"Brother Ma, have you slept?" After nightfall, the lame five flipped over and over for a long time, but he still couldn't help but speak.

The battlefield conditions were limited, and a few could only sleep in a corner of the underground fortifications with their clothes, and they didn't even play a bunk. Ma Chenglong lay on the lame side, his hands resting behind his head, and he whispered back: "No!" ”

"I'm so scared, I'm shaking all the time, I can't stop." The lame dog asked curtly: "How can I not be afraid, you teach me." ”

"I'm scared too." Ma Chenglong replied.

Listening to Ma Chenglong's answer, Cripple Wu was taken aback, in the eyes of Cripple Wu Ma Chenglong has always been a legend, and the word "afraid" seems to come out of the mouth of people like himself, not the other party.

"I'm afraid that I won't see my parents anymore, I'm afraid that the money I took from selling it won't be delivered to them, and I'm afraid that no one will send her .......to her when she gets old in the future," Ma Chenglong's voice was a little depressed.

The lame five were silent.

"Alas, father, mother, son is not filial!" Gao Changgong on the other side was probably also aroused by the sadness of his thoughts, and sighed on the ground.

"X your ancestors'! There's nothing going on yet, what are you crying about? Liu Mazi scolded, and didn't forget to pat Ma Chenglong's ass, "Listen to what Brother Ma said, learn to play the plan!" There are so many people dying every day in this hellish land, you don't know when it will be your turn, what kind of heart are you blind! It's only serious to get the money, if you die, your family can live a good life! ”

"I don't know who sighed for a day, and said about me!" Gao Changgong sneered, "You're not afraid of death? ”

"I'm afraid of death, of course I'm afraid of death, but what's the way, remember not to be a soldier in the next life!" Liu Mazi sighed.

Including Lao Luoguo, who was also not asleep, several people did not speak for a long time, and Ma Chenglong repeated Liu Mazi's words in a low voice, as if he was asking someone, more like asking himself: "In the next life, are you not a soldier?" ”

In the dark, he smiled bitterly.

"Even if you don't become a soldier in the next life, as long as you still wear a military uniform for one day in this life, you must fulfill your duties!" In the forward command post, Deputy Commander Li's sharp shouts silenced everyone. The roar of heavy artillery was boiling over the position near the left, the dust was falling from the command post, and the dim light flickered and reflected his expression like iron.

Since the 8th Army took over the main offensive in early July, at the beginning, the attacking troops were repulsed by the Japanese in batches, and they were as miserable and nowhere to go as the 71st Army. Tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers climbed above the steep passes, Yinshan Mountain, Rolling Dragon Slope, and Zigao in various places, and the battle situation was extremely passive.

It was not until Deputy Army Commander Li put forward the strategic concept of steadily advancing at all levels that the situation improved. In this way, the Chinese soldiers no longer charge into the fire net like headless flies, but after being covered by artillery fire, they crawl forward from all sides towards the outer bunkers, reach the attack distance, and then bomb them with their hands **, **, bombardment with bazookas, and most of the time burn the Japanese troops in the bunkers with *****. Some of the Japanese soldiers became burning men, crawled out and still shot fiercely, but were machine-gunned to death by the Chinese soldiers who had been waiting outside.

Since it was a peripheral attack and there were no enemy bunkers behind it, the casualties of the Chinese soldiers were greatly reduced, and the combat efficiency was greatly increased. By the end of July, the positions of the soldiers of the 8th Army had steadily advanced to the areas of Yinshan Mountain, Dayakou, and Huangjiashuijing, which were less than 500 meters away from the main peak of Songshan, and the final decisive battle period was approaching.

At the beginning of August, Commander He was forced to order the artillery bombardment of the heights, and dozens of soldiers of the 246th Regiment were covered by our artillery fire at the same time as the Japanese army, and our troops finally occupied Rolling Dragon and cut off the head of the enemy formation. And on the second day of the capture of Rolling Dragon Slope, Chiang Kai-shek sent an urgent telegram to the headquarters of the expeditionary force, ordering the commander-in-chief to transfer the 8th Army to occupy Songshan before the 918th day of shame. ”

Among all the front-line officers, Commander He and Deputy Commander Li of the 8th Army were under the greatest pressure. The area of the main peak of Songshan is only one or twenty acres in size, and there are more than a dozen small hills of different heights connected around it, which are like horns of each other. If you attack the bunker directly, you will inevitably be shot by the fire of the small bunker. Today, the soldiers of the 8th Army are still slowly encroaching on the top of the hill from all sides. But when there are still 200 meters to the main peak, it is no longer possible to move forward. Because it is too steep, the slope is about 60 degrees. Even the shooting had to raise their heads, the Chinese soldiers sacrificed hundreds more here, and the hands on them often fell like hailstones, and even the US military advisory group looked at the map and shook their heads and sighed: "God forbid." ”

Yes, apart from God, they could no longer think of any other help that would allow the Chinese troops to successfully take the main peak of Songshan. A few days ago, two companies of the Rong 1st Division formed a brave team to try to decapitate the Japanese headquarters and destroy the Japanese headquarters, but they fell into the fire ambush circle of the Japanese army before they could gain a firm foothold, and the sound of guns and cannons shouted and killed all night, and at dawn, only two wounded soldiers broke out to tell the battle situation on the top of the mountain, and the remaining brave soldiers lost their lives, and the corpses are still lying there rotting and stinking.

The entire Songshan mountain has long been scorched earth, and some craters are several meters deep, although the artillery fire is said to be fully covered. The aerial bombardment of American planes was also spared, but the Japanese positions were still as solid as a rock. So far in the war, the casualties of the 8th officers and soldiers have exceeded thousands, plus the losses of the previous 71st Army soldiers, as far as the eye can see, from the top of Songshan to the mountainside, covered with the earth-colored corpses of Chinese soldiers.

The tragic Battle of Songshan was in a desperate situation, and all the officers and men of the army, including the US military advisory group and the expeditionary force headquarters, were watching Deputy Army Commander Li, hoping that this front-line commander could bring the troops out of the predicament. But at this moment, only the officers in the command post could see how terrible the expression of Deputy Army Commander Li, who had not closed his eyes for several days and nights, was terrifying, he was not like a beast in a cage, but a beast in a cage at all.