The military establishment of the Japanese army is very special, which is different from the ordinary: squads, platoons, companies, battalions and other units. Rather, it is correspondingly used: detachments, squads, squadrons, brigades, etc.

The 5th Itagaki Division belongs to the A Division in the Japanese Army, and the standard establishment of a brigade is about 1,100 people. At this time, the Kawada Brigade, which was fighting against the 424th Regiment, numbered less than 1,000 people and was not yet fully formed. Although there is a considerable gap between the number of less than 1,000 people and the standard regiments of the Jin Sui Army and the Central Army, the gap is not very large compared with the current 424 regiment.

It can be said that in a sense, the Kawada Brigade and the 424th Regiment were a pair of enemies on equal footing. But just when the battle situation had entered the balance stage that Yue Siliang was most looking forward to, a new enemy appeared on the battlefield!

The Yoshimura Brigade is the same as the Kawada Brigade, and the establishment of this brigade is more standard, with a full strength of 1,100 people. However, it was not all the strength of the Yoshimura Brigade that came to the Xigou battlefield.

The vanguard of the Yoshimura Brigade had entered the pocket formation from Xigou before, and at this moment the captain of the Yoshimura Brigade had only one squadron of troops with him, but the terrible thing was that there were two infantry guns that entered the mountain with this squadron, as well as heavy machine guns, mortars, grenadiers and other light and heavy weapons!

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! ”

Unlike Kawada, Yoshimura has light eyebrows, a slender face, a small mustache on top of the person, and always speaks lightly. After arriving at the battlefield, Yoshimura did not meet with Kawada at all, but sent a signal corpsman to inform him, and then asked the artillery to shell the position of the 424th Regiment on the hillside.

"Yaga! What does Yoshimura want to do?! ”

Kawada in the bunker looked furious, and Yoshimura's direct shelling without greeting him was considered a great disrespect to him. This also made Kawada even more impatient, you must know that he and Yoshimura have never dealt with each other, he always felt that Yoshimura was too feminine, and he didn't have the appearance of an iron-blooded soldier at all.

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"Captain! This new devil is fucking good! ”

The power of the infantry artillery is naturally incomparable to the mortar, and the fortifications built before were bombarded by the infantry artillery and collapsed a corner, and the soldiers in the fortifications were also buried under the earth and rocks. Seeing this, Lei Zi was on fire at that time, and the green tendons on his forehead jumped up and down, and he immediately wanted to fight with Yue Siliang.

"Hold on! When I use you, stay honest with me now! ”

Yue Siliang was also angry, but he didn't have any intentions, and he was still stoic in maintaining the situation. The pressure was getting bigger and bigger, Yue Siliang could only keep sending the reserve troops in his hands to the forefront of the position, and after a stalemate for nearly an hour, there were only two companies left in his hands of the second battalion, but the battle situation finally returned to balance.

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"Da Da Da ......"

However, just as Yue Siliang was taking a breath, a series of crisp gunshots came from behind the position, which was obviously from the Japanese Type 92 heavy machine gun.

"What?! Where did the gunshots come from! ”

As soon as Yue Siliang heard the gunshot, he was full of excitement. At this time there was gunfire from behind the position, and there was nothing more terrible than this.

"Captain! It's behind us! From the col behind us came a group of devils! Now they are standing on the halfway up the mountain, and the fourth company is fighting with them! ”

The guard's report broke the string in Yue Siliang's head with a thud, which was actually what he had been worried about. As a cloth bag mouth, it is not only the external enemy who wants to tear open the bag mouth to deal with, but also the enemy who wants to come out inside, and being flanked by the front and back is the most terrible! And it was still flanked by a high-level enemy like the Japanese army!

"Regiment commander, what attacked us was a group of more than 100 Japanese troops, it should be like two squads, just in the direction of our ten o'clock, less than a kilometer away from us."

Hearing the specific situation reported again, Yue Siliang breathed a sigh of relief. The enemy behind is only two squads, which is easier to deal with, and I think this should be the enemy's division strategy in the direction of Caijiayu. However, it can also be seen from this that Cai Jiayu's side is also fighting very fiercely, resulting in the devils dividing their troops to return to help, and even a squadron cannot be gathered.

"How's their firepower?"

"The firepower is very strong, it's like four consecutive hits. But this group of devils is very strange, and after reaching the halfway point of the mountain, they stay there and do not know what they are thinking. ”

The staff officer of the report said strangely, but Yue Siliang understood a little.

