Chapter 1 Octagonal Bridge

As soon as the sky dawned, the battalion headquarters messenger ran to convey the order: take over the third battalion and continue to hold the position.

Sun Yumin asked Liu Wenzhi to assemble a company, and after eating the hot porridge and steamed buns prepared by the battalion cooking class, he went to the position as a team.

Yesterday's rain made the entire defensive position unusually muddy. When he came, Sun Yumin asked everyone in the company to bring some door panels and straw, and when they passed by the two Tibetan caves, they spread the door panels and straw inside.

Sun Yumin knew that Jinshanwei was about to be lost today, and all positions on the Songhu battlefield would be attacked by unprecedented artillery fire. I crossed over by myself, knowing the result but helpless, I could only do my best to let the people around me live as much as possible.

He once again inspected the fortified trenches of the whole company, and dug a few small holes near the position of the machine gunner to hide one or two people, so that the ammunition man could reload the chain and magazine. Each firing position was dug one meter forward, and the machine gun position was dug one meter forward by two positions, so that the entire company's trenches looked like a jagged tooth.

Sou......

Suddenly, a sharp voice sounded in the sky.

Sun Yumin said in his heart: It's finally here.

"The second squad left the position to be an observation post, and the others all retreated to the two holes dug yesterday, put the heavy machine gun in the hole next to the machine gun position, and retreat quickly, anti-artillery."

Bang!

As soon as Sun Yumin's words fell, a huge explosion came from the position of the nearby Second Company, and it is estimated that this shell took no less than a dozen lives from the Second Company.

Sun Yumin knew that this was still the first test shot, and in another minute or two, this place would become a purgatory on earth, and the second squad who remained on the position did not know how many people were left. The second and third companies next door had no anti-artillery measures, and after this burst of artillery fire, more than 200 people in the two companies could still leave a few people.

Sun Yumin took the company into the Tibetan Soldier Cave, lit a cigarette, and asked Liu Wenzhi beside him: "Yesterday you asked you to count the origins and names of the whole company's personnel, have you done it?" ”

"The company commander has been counted." Liu Wenzhi took out a booklet from his chest. said: "There are one hundred and twelve people in the whole company, including you. ”

Sun Yumin nodded, and said to all the soldiers in the cave: "The whole company goes down by itself, no matter at any time, on any battlefield, even if the whole company is destroyed, as long as there is one person, this whole company roster must be kept and sent away." Did you hear that? ”

"I heard you!" All the people spoke in unison.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh......

Countless sharp sounds of breaking the air came from far and near.

Boom boom

The earth roared and shook violently, and the position of the Second Regiment of the Octagonal Bridge suddenly fell into a sea of fire, the sound of explosions was mixed with wails, and the severed limbs and stumps that flew up under the light of the fire, and even the smoke of gunpowder in the air was oozing with a thick smell of blood.

A company of people had tried the power of the ship's guns yesterday, but they only suffered a few shells, which caused dozens of casualties, and the company commander Sun Yumin was blown up and fainted. And the power of the artillery fire that is now felt is estimated to have the effect of dozens of giant naval guns. If people had endured such a dense shelling on their positions, they would have been torn to shreds.

Everyone looked at Sun Yumin, their eyes full of gratitude.

Sun Yumin held the watch in his hand, staring at the second hand without squinting, watching it go four and a half times.

"Prepare to enter the position, listen to my gunfire before shooting." Sun Yumin shouted at the top of his voice, pushed Liu Wenzhi again, and shouted: "Tell the brothers in the cave opposite, listen to my gunshot." ”

As soon as the words fell, the second squad leader rushed in crookedly, shouting and shouting: "The devil is here!" ”

Sun Yumin clearly felt that the artillery fire had begun to extend, and shouted with a wave of his hand: "Return to the position!" ”

A company of people returned to the position from the two Tibetan caves in an orderly manner, and Sun Yumin looked at the river, which was already densely packed with rubber boats and ironclad assault boats.

The machine guns on the positions of the second and third companies had already roared, but the sound of the rifles was sparse, and it was estimated that the casualties were not small.

Sun Yumin took a formal rifle, glanced at it and put it down, and shouted to Quan Lian: "Get all the grenades ready." ”

A group of soldiers took out the grenade, unscrewed the cap, pulled the fuse, and placed it in front of them. The big guys all quietly watched as the Japanese soldiers by the river got off the boat and rushed to the beach.

Sun Yumin silently calculated the distance in his heart, staring at the few Japanese soldiers running at the front.

A communicator from the battalion headquarters ran from the trench, and when he saw someone, he asked, "Where is Company Commander Sun?" ”

Sun Yumin ignored him.

