And at this moment, in front of the 23rd Division of the Japanese Army, the 1st Marine Division, also launched an attack. The 23rd Division, which had already been half in chaos, was suddenly completely in disarray, and under the front and rear attacks of the People's Army, it had no resistance at all, and after holding out for less than half an hour, the whole line collapsed, and Major General Ono Shofu of the division committed suicide at the command headquarters. And this whole battle lasted only a little more than 1 hour. With only 1 division and 1 regiment, the KPA defeated an entire division of the Japanese army.

In fact, in all fairness, the fighting spirit of the Japanese army was not bad, and the battle was not without hard work, after all, for the Japanese, this was a battle to defend the homeland and defend the country, so the vast majority of Japanese soldiers participated in the war with the determination to die, and it can be said that in addition to the lack of actual combat experience, other aspects can at least be unsatisfactory. In a head-to-head battle, the Japanese would not be too bad offensively or defensively, and they might even be very good at some point. After all, the courage of flesh and blood can compensate for the lack of experience to a certain extent.

But in the event of a surprise attack, the shortcomings of the Japanese army's lack of actual combat experience will be infinitely magnified, because this has nothing to do with courage and fighting spirit, even if many soldiers really want to fight to the death, but they don't know where to fight, even if they want to fight desperately, they don't know who to fight, and many soldiers have injured many of their own people by mistake because of indiscriminate shooting, so the rout is inevitable.

It turned out that Luo Yue set the time of this battle at 6 hours, that is, from 6 o'clock in the morning to 12 o'clock at noon, and even extended it to 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and at the same time arranged 2 regiments to intercept the rescue of the 22nd Division, and prepared the reserve forces of 2 regiments, but it only took more than 1 hour to end the battle, and the interception troops and reserve forces were all useless.

So Luo Yue decided to launch an attack on the 22nd division of the Japanese army, if he could defeat 2 divisions of the Japanese army in a row, it would be a heavy blow to the Japanese army. Although the attack on the 22nd Division has now lost its suddenness, judging from the performance of the 23rd Division, Japan's actual combat experience is extremely poor, and its combat quality is not high, so Luo Yue believes that there is still a great certainty of defeating the 22nd Division.

The two regiments responsible for intercepting the rescue of the 22nd Division became the vanguard of the attack on the 22nd Division, while the regiment that landed on the 23rd Division set up positions between the 22nd Division and the 27th Division and was responsible for intercepting reinforcements from the 27th Division, while the 1st Division was still responsible for frontal attacks.

However, at the beginning of the offensive, the resistance of the Japanese army was stubborn, and it was somewhat beyond the expectations of the KPA. It turned out that after receiving the attack of the 23rd Division by the People's Army, the commander of the 22nd Division, Sanosuke Yamamoto, immediately ordered to gather troops and prepare to rescue the 23rd Division. The performance of the 23rd Division was a great disappointment, and it only lasted for more than one hour before the entire line was defeated, and some soldiers fled to the garrison of the 22nd Division, and at this time the troops of the 22nd Division had just completed their assembly.

The commander of the 22nd Division, Yamamoto Sanosuke, was also shocked after hearing the report, he was an officer who had participated in the Far East War, served as a wing commander in the Far East battlefield, was wounded in the Battle of Mukden, and was sent back to China for treatment.

It was precisely because of his experience in the Far East War that Sanosuke Yamamoto immediately thought that after taking the 23rd Division lightly, the KPA would most likely take advantage of the victory and attack his 22nd Division, so he immediately began to arrange his own defenses.

Yamamoto Sanosuke knew very well that although he had a whole division, most of them were new recruits, not only did he have no actual combat experience, but also his training time was insufficient, and his quality was much worse than that of the Japanese army that participated in the Far East War. So Yamamoto Sanosuke decided to adopt unconventional tactics, with the 65th Brigade responsible for frontal defense and the 66th Brigade responsible for flank defense, and each brigade was divided into a wing, dispersed into 2 brigades and 3 squadrons, each arranging its position, and at the same time ordered that the defenders on each position must hold their positions to the death and not retreat, and those who violated the order were shot on the spot. The remaining wing concentrated its forces to guard the perimeter of the headquarters and wait for reinforcements.

On the surface, the Japanese army's arrangement is a taboo of dividing troops to garrison, but Yamamoto Sanosuke understands that due to the lack of experience and training of the Japanese army, conventional defensive tactics may not be able to block the attack of the people's army, so scattered defense forces the people's army to advance layer by layer, consuming time, and can be dragged to the rescue of the 27th division.

Sure enough, as soon as the Japanese army was arranged, the 2nd and 3rd regiments of the 2nd Marine Division of the People's Army launched an attack on the Japanese 22nd Division from the thoroughfare. Although the Japanese army's outer positions were not large, they were superior to the number of positions, and the KPA had to be uprooted one by one before it could continue to advance. Although there are mortar units as fire support, so that the people's army can completely suppress the Japanese army in terms of firepower, but in order to occupy the position, it is still necessary for ground troops to rush forward.

