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    Wang Guangyu chose the time to start the counterattack at midnight. For him, the decided counterattack time left him less than an hour to prepare.  [.Com text] He must repeatedly think and refine this counterattack plan within an extremely limited time in order to minimize casualties.

    Yang Zhen already had the idea of ????moving the headquarters from Qunce Mountain to Xingshan Fortress. When Wang Guangyu received the order to take over the defense of Xingshan Fortress, he had already rushed to the north bank of the Nada River in person to convey the order to Li Yanping.  Got the news by mouth.  He knew that Yang Zhen attached great importance to Xingshan Fortress.  Therefore, he was still a little hesitant about Wang Xiaoming's counterattack proposal at first.

    But after knowing that the main force of Liu Changshun's second regiment was rushing back at night and night, and knowing that even if his troops would suffer heavy casualties during the counterattack, there would be follow-up troops to take over the defense of Xingshan Fortress, he made this decision.  Determined to fight a good counterattack.

    Although Wang Guangyu has made up his mind, he still does not dare to take risks.  Wang Guangyu didn't want to pay a high price.  Because he knew that when marching in the mountains at night, the chance of an accident was still very high.  He didn't know whether Liu Changshun could make it back on time.  He must be prepared that Liu Changshun will not be able to come back on time.

    Wang Guangyu did not distribute his troops evenly and adopted the tactics of combining frontal assault and flanking detours just mentioned by Wang Xiaoming.  Instead, he adopted a frontal feint attack to attract the Japanese army's attention, and at the same time used the two most complete battalions on hand to attack from the Japanese army's flanks, striving to separate the Japanese army's target in the shortest possible time.

    Through previous careful observation of the Japanese positions, Wang Guangyu found that although the Japanese deployed defensive forces on both flanks, the number of troops was not large, with an average of only one infantry squadron.  If he devotes his main forces to the flanks of the Japanese army, he should be able to achieve relatively large progress in the shortest time.

    At midnight, after half a day of rapid march, they attacked for most of the day without any rest, launching more than ten consecutive charges.  Even though the Japanese army has always been known for its tenacity, at this time, both mentally and physically, it was exhausted to the extreme.

    By the time Wang Guangyu was ready to counterattack, most of the people on the Japanese position, except for the sentries, had already fallen asleep.  For these veterans who have been drafted again, they know how to fall asleep as quickly as possible.  Although maybe they were playing geisha in Ginza, Tokyo half a year ago, or even a few months ago.

    Not long after most of the Japanese troops fell asleep, intensive artillery fire suddenly rang out from the front line of Guanmenzuizi Mountain, which had just calmed down.  When the first wave of shells hit their heads, the Japanese soldiers who were still sleeping were thrown into chaos.

    "The ones who were most affected by the artillery bombardment were the artillerymen who had never moved their position since the offensive started in the afternoon because the opponent had never fired a single counterattack shell.  The four mountain cannons of the 108th Regiment Artillery Squadron, which had been firmly locked for a long time and had shown their prowess in the afternoon and evening battles, were blown into the sky as soon as the sound of the cannons sounded.

    Not only did the Japanese mountain artillery squadron suffer heavy losses, but the shells that exploded on its position also implicated the mortar squadron connected to it.  Before Li Rui could turn his muzzle to the independent mortar squadron's position, the shells exploding from the Japanese mountain artillery position pulled most of the Japanese mortar soldiers on the road.

    Although only one-third of several mortars were lost in the violent explosion, with two-thirds of the artillerymen blown into the sky, this mortar squadron, like the mountain artillery, was able to survive in the shortest time.  Lost the right to speak within time.  In other words, as soon as Wang Guangyu's counterattack began, the Japanese army lost most of its fire support.

    Including Wang Guangyu, no one on either side of the enemy would have thought that Wang Xiaoming could achieve maximum damage from artillery fire in order to ensure that he could counterattack this time.  In the previous battles, no matter how great the pressure was, no matter how critical the situation was, even when I was on the front line several times, I didn't use any artillery.

    Whether it was the mountain artillery battery that Liu Changshun left for him, or the regiment-affiliated mortars and infantry guns, in the previous battles, silence was golden, and not even a single shell was fired.  It was not until this counterattack that all the family wealth was taken out.  Its toughness can be seen in general.  No wonder Yang Zhen once had the intention to replace Liu Changshun with him.

