Although Yang Zhen's first wave of artillery fire inflicted heavy casualties on the unprepared Japanese army. But after all, these Japanese soldiers are long-trained veterans, and their reaction speed is still first-class. Compared with the puppet Manchu army, which was still turning with its head covered, after experiencing the initial panic, all the Japanese troops, including Kitano Takatsu, had quickly stabilized.

When the artillery fire began to extend and Yang Zhen's feint charge sounded, a dense tongue of fire appeared on the position of the Japanese puppet army. The Type 92 infantry gun that survived Yang Zhen's first sneak attack also began to fire back along the trajectory of the incoming shells. It's just that before a few shells could be fired, along with the artillery, they were served by the pot.

Although Kitano Takatsu made a stern mistake at the beginning, mistaking the mortar shell that his opponent smashed on his head as a friendly wound close to him. But after all, they are regular officers who have been trained through the almost brutal training of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School. In addition to a little actual combat experience, the military quality is also quite good.

Although their positions were huddled together, they were extremely inconsistent with the traditional combat style of the Japanese army. However, the construction of its ring fortifications, the allocation of firepower, the use of troops, and various emergency measures are still quite good, and can even be said to be textbook-like.

Although because of the cold weather, the earth and stone can't be dug up. However, it does not prevent it from using trees all over the mountains to build all kinds of simple, but decent fortifications. After waking up from the sudden artillery fire, both his reaction and command were remarkable.

It's just that the confrontation alliance, and even the entire Chinese army is used to despising it, when he heard Yang Zhen's charge horn to launch a feint attack at least five hundred meters away, a contemptuous smile appeared on his face that was still shocked by the shelling just now.

"Bandits are bandits, and when the snow is waistless, the starting point of the attack is actually five hundred meters away. In the case of inconvenient movement, slow movement, and relatively open shooting range, the attack is launched so far away, isn't it rushing to be a target for yourself? ”

"How much threat can such a force bring to himself with more artillery. If it is said that those bandits discharged a dense, almost windy, unformed attack formation, it is also called a skirmish. ”

Seeing the opponent in the telescope struggling to move to the skirmish line, which was already about 400 meters away from him in a straight line, Kitano Takatsu contemptuously gave the order to open fire to the troops. Kitano Takatsu was very proud of the fact that the Type 38 rifle in his hand far exceeded the effective range of the old-fashioned rifles of the Chinese army.

In his opinion, with his own equipment, as well as the su zhì of his troops, even if he had suffered heavy losses in the sudden shelling just now, he had lost a quarter of his troops. But relying on the remaining forces at hand, it is not a problem to eliminate these damned anti-Manchu anti-Japanese elements in front of him.

It's just that the opponent's follow-up actions didn't make the smile on Kitano Takatsu's face last. After the light and heavy machine guns on the position of the puppet army were fired that day, and all the fire points were exposed, the offensive of the attacking troops of the opponent, which had just been moving slowly in the snow, was suddenly interrupted. Everyone fell to their knees in the snow and stopped attacking.

And just when Kitano Shaozo was more confident because of his opponent's clumsiness, and even timid as a mouse, the next thing made him unable to laugh or say anything, and he almost didn't cry.

The enemy was met with their own fire, and the artillery fire, which had just extended backwards, and was silent gradually, began again. When the opponent's extended artillery fire turned back on his head again, Kitano already felt deceived.

This time, the opponent's mortar shot was so accurate, it was like having eyes. Nearly every shell that landed in the Japanese positions, which were almost entirely exposed in the bare wilderness, except for a few machine-gun bunkers made of wood, took the lives of one or more Japanese soldiers.

Especially when the mortar shells that fell on his position were mixed with mountain shells that all the anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese forces in Manchuria had never had, he understood that he was not inferior to the watch, but deliberately set a trap for himself.

Although the lethality of mortar shells is still limited, compared with wild mountain artillery, it has a good killing effect on unprotected targets, and is more suitable for shooting at targets behind shelters and targets on anti-slope planes. The threat of machine-gun fire points that they had built themselves out of logs and covered with whole logs was not great. But his improvised machine-gun fortifications made of wood were not much different from papier-mâché in the face of the mountain guns that fired at direct fire.

