"Hai, Your Excellency, Division Commander. Obedience! ”

Yamazaki saluted with a serious expression, and then hurriedly left to deploy the attack force.

Itagaki Seishiro frowned, and in the woods more than 700 meters away from the mouth of the Jinlongxia Gorge, he established a temporary field headquarters and commanded all Japanese troops to start attacking the side of the Jinlongxia Gorge.

At this time, on the Tianfengling Mountain of Hengshan Mountain, Wang Chengzhu commanded the only 88-mm anti-aircraft gun to kill most of the incoming Japanese bombers with extremely high rate of fire and skill, as well as several Japanese Zero fighters. forced the Japanese flight commander Hanno Jiro Shaozo to command the remnants of the fighters to evacuate over Hengshan in a fart.

"The regimental commander, the commissar, according to observations. This time, we completely annihilated 20 bombers in the Japanese fleet and shot down 3 Zero fighters. Now, the little devil's fighter plane has withdrawn from the sky above our Heng Mountain. ”

Wang Chengzhu walked quickly in front of Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang, and stood up and saluted to report the results of the battle.

Li Yunlong smiled and said, "Okay, good!" Well played, pillars. Now is still the time to celebrate, immediately command the artillery, ready to meet the attack of Seishiro Itagaki at any time. ”。

"Understood, Commander! The artillery is ready to fight at any time and knock out all the artillery bombardment of the little devils! ”

At this time, Zhao Gang, who was standing beside Li Yunlong, said loudly: "Lao Li, the soldiers sent out to guard by the latest canyon valley mouth defense force have withdrawn. There is a new situation! ”。

"What's the situation? Lao Zhao? Li Yunlong asked in a condensed voice, seeing Zhao Gang's serious expression, he suddenly became serious.

I saw Zhao Gang pointing to the military map placed on a table not far in front of the two, and said closely: "Look, the little devil's reinforcements have secretly entered this forest to stand by and hide. According to the withdrawal report of the hidden fighters sent out from the periphery, the strength of these little devils is roughly more than 7,000 people. It is estimated that the infantry reinforcements of the little devils have arrived, and the remaining 2,500 people of the 21st Brigade of Seishiro Itagaki have begun to approach our Jinlongxia Gorge again. ”。

"This wood, which is more than 700 meters long, is very dense. Coupled with the fact that the woods were covered with snow at this time, the effect of our shelling was probably not great. It seems that Seishiro Itagaki is also cunning. Now what is the little devil doing? ”

Li Yunlong said easily, even if there were 10,000 Japanese infantry threatening the mouth of the Jinlong Gorge, they would break through the mouth of the canyon in a short period of time. After all, the terrain at the mouth of the canyon is narrow, easy to defend and difficult to attack. The side has built reinforced concrete fortifications, the two wings of the pillbox are covered, and the fire is crossed, if the Japanese infantry dares to charge in a group, it is definitely what Li Yunlong is willing to see.

Zhao Gang shook his head and said in a solemn tone: "At present, the Japanese army has only sent a small force to carry out a feint attack on the mouth of the Jinlong Gorge again, and it seems that it is still using the firepower to attract us. Lao Li, I feel a little weird. ”。

Itagaki Seishiro now has more than 5,000 Japanese infantry reinforcements on the ground, plus more than 2,500 people from the original remnants of the 21st Brigade, there are about 7,000 or 8,000 people. Moreover, according to intelligence, most of the Japanese infantry reinforced were the elite of the Japanese army guarded from Pingxingguan, Lingqiu and Guangling, and their combat effectiveness was good. At least it won't be a Japanese garrison on the third line, and you can't be too careless.

"It's a little weird, but at the moment we have the advantage of the terrain, and the fortifications at the mouth of the canyon are enough to block the onslaught of the little devil's infantry for a week. Let's take a look first, let's see what tricks Seishiro Itagaki has, we're dealing with it! ”

Li Yunlong paused, and continued to say to Zhao Gang: "Old Zhao, let's do it, order the first, second, and third battalions of the canyon defense, pay attention." Once Seishiro Itagaki gathers infantry to storm onslaught, then hit hard! However, one battalion had to be left as a reserve, and two battalions were to defend the valley with two wings. The artillery will provide artillery support from a high position on the top of the mountains of Tianfengling and Cuiping Peak. ”。

"Good! That's a good deal to do! ”

Zhao Gang bowed his head and said: "In this way, I will personally take people to deal with the situation at the mouth of the canyon, and your Lao Li will coordinate and command on Tianfengling Mountain." How is it? ”。

"Good! If there is any situation, feel free to call us! Li Yunlong pointed to the field telephone on the table and said solemnly.

Zhao Gang nodded and said, "Okay!" He walked away quickly.

At this time, Seishiro Itagaki had already commanded the post headquarters and the Japanese infantry that had come in reinforcements, and began to arrive less than 200 meters into the mouth of the Jinryukyo Gorge again.

A few minutes earlier, there had already been a small force of Japanese troops attacking the new defensive positions of the new regiment at the mouth of the valley of the Jinlong Gorge. It's just that even the little devils understand that the attack of this small force is just a test of firepower.

As the soldiers of the new regiment who are very familiar with the tactics of the Japanese army, they do not need to give orders from their own battalion commanders. In the trenches, the fighters in the pillboxes did not fire light and heavy machine gun fire, and even mortars did not fire. Just use rifles, long-range point fire, to kill a small group of incoming Japanese soldiers.

This back and forth, feints and firepower to test the attack of small groups of Japanese troops, but the casualties gradually increased. By the time Seishiro Itagaki got the report, he could only order the small force of the Japanese army that had feinted to withdraw.

At this time, under the protection of several Japanese guards, Itagaki Seishiro was lying behind a snowdrift, holding a telescope and looking at the new fortifications at the mouth of the Jinlong Gorge with a solemn look in his eyes.

"Yaga! Li Yunlong's new regiment was really a strong enemy of the empire, and the damaged fortifications were actually built so quickly. Itagaki Seishiro was jealous in his heart, Taniguchi's new regiment of fortifications, in a short period of time, taking advantage of the time when the Japanese army retreated ten miles, quickly repaired the damaged fortifications, which made Itagaki Seishiro, who arrived to observe, feel jealous.

At this time, Yamazaki, the commander of the 41st Wing, rushed to the front of Seishiro Itagaki with his waist trotted from the side, bent down and whispered: "Your Excellency, division commander, all departments are ready to attack. The two infantry brigades of our 41st Wing and the remnants of the 42nd Wing have softened together and divided into two parts to attack on the left and right flanks. The frontal attack included the Yanmen Pass and the 2,000 men and horses of Fanzhi. There are still 3,000 men left, as reserves. Your Excellency, Division Commander, what do you think? ”。。

"Yo Xi, that's good. Three heavy artillery pieces were ordered, and it was possible to begin bombarding the defensive positions of the Chinese army at the mouth of the gorge valley and knock out their reinforced concrete pillbox fortifications. Destroy their firing points, and in addition, order the heavy artillery units to use a heavy cannon to knock out the opponent's artillery positions if the opponent's artillery fire counterattacks. Seishiro Itagaki sneered.

Yamazaki paused in the air and said, "Haiyi, Your Excellency the Division Commander!" ”。