Chapter 136 Captain Kishida Taro immediately ordered, "Machine guns! Machine guns, get up there quickly!" His company was a machine gun company, and its role on the battlefield was to suppress the enemy's firepower.

At this time, the Nationalist army's heavy machine guns suppressed the infantry company in front, preventing them from moving, and the infantry company's own few machine guns were completely insufficient.

Now was the time for his company to go up and confront the Nationalist army's machine guns. As the machine gun company charged upward, the Japanese soldiers of Ikebegame Hide's infantry company consciously made way.

They also assisted the Japanese soldiers of the machine gun company in rushing up quickly. These Japanese infantrymen were very clear: if they could not rush to the top of the mountain in the first instance, the more the time dragged on, the more difficult it would be to occupy the top of the mountain.

Captain Ikebegame Hide also followed the machine gun company this time, wanting to rush to the front to see the situation.

Captain Ikebegame Hide, hiding behind a rock, poked his head out to check the situation. Although he could not see the entire top of the mountain from here,

he could still clearly see a portion of the summit: the Japanese soldiers were fighting with the Nationalist army.

The shouts of the Nationalist soldiers, the roars of the Japanese soldiers, and the sounds of bayonets clashing mingled together, creating an earth-shattering scene.

From the number of troops engaged in melee combat, the Japanese still had the upper hand, but in terms of bayonet skills, the Nationalist soldiers were superior.

As a result, the two sides engaged in melee combat were evenly matched.

The Japanese soldiers of Kato Yuto's infantry company and Ito Jiro's machine gun company, who were fighting bayonet-to-bayonet with the Second Company, were also fighting with confidence.

Captain Ikebegame Hide, as an outsider, could see that the two sides were evenly matched, but the Japanese soldiers of Kato Yuto's infantry company believed that they had several times more troops and felt confident that they had the advantage.

Annihilating the Nationalist soldiers who were still struggling here was only a matter of time. Company Commander Shi Junxia was already injured at this time, but he was also full of confidence in victory: because he knew very well that there were more soldiers charging up behind the First Company.

The First Company only needed to hold on for a few more minutes, and the situation would completely reverse. Both sides believed they had the advantage, and their morale was extremely high, making the fighting even more intense.

The position where Ikebegame Hide's company came up was somewhat awkward: there was still a small open area in front, less than thirty meters away, and they could charge into the battlefield.

Captain Ikebegame Hide believed that as long as his infantry company charged into the battlefield, it would be the last straw that broke the camel's back.

The First Company's heavy machine gunners, who were providing fire support from a distance, were also aware of this situation, and they attacked the Japanese soldiers who had just reached the top of the mountain even more fiercely.

The open area in front of Ikebegame Hide's company had been riddled with grooves by heavy machine gun bullets.

All the bushes in this area were lying on the ground, occasionally hit by bullets again, causing them to twitch and struggle.

Two large trees still stood in the middle, not yet fallen, but the bark had been stripped from their trunks, and the trunks had been torn apart in many places.

Captain Ikebegame Hide could see that there were two heavy machine guns on the opposite side specifically targeting those two large trees. Their purpose was obvious: to break those two large trees, cutting off the Japanese soldiers' idea of using them as cover.

What could be done now? Captain Ikebegame Hide could only cast his expectant gaze on Captain Kishida Taro.

The Japanese soldiers of Kishida Taro's company did not disappoint him: they quickly entered their positions, and six machine guns opened fire at the same time. More machine guns were entering the battlefield behind them.

Their machine guns were mainly targeting the Second Company's six heavy machine guns. These Japanese soldiers of Kishida Taro's company were not aware: the Special Brigade's heavy machine guns were not afraid of machine guns and heavy machine guns.

On the battlefield, the Special Brigade's heavy machine guns were only afraid of artillery, or the Japanese grenade launchers, which could pose a threat to them.

Now, using machine guns against heavy machine guns was completely like an ant trying to shake a tree, and it did not have any effect at all.

Captains Ikebegame Hide and Kishida Taro quickly discovered: their machine gun bullets hitting those heavy machine guns only caused some sparks to fly, and then nothing else happened.

