Regarding Xiucai's question, Sangou thought for a long time:

It is best to survive, the greatest wish is to be able to return to his hometown, even if it is to be an old dog that no one can look at, he is willing to accompany his family, nest in the field, and slowly die of old age, which is the greatest blessing in life.

Besides, there are Yang Muhua in the family, as well as his son Xiaohu, as well as his aging father and mother, white-headed grandparents, and younger brothers and sisters.

In general, these people are the people who Sangou can't give up, and as for the brothers around them now, although they can't give up, but in the environment of war, no one can guarantee everyone's safety.

Even Sangou himself can't guarantee whether he can survive until the end of the war and not die, not to mention that these brothers can only ask for more blessings for themselves, that is to say, in the expectation in their hearts, they are all mentally prepared that every brother of everyone may die in battle.

If you can really come according to your own wishes, these brothers can live, they can all go home, they can all die in their hometown, and they can visit the door on weekdays, it will be a paradise day.

So now Sangou's mood is constantly changing, sometimes war-weary, hoping that the war will end as soon as possible, even if it is peace or even surrender, as long as everyone can live.

But this kind of thing can never be said, even to Yang Muhua.

Sometimes if we hope that the war will end at an early date, we must speed up our efforts to kill the devils, and at present it seems that only by killing more devils can the war end at an early date.

If you want to kill more devils, it is far from enough to rely on your own hands, you have to try your best to be promoted, if you really become a regiment commander, division commander or even army commander, then killing more devils is not one or two.

In this way, he can be one step closer to his ideal of going home, and perhaps Xiucai has the ambition to make contributions, and from time to time he points out the country with Sangou.

But Sangou is really not very interested in these, or his mind and pattern are too small, and he only cares about his own small family all day long, and his vision cannot expand the big picture of the country and everyone.

It doesn't matter, everyone has their own life, everyone has their own aspirations, Sangou likes these small feelings and small righteousness, as for the national righteousness, there is, but it has not yet risen to the point of changing the idea of the country and the nation.

The Japanese attack on Qiangongling was blocked, and there was no way to detour the flanks on both sides, and now the 20th Brigade on the north bank of the Jinjiang River suddenly crossed the river south at Stone Street.

The main force of the 20th Brigade of the Japanese Independent Mixed Brigade crossed the river on the north bank of the Jinjiang River, attacked Lazhu Mountain with one force, and crossed from the west of Hujia in Shijie to the south, copied the flank of the 51st Division, and bombarded it from north to south with 9 planes and 4 artillery pieces.

At this moment, it was indeed powerful, it was simply a draw from the bottom of the kettle, and the foundation of the entire 51st Division was shaken, and the 152nd Regiment and the division's field supplement regiment demanded that they be nailed to the same place, and that they should not retreat, and that they should withstand the rest of the 104th Brigade and the 102nd Brigade of the Japanese Army.

In addition, the division headquarters hurriedly asked the military headquarters for help, and after receiving the report, Commander Wang immediately deployed: ordered the main force of the 51st Division to turn to the left; The supplementary regiment directly under the command of the army controlled near Yintang was ordered to rush to Huayang to block the enemy's westward attack.

Even the supplementary regiment of the 74th Army has been taken out, which shows that the situation is tense, and it can also be seen that the strength has been used to the limit. Divisional headquarters and regimental headquarters have made it clear that everyone must hold their respective positions and must not retreat.

Sangou is familiar with the geography of this area, and he can draw it by himself when he looks at the map all day long, and now behind Qiangongling is Jigongling, which is four or five square kilometers in this area, and is the main defense area of the 152nd Regiment and the third battalion, which belongs to the position of the easternmost part.

On the flank of the 152nd Regiment, it is the defense area of the Division Headquarters Field Supplement Regiment, which is responsible for protecting the flank security of the 152nd Regiment and guarding the position of the line of Louling.

