At 10 o'clock in the evening, after Peng Shigui reported that the 275th Brigade had taken its position, Wang Haitao said to Tang Xiaoshan and Zhu Gangwei, commander of the 276th Brigade: "Let's start!" Tang Xiaoshan first led the soldiers of the two reconnaissance battalions from the path to the Madang Fort. The task of the reconnaissance battalion was to touch the Japanese army's sentry posts without alarming the Japanese army, and to open a passage for the attack of the 276th Brigade.

The fighters of the reconnaissance battalion are all from Guangxi, and these fighters who grew up in the mountains are naturally good at mountain warfare, and after many years of systematic and harsh training, there is really no one who can compete with the fighters of the reconnaissance regiment in this kind of battle in the mountains and jungles. After the soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion were submerged into the mountain walls and trees of the Madang Fort in small units in combat groups, Wang Haitao had high hopes for them.

Of course, the soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion will not live up to Wang Haitao's high hopes, in their eyes, those small Japanese light and dark sentinels are simply decorations, and it is easy to deal with them. In silence, the first line of defense of the Japanese army halfway up the mountain, the light and dark posts were cleared. The fighters of the reconnaissance battalion, after giving a signal to the mountain down, directly touched the Japanese position.

On the first line of positions halfway up the mountainside, there are many fortresses, trenches and other fortifications, which are very strong, if the Japanese army had not used poison gas bombs, it would have been impossible to attack the Madang fort guarded by hundreds of officers and soldiers. Now there is a brigade of Japanese troops on this position, more than 1,000 people are stationed, but the Japanese army did not expect that the Chinese army would carry out a counterattack so quickly.

The Japanese guard post was solved, and the Japanese soldiers on the position were a group of lambs waiting to be slaughtered. After the reconnaissance battalion touched the position, they separated, and countless Japanese soldiers lost their lives in their sleep. By the time the 276th Brigade rushed to the position, a large group of Japanese troops had basically ceased to exist, and the soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion were already quietly cleaning up the battlefield. Tang Xiaoshan came to the front of the brigade commander Zhu Gangwei with the trophies and epaulettes of the supreme commander of the Japanese army on the position, a commander of the Zhongzuo brigade, and other trophies.

I have to say that Zhu Gangwei, who had not dealt much with the reconnaissance regiment before, did not expect that the reconnaissance regiment would have such terrifying strength, and he solved a brigade of the Japanese army without any movement. Tang Xiaoshan walked up to Zhu Gangwei and said calmly: "Brigade Commander Zhu, we have cleared all the first positions, and the next two positions are up to you, so I will lead people to withdraw first." ”

Tang Xiaoshan's words made Zhu Gangwei speechless for a while, because when discussing the attack on the mountain, including the division seat Cheng Guangyao, he was not optimistic about the reconnaissance group with only more than 1,000 people, and it was the decision of the military seat that would let the reconnaissance group open a passage for the 276th Brigade first. Now that the reconnaissance regiment has not only succeeded in opening the passage, but also occupied the first line of positions, of course, it has nothing to say about it.

Fortunately, the first line of positions was occupied, and it was only a little more than 100 meters away from the next position, and the most rare thing was that the Japanese army had not yet discovered that the first line of positions had been lost. Zhu Gangwei, who knew that it was not too late, didn't care about saying anything more to Tang Xiaoshan, so he immediately called Yang Lianxuan, the commander of the 566th Regiment, and ordered him to immediately lead the 566th Regiment to attack the second position.

When Yang Lianxuan was ordered to prepare, Zhu Gangwei asked Li Yanlin, the head of the 567th Regiment, to also prepare to respond. At the same time, the artillery battalion of the brigade also set up mortars and several Type 92 infantry guns that had been carried with great difficulty. As soon as these preparations were in place, the 566th Regiment had already taken advantage of the darkness to touch the second line of Japanese defense.

It's just that the 5th, 6th, and 6th regiments don't have the ability of a reconnaissance regiment, so they only touched a few dozen meters up, and they were discovered by the Japanese guard post, and then the light and heavy machine guns and rifles on the Japanese position rang out at the same time, and the sneak attack could only turn into a strong attack. Zhu Gangwei, who was below, also anticipated this situation and ordered the artillery to open fire on the Japanese machine-gun fire points to suppress the Japanese fire.

There are many pillboxes and hidden forts on the Madang Fort, but most of them only open shooting holes in the direction of Changshan, and after the fight, the direction of defense must be in the direction of Changshan. Now the 566th Regiment is attacking from the direction of Pengze, so these numerous pillboxes and bunkers can only be used as bunkers, and they cannot play the role of fortifications.

However, there is a wing of the Japanese army stationed here, a wing of more than 3,000 people, light and heavy machine guns, mortars, and grenadiers are not small numbers, this time the fire is full, even if the target cannot be seen clearly in the dark, it is enough to suppress the 56th Regiment on the hillside in front of the position and cannot take a step forward. Zhu Gangwei looked at the countless blazing muzzles of the Japanese army on the high position, listened to the gunshots that could not be distinguished, and knew that this time there was a big trouble.