The Nationalist army's machine guns continued to strafe, their soldiers not even pausing to change positions, as if they had taken root there, constantly strafing.

This left Captains Ikebegame Hide and Kishida Taro dumbfounded: unable to suppress the enemy's machine gun fire, they would have to sacrifice at least a hundred Japanese soldiers to cross this open area.

This was a loss that neither of their companies could afford. They discovered that the Nationalist army's blockade of the open area in front not only had not weakened, but was even more intense than before.

The machine gun fire that they were focusing on suppressing had not weakened at all, but had instead intensified. The two captains exchanged determined glances.

Captain Ikebegame Hide ordered, "Grenade launchers, take out the enemy's machine guns!"

At this time, the soldiers on the Second Company's side were also preparing to use rocket launchers to take out the Japanese machine guns.

The accuracy of grenade launchers depended entirely on the experience of the Japanese soldiers. Those Japanese soldiers who first went to the battlefield were very skilled at using this weapon, and could completely use the grenade launcher as a mortar.

Now, after a year of attrition, these Japanese soldiers had almost completely been replaced. The Japanese soldiers who were good at using them were all dead.

This was why Captain Ikebegame Hide did not use them immediately after coming up.

Now that the machine guns could not suppress the enemy, he could only let the grenade launchers try their luck, in case they got lucky.

At this time, Captain Ikebegame Hide felt that the falling shells seemed to be denser.

On this mountaintop, he had a bad feeling for the first time. Captain Ikebegame Hide's feeling was not wrong. The Third Company of the Second Regiment had now charged up.

Third Company Commander Zheng Tianan saw the situation on the mountaintop clearly, and ordered the mortars to join the bombardment of Ikebegame Hide's company's direction, and ordered the machine guns and heavy machine guns to join the First Company's Second and Third Platoons in suppressing the Japanese soldiers on the hillside. The rest of the troops launched a charge against the Japanese soldiers who were still stubbornly resisting on the mountaintop.

The Japanese soldiers of Kato Yuto's and Ito Jiro's companies, who were already having a hard time holding on, collapsed all at once.

They had only had a numerical advantage, and had only gained the upper hand in the first wave of melee combat, but at that time, the Nationalist soldiers who had charged up fought to the death without retreating.

The bayonet skills of those soldiers were quite good, and they used small injuries to exchange for the lives of the Japanese soldiers of Kato's company.

When a new batch of Nationalist soldiers came up, the Japanese soldiers of Kato Yuto's company had already begun to feel uncomfortable.

Now that more than a hundred more Nationalist soldiers had been added to the opposite side, the Japanese soldiers of Kato Yuto's and Ito Jiro's companies began to panic all at once.

Some of the Japanese soldiers were already looking around for a way to retreat, and they suddenly saw the Japanese soldiers of Ikebegame Hide's company:

So, you guys are here too!

However, Ikebegame Hide's Japanese soldiers were firmly pinned down in a corner of the mountaintop and could not break through at all.

Captains Kato Yuto and Ito Jiro, seeing that they were unable to continue holding on, had no choice but to order, "Rally towards the friendly forces."

The Japanese soldiers of the two companies began to disengage in an orderly manner. They wanted to disengage now, but the three companies of the Second Regiment were unwilling to let them go.

Now it was their turn to have the upper hand. Moreover, when had Company Commander Jing ever been injured in a bayonet fight?

Not to mention that almost everyone in the entire First Platoon was injured now. If he didn't kill every single Japanese soldier here on the spot, he would not be able to swallow his anger.

After Captains Kato Yuto and Ito Jiro issued the order, they immediately ran towards Ikebegame Hide's company.

Sergeant Major Ogura Keita was one of the Japanese soldiers who charged the fastest. He also saw the open area, and the two large trees that had originally stood there had fallen down.

The dense branches and leaves had been riddled by the dense rain of bullets and could no longer conceal the Japanese soldiers' movements. However, the thick trunks could still block some of the bullets' damage.

Sergeant Major Ogura Keita was charging towards those two trees. At his speed of a hundred-meter sprint, it would take less than two seconds to cross the ten-meter-long open area.

