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Chapter 435 Repelling the enemy's attack!

After the attacking devils were defeated, the soldiers of the first battalion of the new regiment immediately retreated into the tunnel of the mountain under the order of Zhang Dabiao.

After more than 20 seconds, the devil's artillery fire arrived as scheduled, and groups of shells fell on the position of the first battalion.

More than a dozen soldiers withdrew a little slower because they were rescuing the wounded, and were immediately covered by the devil's artillery fire.

However, most of the soldiers and the wounded were able to retreat into the tunnel of the mountain a few seconds before the Devil's shells fell.

Li Yunlong watched the devils fire at the position again, but his expression was very indifferent.

Wait for the devils to make one or two suicide charges like this, and the Xinyi regiment can launch a counterattack.

According to intelligence, the devils who came to attack Dagu Town this time had only one infantry regiment, plus an infantry brigade and a mountain artillery regiment.

The devils have lost an infantry brigade in three attacks.

If the devils attack one or two more times, they will lose at least one infantry brigade, and then the devils will only have two infantry brigades and the mountain artillery regiment left.

The cavalry battalion and the main battalions of the Xinyi regiment only need one charge to defeat the remaining devils.

But now the devil still has an infantry regiment and a mountain artillery regiment. Even if the main force of the new regiment is all pressed up, even if it can win, the loss will not be small.

Still the same sentence, we can't do business at a loss.

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at the same time.

Inside the Japanese Army Command.

Division commander Jing Guanren ordered the artillery to bring in a pair of artillery mirrors.

While the artillery battalion bombarded the positions of the Eighth Route Army in the rear, Jing Guanren was also observing with the artillery mirror.

You can see more clearly with an artillery scope than with a telescope.

I saw the artillery shells biting every inch of the Eighth Route Army's position, but I couldn't see the broken limbs and arms that were blown up.

On the Eighth Route Army's positions, there was no one at all, and the shells exploded into loneliness.

"Baga Yalu, immediately order the artillery to stop firing!"

The headquarters and the artillery positions in the rear have been connected to the telephone line. When the devil's telephone soldiers heard this order, they immediately dialed the phone and ordered the artillery in the rear to stop firing.

As the order was issued, the Devil Artillery immediately stopped firing.

The gunfire immediately became sporadic and then completely inaudible, and the entire battlefield became quiet and eerie.

"Your Excellency, division commander, please allow me to lead the infantry to charge again."

"This time, I will definitely win the Eighth Route!"

The commander of the 222nd regiment, Atsuji Sato, saw that the commander of the division ordered to stop the shelling, thinking that the artillery had finished bombing and it was time for the infantry to charge again.

The attack of the 3rd Infantry Battalion failed just now, making Sato Atsuji unable to hold his head up in front of Iguan Ren.

A charge at the level of an infantry brigade failed to capture the Eighth Route Army's position, and it suffered heavy losses, most of which were casualties.

What a shame!

This is often the case in wars. Even if they know they are invincible, the troops will die as soon as they go up, but the military orders are like a mountain, and the orders from the superiors have to go up even if they know they will die.

"idiot!"

Immediately, Jing Guanren cursed angrily, and then slapped Sato Atsuji twice resoundingly:

"It's a disgrace for a senior officer to actually lead the infantry to charge!"

"Hi!"

Sato Atsuji didn't dare to be dissatisfied, and quickly turned his face back to normal.

The opponent is a lieutenant general, and he is only a senior officer, separated by two senior ranks, even if the opponent farts, he is right.

"Don't have such thoughts in the future, Colonel should be in the command position instead of leading the infantry to charge!"

"Hi!"

Sato Atsuji nodded quickly.

He didn't know whether the division commander was angry because the attack failed, or because he wanted to lead the infantry to charge.

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, the Eighth Route Army's position seems to be strange."

Chief of Staff Ishikawa Harasui put down his binoculars, squinted his eyes, and suddenly said in a deep voice.

Jing Guanren's expression changed: "Ishikawa-kun, what did you find?"

"Hi!" Ishikawa Zhishui said, "Does your Excellency know that during the Battle of Taiyuan more than half a month ago, one of the battles was that the 3rd Brigade reinforced Taiyuan, but was blocked by a battalion of the Xinyi Regiment at Baozi Mountain?" However, the 3rd Brigade suffered more than 3000 casualties but failed to cross Baozi Mountain, which indirectly caused Taiyuan to be captured by the Eighth Route Army, and General Shinozuka Yoshio died for his country.”

"of course I know!"

Ren Jing said solemnly: "That battle was a shameful battle for the 3rd Brigade. Masao Miyazaki, the head of the 3rd Brigade, was dismissed, and the two wings of the 3rd Brigade were beaten down to only one wing. "

After Masao Miyazaki was dismissed, he served as the deputy chief of staff of the First Army, assisting Yoshio Iwamatsu.

At present, he has taken up his post in Taiyuan, but because he suffered a big defeat in Baozi Mountain, he is not popular at the headquarters.

The base camp also hopes that Masao Miyazaki will be brave after he realizes his shame, make some achievements, and then return to be the brigade commander again.

But Masao Miyazaki and the 3rd Brigade have become the shame and laughing stock of the First Army.

Shi Chuan Zhishui said: "If your Excellency, the commander of the division, does not want to follow in the footsteps of Major General Miyazaki, Bei Zhijian will order the withdrawal of troops and give up the capture of Dagu Town."

Jing Guanren's expression was not good, and he asked in a deep voice, "Mr. Shi Chuan, what do you mean, can't our 36th Division capture a small Dagu Town?"

"Your Excellency, Commander, my 36th Division has no problem capturing Dagu Town!"

