Major General Masao Miyazaki looked at the watch in his hand.

Exactly half an hour has passed.

The 4th Infantry Brigade not only did not take the Eighth Route position, but suffered most of the casualties.

"The time has come, Yamauchi-kun, let's apologize for the sins!"

Masao Miyazaki said coldly.

"General, as a warrior of the Empire, I beg to die on the way to the charge!"

Yamauchi Nakasa's face turned pale and he bowed his head and begged for mercy.

It is a shame to apologize for the sin, but to die on the battlefield, on the way to the charge, is regarded as an honor by the devils.

Chief of Staff Yoshishi Toda said, "Your Excellency Brigade Commander, please give Yamauchi-kun a chance!" ”

The captain of Toshio Sato also helped to speak: "Your Excellency General, please give Yamauchi-kun a chance!" ”

Yamauchi Nakasa hurriedly said: "General, please give me another chance, I will definitely capture the Eighth Route position and open the southward passage for the large army!" ”

Masao Miyazaki looked at Yamauchi Nakasa, and said in a cold tone: "Then give you another chance, if you can't take the position, you know what to do!" ”

"Thank you, General!"

Yamauchi Nakasa hurriedly bowed his head.

Then, Masao Miyazaki said to Toshio Sato: "Sato-kun, send a squadron from your wing and hand it over to Yamauchi-kun for command!" ”

"Hey!" Toshio Sato bowed his head and turned to walk towards the location of the Sato team.

It didn't take long for Yamauchi Nakasa to organize the remnants of the army, plus a squadron of the Sato Wing, to form a death squad of more than 400 people.

The devils tied strips of cloth on the doors of their heads, and the words "victory" were written on the strips.

The death squads of the Japanese army in World War II, such as the kamikaze special forces, must have this kind of cloth strip or turban, which means that the devils are desperate!

In the rumbling of the cannons, after Yamauchi Nakasa's bloody and passionate speech, the devils suddenly seemed to be beaten with chicken blood, and their expressions were full of fanaticism and madness.

Immediately, Yamauchi Nakasa entered the attack position with a death squad.

As soon as the cannon stopped, Yamauchi Nakasa held Nakasa's command saber in his hand, shouted kill and give in his mouth, and took the lead in the charge.

However, there was no suspense in the result, in the face of the artillery support of the anti-slope artillery position and the dense rain of bullets on the positive slope position, more than 400 devil death squads were all killed in front of the position without exception, and even Yamauchi Nakasa was beaten into a sieve.

In this round, the 13th Company of the 4th Battalion suffered less than 20 casualties, and the casualties were still very small.

In the three rounds of attacks of the devils, the casualties of the thirteenth company were about 50 people, but the number of devils killed was already more than 1,000.

After killing all the devils, the fighters immediately entered the tunnel, and the next moment, the devils' shells fell on their heels.

There are no roundabout conditions, and the tactics adopted by the devils are still old-fashioned, the artillery charges the infantry after the artillery bombardment, and the infantry charges after the artillery bombardment.

Japanese command post.

In front of the artillery team.

Masao Miyazaki's face was very ugly.

The first wave was a tentative attack, and it was normal to not touch the position of the Eighth Route Army, and it was normal for the casualties to be larger, after all, the attack force was relatively small, and the firepower of the Eighth Route was very strong.

The second wave was after the mountain artillery brigade plowed the artillery position of the Eighth Road, coupled with the brigade-level attack, the casualties were so large.

Not to mention the third wave of attacks, pure suicidal charge.

Masao Miyazaki frowned, his own artillery fire doesn't seem to work against the Eight Roads?

Could it be that the Eighth Route Army is all copper and iron, even if it is copper and iron, so many shells should have melted down a long time ago, right?

attacked three times, killed and wounded more than 1,000 people, and didn't even touch the eight-way position!

It made him furious!

According to this style of play, how long will it take to eat the eight roads that are blocking the road and go south to reinforce Taiyuan?

Two days?

Three days?

How much imperial army does this have to lose?

