Liang Jian: Lao Li, I'm really not a military expert

Chapter 668: Lao Li, a large number of Japanese troops have infiltrated the rear, and the gap must b

The commander of the infiltration mission was Yamamoto Ikki. Under his personal leadership, a battalion of Japanese soldiers infiltrated the rear of Niangzi Pass in batches and engaged in sporadic battles with the militia stationed on the small road. With the help of the special forces, the infiltration troops' offensive was unstoppable. It took less than four hours to successfully defeat the attack of the two reserve teams, posing a huge threat to the transport team in the rear.

"Hirano-kun, take your men to attack the enemy's transport team immediately. Don't worry about how many enemies you kill, but find ways to blow up the enemy's weapons and ammunition, causing problems with the enemy's material supply, and create favorable conditions for the large-scale attack!"

"The rest of you, follow me to occupy the Pingding Gold Mine. We will use the Pingding Gold Mine as a stronghold to receive more troops. When our strength reaches that of a regiment, we will launch an attack on the rear of Niangzi Pass. With a pincer attack from both inside and outside, we will defeat Li Yunlong's main force and recapture Niangzi Pass!"

Under the command of Yamamoto Ikki, a large number of Japanese soldiers began to infiltrate along the previous route. In just eight hours, more than 2000 Japanese soldiers successfully infiltrated and marched to the Pingding Gold Mine.

Li Yunlong, who learned that the rear was attacked, did not care at first, thinking it was a small group of Japanese troops, and immediately mobilized two militia battalions to encircle and block the gap. The battle on the front line was very fierce today. The Japanese dispatched a brigade and a puppet army division to launch an attack. The 18th Air Division of the Japanese was also fully dispatched, which greatly attracted Li Yunlong's attention, making Li Yunlong not notice the crisis in the rear at all.

Lin Zhenhua, who realized that something was wrong, handed over the command of the front-line troops to Li Yunlong. He led an armored vehicle battalion and rushed to the battlefield. He happened to encounter the defeated 8th Battalion of the Militia Regiment. After careful inquiry, he secretly cried out in his heart that something was wrong. He immediately led the armored vehicle battalion to search forward. Soon he encountered the Japanese infiltration troops and the two sides engaged in a fierce battle.

"Order each company to speed up the attack. We must not let the two Japanese squadrons in front of us escape. Use all our light and heavy weapons. At all costs, we must keep these two squadrons of Japanese."

Under the command of Lin Zhenhua, it took three hours of fierce fighting to repel two squadrons of the Japanese devils. However, the results were not as brilliant as expected. More than 280 Japanese devils were killed or wounded, and more than 130 of them escaped. However, their own casualties reached more than 270. The casualty ratio between the enemy and us was close to 1:1, which made Lin Zhenhua very angry, but he could do nothing about it.

The combat effectiveness of the militia battalion was indeed very weak. The Japanese's reaction was too fast. Even if they had the advantage in weapons and equipment, it would be extremely difficult to wipe out more than 400 Japanese in a positional assault.

"Duan Peng, take your men to investigate immediately. There are two squadrons of Japanese soldiers in the rear. This proves that there are definitely more than just these few Japanese soldiers who have infiltrated. We must find the Japanese stronghold as soon as possible, otherwise the consequences will be disastrous!"

Lin Zhenhua had just given the order when he received news that the transport convoy in the rear had been attacked. He immediately rushed to provide support. However, when he arrived, the battle had already ended. 18 ammunition trucks were destroyed by the Japanese and more than 60 soldiers died in the fighting. This made Lin Zhenhua very angry.

But he had no way to deal with it. He could only order each transport team to strengthen its garrison. At the same time, he tried every means to transfer more troops to guard the transport team to prevent the transport team from suffering greater losses, which would affect the ammunition supply on the front line.

"Old Li, something is not right. The Japanese have gone back to the rear of Niangzi Pass. It seems that there are some small roads that we didn't know about before, otherwise the Japanese couldn't have infiltrated so smoothly. I have arranged troops to search, and I also sent a telegram to Old Zhao, asking him to find a way to airlift two battalions of soldiers to me tonight to make up for the lack of troops on the front line."

"The Japanese's attack this time is very crazy. We must be prepared for heavy losses. I have ordered the New 1st Regiment to go south and take over the Independent Regiment to continue defending Niangzi Pass in five days. The Independent Regiment can take this opportunity to rest and replenish troops in the rear. The New 2nd Regiment is also ready to go south at any time. Now is the time to fight the Japanese. No matter how difficult it is, we have to hold on. Otherwise, the current good situation will be lost overnight. Once we fail strategically, even if we win tactically, we cannot change the overall situation."

"As long as we can hold Niangzi Pass, the balance of power between the enemy and us in Shanxi Province will change. No matter how many casualties the Independent Regiment suffers at Niangzi Pass, you, Li Yunlong, must hold on for me!" Lin Zhenhua said fiercely with the intercom in his hand.

Li Yunlong was also overwhelmed by the Japanese on the front line. In the morning, the Japanese's attack was very crazy. They launched a sudden charge and occupied two high grounds. The Japanese's heavy artillery kept bombarding the Niangziguan position. The 150mm cannon howitzer caused huge casualties to the soldiers in the position and destroyed a large number of fortifications. Several positions were in danger.

If Li Yunlong had not personally led his men to fight three assaults and sent reinforcements to the positions, the left wing positions might have been completely broken through by the Japanese. Zhang Dabiao's two battalions were beaten to only two companies, and Li Yunlong urgently mobilized the reserve troops of the two battalions to take over and barely maintained the situation.

"College student, the Japanese are going crazy, attacking the Niangzi Pass position like a tide, and the independent regiment has suffered heavy casualties. Fortunately, we have the advantage of terrain. I have had people set up machine guns and are firing wildly at the attacking Japanese."

"The current situation is temporarily stable. The Japanese will not be able to break through our positions in a short period of time. However, as the casualties of the troops increase, the troops used to defend the positions are insufficient, and the positions will soon be occupied by the Japanese. I have already recaptured the three positions that were lost before, and now we are in a stalemate again. I have to lead people to launch a counterattack in half an hour at most, otherwise the entire front may collapse!"

Lin Zhenhua could hear from Li Yunlong's words how critical the situation on the front line was. He thought that the defenders of Ziguan would be able to get enough air fire support, but no one expected that the Japanese Air Force would go all out and force the Air Force Regiment to fight with all their strength. The battle situation unexpectedly fell into a crazy war of attrition, and did not go according to the original plan at all. Many plans did not conform to the actual situation on the battlefield and had to be drastically modified.