readx; Staff Officer Li took a breath and continued to describe the battle in a vivid voice:

"Outside the fortifications, it was a huge foggy day, which can also be described in four words: no sky. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info We look at this situation and judge the enemy, and we must want to enter the rock protrusion, copy to the back of the Dumu Pass, and then merge with the enemy on the other road, along the riverside road, and go straight to the east gate of Wuhan. Therefore, on the one hand, the details were called to the regimental headquarters at any time, and on the other hand, several strongholds in front of the regiment were called to withdraw the troops so that they could be concentrated.

We looked out at half of the headquarters where the shells had been blasted, and every two or three minutes there was a burst of sparks on the flat ground in front of us. Those sparks, those clusters rising from the ground, weren't they a magic tower? But the two of them brought two groups of people and transferred back from Yejiagang. The iron men I am talking about are in fact a group of iron men, and the flying sulfur flame chips, the dust splashed on the ground, and the mud from the rice fields smear the whole body of these brothers. There are also the brothers who hung colors, and their faces and hands were covered with gauze smeared with gray smoke, and the shape of that part is really hard to describe in words. When I saw them, although they said that they were hard, they had two bags of tears in their eyes, and I really wanted to rush out.

Battalion Commander Yang saw that they were fighting hard, so he asked them to go to Yanqiao to rest. The headquarters of our battalion was between the steep horsehead rocks, and we were hidden in the fortifications under the causeway, and we could see it very clearly. The enemy was on the bank of the Yuan River, pulling a longitudinal line, and there were five troops rushing forward to this rock bulge.

The front of these five enemy forces was about a thousand yards, and the shells were opening their way one after the other. On top of the shells, there are also planes flying like wheels, and they are constantly strafing and dropping bombs. Under such circumstances, the two companies we placed in front were, of course, unable to stop the enemy's infantry. At about four o'clock, the sound of the enemy's mountain artillery suddenly stopped, and there was only the sound of scattered mortars.

We immediately followed the call from the command post of the 1st Company, and the enemy's infantry, facing the rock bulge, advanced in three directions. There were five waves on each road, and we had three machine guns, which happened to intercept these three roads. After the telephone report was made, the machine guns in front of them were already rattling like a breach in a levee, and the enemy's light and heavy machine guns could not distinguish how many they had, nor could they tell where they rose and fell, but they were fired one after another.

Battalion Commander Yang said to me: 'Staff officer, please keep in touch with the command post, the enemy is fierce, and I have to go by myself. When he finished speaking, he put his rifle on his back, hung a grenade, jumped out of the command post and left. In the shelter near the command post, there was only one squad of reserves, and they all followed him.

I was in the shelter department, looking out, and saw Battalion Commander Yang with a group of people, jumping and jumping, and from time to time lying on the ground to avoid the shells of the enemy mortars, and soon, I saw them burrowing into the smoke in front of me. At that time, two enemy planes flew in a half circle from the south, and it seemed that he had discovered that there were reinforcements here, and they were staring at the rear of Battalion Commander Yang, and like swallows sweeping the ground, they flew obliquely on the sideways, clucking, and shooting at the smoke. I am very worried about Battalion Commander Yang's group, and at the same time, I really admire their fearless spirit.

I crouched down in the fortifications and looked forward, refusing to blink my eyelids. At about half o'clock, in the north, a dense machine-gun sound had been detected, and several mortar shells had fallen near the command post. Outside, a sentry hurried in, and reported to me that an enemy had been spotted to the north, separated by a distance of one thousand and two hundred yards. I was really taken aback when I heard this. In this way, the enemy will not rush behind the rock bulge. Then all of us who are in the rock will be surrounded by him. At this time, there was only one company attached to the command post and a few miscellaneous soldiers, and I called the regiment commander without thinking. I told the people at the command post to be on alert.

Fortunately, I still had the rifle I gave me, and I was ready to rush into the enemy line and make a suicide attack when necessary.

Fortunately, in less than ten minutes, Battalion Commander Yang had already brought back the first company from Yanzhuo, and he did not come to the command post, but at a small embankment in the north, he temporarily set up a formation to intercept the enemy. By this time, I had already judged that the enemy had fallen into the hands of the enemy, for the enemy had also been found along the road in front of me. At last I had seen a wave of enemy troops, three of which were advancing towards the Imperial Pavilion, and I expected it to be my last minute. I touched the two grenades hanging from my body twice, and I picked up my rifle to look at it and stroke the machine gun twice. Good! The wonderful show is coming.

There was a very violent bang, a few hundred yards in front of us, and a burst of sparks broke out, and one of the enemy waves closest to the command post hit one of our shells. ”

He stood and squatted down, and together he squeezed his right hand tightly into a big fist, and struck ten times in the palm of his left hand. He continued:

"Since then, every mountain shell we have fired has landed in the enemy's dense wave-like force. The enemy troops coming along the west of the Yuan River were to be defeated first. Later, our shells were fired one after another on the northern road, and the enemy retreated one after another. I was in the command post, holding my rifle tightly in my two hands, and I relaxed.

However, although the enemy's infantry had stopped, the artillery began to fire again, and the command post kept screaming and screaming, and the enemy soldiers were also returning fire at our artillery positions. I was about to make a phone call to the regiment commander, but the regiment commander rushed up from behind with a company of reserves, and was passing by the command post. The deputy battalion commander Dong Qingxia and company commander Hu Dexiu, who had just gone down from here to rest, they actually came with them.

