What made Okajima Shigetoshi feel even more unlucky was that when he chose to hold his position, because he was in too much hurry, he chose a few mountain bags that were actually stone mountains. In the absence of tools, it was almost impossible to build any fortifications on a solid mountain full of stones, relying only on sapper shovels.

And the mountains of stones have increased their losses to a certain extent. One of the enemy's shells fell, and the stones that were blown up in all directions almost doubled the power of the shells. Especially in the mountains, the stones that are flying everywhere have almost no dead ends, and they are even more lethal than artillery shells.

Looking at the enemy troops rushing up around him, the increasingly dense artillery fire that fell on his head, and the fire from the commanding heights around him, his subordinates couldn't even lift their heads. Faced with the number of casualties that were increasing by the minute, Okajima Shigetoshi was well aware. If you don't think about it, I'm afraid you and the only remaining subordinates will be buried here.

Gritting his teeth, Shigetoshi Okajima decided to change tactics. Fuck hold on until dark, and this bit of strength will be worn out if it drags on. Shigetoshi Okajima, who was about to go crazy, ordered the squadron with the severed tail to hold the two mountain bags that were entrenched, and blocked the passage for the enemy to attack from behind with crossfire.

Anyway, the chances of this squadron that has been encircled to stand out are slim to chance, at least for now. Rather than wasting the strength of this squadron, which still has a lot of strength, in vain in the breakout battle. It is better to let them sacrifice their lives to feed the tigers, and use their limited forces to drag down a part of the enemy army as much as possible to reduce the pressure of their own breakthrough.

And the enemy forces that have cut off their main forces from the follow-up squadron should let them focus on the squadron that has actually fallen into the dead ground. As for the main force led by him, the whole army fought a white-knuckle battle with the enemy with bayonets. Under the cover of concentrating all the remaining light and heavy machine-gun fire, they broke through in the southwest direction of Damaigou.

The three infantry squadrons that broke through in Jianping City are now on the front line of Jiajiayingzi. As long as you join these three infantry squadrons, you can say that you can sit back and relax. With the reinforcements of these three fully formed squadrons, not to mention two battalions of enemy troops, he is not afraid even if a brigade comes.

At the same time, after converging with it, it will turn to the southwest, from the flank of the entire Jianping battlefield to Ye Baishou. As long as the strategic town of Ye Baishou is recaptured, although he has not been able to return to Chaoyang as ordered, he can be regarded as completing the task of reinforcement given to him by the division commander.

Here, Okajima Shigetoshi had just begun to put his idea into practice, and the brigade commander of the advancing army over there immediately sensed that these devils wanted to forcibly break through from the movement of his troops in braving the artillery fire around him. Not wanting to inflict too many casualties on himself, he ordered the troops in front of him to move out of the way if the Japanese launched a bayonet charge and flanked from both flanks.

And adopt the wolf pack tactics of tailgating and chasing and surpassing the pursuit, tearing down the flesh from the Japanese army's breakthrough sequence. He was not too little to divide a small squadron of the Japanese army, and he was not too much to cut a squadron of the Japanese army. Tear off as much as you can. But there is one thing, that is, it is absolutely not allowed to fight to the death.

However, considering that the Japanese army was in an unfavorable situation, they generally used the tactic of gecko tail breaking to protect the whole body. In order to avoid the two flanks and the pursuing troops behind them being pinned down by small Japanese troops, he strictly stipulated that the troops at all levels needed to stop the pursuit in the face of the Japanese army that was divided by himself, leaving a combat standard of encirclement and annihilation.

The enemy in front of the company cannot be less than a squad of the Japanese army. The Japanese army facing the platoon level could not be less than one detachment.

If the company had only bitten one detachment of the Japanese army and stopped to encircle and annihilate it, the company commander would have been dismissed on the spot. If the encircled Japanese army cannot be encircled and annihilated for a while, then stay and watch them, as long as they do not converge with the main force of the Japanese army.

On the front line of Damaigou, he strengthened a high-speed company left by Cao Yafan to the southwest of Damaigou. With four 12-mm machine guns, two Type 92 heavy machine guns captured today were reinforced. and all nine Type 96 light machine guns captured in the previous battle of the Wei family's shack, which were deployed as crossfire.

At the same time, he turned the fire range of the four German-made general-purpose machine guns that were originally deployed on the Damaigou line to the west, blocking the mountain road and the mountainside where the Japanese army turned southwest from Damaigou. If it is determined in the direction in which the Japanese will break through, turn to the southwest of Damaigou. These four machine guns will first peel off a layer of skin from the Japanese army.

With the addition of two 82 mortars and two mountain guns, he set up a tight fire ambush circle for Okajima Shigemoshi on the mountain road southwest of Damaigou. In his words, if the Japanese really want to fight a bayonet breakthrough battle, then give them a good lesson with firepower.

Tell this group of little devils who have been relying on their own firepower to rampage before, and there is nothing to do with them in the pass before, not that the Chinese are really worse than them. If the Chinese soldiers had the same sophisticated equipment as they did, they would never have been allowed to live a good life. In terms of the use of firepower, the Chinese army is no worse than them.

In addition to the fire blockade, the reserve of the last reinforced platoon in hand was also placed on the two hills southwest of Damaigou. Once the Japanese army breaks through the first-line fire net, then this reinforced platoon can at least buy time for itself to adjust its deployment. Considering that it was close to dusk, he also deployed all the three hundred flares left by Cao Yafan to the southwest.

