This time, Maeda did not attack the valley of the Shogundo Cave with all his forces as Imai did last time, but sent a forward to make a tentative attack on the ridge to the left of the Shogundong Valley, and the rest of the troops were on guard and flanked and protected.

The ridge position on the left was defended by the second platoon of Zhou Guangcui's second company, and the platoon commander was the previous Guangdong Aberdeen Li Qingwang, Wang Tsai was originally from the 66th Army, and followed the 66th Army to break through from Nanjing, was scattered, and later came to Baohua Mountain.

The 66th Army is one of the few troops that did not cross the river and retreat north, but broke through from the city of Nanjing, and it can be regarded as a force that dares to fight and fight.

In the first Battle of Songhu, as early as five or six years ago, the 19th Route Army fought very fiercely in Shanghai, so that the Japanese army had to sit down and negotiate, and in the second Battle of Songhu last year, several units of the Guangdong Army also performed well.

In this battle of Nanjing, the 66th Army's desperate breakthrough proved that it was possible to break through the layers of Japanese defense from the front, although it suffered heavy losses.

But at least it was a loss to fight with the devils, and it was much better to kill some devils on the way to break through than to drown in the Yangtze River and lay down their weapons in Nanjing City and be slaughtered by the devils.

If all the troops at that time had broken through to various positions on the front, it would have been difficult for the Japanese army to parry, and it is estimated that the number of people lost would be a little less.

Or, at least he died on the way to the charge, at least he killed some devils on his back, instead of dying in the Yangtze River and the slaughter of the devils.

Unfortunately, the garrison commander and a large number of troops retreated from the Yangtze River to Jiangbei first, which was a fatal blow to the morale of the soldiers defending the city.

That is why, during the days of defending the city, the soldiers behaved very heroically, and when they retreated, they suddenly changed into a different person.

At that time, the Chinese army had not yet reached the quality of a single soldier who could fight alone, and the low-level officers and soldiers generally looked at their superiors, and once the superiors collapsed, the entire team would become a bear no matter how heroic it was.

Therefore, Wang Tsai has a deep understanding of this, if it were not for the commander of the 66th Army who swore to die and desperately broke through, the entire 66th Army would have collapsed like other garrison troops.

In the 66th Army, although Wang Tsai is a small squad leader, he is also the one who rushes to the front with the company platoon commander every time he charges, and the soldiers behind him will burst out with the spirit of moving forward without meaning life and death.

Wang Zai's life is big, in this life and death breakthrough, almost the whole company was gone, only he was left alone, stunned by a cannonball, his body was full of dead bodies, and when he woke up, he picked up a rotten life.

Although the whole company was sacrificed, it was worth it, as a broken queen, they bit the impact of a devil squadron, and in the end, they almost dragged that devil squadron down, or died together.

It is precisely because of the sacrifice of Wangzai's company that the main force has gained valuable time to break through. Therefore, every time everyone talks about this Nanjing breakthrough in Baohua Mountain, Bo Tsai is the most respected one.

Because their troops die standing and fighting devils to the death. Although Wang Tsai is not tall, he is also dark and thin, and he speaks Chinese standardly, but these do not prevent him from becoming the object of everyone's respect.

It is precisely because of such valuable experience in blood and fire that Niu Gu and Zhou Guangcui directly promoted the squad leader Wang Zai to the platoon commander of the second company and the second platoon when they expanded the army in Baohua Mountain, believing that he could take charge alone.

On the battlefield, not all officers came out of military schools, many of them were promoted by soldiers in the line of fire, and there were also many powerful people, starting from soldiers and working their way up the ranks.

I've never eaten pork, and I've seen pigs run. Wang Tsai still has a good appearance in training, but training is training, actual combat is actual combat, and Zhou Guangcui is most worried about the position on Bozai's side now.

Fortunately, Wang Zai is quite able to calm down, now the devil is constantly approaching, the second platoon is still very quiet in the position, although a few recruits appear panicked, but seeing the platoon commander Wang Zai's face is confident, it is much more stable.

"Everyone prepares grenades." Wang Tsai gave the first order to the second platoon, which had all retreated to the second line of defense.

Wang Tsai's deliberate abandonment of the first line of defense was deliberate, and now he saw several groups of devils turning into the first line of defense, and found that there was no one, and he really thought that these Chinese natives fled in front of the powerful Japanese army.

It was at this moment of arrogance that they buried their lives.

"Lost!"

Although Wang Tsai often said "lost" Cantonese curses in peacetime, this time it was his official combat order as a platoon commander, so he shouted loudly and standardly.

I threw it, I threw the old wood, everyone threw all the grenades in their hands into the first line, and for a while, the explosion in the position was connected, shrapnel shot everywhere in the narrow space, and a cloud of smoke rose from the position.

Time waits for no man! Wang Tsai was the first to rush out of the position, and while rushing towards the first line, he shouted: "Rush! ”

In addition to the first squad remaining in the original position as a reserve, more than 20 men from the second and third squads, following the thin platoon commander in front of them, rushed into the first line of positions that were still smoking gunpowder in a few big strides.

There were less than ten of those groups of devils, and most of them were basically killed and stunned by a round of grenade explosions, and most of them were injured, and the remaining few moved quickly, and quickly lay on the ground, only to avoid this wave of explosions and shrapnel attacks.

However, when they had just gotten up and were about to search for and exchange friends, a pair of shiny bayonets came out of the thick smoke of gunpowder.

The devils who were stunned by the explosion were stabbed into a sieve by dozens of bayonets before they could distinguish the east, south, and northwest, and those devils on the ground who were killed and injured by the explosion and did not get up were all without exception.

"Withdraw!"

Before everyone had a good time, they heard the platoon commander's hurried order, and in a blink of an eye, the platoon commander's figure had already rushed out and ran quickly towards the second position.

The skinny Wang Zai, like a wild dog, can go up the mountain and into the water, is flexible and fast, and his strength is not small; It is no wonder that the small troops of Liangguang back then, during the Northern Expedition, beat the tall and strong northern troops to the point that they were powerless to fight back.

The squad leaders of the second and third shifts saw that the platoon commanders had fled back, and hurriedly shouted to their subordinates, like a group of big horse monkeys, using their hands and feet together, and retreating to the second line of positions with rolling belts.

As soon as everyone's front feet landed, the roar of the devil's grenade grenade falling sounded around the first position, and then it sounded like a grenade just now.

Even in the first position, a lot of small grenades were fired; The people who just ran back were so frightened that their hairs stood on end, I went, fortunately I ran fast just now, otherwise I would have been bombed in that position now.

Even if there are a few bunkers dug in the first line of positions, but on the ridge, once dug down, there are rocks or large stones, and it is difficult to make the fortifications as perfect as in the flat ground, so they can only dig a few small bunkers, and even the trenches are not very deep.

Because of this, Wang Zai will immediately withdraw to the second position with more than 20 people, otherwise, there will be no way to hide a few people in those small holes, and it is not easy to arrange who will hide, and there will be no time to arrange.