The head of the headquarters ordered his three divisions to launch an attack on Shanhaiguan, and the political commissar Lao Liu was a little worried, after all, the devil had already had a division guarding Shanhaiguan over there before, and now there were two divisions.

"Haha, what are you worried about? Let me tell you, no matter how big the casualties are, we must drag the devils in Shanhaiguan, and we must give Hu Hao time to let him solve all the devils in Hebei, not to mention the casualties, even if the whole army is annihilated, we will do it! The head of the headquarters said to Political Commissar Liu,

"But, how can we hold on, there are 3 divisions on the devil's side, let's go 3 divisions to fight three divisions, how to win, we are attacking!" Lao Liu was still a little worried and said.

"It's okay, Lao Xu's troops have arrived in Beiping, it is estimated that they are all starting to march to Qinhuangdao now, we will go to the front first, they will definitely come to help, Shanhaiguan, we must defend, guard Shanhaiguan, and also guard Qinhuangdao, we can't let the devils enter the Hebei Plain again, otherwise, the two stunned people will fight in vain!" The head of the headquarters said immediately.

"Well, I understand these truths, but if the attack is frustrated, our forces will suffer heavy losses, hey!" Lao Liu sighed when he finished speaking,

"There's no way, who told us to be born in this era!" The head of the headquarters also immediately said,

That night, the three divisions of the Eighth Route Army began to launch a fierce attack on Shanhaiguan, and at the beginning, the artillery was all smashed into Shanhaiguan without money, and the two divisions that had just arrived on the devil's side had not yet been deployed.

When the bombardment began, it gave those devils a lot of casualties, but soon, those devils began to enter the position, giving the Eighth Route Army a lot of resistance to the attacking.

"Damn, it's impacting once, if it doesn't work again. We really can't fight! A division commander entered the joint command headquarters from the outside, and when he got inside, he threw his hat and said.

"Damn, the Kwantung Army is really powerful, we are so bombarded, so impacted, we can't rush to the first 100 meters of the devil's position, and now our casualties are more than one-third!" The other division commander was also very annoyed and said,

Externally, they have three divisions, but each division will have no less than 30,000 troops, and each division can be expanded into two divisions. But in a matter of hours, the casualties reached 30,000. How can this not annoy the three division commanders!

"We are attacking once, striving to rush to the position this time, as long as we rush to the position, it will be easy to do, we are fighting the danger of annihilation of the whole army to take Shanhaiguan, as long as we take Shanhaiguan, it is equivalent to closing the door for the devil to enter the Central Plains!" Another division commander also spoke.

"It's 2 o'clock in the morning, and another attack at 2:30 a.m." One division commander said, and the other two division commanders also nodded. And then to their own time,

At half past two, the three divisions began to attack Shanhaiguan again, and the troops were vigorously attacking the devils. But the Shanhaiguan devils have built too many fortifications,

These fortifications are enough for the devils to hide about 10 divisions, and there are hidden bunkers everywhere, and the soldiers are about to put the devils on the ground.

Immediately, there was a bunker that had not been discovered before and shot at this side, and it was able to knock down a large number of charging warriors in one fell swoop, and the warriors had no choice. can only carry a bazooka to bomb, but there is no such thing as this and that, the devil is a dark fortress on the entire defense line, and it is impossible to prevent it at all.

By half-past three, the commanders and fighters in front had all given orders to retreat, but they really couldn't attack.

"your ancestor, damn it, there are so many hidden castles, how can you fight! Little devil! Damn! A division commander was angry and threw the tea jar in front of him to the ground, and the other two division commanders and the cadres of the division headquarters were also very depressed with their heads down, and after an attack, the casualties were more than 10,000, and so far, more than half of the casualties have been counted.

"Report, Separate Corps telegram!" A telegraph operator stood up and shouted.

"Read!" A division commander shouted at them.

"Yes, comrades of the Eighth Route Army, a tank brigade and 3 infantry divisions of our army's vanguard unit have set off from Qinhuangdao and are expected to arrive at Shanhaiguan at half past four, please know!" The telegraph operator said.

"Well, I know, come on, send someone to pick it up!" A division commander spoke. Someone will arrange it right away,

"Let's not fight yet! Now we don't know how much damage we have done to the devils in Shanhaiguan, and we don't know if we can fight a 3-1," said the commander of the 1st Division.

"I think it's difficult, our attack didn't do much damage to the devil at all, the devils are all in the bunker, we can only kill the devil by destroying the devil's bunker, in fact, we haven't laid down many devils' bunkers at all, let alone entered the devil's defensive position, I estimate that the devil can have 5,000 casualties even if it is a good fight!" The commander of the 4th Division spoke.