In just two seconds, he could break through behind the trees and then rendezvous with the Japanese soldiers of Ikebegame Hide's company, which would allow him to live a little longer for the time being.

What no one expected was that Sergeant Major Ogura Keita, who was sprinting at a very fast speed, sprinted across the open area, but did not cross the tree. His body was lying on the tree trunk, and it would twitch from time to time when hit by a bullet.

Sergeant Major Ogura Keita was dead! He died on the last step.

This made Captain Ikebegame Hide hesitate. There was no shortage of desperate Japanese soldiers in his ranks.

Immediately, two more Japanese soldiers charged forward. They tried to charge across, but one of the Japanese soldiers fell on the way, and the other fell on the tree trunk.

This outcome calmed down the two company commanders who had retreated here. They seemed to have forgotten one thing just now: Ikebegame Hide's company couldn't charge over, so how were they going to charge over?

This was a deadly matter, and it was really deadly now. The Japanese soldiers of the two companies were originally fighting bayonet-to-bayonet with the warriors of the Second Regiment, and some of the Japanese soldiers escaped, and the Japanese soldiers who were left behind panicked immediately.

Panicking while fighting desperately meant that death was the only outcome. Those Japanese soldiers had now been killed.

At this point, Captain Kato Yuto's idea of wanting to disengage from the entanglement had finally been realized.

The soldiers of the Second and Third Companies, plus a platoon of the First Company, were not to be outdone with the rifles in their hands, and now they all opened fire on the Japanese soldiers crowded together.

The Japanese soldiers of Kato Yuto's Company and Ito's Machine Gun Company also hastily fell to the ground and began to fight back.

The mountaintop was now in complete chaos, with the Japanese soldiers divided into three groups, each fighting its own battle.

The First, Second, and Third Companies occupied the largest area of the mountaintop, and were also divided into three parts to attack the Japanese soldiers.

The heavy machine guns deployed by the Third Company Commander in the distance also discovered this group of Japanese soldiers in Kato Yuto's company, and immediately began to strafe and harvest them.

At this time, Captains Kato Yuto and Ito Taro no longer hesitated, and they could only make a desperate gamble: "Charge over there!"

The remaining fifty or so Japanese soldiers would all die in this place if they didn't take a gamble.

The remaining fifty or so Japanese soldiers of the two companies desperately charged towards the location of Ikebegame Hide's company.

The Japanese soldiers were no strangers to this kind of charge. They often used this tactic when attacking, and called it the: Boar Assault Tactic.

The meaning was that when charging like a wild boar, they only needed to lower their heads and charge towards the target.

However, they had used this tactic to attack in the past, but today they were using this tactic to escape!

More than fifty Japanese soldiers hugged each other and charged towards the location where Ikebegame Hide's company was located. The dense heavy machine gun bullets and the fierce artillery bombardment did not stop these Japanese soldiers.

They left more than thirty Japanese soldiers' corpses on this open space, and finally more than a dozen Japanese soldiers charged past the two trees.

The two companies drawn from the reserve team of the 106th Division now had only these dozen or so Japanese soldiers left.

Captain Ikebegame Hide immediately replenished them into his team and ordered them to turn around immediately and shoot at the Nationalist army on the other side.

Company Commander Shi ordered: "The Third Company will guard here and not let the Japanese soldiers come over. The First and Second Companies will attack the Japanese soldiers at the foot of the mountain." The foot of the mountain he was talking about was the Tsukamoto Kazuki Battalion at the bottom of the slope.

At this time, the situation on the mountaintop was basically stable: the Japanese soldiers occupied a small part of the mountaintop, and they occupied most of the territory.

Let the Second Company guard the border, as long as they don't let the Japanese soldiers rush over, that's all for now. Let's first attack the main force of the Japanese soldiers at the foot of the slope.

After all, the foot of the mountain was where the main force of the Japanese soldiers was, and so many Japanese soldiers were waiting to die.

The First and Third Companies were now not only firing at the Japanese soldiers of Captain Fujiyama Tomomi's and Captain Yoshioka Yauo's companies on the hillside.

