Just as Edward was about to talk to Lei Bo further, there was a "boom" explosion, and a fire rose up on the slope of the mountain, and the mine exploded. Edward immediately stuffed the bamboo whistle that had been hanging around his neck into his mouth and blew it vigorously, and the sharp whistle sounded rhythmically on the mountain. A moment later, two sounds of "tong" and "tong" sounded, and Edward's artillerymen raised two flares from American mortars, and the flares raised high illuminated the slope of the hill.

"It's the Japanese army, the Japanese army has touched it" Under the reflection of the lights, looking at the large black and earthy yellow in the middle of the mountain, Lei Bo's scalp was numb, there were about 200 people, it should be an infantry squadron of the Japanese army. "Don't panic, what's the panic?" Edward sharply reprimanded the panicked guard posts, "150 meters of machine guns fired freely, drove the Japanese soldiers to the middle, rifles 100 meters of free fire" The guard posts who received Edward's order were calm, and the machine gunners pounced in front of the machine guns, pulled the bolt and silently calculated that they would wait for the Japanese troops to reach the distance and then open fire.

"Da Da" A few tongues of fire suddenly burst out of the still silent trench, and the sudden burst of flames fiercely pounced on the Japanese soldiers who were still climbing in the middle of the mountain, knocking down the Japanese troops on both flanks. "Kill and give" a Japanese second lieutenant who led the team did not retreat, but advanced, viciously waving his war knife and directing the Japanese army to rush up in the face of the rain of bullets.

"Boom" "Boom" The mines they planted finally came in handy, and the bursts of fire bloomed like fireworks in a festival. The Japanese troops in the raid were completely chaotic, with flying shrapnel and crumbling rubble, these were all reminders of the Japanese army. Although there were only a few dozen mines planted by the long-haired men, the machine guns on the mountain positions still successfully forced the Japanese troops in the middle into a pile, and the mines that were stepped on from time to time brought great casualties to the Japanese troops.

There were more than 200 Japanese troops attacking the mountain positions in this wave, and a large number of them were Burmese soldiers, who did not look for cover when attacked like Japanese veterans. They run around like headless flies, often stepping on new mines or being knocked down by shrapnel and rubble, resulting in even more casualties.

"Don't mess around, keep shooting" Edward picked up a Garand in the trench and shot first, and the soldiers hiding in the fort and the anti-gun hole were also awakened by the explosion and jumped into the trench. The sporadic firing suddenly became dense, and the Japanese troops in the back attack twisted their bodies and fell down in the rain of bullets.

"Shelling, shelling, concealment" The veterans in the trenches looked up into the air and began to scream loudly in the trenches again. The lights not only illuminated the slopes of the slopes, but also illuminated the mountain positions, and the Japanese began a new round of shelling. Mortar shells rumbled and exploded on the mountain positions again, but fortunately, under the reminder of the veterans, all the people began to hide, except for a few unlucky guys, there were not many casualties.

"Kill and give" Seeing that the gunfire on the mountain stopped, the Japanese soldiers lying on the hill began to charge and climb again. "This can't be done, the Japanese will attack" Braving the artillery fire, Edward rushed to Zhao Zhi's side and shouted loudly in his ear. The Japanese army was climbing faster and faster, and there were only less than 100 meters left from the mountain trenches, and at their current speed, it would only take a few more minutes to storm into the trenches.

"Ignite the fire, cut the straw rope, and release the rolling wood" The mines had already exploded a lot, and seeing that the Japanese army had not closed its wings, Zhao Zhi had to give the order to release the rolling wood. Pots of oil spilled on the rolling wood, and the flames lit up, and with a few flashes of the brush, the grass rope was cut off. The lighted log rumbled halfway up the hill like a wild horse, leading the climbing Japanese soldiers to roll over.

Not every log is honestly rolled all the way down, and some of the logs occasionally encounter rocks protruding from the soil or undulating mountains, so they are thrown high, and then smashed into the Japanese formation, smashing the Japanese formation out of a dent. In the first wave, Edward ordered more than 100 logs to be released, and on the not too wide hillside, the rolling logs were already overwhelming the Japanese army.

The commander of the mixed brigade who supervised the battle at the foot of the mountain closed his eyes in pain, and the cunning people actually used the rolling wood that would only be used when they were cold weapons, and the first squadron was finished. The rampage of the rolling logs finally stopped, for they had rolled all the way down the hill, and halfway up the hill were nothing but the screaming wounded, and only the smoking corpses remained.

During the "extinguishing the fire and concealment", the Japanese stopped the shelling, and Zhao Zhi ordered to extinguish the flames on the position to avoid providing targets for the Japanese artillery bombardment. Soldiers gathered in twos and threes, using steel helmets, sapper shovels, or their own uniforms, to cover the flames and smoking sleepers with dirt. The Japanese troops at the foot of the mountain died down, and the expeditionary force on the mountain ridge did not move, and the two sides fought a draw and remained silent for the time being.