    Seeing that the artillery strikes played the greatest role that these artillery pieces could play, Wang Guangyu, who had already learned the details of the previous battle from Meng Ziming, could not help but lament the tenacity of his old comrade and his long-term thinking.

    Under the almost crazy fire cover of the artillery that had been suppressed for most of the day, Wang Guangyu broke through the flank defense line of the 108th Regiment that was blinded at the first time, and advanced toward the core position of the 108th Regiment.  The direction forcefully penetrated through, with a fierce offensiveThe Japanese army's position was torn to pieces.

    Meng Ziming, who commanded the frontal attack, saw Wang Guangyu tearing through the Japanese defense line and penetrating into the depth of the Japanese position.  He commanded the patchwork troops he had on hand to make a feint attack and changed his original plan, turning the feint attack into a main attack.

    When the beaten and dazed Colonel Katsaki Matsuno came to his senses, he found that his position had been thrown into chaos by his opponent's sudden counterattack.  Most of the artillery that he was once proud of was reduced to parts along with the artillery.

    Although he lost almost all artillery support and his position was torn into pieces by the opponent's fierce offensive, Colonel Matsuno O Katsuaki did not show any timidity and commanded all the Japanese troops around him who could gather to meet him without hesitation.

    ¡°At the foot of Guanmenzuizi Mountain, on the open land where the Japanese Third Cavalry Brigade was once buried, there is a brigade and a half of Japanese troops and two battalions of anti-Japanese armed forces.  On a snow-white battlefield illuminated by the smoke of flares fired almost costlessly by both sides, a hand-to-hand battle of unprecedented scale broke out.

    In the melee, all artillery fire was useless. Both sides used bayonets, gun handles, shovels, wooden clubs, and even fists and teeth to try every means to end each other's life.  If the bayonet is broken, then the handle of the gun is broken.  After smashing the handle of the gun, he used his fists and teeth to greet the opponent.

    Even after all the bullets were in the chamber, the submachine gunner, who had no time to change the magazine, simply used the submachine gun in his hand as a brick and swung it out.  From time to time, wounded soldiers on both sides who had been knocked down or stabbed fired their grenades and took one or several opponents with them on the road.

    At this time, the two armies who were fighting in a chaotic group had thrown aside all tactics and had only one purpose, which was to knock down and kill each other.  Compared with the Japanese troops who strictly followed the instructions and withdrew bullets from their guns before the melee, Wang Guangyu's men, who fired from time to time during the battle and were equipped with a large number of submachine guns and speed machines, took a huge advantage in the melee.  .

    In addition to these two close-combat weapons, Wang Guangyu, who had planned to fight like this for a long time, gave each soldier twenty rounds of specially modified bullets that had worn away the armor on the warheads, revealing the lead core inside.

    Compared with the original 38-type rifle bullets, this kind of bullet has greatly weakened penetration, but its lethality is greatly increased.  Instead of hitting a person with two eyes, one shot goes in and a big hole comes out.

    If you are lucky enough not to have your internal organs turned into a mess by this kind of bullet, congratulations, even if you are still alive, you will lose at least half a kilogram of meat.

    Wang Guangyu's move was taught to him by Wang Xiaoming, and Wang Xiaoming learned this move from an old brother who broke out from the Japanese germ warfare base with Yang Zhen, that is, the battalion commander who died.  It was precisely by using this damaging move that Wang Xiaoming, with only two light machine guns left, repelled the Japanese army's last skirmish line and even five attacks.

    With all possible means being used, the one who fell the most in this hand-to-hand battle was actually the Japanese army.  Not only were more than half of the corpses and wounded on the ground Japanese soldiers.  The first one who couldn't stand it was the Japanese army.

    "These Japanese soldiers who were recruited again after recovery and are now special divisions formed by veterans with their families are not as tough as those old Japanese divisions in their fighting will.  In nearly an hour of hand-to-hand fighting, after Wang Guangyu almost wiped out most of the Japanese troops in a brigade at the cost of two companies, the resistance of the 108th Regiment could no longer hold up and finally collapsed.

    After a bloody hand-to-hand battle two hours after Wang Guangyu launched the attack, the 108th Regiment, which could not resist Wang Guangyu's seemingly life-threatening attack, was divided into two unrelated areas of different sizes.  .  And Meng Ziming, who pressed down from the front, also drove a big wedge into one of the only two remaining territories of the Japanese army.

