The People's Army's position was an inverted triangle. Since the war started, the Japanese attacks were concentrated on the left and right wing positions of the People's Army. The 1st Regiment stationed in the rear position had not been attacked except for the initial restraining attack on the Japanese army, and he was raising his strength in the rear position. Now that the People's Army has launched a counterattack against the Japanese army, the 1st Regiment can of course be idle and must join the attack.

Since there was no entanglement of the Japanese army, the 1st Regiment quickly surpassed the 2nd Regiment and the 3rd Regiment and approached the Japanese position. Fortunately, there was a newly retreated guard in the Japanese position at that time. Although it could not defend the area as large as before, it could shrink its defense line and not have no power to resist.

At this time, the strength of the offensive and defensive sides was roughly the same. Although the Japanese army suffered greater casualties in the front battle, they were the defensive side, so they could also offset the slight advantage of the People's Army in terms of military strength. Moreover, although the 1st Regiment had been raising energy, the task of this Japanese gang in combat was to take on feint attacks, and there was no large consumption.

However, the biggest disadvantage of the Japanese army is that there are no artillery. Although the 1st Regiment had consumed most of the shells in the front restraining battle, the remaining half of the shells were enough to completely suppress the Japanese army.

Since the Japanese army was defending the positions and did not have enough suppression weapons to mortars, the People's Army's mortars could also aim and shoot calmly, abandon the speed of artillery bombing, and pursue the accuracy of shooting. Therefore, the shells fell into the Japanese positions one by one, destroying the firepower points arranged by the Japanese army one by one. Fortunately, the command center of Oshima Hinata was relatively backward and was well hidden, so it did not become the target of the People's Army's attack.

It was only then that when Oshima Kusakunata was in the command center, it was clearly seen that the artillery used by the People's Army was actually a simple artillery with short gun barrels. No wonder the People's Army had such artillery, but it was not discovered by his own scouts. However, Oshima Kusakunata observed carefully and found that although this artillery did not have a gun wheel, a guard plate, or a gun stand, and the shell advance and retreat device was to support a gun barrel with a tripod, and it was actually the oldest front filling method, but it seemed very convenient to use. One shot after another fired, and the speed was not slow.

In fact, in the previous stage of the battle, the People's Army used a large number of mortars on the battlefield. However, the Japanese army's attention was attracted by the tall and mighty weapons such as armored train cannons, so they did not pay attention to the power of this small cannon. Although it was the first time to see such a weapon, Oshima Hakura was a man who had been through a long battle formation, so he naturally understood the value of this simple cannon.

Although this simple artillery is much smaller than conventional artillery of the same caliber, it is better because it is light and flexible, easy to carry, and able to follow the infantry. This advantage alone is enough to give this artillery a foothold on the battlefield. Moreover, from the current situation, the People's Army has obviously equipped this artillery with a large number of artillery. Thinking about the fact that the People's Army can get rid of the drag of artillery, go into battle lightly, move quickly on the battlefield on a large scale, and ensure sufficient firepower support. It is really difficult for the Japanese army to deal with such an army.

And to think further, overseas Chinese not only created armored train guns that can move naval guns to the shore, but also made simple cannons that are light and flexible and easy to carry. Although these weapons are technically not difficult to overcome, as long as they have finished products, all countries, including Japan, can be copied within 1 or 2 years. However, the ability of these wonderful ideas of overseas Chinese is indeed terrifying and can allow them to gain a short-term lead. And who knows that they have new weapons with wonderful ideas. Can Japan deal with such opponents?

Thinking of this, Oshima Hinata couldn't help but tremble and didn't dare to continue thinking about it.

Of course, the current situation of the war is not allowed to be thoughtful about Oshima, because the People's Army's artillery bombardment has opened several gaps in the Japanese position and launched a charge towards the position.

Of course, if this is the case, it is not too serious. After all, the Japanese army still has a certain advantage in hand-to-hand combat. But at this time, the left and right wing troops of the People's Army also got rid of the Japanese army's entanglement and attacked. Under the attack of the People's Army on three sides, the Japanese army in the position could not hold on, either falling to the ground and dying, or retreating. When Oshima Hakura saw that the situation was hopeless, he only ordered a retreat.

The Japanese army finally retreated across the board, but the People's Army did not chase after him. Instead, they immediately organized positions on the spot, dug trenches, and prepared to defend, and even the battlefield was not too late to clear.

