Is it true that there are no pillboxes and trench fortifications on the slopes on both sides of the boar ditch?

Of course not, in fact, there are enclosed pillboxes and trenches hidden on every hillside, every ravine, and even every dirt bag on either side of the canyon.

It's just that these bunkers and trenches are carefully camouflaged.

It's hard to spot unless you get closer and take a closer look.

Beneath these bunkers and trenches lies a vast network of tunnels.

Through this tunnel network, personnel and equipment can be transferred quickly.

"Commander, do you want to fight?" The guard Xiao Zhang turned his head and asked Zhong Shengdao.

Zhong Sheng is the commander of the second battalion of the original new regiment, and he is also a fierce general under Li Yunlong, who has been following Li Yunlong since Hubei, Henan and Anhui, and has also participated in the Western Route Army's western expedition.

At the beginning, Li Yunlong also wanted to take him away, but Ding Wei didn't give it.

After the new regiment was expanded into a detachment, Zhong Sheng was also promoted from battalion commander to regiment commander.

Then, in the process of transferring the main force to enrich the local military district, Zhong Sheng's 2nd Regiment was transferred to the 1st Division, and he was promoted to the commander of the 1st Division.

At present, one sub-district has jurisdiction over three local regiments.

Wild Boar Gully belongs to the defense area of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Division.

At this time, Zhong Sheng personally led the 1st Regiment of the 1st Division to garrison the Wild Boar Gully Fortress, preparing to fight the devils unprepared, and by the way, win a good start for this counter-sweep.

In Wang Yehong's words, this is called the first hand bonus.

Because the devils don't know their defensive deployment, it's easy to get hit.

Therefore, in the first battle, you must make the results as big as possible.

Guard Xiao Zhang said again: "The devils have filled in an anti-tank trench and dragged the first anti-tank cone to the side of the road, and now they are filling in the second anti-tank trench." ”

Zhong Sheng asked, "Did you say that the devil's spearhead went up the mountain?" ”

"Commander, this is not the case." Xiao Zhang shook his head and said, "The devil didn't send sharp soldiers up the mountain. ”

"Then ignore them, the devil loves to fill in the anti-tank trench, so let them fill it in, and the anti-tank cone, they like to drag it out, and we will drag it back to the middle of the road when we turn around." Zhong Sheng smiled and said, "While there is still some time, I have to hurry up and smoke another bag of cigarettes, otherwise I won't have time to fight again." ”

While speaking, Zhong Sheng took out the dry tobacco pipe and smoked the old cigarette.

The guard Xiao Zhang and several soldiers next to him were very impressed when they saw it.

The heart said that he really deserved to be a commander, and the devils all knocked on the door, and he could still smoke in the presence of the old god.

The guard Xiao Zhang was not as calm and relaxed as Zhong Sheng, but lay behind the lookout hole in the bunker, and kept reporting to Zhong Sheng the latest movements of the devils under the mountain.

"Commander, the devils have begun to clear the second line of anti-tank trenches."

"Commander, the second anti-tank trench has been filled in by devils."

"Commander, the devil is starting to drag the second anti-tank cone in a car."

"Commander, the devil's tank has reached the third anti-tank cone."

"Commander, the devil infantry is starting to fill in the third line of anti-tank trenches."

"Commander, there are a lot of trucks outside the boar ditch, there must be more than a hundred."

"Commander, there are a lot of devils who got off the car, at least a thousand!"

"Commander, the devil has sent a group of soldiers up the mountain, and a group of soldiers has already gone up the No. 5 slope on the opposite side!"

Hearing this, Zhong Sheng, who was lying down and smoking, immediately turned over and sat up, knocked the smoking pot on the soles of his feet, and then inserted the dry tobacco pipe into his waist, and came to another lookout hole.

Through the lookout hole, it can be clearly seen that the devil's sharp army group has gone up the opposite hillside, and their side is not very clear because the view is blocked by the mountain, but with experience, Zhong Sheng can guess that the devil must have sent sharp soldiers to this side of the hill, and the devil will never be able to reconnoiter only one side.

At this moment, the phone in the dark room in the back suddenly rang.

Then a telephone soldier ran out and reported: "Commander, the lookout post on the top of the mountain reports that the devil's spearhead group has also been found on the northern slope outside the ditch. ”

The boar gully is a canyon terrain that runs north-south.

The slopes inside the ditch are the east and west slopes, and the north slope is outside the ditch.