    Although most of the troops of a Japanese brigade were wiped out and the first combat goal was achieved, even though one of the two companies lost was a miscellaneous company composed of rescued prisoners of war, it still made Wang Guangyu feel distressed.  I almost didn't shed a tear.

    He only has two battalions of troops. Even if he adds the troops left by Wang Xiaoming, he can only reach the original size of his troops.  Although they thought of many ways to annihilate the enemy at the minimum cost, most of the battalion was still wiped out in one fell swoop.

    Wang Guangyu, who did not want to continue to suffer casualties, advanced all the artillery that Wang Xiaoming left for him.  Adopting the tactic of attaching bayonets to cannons, they got close to the Japanese positions and knocked down the firepower points one by one.  At the same time, all the seized gasoline was used, and what Du Kaishan did on the front line of Qunce Mountain was attacked with fire.

      When a large number of logs doused with gasoline and oil drums filled with gasoline were ignited from high places and pushed towards the Japanese position under the cover of artillery fire, rolling away many Japanese soldiers along the way.  After his death, Matsuno Oakikatsu discovered how important the hillock he had thrown away at the beginning of the war, which was originally a warning position, was to him now.

    Seeing his subordinates being burned to death, the light and heavy machine guns used as fire cover were almost knocked out by the opponent's direct-aimed artillery. He broke through several times but was beaten back by the opponent's intensive firepower. He knew that if he didn't break through, he would only die.  Colonel Matsuno Akatsuki of Ichijo lost his always proud calmness.

    To this day, he still can't understand why he defeated an entire regiment of his opponent's division in the Kansai battlefield. Why did he end up like this in less than a day? Matsuno, who was watching the troops around him, was  The opponent's fire attacks mixed with precise artillery fire were getting fewer and fewer. He gritted his teeth and led the last relatively complete squadron to launch a desperate attack on the opponent's position.

    The direction of his attack was not Xingshan Street behind him, but Guanmenzuizi Mountain in front of him, which cost him heavy losses.  In his opinion, even if an emperor falls, he can only fall in the direction of attack.  As a soldier of the Japanese Empire, he must not be allowed to be killed by bullets fired from behind.

    Seeing Matsuno Oakisheng coming to his door, Wang Guangyu would not be polite to him.  A large number of light and heavy machine guns and mortars were concentrated in the front-line position, creating a real fire net at a distance of 200 meters in front of their position.  Every Japanese soldier who tried to break through this fire net was beaten into a hornet's nest by the dense rain of bullets.

    Looking at the desperate struggle of the Japanese army in front of him, Wang Guangyu put down the telescope in his hand, looked at the morning star that was gradually rising on the horizon, shook his head slightly, and said nothing.  Even his subordinates' request to suspend the attack and persuade them to surrender, which could be regarded as a response to the commander-in-chief's request, did not receive an answer from him.

    Because he has been dealing with the Japanese army for several years, he knows that these Japanese soldiers who have been brainwashed by the so-called bushido spirit will never put down their weapons.  For them, persuading them to surrender is an almost impossible task.  Since these people all have granite heads, let them take their granite heads to meet their Amaterasu.

    After the last Japanese soldier in the largest encirclement circle fell, Wang Guangyu came to the dead body of Colonel Matsuno, which had been blown into two pieces by a mortar shell, and looked at the corpse that could not close his eyes until death.  The guy with the eyes still said nothing.

    After Wang Guangyu moved his eyes away from Matsuno Colonel's body, he turned his attention to his subordinates who had barely put together a company led by Meng Ziming, and the five hundred miscellaneous soldiers who were less than 700 meters away from here.  The two to three hundred were mainly wounded, and they were also the last remaining Japanese troops of the 108th Regiment.

    Regarding the last two to three hundred Japanese wounded soldiers, Wang Guangyu hesitated for a moment, but still firmly issued an attack order to Meng Ziming.  Wang Guangyu gave Meng Ziming half an hour to deal with the last remnants of the Japanese army.  Because he had already heard the faint sound of gunfire coming from the direction of the mountain pass.  He knew that Wang Xiaoming would have a hard time playing there and would not leave him much time.

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