Honma Masaharu considered that after several attacks, the First Wing had already lost half of its soldiers, so he first let the First Wing withdraw to Taoling Town to rest, and the Third Wing that was originally in Pickling Town replaced the First Wing. After the commander of the 3rd Wing, Osamu Ono, completed the task of guiding the air force and blowing up the artillery positions of the defenders, Lieutenant General Masashi Honma praised him well.

Now Osamu Ono has received the task of Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma to let his wing attack the position of the Shina people, and confidently leads the third wing to the top. The third wing arrived at the attack position and changed guards with the first wing, and the wing commander of the first wing, Yago Sun Erdasa, saw Ono Osa's proud appearance, and couldn't help but say to Ono Osa: "Ono-kun, don't underestimate the Shina, their firepower is very fierce, and there are many sharpshooters. ”

Ono Shu said with a smile: "Don't worry, Yago-kun, in the past, the people of China had artillery support, but now that there is no artillery, I believe that under the cannons of the empire, the people of China will not support it for too long." Seeing that Ono Xiu was full of confidence, he didn't want to say anything more, and after a few more words, he commanded his subordinates to carry the wounded soldiers back to Taoling Town.

Yago Sunji and the 1st Wing retreated, and Osamu Ono immediately took over the position and prepared for the attack. The captain of the second brigade under him, Yamada Hidesawa, has not returned, and he does not know that Yamada Hidesawa will never return. So for the first attack, Osamu Ono sent his first brigade.

Ichiro Yamaguchi, the captain of the 1st Brigade, assembled in front of the position with more than a thousand soldiers of the 1st Brigade, and Osamu Ono watched the attack from the position. In order to cooperate with the attack of the 3rd Wing, the 2nd Wing also launched an attack on the two high ground on the left and right. The Japanese artillery fire, as before, first launched an artillery bombardment of the positions of the 547th Regiment.

This time the heavy artillery regiment was also ready to return fire. The maximum firing range of the 122 howitzer is only 11,000 kilometers, which cannot hit the Japanese heavy artillery positions, so the target can only be the Japanese infantry on the position, while the maximum range of the 152 howitzer can be 17,000 kilometers, which is enough to hit the Japanese heavy artillery positions. The commander of the heavy artillery regiment, Cen Qing, had already adjusted the coordinates of twenty 152-plus howitzers.

The shells were all anti-personnel and explosive grenades, and after five minutes of Japanese shelling, the 39 heavy guns of the heavy artillery regiment also began to return fire, and the artillery on the two high ground also began to shell the Japanese troops. Countless shells from the three positions pounced on the various positions of the Japanese army, and Osamu Ono, who was watching the attack of the troops, was stunned.

The loud sound of the shells also alarmed Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma, and when he hurriedly ran with his men to the wall of Taoling Town, his 27th Artillery Wing's position was already filled with gunsmoke and fire, and there were shells flying. The blast of the cannonballs could be felt clearly even by Masaharu Honma, who was miles away.

Lieutenant General Honma Masaharu was not surprised at this time, but fearful, the opposite Shina army had so many heavy artillery, it was unimaginable, under the blow of the defenders' heavy artillery, his own artillery wing no longer existed, in the face of such an opponent, Honma Masaharu couldn't help but feel a sense of powerlessness. Half a day later, Lieutenant General Honma, whose face was extremely ugly, spit out with difficulty: "Order, the whole army retreats!" and then spat out a mouthful of blood and paused.

Before the 3rd Wing could receive the order to retreat from Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma, it had already suffered a catastrophe. First of all, the two independent mortar brigades were covered by artillery fire from the 386 heights, and then the first brigade, which had just been assembled, was subjected to concentrated shelling by the 122 howitzers of the heavy artillery regiment. This was not over, more than a dozen mountain guns on the 366 heights also joined the shelling, and these dozen mountain guns directly hit the shells into the depth of the position.

If Ono hadn't been in time for his guards, he would have been engulfed in artillery fire. The shelling stopped after twenty minutes, and when Osamu Ono's third wing regrouped, one wing lost nearly a thousand men. Just when Osamu Ono didn't know what to do, the division commander's order for the entire army to retreat was conveyed.

The dejected Ono Xiu hurriedly took the third wing, packed up and retreated to Taoling Town. With powerful artillery fire, the defenders successfully blocked the Japanese 27th Division at minimal cost, and killed and wounded more than 4,000 Japanese soldiers, completely destroying the Japanese artillery. This achievement made the fighters who participated in the battle very excited.

The next day, when the reconnaissance unit sent the information that the 27th Division of the Japanese Army had all retreated in the direction of Hefei to the front-line headquarters, Deputy Division Commander Peng Zhang, while excited, began to consider the task of completely annihilating the 27th Division of the Japanese Army. Tang Longzai and Zhu Gangwei also led their troops down the mountain from the two heights respectively.

As soon as several people were combined, the 27th Division of the Japanese Army was to be pursued, and the 275th Brigade was already intercepting it in front, so there was no fear that the Japanese army would run away. Peng Chang first sent a telegram to Peng Gui, the commander of the 275th Brigade, informing him that the 27th Division of the Japanese Army had withdrawn from Hot Spring Town, and that the troops were preparing to pursue it, and asked the 275th Brigade to be ready to block the Japanese army.

