Hayashio's conjecture was soon confirmed, and before the 2nd Battalion had reached its intended position, Uta Sairo led his brigade from the road to quickly pass.

Yin Li, the commander of the first company of the second battalion, just blocked it and quickly retreated to a safe place on the other side where the explosives were planted. Utashiro seemed to have expected this, and while organizing people to choose favorable terrain to counterattack, he arranged for people to desperately fill the gap with some nearby stones and debris.

Yin Li realized the Japanese army's intentions and hurriedly organized his troops to attack forward to prevent the Japanese from filling the gap, but the troops were bombarded by Japanese artillery fire just after advancing a section, and they didn't seem to be worried about destroying the road at all. Yin Li saw that the troops suffered heavy casualties, and ordered the emergency situation here to be reported to the regimental headquarters and asked for support, and when he learned that reinforcements were already on the way, he breathed a sigh of relief, and organized troops to disperse and block on the spot to prevent the Japanese army from filling the gap.

Under the cover of the Japanese army's frantic artillery fire and dense machine-gun fire, Yin Li's troops advanced with great difficulty, and soon the Japanese army had completed half of the gap. Yin Li anxiously watched as the Japanese army filled the gap, and several waves of people were pushed back by the Japanese army, but the reinforcements were nowhere to be seen.

The situation became more and more severe, Yin Li saw that only half of the soldiers who could fight were left, and the Japanese army was still filling the gap, once the Japanese army filled the gap, and the follow-up troops rushed over, then the blocking on the mountain seemed meaningless. He calculated in his mind that if he wanted to cover the gap within the range of the machine guns, he had to advance another 50m, and after a little thought, he immediately ordered a death squad of more than 20 people to advance from the side near the river, while the machine guns formed a team to advance 50m along the cliff wall to prevent the Japanese from filling the gap.

Hearing the tragic battle situation of the first company at the highway department, Lin Junxiong was a little annoyed by his assessment of the situation, but if the defense on Zhuyuan Ridge was to draw more troops, the defense would be reduced, and it might be broken by the Japanese army at any time, all he could do was hope that Fang Yun would arrive as soon as possible and stop the Japanese attack.

More than 20 daredevils dodged forward, and their comrades kept falling, but they could not stop and grieve and grieve at this moment, the real thing was to rush forward, attract the fire of the Japanese army, and buy time for the machine gun team to be in position smoothly. When the death squad advanced regardless of life and death, Yin Li personally led the machine gun team to crawl along the cliff.

After the death squad advanced sixty or seventy meters, as the last of the daredevils fell, the machine gun team finally reached the position, and Yin Li immediately ordered to find cover and shoot at the Japanese soldiers who were filling the gap. The sudden sound of machine guns caused the Japanese troops who had filled the gap to fall, and the rest of the men hurriedly retreated.

Seeing that the Japanese army was retreating, Yin Li estimated that another round of Japanese artillery fire was coming, so he ordered more than a dozen people from the machine gun team to immediately find cover and avoid Japanese artillery fire. After a burst of artillery fire, because the bunkers on the road were relatively weak, several soldiers of the machine gun team were hit and killed, and seeing the Japanese troops coming up again, Yin Li hurriedly organized the remaining eight people to shoot.

Regardless of the casualties, the Japanese army was repulsed in a wave, so they bombarded the front, and then advanced, so three times, when the Japanese stepped forward again, Yin Li found that all the people of the machine gun team had been sacrificed, he looked around, drilled out of a crater, and fired wildly with the machine gun, after a magazine was finished, he found that there were no bullets, and looked around, but did not find it. He looked at the uneven craters on the road, his former brothers lying everywhere, and looked at the Japanese soldiers who were constantly rushing forward to fill the gap, he sat in the crater in a gloomy manner, the severe pain made him touch his waist, and saw the blood on his hands, only to know that he had been injured, weakness and exhaustion hit, he lit a cigarette, took a few puffs, and cried: "Regiment commander, battalion commander, I did my best." ”

Fang Yun took the remaining two hundred people of the second battalion to advance as hard as he could, and when he heard the increasingly rare gunshots in front of him, he knew in his heart that the first company was over, and he held back his tears and ordered: "Hurry, hurry up!" ”

Closer, there were still three hundred meters to go, and there were already the corpses of a company of soldiers, and when he rushed to a hundred meters from the gap, he ordered the troops to disperse and immediately counterattack the Japanese troops at the gap. Hearing the dense gunfire coming from ahead, Uta Sairo observed the situation with a telescope, and immediately ordered the soldiers in front to retreat, and then let the artillery open fire, and at the same time reported to Nishiyama Masao that reinforcements from the national army appeared here.

When the artillery fire hit, Fang Yun dodged to a crater, he found Yin Li, only to see Yin Li's eyes open, and when he stepped forward, he found that Yin Li was dead, and the cigarette that was still a little left on his mouth was still burning. He removed the cigarette butt from his already cold mouth and gently closed his eyes with his hand, tears streaming down his face.

When Nishiyama Masao learned of the presence of reinforcements on the other side of the road, he immediately ordered two brigades to attack Zhuyuan Ridge.

Lin Junxiong watched the Japanese artillery bombardment of the first line of defense with binoculars, and when he saw the dense number of Japanese troops engaged in the attack this time, he immediately ordered the first battalion of the first line of defense to withdraw to the second line of defense immediately after the Japanese artillery fire, and start the destruction plan.