At this time, although the enemy planes had retreated, the fire of the enemy's shells was sparkling in the rice fields in front of us. The sky was dark and late, and the countryside in front of them seemed to be shining in the light of lightning, and they were in this wildfire group, divided into two teams of shadows, half-bent over, and rushed towards the enemy in front of them. Although the sky was getting darker and darker, in the light of the artillery fire, I could still faintly see a group of shadows, jumping up to the embankment.

A burst of machine guns rang out, along with the machine guns on both sides. In less than ten minutes, there was already a killing charge ahead. With the explosion of a grenade, a cry was raised. I couldn't bear it anymore and walked to the embankment outside the command post to look into the distance. The enemy's mortar position, which was glowing with red fireballs, had moved two miles away, and the enemy's machine-gun positions, which were spitting out tongues of fire, were also retreating in front of them. We had three flickering flames here, under the embankment in front, gradually moving forward.

Then a burst of sparks flickered, and then there was a distant shout of killing, and I knew that Captain Chai had made another charge. I just stood on the embankment and watched, I forgot that there was a shell falling on my head at any moment. Later, a soldier stood up and called me: 'Report to the staff officer, the regiment commander has called, and we have brought back the rocks. ’

I breathed a sigh of relief and returned to the command post, and after a phone call, the division commander called me back. I walked back in the dark. ”

After he finished this wonderful performance, he leaned down, picked up the coarse porcelain pot, poured a cup of cold boiled water in his hand, raised his neck, put his mouth on the tea bowl, grunted a few times, and drank the water in one go.

Suozhu smiled: "When you speak, don't say how strong the people who are fighting are, just with your whole body effort, you can also think of the tension of this battle." ”

Staff Officer Li said with a smile: "If I still have one life left, and when I am completely victorious, I will have a few special performances, or a speech on the Wuhan Campaign, or an assistant director in a film company, it will be really impressive." Suozhu said: "Why not be the director?" ”

He smiled and said, "That's for the poor technique of filming," he said, and played a haha.

This kind of laughter woke up an adjutant Zhang in the same room, and he raised his head on the bed and said with a smile: "Lao Li, what you said is really impressive, I am asleep, and you will let you, the assistant director, shine this wonderful scene like a great enemy." ”

Staff Officer Li nodded to him deeply and smiled, "I'm sorry, I'm so excited." Get up and sit down for a while and have a cigarette. ”

As he spoke, he took out a box of paper cigarettes and took a picture of him.

Adjutant Zhang said: "I still sleep well, as soon as the morning dawns, the enemy planes should come to bomb, I still have a task, to deal with air raids!" ”

The lock pillar sat down on the side and said, "Our 26th Division is really the most able to endure the threat of aircraft. A unit, some under-trained troops, collapsed as soon as people bombed it twice. This morning, when the enemy planes attacked, I heard that our anti-aircraft guns almost shot down, is that true? ”

Adjutant Zhang said: "Our anti-aircraft artillery company is really hardworking, but our artillery is too small, and the lack is 'Enlewin', and it is really not easy to deal with batch after batch of aircraft groups." ”

He couldn't bear to say it bluntly, and sandwiched such a sentence in English. Staff Officer Li said: "With so many hard battles, we have suffered from too inferior equipment. However, as long as we can grit our teeth and drag down the time, this shortcoming will always be slowly remedied, and I am always optimistic. Because with good equipment, we can fight better battles. Speaking of which, I have to add a few words about this afternoon's fierce battle, and the head of the artillery regiment, Jin Dingzhou, worked very hard. He himself ran to the observation post to observe the command, and he did not know whether the enemy had discovered this, or whether it was unintentional, but their guns had increased the range, and four or five shells fell near the artillery observation post. Commander Jin didn't move, observed carefully, and commanded the cannon on the phone. Thanks to his efforts, every shell we fired landed in the enemy's wave-like ranks. ”

As he was talking, several people in the room immediately heard the noise of buzzing airplane motors, right overhead, brushing! Bang! Brush Brush Brush! Bang! The sound of the bomb falling through the air and the explosion of the bomb landing were connected.

The lock post looked out of the window, and there was only a little fish belly, so he said: "The sky is still just dawning, and the enemy planes are coming, how many are there?" ”

Staff Officer Li, who went out and came back, said: "This time it was not good, there are sixteen in total, you be careful!" ”

With that, he rushed out again.

Suddenly, the two outward-facing windows flashed inward and clanged. I also felt that something was wrong, so I quickly went underground. But before the man could lie down, a gust of hot air poured in through the window, like a wall falling. He was about to lie down, but the hot wind helped him, pushing him to the ground.

And it was not just the wind that fell on him, but also small pebbles and grains of sand. With this situation, he knew that he had been shot nearby, and he was silent for a minute or two, and there was no second hot wind blowing, so he immediately jumped up and walked to the door of the house to see what was going on. This is the side of the original office of the Central Bank, stepping into the lobby, where the utensils on display are as usual, as are the people sitting at the desks inside.

Looking at the location of the telephone switchboard at the entrance of the air-raid shelter from a distance, the operator was busy wiring, of course, without any damage. Just standing and concentrating, a herald came out of the division commander's office and walked straight to the front and said, the division commander sent the staff officer to have something to say. He walked to the division commander's office and saw Fei Ge taking a map of Wuhan City, putting it on a small table, under a kerosene lamp, and was reading it quietly.

Ma Debi was directing the combat troops outside the city on the telephone, and the sound of the plane's motor overhead and the bomb explosion around the division headquarters were as if they were not like that, although they were all in one piece.

(To be continued)