In the dark night, the Takeda Brigade did not move as Zhang Wei expected, and the 1st Brigade of the 21st Wing, intending to rest and recuperate all night, and in accordance with Takeda's plan, launched an attack on the Chinese army confronting him, that is, the Teaching Brigade and the 1st Battalion of the 65th Regiment of the newly formed 22nd Division, in the early morning of the next day.
After the reorganization, the officers and men of the Takeda Brigade enjoyed a rare night of rest and recuperation on the battlefield.
What prompted the Takeda Brigade to launch an attack was not only Takeda Masayuki's desire to win, but also a telegram from Miki in the rear urging the attack, and the order in the telegram was simple and rude, that is, the Takeda Brigade was not allowed to continue to wait for reinforcements, and it was necessary to attack.
It was also mentioned that the road was damaged, and the road was damaged, which was also an important factor for Miki to urge Takeda to attack, the road was bombed, and Miki's large army could not continue to advance, but the reinforcement task in the direction of Kunlun Pass could not be left unloaded, so well, the Takeda brigade had to attack When the officers and men of the Takeda Brigade were resting, the highway was very lively more than 10 kilometers behind their station, and the Japanese trucks illuminated the vicinity of the highway with their headlights, and the Japanese marching procession, which stretched for more than two kilometers, stopped on the Nanbin Highway.
The truck's headlights illuminated the vicinity of the highway, some of the Japanese infantry were on the highway, some simply got off the road and drove to the field to guard, on the highway, there was a large amount of ammunition, and finally the car, mules and horses, and artillery units, the scene was very chaotic.
The reason for all this came from a large ditch on the road, a large ditch blown up by the engineer platoon, a small ditch dug out, and a lot of gravel lying across the road, and the trucks, baggage trucks, and anti-aircraft artillery of the Miki troops could not pass, and the troops' marches were stuck alive by the neck.
"Hurry up, search the neighborhood and see if there are any enemy troops" A Japanese infantry officer turned on a flashlight and stood in front of the ditch blown up by the engineer platoon of the teaching brigade, and more than a dozen soldiers were busy around the ditch, maintaining a high state of alert, and there were more vigilant soldiers around, these Japanese soldiers were cautious, and they were afraid of the ditch in front of them like a plague god.
Keeping a guard on the perimeter, but not daring to approach the ditch on the highway easily, everyone was in a state of battle.
The masterpiece of the engineer platoon, the most successful blasting of the big ditch, and the edge of the ditch, there are ten Japanese corpses lying horizontally and vertically, the death is extremely miserable, the body is shattered, the head is blown up, and there is a body that has been blown apart, the corpse is full of dense irregular holes, the broken meat and the stone scum flew out of the ditch, and the weapons were also blown to tatters.
The corpses outside the ravine were all cleaned up and carried down by the Japanese army later, and as for the ones in the ditch, no one dares to move them now, and they are afraid that there will be unexploded bombs.
These dead Japanese soldiers came from the avant-garde search force of Miki's troops, they were the first to discover the ditch, saw the damaged road, and it was normal to go down to the ditch to investigate, but who would have thought that what was waiting for them was a violent explosion.
The grenades planted in the ditch by the engineer platoon served a "good dish" to the Japanese search soldiers, and the unsuspecting Japanese soldiers triggered a grenade, and a series of explosions, the grenades and the additional power of the stones killed several Japanese soldiers in and outside the ditch.
The violent explosion killed the Japanese search soldiers and stopped the advancing Miki troops.
The sound of the explosion made the follow-up troops think it was a surprise attack, and they were caught off guard, and the departments hurriedly turned into a combat state.
It was getting late, and there was another sudden situation, and the marching ranks of Miki's troops were very chaotic for a while, but after a period of search and reconnaissance, the marching ranks stabilized.
"Your Excellency, the infantry has searched the surroundings and found no trace of the enemy, and there should be no other explosives in the broken part of the road."
The commander of the second group of Japanese troops, the commander of the 21st Infantry Wing of the 21st Brigade of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army, Miki Yoshinosuke Osa, listened to the report of the adjutant of the wing, his face was very bad, and he broke away from the fly-like raid of the Chinese army, and as a result, when he arrived here, the road was destroyed again.
The composition of Miki's unit was based on infantry, with reinforced artillery and baggage vehicles, and the significance of the road to these things is self-evident.
Miki Yoshinosuke, a professional military officer with rich war experience, was very helpless about the current situation.
The telegram received by the Takeda Brigade was sent shortly after the explosion, and Miki could not leave Kunlun Guang alone, so he could only order the Takeda Brigade to continue the attack.
Looking at the various methods used by the Chinese army against Miki's troops, they were nothing more than sneak attacks, ambushes, and road bombings, and for Miki, this kind of attack was not very damaging, but it was extremely annoying.
The fly-style, guerrilla-style attack and ambush passed, which blew up the road again, suffered a dark loss, and had to stop unconsciously, and ate a dumb loss without warning, can Miki not feel uncomfortable.
Because of the explosion and the possibility of lurking Chinese troops around, Miki was forced to order his troops to search the vicinity.
The Fifth Division rarely had such an uncomfortable moment on the road of China's conquest. can be compared with this, that is, the tragic situation when the 21st Wing was besieged by the Chinese army in Taierzhuang and Lunan battles, one was miserable, and the other was endless raids and harassments, and it was miserable.
"How far is the search range of the troops" Miki said while controlling his emotions, an excellent professional officer, emotional management is a must, Miki did a good job of this, although he had all kinds of emotions in his heart, he did not show it in front of his subordinates.
"The enemy army had carried out a large number of ambushes on our army before, and we suspected that there were Chinese troops in ambush around, so the search was not far, and only searched the field within a kilometer on both sides of the road and the places where it was easy to hide soldiers, and did not find the Chinese army."
Miki said: "The enemy is really cunning, how are the obstacles on the highway detected, can you pass the car?"
The adjutant of the wing shook his head: "It has been calculated, the enemy should have carried out earthwork first, and the soldiers found traces of engineering equipment near the ravine, two ditches, both of which were excavated by manpower first, and the deepest one used explosives after digging, a large number of explosives bombarded, blasted, and there were obvious piles of artificially piled stones and blasted stones in front of the ravines, and in the case of our army trucks, they can now barely pass through small ditches, big ditches, and cannot pass." ” Miki sighed, the matter has come to this, there may be Chinese troops lurking somewhere around, the road is temporarily useless, Miki can't do anything to abandon the baggage vehicles and artillery.
That is undoubtedly self-defeating, giving up the essence of the team, and the only way to do it now is to stop advancing and repair the road.
"Let the infantry units try to repair the road, let trucks and artillery pass as soon as possible, maintain a two-kilometer alert around it, and increase the search alert area" "Yes" "In addition, send another telegram to the First Brigade, ordering them to attack and reinforce Kunlun Pass."
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