At the same time that the bayonet battalion broke through the defense of Shimen City, the defense line of the 26th Artillery Wing on the Niangziguan front line had been completely broken.

It was far smoother than expected, after Zhang Ruhao led more than 400 men and horses to annihilate a small squad of Japanese troops, except for an infantry company to resist the attack of less than 50 Japanese troops from the rear of the artillery position, no Japanese troops were found on the two flank positions. What about an infantry brigade of the Japanese army that the early reconnaissance showed?

At the beginning, Zhang Ruhao still hung his heart, thinking that the Japanese army had played some tricks, could it be that this was not their main line of defense, and there was a second line of defense? . However, as the infantry battalion of the 771st Regiment, which followed up quickly, all entered the defensive line, and the Japanese army did not see any large number of troops to counterattack, he was completely relieved.

At this time, no matter what tricks the Japanese army played, the nearly 1,000 troops that had already approached the Japanese artillery position of only 500 meters and the more than 1,000 troops that were approaching one after another were by no means something that the Japanese army could shake in a short period of time.

In the distant dawn, the hurried roars and scurrying figures of the Japanese soldiers who had already woken up also proved that they were far more panicked than they imagined.

In these ten minutes, the Japanese field artillery did not open fire, but as a cannon, the effective firing range of up to 10,000 meters is its advantage, but for the target that is close at hand。。。。。

The awesome cannon is simply weak at this time, I am afraid that when I see the mortar, I will have to shout "Dad", except for the futile explosion of more than a dozen clouds of black smoke more than 1,000 meters away, there is no damage to the 771 regiment and the 386 brigade headquarters that are advancing at all. Fighting bayonets is obviously not the strong point of these modern artillery guns of the Japanese army.

Fierce gunfire also sounded in the mountains on both flanks of the highway breakthrough where Zhang Ruhao was located, obviously, it was the death battalion and the rock battalion that launched an attack, and the unique sound of 82 mortar shells and the continuous explosions showed that they had the absolute upper hand.

Without waiting for the arrival of the future general, Zhang Ruhao ordered all the officers and soldiers disguised as the Japanese army to take off their yellow military shirts and wear only white shirts with red ribbons around their necks.

This is to prevent accidental injury, in such a battlefield with poor vision, everyone's spirit is highly nervous, as long as they see that it is not their own military uniform, they will subconsciously shoot. Not to mention the upcoming big melee, that is, when the gap was broken just now, there were soldiers in the guard battalion who were nervous, and bullets were fired at the soldiers of the Blue Army who wanted to jump out of the trenches like the Japanese army in both military uniforms and tactical movements, if it wasn't for the soldier's quick reaction and quick re-drilling into the trench and shouting a loud reminder, he would have almost died in the hands of his family.

At this time, it is the time when you are either dead or I am alive, so naturally there is no need to cover it up.

In addition to leaving an infantry platoon and two heavy machine guns to hold the fortifications on both sides of the road, Zhang Ruhao gathered two infantry companies of the Blue Army, a company of the 129th Division Guard Battalion and a battalion of the 771st Regiment, divided into three roads, and charged forward to the Japanese artillery position.

Their combat mission this time was not only to raid the Japanese artillery positions, but more importantly, to capture these cannons, so that the Japanese could not have time to blow up the artillery.

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From the moment he heard the sound of gunfire in the distance and received the attack on the position in front of him by the Chinese army, Yoshito Takagi's head was bigger.

When is it not good for the Chinese to come, but choose this time? If it had been before yesterday, he really wasn't too afraid. However, at this time, the Japanese Army Major General was really afraid.

Just as Zhang Ruhao was once surprised, there were too few Japanese troops defending the outer positions of the 26th Artillery Wing of the Japanese Army. To be exact, it is a pity of less.

Originally, Yoshito Takagi attached great importance to the safety of the 26th Artillery Wing, and in addition to the infantry guard squadron that the 26th Artillery Wing already had, he also placed his brigade headquarters near the 26th Artillery Wing, and also transferred an infantry brigade of the 78th Infantry Wing to protect the perimeter of the artillery position.

Not to mention that the opponent is an independent regiment, and there is still a lesson in the heavy artillery brigade of the 8th Division being raided a few years ago, and Yoshito Takagi is cautious enough.

In addition to the 36 field guns of the 26th Artillery Wing, there are 12 105 howitzers, all of which are big guys. Moreover, the Japanese artillery strictly adhered to the artillery code, and the straight-line distance between each gun was 40 to 50 meters away, and if all 48 guns were placed in this way, they could cover an area of hundreds of acres. Moreover, this is still in a flat state.

In a mountain like Niangziguan, there is not much flat land, and the area where these 48 cannons are placed is more than 2,000 acres. In other words, the area where the artillery of the 26th Artillery Wing was placed was very large, and it was by no means smaller than the campus area of a comprehensive university in later generations.

To defend such a large area, let alone a single infantry brigade, even an infantry wing, don't want to defend the entire position tightly.

