On the road less than ten kilometers away from the blockade, a huge convoy of nearly fifty cars was racing on the road!
On the first three cars, the Japanese were ready, with machine guns mounted on the roofs of the cabs. Under the control of the machine gunners, they kept firing at the wastelands and woods on both sides of the road!
The troops were marching too fast, and the only way the Japanese could ensure their safety was to conduct reconnaissance fire!
Three kilometers ahead of them, a mountain ridge lay across the road!
The road passes through a gap in the middle of the mountain ridge. The Japanese reinforcements want to go to the front line, and the gap is the only way for them to pass!
At this moment, more than 600 people from the Second Battalion were building trenches on the ridge!
The convoy of nearly fifty vehicles was more than a thousand meters long. If one battalion was removed, the remaining troops in Li Hao's hands would not be able to deploy such a large pocket array!
But annihilating the Japanese reinforcements is a crucial battle for winning Datong!
If you kill them, you will have a better chance of winning Datong!
If they can't be killed and let them escape back to Datong City, it will definitely be difficult for them to capture Datong, and they may even have no chance!
After thinking about it for a long time, Li Hao decided to carry out a frontal attack! Outflanking and outflanking, and finally wiped out all the Japanese reinforcements at the foot of the mountain ridge!
"Captain, the blocking positions have been repaired, now we just wait for the Japs to come and kill them!" Zhang Yun, the second battalion commander, found Li Hao and reported confidently!
"Don't be careless!" Li Hao reminded!
"The Japanese reinforcements not only include three infantry squadrons, but also a mortar squadron and a heavy machine gun squadron!"
"If they attack with all their strength, the second battalion will definitely be under great pressure!"
"Even if the current Second Battalion has not reached its heyday before the counter-mopping, it is not far behind!"
"Coupled with such a good terrain, I won't be afraid even if the Japs attack a full infantry brigade, let alone kill them with less than a brigade of Japs!"
Li Hao shook his head and replied: "I believe that the second battalion can definitely block the Japanese attack!"
"But what I want is not only to block them, but also to delay them and buy time for our outflanking troops!"
"At the beginning, I will reserve half of my firepower to let the Japanese underestimate the enemy and think they can break through our blocking position!"
"When the roundabout troops are in place, I will take out all the weapons at the bottom of the box, fight back against the Japanese attacking troops, and cooperate with the roundabout troops to kill them!"
"Rumble..."
A series of explosions sounded at the gap in the mountain ridge. It was the serial mine prepared by the Second Battalion for the Japanese, and it was also a serial mine with added ingredients!
A string of five landmines, one every ten meters, and a twenty-kilogram explosive bag buried next to each mine!
After the garrison team captured five coal mines in a row, the last thing they needed was explosives!
At least 1,000 jins were seized from small coal mines, nearly 3,000 jins were seized from medium-sized coal mines, and a total of 5,000 jins were seized from the large coal mines just captured!
A chain of thunders that stretched for forty meters suddenly exploded, and the first three cars were instantly submerged by fireballs rising from the ground!
The worst thing was that one, three or two cars were thrown high from the ground with a car full of little devils, turned over, and then hit the roadside hard!
Dozens of Japs didn't even have a chance to jump out of the car, and were directly crushed into a pulp!
A car in the middle braked in time and was not directly hit by a landmine!
But the brutality of the Japanese was no better than that of the two cars in front and behind!
The huge air wave generated by the explosion of the explosive pack instantly blew them away. The Japanese who were closer to the explosion point were directly torn into pieces, and not a single intact body was left!
In the blink of an eye, the forward team of the Japanese reinforcements were wiped out!
"There is an Eighth Route Army blocking position ahead. Everyone gets out of the car, breaks through the Eighth Route Army blocking position, and then continues to reinforce the blockade." The Japanese captain who was walking in the middle began to give orders as soon as his face changed!
As a veteran who has been on the battlefield for a long time, these casualties are not enough to make him panic and lose his mind!
"The second squadron of the first squadron will launch an exploratory attack immediately to find out the specific strength of the blocking force!" The captain jumped out of the co-pilot and continued to order!
The captain of the 1st Squadron ran over panting heavily and reported: "Sir, the section of road where the forward team was bombed has been completely destroyed. Even if we kill the Eighth Route Army blocking troops, the convoy will not be able to move forward!"
The captain raised his brows, thought for a moment, and then began to give orders: "Stop the convoy here and take us back to Datong City after our task of reinforcing the blockade is completed!"
"The troops all disembarked, assembled towards the mountain pass, concentrated all troops and firepower, captured the mountain pass in the shortest possible time, and then marched urgently to reinforce the blockade. Intercepted the Kuang Gong who was rescued by the Eighth Route Army!"
"Da da da……"
The battle to attack and defend Yamaguchi has begun!
More than fifty Japanese soldiers lined up in a skirmish line, some holding rifles, others holding crooked handles and grenade launchers, and quickly approached the mountain pass!
Less than a hundred meters away from the ridge, gunfire rang out!
Under the cover of night, the captain couldn't see clearly what was going on on the mountain ridge!
But the flames ejected from the machine gun are particularly dazzling, and you can see them clearly at a glance!
