The bombardment was endless.

There was a sound of Weng Weng's motors in the air, and three bombers flew over our side and violently bombarded the houses on the south bank and Xihe Town with incendiary bombs. After the bombers, enemy planes circled and dived over our positions to drop bombs and strafe.

At this time, under the cover of the aircraft, the opposing troops began to attack in a big way.

For a time, there was a loud sound of gunfire, smoke from our position continued to rise, and the sound of explosions was deafening. The fortifications that had been built in the first night played a great role, and the officers and men encouraged each other:

"The positions bought with blood must not be abandoned!"

Everyone has a grenade ready and unscrews the lid. As soon as the enemy approached, a large number of grenades swooped down on the enemy position like flocks of black crows, and the army was completely dizzy, and even those who barely rushed up could not support it, and turned around one after another. The fleeing enemy was again killed and wounded by our machine-gun fire, and as a result, the whole line was routed, and the rest retreated to their original positions, still in motion.

For a period of time after that, enemy planes often hovered over Xihe Town and nearby positions of our troops, wantonly bombing, and the sound of bombs and guns came and went one after another. All the houses in Xihe Town were blown up, burned down, and almost razed to the ground.

The front-line officers and men of the 26th Division were bombarded by the enemy at any time, and the fortifications had to be repaired at any time. At this time, God seemed to be making trouble there, and the rain barely responded, and the officers and soldiers moved in the rain, sitting on the wet soil and resting, and the situation was very difficult.

Liu Yuqing wanted to teach himself a lesson, and used the few cannons he had as an air defense force, but the plane always flew very high, and those artillerymen were not skilled and had limited ammunition.

Just when Liu Yuqing's brows were tightened, Zhu Zaitang, the commander of the 76th Brigade, suddenly arrived: "Report, Gao Fei, the commander of the 3rd Battalion, has thought of a way!" ”

"Goofy?" As soon as she heard this name, Liu Yuqing couldn't hide her joy, and urged again and again: "Say it quickly, say it quickly!" ”

Zhu Zaitang leaned over Liu Yuqing and said a few words, Liu Yuqing's face was gloomy and clear, and when Zhu Zaitang finished speaking, Liu Yuqing laughed:

"Good Goofy, when the plan succeeds, I'm going to reward him well!"

The next time, the machine came to Xihe Town again. Through the clouds, I found that there were more than a dozen cannons below, and through camouflage, looming. The reconnaissance plane made an arc in the air, turned around and flew back to the airport.

Cai Yushi, chief of staff, who was guarding the shelter near the airport and personally commanded the artillery battle, saw all this clearly, was overjoyed, and ordered the air defense troops to make preparations.

After a while, the air raid sirens sounded, and three planes swooped down on the flying field. A dozen artillery pieces aimed at the airfield were constantly diving, bombing and strafing. The dozen or so guns were blown to pieces, and pieces of wood flew all over the sky, and soon a fire broke out.

As soon as the plane entered the effective range of our anti-aircraft fire, the artillery fire and antiaircraft machine guns of the 26 th Division, which had been prepared for a long time, opened fire at the same time, and a fierce anti-aircraft fire blossomed on the enemy plane. One of the planes was immediately hit by a bullet and caught fire, and before it could pull its nose, it crashed on the ground near the airport.

The result of the on-site identification: This plane is a fighter of the Mujijin Air Corps of the Air Force.

That's the idea that Gao Fei came up with. More than a dozen cannons were all made of wood overnight, according to the drawings, painted with paint, and it looked like the real thing from the air, and they also tricked the mystery to disguise themselves in order to lure the plane to lower the height of the bottom, and I was really fooled!

This was the first time that the 26th Division shot down a fighter plane, and when the news spread, the morale of all the 26th Division was greatly boosted

The task in front of the 26th Division became more and more arduous.

In the Battle of Shanghai Dachang, the 26th Division suffered nine out of ten wounds. It was easy to have some supplements, but in the Wuxi Breakout Battle, it suffered heavy casualties.

It was easy to go all the way to Xuzhou and was ordered to supplement the training. At this time, a batch of new-style Czech equipment arrived, and groups of recruits came to the troops from Sichuan, and before the counterattack on Wuhu, although the troops were not completely full, their combat strength was also constantly improving.

However, this is still a predominantly recruited, corps force.

Among these recruits, it must be mentioned that Zheng Zheng 800 heroes from Xichong County, Sichuan.

Xichong County is a small county in northern Sichuan, at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, more than 800 brave men who generously served in the army formed a volunteer team to be trained, and were supplemented to the 26th Division before the Battle of Xuzhou.

Sichuan people are good at saying the word "hanging", and Xichong people are still very good.

The "pendulum" that Sichuan people say is not a "hammer", specifically referring to the organ with a male surname. However, when it is hung up orally, it often has other meanings. Depending on the situation and tone of the speaker, there can be various positive and negative meanings such as scolding, praise, affirmation, denial, helplessness, and excitement.

When the 800 heroes of Xichong arrived in the army, the two words "droizi" and "Laozi" were hung on their lips all day long, even in the 26th Division, which was dominated by Sichuan people, it also highlighted that they were a group of people who used this word frequently. Everyone says that they are "very", which means that they are very naughty. Therefore, they were given a lovely and proud nickname by the commanders, soldiers, and friends of the 26th Division -- "Eight Hundred Hanging Sons."