Looking at the extremely fast fire of these high-speed artillery shells that were hit by the opponent, and the machine gun positions that were almost completely exposed in the just firing were reduced to parts, a light and heavy machine gun and the shooter were reduced to parts. Kitano Takatsu was dumbfounded like a tiger with its teeth removed.

Not long after the second cannon fire, Kitano Takatsu already knew that his light and heavy machine guns were almost all gone. Having lost almost all of its light and heavy machine guns, and before the mortar squadron came up in motion, he lost almost all of his fire support except for the 38 rifles and a small number of surviving grenadiers.

Before Kitano Takatsu could wake up from the pain of losing all his machine guns, the change in shape shì gave him another heavy blow.

He could hardly believe his eyes as a group of opponents emerged almost from under his nose, under the cover of a storm of fire from dozens of light and heavy machine guns that also suddenly appeared, approaching as fast as they could, and throwing a large number of grenades into his fortifications at the same time.

"Yaga, where did these people come from? Could it be that it can't be drilled out of the ground? When did they run under their noses, how did they not find out at all. ”

Just when Kitano Takatsu had not yet recovered from the drastic change in shape of his subordinates, just as his men were in a hurry by the large number of grenades thrown by his opponent, most of his opponents had already rushed into his position with cunning tactics.

Before they could be hit by the dazzling blows in front of them, the Japanese puppet army, which had suffered heavy casualties and had begun to lose morale, was stabilized, and the sudden sound of intensive gunfire behind them completely disrupted the positions of these Japanese troops, so that the originally stubborn resistance began to disintegrate.

Seeing that the resistance of the Japanese troops who were flanked by the front and rear had wavered, Yang Zhen did not hesitate to give a general attack order to the main force that had moved to less than 200 meters away from the Japanese position. This time, Yang Zhen focused his attack on the flanks of the Japanese position, and the puppet Manchu army, which had fallen into chaos in the shelling just now. As long as the resistance of the puppet Manchu army is defeated, not only will the flank of the Japanese army be exposed in front of him, but also one of his arms will be cut off.

A distance of two hundred meters is a blink of an eye for a well-trained unit. Along the passages cleared by these puppet Manchu troops, the attacking troops rushed to the positions of the puppet Manchu army, which had been hastily constructed, that is, did not even have improvised fortifications.

The puppet Manchu army, which was far less determined to fight than the Japanese army and was far from sobering up from the shelling, failed to hold out for too long after discovering that the opponent had concentrated all its firepower to shift the focus of the attack from the Japanese army's head to itself. After the battalion commander was killed by a cannon, he collapsed after only a little resistance.

Unexpectedly, the puppet Manchu army, which was not low in battle, collapsed so quickly, and the attacking troops were somewhat taken by surprise. Fortunately, Yang Zhen's reaction was not slow, after defeating the puppet Manchu army, in addition to leaving a platoon to guard the prisoners, Yang Zhen immediately turned around and joined forces with Wang Guangyu to launch a fierce attack on the Japanese army.

Although Kitano tried to stabilize the scattered positions that had been charged, his subordinates were quite ineffective. The soldiers of the 2nd Brigade of the 8th Wing of the Japanese Army, who had not yet recovered from the repeated artillery fire and were blown up by the grenades thrown into the position by the opponent one after another, and whose fighting will could not be compared with other Japanese units, completely lost the determination to resist when they saw that the opponent had a tendency to encircle themselves.

Once the army's spirit collapses, one can sweep away ten, and ten can sweep away a hundred. When I don't know who was the first to drop the rifle in his hand, turned around and began to flee, the entire Japanese position collapsed as if it were plagued.

His subordinates were the first to collapse, so that Kitano Takatsu, who was still trying to resist, completely lost his determination to resist. Break through, break through immediately, the farther away from here the better, is the only thing Kitano Shaoza can think of in his head.

As for how to explain to his superiors when he goes back, after this battle, he is very likely to become the first regular infantry brigade of the Japanese army in Manchuria to be defeated by those anti-Manchu anti-Japanese elements, and that is a matter of going back.

How to explain the result when I go back, Kitano Takatsu doesn't know. But he knew that if he didn't leave again, he would really not be able to leave according to the current situation of being attacked by the enemy. If he dies in this barren mountain in Beiman, where will the old man find an heir for the hundreds of millions of family properties he has saved for most of his life?