Brigade Commander Peng Gui of the 275th Brigade replied that he had led the 275th Brigade to set up a blocking position in Wuxian Town on the shore of Wanfo Lake. Brigadier Peng Gui's reply made Peng Zhang's determination to pursue the Japanese army even greater. Among the troops, the 547th Regiment suffered the greatest losses, and the regiment commander Zhang Lingfu was also seriously wounded, so the 547th Regiment was left to rest in Hot Spring Town, and Du Haifeng, the commander of the 1st Battalion, temporarily assumed the post of regiment commander.

The 272nd Brigade's 545th Regiment, 546th Regiment, Brigade Guard Battalion, and 276th Brigade all pursued the Japanese army. The heavy artillery regiment also pursued together, and the artillery battalion of the 272nd Brigade remained in Hot Spring Town just in case, and the pursuing troops were under the full command of Brigade Commander Tang Longzai. Once the plan was set, the first thing to do was to have the sappers repair the road damaged by the Japanese so that the vehicles of the heavy artillery regiment could tow the heavy artillery through.

Here is preparing for pursuit, but the 275th Brigade is preparing to meet the enemy. Wuxian Town is at the intersection of three forks, from the mountain road here you can go north to Shucheng County, to the west to Huoshan County, to the south is Yuexi County. Just at this three-way intersection, there is a lonely mountain with dangerous terrain called Wanji Mountain.

This Wanji Mountain has a steep slope and is a half-stone mountain with sparse vegetation. However, it is close to the intersection of the two highways, and Wuxian Town is sandwiched between the road to Yuexi on the left and the right. Peng Gui set up the brigade headquarters in Wuxian Town, and the defense of Wuxian Town was his 564th Regiment and Brigade Guard Battalion. And the defense of Wanji Mountain was the 565th Regiment. The two dozen mortars in the brigade were also moved to the mountains.

These mortars are condescending from the top of the hill and can completely control the entire road. The 564th Regiment also built a fortification in Wuxian Town with the help of the town's wall, which was strengthened and a machine-gun fortress was added. The 564th Regiment of the 275th Brigade was the best-equipped regiment of the 92nd Division except for the guard regiment, and the guard regiment used weapons imported from Germany given by Wang Haitao, while the 564th Regiment used German-style weapons imitated by the Longzhou Arsenal.

These weapons were directly transported to the front line in Xuzhou by the Longzhou Arsenal, and the military headquarters of the 90th Army also had more than one regiment of equipment after replacing the damaged weapons for the 90th Division, so Su Zuxin and Zhao Zhongwu discussed it and distributed it to the 91st Division and the 92nd Division. Cheng Guangyao, the commander of the 92nd Division, found Su Zuxin, and it took him enough equipment to get together for a regiment, and he changed the equipment for the entire 564th Regiment under his command. The replaced equipment was just right for the replenishment regiment.

This was the first time that Wang Haitao, the army commander, had given a task to the 92nd Division since he returned, and Cheng Guangyao knew the weight of it, so he naturally did not dare to take it seriously, so he sent the strongest guard battalion and the 275th Brigade to complete the task of blocking the enemy's return. After the telegram from Peng Zhang, deputy division commander of the front headquarters, Peng Gui, commander of the 275th Brigade, knew that the rest of the 27th Division of the Japanese army was retreating along the road.

The telegram told Peng Gui that the Japanese 27th Division had suffered considerable losses, that the artillery wing and the independent mortar brigade had been wiped out, but that there were still more than 10,000 troops, and that Peng Gui's 275th Brigade had to hold back the rest of the Japanese 27th Division for three days. The pressure on Peng Gui from this telegram was not ordinary.

Now the 275th Brigade has only 3,600 people, and one battalion is still left in Huoshan. With the addition of a guard battalion, that is, 3,500 people, his 275th Brigade does not have the same strong combat effectiveness as the 272nd Brigade, and the difficulty of stopping the attack of more than 10,000 Japanese troops for three days can be imagined. Fortunately, the Japanese artillery has been destroyed, otherwise this would be an impossible task.

In order to be able to block the Japanese army more effectively, Peng Gui once again inspected all the positions. Wanji Mountain is a ring-shaped fortification halfway up the mountain against the road, and there are too many rocks on the mountain to dig trenches, so the soldiers use explosives to blow up several caves to defend against artillery. The blasted rocks formed a stone wall right on the edge of the position.

On the hillside below, all the stones that had become Japanese bunkers were cleared, and there was an open firing range of several tens of meters, so that the 565th Regiment's Mark heavy machine guns could give full play to their advantage. On the position were the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 565th Regiment, and the 3rd Battalion was on the upper position, where there were more than 20 mortar positions of the whole regiment. The third battalion had to defend the artillery positions and act as a reserve for the whole regiment.

Here in Wuxian Town, on the wall are the first and second battalions of the 564th Regiment, the third battalion and the guard battalion serving as reserves in the town, and there are not only more than 20 mortars of large and small calibers of the 564th Regiment in the town, but also a 75th mountain artillery battalion of the 275th Brigade, which has captured 15 Japanese-style 75 mountain guns.

Driven by the 90th Division, the 90th Army thoroughly implemented Wang Haitao's idea of the supremacy of firepower, and each division took great pains to form an artillery regiment, but the scale of the artillery regiment was different, and the artillery regiment of the 90th Division was the strongest. In addition, each brigade also has its own artillery battalion, and the regiment also has a mortar company, so it can be said that several divisions of the 90th Army are the units with the largest number of artillery in the national army.