The breakthrough position chosen by the 46th Brigade of the 17th Division was only one infantry squadron and one puppet army infantry battalion.

If the Japanese defense line, which originally had a force of nearly 800, works together, even if the entire 46th Brigade has more than 4,300 troops, it will not be easy to break the entire defense line in less than 20 minutes.

As a result, the Japanese army was unlucky because of this puppet army infantry battalion with more than 500 troops. The reason why the 46th Brigade didn't choose other places was exactly what the secret was reported by an infantry company commander of the puppet army.

Moreover, the puppet army infantry company commander took the initiative to find the 46th Brigade a day ago and clearly marked the Japanese defense line map for the brigade department of the 46th Brigade.

Why did this puppet army infantry company commander do this? It was the Japanese who committed themselves.

The Japanese killed countless households in vast rural areas in North China. As a result, one of the villages was the home of the infantry company commander who had surrendered in the original city and was forced to serve the Japanese army. All parents, brothers and sisters were killed. Even if this guy had knelt down and planned to live humbly, he could not accept the news.

However, this person was quite thoughtful and pretended not to know anything on the surface, but in fact he kept thinking about how to cheat the Japanese hard. If he didn't cheat hundreds or thousands of Japanese people, he would not be relieved.

During the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, the Japanese side mobilized basically regular troops, and the puppet army only had two regiments, so they didn't have to go to the front line. They were basically responsible for maintaining the safety of the traffic line and attacking the Japanese army on the front line.

But in the eyes of the puppet army company commander who buried his hatred deeply in his heart, the opportunity finally came.

Before the brigade commander Kong Da returned, the 46th Brigade, which accidentally obtained this information, did not take it seriously. After all, defense is difficult, but there is no idea of ​​taking the initiative to attack.

But when the brigade commander Kong decided to break through the Japanese defense line, this piece of information was crucial.

After a simple reconnaissance, it was found that the information was basically true, and the entire 46th Brigade gathered all its troops to rush towards this area with the most vulnerable defense of the Japanese army.

The combat effectiveness of the puppet army infantry battalion was not good at all. One of the infantry companies collapsed after resisting in less than 5 minutes. Then the other two were just 'winds twitched'?

To put it bluntly, the remaining 15 minutes were borne by the tragic Japanese infantry squadron alone.

The 200VS4300, and the opponent also has at least 12 mortars and 12 heavy machine guns, and the Japanese army has only 6 light machine guns and 6 grenade launchers. With such a huge gap in strength, the Japanese infantry squadron can resist for 15 minutes is considered very tenacious.

A Japanese infantry squadron was completely wiped out, and a puppet infantry battalion collapsed, causing thousands of Chinese people to break out of the encirclement. This was actually not enough to make Masao Nakamura angrily scold his colonel-class infantry regiment captain in public.

After all, that is also a top five in the infantry brigade, and he, as the top leader, has to give people some face.

But Masao Nakamura lost all his face and gave people a face as a base bully.

So desperate, an artillery brigade of the 5th Artillery Regiment of the Fifth Division commanded by Masao Nakamura happened to transfer the position at dusk, just less than 6 miles behind this line of defense.

After receiving an emergency situation ahead, the artillery brigade not only did not run away, but also immediately provided artillery fire support.

Now, through the trajectory of the artillery shell, the brigade commander Kong Da, who had already rushed out of the Japanese defense line, determined that the Japanese artillery position was not far away.

What is the role of the 46th Independent Brigade breaking through the Japanese defense line? Isn’t it just to do its best to destroy and attract the main force of the Japanese army to pay attention to reducing the pressure on its own defense line?

The emergence of the Japanese artillery position was completely a bit undirected for the Independence 46th Brigade, which had a little no direction to break through the defense line, and hesitated, and hesitated and he was done.

Then, at around 2 a.m., more than 4,000 Chinese soldiers rushed to more than 2,000 meters, rushing towards the cornfield like locusts.

Before the artillery brigade could react, it was pressed to the ground to rub it to death.

When the Japanese army nearby responded and supported it with all its strength, the 46th Independence Brigade, which had already attacked the Japanese artillery brigade, had already left with the seized equipment.

