If Xuehuashan is the sad place of Lieutenant General Zhao Shoushan, the commander of the 17th Division, where he lost more than 1,500 officers and soldiers of most of the main infantry regiment, lost a colonel and two main battalion commanders, and a main infantry company was wiped out by half of the army, which made him heartbroken and unable to sleep all night.

That, the lack of donkey ridge, is the place that Lieutenant General Zhao Shoushan will never forget.

There, after just two days of fighting, he was white-headed overnight.

It was on the night of the second day, when the artillery fire was intermittent, that the entire battle of Niangziguan was carried out on the fourth day, and on the night of five days after his 17th Division made the first contact with the Japanese army from Jingcheng County.

The moon is bright in late autumn, but the night is as cold as water.

Zhao Shoushan, who climbed the highest peak position of the Donkey Ridge alone and looked at most of his 17th Division's position by the moonlight, had tears in his eyes, and his hair was like frost.

It is not the late autumn hoarfrost on the corpses of the warriors who are prostrate or lying on their backs or curled up in various postures, but the great sorrow that makes this Shaanxi man, who looks elegant with glasses but is only forty years old, almost visible to the naked eye, black hair turned into gorgeous hair.

The mountains are all over the wilderness, and the autumn frost is like snow, but it is not only the land of China, but more importantly, the remains of the officers and men of the 17th Division.

There is no time to converge, because, the battle is never closed. For two days in a row, the Japanese attacks never really stopped.

There were no reserves, even the recruit replenishment regiment rushed to the battlefield, there were no stretcher teams, and even the guard battalion of the division headquarters was at the forefront. At the height of the war, even the stiff bodies of comrades-in-arms and the corpses of Japanese invaders were built into fortifications as covers.

Zhao Shoushan never thought that a blocking battle would be fought so fiercely, so tragic that he, a lieutenant general who was accustomed to seeing life and death and parting from the army for more than 20 years, never thought of returning alive since he entered the battlefield after entering the battlefield, he did not dare to take a look at his own position again.

As far as the eye can see, there are reds, blacks, yellows, and more of them, dark blue.

Red, not blood, is the maple leaves and rhododendrons of late autumn. The black ones are rocks. The yellow ones are dirt. And Deep Blue is his soldier.

They just lay like that, lying on the battlefield that used to be full of gunpowder, in all sorts of postures. They are all dead, dead in this land that belongs to them.

All of them fell before the position, and there was no one behind the position.

The dark blue in his eyes made the lieutenant general's heart cut like a knife, and he couldn't help himself with grief. At that moment, he also wondered if he had done something wrong, he shouldn't have promised Liu Lang to block the Japanese for five days in Xuehua Mountain and Donkey Ridge.

So far, the real mountain resistance battle has only been four days! But how many of the more than 12,000 officers and soldiers under his command are left?

Jiuguan was bombed by more than 20 Japanese bombers and nearly 10 rounds of bombardment by 105 howitzers, which almost turned the entire mountaintop into powder.

But what about his lack of donkey? What was encountered was the bombardment of twelve mountain guns and twelve field guns in turn, and there were no rounds.

Because, the shelling never really stopped. From the wee hours of the morning, to the wee hours of the morning. From late at night, to late at night.

Even now, Mazuiliang, which is a kilometer away from the main position, still rumbles with artillery and killing. There, the Japanese army had re-selected the key breakthrough position after several halberds in two consecutive days, and it had been fighting all day, and it was the last mobile unit division headquarters guard battalion of the 17th Division to rush to the aid of Mazuiliang.

The guard unit around him no longer has a single soldier of the 17th Division, and all of them are served by the guard squad of the guard platoon of the Independent Regiment who escorted Liu Xueyuan's reporters to the Jedi.

The Japanese bombers flew not more than 20 sorties, but more than 50 sorties. For two days in a row, the sky over Donkey Ridge was filled with the terrible roar of airplanes.

The large black expanse exposed on the hillside was the work of aerial bombs and artillery shells, and the huge air waves swept away the dirt and dust that had covered them, thus revealing the rocks that should have been more than ten centimeters below the soil layer.

Such a fierce bombardment was the first time that Zhao Shoushan had seen it in more than 20 years since he joined the army. What did the officers and men of the 17th Division, which spent only two days building fortifications at Donkey Ridge, use to resist this terrible artillery fire?

The answer is simple, with life.

Yes, when the trenches dug on the shallow surface were no more than half a meter deep and could not withstand the Japanese artillery fire, the soldiers who survived the artillery fire would be led by their platoon commanders, company commanders, and battalion commanders to throw themselves down the mountain, fight with the Japanese soldiers hand-to-hand, mix with the Japanese soldiers, and even if they died, they would poke their bayonets at the Japanese invaders.

Ignoring the obstruction of Yan Qiguan, the commander of the guard platoon of the independent regiment who came with Liu Xueyuan, the lieutenant general of the army, who was already a little bit of Huafa, stood on the position and stood proudly.

