After learning that the instructor of the Eighth Route Army was in Henan Village, Seishiro Itagaki personally called Honda Masasai, in which Itagaki gave some guidance to Honda Masasa, and exerted strong pressure on Honda Masasa, ordering him to annihilate the Eighth Route Army Instructor at all costs. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Honda Masasai completely scoffed at Itagaki Seishiro's so-called instructions, but the chief of staff of the Fifth Division, Nishimura Riwin Osa, arrived at the headquarters of the 2nd Mixed Brigade overnight to supervise the battle, so he had to deal with it carefully.

Although Nishimura Riwin's military rank is only Dasa, and his rank is one level lower than Honda Masasai, Nishimura Riwin, as a confidant of Itagaki Seishiro, came to supervise the war this time, and his status is no different from that of the minister, and Honda Masako has to bow his head and listen to the training.

However, Nishimura Riwin is different from Itagaki Seishiro's arrogance, his personality is quite amiable, and he fully respects Honda Masasai's command right to the mixed second brigade, and does not criticize Honda Masasai too much, which makes him settle down and prepare for the battle of encircling and suppressing the instructor.

After thorough analysis and research, Honda Masasai and Nishimura Toshiwin agreed that the current strength of the instructor is about 5,000, and should not exceed 7,000 at most, while the Japanese army itself, mixed with 10,000 people in the 2nd Brigade and the 42nd Wing, which came to reinforce it, has a total strength of 14,000 people, and the ratio of troops is close to three to one, occupying an absolute advantage.

However, even if he thought that the Japanese army had an absolute advantage, Honda Masasai still maintained enough caution, and yesterday's surprise attack on the instructor left a deep impression on him, once he was bitten by a snake, and he was afraid of the well rope for ten years, and at this time he still had lingering fears about the combat effectiveness of the instructor.

Moreover, Honda Masasai knew that the instructor's artillery and automatic firepower were no worse than the Japanese army, and he judged that it was because the instructor completely annihilated the 15th Mixed Brigade in the Battle of Harahira, thus seizing the weapons and ammunition of the 15th Mixed Brigade, and the firepower soared greatly.

Honda Masato was able to graduate from the Japanese army with a pool of talents, and climbed to the high position of major general brigade commander in his later military career, and he was obviously not a man of wine bags and rice bags. He used armored vehicles to open the way in front of his head, and constantly used machine guns to strafe the mountains and dirt slopes on both sides of the road, clearing all threats, but these arrangements were completely cowardly and cowardly in the eyes of Nishimura Lewin, who did not know the truth, and repeatedly suggested that Honda Masato speed up the march.

At the urging of Nishimura Liwen, the Japanese finally arrived at the Henan Village position at about half past ten in the morning. After several attempts, Honda Masasai finally determined that the instructor of the Eighth Route Army, whom the Japanese hated to the bone, was on the opposite position, and he immediately ordered the troops to launch a fierce attack on the position of the Eighth Route Army.

"Boom!"

The Japanese attack was still the same old-fashioned three-plank axe, first by the field artillery wing shelling the instructor's position, and then under the cover of artillery fire by the infantry wing launched an attack on the instructor.

"Kill, give!"

Although the Japanese army's offensive method was old-fashioned, its combat effectiveness was undoubted, and the Fifth Brigade did not need to feint defeat at all, and was still defeated by the Japanese attack under the all-out battle, and retreated to the second line of defense.

After the Japanese seized the first line of defense, their morale was greatly boosted, and under the command of the commander of the 1st Wing, Jiro Togawa, they attacked the second line of defense of the instructor, and the devil's group charge and accurate marksmanship caused a lot of casualties to the 5th Brigade, and the brigade commander Zhang Wenlong saw that the feint defeat of the troops was about to turn into a real defeat, and he couldn't help but become anxious, and reinforced a battalion that served as a reserve into the second line of defense.

Dada......