The speed of soldiers is so high that they are fully interpreted by the brigade commander Kong.

In terms of force, Masao Nakamura's 21st Infantry Brigade actually suffered far less losses than Yamada Keiichi, but the equipment losses were much greater.

This artillery brigade is a reinforced type. The 12 41-style mountain cannons are standard, and the 4 105 howitzers were specially equipped for him, Shiro Itagaki, for the attack group of the central group. In addition, there are 4 25mm dual-mounted machine guns, which were originally used for air defense, but at this time there were no Chinese fighter jets on the battlefield in North China. The four 25mm machine guns were basically used for ground defense.

If these four machine guns were placed in front of the Japanese artillery brigade's position, they would definitely be able to block the attack of the 46th Brigade's life, but at least they could cause hundreds of casualties to the 46th Brigade.

But the Japanese artillery brigade had just moved its position, and the trenches were only temporary and heavy fire fortifications were not built, so the four 25mm machine guns were not taken out. When thousands of people from the 46th Brigade rushed over, it was too late to fight.

The four 105 howitzers weighing 2 tons naturally cannot be taken away. A pile of shells was detonated and they were all over the ground. The 12 mountain cannons could be carried on pack horses. The two regiment commanders who were worried about the weapons and equipment tried their best to take away the spoils. The brigade commander Kong could only grit his teeth and used hundreds of pack horses seized from the Japanese artillery brigade's positions to take away 12 mountain cannons and 300 shells.

The four 25mm double-mounted machine guns were even more treasured, one was an infantry regiment and two were even set up for this purpose. More than 40 people rushed 10 pack horses and two large trucks to serve these two machine guns.

After the war, it was proved that the 12 mountain cannons and 4 machine cannons that the 46th Independent Brigade had to take away without hesitating to slow down the marching speed, which was really one of the most wise decisions in this brilliant counterattack.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! The attack group of Nakamura Masao's Nakajoyama Chubu Group originally had 36 Type 41 mountain cannons and 4 105 howitzers. As a result, after one night, 24 of them were lost, including 75 mountain cannons and 4 105 howitzers.

The only remaining artillery brigade owned by the 12 mountain cannons were even less than the number of artillery equipped by an infantry army of the 38th Army of the Chinese 38th Army.

Today, the 38th Army has more than 36 82 mortars, 12 75 mountain cannons, and 6 150 heavy weapons. This does not include the slightly weaker 96th Army and the Tang Dao troops in Sizhou Mountain that have received reinforcements.

If it is purely about ground firepower, Masao Nakamura's central attack group is at an absolute disadvantage for the first time.

If the 4th Army headquarters could seize this opportunity to order a full-scale counterattack, perhaps Masao Nakamura would have a miserable face.

Unfortunately, Shiro Itagaki, who received a request for help from Masao Nakamura at around 5 a.m., reacted very quickly and immediately ordered a mixed brigade of the North China Front Army to besiege the Fifth Army to move closer to Masao Nakamura, and also let an infantry gang in the Kyosaki Detachment that suffered severe damage in the south of Ruicheng City accompany the last eight 105 howitzers of the 5th Division to support Masao Nakamura.

By 9 a.m., Masao Nakamura, who had obtained 8 105 howitzers and a mixed brigade with a force of more than 5,000, had regained the advantage of heavy firepower, at least leveled the firepower gap.

Yamada Qingichi also had 2,000 infantry brigades. Tang Dao, who had completely recovered the high ground, received a reconnaissance report from Li Jiujin who had escaped into the mountainous area, and did not make the next attack.

He promised that the new soldiers who were exhausted both mentally and physically would be the last large-scale battle last night.

If the Japanese don't come, then both sides will be in peace. If they consciously have some support and want to cause trouble, then the Tang Tuanzhang doesn't mind giving them a big stick to serve them.

The Sizhou Mountain now has more than the only remaining 2,000 troops in the new regiment and the baggage company. On the outside, there are three elite infantry companies of the Four Corps and 12 mountain cannons that can be used.

