After receiving the telegram that night, Fu Zuoyi immediately ordered the 35th Army, the 61st Army, the 41st Army, and Feng Zhanhai's newly organized 109th Army to attack simultaneously on a front of more than 200 miles from Shichengzi to Dushikou to Baihebao Zhen'anbao.

As usual, the various units that were ready to go immediately were like wild horses that had escaped, and Zhang Chengyi's troops of the 419th Regiment of the 35th Army attacked Mentou Mountain at night, and they secretly touched the mountain, and the result of the captain of the [***] on the opposite side did not act for a long time was that more than 300 puppet troops and devils here were very paralyzed and careless, until the grenades of the Chinese soldiers were thrown into the pillbox, and they found that the [***] team had rushed to the top of the mountain. The brutal struggle unfolded everywhere on the top of the mountain, the Chinese soldiers twisted the big knife all over the mountain to slash and kill the army, the fire of the explosion pierced the night, after ten minutes the puppet army first could not stand it, he either retreated down the mountain one after another, or simply fell to the ground and pretended to be dead, the remaining dozens of soldiers of the army relied on a pillbox to resist desperately, Zhang Chengyi personally commanded the troops to storm the pillbox, and the other part was led by the deputy regiment commander from the mountainside to the enemy's back, cutting off the retreat of the army, and at the same time blocking the reinforcements of the army.

The two armies threw grenades in the narrow area of the top of the hill, the explosions were repeated, and both sides suffered heavy casualties, and the Japanese troops outside the pillbox were quickly wiped out, and the remaining dozen or so Japanese troops all retreated to the vicinity of the pillbox, and the Chinese soldiers who stood up straight and attacked all fell into the fierce machine-gun fire.

Seeing this, Zhang Chengyi immediately changed his tactics, strengthened the frontal firepower to attract the army, and the main force attacked along the trenches, the Jin Chanhua machine gun showed a strong power in this close combat, the weakness of the 38-type rifle to pull the bolt was exposed, often after a shot, the flower machine gun of the [***] team of the squadron strafed over, so that several times rushed to the bunker door, kicked open the fort door, a shuttle bullet shot out, the Chinese soldier who threw himself fell to the ground without a sound, the Chinese soldier immediately replaced it with a few grenades, after the smoke passedThe top of the hill was quiet.

The battle lasted less than half an hour, and more than 100 Japanese troops on the top of the mountain were completely annihilated, half of more than 300 puppet troops were annihilated, and the remaining half fled and half surrendered.

The gunfire on the top of the mountain stopped, but the gunfire on the mountainside became more and more violent, and the second-line army reacted very quickly, and in just a few dozen minutes, they organized a counterattack, and the fleeing puppet army was quickly executed, and a large group of soldiers roared in the night, braving the rain of bullets to attack upward.

The 3rd Battalion of the 419th Regiment of Deputy Regiment Commander Xu Jian could not stop the enemy's attack on the mountainside, and began to gradually retreat to the top of the mountain to join Zhang Chengyi. As the army followed, a more violent rain of bullets fell on the mountain, and Hashimoto Renshan, the squadron leader of the Japanese army, who commanded the counterattack, felt bad and immediately ordered a retreat.

It was too late, in the short scream, a violent explosion sounded in the crowd, Hashimoto Renshan flew into the air at that time, and by the light of the explosion, Hashimoto Renshan in mid-air saw his soldiers running around the mountainside, looking for a place to hide. After the shelling, a group of Chinese soldiers turned from the foot of the mountain, quickly broke through the resistance of the flank squad, and then rushed up from the bottom, while Zhang Chengyi at the top of the mountain led the 419th Regiment to jump out of the trench and rush down the mountain. With two flanking attacks, the white-knuckle battle soon unfolded again in every corner from the mountainside to the foot of the mountain, and in the darkness only dull screams, the impact of knives and guns, and the occasional explosion. When the sky spat out a trace of paleness, the battle on Mentou Mountain stopped, and weary Chinese soldiers roamed the mountains to clean the battlefield, looking for living companions and bandaging bleeding wounds.

Zhang Chengyi and Bo Xin, the head of the 420th Regiment, stood on the mountainside, their uniforms were covered with dust, mixed with blood stains condensed into pieces of filth, Zhang Chengyi's face was splashed with blood, and his arms were also stained with blood, and his hands simply wiped on his body, and he said to Bo Xin happily: "The boss is really clever, and the little devil can't turn out his old man's palm even if he is a monkey." ”

Before Bo Xin could answer, there was a cannon sound on the opposite hill, Bo Xin turned around to look, there were bursts of smoke rising from the mountain, and he said with a smile: "I'm afraid Lao Dong will be blamed, the meat has been eaten by us, and he can only drink soup." ”

Zhang Chengyi laughed, the old Dong in Bo Xin's mouth was Dong Qiwu, the commander of the 436th Regiment of the 218th Brigade, and Fu Zuoyi arranged two brigades in this direction: the 210th Brigade and the 218th Brigade.

This direction was the focus of the defense of the Yue army, and Fu Zuoyi let his descendant 35th Army be responsible for attacking from here, and let Li Fuying of the 61st Army attack from the direction of Sandaochuan.

The rumbling hooves of the horses trampled on the tranquility of the grassland, and the two teams of cavalry collided fiercely, and the yellow military uniforms and variegated clothes fought desperately on the horses, the swords flashing, and the flesh and blood flew sideways; The mournful screams of the war horses were mixed with screams. "Kill!" Gong Changhai's eyes widened in anger, and he slashed down a devil with a knife, and then rushed to the next devil. The steel knives were staggered, Gong Changhai broke the enemy's saber with one arm, and after the forum, he took advantage of the opportunity of the two horses to turn around and stab, and the little devil fell down, and the ghost head knife swept towards his back with the sound of the wind. Gong Changhai snorted and rushed to the next opponent.