It seems that the devil did not let go of the reconnaissance of the northern slope, and also sent sharp soldiers up.

"I see." Zhong Sheng waved his hand and said, "Order the mountaintop lookout post to continue to observe." ”

"Yes." The telephone soldier answered, and ran back to deliver orders to the lookout post at the top of the mountain.

"It's almost time." Zhong Sheng looked at the devil infantry that were constantly driving into the canyon through the lookout hole, and said to the guard Xiao Zhang, "What about the flare gun?" Give me. ”

Xiao Zhang hurriedly handed over the flare gun.

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Immediately after the 1st Search Wing, the 1st Infantry Wing had also reached the Boar Gully.

The Wing Commander of the 1st Wing, Tatsumi Hita, was much more cautious than Yoshio Imada, and as soon as he arrived at the Boar Gully, he immediately sent several groups of sharp soldiers to the north side of the ditch and to the east and west slopes of the ditch.

Yoshio Imada hurriedly drove his Type 95 light tank back to the outside of the valley.

"Yang Tianjun, don't be so troublesome." Yoshio Imada leaned out of the turret and said to Tsukami Yangda, who had just gotten off the passenger seat of a truck, "There are no ambushes on the hillsides on either side. ”

Yang Tianhu said in a deep voice: "Imada-kun, did your search team go up the mountain to reconnoitre?" ”

"Not really." Imada Yoshio shook his head and said, "But the mountains here are basically bare dirt mountains, whether there are ambushes on the mountains, you can see clearly at a glance, and we have been busy in the canyon for a long time, if there were really ambushes of the Eighth Route Army on the mountain, we would have started a fight a long time ago." ”

"Well, I don't think so." Yang Tianhu waved his hand and said.

"I've heard that the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army is extremely cunning,"

"It's also very good at camouflage, so maybe the mountain is full of pillboxes and trenches, but the Eighth Route Army camouflaged all the fortifications, so it's difficult to find."

"As for why they didn't shoot, maybe they were catching a big fish."

After a pause, he said, "So for the sake of insurance, it's better to send sharp soldiers up the mountain to reconnoitre." ”

"Okay." Yoshio Imada said noncommittally, "Since Yangtian-kun is not afraid of the hard work of the imperial soldiers of the 1st Infantry Wing, it is better to send the top soldiers to the mountain." ”

With that, the two old devils stopped communicating.

Then he turned around and turned back, and at the same time set his eyes on the wild boar ditch in front of him.

However, it was only seen that the vehicle squadron and horse squadron of the 1st Search Wing had already begun the wrecker clearance operation of the fourth anti-tank trench and anti-tank cone, and the 1st Infantry Wing had also sent two squadrons to participate in the operation.

There were two more squadrons, and the number of devils involved in the clearance increased to more than 700 people, which was much faster.

The two old devils set their eyes on the dozen or so spearhead groups that were climbing up the mountain, only to see that the spearhead groups on the north slope had gone up to the halfway point of the mountain, and the spearhead groups on both sides of the canyon had also gone up to a quarter of the position.

However, neither the several spearhead groups on the north slope outside the valley nor the spearhead groups on both sides of the valley have found anything.

Yang Tian Huji couldn't help but say to Yoshio Imada: "Imada-kun, it seems that you are right, there is really no ...... on the hillside"

However, before the words fell, a scream of "sigh" sounded on the hillside in front of them, and the two old devils looked forward in a hurry, and saw a red signal flare rising on the hillside on the right side of the canyon.

"What!" Yang Tian Huji and Imada Yoshio sank their hearts at the same time.

Flares? Isn't that a good sign, a sign to do it?

Could it be that the ambushes of the Eighth Route Army were still hidden on both sides of the canyon, but because they were too hidden, they were not discovered by their sharp soldiers?

Just when the two old devils were in shock, a sudden change occurred!

But I saw that hundreds of machine-gun fire points suddenly appeared on the slopes on the left and right sides of the canyon!

On the hillside, which was still bare and empty, and there was not even a single weed to be found, suddenly hundreds of swarthy shooting holes were pierced, and then hundreds of dazzling tongues of fire were sprayed from the shooting holes.

Hundreds of tongues of fire poured down from the hillsides on both sides, instantly forming a crossfire network, enveloping the more than 700 devil infantry who were clearing the obstacle below.

In an instant, hundreds of devils were shot and fell to the ground.

