readx; "That military seat said that dying inside the city is as glorious as dying outside the city, but please kill at least two devils before you sacrifice, otherwise you can't die!" Pingzi's voice was a little generous when he said this: "I think okay, I'm also going to kill the enemy with you, and I won't go back!" ”

"No, you have to get back to the military seat!" Rong You said in a slightly unquestioning tone: "You cross the river with us immediately, and I will send someone directly to send you to the military seat." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

"No, I want to kill devils!" Pingzi's temper is getting stronger and stronger.

"Listen to it, hurry up and prepare the equipment to cross the river, and withdraw from the position in an hour" Rong You smiled slightly, no longer caring what Pingzi said.

"Master!" All the preparations for crossing the river, I have already prepared, Deputy Division Commander Pan smiled slightly.

"You" Rong Youyou sighed slightly: "In this case, you can cross the river immediately and go to the city to accept the new defense area!" ”

All the officers and men of the 190th Division and the 54th Division's headquarters of less than 1,000 men began to assemble and crossed the Leishui overnight in the frenzied pursuit of the Japanese army, and it was already dawn when they arrived in the city.

In the northern suburbs of Hengyang, an assault team of more than 70 people of the Chinese army was breaking through the positions of the 3rd Division and 7th Regiment and invading Miaoqian Street. Major Xu Xueqi, commander of the 1st Battalion, personally led the reserve company to carry out a counter-charge and launched a house-to-house street battle with the enemy. The fierce battle was fought until noon, and the enemy was repulsed, but Battalion Commander Xu was unfortunately killed.

Zhou Qingxiang, commander of the 3rd Division, immediately ordered Mu Hongcai, deputy commander of the battalion, to take over as battalion commander.

On the night of July 1, more than 200 troops broke through the position of the 3rd Battalion in Waziping. Fang Renjie, commander of the 7th Regiment, commanded Major Xie, commander of the 2nd Battalion, to lead the troops to counterattack, but he was repeatedly defeated and had to retreat to the second line of reserve positions.

"Report to the divisional seat, the Waziping position was broken through by the enemy. I counterattacked several times without success, and now I have retreated to the second line. Major Xie cried on the phone.

"How can this be true? How dare Zhenglong lose his position? Zhou Qingxiang, the commander of the 3rd Division, was furious: "Pass on my order, the commander of the 7th Regiment, Fang Renjie, immediately remove from his post, and immediately put the commander of the 3rd Battalion, Li Guilu, on the spot to correct the law, so as to ban You"

The north gate has jurisdiction over the Shendu, Caoqiao, and Shiguzui lines, which are the defense areas of the 3rd Division and the 9th Regiment. Here, the devil also paid a heavy price, and it was here, because of the outstanding performance of the 9th regiment, the third division of Commander Zhou was later called the "core powerhouse"!

On the afternoon of June 28, the brigade attacked the Shendu position. As soon as the stormtroopers attacked, these devils first stepped on the mine array, and then a large number of devil officers were attacked by the cold guns of the regiment's blockers. After finally breaking through the obstacle and reaching the outer trench, the machine gun in the bunker rang out again, sweeping down a large area. When the devils crossed the outer trench and rushed to the defenders' positions, they were immediately blocked by crossfire from both sides, and they couldn't raise their heads, and then a group of grenades flew at the same time

The front of the position of the 9th regiment was full of corpses of the soldiers.

Unwilling to fail, the devils who suffered heavy casualties began to reinforce on a large scale at about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, with group artillery bombardment, aircraft bombing, poison gas fumigation, and tank crushing, and the 9th Regiment's position at Wangchengao was finally broken through. Platoon commander Huang Zongzhou continued to command the remaining more than 20 soldiers to fight to the death against the vicious Yue army, and the battle lasted until 9 o'clock on July 2, and all of them died heroically. Captain Xu Jian, the commander of the 9th Company, and two platoon commanders were also killed one after another.

Shigu Street, north of the city, the headquarters of the 3rd Regiment of the 9th Division.

The regiment commander, Colonel Xiao Gui Tiantian, reported the battle situation to Zhou Qingxiang: "The battle between the two forward positions of our regiment at Wangcheng Pass and Laiyan Pagoda has been unprecedentedly fierce. The 8th and 9th companies of the 3rd Battalion were all killed, and the 3rd Company of the Machine was also killed and wounded. Even the platoon commanders were all killed, and it was really difficult to continue fighting against the enemy in the narrow area on the north bank of the Caohe River. In order to secure the main position at the North Gate, please authorize the withdrawal of all troops to the south bank and blow up the grass bridge at the appropriate time. ”

"You can retreat, but you must hold your position on the south bank of the steaming water. Even if there is only one battalion, one company, and one platoon left, I must hold the position, and I will never be allowed to take a step back! ”

"Yes, the people are in the position!" Regiment Commander Xiao swore to the division commander on the phone.