It's not that he knows what Okajima Shigetoshi is thinking. Instead, the Japanese army who ran from Jianping City to Jiajiayingzi was in the southwest direction of the entire Damaigou line at this moment. Since the guy on the opposite side wants to break through, he should be heading to the southwest. Because in the southwest, there are reinforcements that he has always dreamed of.

When Cao Yafan was leaving, one battalion left behind was deployed on the line of Jiangyingzi and Liutiaogou in the southwest direction of Damaigou. If this group of Japanese soldiers is allowed to run out of the first line of Damaigou, then their face will be lost, not to mention, and the duck cooked in their pot will fly into other people's bowls.

In fact, he put the last bit of reserve in the southwest of Damaigou, which was actually a gamble. If the Japanese army did not choose this direction to break through, and he had already used his troops to the extreme, I am afraid that he would not be able to really be highlighted by the Japanese army. Because of the general attack, he has already committed all his forces to the northeast. To the northeast, he had only two squads of alert troops.

But fortunately, although he was still a little uncertain when he placed the bet, he finally got the bet right. Okajima Shigetoshi's breakthrough direction is really according to his judgment. After desperately assembling more than one squadron, under the cover of the only three heavy machine guns and all light machine guns left behind him, they desperately broke through to the southwest.

Okashima Shigetoshi thought that by turning to the southwest, where his original defenses were relatively weak, he could use the Japanese army's assault capabilities to finally open a gap. But he didn't want to, his breakthrough action was solid, and he crashed headlong into a new firepower net. Not only is the frontal fire like a fire net, but even the flank fire is quite dense.

As a result, his first troops did not have time to approach the positions of the defenders southwest of Damaigou. In the middle of the way, he was attacked by a burst of artillery fire and sent back to his hometown for more than half of it. The other half of the remaining men, on the way to turn, were all overwhelmed by the machine-gun fire from the front of the barley ditch on the way to the southwest.

Looking at the first group of shock squads, they didn't even touch the mountain pass in the southwest direction, and all of them were killed on the way. Knowing that as long as he hesitated a little, he didn't have to think about breaking out, but about whether to cut his stomach or commit suicide with a pistol, Okajima Shigetoshi Osa continued to invest troops in the southwest direction of Damaigou without the slightest hesitation.

His wave-like attack put a lot of pressure on the blocking forces in front of him. But relying on machine gun fire and the tremendous lethality of the 12-millimeter machine gun, Okajima Shigetoshi's breakthrough operation was like a constant rush to the head of the embankment. Wave after wave rushed up, and wave after wave pressed back under the dense crossfire.

The battle began at 18:25 p.m., and after four hours of fierce fighting, the Barley Gully and its southwestern defenders consumed almost two-thirds of all ammunition, and finally did not allow Okashima Shigetoshi's breakthrough operation to succeed.

And the only troops that Okajima Shigetsu had left were not much, and he also exhausted his last blood in the senseless consumption again and again. No matter how fierce the Japanese soldier is, he is also a human being. If you take a bullet or a cannonball, you will either die or be maimed.

After four hours of fierce fighting, the mountain road from Shijiazi Nangou to the southwest mountain pass of Damaigou to the ridges on both sides was full of Japanese corpses, and everywhere there were light and serious wounded who were either unconscious or groaning. However, the wounded who were hit by rifle machine gun bullets were still alive, although they were in some pain. Although it is no longer supervised and guarded, it is barely alive after all.

And those who were hit by 12-mm anti-aircraft machine gun bullets were not so lucky, and it was not uncommon for them to have their arms knocked off or retreated. The most immoral thing about this thing is not the huge penetrating power, nor the huge lethality. It's the terrifying pressure it brings when hitting at close range.

Those who were shot directly in the chest and didn't even give time to resuscitate were better. But whether it is hit in the arm or leg, as long as it is hit, it will be amputated directly. But he couldn't die for a while, and he could only die until the blood in his body dried up. It was a long, but extremely painful wait.

This kind of amputation on the spot without anesthetic, but the huge pain caused by not being able to die for a while, even the stubborn Japanese soldiers could not bear it. The wounded all over the ground and the howls of pain made the already low morale of the remaining Japanese troops drop even more rapidly.

The corpses of Japanese soldiers killed in the field all over the mountains, the continuous explosion of shells, and the colors of ballistic trajectories across the night sky added a bit of horror and hideousness to the mountains and fields in the early summer night. There were no longer any remaining Japanese soldiers, and their will had completely collapsed. Although the remaining Japanese troops are still trying to resist, they are powerless. Okajima's constant breakthrough tactics drained their blood.

Faced with an increasingly unfavorable and tragic situation, Okajima Shigetoshi is the person who once turned behind enemy lines alone and safely escaped back to the Japanese-controlled area, and has a wealth of experience in escaping. After discovering that it was in fact impossible to break through, he had completely lost the determination to continue fighting, and did not take anyone with him or inform anyone.

He didn't even bring his own personal guards, and took advantage of the cover of the night alone, and after carefully calculating the time when the flare was lifted into the air, he quickly turned to the northeast of Damaigou, and quietly disappeared into the mountains shrouded in the night. Just after the last assault failed, his men were horrified to find that their wing leader had disappeared.

The only remaining lieutenant of the wing beside him tried many times to find his wing leader, but he never found any trace of the wing leader, not even the body. Only in a dry ditch was found the saber and gloves of His Excellency Wing Commander.