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Chapter 498 Chapter 497, Attack...

The Japanese army is very interesting. The navy and the army have always been fighting for military expenditures, and they don't like each other! Then what? The eldest and the second fight, and in the end the unlucky one is the third... Yes, the air force is the third, either with the army or with the navy, and the status is like a bullied wife.

But even so, the Japanese air force is still very strong. At least their fighter planes have given the Eagles a hard time and have also beaten the Chinese air force without any chance of fighting back. Of course, you can't blame the Chinese pilots, because it's no secret where the money for buying planes went. It's good enough to have a few planes flying for you, but you still need bullets for machine guns?
Fortunately, the terrain on the arsenal side is surrounded by mountains. There are several mountains with an altitude of more than 1800 meters around, and the height difference from the arsenal side is more than 700 meters. Such terrain is a nightmare for dive bombers. Therefore, the air force said that we really have no way to bomb, and can only provide you with slow-flying reconnaissance planes.

Moreover, when the arsenal was being built and designed, it was considered that it would be bombed by airplanes, so some of the factories were either built directly inside caves or at the foot of some high mountains, which would prevent your bombers from being able to operate. The only place that could be bombed by bombers was probably the area around the narrow opening.

Of course, in order to prevent the Japanese bomber pilots from bombing the factory area without fear of death, the arsenal also installed anti-aircraft machine gun mounts on some heavy machine guns, so that the heavy machine guns could also fire at the planes when necessary.

It was already night, and the Japanese were in no hurry to attack. Instead, they prepared rich combat rations for the soldiers so that they could eat better and have more physical strength.

However, the Japanese soldiers stationed in Xijing Town could not arouse their appetite for the sumptuous dinner, especially the meat in the dinner, which looked a bit disgusting. Why was it so? The Japanese soldiers in Xijing Town saw hundreds of corpses being burned to ashes this afternoon! Who wouldn't feel uncomfortable seeing that scene?
It was a dark night and the area around the arsenal was peaceful and quiet; even production in the factory had stopped.

The workers knew about the battle outside, so after finishing their work, they looked at the surrounding mountains anxiously, fearing that a group of devils would come out from somewhere. Faced with this situation, some officers showed the workers many spoils of war captured today, such as the devil collar badges they collected, to calm the workers.

Moreover, the officials selected some representatives from the workers to visit the newly dug grave in the north of the narrow sky, so that the workers could see with their own eyes the bodies of the more than 100 Japanese soldiers who were killed. As for why the grave was not filled up? Li Yuexuan said that the comrades worked hard to dig the grave, so they should bury more people and not waste them...

After a day of fighting, the two companies of the 1st Marine Battalion had withdrawn from the two tunnels and replaced by the 3rd Company of the 1st Marine Battalion and the 3rd Company of the 1st Special Battalion. At this moment, the soldiers in the tunnels were all full of energy, rubbing their hands and waiting for the battle to come, hoping that the devils would launch another sneak attack at night.

Especially for the Third Company of the First Special Forces Battalion, before entering the tunnel, their Captain Yang gave a speech to all the soldiers in the company: "Comrades, last year, due to XXX's negligence, the Japanese sneaked into our base, which eventually led to the emergence of deserters in our Special Forces Regiment who were afraid of the battle before they even started!"

"It's been a year, comrades. For a whole year, our Special Forces Regiment's First Battalion couldn't even hold our heads up in front of the entire army because there were deserters in our battalion. That was our shame!"

"And today, it is time for our Third Company to wash away this shame for the entire battalion! Comrades, shout with me: We will defend the narrow passage to the death and resolutely not do XXX..."

"We will defend the line of sky to the death, and we will never do XXX..." With the loud slogan, a person who failed in his duty was mentioned again by his comrades, and his name was engraved on the pillar of shame! Yes, someone really engraved this sentence on the stone, and then used it as the motivation for this battle. "Knowing shame will lead to courage. The Special Third Company is stable, and the military morale is ready!" In the air-raid shelter, Li Yuexuan nodded with relief, and then said to Cai Xiaotian: "Please help keep an eye on it, I need to have a good rest! Comrades in the service class, you should also arrange for them to take turns to rest!"

After saying this, Li Yuexuan lay quietly on the camp bed, covered with a quilt and a military coat, and fell asleep peacefully.

Perhaps the failures today and last night taught the Japs enough lessons, or perhaps the Japs decided to hold back a big move, so tonight the Japs were quiet and did not choose to attack or launch a sneak attack.

As a result, the two third companies waited all night with hope, but in the end, they didn't get any military merit! Fortunately, when the rising sun brought warmth and light to the earth, it also brought new hope to the two company commanders. Then... after a morning of hope...

"Ah... ha... what do the Japs want to do? They have been building a road on the southern mountain for the whole morning, why don't they come over to attack?" In the bunker, the observation post was replaced one after another, but the result was disappointment time and time again. In the end, the soldiers were so bored of waiting that they could not let down their guard, which made them exhausted.

Well, from this point of view, the devils succeeded. Their inaction caused the Eighth Route Army soldiers guarding the tunnels to waste two meals in vain. The fatigue accumulated from a night and half a day greatly weakened the patience of the Eighth Route Army soldiers...

The sun had already risen to the zenith, and the slanting sunlight just happened to shine on the soldiers in the bunker, making everyone's eyes a little dazed. For a moment, they could not even see the scenery of the southern ridge clearly.

On the south side of the ridge, Colonel Kuzuki stood on a rock, looking at the armored squadron on the hillside with a very aggressive look, and nodded with satisfaction. Then, he looked into the distance and saw the entire Nakajima Battalion, which had been lined up and ready to attack at any time, and saw the two infantry squadrons and a heavy machine gun squadron belonging to the Hata Battalion following the Nakajima Battalion.

"Yo, the time has come. It's time to launch the most violent attack!" Lieutenant Colonel Kuzuki raised his head to look at the sun, resisting the urge to sneeze. He drew out his command knife and turned to face the direction of the narrow gap. "All troops, attack according to the predetermined plan..."

"attack……"

(End of this chapter)