zhishan, did not stop at the breakthrough without the slightest stop, and under the cover of the mobile artillery group, rushed towards the depth of the Japanese army.

Wang Guangyu's tactics for a group were simple. After breaking through the defense of the Forty Wing, go down to its depth. The three fierce tactics of daily training are fully deployed, and strive to tear apart the defense of the 40th Wing. Of course, it would be better if we could easily knock out the headquarters of the Forty Wing.

After breaking through the Japanese defense line in one fell swoop, He Zhishan, in accordance with Wang Guangyu's order, personally commanded the assault troops to penetrate the Japanese army in depth without making any stops at the breakthrough point.

Behind him, the traveling artillery group under the personal command of Wang Guangyu spared no effort to cover its firepower. There was a Japanese blockade, and the shells fell there. When he was training in Xingshan Fortress before, Wang Guangyu had a painstaking infantry artillery coordination training that made him get a lot of rewards at this time.

After tearing through the Japanese defense line and the interspersed operation began, the support artillery under the command of Wang Guangyu almost exploded in the footsteps of the attacking troops. It can be said to refer to that and that. Its speed of reaction, accuracy of shooting, and perfect coordination with the forward infantry can be described as excellent.

In order to ensure the success of his plan, Wang Guangyu not only took out all the sixty flares that Yang Zhen allocated to him. Not even dared to use the Japanese-style flare guns that are now commonly used by the troops. Instead, the only three Soviet-made signal guns of the First Brigade were handed over to He Zhishan. As long as the predetermined red and green signals are fired there, the shells of the artillery group commanded by Wang Guangyu will fall there.

Wang Guangyu moved quickly, and the reaction fluid of the Japanese army in front of him was not slow. After discovering that he had fallen into the opponent's trick, Wang Guangyu's 40th Wing, which was originally used as a reserve, was just transferred to replace the 1st Brigade that had been disabled in the two-day battle after dawn, and the 3rd Brigade of the 40th Wing, which continued to attack the front line of Jiangjunshi, immediately launched a counter-charge in an attempt to recapture the breakthrough.

As soon as he arrived at the battlefield, Wang Guangyu took a big advantage and forcibly tore a hole in his chest from the 3rd Brigade of the 40th Wing, and threw the matter of blocking Wang Guangyu's feint attack on the 2nd Regiment to the remnants of the 1st Brigade who had not had time to withdraw. He did his best to deal with the group that was the first to open the breakthrough.

The 3rd Brigade, anxious to re-seal the breach, immediately concentrated two infantry squadrons, a large artillery squad, plus all the forces of a heavy machine gun squadron, and desperately charged towards the open breach. After trying to re-seal the breach, he cleaned up the small trash fish that had burrowed into his stomach with his free hands.

In the face of the counterattacks launched by the Japanese troops on both sides almost wave after wave, in order to cover He Zhishan, who was passing deep into the Japanese army, Li Mingfeng, the political commissar of the first regiment, commanded the two companies that were put together, and with the cooperation of the last relatively complete company of the regiment left by He Zhishan, they resisted desperately.

And his face enemy, Matsuno Shohei Shaosa, the captain of the 3rd Brigade of the 40th Wing of the Japanese Army, can be said to have taken out his blood capital in order to counterattack the opponent who broke into his position. As soon as he came up, he concentrated the two infantry squadrons in his hands, and under the cover of all the fire of the brigade artillery squadron, two infantry guns, and a heavy machine gun squadron, they launched a wave of waves.

In the face of the Japanese army's all-out counterattack, Li Mingfeng's resistance battle can be described as extremely hard. In addition to the only infantry company that was still intact in the regiment left by He Zhishan, the two companies, which were mainly composed of the engineer company directly under the regiment headquarters, plus a small number of lightly wounded people who could still move, and even non-combatants such as grooms, cooks, and clerks, immediately showed a huge gap with the Japanese army.

These two improvised companies, mostly composed of non-combatants, were not at all comparable to regular field companies in terms of tactical literacy or daily training, although they had no enthusiasm for combat. The gap with the Japanese army is quite obvious.

The arduous journey of commanding such two companies to fight against the elite of the Japanese army can be imagined. Only one of them took a look at the face, and more than half of the companies were killed and wounded, and they lost their combat effectiveness. If it weren't for the effective strategy of the old company left by He Zhishan, and under the situation that he was also under great pressure, he sent two squads to quickly rush over to support, I am afraid that it would have collapsed long ago.

