Lieutenant General Imamura knew very well that the top priority was to recapture Zhennan Pass, which had been captured by the Chinese army, so he immediately ordered an infantry brigade stationed in Wanling County, which was closest to Zhennan Pass in Vietnam, to quickly rush to Zhennan Pass to recapture Zhennan Pass, which was captured by the Chinese army. After recapturing Zhennan Pass, he assisted the 56th Mixed Infantry Brigade to hold Zhennan Pass, and responded to the retreat of the main 2nd Division.

This infantry brigade is subordinate to the 26th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, and its main task is to garrison the city, and the supreme commander of the Japanese army in Vietnam is Lieutenant General Imamura Jun, and the captain of this infantry brigade really received the order of Lieutenant General Imamura Jun, and did not dare to delay at all, leaving a squadron to defend the city, and took the remaining squadrons in a car and rushed to the direction of Zhennanguan.

Even Wang Haitao didn't expect that now the focus of this battle has become the battle for Zhennan Pass. The two regiments of the guard brigade on Zhennan Pass, after capturing Zhennan Pass, have more than 5,000 remaining troops, and the Japanese army has sent more than 4,000 troops to counterattack.

However, the current Zhennan Pass is not so tense, and in the face of the attack of an infantry brigade led by Takao Yamamoto, the Japanese army who arrived first, it was very easy to defend. After receiving the order to recapture Zhennanguan at all costs, Takao Yamamoto immediately commanded his artillery squadron to set up four Type 92 infantry guns and 12 mortars, preparing to cover the infantry attack with artillery fire.

It's just that the artillery here has just been set up, and before the cannon can be fired, the sound of artillery first sounded on the south pass of Zhennan, and then dozens of * flew towards their artillery positions. In an instant, the shells exploded on his artillery position, and Takao Yamamoto watched his artillery being destroyed by the flying shells one by one, and there was nothing he could do.

After destroying the Japanese artillery, the mortars on Zhennan Pass hit the infantry with shells, and this artillery fire knocked Yamamoto Takao's infantry brigade in all directions, and it was impossible to maintain its formation, let alone launch an attack on Guanlou. Ten minutes later, seeing that the Japanese troops had dispersed and hidden, and there were no targets worth shelling, the shelling on the upper floor stopped.

After Takao Yamamoto stopped the shelling on the top of the gate, he retreated a few hundred meters and began to regroup, a full infantry brigade, which lost more than 300 people and all the artillery in the shelling. At this time, Takao Yamamoto knew that the Shina troops who occupied Zhennan Pass were extremely well-equipped, and they were certainly not small forces, otherwise there would not have been so many artillery pieces, and the Ono Brigade guarding Zhennan Pass would not have been wiped out in one morning.

Now that there is no artillery cover, but the army on the upper side of the tower has a large number of mortars, Yamamoto Takao Nakasa has a trace of despair about recapturing Zhennan Pass. However, the wing commander's order was to recapture Zhennan Pass at all costs, and he had to carry out the order. Takao Yamamoto called several squadron leaders under him, and after a few words of agitation, he ordered several squadron leaders to attack Zhennan Pass with the squadron as a unit.

Several squadron leaders led their squadrons, and they opened up the straggler formation from a distance and scattered towards Zhennan Pass. Guarding the tower of the south of the town are the officers and men of the first battalion of the second regiment of the guard, the front of the tower can only accommodate more than 200 people at most, the commander of the first battalion, Wei Song, arranged a company on the tower to hold the position, and the other two companies as a reserve in the tower to rest and stand by.

A company of four heavy machine guns and twelve light machine guns were set up on the sandbag fortifications at the battlements, and the other soldiers also aimed their guns at the road below the gate. The road under the Guan Lou gradually narrowed from a kilometer away, until the Guan Lou shrank to a width of only about 20 meters, and the whole ground was shaped into a funnel. The slopes on both sides of the Guanlou are steep and cannot be climbed, if you want to attack the Guanlou from the left and right sides, you can only climb the hill from a distance like the guard brigade, and then slowly advance along the mountain road to both sides of the Guanlou.

The Japanese army now has no time to go around to both sides of the gate, and is not familiar with the terrain on both sides of the tower, so there is only one way to go. Seeing this, Wei Song, the commander of the first battalion commanding the battle on the Guanlou, ordered heavy machine gun fire. Four heavy machine guns opened fire at the same time, and the dense crossfire of machine guns blocked the road 300 meters away, and the Japanese soldiers who dared to rush into this road were all knocked to the ground by heavy machine guns.

The Japanese also set up heavy machine guns to cover the fire, but the Japanese heavy machine gun firepower was definitely at a disadvantage compared to the heavy machine gun on the Guan Lou, plus the disadvantage in the terrain, it was completely suppressed. The only danger to Guanlou was the grenades and bullets thrown by the Japanese grenadiers, and excellent grenadiers were able to accurately hit the gates and bombs from a distance of 3 to 400 meters, and these grenades and bullets also brought casualties to the company.

Wei Song also ordered the snipers, snipers and sharpshooters in the battalion to deal with the Japanese grenadiers, but the Japanese grenadiers were relatively hidden, and it was difficult for the snipers and snipers to find their targets. In this way, the Japanese army could not attack within 300 meters, and there were some casualties on the Guanlou because of the grenades and bombs fired by the Japanese army. This situation did not change until the arrival of Guwu Yasumasa Dazuo with an infantry brigade and a mountain artillery brigade.

