Face the bloody command knife, face the wing captain who may kill at any time. Those panicked little devil artillery finally stopped slowly. Began to run to their own gun emplacements under the command of their respective commanders, transferring the remaining artillery on the position after a round of explosions. However, just as they were ready to make their move, the second round of shells from the artillery cluster came ... Finally, after three rounds of artillery bombardment by the artillery cluster, not a single intact artillery piece could be seen in the entire artillery position of the Japanese army. The 36 heavy guns, even if they were not directly destroyed, were blown up and fell to the ground crookedly, and they could never be used again without several hours of effort. More importantly, the more than 1,000 artillerymen of the artillery wing, in the explosion of 300 shells, except for a few who escaped this fate, all the rest reported to their emperor. And without artillery, these cannons in front of the infantry will not play any role ... However, at this moment when the artillery of the enemy and our armies was engaged in a fierce artillery battle, the more than 20,000 infantry of the Japanese army had all gathered around the commander under the command of commanders at all levels. Under the command of the division commander, they occupied various heights one after another and prepared for defense.

"Your Excellency, the commander of the reporting division, each wing reports that the troops have occupied all the commanding heights along the way, and are sure to block the possible attack of the Eighth Route Army. At the same time, the various wings also sent information about the losses from the shelling just now. In the headquarters of the division and regiment, which was formed by the semi-basement bunker, the chief of staff of the division, Kuramoge Osa, took a few telegrams that he had just received and reported loudly to the division commander who was looking sad in front of him.

"Yo Xi, very nice. This time, our 109th Division is going to turn this place into a meat grinder, which will consume a lot of the vitality of the Reading Division of the Eighth Route Army. Chief of Staff, give me a brief report on the losses of each wing at once..."After hearing the report of the chief of staff, the division commander's nervous heart immediately relaxed. The brows that had been furrowed just now also stretched out, and a smile was revealed. Facing the chief of staff in front of him, he asked confidently.

"Hi, Your Excellency, Division Commander. According to statistics, the four infantry wings killed a total of 1,187 soldiers and 1,243 were seriously wounded and incapacitated. However, our artillery wing and engineer wing, under the intensive artillery counterattack of the Eighth Route Army, almost ... Almost all the army was wiped out... The artillery wing, in particular, has completely lost its combat capability," replied the chief of staff in a whisper.

"Nani? The artillery wing loses its combat capability, Baga, if this is the case, won't our troops all be exposed to the powerful artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army. Baga, in this case, in the face of the powerful artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army, those commanding heights that we occupied. One after another, they will be easily broken by the Eighth Route Army, as long as they have enough time and plenty of shells..."After listening to the chief of staff's answer, the division commander, who was still full of confidence just now, immediately stayed there.

"Hey, Your Excellency the Division Commander is very correct in your analysis... However, Your Excellency the Division Commander, although we have lost the cover of the artillery fire of the artillery wing, we are already at an absolute disadvantage in terms of artillery fire. However, we still have the cover of the aviation units, and as long as the reinforcements of our planes arrive, those artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army without anti-aircraft weapons will definitely be completely destroyed in front of our planes..." Although the division commander in front of him was very shocked by this news. However, as the chief of staff, Kuramo Daisa, in the shortest possible time, still said a method that he had already thought of.

"Yo Xi, Cang Maojun, you are worthy of being a top student in the Staff Department of the Army University, and it is very good that you have thought of a solution so quickly. Chief of Staff, immediately send a telegram to His Excellency the Commander in Peiping, reporting on all the current situation of our army, and requesting His Excellency the Commander to send aviation units to continuously reinforce our 109th Division by air. After listening to the chief of staff's answer, the division commander, who was still depressed just now and was about to give an order to the troops to break through, immediately lit up his eyes and ordered loudly.

"Hey, Your Excellency the Division Commander, I'll do it right away..."The Chief of Staff turned and walked towards the radio room next to the headquarters.

However, just as the chief of staff was about to leave, the various units of the Eighth Route Army, which had already returned to their positions, launched a fierce attack on the outermost defensive line of the army under the cover of artillery groups and mortar batteries of various regiments. Under the artillery cluster of nearly 100 heavy guns, round after round of intensive bombardment. The pure civil fortifications built in a hurry by the army did not hold on for even ten minutes, and they became a pile of ruins. As for the little devils who were sticking to the outermost heights, they suffered heavy casualties in this intensive bombardment, and the entire peripheral positions also fell into a precarious situation.

However, just after the shelling ended, the remaining troops on the surrounding heights sent a telegram calling for help. The fighters launched a swift attack with several times their strength, under the cover of a large number of light and heavy weapons. In this way, the outermost heights of the army fell into the hands of the Reading Division before the division headquarters could react from the shelling just now. At the same time, more than 2,000 little devils stationed on the high ground were also wiped out by the soldiers under the fierce attack of the soldiers, and there was not even a trace of scum left.