Thinking of this, Kitano Takatsu didn't say a word, and didn't even give a word of order to turn in to the few subordinates who were already in the middle of the opponent's struggle, bypassing the opponent's blocking position that was stuck behind him, chasing the subordinates who had run far away, towards the only eastern mountain that had not fired a gun, turned around and slipped away. As for whether it is a deserted deep mountain forest over there, he can't care about it.

Don't look at the fact that when this Kitano Shaoza escaped and started, he was not in front of the entire second brigade that fled, but the speed of his escape was absolutely first-class. He didn't go far, he rushed to the front from the end, leaving far behind his subordinates who had run earlier than him.

Kitano Takatsu and his comrades-in-arms slipped away, so that the Japanese troops who were still resisting completely lost the determination to resist, and they also relied on the skillful tactics trained for many years to get rid of the opponent who was struggling with them, and followed Kitano to the east. Even the dense rain of bullets from the two heavy machine guns of the opponent stuck in his back road could not be taken into account.

I didn't expect this Japanese army to fight so much, and before they could use all their strength, their resistance collapsed Wang Guangyu, to the point that it felt like a fist was smashed on the cotton sleeve. The scrambled troops of the Japanese army only intercepted a small tail of the Japanese army. The rest of the Japanese soldiers who could still walk almost all ran out as long as they did not fall under the intensive fire of Liu Changshun's two machine guns.

The rapid collapse of the Japanese resistance not only did not expect the troops below, but also Yang Zhen, who was already mentally prepared, did not expect it. Yang Zhen's tactical arrangement was to flank the front and rear, and because of the limited forces at hand, Yang Zhen set the possible breakthrough route chosen by the Japanese army in the direction from which the Japanese army came from in the south, and the direction in which the Japanese army in the west and the south road might be closer.

As for the deep mountains and old forests in the east, he also thought of it. However, when the forces at hand were faced with the Japanese puppet army with the same number of people as themselves, in addition to the three companies that were responsible for the hidden mission and the one company that was stuck in the rear of the Japanese army, the remaining forces were still a little insufficient to strike at the puppet Manchu army. Therefore, Yang Zhen could only deploy a small number of troops in the east as suspicious soldiers.

Of course, the lack of troops is only part of the reason, and more importantly, Yang Zhen is a little unconvinced that the Japanese army will break through to the east. There are deep mountains and old forests, and even the nearest garrison to the Japanese puppet army has to pass through one hundred and eighty miles of primeval forest. There was no receiving force for them, let alone a supply point. Breaking through there, for the Japanese army, was tantamount to choosing the most unsuitable route.

Yang Zhen always emphasized breaking the routine when he made his own battle plans, but he didn't expect that it was not only him who always liked to do the opposite, Kitano Takatsu and his subordinates also copied him in a similar way. Breaking free from the entanglement of the attacking troops, he chose a direction that Yang Zhen thought was the least likely to be the direction of his breakthrough, and after leaving behind the corpses and the seriously wounded who could not move, he ran cleanly.

It's just that under Yang Zhen's front and rear flanking attacks, and under the intensive artillery fire, less than four or five out of ten Japanese troops in a large group can run out. Most of them were either killed by artillery fire or fell under the rain of grenades from the attacking troops, as well as Liu Changshun's machine guns.

The battle lasted less than an hour from the attack to the gunshots. It was so fast that all the officers and soldiers participating in the battle could not believe that they were facing the Japanese army, which had always been known for its tenacity and fierceness, and these Japanese troops were still a regular integrated infantry brigade.

Not to mention the officers and soldiers of the troops, even Wang Guangyu, who commanded the front-line battle, and Li Yanping, the commander-in-chief who was watching the battle from behind, couldn't believe their eyes. With equal forces, or even some superiority, the resistance of an entire Japanese brigade lasted for such a short time before it collapsed. Especially after the results were counted, almost all of them couldn't believe their eyes.

You must know that even those armed peasants of the Japanese Pioneer Regiment could hardly defeat them in such a short period of time when facing the Anti-Japanese Alliance, with equal forces. Not to mention that the casualties on their own side are so small.