In this attack of the Japanese army, nearly 100 people were killed in the city gate cave, which made the Japanese captain who commanded the attack furious. If you want to deal with the fortifications in the city gate cave, the Japanese army really has no way, their artillery is all curved guns, and it is impossible to directly aim at the fortifications in the city gate hole, and the heavy machine guns are too far away, not to mention that there is basically no accuracy in this kind of dark night.

Under such circumstances, the Japanese army would certainly not give up the attack, and even the brigade commanders who were mixed into the 56th Infantry Brigade came to the front-line positions to personally supervise the battle, and the captains who commanded the attack even ordered their soldiers to constantly attack the Guanlou. After escaping the blows of the soldiers of the second regiment on the wall of Guanlou, these soldiers came to the city gate cave with great difficulty, but they were helpless in the face of several machine guns in the domain gate cave.

The sandbags in the city gate hole were piled up more than one person high, dozens of soldiers were completely hiding behind the sandbag fortifications, shooting outward from the shooting holes that came out, whether the Japanese troops threw * or explosives and medicine packs into the city gate hole, they had no effect, tried to use people to attack, but they couldn't rush to the sandbags at all, and the four machine guns completely blocked the city gate hole, and no one could survive such a dense bullet.

The 211th Division, which pursued the Japanese army, also encountered a desperate resistance of more than 2,000 Japanese troops here in Daqingshan. The 544th Regiment originally repaired a lot of fortifications here in Daqingshan in order to ambush the Japanese army, Wang Haitao ordered that the 544th Regiment put down everything and immediately rushed to the aid of Zhennanguan, and the fortifications here in Daqingshan were also abandoned, but these fortifications were discovered by the Japanese troops who were sent to block the pursuing soldiers, and they used these fortifications to block the attack of the 211th Division.

This time, the 463rd Brigade of the 211th Division rushed ahead of the 462nd Brigade, and the brigade commander Wei Erxi ordered the 880th Regiment to take the lead in the attack and immediately launched an attack on the Japanese troops that blocked it, and Wei Erxi also personally organized dozens of large and small caliber mortars to cover the attacking 880th Regiment. It was ten o'clock in the evening, and the darkness caused difficulties for both sides, and the important point was that there was too much blindness in the shooting.

After discovering the attack of the Chinese army, the Japanese army could only rely on light and heavy machine guns to block the not wide mountain road, and the fire spit out from the muzzle became the target of mortars. The mortars of the 463rd Brigade had just fired a few rounds of shells, and the mortar positions became the targets of the Japanese Type 92 infantry guns and mortars.

In this kind of offensive and defensive battle, it should be the defender who has the advantage, and the attacker's casualties will be greater, but today's battle is reversed. First of all, the Japanese army was not accustomed to night battles, and even the elite second division would be a mess in night battles, let alone third-rate troops such as infantry brigades. In addition, the gap between the two sides in terms of weapons and equipment is too large, and the Japanese army's small artillery pieces together are only more than 20 guns, although they have the upper hand at the beginning, but the 463rd Brigade concentrated mortars here, and these more than 20 small guns were almost destroyed.

In addition, the Japanese army's machine gun fire was no match for the light and heavy machine guns of the 880th Regiment, and the position set up by the 544th Regiment in Daqingshan was not to block the Japanese army, but to ambush the Japanese army. Therefore, the fortifications were only located at the foot of the mountain and the mountainside, and did not block the road, and the Japanese army also wanted to block the road with more than ten heavy machine guns, but after more than ten heavy machine guns were named one by one by the mortars of the 462nd Brigade, it was not so easy for the Japanese army to block the road.

Wei Erxi also saw this, he ordered the 880th Regiment to press the Japanese troops in the fortifications at the foot of Daqingshan Mountain to retreat to the mountainside, and then let the 881st Regiment and the 882nd Regiment pass through the road at the foot of Daqingshan at night and continue to pursue in the direction of Zhennanguan. Wei Lixuan, the commander of the 880th Regiment, personally supervised the battle, and the first and second battalions under his command simultaneously launched a surprise attack on the Japanese position at the foot of Daqingshan Mountain.

At this time, the Japanese army had no artillery support, and no heavy machine guns to intercept them, and with the Type 38 rifles in the hands of the soldiers, they could not stop the charge of the 1st and 2nd battalions at all at night like this. After the officers and men of the 1st and 2nd Battalions rushed close to the Japanese formation, they threw several rounds of grenades and shells, and in the explosion of grenades and bullets, the Japanese troops on the position collapsed and turned around and fled halfway up the mountain.

After occupying the Japanese position at the foot of the mountain, the threat to the road was greatly reduced, and the 881st Regiment and the 882nd Regiment quickly passed through the foot of the mountain and advanced towards Zhennan Pass, followed by the 878th Regiment and the 879th Regiment of the 462nd Brigade also quickly passed here. On the south pass of the town, the battle of the guard brigade to hold the gate tower has reached a fever pitch, although it is dark night, up and down the pass tower, the north and south sides are full of fire, and the red line drawn by the bullets fills the night sky.

The three battalions of the Third Guard Regiment took turns to fight, and with nearly 1,000 casualties of officers and soldiers, they withstood the Japanese army's onslaught again and again, and the city gate in the south was also blown up by the Japanese army. In order to open the sandbag fortifications in the hole in the city gate, the Japanese army again used chariots to assist. However, the four chariots that came up were once again blown into flames by the soldiers of the three regiments with bazookas.

The biggest problem facing the Guards Brigade now is the shortage of ammunition. All weapons except for heavy machine guns were adjusted to single shots, but in the dark night, the accuracy of the soldiers' shooting was greatly reduced, and without the continuous suppression of firepower, the Japanese attack was more ferocious. At the critical moment, the 544th Regiment finally arrived at Zhennan Pass. At this time, Tangshan Leopard had already led the guards to the position of the three regiments in person.

