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    Although Yang Zhen's first wave of artillery fire caused heavy damage to the Japanese troops who were unable to defend themselves.  But after all, these Japanese soldiers are well-trained veterans, and their reaction speed is still first-rate.  Compared with the puppet Manchukuo troops who were still turning around, after experiencing the initial panic, all Japanese troops, including Kitano Takatsu, had quickly stabilized.

    When the artillery fire began to extend and Yang Zhen's charge bugle sounded, dense tongues of flames appeared on the Japanese and puppet army positions.  The Type 92 infantry cannon that survived Yang Zhen's first sneak attack also began to fight back along the trajectory of the incoming shell.  But before they could even fire a few shells, the artillerymen were taken over.

    Although Kitano Takatsu made a serious mistake at the beginning, he mistook the mortar shell that his opponent hit on his head as friendly fire that was approaching him.  But after all, he was a regular officer trained through the almost cruel training of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School.  In addition to having slightly less actual combat experience, his military quality is quite excellent.

    Although their positions are huddled together, they are extremely inconsistent with the traditional combat style of the Japanese army.  However, the construction of its circular fortifications, firepower allocation, use of troops, including various emergency measures, are still in style, and can even be said to be textbook-like.

    Although it was too cold to dig out the earth and stone.  But this does not prevent them from using the trees all over the mountains and plains to build various simple, but fairly satisfactory fortifications.  After he woke up from the sudden artillery attack, both his reaction and command were remarkable.

    He was used to being despised by the Anti-Alliance and even the entire Chinese army. When he heard Yang Zhen's charge trumpet launching a feint attack at least five hundred meters away, a trace of contempt appeared on his face that had been shocked by the shelling just now.  smile.

    "Bandits are bandits. In the case of waist-deep snow, the attack was actually launched five hundred meters away. With limited mobility, slow movement, and a relatively wide range of fire, the attack launch distance  If you choose so far away, isn't that just trying to be a target for yourself?"

    "Such a unit, no matter how much artillery it gives it, how much threat can it bring to itself? If the bandits formed a dense, almost like a nest of wind, a shapeless attack formation, it is also called a skirmisher line.  if."

    Looking at the opponent in the telescope struggling to move to the skirmisher line about 400 meters away from him in a straight line, Kitano Takatsu disdainfully gave the order to open fire to the troops.  Kitano Takatsu was very proud that the Type 38 rifle in his hand far exceeded the effective range of the old rifles of the Chinese army.

    In his opinion, with his equipment and the quality of his troops, even if he suffered heavy losses in the sudden bombardment just now, he lost a quarter of his troops.  But relying on the remaining troops on hand, it is not a problem to eliminate these damn anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements in front of them.

    It¡¯s just the opponent¡¯s subsequent actions that couldn¡¯t keep the smile on Kitano Takatsu¡¯s face.  On that day, the light and heavy machine guns on the puppet army's position rang out and all the firepower points were exposed. The opponent's attack force, which was still moving slowly in the snow, was suddenly interrupted.  Everyone lay down in the thick snow and stopped attacking.

    And just when Major Kitano became more confident due to his opponent's clumsy and even cowardly performance, what happened next made him unable to laugh anymore and almost cried.

    The enemy encountered its own fire blockage, and the artillery fire that had just extended backwards and gradually became silent started again.  When the opponent's extended artillery fire turned back to him again, Kitano already felt that he had been fooled.

    This time, the opponent's mortars are so accurate, it's like they have eyes.  Almost every artillery shell would take the life of one or several Japanese soldiers when it landed on the Japanese positions, which were almost entirely exposed in the bare wilderness except for a few machine gun bunkers built with wood.

    Especially when the mortar shells that fell on his position were also mixed with mountain shells that had never been seen by all the anti-Manchu anti-Japanese armed forces in Manchuria, he understood that it was not the opponent's poor performance, but that he had deliberately set a trap for himself.

    Although the lethality of mortar shells is still limited, compared with wild mountain guns, it has a better killing effect on unprotected targets, and is more suitable for shooting at targets behind shelters and targets on reverse slopes.  The threat to those machine gun firepower points that were built with logs and covered with whole logs was not great.  But those simple machine gun fortifications built with wood were no different than paper in the face of direct-aiming mountain cannons.

