The battle on the positions became more intense, watching the enemy who had been forced back rush up again, the shooting on the positions became more intense, and the explosions of grenades came one after another. The machine guns on both sides are the focus of the opponent's attack, the first two machine gunners of the first company have been killed, Chang Jianshi once again picked up the machine gun and fired, the casualties of the first company are getting bigger and bigger, the left flank position is under the attack of a group of enemies, sending a signal for help, Chang Jianshi had to draw a squad from the front to reinforce, after this squad left, the right flank was in a hurry again, Chang Jianshi was in a hurry, and the last cooking squad was also sent. The position of the first company was crumbling, but it never fell.

Zheng Junyan and Liang Hongen were terrified in the back, and the performance of the attacking troops was heroic enough, they rushed forward three times, and were knocked down three times, seeing the corpses spread all over the field, and the blood flowed like a river.

"Blow the trumpet and order them to rush over!" Liang Hongen also let go, he originally planned to break through the outer defense line with seven or eight hundred casualties, and the rest would be handed over to Yang Genghe, but now it seems that if the Northern Expeditionary Army in the peripheral positions is so tenacious, seven or eight hundred people may not be enough, at least half of the troops will be compensated here; But now he had no choice.

The loud charge sounded on the position, blood, made everyone crazy, the enemy battalion commander howled and waved the command knife, driving the soldiers to charge, in the face of the surging enemy troops, the soldiers on the position had no time to pull the bolt to shoot, and rushed out of the trench with their bright bayonets.

Chang Jianshi grabbed the rifle next to him and rushed out of the trench, facing the rushing enemy is a stab, the enemy was caught off guard, and he was pierced through the heart, and then he stabbed down several enemies in a row, his bravery and officer uniform attracted the attention of the enemy, and soon gathered a few enemies around him, Chang Jianshi immediately fell into passivity, left cover and block, embarrassed, several soldiers of a company found out about his situation, roared into the battle group, rescued Chang Jianshi, and then they formed a war group.

As soon as the group was formed, the power of the usual training was immediately revealed, and in the blink of an eye five or six enemies were killed by their swords, while only one of them himself was slightly wounded.

Scuffles were scattered throughout the position, and a lone company of soldiers was quickly killed under the siege of the superior enemy, while the group of soldiers was surrounded by a circle of enemy corpses.

Blood rushes wildly, watering the ground beneath your feet; People are scattered, fighting on the line of life and death.

Those with tenacious fighting spirit win, and those with tenacious wills live.

"Beat them down! Kill! Chang Jianshi roared, covered in blood, and rushed towards the place where the enemy had the most, and the people who stood in his way were invincible. His bravery aroused the morale of a company of soldiers, who rose to the last of their strength to kill the enemy. And Sun Jun did not show weakness, and mustered Yu Yong to come forward.

The troops on the positions had exhausted their last moments, and whoever could get support would win the battle, and the commanders on both sides quickly discovered this.

Song Xiongfu personally led three companies to reinforce it, and almost at the same time Liang Hongen also ordered a battalion to reinforce it.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

The deafening sound of killing, Song Xiongfu's distance was much shorter after all, he rushed into the position first, and the morale of the soldiers of the company who received the support of the fresh army was greatly boosted, and a fierce attack, the enemy threw down the corpses and retreated, and at this moment their reinforcements were only three hundred meters.

"Don't pursue! Don't chase! Song Xiongfu shouted: "Immediately enter the position, enter the position." Beat! ”

Song Xiongfu grabbed one machine gun and began to fire fiercely, and soon the four machine guns began to howl, and the fleeing enemy and reinforcements fell down, and the soldiers who jumped into the trench also immediately began to emit a barrage like rain.

Under the barrage, the enemy was killed and wounded, and retreated like a tide; The battlefield was calm for the time being.

"Good company! Good kind of Chang Jian poem! I'm going to give you credit! Company Commander! Chang Jianshi! Song Xiongfu looked at the position, there were corpses everywhere, there were some companies and some enemies, but the number of enemies was obviously much higher than that of the first company, and he couldn't help but praise loudly.

"Report to the battalion commander, the company commander Chang has died." A bloodied soldier stood up and replied.

Song Xiongfu was stunned, and said for a long time: "Where is it?" Take me to see it. ”

Chang Jianshi's face was blackened by the smoke of gunpowder, his eyes were wide with anger, and he leaned on the side of the trench, with four or five bullet holes in his military uniform on his chest.

"On our way to the enemy, the enemy suddenly opened fire on the company commander, the company commander," said one of the soldiers with tears in his eyes.

Song Xiongfu silently closed Chang Jianshi's eyes, and said in a low voice: "Good brother, you go first, brother and I will arrive later." ”

Then he looked up and said to a few soldiers: "Find a remote place to bury it, dig deeper, and pay attention to the artillery." ”

"What about the Li Party representatives?" Song Xiongfu asked again.

"Sacrificed too."

