Although the 93 rd Division is inferior to the Taiwan brigade in terms of numbers, it is not inferior to the Taiwan brigade in terms of weaponry and equipment, and the quality of individual soldiers is not below the Taiwan brigade in terms of weaponry, and its heavy weapons even surpass the Taiwan brigade by a lot. Li Yuanhong's thoughts made General Dai Anlan sigh.

It is also a division of the Central Army, and its own weapons and equipment are compared with those of the 93rd Division, and the whole is similar to that of Hanako, and one of his own divisions is almost powerless to fight back in the face of the attack of a Taiwanese brigade of the Japanese army.

Li Yuanhong exchanged telegrams with Mu Suzhong, and after learning that the 277th Brigade had withstood the Japanese attack in Danglao, he did not rush to reinforce Danglao, but stopped here in Nanlan. Li Yuanhong's purpose was to ask the 277th Brigade to consume more of the strength of the Japanese Taiwan Brigade and to dampen its spirit.

Mu Suzhong received Li Yuanhong's instructions, and with the 93rd Division behind him, he let go of his hands and feet to kill the Japanese Taiwan brigade. The day after arriving at Danglao, the two sides engaged in a hard-fought artillery battle. At eight o'clock in the morning, the artillery bombardment before the Japanese attack began, and this time the Japanese played a trick and used only twenty-four 75-caliber mountain guns, while the twelve 150-caliber howitzers did not move.

At the critical moment of yesterday's attack, the defenders' artillery bombardment made the quick attack come to naught, and today's 12 Japanese 150-caliber howitzers are waiting for the defenders' artillery to fire. However, without the shelling of 150 caliber howitzers, the power was much worse, although the defenders on the position were also suppressed, but the casualties were not large.

Half an hour later, the artillery of the 1st Wing of the Taiwanese Brigade joined the assist, and the infantry began to attack. Eight Type 92 infantry guns and a dozen mortars were aimed at machine-gun fire points on front-line positions. Under the intensive artillery bombardment of the Japanese army, the defenders on the front-line positions were indeed very suppressed, and with the heavy machine gun fire of the Japanese army, the defenders could hardly even raise their heads.

Li Chunshan, commander of the 568th Regiment, saw that the pressure on the second battalion on the front-line position was too great under this situation, and if it was not done well, it would lose its position. But the regimental field artillery battalion was transferred to unified command, and only those mortars were available in the regiment. Li Chunshan ordered the regiment's 100-mm heavy mortars to be used uniformly to carry out artillery counterattacks against the Japanese army's small artillery.

Each battalion of the 568th Regiment was equipped with eight 100-mm heavy mortars, a total of 24. This 100-caliber heavy mortar was superior to the Japanese Type 92 infantry guns in terms of range and power. Twenty-four heavy mortars fired three rapid fires at the same time, and dozens of shells drowned the artillery positions of the 1st Japanese Wing in the smoke and fire.

As soon as the Japanese saw that the defenders had launched an artillery counterattack, the wing commander of the 1st Wing, Ichiro Koike, hurriedly requested artillery support. The captain of the Japanese artillery brigade saw that the Chinese army only used some mortars to counterattack, and did not use artillery, so he did not command the 150 howitzers to fire, but directed the 75-caliber mountain artillery to shell the mortar positions of the Chinese army.

Although the heavy mortar was heavier than the light mortar, it was still a mortar, and when the Japanese artillery counterattacked, the mortar position had already finished fighting, and the Japanese counterattack only fell on an open field. As soon as the Japanese 75-caliber mountain guns diverted their artillery fire, and the small guns on the battery positions of the wing were almost destroyed, the pressure on the next line of positions was much smaller, and the soldiers poked their heads out of the bunkers one after another and stretched their weapons out of the bunkers.

At this time, the only thing that the Japanese could cover the infantry was more than a dozen heavy machine guns on the heavy machine gun position and the grenadiers in the infantry ranks, and dealing with heavy machine guns and grenadiers was not a problem for the experienced soldiers of the second battalion. The commander of the second battalion immediately ordered the light mortars in the battalion to shell the Japanese heavy machine gun positions, and the sharpshooters of the battalion to deal with the grenadiers and light machine guns in the Japanese infantry.

As soon as the defenders opened fire on the position, the mortars first blew up more than 10 heavy machine guns of the Japanese army, and the sharpshooters even more bit the flesh, and in a short time the grenadiers and light machine gunners in the Japanese infantry brigade suffered heavy casualties. Without the suppression of heavy machine guns and grenadiers, the light and heavy machine guns on the position could be unleashed, and together with submachine guns and semi-automatic rifles, the Japanese attacking infantry was pressed 150 meters away at once.

Just when the commander of the second battalion gave the order to use light mortars, Regiment Commander Wei Yongshou, who commanded the artillery, also gave the order to open fire on the Japanese artillery positions. Because the Japanese army's 150 howitzers had not yet fired, Wei Yongshou only let half of the 75-caliber field guns fire. Twenty-seven field guns opened fire at the same time, and the shells flew straight to the Japanese mountain artillery positions.

As soon as the shells landed on the Japanese artillery positions, the Japanese troops, who had been prepared for a long time, began to counterattack, not only the 24 75 caliber mountain guns quickly transferred their muzzles, but also the 12 150 howitzers also quickly measured the azimuth coordinates of the defenders' artillery positions and joined the ranks of the counterattack. The 27 field guns of the 277th Brigade still had the upper hand in the artillery battle with the Japanese mountain artillery, and there was not much difference in power and number between the two sides, and the artillery of the 277th Brigade occupied a first-mover advantage.