When Nishiyama Masao saw that the troops occupied the first line of defense of the national army on the Zhuyuan Ridge, and before he had time to rejoice, he heard the sound of explosions, he quickly picked up the binoculars and looked at it, only to see that the first line of defense was filled with the fire of the explosion, and the Japanese troops who rushed up suffered heavy casualties, he smashed the big tree next to him with his hand, and ordered: "Before dark, order another attack to be organized." ”

Fang Yun was a little strange, it stands to reason that the Japanese army would start attacking after the artillery fire, but this time he heard the screams of the Japanese army and the rumbling sound of rolling stones, he poked his head out and found that stones kept falling from the top of the cliff and smashed towards the Japanese army, and the Japanese army panicked and avoided in all directions. Fang Yun wondered, could it be the strange soldier arranged by the regiment commander? But according to the locals, it is difficult to climb this cliff. Fang Yun came back to his senses and ordered his troops to take advantage of the chaos of the Japanese army, push the blockade forward, and immediately open fire.

The Japanese army was attacked by stones rolling down the cliff, and the national army on the opposite side counterattacked fiercely, and the Japanese army hurriedly retreated 100 meters without caring about returning fire. Fang Yun took advantage of the retreat of the Japanese army and blew up the gap of less than ten meters left by the Japanese army into nearly twenty meters again, and then ordered the troops to retreat to build improvised fortifications.

The Japanese troops on the highway and in front of Zhuyuan Ridge each organized another attack after dark, but they did not take advantage of the ten meters.

In the simple conference room of the Nishiyama Masao Wing, the chief of staff was reading out the casualties of the troops during the day. On the first day of the battle between the two sides, Nishiyama Masao's wing paid more than 400 casualties.

Masao Nishiyama asked the officers sitting on both sides with a gloomy face if they had any good suggestions, and the Japanese officers all bowed their heads and remained silent. He stood up and looked at his subordinates, shook his head and said: "I am very sad to see you all so depressed because of a small setback, you are all warriors of His Majesty the Emperor, cheer up, continue the attack tomorrow, and be sure to break through this Zhuyuan Ridge before the enemy's reinforcements arrive." ”

The artillery captain stood up and said, "Your Excellency, because we are advancing too fast and have not been able to replenish in time, there is already a shortage of shells, and it is terrible that it will be difficult to support tomorrow's attack. ”

"The chief of staff hurriedly contacted the division and regiment to resupply it as soon as possible, and I will ask the air force to support tomorrow's attack, and in addition, order the sniper team to join the battle tomorrow. If you have anything left, go back to rest and prepare for tomorrow's battle. ”

When Ito Masaki received Nishiyama Masao's battle report, he reprimanded Nishiyama Masao and ordered him to break through Zhuyuan Ridge within two days, and when asked if he needed to send troops to reinforce him, he immediately resigned and promised to take Zhuyuan Ridge within two days.

When he saw that the troops had suffered more than 200 casualties in just one day, and the second battalion and one company were all wiped out, Lin Junxiong felt a faint pain in his heart. At the same time, the four regiments of Xue Yue's headquarters of the left wing army had launched a counterattack on the south side of Guangfu against the Japanese army on the north road, and ordered him to hold on to Zhuyuan Ridge, and reinforcements would arrive in two days at most.

On October 26, the Japanese attack in the morning was not violent, as if waiting for something, Lin Junxiong guessed that the Japanese army might be going to send planes to bomb, when the morning casualties were reported, he was a little uneasy in his heart, the Japanese attack in the morning was not violent, but it still caused dozens of casualties, and it was a little strange that two company commanders and four platoon commanders were sacrificed in one morning. Lin Junxiong asked Pan Zhiyang about the situation when he was killed, they were all accidentally hit when he was commanding the battle, it didn't look special, but Lin Junxiong was always a little worried, so many accidents gathered together, it was definitely not accidental, he ordered officers at all levels to minimize the exposure of their bodies to the trench when they were commanding the battle.

Towards noon, the Japanese planes were late, and Lin Junxiong ordered the troops to immediately withdraw into the cave and hide. More than 10 Japanese planes continued to dive and bomb Zhuyuanling, but the pilots were surprised to find that there was not a single national soldier in sight on the position.

Nishiyama Masao's troops organized an attack again, Lin Junxiong and his troops returned to the fortifications after the bombing of Japanese planes, several caves collapsed because they could not withstand the bombardment, Pan Zhiyang organized people to rescue immediately, and Lin Junxiong organized troops to counterattack the attacking Japanese army.

Pan Zhiyang finished handling the rescue, came to Lin Junxiong's side, and said with a sad face: "Commander, six of the caves we dug have collapsed, and all twelve people in one of the caves have been killed. ”

"Fortunately, the artillery shells of the Japanese army on the opposite side are obviously insufficient, I hope these caves can withstand the bombing of the Japanese planes in the past two days, Lao Pan, order the troops to strengthen these caves in time. By the way, how is the situation on Fang Yun's side? ”

"The Japanese lacked artillery support, they were not able to advance a single step in the morning, and the casualties of the troops were not large. In addition, Fang Yun asked the regiment leader if he had arranged for the odd soldiers to be above the cliff over there. ”

"Hey, doesn't that mean that the cliff over there can't be climbed even from behind? Who the hell is it, is it a villager in Zhuyuan Village? Lao Pan, you take the opportunity to ask the dog leftovers, if it was done by someone from their village. ”

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