After a bloody battle, there were less than 70 people left in the company, all the company commanders and party representatives were killed, three platoon commanders, and two were killed. Song Xiongfu organized the remaining people into a platoon, handed it to the surviving platoon commander, and asked him to take it to the back to rest and act as a reserve. The front-line positions were handed over to the third company.

Soon after the frontal attack was repulsed, the gunfire from the west also stopped.

Peng Dequan's style of play is different from Liang Hongen, he relied on the soldiers to take multiple waves of uninterrupted continuous impact to attack, this method of operation brought great trouble to Cai Yue, he commanded the eighth battalion to repel the enemy's five attacks in a row, and the first-line position was broken through twice, both times he personally led reinforcements to the front line to hold the position. As a result, his 8th battalion suffered more than 80 casualties, and the new commander of the 22nd Company, Wang Yushan, died.

The morning assault was over, and both sides retreated to their respective positions, bloodstained from their wounds, waiting for the next fight.

"Damn, even Wu Dashuai's third division was not so capable of fighting." Zheng Junyan muttered in his heart, he felt difficult now. At noon, Peng Dequan's losses were reported, and he threw in two whole battalions, and the one and a half battalions responsible for the frontal attack lost more than 200 men, plus the diversion offensive on both flanks, he lost a whole battalion of troops. In comparison, Liang Hongen's loss of more than 200 people does not seem to be so much.

The problem was that he lost a full 500 people, but he couldn't even capture the first line of positions, and this battle made Zheng Junyan's scalp tingle, and for the first time he felt that he had refused too quickly.

After lunch, Zheng Junyan still ordered to continue the attack in the afternoon.

"We must intensify the attack, the more fierce we attack, the faster they will retreat from the east, so in the afternoon, we must not only attack, but also increase our efforts, Brigade Commander Liang, don't worry, I will give you how much I lose."

Liang Hongen nodded wordlessly, and the two times before and after combined, the losses of his troops had reached more than three hundred, which was close to one percent of the total number of troops.

"Does the brigade commander really want to spend his money?" After coming down, Liang Hongen's chief of staff, Zhao Zhishang, asked quietly.

Liang Hongen nodded and didn't speak, and Zhao Zhishang still asked puzzled: "What should I do in the future?" ”

"Xin Shuai treats us well, if you don't make a contribution at this time, you won't have a chance in the future. When the troops are gone, they will be gone. Liang Hongen sighed and said, in fact, he had a complaint against Zheng Junyan in his heart, he thought that Zhuang Jihua's request was not too much, Sun Chuanfang couldn't come, and it was always okay to send a telegram.

In the afternoon, the enemy adjusted the direction of the attack, Liang Hongen and Peng Dequan at the same time set their eyes on the junction of the first regiment and the third regiment, and each of them sent a battalion, and a total of two battalions of troops attacked the junction with multiple waves of attack tactics, which were the main attack tactics of the Yueben army, and were taught by Gangcun Ningci, a consultant hired by Sun Chuanfang.

After Sun Chuanfang served as the overseer of Zhejiang, in order to strengthen the strength of the troops, he did not hesitate to spend a lot of money, on the one hand, he spent a huge amount of money to purchase a large number of machine guns and cannons to enhance the equipment of the troops and improve the treatment of soldiers, and on the other hand, he also hired some consultants to help train the troops, and Gangcun Ningci was one of the best.

After the development of this multi-wave attack tactic, it formed layers of momentum, one after another, wave after wave, which brought great psychological shock to the defenders and shook their will.

As soon as Zheng Junyan's attack began, Zhuang Jihua felt that the direction of the enemy's attack had changed, and there was only one company of troops on the front, and there was a confrontation with the third company, and more shells fell on the position between the twenty-third company and the second company.

Zhuang Jihua immediately transferred the fourth company from the second battalion, put the fourth company behind the second company, and went up to plug the loophole at any time.

Sure enough, in just an hour, in the enemy's wave after wave of attacks, they entered the position of the second company and the second platoon at the westernmost point, and the remaining seven or eight soldiers of the second platoon did not retreat, and they started a white-knuckle fight with nearly 100 enemies on the position. However, their efforts paid off, and reinforcements from the Fourth Company arrived.

The arrival of the 4th Company not only blocked the gap in the battle line, but also greatly damaged the enemy's confidence. After that, the enemy was unable to rush to the position again, although he attacked for more than two hours.

The gunfire on the battlefield gradually subsided, the wounded were sent back to the station for treatment, and the soldiers were tired and tired in the bloody trenches, but the commander was nervously thinking of new strategies.

Zhuang Jihua has no choice but to see the move, and the initiative is in the hands of Zheng Junyan.

This day's bloody battle also made Zheng Junyan sober up, and began to realize that if he wanted to conquer Niuhang Station and completely annihilate this Northern Expeditionary Army, he had to pay a great price, and the losses of the three brigades would be extremely large, which would be extremely unfavorable to the future Battle of Nanchang; In addition, in today's one-day battle, the defenders showed no signs of breaking through to the east. Based on this, he concluded that Zhuang Jihua would not take the "road of life" in the east, and he must adjust the attack deployment.

(To be continued)