On the battlefield, the Japanese army was faced with a choice between life and death, and their so-called belief was undoubtedly evident at this moment.

Retreat, it is possible to live or die, but forward, there is no doubt that you will die.

Faced with the choice of continuing to breathe and dedicating their lives to the faith of the Empire, the Japanese army on the hillside was already ready to move.

Not forward, of course, but retreat.

At least three infantry squad leaders have already asked the lieutenant commander, who is also struggling to make a choice, to retreat. At this point in the war, defeat was already doomed, and there was no point in holding on any longer, and it was a fool's job to add gold to the military merit medals of the Chinese with the lives of imperial warriors in vain.

For the sake of life, the Japanese can also find a lofty reason. Don't look at their usual old-fashioned jaw-dropping, but in times of crisis, their heads are as flexible as melons. This should be the so-called urgency makes wisdom.

Nakasa, a feather bird 2,000 meters away, is also making a difficult choice.

After seeing the sudden increase in the number of mortars on the positions of the independent regiment and the smoke of gunpowder on the positions of his own infantry almost obscuring the sky, the old bird Nakasa knew the plan of the "Colonel Beast".

He even hid his strength.

After he had taken out at least four 20-mm machine guns and no less than ten mortars, he had several mortars and an unknown number of light and heavy machine guns.

God knows if he still has his hole cards unrevealed? With the strength displayed in his central position, he was almost as good as a division or even more of the Chinese troops he had encountered.

Could it be that the intelligence that the so-called Liu Lang Independent Regiment belonged to the local Chinese warlord Sichuan Army that those stupid informants found out was a complete joke? Liu Lang's Independent Regiment should be the legendary German armor built by the Chinese with the support of the stupid generals of the Third Reich!

Otherwise, if you want to break your head, Hatori Nakasa can't figure out why they have such strong firepower.

Of course, none of that matters. No matter how powerful Liu Lang's firepower is, what he has to do now is not to let Liu Lang succeed.

Liu Lang's purpose in doing this was to eat his two infantry squadrons. The 1st Infantry Brigade consisted of a total of 4 infantry squadrons and a large squadron of heavy machine guns. Now, the heavy machine gun squadron, which had already been killed by him, had already taken out at least half of it, and he had turned his mind to the infantry squadron again.

This is really "Uncle can bear it, Aunt can't bear it"! A trace of green gas flashed on Aunt Old Bird's face, and the anger in her eyes made the staff officers of the brigade headquarters on the side feel cold. It's like the old bird Nakasa once slapped his ass gently.

"Order, 4 mountain guns of the artillery squadron directly under the wing, target, the main position of the Chinese on the top of the mountain, ten minutes of artillery fire is fully covered." The order of the feather bird Nakasa made the staff officer of the brigade headquarters directly cold.

He even felt like something was wrong with his ears. It is already crazy to let the infantry artillery such a direct-aim gun fire more than 100 meters from the attack of the own infantry to the Chinese position.

But no one expected that there was no craziest only more crazy, and His Excellency Nakasa actually ordered 75 mountain guns to fire.

"Your Excellency Nakasa。。。。。。" The staff officer with the rank of lieutenant had the audacity to remind.

Hanatori Nakasa suddenly turned his head, and the vulture on his face blocked all the words behind him back into his throat, "Inform Captain Hideda in front of him, do a good job of concealment, and the whole army will immediately attack and occupy the Chinese position when the shelling slows down." The glory of the 77th Infantry Brigade of the 1st Infantry Wing was entrusted to him. ”

"At the same time, please be sure to convey my request to the artillery squadron, this shelling is related to the lives of more than 300 imperial warriors of our 1st Infantry Brigade, and the glory of the entire wing, please make sure they hit the target accurately. Please. After issuing two military orders in a row, Hatori Nakasa came to a very emotional request at the end.

"Hey!" The Japanese staff officers could only bow their heads to accept the military order, turn around and leave quickly.

Nakasa Hatori watched the back of the lieutenant staff officer go away, picked up the binoculars again and looked into the distance, the expression on his face was like steel cast iron, and there was no emotional change.

At the moment when his command was extremely critical, the captain of the Japanese infantry brigade actually gave the order for the mountain artillery to bombard the position on the top of the mountain. And what is even more jaw-dropping is that the decision not to retreat and continue the offensive was also made.

As a curved gun, the landing point of the mountain artillery is much more difficult to control than the direct-aiming gun, and the previous squadron leader was already terrified of using the infantry gun to cover the infantry attack and artillery attack that was very close to the target, let alone the mountain artillery.

No matter how sharpshooters are, there is no guarantee that the mountain artillery can accurately shoot this kind of artillery with range strike as the tactical core to the infantry of their own side more than 200 meters away. Not to mention the death squad that was still struggling seventy meters in front of the position of the first battalion and one company of the independent regiment.

As long as the four mountain cannons start to bombard, the remaining more than 30 people will definitely become cannon fodder.