The mixed Japanese army team under the mountain rushed all the way back, and after being hit head-on, it needed to rest and recuperate. Zhao Zhi was different, he had already received an order from the headquarters that as long as he held out in the mountain position for 3 days, reinforcements would arrive. Today is only the first day, Zhao Zhi is not in a hurry, there are still a lot of damage tricks that have not been used, according to the performance of the specific Japanese army, Zhao Zhi is absolutely confident that he will hold on for three days and block the mixed brigade of the Japanese army outside Xinpingyang.

However, the war is cruel, and the war situation is also changeable, and it is impossible to carry out according to Zhao Zhi's vision all the time. After repelling the tentative attack of the Japanese army on the first day, Zhao Zhi received a telegram from the headquarters at dawn on the second day, and the reinforcements who were supposed to rush over were entangled by a group of Japanese stragglers, and the time for the arrival of reinforcements was undetermined.

"Mother's" Zhao Zhi is really on fire this time, and the original plan discussed with the headquarters was that Zhao Zhi entangled the mixed brigade of the Japanese army, and the headquarters sent reinforcements to come in the starry night, and the front and rear combined forces to defeat the Japanese army. Now it's good, it has become a mixed brigade of Zhao Zhi's family to carry the Japanese army here. I really don't know what the bigwigs in the headquarters are thinking, don't you really think that the direct company is three heads and six arms.

There is no way to retreat, the direct company now has a lot of wounded, and a large number of supplies and supplies, and the six mountain guns alone cannot be transported away immediately. Even if the direct company discarded the supplies and mountain artillery and retreated on its own, once it was caught up and entangled by the mixed brigade, the direct company without protection and support would fall into a dead place.

"You can't retreat, you can only fight, fight to the death" Zhao Zhi looked around at everyone viciously, and the remaining officers on the mountain ridge were all hit in this fortress. Zhao Zhi wanted to hear everyone's opinions, but everyone was only concerned about smoking, so they listened to Zhao Zhi speak alone for a long time. "Are you all dumb? Tell me what you think" Zhao Zhi poured a big mouthful of water depressedly and moistened his throat.

"Then hit it, then what else is there to talk about" The big bull urn left on the mountain by Uncle Guo said angrily. Like other doglegs, Da Niu has an inexplicable trust in Zhao Zhi, thinking that there is nothing in this world that Zhao Zhi does not dare to do, and there is no Japanese army that he cannot defeat. Since Zhao Zhi is identified, then Zhao Zhi said how to fight, just listen to it yourself, this is also the true idea of the dogs.

"The location of the Japanese artillery position has been roughly determined, is it possible to notify the scout team to attack?" Edward, who looked sleepy, sat next to Zhao Zhi strongly, and his main concern now was when to take the Japanese mortar position so as to reduce the casualties on the position.

"It's not time yet, at least not yet," Zhao Zhi shook his head. The Japanese only sent a squadron to carry out a tentative attack, and most of their main force was not lost, and their combat strength was still much higher than that of their direct companies, and pulling out their artillery positions now would only cause the Japanese army to disperse. Such a large valley, once the Japanese army escaped, it would be difficult to annihilate them, and Zhao Zhi wanted to stick them firmly here.

"But we have few people, and fighting with them is not a way, we can't afford to fight" Yan Shijun is one of the people who knows the current situation of his direct company the most, because the casualty statistics have always been his responsibility. Not counting the ambush battle on the edge of the woodland, it was just the tentative attack of the Japanese army on the first day, and the direct company suffered more than 30 casualties, although most of them were wounded, but they also lost their combat effectiveness, and they should be counted in the casualty figure.

Zhao Zhi was also at a loss for the casualties of his direct company, if it hadn't happened to be a company of the infantry battalion, Zhao Zhi would have abandoned the mountain position long ago. In this way, the worry in Zhao Zhi's heart never disappeared at all, but became more and more worried with the telegram from the headquarters. If the reinforcements from the headquarters are delayed, Zhao Zhi doesn't know if the direct company can hold here. Thinking that the soldiers on the position were all using two rifles, the Japanese rifles were used by the distant enemy, and the American-style Garand rifles were used when the enemy was near, and the American-style ammunition brought by the team was running out, and it could support up to 2 bases per person.

Fortunately, after Zhao Zhi took Xinpingyang, he did not destroy the captured materials and moved them back to the mountain position, and there are still a lot of Japanese-style guns and ammunition on the mountain ridge. Zhao Zhi's last killer weapon--- mountain artillery, has not yet appeared, this is a great gift left by Zhao Zhi to the Japanese army, and it will not be used at a time of crisis. There are still hundreds of kilograms of explosives and dozens of mines in Changmao, and there are enough Bazooka rockets on the old artillery, with these things, Zhao Zhi can still hold on for a day.

Several heavy machine guns on the mountain ridge were put into the fortress by Zhao Zhi, which was a sharp weapon to suppress the Japanese army, and Zhao Zhi didn't want them to be bombed by the Japanese army casually. The American light machine guns brought by the infantry company were placed in the trenches and mixed with other Japanese light machine guns, which could give full play to their advantages of intensive fire when the rifles could not stop the Japanese troops. Relying on Roger's modified trenches and communication trenches, the light machine guns could move to where Zhao Zhi wanted them to go at any time, giving the Japanese maximum damage. /AUT