"Order the 2nd Machine Gun Squadron and order them to step forward and reinforce the 2nd Infantry Brigade. Hiroshi Matsuda personally commanded this machine-gun squadron, and it was necessary to suppress the attack of the independent brigade and hold the bridge crossing on the north bank. Masuda didn't have a long time to think, and made a decision in less than ten seconds.

The devil soldier who rushed to report the unfolding suddenly said: "Hai, Your Excellency Dazuo." Then the walking cat walked away.

At this time, Matsuda Hiroshi was struggling to support at this time, and the two battalions of the 1st Regiment of the Independent Brigade were good at night operations. Moreover, the attacking independent brigade regiment and two battalions, the front soldiers and the fighters covering the flanks, actually used a poured quilt and a temporary layer of steel plates as a shield to cover the rest of the main infantry of the two battalions to attack and advance.

This hand immediately made Matsuda Hiroshi grit his teeth. The firepower of its front-line defensive positions, which was not as good as it could have been fired at night.

After all, the old devil is also a little bad at night fighting. When he met the soldiers of the Independent Brigade who were familiar with night battles, he was suddenly beaten and caught off guard.

"Boom, boom! Boom Boom Boom !! "One after another, the shells fired by the independent brigade from the artillery positions on the south bank continued to fall into the positions of the Japanese troops under the command of Matsuda Hiroshi, and they overturned a wave of stumps and broken arms.

The screams kept ringing out, and Hiroshi Matsuda, who was watching, looked frightened.

"Captain, the 1st Squadron has suffered casualties. The 2nd Squadron had been made up and was holding the bridge on the north bank. However, the independent brigade attacked rapidly, and the combat and tactical coordination was seamless, and it had already captured the first and second lines of defense at the bridge. If it continues, I'm afraid my 2nd Squadron won't be able to withstand it for long. ”

Hiroshi Matsuda's chief of staff, Captain Osamu Yokoi, arrived in a hurry, looking nervous in the night, and said hurriedly.

Matsuda Hiroshi was pale, and the infantry of the Independent Brigade attacked fiercely, and the large number of submachine guns and machine guns attached to his melee forces dealt a serious blow to the infantry in his front-line defensive positions. The Japanese Type 38 rifle was only a bolt rifle, and although it had a long range, it was very unfavorable for close combat.

In the melee battle, a large number of submachine guns of the independent brigade swept over, and the dense rain of bullets made his infantry soldiers unable to raise their heads, and by the time the infantry of the independent brigade fired a little weaker, the opposing infantry had already rushed into their own defensive trenches.

In the trench fortifications at close range, the submachine guns of the independent brigade were enough to solve the Japanese infantry hiding behind the fortifications.

At this point, his two lines of defense were broken in five minutes.

As a last resort, even Hiroshi Matsuda, who was in command on the front line, had no choice but to retreat to the fifth line of defense to direct the battle.

Hearing this, Matsuda Hiroshi gritted his teeth and said, "The wing commander has transferred the machine gun squadron belonging to the 3rd Infantry Brigade to us for command. Chief of Staff, you personally command, organize fire, cover firing on both flanks, cooperate with the soldiers of the Imperial Army on the frontal defense, and suppress the offensive of the independent brigade! Retake the position at the mouth of the bridge, and drip quickly. ”。

"Okay, please rest assured, captain, I will personally command the counterattack immediately." Yokoi Shu paused and walked away.

At this time, the Independent Brigade had already captured the defensive offensive constructed by the Japanese army at the mouth of the bridge on the north bank of the Kouquan River Railway Bridge, and advanced along the railway bridge to both sides of the Kouquan River bank and the north side of the railway bridge. The remnants of the first regiment that followed closely in the rear, and more than 2,000 people of Ma Wenhai's three regiments, took advantage of the situation to step on the railway bridge of the Kouquan River and charge to the north bank under the suppression of the fierce artillery fire continued by the independent brigade.

In less than ten minutes, before Masuda Kentai transferred a machine-gun squadron to reinforce Matsuda's Hiroshi Division, he had already rushed to the north bank.

