In the waiting, time always passes very slowly, Tangshan Leopard has not known how many times he has looked at the watch, no matter how he looks, the hands on the watch are still moving unhurriedly. Finally, the pointer pointed to 7:55, and Tangshan Leopard said to Li Li and Sun Linhai, the two regiment leaders: "There are still five minutes, and as soon as the cannon sound on Pingxiang's side sounds, we will do it." ”

Li Li smiled and replied: "Brigade, you have said it three times, rest assured, I guarantee that you will not be able to make a mistake." Tangshan Leopard glared at Li Li, and then couldn't help but sigh, with the calmness of the military seat before the battle, he was afraid that he would never be able to catch up with the military seat. Thinking of this, Tangshan Leopard also tried hard to calm himself down. Finally, a thunderous cannon sound came from the direction of Pingxiang, and Tangshan Leopard also shouted: "Start attacking!"

At this time, the attention of the Japanese army was focused on the direction of Pingxiang, and these Japanese soldiers on the Zuofu Mountain position were also in a commotion. At this moment, Li Li's nearly 100 snipers, strikers, and sharpshooters gathered each opened fire on the selected target. When the guns rang out, dozens of soldiers fell down on the Japanese position, and these targets were selected by snipers and snipers, either officers or machine gunners and people in some key positions.

Dozens of people fell, the Japanese troops on the position panicked, and the shouts of "enemy attack!" also continued to sound, and the soldiers who had reacted were holding rifles and firing back in the direction from which the bullets came. However, the blind return fire not only did not bring any losses to the snipers and fighters, but became the target of a new round of shooting by the snipers and snipers. After a few rounds of strikes, there were few Japanese troops on the position who dared to stretch out their heads to fight back.

Seeing that the time had come, Li Li ordered the first battalion of the second regiment to attack, and the commander of the first battalion, Wei Song, immediately led the first battalion to rush towards the Japanese position. There was no suspense, and the first battalion rushed to the Japanese position with only one charge, at a small cost, and it took only twenty minutes before and after. After taking the Japanese artillery position on Zuofushan, the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the 2nd Regiment immediately rushed to the position and defended the direction of Guanlou in the south of the town.

The movement of the artillery position of Zuofushan had been reported to the captain of the Zhennanguan garrison brigade, Yuo Ono Nakasa, who was taken aback, and he shouted to the squadron leader Inoue Ueo beside him: "Yaga! How could the artillery position of Zuofushan be attacked by the Chinese troops? This Chinese unit fell from the sky?" Inoue replied: "Your Excellency, listening to the gunfire, it should be a small group of troops in the Chinese country, and there is no machine gun sound until now." ”

Ono Yuo listened carefully, and his heart was a lot more settled, and he said: "Inoue-kun, the artillery position of Zuofushan cannot be lost, you immediately bring your squadron to reinforce there, and you must destroy the Shina army that dares to attack the position of our imperial army." Inoue replied, "Hey, I'll go to reinforce the Zuofushan position at once, and rest assured, Your Excellency the Captain, I will definitely destroy these hateful Shina." ”

As soon as Inoue Icio left, Yuo Ono ordered the artillery on the city wall to turn their muzzles in the direction of the Zuofuyama position. As soon as the guns turned their muzzles, the whistling of shells was heard in the air. In an instant, more than a dozen large-caliber * fell on the city wall, enveloping the artillery on the city wall and the Japanese army in gunpowder smoke and fire.

Sun Linhai, the commander of the third regiment, commanded all the mortars to bombard the wall of Guanlou and the Japanese defense line in front of it, which not only lost more than a dozen artillery pieces on Guanlou, but also plowed the Japanese defense line by shells. As soon as the shelling ended, the first battalion of the 3rd regiment, under the cover of more than a dozen light and heavy machine guns, launched a charge against the Japanese line.

There was originally an infantry squadron of more than 200 soldiers on the Japanese defense line, and under the bombardment of *, they lost a lot of people, and now they saw that the Chinese army had launched a charge, and these Japanese soldiers who were alive under the command of the officers lay in the trenches and fought back desperately, and in the bunkers that were not blown up, several heavy machine guns also began to fire desperately. The dense bullets caused several fighters in the front of the battalion to fall one after another, and the fighters behind saw that they were not right and also fell to the ground.

The attack was blocked, which made Sun Linhai's face ugly, and he commanded the mortar to explode again, but the power was too small to destroy the machine gun fortifications on the Japanese position. In this case, Li Linhai did not hesitate to send the bazooka group. The group of three bazookas went up to four groups at once, and the four shots were quickly aimed at the machine-gun bunkers on the Japanese positions.

Four explosions rang out in succession, and all four heavy machine gun bunkers on the Japanese position were hit, and the four howling heavy machine guns immediately fell silent. Without the blocking fire of heavy machine guns, the soldiers of the battalion lying on the ground jumped up and rushed towards the Japanese positions again. The Japanese troops on the position were still resisting, but under the fire of the charging soldiers* of the first battalion and the semi-automatic rifles, the inferiority of the weapons was exposed.

As soon as the officers and men of the first battalion rushed to the Japanese position, the second and third battalions also quickly followed. As soon as the 3rd Regiment cleared the Japanese troops from the position, a reinforced infantry squadron not far away appeared in sight. The 3rd Regiment immediately took advantage of the captured position to start preparing to block the Japanese army, but the Japanese stopped themselves, and from the position, it could be seen that there were Japanese soldiers who had fled and reported something to the Japanese officers who led the reinforcements.