Chief of Staff Yoshishi Toda came over and said: "Your Excellency the brigade commander, there is a strange thing, the shells of the artillery brigade do not seem to have caused casualties to the Eighth Route Army!" ”

"Of course I can see that."

Masao Miyazaki's face was gloomy.

That's the crux of the matter.

According to common sense, if two rounds of artillery shells go down, even if the Eighth Route Army builds anti-artillery holes in the trenches, it can at least kill more than half of the Eighth Route Army.

But the fact is that not to mention that the shelling killed half of the Eighth Route, on the contrary, the Eighth Route acted as if none of them had been lost.

The artillery bombarded a loneliness.

Toda Yoshizhi said: "It is very likely that the Eighth Route has built reinforced concrete fortifications or multi-storey civil fortifications in advance, and it will be difficult for the mountain artillery to destroy them, so I propose to immediately request air support from Commander Shinozuka and use the aviation to blow up the forward and anti-inclined artillery positions of the Eighth Route with aerial bombs!" ”

Masao Miyazaki was no longer verbose, and said coldly: "Toda-kun, immediately send a telegram to Commander Shinozuka!" ”

"Hey!"

Yoshimasa Toda bowed his head and turned to the telegraph.

"Stop firing!"

Masao Miyazaki shouted loudly, and the flag commander immediately sent the order to the rear artillery positions in the flag language.

The firing of the cannon then stopped.

Soon the aviation will be called in to attack, and it will be a waste of shells to fire again.

……

358 Regiment Command.

Chu Yunfei ordered the soldiers to step up the construction of stronger civil fortifications, and on the other hand, he ordered the scouts to pay attention to the battle situation between the Eighth Route Army and the devils.

Judging from the sound of artillery alone, Chu Yunfei knew that the Japanese artillery firepower was very fierce.

Fortifications such as trenches and foxholes alone would certainly not be able to stop the Japanese attack.

Not long after the sound of the artillery stopped, the phone in the regiment headquarters rang tinkling, and Fang Ligong picked up the phone: "Hey, this is the regiment headquarters...... Okay, I'll report on the situation! ”

Looking up and seeing Fang Ligong hanging up the phone, Chu Yunfei asked him, "Brother Ligong, is there any situation in the Eighth Route Army?" ”

"Tuanza is really like a god." Fang Ligong said with a smile, "That's right, it was the forward observation position that called to report the battle situation between the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese army. ”

"How's the situation with Hachilu now?"

Chu Yunfei asked, "How long can the Eighth Road last?" ”

The regimental headquarters of the 358th Regiment is 3 kilometers away from Baozi Mountain, and in addition, there is a lieutenant general's mountain peak blocking the view, so the battlefield of Baozi Mountain cannot be seen from the headquarters at all.

However, the forward position of the 358th Regiment was connected to the telephone line with the regimental headquarters, so Chu Yunfei was able to grasp the battle situation between the Eighth Route Army and the devils in time.

Fang Ligong's tone was incredible: "The situation of the Eighth Route is very good, according to the scouts, the Eighth Route has killed more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers. ”

"What did you say?" Chu Yunfei's pupils shrank suddenly when he heard this, and his tone suddenly rose, "The exchange of fire took less than half an hour, and more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers were killed?" ”

Sun Ming, who was beside him, also widened his eyes suddenly.

"It's incredible." Fang Ligong said, "According to the scout's report, the front of the position of the Eighth Road is already full of corpses of Japanese soldiers. ”

"How the hell did the Eight Roads do it?"

Chu Yunfei asked with a face full of disbelief.

The weapons and equipment of the Eighth Road are very well-equipped, and Chu Yunfei has seen it with his own eyes.

Submachine guns, semi-automatic rifles, Bren light machine guns, bazookas, Maxim...

All the goods of foreign military manufacturers.

But the little devil's weapons and equipment are not bad, and there is even a mountain artillery brigade, and this mountain artillery brigade alone is enough for the Eighth Route Army to drink a pot.

