Wang Guangyu chose the time for the counterattack to start at 12 o'clock at midnight. And for him, the time left for him to prepare for the counterattack that was decided down was less than an hour. He had to think repeatedly and refine this counterattack plan in an extremely limited time in order to minimize casualties.

As for Yang Zhen's idea of moving the headquarters from Qunce Mountain to Xingshan Fortress, Wang Guangyu had already received the news from Li Yanping, who personally rushed to the north bank of the Nata River to convey the order, when Wang Guangyu received the order to take over the defense of Xingshan Fortress. He knew that Yang Zhen attached great importance to Xingshan Fortress. So at first, he was still a little hesitant about Wang Xiaoming's counterattack.

But after knowing that Liu Changshun's main force of the Second Regiment was rushing back in the starry night, and knowing that even if his troops would suffer a lot of casualties in the counterattack, there would be follow-up troops to take over his defense of Xingshan Fortress, he made up his mind to fight a beautiful counterattack.

Despite having made up his mind, Wang Guangyu still did not dare to take risks. Wang Guangyu didn't want to pay too much price. Because he knew that when marching in the mountains at night, the probability of accidents was still very high. He didn't know, no matter whether Liu Changshun could come back on time. He had to be prepared that Liu Changshun would not be able to come back on time.

Wang Guangyu did not distribute the forces evenly, and adopted the tactics of combining frontal assault and flank detours that Wang Xiaoming just mentioned. Instead, he adopted a frontal feint to attract the attention of the Japanese army, and at the same time used the two most complete battalions at his disposal to storm from the flank of the Japanese army, striving to divide the Japanese target in the shortest possible time.

After careful observation of the Japanese position, Wang Guangyu found that although the Japanese army had deployed defensive forces on two flanks, the number of troops was not large, with an average of only one infantry squadron. If you put the main forces into the flank of the Japanese army, you should be able to make relatively large progress in the shortest possible time.

At twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, after a half-day of rapid marching, they attacked for most of the day without any rest, and launched more than ten charges in succession. Even though the Japanese army has always been known for its tenacity, at this time, both mentally and physically were exhausted to the extreme.

By the time Wang Guangyu was ready to make the best preparations before the counterattack, most of the people on the Japanese position, except for the sentries, had already fallen asleep. For these veterans who have been re-drafted, they know how to sleep as well as they can. Although maybe half a year ago, or even a few months ago, they were still playing Geisha in Ginza, Tokyo.

Not long after most of the Japanese troops fell asleep, the front line of Guanmenzuizi Mountain, which had just calmed down, suddenly resounded with dense artillery fire. When the first wave of shells hit the head, the Japanese troops who were still asleep were blown up in a mess.

In the shelling, it is said that the brunt of the artillery has never moved its position since the offensive was launched in the afternoon, because the opponent has never fired a single counterattack shell. The four mountain guns of the 108th Wing Artillery Squadron, which had been firmly locked for a long time and displayed their might in the afternoon and evening battles, were blown up into the sky as soon as the guns rang out.

Not only did the Japanese mountain artillery squadron suffer heavy losses, but the mortar squadron connected to it was also implicated by the shells that exploded on its position. Before Li Rui could turn his guns to the position of this independent mortar squadron, the shells that exploded on the Japanese mountain artillery position pulled most of the Japanese mortar of the squadron on the road.

Although only a third of the mortars were lost in the violent explosion, this mortar squadron, like the mountain artillery, lost its voice in the shortest possible time when two-thirds of the artillery was blown into the sky. That is to say, as soon as Wang Guangyu's counterattack began, the Japanese army lost most of its fire support.

Including Wang Guangyu, no one on either side would have thought that Wang Xiaoming would be able to achieve the maximum lethal goal of artillery fire in order to ensure that he could achieve the maximum lethal goal of artillery fire in this counterattack. In the previous battles, no matter how great the pressure was, no matter how dangerous it was, and even when he was on the front line several times, he didn't use any artillery.

Whether it was the mountain artillery company left by Liu Changshun for him, or the mortars and infantry guns belonging to the regiment, in the previous battles, they had been silent all the time, and not even a single shell was fired. It wasn't until this counterattack that all the family funds were taken out. Its toughness can be seen in general. No wonder Yang Zhen had the intention of replacing Liu Changshun with him.

