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After waiting for more than half an hour, the commander of the 108th Division, Shimomoto Kumamiya, began to grow impatient. Since leaving the city, he had been able to receive news from the 117th Regiment, but now, he suddenly couldn't receive any news from the 117th Regiment.

The Chinese army regiment in front of them clearly lacked firepower, but every time the Imperial Army was about to attack the position, they were able to block the Imperial Army outside the position. A battalion of the 132nd Regiment attacking on the front line had been damaged and lost its combat effectiveness.

However, the good news is that General Silou of Tomidi has led the 105th Regiment across Dayupei and has not encountered any attacks from the Chinese army along the way. They will reach Shexian in half an hour.

Thinking of this, Xia Yuan Xiong Mi suddenly felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was strange. He could only keep his doubts in his heart and order the front-line troops to speed up the attack.

At this time, the commander of the 132nd Regiment, Ebina Eiichi, was at the front line with a serious expression on his face. He looked at the retreating wounded 1st Battalion and was shocked by the Eighth Route Army in the blocking position in front.

I was thinking in my heart that this was really a blocking force, as if there was always a group of Eighth Route Army soldiers on the opposite side who were specifically holding me back.

Thinking of this, he ordered the Second and Third Battalions to prepare to assemble and launch an attack, and at the same time ordered the artillery battalion in the rear, the artillery company directly under the regiment and the division, a total of 36 artillery pieces, to fire at the same time.

At this time, Chen Jinquan, commander of the 82nd Regiment on the defensive position, saw through a telescope that the Japanese artillery had begun to deploy on a large scale, and immediately ordered the first battalion to withdraw from the position.

Not long after, as the firepower of the Japanese artillery battalion covered the positions of the 82nd and 84th Regiments, the entire position was suddenly filled with a sea of ​​fire.

The commanders of the 82nd and 84th regiments were frightened by what they saw. Fortunately, they ordered the troops to withdraw from the front line, otherwise there would be a large number of casualties even if they hid in the cat ear holes.

After the Japanese army plowed the positions of the two regiments again, the two battalions of Japanese troops began to attack the positions of the 82nd and 84th regiments respectively. Then the two regiments quickly sent a battalion each into the positions to begin defense.

As light and heavy machine guns opened fire, a large number of bullets spurted out, continuously shooting and killing the Japanese troops on the hillside. At this time, the commander of the 132nd Regiment, Ebina Eiichi, finally realized that the firepower of the opposite side was not just one regiment at all, but almost close to the firepower of two battalions. He immediately ordered the two battalions to retreat, and ran to the division headquarters in the rear to report his guess.

When Ebina Eiichi arrived at the division headquarters, he reported to the division commander Shimomoto Kumamiya in a panic.

"Your Excellency the Division Commander, I have important military intelligence to report." Ebina Eiichi said anxiously.

At this time, Xia Yuanxiongya was thinking about the current situation. Seeing the captain of the 132nd Regiment running to him anxiously to report, his heart suddenly skipped a beat. Without saying anything more, he immediately asked him to explain the situation.

"Your Excellency the Division Commander, I'm afraid we have fallen into the Eighth Route Army's trap of luring the tiger away from the mountain." Upon hearing this, Xia Yuan Xiong Mi looked confused.

Afterwards, Ebina Eiichi began to explain that during his initial firepower test during the attack on the front line, he estimated that there was at most one regiment with enhanced firepower on the opposing Eighth Route Army position.

However, under the attack of 12 artillery pieces from its own First Battalion and Artillery Battalion, the Eighth Route Army's resistance could be said to be relatively weak.

However, his First Battalion attacked three times and almost all of its troops were destroyed, but every time they were blocked by the Eighth Route Army as soon as they reached the position.

He then said that he had just mobilized his remaining two battalions and started the attack after all the artillery battalion's artillery fired, but was still blocked.

Moreover, the firepower seemed to be much stronger than before, almost catching up with two of his own battalions.

Then, Ebina Eiichi carefully stated his guess.