The Japanese infantry had not yet been deployed in place and had not yet begun to attack, and only the first artillery raid caused only one company of 148 people in three infantry companies of the 1st Regiment of the 21st Brigade of the 12th Division of the Third Army stationed on the first line of defense on the main line of defense of Niangzi Pass, and only one company of 148 people survived, and the two infantry companies also suffered heavy losses.

Of the more than 440 infantry companies in the three companies, 243 were killed on the spot, 72 were seriously wounded, and 101 were lightly wounded.

Hearing this, the lieutenant general in the command of the Third Army, which was located 4 kilometers behind the defensive line, did not speak for a full minute.

It was just an artillery attack, and he lost two infantry companies, and the Japanese artillery fire was really terrifying.

His Third Army wanted to fight back, but how many cannons could there be in the entire Jindong? Even if there is a cannon? And how many can fight? In order to support the Battle of Xinkou, the old man of Shanxi moved the artillery of the entire Shanxi over.

I have to say that the old man in Shanxi has accumulated a lot of money over the years, and the mountain artillery regiment of the ten regiments has a total of about 300 mountain guns, and there are still 100 150 heavy guns of the five regiments exchanged by the Taiyuan Arsenal from the Huamei Company. On the Xinkou side, the nearly 80,000 Japanese troops led by Itagaki Seishiro's Fifth Division fought vigorously, and the mountain artillery did not fall behind in the battle, and the heavy artillery still had a slight advantage.

Because the heavy artillery regiment was also equipped with anti-aircraft artillery regiments, and the Japanese planes could not run amok, so up to now, the Japanese army was basically blocked in the northwestern part of Shanxi.

However, when tens of thousands of troops on the western front of the Japanese army broke through Shijiazhuang and approached Jindong to carry out a two-sided attack, the old man from Shanxi, who was the commander of the 2nd Theater of Operations, fainted. The artillery has all been transferred to the northwest of Jin, what to use to defend the east of Jin? As a result, the old guns in stock were turned over and transported to Jindong, not to mention, even the gunners, who were mostly civilian people, trained along the way.

With such a cannon and gunner quality, it would be more comfortable to expect them to fight back against the heavy artillery of the Japanese invaders.

What's more, the 7,000-meter range of the Jin-built Trinity Mountain Cannon is 3,000 meters away from the 105 howitzer fired 10,000 meters away.

Now, the only thing the Third Army can do. It is the same as Songhu located in the southeast battlefield.

Resist, die.

Even if you shoot out a company of Lao Tzu with a cannon, then Lao Tzu will send another company, as long as Lao Tzu's people are not dead, there will always be gunfire on the battlefield.

This is the helplessness and sadness that belong to the Chinese generals.

Facing the 105 howitzers, the Chinese defenders were not bad. On the battlefield of Songhu, Chinese generals were faced with cruiser guns with more than 200 calibers, and a projectile weighing hundreds of kilograms often meant that an infantry platoon could be disorganized.

At this time, the Songhu battlefield was already nearly 100,000 dead and wounded. China and Japan, on the other hand, are still increasing their troops. China's most economically developed and beautiful city is still rumbling.

While an infantry battalion reinforced again poured into the position and desperately repaired the fortifications in the firelight, the observers of the Japanese infantry at the front also passed the results of the artillery bombardment to Yoshito Takagi, who was riding on a tall horse.

"Yo Si! This is a lesson that our Imperial Japanese Army taught the Chinese! With the help of the 105 howitzers, I don't believe how long the Chinese can hold out, and told Hosokawa Daisa, by 9 o'clock in the morning, I will see that the old Seki position has also been bombed into ruins. A smug smile spread across Yoshito Takagi's face. I'm afraid that before Yamashita-kun's so-called roundabout tactics can be implemented, the war will already be over. ”

Thinking of Yamashita Fumi, who won a round of applause for talking in front of the map, Yoshito Takagi's face, which had just been smiling, gradually cooled down again.

He was afraid that there would be no chance to prove on the front line of Niangzi Pass that he and he were the best of the major generals of the Imperial Army.

Just one day earlier, Yamashita Fumi, who had just been ordered to go on the expedition, suddenly received an appointment from General Terauchi Shouichi of the newly formed North China Dispatch Army Headquarters at the end of August, and was transferred to the post of commander of the mixed brigade stationed in Beiping, China. Although the rank of the commander of the infantry brigade to the commander of the mixed brigade seems to remain unchanged, it is also a precursor to promotion.