The heavy machine guns and light machine guns on the positions of the second company and the positions of the third company in the distance were happily spitting tongues of fire, and under the blow of powerful firepower, the Japanese soldiers who rushed to the tidal flats gathered and charged in front of the positions of the company without firing a single shot.

Sun Yumin held the lieutenant in his hand, aiming at the Japanese lieutenant who was holding a knife and commanding the charge, calculating the distance in his heart.

Eighty meters ......

Sixty meters......

Fifty meters......

Sun Yumin pulled the trigger, and the first bullet of the Chinese rifle spat out angrily, really shot through the center of the Japanese lieutenant's eyebrows, and then passed through the back of the head, bright red blood and milky white brain juice spurted out of the wound, which was disgusting.

"What's the matter?" After Sun Yumin finished firing, he turned around and asked the battalion communicator.

"The battalion commander asked me to come over and look at the company and ask why I didn't shoot yet. I thought ......," said the battalion communications officer.

"Do you think you're going to die in a row?" Sun Yumin answered.

The battalion communications officer was full of embarrassment.

Hearing Sun Yumin's gunshots, the officers and men of the company opened fire one after another.

The light and heavy machine guns of the first company could no longer be relied on, and they roared frantically, and the bullet net composed of more than 100 rifles tore at the Japanese troops gathered at the front of the company's position. It was like harvesting the lives of Japanese soldiers.

The Japanese troops who rushed onto the tidal flats were blinded by a series of blows, and almost all of them fell on the tidal flats. The Japanese troops who did not rush up fell down one after another, and organized a fire counterattack on the spot with the help of ironclad ships and the corpses of dead soldiers. Several three-year heavy machine guns and eleven-year light machine guns began to pour out their tongues of fire under the organization of the Japanese army Cao.

There were casualties on this side immediately. The military level and individual quality of the Japanese soldiers were really much higher than those of the soldiers of the first company.

Looking at the dense rubber boats in the Suzhou Creek and the soldiers of the ironclad assault boats like hens laying eggs, Sun Yumin longed for the support of artillery fire. However, as the teaching corps of all-German armament, there is only one artillery battalion, which is the baby bump in the heart of the captain Gui Yongqing, where will he easily take out his hand.

Seeing that the Japanese army's machine-gun defense line was about to be completed, Sun Yumin shouted: "The heavy machine gun will suppress the enemy's machine gun for me, and the brothers with good marksmanship will give me the shooter." ”

As the saying goes: chop the master to death with a knife. Although the marksmanship of the company was not as good as that of Little Japan, it could not withstand the indiscriminate gunfire of the group, and the heavy firepower on the opposite side immediately muted. The Japanese soldiers were also afraid of death, and seeing that most of the firepower of the Chinese troops was on machine guns, no one dared to operate machine guns.

The first company of the position shot very late, so the Japanese troops gathered in this direction were the most, but I did not expect that the national army on the side of the first company was basically not affected by the shelling, and the firepower was obviously denser than the positions of the second company and the third company.

Seeing that the situation had improved slightly, Sun Yumin asked Zhang Xiaohu, the communicator of the battalion headquarters: "How about the casualties in the second and third companies?" ”

"It's very big," Zhang Xiaohu replied, "In the shelling just now, the second and third companies have already suffered almost all the casualties, and the two companies together are probably less than fifty people." ”

Sun Yumin had already heard the gunfire on the second and third positions just now, but he was lucky, and his heart suddenly became cold when he asked.

"How can they hold such a long line of defense with dozens of wounded soldiers?" Sun Yumin muttered to himself.

Zhang Xiaohu saluted him and said, "Company Commander Sun, I'll go and report the situation of the first company to the battalion commander." ”

Sun Yumin waved his hand and motioned for him to hurry up.

Chirp......

A few sounds of breaking the air came, and several black shadows in the air fell towards the position of the company, and they all exploded at the front of the position.

Sun Yumin found that beside an ironclad assault boat, several devil soldiers Cao and a few devil soldiers had set up three grenadiers, and they had just fired those grenades. Hurriedly shouted to the soldiers on the side: "Concentrate your fire on me to knock them out." ”

The Makqin heavy machine gun had been firing continuously for a long time, and the sub-machine gunner was adding water, and without Makqin's suppression, the Japanese soldiers who had been poisoned by militarism rushed forward at an extremely fast speed.

Sun Yumin took a grenade, pulled the fuse, and threw it forward, shouting as he threw it: "Drop the bomb!" Fry me! ”

A company of soldiers, except for the machine gunners, each threw three or four grenades in an instant, and a rain of grenades fell on the front of the position, and after the explosion like firecrackers, the corpses of Japanese soldiers were left in the ground.

However, the Japanese army still attacked the position as if it were not for their lives, and many rubber boats and iron assault boats were rowed densely on the river, and Japanese soldiers with 38 rifles and plaster flags on their bayonets kept coming down from above.

