readx; It turned out that the weather was hot for a while, the two sides did not eat or wear, and they did not take a bath for more than ten days, out of the confrontation with nature, the two sides of the war invariably chose to stop fighting during the day, and only at night when the weather turned cool did they start fighting symbolically, saying that it was a symbolic surname, because the devil was not ready to attack, and the [***] team did not have the conditions for a counterattack, both sides were stuck to each other like gummy, but no one could help anyone, As a result, there was such a miracle of war in the history of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression: often the soldiers on both sides had just put down their jobs, and while they were muttering and fighting, they each picked up their own guys, and this situation continued until the devil's second large-scale siege of the city - when the personnel and weapons were fully supplied. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the next few days, Qiangzi and Pingzi often wandered in a few nearby fish ponds, and it was gratifying that the little devil finally stopped secretly putting guns, which was cheaper than Pingzi, which could not only release the heat on his body, but also let the whole company eat fresh fish soup, and later not only the commander of the Zhou Company, but also the commander of the 29th Regiment Zhu and even the commander of the 10th Division, Ge, were all turned a blind eye, in this environment of no food and drink, the soldiers solved their own way of supply, what else can the officials say.

The weather was still hot and dry, and after a torrential rain, the position was full of potholes and rain, and Pingzishen stepped on the trenches with one shallow foot and one foot on it, and his feet became heavier and heavier -- covered with mud.

"Company commander, I have to go back!" Pingzi found Company Commander Zhou and reported timidly.

"Why?" Zhou Lian didn't turn his head back, and he was also knocking the mud on his feet.

"The army wants me to go back!" Hirako spoke in an even slightly proud tone.

"What? Army! Damn, when there is no fight, you are busy bathing and eating fish here, this time you are going to fight, you go back, what a! ”

"Oh, I, I can't!" Pingzi whispered, "I don't really want to go back!" ”

"Then don't go, what's the matter, you're a good person, and don't look up, there are a few full-handed people around Lao Tzu, you want to go back with such a good look, snort!" Company Commander Zhou's tone showed disdain.

"Company commander, can you tell the above, just let me keep you here!"

"Damn, my army, my little character, who do you plead with, uncle, don't press me with it!" Pingzi's good suggestion was misunderstood by the other party, which made Pingzi dare not say anything again.

"Okay, don't go, turn around and say you're dead, stay here!"

"Whoa!" Although the idea was not good, the thought of staying in the position, Hirako was a little subconsciously happy.

July 11th, morning.

It has been eight days since the first large-scale attack on Hengyang City by the Yue army.

A whining alarm sounded on the outskirts of Hengyang, and the blackened enemy planes regrouped overwhelmingly. The Fifth Air Regiment of the Chinese Army mobilized the strength of two bomber groups and began another round of wanton and indiscriminate bombardment of Hengyang City, with incendiary bombs and large bombs, causing the city to burst into flames, and enemy planes rampantly swept towards the empty Hengyang City -- as early as the first round of bombing, there was not a single intact house in Hengyang City.

The fortifications and trench strongholds were almost completely destroyed, and the Chinese soldiers had to jump into the craters to avoid enemy aircraft.

In the second general attack of the enemy, the casualties were especially higher than before. The commander of the 57th Brigade, Genyoshi, was killed, and the all-out offensive was once again hindered and frustrated, and it was changed to a multi-point attack. The second general offensive scenario written in the history of the enemy's war is as follows: "After our army launched the general offensive again, except for the same as the last time, only a very small part of the positions were captured, there was still no progress, and the casualties were even heavier, the original company commanders of the two divisions and regiments were left, and most of the infantry companies had been reduced to acting company commanders by non-commissioned officers, barely supporting the tragic situation of the battle. In the second general attack, one wing commander and six team leaders were killed one after another, but the future of the attack was still not optimistic, so the attack was stopped again. ”

However, after the enemy plane, the black-pressed devil soldiers then pounced.

The 68th and 116th divisions, which had replenished their personnel and ammunition, launched simultaneous attacks in the west and south directions of Hengyang City.

The 3rd Regiment of the 7th Division was defending the front-line positions from Duxian Temple, Yangcun Temple, Yilai Temple to Qingshan Street, and the county middle school, and the battle was also carried out tragically.