In the face of the difficult situation, on July 3, Fang Xianjue, the commander of the 10th Army, made a decision that seemed extremely important in the future: he ordered the 8th Regiment of the 3rd Division, which was still blocking the Yue Army in the area of Hengshan and Nanyue, to quickly break through the enemy position and rebuild!

"Master Zhou? Please immediately ascertain the location of the 8th Regiment and inform them that they have completed the task of blocking the delayed army, and order it to quickly get rid of the enemy in front of them, gather up the troops and move into Hengyang, and quickly move closer to the army division headquarters. ”

"Yes, carry out the order immediately!" Zhou Qingxiang replied without hesitation.

At that time, Colonel Zhang Jinxiang, commander of the 8th Regiment of the 3rd Division, conveyed the orders of the army and division headquarters:

"Brothers, we have completed the task of delaying the enemy army, in front of us is Hengyang City, the army commander and division commander are waiting for us, do you have the confidence to enter the city?"

"Yes!" The brothers replied in unison.

Regiment Commander Zhang mobilized all the large and small mortars of the whole regiment to bombard the enemy, and when the commander of the army also summoned four planes of our air force to bomb the fortifications. On this way, the army was suddenly attacked from the front and rear, and had to retreat along the north bank of the steaming river.

At the same time, on the south bank of the Caohe River, the 9th Regiment of the division used wooden boats and bamboo rafts to set up pontoon bridges to respond, and the 8th Regiment smoothly crossed south and entered Hengyang City at dusk as originally planned.

On the morning of July 7, Commander Fang instructed the political and work departments to hold a welcoming ceremony and delivered a speech: "Brothers and friends, we are here today, because today is of special significance, it is not only a commemoration of the 77th Anti-Japanese War, but also a good day to warmly welcome the victorious return of my heroic 8th Regiment brothers. The warriors of the 8th Regiment broke through the enemy's heavy resistance, broke the iron wall of the Japanese army, and returned to the embrace of their own army victoriously, and joined everyone in the city.

Our 8th Regiment broke through the enemy position with the strength of a single regiment and rushed into the city. This fully shows that the position of the Chinese army is not impregnable, and the so-called ironclad encirclement of the Chinese army is not an invulnerable iron bucket.

The more than 1,000 warriors of my 8th Regiment are all good. With their new force added to the ranks of the defenders, our strength is stronger and our confidence is stronger. The devils have nothing to fear, and now we have repelled the many attacks of the devils, with the strong backing of the people of the whole country, and the support and assistance of the brother troops, the siege of the army will eventually fail; As long as our army is united, we can attack it and retreat to defend the strategic core of Hengyang, and when the surrounding brother troops are counter-surrounded, we can gather and annihilate the evil devils under Hengyang City. ”

In the afternoon, a military meeting attended by officers above the battalion level was held in the conference room of the military headquarters of the 10th Army, and Fang Xianjue once again made a wartime speech and made adjustments to the contingent defending the city.

"Ladies and gentlemen, since the start of the war in Hengyang, I have fought bloody battles with the enemy for ten years, and successfully defeated several attacks by the devils, which is the result of the proper command of the commanders at all levels of our army, and the soldiers and brothers who obeyed the orders and fought hard. Judging from the current battlefield situation, it may not be enough to hold out for two weeks as the commission said, and the little devil will never be willing to fail, and will definitely make a comeback, and bigger and more tragic battles are still to come. Therefore, we have to prepare for combat for a longer period of time.

Judging by the enemy's offensive, the focus has always been on the southwestern outskirts of the city. The fact that our 8th Regiment was able to storm into the city further proved that the enemy forces besieging the city to the north were very weak. Therefore, the focus of the next phase of the operation will also be on the southwestern suburbs. To this end, the military department decided to adjust the defensive deployment as follows:

1. The 3rd Division, except for the 7th Regiment, which served as the main position of Yilai Miao Front Street, Qingshan Street, Duxian Temple, and Yanglin Temple; The 8th Regiment occupied the second line of positions from the northern half of the Wuguiling Heights to Jielong Mountain; After the 9th Regiment handed over the position northwest of the city to the 190th Division, it occupied the second line of positions on Tianma Mountain and Yueping Mountain.