They could now draw a portion of their troops to fire at the main force of the Japanese soldiers at the foot of the slope.

Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki, listening to the sound of bullets whizzing past around him, and seeing the crowd of Nationalist soldiers on the mountaintop,

immediately understood: all six companies he had sent up had failed to occupy the mountaintop successfully. What could he do in this situation?

If he didn't retreat, staying in place would only mean being passively beaten, and it wouldn't be convenient to fight back. Did he want to continue attacking the mountaintop? The price would definitely be high.

Even if Captain Ikebegame Hide's company and Captain Kishida Taro's company still occupied a piece of land on the mountaintop and were still holding on.

But judging from the situation of the Kato Company, which was suppressed and unable to lift its head, the situation was not good!

Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki ordered, "Everyone, retreat!"

When they retreated, Captain Fujiyama Tomomi, who was still struggling on the hillside, was in a difficult position.

They could neither advance nor retreat. If they could retreat, they would have retreated long ago. Yoshioka Yauo's Machine Gun Company had already retreated.

Now, if they didn't retreat, wouldn't all of these Japanese soldiers die when the entire battalion of Japanese soldiers at the foot of the mountain retreated?

Death was inevitable anyway, so Captain Fujiyama Tomomi had no choice but to order, "Retreat!"

All of his subordinates understood: not retreating now meant certain death, retreating meant possible death.

Of course, they wanted to retreat. The entire infantry company now had less than fifty Japanese soldiers left, and they could no longer care about anything else.

They didn't care whether or not they had to leave Japanese soldiers behind to provide cover. The Japanese soldiers retreated down the mountain, each displaying their own skills.

Some slid directly down the hillside, some rolled down the mountain in a ball, and some carefully climbed down. These Japanese soldiers had only one goal: to escape!

The Japanese soldiers at the foot of the mountain began to flee, and the mortars of the three companies of the Second Regiment on the mountaintop were concentrated and bombarded the Japanese soldiers at the foot of the slope.

Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki felt a little desolate: he had come at the wrong time. The Nationalist army had just annihilated the Kobayashi Korebumi Regiment, and he had come.

Moreover, the attempt to seize the high ground had failed, and the advancing team had also failed.

Of the fourteen companies he had brought, eight companies had now been lost, and the remaining six companies had also suffered heavy casualties.

It wasn't that he was incompetent, it was just that he had too bad luck! Or rather, it was that Regiment Commander Kobayashi Korebumi was incompetent.

Thinking that Regiment Commander Kobayashi Korebumi could bury the entire infantry regiment of five thousand Japanese soldiers in such a short period of time, Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart.

What could he do now? He could only report his predicament to the rear!

Originally, he wanted to wait until he led the entire battalion to defeat the Nationalist army that was blocking the way before reporting to the headquarters of the Eleventh Army.

How good it would have been to report the good news directly at that time! Now that possibility was very low.

Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki felt for the first time the idea of retreating all the way back to Jiujiang in his heart.

The situation report he sent back shocked the headquarters of the Japanese Eleventh Army: the Kobayashi Korebumi Regiment had been completely wiped out, with no survivors!

This news was too shocking for the Japanese soldiers. They didn't even believe it was true, and suspected that the telegraph operator on Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki's side had sent the wrong message.

They immediately sent a telegram back to confirm the authenticity of the information, and waited for an affirmative reply.

For a time, all the Japanese soldiers in the entire headquarters fell silent. Commander Okamura Yasuji's face was as white as snow, without a trace of blood.

He never thought that the Kobayashi Korebumi Regiment, the last reserve force of the Eleventh Army, would be completely annihilated like this.

Mahuiling was important, and the supplies stored in Mahuiling were even more important, but all of these things combined were not as important as the five thousand Japanese soldiers of the Kobayashi Korebumi Regiment!

It wasn't that Commander Okamura Yasuji valued the lives of these Japanese soldiers, but mainly because this regiment was already the last reserve force in his hands. Now that they were finished, he would have no Japanese soldiers to dispatch if there were any more situations on the battlefield.

