The Japanese 104th Brigade had not yet tasted the ground wasps, and now the stragglers were so uncomfortable with grenades and grenades that they threw themselves into the ditch at the foot of the mountain.

Needless to say, the devils who jumped into the ditch immediately stepped on the wasps, and screamed again and again, and the devils behind thought that their people were attacked by the Chinese army under the deep ditch.

When the devil found out, the person who jumped into the puddle in front had already lost his combat effectiveness and had to stay in the puddle for a while, waiting for the reinforcements to arrive behind him and rescue him.

After the devils in the back learned that there were ghosts in the ditch, they didn't dare to jump down, but now they can't get up and jump over the puddle, after all, the distance of three meters is three meters, unless there is a long jump after the run, you can jump over, but it is basically impossible to jump.

It's already very good for ordinary people to be able to jump two meters seven or eight, not to mention people with weapons and ammunition on their backs, plus they don't dare to get up, there are guns and bullets everywhere, no one dares to take this risk.

Now the only way is to blow up this ditch, blow up the walls on both sides, and bury the ditch so that you can walk through it.

In fact, the Japanese planes and artillery had already collapsed a lot before, but in the place where the explosion was blown up, the Chinese army's fire blockade was the fiercest, forcing the Japanese army to jump into the ditch here.

Now, if the Japanese army wants to blow up these ditches, they must first rescue the wounded soldiers in the ditches, after all, the wounds are easily infected with viruses when they are soaked in water.

Now the stragglers in front of the Japanese army untied their gaiters, picked them up a few, threw them into puddles, let the wounded soldiers tie up, and then pull them out.

This is a very dangerous move, because this position is already within the range of the Chinese army's grenadier grenades, and as long as the Japanese army does this, they will be attacked by grenade grenades.

There was no choice but to divide the troops to attack the ditches that had been blown up, and the troops on this side waited for the fire reinforcements to suppress the Chinese army before they could rescue the wounded.

The Ninth Company was well aware of the Japanese army's wishful thinking, on the one hand, it used riflemen to constantly threaten the devils who wanted to save the wounded soldiers, and the place where the ditch was blown up was blocked by machine gun fire.

The Japanese infantry constantly pursued the Chinese machine guns, as did the mortars, but the effect was not very obvious, and at the beginning of the fire, it was still somewhat effective, allowing the skirmishers to quickly pass through the 400-meter area.

Now once the ammunition is consumed too quickly, it also makes the Japanese artillery feel a little tight, and they have to save money, this is still the beginning, and it can't be used up all at once, how to fight next.

But the captain of the 104th Brigade of the Japanese Army, Nomura Nakasa, ignored these things, what he wanted was for the infantry to quickly attack the Qiangongling position, which was more real than any ammunition consumption.

What's more, now that the infantry has passed the dangerous area of 400 meters, and when they reach the foot of the mountain, if the artillery fire is not increased at this time, the infantry will suffer heavy losses.

As for a little ammunition, the baggage troops are on the way, and they are constantly being transported from the gray port docks, and no matter how bad they are, there are also airdrops.

Therefore, Nomura Nakasa constantly urged the infantry artillery and mortars, and there was no problem in running out the shells at all costs, and now he was desperately suppressing the Chinese army on the mountain.

The Ninth Company in the frontal position of Qiangongling is now very uncomfortable suppressed by the Japanese guns, but the soldiers are very brave and know that if the devils rush up, everyone will have to die, so it is better to kill a few more now.

Both sides fought bloody battles, and both suffered heavy casualties.

In the past, the Japanese army did not like night battles, but this time they took the initiative to attack day and night, from Qiangongling to Jigongling to Lazhu Mountain, all the way to Huayang, this narrow 20 miles of land, sleepless all night, everywhere there were gunfire and shouts of killing.

In the early morning of 22 March, the drizzle continued and the cold wind was biting, but the position of the Ninth Company had already entered a white-hot level.

The Japanese fired flares non-stop, and a large number of shells and ammunition were brought from the gray port pier, and the mountain artillery shells of the artillery team were piled up.

The heavy machine guns of the machine-gun squadron were changed several times, and the stragglers of the Japanese army were also organized several times and carried out several rounds of assault.

The casualties on the side of the Ninth Company are already approaching 60 percent, and if there are no large number of veterans to support them, it will be difficult for the troops with more than 60 percent casualties to hold on.

The corpses of the Japanese soldiers in front of the position were also about to pile up into a hill, and the ditch was nowhere to be seen, all of them were full of corpses, and the Japanese army did not have time to collect the corpses of their own people, but continued to stubbornly attack upward.

The front and two flanks of Qiangongling were being fiercely attacked by the Japanese army, and the pressure on the 152nd Regiment and the Field Supplement Regiment was very great, but they were still reluctant to use the reserves.

It wasn't until almost dawn, during a break in the enemy's attack, that Sangou asked the Eighth Company to replace the Ninth Company, and the Nine Company, which had more than 200 numbers, now has less than a hundred people.

When it was replaced, most of them were reluctant to come down and kill the red eye.

The commander of the eighth company went up to see it on his legs, and was shocked, it can be described as a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and the hillside in front of the position was densely covered with corpses.

When dawn came, in the drizzle, it was a horrible sight, with purple-black blood stains all over the ground, and broken organs that had become dark red.

In the smoke of gunpowder, the smell of blood makes it difficult for people to breathe.

The wounded soldiers of the Ninth Company have all been transported away, and the martyrs who died in battle have no time and manpower to transport them away, so they can only be temporarily placed on the edge of the trenches, and some of the broken limbs are buried in the position on the spot.

The soldiers of the Eighth Company looked at the piles of brothers, and their hearts were very complicated, they wanted to avenge them, and they also thought that they would be like them in a while, and everyone would be piled up like them.

In the cold rain, everyone was in a cold mood and entered the position, when the observer in front suddenly issued a poison gas code (continuous frog calling).

The commander of the eighth company picked up the telescope and saw that it was indeed at the foot of the mountain, and there was a fog similar to the early morning slowly filling up, and if you didn't pay attention, you would think it was morning fog.

The little devil is really bad, and when he releases poison gas at this time, he wants to confuse the Chinese army, so that the Chinese army can't tell the difference, and finally all of them are poisoned.

Fortunately, the 51st Division, from the division headquarters to the battalion headquarters, stressed to the grassroots troops that the Japanese army was very likely to release poison gas, and it was necessary to strictly monitor and guard against it.

Therefore, when the observer wearing a gas mask sensed the arrival of the Japanese poison gas, he immediately issued a secret signal, put on a gas mask, stuck to the observation position, and continued to observe the enemy's situation.

After these intensive battles, the Eighth Company did not replenish many soldiers, but there were more than 180 people, although there was no one with a gas mask, but starting from the leader of each group to the squad leader and deputy squad leader, each person had a gas mask.

Now the rest of the soldiers, who did not have gas masks, quickly took out their towels, went to the water in the kettle, and tied them to their mouths and noses, hoping to prevent some poison gas.

As long as it is not asphyxiating phosgene, highly toxic cyanic acid gas, erosive mustard gas, everything else is easy to handle, such as tear gas and vomiting gas, and there are simple anti-virus equipment, everyone can stand it.