The armies of the Xinkou front fought fiercely with the Japanese Fifth Division for several days. Although the Fifth Division, known as the Steel Army and the absolute main force of the Japanese Division, attacked our main position at Xinkou with heavy artillery and chariots and planes to assist in the battle, the stubborn resistance of our defenders made the invaders helpless. The elite Fifth Division lost its troops in front of our army's main position in Xinkou, losing face, but making no progress.

On October 22, the Japanese Xuandao detachment arrived at the Xinkou battlefield to reinforce the Fifth Division; On October 27, a brigade of the 136th Wing of the 109th Division of the Japanese Army reinforced Xinkou; On October 29, the Japanese army independently mixed the 1st Brigade and Mechanized Infantry Wing and another brigade of the 136th Wing of the 109th Division to reinforce Xinkou.

The 20th Division of the Japanese Army fell to Niangzi Pass on October 26, entered Pingding on the 30th, and the 109th Division advanced to Xiyang, Pingding and Yangquan were lost one after another, and the Japanese army advanced to Taiyuan.

On the 135 Heights, Gao Quan led his regiment and fought with the two Devil Brigades on the Heights for many days, and the Devil Brigade Captain Yamamoto Shaozo felt deeply troubled on this Heights. Shao Zuo also tried to fight to the death with the Chinese defenders in the tunnel, but due to the terrain, he couldn't spread too many troops, so he could only fill people into it one squadron after another. During the day, the two armies faced each other, the Japanese army attacked with their lives, the defenders retreated in the tunnel, and only resisted with machine guns and small artillery.

Yamamoto Shaosa organized fifty members of the Death Squad to use a suicide attack in the form of explosives bags tied to their bodies, trying to blow up the mouth of the tunnel and suffocate the defenders inside. But what Shaozo didn't expect was that there were suddenly a lot more sharpshooters in the defenders, often the Japanese death squad members who were wrapped in explosives and were killed on the road by bullets fired from the tunnel just halfway through. This form of death really hurts morale. The most regrettable thing is that His Excellency the Captain of Shao Zuo is a dead eye who hits the south wall and does not give up, obviously the death squad members in front of him have already died in battle, and if he were replaced by an ordinary commander, he would have stopped this senseless suicide behavior a long time ago, but Shao Zuo still kept ordering his soldiers to rush up until all the fifty imperial warriors he personally designated were all dead.

It was only after the Ono detachment he personally sent sent an urgent telegram requesting reinforcements that Shaozo personally rushed to that position with two squads of men and horses. Due to the arrival of Shao Zuo, the morale on the position was refreshed, and the two squadron leaders of the Japanese army thought that Shao Zuo was in person, and it was easy to take down the defenders who only knew that they were hiding in the tunnel and did not dare to show their heads, how did they know that this Shao Zuo's tactics were worse than the two of them, and after coming, in addition to organizing two strong attacks every morning and afternoon, there was no new tactics at all, until last night, the loss of soldiers for several days, coupled with insomnia, finally made His Excellency Shao Zuo hold back a poisonous plan, using the death squad, to carry out suicide attacks!

Who knew that the death squad members, who had high hopes for all the surviving officers of the two brigades, ended their lives in this way. In the position, the hearts of the Japanese officers and soldiers sank to the bottom. During the day, there was no progress at all, except for a few more dead and wounded. After dark at night, it was the time for the snipers of the squadron to exert their might all over the mountains, and as long as the Japanese soldiers showed a little head or body from the trenches and bunkers, a bullet immediately flew as promised.

A few days later, at night, the Japanese army retreated en masse into the trenches and bunkers, and even the guard posts and patrols that had been restored after Shaozo's arrival were withdrawn. It can't be helped, these people are so well targeted by snipers that sometimes it is not enough to change five or six sets of guard posts in one night. In the end, Shao Zuo was angry, and simply didn't set up anyone!

No matter how sluggish Yamamoto was, he had already discovered that he was now being dragged to this mountain by the squadron.

Report to the Wing Commander of Yamashita and request to withdraw the position and switch to artillery fire! What a strategy! His Excellency, the Wing Commander, refused Yamamoto's request on the grounds that all the heavy artillery in the Wing had been drawn to the Great White Mouth. The only thing that comforted Shao Zuo was that the wing captain saw that he was pitiful and added a squadron of reinforcements to him.

Gao Quan thought that the devils would not send a guard post, so they would always have to eat and go to the toilet, right? When he shifted his target to these locations, he found that these locations had already been watched. The devils don't show their heads at all, and they eat, drink, and Lazar are all solved in the trenches!

Once the enthusiasm for war of our soldiers is aroused, the potential is endless. If the devil doesn't come out, our fighters will throw a grenade into the devil's trench every once in a while, and if you don't come out, I'll blow you up.

Grenades are thrown into the trenches, although most of them are not accurate due to the distance, but there are always those with strong arms and hard heads, right? As long as one is thrown into the trenches of the devil, the devil can't stand it. Hurting too many people is one aspect, and the key is to keep the beaten with their heads in this way, and wait until tomorrow morning the little morale of the troops will disappear, and this is unacceptable to every commander. Under the persecution of the devil officers, the devil soldiers had to show their heads and shoot at the places they thought were suspicious in the dark, so as to give the hunters another chance, and just like that, the fighting stopped, and the scattered gunfire continued throughout the night.

When Gao Quan was preparing to go on with the devil like this, an order came from the division headquarters under the mountain, and the 256th Regiment abandoned the 153 Heights tonight, withdrew from the mountain overnight, and went to the northern suburbs of Taiyuan to deploy defenses with the main force of the army.

After the order was delivered, the main officers of the 256th Regiment gathered around Gao Quan fell silent. On this high ground, they have been holding on for twenty-three days, and more than two-thirds of the brothers of the officers and men of the regiment have become one with the rocks and mud of this high ground. Now it is time to retreat, there is no retreat of defeat! Their 256th Regiment did not lose to the devils, and in the past 20 days, the devils they eliminated were not less than their own casualties!

Gao Quan looked at his comrades-in-arms, Wang Dazhu, an iron-clad man, who was cool at the beginning, is now thinner than before, Qian Sixi's thin face is covered with dust, and Liu Qi, a shrewd young man, has also become dark and thin, with a bandage on one arm. Ten meters away, Li Qi was leading his three female nurses to heal the wounds of the soldiers.

What a fighting collective! Although Gao Quan was also full of reluctance to this high ground, he knew that this series of retreats was inevitable. Our current army is not yet the opponent of the Japanese invaders, and now they are fighting to the death against the Japanese invaders, and they can only exhaust the main forces of resistance against Japan on these main battlefields. Only by retreating, annihilating the enemy in the retreat, strengthening yourself, and fighting the devil to the end with unyielding fighting spirit and tenacity, can you have the opportunity to completely defeat the bandits in Dongying in the future!

"Brothers, we are retreating today only so that we can preserve ourselves now. Fight devils, it's up to us! The coming day is long, and there will be a chance to fight with devils in the future! Now carry out the order, all battalions and companies gather their troops, organize their equipment, and retreat tonight! ”