At about 9 o'clock in the evening, the coalition forces of the eight or nine divisions, after a long march, finally arrived in this area, the airship has been following them all the time, and notified Zhou Yu by radio, although it was 2 hours of waiting, Zhou Yubu did not work hard, because he knew the basic movements of the daily average, only a few sentries were left, and the rest went to rest,

Now that the rest is over, the vigorous Northwest Army is waiting for the Japanese army, which has been marching for more than 10 hours, just relying on a momentum to support it, and the advantage is very great, which Zhou Yu knows very well, the mine array he arranged is to destroy their sharpness, and only by breaking up the sharpness of the Japanese army can it be fought next.

Through the night vision binoculars, you can see that a large area of Japanese troops in the distance is coming to this side, the Japanese army does not have the foresight, do not know that there is an open zone of about 3 kilometers, and their width actually reaches 5 kilometers, that is to say, even if there is no fortification in this open zone, the Japanese army will not be able to pass Guò here silently, they will hit the defense of the 117th Regiment and be discovered.

The arrangement of the mines was inward, the first to sound was the ordinary mines, the Japanese army marched more densely, and the ordinary mines also caused almost a few casualties, which made the Japanese army nervous, and even formed a little riot.

The headquarters of Koizumi Masahōho and Kawamura Sogoro were set together, and they had lost more than half of their troops, so there was no need to divide their troops.

After adjusting their pace slightly, they noticed that there were no mines on the right, and immediately turned around. Go in the other direction, a distance of about a kilometer. Fast march, less than 10 minutes. They rushed to the main position of the 117th Regiment, and when the first row of guns rang out, the flares rose into the sky, and in the light as bright as day, the light and heavy machine guns began to fire wildly, and the Japanese soldiers were knocked to the ground like cutting rice.

The main position was heavily guarded, with a front of less than 2 km, densely arranged with 3 trenches, a large number of light and heavy machine guns and a combination of barbed wire. Let the commanders of the two divisions despair, and it was not until here that they woke up to the fact that not only did they have an enemy opposite them, but the enemy had formed a huge encirclement in order to completely annihilate them, as Kamio Mitsutomi said, at a critical juncture, at this time, if they could not break through this line of defense. Maybe it's the result of the annihilation of the whole army.

At this time, the two of them went all out, driving their men to keep rushing forward, even in front of the strength and weakness of the defense in front. I took the initiative to choose the other side, what barbed wire, what mines. It's all filled with human lives, and I don't care about it at all. I have to say. Their approach has really played a considerable role. In just 20 minutes, it broke through 1 kilometer, broke through 12 barbed wire fences in a row, and tripped at least 1,000 mines.

The cost is also very huge, the barbed wire and machine gun fire, at least 2,500 people were taken away, and more than 3,000 people died under the mines, and the most important thing is that more than 1,000 people were seriously injured.

But more than 20,000 people, 7,000 have been removed, and there are 14,000, the average army, suffered such a blow, I am afraid there is no way to continue the attack, but the Japanese are different, from top to bottom know that this is the most critical moment, if you can't rush out, by dawn, the soldiers of the Northwest Army will come up more and more, and when the time comes, they will really not be able to run away.

"Give me a rush, regardless of the price!" Koizumi Masaho said almost through gritted teeth.

At the most dangerous moment, in a desperate situation, the Japanese army burst out of this desperate spirit, but it was shocking, groups of people, with bayonets in their hands, roaring and rushing up, more than 10,000 people, under the group charge, the momentum was very strong, the place where they charged, was the defense line of a battalion, at night, under the condition of machine guns and insufficient personnel, quickly broke through the first line of defense, and towards the second area in depth.

From time to time, people fell, either killed by cold guns and machine guns, or they encountered the tricky mines laid down by the 1st Battalion, or the ground mines arranged with grenade wires, and they did not flinch at all, and kept rushing forward.

At the beginning, Zhou Yu's mood was relatively calm, according to his plan, in just 30 minutes, almost one-third of the enemy was eliminated, and the rest should be sleepy and tired, at least he should take a rest, but he didn't expect that the other party rushed up so fiercely, mine arrays, barbed wire, did not stop the enemy who kept rushing forward, the mortars and machine guns they carried were not enough to resist the group charge of so many people, a flat ground, unobstructed, It's about the resilience between the two sides.

It was the first time for Zhou Yu to encounter such a situation, and he was slightly shocked in his heart, but he quickly calmed down, gave an order, and did not retreat! In addition to this order, he gave an order to the deputy regimental commander who was guarding not far away.

The Japanese army in front of them, suddenly discovered, it was difficult to advance, the guns began to sound intensively, and the defensive line that could only break through the dozens of people that may have been lost before seemed to be difficult to move an inch now, and the Northwest Army, which could not be found, seemed to appear in front of them in an endless stream, no longer retreating and fighting, but a frontal positional battle, both sides were fighting as much as possible, and every inch of land was not spared.

