readx; At 9 o'clock in the morning, the division headquarters ordered the 151st Regiment to immediately go to Lujiaping to assemble and stand by, and use one regiment to guard Luwu and Shikongjiao. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Liu Sihai moved towards Lujiaping as ordered.

After arriving at Lujiaping, he sent the 2nd Battalion to guard in the direction of Shek Kong Kok, and ordered plainclothes to search for the enemy situation in Qingtang and Huangdong. At 5 p.m., the plainclothes team reported: "There is no trace of the enemy in Qingtang and Huangdong, and according to the local people, the enemy has returned to Qingtang and Xiaoyan this morning, and the enemy is in a state of embarrassment this time, carrying many dead bodies on pack horses, and the number of wounded soldiers is even larger." ”

Liu Sihai was about to report to the division commander of the enemy.

On the 17th, he received a report from the military headquarters: "The enemy who attacked Xiao Yandong this time is the enemy chief Watanabe Wing, and the enemy was blocked by our nest regiment at Luwu and suffered heavy casualties. The captain of the enemy chieftain Watanabe was also killed by me, and he is holding a meeting in Koyan to mourn. ”

At 8 o'clock in the afternoon, the army commander He Xuan personally called and said: "You fought well and happily at Luwu, and not only repelled the enemy, but also killed the commander of the enemy chieftain Watanabe. Just now, Director Bai called and said that last night the enemy's Nanjing radio broadcast said: The army was sweeping in the area east of Yongqin Road, and encountered a fierce enemy at Luwu, and the tenacity of combat effectiveness and the fierceness of artillery fire were unprecedented since the battle in southern Guizhou. Director Bai encouraged that this is the glorious record of our army and should continue to carry it forward. This is the glorious achievement of your regiment, and we should encourage all officers and men to encourage it. ”

Liu Sihai smiled. In this battle, he killed the general of the highest rank of the devil in the invasion of Guinan, and became famous overnight in the whole army.

However, Liu Sihai did not stop attacking, he firmly remembered Commander Gao Fei's instructions to him, looking for opportunities to strike at the army and delay the progress of the army!

Soon, Liu Sihai set his sights on Luojing Mountain, which was controlled by the Yue Army

But it will not be easy to take this devil's stronghold. Luojingshan is a company stronghold of the army, with two trenches, a barbed wire fence and a deer barricade; In addition, there are machine-gun bunkers. At around 10 o'clock that night, Liu Sihai, with the strength of a battalion of the 3rd Battalion, personally led the 7th Company and the temporarily formed sabotage group to the front. The troops were trained for night battles, and there was no sound at all during the march of the whole battalion. The sabotage team first destroyed the deer and opened the gap in the attack position, but when they destroyed the barbed wire, they rang the alarm bell set by the devils and were discovered by the devils. Liu Sihai immediately ordered: "The 7th Company rushed up and attacked the enemy with heavy firepower. ”

As soon as the 7th company opened fire, several companies behind also caught up. The whole battalion surrounded Luo Jingshan and fired at the devil's barracks with blazing firepower. When these devils heard the gunshots, some of them didn't have time to put on their shirts, and some didn't care about putting on their pants, so they hurried into the position, and the two sides started a fierce battle.

The morale of the whole battalion was very strong, the soldiers in front fell, and the ones behind immediately rushed forward. After more than an hour of fierce fighting, the soldiers could not support it and fled for the road, and hand-to-hand combat broke out between the two sides. In this hand-to-hand combat, the officers and men of the 3rd Battalion took a lot of advantage.

The battle began at 11:30 p.m., and at about 1 a.m. the next day, the battle was over.

More than 40 corpses were abandoned by devils, and more than 20 people were injured. The 3rd Battalion took Luo Jing Mountain. However, the battalion also suffered more than 70 casualties, the commander of the 7th company was seriously wounded, the lieutenant Ye platoon commander was killed, and the second lieutenant platoon commander and the machine gun company lieutenant platoon commander were wounded. After occupying Luojing Mountain, they did not rest, and immediately repaired the fortifications to prevent the enemy from counterattacking.

At about 8 o'clock in the morning of the next day, about 2,000 infantry and artillery troops, accompanied by four howitzers, launched a counteroffensive against Luojingshan under the cover of three aircraft. The army bombarded the position with artillery fire and aircraft, and only after about half an hour did the infantry attack. Liu Sihai can't remember how many battles he has fought with devils, and he has already figured out the rules of devils.

When the enemy artillery bombarded, he and his officers and men hid in the fortifications repaired on the anti-slope position, reduced casualties, and only sent a few monitoring posts to monitor the devil infantry. The devil infantry attacked, and when they approached six or seven hundred meters in front of the position, the officers and men quickly entered the position; When they approached within 400 meters of the position, light and heavy machine guns and mortars fired fiercely; When they approached within 200 meters, the rifles also began to fire. Because the 3rd Battalion was condescending and waiting for work, the first attack of the Yue army was quickly repulsed.

