Through the half-height marching trench, the five men successively walked into the ring position on the south side of the road at the west end of the Bazi Bridge, where the enemy troops who still occupied the position on the north side of the road were only separated by a road more than 20 meters wide. Ｘ

Relatively speaking, at this time, for the ** who seized the position on the south side, it occupies a dominant advantage, because the enemy is weak in follow-up, if you want to replenish your troops, you must come from the Bazi Bridge, and at this time, for the Japanese who have lost the position on the south side, through the Bazi Bridge, it is like the Nai He Bridge before the Ghost Gate, and it will definitely become the target of the **.

This is also the reason why the Japanese are desperate to recapture their positions on the southern flank.

Because, as soon as the southern position is lost, then their northern position will also lose support, and sooner or later it will be lost.

When Liu Jingang and Staff Officer Yu came over with Xiao Linghu and the others, a company stationed here had just repelled an enemy attack, and there was a rare silence at the Bazi bridgehead, and there was no gunfire.

There were already many corpses lying on this circular battlefield, and at a cursory glance, there were thirty or forty of them. At this time, the living people are taking advantage of this rare battle gap, busy with tension and relaxation, division of labor and cooperation, transporting away the corpses of their comrades, and throwing the corpses of devils aside as sandbags for stepping feet in the trenches. There were also many wounded soldiers, lying in the trenches, groaning in pain, but busy with the two front-line ambulancemen carrying the Red Cross medicine kit, constantly shuttling between the lying people to stop the bleeding and relieve the pain.

"Hurry up! Hurry up! A rough voice roared: "The devil's cannon is coming again in a while!" ”

"So close, the devil dares to shoot cannons?" Meng Fanwei couldn't believe it, because this position was only separated by a road from the devil's position across the road, and there was a pit in the middle, which could not exceed a distance of twenty meters at most. At such a close distance, if a shell misses, it is possible to fall to their own position.

"Do you think devils are stupid?" The roaring voice said to Meng Fanwei: "They have already hidden somewhere else in the north!" ”

Xiao Linghu then looked up at the opposite side of the road, and there was indeed a circular trench like this side, but that trench was also like the trench here, digging a marching trench leading to an abandoned residential bungalow in the north, and the houses in that area were larger than the house area in the south, like a big village, but at this time, there was no good house there, and it was all in ruins.

It turned out that the devil did not stay in the trench all the time, but hid in the vast ruins.

"What do I say?" Meng Fanwei was also looking at the environment: "The devils can blow them up with a few more grenades at such a close distance, and they still need to be so difficult to fight?" ”

"You're new here, aren't you?" The roaring man had a muddy face, and he couldn't see his true face, thinking that he should be a company commander or something, he must be the leader of this circular position.

"Hmm!" Xiao Linghu responded casually.

"Company Commander Zhao, they were brought by me!" Liu Jingang told the conductor in due course.

"Lao Yu, tell them what's going on here? I also have to hurry up and organize manpower to transport the wounded away! Company Commander Zhao had no time to pay attention to Xiao Linghu and them, so he said a word and left.

"Staff Officer Yu, what kind of battle are you fighting here?" Xiao Linghu looked at the situation on this position at this time, and was a little inexplicable.

Indeed, for the 263rd Regiment, which had already captured the ring position in the south, there was no reason why it could not occupy the position on the north side of the road, and the position there was so close that it was really as Meng Fanwei said, as long as a few more bombardiers were organized and grenades were constantly thrown at that position, they could be blown to death. Of course, the enemy will also drop grenades or grenades at them.

Staff Officer Yu sighed and explained to them: "Company Commander Xiao, don't look at this position as if it is easy to take down, but in fact, it is not!" ”

"Why not?"

"At the beginning, the devils occupied two positions on the north and south of the road, and we spent a lot of money to drive them to the north position, and then they withdrew from that position, ran to the village in the north and hid, we immediately sent people to retake the north position, and as soon as we gained a foothold, their artillery came overwhelmingly, and we couldn't raise our heads at all. You also know that our artillery fire is inferior to theirs, and the artillery in the division cannot cover this side, so we can only be beaten passively. ”

"Then why not withdraw from the position?" Xiao Linghu asked. Although the position on the west side of the bridge is divided into two parts, north and south, it has no depth after all, and in such a small place, so many troops are arranged, and when the enemy's artillery fire comes, there is really nowhere to hide.

"Withdraw from position?" Staff Officer Yu let out a wry smile: "If we withdraw from the position, then this area will be lost, and the devils will have to inch in, strengthen the defense in depth along the Liuying Road, and it will be difficult for us to plug the gap!" Also, if once we withdraw from this position, then their support can smoothly pass through the Bazi Bridge and send people and guns over, and this will become their main position, and we will not be able to advance at all! ”

"No matter how powerful the devil's artillery is, it is impossible to blindly fight, there will always be a time to stop, as long as it stops, it is not too late for us to immediately take up the position?" Xiao Linghu said in confusion.

Staff Officer Yu shook his head and pointed to the ruins in the north: "See, those devils are hiding there, they are closer than us, faster than us, as long as the artillery stops, they must be the first to seize the position, and then they will return to the state they started with, and we will recapture this position." ”

"Yes!" Liu Jingang also nodded, and said helplessly: "This is also the reason why we have repeatedly fought with devils in the past two days." That's how I lost my position last time! ”

Xiao Linghu turned his gaze to the ruins to the north again: "Why don't you send someone to that ruin to clear the enemy?" ”

"Clearing?" Staff Officer Yu said: "How many troops are needed?" It was a ruin, but there were hundreds of enemies hiding in it, and we had sent two companies to search from west to east and from south to north, but these devils were also very good at street fighting, and we suffered a great loss and had to withdraw. ”

He didn't say how many people the 88th Division lost in that clean-up operation, but Xiao Linghu could also see that he didn't want to say it, thinking about it, that casualty was indispensable, and there was definitely no result.

Xiao Linghu thought for a moment, and then asked: "Now, if you stick to the position in the south, as long as you dodge the enemy's artillery fire, then you can quickly seize the circular position on the north side of the road, isn't it?" ”

Staff Officer Yu still shook his head: "Those enemies hiding in the ruins are really pervasive, haven't you found it?" The terrain over there is higher, and if you hide in any of the broken houses along the street, you can see the situation in the roadside circular trenches clearly, and they are condescending and can use our people as targets! ”

After listening to Staff Officer Yu's narration, Xiao Linghu understood the pain of the 263rd Regiment for this battle, regretting that he should not have lost his position for the first time and let so many enemies cross the river, but now it has become a dilemma, no wonder they occupy the position on the south side of the road at this time, but they dare not easily occupy the position on the north side of the road, they can only defend this successful position, carry the enemy's artillery plough over and over again, and bear the impact of the devil again and again!