Perhaps the Japanese were tired after a day of attacking, and the Japanese did not continue to attack after the 462nd Brigade entered the position. The 462nd Brigade did not wait for the Japanese attack, and the brigade commander Wei Ye called the three regiment commanders under him to the brigade command post. As soon as the three regiment commanders arrived, Wei Ye said: "Little Japan didn't attack again, I'm afraid I'm tired after a day of attacking, we can't just let Little Japan settle down." ”

As soon as Wei Ye said this, Tang Yu, the head of the 878th Regiment under his command, picked up and said: "What the brigade said is that our regiment is ready to deal with the attack of Little Japan, but they don't come to attack, looking at the defense line occupied by Little Japan, the brothers are clamoring to retake it!" Tang Yu's words made the other two regiment commanders also nod their heads at the same time.

Wei Ye saw that the three regiment commanders under his command all had the intention of fighting with Little Japan at night, and said in his heart: "This is good, you don't even need to do mobilization, your subordinates are shouting to do it with Little Japan!" So Wei Ye said: "Okay, stop for a moment!" The three regiment leaders quieted down and set their eyes on Wei Ye.

Wei Ye said unhurriedly: "It stands to reason that our brigade has just taken over the position, and we must take defending the position as the top priority, but the commander said that 'the best defense is to attack', so I decided that our brigade will attack Little Japan tonight and recapture the position lost during the day! Is there a problem?"

The three regiment commanders replied in unison: "No problem!" The next four people sat in the command post and carefully studied the action plan. And it was decided to launch a full-scale counterattack against the Japanese at midnight night. At the end of the meeting, the three regiment commanders did not return to the unit, and immediately called their battalion and company commanders together, conveyed the brigade commander's order, and assigned combat missions.

The purpose of the three regiments is to recapture the positions lost during the day, the 877th Regiment and the 879th Regiment are fine, as long as they recapture a lost position, and the 878th Regiment has the heaviest task, and in the direction of the north gate where their regiment is located, they lost two positions during the day, and now they want to recapture it in one go, and it will not be easy to regain it in one go. Tang Yu was a very arrogant person in his bones, and he was determined to regain these two lost positions.

The three positions outside the north gate are not far apart, the first and second positions are separated by 500 meters, and the second position and the third position under the city wall are separated by only 300 meters. After Tang Yu gathered his subordinates together and discussed, he decided to use a sneak attack on the second position to seize it, and the first position to take it back by a strong attack.

If you want to sneak attack the Japanese troops on the second position, touch the Japanese sentry and destroy the obstacles set up by the Japanese army is the key, and this task is entrusted to the regimental reconnaissance company to complete. At half past eleven o'clock in the evening, the reconnaissance company of the 878th Regiment quietly left the position and touched the second line. Tang Yu sat at the regimental command post to command the overall situation, and the commander of the first battalion, Qi Xuan, led the first battalion to prepare for the attack, waiting for the reconnaissance company to send back the signal of success.

As the minutes ticked by, there was still silence on the positions of both sides. After the reconnaissance company approached the second line of positions, the company successively killed several Japanese guard posts on the periphery of the positions and approached the second line of positions. During the day, under the continuous bombardment of Japanese artillery, the fortifications on the second line were completely destroyed, and now the Japanese troops are only resting in trenches and a few half-destroyed bunkers.

The Japanese troops on the entire second line of positions were not very many, that is, about five or six hundred men in two infantry squadrons. The reconnaissance company, which was approaching the second line, saw that the Japanese had not yet realized themselves, so they first sent back a signal to the rear position with a flashlight, and then divided into several battle groups and felt into the bunker fortifications on the position.

When the time reached twelve o'clock, the reconnaissance company in front sent back the signal of success, and Qi Xuan, who was in great spirits, immediately gave the order to attack. The entire battalion quietly left the position and touched the second line. The 1st battalion quickly crossed the middle of the 300-meter section to the edge of the trench, and the reconnaissance company successfully eliminated the Japanese troops staying in the bunker fortifications.

Just as the first battalion was about to touch the trench, gunfire rang out in the direction of the east gate, and then gunfire rang out in the direction of the west gate. The gunfire suddenly rang out in the silent night, which immediately alarmed the Japanese soldiers in the trench, and Qi Xuan secretly cursed and immediately ordered another plan to be implemented. The officers and men of the first battalion were also prepared for a strong attack in advance.

Under the leadership of the officers, the soldiers threw two rounds of grenades and bullets into the trench in one go, and the Japanese soldiers in the trench were awakened from their sleep by the sound of gunfire, and before they could react, they threw grenades and bullets under their feet. Amid the screams of the Japanese soldiers, grenades and shells exploded continuously, and countless shrapnel flew in all directions in the small space of the trench, harvesting one life after another.

After the two rounds of grenades and shells were blown up, a platoon of officers and soldiers of a battalion appeared on the edge of the trench, and they stood on the edge of the trench, raised their weapons and fired at the Japanese troops in the trench. This one-sided battle was almost a massacre, and the Japanese troops in the panic had no power to fight back, and in just ten minutes, hundreds of Japanese soldiers in the trench were killed and wounded.

