Ito sent a reinforced squadron to the left side of the road, and a cavalry brigade to the right, in fact, it was all a test before the battle, he wanted to see what kind of strength the opponent dared to ambush him.

The squadron sent out, as expected, was repulsed, which was not at all unexpected by Dazuo, if these Chinese could not withstand the attack of even a squadron, it means that they are just a small guerrilla force to make trouble. Now judging by the intensity of the opponent's shooting, this unit is at least a brigade, or even a division!

The fighting spirit in Ito Nobuyoshi's heart suddenly rose. How could the Eighteenth Wing be ambushed casually? He must make these Chinese who don't know what to do or evil pay the price! He wants to use powerful means to defeat or even completely annihilate this squadron of tiger whiskers who dare to touch him!

"Order the Koizumi Brigade to take over the Inaba troops and launch an attack on the enemy forces on the high ground on the left side of the road; Sasaki's brigade attacked the high ground on the right; The cavalry brigade continued to return to the rear of the ranks and did a good job of guarding the rear. ”

After arranging this, Ito Nobuyoshi paused for a moment and continued: "Order the artillery squadron to shell the enemy forces on both sides of the road. A report was sent to General Ye Kan requesting operational guidance from the air force. "Don't want reinforcements, the support of the air force, but it's inevitable, let Ito Osa charge completely with the infantry under his command, he's not so stupid!

As soon as Nobuyoshi Ito gave this order, the positions on both sides of the highway were lively. At the beginning of the Japanese attack, it had already caused a lot of trouble to our army, and now the devils have suddenly increased their offensive forces, and the Huang San Artillery and Jin Feilong on both sides are tight at the same time!

It's true that mines and traps trapped this group of devils, but it's a bit difficult to eat these five thousand devils. The counterattack of the Eighteenth Wing was absolutely terrifying, the artillery roared, and the devils launched a strong attack wave after wave. The first time the devils attacked, Qian Sixi thought that his troops couldn't withstand it, who knows, every time it was in danger and the position was about to be broken through, the soldiers relied on their tenacious will to hold on again and again.

From the highway to the high ground on both sides of the road, on the ground of just a few hundred meters, countless corpses of devils have fallen, these are the masterpieces left by our heroic warriors. However, Qian Sixi knew that on the high ground on both sides, more of our soldiers fell on various hilltop positions.

Two hours after the devils attacked, five planes flew over from the north, which were devil bombers from Xinyang. In a matter of minutes, several major heights on both sides of the road were bombed. The dust flew high, and in the columns of smoke, I don't know how many soldiers of our army were killed by the bombing.

Looking at the performance of the air warriors of the Great Japanese Empire, Ito Daisa's flax face blossomed. I guess there aren't many people on the hills on either side, right? The sappers in front have been working for several hours, and the sapper captain has just come to report, and there is still half an hour left, and the road ahead will be passable! In the face of absolute strength, all resistance is in vain! Ito Osa believes that his 18th Wing is absolutely capable of destroying all enemies who stand in their way!

"Boom!" With a loud bang, just more than twenty meters in front of the traction truck that Dazuo was riding, a horse-drawn carriage pulling a heavy load was directly blown to pieces! The pack horse pulling the cart was thrown more than ten meters away, and a bloody horse's head fell less than five meters away from Ito Daisa!

This thing is terrifying! Squadron cannons? It was only at this time that Ito Daisa reacted, he was facing a squadron above the brigade level, and an army of this size was often equipped with heavy artillery! The heavy artillery of the Eighteenth Wing can hit the mountains on both sides, and the heavy artillery of those squadrons can certainly hit him! Now His Excellency Dazuo is already within the range of Chinese artillery fire!

This surprise was not trivial, and Ito immediately jumped out of the tractor. It's too dangerous to sit in the car, but it's safest to hide in a group of soldiers.

"Your Excellency Dazuo, the reinforcements of the squadron are up!" A communications soldier ran over and reported bad news to the wing commander.

"What? How many reinforcements did the squadron come? Osa's eyes seemed a little unconvinced. Reinforcements from the squadron? How did they come at this time? If you had come ten minutes earlier, wouldn't it be just right for the Air Force to bomb it? Now that the Air Force has just left, they are coming, could it be that the Chinese will already observe the operating time of the Air Force?

"There are about 3,000 reinforcements, and judging by the scale, it should be a brigade. Through the observation of the scouts in front, it was found that the flag of the reinforcements was written on the 201 Brigade. "The communication corps reports the situation in a decent manner, no matter what the mood of the commander is, he is meticulous.

201 Brigade? That's the 500 divisions. As for the 500 divisions that came to intercept, Ito Osa had long expected it. After all, he came out this time to find trouble with the 500 divisions, even if he can't meet it here, he will encounter it when he arrives in Yingshan. Fight early, fight early, meet late fight, now that you meet now, let's fight here!

Ito Osa didn't feel that there was anything wrong with using one of his wings to attack a division of the squadron. In the past few years in China, he led the 18th Wing and no longer knew how many divisions of the Chinese had been defeated.

He didn't expect that there would be so many people in Gao Quan's division. In his impression, a division of the squadron was generally 6,000 to 10,000 soldiers. According to the three-to-one conversion of the combat strength of the two sides, his reinforced wing of 5,000 men should be equivalent to the combat strength of a 15,000-strong Chinese force, and those with so many people are all military-level units. Five hundred divisions, just one division!

Ito Daisa will soon regret his way of converting. The Japanese army is strong in combat, but it is also compared to what troops. Compared with Han Fuqu in Shandong, they are one to three, or is it less, but what about other armies? For example, Zhang Zizhong's 59th Army, for example, Liu Ruming's 68th Army, or troops like the 74th Army and the Fifth Army? Of course, the 500 Division is certainly incomparable with these famous troops, but compared with Chairman Han's troops, it is not a little stronger.

The 201 Brigade rushed to the positions of the two sides outside Wusheng Pass, and as soon as the troops came up, they immediately joined the battlefield. It is a bit strange that the more than 4,000 people of the 201 Brigade were regarded as 3,000 by the Japanese reconnaissance unit, which is also the reason why Ito Daisa's judgment of the Chinese side was wrong. Although these 4,000 people are not elite soldiers in a hundred battles, they are heroic troops who have just experienced the great victory of Yingshan. With the power of the new victory, Wang Dazhu led his troops to attack the devils as soon as they arrived on the battlefield.

When Qian Sixi's 500 Brigade was in a hurry, the arrival of the 201 Brigade undoubtedly injected a shot of strength into this unit, which was close to running out of oil. The troops, who had been fighting fiercely for almost a day, immediately regained their fighting spirit as if they had been beaten with chicken blood. ~

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