The 155th Division, which had just supported the position of the Confucian Temple, was enduring the shelling of the devils, and the 113th and 145th wings of the devils did not have infantry assembled, and they attacked for more than ten days, and the infantry suffered heavy casualties under the continuous attack of the two wings, especially the casualties of the squad leader and the military cao were too severe, and they could not attack without a large number of supplementary soldiers, and the good news was that their supplementary troops, Lieutenant General Matsuura Junrokuro, had been dispatched, and their baggage wing and engineer wing had been separated. The bad news is that the troops defending the Confucian Temple have reinforcements into the position, according to the devil's aerial reconnaissance, when the 145th Wing has just retreated from the position, nearly a division of troops carried a large amount of equipment into the rear of the Confucian Temple......

The shelling of the 106th Field Artillery Wing stopped after the layout of the devil's defense line, and there was no follow-up infantry to attack, and the devil's shells were not blown by the wind, relying on the supply of the railway line, the devil's shells were not short for the time being, but the busy railway transportation capacity was also insufficient, and even the devil's ration standard dropped a lot......

On August 7, the 19th Division arrived at Zhujiashan, and the arrival of the new reserve made Xue Yue in the Ninth War Zone breathe a sigh of relief, and he calmly waited for the next wave of attacks by the devils, and fought a war of attrition and positional warfare with the devils in the mountains, and the guiding ideology of Xue Yue's command of this defensive battle was to weaken the firepower advantage of the devils' heavy equipment to the greatest extent......

On the position of the Confucian Temple, the artillery fire of the devils stopped for a long time, and the boiling mud and sand in the air gradually sprinkled on the position, putting on a layer of mud on the soldiers on the position who were ready to resist the devil's charge......

"Damn, it looks like the devils aren't ready to attack. The infantry has not been assembled! A company sent scouts to the front 500 meters, and the rest of the brothers built fortifications, and the anti-artillery holes had to be reinforced, and more needs to be dug, and the communication trenches were all quickly cleared, and they all moved......," shouted the commander of the regiment,

The brothers on the battlefield gradually began to build new positions, although the broken positions were also destroyed by the devil's artillery fire, but there was always a little left, and the remaining fortifications were the hope of the brothers to save their lives;

After the loss of Jiujiang, the Chinese defenders did not retreat like Songhu and Nanjing, but withdrew in an organized manner, and built layers of defensive lines in the area of Jinguanqiao, the reinforcements behind the defense line were sufficient, and the commanders of the troops and divisions on the front line dared to fight.

The gains and losses of every high ground and the attack and defense of every position affect the nerves of the commanders of both China and Japan, as long as a division is disabled, Xue Yue will immediately order the reinforcements immediately;

Compared with the game of wisdom and experience of the high-level commanders on both sides on the sand table, on the battlefield of the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood, in each position, the infantry of the two sides need to fight face-to-face.

On the position of the Confucian Temple, the strong smell of blood in the air has not been dispersed, there are people killed on the position every day, the soil on the position has been soaked with blood, the high temperature of the explosion and the continuous light have evaporated the only moisture in the air, the infantry who held on the position easily drank the water in the kettle, but there is a little advantage that there is a small river not far behind the position of the Confucian Temple, and the mountain water flowing down from the Lushan Mountain has become the source of water for the soldiers......

The 155th brothers who had finished their work lay in the trench weakly, touched the kettle behind them, shook it, and there was not a drop of water poured out of it, and licked their chapped and dusty lips, feeling as if a sun had been put in their throats, and their throats were about to smoke.

"Company commander, do you still have any water, let me take a sip!" A brother with his head wrapped in gauze raised his head and shouted, this is the observation post that has just survived the shelling, but unfortunately his kettle has already risen to the sky during the shelling of the devils, and under the hot and scorching sun, he has not drunk water for half a day, and he can no longer hold on......

"I don't have much, you can take it and drink it!" Although he also wanted to drink water, the wounded soldiers needed it even more;

"Thanks!" The wounded soldier was already thirsty and panicked, so he took the kettle and poured it into his mouth......

Seeing the wounded soldier raise his neck and drink the last two mouthfuls of water, he smiled helplessly;

"Commander, send a few brothers down to get some water, I really can't hold it!"

"Yes! Company commander, not far from the river, half an hour is enough. ”

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The brethren opened their mouths one after another, and said that there was no water left, and that the water hyacinth of the brethren was empty;

"That's right, company commander, our heavy machine guns won't last long without water, if the devils pounce on us, without the support of machine guns, the position can't be held, we have to find a way to get some." The machine gun squad leader also leaned over and echoed.

"Damn, the heavy machine guns didn't fire, what about the water? Dog's Day, who drank? The head of the regiment roared,

After they went to the position, except for tidying up their positions and dodging the shelling of the devils, they did not open fire, and the water of the heavy machine guns was prepared, why was it suddenly gone?

"Commander, the brothers are better, bear with me! But the wounded soldiers can't do it! And the brethren brought water to the wounded soldiers; Dozens of wounded soldiers, all of them are gone in the past half a day. The machine gun squad leader buried his head and said,

Mortars and anti-aircraft guns are controlled in the hands of the division commander, and a few civilian 24 heavy machine guns on the position are the only heavy fire support points for this regiment......

", a bunch of idiots! Is it possible to drink water from a heavy machine gun casually? Wait for the devil to come up, you can take your life to block it! The head of the regiment scolded,

"Commander, you see, now you can't see the shadow of the devil, you let us go and get water back for everyone in half an hour." A company commander looked at the drama and immediately said,

"Alright, go and come back quickly! Don't delay. The head of the regiment shouted helplessly,

"Howler!" The company commander took the brethren with rifles on their backs, and each of them hung seven or eight water bottles and water bags, and ran towards the creek behind Niuss Ridge......

Fetching water is a simple job, the small river has to face all the water needs of the nearby garrison every day, but fortunately, the small river originates in the foothills of Lushan Mountain on this day, and the water is sufficient......

"Wow! Cool! After seeing the river, several brothers lay directly on the ground, buried their heads in the river and drank violently, and the cool mountains and rivers went down to their stomachs, and the brothers shouted,

"Don't be stunned, hurry up and fill the kettle and go back!" The company commander who followed looked helplessly at this group of easily satisfied brothers, isn't it just water? Isn't it a big fish and a big meat, is the expression so exaggerated?

"Howler!" The brothers also knew that they could not delay, so they filled their water bags and kettles one by one and returned to the Confucian temple position......

In less than half an hour, a company of brothers came back with a kettle, looking at the brothers who returned with a full load, the faces of the brothers in the trench were full of smiles, this ghost weather, facing the sun on the battlefield at all times ready to face the attack of the devils, no water to drink is more uncomfortable than no food......