Liu Sihai immediately ordered: "Each company will leave a monitoring post, and the rest will quickly withdraw to the anti-slope position and prepare for another battle." ”

Sure enough, soon the artillery fire of the Japanese army began to bombard again, and the planes were also in the sky to help the battle. This time the army bombarded and shelled for about 40 minutes, and the infantry attacked a second time. The repaired fortifications of the 3rd Battalion were damaged by the devil's artillery and aircraft bombs, but when the devils rushed up, the officers and men used the crater as a cover and exerted crossfire to kill the devil as much as possible.

After more than two hours of fierce fighting, the enemy soldiers were repulsed.

At about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the army launched a third attack.

This time the devil attacked, and the devil's strength was not as good as the previous two times. The officers and men of the 3rd Battalion took advantage of the victory to become more and more courageous. At about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, he beat the devil back in embarrassment. The commander of the 9th Company was killed.

After repelling the enemy, Liu Sihai ordered the 9th Company to occupy a position on the high mountain on the left flank of Luojing Mountain: "You build fortifications there, strengthen the defense, and prepare for another battle." ”

"What about us?" Wu Haiqing, the acting company commander of the 7th Company, asked.

"It's still fighting where you are, but you must hold it!" Liu Sihai waved his arm to show his authority.

Then he himself took the reserves, the machine-gun company and the battalion command post to occupy positions on the high hill in the right rear of the 7th company, build fortifications, and cover the security of the right flank of the 7th company.

At the end of the day, at night, Liu Sihai calculated that the whole battalion had killed and injured more than 300 devils, but he also killed one company commander, two injured platoon commanders, and more than 90 casualties. ”

In the middle of the night, Hei, the elder of the 26th Division, personally patted the telegram: "Good! You have defended Luojing Mountain, which has greatly disrupted the deployment of the army. ”

In the early morning of the third day, the army mobilized a large number of infantry and artillery troops and thousands of troops to attack the Luojingshan position.

This time, they were ruthless and invested a lot of money, surrounded on three sides, and sent three planes to help in the war. The artillery fired shells and bombs dropped by the planes were much more than the previous one, almost like locusts in the sky. The officers and men of the 3rd Battalion led by Liu Sihai were still the same as yesterday, first hiding in the position, and then going into battle to fight. However, after two days of fighting, Liu Sihai felt that his strength was insufficient, and asked his superiors to add 3 light machine guns to each company, and the division commander sent transport troops to the line of fire, and also brought a lot of ammunition.

Liu Sihai personally typed the receipt: "With ammunition and a good gun, you have the confidence to win." ”

This time to defend the position, Liu Sihai adopted a method, close combat.

When the devils approached within 400 meters of the position, the officers and men opened fire and killed the enemy with crossfire nets. After one morning, the entire Luojing Mountain was filled with war, and the corpses of the enemy were in pieces. Most of the battalion insisted on fighting, and when their right hands were injured and they couldn't shoot, they wrapped up their wounds for their comrades and sent bullets to the squad; When the devils attacked at close range, they held a grenade in their left hand, bit open the safety cover with their teeth, and handed it to their comrades: "Throw quickly!" ”

When the battle was raging, suddenly the division headquarters transferred instructions from Gao Fei himself: "Judging from the fighting situation in the past two days, the 3rd Battalion of Liu Sihai's 151st Regiment has been under the greatest pressure. I have given orders to attack several enemy positions and transfer the enemy back to the division to defend the nest in order to relieve the burden of the 3rd Battalion of the 151st Regiment. Tell Liu Sihai to resolutely hold the position and not lose it. ”

Liu Sihai didn't expect that he was valued by the commander-in-chief, so he put down the phone and immediately conveyed the news to the officers and soldiers of all companies: The commander-in-chief has called! Everyone was even more excited, the more they fought, the more they killed, the more courageous they became, and at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, they finally repelled the last attack of the devils.

In the evening, Liu Sihai calculated in the trenches that on the third day, the whole battalion killed and wounded more than 800 soldiers, and there were more than 300 enemy corpses on the battlefield. However, the commander of his 8th company was killed, two platoon commanders were seriously wounded, and the number of casualties among soldiers was still more than 90. This time, Liu Sihai didn't feel distressed: "One for nine, let's fight!" Let's see if there are so many people in your little book to let us Chinese fight! ”

Then, he ordered Wang Zhongwen, the lieutenant platoon commander of the 8th Company, to act as the company commander, and to hold the Luojingshan position together with the 7th Company, under the unified command of Wang Zhongwen. Zhang Peide, the lieutenant platoon commander of the heavy machine gun company, was wounded and did not retreat, so he led the whole platoon with the 7th company to hold Luo Jingshan.