However, although China, with the 4th Army as its main force, cannot guarantee a full-scale counterattack against the Japanese army in front of it, it can basically ensure that the entire line of defense is worry-free.

The pressure on the Japanese attack group faced by the Fifth Army over there was also a lot of relief because a mixed brigade was transferred away.

China, which has been passively beaten, can breathe a sigh of relief, but for the Japanese side, it dare not take it lightly.

The battle over a week has made the Japanese army feel that although the Chinese army they faced this time is still insufficient firepower, they have no way out of their way to retreat against the river.

If they mobilize their troops to pursue the Chinese army that rushed out of the defense line, and the shortage of troops leads to the Chinese taking the opportunity to fight back, they may be a big defeat.

Therefore, early in the morning of the 14th, although we knew that thousands of Chinese troops were rushing to Ruicheng, the more than 170,000 Japanese troops in front of the 150-mile defense line in Zhongtiao Mountain were still as motionless as a mountain.

Shiro Itagaki placed his hope on the West Tu Detachment of the 4th Division, which he ordered to be transferred to Yuncheng dozens of miles away.

In the eyes of this Japanese lieutenant general, although the "Unsick Imperial Army" is a bit bad, at least there are nearly 10,000 people. If you can't beat the thousands of Chinese troops who are ignorant of their lives, you will at least not be defeated.

Perhaps this is not only Shiro Itagaki, but also Shanshanyuan, who is far away in Pingbei City, also thinks so.

Although he was very dissatisfied with the appointment of Shiro Itagaki as the top commander on the front line at the base camp, Shanshanyuan didn't want any mistakes in this battle. After all, his North China Front Army dispatched nearly 130,000 people, and was the main force of the Nakajoyama Battle. If he was beaten up in shame, Shiro Itagaki would certainly take responsibility, and his nominal supreme commander would probably be lost.

However, what these two Japanese commanders imagined was that if in the early morning of the 14th, Masao Nakamura and Kei Yamada were scratched with blood due to the Chinese night attack and counterattack, then the Major General of the 4th Division, Yukiosuke Okumizu, was beaten to death.

The 4th Division's combat effectiveness is still very good. At least when we learned that thousands of Chinese people were rushing towards Ruicheng County, Yukiosuke, who was in Yuncheng, immediately made corresponding arrangements.

First, an infantry brigade under his command defended the city walls of Ruicheng. As long as the Chinese dared to attack, thousands of Chinese people who could not leave Ruicheng would be buried with death; second, two infantry brigades carried 4 Type 94 tanks, 6 mountain cannons, 4 90 mortars, and 4 infantry cannons to Ruicheng, and used the city to attract the main force of the Chinese. 2,000 imperial infantry formed a semi-encirclement to annihilate them.

3. The other three infantry brigades belonging to the Western Tu Detachment formed a defense system with Yuncheng City Wall as the core to prevent the lurking enemy from attacking Wangwu Mountain.

This military order for attacking and stable distribution of troops was recorded in the battle report of the 4th Division and reported to Shiro Itagaki for approval!

Ruicheng and Yuncheng are both logistics transfer bases for nearly 200,000 Japanese troops this time, especially Yuncheng, which has railway stations. Not to mention ammunition, the various types of grains they reserved are as high as 1.2 million kilograms, but that is only enough for the 180,000 troops on the front line to eat for 10 days.

If the food reserves in Yuncheng are gone, the food reserves of the 180,000 Japanese troops on the front line can only last for three days. If the food in individual soldiers is reduced like the Chinese, it can last for eight or nine days. However, people can be hungry. Horses who are carrying huge transportation tasks will need enough forage and refined grain, especially in this winter when grass is lacking.

Moreover, as a logistics base, Yuncheng also has field hospitals stationed here with divisions and regiments. There are more than 1,000 medical staff alone, and more than 9,000 wounded soldiers received. This is after nearly a thousand critically injured people were transported back to the original city by train.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Using Itagaki Shiro's original words: Ruicheng can be lost, Yuncheng must not be lost.

