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    c_t; Ikegami Kenji was so desperate that Su Yingqi's pressure immediately doubled.  Read the full text of the latest chapter.  Updates so fast.  The two sides barely made any probing attacks before they collided with each other fiercely.  In order to regain this commanding height in the shortest time, the Japanese army launched a "wave" and "wave" style continuous charge with the squadron as the organization and pressing across the entire line.

    Facing the almost continuous offensive of the Japanese army under the cover of extremely fierce artillery fire.  Even though there were fortifications built by the Japanese army that could be used, the troops led by Su Yingqi fell into a hard fight in a short period of time facing the Japanese troops attacking from three directions.

    The Japanese army barely paused for a moment, and under the continuous charge, they didn't even have time to take a breath.  During the attack, the Japanese army adopted a variety of tactics. If a frontal attack failed, they would be encircled by the flanks.  If the flank was beaten back after a roundabout attack, a two-pronged attack would be used.  At the risk of being accidentally injured by artillery fire, attacks were launched in three directions at the same time.  This kind of attack by the Japanese army made Su Yingqi somewhat stretched in the use of troops.

    The ferocity of the Japanese offensive, the large number of troops invested, and even the casualties, surprised Su Yingqi even though he was mentally prepared.  The flares fired by both sides illuminated the area controlled by Su Yingqi almost into daylight.

    Although heavy casualties were suffered under the crossfire of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the Japanese offensive not only did not weaken as time progressed, but became more and more fierce.  A wave of attacks were defeated, and the remaining Japanese troops held on to the spot.  There were even fortifications built with the corpses of his own colleagues, and they fought with the Anti-Japanese Alliance on the spot.

    When the next wave of attacking troops arrived, the anti-Union mortars that rushed across the reverse slope of the mountain formed a fire interception network, and then joined the second wave of charging troops.  They even risked the intensive counterattack firepower of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, pushing the infantry artillery and rapid-fire cannons right under the Anti-Japanese Alliance's noses and firing directly.

    The company at the foot of the mountain bore the brunt of the attack and became a key target of the Japanese army.  In just half an hour, seven to eight hundred artillery shells fell on the small position they controlled.  At the same time, in order to pull out this nail, the Japanese army deployed two squadrons of troops and adopted the tactics of attacking from two sides and attacking simultaneously from multiple channels.

    Although relying on the firepower on the hills behind them, especially the firepower support of three large-caliber machine guns.  It restrained the Japanese army from pushing the infantry artillery right under their noses and firing directly at them.  However, after holding on for two and a half hours under the crazy Japanese attack regardless of casualties, half of the position was lost.

    The troops themselves suffered more than half casualties, and the remaining troops were compressed to the foot of the mountain.  Although Su Yingqi continued to organize anti-slope mortar fire support, his shortcomings in military strength prevented him from continuously investing reinforcements like the Japanese army.  [Fast updates, clean website pages, few ads, I like this kind of website the most, must praise it] Under the situation where the Yamashita troops could no longer stand, they had no choice but to shrink.  Abandon the position at the foot of the mountain and withdraw the remaining troops to the mountainside to stand firm.

    The positions on the mountain were also reduced to ruins by fierce Japanese artillery fire.  The firepower point inside the mountain was composed of Japanese fortifications. The Japanese army used the cover of night to advance the 25-pound field artillery to a distance of 1,500 meters and fired directly. One-third of the reads were destroyed within two hours;  .

    The fortifications here were built by the Japanese army, and they knew the location of the firepower points very well.  This 'artillery' doesn't need to be too progressive, and it doesn't even use flares to indicate the target.  By blind shooting at a long distance, two shells can destroy a firepower point, and there is no need to test fire at all.

    In order to destroy this field cannon, Su Yingqi personally directed a 14mm machine gun to continuously capture, trying to destroy this field cannon.  However, the Japanese army mobilized an engineering squadron to assist the artillery in changing positions for this field gun.  Never fire three times in a row at the same position.

    After firing two shells, they immediately moved their positions.  It was in the night again, and the visibility of 1,500 meters was almost zero.  The limited flares could only be used to block the Japanese offensive.  In addition, this field gun was equipped with a muzzle brake. Even at night, the muzzle fire was not obvious, and this field gun was never captured.

    When the sky gradually began to lighten during the war, the hill where Su Yingqi was located had been blown into a piece of dust by the intensive Japanese artillery fire.  Then he grabbed a handful and his hands were full of shrapnel.  Within ten hours from the time when the two sides officially opened fire to seven o'clock in the morning, tens of thousands of Japanese artillery shells of various calibers fell on this small hill.

    There was nothing left of the already sparse vegetation on the entire mountain.  The incendiary bombs that had long been fired by the Japanese army burned the ground to a white ground.  The main peak position among the three hills was severely cut by Japanese artillery shells during the ten hours of fierce fighting.The bottom is nearly one meter.

    Because of the terrain restrictions, the actual forces invested by both sides were actually at the battalion level.  Even the Japanese army did not have more than two infantry brigades.  However, after less than twelve hours of fierce fighting, the entire position was beaten to a pulp, which is enough to show the determination of the Japanese army and the fierceness of the concentrated artillery fire.

    The troops at the foot of the mountain, under the continuous crazy attacks of the Japanese army, have all been forced to shrink to the ridgeline.  In both directions, the Japanese army also laid many nails in the forward positions.  By this point in the battle, the reinforced battalion he led had suffered one-third casualties.

    Of course, the casualties of the Japanese army were greater. There was a whole layer of corpses in front of the entire position that the Japanese army had no time to recover.  In front of the position, everywhere there were the groans of wounded Japanese soldiers who were too late to evacuate.  After ten hours of fierce fighting, the Japanese army's first deployment of troops resulted in two-thirds casualties.

