The Japanese army of Masuda Kenyasu's wing was equipped with an artillery brigade with eight Type 92 infantry guns. Coupled with the 37-mm anti-tank guns with three guns, the artillery fire strength is still not weak.

Seeing that Tanimura Jiro hurriedly requested artillery support, Masuda Kenyasu had no choice but to order the artillery brigade of his wing to concentrate artillery fire on the north bank and launch a fierce artillery bombardment on the periphery of Shimomaiso.

As Masuda Kenyasu ordered the artillery of the wing to carry out a rapid artillery attack, the area around Shimomaiso and some places in the village were completely covered by artillery fire.

"Boom, boom, boom!!!"

Suddenly, a small Xiamizhuang was shrouded in heavy artillery fire, and the units of the 1st Regiment of the Attacking Independent Brigade had no choice but to hide on the spot and look for a place to hide.

There is no need for Zhang Dabiao to contact Wang Chengzhu and ask for artillery counterattack.

I saw that after the devil launched artillery support somewhere on the north bank of the Kouquan River, Wang Chengzhu quickly found the artillery position of the little devil from the devil's artillery attack track.

"The target is on the left side of the railway on the north bank of the Quanhe River, two hundred and seventy meters away from the north bank of the river. The whole battalion shelled, killed! Wang Chengzhu sneered in the dark, even if the devil's artillery position was deployed on the back of the slope, it was difficult to destroy it in the dark.

However, Wang Chengzhu only had to command an artillery unit to suppress the Japanese artillery bombardment with artillery fire and support a regiment to attack Xia Mizhuang.

Sure enough, as all the members of the artillery battalion of the Independent Brigade turned the firing coordinates, the rumbling artillery bombardment soon roared towards the Japanese army's hidden artillery position on the north bank of the Kouquan River.

The effect was good, Wang Chengzhu judged that the approximate range of the Japanese artillery position would not be wrong, and soon the artillery shells of the Japanese artillery in the direction of the north bank to support the devils in Xia Mizhuang dissipated visibly with the naked eye.

In Shimo-Misho, Tanimura Jiro had just breathed a sigh of relief, seeing that the Japanese artillery on the north bank supported the artillery fire, and suppressed the attacking infantry of the independent brigade for less than two minutes. Soon, under the gaze of Tanimura Jiro, the artillery fire of the Independent Brigade was fiercely shelled from the south bank to the north bank, and in less than a moment the artillery positions of the 313 Wing were suppressed.

Soon, Tanimura Jiro saw that the Japanese artillery support on the north bank could not be reached.

"Yaga! I didn't expect the artillery fire of the Independent Brigade to be so strong! ”

Tanimura Jiro secretly swallowed his saliva, watching as the Japanese artillery fire in the direction of the north bank was obviously suppressed by the artillery fire of the independent brigade. Judging from the trajectory of the shells fired by the Independent Brigade, the scene of the shells whistling to the north, Tanimura Jiro realized that the artillery of the Independent Brigade was at least the size of two artillery brigades.

Or even, more!

"Look, sir, the enemy is on the offensive!" At this time, when Tanimura Jiro was stunned, one of the devil soldiers who protected him exclaimed.

When Tanimura Jiro heard this, he immediately walked to the roof wall and looked in the direction of the two intersections into the village.

In fact, at this time, Zhang Dabiao had already commanded several main battalions of the first regiment to attack from three sides and enter Shimo-Mizhuang, because the Japanese troops led by Tanimura Jiro led two squadrons to occupy Shimonezhuang were blind when they were blind. When they entered and occupied Xiamizhuang, the devil soldiers burned, killed and looted, so that some of the ordinary people in Xiamizhuang escaped from Xiamizhuang at night.

After all, the people in Xiamizhuang learned that it was a devil who entered the village, and many astute people took advantage of the night and the favorable conditions of familiarizing themselves with the terrain to escape from Xiamizhuang.