Not far behind Jigongling is Lazhu Mountain, which belongs to the defense area of the 153rd Regiment, and is now being attacked by the flank of the Japanese army crossing the Jinjiang River in the south, and everyone is desperately resisting.

If this place cannot be defended, then the Jigongling defense area will be attacked by the Japanese army from both sides, and they will either be driven into the Jinjiang River to feed the fish, or they can only retreat south to Xiangcheng Town or even Qingjiang (Zhangshu).

But this was allowed, and the 51st Division was clearly required to ensure the safety of the southeast side of Shanggao, withdraw away from Shanggao to Qingjiang, and finally the division commander and regiment commander had to go to court-martial.

However, the key point of communication to the southeast of Shanggao is now the Huayang area, and the 151st Regiment of the 51st Division, now in a fierce battle with the Japanese army in Stone Street, is inseparable from supporting the division headquarters in Huayang.

The Japanese army's troops had already gone up along the south bank of the Jinjiang River and were about to reach Huayang, so Commander Wang sent the last reserve of the military headquarters, a supplementary regiment, to rush to the aid of Huayang and resist the Japanese army's rear.

At present, the 51st Division, together with a supplementary regiment of the military headquarters, and the Japanese army independently mixed into the main force of the 20th Brigade, are desperately fighting the cattle in the narrow area from Qiangongling to Huayang on the south bank of the Jinjiang River.

In this place 20 miles long and 3 or 4 miles wide, the 51st Division was like a net, stubbornly holding the big fish of the 20th Brigade of the Japanese Army that crossed the Jinjiang River.

By the evening of 22 March, the Japanese attack on the Qiangongling side had already been a little weakened, but it was estimated that they had just received an urgent order from the brigade headquarters, asking them to take down the Qiangongling and Jigongling, and join forces with the troops of Nandu at Lazhu Mountain.

This made the Japanese 104th Division launch a fierce attack again, and in the evening, Japanese planes that usually do not make much sorties also flew in to bomb.

The mountain artillery at the wing level in the rear was also joining in the fun, turning over the position of Qiangongling a few times, if there was no cover prepared before, the Ninth Company and the Field Supplement Regiment did not know how many people would have to be sacrificed.

As soon as the Japanese artillery fire was extended, but the interfering artillery fire continued, the Japanese infantry launched a charge in a straggler formation, and the Ninth Company no longer hid its fire at this moment, and the enemy no longer carried out any fire reconnaissance.

The machine guns of the Ninth Company were still mainly light machine guns, and in the face of the enemy's skirmishers, they constantly used point fire to track down the Japanese stragglers who were moving forward and prostrate and leaping.

Each squad uses the machine gun as the fire support point, and around the machine gun, the excellent shooter is organized as the main support of the rifleman, and some grenadiers are also nervously prepared.

Under the saturation of superior firepower such as infantry artillery, mortars, and heavy machine guns, the Japanese army continued to approach the foot of Qiangongling Mountain.

Once they reached the foot of the mountain, they were more than 100 meters away from the hill line position of the Ninth Company, and each grenadier group immediately began to fire grenades.

The soldiers with good arm strength also began to throw grenades at the bottom of the mountain, and the grenades crossed the deep trench at the foot of the mountain and landed on the Japanese straggler line, and for a while, there was a loud noise at the foot of the mountain.

Even if more than a dozen people in the front unit of the Japanese stragglers hurriedly lay on the ground, some of them were still killed and wounded by the explosion.

Because there is a deep pit at the foot of the mountain, more than three meters wide, just beyond the limit of the long jump, the depth is not deep, only three or four meters, but there is a puddle at the bottom.

There is a ground wasp in the puddle, which was buried by the 152nd Regiment before, and some of the combat experience of the third battalion has been popularized by the whole army, and the 152nd Regiment must have been the first to learn.

Previously, the Japanese army occupied Qiangongling after the 152nd Regiment retreated automatically, and they didn't pay attention to what was in these deep ditches, thinking that it was just a naturally formed ditch due to the recent rain.