Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

Li Yunlong's independent detachment has three infantry regiments and one artillery regiment, and the rest were assigned to local troops by Lao Li. Like the Beishan detachment, the independent detachment, which is close to the water tower, also received a lot of equipment support, so the infantry company of the independent detachment, like the first and second detachments, has 4 60 mortars!

Just now, seeing the Japanese with two puppet troops coming, the two company commanders on the two wings of Tumen Pass had a plan. That is to bomb them first and get the results first. Ten years in the forest does not allow a bird to be caught in the hand, it is better to cut off one arm than to hurt ten fingers. In the case of uncertainty about the Japanese's attack confidence and the strength to eliminate the more than 300 Japanese puppet troops in front of them, then just kill them!
So, two companies, eight 8mm mortars, and 60 grenade launchers started bombing the Japanese and puppet troops!

Carbon-based creatures with flesh and blood are humble and fragile in front of thermal weapons! With so many grenade bombings, heavy and light machine guns on both wings, and semi-automatic precision sniping, Wang Defa also led the soldiers to shoot non-stop at Tumen Pass in the front, and three Qi Lali light machine guns kept firing, forming a perfect killing field with no dead angles!
10 minutes, just 10 minutes passed! All the enemies who attacked Tumen Pass, whether they were hiding, firing their guns to fight back, or turning around and running, were all killed in front of Tumen Pass!
"Bagayalu..." In Huolu Town, Mitsui Ichiro, who was watching the battle, could not help but roar. If the previous words were still speculation and uncertainty, now Mitsui confirmed his previous views - these Eighth Route Army are unusual, really too unusual!
As the son of the Mitsui family, he had fought in the Battle of Niangzi Pass with the 20th Division and was very familiar with the terrain here. However, after the 20th Division entered Yuncheng, Mitsui was transferred to the Kwantung Army and stayed there ever since. In his impression, the Eighth Route Army was poorly equipped and could only launch sneak attacks and ambushes. They did not dare to set up battle formations and fight positional warfare. They were as cunning as the sables in the mountains of Northeast China.

But what did he see now? The Eighth Route Army that couldn’t even get uniforms together, the Eighth Route Army that didn’t have bayonets on their guns, the Eighth Route Army that didn’t have many grenades, the Eighth Route Army that didn’t dare to fire light machine guns, and the Eighth Route Army that didn’t even have any traces of heavy machine guns…Now, they were actually fighting with a large number of mortars, and the firepower of various guns was so fierce!

Isn't this what the Eighth Route Army should be like? Why did the Eighth Route Army become stronger and stronger? Even if it was a very strong army, it shouldn't have used such firepower to cover the Imperial Army, which was testing it!
Well, Mitsui also admitted that the Imperial Army he brought was not ordinary. It was the orthodox Imperial Army brought from the puppet Manchukuo. They were all strictly trained soldiers. The company and platoon leaders were all imperial soldiers. They were in a similar state to the former Shigeto Detachment (later the Hata Detachment, one of the executioners of the Nanjing Massacre, the lower-level soldiers were Taiwanese, and the breakouts of the Ma'an Fortress).

But he knew about this matter, and the Imperial Army he brought with him knew about it, but the Eighth Route Army on the other side didn't! Why did they beat each other to death as soon as they met? Could it be that the Eighth Route Army was so rich?

Before Mitsui could figure out what was wrong, his adjutant came over and said, "Sir, the artillery has already grasped the positions of two artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army in the previous battle. Do you want to start shelling immediately?"

"Artillery attack? No, wait a minute. The Eighth Route Army can use so many small-caliber mortars to fight, so they will have larger-caliber mortars! We are only two kilometers away from Lianhua Mountain. If they use 82 mortars from a high position, we will be very passive! So, let the artillery observers continue to observe and don't expose your position easily!"

"In fact, we are very lucky, aren't we? Because fortunately we are fighting in such terrain, our artillery can take advantage of the terrain to move or hide concealedly! If we were in the plains, if the Eighth Route Army in front of us had artillery as powerful as ours, I am afraid they would have opened fire to eliminate our main force... Then, next, I order..." Ichiro Mitsui issued a new order again.

After a while, the Japanese made a new move, and more than 1000 puppet troops were dispatched to attack the two wings of Tumen Pass. This time, Mitsui did not try to test it, but planned to take down the high ground on both sides first, and then Tumen Pass in the middle would have no value to exist. The Eighth Route Army in the middle would either insist on fighting to the death or flee quickly.

Of course, this is just Mitsui's bad wish, the soldiers brought by Zhang Dabiao will not agree!
On the unnamed high ground south of Tumen Pass, Second Battalion Commander Qiao Yong glanced at the puppet army team running towards him with a scornful smile on his face: "Comrades, pay attention to the artillery defense, don't let the enemy's mountain artillery disrupt our defense! When the enemy approaches, your three companies should not stay behind, use all your means!"

Qiao Yong encouraged morale before the battle, but Huang Bai was calmer because the terrain of Lianhua Mountain was more advantageous. He was not in a hurry. Of course, the necessary arrangements had to be made. He quickly asked the signalman to transfer a company from Bailuquan in the back, waiting to have a good fight with the devils.

Both sides were making preparations, but the puppet troops were getting closer and closer! What made Wang Defa and his men speechless was that the puppet troops this time intentionally or unintentionally avoided their front and sides to prevent being injured by their bullets. So doing so reduced the angle of attack, but without a firepower point for flank attack, the difficulty was reduced...

Time passed little by little. Even with the Japanese leading them, the puppet soldiers took half an hour to reach the attack position on the two-kilometer uphill road. At this time, the attacking puppet soldiers found that the sun was already setting in the west, and it was too bright to look up and attack the high ground.

"God is not helping us! You said the Imperial Army had received the call for help a long time ago, so why did they have to wait until the afternoon to arrive? It's only 20 miles from here to our base. If they had come earlier, we wouldn't be so blinded by the sight!" Some puppet soldiers complained as they walked.

"Stop talking nonsense. I heard that the Shimen City Defense Command had no intention of sending reinforcements here and kept dragging its feet. Commander Mitsui used his family connections to get the command to let us out to reinforce! The City Defense Command said that the priority was to protect the big cities. Commander Mitsui, of course, didn't want those mining areas to be occupied by the Eighth Route Army..."

"You, don't talk... Order, attack..." While the two puppet soldiers were talking, a Japanese company commander who was leading the team swung his knife, and the blade slashed towards the sunlight, pointing directly towards Lianhua Mountain.

At the same time, more than 500 puppet troops attacking the south of Tumen Pass launched an offensive against the small hill where the second battalion was located from the east and southeast.

There was no artillery bombardment, no infantry guns, and no mountain artillery. More than 1000 puppet troops launched a full-scale attack amid the sound of gunfire... (End of this chapter)