It is precisely because the 108th Division has combat effectiveness that is not weaker than that of the permanent A Division, so the division commander Sekihara Matsujiro has great confidence.

As soon as the 108th Division arrived at the foot of Niushou Mountain, Sekihara Matsujiro did not even carry out a tentative attack, so under the cover of the aviation unit, launched a brazen attack on the defenders of Niushou Mountain.

In the face of wave after wave of group charges of the Japanese 108th Division, the Chinese defenders resisted desperately, and even organized troops to launch a counter-charge at the right time.

The two forces of impact collided violently on the forward position, and the white-knuckle battle forced the artillery fire of both sides to stop, and only the terrifying sounds of scuffling and bitter howls were left under the gloomy sky.

This kind of brutal offensive and defensive warfare caused the most advanced positions on Niushou Mountain to change hands more than ten times, and the Chinese defenders lost and recaptured several times.

Sekihara Matsujiro, who was bent on winning the first prize, could not attack the defenders' positions for a long time, and even used tear gas and incendiary bombs in a frenzy to carry out a devastating bombardment of the Chinese defenders' positions.

But even so, the Chinese defenders fought to the death.

In the end, Sekihara Matsujiro pressed the engineer wing, as well as the reserve troops directly under the division and regiment, and launched an attack from the left and right flanks, so that the position of Niushou Mountain suddenly entered a more brutal fight.

Each position can only be held after repeated battles. Every time the enemy attacks, it has to go through several counter-assaults before it can be suppressed.

In just one afternoon, four brigades, more than 20,000 defenders, and in the end there were less than 2,000 left, which was the result of the defenders occupying favorable terrain in advance and building strong fortifications.

Overlooking a ravine between us and the enemy, I saw guns and dead bodies all over the ground, and the scene was so gloomy that neither side dared to go down to clean it up. The intensity of the battle can be seen.

The Japanese army's incendiary bombs caused a sea of fire on the Chinese defenders' positions, and the flames were filled with suffocating poisonous gases.

The Chinese defenders, who were ordered to take over the defensive positions, kept asking the veterans how to deal with the Japanese incendiary bombs as they moved forward.

The veterans said that there was no water on the position, and rolling on the spot could extinguish the fire.

However, when the soldiers saw the wounded who had been carried down, some of them were charred and blackened, some of them were covered with blisters, and their expressions of distorted pain after being gassed, they could not help but be enveloped in an indescribable horror.

Shanxi is the hometown of the Jin Sui army, and the destruction of Taiyuan means that the entire Shanxi will fall under the trampling of the Japanese army.

Therefore, in order to defend their homeland and land, the soldiers of the defending army who were inspired by Yang Chen's oath sacrificed their lives one by one.

The position of Niushoushan has changed guards several times, and at this moment it is Dong Qiwu's 218 Brigade and Sun Lanfeng's 211 Brigade who are responsible for guarding the position.

Among them, the commander of the 422nd Regiment of the 211th Brigade is named Wang Leizhen, and every officer and soldier of the regiment wears an armband printed with the yellow word "Wang" on his left arm, which is called the "Yellow King Regiment". The "Yellow King Regiment" fought tenaciously and was not only famous for fighting to the death, but also had a tradition of not being able to get out of the line of fire if lightly wounded.

It was the stubborn resistance of the defenders that made the Japanese offensive ineffective.

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The 108th Division, with the assistance of the aviation unit, attacked continuously for a day and a night, although it caused a large number of casualties to the defenders, but it was slow to completely capture Niushou Mountain and tear apart the defenders' defensive line, which made the always arrogant and complacent Sekihara Matsujiro very anxious, and the anger in his chest inevitably broke out completely.

At this moment, all the officers of the 108th Division above the junior rank were suffering the monstrous anger of the division commander Sekihara Matsujiro.

"Yaga! You're all rice buckets! Even a small Niushou Mountain couldn't be broken for a long time! ”

Sekihara Matsujiro scolded all the officers in front of him, and the spit was about to spray in their faces.

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, please calm your anger, it's not that you don't do your best, but you have also seen it, this time the tenacity of the defenders is completely beyond our expectations.

In the past, when the Chinese defenders we met did not turn around and run away when they saw our Imperial Japanese Army, they fled without even seeing our Imperial Japanese Army.

But this time, the enemy we met was different from what we had encountered before. ”

A devil Dazuo explained with a bitter face.

"Yaga! When you encounter a little resistance, you attack and don't move, is this the explanation you gave me?

Incompetence is incompetence! If you don't have what it takes, then give up your place and let the capable live there!

My 108th Division, I don't need a rice bucket! ”

Sekihara Matsujiro had a dark face and continued to spit and scold.

All the devil officers knew that His Excellency the division commander was a sign of anger, and they were afraid of the real character, and they couldn't help but be frightened when they heard the words, like mourning.

"Listen to me!"

"Haya!"

When all the devil officers heard this, they all couldn't help but straighten up, and at the same time put their legs together.

"All troops continue to attack, and at all costs must take the position of Niushou Mountain before dawn tomorrow!

Otherwise, you're all going to die, you're all dead! ”

"Haya!"

In order to take the defenders' positions as soon as possible and take the lead in breaking through Taiyuan City, so that its first merit would not fall to the leaders of other attacking forces.

This time, Sekihara Matsujiro gave death orders to the military commanders of all the participating troops to personally lead the troops to attack.

Even the commander of the 115th Infantry Brigade, Yu Takeshita, and the commander of the 116th Infantry Brigade, Jiro Tanaka, were no exception.

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Half an hour later, dozens of mountain guns of the 108th Wing of the Field Artillery Corps under the command of the 108th Division began to carry out fierce artillery bombardment on the main position of Niushou Mountain again.

Datong was reoccupied by the Japanese army, and Datong Airport once again became the base of the Japanese air force.

At this time, it was three o'clock in the afternoon, and there was still time in time, so the old devil Sekihara Matsujiro called for air support from the aviation unit again.

On the Niushou Mountain position, which was under heavy artillery fire, dozens of Japanese fighters appeared in a short time and began to carry out air raids, bombing, and dive strafing on the positions of the defenders of Niushou Mountain.

Although the defenders of Niushoushan, the 218th Brigade and the 211th Brigade are all descendants of Fu Yisheng, and their weapons and equipment are far stronger than those of the 61st Army, they are not at all comparable to the Tiger Regiment.

In order to defend the Japanese air raid on Taiyuan City, Fu Yisheng deployed the few anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns of the garrison in Taiyuan City.

Therefore, the defenders of Niushou Mountain had no anti-aircraft weapons, and in the face of the Japanese air attack, they could only resist or dodge, and had no power to fight back.

Some light and heavy machine gunners were not willing to be beaten up, so they raised their guns to fight back.

As a result, they were taken care of by the devil air force and ground artillery, and these machine gunners were either smashed in the chest by the devil fighters that swooped down, or they were blown out by the shells that fell with a bang, and they were blown out together with guns and guns.

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