Itagaki Seishiro waved his hand and said: "Now that our artillery has lost everything, if we storm the mouth of the Jinlong Gorge, the casualties of the infantry will definitely be very large." Therefore, there is no urgency now, and Commander Shinozuka does not have a detailed understanding of the situation at the front, and we cannot call 100% according to Commander Shinozuka's callback. ”。

  "Your Excellency, Division Commander, are we just waiting for reinforcements? Do nothing? Yamazaki said solemnly, his 41st Wing is also suffering heavy casualties now. But it didn't look like it couldn't be done at all, after all, for Yamazaki Volley, the new group was still in his chain of contempt.

  However, the wing commander of the 42nd Wing, who was on Yamazaki's side, said in a condensed voice: "I agree with the analysis of His Excellency the division commander, Commander Shinozuka did not understand in detail the strength of the enemy fortifications at the mouth of the Jinlong Gorge. And on its flanks and behind it, there is no path that can raid the opponent's back. Then we can only storm the canyon in front of us, but once we attack, we will inevitably suffer heavy casualties, and the gains outweigh the losses! ”。

  "Yo Xi, Teng Chuan is right! Therefore, even if Commander Shinozuka sends another urgent telegram, we will have to wait until reinforcements arrive. Itagaki Seishiro waved his hand and said, this is also a helpless move.

  When Yamazaki volleyed this, he nodded helplessly after thinking about it, and Seishiro Itagaki said it well. Storming the mouth of the Jinlong Gorge and investing all their remaining forces at present can only become the target of the opponent's firepower, and the effect is actually not great under the heavy casualties.

  It's just that what a few old devils don't know at this time is that at this time, on the top of Tianfengling Mountain, the artillery position built by the new regiment has gathered at least two-thirds of the current artillery reserves of the new regiment.

  A total of more than 30 Type 92 infantry guns were captured from the Japanese army, and more than 70 mortars were concentrated on the top of Tianfengling Mountain, lined up in several columns and horizontals, and the artillerymen were already in position.

  Wang Chengzhu, commander of the artillery of the new regiment, commanded the artillery to arrange for the artillery to be in position, and after adjusting the coordinates of the artillery bombardment, he hurriedly reported to Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang, who were standing not far behind the artillery position.

  "Report to the regiment commander, political commissar, artillery is in place and ready to shell at any time!" Wang Chengzhu trotted to Zhao Gang and Li Yunlong, stood up and saluted, and said sonorously.

  Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang nodded, and Li Yunlong waved his hand and ordered: "Wait for my order!" Lao Zhao, inform Sun Desheng's cavalry company to take position at the mouth of the canyon, and when the shelling is over, gallop into the camp of Seishiro Itagaki and crush the other party, and the attacking troops of the two battalions are ready to charge behind the cavalry! Ready in one minute! ”。

  "Good!" Zhao Gang nodded, walked directly to the field phone placed on a table not far away, and directly picked up the cavalry company and two battalions of troops that had gathered at the mouth of the canyon and made a phone call to order.

  A minute passed quickly, and Li Yunlong ordered Wang Chengzhu: "Start shelling, kill!" ”。

  "Yes, Captain!" Wang Chengzhu was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately returned to the position of artillery commander and began to order all artillery units to operate artillery and mortars to carry out cluster shelling.

  "Attention all artillery, target: the large battalion of the 21st Brigade of the Japanese Army in the woods, at a distance of five hundred and eighty meters, cluster bombardment, preparation, release!"

  As soon as Wang Chengzhu gave the order, he ordered all artillery to start shelling according to the previously determined shelling coordinates without firing the correction shells.

  I saw that one by one the artillery soldiers began to operate the cannon bombardment, accompanied by the sound of the cannonballs, one after another shells whistled out from the muzzle, with a long tail flame, whistling from the already clear sky into a parabola into Itagaki Seishiro's camp.

  The cannonballs whistled and fell, and then there were bursts of violent explosions. Bursts of red light lit up the sky, and smoke filled the woods.

  "Boom, boom!"

  The shells continued to land and explode, and at this time, the Japanese troops who were camped in the woods five or six hundred meters away from the mouth of the canyon were suddenly bombed. In particular, after the failure of Seishiro's unit in the attack on the valley mouth of the Golden Dragon Gorge, although it was more cautious, the artillery counterattack of the new regiment was even more cautious. However, after the new regiment wiped out Sakakami Iipei's artillery unit, there was no large-scale continuous artillery bombardment. This made Itagaki Seishiro think that the number of shells of the new regiment was very valuable, and it was difficult to use the bombing continuously.

  Therefore, the little devil soldiers in the big camp where Seishiro Itagaki was encamped actually relaxed their vigilance a little. It's just that I didn't expect that the large-scale artillery bombardment of the new regiment would come so suddenly, and this hand made Itagaki Seishiro completely confused.

  Itagaki Seishiro was in the temporary headquarters, and his ears were also extremely sensitive, and before the new regiment's artillery group fired a whistling cannonball to the ground and exploded, the old devil ran out of the military tent of the headquarters at once.

  "Bagaya Road, shelling, lying down, hiding!"

  Itagaki Seishiro roared and ordered the two Japanese co-captains Yamazaki and Tengkawa Kurasuke who were standing beside him at this time to immediately send someone to give the order to lie down and hide, but it was too late, and the shells would land in an instant, not to mention that it was less than a few miles away from the artillery position of the new regiment, Tianfeng Ridge, it was simply close at hand, and the time for the shells to shoot out was enough time for Itagaki Seishiro to react.

  "Your Excellency the Division Commander, retreat!" Yamazaki volleyed quickly with Teng Chuan Kurasuke, took the old devil's arms and hurriedly withdrew from the headquarters, and crawled down to hide in the nearby depression.

  Because, the artillery of Wang Chengzhu's command post shelled the Japanese military camp in the woods on a large scale, and countless shells whistled down, and some shells had already landed near Itagaki Seishiro's headquarters. At this time, he was still standing at the door of the military tent of the headquarters in a daze, not waiting for the other party's shells to fall on Itagaki Seishiro's side and explode!

  Of course, Itagaki Seishiro was struggling, "Yagaya Road, what are you doing with the commander of this division?" Hurry up, go back and command the troops to fight back! The enemy's artillery bombardment will soon end, and it is likely that the infantry will be dispatched to attack next, hurry up, go back and command the troops to organize a counterattack! Seishiro Itagaki roared at Yamazaki Volley and Kusuke Tengkawa, don't you know what the opponent's large-scale shelling means at this time? This kind of artillery bombardment is directly the action before covering the infantry attack!

  When Yamazaki and Tengkawa Kurasuke heard this, they immediately realized that Seishiro Itagaki was right in his angry words. So, Yamazaki Volley hurriedly asked several Japanese soldiers who came out of the command to protect Itagaki Seishiro to hide nearby, while he and Tengkawa Kurasuke each hurried back to their respective wings to command the Japanese soldiers to prepare to counterattack the attack of the new regiment.

  At this time, Wang Chengzhu's artillery bombardment continued, bombarding the area where the Japanese infantry had gathered more on a large scale, smashing the Japanese army's assembly as much as possible, and covering the impact of Sun Desheng's cavalry company, which had already begun to attack at this time!