The task of Feng Zhanhai's department was to insert it from the vicinity of Laozhanggou, and then detour to Guerhai, and insert it to the east of Fengning through Erdaowopu. Unexpectedly, as soon as they arrived in Guerhai, they encountered a group of cavalry, and he attacked without saying a word. The commander of the army on the opposite side was even more afraid that they had run away, and they killed them without even forming a formation.

As soon as he looked up, there was no one in front of him, and Gong Changhai realized that he had killed the army form, and then he turned the horse's head, roared and killed back into the battle group, and the soldiers around him rushed back with him.

Gong Changhai met the guerrilla team of the first brigade of the cavalry of the army, and the first line of the Great Wall was mountainous, which was not conducive to cavalry operations, so the first cavalry brigade of the eighth division and the Motegi cavalry brigade of the sixth division were not of much use, until the arrival of Okamura Ningji, they had the opportunity to guerrilla to the west, the brigade commander Onizuka Nanjiro sent three reading squadrons to patrol between Sidaohezi and Okaku Town, and he himself took the main force to station at Hongyu Temple west of Fengning, he thought that the counterattack of the [***] team, Then Feng Ning must be the target of the attack. However, although he made this judgment, in his heart he did not approve of the counterattack of the [***] team, and the deputy chief of staff was making a big fuss. Therefore, he neither built fortifications on Monkey Mountain, the commanding height of Fengning City, nor did he strengthen the defense of Fengning City.

When he saw the soldiers who had fled, he suddenly realized that he was wrong. He did not punish the soldiers who fled back, nor did he immediately go back to retaliate, but ordered the troops to move to the north of Fengning City, and left the artillery and machine gun squadrons in Fengning City to strengthen the defense.

The 35th Army under the command of Fu Zuoyi personally attacked Mentou Mountain and Jiaziling, conquered Laoxiying and Xiadianzi, and Li Fuying's 61st Army conquered Madiangou and Toudao shacks; Sun Dianying attacked from the mountainous area south of Guyuan, conquered the big beach, mountain caves, and small dams without any major battles, and rushed towards Fengning from the north. After destroying two squadrons of cavalry, Feng Zhanhai's troops began to advance northeast of Fengning.

The puppet army under Yu Zhishan had no determination to resist in the face of the fierce offensive of the [***] team, and they began to prepare to flee when they saw the banner of the [***] team. More than 3,000 members of the small tenant wing who were transferred to the western front fought hard in more than a dozen passes, and the commander of the wing, Xiao Dianxi, made an unprecedented request for urgent tactical guidance to the division and regiment headquarters.

The great changes in the west of Rehe were transmitted to the headquarters of the Eighth Division, and the scale and intensity of the counterattack of the [***] squadron far exceeded the predictions of Okamura Ninji and Nishi Yoshiichi, especially the determination shown by the Chinese soldiers, which surprised the officers of the Eighth Division, and they rushed to the position of the army without hesitation.

"Arrogance, arrogance! They simply didn't take the imperial army seriously, and they must be punished! In the midst of a nervous encounter, Yoshiichi made a little gaffe: "Their tactics are unreasonable. He pointed to the map and said: "In our rear, they sent bandits to attack without rear, without logistical support, without follow-up support, which was obviously to send them to death, but they fought like this." Looking at Fu Zuoyi's counteroffensive again, it is also this kind of blind attack without any reason. ”

Okamura Ninji didn't answer, he buried himself on the map, carefully pondering the combat intentions of the [***] team.

Chief of Staff Naguna and Chief of Operations Uchio Takeyama stood up to express their support, and Guna proposed to transfer the Kawahara Brigade from the front to the west to punish the [***] team.

"Wait, gentlemen," Okamura Ninji raised his head and shouted, Nishiyichi, who was about to give the order, stopped and looked at him, Okamura's timely awareness of the counterattack of the [***] team, and dispatched a wing to Resai in advance, which stabilized the situation in Resai to a certain extent, and did not collapse all at once, which allowed him to win the trust of Nishiyichi and others, Okamura looked at Nishiyichi and said: "General, didn't the leader feel the change in the Naka[***] team?" ”

"Okamura-kun, what's the change in the [***] team?" Uchio Takeyama asked.

"Ladies and gentlemen, at the beginning of the Great Wall operation, we attacked the Great Wall with two brigades, and the [***] team fought separately, so we could concentrate our forces in each direction and strike at them one by one, but now, they have begun to act in unison." Okamura said, "If we draw troops from the front, then they will counterattack at the Nantenmen." ”

"General Suzuki can hold the Gubeikou." Uchio Takeyama said firmly.

Okamura had participated in the 128th Songhu War, he knew the combat effectiveness of the Chinese German armorers, and he did not believe that Suzuki Mitsu could hold the Gubeikou, but he could not say it, otherwise he would be considered cowardly and cowardly, and the arrogance of the army in this regard was simply unbelievable.

"Your Excellency, my suggestion is to abandon the area around Boots Mountain, concentrate forces to hold Fengning, and at the same time transfer the 33rd Brigade to the west."

As soon as Okamura's words fell, the officers of the Eighth Division suddenly became angry, and even Nishi Yoshiichi's eyes contained anger.

(To be continued)