Brigade commanders, regiment commanders, battalion commanders, and company commanders under his command。。。。。 Even a young soldier who is only eighteen or nineteen years old and has just grown a hairy beard can die, so why should he, a lieutenant general, do this?

The lieutenant general must be fragile at this time, if he dies here, perhaps, he will no longer have to face thousands of fathers and villagers in Huxian County, Shaanxi. He Zhao Shoushan took away more than 10,000 sons from Huxian County, but he didn't know how many people could return it.

In the flickering tears, the lieutenant general's eyes stopped at Jingpu Pass, the position on the south side of the main peak of the Donkey Ridge, where the guns had fallen silent, where his 102nd Regiment was almost completely annihilated.

The last infantry battalion of the 102nd Regiment, which suffered heavy losses in Xuehua Mountain, took the initiative to ask for battle, and it was there that it was exhausted after a whole afternoon of hard fighting with the Japanese invaders.

The battalion commander Li Zigan was seriously wounded, the last two company commanders were killed and one was seriously injured, and Liu Xitang, the platoon commander of the ninth company and a member of the Red Party, led the whole platoon to repeatedly fight with the Japanese army, and no one survived. The entire infantry battalion, with only a dozen men left, held out until reinforcements came up and were forced to retreat after repeated strict orders from the brigade headquarters to retreat and repair.

However, what else is used for an infantry squad?

And the main peak position he is stepping on now is the front-line position of the 47th Brigade under his command, and the brigade commander Geng Jinghui personally came to the front-line position.

Geng Jinghui's brigade did not suffer more than half of the casualties, but most of the casualties.

Under the command of the 47th Brigade, the 102nd Infantry Regiment is capable of fighting, which is less than one infantry company, and the 101st Infantry Regiment is here, and nearly half of the casualties are here.

Li Weimin, who was originally a supplementary regiment of the general reserve, was a little worse in weapons and equipment than the other four infantry regiments, and many officers and men did not even have guns in their hands. Only wait for the soldier with the gun to die, and then go to the battlefield with the gun.

However, it was such a soldier, they still held out for two days in the north of the Donkey Ridge, even if the regiment commander Li Weimin was seriously injured, they would not retreat.

Not only did they not retreat, but under the command of the commander of the death battalion, who commanded in place of the seriously wounded regimental commander, they played a decisive tactic that made the Japanese invaders tremble.

On the position, there will always be an infantry platoon, no matter how many people are left under the fire of the Japanese invaders, even if it is just one person, they will fight to the death after the Japanese attack the position.

Then, signal flares will be fired, and the only six remaining mountain guns of the division headquarters will cover the position with artillery fire, and all the enemy and the enemy will be wiped out in the shaking of the ground and the mountains.

Once, so. Second, still. Three times, still so.

An infantry company, with the exception of the immobile wounded, marched to the position with its head held high, and then, merging with the Chinese land.

The Japanese, for the first time, flinched.

The Chinese are not afraid of death alone, they are not afraid, it is good to kill people who are not afraid of death. Ten men were not afraid of death, and neither were they, and their guns were enough to kill these threats.

But what about hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, or even tens of thousands of people?

The Japanese army did not think of such a large number. It was only more than 100 people, knowing that they were just bait, the bait that led the enemy into the position, but they still went to their deaths, leaving the Japanese troops far outnumbered by them on the position, and turned into green smoke together.

"Chinese, they are all crazy." These were the exact words of the captain of the Japanese infantry brigade in charge of the main attack on the position of the supplementary regiment to the new brigade commander, Major General Yoshio Kamitsuki.

The commander of the Japanese infantry group, who sent three infantry squads of nearly 150 men in succession, but all of them turned into ashes together with the Chinese on the position, violated the military order for the first time and was unwilling to send another person into the seemingly undefended Chinese position.

They can die in battle, but they can't be killed in vain by the Chinese in a way like this.

Because they can't face death as calmly as the Chinese. Where is Amaterasu, it's better not to go or not to go.

Looking at the side of the main peak position, overlooking the main peak position, the lieutenant general standing on the position burst into tears, facing the dark position of the Japanese army 800 meters away, without any lights, standing with his head held high.

"The demonic atmosphere is permeating Kou Fangzhang, and a hundred battles are not a matter of national mourning.

The soldiers charged and killed the enemy, and the moon outside the lady was like frost. ”

This was the first time that he had been in the headquarters of the 17th Division for two days to have such a close encounter with Lieutenant General Zhao Shoushan, and Liu Xueyuan, who accompanied him to the main position, wrote a poem at the beginning of his third war diary.

"The moon is like frost outside the Niangzi Pass", looking at the back of the middle-aged army lieutenant general who took off his helmet and showed a little bit of gorgeous hair, Liu Xueyuan knew that the general who had been in tears for a long time may want to say: The blood outside the Niangzi Pass is like frost.

But, how could he bear to say?

That blood is the blood of the officers and soldiers under his command, and the blood of thousands of soldiers!

By the end of the night, the 17th Division had lost more than 5,000 officers and men, more than the total strength of an infantry brigade.