I'm afraid, when he says goodbye, he may be going to call his former colleague His Excellency Lieutenant General. Thinking of this, Takagi Yoshito couldn't help but grit his teeth, if he wants not to be subordinate, then he can only look at this battle of Jindong, if he can lead the 39th Brigade to fight earth-shattering feats, the lieutenant general is not so far away.

It is necessary to storm Niangzi Pass, and at all costs, to settle the battle before the 40th Infantry Brigade captures the Missing Donkey Ridge for the roundabout test fish town that the division has already set. This is the battle goal that Yoshito Takagi secretly set for himself.

Kawagishi Bunzaburo, who was sitting in the base camp of the 20th Division in Shijiazhuang, did not know that because of the unexpected transfer of Yamashita Fengfumi, his strategy of using the left column of the 40th Infantry Brigade as the main attack point actually evolved into a tactic of attacking both left and right.

His confidant and hardcore junior brother had already completely left behind him the thousands of instructions he had specially chatted with privately before leaving.

Of course, this has also invisibly increased the pressure on the main defense line of Niangzi Pass, including the old pass defense line, depending on whether the strength of the two infantry divisions of the Third Army and the independent regiment and the 386 brigade on the defense line can withstand it.

Hundreds of miles behind them, most of Sun Lianzhong's 26th Route Army and the 22nd Group Army of the Sichuan Army were still rushing towards Jindong.

Liu Xueyuan heard a battle report from Liu Lang's headquarters at 7 a.m. about an infantry company on the main defensive line of Niangzi Pass, 7 kilometers away, being shelled by Japanese troops, and only one person remained.

Ignoring Liu Lang's obstruction, she rushed to the main battlefield of Niangziguan with the 4 guard platoon soldiers sent to her by Liu Lang.

Liu Xueyuan saw the young soldier named Ding Shaojie and the young soldier named Gou Yuzi at the headquarters of the 21st Brigade, which was only 1,000 meters away from the defense line.

"The Last Warrior" is the title of the first battlefield report that Liu Xueyuan wrote about his arrival in Jindong.

"I met the young soldier a kilometre from the battlefield where the smoke of gunfire was still in the air, he was very young, but seventeen or eighteen years old, at such an age, if there had been no war, he might have been a student in a city school, or a teenager in the village helping his parents with his work.

But he was standing before me and was now a warrior. Dressed in a dusty dark blue military uniform, he carried a rifle about the same height as him, four grenades in his waist, and a dozen yellow bullets on his chest.

When I saw him, he was just kneeling, burning a few blank sheets of paper in front of the battlefield that had once belonged to him. When he knew who I was and where I came from, and without waiting for me to ask, he grinned and took the initiative to tell me that his platoon commander had ordered him to burn a few pieces of paper for the officers and men of the whole company. However, on the battlefield, there was no yellow paper, so he had to borrow a few pieces of white paper from the brigade headquarters and paste them in the dirt and use them as yellow paper.

Strangely, when it came to the death of the whole company, his platoon commander dug him out of the collapsed anti-artillery hole and died because of excessive blood loss, his infantry squad brothers protected him under him to get the space to survive while they themselves died silently, when he recounted all this very calmly, my tears could not help but run down my cheeks, but he kept grinning.

I didn't understand it at the time, but soon I did.

"The platoon commander said, as long as I am not dead, the 2nd Company will not die, and the 2nd Company will still fight, Reporter Liu, goodbye! By the way, don't write the name of my platoon leader, I'm afraid that my sister-in-law will be sad when she sees it, and my sister-in-law is about to give birth. Also, my name is 2 Company. These were the last words he left for me, and then, with his gun on his back, he walked to the position that once belonged to him.

At that moment, I couldn't hold back my tears anymore. I get it, I understand why he's laughing all the time, not sad. I tried to hold him, but I knew I couldn't hold him. Including his brigade commander and regiment commander, they could only watch silently, looking at him who was not too tall, and shouted the slogan in the rising sun: "2nd Company, forward." ”

At that moment, he was not called Ding Yuanjie, nor was he called Gou Yuzi, he only had one name, called Warrior. Fighters who belong to our China and warriors who belong to our Chinese nation. He will not abandon his positions, there, there are his brothers.

I'm sorry, but I can't write their numbers because of military secrecy. Perhaps, the number is not so important, at the moment when the rising sun of Taihang Mountain shines on his young but firm back to the position, their number, in my heart, will never be erased.

When my war report was issued, it was already 10 o'clock in the morning, and the Japanese bombardment was already in its third round.

And he never returned. ”

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PS: I would like to dedicate this chapter to all the ancestors who sacrificed their lives for the country and the nation, and their numbers will never be erased. In my heart, too.