    Even though it suffered huge casualties, the Japanese army¡¯s investment in troops and firepower in this direction did not decrease significantly.  The fierce battle in the middle of the night has passed. Although both sides are quite exhausted, the Japanese army continues to invest troops.

    In a fierce battle in the middle of the night, the main attacking 38th Infantry Brigade was defeated.  Among the four infantry squadrons invested, it could only be reduced to one infantry squadron after only ten hours.  Saburo Kiyono, captain of the 38th Brigade, who was personally commanding the front line, was also killed by an anti-alliance mortar during the battle.

    All the squadron captains of the four squadrons participating in the battle were killed, and 70% of the officers were killed.  A considerable part of the infantry squad was basically wiped out.  The entire 1st Squadron participated in the battle, and in the end there were only seven wounded.  This number of casualties has exceeded the casualties paid by the Ninth Brigade in the entire Third Battle of Changsha.

    Faced with the delay in making decisive progress and the huge casualties.  Major General Kenkichi Ikegami was quite surprised by the fierce firepower of the infantry and the strong will to fight, but he did not hesitate at all.  He immediately transferred two squadrons from the 40th Infantry Battalion, which served as the Japanese reserve force for the entire Kangbao battlefield, to take over the offensive.

    And the two squadrons of the brigade's engineering brigade were also invested in this direction.  There was also a squadron of heavy baggage soldiers who were assigned to the 48th Brigade.  In order to seize this commanding heights, Major General Kenkichi Ikegami can be said to have mobilized all available forces.

    After Major Saburo Kiyono was killed in battle, he immediately sent Lieutenant Colonel Katsumi Horuchi, captain of the 40th Battalion, to take over the command.  The 38th Brigade and the 40th Brigade were the basic troops that participated in the Third Battle of Changsha before they were mixed into the 9th Brigade and transferred to the Kangbao battlefield.

    By using the 40th Infantry Brigade to replace the 38th Infantry Brigade, Major General Kenkichi Ikegami can be said to have worked hard.  There was no other way. If he wanted to defend Kangbao City, he had to recapture the hilly area in the northeast.  Otherwise, the Anti-League would attack from a high position and even hit his headquarters directly.

    In order to reduce the number of troops and ensure the input of troops in the northern battlefield.  He even reduced the defense on the southern front to the line of Dong Twelve Qing, Haojiacun, and Guojiaying.  And here is only a few kilometers away from Kangbao City.  But Kenkichi Ikegami's move was not a simple concession.

    He was using the retreat to disperse the forces invested by the Anti-Japanese Alliance on the southern front.  Although the southern defense line was shrunk back a considerable distance.  But he left a lot of firepower and troops behind the Anti-Japanese Alliance.  In this way, unless the resistance alliance on the southern front is willing to risk the danger of being attacked from both sides, they can only disperse their forces and attack one by one.

    Faced with this situation, Yang Jicai immediately put the last reserve team in his hands into the offensive on the southern front.  But the lack of troops had a fatal impact on this battle.  Although he had tried his best to launch an offensive to cope with Su Yingqi's troops who were fighting hard on the northern front.

    But with limited troops, by noon of the second day, he was unable to attack the enemy.  We can only use one force to contain them head-on, and mobilize part of the force to turn back and eliminate the nails deliberately left behind by the Japanese army.  Otherwise, it would be difficult for the forward troops to stay there under the fire from the front and rear.

    As for Su Yingqi on the northern front, the only support he can do now is to "draw" a company from the front line to strengthen Su Yingqi.  In order to prevent Su Yingqi, who has insufficient troops, from being completely defeated on the northern front under such a desperate offensive by the Japanese army.

    After receiving a detailed report, Yang Jicai did not object to Su Yingqi's switch from offense to defense on the northern front.  For him, if he wants to eat the Japanese soldiers in person now, he absolutely does not have the capital.  His original intention was also to adopt millstone tactics, launching an offensive at night to seize several key points, and use defense instead of attack to attract the Japanese troops' depth little by little.

    ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????  It's just that he was prepared to take on the burden of the millstone.It's my own responsibility.  But Su Yingqi seized a key point on the northern front and shouldered the burden.  Su Yingqi's adjustment of deployment was exactly in response to his tactics.

    It¡¯s just the current situation, although it is developing according to Yang Jicai¡¯s original expectations.  But the current situation made him really unable to be optimistic.  Insufficient troops left him with no reserves in hand.  Although the main force of the Japanese army was used on the southern front, the opportunity was attracted by Su Yingqi. After fighting for most of the night, a considerable number of key points had been seized.

    But the current attacking force is unable to continue attacking due to insufficient strength.  Unless the nails left by the Japanese troops behind them were completely eliminated when they retracted backwards.  Otherwise, the troops that have been used to their maximum strength will no longer be able to mobilize more than one platoon of troops to launch an attack except for infiltration operations.

    The battle situation on the southern front did not worry him too much.  What he is most worried about now is that the northern front is currently responsible for 60% of the Japanese troops facing them and almost 90% of the artillery fire.  Under the current situation where the troops on the southern front have been used to the extreme, there is really no way to 'deploy' more troops to the northern front.

    "The color" came again that night, facing the stalemate battle situation and the increasing pressure on the northern front.  After Yang Jicai temporarily formed a platoon of non-combatants such as grooms, guards, and clerks and transferred them to Su Yingqi on the northern front, he found that there were no more troops to transfer.

    After hesitating for a long time, Yang Jicai gave up on reporting directly to the headquarters and sent a telegram to Liu Changshun and Wang Minggui respectively.  Although he had the urge to report directly to the headquarters, Yang Jicai finally gave up the idea considering the strict discipline in the army
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