Chapter 6: The Ballad of the Great Wall (Part 3)

At this moment, the most hateful thing in Lao Gou's eyes is the little devil, and as for the identity of Stationmaster Xu and how much credibility he said later, there is no time to be more serious. Nodding his hand, Gong Ziqiang, the commander of the first battalion, pointed to the rocky monster trees on the top of the tunnel and ordered in a low voice, "Find a few strong ones and lift our Makqin heavy machine guns to two of them." The next time the devil's plane dares to fly so low, you will sweep it for me! ”

"What about up there?" Gong Ziqiang, who had just been promoted to the battalion commander, swept the stone mountain above the tunnel with his gaze, and showed a somewhat hesitant expression on his face, "There's no water on it, let's shoot ......"

"If you don't have water, won't you let him carry a few buckets up? Don't be verbose, if the gun is broken, I'll ask the old battalion commander for it for you! Lao Gou glared at him and shouted in a deep voice.

"There are only two of us in the whole battalion!" Gong Ziqiang didn't dare to disobey, muttered, and went to arrange a machine gun position in a huff. The Makqin in his hand came from the 27th Division. The entire 26th Route Army, that is, the 27th Division, was placed in the key adjustment sequence by the central government, and 72 water-cooled Makqin copies of the Chinese Arsenal were allocated. And these 72 Makqin were divided into 30 and 31 divisions, and in fact only four were spread out at the head of each regiment. The special service regiment took advantage of the direct subordinate of the old battalion commander and ate more than other regiments, so that it reached the point where the whole regiment had six Makqins, and each battalion had two.

"Idiot! I can't bear to let the child catch the wolf! How much is a Maxim worth, and how much is an airplane worth?! Lao Gou jumped up and chased Gong Ziqiang's back. Looking back at Wang Tiehan, who was joining in the fun, he arranged loudly, "You also go and put your battalion's Makqin into the station for me." Didn't the little devil want to leave the station for his own use? You're right there, aiming at the plane that is targeting the devil and beating me hard! ”

Wang Tiehan didn't expect to see the disaster of the pond fish when he watched the excitement, so he lowered his head and walked away. In order to increase the density of firepower, Gong Ziqiang, the commander of the first battalion, and Wang Tiehan, the commander of the second battalion, also deliberately took out half of the light machine guns of the whole battalion and scattered them in the area around the heavy machine guns for auxiliary shooting. So as not to hit the devil's plane at that time, but to put all the heavy machine guns and heavy machine gunners into it.

As soon as the machine gun positions were arranged, the roar of engines was heard in the sky. The main purpose of the bombing was to sabotage part of the railway and delay the movement of the Chinese army near Niangzi Pass. Therefore, there are not many planes sent, and each time it is a combination of two fighters and four bombers, swaggering, as if entering a no-man's land.

When Gong Ziqiang and Wang Tiehan heard the sound of the engine, they immediately led the brothers and covered all the machine guns with thatch. If you don't look closely, you can't spot it with the naked eye at a distance. The devil's plane arrived above the station and landed at the end of the road. First, the fighter jet swept wildly at the suspicious target, and then the fighter quickly pulled up, and with a huge roar, the bomber began to dive and drop bombs.

......The second battalion ambushed in the station was the first to open fire, and the light and heavy machine guns opened fire around the devil plane. One of the bombers, which had just begun to drop bombs, immediately rose with black smoke, pulled up in a panic, dragged a bright red fire tail, staggered into the distance, and then plunged headlong to the top of the mountain.

Seeing this, the other three bombers hurriedly adjusted their targets. With a press of wings, he slammed into the machine-gun position in the railway station. "Beat me to death!" The commander of the first battalion, Gong Ziqiang, shouted, hugged a Makqin with his own hands, and hugged the head of the plane. The bullets hit the devil bomber at the front like hail, and had to quickly pull it up and flee into the distance with black smoke.

The other two bombers did not dare to fight, and dropped their bombs indiscriminately, quickly pulling them up. At this moment, in the area of Xuehua Mountain, there were also Makqin heavy machine guns that opened fire, knock, knock knock, and hit the little devil's plane to hide in Tibet. Soon, a fighter that tried to turn around to retaliate was hit by a bullet in a key position, and with a "boom" the volley exploded into fragments.

"Hit, hit!" The Secret Service brothers ran out of their hiding places and threw their helmets into the air. The devil's plane was frightened by the sudden appearance of so many people and firepower on the ground, and did not dare to continue to stay, so it took a wound and fled staggering to the northeast.