The Japanese soldiers of the entire Eleventh Army headquarters only paid attention to the annihilation of the Kobayashi Korebumi Regiment, and had not yet noticed that the Tsukamoto Kazuki Battalion had also suffered heavy casualties.

After all, heavy casualties were still different from complete annihilation. After a while, Okamura Yasuji finally came back to his senses.

He carefully read the telegram and saw that of the fourteen companies led by the Tsukamoto Kazuki Battalion, two companies had been completely annihilated, and six other companies had suffered heavy casualties, and the remaining companies had also suffered great casualties.

In this situation, it was unrealistic to let them continue to advance to reinforce Mahuiling. Commander Okamura Yasuji ordered, "Send a message! Let them immediately retreat to Jiujiang!"

At the same time, he ordered the Japanese soldiers around him, "Immediately formulate a Jiujiang defense plan!"

When he received the retreat order issued by the headquarters of the Eleventh Army, Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki was overjoyed: it was Commander Okamura Yasuji who had ordered him to retreat, not that he had taken the initiative to request a retreat.

In this way, it would not affect the undefeated reputation of the 6th Division.

Of course, this did not include the defeats they had suffered at the hands of the Special Brigade. The 6th Division, the 11th Army, and the Japanese base camp had all deleted these defeats using the Spring and Autumn Annals technique.

In any case, the Nationalist army's newspapers had never reported the defeats suffered by the 6th Division at the hands of the Special Brigade.

On this matter, it was as if the Nationalist army and the Japanese soldiers had reached a common consensus.

Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki had already issued the retreat order, and the remnants and defeated soldiers he temporarily led began to retreat.

These Japanese soldiers had retreated hundreds of meters when, at this moment, the sound of a whistle came from afar. He was of course familiar with this sound.

The Tsukamoto Kazuki Battalion had been so high-profile all the way from Jiujiang! They had also been whistling all the way.

The "woo woo" whistle sound, along with the speeding train, resounded through the fields all the way. Now, this train gave Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki endless confidence: the 106th Division's field artillery regiment had arrived.

This field artillery regiment was stationed in Jiujiang, only lacking the First and Second Artillery Companies, which had already entered Wanjialing.

Now, the main force of the entire regiment was coming, and their arrival could immediately strengthen the artillery shortcoming of the Tsukamoto Kazuki Battalion.

Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki no longer hesitated. He still wanted to turn the tables and return the shame he had just suffered.

Now he didn't want to retreat anymore, he wanted to attack! Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki ordered, "Establish a defense line on the spot, and let the field artillery regiment immediately launch a bombardment of the Nationalist army."

Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki immediately sent a signal soldier to run quickly to the rear to convey his order.

The Japanese troops who had retreated two hundred meters to the rear did not leave at this time. They stopped, and began to fight back on the spot.

All the Japanese soldiers here knew: the field artillery regiment was coming from the rear. With dozens of field guns bombarding the Nationalist army on the mountaintop, there was no way the Nationalist army could hold on.

These Japanese soldiers could then counterattack all the way, and they must return the blows they had suffered earlier.

The morale of these Japanese soldiers who were still alive suddenly increased greatly, and they had already seen the spring.

Even the Japanese soldiers of the Ikebegame Hide Infantry Company and the Kishida Taro Machine Gun Company, who were being beaten by the Third Company on the mountaintop, were excited when they heard the whistle.

Of course, they also knew that this was the field artillery regiment of the Japanese 106th Division. A regiment of field artillery was enough to blow up this mountain.

Captain Ikebegame Hide ordered the signal soldier to go down the mountain immediately and report the situation on the mountaintop to the field artillery regiment commander, so that they would not bomb the Japanese soldiers.

The whistle sound brought endless courage to the Japanese troops, and these Japanese soldiers also placed endless hope on the field artillery regiment that was about to arrive on the battlefield.

Lin Fan did not expect that the Japanese soldiers would actually have a third batch of reinforcements. How many batches of reinforcements were these Japanese soldiers going to send over?

He had already decided to fight the three batches of reinforcements sent over by the Japanese soldiers for a while. If there were a fourth and fifth batch of Japanese soldiers, the Special Brigade would retreat immediately.

