The chaos of the night continues.

On the front of Maxiang Mountain, the New Second Division dispatched two main groups to conduct feint attacks. The sound of gunfire and the shouts of killing came one after another. The firecrackers in the gasoline barrel were exploding, and the invisible deterrence and murderous aura came to the face in the dark night.

The Japanese soldiers from the 21st Regiment of the 21st Brigade were lying in the position, tremblingly, enduring the constantly falling shells beside them, and nervously pinched the Type 38 rifle in their hands.

The night sky in the distance seems to be hidden in monsters, and it is possible to swallow people at any time.

Just as the Japanese army on the front was ready to leave without any vacancies, the bloody massacre continued in the camp of the 42nd Japanese army in southeastern Shandong.

This camp, built in a large number of mountain valleys around it, is unobstructed, but there are at least two hills more than ten meters high in the center. There are several large uplifting earth buns around the hills, surrounded by irrigation ditches.

Many hiding Japanese soldiers crawled over to the hills, landblocks and ditches in the middle of the camp, while shooting desperately into the dark night, while braved the bullets that came like storms.

There is no doubt that hiding in such a place is much greater than living on flat ground

The artillery observer, who clearly saw the movements of the Japanese army on the top of the mountain, immediately reported the shelling parameters. Soon all the August 1st mortars that adjusted the shooting of the Yuan Dynasty roared again, and sixteen 8lmm grenades fell towards the dense area of ​​the Japanese with huge screams.

"Boom--"

Every continuous explosion will set off an extremely powerful storm. Countless broken limbs and broken arms and bloody smudges will burst into pieces. The corpses of Japanese corpses that were broken by sharp shrapnel can be seen everywhere on the ground.

Colonel Sakata Sochi, the captain of the 42nd Regiment, who was huddled in a trench one meter deep, looked at the officers and soldiers who were struggling to break into the fire and smoke, and his heart was full of bitterness.

When did the imperial army, which had always used powerful firepower to suppress the Chinese army and then wiped out it like a sheep, become such a lamb to be slaughtered?

In the current situation, I can’t even make a minimum counterattack, so I can only hide in the camp and be beaten passively. Sadly, even if I survived by chance this time, I can’t escape the charge of poor command. Who made me careless and not build a well-defensive position?

In this case, once infantry artillery, mortar and heavy machine gun support is supported, not to mention defense, it may even turn defeat into victory and eliminate all the attacking Chinese troops. It is really a matter of carelessness.

"The Chinese New Second Army is so terrible. According to their performance on the front line of Zhuji, everyone thought they could only defend passively, but they did not expect that they took the initiative to attack..."

Colonel Sakata Sochi was pondering. A soldier lying beside him could no longer bear the fear in his heart. He stood up howling, but before he could break out of the trench, a flying shrapnel shot towards him. The soldier's skull was instantly cut off, and his brain and blood were everywhere.

But the Japanese soldier was not dead yet, his face below his forehead was full of ferociousness. He twitched all over his body and stretched out his hand to Sakata Sochi, muttering "Save me", and then collapsed to the ground powerlessly.

"Bag Grenadiers, immediately suppress and shoot the machine gun fire of the Chinese army." Sakata Motoichi, who was sprayed with brain and blood, roared angrily.

On an open space more than 100 meters away from Sakata Moto, more than twenty Japanese grenadiers who received the orders of the corps captain had to work hard to adjust their lying posture, and then rely on their feelings to fire grenades into the jungle outside the camp gate.

However, the grenade launcher that has not been calibrated has any sight. All the grenades fired have lost their accuracy and they don’t know where they fell and exploded.

The Japanese grenadiers who were exposed to their positions immediately became targets of mortars on the top of the mountain.

Sixteen mortars, at a speed of five seconds, covered the poor grenades with artillery fire. Just two rounds of cluster bombing, all the remaining grenades and grenade launchers of the 42nd Regiment were turned into parts.

Seeing this, Sakata Sochi took a deep breath.

The artillery positions of the Chinese New Army were condescending and were fighting too accurately. Now the sound of artillery sounds in front of us. It was obvious that the main force of the New Second Army was attacking Maxiangshan head-on, and Major General Sakamoto Shun's possible transfer of troops back to the rescue was very small. There was no movement in the rear, and no one knew when the reinforcements would arrive.

Under this situation, Colonel Sakata had the intention to retreat, and issued a retreat order to the communications officer who had crawled beside him and waited for the order, and ordered the Kuroda brigade, whom he trusted the most, to launch a suicide charge to the positions outside the camp.

A quarter of an hour later, the Kuroda Brigade, which had only more than 500 people left, all got up from the ground with great courage and rushed out of the camp with loud shouts.

However, the Grandpa Kuroda, who led the team to charge, was first hit by a bullet fired by a sniper rifle. After a scream, he fell to the ground and did not move.

None of the other 500 Japanese soldiers who launched the decisive charge could rush to the gate of the camp and were knocked to the ground by a storm-like bullet.

However, the sacrifice of Kuroda Brigade won extremely precious escape time for the Japanese in other brigades of the 42nd Regiment. They all got up from the hidden places and ran to the east of the barracks regardless of everything.

Although the attacking troops of the New Second Army in this area ambushed four companies of officers and soldiers, thousands of Japanese soldiers rushed over in the night. Even if these four companies were equipped with more than 20 Czech light machine guns, they could not stop them. In the end, about eight or nine hundred Japanese escaped.

