Shinichi Hirai is deploying an attack.

Qi Ruixuan is also adjusting his troops. In the one-night battle, the Japanese suffered heavy casualties, and the losses of the naval resistance army were not light.

The field battalion consisted of three infantry companies and one heavy firepower company, with a strength of more than 1,000 troops. After a night of fighting, more than half of the two infantry companies responsible for the frontal attack were killed or wounded, while the one infantry company responsible for the defense of the two flanks was able to hold its position with less than 60 men at this time, and the casualty ratio exceeded 70%.

In a fierce battle overnight, the casualties of the naval resistance army were nearly 500. To make matters worse, the ammunition reserves of the Naval Resistance Army are running out. Don't look at the Naval Resistance Army, which has 2,000 Kunlun battalions to provide logistical support, but just relying on mules, horses and manpower, it is far from enough for a heavy force like a field battalion.

Taking advantage of the interval in the battle, Qi Ruixuan arranged for people to transfer all the wounded soldiers on the first mountain beam and the remains of the fallen soldiers to Tanggang.

Lighting a cigarette, Qi Ruixuan took a few puffs. Stood up and stomped his feet, let out a long breath, and shouted, "Yanjing." ”

"Here." A bespectacled ensign stood in front of Qi Ruixuan.

Yan Jing, nicknamed "glasses". This is the platoon commander in charge of the baggage of the field battalion, don't look polite, but he only took a soldier of the Naval Resistance Army with a baggage platoon, and managed the 2,000 Kunlun battalion in an orderly manner.

In the eyes of Qi Ruixuan, the commander of the field battalion, this young white-faced scholar was by no means inferior in importance to the four company commanders under him. To say a little too much, Qi Ruixuan even thinks that he may not be able to do the position of second lieutenant platoon commander himself.

"Act as planned." Qi Ruixuan ordered.

"Yes." Yan Jing gave an excited military salute, turned around and ran into the valley, and began to make final preparations.

At four o'clock, another wave of Japanese attacks began. After more than 10 minutes of fierce fighting, four fighters of the Naval Resistance Army rushed to the battlefield, after a round of bombing. The Japanese attack was again repulsed.

At half past four, almost without a break, another wave of Japanese attacks was launched. The Japanese heavy artillery group no longer cared about ammunition reserves, and Hirai Shin gave a death order: to use up the last shells. Artillery was also to join the ground offensive.

The captain of the field artillery brigade did not dare to disobey the order in the face of the grinning Hirai Shinichi, under normal circumstances, he was a Nakasa officer, and Hirai Shinichi Nakasa had no right to deal with it at all. However, it is obviously not a normal situation now, and Shinichi Hirai at this time is like a madman, if he dares to open his mouth and refuse to carry out the order. Shinichi Hirai was afraid that he would draw a knife and chop him alive.

The first mountain beam is about 200 meters above sea level. But the summit is less than eighty meters high from the foot of the mountain. At a distance of several hundred meters, there were corpses of Japanese soldiers everywhere. The devil screamed, stepping on the corpses of his own people and attacking desperately.

Shells from both sides whizzed through the air and exploded on the hill. The dense explosion stirred up clouds of mud. obscured the view of the servicemen on both sides.

In the splattered mud, there was flesh and blood. The stump and broken arm are mixed in and flying around.

The battle is fought to this extent. Both the Japanese army and the naval resistance army no longer regard their lives as their lives.

The light and heavy machine guns of the Japanese army roared incessantly over the wild. In order to pursue accuracy, the grenadier canisters and mortars were all forced to within 500 meters and bombarded indiscriminately.

On the first mountain beam, on both sides of the canyon, the naval resistance army only had less than one platoon of troops.

Under the reckless attack of the Japanese army, the casualties of the soldiers increased rapidly. On the hill of the right flank. In less than half an hour, the strength of the Naval Resistance Army was sharply reduced to less than 20.

What was even more dangerous was that at about 4:40 a.m., the artillery fire supporting in the rear suddenly fell silent. Even mortars, which do fire support on the anticline, began to be messy.

4:45 a.m. Qi Ruixuan's order to retreat reached the hill on the right flank. However, the remaining six fighters could not be withdrawn. The Japanese infantry had reached the top of the hill, and six soldiers were surrounded by the Japanese regiments.

At 4:47, the Japanese occupied the first mountain beam.

"Takeshita-kun, it's up to you." Shinichi Hirai bowed to Saburo Takeshita.

"Hey." Saburo Takeshita drew his katana and rushed out of the position.

In the early morning drizzle, the light was still dim. The gunfire on the battlefield continued, and Saburo Takeshita led four or five hundred Japanese infantry and nine tanks to launch a final attack.

