Chapter 180: There is only life and death on the battlefield

During the battle, the soldiers knew that their brother had been killed in battle.

gave their lives to this nameless plateau of the Hereafter.

But Zheng Dongguo clearly knows how many hot-blooded men have sprinkled their blood on this highland called 441.

In the battle for the 441 heights, the 1st Division of Honor attacked in turn with three regiments and paid a heavy price.

The new 22nd Division was guaranteed to complete the attack on Kunlun Pass.

After capturing Heights 441, Zheng Dongguo closed his eyes, sat on a chair, and muttered.

"Kunlun Pass, who is the ghost gate......"

Qiu Qingquan was like a tiger about to be released from its cage, circling around the command post.

After so many days of fighting in Kunlun Pass, everyone was tired.

Qiu Qingquan was really excited for the first time.

"Brother, are we going to attack at six or seven?"

Qiu Qingquan's words revealed his nervousness, and he was also a little uncertain about Kunlun Pass, which only had the last layer of protection.

"My brother already has a number, so it's useless to ask me again."

Qiu Qingquan laughed.

"Give orders to all regiments, they must be fast, quickly attack Kunlun Pass, and the attacking troops should not be disjointed to reduce casualties."

A heavy casualty is far smaller than a sustained casualty.

Offensive hesitation is the biggest executioner.

It was not six o'clock nor seven o'clock, and at 5 o'clock in the morning, the signal was given from the artillery observation post on the 600 heights.

In an instant, artillery of various calibers aimed at the south and began to shoot overwhelmingly at the Japanese forts on the heights south of Jieshou and Tongxing.

Twenty minutes later, three red flares rose into the air.

The artillery fire was extended, and a moment later, the impact of the artillery group fell on the Japanese positions in depth. Kunlun Pass shook again.

At 5:40, after 40 minutes of baptism of fire, Sun Liang's three battalions had only three shells left for each gun.

The first line of attacking troops began to attack, and the soldiers jumped out of the trenches and rushed towards Kunlun Pass with their rifles loaded with bayonets.

Seeing the Chinese native soldiers rushing in all over the mountains, the Japanese army used the huge stronghold group near Tongxing and Jieshou to resist.

Japanese machine guns spewed strings of flames.

In the gray light of the early morning, the fire of the machine gun was especially conspicuous.

The company and platoon commanders on the front line kept these firing points in mind and arranged for the death squad to blow them up directly.

Braving the strong artillery fire of the Japanese army to charge to the top of the mountain, people kept falling, no one paid attention, they only thought about being fast, fierce, and capturing Kunlun Pass.

The charge did not pause at all, the brother was killed in battle, and the next moment he would accompany him......

"This Kunlun Pass is really hard, it's been three hours of attacking, and I still haven't taken it."

Qiu Qingquan was a little uncomfortable, if he couldn't take it today, he would definitely be criticized.

You, Qiu Laohu, used the firepower of the whole army, but you didn't take Kunlun Pass?

Thinking of Zheng Dongguo's mocking face, Qiu Qingquan became even more impatient.

"Brother, do you want me to replenish the group?"

Qiu Qingquan waved his hand, it was not him Qiu Qingquan's mercy.

Rather, the supplementary regiment is his last new force, which cannot be used until the last moment.

If the 22nd Division can capture Kunlun Pass by itself, it will be the best.

If the supplementary regiment is allowed to go into battle, the three main regiments of the 22nd Division will be embarrassed.

An hour later, six Japanese planes frantically dived and strafed and dropped bombs over the position.

"Call the military department and ask them to send me the plane down~"

Qiu Qingquan is now crazy and can't stop for a moment in the command headquarters.

The Japanese planes chose the main bombing point on the north side of the boundary head, where the largest number of troops and the fastest attack.

The bomb fell on the attacking troops and exploded, knocking down patches of soldiers.

The anti-aircraft machine guns on the positions and the anti-aircraft gun teams of the Fifth Army immediately organized an anti-aircraft fire network.