As for whether he can fly to the airport, the little devil who pilots the plane doesn't care about it. Recently, the North China Front Command has repeatedly issued orders urging the soldiers to carry forward the spirit of bushido and rather break their weapons than let the remnants of large weapons such as planes, automobiles, and artillery fall into the hands of the Chinese. lest when the headquarters issued a war report to the outside world, the losses reported were in the single digits, but the next day the Chinese army piled up more than a dozen cars to "slander it." (Note 1, Note 2)

Two devil planes were shot down at one time, and the brothers of the secret service group were all elated. The head of the regiment, Lao Gou's brows, kept frowning tightly, even when Gong Ziqiang and Wang Tiehan came to invite merit in person, they did not let go. "I'm afraid this battle is not easy to fight!" Glancing at the two subordinates with happy faces, he whispered to everyone. "The devil wants to capture Niangzi Pass, and the Xuehua Mountain over there is almost a battleground. But when the shooting was fired over there just now, I looked closely, and it seemed that there were fewer machine guns than our regiment! ”

"Maybe there's a deliberate effort to retain their strength!" Gong Ziqiang is an optimist, holding a pergola and looking in the direction of Xuehua Mountain, smiling and comforting.

Lao Gou shook his head lightly, fighting a defensive battle on this kind of terrain, there is no point in retaining strength at all. Unless you still want to kill the mountain, you can give the devil a counterattack by surprise. "Which unit is over there, and when did it arrive?!"

In the second half of the sentence, he asked Stationmaster Xu. Although this person did not wear a military uniform, his knowledge of the battlefield seemed to exceed that of the colonel of the Jin Sui Army, who was in charge of liaison. Sure enough, Stationmaster Xu was only slightly flustered, and then hesitated to respond, "It seems to be the seventeenth division, and the division commander's surname is Zhao." There are a lot of Shaanxi people in it, and they speak with strange accents. ”

Without waiting for Lao Gou to ask, he pointed to a few hills next to the guide and introduced in a low voice, "It seems that there is the Third Army over there, all of them are from Sichuan, and they are very short." The supreme chief's surname is Zeng, a very kind person, who always talks with you, your ....."

"It's the Shaanxi Army and the Sichuan Army!" Lao Gou shook his head, and the expression on his face became more and more solemn. In the National Revolutionary Army, the Shaanxi army and the Sichuan army were both known for their poor equipment. The weapons and equipment of some units were even worse than those of the 26th Route Army, which was known as the Hanako Army. After the 26th Route Army returned to the central government, it lived a decent life for at least two years. And the Shaanxi army has just finished the Xi'an Incident with Yang Hucheng, and it will definitely not be treated by the central government. As for the Sichuan army, it was an independent kingdom. If it weren't for the War of Resistance, I wouldn't even have a phone call with the central government. Not to mention, it has received food supplies and weapons support from the central government.

One was born in the 17th Division of the Shaanxi Army, the other was born in the Third Army of the Sichuan Army, and one was called Huazi 26th Road. Of the three armies, none of them were from Shanxi, and certainly none of them were familiar with the terrain near Niangzi Pass. Such three outsiders who are not familiar with the place are required to guard the gateway between Shanxi and Hebei! What a "brilliant" deployment? I don't know which Wolong was the one who made the strategy at the beginning?! (Note 3)

"What about your Jin Sui Army, why didn't the Jin Sui Army come?" Not only Lao Gou saw the problem alone, but even Zhang Songling, a rookie, felt that something was not quite right, so he grabbed the sleeve of Stationmaster Xu and asked in a low voice.

"The main force of our Jin Sui Army is all over there in Xinkou......" Hearing the dissatisfaction in Zhang Songling's words, Stationmaster Xu thought about it, and a little shame appeared on his face, "The boss said, the devil's key attack direction is over there, not Niangziguan here!" Don't look at me like that, I'm just a train manager, and I can't talk to the boss! ”

Note 1: The North China Front Army was a unit specially reorganized by the Japanese after the July 7 Incident in order to swallow China.

Note 2: In order to boost morale, when the Japanese army counted the number of casualties, the shrinkage was very serious. Often, after a battle, they fought until they were exhausted, and they only reported to the outside world that they lost only a few dozen or a few hundred people.

Note 3: The Battle of Niangziguan was one of the most chaotic battles in command. The losses were extremely heavy. It is almost the life of ten Chinese soldiers in exchange for the life of a little devil. And after the war, the commander also passed the buck to others.