Under the leadership of Major Gerald and Lieutenant Shanna, the US military engineers and technicians completed the ground navigation mission in just eight hours.

Wang Peng, who didn't need to wait for twenty-four hours, was not happy because the 141st Infantry Regiment, which strengthened the Japanese 32nd Division, had arrived at the foot of Tieqi Mountain under the leadership of the Nomura Corps, and blocked the only way down the mountain.

After learning that Tieqi Mountain was surrounded by the Japanese army, the Chinese soldiers and officers seemed very calm, as if they had expected this result. Everyone was desperately strengthening the bunkers and fortifications, and all the trees and stones that could be used on the top of the mountain were used.

Since the 55th and 56th divisions suffered heavy casualties during the battle between the Tonggu, the two divisions were excluded by the cooperation of the operation and the mission of capturing Kunming. What is strange is that the base camp drew a gang to strengthen the 55th and 56th divisions respectively to the 18th and 32nd divisions.

Due to the huge losses in the battle between the 141st Infantry Regiment, almost all of them are now composed of new recruits.

This destined that the 141st Infantry Regiment lost the opportunity to attack Kunming to eat meat and win honors. The tasks left for Colonel Nomura were basically to protect the baggage team and drive away the guerrillas and other bone-chewing tasks. Nomura was so angry that he ordered them to redestruct a rebuilt radar station. He didn't know what kind of radar station actually needed a whole infantry regiment to destroy.

A small team sent to the top to reconnaissance was ambushed by dozens of Chinese soldiers at the foot of the mountain. The unprepared Japanese troops fell to the ground and died in a brief and fierce firefight. The remaining Japanese troops fled back in a very embarrassing manner. Since the captain had already died, the remaining Japanese recruits could not tell who they were, how much firepower was, and from which direction they were ambushed.

The sudden attack surprised Nomura, who was not sure about the strength of the Chinese army, and in desperation, he requested air reconnaissance. The result of the air reconnaissance site made Nomura look disgrace. According to the reconnaissance returns, there were about 70 to 90 Chinese soldiers on the top of the peak.

Nomura almost scoffed at the number of Chinese troops guarding the radar station. In his opinion, this was a completely unnecessary action and wasting the precious military force of the empire. If his corps participated in the Kunming attack, he believed that he could achieve more brilliant results, rather than running to the wild mountains and ridges to eliminate a hundred Chinese soldiers.

After lunch, Nomura recruited his long-lasting captain into the tent and ordered him to take down the main peak before dusk and destroy the Chinese army entrenched there.

Changjiu Mizhong is a descendant of a wandering warrior. Later, with the help of his uncle, he was lucky enough to enter the military academy to study. During his studies, he was famous for his bravery in combat. However, because his background was not very glorious, he has been in the position of captain for many years. He always missed the opportunity to promote, which made Changjiu Mizhong's psychology distorted, and he often made fun of killing or abused his subordinates.

After receiving the task, Changjiu Mizhong immediately assigned combat missions to three squadrons under his brigade. He was confident in capturing only a hundred Chinese soldiers’ defense peaks. The Chinese army gave him the impression that it was vulnerable.

When the Japanese troops began to move to the main peak, they frequently encountered mines. They just arrived at the hillside. The pilot squadron of Changjiu's brigade lost more than 30 soldiers. Looking at the wounded soldiers holding the broken legs and wailingly, Changjiu Mizhong's face turned pale. He knew that his troops had mistakenly entered the minefields set up by the other party. In the absence of engineers, Changjiu Mizhong could only let the soldiers in his marching distance be widened.

The Japanese vanguards lying on the rugged mountain road were carefully exploring mines with their carry-on bayonets. The Japanese troops lie down not far away with panic expressions. The long-term brigade was moving at the same speed as a turtle.

Even so, the Japanese vanguards, who lacked professional mine clearance knowledge, still touched the mines one after another. The successor looked at his companion's bloody body and could hardly hold the bayonet in his hand.

Waiting at the foot of the mountain, Tetsunomura was waiting for Tetsunomura to find out through the telescope that the Changjiu team was progressing slowly and had huge casualties. So he sent a staff officer to scold Kazumi-chan. Facing the troop leader, Kazumi-chan had to explain to Nomu through the radio station: "The Chinese army is very cunning. Their mines and areas are not regular at all. Almost all mines are accompanied by thunder devices to eliminate abnormal difficulties and dangers."

After hearing the long explanation, Nomura picked up the telescope. At this moment, another muffled sound came from the mountainside. A pillar of cigarette rose more than ten meters high. Nomura put down the telescope thoughtfully. After hesitating for a moment, hesitated and issued an order to stop moving forward.

The power and effect of the mines were completely out of the expectations. Wang Pengdi expected it. After asking, he found out that the methods of burying mines by the brigade engineer battalion were taught by the brigade personnel themselves. The engineers mastered the most classic, most effective, simple and fast mine arrangement methods in later generations. You must know that Song Yuhang himself is an expert in this field.

