Sure enough, there was an explosion from the front.
The soldiers knew that it was their air force bombing the Japanese positions.
On the Japanese blocking position, the remaining Japanese troops were ready to fight.
They built three defensive positions on the mountains and highlands on both sides, but it was not easy to build positions in the mountains.
At least, their engineer shovel can no longer play any role at this time.
Because there are stones everywhere on this mountain ridge, their engineering shovels will hit stones in just a few strokes.
These defensive positions of the Japanese army were made of some gravel piled up to form a defensive position.
But such a defensive position could not provide any protection for these Japanese soldiers in the face of fierce air attacks by the Fourth Army.
Many Japanese soldiers chose to temporarily withdraw from their defensive positions and hide in the woods at the foot of the mountain.
Although there are no lush foliage in the woods now, the horizontal branches can also provide them with good cover.
When the Japanese soldiers hid in the woods, the vanguard units of the Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army did not stop. On the contrary, they tried their best to shorten the defensive positions with the Japanese army amid their own uninterrupted air strikes. distance.
A large number of soldiers above the Japanese positions could no longer bear the fierce bombing by the Fourth Army's fighter planes and chose to temporarily retreat from the high ground.
They didn¡¯t know that the troops of the Eighth Route Army and the Fourth Army were already approaching their defensive positions.
Just quietly waiting for their air raid to end.
More than ten minutes later, the air strike fighter flew into the distance amidst the roar of its engines.
The soldiers who had been hiding under the Japanese defensive positions roared at this time and sprinted towards the Japanese high ground.
From the foot of the mountain to the top, it took them less than three minutes.
The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army and the Fourth Army were competing consciously or unconsciously as they charged upward.
This allows many soldiers to charge much faster than before.
Not only that, at this time, a large number of troops were coming from behind them.
On the other side of the high ground, when the Japanese troops saw the Fourth Army's fighter planes disappearing, they came out of the woods and rushed towards their high ground.
However, as soon as these Japanese troops rushed to the mountainside, a dark thing flew down from above their heads.
Those black objects were flying in the air, making a "whirring" sound.
This sound is very familiar to the Japanese soldiers. It is the whistling sound made by the wooden-handled grenades equipped by the Chinese army as they spin and fly in the air.
Now that this voice appeared above their heads, these Japanese soldiers were stunned.
But the next moment, before the Japanese soldiers could realize what was going on, the grenades exploded among the crowd of Japanese soldiers.
¡°Boom!!!!¡±
A loud noise was heard, and a large number of Japanese soldiers were blown away by the loud noise, and then rolled down the hillside.
When other Japanese soldiers saw such a scene, they subconsciously chose to lie down, and at the same time began to aim the muzzles of their rifles at the hillside above their heads.
It was also at this time that the soldiers of the Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army above pointed their rifles and machine guns at the Japanese troops below.
Before the Japanese soldiers had time to pull the trigger, a torrential rain of bullets fell on them.
A large number of Japanese soldiers fell under the fierce firepower of the Fourth Army at the first time. Other Japanese soldiers, seeing such a scene, also opened fire one after another.
But their position was very unfavorable. They were originally on the defensive side, but now they gave up their defensive positions to the Japanese troops.
This also led to a change in the roles of both parties.
The Japanese army, which originally occupied a favorable terrain, became the party being attacked from a high position.
The Japanese commander saw the fierce firepower of the enemy above. Their soldiers were suppressed halfway up the mountain by the extremely strong firepower. Not to mention continuing to charge upward, even if they wanted to retreat at this time, they didn't know what it would take. How many casualties.
He immediately sent a telegram to his commander.
The commander-in-chief of the Japanese army in this direction was Ming Chuan.When the commander heard this, he wanted to kill the Japanese captain with a pistol through the walkie-talkie.
"Stupid!!! You actually gave up the defensive position you built to the enemy. Why don't you just leave the weapons in your hands on the position? This way, after the enemy rushes up, you can just raise your hands and surrender. !!¡±
Nagamei Kawanosuke roared into the walkie-talkie, just like the heavy machine guns of the Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army roaring at the Japanese troops below on the high ground.
The captain of the Japanese army responsible for blocking the attack said at this time: "This is the enemy's forward force. If we organize our troops, maybe we can win back the high ground!!"
"In fifteen minutes, if you can't bring your soldiers back to the high ground, then commit suicide by committing seppuku!!"
Nagameikawa Nosuke said coldly.
"Yes!! However, I hope that two more squadrons of troops can be dispatched to me!!"
At this time, he also took the opportunity to request an increase in his troops.
"Okay, I will allocate two more squadrons of troops to you, but remember your words, in fifteen minutes, I hope to see the rising sun flag rising again on your high ground!!"
After he finished speaking, he hung up the walkie-talkie directly.
Nagameikawa Nosuke rubbed the corners of his eyes in great distress, as if to relieve the fatigue of his brain and eyes.
At this time, their troops were gradually entering the valley, where the entrances and exits were relatively narrow. They only need to deploy some blocking troops here to prevent the enemy's offensive troops from pursuing.
However, what these Japanese troops did not know was that at this moment, on the highlands on both sides of them, the ambush troops of the Eighth Route Army had arrived here through starry and night travel, and had set up defensive positions above their heads.
On a steep slope dozens of meters away from the Japanese troops, Li Yunlong looked at the Japanese troops below with a telescope.
Those Japanese soldiers were crowding on both sides of the road in the middle of the valley. Some of them took out the rice balls they carried and put them in their mouths to chew. Some had just eaten two mouthfuls of food and then lay on the ground and fell asleep.
The Japanese army was exhausted to the extreme. Their troops had completely lost their basic formation and were scattered around like rocks washed down by floods. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com