The army's heavy artillery bombardment and poison gas attacks caused extremely heavy casualties to the officers and men. Xie Ying, commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 7th Regiment, died heroically while commanding the troops to counterattack; The commander of the 2nd Company, Chu Hou Fan, and the successor company commander, Dai Chuwei, were also killed in battle, and Major Hou Shude, deputy commander of the 7th Regiment, had to take over as the battalion commander. Most of the defenders were stationed in the fortifications of the houses, and the military planes bombed the target on this basis, causing heavy casualties. Many officers and men were painfully burned alive in the flames caused by a large number of incendiary bombs dropped by military planes on the 16th.

Guarding the positions northwest of Hengyang is Yanwuping, Dujiagang and other positions is the [***] 190th Division. Although it was also attacked by artillery and infantry fire. However, because this place is mostly surrounded by rivers and blocked by fish ponds and paddy fields, there are only a few casualties among officers and soldiers. The fortifications were also destroyed and repaired immediately, but his attack still failed and he did not cross the defense area a step.

Xiangjiang defense line. Closely monitor the surface of the river, although the army on the other side does not dare to act rashly. However, several heavy artillery pieces were fired irregularly and sporadically at our defensive positions at the East Railway Station; Military planes also often flew low and strafed and threw incendiary bombs, causing some casualties, but because there was no antiaircraft equipment, our side was helpless against enemy planes.

The position of the 10th Division, especially the Zhangjiashan position, is still the focus of the whole city, and it is also the focus of the devil's attack.

For five consecutive days and nights, on the main position in the southwest, the Chinese army paid the price of more than 8,000 casualties, and only opened the two gates of the front-line positions of the 10th Pre-10 Division, Zhangjiashan and Tiger's Nest. The 10th Division of the Reserve took the initiative to withdraw when all the fortifications were destroyed, but the army was unable to follow up and had to be defeated under the fortified city.

At 16 o'clock on July 16, the public hospital and the fortifications on the Daxianping Heights were all blown up, all the defenders of the reserve 10th Division here were killed, and several positions were occupied by the Japanese army without a counterattack. Xiaojia Mountain and Maple Mountain were also invaded by the army one after another.

In the nearly month-long battle, the three main teams of the 10th Division of the 10th Army Reserve were left with little of the miscellaneous soldiers and cooks, and those who later continued to hold the first-line positions were nominally still the number of the 10th Division in reserve, but in fact most of them were officers and men of the 8th Regiment and 9th Regiment of the 3rd Division and the troops directly under the military headquarters who were drawn from the second-line positions.

In the basement of the Central Bank in the city center, the command post of the 10th Army, Sun Mingyu, chief of staff of the army, reported his injuries to Fang Xianjue. "The casualties of the three regiments of the reserve 10th Division and the troops directly under the division of the main position in the southwest reached more than 90%; The 3rd Regiment of the 3rd Division in the west of the city suffered 70% casualties; There are only 700 officers and soldiers left in the three regiments of the 190th Division in the north of the city and in the Jiangfang; In addition to the 500 officers and men of the baggage regiment, less than one-third of the remaining troops of the units directly under the army, such as the search battalion, the special service battalion, the engineer battalion, the communications battalion, and the artillery battalion, remain. ”

"The casualties among the junior officers of the divisions and infantry regiments were very high, and the infantry battalion commanders in particular had the highest casualty rate. The battalion commanders were killed the most in defensive operations and counter-charge tug-of-wars, and sometimes several battalion commanders were promoted in succession. In the half-day battle of the 8th Regiment of the 3rd Division in the Battle of Wuguiling, 5 battalion commanders were promoted in a row, and all of them died heroically."

"Chief of Staff, pass my orders!" Fang Xianjue shouted loudly: "Immediately notify all divisions to abandon the positions of the southern half of the Wugui Mountains, the southern part of the 141 Heights, Fengshu Mountain, the Citizen Hospital, Xiaojiashan, and Zhang Feishan, which are extremely damaged and difficult to hold, and change to the second line position. The special deployment is as follows:

1. About 300 people from the 1st Company of the 8th Regiment of the 3rd Division and the 1st Company of the Attached Army Headquarters occupied the northern positions of Waixinjie and Wuguiling, and about 350 people from the 28th Regiment of the 28th Regiment of the 10th Reserve Division (owed to the 1st Company) occupied the first-line positions of Jielong Mountain, Huayi Mountain and Yueping Mountain.