And just when Zhang Dabiao led his troops to attack Xia Mizhuang, there were people who escaped from Xia Mizhuang who volunteered to guide the soldiers to take the dense path, bypassing the attention of the devils and attacking Xia Mizhuang from other routes.

"Eight Tooth Road!"

Tanimura Jiro gritted his teeth and said, "Order all troops, resolutely resist!" The gods of heaven will bless us. Our reinforcements have already gone north from Taiyuan, and a full fleet of the empire is coming from the south to the north, as long as we resist, the independent brigade will be attacked by us from the north and south! Kill the twitter, give me a stand. ”。

"Hai, sir!"

The devil soldiers left in a hurry, but in the night, the sound of guns and cannons of fierce battles was everywhere in Xiamizhuang. The bullets on both sides hit each other in the sky, and they collided with a violent fire!

After the Japanese artillery position on the north bank was suppressed by the artillery fire of the soldiers of the artillery battalion of the independent brigade commanded by Wang Chengzhu, the two squadrons of devils in Xiamizhuang were suddenly alone.

At this time, Li Yunlong ordered the second regiment and the third regiment to each send one to attack the Japanese defensive positions deployed along the south port of the railway bridge on the Kouquan River.

However, it is clear that the devil attaches great importance to the defense of the southern end of the railway bridge, especially the defensive positions built on both sides of the railway. In order to maintain the position at the port south of the railway bridge, Masuda Kentai fully transferred a machine gun squadron with a total of eight Type 92 heavy machine guns. In addition, five 80 mm mortars were installed to block the attacks of the independent brigade.

It's just that at this time, the battle of Shimomesho was already in the middle and late stages, Tanimura Jiro was pale, and the two roads into the village had been occupied by the troops attacking the independent brigade along the way. His two squadrons had already suffered heavy casualties and were exhausted.

"Sir, the 1st Squadron was completely wiped out, and the 2nd Squadron suffered more than half of the casualties. We have less than a hundred left! Withdraw! Xia Mizhuang can no longer hold it. In the bright light of the explosion, a devil soldier staggered to Tanimura Jiro's side and whispered urgently.

Tanimura looked around, there were no more ghost soldiers!

"Less than twenty minutes into the battle, our two squadrons can't even hold on for half an hour! This is our shame! ”

Tanimura Jiro was still ashamed, and said with a hideous face: "Even if we withdraw, Your Excellency Osa won't kill us after the war?" Order all the soldiers to fight to the death, follow me! ”。

After saying that, Tanimura Jiro personally held a katana in his hand, ran down to the roof, and personally commanded the remnants of the Japanese army to launch a final counterattack against the incoming independent brigade regiment of nearly 2,000 people.

It's just that the remnants of devils with less than 100 people can only be cut off one by one by Zhang Dabiao's command.

After the artillery fire of the devils on the north bank of the Kouquan River was suppressed by the artillery battalion commanded by Wang Chengzhu, Zhang Dabiao commanded a regiment to attack Xiamizhuang, and it took another ten minutes to finally clear out the remnants of the Japanese army who were stubbornly resisting to the end in Xiamizhuang.

After the gunfire in Shiamizhuang completely stopped, in the temporary headquarters of the 313th Wing on the north bank of the Kouquan River, Masuda Kentai put down the observation binoculars with a gloomy face and was silent.

At the last minute, Jiro Tanimura in Shimomaiso made one last phone call to Kentai Masuda, followed by a beep after the phone hung up. At that time, Masuda Kentai knew that the loss of Shimomizhuang was inevitable.

"Your Excellency Dazuo, the commander of the defensive position at the south port of the railway bridge called, and they couldn't resist it! Enemy artillery fire suppressed their mortar and grenadier counterattacks, the infantry of the Independent Brigade attacked rapidly, and the remnants of the 1st Infantry Brigade defending the port of the railway bridge on the south bank suffered heavy casualties. They asked to withdraw to the North Shore! Otherwise, I'm afraid the whole army will be wiped out! At this time, Kotaro Kusunoki, the chief of staff of the wing, walked briskly from behind Kentai Masuda and reported in a low voice.