"There are five light machine guns on the ridge, but no heavy machine guns!" analyzed the squadron leader standing nearby!
"Sir, the Eighth Route Army blocking us should be a company. Give their breakout troops time to break through our blockade!"
Seeing that the forward team began to suffer casualties, the captain decisively ordered: "Withdraw the offensive troops, cover them with artillery and heavy machine guns, and launch an attack with the second squadron to kill them in one assault and capture the mountain pass!"
"Hi!"
"Boom boom boom..."
Explosions continued to sound on the mountain ridge. The rising fireballs, thick black smoke, and flying soil quickly covered the mountain ridge!
"Damn it, the little devils are so generous when they fight, and the artillery shells are thrown at them as if they cost nothing!" the instructor of the second battalion exclaimed with both nervousness and envy!
Zhang Yun's expression was very relaxed, and he sighed: "Fortunately, the Japanese army only brought mortars, and our position was strong enough, otherwise the troops would have suffered heavy casualties!"
"Let all comrades take cover. Looking at the posture of the little devil, he will definitely want to attack our blocking position and pass through the mountain pass in one attack!"
"Tell the fourth company commander that he will not have any reinforcements for the next attack. He must block the next Japanese attack at all costs!"
The artillery squadron fought for five minutes before stopping!
The entire top of the ridge was almost blown up, with craters half a meter deep everywhere!
The trench that stretched for more than 200 meters was also bombed with gaps everywhere!
The only thing that everyone is thankful for is that the power of mortar shells is limited and did not bring devastating blow to the trenches!
Unless a shell hits the trench directly, there is no way it could threaten the more than a hundred soldiers hiding in the trench!
"The Japanese have begun to attack, a whole infantry squadron!" The guard post's exclamation woke up the troops who had not yet reacted to the shelling!
The fourth company commander glanced at the Japanese attacking troops and his expression changed, and he immediately ordered: "Everyone who can still move, stand up and pick up your weapons. Prepare to fight!"
"The grenades are all ready. Use grenades to greet the enemy when they approach!"
"We are condescending and can hit the kid on the head with a grenade from a distance of 40 meters! But the kid can't throw the grenade to the top of the mountain and can only be beaten passively, so everyone must take advantage of this terrain!"
"When shooting machine gunners, we should still use the old method to kill the Japanese. We can't stay in the same machine gun position for more than ten seconds, otherwise we will definitely be targeted by Japanese grenades and heavy machine guns, and we will die without knowing how we died!"
"Machine gun fire!"
"Da da da……"
There were only four tongues of flames strung out from the mountain ridge, and a crooked handle was blown up by the shelling just now and turned into scrap metal!
Just as the four crooked guns fired, the heavy machine guns used by the Japanese to cover the attack also moved!
Bullets from both sides were coming back and forth, but the heavy machine gun bullets flying towards the mountain ridge were obviously denser and more powerful!
The exchange of shots took less than a minute, and they were defeated in a row!
The four crooked soldiers could only constantly shift their positions and carry out sporadic attacks on the Japanese attacking troops!
"The riflemen also shoot, prepare grenades!" the fourth company commander shouted anxiously!
The Japanese attacking troops were getting closer and closer, with almost no casualties!
The bullets flying overhead were so dense that no one even had a chance to look up!
If you don't think of ways to cause some casualties to them, it's definitely impossible to stop all the Japanese with just grenades!
"Pa bang bang..."
A volley of guns rang out on the battlefield!
The Japanese attacking force fell five or six Japanese in an instant!
But the rifleman's attack also provoked crazy revenge from the Japanese heavy machine gun squadron!
Bullets were raining down on the mountain ridges, and soldiers were constantly being killed because they couldn't evade them!
Of course, people from the Japanese attacking troops were also killed one after another!
"Get ready to throw the grenades out!" the fourth company commander continued to shout!
This is his last hope to stop the Japanese!
If grenades can't stop the Japanese in front, then all that's left is to fight with the bayonet and fight for your life with the Japanese!!
The Japanese captain had a gloomy look on his face. He couldn't see the battlefield very clearly, but the explosion could be heard!
"Sir, the Eighth Route Army is using grenades to block our attacking troops! They are condescending and occupy an absolute terrain advantage. The attacking troops can only be passively beaten!" The adjutant also looked very ugly, frowning and analyzing!
"Bagya Road!" the captain scolded with a stern face!
"The Eighth Route Army must have built very complete blocking fortifications on the mountain ridge. The shelling just now caused almost no damage to them. Otherwise, there would be no way there would be so many people left in one company!"
"Order the artillery squadron to fire immediately, with each gun firing five rounds rapidly. After the attack, the attacking troops will assault the mountain ridge and occupy the mountain ridge!"
"Hi!"
The adjutant will take orders immediately!
Although this will cause some accidental injuries to the attacking troops, compared with the casualties caused by the Eighth Route Army's grenades, they can definitely be said to be minimal!
And now the Eighth Route Army is blocking the attacking troops, all of them are exposed on the surface of the position!
Artillery shells are now falling from the sky. No matter how perfect the offensive on the mountain ridge is, the Eighth Route Army will suffer heavy casualties!