The officers and soldiers of the New Second Division simply cleaned the positions and retreated. When the Japanese Fifth Cavalry Regiment arrived, all they left were broken barracks with corpses everywhere.

Dongyang, the command center of the 4th Division.

The commander of the Fourth Division, Shigeru Sawada, took the telegram and looked at his subordinate Yiyu Jiangzuo: "We have been resting in Dongyang for two days now. If we don't go out, we can't argue... What do you think we should do now?"

Chief of Staff Gu Xianyi looked helpless: "After arriving in Dongyang, the disease in the division increased dramatically. Looking around, the entire camp was full of officers and soldiers who said they were not suitable for the environment and were lying on the bed and were unwilling to get up. Even the captains of the regiments took the whip and went to the barracks to whip them, but there was no way for the military doctors to say that the officers and soldiers were in good health, but the situation did not improve at all."

"In this case, if we force too much, it is very likely to cause mutiny... Now we are in a foreign country and the Fourth Division has always been war-weary tradition, we can only guide, not force,

Colonel Haruji Morita, the captain of the Eighth Infantry Regiment, reported: "According to the latest battle report, the Fifth Division encountered a tenacious resistance in Yiwu in the early morning of yesterday, and the Oikawa Brigade suffered heavy losses... Now the Sakamoto Brigade is attacked again, and the 42nd Regiment is almost made of dumplings."

"All this fully demonstrates that the New Second Army in Yiwu is indeed difficult to deal with. If we were rushing ahead, the one who suffered now must be the general of the 4th Division. It should be clear that it would be difficult for these merchants and fishmongers to fight to the death."

"Under the current circumstances, we can only follow the will of the officers and soldiers and use the excuse of serious division patients to delay the dispatch. However, in order to cope with the pressure from the front and military headquarters, we can draw four brigades from the entire division and form a detachment that advances westward... In this way, no one can find any problems."

"Yoxi"

Shigeru Sawada nodded with relief at the performance of the Fourth Division, who was already helpless: "This is the only way now... You guys say, who will command this army?"

Seeing that no one in the command center said anything, Chief of Staff Colonel Gu Xianyi took the initiative to stand up: "General, I'd better go, before I was in the captain of the 37th Infantry Regiment, and I'm very familiar with the officers and soldiers. Now, all military officials cannot leave without leaving. It's best for me to carry out this task."

Shigeru Sawada praised: "The Chief of Staff is brave enough to serve, which is very good. If you can make achievements this time, I will ask you for me to work from the military headquarters. I believe it will be no problem to be the commander of the brigade."

"Hayi—"

Gu Xianyi bowed heavily, then turned around and left.

After obtaining the huge casualties of the front-line troops, Imamura was almost dead. Fortunately, at this time, he received a call from the Fourth Division and learned that Shigeru Sawada sent the Guxian Detachment to reinforce, he finally let go of his worries, at least the losses last night were supplemented.

The next afternoon, the Fifth Division, which had slightly recovered its morale, advanced its defense line to the east of Yiwu City and launched a tentative attack on Yiwu City.

As a result, guns and bullets continued to shoot in the three directions of the southwest, north and south, and more than 300 casualties were paid in just half an hour of attack, making Imamura feel that he had encountered a tough problem again.

Seeing that the defenders defended so sharply, Imamura quickly judged that the current 5th Division's strength was not enough to capture Yiwu City.

Imamura did not hesitate at all and immediately asked Commander Yoko Yamada, who was in Hangzhou, to send a plane to throw poisonous gas bombs at Yiwu City.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, eight Japanese fighters were covering twelve bombers and rushed towards Yiwu City. They happened to be hit head-on by six Hfl09 fighters of the National Army, and then a medium-sized air battle broke out over Yiwu.

Thirty-six 40mm Bofos anti-aircraft guns and the same number of millimeter Olikon anti-aircraft guns were deployed inside and outside Yiwu City, which effectively supported the operations of the Kuomintang aircraft.

When the national army's excellent performance Hfl09 fighter jet encountered an emergency, it flew over Yiwu City at a low altitude, and blocked the Japanese fighter jets that followed it from anti-aircraft guns on the ground.

Two national fighter jets died in this battle, but the Air Force brothers and the New Second Army anti-aircraft artillery cooperated with each other and destroyed a total of nine Japanese aircraft, five of which were bombers, effectively hitting the arrogance of the Japanese aviation army and causing the Japanese attempt to throw poisonous gas bombs through bombers to vanish.

On that evening, Wu Ming led the military-level organs and independent divisions of the New Second Army, and most of the New Third Division successfully arrived in Yiwu City.

Luo Yuming reported on the results of the attack last night and today's defensive operations. Wu Ming praised it very much, believing that Luo Yuming already has the ability to stand alone.

Then Wu Ming said to Zhang Dongning: "We have temporarily defended Yiwu City, but now the 32nd and 116th Divisions of the Japanese army are catching up on the attack of Lanxi. Once Lanxi is lost, Jinhua, Longyou, and Quzhou will be in danger, so Yiwu is not a place to defend for a long time."

"Dongning, while the current Japanese army is helpless, you immediately organize manpower and seize the time to transport our army's baggage and artillery troops to the rear. In addition, as long as the Yiwu people are willing to move, they will help them move. Even if they are not Maoliangwu, they will retreat to Xianxia Ridge and Kuacang Mountain are all a way to survive, which is better than staying here and being ravaged by the Japanese."

"yes"
Chapter completed!