After Xiao Yingwu gave the order, he immediately instructed all troops: concentrate the artillery of each division, use artillery to tear the defense line of the Guards Division, the 2nd Division and other troops immediately concentrated the artillery, in this process, Japan's developed road network once again helped a lot, and self-propelled guns galloped on the road and drove to the firing position.

The Japanese mainland is mountainous, Takasago Town is just on the plain on the edge of the high mountain, the plain below the mountain is a military death, no commander will put his troops in such a place, Prince Zaihito is naturally the same, he put his troops on the mountain on the north side of Takasago Town, Lin Yuan's artillery unit then drove into the plain of Takasago Town and launched an artillery bombardment on the troops on the mountain.

The fire light when the artillery was fired reflected the sky red, the explosion of shells came and went, the dense smoke and dust shrouded the entire Japanese position, and the mountains and rocks were blown apart by the shells, like countless sharp arrows shot at the Japanese soldiers, and the Japanese suffered heavy casualties for a while.

Prince Zairen hid in the command post and scolded: "Why don't the damn Lin Yuan's troops come to attack? Just hiding in the distance with a cannon is simply a bunch of cowards! ”

The chief of staff listened to Prince Zairen's words and hurriedly said: "Division commander, since Lin Yuan's troops dare not come over to attack, we might as well take the initiative to attack!" What do you think? ”

Prince Zairen shook his head and said, "Our attack should be focused, have our friendly forces encircled the 33rd Amphibious Division?" ”

The chief of staff replied: "Judging from the report of the friendly forces half an hour ago, our friendly forces have surrounded the 33rd Amphibious Combat Division of Lin Yuan's troops. ”

Prince Zairen nodded and smiled: "Then the focus of our attack is the 33rd Amphibious Combat Division on the east side, ordering the main artillery and chariot troops to attack to the east and break through the defense line of Lin Yuan's troops." ”

The chief of staff said: "Okay division commander, may I ask if we should break through with the main artillery tank unit?" ”

Prince Zairen shook his head and smiled: "Break through? Joke? Our Guards Division is about to make a piece of bait to attract more and more fatty fish, and now the fish are swimming into the net, how can there be any reason to withdraw the bait now? ”

The chief of staff didn't say much, but he muttered in his heart: "I'm afraid that those fat fish will not only eat up the bait, but also the fishing nets!" The chief of staff asked his subordinates to convey the order, and the main artillery and combat vehicle units immediately attacked to the east to attack the 33rd amphibious warfare division, and the amphibious combat division immediately organized tanks to carry out a counteroffensive, and the main artillery fighting vehicles of the Japanese army were still no match for the tanks of Lin Yuan's troops, and by 7 o'clock in the morning of 1 September, more than 100 main artillery fighting vehicles of the Japanese army were all destroyed.

However, the Japanese Guards Division still played an elite demeanor, and the tanks of Lin Yuan's troops were destroyed thirty-two, and the battle loss ratio between the two sides was close to three to one, while in the previous battle, the battle loss ratio between the first tank wing and Lin Yuan's troops was as high as five to one or even ten to one.

Although the Japanese encircled the 33rd Division, they also knew that the east side of the encirclement was the Guards Division, and if the Guards Division could not block the attack of Lin Yuan's troops, the other units of Lin Yuan's troops would join forces with the 33rd Division, and the encirclement would be completely lost, so the Japanese troops began to attack Lin Yuan's troops desperately.

However, at this time, the troops participating in the war were not elite, as for the elite troops of the Japanese army, they had already lost most of them in Korea and Kyushu Island, and the elite troops of the Japanese army were unable to overcome the defense line of Lin Yuan's troops back then, so how could these troops overcome it now? Not only were the Japanese unable to overcome the defense line of Linyuan's troops, but they also had problems of their own: some troops mutinied, some deserted en masse, and soon the number of people who fled and surrendered exceeded the number of people killed in battle.

However, the Guards Division did not know these conditions, and they were still guarding to the death in the mountains, silently bearing the raindrops of shells, and at this time, in the rear of Lin Yuan's troops, ammunition trucks galloped on the developed highways of Japan, delivering shells to the hands of the artillerymen, and the shells continued to fall on the Japanese positions.

At 11 o'clock in the morning of September 1, Xiao Yingwu ordered his troops after learning that the artillery unit had poured more than 10,000 shells: "Send out the infantry and attack with all your might!" ”

As soon as the order was given, Xiao Yingwu suddenly received a call from Lin Yuan, in which Lin Yuan asked, "Why did you order the infantry to attack?" ”

Xiao Yingwu replied: "Report to Lin Shuai, I plan to end the battle as much as possible." ”

Lin Yuan said, "What are you anxious about? Bombard with cannonballs first! Then surround the Japanese army, they don't have enough food, and in a few days the morale of the army will be in chaos. ”

Xiao Yingwu said: "But I'm worried that if the time drags on for a long time, the Japanese army will overcome the defense line of the 33rd Division!" ”

Lin Yuan said: "Not to mention that the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army is not enough to overcome the defense line of the 33rd Division, even if they do overcome the defense line, what can they do?" The entire Seto Inland Sea is under our control, and we can send troops to land at any time, either to support the 33rd Division head-on, or to outflank the Japanese army, and no matter how we fight, our army will be invincible, what do you have to worry about? ”

Xiao Yingwu hurriedly said: "Yes Lin Shuai, I understand what you mean!" Xiao Yingwu immediately changed the previous order to order the infantry to attack, and continued to let the artillery pour shells, Lin Yuan sent bombers at this time to bomb the Japanese position, this time it was the newly established Second Air Force Division, or equipped with H-1 bombers.

The ground artillery shells were only more than 30 kilograms, but the aerial bombs were 500 kilograms, and the lethality of the two was naturally incomparable; one aerial bomb fell on the Japanese position, just in the middle of a battalion, and the entire battalion was blown up in an instant.

The mountains where the Japanese army was located were all stone mountains, and it was impossible to dig air-raid shelters, and the artillery of Lin Yuan's troops was diverse: not only 122 mm howitzers, but also 240 mm mortars, plus bombers in the sky, there were almost no dead spots of shells, and Lin Yuan's troops carried out a day of indiscriminate bombardment of the Guards Division, and it did not stop until six o'clock in the evening, when it began to get dark.

When night completely fell, Lin Yuan's troops rushed to the peaks of the Guards Division, and they were surprised to find that there were no living people on many Japanese positions, and there were dead bodies everywhere behind the rocks, some were disemboweled, some were blown into several sections, some were broken into a sieve, and some were not injured at all outside, that is, the internal organs were injured by the shock wave, and if they opened their bodies, they could see large areas of blood clots inside, which were all left by the bleeding of internal organs.

In this way, the Guards Division was completely wiped out under the blows of the artillery and aerial bombs of Lin Yuan's troops, and later generations all thought when commenting on this battle: This is the victory of artillery!

Xiao Yingwu then reported the news of the annihilation of the Guards Division to Lin Yuan, who immediately ordered the news agency to publish the news, and said to the rest of the Japanese army: "The Guards Division has been wiped out, do you still have to resist?" ”