And this time the Japanese army behaved unusually tenacious, when the People's Army carried out a fire strike, they all hid behind the bunker and did not move, although there were still many soldiers who died under artillery fire, and when the People's Army attacked, the Japanese army's resistance was not very tenacious, after all, no matter how tenacious, the Japanese army's firepower could not overwhelm the People's Army, but when the People's Army attacked the Japanese position, the Japanese soldiers were like chicken blood, holding a rifle with a good bayonet, and a few people even held ***, and the People's Army launched a fierce white-knuckle battle.

In fact, the quality of this group of Japanese troops is far inferior to the Japanese army that participated in the Far East War, so the bayonet technology is much worse than that of the People's Army, but it can't stand the Japanese soldiers almost all of them don't care about life and death, fighting to the death, and in this kind of white-knuckle warfare, spiritual strength can indeed be exerted to the extreme, and the Japanese soldiers basically fight with the mentality of one for another, and it has become the norm to die together, and sometimes they even deliberately hide ** in the position, and wait for the soldiers of the People's Army to detonate after approaching. When the combat soldiers were gone, the logistics soldiers followed suit, the logistics soldiers were gone, and the squadron leaders and brigade commanders also went into battle in person until they died in battle, but they still stuck to their positions and did not retreat a single step.

Although the Marines had seen the Japanese army's extraordinary mental strength and tenacious will to fight on the battlefield in Liaodong, it was indeed unseen in such a jade-shattered style of fighting of the whole army, so the battle lasted for nearly one hour, and although the People's Army also captured two positions of the Japanese army, it also suffered nearly 300 casualties.

At this time, the 1st Marine Division also launched an attack from the Japanese front, and the situation they encountered was similar to that of the flanks, and the resistance of the Japanese army could not be described as tenacious, but only saved the battle dead, and of course the death had to take one away. The People's Army Marines are also considered to have been in battle for a long time, and most of the soldiers are killed from the sea of blood in the sword mountain, but in the face of the Japanese army's completely death-to-death style of fighting, to be honest, this style of play does feel a little palpitations, after all, the mentality of the two sides is different now, the Japanese are defending the country and defending the emperor, and it is worth dying, while the People's Army is fighting in the territory of another country, although they also know that they are fighting for their own country, but they are always worse in confidence.

During the two hours of the battle, the KPA had paid the price of more than 1,000 casualties, and the small peripheral positions on the frontal battlefield were basically occupied by the KPA, but the Japanese army still held the front of the command headquarters, and on the side battlefield, the Japanese army also had a peripheral position, and the two sides were engaged in a fierce white-knuckle battle.

At this time, Luo Yue couldn't help but regret a little, he knew that the Japanese 22nd Division was so tenacious, he should not have taken the liberty of launching an attack on the 22nd Division, after all, defeating the 23rd Division was already a big victory, and there was no need to add to it. But I was still a little careless, and underestimated the tenacity of the Japanese army, There was a certain chance in defeating the 23rd Division in more than 1 hour, but I regarded it as the normal state of the Japanese army, you must know that in the old time and space, the Japanese army played such a perverted tactic as a kamikaze, how could it despise the Japanese army's will to resist?

But now that the battle has been fought, of course, it can't be easily retreated, after all, from the situation on the battlefield, although the People's Army has suffered heavy losses, but the situation is superior, and gradually advances, if the army is withdrawn at this time, the morale of the People's Army, the mentality is a major blow, whether it is a traverser, or Luo Yue, I don't want the People's Army to be a war that will only fight with the wind, will only fight in the case of superior firepower, can't stand the predicament, can't stand the loss of casualties, so this battle must be persistently fought, so Luo Yue ordered to send the reserve team up and continue to attack, regardless of casualties。

After more than half an hour of fierce fighting, the last peripheral position on the flank of the Japanese army was finally lost, and on the frontal battlefield, the People's Army had already attacked the forward position commanded by the 22nd Division, and the two sides were engaged in a fierce white-knives battle. Luo Yue estimated that in another half an hour, or at most one hour, the People's Army would be able to achieve victory.

And in the headquarters of the 22nd Division, Sanosuke Yamamoto refused the staff officers' proposal to transfer the headquarters, because he knew very well that now that he was in the command headquarters, the army behind him would be able to hold up for a while, and if he withdrew first, then the 22nd Division would be defeated on the whole line like the 23rd Division, so Yamamoto Sanosuke not only did not transfer the headquarters, but ordered that all members of the division headquarters must stay in the headquarters and not take a step back, and if the forward position under command is broken by the People's Army, he will personally lead all the members of the division headquarters to fight a decisive battle with the People's Army on the front line, and they will die on the position, and at this time, those who flee without permission, a chance to kill in a hurry.