While Liu Gen and others were resting, the main force gathered by the 129th Division was attacking the surrounded Japanese.

The Japanese had good combat power. After knowing that they were surrounded, the Japanese quickly found a terrain that was conducive to defense and were defending tenaciously. The troops of the 129th Division continued to attack the Japanese, but because of the presence of Japanese fighter jets in the air, facing the powerful firepower of Japanese fighter jets, the soldiers of the troops attacking Japanese suffered heavy casualties.

During the battle, the soldiers were red in their eyes, and brave soldiers roared and rushed towards the Japanese defensive positions. The Japanese artillery had long been killed by the main force of the 129th Division. The Japanese who were in the encirclement could last for such a long time entirely because of the crazy cover of the Japanese fighter jets.

At the same time, the Japanese from all walks of life were moving quickly, trying to use the Japanese in the encirclement as bait to eliminate the main force of the 129th Division. The battle continued. After the attacks of the various units of the 129th Division during the day, most of the high ground defended by the Japanese were lost!

After the night fell, the soldiers launched a fierce attack again. Without the existence of the Japanese fighter jets, they successfully seized the high ground defended by the Japanese and successfully annihilated these Japanese.

The moment before taking down the defensive high ground, the chief of the division commanded the evacuation order to various troops. The battle in the Yuliao area made the Japanese notice, and more and more Japanese came to reinforce this area. In the direction of Yangquan, there were more than 1,000 Japanese troops heading south to reinforce, and in other directions, the Japanese troops were all mobilized.

The chief of the division headquarters considered that the 129th Division fought frequently during this period, the soldiers were relatively tired and suffered heavy casualties, and even judged that the Japanese troops in Liao County, Yushe and other areas might take advantage of the situation to carry out a "mopping up" in the areas north of the Taihang Mountains, so they decided to end the Yuliao Campaign.

The Independent Regiment and the 772nd Regiment, which attacked and defended north of Liao County, were also ordered by the division chiefs. Their purpose of blocking the Japanese reinforcements had been achieved. The division chiefs ordered them to return to the base for rest. Considering the casualties of the Independent Regiment and the 772nd Regiment, the division chiefs also hoped that the two regiments could absorb and replenish troops nearby and make sufficient preparations for the upcoming anti-'mopping up' campaign!

In the defensive position, the night fell, which did not affect the Japanese continuing to attack the position. After the Japanese reinforcements arrived in the afternoon and the troops were replenished, the Japanese once again decisively launched an attack on the defensive position.

This time, with the cover of artillery, the Japanese took the initiative to launch artillery bombardment on the exposed positions of the artillery company. However, when the Japanese reinforcements arrived, Liu Gen had already transferred the artillery positions with the soldiers, and he knew that the Japanese would attack the artillery positions.

The Japanese were undoubtedly much more arrogant when they had artillery, but these Japanese also knew that the artillery skills of these defensive 8th Route Army were very powerful and the artillery was quite accurate! In order to avoid the newly arrived artillery being killed by the artillery company, the Japanese placed the artillery in a relatively safe position, which was thousands of meters away from the front line.

After launching artillery bombardment on the artillery company's artillery position, the Japanese artillery chose to hide again and did not choose to continue the artillery, which was to prevent their position from being exposed. In fact, the new artillery soldiers brought by the Japanese cannot be compared with the artillery company in terms of firepower.

After all, the artillery company now has two mortars, the Independent Regiment and the 772nd Regiment. Even if the artillery technology of ordinary soldiers cannot be compared with Liu Gen, the lethality it can be caused cannot be underestimated.

After the Japanese artillery was hiding, they never chose to fire again. They wanted the artillery company to take the initiative to fire so that they could find an opportunity to deal with the artillery company. With the combat effectiveness of the Japanese artillery, as long as they could react in a short time, they could really cause considerable casualties to the artillery company.

Liu Gen also knew this, so he simply let the 60mm mortars led by Zhang Qiang scatter into the defensive position. Once there are any Japanese who cannot solve the problem on the front line's defensive position, they can directly use mortars to kill the Japanese. Doing this in the artillery company still causes considerable trouble to the Japanese artillery. If they do not choose to fire the artillery, they can still maintain a considerable deterrence.

Once they choose to fire artillery, they may be converted from hunters to prey, and the artillery cannon is so accurate, which means that these eighth Route Army artillery are not weak. In the end, the Japanese artillery did not dare to choose to dispatch easily, and the Japanese artillery are not weak. From the sound of artillery and observation, they determined that the range of artillery in the defensive position was limited and could not threaten their rear.

Faced with such a difficult Japanese artillery, Liu Gen was also a little helpless. With the Japanese artillery waiting on the side, he naturally could not take action easily. Even Liu Gen could not guarantee that he would not have any problems in the Japanese artillery attack.

Besides, after the Japanese artillery was hidden, it was difficult to find their specific location. When they fired rashly, they could not pose any threat to the Japanese artillery, so they naturally could not choose to do so.

As night fell, when Li Yunlong was about to retreat, Liu Gen directly ordered the soldiers to dismantle the mortars in their hands and prepare to retreat. As for continuing to shell the Japanese, there was naturally no need. Before Liu Gen used the 81mm mortar, the Japanese would not choose to fire easily.

Liu Gen is not a fool. He knew that he wanted to retreat, but he still had to continue to engage in a gun battle with the Japanese. This operation was too wise and he couldn't do it.

When Yu Jin took the soldiers out of the artillery company, he could see obvious depression on his face. He chose to take Liu Gen with them because they wanted to learn something from Liu Gen's artillery. But who would have thought that the Japanese artillery was so cowardly that there would be no sound except for a few shots when they first came. I knew this would be the case, so Yu Jin took the initiative to go to Zhang Qiang's side, at least he could control the mortars there and join the battle.

Seeing Yu Jin leaving with the soldiers, Liu Gen breathed a sigh of relief and did not choose to attack the Japanese artillery, which was because these soldiers were unable to react as soon as possible. Otherwise, Liu Gen could have attacked the Japanese artillery within a few shots of the Japanese artillery.

Unfortunately, the soldiers in the artillery company suffered a lot of casualties, and many of them were sent by Liu Gen to follow Zhang Qiang. There were not many soldiers staying by Liu Gen. In addition, the soldiers of the artillery company of the 772nd Regiment had just arrived with Liu Gen and were unable to cooperate with each other. It was naturally impossible to launch a counterattack against the Japanese artillery as soon as possible.

The soldiers of the artillery company ordered the soldiers to return to the Liao County County beforehand to retreat, while Liu Gen was preparing to follow Li Yunlong. He knew that the Japanese would not let the Independent Regiment and the 772nd Regiment leave easily, and there would still be many small-scale battles tonight!
Chapter completed!