Knowing that the 51st Division and the 88th Division were entangled in the main force of the 59th Wing of the Japanese Army, Commander Xue of the Eastern Henan Corps urged the 87th Division to speed up the capture of Yifeng.

The Japanese army's mechanization walked like the wind on the plains, and if it wasn't fast, the Japanese army's rescue troops would soon come over.

So, in order to compete with the Japanese army, what should you compare? This is a new conundrum for General Xue.

The Chinese army is not mechanized, at most it is packed, it is not complete, and it basically walks on two feet, and obviously, it is not comparable to the Japanese army in terms of troop movement, walking, and moving.

Secondly, most of the soldiers of the Chinese army are malnourished, even if the quality of the soldiers of the elite division of the Central Army is good, but it is not comparable to the Japanese army.

That is to say, at the same distance, even if the Japanese army abandoned mechanization, or the machinery was destroyed by the Chinese army, its marching speed was also faster than that of the Chinese army.

However, the Japanese army still has the speed of weapons, and long-range attack weapons such as aircraft artillery have an absolute advantage, and the Chinese army has almost no way to take them, and no matter how fast the troops run, they cannot outrun the aircraft artillery.

In the end, only two countermeasures could be come up.

The first is to take advantage of the night march to gradually get closer, and quickly pounce on it the next day to engage in close-range grappling, even if it is a melee of a large corps, it is necessary to engage in close-range grappling.

In this way, the attack distance was shortened, and the advantage of Japanese weapons and artillery fire was also neutralized, allowing the two armies to duel on the same starting line.

Second, once you get close to entanglement, place a heavy hand, and like gambling, aim to place a heavy bet. Heavy troops are invested to quickly resolve the battle.

Take advantage of the superiority in numbers to quickly solve the small group of enemies in front of you, even if it is a division or two divisions to besiege a brigade.

As long as you continue to eat the Japanese brigades and wings, you will definitely be able to shake the foundation of the main division in the end, and then the most superior absolute force will deliver the final blow to the enemy.

Therefore, the operational thinking of the Battle of Lanfeng was carried out in accordance with this, and a large number of troops, almost 4:1, were used in advance to harass everywhere, attracting the attention and strength of the Japanese army, and inducing small groups of Japanese troops to attack.

Generally, it is to encircle the point to send reinforcements, but this time General Xue proposed a method of sending reinforcements that is not to encircle the points, that is, to pull out the points to send reinforcements, quickly use the superior forces, pick up the enemy's strongholds, and then send reinforcements.

Therefore, it is not difficult to see that the strength of the 51st Division and the 88th Division of Sangou came to attack a Japanese brigade in Neihuang, and immediately entangled the reinforcements of the Japanese army after the battle.

The knife kills the chicken, which is intended to wait for the dog.

Now the two knives of the 51st and 88th Divisions first killed a chicken in Neihuang, and then entangled the big dog of the 59th Wing of the Bow Hero.

And when Nasu left Yifeng's kennel, he immediately thought about a chicken there (a Japanese artillery squadron), and General Xue immediately urged the troops of a division of the 87th Division to attack Yifeng, a Japanese squadron.

The telegram was sent to the 87th Division like a talisman, because it was also a bet that affected the overall situation, and not far from Yifeng, the main force of the Japanese Sakai Brigade was stationed.

This action, similar to the tooth extraction of a tiger's mouth, seems to be very easy for a division to fight a squadron, but in fact it is extremely dangerous, and the only thing that can reduce the risk is "fast".

The 87th Division was also well aware of the risk of attacking Yifeng this time, and as soon as it went up, it threw a heavy fist, without testing and setting up a position or anything, and in a short period of time, it sent the main force of a brigade, more than 5,000 people, to attack Yifeng frantically.

And the defenders of Yifeng, with only one artillery squadron, plus some miscellaneous personnel, held out to death with less than 500 people, looking at the Chinese army ten times larger, rushing over like a sea of mountains, desperate to commit suicide.

Before the four 92-infantry guns could fire a few shells, they were rushed in front of the Chinese soldiers, and the 500 devils had to pick up bayonets, which they were not good at, to deal with the main combat soldiers of the Chinese infantry brigade who were ten times more wolf-like.

The ending can be imagined, almost none of the hundreds of devils were cut into dumpling fillings, and the battle was solved in less than an hour.

When the good news reached the corps headquarters, General Xue finally breathed a sigh of relief and immediately ordered the 87th Division to leave a brigade to guard the Yifeng and contain the Sakai troops in the north.

At the same time, a brigade was sent to support the 51st and 88th Divisions, encircled and annihilated the 59th Wing of the Japanese Army, and launched a general attack on the 59th Wing.

It is necessary to take the 59th Wing before the Japanese Sakai troops break free from the 87th Division's containment and entanglement in Yifeng, with the goal of total annihilation, no matter how bad it is, it will be defeated, and then kill and wound a large number of Japanese troops on the way to pursuit.

At this time, the 51st and 88th Divisions were attacking the 59th Wing on two sides, and the mountain artillery battalions of the 51st Division were also ready, the targets were two hills, and the mountain artillery target of the 88th Division was Gangzhai Village.

The same is true of the division of labor between the infantry of the two divisions, whose artillery hits, the infantry will attack there, so that there will be no artillery cutting corners.

The 7th Company followed the 305th Regiment to attack the hill west of Gangzhai, and under the deployment of Sangou, all mortars and light and heavy machine guns were erected on the shooting dead corner of the main attack position, which was still a small hill bag of the Japanese army.

Mainly aimed at the enemy's machine gun nest, there is also a possible command post, as for the devil's rifle artillery, it seems that there is only one infantry gun on the western hill at the moment.

The infantry artillery was handed over to the brothers of the division's mountain artillery battalion to do it, and sure enough, after the three signal flares rose into the sky, the mountain artillery battalions of the 51st and 88th divisions all opened fire.

In the deafening sound of artillery fire, the devil's rifle on the mountain pack west of the gang village was blown up almost instantly.

Not counting the explosion, there were many shells that fell around the infantry cannon one after another, until the position of the infantry artillery was completely destroyed.

Refreshing! It's so cool on a dog day!

Sangou held the binoculars and kept cheering in his heart, if he fought like this every time, would the little devil still be arrogant, and it wouldn't take long for him to recover the land.

As soon as the artillery fire of the mountain artillery battalions of the two divisions was extended, tens of thousands of infantry began to charge with a roar, and the wave-like straggler formation continuously rushed towards the Japanese position.

Sangou did not rush up with the Seventh Company this time, and the Seventh Company was also divided into the second wave, and the first wave was the third company of the first battalion.

The three dogs have been in their own mortar positions, and Wu Dingli and Zhang Zhiguang are each responsible for a mortar, as are the machine gun companies in the battalion and the machine gun companies in the regiment.

The first wave of infantry charges was mainly to draw out the Japanese army's firepower points, and sure enough, as soon as the charge was shouted here, the devils couldn't hold back the firepower points that were not destroyed by the mountain artillery, after all, in the face of the charge of tens of thousands of people, the pressure was huge.

As soon as the remaining firing points of the Japanese army were fired, the mortars of the Chinese army here were busy, and the same was true for the Seventh Company, and several of their guns were the first to fire.

The bamboo pole is now getting more and more refined, and the first shot is directly on the high-explosive bomb, without using the correction bomb, and the rush is the confidence of the first shot.

I don't know if the bamboo pole hit or not, anyway, it was a few remaining firing points of the devil, and it was immediately blown away by a large number of mortar shells.

Sangou looked at it and was relieved, this time, there should be, and the casualties of the Seventh Company should be minimized.