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Chapter 997: There is an enemy heavy artillery brigade, confirmed to be a division, is there a problem?

Outside Xinkou Pass.

Although Yamaguchi Teruo was very angry about Mano Shiro's order, he dared not sit still.

They could only follow orders obediently, go to the fourth and fifth battalions, reorganize the troops, and prepare to lead them to charge.

However, before he could finish organizing the troops, a staff officer beside him who had been observing the battle situation with a telescope suddenly shouted in surprise:
"Look, Mr. Chief of Staff!

The ambush troops of the Eighth Route Army also did not have much ammunition, and were repelled by Matsumoto and his men!"

Upon hearing this, Teruo Yamaguchi was overjoyed and quickly picked up the telescope around his neck and started looking.

After a moment, he felt relieved and shouted excitedly:
"Yoshi! Warriors, these guerrillas don't have enough bullets!

Hurry up, rush up and destroy them!"

Hearing his orders, the captains of the 4th and 5th battalions, Taro Yoshida and Major Kenjiro Takano, also became excited.

He drew the saber from his waist, roared, and commanded his soldiers to divide into two groups, east and west, and charge towards the soldiers of the fourth battalion.

……

On the side of the Fourth Battalion of the Special Forces Regiment, the soldiers of the First and Second Companies suddenly rushed out of the ambush in the woods, launched a surprise attack on a wave of Japanese soldiers, and then, according to the pre-arranged plan, they covered each other and fought and retreated.

Seeing that everything was going well, the commander of the Fourth Battalion, Li Dahe, also ordered his telegraph operator to send a message to Yang Yuanshan to inform him of the battle situation.

After the telegraph operator finished sending the message, he led the people from the battalion headquarters and began to retreat to the Xinkou Pass.

……

Xinkou Pass was built on the mountain and faced the enemy to the north. Although there were many paths leading to the pass, they were very steep.

However, when Li Dahe and others were preparing for the battlefield in advance, they had already hung many hemp ropes on the mountain roads to facilitate retreat.

Therefore, at this moment, the soldiers of the Fourth Battalion could grab the rope and, with the support of the soldiers of the Second Battalion on the city wall, quickly climb up the city wall and retreat.

……

Amid the fierce gunfire, the commander of the second Japanese army battalion, Sha Guangcai, and his trusted confidants had already hidden in the mountains and forests to the east.

Looking at the battle situation at Xinkou Pass, Deputy Battalion Commander Hou Gui couldn't help but said to him with a sad face:

"Battalion Commander, the momentum of the Eighth Route Army's previous artillery attack was indeed earth-shattering, but this frontal combat is not enough!

We are about to be defeated by Grandpa Taijun. What should we do then?"

Sha Guangcai also had a bitter look on his face and cursed:
"These damned Tubalu are just scary.

After those few rounds of bombardment, I thought they were so strong, but I didn’t expect them to be just a weakling!
This damn thing has caused us to lose our jobs!

How could I be so unlucky! "

……

Just as Sha Guangcai and his gang of traitors were hiding in the bushes and complaining about their fate, the battle outside the Xinkou Pass became more and more intense.

The soldiers of the Fourth Battalion retreated to the city gate one after another. Their original positions had been occupied by the Japanese.

The Japanese soldiers' morale was boosted when they saw the attack was going so smoothly, and they all charged forward fearlessly.

They didn't care at all. From time to time, some of them were hit by bullets and fell to the ground.

The soldiers of the Fourth Battalion reduced their firing frequency in order to make up for the shortage of ammunition, but their shooting accuracy improved a lot.

After all, the soldiers didn't want to waste their few chances to shoot.

……

In this way, after about an hour of fierce fighting, the soldiers of the Fourth Battalion had basically all retreated to the city.

The Japanese, under the cover of their 10 Type infantry guns, began to climb up the mountain path towards the Xinkou Pass.

But at this time, the soldiers of the Fourth Battalion had already taken back the ropes used to assist in climbing.

It was very difficult for the Japanese to climb up despite the continuous but not intense gunfire from the city wall.

From time to time, some unlucky people would slip and fall, breaking bones and tendons and screaming in pain.

However, Colonel Teruo Yamaguchi, the brigade chief of staff in charge of commanding the attack, did not care about the casualties of the soldiers at all. He waved his sword desperately and forced them to charge forward.

Gradually, the bodies of the dead soldiers piled higher and higher under the city wall, making it much easier for the Japanese to climb.

After all, if he fell down again at this moment, at most he would be trampled to death, not fall to death.

Seeing that it would take at most 20 minutes for them to climb up to the Xinkou Pass, the middle and low-level officers in the Japanese army were all very excited.

Couldn't help but laugh:
"Yoshi! When my locust army breaks into the city, we will tear those damned Eighth Route Army soldiers into pieces!"

