The combat orders issued by the military headquarters were quickly sent to several division commanders, and Tang Yikuan, commander of the 90th Division, also received the order. After receiving the order, Tang Yikuan directly issued an order to Tang Yiqun and Zhang Lingfu to hold on until nine o'clock in the evening and start a counteroffensive. With the strength of the 90th Division, there is no problem at all in holding out for another day, the question is which troops to devote to the counterattack.

As soon as Tang Yikuan conveyed the order to the two brigade commanders, several regiment commanders of the regiments directly under the division came to the division headquarters to ask for battle. Tang Yikuan's answer was very clear: The division's heavy artillery regiment will launch an artillery attack on the enemy in front at 9 o'clock tomorrow night, and the other regiments will not have a mission to attack, so they will stand by in place. At this time, except for the excited smile on the face of Tang Lin, the commander of the heavy artillery regiment, the other regiment commanders reluctantly left the division headquarters.

On the position, Tang Yiqun and Zhang Lingfu both called their regiment commanders together, and the 271st Brigade was there, Tang Yiqun ordered the 543rd Regiment to take up the task of holding on tomorrow, and be sure to hold the position on the back of the mountain before 9 o'clock in the evening. The other two regiments will be ready to attack by 8 o'clock tomorrow night and take up the task of counterattacking, and the brigade guard battalion will be in reserve. Zhang Lingfu's 272nd Brigade also arranged for the 546th Regiment to hold its position tomorrow, while the other two regiments were ready to attack.

The officers and men of the 90th Division were grinding their fists and preparing to counterattack the Japanese army, and the two brigade commanders, including the division commander Tang Yiqun, did not expect that the defensive battle would be so difficult the next day. Unlike the excitement of all units of the 90th Army preparing for a counterattack, in the temporary headquarters of the Japanese army, Makino Shiro was worried about tomorrow's attack. After reporting the situation to Commander Honma Masaharu, Commander Masaharu Honma ordered Shiro Makino to intensify his attack, to capture the position of the Shina people as soon as possible, and to attack under Takozo Castle.

The next morning, the Japanese army again launched an artillery bombardment of the Wubeishan position and the highway position at the same time, and half an hour later, as soon as the Japanese artillery fire weakened, dozens of Japanese planes appeared over the battlefield. Countless aerial bombs and bombs were thrown on the defenders' positions. The officers and men of the 1st Battalion of the 546th Regiment were not on the highway position, and the lethality of the Japanese army, whether it was heavy artillery or aerial bombing, was limited to the defenders, while on the Wubeishan position, the 1st Battalion of the 543rd Regiment was hidden in the position, and the casualties were not small.

As soon as the Japanese planes flew away, Ma Long's battalion entered the position, and now the position could not find a single intact fortification, and the soldiers could only find their own positions to hide in the large and small craters and the half-collapsed trenches, and several heavy machine guns were also hurriedly made of sandbags to make bunkers and erected. A battalion of Tang Yiqiang on the Wubei Mountain position suffered more than 100 casualties in yesterday's battle, and dozens more were killed or injured in today's bombing; the four company commanders under his command, the second company commander, were killed, and the third company commander was seriously wounded, and only the first company commander, Mo Huaishan, and the heavy firepower company commander were not injured.

The women's wall on Tang Yiqiang's position basically collapsed, and the soldiers could only lie down in the rocks and bomb craters to prepare to block the Japanese army. Just as Tang Yiqiang was rearranging the firepower, Tang Weimin's guards ran over and conveyed the order of the regiment commander that the first battalion abandoned the first line of defense and withdrew to the second line of defense. Tang Yiqiang did not want to withdraw like this, but the order must be resolutely carried out, and the officers and soldiers of the first battalion, under Tang Yiqiang's order, got up from their hidden positions one after another, supported the wounded, carried the remains of their sacrificed comrades, and retreated to the second line of defense on the mountain.

The second line of defense is 200 meters from the first, and the slopes here are steeper, which is relatively easy to defend. The 2nd Battalion of the 543rd Regiment was responsible for the defense, and the 2nd Battalion not only built trenches, but also dug several anti-artillery holes in the mountain wall, which were not deep, but could effectively avoid the Japanese shelling. Seeing that Tang Yiqiang and the officers and soldiers of the first battalion had withdrawn, Tang Yishu, the commander of the second battalion, led people to meet them.

Tang Yiqiang saw his cousin Tang Yishu bring someone to greet him, and walked over silently, Tang Yishu saw Tang Yiqiang, who was covered in gunsmoke, came over, saluted and asked, "Brother Qiang, are you okay?" Tang Yiqiang returned the military salute, sighed and replied: "I'm fine, it's just that more than half of the casualties of the first battalion, how can I explain to the regiment commander?" Tang Yishu replied: "It's okay, you can't blame you for such a large casualty in the first battalion, you can't dig anti-artillery holes on your position, the Japanese army is so ferocious, and there are aircraft bombing, how can the casualties be small?" If Brother Weimin scolds you, I'll help you say it. ”

Tang Yiqiang said with a face: "Yishu, I've told you a few times, you want to call the group seat, you can't call it Brother Weimin, why can't you remember it?" Tang Yishu smiled and replied: "Brother Qiangzi, isn't there no outsider here." Don't say it, you go to the anti-artillery hole with the soldiers of the first battalion to rest first, little Japan is coming, there is me!" Tang Yiqiang nodded and said: "You should also be careful, the artillery fire of Little Japan is really fierce!"