Lin Fan asked through the walkie-talkie, "Regiment Commander Liu, what position have you broken through to?"

Liu Lao Pao led the Second Regiment, with three companies to seize the nearest mountain, and the remaining companies were still continuing to break through forward.

He looked at the location of the First and Second Companies, and immediately reported, "Our main force is five hundred meters in front of all the peaks of the First Company.

Five companies of the 15th Regiment are five hundred meters in front of us."

Lin Fan ordered, "The third batch of Japanese reinforcements is coming, and they have not yet appeared. You have already heard the whistle. Find a mountain on the spot to hide and wait for the Japanese train to stop, and then hit the train head first."

"Yes! Go up the mountain on the spot and hit the train head first," Liu Lao Pao repeated.

Lin Fan ordered Jing Chengxuan, the company commander of the First Company of the 15th Regiment, who was running at the front, "Your five companies, continue to advance and break through to the rear of the third batch of Japanese reinforcements. Await orders."

Lin Fan was unable to directly see the Japanese train here, but since the train entered the blind spot, it had not come out again, and he could infer its approximate location.

The task of the Second Regiment had now been modified to break through to the rear of the third batch of Japanese soldiers.

The Japanese soldiers arranged by Regiment Commander Magosaburo Awazu at the front of the train discovered that the front was filled with smoke, and it was obviously a battlefield.

They quickly ordered the train to brake urgently, and they stopped two kilometers away from the battlefield.

The Japanese soldiers were a full kilometer away from the ambush position of the Second Regiment, how could they ambush them?

The soldiers of the Second Regiment who had reached the top quickly reported this information to Liu Lao Pao. Liu Lao Pao ordered the Fourth Company to stay here to prepare to snipe the Japanese soldiers who retreated from the front, and then led the rest of the companies to continue their breakthrough.

The five companies of the 15th Regiment were not far from the train that the Japanese soldiers had stopped on. Lin Fan discovered this problem on the mountaintop and immediately ordered Company Commander Jing Chengxuan, "Continue to advance and occupy the mountain in front. The Japanese soldiers are at the bottom of the hillside."

After the Japanese 106th Field Artillery Regiment stopped, they immediately began to prepare to establish an artillery position.

The entire artillery regiment was divided into four battalions. The 1st Artillery Battalion was equipped with twelve Type 92 70mm infantry guns, but two platoons of this artillery battalion had already entered Wanjialing, so in reality, there were only six Type 92 infantry guns.

The infantry gun weighed only four hundred and twenty catties. As soon as the train stopped, the Japanese soldiers of the 1st Battalion who received the order immediately began to drag the six infantry guns off the train and began to set up their positions.

Their battalion's artillery was the lightest and could be put into offensive operation the fastest.

Battalion Commander Zai Naoki repeatedly urged his subordinates to set up their positions and prepare to fire.

Of the entire regiment, his battalion was the only one that could switch from traveling to firing in ten minutes.

Although he didn't know what position he should bombard, Zai Naoki knew that the front line definitely needed their support.

The 2nd Artillery Battalion was equipped with twelve Type 38 75mm field guns with a range of 8.3 kilometers, weighing nearly two thousand catties.

This was already the second lightest artillery in the entire artillery regiment. Battalion Commander Kojinadaishi was also urging his subordinates to drag the artillery down as quickly as possible.

He also told some of the Japanese soldiers to find a suitable artillery position to set up.

The Type 38 75mm field gun, unlike the infantry gun, didn't require a specific location. It could be dragged to any position and fired.

His twelve were much heavier and larger, and the artillery position needed to be leveled in advance.

The 3rd Battalion was equipped with twelve Type 38 105mm field guns with a range of 9.8 kilometers, weighing up to five thousand catties.

Captain Hongo Teruya was also ordering the Japanese soldiers to level the ground. The artillery of this battalion was not in a hurry to unload from the train, but to find a location first.

The 4th Battalion was equipped with twelve Type 96 150mm howitzers with a range of 11.5 kilometers, weighing nearly 10,000 catties.

At this location, Captain Hida Kamigaoka had no intention of unloading the vehicle. With the fire support of the first three artillery battalions, he could already suppress the Nationalist army.