“These damn rats can only run!

There is absolutely no warrior courage at all!
You don’t deserve to be called a soldier at all!”

……

At the Japanese brigade headquarters, Shiro Mano couldn't help feeling complacent as he saw that his attack was going smoothly.

Just as he was about to show off to Teruo Yamaguchi, who had been contradicting him, he turned around and looked around, but didn't see anyone.

Only then did he remember that he had sent this guy to lead the charge.

I suddenly felt very regretful.

Being so proud of oneself, but having no one to show off to, that doesn't make it feel good enough!
After a moment's hesitation, he immediately ordered the telegraph operator to come over and said:

"Hurry up, send a telegram to the front army headquarters, reporting: The Tubalu has more than a division of troops blocking our army at Xinkou Pass, but they have been defeated. Our 2nd Brigade is about to take Xinkou Pass!"

Hearing this, the telegraph operator was completely stunned.

I thought: Good fellow! Your lie about military intelligence is really outrageous, isn't it?

Aren’t there just over a thousand enemies?

Where did this division come from?

I couldn't help but asked in a lost voice:
"Mr. Brigade Commander, you...you said a division???"

"idiot!
Didn’t you see that just now the Eighth Route Army bombarded our army with dozens of heavy artillery and destroyed our artillery battalion?
That’s at least a heavy artillery brigade!

The enemy who has a heavy artillery brigade is confirmed to be a division. Is there a problem???"

Shiro Mano didn't expect that a small telegraph operator would dare to pick a fight with him, and he roared in anger immediately.

Seeing that he looked like he was going to kill someone, the telegraph operator immediately gave in and nodded repeatedly:

"Hi! Hi!

I will send the message right away!"

He thought to himself: If my superiors investigate, I will definitely be blamed!
……

I saw the telegraph operator going down to work.

Shiro Mano immediately drew the general's sword from his waist, swung it forward, and ordered:
"Warriors, hurry up and follow me to the city!"

At the command, he led the hundreds of people from his brigade and rushed towards the Xinkou Pass.

……

At this moment, at the Xinkou Pass, He Yunfu, the commander of the second battalion of the special forces regiment, was observing the battlefield situation with a telescope while chatting with Li Dahe, the commander of the fourth battalion who had just retreated to the pass:

"Old Li, the soldiers from your Fourth Battalion actually managed to lure the Japanese here so smoothly. That's great!"

Li Dahe looked frightened and couldn't help but complain:
"Don't mention it.

I was almost scared to death by Wang Gensheng’s artillery fire just now.

Damn it, the power of those dozens of cannons firing at the same time is too great!
Did the commander bring some large-caliber cannon again?

I heard the gunfire just now, it seems that not all of them were 75mm mountain guns."

“Hey, that’s right.

The regiment commander gave him 12 120mm heavy mortars.

That guy is so awesome! "

He Yunfu chuckled.

"120mm heavy mortar?

Good boy! No wonder.

I was wondering why there was such a loud artillery explosion a few days ago. It turned out that this bastard was conducting live-fire training. "

Li Dahe took a breath of cold air, and then asked curiously:
“But Lao He, isn’t the range of this mortar generally inferior to that of a mountain cannon?
How can Wang Gensheng use this thing to hit such a long distance? "

"Hehe, Wang Gensheng said that the range of their cannon is five or six kilometers," He Yunfu explained.

These two days, when the soldiers of the Second Artillery Battalion were conducting live-fire training, he was alarmed and went to the Second Artillery Battalion to ask Wang Gensheng.

That's why I only understand it in such detail now.

"Wow, it has such a long range, this is really a powerful weapon.

In this way, his newly formed Second Artillery Battalion is probably not weaker than Lao Gao’s First Artillery Battalion.”

Li Dahe couldn't help but sigh.

"Who says it isn't?"

He Yunfu nodded repeatedly.

Then he changed the subject:
"Okay, Lao Li, take your men and retreat to Xin County. I am also going to let the soldiers fight and retreat.

It's quite troublesome to deal with these thousands of little devils bit by bit, so it's better to serve them a fire dragon feast as soon as possible."

Li Dahe nodded slightly and asked:

"Lao He, are your people well prepared?
If this fire can't be lit, it will be troublesome!"

"Don't worry. It will be fine.

Moreover, I just sent someone to find Wang Gensheng and asked him to be ready. As soon as a fire breaks out here, he should bombard with all his might to provide double insurance for the Japanese!
Make sure they are not burned to death, but blown to death!"

He Yunfu is full of confidence.

“That’s good.

However, in this case, the Japanese's equipment would probably be blown to pieces, leaving nothing.

Pity. "

“What’s so unfortunate?
Our group doesn’t care about those junks.”

He Yunfu learned the inhumanity from Yang Yuanshan.

