But without sacrifice, how can there be victory?

Okamura Koji was also a very decisive general. When faced with the life-or-death choice between breaking through the Nakajo Mountain defense line and forming an independent mixed brigade, he chose the former without hesitation.

The designation of the 2nd independent mixed brigade has been crossed out in Okamura Koji's heart.

He knew very well that the speed at which the opponent captured Linfen City meant that it was the main force of the Eighty Group Army, most likely the 921st Division that became famous in the Battle of Zishan.

The 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade will most likely suffer heavy losses in the face of their attack.

But that's not important, they only need to exchange their lives for 2 days and nights.

As the commander-in-chief of the front army, the divisions are just chess pieces on the chessboard, let alone a small mixed brigade? As long as the chess piece can play its due role when used, its final fate is not important.

This kind of tactical deployment is actually no problem. According to statistics after the war, in order to hold back the main force of the Japanese army that night, the Chinese suffered more than 14,000 casualties, which was even close to the total losses in the three days before the entire battle of Zhongtiao Mountain.

The 17th Division even suffered a 30% battle loss rate as a result!

This was also hailed as the most outstanding night of the Chinese ministries, which had a mediocre performance in the Second Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain.

Without this extremely bloody night, Anda 23 would most likely have dispatched a reserve division to return to Yuncheng to deploy defenses. Regardless of past suspicions, the main force and the guard brigade of the 80th Group Army would have achieved at most the victory over Linfen City and the annihilation of an independent mixed brigade.

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Although that was a good result, compared to the loss of the Zhongtiao Mountain defense line, the result of annihilating 10,000 enemies would be meaningless.

The Tenth Theater in Shaanxi Province will lose the most important line of defense along the Yellow River, and the Japanese North China Front will be able to march eastward at any time.

As for the national strategy, the Chinese Ministry of Military Affairs had to mobilize the elite infantry troops in central and southern China to march westward to Shaanxi Province to prevent the Yellow River defense line from being lost.

Originally, in the south, China could only block the Japanese offensive. If it were to mobilize its troops again, it would undoubtedly be more difficult.

The Japanese North China Front lost the bet.

The talented major general who received the military order did not evacuate in time and could only set up defenses on the spot. It was not until the early morning of the next day when artillery fire filled the sky that he knew what kind of Chinese troops he had encountered.

They can be said to be China's two most elite infantry brigades in North China. They were able to defeat the Japanese army in every aspect, whether in terms of the quality of their soldiers, their equipment or their strength.

The number of infantry available for attack is not important. There are 70 infantry companies. What is important is that there are as many as 300 artillery pieces of various types participating in the artillery bombardment of the Japanese positions that day, including 36 mountain guns, 24 150-meter heavy guns, 22 70mm infantry guns, and 82-caliber guns.

42 artillery pieces and 200 60mm mortars.

Forget it, both mountain artillery and mortars are mainly designed to kill infantry, and have little destructive effect on solid bunkers.

The Japanese army's civil engineering work was not completed. They dug 12,000 meters of trenches and more than 400 bombproof holes of various types overnight. No matter how fierce the Chinese artillery fire was, they could not rely on artillery fire alone to form an independent 2nd brigade.

If it is destroyed, the infantry will eventually have to charge.

As a result, while the Japanese troops were hiding in the trenches and covering their heads to avoid the rain of artillery shells, the Chinese engineers came as close as 200 meters away from the front line, dug out temporary individual bunkers and temporary trenches, and deployed a kind of soil that could no longer be used.

Earthly "thick-tube artillery"!

In the early morning light, as the small red flag was waved again and again, the kind of cannon with a gasoline barrel as a barrel dropped explosive packets as big as a bamboo hat onto the Japanese positions.

That was the ultimate disaster for the Japanese troops on the battlefield.

Five-kilogram explosive packs used terrifying shock waves to kill countless Japanese soldiers in trenches and shell-proof holes. Many Japanese soldiers appeared to have no injuries on the surface, but a large amount of blood spurted out from their mouths and noses, which was full of internal organs.

Was shattered.

The defense line carefully constructed overnight was blown open by the Chinese with crazy artillery shells and explosives in less than an hour.

When the Japanese bombers taking off from Yuncheng flew over the battlefield at 8 o'clock, they were fully loaded with bombs and could not drop a single bomb. The Chinese and the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade were completely strangled together. On the battlefield, there is me among you, and you among me.

If you drop a bomb at random, it may blow up both the Chinese and the Japanese into ashes.

After circling for several times, the Japanese fleet had no choice but to return.

The independent 2nd mixed brigade, which was surrounded by divisions and divisions by the Chinese, did not hold out for long at all. The fierce fighting continued until the afternoon, and there were only sporadic gunshots on the battlefield.

After the victory, the two elite Chinese infantry brigades did not clean the battlefield at all, but immediately divided their troops into four groups and marched towards Yuncheng.

And at noon on the second day, the divine soldiers descended from the sky on the outskirts of Yuncheng across an entire hundred kilometers!

An infantry battalion of the Jinan Guard Brigade, with the help of 20 jeeps equipped with heavy machine guns, raided the most important military airport in Yuncheng.

Caught off guard, the outer defense line was breached, and the 40 fighter planes parked on the tarmac had no time to take off before being blown up by the Chinese with mortars and grenades.

Air support was completely cut off, and the logistics base that provided supplies for hundreds of thousands of troops was besieged.

Lieutenant General Anda 23, who was still commanding the battle on the front line, was so dizzy that he almost fell to the ground!

This is such a rhythm that the group battle in the front has not yet decided the winner, and all the crystals in the highland tower behind are about to be stolen.
Chapter completed!