The leader is the "big pendulum", and the rest are the "small pendulum". The "droopers" are also proud of being "droopers", and even the division commanders and brigade commanders also call them "droopers", and often do not forget to ask the people below them when the battle is critical: "How many 'droopers' do you have there?" ”

The "Eight Hundred Sons" were scattered into various ministries, but they had their way of contacting and encouraging. The living "Hangzi" brought letters to the sacrificed "Hangzi", buried the corpses and burned incense for the brothers who died in the battle, and reported the achievements to the Xichong County Anti-Enemy Support Association.

These "800 pendulums" fought bravely and forgot to die. No one thinks that they are the pride of Xichong people, the pride of Sichuan people, and the pride of our Chinese nation.

Most of the Chinese people are familiar with Xie Jinyuan's 800 heroes who stuck to the Sixing Warehouse in the Battle of Songhu, but in fact, Xie Jinyuan only has 400 heroes, and it is an exaggeration to say that 800 heroes. But many Chinese people don't know that these 800 heroes in Xichong County, Sichuan are really more than 800 people and their singing and crying deeds!

And in the 3 battalions of Goofy, there are many such "hangers"!

After several failed attacks, the Japanese army continued to bombard the positions of our army on all lines in Xihe Town with heavy artillery fire. A burst of heavy artillery fire began to bombard the perimeter of the position, and the mines planted by the 26th Division in the path of advance were completely detonated. The army then bombarded the high ground on both sides of our position with heavy artillery fire, and the sand and rocks were scattered, and the smoke of gunpowder filled the air, many fortifications were collapsed, and the soldiers were killed and wounded.

The main force is the elite field wing of the Fifth Division of the Chinese Army, known as the "Steel Army".

The field wing, which had suffered heavy casualties under the sneak attack of the 1st Company of Lao Hei, was determined to take revenge, and the momentum was violent, and before the artillery fire stopped, the devils of the brigade raised their bayonets and charged in a dense rank, and pounced on our defensive position.

Gao Fei, who was at the forefront, saw it clearly in the telescope, and ordered all units to respond calmly. As soon as the devils reached the killing distance of the firepower, the light and heavy machine guns on the high ground on both sides suddenly built a dense fire network with crossfire, leaving a large number of devil corpses on the roads and hillsides, and under the command of Gao Fei, the 3rd Battalion repelled many enemy assaults in one go.

In the afternoon, the devils learned their lesson and raised observation balloons behind the forward positions to specifically instruct the artillery to strike at our firing points.

When the field wing of the devils occupied our first-line position, Gao Fei did not entangle with the enemy, and sure enough, he ordered to temporarily retreat back into the second line. After Fu Jiyao, who was retreating backwards, retreated into the second-line position, he felt that his chest was bitten by something, and he looked down and lifted his military uniform to see that there was a small hole on his chest, and some blood continued to ooze out.

It just so happened that the health soldiers came to check, and they were all surprised: a bullet entered through the vest and pierced through the chest! The bullet passed between the lobes of the lungs, not only did not injure the internal organs, but also entered and exited between the front and rear ribs, without touching even the bones! Fu Jiyao was like he was fine, wiped some red potion and continued to fight.

This incident made the health captain, Gao Fei, and the company commanders all amazed, so "Fu Jiyao, the unbeatable pendulum", spread throughout the division.

After the soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, who had retreated to the second line, took advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold to launch a counterattack, and after more than two hours of fierce fighting, a fierce charge drove the field wing out of its position again.

As the enemy fled, six devils slowed down and were surrounded by my charging soldiers.

In the rear, the real Yu Wenzheng shouted to catch the live, Xichong "drooping son" Li Limin raised his bayonet and rushed up to fight with the enemy, was stabbed three times by the devil, and the whole body was bleeding like an infusion, he not only did not flinch, but became more and more brave in battle, and together with more than 20 brothers who rushed up behind, he caught four live devils.

Li Limin's heroic deeds shocked the whole division, and he was called "Li Limin, the Iron Hanger".

The captured devil was taken prisoner, and the prestige of "bushido" was not diminished, and he was beaten by the soldiers and dragged to the battalion headquarters.

At that time, Gao Fei was supervising the battle on the front line, and an adjutant poured a cup of boiling water and sent it to the devils in order to influence these devils, but unexpectedly, one of the "imperial soldiers" flew up and kicked the water cup out of the distance with a "clang".

In this way, the adjutant was immediately so angry that the soldiers were even more furious, and they rushed over to beat them violently, and then tied the prisoners to the regimental headquarters on stretchers like dead pigs.

The "imperial army" tied to the stretcher still refused to admit defeat, screaming and shouting, jumping and fighting on the stretcher, making the stretcher upside down, so angry that the stretcher soldiers stomped their feet and scolded, eager to throw them and others into the river with the stretcher.

Later, after Gao Fei learned about this matter, Gao Fei only said: "In the future, I can not take prisoners if I am not an important enemy!" ”

In this battle, four soldiers of the 3rd Battalion were commended, of which two were "Hangzi".

The name of Chuizi, starting from Xihe Town, is famous all over the world!

(To be continued)