Don't look at the fact that the Japanese army still has more than 2,000 troops at this time, but only the hundreds of troops of Saburo Takeshita really have combat effectiveness. The rest of the forces have either been disabled or are mostly non-combatant.

This is why it is said to be the last attack. After a night of fighting, the other two infantry brigades of the Hirai Wing had been completely disabled, and the backbone of the army had been lost.

For Shinichi Hirai, the only possible victory is to take advantage of the victory of the first mountain beam and quickly capture the second mountain beam. If there is a tug-of-war, then the casualties will be even greater.

By the time the Japanese had taken the first mountain beam, Saburo Takeshita's troops had already stormed into the canyon.

Saburo Takeshita's attack was fast and smooth.

This situation feels very familiar to Saburo Takeshita, who has been in many battles. Whether it is the Chinese army or the British army, as long as there is a defeat, it is often a thousand miles away.

Saburo Takeshita was attacking, and the Japanese troops on both flanks also began to attack after occupying the hill.

The artillery fire of the naval resistance army has been sparse, the sound of rifles is messy, and the machine guns are no longer out of rhythm.

All these phenomena, in the eyes of the battle-hardened Saburo Takeshita, is the defeat of the Naval Resistance Army.

Between the two mountain beams, on the open land nearly two kilometers wide, the total casualties of the Japanese army were less than 50.

Saburo Takeshita is even more certain that the opponent has begun to rout.

With the fire support of nine tanks, the Japanese infantry did not stop at all and immediately began to storm the mountain.

At 5:20 a.m., the number of Japanese troops pouring into the valley had exceeded 1,500.

It's a matter of success or failure. Qi Ruixuan gave the order for a counterattack.

War is the most tempering of all. More than a year ago, Qi Ruixuan commanded a company of troops to fight, and there were serious mistakes. But today, Qi Ruixuan has grown into a qualified battalion commander. This is not to say that Qi Ruixuan's combat command has matured, but that Qi Ruixuan's battlefield mentality has matured.

Shinichi Hirai knew his only chance of winning. And Qi Ruixuan is also very clear about the key to his ability to complete the task.

In a night of fighting, the Naval Resistance Army crippled the Hirai Wing, and the Japanese lost more than half of them. But it doesn't mean that Qi Ruixuan can really rely on less than five hundred troops to hold the second mountain beam.

In this night's battle, the 1,000 troops of the Naval Resistance Army were able to withstand the repeated attacks of the 5,000 Japanese troops. Its advantage lies in the abundance of ammunition. And now Qi Ruixuan has less than 500 troops, and there is a shortage of ammunition. If the Japanese continue to maintain the intensity of the attack at night, it will be difficult for the naval resistance forces to support the next batch of ammunition. Tang Harbor is located one hundred and twenty kilometers from Cutler Mountain, and transportation is not easy.

At the Cutler Hill position, the Naval Resistance Army had all its cards out, while the Japanese air power had not yet emerged.

Therefore, Qi Ruixuan chose to take a risk and give it a go.

Saburo Takeshita lay on his stomach in a crater, keeping a close eye on the battlefield. At 5:20 a.m., his troops had attacked halfway up the mountain.

What is the concept of attacking halfway up the mountain? There is no answer in military textbooks. But Saburo Takeshita's battlefield experience is one - the opponent's long-range heavy firepower has been lost.

He was even more sure that his opponent had exhausted his strength and even been defeated, and that his exploits would be within reach. Although the Japanese heavy artillery has run out of shells, even the mountain artillery has run out of shells. But he, Saburo Takeshita, had nine tanks. This is enough to ensure that his suppressive firepower is absolutely superior.

Saburo Takeshita's optimism was not sustained. There is also a rear hand of the Naval Resistance Army, 5:20. With Qi Ruixuan's order. All mortars of the Naval Resistance Army opened fire together.

It took less than two minutes. The open field in the valley had already withstood more than five hundred shells.

The Japanese devils were blown up and cried wolf. Although these 500 shells were not a salvo, the rate of fire of the mortar was extremely high, and the effect was similar to that of a salvo. The shelling was akin to carpet bombing.

Saburo Takeshita was so frightened by such a dense explosion that he broke out in a cold sweat. His battlefield experience is high-speed he--hit.

On the battlefield, once a commander has such a mentality, it means panicking.

Although this round of shelling caused great damage to the Japanese army, the naval resistance army had also run out of shells. If Saburo Takeshita doesn't panic. The Naval Resistance Army may not be able to achieve a complete victory.

As soon as the artillery fire stopped, four tanks of the Maritime Resistance Army rushed out of the canyon.

Two Tiger tanks rushed out of the valley, and the main guns were already firing.

Two Japanese Type 95 light tanks were the first to suffer, how could the weak armor withstand the three-inch guns of the Tiger 1 tank. The 71 times the diameter of the barrel gun fired shells with a speed of more than 800 meters per second, and the fire from the muzzle of the gun only flickered, and the Japanese Type 95 tank was already blown up in pieces.

