As soon as the regiment commander Liang Yu fired his gun, his subordinates who were lying beside him started firing one after another. The twelve mountain cannons in the mountain cannon camp also quickly fired shells from the cannon chamber.

After a few seconds of whistling shells flew in the air, they steadily hit the Japanese heavy machine gun position and exploded.

In the blink of an eye, three heavy machine guns that were firing were buried in a series of violent explosions.

The captain who was guarding not far from the heavy machine gun position knew it was bad when he heard the sound of cannons.

In his opinion, the Liaodong Army, which can be equipped with so many artillery, must be the main force. As a vanguard, his brigade has thousands of troops, but he is not equipped with artillery.

In this case, I don’t even have to test the firepower at least. As soon as I go up, it will be a team-scale attack. Wouldn’t that let my subordinates die?

Also, the Liaodong Army standing in front of him did not start fighting early or late, but he had to wait until the troops were about to rush to their positions to shoot. This kind of fighting style was something that everyone knew, the Liaodong Army standing in front of him wanted to wipe out its own brigade of troops.

Thinking of this, I secretly called the captain in my heart that as soon as I heard the first round of shell explosion, I issued a retreat order to the offensive troops.

Then he held up the telescope and stared at the attacking troops with a worried look on his face, hoping that they could retreat safely.

As soon as the cannon sounded from the mountain cannon camp, the firepower of a ball was fully opened.

Although the Liaodong Army's heavy firepower configuration has undergone a series of reductions, the first regiment is still equipped with ten heavy machine guns and thirty light machine guns. In addition, nearly 1,800 rifles all fired at the Japanese infantry with all their strength.

In just a few seconds, a regiment shot 10,000 or 20,000 shots at the Japanese army.

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Under the overwhelming sweep of dense bullets, the Japanese attacking troops, which became scattered lines, were defeated in two rows at once.

The remaining Japanese troops were not much better. Although they could escape the first round of attacks of a group, the group was condescending and lying in the trenches to shoot them with guns.

In order to survive, the remaining more than 500 Japanese troops could only lie on the hillside and shoot in the same group.

But even so, people were still hit by bullets, and the gun was lying on the hillside and never got up again.

At this time, the commander's retreat was finally transmitted to the battlefield through the signal flag.

Listening to the whizzing sound of bullets flying over his head, a squadron leader lying on the ground couldn't help but curse: "Baga, the Liaodong Army has such strong firepower, how can we retreat? Isn't it a live target for the Liaodong Army to stand up and retreat now?"

Although the squad leader next to him agreed with this statement, he still advised the squadron leader: "The Liaodong Army blocked us from a high position, and if we continue to lie here, we will be killed completely. We can only retreat. As long as the speed is fast enough, maybe someone can run back. It is better than being killed by the Liaodong Army and destroyed the entire army."

"Bageyalu, we were all too careless. We didn't expect that the Liaodong Army had prepared such a big trap for us, Baga!" The heavy-faced squadron leader couldn't help but curse loudly.

After cursing, he ordered very decisively: "Then retreat. Notify all squadrons and squads, leave no cover troops, and retreat all the time, the faster the better!"

After the order was reached, the squadron leader was the first to retreat under the cover of several guards.

The hundreds of Japanese troops remaining on the battlefield were unwilling to fall behind and ran back one after another.

What they didn't know was that from here until they rushed out of the range of the Liaodong Army's light and heavy machine gun, they would have to run at least 200 meters. No matter how fast they were, they would have to run for about one minute.

Within this minute, more than 2,000 people from the First Regiment of the Fifth Division had enough time to continue shooting at them.

When more than 500 Japanese troops first retreated, their reserves were completely exposed to the Liaodong Army.

Neither the recruits nor the veterans missed this good opportunity to practice marksmanship. The Liaodong Army, which was retreating frantically, was constantly shot in the back and threw themselves forward to the ground, and could no longer get up.

Especially the light and heavy machine guns on the position, sweeping over a round of bullets will surely splash blood among the dense Japanese army, sweeping down two or three Japanese.

One minute is not long or short.

A brigade of less than a hundred Japanese troops were left with the joy of surviving the disaster and escaped from the effective range of the light and heavy machine gun.

Looking at the remnants of the infantry squadron in front of him, the captain was so heartbroken that he could not cry.

Afterwards, he did not dare to stay here for even a minute. As soon as his subordinates retreated, they took them and the three surviving heavy machine guns to retreat.

Soon, the Japanese division commander who was following the pursuit knew that the Avant-garde brigade had almost been destroyed.

"You are sure that the blocking force you encountered is the main force of the Liaodong Army, not the rear force that the Liaodong Army gave up to slow us down!" The division commander asked, staring at the captain of the Forward Brigade.

""Hi! Beizhi is sure that the total strength of this Liaodong Army is more than 2,000 people, equipped with a large number of light and heavy machine guns and a squad of artillery. Beizhi believes that no matter how stupid the commander of the Liaodong Army is, he will not leave an elite force behind the palace!"

The division commander nodded in approval and replied: "Yoxi, this means that the Liaodong army we are pursuing does not plan to continue running. They want to fight us here!"

As soon as the division commander finished speaking, the chief of staff hurried over with excitement on his face and reported: "Second Commander, good news. The two division commanders who deviated from both wings had just sent people to inform us that the main force of the Liaodong Army had stopped retreating and was building defensive fortifications, as if they were preparing to fight us here!"

"That's great, this is the situation we can't ask for. Is there any other news from the two division commanders coming here? Do you have any requests?" The division commander's eyes lit up and he quickly asked.

"Yes!" The Chief of Staff replied very readily.

"The two division commanders hope that we will launch an attack on the Liaodong Army in an hour. It will take an hour for them to complete the encirclement of the Liaodong Army and completely surround the main force of the Liaodong Army here."

The division commander did not want to turn the seemingly obtained annihilation battle into a defeat, and he agreed without thinking.

Yang Xingguo, who decided to fight the Japanese army here, learned that the Japanese army did not launch an attack immediately, immediately understood the purpose of the Japanese army, and then cursed with a sarcasm: "The Japanese army has a really big appetite and wants to surround us here and eat it in one bite. Today I will let them understand here that it is a delusion to want to eat my Liaodong army without a good tooth!"

"Chief of Staff, notify the Guard Division and the Fifth Division. Use this time to continue to strengthen the position. After the battle begins, give the Japanese army a wake-up call!"

"Order the heavy artillery division Zhong Hu to take out all the assets of the heavy artillery division. As long as you find the positions of the two Japanese field artillery regiments, you don't need orders, and you can fire the gun and destroy them immediately."

"The cavalry division is ready for a counterattack, and once the counterattack order arrives, they must immediately enter the battle."

"In addition, a company was drawn from my guard battalion from Linzi to the back of the Japanese army to pick up the Special Forces Detachment. In the next battle, the seventy mortars in the special forces detachment will play a big role!"

It was not until this time that Sun Lichen and others learned that Yang Xingguo had laid an ambush around the Japanese heavy artillery brigade before going to war, and mobilized the main force of the Japanese army by retreating and losing several artillery regiments, creating an ambush or severely damaged the Japanese heavy artillery brigade.
Chapter completed!