Less than a thousand people, with the help of AK11 and light and heavy machine guns to form a meager line of defense, even if there are only two layers, less than 100 meters thick, but tenaciously resisted the decisive impact of the Japanese army, several times the Japanese army under the leadership of the officer, broke through a layer of defense line, was directly led by Zhou Yu with the regimental guard company to fight back, the fierce gunfire rang out for almost an hour, the front of the defense line, layers of corpses. The personnel of the first battalion have also been reduced from more than 1,000 to more than 800, of which more than 300 are wounded, which can be said to be the heaviest casualty in the history of Zhou Yu's army.

It is this kind of resilience, with 1,000 people, to block the impact of 10 times the enemy, Koizumi Masaho and Kawamura Sogoro's faces, are a little shocked, they know that the Northwest Army and Russia have fought in the north, Japan has also fought with Russia a few years ago, Koizumi Masaho and Kawamura Sogoro have participated, but they didn't expect the Northwest Army to be so powerful, they are not recruits, not new divisions, they are permanent divisions, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers under them, the two of them know very well, how many people are on the other side, they are older than the army, It is also clear that there is only one brigade or so, so that the army, resisting the impact of 14,000 of them and not fearing death, killed and injured 5,000 of them, and the number of men plus minor injuries is only more than 8,000 people, which makes them in a dilemma, even if they rush over, the power in their hands is gone, where else can they go.

Koizumi Masaho pondered for a moment and said to Sogoro Kawamura: "Now is the most critical moment, either life or death, a decision must be made!" ”

"Wait for us to hit together, with all our might, leaving no room for anything, we should be able to rush over." Sogoro Kawamura also nodded and said.

Another impact, this time the impact intensity is much greater than the previous times, and it has already received a huge impact on the front, and it suddenly became precarious, not to mention the reserves, even Zhou Yu has reached the front line, but Zhou Yu not only has no worries, but a smile appeared on his face.

On the other side, in the flank and rear part of the headquarters of Koizumi Masahokawamura Sogoro, the 3rd Battalion of the 117th Regiment had already made a detour to its position, and against the backdrop of the night, coupled with the enthusiasm of the front, the 3rd Battalion took 20 minutes and detoured almost 1.5 kilometers to the rear position of the two divisions, and had been waiting for an opportunity.

Now the opportunity finally appeared, in order to break through the defensive line, Koizumi Masao and Kawamura Sogoro did their best, in addition to a few staff officers, some officers, there were only a few guards and seriously injured numbers left, maybe they really thought that there were only 1,000 people blocking them, but they didn't expect that on the defense line of the main position of the 117th regiment, more than 1,000 people from 1 battalion were transferred to make a detour, this roundabout troops, seized the opportunity, immediately began to assault, sneaking to 200 meters away from them, Then a wave of shock was launched.

The well-trained Northwest Army, almost without any difficulty, took the position, and the gunfire sounded behind him, not only so that Koizumi Masaho and Kawamura Sogoro were directly taken, and all the wounded soldiers were captured, and the gunfire that rang out behind also affected the front attack on the Japanese army, and they were also a little flustered, they didn't know how many enemies there were, there were both front and back, and they suddenly lost all their sharpness, and the strength of the attack suddenly decreased, and they retreated after leaving hundreds of corpses.

The place where the attack was launched before, they did not dare to go over, the gunfire was fierce, and the front could not break through, so they had to flee in all directions, some of them ran into the defense line of the 118th Regiment, and those who were beaten lost their armor, and the rest fled backwards, scattered within a range of a few kilometers to more than ten kilometers, forming stragglers and routs, and after losing the command structure, their structure was scattered, and there was no way to pose a threat.

The report of the 117th Regiment was reported to Cai Ye at half past 10 o'clock in the evening, Zhou Yu avoided the heavy and light, concealed the casualties, in fact, as far as the 117th Regiment is concerned, the casualties are nothing, only the 1st Battalion paid more than 600 casualties, dead and seriously injured and disabled, adding up to 300, which is equivalent to a great victory, and the rest, only sporadic casualties, and the results of these casualties in exchange for the eighth and ninth divisions were mostly gathered and annihilated here, and later counted, about 20,001 Japanese troops, were killed and seriously wounded and captured, Of almost 16,000 people, less than 5,000 ran away and did not run out of the encirclement.

At about 11 o'clock in the evening, the reconnaissance team arrived, and they replenished the last line of defense, so that a semicircular encirclement of about 12 kilometers was formed, and the only place where there was no Northwest Army was the vast sea, and they had nowhere to escape unless a fleet of ships responded to it. (To be continued......)