    "Looking at the extremely fast-firing artillery shells fired by the opponent, which blasted into the sky, almost all of the machine gun positions that were exposed in the previous shooting, light and heavy machine guns and the shooters were reduced to parts.  Kitano Takatsu was dumbfounded like a tiger whose teeth had been pulled out.

    The second timeNot long after the sound of ??? sounded, Kitano Takatsu already knew that almost all of his light and heavy machine guns were destroyed.  After losing almost all the light and heavy machine guns, and before the mortar squadron could move up, they lost almost all fire support except for the 38-type rifles and a small number of surviving grenade launchers.

    Before Kitano Takatsu could wake up from the pain of losing all his machine guns, the change in the situation dealt him another heavy blow.

    When a group of opponents appeared almost from under his nose, under the dense cover of a storm of firepower from dozens of light and heavy machine guns that also suddenly appeared, they approached at the fastest speed and would drop a large number of grenades at the same time.  As he built his defenses, he almost couldn't believe his eyes.

    "Baga, where did these Chinese people come from? Could it be that they came out of the ground? When did they come under my nose, why didn't I notice them at all?"

    Just when Kitano Takatsu and his subordinates were in a hurry due to the large number of grenades thrown in by the opponent, and had not yet woken up from the drastically changing situation, the opponent had already relied on cunning tactics, and most of them rushed into their position.

    Before the Japanese and puppet troops could be stabilized by the even dazzling blow in front of them, which caused heavy casualties and whose morale had begun to decline, the sudden burst of gunfire from behind completely disrupted the position of these Japanese troops and made them  The originally tenacious resistance began to collapse.

    Seeing that the resistance of the Japanese army, which was being attacked from both sides, had wavered, Yang Zhen without any hesitation issued a general attack order to the main force that had moved less than 200 meters away from the Japanese position.  This time, Yang Zhen focused his attack on the flanks of the Japanese positions. The puppet Manchukuo troops had fallen into chaos during the previous shelling.  As long as the resistance of the puppet Manchukuo army is defeated, not only will the Japanese army's flank be exposed in front of him, but one of his arms will be cut off.

    For well-trained troops, the distance of two hundred meters can be reached in the blink of an eye.  Along the passages cleared by the Puppet Manchukuo Army, the attacking troops rushed to the hastily constructed positions of the Puppet Manchukuo Army without even simple fortifications without much effort.

    The will to fight was far less firm than that of the Japanese army, and the puppet Manchukuo army, which was still far from waking up from the bombardment, was unable to hold on for too long after discovering that its opponent had concentrated all its firepower and shifted the focus of the attack from the Japanese army to itself.  .  After the battalion commander was shot and killed, he only resisted briefly before collapsing.

    "I didn't expect that the puppet Manchukuo army, which was not fighting at a low level, collapsed so quickly, and the attacking troops were somewhat caught off guard.  Fortunately, Yang Zhen's reaction was not slow. After defeating the puppet Manchukuo army, except for leaving a platoon to guard the prisoners, Yang Zhen immediately turned around and joined forces with Wang Guangyu to launch a fierce attack on the Japanese army.

    Although Major Kitano tried to stabilize the already overwhelmed position, his subordinates performed very poorly.  The soldiers of the Second Battalion of the Japanese Eighth Regiment, who had not yet recovered from the repeated artillery fire and were stunned by the grenades thrown into the position one after another by their opponents, had a fighting will that could not be compared with other Japanese troops.  After seeing that his opponents were trying to encircle him, he completely lost his determination to resist.

    Once the morale of the army collapses, one can sweep away ten, and ten can sweep away a hundred.  When I don't know who was the first to drop the rifle in his hand, turn around and start running away, the entire Japanese position collapsed as if there was a plague.

    The subordinates collapsed first, and Kitano Takatsu, who was still trying to resist, completely lost his determination to resist.  Break out, break out immediately, as far away from here as possible, is the only thing that Major Kitano can think of.

    As for how to explain to the boss when he goes back, after this battle, he is likely to become the first Japanese regular infantry brigade in Manchuria to be defeated by those anti-Manchu anti-Japanese elements. That is a matter of going back.