Two Tiger and one tank roared and rushed to the next target. In the mountains where the Japanese army gathered, it was like entering a no-man's land.

The steel tracks dragged out long pieces of flesh, and when they pressed over the devil's corpse, the sound of bones shattering was so amazing that it could suppress the noise of the tracks.

What's even more terrifying is that the crawler pressed against the belly of the devil's corpse, and it made a muffled fluffy sound. The cracked abdominal cavity erupted in clusters of flesh and feces in all directions.

Isn't the devil a bushido spirit? Why don't you pounce on the tank and blow up the tank with a grenade. This should be the devil's specialty.

It's easy to say that infantry bombs tanks, but there aren't many soldiers in the army of any country who can do this.

Xu Zhan, who was far away in China, once paid hundreds of casualties in a battle to blow up a Japanese tank. Although the Japanese army is relatively well trained, not every devil has the courage to blow up a tank with a grenade.

Just watching the huge steel monster roaring and rushing over, many devils who had been frightened by a hot stream ran down their legs, and they were incontinent on the spot. The size of the Tiger One tank is not large, especially the height is not as good as the Japanese Type 95 tank.

But the heavy body, when galloping on the earth, the surface of the ground was shaking hundreds of meters away. The intestines, livers and other fragments hanging on the steel tracks are even more terrifying.

Even if there are devils who dare to rush over with grenades, the two machine guns on the Tiger One tank are not vegetarians.

The Japanese tanks were not slow to react, but by the time they began to look for tanks for the Naval Resistance Army, only five of the nine tanks remained.

When a Type 97 Japanese tank fired, the shell accurately hit the Huyi tank of the Naval Resistance Army, hitting the turret. When the smoke cleared, the devils were desperate to find that their tank guns could not damage the Tiger tank at a distance of 500 meters. What made the devil even more desperate was that the opponent seemed to have no effect, and the turret did not turn in the slightest. didn't wait for the devil's tank to start, only to see the barrel of the Tiger One tank flash again.

The main gun of the Tiger One tank was sharp, far beyond the imagination of the Japanese army. Almost at the same time as the barrel flashed, the Japanese Type 97 tank exploded. The power of this explosion was much more amazing than the previous destroyed tanks.

The shells loaded by the devil tank were all detonated on the spot, and the Type 97 tank was immediately blown to pieces. The heavy turret was blown out dozens of meters away, and when it fell, it hit a devil, shattering his bones on the spot and becoming a pool of dirty blood.

In the Japanese army, the Type 97 tank was already known as a medium tank, but the weight of only seventeen tons had been determined, and it was still a thin-skinned coffin. The Type 97 tank of the Naval Resistance Army weighed 25 tons. It seems that it is inferior to the armored defense of medium tanks of the American army or the German army, but if you calculate the bomb area of the front, you will know that the armor protection ability of the low-profile Tiger One tank is definitely not worse than that of the German and American tanks. IN FACT, THE FRONTAL ARMOR THICKNESS OF THE HUYI TANK OF THE SEA RESISTANCE ARMY REACHED 75MM, AND A LARGE ANGLE OF INCLINATION WAS ADOPTED. In this indicator, it far surpasses the American Sherman tank, the German No. 4 tank, and the Soviet T34 tank.

When the remnants of the devil's tanks wanted to use their mobility to start a fight, they found that the cross-country performance of the Tiger One tank far exceeded that of the Type 97 medium tank and the Type 95 light tank.

The Tiger 1 tank used 550 mm wide tracks, while the Japanese 97 tank only had 350 mm wide tracks. In the mountain clearing, the Tiger could almost go on a rampage, but the Japanese tanks had to avoid certain ditches or become dead creatures.

The powerful 400 horsepower diesel engine of the Tiger One Tank gave the Tiger One Tank a strong maneuverability. The Type 97 tank has only 170 horsepower, and although it claims to be able to reach cross-country speeds of 20 kilometers, it is actually thanks to their Aunt Amaterasu for being able to run 15 kilometers.

During the fight, the Japanese tanks fell to the bottom and were destroyed one by one.

The role of the tanks of the Naval Resistance Army is not only to deal with the tanks of the Japanese army, but in the back and forth gallop, it is difficult to organize the devil infantry killed.

To say that only these two tanks, in fact, the survivability in the Japanese infantry cluster will not be very strong, although there are not many people who dare to blow up tanks with meat bombs, there are still so few. Moreover, the devil divisions in the valley are very scattered, and it is impossible for the machine guns on the Tiger One tank to block all the dead corners.

However, Qi Ruixuan dared to arrange these two Tiger One tanks like this, and naturally he had his reasons. (To be continued......)