3. About 80 people from the engineer battalion of the military headquarters are attached to the 2nd Battalion of the 29th Regiment of the newly organized 29th Regiment, that is, about 150 remaining officers and soldiers of the 29th Regiment and the 30th Regiment, and the battalion commander is Gu Jin, a staff officer of the division headquarters of the 10th Division; 100 people from the artillery battalion of the military headquarters buried the artillery deeply, and the artillery was changed to infantry; The above two battalions occupied the high ground positions in the middle of Wuxian Temple and Suxianjing. Major General Zhang Yuequn, deputy commander of the 10th Reserve Division, led a staff officer, Major Zhang Quan, was in command.

Fourth, the 3rd Regiment of the 9th Division, about 350 people, occupied the northern part of the 141st Heights of Tianma Mountain and Xinghua Village, and the position of Xichan Temple.

5. The 570th Regiment of the 190th Division was about 90 people, occupying the houses on the west side of Jielong Mountain, Yanfeng Temple, Zhongzheng Hall, and the Electric Light Company as the second line of positions.

6. All units in the front-line positions are under the command of General Ge Xiancai, commander of the 10th Reserve Division.

7. The officers and men of the baggage regiment of the military headquarters and other non-combat units directly under the military headquarters shall be organized into two combat battalions, each with about 300 men, which shall be the reserve of the army, and shall be controlled in the vicinity of Qingquan Road and Moon Pond respectively.

8. Persuade lightly wounded officers and men to return to the front line with political work and medical personnel.

9. The remaining troops are deployed as above. ”

"Yes, Throne!" The chief of staff, General Sun Mingyu, replied loudly while taking notes.

The sound of guns and cannons in the Zhangjiashan position shook the heavens and the earth.

"Brothers, the regiment commander has an order, immediately support the friendly Zhangjiashan position!" Company Commander Zhou was muttering at the brothers of the first battalion and the second company of the 29th regiment.

"Company commander, we don't want our own position!" Several platoon leaders muttered.

"If you want to it, Zhangjiashan is gone, we have to finish the ten divisions, and the division headquarters has to be served to the devils, and there is a kind of going with Lao Tzu Zhangjiashan to save the division commander."

"Company commander, we are going to lose our position and kill our heads, brothers can't all go!"

"Stay in a row, and the others will follow me!" In the midst of muttering, Company Commander Zhou took the lead and ran to Zhangjiashan.

Pingzi was mixed in the crowd, he never understood which platoon he belonged to, anyway, he followed him wherever the strong son went, and the pressure on their position was not small, but this time the whole company retreated, leaving a platoon, you can imagine how miserable it should be.

However, when they arrived at Zhangjiashan, they understood how to describe the word tragic.

The corpses of the soldiers on both sides have been piled up more than a foot high, the blood flowing from the front of the trench has dyed the entire position dark red, and several brigades of devils have rushed to the mountains like flies, and the Chinese soldiers who have long had no position to rely on are throwing grenades in the rain, often after a rain of bullets, the devils are killed in a bunch, and the soldiers of the [***] team also killed themselves because of the grenade explosion.

With a Chinese soldier present, the explosion of grenades will not stop.

"Brethren, we have come to your back!" Company Commander Zhou and the brothers of the Second Company were covered in blood, and finally they were killed on the mountain, and they were greeted by a mountain full of corpses.

"Brother, brother!" On the bare position, a soldier's mouth opened and closed.

"Zhou, Company Commander Zhou, we are the sixth batch of brothers to support, and Zhang Jiashan has not been lost in our hands!" The soldier closed his eyes after speaking, and Company Commander Zhou's eyes were hot: "Brother, so Lao Tzu is the seventh batch, I heard it, we are the seventh batch!" ”

"Company commander, the devil is here!" As he spoke, Zhang Dayong, the platoon commander of the second platoon, shouted at Zhou Lian Chang.

"Then what are you grinding against, enter the position and prepare for battle!"

"Company commander, how can there be a position!" Zhang Da had the courage to breathe: "The mountain has been flattened by the devil's heavy artillery, and there is no position!" ”

"That's all for me, find cover by yourself, and the devil will fight when he comes up!"

Before the words were finished, the black pressed devil had already climbed up the ladder and stabbed when he saw the Chinese.

"It's all for Lao Tzu to listen to, first throw the grenade in your hand and finish the bullet, otherwise you are not allowed to fight bayonets, fool, fool!"

"Company, company commander, I'm here!" Fools scurry out of the crowd.

"The remaining grenades on the position are all yours, where are the devils there are so many you can throw them, let Lao Tzu hear clearly, use your stunt today, don't really make people look down!"

"Yes, I have to blow up these little devils today!"