In Chu Yunfei's opinion, when the devil's mountain artillery brigade bombarded two rounds, the Eighth Route Army suffered more than half of the casualties, and the Japanese infantry rushed again, and the battle would almost be over.

However, the gap between reality and imagination was too big, which made Chu Yunfei a little out of shape.

With such a crotch in combat effectiveness, these devil soldiers can't be pretended to be puppet soldiers, right?

Fang Ligong helped his glasses, and his tone was embarrassed: "This... It's not clear for the time being, and the scout didn't give a detailed report. ”

After a pause, Fang Ligong said again: "However, no matter how strong the Eighth Route Army's combat effectiveness is, the Eighth Route Army will definitely not be able to hold the position on Baozi Mountain. ”

"Oh?" Chu Yunfei's expression moved, and he asked, "Why did Brother Meritorious Brother say this, why do I think that the 3rd Brigade will plant a big heel in Baozi Mountain?" ”

Fang Ligong said: "Did you forget the group seat?" The Japanese army assembled more than 200 planes in this attack on the Central Army in the area of Zhongtiao Mountain, and the Japanese army only needed to dispatch more than 20 bombers to easily destroy the forward and anti-inclined positions of the Eighth Road. ”

In addition to the intelligence network that Chu Yunfei set up himself, the Second Theater Command will also share some information with him.

Of course, the important information obtained by Chu Yunfei will also be sent to the theater command.

Therefore, regarding the strength of the Japanese army's attack on Zhongtiao Mountain this time, Fang Ligong and Chu Yunfei knew it.

However, Fang Ligong and Chu Yunfei did not know the information that the Japanese army had shot down more than 110 planes yesterday.

"That's true, but... Li Yunlong's troops, however, were equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns. Chu Yunfei said.

"Even if Li Yunlong's battalion is equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns, it is estimated that there will not be too many, and most of the machine guns should be used by Li Yunlong to fight Taiyuan." Fang Ligong said.

"In this way, this eight-way force won't last long." Chu Yunfei nodded in agreement, the Eighth Route Army would definitely be bombed by Japanese planes when it attacked Taiyuan, and it would definitely not work if there were fewer anti-aircraft machine guns.

"Yes!" Fang Ligong said firmly, "The Eighth Route can hold its position for another hour or two at most. ”

……

"Nani?"

"The 3rd Brigade is asking me for help?"

In the inner city of Taiyuan, in the combat hall of the First Army, Yoshio Shinozuka turned around suddenly when he heard this, his expression angry.

I ordered you to come for reinforcements, and you asked me for help?

Taiyuan is in this situation now, and it has become a pot of porridge, what to use to reinforce the 3rd Brigade?

"Hey!" Kasai Toshimatsu bowed his head, "The 3rd Brigade was moving south along the Tongpu Highway and was stubbornly blocked by a battalion of the Eighth Route Army at Baozi Mountain. ”

Hearing this, Yoshio Shinozuka looked at the map with his eyes down, and a combat staff officer pointed out the location of Baozi Mountain on the map, and measured the distance from Taiyuan with a scale bar.

Judging from the map, the 3rd Brigade is only about 50 kilometers away from Taiyuan.

Toshimatsu Kasai continued: "This Eighth Route Army has strong firepower, sufficient ammunition, and is equipped with mortars, infantry guns and other heavy weapons, and the artillery position of the Eighth Route is on the anti-slope of the mountain, which poses a great threat to the infantry attacking the 3rd Brigade Group. ”

"Immediately do as Rear Admiral Miyazaki said, dispatch the planes of 1 flying squadron and reinforce the 3rd Brigade in the air!"

Yoshio Shinozuka pushed his glasses and breathed a sigh of relief, Major General Miyazaki asked him for support, he also thought that the 3rd Brigade was surrounded by Chinese troops.

As long as the 3rd Brigade can arrive in Taiyuan today, it will not hurt to be one or two hours late.

"Hey!" Toshimatsu Kasai bowed his head, turned around and walked briskly towards the communication room.

(End of chapter)