"Fight again or wait for the people of the Independent Corps to come and talk about it, damn, I don't have the face to see people anymore, people are fighting tens of thousands of exterminations, let's fight a 3 divisions of Shanhaiguan and still fight like this!" The commander of the 1st Division said depressedly.

"It's different, the devils have built permanent fortifications here, and in other places in Hebei, the devils are temporary fortifications, and there is no way to compare!" Another division commander said.

"Wait, if we attack again, we won't be able to enter the devil's defensive position, let's wait until the people of the independent army arrive here, and then everyone will think of a way together to see if it can work!" The commander of the 4th division said.

After hearing his opinion, the other two division commanders also nodded, it was really too many casualties. At about 4 o'clock, Daxiong and the other three divisions arrived in front of Shanhaiguan, and the four of them were taken to the temporary headquarters set up.

It can be seen from their age that the two units are different, the three division commanders and political commissars of the Eighth Route Army are all forty years old, while the division commanders of the Independent Corps are all 30 years old, although Da Xiong is the brigade commander, but he is only in his early 20s this year.

"Thank you for helping us hold back the devils here, if we let them out, we'll be in trouble!" The big bear said to the few of them,

Although he is only a brigade commander, he has the rank of major general in his national army, and the other three division commanders also respect Da Xiong, and he has been killed all the way in these battles, and after this battle, Da Xiong will definitely be promoted!

"Needless to say, we thought that our 3 divisions would be able to take Shanhaiguan, but we didn't expect the defense of Shanhaiguan to be so strong, they built too many fortifications on the position, our people went to the front of the position, and those dark bunkers would immediately start heavy firepower,

Our bazooka has no way to knock him down, the main thing is that there is no way to suppress the firepower, our bazooka can't be opened at all, the casualties are particularly large, up to now, our three divisions, more than 90,000 people, have suffered more than half of the casualties, to say that we are not afraid of being ashamed, I estimate that we have not even killed 10,000 devils! The commander of the 1st Division said to the big bear.

"Okay, you tell us about the current defense here, let's all take out the information and supplement each other!" Big Bear nodded and said to the few of them. Immediately, Big Bear began to share the information that the special operations team had detected and the information they had.

"Damn, the devil actually has more than 60 kilometers of defense in Shanhaiguan, and there are tens of thousands of hidden forts! Uncle, do you want to build a permanent fortress? "When a division commander of the Independent Corps saw the situation marked on the map, he immediately cursed.

"Well, these permanent fortifications were all built this year, and the devils may have already calculated that we might attack the northeast, so they started to build these fortifications this year, damn, it's like a fortress!" The commander of the 4th Division of the Eighth Route Army nodded and said.

"Brother Big Bear, what's the matter?" A division commander of the Independent Corps asked Da Xiong, and when the people of the Eighth Route Army heard those who were older than Da Xiong call the young man in front of them Brother Da Xiong, they all looked at Da Xiong with strange eyes.

"Hehe, they're used to it, they can't change it, you just call me Xiao Li!" When Big Bear saw their eyes, he immediately laughed and said.

"You are the guard who followed Lao Zhang, called Da Xiong, your brother is called Monkey, isn't it?" The commander of the 1st Division asked Big Bear.

"Yes! I was a guard behind my big brother in the first half of this year! Big Bear said with a smile.

"Oh, I said how can I be so familiar!" The commander of the 1st division suddenly realized.

"Well, I've seen you all when I had meetings at the headquarters before!" Big Bear nodded.

"Well, as soon as you said that we really have an image, by the way, will Lao Zhang also come this time?" The commander of the 4th Division immediately asked.

"Big brother is not in charge of this side this time, he is in charge of Shandong's defense!" Big Bear immediately spoke.

"Well, it's a pity, I haven't seen it for more than 1 year!" The commander of the 1 Division said.

"Well, next time you have a chance, that big bear, look at it, how do we take Shanhaiguan, we have to make a decision as soon as possible, when it is dawn, the devil's plane in Shenyang will be able to take off, and then our side will still be within the bombing range of the devil's plane, now it's almost 5 o'clock, and the sky is going to dawn, if we want to fight, we have to hurry up!" The commander of the 1 Division said.

"Let's attack again now, this time my tank brigade is attacking in front, which can be regarded as cleaning up those dark bunkers, you follow behind, as long as you enter the devil's position, it's easy to say!" Big Bear thought for a moment and said.

"Well, it's good to have tanks, you tanks are in front, and if you find those bunkers, you can get rid of them, so that if our infantry attacks, it will be able to reduce a lot of casualties! (To be continued......)