"Yaga, how can this be. How did the forward reconnaissance unit investigate, and why did the Eighth Route Army make such a big move, but there was no discovery. More than 2,000 elite soldiers of the Imperial Army were shattered like this... Cang Maojun, how long will it take for our air reinforcements to arrive, no matter what, we must destroy all the artillery of the Eighth Route Army in the shortest possible time. After reading the battle report he had just received in his hand, even the division commander himself, who was very in-depth, angrily threw several telegrams in his hand on the ground, and roared loudly at the chief of staff in front of him, using it to vent the anger in his heart.

"Hey, Your Excellency Division Commander, according to the reply from His Excellency the Commander, there will be at most half an hour before our first wave of 12 air support planes will fly over us..." Looking at the division commander with an angry face in front of him, Chief of Staff Kuramoge Osa's palms were sweating, and he replied in a low and cautious voice.

"Well, Cangmao-kun, after the air reinforcements arrive, you will be responsible for contacting you. Remember, you must destroy the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army and blow up all their artillery at the first opportunity. In addition, inform all the high ground on the periphery that they must be on alert, and as long as they find any abnormal movement of the Eighth Route Army directly opposite, they will report it immediately. At the same time, notify all positions and seize the time to build defensive positions. After hearing this good news, the face of the division commander softened a little. He continued to order to Chief of Staff Kurashige Daisa.

"Hi, Your Excellency Division Commander, I promise to complete the mission. This time, the Eighth Route Army will definitely not be allowed to take any chance..."The chief of staff replied with a resolute face and a confident face.

Perhaps it was the reason why the various heights of the Yue army had strengthened their vigilance, and after the various units of the Reading Division occupied several positions on the periphery of the Yue army, they began to stand still and always kept a distance of several hundred meters from the Yue army.

"Commander, the commanders of the various regiments below have sent telegrams one after another, asking to immediately launch an attack on the little devil in front of them. It seems that when they had just taken several heights on the periphery under the cover of artillery, these regiment commanders had seen the benefits and knew that there was a advantage to take advantage of, you see, how should we reply to them..."Similarly, in the dense forest, in the headquarters of the Second Division, political commissar Chen Dazhong held a stack of telegrams and said to the plateau who was falling into deep thought.

"Tell them directly, because we have limited anti-aircraft weapons in our hands, and we can only take care of all artillery positions. Therefore, we have to wait until the first wave of bombers of the Japanese army has left, and then launch an attack. Tell all the regimental commanders that after each wave of bombers, we will launch an attack. At that time, regardless of whether the position is taken or not, after receiving the order from the headquarters, it is necessary to stop the offensive and carry out concealment on the spot. Commander Takahara said what was in his heart.

"Yes, Commander..." Just as Political Commissar Chen Dazhong had just left the headquarters, a clear roar of an airplane slowly reached his ears from far and near. Needless to say, it must have been the arrival of the planes of the first wave of reinforcements from the little devils. The 12 planes, after circling over the battlefield for almost two minutes, immediately began to fly in small formations towards the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army around the battlefield... However, what surprised the pilots was that this time, they did run into a hard stubble. Because, around these artillery positions, not only a certain number of anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, but also a large number of modified heavy machine guns were arranged. As long as the little devil planes dare to carry out dive bombing, needless to say, they must be greeted by an airtight anti-aircraft fire network.

Sure enough, just when several planes, under the command of their respective commanders, were preparing to dive and drop bombs on the huge artillery positions below, an accident happened. Dozens of dense tongues of fire suddenly emerged from the dense forest around the air defense positions. In just an instant, his landline was completely shrouded in a dense fire net..."Boom, boom...."Three huge explosions sounded in the air, and three huge fireballs that suddenly appeared quickly smashed down to the ground. The three planes, before they could drop their bombs, were hit by dense firepower and exploded in the air....Looking at the planes that had turned into a ball of fireballs around them, the remaining planes quickly raised their fuselages and climbed within the range of ground anti-aircraft fire, getting rid of the entanglement of ground anti-aircraft fire. At this moment, those military pilots who had just escaped from the line of death were surprised to find that their backs were already in a cold sweat in this cold high air.

