At 6 o'clock in the morning on May 9, 1938, the sky had just lost white light, and there was still one hour before it was completely bright, and the brothers of the 16th Regiment had been woken up by the meat-scented meal sent by the cooking class....... The basket next to it was the staple food of multigrain cakes......

Fortunately, the military discipline of the 16th Regiment has always been strict, and the soldiers did not go up to fight for the mouth-watering food, but lined up one by one in the organization county of the company commander to receive food, the earthen bowl in the left hand was filled with a large spoonful of braised pork, the lunch box in the right hand was full of fish soup, and the multigrain cakes were not in their hands, and many brothers directly stuffed them into their clothes pockets; ran to the side of the trench and squatted, and began to eat the meat in a sparse manner, not daring to let go of eating, but only to eat a mouthful of meat, to deal with a mouthful of multigrain cakes, mixed with fish soup to eat; Otherwise, if the meat and fish soup are drunk, the multigrain cakes will be unpalatable to death, and they will basically not be able to swallow it, and they may be hungry by noon......

"Brethren, this is already all the meat of our sixteenth regiment, and it is all for everyone today; The rest of the time, we didn't have a chance to eat a good meal, so we had to deal with it with multigrain cakes; Unless the little devil on the other side is gone, we can eat something delicious. Everyone, hurry up and eat to your heart's content! Maybe the devil will come with a cannonball, and the delicious food in our hands will go to the soil......" He Jianye stood in the trench and shouted,

"Ha, ha, ha...... Commander, if I fall into the soil, I can turn it out and eat it, the little devil of the dog day, I won't even let everyone have a birthday, wait for me to shoot one by one, and send them back to the East. One of the soldiers swallowed the multigrain cake in his mouth and said,

"Li Laosan, don't shoot one at a time; Don't learn from your dog's day, just run backwards on the battlefield in Shanghai......" A veteran next to him is revealing the old bottom,

"The second egg of the dog's day, labor and management have not been brought to the ditch by you rout......." Li Laosan was not to be outdone, eating while talking;

He Jianye looked at the trenches laughing and laughing, the brothers were eating delicious food, smiling and scolding, as if there was no tension before the big war; He Jianye knew that these soldiers didn't expect to leave alive from now on, and there is an old saying that it is better to see the veterans cry than to see the veterans laugh......

He Jianye turned around, looked up at the sky, secretly wiped away serious tears, and thought in his heart, "Brothers, it's not me He Jianye who wants to take you to die in another country, it's really a little devil who won't let us live!" If we don't resist, our land will be lost......"

"Commander, yours, eat some!" Zeng Da held a lunch box full of braised pork, covered with two multigrain cakes, and took a box of fish soup in his right hand and handed it to He Jianye.

"Okay, have you eaten? Go eat it! Kill the little devil after eating! He Jianye took a bite of the multigrain cake, as if he was eating the meat of a little devil.......

The 16th Regiment, which had quickly finished breakfast, watched the sun slowly appear from the sky, slowly revealing a small half of its head from the sky, shooting to the earth with blood-colored brilliance, illuminating the villages of Gaozhuang and Gaoji by the Yishui, and the villagers of these villages were persuaded by He Jianye to migrate to Wuhan after He Jianye's 16th Regiment was stationed, to avoid this damn war.

"Okay, after eating, you will squat in the anti-artillery hole, don't lie down; Two observation posts in each company! He Jianye ordered loudly,

"Chirp ......" the heavy artillery of the Japanese army began to fire,

The "boom" shells fell in front and behind the positions of the 16 th Regiment, and some fell on top of the defensive line, and the soil stirred up by the shells was sprinkled all over the ground, and the observation posts in the individual bunkers on the defensive line covered their ears and squatted in the bunkers, praying to the gods and Buddhas in the sky......

From time to time, there was a sharp roar overhead, and soon there was a rumbling explosion. The veterans all knew that it was the Japanese who were firing heavy artillery, and wanted to use heavy artillery to destroy the will of Chinese soldiers to resist and destroy the nerves of front-line soldiers.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom" heavy artillery was mixed with the explosion of shells from Japanese mountain artillery and field artillery......

The officers and men of the 16th Regiment were baptized by the heavy artillery of the Japanese army in the anti-artillery hole, and from time to time the brothers' anti-artillery holes were directly hit by the devil's heavy artillery, and the anti-artillery holes that were hit were collapsing, and the veterans hiding in the holes desperately crawled out, landing on all fours, and did not dare to stick their whole bodies on the ground, listening to the regiment commander say that they would be shattered by the heavy artillery, and they were looking for the next anti-artillery hole around the trench......

Suddenly, the crawling iron head felt like he was being pulled by someone, and then the whole person was dragged into an anti-artillery hole, and fell to the side, and the stones of the same village were shouting something to him.

"You want to die! Don't stay in the anti-artillery hole and bring out the crawling! ”

"Brother Shi, my anti-artillery hole has been blown down."

"Oh! It's okay, chant more scriptures, and the ancestors will bless us" After the stone finished speaking, he didn't speak again, just patted Tietou's shoulder vigorously, looking at the wall of the anti-artillery hole, I don't know what to think.

"Brother Shi, I know, as long as he goes to the battlefield, his life is God's, when he wants to take it, then take it away, you can't hide, this is fate. This is my letter to my mother, Brother Shi, you help me collect it, and send it home for me when I die. "The iron head squatted on the ground and took out a letter that he had written yesterday with the help of the regimental staff officer, and handed it to the stone;

"Iron head, brother told you; The regimental commander is good to us, and this time we must not be deserters; Don't be afraid. You see, my brother also has a letter, and we put it together, right in my heart. We said yes, and those who survived would help send the letter back. Remember, Iron Head. The stone cried out aloud,

"Got it, Brother Stone." After the iron head finished speaking, he squatted on the ground, covered his ears with his hands, opened his mouth, and looked at the ground with his eyes......

Half an hour later, the Japanese heavy artillery stopped bombarding, the field artillery and mountain artillery continued to bombard, the defense line of the 1st Battalion of the 16th Regiment was in tatters, the trenches that the brothers had spent several days repairing were bombarded into several sections, the communication trenches were blocked by the mud splashed and falling by the shells, and some of the trenches were bombarded into waves......

When the clock clock came to 8 o'clock, the Japanese finally ended the bombardment, and a squadron of little devils groped their way towards the defensive line under the cover of heavy machine guns and mortars.......

The shrill whistle of "doodoo" called out to the soldiers in the artillery hole,

"Come out of the, the devil is coming; Get ready to defend!" Zhu Yunhua, the commander of the first battalion, was turning the anti-artillery holes one by one, calling out to the brothers to go to the trenches......

"The first company, all of them went to the trenches, the second company and the third company of light machine guns stayed, and the personnel were responsible for digging the traffic trenches, and then went into the anti-artillery holes to take refuge, and then came up again when they heard the order!" Zhu Yunhua ordered loudly,

"Sniper, follow me into the individual bunker in front of the trench, and you can shoot directly with confidence, shooting at the target in order, the first is the devil officer, the second is the grenadier and mortar man, and the third target is the heavy machine gunner and light machine gunner; Do you understand? He Jianye ordered loudly,

"Commander, you can't go! You are the head, what are you going to do in front of you, brothers? Zhu Yunhua persuaded loudly,

"Fart, my life is more precious than the gold of my brethren? I didn't say that, how to command, you're usually behind me, and you've learned almost! The trench defense will be left to you, and labor and management will be in front to watch how you fight. After He Jianye finished speaking, he climbed out of the trench without looking back, and crawled to the individual bunker in front of him first.......