If the 106th Division and another brigade of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army were to besiege them now, the 4th, 8th, and 64th armies would have to fall into an extremely dangerous encirclement and fight alone.

Such a large corps fights, once there is no support from the rear and ammunition materials, it will not be able to hold out at all, and after a few days of food, drink and ammunition supply, it will collapse all at once.

The army fights, there can be no sloppiness at all, and General Xue Yue is now like an ant on a hot nest, always thinking about whether the troops of these three armies can be safely withdrawn.

Whether it can be safely withdrawn depends on whether the 74th Army can defeat Minshan and tear open this life-saving opening, so the military situation is urgent, and 100,000 are urgent.

Therefore, as soon as the 151st Brigade of the 51st Division arrived in the evening, after a short rest, it immediately began to attack and advance to Jinlonggan, Zuoyunling, Snake ridge, and the foot of Minshan Mountain.

The Maruyama Brigade of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army did not want to fight at night, so they hid in their positions and took advantage of the favorable terrain to form dense firepower and resist with all their might.

The 301st Regiment launched a fierce charge at the Maruyama detachment at all costs, and approached the enemy position several times, but was unsuccessful, and this night, the casualties of both the enemy and us were more than 400.

By the next day, August 31, the Maruyama Detachment of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army was extremely fierce and dared to launch continuous attacks even when the number of firepower was not superior.

Maruyama summoned planes and bombed the positions of the 301st Regiment in turn, and the field fortifications temporarily dug by the 301st Regiment could not be fortified, and almost all of them were blown up after continuous bombing by enemy planes.

The Japanese planes also dropped incendiary bombs, burning all the thatched trees that could be concealed in the nearby mountains.

After the indiscriminate bombardment, the Maruyama detachment condescendingly launched three more charges towards the position of the 151st Brigade, trying to squeeze the 151st Brigade out of the Minshan position, but they were all repulsed.

On the night of the 31st, the 151st Brigade launched a night attack on the Japanese army, and the Maruyama detachment was frightened by the middle ** at night.

Although the 151st Brigade suffered heavy losses, it still attacked valiantly, and at dawn the next day captured some nearby positions. In this night attack, the 151st Brigade suffered more than 600 casualties, but it still could not shake the main position in Minshan.

General Xue Yue of the First Corps has been paying attention to the situation of the Minshan position, and when he saw that Minshan had not been defeated in the past two days, he was very annoyed and strictly ordered the 74th Army to take Minshan within two days, otherwise the military law would serve.

The 51st Division gathered all the soldiers scattered around De'an City to build fortifications, and quickly supported the 151st Brigade of Minshan, and the 305th Regiment of the 153rd Brigade Sangou They also received the order and could leave.

The previous time the 305th Regiment went to Jinguanqiao to carry out a night attack, and it was by car back and forth, very quickly, but this time it was different, seeing the Japanese army approaching, the original Nanxun Line was called up by the people, and it was destroyed as if it had been gnawed by dogs.

In order to speed up the speed, some of the infantry took a shortcut and walked over the mountains and mountains, and the seventh company was an infantry company, which could exhaust everyone to death, and everyone was fully armed on these dozens of kilometers of mountain paths, and they had to run for at least half a day.

The other troops with heavy firepower were originally going to take the main road, letting mules and horses pull some artillery, ammunition, and supplies, but as soon as they got on the road, they were bombed and strafed by Japanese planes.

The Japanese army is not a fool, they are all shrewd ghosts, and they know where the reserve troops of the ** reinforcements start from and go through that route to Minshan, so they are waiting here to send reinforcements.

There is no way, although there are some planes in the **, at most they secretly come out to attack the Japanese army, but they can't beat the Japanese fighters.

Besides, most of China's planes were bought or aided by other countries, and they could not produce them themselves, and if they lost one, they would lose one, while the Japanese planes were all produced by themselves, and they could not be fought in a steady stream.

Therefore, after the gradual loss of Chinese fighters, plus the anti-aircraft artillery and air defense units, they have almost run out, and they have gradually lost their valuable air supremacy.

When the war developed into World War II, the superiority of aircraft was constantly expanded, and having air supremacy was equivalent to having the power of life and death on the battlefield.

In the middle of the world, even if there are warships, tanks, and artillery, they are all targets for Japanese bombing, not to mention that there are surprisingly few warship tanks and cannons, and the warships have long been lost in Jiangyin.

As for the tanks, there were only a few light tank companies, and more than half of them were lost on the battlefield of Songhu, and they were almost wiped out in Nanjing.

Later, he picked up some Japanese tanks in Taierzhuang, Xuzhou, and quickly pulled them to Hunan, reorganized the original armored forces, and later became famous in Kunlun Pass.

Heavy artillery or cannons with a caliber of 150 and above, there are several artillery regiments in the **, and there is even a heavy artillery brigade, but they are all precious troops directly under the Military Commission, and they are easily reluctant to take out.

For this reason, Lao Jiang also caused a lot of trouble, for example, at the beginning of the Battle of Xuzhou last year, he promised Han Fuqu of the Shandong army that he could lend them the heavy artillery brigade for use, but later he could not fulfill it for various reasons.

This can make Han Fuqu angry enough, and he used this reason to play a hooligan temper, did not resist the Japanese army much, retreated all the way, and surrendered all the strategic points to the Japanese army, which led to a crisis in the Xuzhou area.

Suffice it to say, almost all army group corps, even theaters of operations, are desperately eager to have a heavy artillery unit, but it is almost impossible to achieve it.

On the other hand, the Japanese army has a 92-infantry artillery equipment in any brigade, a field artillery wing with a caliber of 100 or above in any division and regiment, and a field artillery brigade and regiment equipped with heavy artillery with a caliber of more than 150 in the units of the army and the front army.

Not to mention the army aviation and tank units here, just the artillery, the artillery fire of one division and regiment is enough to suppress the artillery of several Chinese armies.

Pulling out a field artillery brigade at random can sweep across the whole of China, and no one can stop it, while the artillery brigade directly under the Military Commission that is hidden in the middle of the country does not dare to show its face, for fear of being caught by Japanese planes and being blown up.

Therefore, the comparison between the Chinese and Japanese armies is not a simple comparison of numbers, in front of aircraft and artillery, no matter how many people there are, it is only a number, just a cold number of killed.

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Under the frantic bombing and strafing of Japanese planes, several infantry guns of the 51st Division had to be disassembled and put on mule horses to carry on their backs.

With such a heavy gun carriage on his back, he did not dare to let the mules and horses climb the mountain, and it was difficult to climb the mountain, and it was easy to fall and kill the mules and horses, and even the personnel and artillery were involved.

Therefore, although the 51st Division assembled the troops in De'an as quickly as possible, it was delayed for a lot of time on the road, so it could only first urge the lightly armed infantry troops to drill into the mountains on both sides of the Nanxun Line and take the mountain road to Minshan in a hurry.

The seven companies of the three dogs set off with the three battalions of the 305th Regiment, each soldier carrying at least one base number of bullets on his back, as well as three days of dry food and fried rice, which alone weighed more than 20 catties, as well as rifles and machine guns.

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