Cheng Shiyi was chatting with a group of brothers in the third fort, and when he heard the sound of gunfire in the west, he immediately ran out, and was about to feel that there was another fort to fight again, and the third fort he defended would once again be a bystander, when he suddenly found that a bright light flashed in the direction of the southeast cliff, and he immediately realized that there was a situation.

He ran back to the fort and told his brothers inside to be vigilant, and then found the guards and told him to tell the warriors in the jungle to keep an eye on the woods.

As soon as he finished explaining, a firework exploded in the sky on the other side of the cliff, and then there was a dense sound of gunfire on the side of the dense forest, Cheng Shiyi grabbed the guard and asked him to immediately order the third battalion to reinforce the defense of the third fort, and he ran quickly in the direction of the dense forest.

When Cheng Shiyi ran to the dense forest, under the cover of the devil's fierce artillery fire, the first line of defense had been occupied by the devils, Cheng Shiyi stomped his feet fiercely, it was his own negligence that caused the trouble, he grabbed the commander of the first battalion who had just escaped from the first line of defense with a black face, and wanted to scold him, but when he thought that his laxity affected the mood of the soldiers, he pushed the first battalion commander away and said: "Quickly organize the remaining people of the first battalion and take the first position back for me." ”

The first battalion commander looked at Cheng Shiyi in surprise, and then said loudly with tears in his eyes: "Yes, regiment commander!" ”

After the commander of the first battalion left, Cheng Shiyi ordered the guard company to gather and take the lead in rushing to the first line of defense, and the commander of the first battalion who was still assembling the troops saw that the regiment commander personally led the team to rush up, and he asked the deputy company commander to continue to assemble the troops, and he himself followed with the team that had been assembled.

The devil just occupied the first line of defense, and before he had time to set up, he heard the sound of shouting and killing from the mountain, and the devil hurriedly organized a counterattack, but the troops on the mountain were as fast as a leopard's wind, and rushed to the front of him in just a few breaths, and the two sides entered a cruel white-knuckle hand-to-hand fight, although there were many devils, but in the face of the brave new army soldiers, they were killed and retreated, and finally stabilized their positions, and wanted to be pressed on the layer, and there was a greater shout of killing on the mountain, and the frightened devils were in a dilemma.

Seeing this situation, the commander of the second battalion decisively ordered the bazooka platoon to move forward 100 meters and bombard the gathering place of devils on the first line of defense.

There were brave soldiers who were not afraid of death in front of him, and there was the sound of constantly exploding artillery fire behind him, which crushed the persistence of the devil troops, and they fled to the dense forest without their lives.

After beating the devils away and regaining the first line of defense, Cheng Shiyi stood on the edge of the trench, wiped the blood on his face, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, it was my negligence that killed those dead brothers, after the war, I personally went to ask Master Zheng for guilt, and now I hope everyone will cheer up." ”

After Cheng Shiyi finished speaking, he jumped off the trench, called the commander of the guard company to his side and muttered a few words, the commander of the guard company nodded frequently, and after listening to Cheng Shiyi's explanation, the commander of the guard company immediately went to gather the guard company, and the commander of the first battalion immediately understood what Cheng Shiyi wanted to do, he ran over and said: "Regiment commander, let me go, the fire circle array was lost by our battalion and company, and we should detonate it ourselves." ”

Cheng Shiyi wanted to speak out to stop it, but the first battalion commander said with a crying voice: "Regiment commander, it's all my poor command, let's avenge the company ourselves, please!" ”

Cheng Shiyi looked at the tears of remorse of the first battalion commander, and he patted the first battalion commander on the shoulder, "Remember to come back alive!" ”

The first battalion commander nodded heavily, then called the deputy battalion commander and the two company commanders over to explain, and then walked in front of Cheng Shiyi and gave a standard military salute.

The remaining less than 300 men of the first battalion broke out of the first line of defense and were divided into three detachments: left, center, and right.

The devil who retreated to the dense forest heard that a force was rushing down the mountain, and the commander of the devil thought that the new army had sent a large force to rush over, and immediately ordered the soldiers to quickly move closer to the large army, until they ran wildly for several minutes, and one soldier reported that the number of the new army rushing over was less than 100 people, and the other two detachments were passing towards the main army from the left and right sides.

As soon as he heard that the new first army that had caught up with him was less than 100 people, the devil commander was relieved, and there were less than ten minutes before the large army was stationed, if the division commander knew that his nearly 1,000 people were being chased and killed by less than 100 people, he estimated that he would have to be shot, and he ordered the soldiers to organize a counterattack on the spot and wipe out the nearly 100 new first army behind him.

Soon, the devil commander regretted it, although the new army in front of him was less than 100 people, but the combat effectiveness was extremely strong, and he was in a stalemate with nearly 1,000 people in a short period of time, and the devil commander organized several attacks were repelled by the new first army, he didn't care about face, and asked the soldiers to ask for help from the large army.

The commander of the first battalion saw that there were less than 70 soldiers around him, and the ammunition was already insufficient, he shouted: "Brothers, the brothers of the first company were killed by the devils in front, we must hold on, buy time for the brothers on the left and right, launch a fire circle, we are our companions on the Huangquan Road, kill!" ”

In the face of the devils who rushed up again, the commander of the first battalion rushed forward with a wave of his hand and led the soldiers, and fought with nearly two hundred devils.