Many devils were planted directly into the three-meter-deep anti-tank trench.

"Yaga!" The two old devils' faces twitched violently.

But fortunately, those who entered the canyon were worthy of the elite of the 1st Division, and they reacted extremely quickly.

After paying the first wave of casualties, most of the remaining devils reacted and hid behind the tanks moored on both sides of the canyon as fast as they could.

There are also devils who panicked and took the initiative to jump into the anti-tank trenches.

The 11 Type 95 light tanks of the 1st Search Team were close to the foot of the hill on both sides, which just formed a shooting blind spot, and the firepower of the Eighth Route Army on the hillside on this side could not be hit, and the firepower of the Eighth Route Army on the opposite hillside was blocked by the tanks, so the devils hiding between the tanks and the foot of the mountain were safe.

Seeing this, the two old devils breathed a sigh of relief.

It's good that there are tanks of the 1st Search Team for cover, otherwise it will be troublesome.

The 1st Search Wing was truly the elite of the 1st Division, and when it was attacked suddenly, it not only reacted quickly and correctly, but even tried to launch a counterattack at the first time.

I saw that the 11 Type 95 light tanks of the 1st Search Wing slowly turned their turrets, the 11 forward-firing machine guns opened heavy fire, and the 11 37mm caliber main guns also slowly raised their firing angles, preparing to clear the machine gun fire points on the hillsides on both sides.

"Yo Xi!" Seeing this, Yang Tian Huji and Imada Yoshio breathed a sigh of relief, and it seemed that there was no problem.

Although the Eighth Route Army was extremely well hidden, and the 1st Search Wing and the other two infantry squadrons assisting in the clearance of the wrecker were taken by surprise, fortunately, there was a squadron of combat vehicles, and it was not a big problem.

However, at this juncture, mutations were born again.

I saw that more than a dozen dazzling red lights suddenly erupted from the ravines on both sides of the canyon.

Then there was a continuous explosion of "boom, boom, boom", and when the two old devils looked at it urgently, they saw that the 11 Type 95 light tanks that had just tried to counterattack had been blown up one after another.

"Battle defense artillery!" Yoshio Imada shouted in surprise.

"Not really." Yang Tian Huji said with a dark face, "It's like an infantry cannon!" ”

After a pause, Yang Tian Huji said again: "The 92nd infantry cannon has a direct horizontal aim within 100 meters, even if it only uses an ordinary blasting grenade, it is enough to penetrate the frontal armor of the combat vehicle!" ”

The armor of the Type 95 light tank was too thin.

In the blink of an eye, 6 of the 11 tanks have been destroyed.

The devil infantry hiding behind the tank was also killed.

The remaining five tanks panicked, and instead of countering the machine-gun fire point on the opposite hillside, they turned to find an artillery fire point that could threaten their own safety.

It is a pity that the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army is in the dark, while the devil tanks are in the light.

Before the devil tank found the artillery fire point of the Eighth Route Army, the artillery of the Eighth Route Army opened fire again, and with another roar, the remaining 5 tanks in the canyon were also blown up one after another.

11 Type 95 light tanks were blown up and caught fire one after another,

Hundreds of devil infantry who were hiding behind were suddenly out of shelter.

Except for some of them being killed, the rest of the devil infantry had to risk retreating.

Unfortunately, there is no chance, although these hundreds of devils only penetrate less than 100 meters into the canyon, but under the cross-coverage of hundreds of machine-gun fire points of the Eighth Route Army, this short distance of less than 100 meters has become a chasm that is difficult for these hundreds of devil infantry to cross, the outer side is life, and the inner side is death!

These hundreds of devils are unfortunately on the inner side of this chasm.

Dense machine-gun fire poured down, and hundreds of devils who had nowhere to hide fell to the ground.

In less than five minutes, there was no longer a single devil infantry standing in the canyon.

The Eighth Route Army, which was still firing fiercely just now, also ceased fire, and the entire canyon soon fell silent.

Soon, however, a series of explosions suddenly sounded on the hillside to the north outside the valley, and Yoshio Hirata and Yoshio Imada hurriedly withdrew their gaze and looked up, only to see that several groups of sharp soldiers who had climbed up the mountainside from the northern slope were also attacked.

The Eighth Route Army, which attacked the spearheads, didn't know where to hide, but condescendingly threw grenades down.

Under the attack of grenades, more than half of the spearhead group was killed and wounded, and the remaining spearheads quickly retreated.

