The captain shouted and ordered his subordinates to enter the position and prepare for battle.

A messenger next to the corps commander suddenly rushed over and reported: "Sir, the corps commander to lead the troops to retreat immediately, and the mountain trapped by Wang Liaodong's army will be transferred!"

"Nani, now retreat and transfer, are our reinforcements coming so soon!" Major Tanaka asked with a look of incomprehension.

The messenger shook his head and couldn't explain clearly. Although Major Tanaka still didn't understand, no matter what, his life was saved.

I didn't think about giving a retreat order for too long.

Major Tanaka hurried to the corps captain until the Liaodong Army's subsequent reinforcements not only sent troops to their own direction, but also to the main force and the encirclement.

If the regiment captain had not issued a retreat order in time, the limited Japanese army would have probably been defeated by the Liaodong army.

Seeing Major Tanaka retreating safely, the team leader breathed a sigh of relief while continuing to order.

"Give orders to the troops surrounding the mountain to make a clear gap and let the Liaodong army trapped in the mountain to leave."

Although Xu Hai, who was trapped on the mountain, didn't know why the Japanese army suddenly let him go, as soon as the Japanese army opened, he did not stop on the mountain for a minute. He led his troops down the mountain to meet with the reinforcements. While retreating, he talked to himself, saying that he owed Huang Zhongxin, the commander of the Third Regiment, another great favor.

Of course, these are all later stories. As soon as Xu Hai and his troops left the mountain, the Japanese corps captain stayed with more than a thousand remaining soldiers and hurried up to the mountain.

Before his reinforcements arrived, the corps leader decided to insist here and dragged all the surrounding Liaodong troops here. When the main force of the division arrived, he would surround them in one fell swoop.

Because the Japanese army reacted too quickly, Huang Zhongxin, who had been completely wiped out from the beginning of the battlefield, almost lost all the money.

"Captain Xu, I finally know why you were trapped here! These Japanese troops are too cunning. If we have any movement, they can react quickly! The three battalions of my three battalions arrived here, and almost no Japanese army came here!" Looking at the Japanese troops who were desperately building positions on the mountain, Huang Zhongxin, who was frowning, couldn't help but complain.

Xu Hai replied in a heavy tone: "It's very cunning, otherwise my two battalions wouldn't have only this little force left!"

Speaking of this, a trace of murderous aura quickly emanated from Xu Hai and said to Huang Zhongxin: "Old Huang, I owe you a favor. But now I still have something to do to help you. No matter what, I will eat these Japanese soldiers today and avenge the brothers who died in battle. You must send troops to help me!"

"I'll help you with this!" Huang Zhongxin replied without thinking.

"But, don't say that you are not human. Your people are also Liaodong Army, and they are all my brothers. Even if you don't say it, I won't let them go today!"

Speaking of this, a trace of confidence flashed across Huang Zhongxin's face and promised to Xu Hai: "Don't worry, not only my third regiment has arrived this time, but also the wild artillery regiment. With the wild artillery regiment taking action, just this small mountain, more than a thousand Japanese troops will not last long!"

Twenty minutes later, Xu Hai and Huang Zhongxin received good news that the field artillery regiment had already set up positions.

After looking at Xu Hai, Huang Zhongxin decided decisively: "Tell the field artillery regiment to cover the hills trapped by the Japanese army for five minutes, and we will attack after that."

Soon, a whistling shell flew over the heads of the two men, smashed on the mountain and exploded.

Round after round, less than a minute, the small hill was covered by explosions and smoke.

Five minutes later, the artillery was stopped, and Huang Zhongxin immediately sent a battalion to attack the mountain. But more than a thousand Japanese troops seemed to have turtle shells. Although the artillery just now was a dream, as soon as the attack of a battalion rushed to the foot of the mountain, dense bullets were shot out of the smoke.

After losing two platoons in a row, they could not break through the Japanese firepower interception, although Huang Zhongxin was very unwilling to accept it, he still issued a retreat order to the troops.

"The Japanese army must have dug a large number of individual bunkers on the mountain, otherwise they would definitely not be able to escape the artillery fire just now!" Xu Hai, who was more familiar with the mountain than the Japanese army, frowned and said with a calm face.

Huang Zhongxin was stunned and asked quickly: "Do you have a way? You have been on the mountain for several hours and should know how to crack the individual bunker on the mountain!"

Xu Hai shook his head helplessly and replied: "I really have no choice. Unless I use heavy artillery, I can only let my brothers approach their positions and use grenades to blow them up, and I also need a lot of grenades!"

Without heavy artillery, Huang Zhongxin could only order the field artillery regiment to continue firing.

This time, the field artillery group bombarded the fire for ten minutes before stopping. While the smoke covering the mountain had not yet dissipated, a battalion of Liaodong troops rushed to the mountain again.

Just like the attack just now, the Japanese army on the hill seemed to be unable to kill, and they could not kill them, and continued to shoot dense bullets at the foot of the hill.

After a battalion dropped dozens of corpses again, he quickly retreated to the scene.

At this time, Huang Zhongxin's face turned red because of his anger, and he stared at his big eyes, as if he didn't believe what he saw.

Xu Hai next to him did not expect that the Japanese army would be even harder to fight than him.

As for the reason, it sounds very simple. The Japanese army was trapped in the hills, and the most ordinary soldiers were trained after half a year. Their combat qualities and individual combat effectiveness were very high.

In contrast, in the two battalions in Xu Hai's hands, less than 20% of the veterans who have served in the army for more than one year. Although the remaining soldiers are veterans who have experienced combat, their training time is too short after all, and some soldiers have just been three months old.

In this case, the well-trained Japanese army was obviously more experienced in avoiding artillery fire.

But even so, the Japanese army's losses were not much smaller.

The artillery fire was covered with fifteen minutes in front and behind, and the field artillery regiment fired at least one thousand shells at the mountain.

More than a thousand Japanese troops were concentrated in such a small mountain. Even if a blind cat hit a mouse, more than a thousand cannonballs could hit many Japanese troops.

Besides, the shells falling from the sky are not ordinary iron lumps. Even if the Japanese army hide in individual bunkers and the shells hit them at close range, they can still cause devastating blows to them.

At this time, more than a thousand Japanese troops who went up the mountain persisted until this time, less than 800 people, including only 200 minor and serious wounded people.

The only thing that made the Japanese army glad was that they brought a large number of light and heavy machine guns up the mountain. Although the artillery bombardment was destroyed a lot, they still saved it to meet the needs of the combat.

Huang Zhongxin, who vowed to eat more than a thousand Japanese troops, would let the field artillery regiment continue to shell the enemy as soon as his attacking troops were withdrawn.

The round of artillery fire stopped after only two minutes.

In Xu Hai's words, as long as the Japanese army hides in bunkers and prepares for anti-aircraft artillery, the artillery fire coverage of the field artillery regiment will not be worth the cost.

Since that's the case, why do you still waste shells? Anyway, the possible killing of the Japanese army by the field artillery regiment was just two minutes before.

It’s true that the artillery fire attacked in two minutes. Although the time was short, it caused nearly 300 casualties to the Japanese army.
Chapter completed!