Quartermasters can also fight the devils

Chapter 477: All Standing Still

The regiment commander, Colonel Watanabe Nobuyoshi, sat under a tree, looking at the lunch in the military lunch box in front of him with a grim face. He really was not in any mood to eat. His troops attacked the Chinese army's defense line in Luwu several times, but there was no progress by noon.

The commander of the regiment, Colonel Nobuyoshi Watanabe, felt that his previous assessment of the battle situation seemed a bit too optimistic. If the battle continued like this, it would be difficult for his Second Regiment to break through the Chinese army's defense line in Luwu today. It seemed that he had to add some spice to the attack.

The commander of the regiment, Colonel Nobuyoshi Watanabe, decided to use special bullets to support the attack launched by his troops. Fortunately, the artillery unit had just had two artillery pieces disassembled into parts, which were carried on the officers and soldiers' backs to the front line of the attack. As for the remaining artillery and vehicles, they were still slowly crawling on the Yongqin Highway.

However, the two artillery pieces that arrived at this time were extremely critical, as they would enable the regiment commander, Colonel Watanabe Nobuyoshi, to realize the idea of ​​using special bullets. After all, special bullets are meant to catch the enemy by surprise, and now would be the best time to use them. The Chinese army would never have thought that they would suddenly use special bullets to cooperate with the infantry's attack.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the two newly assembled artillery pieces began to fire special bullets at the defense line of the Chinese army on the opposite side. The two artillery pieces fired a large number of special bullets at the fastest rate of fire, which caused a burst of yellow smoke to float over the position of the 175th Division of China.

The Chinese troops had already been prepared for the Japanese army's use of special bullets in the attack. The Japanese army only had a few tricks to use. Whenever the Japanese army's attack was not going well, they would use poison gas bombs to launch a surprise attack.

In this regard, the officers and soldiers of the 175th Division took this into consideration when building their positions. As a result, they prepared a lot of clean water in the anti-artillery holes on the positions. When the Japanese poison gas bombs exploded, all the officers and soldiers covered their mouths and noses with towels or cloth strips dipped in clean water, so that the effect of the Japanese poison gas bomb attack was basically not exerted.

When the officers and soldiers of the attacking force of the Second Regiment rushed to the defensive position of the 175th Division wearing gas masks, intensive gunfire suddenly rang out from the originally silent defensive position, knocking down a large number of officers and soldiers of the Second Regiment.

Colonel Nobuyoshi Watanabe, the commander of the regiment, originally thought that the Chinese army had been wiped out by the special bullets on the battlefield. The sudden dense gunfire also made Colonel Nobuyoshi Watanabe feel incredible. Did the Chinese army know in advance that they were going to use special bullets? No, this shouldn't be the case. This was a temporary decision made by him. Even if he were the commander of the Chinese army, he couldn't have known in advance.

However, the reality is cruel. The regiment commander, Colonel Watanabe Nobuyoshi, once again watched his troops being beaten back by Rikuya's Chinese army. However, this time, Colonel Watanabe Nobuyoshi was not angry or upset. He had become accustomed to such bad results.

Faced with such a terrible result, the regiment commander, Colonel Nobuyoshi Watanabe, simply asked the retreating officers and soldiers to have a good rest and recover their strength before preparing to launch another attack. No matter what, his troops still had to complete the combat mission assigned by the division commander, Lieutenant General Imamura Hitoshi.

Of course, it was not only Colonel Nobuyoshi Watanabe, commander of the 2nd Regiment of the Taiwan Mixed Brigade, who was in a bad mood. Colonel Yoshinosuke Miki, commander of the 21st Regiment at Kunlun Pass, was also in a very bad mood. Even with the help of aircraft, his 21st Regiment was unable to occupy the main position at Kunlun Pass.

Colonel Yoshinosuke Miki, commander of the 21st Regiment, even wondered in his heart why the previous garrison troops built the main position of Kunlun Pass so solidly that even the bombing of aircraft could not have much effect now. What was even more infuriating was that after building such a solid main position, it was actually occupied by the Chinese army. This was really unacceptable.

However, Colonel Yoshinosuke Miki, commander of the 21st Regiment, had no place to vent his anger now, because Major Sozaburo Matsumoto, who was in charge of the Kunlun Pass garrison, had been killed in the attack by the Chinese army. Now even if he wanted to scold him, he couldn't find anyone.

When night fell, the Japanese troops who had been attacking for a day were exhausted. The 1st Regiment of the Taiwan Mixed Brigade, which was responsible for attacking Liutang, was stopped by the New 22nd Division and could not move forward. The 2nd Regiment of the Taiwan Mixed Brigade, which was responsible for reinforcement from the north on the Yongqin Highway, had no way to deal with the 175th Division of the Guangxi Clique in Luwu. The 21st Regiment of the Japanese Army, which was responsible for attacking the main position at Kunlun Pass, also suffered heavy casualties but gained nothing.

In general, the various attacking forces of the Japanese army on that day failed to achieve their expected results, and the Chinese troops completed the established combat tasks after suffering heavy casualties. In particular, the 175th Division of the Guangxi Clique in Luwu, with its broken troops, managed to withstand the repeated attacks of the 2nd Regiment of the Taiwan Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army, which can be said to have created no small miracle.

At around 100 o'clock that evening, the special forces battalion and the suicide squad, which were the vanguard of the new 100th Division, arrived at Luwu and joined the remaining troops of the th Division. The arrival of the vanguard of the new th Division made the entire th Division ecstatic.

According to the estimation of the officers and soldiers of the 100th Division, the reinforcements of the new 100th Division would not arrive here until tomorrow morning at the earliest. They did not expect the reinforcements of the new th Division to arrive so quickly. This also shows that the government's direct troops really came to reinforce them, rather than just a blank check issued to them by the war zone.

The commander of the vanguard force of the new 100th Division was Li Zhengying. Zhang Wenwu's order to him was to travel light and rush to Luwu as quickly as possible. The purpose was to cheer up the th Division of the Guangxi Clique in Luwu and to add some strength to Luwu's defense.

With the arrival of the new 100th Division's vanguard troops, the morale of the th Division's officers and soldiers became even stronger, and they were more confident in holding their defensive positions. They knew that after the main force of the reinforcements arrived, they could withdraw and rest. They could be considered to have won a victory this time, and when they saw familiar people in the future, they could confidently say, "Brother, I fought the Japanese and won."

The follow-up combat troops of the new 100th Division, under the personal leadership of Zhang Wenwu and Ouyang Heng, also arrived at Luwu at four o'clock in the morning. After a brief handover with the 100th Division, the troops of the new th Division officially took over the entire defense line of Luwu.