Chapter 70: The Fourth Brigade

The Japanese soldiers came faster than Liu Lang imagined, and appeared in Liu Lang's telescope at noon.

Ordering the guard post to be vigilant, Liu Lang took Mo Xiaocat to the top of the unknown mountain behind him.

Holding a six-fold telescope imported from Germany that he had obtained from Lao Wang, he looked far away to make a final observation of the battlefield, and by the way, he also looked at the movements of the Japanese soldiers of a cavalry brigade of Gundam.

The Japanese army obviously had a very detailed map of the Luowenyu Pass, and there were three Japanese troops searching and advancing near the Luowenyu Pass thousands of meters away, and one Japanese army entered the valley between the two mountains where Liu Lang was located, leaving seven or eight soldiers to watch the horses, and the remaining dozens of people were divided into two groups to reconnoiter the two mountains respectively.

Seeing this, Liu Lang didn't worry, but put his heart a little more at ease. The more attentive the Japanese reconnaissance became, the more it showed that they would put artillery here as they had done in time and space.

Liu Lang is not worried that they will search the location of the cave located on the mountainside, if they give thousands of people a carpet search, maybe they may still find out, but if there are only dozens of people, it is just a casual observation, more to report to their boss the actual terrain here.

It's just that when Liu Lang turned the telescope from the direction of the Japanese army to the mountain range on the south side, the wisps of cooking smoke coming out of the mountains made his face a little solemn.

There, there are villages.

The field of view of the six-fold telescope was far enough, and Liu Lang, who noticed this, crouched in the grass and carefully adjusted the lens to look over, and several simple houses were scattered in the mountains and forests, and some houses were blocked by the mountains and forests, but the cooking smoke could be seen.

Obviously, these Chinese villages living in the Great Wall Mountains did not realize that this was about to become a battlefield, or even if they did, they did not want to flee their homes because the Luowenyu Pass was far enough away from them, or that these mountain people, who had never been out of the mountains in their lives, had no way of knowing how brutal the invaders would be.

The village discovered by Liu Lang will never be more than 1,500 meters away from the location here, and what is even worse is that if Liu Lang chooses to evacuate, it is the direction where the village is located.

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Liu Lang's heart sank suddenly. The main force of the Japanese infantry is about to arrive, and sending someone to inform them at this time will undoubtedly send them to the ghost gate.

Perhaps the best course of action would be for them to remain in their current state, and when the cannon roars, they will take refuge in the mountains themselves.

Liu Lang could only do this.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the main force of the Japanese army finally arrived, and a vast contingent of nearly 10,000 people, with their khaki uniforms, circled on the green mountain path, like an ugly long worm.

If Liu Lang is given the strength of two infantry divisions, the early ambush is condescending, it will definitely make them look good. It's a pity that there are more than 200 people under Liu Lang's direct command, and no matter how they occupy important places, these tens of thousands of people can spray Liu Lang and his "death squad" to death with a yawn.

Living up to expectations, the two artillery brigades of the Japanese army were stationed in the valley where Liu Lang had been waiting for them for almost a day, while the main force of the Japanese infantry continued to advance directly in front of the Luowenyu Pass.

The two infantry brigades did not look at the number of more than a thousand people, but they brought a lot of pack horses, and the neighing of the horses instantly filled the entire silent valley.

The Japanese artillery wing was basically organized in 432 during this period, that is, 4 artillery brigades, 3 squadrons in each brigade, 2 artillery squads in each squadron, and 2 guns in each squadron, that is to say, 48 artillery guns in an artillery wing and 12 guns in a brigade.

The Eighth Division belongs to the pack horse division, that is, the mountain division, with a division of up to 28,000 people, and the artillery wing of the division is also equipped with 41 mountain artillery.

The weight of the 41 mountain gun is only 700 kilograms, and the entire gun body can be disassembled into more than a dozen pieces, which is carried by pack horses, which is convenient and flexible, and the firing range can reach 6,300 meters, which is one of the masterpieces of the Japanese army.

In the past time and space, the Japanese army was mainly based on the Type 41 mountain artillery to destroy one after another firepower points of the Chinese defenders in the lofty mountains and mountains of the Great Wall, and the Chinese soldiers who lacked long-range artillery could only be beaten passively, watching the Japanese push 700 kg of Type 41 mountain artillery up the mountain road and advance to a position only one or two kilometers away from the position to destroy their own firepower points one by one and helpless.

In this life, they still planned to do so, and gradually deployed 24 guns in place within a radius of nearly a kilometer.

Of course, the Japanese artillery who were deploying the gun emplacements did not know that in a bush at the top of the hill, a pair of eyes were looking at all their gun emplacements, drawing them on a map, marking them one by one.

It's like Lord Yama ticking a box in the book of life and death.

Born in 1882, the 51-year-old Suzuki Mitsu has served in the Japanese army since he was 20 years old, from the second lieutenant squad leader in 1903 to the current brigade commander Major General, 30 years of military experience is not rich.

Liu Lang's mind flashed the information of the Supreme Commander of the Japanese Army, Suzuki Mitsu, and he knew that this was definitely a difficult opponent.

However, this Japanese army major general, who has incomparably rich combat experience, was caught off guard by Liu Ruming's two infantry regiments and two infantry regiments supported by the 37th and 38th divisions in the past time and space, and with tens of thousands of troops, he was still forced to change his offensive to defend and retreat more than ten kilometers.

Liu Lang knew that this must be the same as the vast majority of army generals in this period, arrogant, thinking that the Chinese army was a pile of scum, and it would collapse as soon as it was attacked, and even if he hit his head and bled at Xifengkou, it did not change his stubborn thoughts.

This kind of arrogance was not the usual of the Japanese army, but hundreds of thousands of Northeast Army troops retreated without firing a shot, losing the rich three eastern provinces to the Kwantung Army, which was no more than one-tenth of their strength, and even hitched a ride on hundreds of warplanes parked in airfields and hangars.

In Rehe, the 53rd Army did not hold out for long, and even in Chengde, the capital of Rehe, more than 100 Japanese cavalry had just arrived in the city, and the city gate had already been opened. An infantry brigade in charge of the defense actually ran away.

Whoever you change to, I'm afraid you have to look down on your opponent because of this, and at the same time send yourself to the clouds!

It's just that China is so big, there are many capable people and heroes, and the small island country in a corner of the country has overestimated itself after all. No matter how sharp his teeth are, a small snake wants to swallow a giant elephant, and the end can only be to support himself to death.

As soon as he arrived outside the Luowenyu Pass, Suzuki Mitsu had already shown his arrogance.

The main infantry forces were still digging trenches and building improvised fortifications for the camp, and the two artillery brigades, which had just been deployed, began their first round of attacks on the Luowenyu Pass.

From about four o'clock, the main position of Luowenyu Pass, the black pot top on the right flank, and the hawthorn valley on the left flank, the entire position was covered in fire and gunsmoke.

The once majestic walls of the ancient Great Wall were suddenly reduced to rubble in the artillery fire, and only a few remnants of the ruins remained, showing everyone the power of the Japanese army's 75-mm mountain guns.

Liu Lang behind the telescope, his eyes were calm.