It turned out that Li Lixin had received a report from the scout at this time that the Japanese army's subsequent troops were less than 15 kilometers away from the battlefield. If they accelerated their march, they could arrive at the battlefield within 1 hour. Although the People's Army was very tired at this time and almost all the shells were drained, the Japanese army must not be allowed to reach Phoenix City through here. Therefore, they must stick to it and can only seize the time to arrange positions to defend.

Fortunately, after only more than 20 minutes, Liu Tieji led the 6th Division to the battlefield. The People's Army not only seemed to have added one division's troops, but also brought a large amount of ammunition and conventional artillery, so that we would not be afraid of the Japanese army attacking again.

So the People's Army was able to move to clear the battlefield and set up positions. After counting, in the battle just now, the People's Army killed a total of 3,054 Japanese soldiers and captured 279 people, while 1,123 were killed, 1,867 were injured, and 21 were missing. 2,158 infantry and more than 30,000 bullets were seized. In addition, the data that the People's Army failed to count was that 4,386 Japanese soldiers were injured and 326 were missing.

An hour later, the scouts reported again that the Japanese army had actually retreated. So Liu Tie breathed a sigh of relief and finally intercepted the Japanese army.

It turned out that after Oshima Kusakura led the remaining Japanese troops to retreat, he soon met the subsequent Japanese troops. After the Japanese general Notsu Daokura learned that Oshima Kusakura had failed, he was also shocked. He did not expect that the People's Army's reaction would be so fast. He lost one step to block the Japanese army's road to reinforce Phoenix City. Moreover, the 9th Division was actually destroyed, with more than 7,000 troops reduced, and had basically lost its combat effectiveness.

Moreover, Notsu Dokun was vaguely impressed by the simple artillery of the People's Army that Hinata Oshima said. After all, he had fought with the People's Army. However, the super-large caliber artillery such as armored train cannons and self-propelled cannons left a deep impression on Notsu Dokun, so he did not notice other aspects. However, when Hinata Oshima reminded him, Notsu Dokun remembered some of the people who had rich war experience and could quickly imagine the huge role of this simple artillery on the battlefield.

So Notsu Dokun did not dare to advance any more, but ordered the Japanese army to suspend its advancement and sent a large number of scouts to reconnaise the situation of the People's Army. Not long after, the scouts reported that the People's Army's strength had increased to two divisions, digging trenches and laying positions, and this time it brought a large number of artillery. After hearing this, Notsu Dokun thought about it, he ordered the retreat and retreating the army to the mouth of Caohe.

Although the Japanese army in this era also emphasized spiritual power, often playing "jade-breaking" and always fulfilled loyalty to the emperor, overall, it was still rational and accounted for the majority. When fighting, it was time, place, and people. It was not clear that it was impossible to win, or that there was no hope of victory, but it still hoped that the Japanese army would rely entirely on spiritual power to create miracles. After the investigation, Nozu Dao Kan believed that the Japanese army had little chance of victory.

First of all, from the overall perspective, the People's Army is clearly playing the tactic of surrounding points to fight aid. So isn't it just right to launch an attack on the People's Army? Moreover, although the People's Army now has only two divisions, the defense side needs less troops, and the 9th Division here has been destroyed, and only a complete division and three brigades are left. Moreover, the People's Army must have subsequent reinforcements. Secondly, the 9th Division was destroyed, which is a big blow to the morale of the Japanese army. After the victory, the morale of the People's Army is in full swing. It is obviously not a correct choice to attack the People's Army's positions at this time. Moreover, Notsu Daoguan didn't know whether the People's Army would produce any new weapons.

Although the People's Army has cut off the Japanese retreat, Phoenix City, Jiuliancheng and other places are still in the hands of the Japanese army. After the Japanese army decided to give up Shenyang, they could concentrate about 250,000 troops. It can be said that they have a huge surplus and can withdraw at least about 100,000 troops to open up the route of retreat. Therefore, the situation has not yet reached the most critical moment, and there is no need to take risky actions. This is not Notsu Daokuen is greedy for life and fear of death, but to preserve his strength and use it at the moment of Guanjian.

In the afternoon of the same day, Dashanyan in Liaoyang received a report from Notsu Daoguan. The Japanese plan to reinforce Phoenix City had failed. Dashanyan knew that the current situation was not at its worst. The Japanese army did have a great chance to open the retreat route, but the consequence was that the Japanese army would retreat across the board. Because Liaoyang was too far from Jiuliancheng, the Japanese army was sure to open the road from Liaoyang to Jiuliancheng in a short time, but it was impossible to ensure the safety and smoothness of this route for a long time. Therefore, once the route was opened, it was necessary to retreat across the board, at least retreat to the area east of Phoenix City to ensure safety.
Chapter completed!