These 10,000-pound artillery pieces, whether loading, unloading, or entering a position, all required a trailer to proceed.

Therefore, the Japanese soldiers of the 4th Battalion were the most relaxed in the entire artillery regiment. They simply got off the train, ran to check whether the artillery had shifted on the flatbed truck behind, and then watched the Japanese soldiers of the other three battalions busy.

Zai Naoki's battalion's six Type 92 infantry guns were ready, and he saw the defense line that the Tsukamoto Kazuki Battalion was building from the telescope.

Zai Naoki saw that this infantry battalion was being shot at from the mountaintop and immediately ordered, "Aim at the mountaintop in front! Fire!"

The distance from them to the target location was about 2,300 meters, which was exactly within the range of the infantry gun.

The six infantry guns immediately began firing, and the Japanese soldiers fired!

The three companies of the Second Regiment on the mountaintop immediately discovered Zai Naoki's artillery position and immediately began to fight back.

From the time Company Commander Shi and the others received the mission to occupy the mountaintop to now, a lot of time had passed, and all the equipment and soldiers of the three companies had rushed to the top of the mountain.

Just now, the mortars of the three companies were still bombarding the Japanese soldiers who occupied the other half of the mountaintop, and the six infantry guns of the three companies had just been dragged to the mountains and were preparing to fire at the Japanese soldiers on the mountaintop.

They were bombed by the artillery regiment of the Japanese soldiers who had just arrived on the battlefield in the distance. Company Commander Jing immediately ordered, "All mortars and infantry guns, fire at the Japanese artillery!"

Fifteen mortars and six infantry guns fired at the Japanese artillery in the distance at the same time. The Japanese soldiers of Zai Naoki's battalion had only fired two rounds of shells, and they immediately received countless shells.

Captain Zai Naoki saw that the situation was not good and quickly ordered the Japanese soldiers to retreat immediately. They had to change to another artillery position to continue firing.

That's where the advantage of the Type 92 infantry gun lies. Two Japanese soldiers could pick it up and run. They ran fast, and the Japanese soldiers did not suffer in the first round of the battle.

The Ikebegame Hide Company, which was fighting against the Second Company on the mountaintop, was hit by more artillery shells anyway. Although they were also bombed by the artillery shells of the Zai Naoki Battalion just now, they didn't actually feel much.

Lin Fan estimated the location where the third batch of Japanese reinforcements stopped and ordered the rocket artillery company to fire test shells at the Japanese train. The Fourth Company of the Second Regiment reported the landing point of the test shells.

Ten minutes later, the five companies of the 15th Regiment had rushed to the top of the mountain. Company Commander Jing and the others had just reached the top when they saw the Japanese soldiers at the foot of the mountain being bombarded by rockets.

Regiment Commander Magosaburo Awazu ordered the train to retreat as soon as it was bombed. The road was too dangerous, and it had to retreat a little.

The rocket artillery was covered by bombardment, relying on quantity to win. Two companies fired ninety-six rockets in one round.

After three consecutive rounds, nearly 300 shells not only made the railway uneven, but also destroyed several carriages of the train on which the 106th Field Artillery Regiment was riding. The train stopped and could no longer move.

The signal soldiers sent by Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki and Captain Ikebegame Hide had arrived, and they reported the information they brought to Regiment Commander Magosaburo Awazu.

The current Regiment Commander Magosaburo Awazu was unable to attack the bombing targets proposed by Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki. The targets were a little far away, and it had to wait until the positions of the twelve Type 38 75mm field guns of the 2nd Battalion were built and put into use before they could hit them.

The request of the Ikebegame Hide Company was acceptable. He had already ordered Captain Zai Naoki to avoid the half of the mountain near them when bombing the mountain.

The Japanese 106th Field Artillery Regiment was being bombarded by artillery fire, which made Regiment Commander Magosaburo Awazu very depressed. This was the first time his regiment had been bombarded by the Nationalist army's artillery fire.

Now, he could only urge the Second and Third Battalions to quickly enter their positions and immediately open fire to suppress the Nationalist army's artillery fire.