Although there are only a few dozen people in the new army, but the white-knuckle battle is extremely heroic, the battle for more than ten minutes, the new army fell more than ten people, but the devil fell nearly a hundred people, the devil commander saw that the reinforcements behind him had not yet arrived, and his heart was very anxious, if it continued like this, his own troops would not be the opponent of these dozens of people.

After a few more minutes, when the devil officer was about to collapse, gunshots rang out behind him, the devil officer laughed, and the reinforcements finally arrived.

Devil reinforcements joined the battle, and even the soldiers led by the first battalion commander gradually became invincible, and the soldiers around him continued to decrease, and finally only he and three fighters were left to fight with the devils back to back.

The battalion commander blocked the bayonets stabbed by the two devils, but the bayonet of a devil next to him pierced his waist, and the battalion commander kicked the devil down, covering the bleeding waist wound with one hand.

The commander of the first battalion looked up, and found thick smoke rising from the left and right sides not far away, and he smiled and said to the three soldiers leaning together: "Brothers, we have succeeded, in a few seconds, there will be an explosion on the side of the position where the company died, just take it as the sound of artillery to see us off, and soon countless devils will come to bury us, haha"

The three soldiers also laughed, the devils around were shocked by the laughter of the four, and they didn't dare to step forward for a while, the devil commander roared, forcing the soldiers to step forward, more than a dozen bayonets stabbed over, the first battalion commander and the three soldiers were already exhausted, watching the bayonets pierce into the body, but they had a victorious smile on their faces, and at the moment when they fell, the cannon fire was everywhere not far away, the flames were soaring, and the wails were all over the field.

Cheng Shiyi used a telescope to see everything that happened in the dense forest, but he couldn't see it above the heavy trees, until the explosion and firelight were everywhere, he felt a burst of joy in his heart, but suddenly there was a burst of sadness, a battalion commander attracted devils head-on, and won time for the troops on the left and right sides to launch a fire circle.

The fire circle array is a formation of explosives and pine branches and trenches arranged by Cheng Shiyi according to the terrain of the dense forest, the explosives are laid inside, the trenches are outside, and the trenches are covered with thick flammable pine branches, and as soon as the explosives go off, the pine branches in the trenches will be ignited to form a circular fire ring.

The original first company's defense is an extremely open place in the dense forest, and it is an excellent place for defense and stationing, Cheng Shiyi had expected that if the devils occupied it, they would definitely use it as a garrison place, and that was the center of the Fire Circle Array.

Cheng Shiyi watched the Fire Circle Array launch, and with an order, the second battalion of the second line of defense rushed over, and he also rushed towards the Fire Circle Array with the guard company.

The devils in the fire circle array were frightened and wanted to escape, but they were afraid of the fire ditch several meters wide, and some dared to jump over, but they jumped into the fire ditch, being scorched by the fire, and let out a scream of fear, which frightened the other devils to retreat.

Cheng Shiyi arrived at the periphery of the fire circle array, and after eliminating the devils on the periphery, he ordered the bazooka to continuously fire shells into the fire circle array, and the devils in the center of the formation had nowhere to hide and became a live target, and the range of the guns in his hand could not reach, so he could only dodge in a panic.

The fire of the fire circle array gradually decreased, and the commander of the devil division finally saw the dawn of escape, suddenly, more than a dozen oil drums rolled down from the height on both sides, and the oil drums entered the fire ring and made a violent explosion, the fire circle array was raging again, and the commander of the devil division was desperate, if this continued, his troops would be consumed alive, but he could not do anything, and the fire around him became even bigger after the oil drum exploded, and he felt that the end had come.

When the oil drum rolled down for the third time, the devils were already less than two thousand people in the fire circle, Cheng Shiyi ordered the troops to approach slowly, shooting at the periphery of the fire circle, and the bazooka was shooting at the devils in the center of the formation, half an hour later, the fire was small and slowly extinguished, but none of the devils in the fire circle array were alive.

The devils who rushed up from the cliff southeast of the third fort were the special combat team of the Kwantung Army, and their equipment was even better than that of the commando team of the New First Army, and the third battalion arrived in time, but they did not expect the devils to be so combative, and the third battalion paid nearly one-third of the casualties to eliminate the fifty or sixty devils of the special combat team.

The third fort was held, but the 102nd regiment also paid the price of more than one battalion casualties, which was only slightly better than the third regiment of the garrison headquarters of the tenth fort.

However, the sudden attack of the devils in the fifteenth and fourth forts did not work, and the defensive troops of the two fortresses were very concentrated, and the devils were discovered by them just as they approached, and they lured the devil's troops into the ambush circle set up in advance, and after inflicting heavy damage on the devils, the devils hurriedly retreated.

When it got dark, the devil's attack on Lotus Mountain ended in failure again, and with the losses of the previous two days, only two more divisions were left of Tojoiwa's five divisions on the northwest side, and Kasawara Yukio's nearly six divisions on the southeast side were also left with only three divisions.

Qiao Xinyu and Shen Yushan summarized the battle situation of the day, both excited about the victory, but also sad about the huge casualties at the tenth and third forts, the two were silent for a while, and Qiao Xinyu said slowly: "The time for us to counterattack has come, tomorrow, order the troops everywhere to change defense to attack, and at the same time, the four teaching regiments of the base will attack at the same time, attack inside and outside, and beat the devil fiercely!" ”