"I'm afraid they don't want to give up their firepower advantage to fight with us with bayonets, but they are guarding a little bit and harassing us with powerful firepower, so as to cooperate with the enemy in front of us...... Interesting! Interesting! The Japanese army with a strong style of work can even have such a feminine style of play, and the commander on the opposite side is very oily. ”

Yue Siliang pinched his chin and thought for a while, then his eyebrows and eyes changed.

"Huang Kebei! You press it up with five in a row! Not a single reserve remains! Give you two companies, four companies and five companies, and beat these two squads for me in half an hour! Go ahead! ”

The second battalion commander immediately led the order to lead the team to press over, and once Yue Siliang made up his mind what to do, it was irrefutable.

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"Captain, the two squads of Matsuoka and Nakamura have already reached the established position, why didn't you directly give the order to charge?"

In the rear of the Japanese army, Lieutenant Kobayashi asked Yoshimura in confusion that he didn't understand why his commander would give up such a good opportunity.

"Kobayashi-kun, haven't you understood? The fact that the enemy in front of us cannot be judged by our previous experience, and the fact that they were able to continue to fight with us after their positions had withstood continuous shelling shows that their will to fight is not bad. It is not cost-effective to fight bayonets with such a team, especially with such a large difference in numbers.

It is better to make reasonable use of our firepower advantage, constantly wearing down their will to fight, excellent imperial soldiers should not fall in such a place, after opening this route, the prosperous Taiyuan is waiting for us in front. ”

As soon as Yoshimura said this, Kobayashi was in awe at the time and expressed his admiration. At the same time, a thought crossed my mind.

"I've heard for a long time that the captain's ancestors are from Osaka, so I look like I'm really good at calculations."

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Unlike Yoshimura, who is breezy and easy, Kawada is in an extremely bad mood now, the local position has not been able to be attacked for a long time, and his team will fall at any time, and at the same time, Yoshimura, who is not dealing with him, is still beating a drum on the side and watching the excitement.

"These Domination Bastards ......"

Kawada resented Yoshimura in his heart, and the command knife in his hand had not been put down since Yoshimura's arrival, and his soldiers obeyed his orders to attack the mountain again and again, but almost always ended in being repulsed.

"These devils are crazy!"

The platoon leader at the forefront of the front line had a dark face at this time, and he could only find his mouth when he showed a mouthful of white teeth when he was cursing, holding Hanyang in his hand and pulling the bolt steadily. With a gunshot, another devil fell in front of him, and this was already the fifth enemy he had killed.

In fact, he could have killed more, but unfortunately there were not enough bullets. Sometimes he really envied the soldiers of the sharpshooter team, who were each given a hundred rounds of rifle ammunition, which was better than their company commanders. He even thought about joining the sharpshooter team, but he was reluctant to let this platoon commander and the stinky second strongman take care of it. He can't get used to the second hadron, it's not a day or two.

Thinking about it, the head of the long row floated for a moment, and it was such a distraction, and his shoulder was pierced by the 38 big cover with a snap.

"Sizzle......"

The long queue gasped, but they didn't really worry much about their injuries. The study book distributed by the regiment made it very clear: The Japanese Type 38 rifle has a small caliber, a long firing range, and high accuracy, and it has no problem hitting targets 600 meters away. But this is both an advantage and a disadvantage, the penetration is stronger, but the power is reduced. The platoon leader didn't have to worry about surgery to get bullets or anything, and it was impossible for the bullets to stay in his body at all, and a small eye on his shoulder was not in the way.

After a brief wrap, a long line looked up again, and the devil had reached a distance of about fifty meters. At such a close distance, a long row of smiles hung on the corners of the mouth.

With a bang, Kara pulled out twenty large mirrors, and swept out more than a dozen bullets, and several Japanese soldiers in front of him immediately fell. In this round of offensive and defensive firefights, the Japanese still did not take much advantage, and finally retreated.

"Yaga !!"

Seeing that the position could not be attacked for a long time, Captain Kawada finally couldn't suppress the anger in his chest, and rushed out of the cover with an angry roar, and the snowy blade pointed directly at the position of the 424th regiment, eager to split it with such a knife!

"Smack......

A crisp gunshot rang out from a mosin nagant.

"Plop!"

Kawada, who had a bloody hole in his eyebrows, fell straight to the ground. This is also the first bullet fired by the Hadron today.

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