The time pointed to ten o'clock in the evening, and Li Yuanhong, who was standing in front of the window of the headquarters in Danglao City, looked at his watch and gave the order to start the operation. The order was first conveyed by telephone to the artillery units that were on standby, and then the roar of artillery was heard from several places at the same time. This time, Li Yuanhong showed all the family backgrounds of the 93rd Division.

The artillery positions of the 93rd Division were divided into three places, and five kilometers north of the city was the heavy artillery regiment directly under the 93rd Division, which was equipped with 18 85 mm cannons and eight German-made 150 mm heavy guns. These German-made heavy guns were those used by the original heavy artillery brigades, and after the heavy artillery brigades were equipped with new 130 cannons and 152 howitzers, these German-made heavy artillery were enriched to the divisional heavy artillery regiments.

Don't look at the old guns, the range and power of the German-made heavy artillery are much stronger than the 150 howitzers of small Japan. In the east direction of the city, the artillery battalions of the three regiments of the 278th Brigade concentrated 54 75-caliber field guns, and inside the city were the remaining 35 field guns of the 277th Brigade. More than 100 cannons were fired at the same time, and the night lost its original tranquility.

In the Japanese barracks, most of the soldiers fell asleep, and only a small number of people standing guard and patrolling and some officers still did not rest. Brigade commander Shuto Ikeda, and his two co-captains were among the few. Major General Ikeda Shuto was very dissatisfied with the two-day attack, and saw that he could attack the Yunnan-Burma Highway and cut off the Yunnan-Burma Highway in one fell swoop, making a war achievement for the Empire, but he was blocked in this small city of Danglao, and he could not advance an inch for several days, but instead lost his troops.

Just when the commander of the Ikeda Tree Brigade and his two wing commanders were worried about tomorrow's attack, the three of them were stunned by the thunderous sound of artillery in the distance. Ichiro Koike, the wing commander of the 1st Wing, blurted out, "The cannon sound of the Shina people!" After shouting these words, he reflexively rushed out of the tent. When all three of them had rushed out of their tents, they found that the northern sky had been reddened by the fire from the muzzles.

Before Ikeda could give the order, a rain of shells fell on the barracks, and the flames and smoke from the explosion sent countless Japanese soldiers out of their tents in rags and scattered like headless flies. An officer reacted and shouted loudly to give an order, but the shouting was completely muffled by the explosion, and even the people around him couldn't hear what he was shouting.

It was chaotic, the Japanese military camp was completely chaotic, and Ikeda Shuto looked at the chaotic military camp and couldn't say a word. Yuo Murata, the captain of the second wing next to him, reacted quickly, pulled Ikeda Shuren, and shouted loudly: "Your Excellency the brigade commander, give the order first and then retreat, otherwise the entire brigade will be finished!" Murata's words made Ikeda Shuren sober up a little, looked at the chaotic barracks, and sighed: "Retreat! You are responsible for directing the soldiers to assemble and cover the retreat of the whole brigade!"

After giving the order to retreat, Ikeda Shuto and the co-captain of the 1st Wing, Ichiro Koike, led the way to protect their guards and headed south, leaving only the co-captain of the 2nd Wing, Yuo Murata, alone. A few minutes later, the Japanese gradually came to their senses from the panic and began to assemble in places where there was no shelling, and their numbers were increasing.

The 20-minute artillery bombardment of the 93rd Division blew up the Japanese barracks in all directions, and the flames soared into the sky. Twenty minutes later, the artillery fire extended to the south, and the two regiments of the 278th Brigade, which had already assembled on standby, began to attack the Japanese army. In the plan, the 278th Brigade only made a feint to attract Japanese troops and assist the attack of the armored regiment and the guard regiment, but as soon as the 278th Brigade launched an attack, it attacked the Japanese barracks without encountering much resistance.

Huang Gang, commander of the 278th Brigade, who was in charge of the command, immediately reported the situation to division commander Li Yuanhong. Li Yuanhong did not expect that just one artillery fire would make the Japanese give up resistance, and hurriedly ordered the armored regiment, the guard regiment and the 570th regiment to attack at the same time. Receiving the order, the armored regiment, with eighteen British tanks as the vanguard and twenty-five armored vehicles as cover, under the leadership of the regiment commander Jin Zige, rushed to the Japanese camp.

The commander of the second wing of the Japanese army, Yuo Murata, also gathered about 2,000 soldiers at this time, and after the artillery fire of the 93rd Division was extended, he also withdrew to the south. The Japanese troops had been withdrawing five kilometers until they received an order from the brigade commander Shuto Ikeda, who had been sent by the heralds. He was ordered to build a defensive position south of the city of Danglao to prevent the army of China from moving south, and the main force of the brigade was to retreat to the city of Menggong to rest.

With his 2,000 men, Yuo Murata stopped eight kilometers from the city of Danglao, where a small town was next to the road and a low mound that could be used to build a position. So Yuo Murata first occupied the small town, and then asked the soldiers to repair the bunker fortifications on the mound.

The two regiments of the 278th Brigade did not take much effort to occupy the Japanese camp, and after converging the armored regiment and the guard regiment, it became known that the Japanese had fled south. Now the highest-ranking military officer in these units is Huang Gang, the commander of the 278th Brigade, whether to continue to pursue the Japanese army, several regiment commanders have set their eyes on Huang Gang. Huang Gang thought for a moment and made a decision.

