War is like this, just dig a position and hold it for a while, only to be notified that you are leaving, go to the next position, continue to dig positions, deploy troops and firepower, etc.

As a grassroots unit like the Third Battalion, it basically has no say in the overall situation of the war, and can only accept tasks, carry out tasks, and constantly do so, without asking why.

Of course, as the battalion commander, Sangou still knew some of the strategic objectives and operational ideas of this campaign, and did not take one city and one place as the goal of defense, but to lure the enemy into going deep and consuming the enemy one by one, and retreat to a decisive battle.

Therefore, from the Shaguling, Wutouling, and Wugongling lines in Gray Port, we retreated ten miles in great strides and withdrew to the line from Lazhuling to Jigongling and Louling.

This made the soldiers very uncomfortable, why did they have to withdraw if they fought well, so wouldn't it be in vain here?

Sangou didn't explain anything to everyone, and when Xiucai held a meeting with officers above the platoon, he talked about these things, but as a soldier, it is his duty to obey orders.

The main defense area of the third battalion is on the line of Jigongling, which belongs to the prominent point of the first line position of the 51st Division, and bears the brunt, and the Japanese army must be following behind, and the main forces are concentrated in front of Jigongling.

Fortunately, Jigongling was originally the third line position before the 51st Division, and the fortifications were dug well.

A lot of ammunition was still left in the ammunition room inside the bunker, and there was no need to move it, so it was directly left for the 152nd regiment to use, but a handover order was signed.

On March 20, the most fierce day since the war began in northern Jiangxi, the Japanese army on the south road independently mixed the 20th Brigade and the 51st Division in Gray Port for a whole day.

After the 34th Division of the Japanese-Central Route Army was stopped by the 57th Division near Sixi on the east bank of Surabaya on the 19th, the 34th Division adopted the tactic of conical breakthrough on the 20th.

The 34th Division of the Japanese Army concentrated more than 10 artillery pieces and more than 30 planes to bombard the Tang and Gangsilo areas on the west bank of Surabaya, and the positions were destroyed.

The 74th Division of the 58th Army of the Chinese Army bravely blocked the gap and fought fiercely until the night, and the enemy brigade swarmed to the vicinity of Zhitangkan, and the position was broken through. The 58th Division moved at midnight on the 21st to the line of Baimao Mountain, under the Xin Shu, and at the Harsh House.

The 57th Division of the 74th Army also retreated to the diagonal positions of Panjiaqiao, Yuntou Mountain, and Leijiashan, and connected with the reserve positions of the stone arch bridge and the downhill bridge Xulou to ensure Shanggaocheng.

On March 21, that is, when the Sangou team withdrew to the front line of Jigongling, the 102nd Infantry Brigade of the 20th Brigade of the Japanese Army was located immediately followed up to the front line of Jigongling.

But this was only the 20th Brigade to contain the strength of the 51st Division, and its main force suddenly crossed the Jinjiang River to the north, entered the east bank of Sixi, and joined up with the 34th Division to attack and advance to the west bank of Sixi.

This move was another surprise to the 74th Army and the 51st Division, and the troops currently guarding the upper heights, that is, the troops at the bottom, are mainly the three divisions of the 74th Army.

Most of the other troops withdrew to the flanks and flanks of the Japanese troops, so that when the Japanese troops could not fight for a long time in Kamigao, the will to fight was exhausted, and the food and ammunition were in question, they would encircle and annihilate the Japanese troops from the flanks and flanks.

Therefore, the pressure of the 74th Army is the greatest in the past few days, and the current greatest pressure is the 58th Division in the middle road, desperately resisting in the Sixi area at the junction of Shangao and Gao'an.

Originally, the 58th was already choking enough in the face of the Japanese 34th Division, but now it suddenly joined the main two brigades of the 20th Brigade and the artillery unit, and was beaten back again and again.