Although the artillery fire of the 277th Brigade only went out two rounds, and the artillery fire of the Japanese counterattack arrived, these two rounds of artillery bombardment had already caused the Japanese army to suffer a loss, and eight mountain guns were destroyed. When the Japanese counterattacked, only sixteen mountain guns were available. But after twelve 150 howitzers also joined in, the artillery of the 277th Brigade immediately felt the pressure.

The Japanese army's 150 howitzers exceeded the 75 caliber field guns too much in power, and when that shell went down, the artillery position was a crater with a diameter of several meters. Wei Yongshou saw that the Japanese army's 150 howitzers were finally lured out, and hurriedly ordered technicians to calculate the position of the Japanese artillery positions, so that the other field guns that did not fire were ready to counterattack.

But it didn't take long for a few technicians to report with a bitter face that the Japanese army's 150 howitzers could not fight. Because the maximum firing range of the Japanese army's Type 96 150 howitzer has reached 11,900 meters, the distance between the Japanese artillery position and its own artillery position is 11,000 meters, and the maximum range of the 75 field gun is 9,000 meters.

Wei Yongshou had no choice but to watch the shells of the Japanese heavy artillery keep falling on his artillery position, but he couldn't fight back, which made Wei Yongshou depressed. The artillery battle continued, and the mountain artillery shells from the Japanese side were getting fewer and fewer, and it seemed that the Japanese mountain artillery was almost destroyed, and there was no point in continuing to fight at this time, so Wei Yongshou simply ordered a ceasefire and transferred.

It's just that you have ceased fire, but the other side has not ceased fire, these artillerymen braved the Japanese artillery fire, transferred the intact field guns backwards, and the cars could not get close, so they were completely dragged by people, and finally it took a lot of effort to withdraw eight intact field guns, the other 19 field guns were destroyed, and 326 artillerymen spilled their positions with blood. Only four of the 24 75 mountain guns of the Japanese army were preserved, and the soldiers of a mountain artillery brigade also lost several hundred people, and the artillery battle between the two sides can be described as a defeat for both sides.

However, this artillery battle was very beneficial to the defenders, and when the Japanese attacked with infantry, the supporting artillery fire weakened a lot, with only twelve 150 howitzers, the power was not small, but the density was much worse. In this case, the defenders used the help of flexible mortars, and repelled several Japanese attacks in a row, so that the Japanese first wing suffered heavy casualties, and more than half of the casualties were killed, and it could no longer be attacked.

This artillery battle between the two sides surprised Major General Ikeda Shuren, the brigade commander of the Japanese Taiwan brigade, and the Chinese army had so many artillery pieces, and an artillery battle between the two sides basically lost the combat effectiveness of one of their mountain artillery brigades, which was unimaginable in Ikeda Shuren's heart, and what kind of Chinese army he was facing, this was the first question that Ikeda Shuren had in his heart.

In the next two days, the Japanese army was replaced by the 2nd Infantry Wing and continued to attack Danglaocheng, and the 277th Brigade was replaced by the 570th Regiment to replace the 568th Regiment and continue to hold on. After two days of offensive and defensive battles, the Japanese army was never able to break through the position of the 277th Brigade, and on the last day, Ikeda Shuto invited more than a dozen planes to help in the battle, but it was also unsuccessful.

The first company of the 277th Brigade repelled the Japanese attack for several days, and at this time Li Yuanhong felt that the Japanese army's vigor had almost been frustrated, and the time for a counterattack had come. So the remaining troops of the 93rd Division began to assemble, and in the evening they rushed to five kilometers north of the city of Danglao. Mu Suzhong learned that Li Yuanhong had arrived with his troops, and took Li Chunshan out of the city to the headquarters of the 93rd Division.

After meeting Mu Suzhong and Li Chunshan, Li Yuanhong inquired in more detail about the situation of the Japanese army's Taiwan brigade, and based on the information provided by Mu Suzhong, he made a battle plan for attacking the Japanese army at night. The 571st Regiment of the 278th Brigade was crippled while defending the city of Mytiera, and before it could be replenished, this counterattack was basically impossible to fight again, and only the 572nd Regiment, the 573rd Regiment, the Division Guard Regiment and the newly joined armored regiment could fight.

Li Yuanhong's plan was that the divisional guard regiment and the armored regiment would be the main attack, and the two regiments of the 278th Brigade would go around the east of the Japanese barracks from the left side of Danglao City. After the units were in position, the artillery regiments of the division and the regimental artillery battalions of the 277th and 278th brigades concentrated their artillery fire to launch an artillery attack on the Japanese barracks. After 20 minutes of shelling, the 278th Brigade first launched a feint attack, and then attracted the attention of the Japanese army to the east, and then the armored regiment and the guard regiment attacked the west side of the Japanese army, breaking into the Japanese military camp in one fell swoop, disrupting the Japanese defense, and thus defeating and even destroying the Japanese army's Taiwan brigade.

The battle plan was approved by everyone, but Mu Suzhong insisted that the 277th Brigade also participate in the counterattack. Li Yuanhong thought twice before agreeing that the 277th Brigade would send a regiment to assist the armored regiment and the divisional guard regiment in operating together. The plan was set, and Li Yuanhong decided to start the operation at ten o'clock in the evening. At this time, there were still two hours before the start of the operation, and everyone hurriedly walked out of the division headquarters and went to prepare for the counterattack.

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