Just as Matsuki Naoliang hoped, the officers and men of the Fourth Infantry Brigade of the Eighth Division of the Yue Army, which were attacking Seng Guanfeng, were now stepping on the thick snow, moving their clumsy bodies and climbing upwards step by step.

As the name suggests, it is a mountain peak dominated by weathered rock, the elevation of the main peak is only more than 100 meters, the side peaks form a ridge to form a natural barrier, the main peak position is actually only about 70 meters long, about 30 meters deep, the rear is a slightly flat gentle slope, there are two artificially cut out of the tardig platform in front of the main peak, which means that the direct fire of the army can not threaten the main peak position in any case, and the army must climb the tarzan platform to exchange fire with the main peak position.

In order to weaken the threat of direct artillery fire of the Yue army, many battles in history have proved that when fighting and defending with opponents with stronger firepower than themselves, setting the position on the ridge line of the positive slope has been a lesson proved with blood.

In front of the main peak position of the monk crown peak dug two 25 degrees of slope of the tartard, the soldiers of the army can only shoot at the main peak position by struggling to climb the tarshrieg, the distance of 50 meters makes any kind of grenade sigh with admiration, the accuracy of the 38 type field heavy howitzer makes the order to shell the main peak Xiyi a big surprise, one of them also fell into the middle of the mountain, a thought of the dense officers and soldiers in the middle of the mountain, Xiyi closed his eyes in pain, the so-called out of sight is pure.

The 75-millimeter mountain artillery of the field artillery wing of the 8th Division could not hit the defenders' positions at all due to ballistics, and the Chinese defenders quickly gave up the positions on the left and right flanks that were exposed to the light and heavy artillery fire of the Yue army, but it did not take long for the Yue troops who occupied these positions to abandon their positions and retreat, because the main peak formation was nearly 30 meters higher than the two flank positions, and the heavy machine gun fire on the positions could directly dive into the positions on both flanks, and the Yue troops were like live targets on the positions.

The attack on the main peak of the Yue army troops was also very unsmooth, steep coercion so that the Yue army could not even set up mortars, can only use grenadiers to return fire, and the Chinese defenders on the slope of the hill to open up several hidden platforms, the new second regiment of 46 mortars of various calibers on these platforms, to provide fire support for the main peak position, and to suppress the attack with fire to occupy the flank position of the Yue army.

In the flash of the explosion of the falling mortar shells, the officers and men who lined up in a dense formation to attack on the back were killed and wounded, and the 36th Infantry Brigade of the infantry was stubbornly blocked by the preset position of the new Second Regiment in an attempt to bypass the main peak position of the Seng Guan Peak from the flank, and the soldiers of the Yue Army became the target of the defenders between the ditches and ridges, and the flares fired by the defenders from the main peak of the Seng Guan Peak made the Yue army almost nowhere to hide.

For this reason, Xi Yiyi roared and called the field artillery wing and the heavy artillery wing attached to him, asking them to suppress the Chinese defenders on the monk crown peak with all their might!

The two co-captains who looked at each other looked at each other helplessly, the attack of supporting Monk Guanfeng really made Katakura Nanmu and Ohno Famasa two worried, Ohno Famasa's field artillery could not hit the palm-sized place on the top of Monk Guanfeng due to the relationship between the angle of fire and ballistics, and the sad accuracy of Katakura Nanmu's thirty or eighty field heavy howitzers did not dare to be used to support infantry attacks, the surnames of these old guns were already far behind, but most of the empire's annual military expenses were used to the navy, although the army had quite a complaint, However, in the Imperial Council, although the army's voice was loud, it was always defeated repeatedly.

In desperation, the two had no choice but to order their respective troops to fire shells at the maximum angle of fire, it didn't matter if they could hit the enemy or not, anyway, these shells would also fall into Chengde City, which would be regarded as preventing the enemy from reinforcing Seng Guanfeng.

After putting down the phone, Xi Yiyi also realized that the artillery might not be able to complete the effective suppression of Seng Guanfeng, after all, the main peak position is too narrow, even if the shelling is repeated, as long as one company is driven up, one of his divisions can be blocked outside the pass, and the attack around the left flank has failed, and Xi Yiyi did not try at all on the right flank, because the right flank will be subjected to the terrible side fire of the main peak of Seng Guanfeng and the left flank of the Laohugou position.

So Nishi Yoshiichi decisively asked Okamura Ninji for crit support (bombing), and Okamura Ninji also knew that the Eighth Division would inevitably fall into a bitter battle at Seng Guan Peak, and promised to dispatch five squadrons of nine squadrons of the Kwantung Army Flying Team at all airports along Jinzhou after dawn to support the Eighth Division in attacking Seng Guan Peak.

Hirose Shousuke also struggled with Nishiichi, because the troops of the Sixth Division had already rushed into the defenders' third line of defense for the second time, and although they were quickly driven down by the other side, it was expected that the Sixth Division would be able to take the flank positions along the Majiagou Side Ridge and attack Chengde City before eight o'clock tomorrow morning.

In this regard, Hirose Shousuke seemed to be a little helpless, because from the beginning of the offensive, the left flank position in charge of his 10th Division became the target of concentrated attacks by Chinese artillery, while the attacking troops of the 6th Division were only intercepted by a part of the mortar fire, because the 6th Division was advancing rapidly?

As a wait-and-see observer, Shousuke Hirose seems to have noticed a hint of something unusual? Right-wing breakthrough? But the main position and the left flank position of Majiagou are unbreakable? So the troops of the 6th Division attacking Chengde could pass through its old streets and go straight into the center of the city? The artillery support of the Chinese defenders also seems too weird? Why not support the right flank, which has been broken through continuously? Instead, they all concentrated on the heads of their own troops?

In the face of the rapid progress of the 11th Infantry Brigade, Itamoto Masaemon looked at his watch, it was already 6:20 in the morning, and the last line of defense on the right flank of the Chinese defenders seemed to be in jeopardy, although the 11th Infantry Brigade suffered heavy casualties, but the results of the battle were indeed there.

Okamura Ningji, who had not slept all night, looked at the staff officers who were holding phones and updating the progress of the attacking troops on the sand table from time to time, and slowly lit a cigarette for himself.

In Okamura's view, although the Chinese defenders may not collapse after breaking through the Chinese defenders' defenses, there is no doubt that they can directly take the core area of the Chinese defenders, and Okamura believes that the headquarters of the Chinese defenders must also be in that area.

The two field heavy artillery wings of the army are firing shells into the city of Chengde at this moment, and a group of violent explosions and flashes rose from the sky in the city of Chengde, but it is still unable to effectively suppress the artillery counterattack of the Chinese defenders, looking at the attacking troops being smashed by the artillery fire of the Chinese defenders, the angry Hirose Shousuke called the artillery position, and the captain of the Kimura wing was very helpless to inform Hirose Shousuke that the artillery of the Chinese defenders is a single gun position, simply put, a cannon hides a position, Shoot over the phone at the area where the measurement has been completed.

Since the opponent was not an artillery position, the suppression of the heavy artillery wing's firepower could not have any remarkable effect at all, and unless the three field heavy artillery brigades were concentrated to completely raze the city of Chengde to the ground with fierce and continuous artillery fire, it would be impossible to complete the suppression task at all with the scattered firepower of one brigade and regiment.