The commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 877th Regiment, Zhong Brigade, returned to the 2nd Battalion and immediately called several company commanders under his command together, and Zhong Brigade said excitedly: "The regiment has agreed to our battalion to launch an attack on the Japanese position. I ordered the commander of the heavy fire company, Cheng Xiaolong, to command the heavy machine guns to suppress the Japanese fire, the first and second companies to be responsible for the attack, and the third company to be the reserve. This was an opportunity for our 2nd Battalion to try to capture the Japanese position beautifully. ”

Twenty minutes later, all the mortars in the regiment began to shell the Japanese troops, and in only ten minutes, the artillery fire bombarded the front and rear of the Japanese positions, and the fortifications that the Japanese had just hastily repaired were also blown up by artillery fire. As soon as the artillery fire stopped, eight heavy machine guns spat out tongues of fire and poured bullets at the Japanese positions. At this time, the officers and men of the 1st and 2nd companies, under the cover of heavy machine guns, launched an attack on the Japanese army.

Although the Japanese army chose the same type of ground this time as the last time, although it was also a narrow mountain road, there were many rocks and trees on both sides of the mountain road that could be used as cover, and the soldiers of the first and second companies naturally had to use these natural bunkers to attack forward. The morale of the Japanese troops, who had suffered several defeats and retreats, had reached the bottom, and the shelling that had just ended made the Japanese soldiers cower behind some rocks and trees, and did not dare to reach the front line again.

The captain of the Japanese army in charge of the command hurriedly shouted and cursed, and the squadron leader and squad leader scolded him, and the Japanese army reluctantly and cautiously took the front-line position, picked up his guns, and fired back at the attacking Chinese troops without a single shot. In such a situation, the accuracy of the Japanese army's shooting can be imagined. The officers and men of the 1st and 2nd companies approached the Japanese positions one after the other with very few casualties, which surprised and excited the two company commanders.

As soon as they approached the Japanese position, it would be easy to do, and the officers and men of the company who rushed to the front threw several rounds of grenades and shells at the Japanese position, causing the Japanese troops on the position to cry wolf. Approaching the explosion of grenades and bullets, the officers and men of the first company rushed to the position and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army, followed by the officers and men of the second company.

In hand-to-hand combat, the Japanese army still had a considerable advantage in numbers, but first, the mountain roads were narrow, and no matter how many people there were, there were only a few dozen people fighting in front, and second, the Japanese army had no military spirit and morale; third, when hand-to-hand combat began, dozens of officers and men with outstanding swordsmanship were in front, and the large blades flew up and down, and the Japanese army could not gain the upper hand at all.

Within 20 minutes of fighting, the Japanese army was defeated and retreated, and finally some of the soldiers in the back broke and fled first, and some took the lead in escaping, and the whole team soon collapsed, and even the Japanese officers under command were unable to stop it, and they were caught in defeat and fled. The second battalion commander, Zhong Brigade, was pleasantly surprised when he saw that the troops had captured the Japanese position without much effort, and was about to report to the regiment commander, but when he turned around, he found that Wei Ye had already come behind him.

Brigade Zhong hurriedly stood up and saluted, and then said: "Report to the regiment, the second battalion has successfully captured the Japanese position and has defeated the Japanese army!" Wei Ye replied with a military salute: "I have seen it, the little Japan has lost its military spirit and morale, and now is the time to pursue the victory." Saying that, Wei Ye looked at his watch, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon, Wei Ye continued: "Brigade Zhong, I order your second battalion to still be the vanguard, advance lightly, bite this Japanese army, and strive to catch up with the main force of Maruyama Masao's second division before dark." ”

Lieutenant General Maruyama Masao led the main force of the 2nd Division, and now he had reached Fengwei Mountain, where Tang Weimin's 543rd Regiment had set up an ambush, and had already exchanged fire with the 543rd Regiment. It turned out that after Lieutenant General Maruyama Masao gave the broken troops an order to continue to choose the ground to block the pursuing Chinese army, he looked at the slowly advancing troops and felt very anxious, and he also realized that it was impossible to hold the pursuit of the Chinese army at such a marching speed.

Lieutenant General Maruyama Masao immediately ordered the troops to abandon all unnecessary baggage supplies except weapons and ammunition, and the whole army advanced lightly. As soon as this order was given, the Japanese army immediately abandoned a large amount of baggage and supplies, and the speed of the march immediately accelerated. In addition, Lieutenant General Maruyama Masao also ordered the last troops to pile up all these loaded baggage materials on the mountain road to hinder the advance of the pursuing Chinese troops.

However, Lieutenant General Maruyama Masao seemed to have forgotten that behind his main force, there was still a broken force, and these heavy supplies blocking the road just blocked the escape path of more than 1,000 Japanese troops who had fled. Before the more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers could move the items that were blocking the way, the 877th Regiment chased them up. The Japanese army could only fight with the 877th Regiment on their backs.

Perhaps it was the nowhere to escape that inspired the will of the more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers, and the 877th Regiment fought fiercely with these more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers for more than an hour, but they were not able to completely annihilate them, until the 878th Regiment behind them also caught up, which made the Japanese feel desperate. In the end, the captain of the Japanese army and more than 20 fanatical officers and soldiers recklessly ignited these materials, and while stopping the pursuit of the Chinese army with the fire, they themselves were also buried in the fire.

After this battle, the 877th Regiment suffered more than 400 casualties, which can be regarded as a wound, and even the regiment commander Wei Ye looked at the fire and shook his head. When the brigade commander Li Changwu arrived with the 879th Regiment, the fire had just been extinguished. Li Changwu saw that the sky had darkened, and he didn't care about resting, so he ordered the 879th Regiment to continue to pursue the Japanese army, and the 878th Regiment followed, while the 877th Regiment rested first and cleaned up the battlefield by the way.