In order to ensure the retreat of his regiment commander, Li Mingfeng not only carried a fast and slow machine with a wide open nose in his left hand, but also two Soviet-made F1 grenades in his right hand, and led his guards to personally rush to the front line in the battle. even opened the record for the first time, personally shooting two squad leaders who were afraid of the battle, and the first case of Yang Zhen's department enforcing battlefield discipline.

Li Mingfeng's hard support here not only ensured He Zhishan's retreat, but also attracted most of the Japanese troops on the front line of Jiangshi to his side, which brought great convenience to He Zhishan's follow-up combat operations. It also made the three companies of the 2nd Regiment that launched a feint attack over there, and finally found an opportunity to break through after a hard battle, and successfully broke through the resistance of the enemy in front of them.

For Li Mingfeng's hard work, Wang Guangyu is not unaware. After the breakthrough of the Second Regiment, in order to support Li Mingfeng, Wang Guangyu immediately transferred the regimental mortars and infantry artillery among the artillery reinforced to that side. Even one of the two regiments belonging to the anti-aircraft machine gun company was transferred to Li Mingfeng's command. He did not hesitate to use mortar shells to weave a dense fire net on both sides of the passage to give Li Mingfeng the greatest support possible.

Although the firepower was greatly strengthened, the shape of Li Mingfeng's side was still getting tighter and tighter under the Japanese army's almost suicide attack in the second half of the day. Not only did the improvised blocking force suffer heavy casualties, but Li Mingfeng himself was wounded in three places during several hand-to-hand battles with the Japanese troops who broke through the position.

After receiving a report that Li Mingfeng's blocking force had already suffered heavy casualties, and if it could not add a company of reinforcements within half an hour, the entire blocking force might collapse on all fronts due to heavy casualties. Knowing that Li Mingfeng, who could make him not complain, say this, the shape of the shì has definitely reached an extremely serious point.

But now it can be said that the mountains and rivers have been exhausted, and even the last reserve has been put into it, and in fact, Wang Guangyu, who has no soldiers to send, has no choice but to arm all the people in the brigade headquarters who can afford to hold guns, and the only two squads left in the brigade headquarters guard company are temporarily organized into a company, and they are all sent to Li Mingfeng.

When the reinforcements sent by Wang Guangyu arrived, Li Mingfeng, who saw that Wang Guangyu had sent out all the non-combatants from the brigade headquarters, knew that he was now exhausted, and that he no longer had any available troops at hand, gritted his teeth, and until the end of the battle, he did not ask Wang Guangyu for any reinforcements.

Wang Guangyu didn't know that what he was actually facing now was not part of the strength of the 40th Wing. He now had the only incomplete and disorganized seven companies at hand, plus two companies that had been temporarily organized, and a total of nine companies were actually the main force of the Forty Wing.

The Japanese troops in front of Liu Changshun were only the field detachment and the engineer wing of the 24th Division, the search wing and the two squadrons of the 40th Wing, and part of the baggage wing. At this moment, the actual main strength of the 40th Wing was concentrated on Wang Guangyu's side at this time.

Although before the counterattack, Wang Guangyu had already figured out the general deployment of the Japanese army's front-line troops. But the adjustment of the strength of the Forty Wing at midnight was something he had not yet mastered. Especially the third brigade, which had just been transferred and had not participated in the battle before and had been serving as cover on the flank, suddenly appeared on the frontal front at the last moment, and he did not expect it at all.

The third brigade of the 40th Wing suddenly appeared in front of the front line of General Shi, which directly caused Wang Guangyu's current hard battle. After the regimental headquarters of the 24th Division was defeated by Liu Changshun, it lost its unified command, and in fact, the Japanese army, which was now in a state of fighting separately, although the mutual coordination was greatly reduced.

However, it was precisely because of the loss of unified command that the Japanese army, which was fighting separately, could not know about the situation of the battles in other places. Whether it is Wang Guangyu or Liu Changshun, the enemy forces that need to face have never decreased.

Just like now, whether it was Rio Komatsuzaki who fought fiercely with Wang Guangyu, or Noji Jiaping, who was struggling to support under Liu Changshun's attack like a mad tiger, he didn't know that his back road had been cut off by Ma Chunsheng. The materials stored by the 24th Division in Xinhua Street, a key place on the Jiahe Railway, have all been lost. And Ma Chunsheng, who had already completed the task, was rushing towards their backs.

It smashed the unified command of the Japanese army, but it caused a certain passivity in the implementation of its own battle plan. The original plan to cut off the retreat of the Japanese army, as well as the attempt to mobilize the Japanese army with logistics and supplies, and the attempt to bring the greatest opportunity to the counterattack force were blocked, which Yang Zhen probably did not expect when he formulated this battle plan.