The Japanese army's concentration of forces to carry out conical tactics did give the 74th Army quite a headache, but because the three divisions had the huge responsibility of guarding the upper ranks, they did not dare to carry out a roundabout movement war of the large corps, so they could only carry it to the death.

Now the same is true of the 51st Division on the south bank of the Jinjiang River, although in the face of the 102nd Brigade with only one Japanese brigade, the 102nd Brigade can launch an active attack on weekdays, not to mention that it can be encircled and annihilated, but at least it can defeat this Japanese brigade.

However, the current situation did not dare to do this, because the Sixi River on the north bank of the Jinjiang River had been broken through by the Japanese army, which directly threatened the security of the left flank of the 51st Division.

According to the normal strategy, the 51st at this time should have retreated immediately, advancing and retreating with the 58th Division in the middle to jointly protect the security of the opponent's flank.

But Commander Wang of the 74th Army is a little out of action now, and it is not a way to retreat like this, he could have fought with the Japanese army freely, but now he is fighting so aggrieved.

So he asked the soldiers of the 51st Division to divide into two routes, all the way to Huayang on the south bank of the Jinjiang River, to ensure the safety of the flanks of himself and the 58th Division, and to attack the 102nd Brigade of the enemy in front of him all the way, so as to defeat the arrogance of the Japanese army.

Li Tianxia, commander of the 51st Division, used the 151st Regiment to guard the line of Huayang Hualing according to the original position and strength of the defense to ensure the safety of the flanks and rear.

The 152nd Regiment launched a counterattack against the 102nd Brigade of the Japanese Army, of which the Field Supplement Regiment served as a secondary attack, flanking the Japanese from Louling while protecting the flank of the 152nd Regiment.

The 153rd Regiment served as the reserve of the whole division, and was in the second line behind the flank of the 152nd Regiment, providing support at any time.

This posture obviously put on a posture of taking a step back, and then suddenly returning the carbine and biting the enemy.

On the morning of 21 March, before the buttocks of the 3rd Battalion had yet to warm up the position at Jigongling, they received a temporary and urgent order to immediately prepare to launch a counterattack against the enemy in front of them.

This made the brothers of several infantry companies very happy, dog, I was always chased and beaten by the Japanese army before, and I was beaten by the devils, and I rarely had a chance to fight back, and I fought all the way back, and I was suffocated to death.

Now there's finally a chance for a massive shot.

The squad and platoon commanders of all the combatants, who were in the salient part of the position, and the seventh and eighth companies in the shape of finished characters behind them, immediately received the ammunition from the ammunition room and returned.

Each infantry squad has a squad machine gun, at least two spare barrels, six Czech magazines filled with 20 rounds, or drums for more than 40 rounds, and two base numbers of spare light machine gun cartridges.

The main shooter of the machine gun also has to carry a part of the bullets, after all, so many bullets are a bit heavy to be borne by the secondary shooter or ammunition driver.

The squad grenadier group is also equipped with two base grenades, and the main and secondary shooters each carry a grenade with a base of about 16 rounds.

The demolition team now received Soviet-style blasting canisters, as well as American-made TNT explosive blocks, yellow blocks the size of soap, and a tube of tubular cartridges, with an excited detonator device, which immediately became an explosive package.

The mortars and heavy machine guns used to follow the offensive movement have been disassembled and carried by ammunition crews and mules and horses, and the backpacks of riflemen have been left in their positions for the time being, making it easy for light soldiers to pursue and kill.

On the morning of the 21st, the 75 mountain artillery of the 51st Division's divisional artillery battalion opened fire en masse, and the shells smashed into the position of the 102nd Brigade of the Japanese Army under the Qiangong Ridge opposite Jigong Ridge.

The 102nd Brigade would hardly have imagined that the Chinese army, which had been retreating, would have such a large-scale sudden counterattack, and most of the fortifications were blown up.

The 3rd Battalion, as the main attacking force, immediately rushed out at the first sound of the shelling, crossed the middle ground, and jumped all the way to the barrage line 300 meters in front of the Japanese position.