After the attacking devils were defeated, the soldiers of the new regiment and the first battalion immediately withdrew into the tunnels of the mountain under the order of Zhang Dabiao.

After more than twenty seconds, the devil's artillery fire arrived as scheduled, and groups of shells fell on the positions of the first battalion.

More than a dozen soldiers retreated a beat slower because of rescuing the wounded, and were suddenly covered by the devil's artillery fire.

However, the vast majority of the fighters with the wounded successfully retreated into the tunnel of the mountain a few seconds before the devil's shells fell.

Li Yunlong watched the devil fire at the position again, but his expression was very uneasy.

When the devils come back to a suicidal charge or two like this, the new regiment can launch a counteroffensive.

According to intelligence, the devils who came to attack Dagu Town this time had only one infantry wing, plus an infantry brigade and a mountain artillery wing.

Three attacks the devil has already lost an infantry brigade.

The devils attacked once or twice, and then they had to lose at least one infantry brigade, and then the devils were left with only 2 infantry battalions and a mountain artillery wing.

The cavalry battalion and the main battalions of the new regiment only need one charge to defeat the remaining devils.

However, now the devil also has an infantry wing and a mountain artillery wing, even if the main force of the new regiment is pressed up, even if it can win, the loss will be not small.

Again, we can't do a loss-making business.

……

Meanwhile.

Inside the headquarters of the Japanese army.

The division commander Jing Guan ordered the artillery to bring a pair of artillery mirrors.

While the rear artillery wing was bombarding the position of the Eighth Route Army, Jing Guanqian was also observing with the artillery mirror.

You can see it more clearly with a gun mirror than with a telescope.

I saw the shells tearing every inch of the Eighth Route Army's position, but I couldn't see the stumps and broken arms that were blown up and flew up at all.

On the position of the Eighth Route Army, there was no one at all, and the shells exploded lonely.

"Bagaya Road, immediately order the artillery to stop firing!"

The telephone line between the headquarters and the rear artillery positions had been connected, and when the devil's telephone soldiers heard this order, they immediately dialed the telephone and ordered the rear artillery to stop firing.

As soon as the order was given, the devil artillery immediately stopped firing.

The sound of artillery then became sporadic and then completely inaudible, and the entire battlefield became quiet and eerie.

"Your Excellency the division commander, please allow me to personally lead the infantry to charge again."

"This time, I will definitely take the eight-way position!"

The commander of the 222nd Wing, Atsuji Sato, ordered the division commander to stop the shelling, thinking that the artillery had finished bombardment and that it was time for the infantry to rush again.

The failure of the attack of the 3rd Infantry Brigade just now made Atsuji Sato unable to raise his head in front of Iseki Yan.

An infantry brigade-level charge failed to capture the position of the Eighth Route Army, and suffered heavy losses, with most casualties.

It's a shame!

In many cases, this is the case in war, even if you know that you are defeated, the troops will be sent to death as soon as they go up, but the military order is like a mountain, and even if you know that you will die, you have to go up even if you know that you will die.

"Yaga!"

Jing Guan Yan suddenly scolded angrily, and opened his bow left and right, and slapped Zuo Teng Atsuji two resounding slaps:

"It's a shame that a big left-rank officer actually rose up with the idea of personally leading the infantry to charge!"

"Hey!"

Atsuji Sato did not dare to be dissatisfied in the slightest, and quickly straightened his face.

The other party is a lieutenant general, and he is just a big left, with two big levels in between, even if the other party farts, it is right.

"In the future, no more such thoughts are allowed, Da Zuo should be in the command position, not lead the infantry to charge!"

"Hey!"

Atsuji Sato hurriedly paused.

He also didn't know if the division commander was angry because of the failure of the attack, or because he was going to lead the infantry to charge.

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, the position of the Eighth Route Army seems to be strange."

Chief of Staff Ishikawa put down the binoculars, his eyes narrowed, and he suddenly said in a deep voice.

Jing Guan's expression moved: "Ishikawa-kun, what did you find?" ”

"Hey!" Ishikawa Zhishui said: "Does Your Excellency the Division Commander know that in the Taiyuan Battle more than half a month ago, one of the battles was the 3rd Brigade to reinforce Taiyuan, but it was blocked by the strength of a battalion of the new regiment in Baozi Mountain, and the 3rd Brigade suffered more than 3,000 casualties but failed to cross Baozi Mountain, which indirectly led to Taiyuan being captured by the Eighth Route Army, and General Yoshio Shinozuka was martyred. ”

"Of course I do!"

Iseki said awe-inspiringly: "That battle was a humiliating battle for the 3rd Brigade, the commander of the 3rd Brigade Masao Miyazaki was dismissed, and the two wings of the 3rd Brigade were beaten to the point that only one wing remained. ”

After Masao Miyazaki was dismissed, he served as deputy chief of staff of the First Army, assisted by Yoshio Iwamatsu.

At present, he has taken up his post in Taiyuan, but because of the big defeat in Baozi Mountain, he is not treated well at the headquarters.

The base camp also hopes that Masao Miyazaki will be brave and brave, do some achievements, and then go back to be the brigade commander.

But Masao Miyazaki and the 3rd Brigade have become a disgrace and a laughing stock for the First Army.

Ishikawa said: "If Your Excellency the division commander does not want to follow in the footsteps of Major General Miyazaki, he will order the withdrawal of troops and give up the capture of Dagu Town. ”

Jing Guan's face was not good, and he asked in a deep voice: "Ishikawa-kun, what do you mean, can't our 36th Division still capture a small big lonely town?" ”

"Your Excellency the division commander, my 36th Division naturally has no problem capturing Dagu Town!"