As for the location of the Nationalist army's artillery positions? He didn't know at all. The rocket bombardment also affected the Japanese soldiers of the Zai Naoki Battalion, and they had to continue to change positions.

In the artillery fire just now, a dozen Japanese soldiers in his artillery team had been killed or injured.

This made the Japanese soldiers in the Zai Naoki Battalion very uncomfortable. The Nationalist army they could hit had too much firepower.

The Nationalist army that they couldn't hit had even more firepower! Senior Sergeant Shimmura Masaru was dragging the Type 92 infantry gun and had been back and forth on the railway three times. Every time they just fired, they immediately attracted the Nationalist army's crazy counterattack from the mountaintop. After two rounds, their team, which originally had six infantry guns, now had only three infantry guns left. The platoons of the other three infantry guns had all died, lying on the artillery position unattended.

Lin Fan received Company Commander Jing's report: "The train that the Japanese soldiers came on this time is full of artillery, and the railway has been blown up and cannot be escaped."

Hearing that it was full of artillery, Lin Fan immediately ordered the two rocket artillery companies to stop the bombing. Lin Fan had a fondness for artillery. He liked the sentence: Truth is within the range of artillery fire.

This may not be appropriate to use between people, but it is absolutely correct to use internationally.

And this has been verified countless times. Since the train was transporting artillery, the bombing would end here!

Lin Fan ordered, "Company Commander Jing! Your five companies must ensure that the Japanese soldiers do not take the artillery away or destroy the artillery!"

"Yes! Guarantee to complete the mission!"

Lin Fan ordered Regiment Commander Liu Lao Pao of the Second Regiment: "Immediately rush from the breakthrough position to the railway line and launch an attack on the third batch of Japanese trains that have arrived. You must capture the carriages."

At this time, the two infantry regiments of the 66th Army also arrived on the battlefield, and their mission was to transport supplies.

Regiment Commanders Ningo and Ishii, seeing the Japanese corpses all over the ground and the mountains of weapons and ammunition, were all happily distressed: there were too many supplies, how could they finish moving them?

The supplies at Mahuiling Railway Station had not been moved yet. What could be done now?

Continue to report to the army commander and let him send some more troops from the mountains to transport supplies, transporting supplies was not dangerous.

Army Commander Ye Zhao heard Regiment Commander Ning report that more manpower was needed to transport supplies.

His army's task was to cut off the Japanese soldiers' food supply and cut off the Japanese soldiers' retreat.

So far, Lieutenant General Shiro Ishii, commander of the Japanese 106th Division, has not believed that they need to retreat, and he still insists on continuing to advance.

Although his troops always get lost in the mountains, and there are always Nationalist soldiers blocking their way in these mountain ridges, this has not changed his determination to continue to advance.

Because he understood that as long as he broke through from here, the defense line that the Nationalist army had set up here would completely collapse, and they would have to retreat and set up a new defense line.

Ye Zhao sent six regiments to assist the Special Brigade, and to send more troops to transport supplies, he had to ask Commander Xue Yue for instructions.

Xue Yue certainly knew that the Special Brigade had raided Mahuiling, and already knew that the raid was successful.

Now hearing Ye Zhao's request to send more troops to Mahuiling to loot supplies, saying that the Special Brigade had ambushed a Japanese troop ten miles away from Mahuiling in the direction of Jiujiang, and had captured a large number of supplies.

There were too many supplies, and the six regiments of the 66th Army plus 3,000 porters were not enough. He needed to send some more manpower back to be porters.

The 66th Army was the only troop near Mahuiling. Xue Yue only thought for a moment and then ordered, "Army Commander Ye! Keep enough troops to intercept the Japanese soldiers' retreat, and the remaining regiments can participate in transporting supplies.

The remaining troops must block the Japanese soldiers' retreat."

Army Commander Ye Zhao said excitedly, "Commander Xue! There are so many things captured today, with mortars and infantry guns everywhere. I will let the regiments that go out to transport supplies leave the mortars and heavy machine guns to the remaining troops.

Maintain an absolute advantage in firepower, even if the Japanese soldiers want to break through, they can be bombed back