The Japanese 109th Division began to formulate a battle plan, and Lieutenant General Division Commander Anan Yuji ordered the 31st Brigade and the 69th Wing, the 107th Wing, and the 136th Wing of the 118th Brigade to launch a fierce attack on Hutou Mountain at 5 a.m. on 23 September.

Even though the chief of staff of the 109th Division, Kuramo Shuzo, explained the current situation of the 109th Division, Anan still resolutely issued an operational order to the troops.

After giving combat orders to his troops, Anan Weiji began to get in touch with the 26th Division, and Anan Weiji hoped that when the troops of the 109th Division launched an operation, the troops of the 26th Division could cooperate, and he hoped that the troops of the 26th Division would also be able to attack Siling Mountain at 5 o'clock in the morning.

Hou Guanchun directly agreed to Anan's request, and he and Anan Weiji and I talked in detail about the joint operations of the two divisions.

At 5 o'clock in the morning of 23 September, the troops of the 109th and 26th Divisions of the Japanese Army began to launch fierce attacks on Hutou Mountain and Siling Mountain respectively.

In the 109th Division, Anan Weiji invested the 69th Wing, 107th Wing, 136th Wing, the 190th Division directly under the Engineer Wing, the directly subordinate artillery Wing, and the North China Independent Field Heavy Artillery Brigade, which was assigned to the 109th Division.

The 267th Division was transferred to the 12th Independent Infantry Wing, the 13th Independent Infantry Wing and the engineer team directly under the division, the artillery wing began to attack Siling Mountain, and the 11th Wing of the opposing infantry was responsible for a roundabout attack.

This time, Hou Guan Chun directly transferred an artillery brigade from the artillery wing to strengthen the attack capability of the 11th Independent Infantry Wing, and he asked the 11th Independent Infantry Wing to attack from the back mountain path to the top of the mountain in a short period of time, and solve all the troops of the Eighth Route Army in Siling Mountain in one fell swoop.

At 5:10 a.m., the Japanese artillery units began to carry out artillery bombardment, and Hutou Mountain once again became the focus of the Japanese army's attack, and dozens of Japanese artillery began to shell Hutou Mountain. ，

The Japanese artillery concentrated dozens of artillery pieces and began to bombard Hutou Mountain for half an hour, and after the shelling ended, nearly 10,000 people from three infantry wings of the Japanese army began to launch a fierce attack on Hutou Mountain.

By half past six in the morning, there were less than 100 infantry in Hutou Mountain, but the position of Hutou Mountain was still firmly in the hands of the Honor Second Regiment.

By seven o'clock in the morning, the 69th Wing of the 31st Brigade of the People's Republic of China broke through to Hutou Mountain, and Zhong Jian, the commander of the Honorary Second Regiment, was shot and fell into a severe coma when he led the troops to drive away these devil soldiers, and at this time there were only dozens of people who could fight on Hutou Mountain, and even the artillery began to distribute weapons and prepare to go to the front line.

At 7:05, an infantry squad of the 107th Wing of the Japanese army broke into Sun Weiguo's position, Wang Youhua led the guard squad to annihilate all the Japanese squad after a hard battle, but Sun Weiguo was attacked when resisting the attack of this devil soldier, and a bullet pierced Sun Weiguo's shoulder, and Sun Weiguo was seriously injured this time.

A large number of devil soldiers began to enter the top of the mountain, and the position of Hutou Mountain was precarious.

Seeing that the devil soldiers were about to annihilate all the officers and soldiers of the Eighth Route on the Hutou Mountain position, but at this time, the Japanese troops suddenly got the order to retreat.

The little devils didn't understand it very much, but they still carried out the order very faithfully, and the Japanese troops began to withdraw from the Hutou Mountain position.

The devil soldiers began to evacuate, which made the officers and soldiers on Hutou Mountain breathe a sigh of relief, because if the little devils did not evacuate at this time, they would not be able to resist the Japanese attack.