Although the Japanese military camp was now captured, the casualties of the Japanese army were not large, and the goal of completely annihilating or severely damaging the Japanese army, the Taiwan brigade, as hoped for by the division, was not achieved, so it was still necessary to take advantage of the victory to pursue and destroy as many Japanese troops as possible. The military situation was urgent, and it was too late to ask the division seat, so Huanggang made the decision to continue the pursuit.

With a decision, Huanggang immediately ordered the armored regiment to be the vanguard of the whole army and rush to the south, the 570th Regiment followed the armored regiment to act at the same time, and the two regiments of the 278th Brigade were the follow-up troops, and then followed, and the guard regiment stayed to clean up the battlefield. The division headquarters is still in Laocheng, and Huanggang left the guard regiment because he wanted the guard regiment to return to the city to protect the division headquarters after cleaning the battlefield.

The armored regiment was the vanguard of the whole army again, and the regiment commander Jin Zige got into a tank car and rushed south, and behind him were all the combat vehicles of the armored regiment and the officers and soldiers of the 570th Regiment. After a few kilometers of road, the armored regiment ran in half an hour, and just as the armored regiment was advancing southward, it suddenly encountered a Japanese attack. The Japanese had not even had time to dig out the trenches in the mound when they saw the lights of a long line of vehicles in the distance. The army knew that the army had caught up.

At night, the Japanese only saw the lights, thinking that it was the people of China who were chasing in a car, but they did not expect that it was tanks and armored vehicles that were catching up. Yuo Murata placed more than 1,000 soldiers on the mound, and the commander of the battle was a Japanese captain. As soon as the captain saw the lights appear, he immediately brought in the only four heavy machine guns and two mortars, and prepared to use them to kill a few of the China's cars first.

When the first tank of the armored regiment was only two hundred meters from the mound, several heavy machine guns and mortars opened fire on the mound at the same time. Bullets clanged into the tank's armor, and then two shells landed on the tank's path. The sudden attack startled the crew of the tank, and the commander hurriedly ordered to stop. Looking out from the observation hole, the fire from the muzzle of the Japanese guns on the mound was very conspicuous, and the commander of the car scolded: "I'm grass! It's just a few heavy machine guns, which startles Lao Tzu! Gunner, fire at Lao Tzu's heavy machine gun aimed at little Japan!"

After saying that, the commander personally controlled the heavy machine gun and swept towards the mound. Ten seconds later, the tank car was thrown back, and a shell flew towards the mound amid the roar of the on-board artillery. As soon as the shells on the first tank were discharged, a dozen tanks behind it launched shelling at the mound one after another. More than a dozen vehicle-mounted artillery pieces and dozens of vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns covered the small mound in a rain of bullets.

The captain of the Japanese army in charge of the command was proudly attacking the China, but he didn't expect the artillery fire of the China's counterattack to hit immediately, and then the captain reacted that it was not the car that was chasing, but the chariot of the China. But it was too late to know, and a series of shells sent him into the sky, along with the heavy machine gun beside him.

The Japanese retreated here and did not recover from the panic, and it was only because of their complete obedience to the officers that they were able to build defensive positions here. At this time, a cannon fire not only killed hundreds of Japanese soldiers, but even the captain in charge of the command also flew into the sky. There were those who took the lead and those who followed, and for a while the army was defeated, and the Japanese troops on the mound fled to the side of the small town.

By the time the 570th Regiment cautiously stormed the mound, there was nothing left but the corpses of the Japanese soldiers and the parts of the guns that had been blown up. The 570th Regiment also discovered that the Japanese had fled into the small town not far away, and the regiment commander Liu Yuzhu immediately asked the signal corps to report the situation to the brigade commander Huanggang. In the delay of the mound, Huang Gang led the two regiments of the 278th Brigade to also arrive, and received a report from Liu Yuzhu, and Huang Gang also came to the mound with two regiment commanders and guards.

On the mound, Huang Gang held a telescope and observed the small town not far away for a while, and after weighing it, he decided to surround the small town and eliminate the Japanese troops in the town. In this pursuit, artillery is impossible to carry, and now the only thing that can be used is mortars, except for tank guns. Huanggang decided to concentrate all 100 heavy mortars and 82 mortars of the three regiments, and 60 mortars as offensive support fire.

The main attack was still carried out by the Panzer Regiment and the 570th Regiment, and the 572nd Regiment went around to the south of the town to prevent the Japanese from escaping southward. The 1st Battalion of the 573rd Regiment was to the east of the town, and the 2nd Battalion was to the west of the town. At three o'clock in the morning, the attack was launched simultaneously from the north, east and west. The 3rd Battalion of the 573rd Regiment is the top reserve of the whole army, ready to reinforce at any time.

Several regiment commanders accepted the task and went back to prepare. Half an hour later, his men reported that they had gathered 100 heavy mortars and 82 mortars from three regiments, and asked where the brigade artillery positions were. Huang Gang visually inspected that the mound was less than two kilometers away from the small town, and the artillery position was located here, which could just cover the entire small town, so he asked his subordinates to set up the artillery position on the mound.

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