At this time, after three days of fierce fighting, more than half of the battalion had suffered casualties, and although the morale was strong, everyone was extremely tired. Liu Sihai considered that Luojingshan was a commanding height, and the enemy would definitely continue to attack, so he decided to let the deputy battalion commander go and pull up half of the two battalions that he regarded as reserves.

At dawn on the fourth day, Sun Jintu, the commander of the 5th Company of the reinforcements, led the whole company to arrive, and Liu Sihai ordered his Wentingshan platoon to reinforce Luo Jingshan, and the remaining two platoons were used as battalion reserves.

At about 9 o'clock in the morning, the army dispatched more than 1,000 people from Yangzi to attack Luojing Mountain. But there are fewer devils, and more than 800 people are puppet soldiers. It turned out that Gao Fei saw that the "transfer of troops" had worked, and after the main force launched an attack on the Yue army, the forces of the Yue army were dispersed, and the enemy attacking Luo Jing Mountain was reduced. The officers and men of the battalion became more confident. At this time, although most of them had their heads wrapped around their heads with straps and their injured arms hanging from their chests, they all held their heads high and said, "Don't worry, Tuanza, we will resolutely destroy the invading enemy." ”

The day's fighting was much shorter, ending in just over four hours, with more than 170 enemy soldiers killed and wounded.

This Luo Jingshan is between Huangjiaji and Yangzi, directly blocking the traffic between the two places, so that the armies of the two places cannot support each other, so the army must pull out this nail, otherwise it will be passive everywhere. Therefore they continued their attack on the fifth day.

However, from the fifth day onwards, the army changed its tactics, only incessantly shelling, sometimes planes flew in to bomb, but the infantry did not attack. On the sixth and seventh days, as if they had suddenly gone mad, they attacked day and night, each with no more than five or six hundred men, and no more than 800 at most.

It turned out that they wanted to toss the defenders to the ground from exhaustion, and then find a fighter to recapture Luojing Mountain. But Liu Sihai led the officers and soldiers as if they had eaten stones, no matter how they fought, no matter how energetic, the enemy soldiers could never succeed.

During this period, the 29th Group Army attacked Wangjiahe and Huangjiaji in the northeast of Zhongxiang, with the 150th Division of the 44th Army as the attack force, the 149th Division as the covering force, and the 67th Army as the general reserve.

In this attack and defense of Luojing Mountain, the 470 men of the 3rd Battalion eliminated more than 1,000 enemy troops. Such a record can only be described by the word "brilliant"!

The tide of battle stabilized for the time being, but then the situation suddenly changed.

Originally, the two armies were facing each other in the area of the Xianghe River, but who knows, the Yue army took the initiative to launch a large-scale attack on the 74th Division of the 55th Chinese Army. The division gradually retreated and retreated to the vicinity of Huangjiataizi, where the division headquarters was located, directly threatening the security of the right flank of the main attacking force. Li Hanzhang, the commander of the 74th Division, hurriedly appealed to Shangfeng for help.

It turned out that the army that attacked the 74th Division was a newly transferred Reading Brigade. They were well-armed and arrogant, so they dared to do it again.

That night, the headquarters adjusted the deployment, ordered the 113th Regiment and the 114th Regiment of the 38th Division of the 55th Army to coordinate the attack that night, recover the lost position of the 74th Division, ensure the safety of the right flank of the main attacking force, and transfer the 74th Division to the second line of defense tasks.

Huang Weigang, commander of the 38th Division, ordered the 113th Regiment to be the left attack team and the 114th Regiment to be the right attack team. Fan Lunshan, the commander of the 114th Regiment, took Liu Tongfu's 2nd Battalion as the main attack team and Jin Wenma's 1st Battalion as the assist team.

Liu Sihai did not receive an order, but at that time, he continued to divide his troops with the 1st and 2nd battalions to attack the Yue army, and after he personally led the 3rd battalion to Wangjiataizi, the battalion plainclothes intelligence officer ran over and reported: "There is an enemy situation on the mountain west of Wangjiataizi. ”

"Hostile?" Liu Sihai immediately dispatched an armed reconnaissance group. Soon after, the reconnaissance group reported: "A large force of the enemy is concentrating near Wangjiatai, and the attempt is unknown. ”

"Check it out!"

Liu Sihai then ordered the 7th Company to send a reinforced platoon to set off immediately to seize the commanding heights. An hour later, the reinforced platoon sent someone to report: "The commanding heights of Wangjiataizi have been successfully occupied, and on the Pingding Mountain west of Wangjiataizi, the large army of devils is gathering. ”

Assemble, don't miss the opportunity!