What puzzled the officers and soldiers was that the little devils were about to capture the Hutou Mountain position, so why did they suddenly retreat?

The officers and soldiers on Hutou Mountain did not understand the little devils' methods, but if they were here at the headquarters of the 109th Division now, they would know why the little devils suddenly withdrew.

At this time, the Honor Fourth Regiment, the Honor Fifth Regiment, and the 120th Division of the 359th Brigade have begun to enter Wutai County, after they easily captured Doucun Town, the Honor Fourth Regiment, the Honor Fifth Regiment, the 359 Brigade 717 Regiment, and the 718 Regiment The four regiments quickly launched an attack on the Japanese 26th Division, and the Honor Fourth Regiment had hundreds of tanks, and the Honor Fifth Regiment had thousands of cavalry, with more than 6,000 infantry from the 717th Regiment and the 718th Regiment, and nearly 10,000 troops suddenly appeared in the rear of the Japanese 26th Division. At this time, the main force of the 26th Division was attacking Siling Mountain, and the headquarters of the 26th Division of the Japanese Army fell into a crisis on the spot, and the main force of the 717th Regiment surrounded the headquarters of the 26th Division of the Japanese Army, and began to attack the headquarters of the division.

The cavalry unit of the 5th Regiment of Honor under the leadership of Ge Haifeng quickly eliminated the artillery position of the 26th Division of the Japanese Army and killed hundreds of Japanese artillery, and the 12th Wing of the Japanese Independent Infantry was attacked by the tank troops of the 4th Regiment of Honor and the 718th Regiment when they returned to the regimental headquarters of the division, and the 12th Wing of the Independent Infantry fell into a bitter battle on the spot.

The Japanese 26th Division began to bear a huge blow, Hou Guan Chun did not dare to have any hesitation, agreed to immediately start to contact the 109th Division headquarters, Anan only a few times after receiving Hou Guan Chun's request for help, he immediately ordered the 118 Brigade of the Tahara Wing to quickly start reinforcing the past, but the Tahara Wing encountered the 359 Brigade 719 Regiment attack, the Tahara Wing was already suffering a lot of losses and was repulsed, Anan had to temporarily give up the attack on Hutou Mountain, and quickly began to order the troops to return to defense.

If it was only the troops of the 26th Division asking for help, then Anan Weiji would naturally not let all the troops give up the attack on the Hutou Mountain position, and at the same time as receiving the telegram from the 26th Division headquarters asking for help, Anan Weiji received the news that the armored troops of the 2nd Division had begun to break through to his divisional headquarters.

This news came from the Japanese intelligence agency, and Anan did not dare to be careless, so he immediately dispatched his three infantry wings and artillery wings to abandon the attack on Hutou Mountain, and he quickly began to form a defense with these troops, so as not to end his division headquarters.

The appearance of the Fourth Regiment and other troops was very timely, and if they were one step late, I am afraid that all the officers and soldiers on Hutou Mountain would have died.

At this time, Yin Jinshan, the commander of the Honorary Fourth Regiment, had already begun to lead the main force of the armored regiment to cooperate with the troops of the 718th Regiment to quickly march towards the 109th Division.

At half past seven in the morning of September 22, the 5th Regiment of Honor and the 717th Regiment of the 359th Brigade began to attack the troops of the 26th Division, at this time the 12th Wing of the Independent Infantry of the 26th Division of the Japanese Army suffered heavy casualties, and they had already paid the price of more than 1,000 casualties, while the 11th Wing of the Independent Infantry was still acting behind Siling Mountain, and the only one who could return to the headquarters of the division was the 13th Independent Infantry Wing.

However, just when the 13th Wing of the Japanese Independent Infantry was preparing to return to the regimental headquarters of the division, Zhang Wenbin, the deputy commander of the Honorary Second Regiment, led the 7th Battalion stationed at Siling Mountain, and the 8th Battalion began to counterattack the 13th Wing of the Japanese Independent Infantry.