Seeing that the artillery attack played the greatest role that these artillery pieces could play, Wang Guangyu, who had already learned the details of the previous battle from Mencius, couldn't help but sigh that his old comrade-in-arms had a tenacious character and thought long enough.

Under the cover of the almost frantic firepower of the artillery that had been held back for most of the day, Wang Guangyu broke through the flank defense line of the 108th Wing that had been beaten and blinded at the first time, and forcibly penetrated in the direction of the core position of the 108th Wing, tearing the Japanese position apart with a fierce offensive.

Mencius, who commanded the frontal attack, saw Wang Guangyu tear through the Japanese defense line and penetrate into the depth of the Japanese position. Commanding the patchwork of troops that he had at hand to make a feint, he changed his original plan and turned the feint into the main attack.

When Matsunoo Katsuaki Osa, who was dazed by the beating, came to his senses, he found that his position had been thrown into chaos by the opponent's sudden counterattack. And most of the artillery, which he was once proud of, was reduced to parts along with the artillery.

Despite losing almost all of the artillery support, and his position was torn to pieces by the opponent's fierce offensive, Matsuno O Katsuaki Daisa did not have the slightest timidity, and commanded all the Japanese troops around him to gather without hesitation.

At the foot of Guanmenzuizi Mountain, on the open land where the Third Cavalry Brigade of the Japanese Army was once buried, one and a half brigades of Japanese soldiers and two battalions of anti-Japanese armed forces were buried. On a snow-white battlefield illuminated by the smoke of flares fired by both sides almost without money, a white-knuckle battle broke out on an unprecedented scale.

In the melee, all artillery fire was rendered useless, and both sides used bayonets, gun handles, shovels, wooden sticks, and even fists and teeth to end each other's lives. The bayonet is broken, and the handle of the gun is discussed. When the handle of the gun is broken, he uses his fists and teeth to greet the other party.

Even after running out of bullets in the chamber of the gun, the submachine gunner, who had no time to change the magazine, simply took the submachine gun in his hand as a brick and pulled it out. From time to time, wounded soldiers on both sides who were knocked down or stabbed pulled grenades on their bodies and took one or several opponents on the road with them.

At this time, the two armies that were fighting in a mess threw aside all tactics, and they both had only one purpose, which was to knock down and kill each other. Compared with the Japanese troops, who strictly followed the rules and withdrew the bullets from their guns before the melee, Wang Guangyu's subordinates, who fired from time to time during the battle and were equipped with a large number of submachine guns and fast and slow machines, took a huge advantage in the melee.

In addition to these two melee weapons, Wang Guangyu, who had planned to fight like this for a long time, gave each soldier twenty rounds of specially modified bullets with the armor on the warhead to reveal the lead core inside before launching the attack.

Compared with the original Type 38 rifle bullet, although the penetration of this bullet has been greatly reduced, the lethality has been greatly increased. When it hits a person, it is not a shot or two eyes, but an eye that goes in, and a big hole when it comes out.

If you're lucky enough not to have your entrails messed up by this bullet, congratulations, even if you're still alive, you're going to lose at least a pound and a half of meat.

Wang Guangyu's hand was taught to him by Wang Xiaoming, and Wang Xiaoming's trick was learned from his subordinate brother who rushed out of the Japanese army's bacteriological warfare base with Yang Zhen, that is, the battalion commander who died. It was precisely with this kind of damage that Wang Xiaoming was able to repel the last straggler line of the Japanese army with only two light machine guns left.

Under the use of all means, the Japanese army fell the most in this white-knuckle battle. Not only the corpses and wounded on the ground, but more than half were Japanese soldiers. The first to be unable to resist was actually the Japanese army.

These Japanese troops, who were re-drafted after recovery and are now special divisions formed by veterans with their families, are not as tenacious as those veteran divisions of the Japanese army. In nearly an hour of hand-to-hand combat, after Wang Guangyu almost exhausted the Japanese army with most of the strength of a brigade at the cost of two companies, the resistance of the 108th Wing could not be supported, and finally collapsed.