As he spoke, many soldiers had already begun to engage with the devils in close combat, and they had no time to shake off the devils who attacked quickly.

"Don't fight with the devils, blow them up, blow them up!" Company Commander Zhou muttered while fighting.

Suddenly, a strange scene appeared, those soldiers who couldn't get rid of the devils simply dropped their rifles and rolled into the enemy formation, some detonated the grenades on their bodies, and some had to explode themselves after throwing out a few grenades from the devil group, and the edge of the position was soon vacant, and there were few devils who originally climbed the position, but there were few Chinese soldiers left.

"Others add up, and the devil must not be allowed to come up!" Company Commander Zhou roared with a crying tone, and he understood that none of the people he brought would be able to leave Zhangjiashan alive.

At the same time, Pingzi, who came up together, had a recurrence of his old problems, and he drilled into the pile of dead people with his head, and he still couldn't face such a bloody scene.

Ge Xiancai, the commander of the 10th Pre-10th Division, carried a light machine gun and shuttled with the guards to the positions of the regiments, and the wired telephone was no longer available, and he could not know the battle situation in various places except for going to the front line in person.

"Report, the military seat is here!" In the shelter room of Commander Chen of the 30th Regiment, a soldier reported to Division Commander Ge.

"What's the situation, the main position Zhangjiashan is still not in hand!" Fang Xianjue asked this question as soon as he came, and to everyone's surprise, there was no one guard by his side.

"Commander, you didn't bring anyone?" Ge Xiancai stared at Fang Xianjue reproachfully.

"Everyone is on the battlefield, do I want someone to do it!" Fang Xianjue didn't feel that there was anything wrong at all: "Have you heard my question: how is the battle situation, especially the battle situation in Zhangjiashan!" ”

"I don't know!" Ge Xiancai sighed: "The communication is all interrupted, and it is impossible to command, so you can only rely on the battlefield commander to improvise!" ”

"Report to the division, I have asked for help from the 29th Regiment of Regiment Commander Zhu in the morning, and I hope they can send troops to support Zhangjiashan!" Head Chen hurriedly reported.

"Nonsense, they reinforce, how can they reinforce, their own troops, it is far from enough to defend their own positions!" Master Ge was a little displeased.

"But Zhangjiashan is more important, the devil has poured all the main force here, if you don't do this, can we hold it!" After Captain Chen spoke, he regretted a little: "Master, in this case, I can't ask you for instructions!" ”

"Okay, just do it, what's going on now!"

"Then you have to go to the battlefield and take a look!"

"No way!" After Master Ge finished speaking, he glanced at Fang Xianjue next to him.

"Brother, you're worried about me!" Fang Xianjue smiled slightly: "You guys go, if the position is still there, just come back and tell me about the situation!" ”

"That's it!" Ge Xiancai nodded: "Listen up, go up to Zhangjiashan with me, I want to see if the little devil has taken this highland." ”

Zhangjiashan position.

Several more rounds of strong attacks were defeated, and all the officers of the four squads of the second brigade of the devil were killed by the grenades of the [***] team in the strong attack, and the captain Adachi looked at the corpses everywhere and the remnants of less than a quarter of the army, and finally showed a fear in his eyes: "Baga, Zhangjiashan!" Adachi's teeth itched, but he looked at Zhangjiashan on the outskirts of Hengyang and was helpless.

In less than an hour, more than half of the soldiers in several platoons have been lost, and the company commander Zhou on the Chinese defender's position is also worried, he doesn't know how many rounds of devils he still needs to deal with.

One of the soldiers came over and said, "Report to the company commander, catch a spy!" ”

"Damn, you tell the book, where would this spy come from!"

"It's a few people coming!" The soldiers were spitting and spitting, and Company Commander Zhou took a closer look, and the person who reported turned out to be Pingzi.

"My guards, why are you here to report!" Zhou Lian Chang was angry.

"Company commander, your guards have been blown up!" Pingzi looked at Company Commander Zhou timidly: "You don't believe it? ”

"Go, my soldiers are so good at it, they will be blown up, only they bomb devils!"

"It's true, in the last wave of attacks, a large number of devils rushed up, and a few brothers around you didn't have time to throw grenades, and they couldn't get out of sticking with the devils, so they detonated the explosives on their bodies!"

"Oh, that's right! Got it. This time, Company Commander Zhou no longer defended, such a scene and such a thing are too common in Zhangjiashan, and it has become the instinctive reaction of Chinese soldiers at the last moment!

(To be continued)