The situation was critical, and the Fifth Brigade could not care about hiding its clumsiness, and more than 20 light and heavy machine guns arranged in the fortifications shouted happily, and the tight rain of bullets swept towards the devils in a dense attack formation, and immediately swept the dozens of devils who were howling madly to the ground, and returned to the arms of Amaterasu.

A battalion that had been reinforced exerted its strong combat effectiveness, pulled the trigger of the Type 37 rifle, and fired wildly at the Japanese troops, causing hundreds of casualties to the Japanese troops at once.

Zhang Wenlong saw through the binoculars that the Japanese soldiers were killed and repelled by the soldiers, and he couldn't help but shout loudly. Suddenly, he found that the Japanese troops had begun to retreat in an orderly manner under the command of the officer, and suddenly had a bad conjecture in his heart, so he immediately made a decision and immediately called Zhang Fengnian, the battalion commander guarding the second position, asking him to be careful of the Japanese shelling.

"Boom!"

Sure enough, as soon as Zhang Wenlong put down the phone, the sound of artillery fire on the second position suddenly resounded in the sky, and the battalion commander Zhang Fengnian only had time to let the soldiers of the half battalion hide back to the position, but the remaining soldiers of the half battalion were exposed to the artillery fire of the Japanese army.

"Watch out for shelling! Watch out for shelling! ”

The battalion commander Zhang Fengnian broke free from the pull of the soldiers around him, ran out of the position frantically, shouted while running, and called the soldiers back to the position, but the sound of Japanese artillery fire soon covered up Zhang Fengnian's shouting, and the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who could not dodge were blown to pieces by the Japanese shells, and even Zhang Fengnian himself was buried by the mud splashed by the shells.

"Battalion commander!"

The two soldiers hiding in the position ran to the place where Zhang Fengnian was buried despite the bombardment of artillery fire, and after some scrambling excavation, Zhang Fengnian was finally dug out.

Fortunately, Zhang Fengnian was only buried in the mud and was not hit by the shell, and he quickly retreated to the anti-artillery hole of the position after regaining consciousness.

Zhang Wenlong saw that the Japanese artillery was sharp, and in order to avoid unnecessary sacrifices, he withdrew the troops on the second line of defense to the third line of defense.

In less than a morning, the Japanese army captured two positions in a row, and the Japanese officers and soldiers who had no one in their eyes were even more arrogant, and the wing commander Shikawa Jiro Osa even drew his own saber, pointed at the third line of defense of the Fifth Brigade, and shouted: "Kill and give!" ”

The arrogant Japanese troops quickly advanced to the third line of defense of the Fifth Brigade, and the mortars, heavy machine guns, and grenades of the Fifth Brigade were all dispatched, of which 18 mortars were lined up one after another, and with the range-setting, loading, and firing of the artillery, there were bursts of angry roars.

"Boom!"

Eighteen mortar shells accurately hit the dense attack formation of the devils, killing and wounding hundreds of Japanese soldiers who were the most fierce Japanese in one fell swoop, and one of the hot-headed Japanese captains was blown to pieces on the spot by the shells. The morale of the Japanese army, which had just soared, was wiped out by the rage of mortar shells of the Eighth Route Army.

Zhang Fengnian, who came to his senses, watched the devil rushing in the artillery fire, and couldn't help laughing, and said: "little devil, it's finally your turn to be bombed!" Hahaha! ”

The wing commander in charge of commanding the attack, Jiro Togawa, saw that the instructor's mortar had caused such a large number of casualties to the troops, and he couldn't help but scold: "Eight grid tooth road! Why is there so many mortars on the Eighth Road, and what does the Intelligence Section do? Why isn't this mentioned! Where are the communications troops? Hurry, report to the brigade commander quickly, the artillery fire on the Tuba Road is too fierce and the attack of my first wing is unfavorable, ask for artillery support! ”

"Hay!" The signal soldier hurriedly responded.