As soon as Guwu An Zhengdazuo arrived here at Zhennanguan, Yamamoto Takao Nakasa immediately came to report the situation to Guwu An Zhengdazuo. Guwu Yasusho Dazuo was also surprised when he heard that the Chinese army on the upper floor had a large number of mortars. He also realized that if the eighteen mountain guns he brought were not in the right position, they would also be destroyed by the mortars on the upper floor, so Guwu Anji Dazuo ordered the mountain artillery brigade to set up artillery positions in three places, and the distance was also retreated three kilometers.

The infantry brigade brought by Guwu Anji Dazuo also had an artillery squadron, which also had four Type 92 infantry guns and more than a dozen artillery guns. Kotake Yasuyoshi Daisa first asked the artillery of this artillery squadron to carry out a suppressive artillery bombardment on the Guanlou to cover the attack of Yamamoto Takao's infantry brigade. These small cannons launched an artillery bombardment on the upper floor, causing the unprepared company to suffer only a loss, three of the four heavy machine guns were destroyed by the Japanese artillery fire, and the soldiers also suffered more than 40 casualties at once.

Li Li immediately ordered the artillery on the upper floor to return fire, but he didn't expect that as soon as the mortar fired a few shells, the Japanese mountain artillery found the target and fired back in retaliation. For a time, the entire building was shrouded in smoke and fire, and the flying shells not only destroyed the mortars arranged on the tower, but also plundered the lives of the soldiers.

In just a few minutes, 14 of the 18 mortars set up on the gate tower were blown up, and the artillery and the officers and men of the company together suffered more than 100 casualties. Even the commander of the first battalion, Wei Song, was hit in the back by a shrapnel and fell to the top of the building after being seriously injured. Li Li couldn't care about being distressed at this time, and immediately ordered the twelve heavy artillery guns and the rest of the small-caliber artillery guns arranged on the city walls on the left and right sides to open fire, and be sure to destroy the Japanese artillery positions.

When the tower was shelled by the Japanese army, Takao Yamamoto's infantry brigade approached the tower at the gate, and the officers and men of a company on the tower braved the artillery fire and used light machine guns and rushing and forward guns to resist the Japanese army's advance, suppressing the Japanese army 100 meters away. When the mortars on the city walls on both sides opened fire, the Japanese mountain artillery was also suppressed, and the shells falling on the tower were also sparse.

Yamamoto Takao Nakasachi saw that the firepower on the upper floor of Seki was concentrated again, and the attacking soldiers were knocked to the ground in pieces, so he could only sigh and order to retreat. In this battle, one of Yamamoto Takao's infantry brigades suffered more than 500 casualties, and two squadron leaders were killed. Wei Song, the commander of the first battalion on the Guanlou floor, was killed, and the soldiers of the first company suffered more than 120 casualties, the artillery suffered more than 80 casualties, and 14 82-caliber artillery guns were blown up.

The news was reported to Tangshan Leopard, who did not make a sound for a long time, but his lip had been bitten out of blood. Wei Song's sacrifice and the sacrifice of nearly 200 comrades-in-arms made Tangshan Leopard feel painful heart, every comrade-in-arms was cultivated by so many years of hard training and life and death struggle, these are the elites of the 90th Army, and they are the heart and soul of the military seat. Never before has the Guards Brigade suffered such large casualties, and this was only the beginning of the battle.

By the end of the battle, how many people were left in the two regiments he brought, even Tangshan Leopard didn't know, he only knew that the task given by the military seat was to exhaust these two regiments, and he had to resolutely complete them. Thinking of this, Tangshan Leopard's gaze became firm again, and he said to the signal soldier: "Go and tell Li Li, Lao Tzu doesn't want him to report the casualties, Lao Tzu wants Zhennan Pass!"

The signal corps turned around, and after a while, the signal corps came back and reported to Tangshan Leopard: "Report to the brigade seat, Commander Li Li replied, please rest assured that as long as there is still one person in the second regiment, Zhennan Pass will be firmly in the hands of the second regiment!" After Tangshan Leopard let Sun Linhai in, Sun Linhai saluted Tangshan Leopard and said: "Report to the brigade, the third regiment has completely controlled Zhennan Pass, seized the two Japanese military quartermaster depots in the pass, and seized a large number of Japanese military supplies, including food, clothing and a batch of munitions. ”

Tangshan Leopard nodded, signaling that he understood, and Sun Linhai said again: "I heard that the Second Regiment suffered a lot of losses in the battle just now, and even the first battalion commander Wei Song was also sacrificed. Now your three regiments will first go to treat the wounded and recuperate, and when the time comes, I will let your three regiments go up. ”

Sun Linhai said uprightly: "Yes, Brigade! Then I'll go see the wounded first." After speaking, Sun Linhai saluted and withdrew from the command post of Tangshan Leopard. Only then did Tangshan Leopard turn around and mutter, "Brother Wei Song, you have come over so many bullets and bullets, why did you fall in the south of this town, how can I explain to the military seat!" said two tears quietly across his cheeks.