Immediately, Zhang Dabiao commanded the first regiment of the post to attack north along the railway bridge, and the third regiment of Ma Wenhai's headquarters attacked the fortifications built by the Japanese army on both sides of the north bank of the Kouquan River. Subsequently, Shen Qun's second regiment, which had already rested for more than ten minutes, continued to follow up the attack. Bayi Chinese Network

The artillery of the separate brigade continued its artillery fire to suppress the sporadic artillery counterattacks of the 313 Wing, covering the attacks of the three main regiments.

Li Yunlong also saw with his own eyes that the attacking troops were progressing smoothly at this time, and couldn't help laughing, "Order all units to give full play to the combat style of our independent brigade, and give me a hard blow without any scruples." The 3rd and 2nd regiments were given orders to attack on the flanks, and it was necessary to clear the Japanese defenses on both flanks. And, in the end, attack the advancing second regiment, send one to follow up, and support Zhang Dabiao's attack in the rear. ”

Li Yunlong paused, and continued to say to the brigade staff officer who recorded the order: "Give Sun Desheng an order to order the cavalry battalion under his command to be dispatched to outflank the rear of the 313th Wing in a roundabout way. From here, here, take a trail to run, this path can be passed by two riders side by side. Let him hurry out and go. ”。

"Yes, Brigadier General!" The staff officer of the brigade headquarters recorded the order and saluted, then turned around and left to send someone to give the order.

Li Yunlong, on the other hand, continued to pick up the binoculars, stood on the position at the southern end of the railway bridge, which originally belonged to the Japanese fortifications, and looked at the fierce battle scene on the north bank with a smile.

At this time, Li Yunlong had already learned that the Japanese army from Taiyuan to the north secretly transferred an elite brigade from the Zhongtiao Mountain front, and the main force of the 77th Brigade was also traveling north. However, night transportation, coupled with superior emergency transportation, is impossible to reach this area of the Kouquan River in at least three hours.

And this time of at least three hours is enough for Li Yunlong to command the main force of the brigade to crush, or to annihilate the less than 4,000 Japanese troops under the 313th Wing of the 41st Division of the Japanese Army.

This is not at all a difficult thing for the independent brigade.

At this time, the Japanese positions on the north bank of the Kouquan River had been continuously lost.

"Dada!!!"

The soldiers of the 1st Regiment of the Independent Brigade, which was storming the Japanese position on the north bank and advancing to attack in depth, encountered a sudden outflanking attack by the heavy machine-gun fire of a machine gun squadron specially transferred by Masuda Kenyasu.

On the spot, at least 20 soldiers were killed by the heavy machine gun fire of the devils.

The front-line commander of the regiment immediately made a decision and directly mobilized the mortars that came up with the army to carry out a rapid artillery attack on the position where the devil's machine gun fire point appeared.

Soon, a full twelve Japanese Type 92 heavy machine guns were blown up by a group of 80 mm mortar shells that had been brought up.

It has to be said that all regiments of today's independent brigade are supported by mortar units that are specially advanced with infantry attacks at close range, so that when Wang Chengzhu's artillery battalion is unable to cover the infantry with infantry and artillery fire. Each regiment should use mortars on its own battlefield to carry out some close-range artillery fire to destroy the machine gun fire points that came out of the devils at close range, otherwise it will sometimes be too late to rely solely on the long-range artillery fire of the artillery battalion to destroy them.

Kotaro Kusunoki, the chief of staff of the 313th Wing of the Japanese Army, who was personally responsible for leading this machine gun squadron to reinforce Matsuda's Hiroshi Brigade, was already dumbfounded.

At this time, destroying the machine gun squadron that the Japanese army had drawn up to reinforce it, the Japanese 2nd Brigade under Matsuda Hiroshi was finally unable to withstand it. The defensive positions held by his subordinates were constantly lost, and they were on the verge of collapse.

"Yaga! The wing was routed by the enemy, and there was no suspense! "Kusunoki Kotaro saw with his own eyes that the machine gun squadron that led up to reinforce Matsuda's Hiroshi Brigade was blown up by artillery fire supported by the mortar detachment of the 1st Regiment of the Independent Brigade, and he had to admit that he could not hold it here.