Just when Zhu Gangwei was helpless, the sound of artillery came from the other direction of the position, and the shells fell on the Japanese position, and the Japanese soldiers were constantly blown into the air in the firelight. Zhu Gangwei listened carefully to the sound of the cannon, and a smile appeared on his face. He could hear that it was the sound of the 75th Mountain Artillery and the 75th Field Artillery of the Divisional Artillery Regiment, and it seemed that the attack on the side of the 275th Brigade had begun.

Sure enough, after a burst of artillery fire, there were machine guns and shouts of killing from the other side of the position. In this case, the Japanese firepower in front of the 566th Regiment was significantly weakened, and it seemed that a large part of the Japanese troops were transferred to the other side of the position. How could Zhu Gangwei not seize this opportunity? On the one hand, he ordered the artillery to increase the density of bombardment, and on the other hand, he ordered the 567th Regiment to also start attacking together with the 566th Regiment.

The 92nd Division's counterattack on Madang Fort had already alarmed the commander of Akio Inoue's brigade who was in the temporary command post on the top of the mountain. Just when Inoue Akio was alarmed, his men came in and reported to him that the troops were under attack by the Shina army, which now occupied the defensive line on the mountainside and was flanking the second line of defense from two directions.

When he asked his subordinates how many troops were attacking China, which unit it was, the subordinate could not answer, and the angry Inoue Akio scolded a few times: "Baga! Stupid pig!" After scolding, Inoue picked up the command knife beside him, buttoned the button of his military uniform, and raised his feet and walked to the outside of the command post.

Coming to the outside of the command post, the sound of guns and cannons under the mountain had already sounded, and Inoue Akio stood on a high place and tried to look down the mountain, but in the darkness, he could only see a little firelight. After watching for a while, Inoue didn't understand anything, so he could only walk back to the command post in disappointment. The gunfire continued in the darkness of the night.

The 275th Brigade was only attacking, the guns were happy enough, and the shouts of killing were loud enough, but there was no actual action, and after the Japanese army was nervous for a while, they saw that there was only thunder and rain on this side, so they turned their attention to the side of the 276th Brigade. The 276th Brigade originally wanted to take advantage of the fact that the attention of the Japanese army was attracted by the 275th Brigade and strive to attack the Japanese position, but for this reason, Zhu Gangwei did not hesitate to strangle the 567th Regiment and also transferred it. However, Zhu Gangwei underestimated the Japanese army too much, even if the Japanese army was pinned down by the 275th Brigade, the remaining positions defended by the 1,000-odd Japanese troops were not easily captured by the 276th Brigade.

Under the tight resistance of the Japanese light and heavy machine guns, grenadiers and other weapons, groups of fighters fell on the road of the attack, but the two regiments were still unable to rush to the positions that the Japanese troops were strictly defending. In desperation, Zhu Gangwei had no choice but to stop the attack and hold on to the Japanese army. Wang Haitao couldn't wait for the news of the successful attack at the foot of the mountain, and he was also a little anxious.

The day was getting brighter, and after a night of fighting, both sides were tired and the sound of gunfire had thinned out, but the positions of both sides remained unchanged. On the top of the mountain, Akio Inoue couldn't close his eyes all night in the command post, and now that it was dawn, the gunfire on both sides had weakened, and he couldn't help but relax. For the defending Japanese troops, day was naturally more advantageous than night.

Inoue stood up in the command post, stretched his limbs, cursed the attacking Shina troops again, and walked towards the outside of the command post. The Japanese soldiers on guard outside the command post saw that the brigade commander had come out, and they saluted Akio Inoue, who was in a good mood and nodded to them, and then stood on a high place again, raised his binoculars and looked down the mountain.

Inoue didn't know that at least four or five sniper rifles were aimed at him in the dark at this time! Finally, several crisp gunshots rang out on the top of the mountain, and with the sound of gunfire, Inoue Akio and the two men beside him bounced up as if they had been hit hard, but then as the blood arrows rose from their bodies, several of them fell down heavily.

A few gunshots were the signal, and for a while, there was a lot of gunfire on the top of the mountain, and too many Japanese soldiers didn't even know what was going on, so they went to see their Aunt Amaterasu in a daze. A few minutes later, the Japanese soldiers outside the fortifications on the top of the hill were dead and wounded, and from the woods, behind the rocks, the soldiers of the reconnaissance regiment were revealed. The fighters were automatically grouped together in battle groups, and carefully searched the top of the mountain in a standard battle formation.

It turned out that after the reconnaissance regiment occupied the first line of positions and handed over the positions to the 276th Brigade, they did not withdraw from the mountain, but quietly sneaked to the top of the mountain while the Japanese army and the 92nd Division were exchanging fire. They are carrying out a "beheading operation" according to the content of Professor Wang Haitao, which is also the task that Wang Haitao secretly assigned to Tang Xiaoshan. After several hours of infiltration, the two battalions of the reconnaissance regiment, under the leadership of Tang Xiaoshan, successfully lurked to the top of the mountain, and then waited for the best time for the "decapitation operation".

It took only ten minutes for the reconnaissance regiment to clear the Japanese troops on the top of the hill and hold the key points. In fact, there were only two squadrons of Japanese troops on the top of the mountain, and the rest were sent by Inoue Akio to the second line of defense. Two squadrons of hundreds of Japanese troops, unprepared to face the elite of the two battalion reconnaissance regiments, except for being slaughtered, there is no other possibility!