"Hahaha, that's true."

……

The soldiers of the Second Battalion of the Special Service Regiment blocked the Japanese at the Xinkou Pass for about half an hour, then gradually pretended to be out of ammunition and retreated while taking turns to cover each other.

The Japanese soldiers all felt their adrenaline rushing through their bodies, and they climbed up the Xinkou Pass one after another, howling with excitement.

……

At this time, the Japanese brigade commander, Shiro Mano, had already brought his men to the position of the Fourth Battalion of the Special Forces Regiment.

When he saw that there were no bodies in gray uniforms on the battlefield, he did not realize that something was wrong, but just roared in dissatisfaction:

"Baga! These rats run really fast!"

Seeing him coming with his men, the brigade chief of staff, Teruo Yamaguchi, ran up to him breathlessly and reported:

"Your Excellency, Commander of the Brigade, we have seized 12 Type infantry guns from the Tubalu!"

"What? There is such a good thing???

The Tubalu were so stupid that they didn't blow up these cannons???
Were they all so frightened that they just ran away?"

Mano Shiro was pleasantly surprised.

Yamaguchi Teruo quickly added timidly:
"Your Excellency, Commander of the Brigade, I think the Eighth Route Army has a conspiracy!
They took away all the breech blocks.

It seems that he wants to... wants to—"

"What are you thinking about?"

Mano Shiro asked anxiously.

I really want to give this guy who is keeping the secret a big slap in the face.

We are at a war right now, who has time to listen to your hemming and hawing?

"We want to fight back and recapture these infantry guns!"

Yamaguchi Teruo answered with gritted teeth.

At this moment, he felt very uneasy and felt that some huge danger was about to come.

"Nani? Fight back?
Are you dreaming, Tubalu?"

Mano Shiro almost thought he had heard it wrong.

But the next second, he began to think about the possibility that the other party mentioned.

After a full minute, his arrogance still took over the IQ high ground.

His face showed a bit of arrogance again, and he said with confidence:

"I don't think those stupid Tubalu have any conspiracy!
They must have no spare parts for their breech blocks!

That's why we think that if we remove the breech blocks, we won't be able to use these cannons.

Now, immediately order the artillerymen to take over these guns, take out our spare breech blocks and install them, and then fire at the city gate!
I want to let the Tubalu know what it feels like to be bombarded by dozens of artillery pieces!"

After hearing this order, Teruo Yamaguchi had no intention of resisting.

Regardless of whether the Eighth Route Army had any conspiracy, the acquisition of the new 12 infantry guns was also a great achievement.

So he nodded immediately and agreed:

"Hi!"

……

After sending this guy away, Mano Shiro looked up at the Xinkou Pass City and saw that his own warriors on the top of the city had already occupied a large section of the city wall.

I couldn't help but feel very satisfied.

He gave the order again:
"Hurry up, order the warriors, don't rush to chase the Eighth Route Army, first occupy the entire city!
Then, find a way to move our infantry artillery to the city and fire hard at the fleeing Tubalu!"

……

As his orders were given, the Japanese soldiers began to climb up the Xinkou Pass at an accelerated speed.

Soon, two to three thousand people seized key points in the city and began to set up Type 92 heavy machine guns.

Many soldiers had even begun to lower ropes to pull the Type 92 infantry gun, which had been split into several parts, up to the city little by little, preparing to launch an artillery attack on the northern city wall of Xin County after it was assembled.

……

At the foot of the city wall, Shiro Mano saw that the gunfire from above was becoming increasingly sparse, and he was naturally very proud of himself.

While ordering the telegraph operator to report the victory to the front headquarters, he also climbed up the Xinkou Pass with Yamaguchi Teruo.

Then he said proudly:
"Yamaguchi-kun, didn't you say that the Tubalu had a conspiracy?
Where is the conspiracy?"

Yamaguchi Teruo was very embarrassed, but he still insisted on his point of view, pointing in the direction of the northern wall of Xin County that was still firing at this side, and said:

"Your Excellency, Commander of the Brigade, you see, there are still quite a few Tubalu troops over there. I think they shouldn't give up this fortress so easily!"

"Baga! You are just quibbling!
My great locust army is invincible. Even if they have a conspiracy, they will never be a match for my locust warriors!"

Mano Shiro roared loudly.

However, before he could finish his words, he suddenly heard a huge explosion -

"boom!"

As the explosion sounded, he felt the solid city wall beneath his feet suddenly leap up like a giant dragon.

He lost his balance and fell to the ground.

"Baga! What's going on?"

Mano Shiro couldn't help but scream.

Then the next second, he saw a huge ball of fire suddenly break out of the ground, as if a fire dragon had appeared!
As the fireball appeared, explosions sounded one after another.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

……

(End of this chapter)