The focus of the Japanese attack was on the moon-shaped mountain, 7 kilometers northwest of Jixian Pass, which overlooked the road to Anqing at the bottom of the mountain, and was the main point of the defenders' outlying positions, and the dense mines, barbed wire, and trenches around it illustrated its importance, and now it has been completely destroyed in the bombardment of hundreds of Japanese guns for four hours.

The frontal attack was the 2nd Brigade of the 13th Wing, which was attached to 1 squadron of engineers; The 1st Brigade was assigned to the rapid-fire artillery squadron to attack Ma'anshan on the eastern side of the moon-shaped mountain and cut off the lateral connection between the two positions; The 3rd Brigade was attached to an independent machine gun squadron to attack Liujialing, Zhendoushan and other places on the west side of the moon-shaped mountain; The 4th Brigade was attached to the infantry artillery squadron to carry out a feint attack in the direction of Shijing Town, in order to contain the possible reinforcements of the defenders at Jixian Pass.

The use of 4 infantry brigades at a time is rare since the Anti-Japanese War, in addition to several large-scale battles, the most recent is only the continuous strong attack of the Japanese army on the right flank of Taierzhuang in the late stage of the Battle of Xuzhou.

The battle first raged fiercely on a hill on the right side of the moon-shaped mountain, which was only more than 10 meters high, not so much a hill as a mountain bag, where the defenders were deployed by 1 platoon of the 641st Regiment.

A squadron of Japanese infantry, Japanese infantry with bayonets, under the cover of smoke * bombs, and sappers carrying bamboo ladders, swooped down on this "mountain bag". The leader of the Japanese squadron held a bright saber in his hand, shouted "Roar West" every few steps, and then put on a mighty pose to show his personal demeanor.

"Hold the military flag, and in 5 minutes, we will plant the military flag on the position of the Zhina!" Squadron Leader Kogura ordered loudly.

Squadron Leader Kokura's self-confidence has his own reason, the 6th Division has been invincible since it went to China to fight, and has not yet suffered defeat, not to mention that the squadron position in front of him has been bombarded for a full 4 hours, not to mention people, I'm afraid even rats will be wiped out!

Shoharu Ogura had just rushed to less than 200 meters in front of the squadron's position, when suddenly the sound of mortar shells sounded behind him, which was the mortar battalion on the squadron's lunatorial mountain position.

Immediately, on the hills on both sides of the side, the heavy machine guns of the squadron launched a roar, and the bullets rained down on the Kogura squadron, and in an instant, the Japanese army was completely suppressed, and Ogura Masaharu couldn't care about posing anymore and climbed into a crater to hide.

"Brothers, follow me!" The platoon commander of the defenders raised his bayonet and jumped from the trench, and behind him, a full 52 soldiers, all shouted and rushed towards the Japanese.

Before the devil's attack was played, the counterattack of the squadron began, and 1 company was killed from the left and right sides of the position next to it, and along the traffic trench, it outflanked the Ogura squadron, rushing like a torrent.

The remnants of the Japanese army also got up one after another, forming various assassination teams and starting a white-knuckle battle with the squadron. On the smoky position, the actual situation could no longer be seen clearly from the periphery, and only a scream showed the bloody situation of the battle.

In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, many squadrons did not receive systematic assassination training, and white-knuckle warfare only relied on individual blood and bravery, which was very different from the mutual cooperation of the Japanese army. But this is not the case with the squadron on the other side, they have formed the same fine tradition since the Qiyang Security Regiment, even if some recruits do not have enough training time, they also cooperate with each other to fight against the opponent.

Two Japanese soldiers formed an assassination team back to back, three Chinese soldiers rushed over from three sides, and the remaining "Wu Commander" took out a Mauser pistol and pulled the trigger on the thigh of a Japanese soldier.

1 Japanese soldier was surrounded by more than 10 Chinese soldiers, and in an instant, he was stabbed into a blood gourd.

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The performance of the Japanese soldiers was not bad, but they were just hit hard by machine gun fire, and they could not cope with the swarming Chinese soldiers.

Masahru Ogura fought against a group of Chinese soldiers alone, and just now he led a small army of more than 10 people to counterattack, but in the blink of an eye, he was left alone. He clenched his saber in both hands and watched helplessly at his opponent who was approaching him step by step. Every time the Chinese soldier took a step, Ogura's heart shook.

Shoharu Ogura roared, raised his saber high and charged at his opponent, a bullet hitting him in the thigh at close range, Ogura stumbling, and then falling to the ground.

He struggled to his feet, and another bullet hit him in the arm, and the saber landed on the ground, leaving Ogura unsupported and falling to the ground.

"%¥Baga&%" He shouted angrily, just now he wanted to have a duel between the samurai with his opponent, but he didn't think that the opponent didn't speak bushido at all, and shot him directly.

"It's a devil officer, do you want to catch him alive?" A Chinese soldier asked his platoon commander.

"No, you don't! As I said above, there will be no prisoners for the devils of this division! With that, as soon as he made a gesture, the two soldiers pounced viciously.

Xu Ming has already given an order, all the soldiers of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army are not allowed to surrender, and there is no one left alive on the battlefield!