"Baga, how can the Eighth Route Army have such dense anti-aircraft fire, how can it be like this..."Soon, the pilot on the plane began to curse. It turned out that in order to deal with the possible air reinforcements of the little devils, Gao Yuan, as the commander-in-chief of the campaign, specially removed at least ten light and heavy machine guns from each main regiment as anti-aircraft fire. Coupled with the anti-aircraft weapons equipped with two regiments of the air defense brigade, it is definitely enough for the little devil plane to drink a pot ... However, the little devil is not so easy to succumb to, although in a very short time, three planes were lost. However, the remaining little devils, after reacting from the shock, once again launched an even more violent attack. Bombers loaded with ammunition, with a huge whistle of breaking through the air, swooped down towards one artillery position after another... In this way, more than 1,000 soldiers of the two regiments of the air defense brigade were fighting to the death with the little devil air force on the huge battlefield. From time to time a huge explosion sounded in the air. At the same time, the aerial bombs dropped by the little devils also fell on various air defense positions and artillery positions from time to time, setting off bursts of bloody rain ... However, after all, the little devil only had nine planes left, and the entire air-ground battle lasted less than five minutes before it ended. Nine planes, after a fierce blow, there were only three planes left, and they fled the battlefield in a mess with the remaining bombs in the cabin. However, under the desperate attack of the little devil planes, the air defense brigade and the artillery also suffered considerable losses..."Order all artillery clusters to carry out a ten-minute artillery strike on the second wave of the scheduled attack on the heights. The various units were ready for the offensive. As soon as the artillery fire extended, the offensive began. Tell the troops below that they must cherish the time that the air defense units have given us this time to attack with their own lives, and immediately give an order..."Looking at the three planes that finally fled, I saw a battlefield with gunsmoke floating everywhere a few kilometers away. Commander Gao Yuan knew that in order to protect the artillery positions, the air defense brigade must have paid a very large price..."Yes, commander...."Political commissar Chen Dazhong replied loudly. And less than a minute after the commissar left, a loud whistling sound was heard in the sky. Nearly 100 heavy artillery shells smashed accurately at the artillery targets that they had already marked from different directions..."Boom, boom, boom..." A huge roar sounded, and the dozen or so heights in the outermost part of the army's defensive position were immediately covered by dense artillery fire... After each of these dozen or so heights was bombarded by at least one artillery group, in less than a few minutes, the entire mountain was completely plunged into a sea of fire..."Baga, Cangmaojun, what's going on outside, where did the cannon sound come from..."Listening to the earth-shattering cannons, I felt the trembling of the earth. The division commander, who had just felt a little relieved by the arrival of the plane reinforcements, once again frowned his brows and roared loudly at the gate of the headquarters: "Your Excellency, the commander of the reporting division, there are a total of ten high ground on our periphery, and two minutes ago, we were under heavy shelling by the Eighth Route Army at the same time. Now these heights, in the midst of intensive artillery fire, have been in a precarious situation, and the squadron leaders and group leaders have sent telegrams asking for reinforcements..."The chief of staff did not dare to conceal anything, and replied loudly.

"Nani? Shelled at the same time, how could the Eighth Route Army have so many artillery. And what about the planes that reinforced us, why did they not destroy the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army, why. I would like to personally report to His Excellency the Commander that the air force units are so irresponsible, why they have not completed their mission..."While the division commander was surprised, he immediately remembered the 12 reinforcement planes that had just flown over the battlefield ten minutes ago.

"Your Excellency, the commander of the reporting division, the 12 planes that came to reinforce were fiercely hit by the anti-aircraft fire of the Eighth Route Army during the attack. Not only did it not succeed in destroying the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army, but at the same time, under the counterattack of the Eighth Route Army's anti-aircraft fire, it also lost 9 aircraft. The remaining three planes, a few minutes ago, fled the battlefield ..."Glancing at the face of the division commander in front of him, the chief of staff quickly replied.

"Eight Grid Tooth Road, the air force unit is simply a bunch of waste, and even the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army cannot be destroyed. As he spoke, a burst of sword light flashed in the command headquarters, and a table in front of him was split in half by the division commander with an angry face in the blink of an eye, which was used to vent the anger in his heart..."Your Excellency the division commander, a telegram for help has been sent from the surrounding heights, whether the division headquarters will immediately send reserves to reinforce it. If there are no reinforcements, the outer heights will immediately fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army. The chief of staff reminded in a low and cautious voice..."Baga, immediately send one brigade and two brigades to reinforce the peripheral positions. Tell all the reinforcements that they must block the charge of the Eighth Route Army and never allow any retreat. If the position is lost, they will apologize directly to His Majesty the Emperor...", the commander of the division, Lieutenant General Shigehou Yamaoka, ordered loudly.

"Hey, Your Excellency the Division Commander..." However, just as the chief of staff walked to the door, the heavy shelling just now stopped in an instant. At the same time, on the battlefield a few miles away, a loud rush horn sounded immediately. The attacking units of the Eighth Route Army, shouting slogans amid the loud trumpets of the charge, quickly launched a charge on the high ground that had been bombed into ruins and there were not many people left. As signal flares rose into the air, it was announced that the positions on the periphery of the army had been occupied by various units of the Eighth Route Army.

"Commander, in a word, it was too good, clean and neat. From the beginning of the cannon to the end, the whole process took less than twenty minutes, and we completely occupied ten hills, and by the way, we eliminated nearly 4,000 little devils... This tactic is really amazing, it's like taking off your clothes, stripping the little devils layer by layer, and letting us slaughter them..."Looking at the pile of telegrams that he had just received in his hand. Political Commissar Chen Dazhong's face was full of smiles...

(To be continued)