The fierce fighting here at Fengwei Mountain did not stop because it was dark, and the Japanese mixed infantry brigade or one and a half infantry brigades of the 56th Brigade and two infantry brigades of the 29th Wing of the 2nd Division were attacking the Fengwei Mountain position of the 543rd Regiment in turn under the cover of the mountain artillery wing of the 2nd Division. The 543rd Regiment and the 542nd Regiment carried similar weapons, and after nearly two hours of fierce fighting, several of the mortars brought with them were all destroyed by the Japanese mountain artillery, and half of the heavy machine guns were also destroyed.

Fortunately, the topography of Fengwei Mountain was favorable to the 543rd Regiment, and the 543rd Regiment had a long time to prepare and the fortifications were relatively complete, so that it could block the repeated attacks of thousands of Japanese troops with not too large casualties. However, in order to escape, the Japanese army attacked even harder, and the next few attacks were all against the ferocious firepower of the 543 Regiment, regardless of casualties.

The Japanese army's frantic charge caused the casualties of the 543rd Regiment to rise sharply, and the position at the foot of Fengwei Mountain had been lost, and the whole regiment had retreated to the second-line position on the mountainside. The regiment commander Tang Weimin was also ready to continue to fight with the Japanese army, and the brigade commander Tang Yiqun let the order for the 543rd Regiment to retreat reach Tang Weimin's hands. The 90th Division was the most important unit for Wang Haitao, and the task of the three regiments was to delay the retreat of the Japanese army, not to prevent the retreat of the Japanese army, but to prevent the 271st Brigade from suffering too many casualties.

Now that the 543rd Regiment has been fighting fiercely with the Japanese army for two hours, the goal of delaying the Japanese army has been achieved, and the casualties will be greater if the battle continues, which is not what Wang Haitao wants to see, so Tang Yiqun has a good grasp of the proportions and gives the 543rd Regiment an order to retreat in time. Tang Yiqun originally hoped that the 544th Regiment that had set up an ambush in Daqingshan would also delay the Japanese army for a period of time, but Wang Haitao issued an order directly, ordering the 544th Regiment to abandon the ambush at Daqingshan, and the whole regiment immediately reinforced, the guard brigade on Zhennan Pass as quickly as possible.

The situation of the guard brigade was very bad, and the commander of the 56th Brigade of the Japanese Army, Major General Matsui Kiichiro, mobilized all the troops that could be mobilized, about two and a half infantry brigades, all came to Zhennan Pass and gave a death order to recapture Zhennan Pass. In the Vietnamese direction, two infantry brigades, a tank squadron, and a field artillery brigade were also transferred from various places by Lieutenant General Imamura Jun and rushed to Zhennan Pass one after another.

The number of Japanese troops on the north and south sides of Zhennan Pass together was close to 10,000, and the field artillery brigade in the Vietnamese direction was equipped with 38-year-old 150-caliber field grenades and artillery guns, although this kind of field grenades and artillery was very outdated, the power of the 36-kilogram projectile was indeed not small, and it completely gained the upper hand in the exchange of fire with the 18 75-caliber mountain guns captured by the guard brigade.

In the afternoon, the officers and men of the guard brigade on the south pass of Zhennan were attacked by the Japanese troops in the north and south of the gate. Tangshan Leopard could only let one regiment defend one side, and the battle was quite difficult. In particular, after the 18 captured mountain guns were all destroyed, and the mortars were either destroyed or ran out of shells, the situation became even more unfavorable. After an afternoon of fierce fighting, Li Li and Sun Linhai, two regiment commanders, came almost simultaneously to report to Tangshan Leopard that the ammunition in the army's reserves was insufficient, and this news silenced Tangshan Leopard.

Once the Zhennan Pass is abandoned, the previous efforts and sacrifices will be in vain, but if the fight continues, the lack of ammunition is a big problem. The soldiers of the 90th Army are equipped with new weapons with fierce firepower, but the consumption of ammunition is also very large; in previous battles, it was the logistics department that continuously provided ammunition, and the soldiers were also accustomed to letting go to fight, but this time the troops were interspersed with fighting behind enemy lines, although they had already prepared more ammunition, but after such a long period of consumption, ammunition was already insufficient.

After thinking for a while, Tangshan Leopard was still ready to defend it again, and he asked Li Li and Sun Linhai to use the captured Japanese weapons. At the same time, Tangshan Leopard called Wang Haitao again, reported the current situation of Zhennanguan to Wang Haitao, and also expressed his determination to live and die with Zhennanguan.

Tangshan Leopard's telegram made Wang Haitao nervous. The officers and soldiers of the guard brigade of the two regiments, this is Wang Haitao's heart, plus the Tangshan leopard who has been born and died with him for so many years, if they are all lost in Zhennan Pass, it will be a big loss. Wang Haitao hurriedly called Tangshan Leopard back, asking Tangshan Leopard not to come by force, even if he gave up Zhennanguan, it didn't matter, as long as he brought people back alive.

However, Wang Haitao knows Tangshan Leopard's stubborn temper, and his return call may not be useful. At this time, Wang Haitao was eager to fly to Zhennan Pass, and the weapons and ammunition in his storage ring were enough for Tangshan Leopards. Just when Wang Haitao was anxious, his eyes inadvertently fell on the location of Daqingshan on the map. Here I drew a circle with a pen, and it was written that the 544th Regiment should be the location of the 544th Regiment's ambush.