After Tang Weijian, the commander of the 544th Regiment, found Tangshan Leopard, Tangshan Leopard didn't have time to talk to him, and directly ordered: "Quick, Commander Tang sent a battalion to reinforce the second regiment in the south, sent a battalion to top this side, and the last battalion was on the city walls on both sides." When Tang Weijian heard this, he immediately ordered: "Zhang Tao takes the first battalion to the south, Du Haisheng takes the second battalion to the city wall, and Wei Yunbao takes the third battalion to the left and right city walls." Hurry up!"

Several battalion commanders obeyed the order and began to act, Du Haisheng's second battalion came up as soon as he set up light and heavy machine guns and fired at the downstairs of Guan, and the sudden ferocious firepower caused the unprepared Japanese troops to fall down a lot, and the Japanese troops who attacked them retreated like a tide. At this time, Tangshan Leopard breathed a sigh of relief, turned to Tang Weijian and said, "Commander Tang can arrive in time and help us a lot, otherwise we will be in a bad situation." ”

Tang Weijian replied: "I'm ashamed to say it, the road is not familiar, and it is dark, we are late, so Brigade Commander Tang and the brothers of the Xiwei Brigade have suffered." Tangshan Leopard smiled and said: "It's all a family, why do you say this? When your regiment comes, I will be more sure that I will keep it until dawn, but I promised the military seat in the telegram that I will keep it until dawn." ”

Tang Weijian stretched out his hand and looked at his watch, it was only eleven o'clock now, and there were still several hours before dawn, listening to the dense gunfire on both sides of the building, he said in his heart: "I'm afraid these few hours will not be so easy!" But Tang Weijian's face didn't show it at all. There was another scream of artillery shells flying in the air, and Sun Linhai, the commander of the third regiment, shouted: "Pay attention to concealment, the Japanese are shelling!"

Tangshan Leopard pulled Tang Weijian to hide in a bunker, and the Japanese artillery shells had exploded on the city wall. The shelling made the entire gate tower tremble, and several gaps had been blown out of the city wall, but fortunately, the south pass of the town was built enough to hold on, so it did not collapse under the Japanese shelling. From time to time, there were no hidden fighters who were hit by shrapnel and let out a scream, and as soon as the screams rang out, they were drowned out in the sound of explosions.

To the south of Guanlou, Lieutenant General Maruyama Masao saw that the 56th Infantry Brigade had not been able to capture Guanlou for a long time, and he could not help but secretly curse Matsui Kiichiro, the commander of the Major General Brigade, for being wasteful and incompetent! Then he called the commander of the 4th Wing, Nasu Yukio Osa, and ordered Nasu Yuo Osaku to lead the 4th Wing to replace the incompetent soldiers of the 56th Brigade and recapture Zhennan Pass as soon as possible.

The Fourth Wing of the Second Division is the one that retains the most veterans among the Second Division, so its combat effectiveness is definitely the first among the Second Divisions, and its strength is much higher than that of the 16th Wing and the 29th Wing, which are all new recruits. Lieutenant General Maruyama Masao has always had the Fourth Wing with him, and he will not use them easily, but now he has sent the Fourth Wing, which shows that Lieutenant General Maruyama Masao is really anxious.

The fourth wing appeared under the Guan Tower, and the wing commander Nasu Yuo Daisa had been observing the Chinese troops on the Guan Tower for a long time, and his own wing was about to start attacking, so Nasu Yuo Dasa began to order the troops to do what he envisioned. Now the soldiers are under the cover of artillery, and it is not difficult to attack the bottom of the gate, the problem is that they cannot solve the fire point in the city gate.

Nasu Yuo Daisa ordered an infantry brigade to attack, and there was a squad of soldiers scattered with two disassembled Type 92 infantry guns and some shells, and he asked the captain to ensure that the two Type 92 infantry guns were transported to the bottom of the gate. The Japanese army began to attack, although the 544th Regiment and one battalion were added to the Guanlou city wall, but under the cover of dozens of mountain guns of the Japanese army, the attacking Japanese army paid a certain price and still rushed to the pass.

The Japanese troops who rushed to the bottom of the gate quickly assembled the two Type 92 infantry guns, and then the two groups of artillery pushed the two guns to the entrance of the city gate and quickly fired shells into the city gate. In the city gate cave, the soldiers of the 2nd Regiment were preparing to use machine guns to greet the Japanese troops who rushed into the city gate cave, but no one expected that the Japanese army would transport artillery here.

Two shells exploded on the sandbag fortifications, which could be protected against *, bullets, but not shells, and at the same time that the sandbag fortifications were destroyed, the fighters behind the fortifications were also shocked and fainted. The Japanese army rushed into the city gate cave without waiting for the smoke to dissipate, and there were no deadly guns and bullets in the city gate hole, only sandbags scattered all over the place, and the Japanese army couldn't help cheering and rushed to the depths of the city gate hole.

Hearing the sound of artillery coming from the cave in the city gate, Li Li, the commander of the second guard regiment, knew that it was not good. He immediately called out to some of his warriors and rushed towards the passage leading to the city gates. As soon as Li Li led people to the entrance of the passage, he heard the cheers of the Japanese soldiers in the city gate cave, and the sudden gunshots, Li Li knew that this was the part of the soldiers who were preparing to replace the sandbag fortifications in the depths of the city gate cave and entered the battle, these soldiers saw that the Japanese army had destroyed the sandbag fortifications, rushed into the city gate hole, and took the initiative to rush out to block the Japanese army's depth.