Of course, because this is a mountainous area, the Japanese army also adapted measures to local conditions, mainly to lead the area with points, four points were established in the southeast, northwest and northwest, and the rest of the positions were either cliffs and ravines or dense forests, but they were basically within the range of his firepower, and the use of barbed wire, patrols and military dogs could basically ensure the safety of the defense area.

There are fewer people, and you may have a chance to blend in, but it's useless. Even an elite like the special operations squad can't afford to face thousands of Japanese troops and quietly blow up the artillery and then go to the house. They are not the Monkey King who can resist the fire of the Taishang Laojun Dan, there are too many bullets, and they can't dodge either.

There are many people, and it is natural that they cannot get through in the face of such a fortification arrangement, and if they want to pass, they can only attack the defense line with more than 1,000 defenders. For the Japanese army, they think that the strength of an infantry brigade in the field is enough to match a Chinese brigade, especially when they are still the defender, and with the assistance of field artillery, even if the Chinese send a division, they may not be able to capture it in a short time.

The other two infantry wings were only eight kilometers away from here, and it would take an hour and a half at most for the whole army to return to the reinforcements and wipe out the attacking army.

In fact, Takagi Yoshito is not blind to think like this, in the future battle of Guanjiayuan, with perfect fortifications, more than 500 people of the Okazaki detachment blocked the attack of thousands of red soldiers for two days and nights, and in the end, although there were heavy casualties, but they were not completely annihilated and more than 100 people ran out.

If Liu Lang hadn't used Zhang Ruhao to lead the Blue Army troops to deceive the Japanese defense area and successfully break through in one fell swoop, even if the whole independent regiment came to attack, I am afraid that the casualties would be very serious.

However, the current defensive force is not the force that Yoshito Takagi had previously arranged, and not even half of it.

As the war progressed, the 39th Infantry Brigade was at a standstill on the front line of Niangzi Pass. 48 artillery pieces roared almost every day, the positions that had been raging for several days were almost barren, and the whole mountain was blown up, but the Chinese on the opposite hill were like iron, and as long as the infantry rushed over, they would drill out of the trenches and shoot.

So repeatedly, although the Chinese must have suffered heavy casualties, the two infantry wings were also quite damaged. The 77th Infantry Wing on the Jiuguan front line was all three infantry brigades, and the casualties had already exceeded 45 percent, after all, the opponent was an independent regiment led by Colonel Beast, so let's not talk about it.

However, the 78th Wing of the main position of Niangziguan fought until yesterday, and it also lost more than 700 people, accounting for 30 percent of the two infantry brigades. Kobayashi Tsunei of the 78th Infantry Wing quit and kept strongly asking the brigade headquarters to transfer his other infantry brigade back to participate in the battle.

This has been fought for a long time, thinking that the Chinese are all blocked on the position and beaten, and there is no courage to send troops to attack here. Yoshito Takagi finally agreed yesterday afternoon, and in the evening, he used the cover of the night to quietly transfer the infantry brigade back to the front line of Niangzi Pass, but for the sake of safety, he still kept an infantry squadron.

Together with the garrison squadron of the 26th Artillery Wing, there were a total of 6 squads, 4 squads were placed on the perimeter, and each squad was responsible for the defense of one side. There are also two squads remaining, one squad for the defense of the brigade headquarters and one squad for the defense of the 26th Wing wing headquarters.

Because it was a quiet troop movement last night, the special operations team responsible for clearing the Japanese patrols along the way did not pay attention. The Japanese army inadvertently came up with a successful "tactical deception". But unfortunately, this tactical deception did not scare people, but attracted more enemies, otherwise, Liu Lang really did not necessarily send a regiment and a battalion plus a guard company to beat them, that would be too much to look up to the little devils of the two squadrons.

To put it bluntly, Major General Takagi had a big head at this time, the Chinese came, but he only had 400 infantry under him. And more than 26 artillery of the 2000th Artillery Wing, don't mention it. A wing is only equipped with hundreds of guns, and most of them are fourteen pistols in the south, that thing, useful?

In the face of Hosokawa Tadayasu Osa, who was running over in a hurry, Yoshito Takagi, who jumped up from the marching bed, issued three military orders as quickly as possible: "Report to the division headquarters that our army has been attacked, ask for help from the 77th and 78th Wings, order them to each send one infantry brigade back to the brigade headquarters, and order two infantry squads to reinforce the peripheral troops." All artillery that could not open artillery fire was reorganized into infantry squads to reinforce the periphery, and the rest of the artillery was ready to retreat, retreating to the direction of Jiuguan, and if there was no way to tow away the artillery, it would be blown up immediately when the war was unfavorable, and it must not be left to the Chinese, and the personnel of the brigade headquarters and the 26th wing headquarters were ready to evacuate at any time. ”

Although his head is big, as an infantry major general, Yoshito Takagi has maintained enough calm to ask for help, arrange defenses, and even think of the worst outcome.

However, he still did not expect that the Chinese were much stronger than he thought, and the time to break through the defensive position was much faster than him.

Almost as soon as the herald left on the front foot, the news of the Chinese breaking the position in front came.

Even without notice from the signal corps, the sound of gunfire that was rapidly mortar had already made the Japanese major general and the Japanese army Dazuo look dead.