After a bloody hand-to-hand battle two hours after Wang Guangyu launched the attack, the 108th Wing, which could not resist Wang Guangyu's near-seemingly life-threatening attack, was divided into two disconnected areas of different sizes. And Meng Ziming, who was pressed down from the front, also drove a big wedge in one of the two remaining positions of the Japanese army.

Although he had exhausted most of the strength of a Japanese brigade and completed the first combat goal he had predetermined, and although one of the two companies lost was a ragtag company composed of rescued prisoners of war, Wang Guangyu was so distressed that he almost didn't shed tears.

With the strength of two battalions, even if Wang Xiaoming's troops are added, they can only reach the original size of their own troops. Although he thought of many ways to annihilate the enemy at the lowest cost, he still managed to fight most of the battalion at once.

Wang Guangyu, who didn't want to continue to suffer casualties, advanced all the artillery left by Wang Xiaoming for him. Adopt the tactics of bayonets on artillery, and knock them down one by one at the firing points on the Japanese positions. At the same time, all the seized gasoline was used, and what Du Kaishan had done on the front line of Qunce Mountain was attacked.

When a large number of logs poured with gasoline and oil drums filled with gasoline were ignited from a height under the cover of artillery fire, and pushed to the Japanese position, and many Japanese soldiers were killed along the way, Matsunoo Akikatsu realized how important the small mountain bag that he had lost at the beginning of the war that had been used as a warning position was now to him.

Seeing his subordinates being burned, the light and heavy machine guns that served as fire cover were almost knocked out by the opponent's direct-aim artillery, and he was beaten back by the opponent's intensive fire after several breakthroughs, and Matsunoo Akikatsu Osa, who knew that if he didn't break through again, he would only be dead, and he lost his usual proud calm.

Until now, I can't understand why the strength of an entire wing of the opponent's division, which had defeated the opponent's division, would fight like this in less than a day, Matsuno Daisa, who watched the troops around him become less and less in the opponent's fire attack mixed with accurate artillery fire, gritted his teeth and launched a decisive attack on the opponent's position with the last relatively complete squadron.

The direction of his impact was not Xingshan Street behind him, but Guanmenzuishan in front of him, which made him pay heavy losses. In his opinion, as an imperial soldier, even if he fell, he could only fall in the direction of the attack. As a soldier of the Japanese Empire, you must not allow yourself to be killed by a bullet coming from behind.

Seeing that Matsunoo Mingsheng was sent to the door by himself, how could Wang Guangyu be polite to him. On the front-line position, where a large number of light and heavy machine guns and mortars were concentrated, a real fire net was created at a distance of 200 meters in front of their own position. Every Japanese soldier who tried to break through this fire net was beaten into a hornet's nest by a dense rain of bullets.

Looking at the dying struggle of the Japanese army in front of him, Wang Guangyu put down the telescope in his hand, looked at the morning star that had gradually risen in the sky, shook his head slightly, and did not speak. Even his subordinates' request to suspend the attack, meaning and persuade him to surrender, can be regarded as a request to deal with the commander-in-chief's request, but he did not get an answer.

Because he has been dealing with the Japanese army for several years, he knows that these Japanese soldiers who have been brainwashed by the so-called bushido spirit will never put down the weapons in their hands. Persuasion is an almost impossible task for them. Since these people all have granite heads, let them take their granite heads to meet their Amaterasu.

After the last Japanese soldier in the largest encirclement fell, Wang Guangyu came to the dead body of Matsuno Daisa, who had been blown into two pieces by a mortar shell, and looked at this guy who couldn't close his eyes until he died, but still didn't say a word.

After Wang Guangyu's eyes were taken away from Matsuno Daisa's corpse, he turned his gaze to the subordinates who had barely pieced together a company led by Meng Ziming, and the two or three hundred Japanese troops who were surrounded less than 700 meters away from here, mainly wounded and the last remaining strength of the 108th Wing.

For the last two or three hundred wounded Japanese soldiers, Wang Guangyu hesitated for a moment, but still firmly gave the order to attack Mencius. Wang Guangyu gave Mencius half an hour to deal with the last remnants of the Japanese army. Because he had already heard the faint sound of gunfire coming from the direction of the mountain pass. He knew that Wang Xiaoming, who would fight very hard over there, would not leave too much time for himself.