Seeing that Tang Yiqiang and the soldiers of the first battalion entered the anti-artillery hole, Tang Yishu asked several of his company commanders to lead the troops into the position with a serious face. At this time, the Japanese offensive began, and as yesterday, it was an infantry brigade of the Japanese Taiwanese mixed brigade that attacked the position on Wubeishan, and at the same time an infantry brigade of the 33rd Infantry Wing of the 16th Division attacked the road position.

When the Japanese troops attacking Yabei Mountain were attacking, the shelling of the mountain artillery wing did not stop, and the artillery fire did not stop until the Japanese troops were only more than 100 meters away from the first line of defense. The infantry brigade cautiously approached the position, but there was no movement on the ground. When the Japanese reached a hundred meters before the position, the captain of the brigade directing the attack ordered to stop the advance, and then sent an infantry squad to approach the position.

Soon the squad sent someone to report to the captain that there was no Shina army on the position, and it seemed that the Shina army had retreated. The group leader excitedly ordered his men to occupy the position, and immediately reported to the wing commander. Ishimoto Sadashi reported directly to his subordinates that he had captured the first line of positions of the Shina people, and excitedly ordered his subordinates to continue the attack, while he immediately went to report to Lieutenant General Makino Shiro.

The Japanese troops attacking the highway position were 200 meters away from the position, and encountered a strong resistance from the 1st Battalion of the 546th Regiment. Under the bombardment of Japanese mortars, grenadiers, and even field guns, the heavy machine gunners fell one after another, and the heavy machine guns were also blown up one after another.

There were not a lot of heavy weapons in the first battalion, and the heavy machine guns were damaged, and new ones were immediately put on top, but Malone realized that this would not work, and no amount of machine guns could withstand the bombardment of Japanese artillery. Malone ordered the battalion's heavy fire company to concentrate mortar fire to destroy the Japanese mortar positions, and let the snipers and strikers in the battalion concentrate on attacking the grenadiers in the Japanese ranks.

Under the attack of more than 20 mortars in the battalion, the Japanese mortar site was quickly destroyed, but before the mortars in the battalion could be transferred, they were retaliated by the Japanese field artillery, and more than half of the casualties of a heavy fire company were also blown up. The 90th Division is the only division in the 90th Army that has an artillery battalion at the regimental level, and each artillery battalion has 24 imitation German-made 75 mm field guns and 24 120 caliber heavy mortars.

Xiao Changxin, commander of the 543rd Regiment, saw that the Japanese field artillery positions were still being shelled continuously and inflicted considerable losses on the Japanese army, so he ordered the artillery battalion to aim at the Japanese field artillery positions and return fire. Zhou Lin, the commander of the artillery battalion, had already calculated the coordinates of the Japanese field artillery position, and had been waiting for the regiment commander's order to open the artillery, and now that he had finally waited for the order, Zhou Lin immediately ordered loudly: "All field artillery, target the Japanese artillery position, open the artillery!"

The artillery of the 90th Army was not comparable to the Japanese army, the 14th Army, in terms of quantity and quality, but it was only in order to annihilate the Japanese army more and not to frighten the Japanese army and make it retreat, so it was not used. Now the shelling of the artillery battalion of the 546th Regiment alone has thrown the field artillery wing of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army into chaos. The Japanese army was not prepared for the Chinese army to have so many artillery, and when the shells flew overhead, they reacted.

Most of the 24 75-caliber field guns were blown up, but fortunately, the other 18 150-caliber field grenades and shells were not placed on a single position because of their long range, so they were not bombed. Without artillery support, the Japanese attack could not advance an inch, and after suffering 200 or 300 casualties, the Japanese had to retreat.

The Taiwanese mixed brigade, which was not strong in combat, captured the position of the Chinese people, and the 16th Division, which was the main force, not only was repulsed from the attack, but also suffered a lot of losses, which made Lieutenant General Shiro Makino, who was arrogant and arrogant, turn pale. Lieutenant General Shiro Makino, who was already a little crazy, called the captain of the "epidemic prevention and water supply" brigade in the division, Saharu Yukio Nakasa, to the headquarters.

At the behest of Lieutenant General Shiro Makino, Yukio Saharu Nakasa left the command headquarters and returned to the unit to begin preparing secret weapons. Another round of Japanese shelling began, this time stopping after only twenty minutes. As soon as Ma Long entered the position with a battalion of soldiers, another round of shells came from the Japanese position. Ma Long was shocked and hurriedly commanded the soldiers to hide.

The shell landed on the position, and the explosion was not very loud, but after the explosion came out puffs of green smoke. The officers and men of the experienced 1st Battalion immediately reported that the Japanese army had used poison and gas bombs. The last time the 90th Army encountered a large-scale poison and air bomb attack was on the battlefield in Shanghai a few years ago. With the total annihilation of the 13th Division of the Japanese Army, which used poison and gas bombs, and the commander of the division, Lieutenant General Ogizhou Libing, and Wang Haitao making a solemn statement, the Japanese army did not dare to use poison and gas on a large scale in several large-scale battles.

The veterans of the first battalion were protected against poison and air bombs, and the soldiers had gas masks in their backpacks. However, they have not been attacked by poison or air bombs for several years, and the soldiers are also a little careless, and half of the officers and men in the first battalion did not carry gas masks. As soon as Malone saw this situation, he immediately ordered the entire battalion to withdraw from their positions.