This time, the Japanese aircraft changed its previous routine and remained in the sky, and it seemed that it was the last fight.

The sky and the ground have been fighting for two hours, and at about 11 o'clock, the Japanese plane, which is almost exhausted, flew in the direction of Nanning.

"Brother, you send a battalion to Nantongxing, as long as you hold it."

Zhang Ziwen was still staring at the overall situation, and Rao Xiangyun sensibly pushed Ma Xiaobao to give an order.

At this time, the heavy artillery of the Fifth Army suppressed the Japanese artillery positions near Jieshou and Kunlun Pass, and the villages near Tongxing and Jieshou in the north and south and the heights in the southeast were successively conquered by the 22nd Division.

Japanese reinforcements launched a large-scale counterattack on the newly occupied position of the New 22nd Division in Tongxing to the south, and the Japanese troops who rushed into the position engaged in hand-to-hand combat with Chinese soldiers with bayonets.

It was Dali who led the troops to support, and Dali had already arrived a quarter of an hour earlier.

Ryuuji held back his strength, and after the Japanese rushed into the position, Ryuuji ordered a machine gun squad to break into the position as a sharp knife.

Two hours later, the reinforcements were repulsed.

At noon, it was a tense moment for the New 22nd Division to storm the main position of Kunlun Pass.

Chiang Kai-shek still took care of his favorite generals, and 42 E15 and E16 bombers of the three and four brigades of the Soviet Air Force crossed the Kunlun Pass amid the roar of deafening motors.

Forty-two planes flew over Nanning Airport, and they were ordered to blow up the airfield, prevent the air support of Japanese planes at Kunlun Pass, and destroy the air superiority of the Japanese army.

Forty-two planes dropped 100-kilogram bombs on the runway, and eight Japanese planes parked at the airport caught fire and exploded.

Eighteen Japanese fighters forcibly took off to meet the battle.

The largest air battle since the Wuhan air battle was held over Nanning, which lasted about two hours, and 3 Japanese planes were shot down, but 12 Soviet volunteer planes were destroyed and damaged.

The pilot of the volunteer corps, Maxine, was tragically killed in an air battle by a lieutenant colonel.

Deputy Group Leader Yersov was wounded in the head in the air.

Deputy Captain Shayekin suffered a foot injury.

Zheng Shaoyu, the pilot of the Fourth Brigade, was injured in the toe.

This major move of the Soviet Air Force Volunteer Brigade greatly damaged the vitality of the Japanese Air Force in South China.

They no longer have the advantage they had in the sky above Kunlun Pass, which undoubtedly reduced the huge resistance to China's ground offensive.

On the night of December 30, 1939, the white moonlight sprinkled on Kunlun Pass and the surrounding mountains and jungles, bringing a sad and solemn atmosphere to Xiao Sen's ancient battlefield.

The bunkers, bunkers, deer barricades, and bomb craters on the hill all looked eerie in the dark night.

The dense black woods fell silent along the hillside.

Looking ahead, the tall and majestic Kunlun Pass is black, like an insurmountable natural danger.

Although the long wind blowing from the north has greatly reduced its momentum near the coast, on the winter night, the Chinese soldiers wearing single military uniforms still cannot resist the invasion of the cold night wind.

On the Nantongxing position, the brothers of the new 22nd Division looked enviously at the brothers of the supplementary regiment who came to the rescue.

They think that they are the supplementary regiment, because of the weapons, equipment, they are inferior.

Big dreams, who wakes up first.

When I woke up, the brothers who had been rescued by the Replenishment Group yesterday had turned into cold corpses.

He was also covered with a quilt made by the brothers of the supplementary regiment.

The young soldier's sudden fear of this war was still due to the cold winter air, and his body was trembling in Soso.

Looking at the brothers who are hiding in the trenches and snuggling up to each other, they are trying to get the well to keep their bodies warm, and to draw the strength and courage to move forward from the group.

A loud trumpet sounded, and the Japanese army came again.