"Yang Tianjun." Yoshio Imada felt that his throat was a little dry, and said astringently, "I'm afraid I'm in trouble now." ”

"yes, these damn dirt roads are really cunning." Yang Tian Huji said with a dark face, "They didn't build even one firepower point on the north slope of the canyon front, but built all the firepower points in the canyon, arranged them into side-fire firepower, and even built a large number of artillery fire points!" ”

Yoshio Imada continued: "This can not only effectively block the entire canyon passage, but also evade the artillery fire countermeasures of the imperial army, which is really too cunning!" ”

After a pause, Yoshio Imada continued: "And if you want to destroy the side-firing firepower of the Eighth Route Army, the Imperial Army can only attack from the north slope of the front, and this time, the Imperial Army's chariots, field artillery and even heavy artillery will all become decorations!" The Imperial Army could only rely on infantry to attack the bunkers of the Eighth Route Army, which was really troublesome. ”

"There is no other way but to attack, and the passage must be cleared before the main force of the division arrives."

Yang Tian Huji sighed, and then shouted again: "Order, the 1st Infantry Brigade will immediately send two infantry squadrons to attack from the north slopes on both sides!" ”

"Capture the main peaks on the left and right sides of the canyon first."

"Then condescendingly, clearing the firepower points of the Eighth Route Army one by one."

"Hello!" One of the heralds paused and then galloped away.

After a while, about 300 devil infantry immediately separated from the 1st Infantry Wing's brigade, divided into two routes, and launched an upward attack on the commanding heights on both sides of the wild boar ditch.

At the same time, the artillery brigade of the wing headquarters, as well as the artillery squadrons of the three brigade headquarters, set up their guns, and 20 92 infantry guns aimed the muzzles of the black hole at the north slope.

In the next moment, 20 infantry guns opened fire.

Although the Eighth Route Army was not found, according to the infantry offensive process, it was necessary to fire a few shots.

With the continuous explosions, the northern slope of the wild boar ditch was suddenly blown into smoke and dust.

After two rounds, the artillery of the 1st Infantry Wing stopped shelling, and almost simultaneously, two infantry squadrons of the 1st Infantry Brigade advanced to the edge of the impact point.

The tactical literacy of the 1st Division is really good.

The artillery bombardment and the infantry advance were almost seamless.

Almost as soon as the shelling stopped, the infantry rushed into the smoke and dust.

Then, in the smoke and dust, more than 300 devil infantry divided into two roads and climbed to the top of the slope.

The hearts of Yangtian Toraki and Imada Yoshio immediately hung up, worried that the attacking troops would be suddenly attacked by the Eighth Route Army in the process of attacking from the back, but what the two of them never expected was that until the two squadrons went up to the top of the mountain and successfully seized the commanding heights, they did not encounter any resistance.

Almost effortlessly, these two squadrons easily captured the two main peaks on either side of the boar ditch.

You don't need binoculars at all, just with the naked eye, you can see the devil infantry planting the flag on the top of the mountain, and standing on it, waving rifles and cheering loudly.

"What's going on?"

The two old devils looked at each other in disbelief.

The Eighth Route Army didn't even fortify the main peaks on both sides?

Is the commander of the Eighth Route Army a stupid pig?

Even an idiot knows what the main peak means, right?

Just when the two old devils looked at each other, the mutation was born again.

"Boom! Bang! Two loud explosions suddenly sounded from the main peaks on both sides.

When Yangda Toraki and Imada Yoshio looked at it urgently, they saw that a huge cloud of smoke and dust had risen from the main peaks on both sides, and the military flags planted on the top of the mountain, and the devil infantry who were still cheering, were swallowed up by the smoke and dust in an instant.

"Yaga!" The sudden change stunned the two old devils at once.

The Eighth Route Army is really too cunning, they have long guessed that the Japanese army will seize the main peaks on both sides,

A large number of mines were planted on the main peaks on both sides early, waiting for the devils to go up.

The hateful thing is that they didn't guess this at all, and really stupidly sent troops to attack.

Thinking of this, Yoshio Yangda and Yoshio Imada really gritted their teeth, and just by looking at each other, the 1st Search Wing and the 1st Infantry Wing had already suffered heavy losses.

The 1st Infantry Wing lost four infantry squadrons.

The 1st Search Wing was almost completely annihilated, leaving only a Type 95 tank led by Yoshio Imada and more than 120 horses from the Horse Squadron.

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