The position occupied by Liu Sihai's reinforced platoon is the highest among the surrounding mountains, and in front of the mountain is a steep cliff, and in front of the steep wall there is a 150-meter-wide deep ditch, which runs through the north and south. On the right flank of the mountain there is a lower hill, and to the right there is a deep ditch blocking it; On the left flank of the mountain is a large ping, which is flat and open, and there is no need to clear the shooting boundary.

This group of assembled troops was secretly operating, and they came here, thinking that there was no squadron nearby, so they were unscrupulous, and even gathered on the flat ground with a big grin.

Liu Sihai led his troops to the high mountain, stretched his eyes and looked down, the place where the devils gathered was a flat-topped mountain, without any barrier, and he vaguely saw the enemy chief talking. As soon as he waved his hand, the officers and soldiers quietly pounced, only seven or eight hundred meters away from the devil, and immediately formed a position.

The devils' assembly area was flat and open, and the 3rd Battalion was condescending, and it was indeed the best chance to destroy them. Liu Sihai quickly concentrated the light and heavy machine guns of the whole battalion and formed two firepower outlets, and arranged the regimental mortar company and the battalion mortar platoon on the first line, which were under the unified command of the mortar company commander, and then ordered: "Aim and shoot directly!" ”

As soon as he fired the signal gun, light and heavy machine guns and mortars immediately fired at the devils, and the shells poured down on the assembly point of the Japanese army. The devils were unprepared, and the shells suddenly exploded, which immediately blew them up in a panic and scattered in all directions, and the commander of the brigade who was speaking was blown up on the spot.

The army lost its command and was in disarray. Liu Sihai had never hit a live target like this, and shouted: "Beat it hard!" Kill these devils! ”

The artillery fire and bullets were too heavy. The army was beaten and had no power to fight back, so it had to lie on the ground and not move, but there were still a number of war horses tied around the assembly point, and they also acted as substitutes for the dead in the artillery fire, and they were killed and wounded a lot. In this surprise attack, the commander of the devil was either killed or wounded, and the command system was completely paralyzed.

Soon, the devil who didn't die began to fight back, but he was still passive everywhere and had the upper hand. This was the first time Liu Sihai had fought a beautiful battle since the Anti-Japanese War, in which the enemy could not fight back.

The battle lasted from early morning until dawn.

After dawn, Liu Sihai led the company commanders and command squad leaders to inspect the terrain in detail, determine the position configuration, divide the combat areas of each company, and then ordered them to immediately build fortifications.

In the morning, the army's reconnaissance planes flew over the sky twice to reconnoitre, but did not launch an attack.

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, more than 3,000 people from the 13th Division and the remnants of the Reading Brigade launched an attack on the position of the 3rd Battalion, with many howitzers. The old routine, they first bombarded the positions with heavy artillery fire. Because it had been prepared, the first shelling was still dodged by the 3rd battalion. When the devil infantry approached about 400 meters in front of the position, Liu Sihai ordered the light and heavy machine guns to open fire at the same time, and fired heavily with mortars. The fierce battle lasted until about 6 p.m., with more than 600 casualties and more than 200 officers and men of the 3rd Battalion, a casualty ratio of three to one.

The next morning, several thousand infantry and three planes of the 13th Division of the Japanese Army attacked the position of the 3rd Battalion in waves. Liu Sihai had already prepared: "Use the old way to deal with him." ”

This old method of first dodging artillery fire and then fighting in close combat is like the ginger in the field getting older and hotter, the officers and soldiers are used to it, and the killing of the enemy is both accurate and ruthless, and there is hardly a single devil's charge that can resist its might.

In the same way, when the officers and men approached the position about 400 meters in front of the position, the whole battalion suddenly opened fire, killing and wounding the enemy. The army was beaten, one group fell, and the other group rushed again and again under the cover of artillery fire. The 3rd Battalion was too small in number and was caught in a bitter battle. Liu Sihai saw that the casualties of the whole battalion had increased and the reinforcements had not arrived, so he was worried that the position would be broken through, so he was so anxious that he picked up the phone and shouted: "Lao Tzu is Liu Sihai of the 26th Division, and he will pick up the commander of the 38th Division!" ”

He directly asked Commander Huang of the 38th Division for help, but Commander Huang replied: "There are no soldiers to send." ”

It turned out that after Liu Sihai handed over the army like this, the whole division of the 38th Division got into fire with the devils. Not long after, Gao Fei personally sent a telegram to Liu Sihai: "Liu Sihai, Lao Tzu has personally negotiated with the 38th Division!" The position of Wangjiataizi that you are defending is particularly important, whether this position can be held or not, it is related to the victory or defeat of the whole army, you must be able to withstand it, defend it firmly, you want bullets and bullets, and if you want shells and shells, reinforcements will go to the front line immediately. ”。

Immediately, Goofy sent another telegram: "When the reinforcements arrive, you will be under your command!" ”

(To be continued)