Sun Yumin knew very well in his heart that this was the famous pig attack tactic of the Japanese army during World War II. Trade human lives for the durability of the opponent's heavy firepower.

Even the barrels of the Czech machine guns were already red, and the spare barrels had all been replaced, and the barrels were still red. The Heavy hurriedly took off his pants on the spot and poured urine on the barrel.

Because Makqin was water-cooled for heat dissipation, after adding water, he poured all the remaining water on the barrel of the gun and began to continue to spit frantically.

With the suppression of the meat grinder of the heavy machine gun, the pressure of the continuous position plummeted. After a series of high-saturation attacks, the Japanese found that the possibility of capturing this position was basically very small.

The Japanese officers who commanded the attack immediately adjusted the direction of the main attack, and the positions of the second and third companies were immediately precarious.

Sun Yumin didn't know if reinforcements had been sent in the regiment, and if the positions of the second and third companies were broken through, then the positions of the first company would also be lost immediately. Without the slightest hesitation in his heart, he called Liu Wenzhi and said to him: "Take your platoon to assist the second company, and then withdraw when the reinforcements arrive." ”

Liu Wenzhi led more than 20 soldiers in the third platoon, carrying several boxes of grenades and two Czech-style guns, to the positions of the second and third companies.

This round of attack lasted more than an hour, and with the support of the third battalion, the positions of the second and third companies were finally not lost.

When the third platoon supported the second and third companies, more than 20 people went, but only eight people were left when they returned, and Liu Wenzhi suffered a gunshot wound in his left arm.

This is nothing, Zhang Xiaohu, the communicator of the battalion headquarters, shocked Sun Yumin even more when he came to report, Deng Ying's deputy was killed in battle, and the battalion commander Wu Youyuan was seriously injured (1), and he had been sent to the position, and his life and death were unknown for the time being. The commander of the second company was martyred yesterday, and the artillery bombardment in the front line caused the commander of the third company and most of his third company to die on the battlefield. The entire 2nd Regiment and 2nd Battalion, now the highest military commander, has become himself.

"Company Commander Sun, after receiving the order of the regiment commander, the position of the second and third companies will be taken over by the third battalion, the second battalion will be temporarily replaced by you, and the remaining soldiers and officers of the second and third companies will assist the first company to defend this position." Zhang Xiaohu said.

Sun Yumin looked at the remnants of the twenty or thirty wounded soldiers who followed Zhang Xiaohu over for a company, and felt desolate in his heart. I wanted to say a few words of comfort, but I couldn't open my mouth, so I only nodded silently a few times, and said to Liu Wenzhi: "Take the wounded to the Tibetan cave to rest, and the others will all be rowed to your platoon." ”

Seeing these wounded retreat from the battlefield, he said to Zhang Xiaohu beside him: "Go and count the number of people, including the wounded." ”

Zhang Xiaohu was ordered to go.

Sun Yumin took out a cigarette from his shirt pocket and put it to his mouth, unable to light a match with his trembling hands. After rowing more than a dozen in a row, there was still no fight, and a soldier on the side saw this, picked up a burning wood and helped light a cigarette.

Sun Yumin took a deep breath, and the smoke swirled in his lungs and spit out of his mouth again.

Coming from the twenty-first century, where did he pass through such a scene, deep fear surrounded his heart, and for him he was extremely resentful of this battlefield, and he wanted to flee from this place immediately.

Although it was fear, he couldn't show it in front of the soldiers, facing the expectant eyes of the hundred and ten people, Sun Yumin felt that the responsibility on his body was almost overwhelming, but he still couldn't give up easily, he wanted to take these people to live well.

The rubber boat parked in the water was uncontrolled, mixed with some Japanese corpses and floated downstream, the river was dyed blood red, and the smoke in the air could not dissipate for a long time.

The fiercest attack in the past few days was finally repulsed, and the soldiers of the national army, who were standing, crawling, lying and sitting, all stared at each other stupidly, without saying a word, and the position was unusually silent.

After the Japanese attack on the upper wave failed to work, one

There was no more attack in the morning, and it seemed that his vitality was greatly damaged.

It was not until after lunch that the regiment received the order to retreat.

Jin Shanwei is still lost.

In this battle, 64 people were killed in the company, more than 40 were seriously wounded, and less than 50 soldiers and officers were intact. The entire 2nd Battalion had been completely disabled, and 25 men remained in the 2nd and 3rd Companies, and eleven of the 25 were wounded.

When Zhang Xiaohu handed over the list to Sun Yumin, his mind was buzzing, and his heart was inexplicably painful, his feet were weak, and he almost fell to the ground.

(1) Note: Wu Youyuan was seriously wounded in the Battle of Nanjing. But for the sake of the plot of this book, it is set to be injured here.