Seeing the face of the division commander, Ishikawa Zhishui hurriedly said:

"But the current situation is that the new regiment has used the same tunnel tactics as Baozi Mountain."

"Moreover, the new regiment is also supported by artillery fire from two artillery wings."

"If these two problems are not solved, even if our 36th Division captures Dagu Town, the final casualties may not be less than two infantry wings!"

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Hearing that there were no less than two infantry wings with casualties, Jing Guanqian and the officers behind him couldn't help but change their faces.

The 36th Division was able to participate in the battle, that is, three infantry wings and one artillery wing, in addition to a search wing of more than 400 people.

The rest are the engineering wing and the baggage wing, as well as the communications corps, field hospitals and other departments.

For a small lonely town, two infantry wings were killed and wounded... Is it worth it?

"Can you request reinforcements from the aviation to blow up the artillery positions of the new regiment of the Eighth Route and use aerial bombs to blow up the tunnels dug by the Eighth Route Army in the mountains?"

Zuo Fuji Atsuji said unwillingly.

In the attack just now, his 3rd Infantry Brigade lost most of it, and even the captain was shattered, so Atsuji Sato naturally wanted to take revenge.

"Not to mention the heavy losses of the aviation units in the Taiyuan Campaign, they have not yet recovered, and the aviation units of the First Army have not even been reorganized."

"How many aerial bombs do you need to blow up the tunnels of the Eighth Route Army?"

"In addition, Li Yunlong is extremely cunning, not only does he make a lot of fake positions every time he builds an artillery position, but also has a large number of machine guns to protect the artillery position."

"I have studied the previous battles between the imperial army and Li Yunlong, and almost every time an imperial plane was shot down by Li Yunlong."

"Even in the last Battle of Taiyuan, more than 110 imperial planes were shot down."

Ishikawa's control of the water is obviously a study of Li Yunlong.

In his opinion, Li Yunlong is indeed crazy, but he has crazy capital, how can he dare to shake the 36th Division with the strength of a regiment without some strength?

Iseki's eyes narrowed, and Ishikawa's words gave him a step down.

Originally, I thought that Dagu Town could be easily captured, but now it seems that it is impossible to capture Dagu Town without losing a few thousand people.

Baga, who the hell invented this pit tactic, it's disgusting!

"Order, turn back to the county seat!"

Jing Guan ordered loudly.

The situation of the 36th Division at the moment was different from the 3rd Brigade's attack on Baozi Mountain.

At that time, the 3rd Brigade received an order to rush to the aid of Taiyuan at all costs.

So Masao Miyazaki had no choice but to take the lives of the soldiers to pile up.

However, even with the tactics of artillery bombardment and infantry rushing at the same time, paying a huge price in casualties, it still failed to break through the position of the Eighth Route Army.

But now that the 36th Division has received an order to watch and monitor the new regiment, there is no need to take Dagu Town with huge casualties.

"Hey!"

Atsuji Zuoto was unwilling, but he had to carry out the order and bow his head in response.

"Go back to the county seat!"

With the order of the headquarters, the devil immediately gave up attacking Dagu Town.

The 222nd Wing returned to Anhua County under the leadership of Zuo Teng Dazuo, and the 36th Artillery Wing returned to Heyuan County under the leadership of Jingguan Yan.

Soon, the news of the retreat of the devils reached the headquarters of the new regiment.

"Jing Guan, this old devil is not a man, where did he go, why did he run away?"

Li Yunlong was suddenly disappointed, and he still thought that he would wait for the devils to charge once or twice again, and the new regiment would have a big counterattack.

It would be better if I could kill this old devil.

Although the command of the devil is within the range of the howitzer, the distance is too far to find the location of the command of the devil, so it is impossible to hit the command post of the devil with the howitzer.

However, Li Yunlong did not order the pursuit, in case he fell for the devil's tricks.

The most important thing at the moment is to expand the troops, as long as the troops are pulled up as soon as possible, then it will not be the 36th Division of the devils to attack the new regiment, but the new regiment to attack the 36th Division.

After ordering the first battalion to continue to defend Dagu Town and guard against a sneak attack by devils, Li Yunlong ordered the assembled troops to be disbanded.

At the same time, a telegram was sent to the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment, informing Ding Wei and Kong Jie that the ducks in their mouths had flown away, so that they would not use them.

Ding Wei and Kong Jie had just set off with their troops, and both of them received an order from the headquarters to reinforce the new regiment.

The people in the base area were preparing to pack up the fortified walls and clear the wilderness, but soon received the news of the victory of the new group to repel the devils, and they all had to run away from home.

After this battle, the sense of security of the people in the base area was instantly doubled.

In the past, when the new regiment did not come, the devils and puppet troops in the strongholds and turrets went out to sweep the township, and the villagers had to hide in the mountains.

But after the new group came, it continued to make the devils deflated and happy.

However, if the little devils are not driven out of China for a day, the Chinese people will not be at ease in their hearts.

Therefore, the villagers are more supportive of the work of the Eighth Route Army.

The news of the annihilation of a brigade of the 36th Division reached the General Headquarters, and the leaders of the General Headquarters praised Li Yunlong for his beautiful fighting and sent a telegram of commendation.

Although this battle was not outstanding in the record of the new regiment, it was the record of the new regiment after it arrived in the northwest of Shanxi Province and independently faced the attack of a Japanese division.

The news soon reached the headquarters of the First Army of the Japanese Army, and although Iwamatsu Yoshio did not scold Iwasaki, he also ordered Iwasaki to strictly prohibit attacking the new regiment without an order.

After the 36th Division arrived in the northwest of Shanxi, it was not as simple as occupying only three county seats.