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After saying that, he immediately asked everyone to enter the fortifications and prepare for battle.

As the order was issued, not long after, the Japanese troops at the foot of the mountain began to gather troops and prepare for the attack.

After the artillery bombarded the mountain with three axes, a battalion of Japanese troops began to gather forces and attack the mountain.

When the Japanese army was about to crawl forward to the front-line fortifications, Li Yunlong suddenly fired a shot in the trench. In an instant, countless grenades flew out of the trench and began to explode continuously in the Japanese army's formation on the hillside.

Then there was a burst of gunfire, and soon the momentum of the Japanese attack was suppressed by the independent detachment.

After half an hour of fighting, Li Yunlong spoke loudly to the guard beside him in the forward command post on the mountain.

"Huzi, go tell Zhuzi that it's time to fire."

After receiving Li Yunlong's order, Hu Zi immediately ran towards the artillery position through the winding trench.

At the artillery position in the rear, after receiving Li Yunlong's order, Wang Chengzhu immediately ordered six 75mm mountain cannons to adjust their angles and prepare to face the rear of the western ridge.

In order to ensure that the shells could accurately fall into the Japanese hidden fortifications behind the ridge, some sand was filled in sacks and placed under the artillery to increase its elevation angle.

At the same time, he asked the rest of the people to be ready to support the front troops at any time. Once the Japanese hidden fortifications were destroyed, they would immediately turn the guns around and bombard the Japanese soldiers at the foot of the mountain.

"preparation!"

Upon hearing this, the soldiers operating the six 75mm mountain cannons immediately took the shells from the loader beside them, put them into the barrel, and prepared to fire.

"put!"

Hearing this shout, the six soldiers responsible for firing the shells immediately pulled the trigger, and in an instant six shells were fired in a parabolic trajectory towards the back of the western ridge.

At this time, behind the lower side of the ridge.

Five or six tents of various sizes were set up behind this ridge. In the tent in the middle, the Japanese army was holding a military meeting.

The commander of the 26th Division was Jun Goromiya, the chief of staff was Shirogane Shigeji, the commander of the 26th Infantry Regiment was Kuroda Shigenori, and the eight regiment commanders under the division.

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Nearly twenty people from the two divisions were listening to orders from the North China Command in the tent.

When the Chief of Staff of the 26th Division, Shirogane Shigeji, conveyed the headquarters' order to withdraw troops to everyone, curses were heard throughout the tent.

Some regiment commanders could not bear the fact that the Locust Army had suffered such a great defeat, and they directly expressed to the division commander their willingness to lead the troops to immediately open up the road to Xingtang and fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Eighth Route Army of China, instead of being blocked on the road by a small unit of the Eighth Route Army and unable to move forward.

Jun Hougong and Shigehiro Yamaoka, who were sitting at the front of the conference table, also had ashen faces at this time. The locust army had suffered huge losses after all the trouble up to now, and now, a telegram from the headquarters directly ordered them to withdraw.

Immediately, both of them felt that this guy was playing tricks on them.

However, the two did not dare to disobey the order of the North China Command. The order issued by the command this time was extremely harsh. If they did not withdraw their troops immediately, severe punishment would be waiting for the commanders.

There was no other way. At the meeting, the two men announced that they would obey the decision of the North China Front Command and asked the commanders of the regiments under them to gather their troops and prepare for evacuation.

Just when the two men had calmed down the emotional captains and announced the disbanding of the meeting, suddenly, bursts of rapid whistling sounds were heard outside the tent.