The offensive and defensive sides were transferred one by one, and the Lion Gate, which had wiped out the 33rd Division, became like paper paste in front of the artillery of the Eighth Division. After a quarter of an hour of shelling, only 30 of the 1,000 members of a gendarmerie brigade ordered by Yokoyama Yong himself survived, and this was the little devils who saw the opportunity quickly and rolled down the mountain directly.

As Ouyang Yun said, the Lion Gate is a pass that Okamura Ninji has to guard. If you can't hold the Lion Gate, once the chariot troops of the Xuebing Army form a breakthrough, then this battle will not be fought. Okamura Ninji's plan was to take advantage of the Lion Gate to delay the offensive pace of the Cadet Army, and drag the 11th Division and the 112th Division to pose a threat to the eastern route of the Cadet Army. In that way, Ouyang Yun would not dare to look west with all his might, and the Western Route Army would be able to establish a defensive depth between Xishan and Dacheng, and perhaps be able to hold on to the reinforcements of other legions-Okamura Ningji had expected that the Lion Gate would not be able to stop the footsteps of the Scholar Army, but he did not expect that it would be so vulnerable. Soon after the rumbling cannon sound on the other side of the mountain, the mountainside on the top of the Lion Gate Mountain was completely shrouded in fireworks, and the thick smoke of gunpowder rose into the air, obscuring the sky. A few minutes later, more than 30 ragged soldiers appeared in front of the second position, and a so-called young man said to Okamura: "Your Excellency, the artillery fire is too sharp to defend!" ”

Isamu Yokoyama volunteered to be the commander of the troops left behind, but Okamura had not yet spoken, and he said, "How many shells did the Cadet Army carry, and there were tens of thousands of shells fired from front to back, right?" Your Excellency, the defensive position has not yet been built, and now, the only way to do this is to resort to reclamation tactics! ”

"Seize the moment, no matter what, hold on until dark. The Eastern Route Army is rushing over at full speed, and when they arrive at the battlefield, we will have a capital to fight for. The cadet soldiers came prepared, and we underestimated the enemy. The imperial army cannot be defeated, even if the whole army is destroyed, we must also teach the people of China a painful lesson! Yokoyama-kun, let's unite as one and fight to the death for the great cause of His Majesty the Emperor! ”

"Hay!"

After the shelling of the Eighth Division stopped, a regiment of Jewish cadets attacked the top of Lionmen Hill under the cover of five heavy armored vehicles. At the same time, with the order of Yokoyama Yong, the last military police brigade belonging to the 17th Division and regimental headquarters climbed up from the trench at the foot of the mountain and rushed to the top of the mountain silently.

A quarter of an hour later, the spearheads of both sides met at the top of the hill. The Japanese did not expect the attacker to dispatch tracked armored vehicles, and the more than 20 devils who rushed to the front did not have corresponding needle weapons, and more than ten people were swept down by only one face, and the rest of the people hurriedly retreated, and at the same time reminded the people below to prepare cluster grenades and other weapons that can deal with armored vehicles.

By the time the second wave of Japanese rushed up, the Jews had already occupied the top of the mountain. This was the second time that the Jews had participated in the actual battle, and they had little combat experience, so they should first consolidate their positions on the top of the hill and call in a large force to support them before attacking. However, the commander who led the team gave the order to take advantage of the situation to launch an attack on the mountain, so that although they had an advantage for a time, when Yokoyama Yong reinforced another brigade and organized a death squad to blow up three of the five armored vehicles, the morale of the Jews, who lacked blood and fire training, plummeted after more than 200 people were killed in the battle.

When the 11th Army set out from Pengze, it had a total of nearly 80,000 men. The 80,000 men were divided into two routes, the east and west, of which the sequence of the West Route Army was as follows: most of the 17th Division (the division was responsible for the defense of the Jiujiang area, and Suzuki Harunmatsu led a wing and two brigades to garrison Jiujiang and De'an respectively), the 106th Division, and about 6,000 troops directly under the corps; The Eastern Route Army was the 11th and 112th Divisions, which were fully formed.

After the Western Route Army rendezvoused with Suzuki Harumusa in De'an, the scale once reached about 46,000 people, but now, after the two battles of Xiushui and Nanchang, the 17th Division suffered heavy casualties, and only five of the 11 infantry brigades remained, while its mountain artillery wing, the mountain artillery wing of the 106th division, and the field artillery wing directly under the corps headquarters were almost completely lost, and the casualties of the soldiers alone reached more than 6,000 people. Together with other arms, the casualties of the Western Route Army have exceeded that of a division.

In less than a day, a division was gone, which was too big a blow to the morale of the Western Route Army. It's no wonder that Okamura Ninji, who has always been over-eyed, and Isamu Yokoyama have changed their usual style and bowed their heads.

At least half of the Japanese casualties were frozen to death or drowned. The pain of the deceased is indescribable. And the tragic scene after their death gave a great psychological impact to the living, and the morale of the Western Route Army dropped by another level. If it weren't for the fact that these devils have been brainwashed by militarism, they would have collapsed by now.

Escaping the Ganjiang River and escaping the foothills of Meiling Mountain does not mean that you are out of danger. At this time, the Japanese army needed a victory too much to boost morale. The reason why Yokoyama took the initiative to ask Ying to command the defense of the Lion Gate was precisely from this point, hoping to win a victory with his own command and boost the morale of the whole army.

Isamu Yokoyama did it. Under his supervision, the devils of the two brigades rushed forward fearlessly, and used the "jade crushing tactics" to crush the Jewish soldiers' will to fight. And when a squadron-sized death squad personally selected by Isamu Yokoyama rushed to the front, the balance of victory and defeat tilted in favor of the Japanese soldiers—in the eyes of the Jewish cadets, these Japanese were the embodiment of the devil—they did not even wear helmets, so they tied a streamer to their heads, and then rushed to the middle of the array of Jewish cadets with a cluster grenade in their arms.

In the beginning, because of the distance, there were armored vehicles to provide cover, and the Jewish cadets were able to carry out a stubborn counterattack. However, as the three armored vehicles were blown up one after another, some devils began to howl and pounce on them behind the burning armored vehicles with smoking cluster grenades, and the Jewish cadets in front of them could not stand it. I don't know who was the first to turn around and run away, but he gave the others a bad head - the panic was immediately contagious, and then, the scene that made the commander of the 52nd Brigade of Xue, who was in charge of suppressing the formation under the mountain, Montere (Chinese) stunned - more than 700 elites of the Jewish Independent Army (Jews still like to call themselves as such) were swept around the mountains like rabbits without guts, and the regiment commander Gu Qilong (Chinese) brandished a pistol and tried to stop it, As a result, he and his guard squad were left behind by soldiers who were desperate to flee for their lives, and handed them over to the menacing Japanese.

Seeing Gu Qilong and the guards around him surrounded by hundreds of Japanese soldiers, and then stabbed to death with guns, Montere was stunned, snatched a Weiqing-style assault rifle from one of the guards, and headed it towards the feet of the few soldiers who fled in front of him.

"Are you still men?!" Montere roared, ignoring the terrified wails of the two soldiers lying on the ground with their legs broken, raised his gun and fired a few more shots into the air, shouting, "Give me all back!" If you don't take the lion gate, all military law will be engaged! ”

(Old poison: call after eight o'clock, lucky, lucky)