You County, Niutouling position.

"Boom boom boom!"

The sound of cannons was endless, flames shot up everywhere on the position, and gravel and shrapnel were flying.

At dawn, a small group of Japanese troops launched a tentative attack on Niutouling, and then began this round of artillery attacks.

Since the Sixth Division and the Ninth Division entered the mountainous area to fight, the traffic conditions did not allow them to carry heavy artillery. Therefore, the maximum caliber of this artillery attack was no more than 75 field artillery.Moreover, the Japanese army's logistics and supplies were completely cut off, and every shell was very precious to them, and the entire artillery attack lasted only 5 minutes.Tsuki Fukuda, the commander of the 23rd Regiment of the Japanese Army, wanted to destroy the fortifications of the Chinese Army's positions, and deter the Chinese Army. For a patchwork of mobs, Tsuki Fukuda believed that this was enough. It caused the Chinese army to be in chaos, and then a charge would make them crumble.

As soon as the shelling stopped, Hu Zhankui got out of the anti-aircraft bunker, spit out sandy saliva in his mouth, and shouted at the top of his voice: "Get out, I, check to see if there are any missing parts, if there are no missing parts Hurry up and pick up the guys in your hands, after the devils cannonball, it's time for the infantry to charge!"

After the words were over, the disgraced soldiers of the Communist Party got out of the anti-gun bunkers one after another. After spitting and scolding their mothers, they hurriedly checked their weapons. The engineers and soldiers didn't even have time to scold their mothers. In the collapsed trenches, voices of shen Yin, crying and cursing, and shouts gradually appeared in the trenches. Casualties caused by shelling are inevitable. Medical soldiers and stretcher teams quickly entered the trenches, and the dead and wounded were quickly carried away. go down.

"Look, the devil is coming!"

Someone yelled, and Hu Zhankui hurriedly lay down on the edge of the trench and raised the binoculars in his hand.

I saw crowds of people at the foot of the mountain, and the densely packed Japanese army advanced in a skirmish formation.

Putting down the binoculars, Hu Zhankui scolded: "Damn it, there is only one infantry brigade, and they have to be divided up with the brothers of the New Fourth Army. Neither of these two people has a turn. The devil is getting more and more stingy! Leave him alone, brothers, No matter how small a mosquito is, it's still a lump of meat, and how much you can eat depends on your ability!"

"Hahaha!" There was a burst of laughter from the battlefield.

The commanders of the Nanshan Independence Army were not bad at boosting morale. With a simple sentence, the morale rose suddenly, and even the defeated soldiers of the 75th Division who joined later also looked determined.In fact, the law of war is survival of the fittest. They survived the battle losses of more than 1 people. It can be seen that they are not bad. At least they are elite veterans in the 75th Division. What they lack is only morale and will.And these, the Nanshan Independence Army has never lacked.

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Wuhan, the headquarters of the No.11 Army of the Japanese Army.

Okamura Ningji has become an ant on the hot pot. After the Nanshan Independence Army was hit hard by the imperial army, he was still able to fight back and besieged the two divisions of the imperial army with a large sum of money. This seemed to him unthinkable. Things, Jiang Haoran did, and unprecedented success.

In less than five hours, emergency telegrams from the Sixth Division and the Ninth Division came in like snowflakes.The more urgent telegrams made Okamura Ningji see that Inaba Shiro and Nakagawa Hiroshi had messed up their hands and feet.

Okamura Ningji ordered Inaba Shiro and Nakagawa Hiroshi to concentrate their forces to open the road to You County. This is the fastest and most direct way to save themselves.At the same time, Neiji Okamura also quickly reported the situation to the headquarters of the Central China Expeditionary Army, and asked the six Generals Hata Toshi to send additional troops for emergency rescue.Due to the critical situation, Hata Toshi's six generals didn't even bother to reprimand Okamura Neiji, and immediately issued an order for immediate reinforcements to the 156th and 157th divisions that had just arrived in the Chinese battlefield from the Japanese mainland and were now resting in Hangzhou.

But even if the reinforcements can go directly to Pingxiang by train, it will take at least a day or two for the troops to assemble, prepare food, grass and ammunition, and then collect wagons at the station. It will take four or five days to reach the frontier of rescue. Can the Sixth and Ninth Divisions wait until then?This worry made Ningji Okamura startled.

The saddest thing is that at this time, fighter jets and bombers from central China had already arrived in Manchukuo, and the Nomonkan campaign had entered the most intense state of combat readiness, and it was unrealistic to call it back.Neiji Okamura had no choice but to order a few reconnaissance planes and a few fighter jets and bombers that were about to retire to temporarily form an air formation and head to the battlefield.

The telephone and telegrams of the entire command center rang non-stop, and the news brought by the staff officers with dignified expressions and hurrying was full of all kinds of calls for help, all kinds of defeats and all kinds of high-level accountability, which made the battered Neiji Okamura even more unbearable. With a heavy burden, he simply handed it over to Chief of Staff Isamu Kinoshita to deal with it, and hid in the lounge in the headquarters. He hoped to have a quiet environment to think about how to solve these difficult problems at present.

But things didn’t work out as expected. Less than 3 minutes after Neji Okamura entered the house, Isamu Kinoshita rushed in, holding two telegrams in his hand, with a solemn expression like a dead father, which made Neji Okamura feel a chill in his heart for no reason. .

Isamu Kinoshita sadly said: "Mr. Okamura, Inaba Shiro just sent a telegram. The 45th regiment has lost Broken Soul Mountain. The imperial army has lost more than a thousand. The captain of the regiment, Yasuo Fukunaga, was seriously injured. Also, the reconnaissance plane found the direction of Hengyang. There are a large number of regular Chinese troops marching toward You County, the vanguard has already crossed the Lujiang River, and it is expected that they will meet the right wing of the Sixth Division before noon."

"ah·······"

Okamura Ningji waved his hands, let out a roar like a beast, and then started pacing back and forth in the room with a hideous face.

Isamu Kinoshita continued: "Old sir, I think the only way now is to order the 13nd Division and the No.104 mixed brigade to turn around and cooperate with the [-]th Division to attack Liling. Perhaps this is the only chance!"

"Baga!" Ningji Okamura said angrily, "You think Xue Yue is a pig! Where are the group armies? He can let the Second Division and the No.13 mixed brigade go there?"

Kinoshita swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and seemed to have made up his mind before saying: "Old sir, other than that, we can only choose to give up the rescue. If we don't withdraw the 104th division quickly, I'm afraid the same fate will befall us soon." Over their heads!"

"Baga!" Kinoshita's words made Neiji Okamura furious. He strode forward and grabbed Kinoshita's neckline with both hands, so tightly that Kinoshita was almost breathless.

But Kinoshita just looked at Neiji Okamura calmly with painful and tangled eyes. Neiji Okamura seemed to see the deep meaning of this closest subordinate in his eyes, and his words were not unreasonable.The ferocious look on his face gradually receded, his hands were put down unconsciously, his eyes were filled with muddy tears, and he murmured: "'Since you are born, how can you be born', I used to understand this Chinese phrase I scoffed at the old saying, and I just realized today, how much unwillingness, humiliation, and heart-wrenching pains are needed to condense into this sentence like a thousand cuts!"

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