On June 25, a Japanese force of 1,500 men had crossed a deep ditch and approached Huangcaoba. Another Japanese army of more than 1,200 people marched north along Changlinggang, and it was about to capture the empty tree slope heights.

Zhang Shaoxun, the commander of the 87th Division, was in a hurry, and his 260th Regiment had no soldiers left at Tenglong Bridge, and the 259th Regiment was attacked by the Japanese army on both sides, suffering heavy casualties, coupled with the lack of food, the troops could not stop the strong artillery bombardment of the Japanese army at all, and the 5255 heights were soon lost.

In order to preserve the existing troops, he answered the phone call of Deputy Army Commander Chen Mingren, requesting to get out of the way of Huangcaoling and Zhen'an Street on the highway to avoid the Japanese army.

If the Huangcaoling is abandoned, it will be tantamount to giving way to the Japanese army, so that the Lameng garrison, which has been surrounded by the new 28th Division, will have a chance to break through, and if the Japanese troops in Songshan and Longling are connected, the battle situation will quickly turn vicious, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

This is exactly what Sakaguchi wanted. Where can Chen Mingren agree!

The war was urgent, and Chen Mingren was already very dissatisfied with the lax defense of the Tenglong Bridge of the 87th Division, which caused the reversal of the entire battle situation, and originally thought that Zhang Shaoxun should take the initiative to make up for his mistakes and turn the tide of the war, but unexpectedly, the division commander instead put forward a request to retreat to the front line.

Chen Mingren immediately interrupted Zhang Shaoxun's phone call rudely, and sternly warned him: "You must defend the 5255 Heights and Huangcaoling for me, and if there is any protest order, come and see me!" ”

Chen Mingren's roar made Zhang Shaoxun's hand holding the phone tremble slightly.

This general, who graduated from the 5th Infantry Department of Whampoa and the Army University, had participated in many major wars with Song Xilian, and had seen a lot of life and death.

There is a military order to the top, and there is no way back. And the 5255 heights have been lost, and I am afraid that the situation of the war will not be salvaged. The troops are already exhausted, lack ammunition, and have no food, so what can they use to motivate the soldiers to regain the lost territory?

Zhang Shaoxun had nowhere to vent his resentment, and in shame, he pulled out his hand and aimed it at his chest. The guards were shocked when they saw it, and immediately went to grab his gun, but fortunately, the bullet missed, and Zhang Shaoxun was only injured in the arm, so he naturally failed.

The division commanders are like this, and the morale of the army is in turmoil.

Song Xilian immediately sent a special service company of the 71st Army to stop the retreat of the 87th Division, and had no choice but to temporarily change the general before the battle, immediately removed Zhang Shaoxun from the post of division commander, appointed Huang Yan as the commander of the 87th Division, regrouped, and held the front line.

The Japanese army continued to attack fiercely, and the situation was very critical, and if it could not be resisted, the Japanese troops in Longling and Songshan would have the possibility of joining hands again.

Wei Lihuang hurriedly ordered Song Xilian: "Immediately assemble the main force of the troops to break the offensive of the enemy in front of you, at least you must use the terrain to gain a firm foothold in the area west of Huangcaoba, resist the enemy in front of you, and do not move eastward without receiving the order." ”

Song Xilian urgently transferred all the 263rd Regiment of the 88th Division of the 71st Army Reserve into battle, and ordered the 226th Regiment of the 76th Division of the 2nd Army to send reinforcements.

The enemy and us fought viciously at Huangcaoba, Zhoujiazhai, Kongshu, and Shiitake Ridge, and the Japanese army was too fierce, and a battalion of the 263rd Regiment was all killed. At the critical moment, the 8th Army Honor 1st Division sent by Wei Lihuang traveled day and night, bypassing Songshan and directly reaching Mengmao Street. The timely entry of this new force into the battle finally stopped the fierce offensive of the Japanese army.

Just in front of the armored car into the minefield, the 8th Army's 1st Division of Honor sappers suddenly twisted *** pressed, a series of huge roars suddenly came out of the road below, and the sudden fire completely tore the night, and the two armored vehicles were directly overturned several meters high and smashed down, at the same time, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers were also directly lifted up by the violent explosion.

At this moment, the dense gunfire suddenly fired on the slopes on both sides, and the bullets flew down, almost instantly, dozens of Japanese soldiers fell in the field, and the rest of the panicked counterattack, many of them could only lie on the ground and barely dodge, at this time, a series of hands on the slopes on both sides of the hill ** began to throw down sharply, the most important thing is that the veterans of the hundred battles above also have their own ways to deal with these Japanese soldiers who are lying on the ground to resist, what is the way, that is, pull the hand ** After that, he left it on his hand for a few seconds before throwing it off.

In this way, almost all of these thrown hands exploded in the air, and the dense shrapnel almost flew from dead ends, and many Japanese soldiers were hit by the dense shrapnel, and the casualties became one!

At the same time, dozens of light and heavy machine guns on the hillside fired wildly at the bottom, and many Japanese soldiers were suppressed by machine gun fire.

"Correct coordinates!"

"Ready!"

"Put!"

With the order of Huang Yan, the newly appointed commander of the 87th Division, 82 mortars and 60 mortars were all fired, and even several mountain guns in the field were fired with all their might, and these Japanese military vehicles were smashed into pieces in the roar, and some military vehicles also exploded one after another, and the soldiers hiding below were either killed or screamed in flames, and the gunfire continued, and the Japanese casualties were also very serious.

At this time, the Japanese troops behind suddenly formed two squadrons to attack the slopes on both sides, trying to defeat the blocking troops on both sides from the side, but the slopes on the sides were originally very steep, and these Huang division commanders let the Rong 1st Division that had just rushed over to make a deployment, just when these Japanese troops just rushed up, the slopes on both sides suddenly sounded machine guns and the sound of ***, at such a close distance, the Japanese troops who charged up quickly suffered heavy casualties.

At the same time, the casualties of the two squadrons of the Japanese army in front have exceeded sixty percent, and in such a situation, the Japanese army is also rapidly erecting artillery, 60 mortars and 40 guns are also firing at the slopes on both sides, trying to suppress the firepower of our army!

There were also firing points hit by the Japanese in the roar, but when these Japanese troops charged from the slopes on both sides, the fire points above were still full of firepower, and many of the charging soldiers were beaten into sieves and had to retreat.

Taking advantage of this period, in order to stabilize the troops and occupy a stable position, Division Commander Huang actively adopted the opinions of Commander Song of the group and quickly adjusted the defense plan; at the same time, according to the situation of the enemy and us, the 87th Division organized and strengthened companies in each regiment, led by the battalion commander, adopted guerrilla tactics, drilled gaps and inserted them behind enemy lines, and specially attacked the Japanese garrison command posts, grain and gun magazines, and vehicle and artillery positions.

Small groups of troops attacked the enemy day and night in turns, attacking in all directions, making the Japanese troops nervous and exhausted. Unexpectedly, this flexible tactic really works.

The two sides are in a standoff for the time being.