    Kitano Takatsu didn¡¯t know how to explain the results when he went back.  But he knew that if he didn't leave, he would really not be able to leave given the current situation of being attacked from both sides.  If he died in the barren mountains of Northern Manchuria, where would the old man find an heir for the billions of family property that he had worked hard to save for most of his life?

    Thinking of this, Kitano Takatsu didn't say a word, and didn't even give an order to turn in. He had already been entangled with the opponent and his few subordinates were still holding on. He bypassed the opponent's blocking position that was stuck behind him.  Chasing his subordinates who had already run far away, they headed towards the east mountainous area where no gunshots were fired, then turned around and fled.  As for whether it was an uninhabited mountain or forest, he didn't care.

    Even though Major Kitano was not ahead of the entire second group that was escaping when they started escaping, his speed in escaping was definitely top-notch.  Without running very far, he rushed from the end to the front, leaving behind his subordinates who had run earlier than him.Got to the back.

    The escape of Kitano Takatsu and his comrades caused the still stubborn Japanese army to completely lose their determination to resist. They also relied on the skilled tactics they had trained for many years to struggle to get rid of their opponents and followed them.  Drive east behind Kitano.  Even the dense rain of bullets fired by the opponent's two heavy machine guns stuck in the road behind him could not be taken into account.

    Wang Guangyu did not expect that the Japanese army could not help but fight. Before they could use all their strength, their resistance collapsed. Wang Guangyu felt as if his fist had hit the cotton cover.  The troops who were in a hurry by the Japanese army only intercepted a small tail of the Japanese army.  The remaining Japanese troops who could still escape almost all ran out as long as they did not fall under the intensive firepower of Liu Changshun's two machine guns.

    The rapid collapse of the Japanese resistance was not only unexpected by the troops below, but also by Yang Zhen, who was already mentally prepared.  Yang Zhen's tactical arrangement was to attack from both front and back. Due to the limited troops at hand, Yang Zhen set the possible breakout route for the Japanese army in the direction from the south, as well as the direction in which the Japanese army from the west and south were likely to approach.

    As for the deep mountains and forests to the east, he also thought about it.  However, when facing the Japanese and puppet troops whose number is equal to ours, except for the three companies that are on lurking missions and the one company that blocks the Japanese army's retreat, the remaining troops have to attack the puppet Manchukuo army.  Below, it is actually somewhat inadequate.  Therefore, Yang Zhen could only deploy a small number of troops to the east as suspected soldiers.

    Of course, the lack of troops is only part of the reason. The more important reason is that Yang Zhen does not believe that the Japanese army will break through to the east.  There are deep mountains and old forests over there. Even the nearest station to the Japanese and puppet troops has to pass through 180 miles of primeval forest.  There is neither their supporting force nor the supply point there.  To break out there, for the Japanese army, it was tantamount to choosing the most unsuitable route.

    When Yang Zhen made his own combat plans, he always emphasized breaking conventions, but he did not expect that he was not the only one who always liked to do the opposite. Kitano Takatsu and his men also copied it for him in a decent way.  After breaking away from the entanglement of the attacking troops, he chose a direction that Yang Zhen thought was the least likely direction for his breakout. After leaving a pile of corpses and seriously injured people who could not move, he ran away cleanly.

    "It's just that under Yang Zhen's flanking attack and intensive artillery fire, less than 40-50% of a large group of Japanese troops could escape.  Most of the people were either killed by artillery fire or fell under the rain of grenades from the attacking troops and Liu Changshun's machine guns.

    This battle lasted less than an hour from the launch of the attack to the sound of gunfire and ended in less than an hour.  It was so fast that all the officers and soldiers participating in the battle could not believe that they were facing the Japanese army, which was always known for its tenacity and ferocity, and these Japanese troops were also a regular integrated infantry brigade.

    Not to mention the officers and soldiers, even Wang Guangyu, who was commanding the front-line battle, and the commander-in-chief and Li Yanping who were watching the battle from behind couldn't believe their eyes.  With equal strength and even some dominance, the resistance of an entire Japanese brigade collapsed in such a short period of time.  Especially after the results were tallied, almost everyone couldn't believe their eyes.

    You must know that even the armed peasants of the Japanese Pioneer Regiment, when facing the resistance, would be difficult to defeat them in such a short period of time when their forces are equal.  Not to mention that our own casualties were so small.
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