"We had to drag the bodies apart and mount the anti-aircraft machine guns for flat fire. I saw that Chen Zai, the chief of the operation, was covered in mud and blood, his thighs and arms were wounded, and he lay on the ground and said: "When the death squad rushed up, they found that there was a sound of fighting in the trenches, shouting, fighting and scolding each other, it turned out that it was the platoon commander of the 8th Company, Gao Jianguo, who led 18 (12 people) brothers, who had been sticking to the bombing pit and did not withdraw. '"

It can be seen from this that during the day on the 21st, our army has been holding on to the sub-high ground. This confirms the statement of Yang Jinji, lieutenant and deputy company commander of the 7th Company of the 3rd Battalion, that is, the high ground was not lost on the 21st, in addition to the 2nd Company that he said was the first batch to break through on the 20th and the officers and soldiers of the 7th Company he led, including the dozen or so brothers led by Gao Jianguo, the platoon commander of the 8th Company, as Chen Zaijing said, all insisted on fighting in the fortress of the sub-highland. Yang Jinji himself was wounded in the leg in the fierce battle on the night of the 21st, and after appointing the commander of the 60 mortar platoon to take over the command, he withdrew from his position. Based on the above information, it can be seen that since 9:30 on the 20th, some officers and soldiers of the Rong 3rd Regiment have been fighting bloody battles with the Japanese army in the sub-highlands for nearly two days and nights, but they are not known to the commanders under the position! Perhaps, this is the confusion of memory caused by the tragic battles - one writer once said (to the effect): If a soldier can clearly describe a fierce melee, he is either a bystander or he is making up lies.

Cui Jisheng recalled that just as Chen Zaijing was pointing to the corpse next to him and the Guan Jin Ticket all over the ground and wanted to say nothing, he suddenly looked up and saw a Japanese army rushing from the ugly high ground in the northwest, like a group of vicious wolves, coming extremely fiercely. Cui Jisheng was shocked, and secretly wondered if there were only about a dozen of the remaining daredevils on the battlefield after a fierce battle, and whether Major Wenshak and the American soldier covering team he brought could withstand the counterattack of the enemy? At this time, the anti-aircraft machine guns set up by the covering team for flat fire had already sounded, and the large-caliber bullets hit the scorched and crooked trunk of the tree in front, and immediately turned out the white and tender heart of the tree, which was particularly eye-catching. The Japanese soldiers who rushed to the front began to fall one by one, but the people behind did not retreat, but continued to rush over the corpses. Several Japanese soldiers rushed straight to a few meters away from Cui Jisheng before they suddenly fell to the ground, their limbs began to twitch, and their wounds spurted out one by one...... Cui Jisheng suddenly realized: they did not come to fight for positions at all, but committed suicide en masse out of despair!

It wasn't until the last Devil Soldier fell that the sound of machine guns gradually thinned out. The infantry of the 3rd Regiment of Rong clapped their hands happily, and many turned their heads to look at the American soldiers operating anti-aircraft machine guns, stretched out their hands and gave them a thumbs up.

Looking back, why was it that after I blasted and occupied the sub-high ground, the Japanese army was still able to fight back frantically again and again, and formed a stalemate with me?

Because, at the beginning of the occupation of the sub-heights, our army only used the edge of the blasting pit to build simple fortifications. Due to time constraints and poor configuration, the Japanese army could easily break into our position, resulting in a state of melee; And the Japanese army knew that the sub-highland was the key to the entire Songshan defense system, and life and death were at stake, so they desperately tried to recover. After two battles, the expeditionary force had the opportunity to build a fortress, and a total of 5 were completed during the day on the 22nd, and the firepower flanked each other.

According to the "History of the Siege of Songshan of the Eighth Army", the soldiers also had some practical ideas when building the fortress, such as: spreading barbed wire or rope nets outside the perforation, so that enemy grenades could not be thrown; Set up a movable skylight with a cover on the top of the fort, and when the enemy approaches, open the skylight to throw grenades; The canopy of the fort was connected to each other by iron cables and fixed by piling to prevent the enemy from approaching and uncovering the canopy and throwing grenades......

After a fierce battle, our forces were already nervous, so we strengthened our vigilance and resolved not to allow the Japanese to approach their positions again. On the night of the 22nd, the Japanese army organized more than 30 people to counterattack all night, but under the suppression of our fortress fire, they were never able to approach, and more than 20 were killed by us. At this time, the roles of the enemy and our armies on Matsuyama were transpositioned, the enemy attacked and defended, and the performance of the Japanese army was greatly inferior. It was not until dawn on the 23rd that the Japanese finally gave up their efforts and retreated, and the Rong 3rd Regiment firmly occupied the sub-heights.