Even if Konosuke Okuba didn't want to push the good guys from Osaka to the battlefield at all, he would not be allowed to retreat at all at this time.

But Tang Dao, who was dozens of miles away, taught this person a good lesson: staying away from the front line is not necessarily a good thing, and being slapped behind his back will hurt even more.

Leng Feng, who received the order from Tang Dao, marched fifteen miles towards Yuncheng, but did not immediately launch an attack. Instead, he sent a scout to reconnaissance the movements of the Japanese army in Yuncheng.

This reconnaissance was not important, but it was discovered that Yuncheng sent a large number of 3,000 people to lead an armored convoy and artillery team along the road towards Ruicheng.

Isn't this the meat that was sent to your mouth on its own initiative! Leng Feng immediately realized that this was a rare fighter, and it was even more useful than immediately urging troops to attack Yuncheng with city wall defense.

"If you have land and lose people, people and land will be lost! If you have land and lose people, people and land will be preserved!" This is the longest sentence Tang Dao Jiang said to the strategic and tactical class.

Under the influence of Tang Dao, the battalion commanders of the Four Army Regiment were not interested in counterattacking and regaining lost cities. The effective killing of the Japanese was what they should do most at this time.

So, Leng Feng, who was less than 8 miles away from Yuncheng, immediately turned around and ambushed on a small hill less than 10 miles away from Ruicheng County.

It is actually not accurate to say that the ambush is actually not accurate, because when Leng Feng and Shangguan Yun's troops arrived in the mountainous area, the reinforcements of the Xitu Detachment were actually only 8 miles away from them. The time left for Leng Feng and others is no more than 30 minutes, and the Japanese vanguard troops of this unit will arrive.

At that time, the battle in Ruicheng had already begun.

More than 4,000 officers and soldiers of the 46th Independent Brigade are now determined to act as the main force of the Japanese army to die. That is the mentality that the Japanese can be scared to the point of being as cruel as they are?

For the safety of more than 200,000 soldiers and civilians in Zhongtiao Mountain, the Heavenly King is here, and Ruicheng has to be fought.

As soon as we got up, the firepower was fully opened, and the four 25mm machine guns raked in an area less than 700 meters away from the city wall, smashing the broken city wall, which was less than 3 people high, splashing dust.

But this is not what scares the Japanese the most. What scares the Japanese army the most is that the Chinese may be afraid that mountain cannons will accidentally blow up the houses and people in the city. They actually flattened the muzzles of the mountain cannons and shot them as direct aiming cannons.

The earthen city walls of small counties like Ruicheng can withstand such bombings. After dozens of cannons, several gaps were blasted open to the walls.

This scared the infantry captain who was ordered to defend, and kept sending telegrams to Yukinosuke Okuba for help.

Yukinosuke Okuba could only keep urging the two infantry brigades he sent to speed up, but he didn't know that this was sending more than 2,600 Japanese troops into the tiger's mouth.

The first blow encountered by the Japanese army, who were exhausted and panting, did not come from the mountains and fields.

The vanguards they sent completed their mission very well. The hillsides nearly 200 meters away from both sides of the road were tested by them with live ammunition.

The third battalion of the Fourth Army Regiment, and the remaining three infantry companies of the Fourth Battalion are actually 350 meters away from the simple highway. In addition to the various machine guns that can pose a threat to the Japanese army, the threat to the Japanese infantry is extremely small.

Unfortunately, all infantry battalions of the Four Line Regiment carried anti-tankrei and anti-infantry mines.

After knowing that the Japanese army was the Type 94 tank, the engineer platoon who advanced with the team used a short 20-minute time difference to bury trigger bombs filled with new explosives in the grass on the side of the road.

The Japanese infantry running on the side of the Type 94 tank with short legs rang a roadside bomb. The huge shock wave exploded more than a dozen Japanese soldiers into heaven and scattered flowers, and also overturned the Type 94 tank weighing only one ton, completely blocking the road that was not wide.

The three Type 94 tanks that attempted to get off the road and detoured from the field unfortunately hit the anti-tankrey filled with five kilograms of explosives and were blown into three burning torches.
To be continued...