Looking at the bloody casualty figures in his hands, Yang Xingguo's brows furrowed, and he couldn't help but ask rhetorically...

"How can the casualties be so big...... If you add the losses of the artillery battery, the entire three regiments have already lost more than half......"

Sun Liechen shook his head and said, "Commander, this is already very good......

"Don't forget, the veterans of the entire Second Regiment are less than four hundred. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info And the devils who attacked them were all veterans of more than a year at worst. At the cost of 359 killed and 185 wounded, of which 35 were seriously injured, it is already very cost-effective to eliminate 500 devils......"

Speaking of this, Sun Liechen seemed to think of something, and continued: "There is one more point commander, don't forget ......"

"After this bloody battle, the remaining soldiers of the Second Regiment, especially those who are wounded, will become veterans when they return to the army......"

"I am sure that the combat effectiveness of the Second Regiment will only be stronger than before the war compared with before the war, not weak, even if the Second Regiment now has three or four hundred fewer people."

Hearing this, the expression on Yang Xingguo's face obviously looked a lot better.

Then, the tone of conversation changed and continued: "Since the remaining brothers of the Second Regiment have all transformed into veterans, it would be a waste of troops to let them continue to defend it......

"As the old saying goes, the battlefield is the best training ground. Since that's the case, then let the recruits go up and use the lives of devils to help us train our troops......"

"Order, the third regiment immediately enters the position from the communication trenches on both flanks, and replaces the second regiment for me......"

Coupled with the loss of one squadron in the tentative attack, the three squadrons were gone in the blink of an eye. In addition, the Liaodong Army actually used artillery in the defense. A very bold idea quickly appeared in the mind of the commander of the Devil Division.

In the face of its own overwhelming offensive, the Liaodong Army had no choice but to block itself here and fight a decisive battle with itself.

As a result, the face of the commander of the Devil Division not only did not show the slightest sadness after the loss of the soldiers, but became hot.

Looking at the blocking position of the Liaodong Army, which was once again shrouded in artillery fire a few hundred meters away, the more he thought about it, the more he affirmed the division commander who was judging in his heart, and immediately ordered: "The other two brigades of the field artillery wing. Build an artillery position now and join the battle ......"

"The 3rd Brigade of the 7th Infantry Wing is ready for the offensive...... As soon as the cover artillery fire stops, the attack will be launched immediately......"

"Artillery wing, prepare to destroy the artillery positions of the Liaodong Army. The Liaodong Army felt that it was impossible for the Liaodong Army to have only a few artillery pieces......"

After the order was given, the commander of the Devil Division raised the telescope again.

Because of the terrain restrictions, the devils can only put in a maximum of three squadrons to attack.

However, because the devils were covered by sixteen heavy machine guns as soon as they came up, three squadrons overwhelmingly pressed up and launched an attack. Plus the devil shelled it. The trenches built by the Liaodong Army on the mountainside were also blown up a lot.

So, at the very beginning of the battle, the three regiments fought very hard.

More than 500 devils, with only a loss of more than 100 people, rushed to the position of 50 meters in front of the three regiments.

In the face of the devil soldiers who were close at hand, the third regiment, which also accounted for seventy percent of the recruits, had begun to show signs of panic.

Although Yang Xingguo, who was 100 meters away, couldn't see this, from the increasingly messy counterattack gunfire of the Third Regiment, Yang Xingguo was already sure that the Third Regiment would not be able to hold on.

Just when Yang Xingguo's brows were furrowing deeper and deeper, he was most worried about something. Finally happened on the battlefield.

With the help of the telescope, Yang Xingguo saw with his own eyes that dozens of recruits wanted to flee the battlefield because of fear and fear.

Although these deserters were blocked back by the three regiments at the first time.

However, in just one or two minutes, the devils who launched the attack were like hungry wolves smelling blood, and they rushed towards the gap in the firepower of the three regiments' positions due to the desertion.

What made Yang Xingguo feel fortunate was that when his heart was about to rise to his throat because of nervousness, the reserve left by the commander of the third regiment at the end appeared.

As soon as more than a hundred rifles fired, the offensive momentum of the devils was blocked.

"Shhh......h Yang Xingguo, who had been nervous for a long time, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

However, Yang Xingguo's eyes never left the battlefield where the guns were constantly ringing.

Yang Xingguo knows very well that the immediate stability of the defense line is temporary.

With the devil's superb marksmanship. It won't be long before the casualties may cause chaos in the three regiments again.

Seeing that more and more soldiers of the three regiments on the battlefield were hit by devils, Yang Xingguo's brows that had just been stretched out furrowed furrowed again.

Facing Sun Liechen beside him, he ordered if he didn't want to.

"Order, artillery positions No. 2, No. 3. According to the predetermined scheme, the shelling began...... When it's over, retreat immediately, and throw away the equipment if you can't take it away, and there must be no more casualties......"

Soon, the screaming of shells across the sky began to sound over the battlefield.

After the twelve shells exploded in the middle of the devils, they quickly rose up on the battlefield with a large amount of black smoke and fireballs.

On the battlefield, although there are still more than 400 devils.

However, the two mountain artillery batteries of the Liaodong Army fired 120 shells at them in just over a minute.

In the face of the attack, many devils did not avoid the presence of death on them even if they were lying on the ground.

At the end of the shelling, the area of 50 to 100 meters in front of the three regiments was directly enveloped in the smoke of gunpowder from the explosion of the shells.

There are more than 400 devil soldiers, and at this moment, there are less than 200 people who can continue to attack.

Compared with the heavy losses of the devils, the three regiments in the defensive position quickly took advantage of the more than a minute of shelling time to adjust their troops.

As soon as the shelling stopped, the few light machine guns and hundreds of rifles left in the three regiments fired a dense barrage of bullets at the devils.

As for the dozen or so heavy machine guns equipped by the three regiments, they continued to fire at the devil's heavy machine guns to suppress the devil's offensive firepower.

The devil attacked the position, and saw that the Liaodong Army actually used mountain artillery again at a critical juncture, and it used two mountain artillery companies and twelve mountain guns, and directly covered more than 400 soldiers on the battlefield with shells.

From the moment the cannon sounded on the battlefield, the commander of the Devil Division knew that his attack had failed again.

However, as a Japanese who was bound to take revenge, the division commander did not forget the culprit who led to his defeat on the battlefield, two mountain artillery companies.

Almost at the moment when the mountain artillery company began to shell, the commander of the devil division with a gloomy face also followed the order.

"What are you doing...... The field artillery wing immediately counterattacked and destroyed the exposed artillery positions of the Liaodong Army......"

"Order, as soon as the shelling of the Liaodong Army stopped, the attacking troops began to retreat and withdraw from the battlefield...... This time, we failed again......"

There are more than 500 devils, although they fought well at the beginning, they have been breaking through all the way.

But, after all, it was fiercely attacked by two mountain artillery batteries with one hundred and twenty shells.

Therefore, when they finally withdrew from the battlefield, the situation was worse than that of a brigade in the first round of attack.

Three infantry squadrons, and in the end there was not even a squad left.

Of course, the three regiments also paid a very heavy price throughout the battle.

More than 450 people were killed in the battle, more than 80 were seriously wounded, and more than 200 were wounded, and less than half of the entire three regiments were able to stand up after the battle. (To be continued.) )