Nomura is not the traditional Japanese officer who regards soldiers' lives as grass, nor is it because he is reluctant to sacrifice his soldiers. Instead, he regards soldiers as his bargaining chips. Obviously, the target on the mountain is not worth fighting for him.

When Nomura, who regretted not carrying engineers, was about to ask the division headquarters for guidance, the division chief Ichiro Yamamoto personally asked to use the walkie-talkie. After conveying the division commander's request to destroy the US radar station in the early morning of tomorrow, he kept the safety of the air strike against Kunming aircraft group tomorrow.

Nomura then understood the importance of this mission. Nomura, who was extremely depressed, had to dispatch the only Type 92 infantry artillery squadron at hand to Changjiu Mizhong and let him use artillery fire to plow a passage to the top of the mountain.

Since tomorrow's air strikes are top secret, the division headquarters concealed the combat targets from Nomura before the operation, and Nomura only regarded this mission as a routine clearance. For tactical purposes and troop organization, Nomura had to carry a Type 92 infantry artillery squadron that was believed to be streamlined. The worst thing is that the 141st Regiment did not carry enough shells.

The Japanese artillery squadron finally completed the task of clearing the road when the shells were exhausted. Changjiu Mizhong, who had been suppressed for a long time, drew out his sabre with a ferocious face and slashed at the mountaintop: "Go forward!"

Under the leadership of several military commanders, the Changjiu brigade formed an attack formation, and the expressionless Japanese soldiers quickly dispersed into scattered lines to launch a backbone attack towards the main peak.

Due to the rugged road to the main peak, coupled with the deliberate destruction of the engineer platoon sent by Wang Peng, the roads that can be accessed by the Japanese army were very narrow. Even if the formation of Japanese soldiers spread out the scattered lines was still very dense, the four Type 92 heavy machine guns that followed the troops were still unable to deploy because they did not find a suitable launch position.

The intensive offensive formation of Changjiu's brigade made Changjiu Mizhong very worried, while Wang Peng, in the main fortifications of the main peak, calmly observed the Japanese army's offensive formation. The six 42 heavy machine guns beside him were waiting for his shooting orders.

The Japanese army used artillery fire to destroy the minefield, which was expected by Wang Peng. The minefield was used to delay time and consume the Japanese army's edge. The Japanese artillery fire density and shooting time interval made Wang Peng realize the shortage of the Japanese artillery, which was very beneficial to his defense.

As a supplementary lieutenant who had just been promoted to return to the battle, Kobayashi Mitsuji urged his soldiers to move forward from the beginning of the attack, but the unusual tranquility of the main peak made him feel uneasy. He even smelled the fishy smell of the mountain wind blowing slightly! With the rich experience of Kobayashi Mitsuji, a veteran of the 1937 war, he had never seen any Chinese army that had used such a large number of landmines. Kobayashi Mitsuji could be sure that the Chinese army on the mountain must be not simple.

When the Japanese army advanced less than fifty meters from the main peak, several Japanese sergeants walking in front burst into shouts at the same time, and accelerated their pace and began to attack the main peak.

Faced with the Japanese crowd, Wang Peng picked up the phone with a slightly trembling hand and yelled: "Second, fourth, and sixth Fire Fortresses start shooting!"

After a few seconds of pause, the three fire support points located on the incline of the windward line began to eject fire tongues, and for a moment, gunfire sounded like a bean-burning bean sounded throughout the mountains.

Time seemed to stop at this moment. The Japanese army hit as if they had hit an iron plate. In the dense rain of bullets, dozens of Japanese troops rushing to the forefront were shot one after another. Under the huge impact of the bullets, the Japanese army caught rolled down the rugged mountain road one after another.

The Japanese army, which was attacked by fire, did not panic. The subsequent Japanese army immediately fell on the hillside, trying to use the terrain to fight stubbornly. However, after the Japanese army fell down, they were surprised to find that even if they were lying down, they could not effectively avoid the bullets fired from the peak. Rows of bullets shot from the straits made the Japanese army lying to the ground fly across the flesh and blood. Many Japanese soldiers were directly hit on the back and killed before they could react.

When the rest of the Japanese army wanted to find favorable terrain to support the cover, they found that the terrain around them seemed to have been sorted out. After 70 or 80 casualties, the Japanese army began to retreat to a small hill a hundred meters below like a tide.

Like a nightmare Kobayashi Koji, who had experienced a nightmare, fled back to his starting position in panic. Then, he was grabbed by Changjiu Mizhong and slapped more than a dozen times in the face. Kobayashi Koji, whose nose and mouth were bleeding, eyes were filled with stars, suddenly woke up. Looking at the wailing wounded soldiers beside him, Kobayashi Koji was so excited that he let out a sigh of shame and lowered his head and stood at attention.

After counting the casualties, Changjiu Mizhong's eyes turned black. He held a tree trunk beside him and almost fell to the ground. It turned out that in just five minutes from launching the attack to being defeated and retreated, at least more than 100 Japanese soldiers were crossed on the hillside. In addition to the previous casualties in the minefield, Changjiu's brigade had successfully reduced almost one squadron.
Chapter completed!