The command post of the Kunlun Pass garrison began to get busy again, and the once lifeless atmosphere in the command post was replaced by the sound of radio and field telephones.
Matsumoto Sozaburo, unwilling to be defeated like this, he plans to launch a night attack again, the troops of the Fifth Division, are all attacking, therefore, although the garrison led by Matsumoto Sozaburo is on the defensive, but in his bones, he still likes to be aggressive and take the initiative to attack, however, this time he launched a night attack, and he was also forced to be anxious and wanted to fight to the death.
In the command post, which had been destroyed by the artillery fire of the Fifth Army, Matsumoto gave orders to his embarrassed officers to counterattack at night, and in the command post, Matsumoto's squadron leader, lieutenant, lieutenant, second lieutenant, and a few soldiers resolutely accepted the task of launching a night attack under difficult circumstances.
The reason for these officers' doubts was that the 200th Division's fierce offensive this afternoon, to be precise, the combat effectiveness displayed by the squadron attacking the Luotang Heights, compared with the previous performance of the 200th Division, the tactical level of the squadrons attacking the Luotang Heights was simply terrifying.
The garrison suffered a new defeat, and the squadron showed a very fast tactical level, so that the Japanese officers who witnessed the loss of Luotang couldn't help but beat the drum in their hearts.
However, Matsumoto insisted on launching a night attack counterattack, and the military order was difficult to disobey, and in the end, the night attack counterattack order was conveyed.
From the perspective of the current combat situation, Matsumoto knows that the situation of himself and his troops is extremely dangerous, the defensive area is seriously compressed, and the loss of troops is serious, Matsumoto is still clear about the capital in his hands, once the squadron launches a large-scale attack again, the defensive zone under his subordinates will inevitably be eaten away less and less, until it is completely collapsed, so launch a counterattack, counter the squadron that has just won, delay the further attack pace of the squadron, and use an active offensive style to gain more time and money for holding on to the reinforcements.
If you can rely on night raids to regain some of the lost positions and restore the defensive area, you may be able to hold out longer, and sit back and wait for death, which is doomed to a dead end.
Matsumoto dared to launch a counterattack on the premise of being violently beaten in the afternoon, in fact, he also had the confidence to support it, and this confidence came from the contempt for the tactical level of the officers and men of the 200th Division in the protracted attack, and the understanding of certain characteristics of the squadron in several years of fighting with the squadron.
If his subordinates had raided in the dark of night, launched a white-handed assault on the squadron with a melee attack, Matsumoto would still be confident that the night attack would be successful.
After all, close combat, night attacks, large-scale white-knuckle assaults, this kind of high-tech combat methods that test the quality of soldiers, this is what the squadron is not good at, Matsumoto Sozaburo, and finally decided to launch a night attack on the squadron in this night full of failure, and the target is the Luotang Heights.
Matsumoto's goal for the night raid troops was to attack Luotang at night and snatch Luotang back from the hands of the squadron In the bleak night, the soldiers of the Japanese Kunlun Pass garrison were tired and stationed in their respective positions, after the afternoon battle, the Kunlun Pass garrison lost more than 500 people, and the infantry's living combat force suffered heavy losses, only on the Luotang Heights, an infantry squadron was completely wiped out, and the core infantry unit of the Kunlun Pass garrison team had only one infantry brigade in total, and Luotang alone lost one-third.
Now the strength of the Kunlun Pass garrison is less than 1,000 people, not even an infantry brigade, and even fewer infantry who can maneuver in combat, well, this number means that if the 200 divisions launch another large-scale attack like this afternoon, the Kunlun Pass garrison will basically be scrapped.
Behind the side of the Jieshou Heights, a Japanese army slowly drove down the high ground in the dark night, some Japanese soldiers stationed in the same place watched coldly from the comrades-in-arms who drove down from the position, no one spoke, and every Japanese soldier who attacked at night tightened the equipment on his body, and the water bottle, bayonet holster and all the equipment that could make a sound were solid and tight.
The steel helmets of the Japanese night raiders were smeared with mud, and the marching ranks did not make a sound, and there was a lifeless atmosphere in the dark night, and about two infantry squads of Japanese infantry advanced sneakily in the direction of Luotang Heights.
Sozaburo Matsumoto had the intention of counterattacking at night, but the strength was really stretched, and he could only muster the strength of two infantry squads, these two squads of Japanese troops, carrying a large number of grenades, mainly light weapons, to use the tried and tested tactics of the Japanese army on the Luotang Heights to attack the night white-edged raid, with grenades, and grenadiers to form a cover fire, the infantry bayonets, launched a large-scale white-edged charge against the enemy, and used white-edged tactics to break the enemy's defensive line.
This trick is a tactic that the Japanese army attaches great importance to, the Japanese army has used it against the squadron a lot, and the attack effect is also very good, and the scale of the previous attacks is not small, and there are even brigade-level white-edged charges, according to the regulations, the night white-edged attack of the brigade-level unit, the captain and the squadron leader These officers should personally lead the team, which shows that the Japanese army attaches great importance to this tactic.
The scale of Matsumoto's night attack was a little smaller, just two squads, and the leader was a lieutenant.
This team of about 100 people touched the Luotang Heights in the dark night.
The "bang" Japanese ranks were quiet, with only the occasional sound of feet on the ground.
The Japanese lieutenant who led the team, walked in the front of the team, and was the same as an ordinary combat soldier, carrying a 38-type rifle on his back, the Japanese army who attacked at night, put the forward forward, and quickly walked through the rugged mountain battlefield, all the Japanese detachment leaders, squad leaders and veteran soldiers had copper whistles around their necks, and a few people hung small horns, and the whistle was the best communication tool in the attack for a while.
Even after suffering defeat, this group of Japanese troops who attacked at night showed quite high combat quality, and in the process of approaching the Luotang Heights, they did not make any movement.
Soon, more than 100 Japanese troops leaned under the Luotang Heights and lurked over to prepare for the attack.
Zhang Wei's assault troops took Luotang from the front, and this group of Japanese troops attacking at night were facing them, naturally the anticline of Luotang, more than 100 pairs of ghostly eyes, below the high ground, staring at the anticline position of the Luotang Heights, as well as the figures on the position and the sound of conversation: