On April 22, the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938), the third battalion and eight companies of the 1085th Regiment of the 543rd Brigade of the 184th Division of the 60th Army, where Tan Yizhong was located, were deployed in Xinzhuang, east of Taierzhuang, along with the three battalions.

This time, the 60th Army used the 184th Division to defend Yuwang Mountain in the south as the bottom of the bag, and the 183rd Division to defend the line of Dingjiaqiao, Dongzhuang, and Huoshibu near Taierzhuang in the west.

In addition, the 4th Division of the 85th Army also assisted the defense of the 182nd Division of the 60th Army to jointly deal with the 5th and 10th Divisions of the Japanese army moving south.

As soon as Tan Yizhong and their eighth company arrived in Xinzhuang, they immediately began to build a position, these Yunnan boys, who look thin and small, can do their work, all of them are like little bison, whether it is strength or flexibility, they are more powerful than Tan Yizhong's northern soldiers.

One side of the water and soil to raise a person, the southwest region includes Yunnan, the mountain road is narrow, many times look at the mountain to run a dead horse, the two mountains are relative to each other when people can talk, but to go over as a guest, you have to go down the mountain and go up the mountain for most of the day.

This determines the people in these places, capable and flexible, small, easy to shuttle between the mountains and forests, with great strength, in order to carry the heavy burden, this place, not than the north is flat, can drive a big car to pull goods, most of them can only rely on people's shoulders to carry the back.

The mountain road has eighteen bends, and the road is far away, so it is necessary to have sufficient physical strength to transport things, and the mountain treasures, timber, and game in the mountains are transported out, and salt, rice, cotton cloth and other daily necessities are transported in.

Therefore, in Tan Yizhong's eyes, it was the first time to see such a thin person, digging trenches, and it didn't take long to finish the foxholes, traffic trenches, machine gun nests, etc.

However, these are not enough, Tan Yizhong heard that the sound of the Japanese army's heavy artillery had already sounded in Puwang, the forward position north of Xinzhuang, and the veterans were afraid of the artillery.

Tan Yizhong is very sensitive to the devil's artillery, since the war with the devil, from Songhu to Nanjing to Xuzhou, most of Tan Yizhong's comrades-in-arms fell under the devil's cannon, and really died under the devil's gun and bayonet, not much.

Therefore, Tan Yizhong's group of veterans is particularly concerned about how to fire artillery, and before under the Baohua Mountain Niu Gu, Tan Yizhong participated in the project of digging through the Baohua Mountain Mountain, and has a new understanding of the tunnel anti-artillery.

Therefore, now Tan Yizhong strongly suggested that the commander of the eighth company, Duan Lian, take advantage of the fact that the devil has not yet arrived, please dig out the tunnel, but the commander of the Duan company has not seen the power of the devil's heavy artillery, and secondly, he doesn't know what the tunnel is, so he doesn't think so.

But in the face of Deputy Company Commander Tan, he sent a few people to dig with Tan Yizhong.

At first, everyone thought that it would be enough to just dig out one more bunker, but they didn't expect that Company Commander Tan would dig six or seven meters deep underground, which was a joke.

For their Yunnan soldiers, the bunker has been dug, and in the mountainous and rocky Yunnan, no one would be stupid enough to dig a bunker six or seven meters deep underground, let alone a tunnel.

Maybe it's because they rarely have heavy artillery bombardment positions of 150 caliber or above, but if they are really bombarded by 150 heavy artillery or 300 to 500 pounds of aerial bombs, they will naturally know that they are safe underground, and even six or seven meters are not very safe.

This tunnel is not just digging and digging, but also needs wood support, sandbags to resist earthquakes, etc., Tan Yizhong sees that this time is urgent, so he can only take everyone to make a model first, and then continue to do more.

On the morning of the 23rd, Pu Wang in the forward position had already been violently attacked by devils, and listening to the dull explosion of the huge cannons that made the earth tremble, Tan Yi of Xinzhuang, who was not far from Pu Wang, felt a little ominous.

Sure enough, at noon on the 23rd, the Japanese army continued to attack Puwang and the defenders who pinned down Puwang with a part of their forces, and the other large forces made a surpassing attack and came directly to the boundary of Xinzhuang.

As early as the morning, the Japanese observation balloon flew to Xinzhuang to probe, and I heard that one balloon flew all the way to Yangzhuang, south of Xinzhuang, but was shot down by the anti-aircraft machine guns of the 184th Division.

The devil who observed the hanging basket on the balloon was also broken because the balloon was broken, and fell from a height of several hundred meters, and all three or four devils fell to their deaths.

This devil was so angry that he now vented all his anger on the Xinzhuang position, 150 heavy artillery roared and smashed over, and the Japanese heavy bombers, like old female ducks, laid a series of iron eggs down.

For a while, the entire Xinzhuang position was in a sea of fire, a vibrating, shrapnel-like, furnace-like sea of fire, Tan Yizhong and their troops hid in the tunnel, like a small boat in the sea, not to mention the brothers in the trenches on the ground.

Almost all the bare positions were destroyed, and the machine gun nest was razed to the ground, but fortunately, the machine guns were immediately transferred to the bunker, but there were many casualties.

The super-reinforced company, which was originally more than 200 people, has now lost a quarter of its men at once, and more than 50 people have been killed and injured to the point of losing their combat effectiveness.

The remaining more than 100 people, either with minor injuries or palpitations, I went, for the first time, I learned the ferocity of the devil, and I lost so many people before I saw the last one.

This kind of battle, many Yunnan veterans, are also encountered for the first time, everyone looked back, only to realize how correct Tan Yizhong was in desperately encouraging everyone to dig a little deeper and dig a little deeper beforehand, but unfortunately everyone still didn't listen to him.

Regardless of the past. Tan Yizhong didn't have time to think about it now, according to the experience gained from fighting with the devil before, as soon as the cannon fire ended, the devil was about to start charging.

"Get up, hurry! … You dead pig, hurry up... If you don't want to die, get up quickly..."

At this time, Tan Yizhong changed his previous humble gentleman appearance in the Eighth Company, and in front of the soldiers who were pressed in the trench by the soil, he even pulled and kicked, constantly shouting and scolding in his mouth, like a ghost, urging everyone to get up quickly.

At this time, in front of the position, there was still gunsmoke, but from the rumbling sound, the devil's tank was coming, and these dead pigs were still trembling in the trench, and they were really angry with Tan Yi.

Fortunately, Company Commander Duan is still a veteran who has seen some of the world, and he knows what Tan Yizhong's madness is for, and he is even more unkind to his soldiers, picking up a rifle and constantly hitting his brother who is lying on the ground and refuses to get up.

Some of them didn't even react when they smashed several gun butts, so they were naturally blown up or shocked to death, and Company Commander Duan didn't have the time to care about these dead brothers now, so he had to tear down his eyes and intensify his efforts to deal with those soldiers who were still alive.

More than 100 brothers, at last, under the vicious urging of the two company commanders, climbed up one after another, and the infantry immediately seized the position, and the sapper shovels quickly dug up the floating soil, barely dug a foxhole where they could hide, and stuffed themselves into it.

The machine gunners dragged the light and heavy machine guns out of the crawling and rolling ground, found the machine gun nest that still looked a little, and supported the machine guns.

Before the devils bombarded, the heavy machine gun nests on the left and right sides of the position, Tan Yizhong took them to do some camouflage, and they were not bombed by the devils.