Seeing the face of the head of the division, Ishikawa Zhishui hurriedly said:
"But the current situation is that the Xinyi Regiment has used the same tunnel tactics as Baozishan."

"Moreover, the new regiment also has artillery support from two artillery wings."

"If these two problems are not resolved, even if our 36th Division captures Dagu Town, the final casualties may not be less than two infantry regiments!"

Hearing that the casualties were not less than two infantry regiments, Jing Guanren and the officers behind him couldn't help but suddenly changed their expressions.

The 36th Division can participate in the battle, that is, three infantry wings and one artillery wing, and there is also a search wing of more than 3 people.

The rest are the Engineering Wing and the Supplies Wing, as well as the Communications Team, Field Hospital and other departments.

For a mere Dagu Town, two infantry regiments were killed or injured...is it worth it?
"Can we ask for aviation reinforcements to blow up the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army's new regiment, and use aerial bombs to blow up the tunnels dug by the Eighth Route Army in the mountain?"

Sato Atsuji said unwillingly.

In the attack just now, most of his 3rd Infantry Battalion lost, and even the captain of the Battalion was destroyed. Sato Atsuji naturally wanted revenge.

"Leaving aside the fact that the aviation unit suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Taiyuan, it has not yet recovered, and the aviation unit of the First Army has not even been reorganized."

"How many aerial bombs are needed to blow up the tunnels of the Eighth Route Army?"

"In addition, Li Yunlong is extremely cunning. He not only creates a lot of fake positions every time he builds artillery positions, but also sets up a large number of machine guns to protect the artillery positions."

"I have studied the previous battles between the imperial army and Li Yunlong, and almost every time the imperial army's plane was shot down by Li Yunlong."

"Even in the last Taiyuan battle, more than 110 Imperial Army planes were shot down."

Ishikawa's flood control obviously studied Li Yunlong.

In his opinion, Li Yunlong is indeed crazy, but he has the capital to be crazy. How could he dare to challenge the 36th Division with the strength of a regiment without any strength?

Jing Guanren narrowed his eyes, but Ishikawa's words of water control gave him a step down.

Originally thought that Dagu Town could be easily captured, but now it seems that it is impossible to capture Dagu Town without losing a few thousand people.

Baga, who invented this tunnel tactic? It's simply disgusting!
"Order, transfer back to the county seat!"

Jing Guanren ordered loudly.

The current situation of the 36th Division is different from that of the 3rd Brigade's attack on Baozi Mountain.

The order received by the 3rd Brigade at that time was to rush to Taiyuan at all costs.

So Masao Miyazaki had no choice but to take the soldiers' lives to heap.

But even with the tactic of bombing with cannons and charging with infantry, at the cost of huge casualties, it still failed to break through the positions of the Eighth Route Army.

But now the order received by the 36th Division is to watch over and monitor the Xinyi Regiment, so there is no need to forcefully capture Dagu Town with huge casualties.

"Hi!"

Sato Atsushi was unwilling, but he had no choice but to execute the order and bowed his head in response.

"Turn back to the county seat!"

Following the order from the headquarters, the devils immediately gave up attacking Dagu Town.

The 222nd Regiment returned to Anhua County under the leadership of Sato Dazuo, and the 36th Artillery Regiment returned to Heyuan County under the leadership of Jing Guanren.

Soon, the news of the devil's retreat reached the headquarters of the new regiment.

"Jing Guanren, an old devil, is not a man, so why did he run away?"

Li Yunlong was immediately disappointed. He was still thinking about waiting for the devils to charge once or twice, and the new regiment would launch a major counterattack.

It would be even better if the old devil Jing Guanren could be killed.

Although the devil's command post is within the range of the howitzer, the distance is too far to find the location of the devil's command post, so it is impossible to use the howitzer to hit the devil's command post.

However, Li Yunlong did not order the pursuit, in case he fell into the devil's tricks.

The most important thing right now is to expand the troops. As long as the troops are pulled up as soon as possible, then it will not be the 36th Division of the Devils who will attack the new regiment, but the new regiment will attack the 36th Division.

After ordering the first battalion to continue defending Dagu Town against a sneak attack by the devils, Li Yunlong ordered the assembled troops to disband.

At the same time, telegrams were sent to the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment, informing Ding Wei and Kong Jie that the ducks on their lips had flown away, so that they would not come.

Ding Wei and Kong Jie had just set off with their troops. Both of them received an order from the headquarters to reinforce the Xinyi Regiment. After seeing the telegram, they led the troops to practice for half a day, and then returned to the station.

The people in the base area were preparing to pack up the walls and clear the country, but they soon received news of the victory of the new group of repelling the devils, and they all didn't have to leave their homes.

After this battle, the sense of security of the people in the base area doubled instantly.

Before the Xinyi regiment came, the devils and puppet troops in the strongholds and gun towers went out to clean up the countryside, and the villagers had to hide in the mountains.

But after Xinyituan arrived, it made the devils deflated one after another, which greatly pleased people's hearts.

However, if the little devils are not driven out of China, the Chinese people will not feel at ease for a day.

Therefore, the villagers support the work of the Eighth Route Army even more.

The news of the annihilation of a brigade of the 36th Division reached the headquarters. The heads of the headquarters all praised Li Yunlong for his beautiful battle and sent a telegram of commendation.

Although this battle was not outstanding among the records of the Xinyi Regiment, it was the result of the Xinyi Regiment independently facing the attack of a Japanese division after arriving in Northwest Shanxi.

The news quickly spread to the Japanese First Army Command. Although Yoshio Iwamatsu did not scold Iseki Ren, he also ordered Iseki Ren to not attack the Shinichi regiment without an order.

After the 36th Division arrived in Northwest Shanxi, it was not as simple as just occupying three counties.

(End of this chapter)