When Yuo Ono, who escaped the bombing of the Guanlou Tower, was furious at the bombing of the Guanlou wall, the gunfire on the left became more intense, and looking at the smoke rising from the position on the left, Yuo Ono had a bad feeling in his heart. While Ono was restless, the signal corps sent by Inoue Ueo reported the very bad news that the Shina army had captured the artillery position of Zuofushan and the defensive position between Zuofushan and the wall on the left side of the Sekiro.

This news was like a blow to the head, and Yuo Ono was dizzy. One of his infantry brigades is stationed at Zhennan Pass, a squadron is responsible for guarding warehouses and guarding artillery squadrons, and an infantry squadron is responsible for guarding the city wall on the left side of the Guanlou, an infantry squadron on the Guanlou, and a squadron on the right city wall. Now that the Chinese have occupied the defensive position on the left, and they have lost nearly half of the strength of one of their brigades, and in such a short period of time, they have lost two infantry squadrons and most of the artillery, how strong should the attack power of the attacking troops of the Chinese people be!

In any case, Zhennan Pass can not be lost, otherwise there will be big trouble in attacking Pingxiang's imperial army, which Ono Yuo is very clear, after Ono Yuo came to his senses, he immediately asked the signal soldiers to give Inoue Ueo an order, and guarded the city wall on the left side of the Guanlou, waiting for reinforcements. As soon as the signal corps left, Yuo Ono immediately asked his wing commander for help.

Garrisoned at Zhennanguan was an infantry brigade of the 2nd Infantry Wing of the 56th Mixed Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Army, whose main task was to guard Zhennanguan, as well as two quartermaster depots and an ammunition depot. Wing Commander of the 2nd Infantry Wing, Yoshimatsu Yusan Sansa, received a telegram from the brigade commander, Major General Matsui Kiichiro, that due to the large-scale counteroffensive of the Chinese army, the 2nd Division in front was retreating, and asked the 2nd Wing to strengthen the defense of Zhennan Pass and several warehouses. At this time, Yuo Ono's call for help came.

With the brigade commander's telegram in advance, Yoshimatsu Yusansa, although he scolded Ono for his incompetence, he immediately dispatched an infantry brigade to reinforce Zhennan Pass. Inoue Ueo received an order from Yuo Ono and stopped attacking, and immediately led his troops to set up a defensive position at the horizontal end of the wall on the left side of the Guanlou to prevent the Chinese army from attacking the Guanlou.

On the Zuofu Mountain position, the 2nd Regiment had finished cleaning the battlefield, and Li Li left the 3rd Battalion to take over the captured Japanese mountain artillery and the guards of the position, and then took the 1st and 2nd Battalions to join the 3rd Regiment. The third regiment also basically cleaned up the battlefield, and Tangshan Leopard and Sun Linhai were observing the situation of the Japanese troops on the Zhennan Pass Tower and the left city wall. Now if you want to capture Zhennan Pass, you can only take the road of first capturing the left city wall and then advancing to the Guanlou.

However, the attack surface of the left city wall here is narrow, the terrain is dangerous, and there is only a ridge more than ten meters wide leading to the left city wall on the front. After the Japanese army retreated, they set up positions at the horizontal end of the city wall on the left in an attempt to stop the Chinese army's attack on Guanlou. After looking at it for a while, Sun Linhai said to Tangshan Leopard: "Brigade seat, give the order to attack, the longer the time drags on, the more unfavorable it will be for us, once the Japanese reinforcements arrive, it will be more difficult to take Zhennan Pass!"

Can Sun Linhai not understand what the Tangshan leopard said? However, in the dangerous terrain in front of him, the casualties will certainly not be small if they attack it by force. But in the current situation, there is no better way than to attack, Tangshan Leopard thought for a long time, and still said to Sun Linhai: "Okay, let your three regiments attack, and I will command the mortars to cover you." ”

Seeing that Tangshan Leopard had agreed to carry out a strong attack, Sun Linhai immediately shouted: "Zhou Sheng!" Zhou Sheng, the commander of the first battalion, ran over and replied: "Here!" Sun Linhai said: "Order you to lead a battalion to attack the city wall on the left side of the Japanese army!" Zhou Sheng replied immediately: "Yes, Tuanza!" Then he saluted and turned to leave. Soon Zhou Sheng's shout sounded from the third regiment: "All the battalions are attentive, heavy machine guns are covering, and the first company is ready to attack!"

The attack surface is very narrow, and it is the limit to attack one at a time, and it is useless to spread the formation if there are too many people. Neither Tang Shanbao nor Sun Linhai objected to Zhou Sheng's order. Tangshan Leopard first commanded mortars to fire three rounds at the left city wall, and the artillery fire blew up most of the fortifications that the Japanese had just hastily built. As soon as the shelling stopped, several heavy machine guns began to shoot in cover, and in the continuous sound of machine guns, the fighters of a battalion and a company rushed out.

When charging from the third regiment to the wall on the left side of the gate, it was obviously downhill, but the road was a ridge, and the narrower it became the further you went to the left wall. The Japanese troops guarding the left side of the wall had a squadron of more than infantry, and the mortar shelling blew up most of the fortifications, but the Japanese still used the ground to set up machine guns to block the road of the company's charge.

A company of soldiers who rushed to the front were successively knocked to the ground, and the commander of the first battalion, Zhou Sheng, hurriedly grabbed a light machine gun and personally strafed the Japanese position. The effect of the machine gun strafing was not good due to the terrain, and the first company commander was also suppressed behind a rock. The commander of a company poked his head out, observed the Japanese position, and shouted: "Bazooka, quickly, shoot the Japanese machine gun!" A bazooka group poked out the muzzle of the gun from a hidden place, aimed at the Japanese machine gun and fired a shot*.