2. The 190th Division, that is, to take over the garrison of the first-line positions of Yilai Miaoqian Street, Yanwuping, Duxian Temple, and Shiguzui of the 9th Regiment of the 3rd Division; It is still responsible for the vigilance along the river north of the Iron Furnace Gate Wharf.

3. On the left bank of the Xiangjiang River, the guard along the river south of the Tielumen Wharf was temporarily replaced by the 54th Division (with only one battalion of troops).

Fourth, until the other units have no order, the task of holding the original position remains unchanged.

Fang Xianjue didn't sleep all night, and in the face of the powerful offensive of the Yue army, he couldn't calm his mind down.

"Junza, the devil's attack is too fierce!" Division Commander Ge on the southern front called: "The commander of the 68th Division, Lieutenant General Tsutsumi Sanshunan, has newly arrived and is clamoring to avenge his old commander, and the artillery fire is extremely fierce!" ”

"No matter what lieutenant general he is, hit Lao Tzu hard, he wants to take revenge, Lao Tzu will take revenge!" Fang Xianjue put on the coat he had just taken off: "I'll go to the front-line command headquarters immediately, and you can come over too!" ”

"The little devil of the dog, everything is used" There was a coughing sound on the other side of the phone, and Fang Xianjue wanted to say something, but the line had been interrupted.

It turned out that the army first gathered the 5th Wing of the Reading Mountain Artillery, the infantry artillery team, and the rapid-fire artillery team to attack the position of our 10th Division, and then gathered the main force of the 68th Division to launch a strong attack on our position, clamoring to sweep away the balance of Yang and annihilate the defenders and avenge the division commander Sakuma.

The entire southwestern position was shaken, and Division Commander Ge's telephone was only cut off when the bomb blew up the wires.

The barbed wire fence on the periphery of the forward positions of the 29th Battalion and the 2nd Company of the 2nd Regiment was silent, as if it was completely out of harmony with the situation of the surrounding battle.

The fool who was squatting with a gun in his arms buzzed: "Haha, rats, so many rats are coming!" ”

"Rats, rats have gone to the river, the dog said, it's rare that there are no devils today, what is in the way of the rats!" Hadron twisted the fool's nose: "Look at it, don't let the rats bite your ears!" ”

"I'm not afraid!" The fool laughed stupidly: "Rats come here, I'll bombard them with a grenade!" ”

"You dare, the grenade wants to hit the devil, is that to beat the mouse!" Qiangzi smiled: "Rat meat can still be eaten, devil meat, do you dare to eat it!" ”

"Don't dare!" The fool replied with a smirk.

The soldiers with guns on the battlefield all snored, and Hirako finally saw her eyelids up and down, and she collapsed to the side and fell asleep, only the fool, staring ahead.

His home was completely destroyed by the devils in the Battle of Changde a few months ago, the villagers of the whole village were slaughtered to the end, he took a lot of effort to find the pre-10th division to ask to join the army, at first the company commander did not want him, he relied on not leaving, and later on the position, he used the flat herding cattle to practice the unique skill, throwing grenades a quasi, and throwing far, others cast one, he has great strength, a surname at a time to throw three or five cluster grenades, others throw forty or fifty meters, he throws * ten meters, far even hundreds of meters, Of course, he doesn't know anything except throwing bombs, and he can't even learn to shoot guns, but on this trick, the company commander accepted him, and he is also called the treasure of the 2nd company, this treasure has two meanings, one is to say that he is stupid, and the other is the original meaning, in terms of bombing, he is indeed a treasure, and his bomb can be compared to the previous mortar in a sense, which is very valuable.

The fool was laughing, sometimes looking at the sky, sometimes at the ground, when suddenly a strange sound attracted him.

"Rats, don't make trouble, fools will throw bombs!" The fool muttered.

The sound became more and more wrong, and the fool inexplicably felt a burst of evil, and a yellow tweed color flashed.

"Devil, devil is coming!" The fool shouted.

The devil who was fiddling with the barbed wire dozens of meters away didn't expect the other party to find out, so he simply raised his saber and ordered the troops to rush.

"Blow you up, blow you!" The fool always had grenades at his side - he didn't know how to use a gun, and as soon as he opened the box, he threw it at the devils who rushed at him.

The "boom" position was a mess.

"What's wrong, what's wrong! You fool! As soon as Pingzi closed his eyes, he didn't expect that the fool really threw a grenade, and just wanted to say a few words, he found the figure of countless devils in the light.

"Devils, a lot of devils are coming!" The fool screamed as he threw a grenade outside.