But as the supreme commander of the Japanese front, no one dared not accept the order of Nakasa, a feather bird.

While the four mountain guns of the artillery squadron began to adjust their muzzles according to the data transmitted by the artillery observers in front of them, and tried to send the shells to the top of the hill more accurately without sending their own infantry into the sky, the signal corps passed the order of Hatori Nakasa to the Japanese front commander Captain Gohitoko Hideta, who was struggling with the mortar bombardment, through the signal flag.

At that moment, Hideda Gorengeng's face was gray. He didn't expect His Excellency Nakasa Hatori to be so cold-blooded, and he would even attack him under such a disadvantage. Attack with a hammer, attack, do you have to have the elite infantry of the brigade die in this battle?

Of course, the most terrible thing was not that he led the infantry to continue the attack, but the most terrible thing was that when the signal corpsmen passed the military order conveyed by the flag to him in its entirety, it was already two minutes later.

At this time, those stupid artillerymen who will strictly implement Shangguan's military orders should also adjust their muzzles! Hopefully, they'll be a little more accurate.

In fact, concealment is not so important anymore. In order to avoid the mortar shells that the Chinese were still desperately bombarding, the remaining more than 200 infantry on the hillside were hidden more tightly than ever.

If this can't dodge the mountain artillery shells that may miss, then you can only consider yourself unlucky.

With a "boom", a shell exploded on a slope more than 400 meters behind the old Guan position.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of "Huh~~~" terrible grenades piercing the sky came from far and near. Several grenades exploded in a row behind the positions.

Liu Lang's eyes in the command headquarters shrank suddenly.

"Everyone, hidden, Japanese shelling." Without Liu Lang's order, the commanders at all levels on the position roared desperately.

In fact, there is no need for company commanders, platoon commanders, and squad leaders to remind them that at least one-third of the veterans who participated in the Battle of the Great Wall on the position are busy holding their guns and drilling into the nearest anti-artillery hole the moment they hear the shells crossing the sky.

The recruits were reminded both during training and before the war that they had a 50 percent chance of surviving if they learned everything from the veterans. Only those who have survived a major war are qualified to be called veterans.

Otherwise, even if many of them have been soldiers for four years, they can only be called recruits.

At a distance of four thousand meters, it took only five seconds from the screeching of the gun's chamber at a speed of up to 800 meters per second to the flight to the position of Jiuguan, and the time left for the soldiers of the independent regiment to dodge was almost zero, because the shells were faster than the sound.

However, this was only a test firing, and the real shelling was about to come as the Japanese observers reported the effects of the shelling to the artillery in the rear.

"The devils of the dog day dare to shoot cannons, and they will all be withdrawn by Lao Tzu." Liu Jinzuo screamed even more strangely, and ordered all the artillery to retreat down with the cannons and the remaining shells.

Although his artillery position is behind the position, it is not located in the absolute dead end of the howitzer, and because of the mountain, the distance between each mortar is not far, it does not need to be much, as long as a mountain artillery shell hits here, it can be finished for most of it, but he does not dare to take this risk, that is the 82 mortars that the entire battalion can gather, and it must not be finished here.

This is just the first battle of the real showdown with the Japanese invaders. In the future, I don't know how many battles I will have to fight with the little devils, and every cannon is incomparably precious.

Sure enough, when the officers and men on the position were still drilling into the individual anti-artillery holes and hidden soldiers' holes, the Japanese mountain artillery opened fire again, and after two rounds of test firing, finally some shells fell on the position.

The 6.5-kilogram projectile exploded, the ground shook, and the terrible air wave rolled up hundreds of square meters of dust.

Many of the recruits who have never really been in the baptism of artillery fire are pale, and this is still the power of the 75 mountain gun, if it is replaced by the 105 howitzer, what kind of terrible situation will it be?

On the other hand, the veterans are much more relaxed, like old monkeys, and even leisurely lit a cigarette in the Tibetan soldier cave with a log as the roof. In his words, if there is no way to stop the little devil's shells here, then there will be no safe place on the position, damn it, it can only be the ball up, afraid that there will be another egg?

The old monkey who was wounded in the arm but could not get off work finally asked for battle and went to the position again, but although he could not shoot with his arm hanging, he used practical actions to appease the hearts of the remaining ten people of an infantry squad. His infantry squad, in the previous battle, had already lost three people, two wounded and one was killed, and they were all carried down.

With the passage of time, more and more shells fell on the position, and the four 41-type mountain guns with a rate of fire of 10 rounds per minute were undoubtedly terrifying at full speed, and they could drop more than 30 shells in one minute on this position, which was only 800 meters long and 60 meters wide, with an area of no more than 50,000 square meters.

Ten minutes is enough to throw more than 300 shells, and a grenade with a killing radius of 10 meters can completely plow this position.

However, compared with the more than 100 officers and men of the first battalion and one company of the independent regiment who still had anti-artillery holes to hide in the position, the face of the Japanese death squad located 70 meters below the position was like ashes.