Qi Xuan saw that the Japanese soldiers in the trench were almost dead and wounded, so he ordered the soldiers to rush into the trench to clear the remnants of the enemy. It didn't take long for several company commanders to run over and report to Qi Xuan that they had completely eliminated the Japanese troops in the trenches. At this time, Tang Yu also came up with the second and third battalions, and first Liu Hu, the commander of the reconnaissance company, reported to him that he had eliminated the two squadron headquarters of the Japanese army, and killed dozens of Japanese soldiers, including two Japanese soldiers and several captains. Then Qi Xuan reported to him that he had completely annihilated the Japanese troops on the second line of positions and recaptured the second line.

Tang Yu only nodded when he heard the report and said that he knew, it was not difficult to recover the second position, and now Tang Yu was thinking about how to recover the first position. After the battle began, the Japanese troops on the first line of positions had been alarmed, and it was impossible to sneak attack again, and there was only one way in front of Tang Yu, that is, to attack! However, it was not clear how many Japanese troops were stationed on the first line of positions, and the first line of positions could be reinforced by the main force of the Japanese army in the rear at any time, and it would not be easy to capture it.

Tang Yu had been prepared before the attack, and at this time he gave the order to storm the first line of positions. As soon as the order was issued, Zhang Ping, the commander of the second battalion who was the main force of the attack, led the second battalion to immediately press towards the first line of positions. After the second battalion had advanced more than 200 meters, it stopped, and Zhang Ping began to arrange heavy machine-gun positions and light mortar positions, which were heavy weapons to cover for an attack after a while, and should not be taken lightly.

As soon as Zhang Ping had set up two positions, the artillery of the artillery battalion of the regiment in the rear opened fire. Although the heavy armament of the 211th Division is not as strong as that of the 210th Division, it must be Tang Longzai's starting unit, and as Wang Haitao's brother-in-law, it is not surprising that the heavy armament is biased, so it is not surprising that the artillery battalion of the 211th Division is equipped with 18 75-caliber Japanese mountain guns and 24 120-caliber heavy mortars.

As soon as the artillery fire of the regimental artillery battalion began, Zhang Ping also commanded the light mortars and heavy machine guns to open fire. Under the cover of heavy weapons, the whole battalion slowly pressed up to the first line of positions. On the first line, the Japanese troops stationed there were also full firepower, with more than 10 heavy machine guns and more than 20 light machine guns spitting out tongues of fire. At night, it was difficult to see the attacking troops, but dozens of light and heavy machine guns also formed a dense network of fire in front of the position.

In the night, the tongues of fire spit out from the muzzles of the machine guns on both sides became the most conspicuous targets, and Zhang Ping commanded the light mortars to focus on the machine gun fire points on the Japanese positions, and the Japanese troops also used a few dozen small guns to bombard the heavy machine gun positions of the second battalion. Under the attack of each other, the heavy machine-gun positions of the 2nd Battalion suffered considerable losses, and the light and heavy machine-gun fire points on the Japanese positions were also devastated.

The loss of the heavy machine-gun positions of the second battalion was not a big problem, as long as the infantry of the main attack did not suffer too many losses. However, after the machine-gun fire points on the Japanese positions were hit, the fire network in front of the positions was no longer formed, and the attacking troops quickly approached the first line of positions. The Japanese troops on the position also inflicted many casualties on the attacking troops with their rifle fire and grenadier firepower, but the lethality of blind fire in the night was limited, and it could not stop the attacking troops from approaching at all.

Finally, the officers and men of the second battalion broke through to a distance of only 40 to 50 meters from the first line of positional trenches, and the officers and men in the attack threw grenades and bullets in the direction of the trenches almost simultaneously, and most of the grenades and bullets were thrown into the trenches in a company or two.

The artillery of the regimental artillery battalion had formed a barrage of barrages between the first line of positions and the main Japanese forces to prevent the main Japanese forces from reinforcing the first line of positions. The officers and men of the 2nd Battalion rushed into the trench with all their might as an opportunity to stop the fire on the position after the grenade and bomb exploded. The soldiers who stormed the trench immediately fought with the remnants of the Japanese soldiers.

When the 3rd Battalion also came up with reinforcements, the battle in the trench came to an end, and as the gunfire gradually stopped, the 878th Regiment successfully regained all the positions occupied by the Japanese. But at this time, Wei Ye, the commander of the 462nd Brigade, was not happy, he was being scolded by the division commander Li Changwu. It turned out that after formulating a battle plan for a comprehensive counterattack, Wei Ye did not truthfully report it to the division commander Li Changwu, but only reported that he was going to attack the Japanese army at night.

It was just a matter of harassing the Japanese army at night, which was not a big deal, so Li Changwu agreed, and reported it to the army commander Tang Longzai. The reason why Wei Ye did not report the battle plan to Li Changwu in detail was also because he was afraid that Li Changwu would not agree. But as soon as the battle started, Li Changwu felt that something was wrong. How could the Japanese army make such a big move? The guns and artillery rang out in three directions, and there were signs of getting more and more intense.

Half an hour later, the movement of the east gate and the west gate was quieter, and the gunfire at the north gate was more intense, at this time Li Changwu also reacted, the 462nd Brigade was simply attacking the Japanese army, and it was simply counterattacking the Japanese army. And Tang Longzai also called to ask what was going on with the 462nd Brigade, and as soon as Li Changwu told him about the situation, Tang Longzai also got angry, and reprimanded Li Changwu without saying anything, and asked Li Changwu to go to the 462nd Brigade immediately to deal with the brigade commander Wei Ye seriously.