The officers and men of the 2nd Company finally woke up.

"Like a fool, take a grenade and blow up these dogs!" Company Commander Zhou gave the order.

"Xu Dabeard, a few of you, the heavy machine gun also cooperates!"

The position flashed everywhere, and the devils who were half-lying on the ground never expected the counterattack of the [***] team to be so timely, and the sneak attack at night, without the cooperation of the tank and artillery, was lightly armed, and the [***] team was condescending, throwing grenades from the height of the trench of more than ten meters, and the powerful weapons and ladders during the day could not reach the trenches.

The howls of crying fathers and mothers sounded outside the position, and the discovered soldiers were almost powerless to fight back.

"Yaga, retreat!" The commander of the army gave the order in the confusion, and then rushed back desperately, he could no longer care about his subordinates who had become live dumplings.

At this moment, machine guns rang out from the platoon strongholds and foxholes outside the position, and grenades and shells rained down one after another, and hundreds of troops had no chance of survival.

The south-facing side of Zhangjiashan was flattened, and this artificially made cliff was seven or eight meters high, and on the top of the cliff was a machine-gun position, and several machine guns formed a group of crossfire, no matter which direction the army climbed the cliff, it would be placed in the machine-gun fire net. There was a man at each machine gun point, in which bullets, food and water were placed. The machine gunner walked into the dug fortifications, placed them on the eyes of two bricks, covered the top of the fortifications with stone slabs, and poured cement sand. In this way, even if the artillery shells of the army fell on the top of the fortifications, the fortifications were unscathed.

The cement in the United States is very good, and shells hitting such fortifications will only smash out a few stars of white powder.

The two brick-sized lookout holes, the only window of contact between the Heavy and the outside world, are also shooting holes. Every machine gunner who walked into such a fortification did not intend to leave alive and will not leave alive. This fortification is their tomb.

The machine-gun position of the [***] team of the Chinese army made the army pay a very heavy price. The Yue army was never able to climb the cliff seven or eight meters high, and as long as they approached the cliff, machine gun fire from different directions would knock the Yue army down. At first, the army also tried to climb through the ladder, but later the army did not need the ladder, because at this time, the corpses of the army were piled up in the open space in front of the cliff. Some of the corpses of the Yue army also blocked the muzzle of the machine gun, and the [***] machine gunners in the fortifications could not go out and move, so they could only see the attacking army on the opposite side by smashing the corpse of the army with a machine gun.

After the troops occupied the machine-gun positions, they were greeted by foxholes. The fighters in the foxhole stood in a pit more than a meter deep, armed with rifles. They still didn't want to leave alive, the foxhole was surrounded by mines, and whoever stepped on it would explode, and the fighters themselves naturally did not step on it, and they fought until they fell.

At the headquarters of the 10th Division, the signal corps went to report: "Division, all the trenches of our division have been attacked by devils, and they have repelled the enemy's attack with grenades.

"The little devil can't be bright and dark!" Master Ge sneered: "What's the situation, it's all right!" ”

"They didn't mention their losses, they just wanted to distribute more grenades!"

"Grenades, too many!" Division Commander Ge smiled, it turned out that before the Battle of Hengyang, the National Political Axe Military Committee had already found out that the enemy might attack Hengyang, although more troops were not allocated to the past, but there were still more weapons and ammunition temporarily allocated, no wonder Division Commander Ge was so confident.

"By the way, why can't the phone get through, you go check it!"

"Report to the master's seat, the telephone line was blown up by the devil's artillery fire just now, and now it has been connected!"

"Alright, you can go back!" Master Ge smiled, he was anxious to give Fang Xianjue a call to report the situation here.

When Pingzi returned to the military headquarters, it was already dawn, and Fang Xianjue was wearing an overcoat and sitting on a chair to pretend to sleep.

Hirako quietly entered the room, took out a thin layer of her quilt, and quietly covered the military seat, and then tiptoed towards her room.

"Stop!" Suddenly, a familiar voice sounded, and Pingzi was stunned, and his expression showed embarrassment: "Military seat, I"

"Oh, you covered me? It's okay, I'm not sleepy, I just close my eyes! ”

"Quick, come here and take the quilt away!" Fang Xianjue's tone was kind.

"Whoa!" Pingzi nodded hurriedly, hugged the quilt and put it in the room.

"Don't hide, come and tell me about the situation!" Commander Fang seemed to be in high spirits today: "I heard that your performance is very good!" ”

"I, I'll just send them a few words!" Pingzi blushed: "It's still torn by them!" ”

(To be continued)