In less than 1 hour, the Ogura squadron was completely defeated, and the remaining 20 or so devils showed their scud performance and fled wildly to the north.

The plaster flag finally reached the defenders' positions, but instead of being planted on the top of the hill as a victor, it was captured by the squadron as a trophy.

The Ogura squadron was not the most miserable, a squadron of the 1st Japanese Brigade was responsible for cutting off the connection between the squadrons on the two hills, spreading the troops along the valley in an attempt to take the defenders' valley defense line in one fell swoop.

This kind of tactical maneuver can "cut off the enemy's contact" and not be able to be flanked by the enemy. Now it's clearly "badly done". After discovering this bold devil, the squadron ignored the pressure from the front, only blocked it with a small number of troops, and then concentrated its firepower to cross-fire at this squadron.

The regiment commander Zhao Ren had just used the reserve to the front of the Moon-shaped Mountain position, just as Peng Cong of the 642nd Regiment led a battalion of troops to rush over and surround this group of devils.

The counterattack of the squadron is very decisive and fierce, as long as a fighter plane is found, the defenders will dispatch a large number of men and horses to carry out a group counterattack, and if the Japanese army is not careful, the whole squad or even the entire squadron will be annihilated.

If there was a slight "progress", it was the two infantry squadrons of the 2nd Brigade of the Japanese Army, which attacked Mt. Moon, which was attacking Mt. Luna head-on, rushed all the way to the mountainside and could no longer move.

Smoke shells caused a lot of trouble to the shooting of both sides, but grenades * shells played a major role, as soon as the movement of devils was detected, grenades * bombs fell from the sky. Captain Takada Yoshio organized a death squad of more than 20 people, carrying a bamboo ladder, climbing up from the hanging wall on the right side of the mountain, and was immediately hit by a * grenade as a grenade, in an instant, the death squad became a death squad, except for one devil who climbed to a fortification on the mountain to confront the defenders, and the rest were destroyed at the bottom of the cliff.

Takada refused to admit defeat and sent another death squad, but this time the situation was even worse, and before he could get close to the bottom of the cliff, he was heavily bombarded by the defenders' mortars, and was once again bombarded. No matter how dare the death squad die, they don't dare to send it to death, climbing the ladder to attack the opponent on the hanging wall head-on, this kind of lifeless task, no one is willing to do it.

The Japanese troops around Captain Takada were all staring at him, and they all looked like they were attacking seriously or thinking about how to attack seriously, and they didn't dare to look at him at all.

Takada's two squadrons have been completely trapped on this mountainside, up, up, down, and the back road is tightly blocked by the infantry heavy weapons of the squadron, if you want to force a breakthrough, the price is by no means what he, the captain, can bear.

Brigade commander Major General Tokutaro Sakai and wing commander Hidemitsu Nakano Osakani were in a fortification of the offensive position, and because the Japanese army used a large number of smoke and fog bombs in this attack, Sakai and Nakano could not observe the attack situation in real time.

The offensive of all the troops encountered difficulties, and the whole 4 infantry brigades attacked for half a day, and until now they have not obtained a single position of the squadron.

There was once a hill that the Japanese army once occupied, but it was recaptured by the squadron in an instant, after the Japanese army retreated, the squadron did not let go, all the way violently rushed to fight back, and the Japanese army's support troops also dared to arrive at the right time, and it was a tragic white-knuckle battle.

The only slightly better was the 4th Brigade, which did not force the crossing of the 100-meter-wide submarine river, and bombarded the squadron across the river for an afternoon, and it is expected that the casualties on both sides will not be in the triple digits.

News of the blocked attack came one after another, just now the communications squadron had encountered a soldier from the 2nd squadron of the 1st Brigade, who was the sole survivor of the entire squadron.

"The Makai squadron is all shattered." The squadron leader of the communications squadron reported the latest battle situation with a sad face.

"What! Bastard! You repeat. Nakano Hidemitsu jumped up, 1 squadron of 200 people, and all of them were killed in one afternoon.

"It's the real situation, the Marui squadron has been surrounded by crossfire and extremely superior forces of the Shina army 2 kilometers northeast of the moon-shaped mountain, and it has all been shattered." Communication Shaozuo looked sad, as if it was not a squadron that was eliminated, but a piece of flesh on his body.

Nakano Hidemitsu looked at his brigade commander in despair, "Your Excellency, brigade commander, are you going to stop today's attack?" ”

It was a rare day when there was no rain, and even in the evening there was a hint of the afterglow of the setting sun, which was the time of the Japanese army's usual twilight offensive.

The twilight offensive was their usual tactical method, often at this time when the morale of the defenders was exhausted, and the Japanese could often break through the opponent's defenses if they carried out a fierce assault.

But now the 6th Division has to consider how to prevent the counterattack of the squadron. The casualties were too great, the half-day attack, the casualties exceeded 1,000 people, moreover, most of them were not "wounded", but "dead".

The squadron adopted the tactic of cutting the flesh, seizing the fighter planes, and destroying the Japanese army in formation, if killing and wounding them was the bleeding of the Sixth Division, then this kind of organized elimination is cutting the flesh.

Bleeding can still be mended, but cutting flesh is difficult to treat!

"Pass my order, and the troops will stop attacking." Tokutaro Sakai said with a blank face.