The west gate of Qingdu, the position of the guard battalion.

The company commander Tie Niu dragged his wounded left arm and walked back and forth in the position, shouting in a heavy voice as he walked: "Is there anyone alive?" ……”

In addition to the one that had just been repulsed, the 14th Division of the Yue Army had launched nine consecutive fierce attacks on the position of the guard battalion, under the double blow of the superior artillery fire and superior forces of the Yue Army.

More than 500 officers and men of the 1st Infantry Company of the Guard Battalion suffered heavy casualties, and the commander of the 1st Company, Tie Niu, shouted around the trench, and less than a few dozen people stumbled to their feet.

Looking at the dozens of wounded soldiers beside him, a trace of grief flashed in Tie Niu's red eyes, and more than 500 people were gone.

At this time, the familiar shout sounded on the opposite side again, and the army attacked again, and thousands of devil soldiers rushed up with bayonets and fearless death.

Since the position of the guard battalion was divided into three lines of defense, one infantry company guarded one line of defense, and it was not allowed to move lightly until it was absolutely necessary.

In addition, Li Gang, the commander of the guard battalion, issued a strict order to live and die with the position at the beginning of the war, so even if the battle was fought to the last soldier, he could not easily retreat without the order of the commander.

Although the battalion headquarters called just now and said that the second company would be sent to replace the first company, Tie Niu did not want to retreat, and almost all the brothers who followed him to death were killed in battle, so what face did he have to retreat and steal his life.

As the Pao Ze brothers, the slogan of living and dying together is not shouted out of the air.

At this time, the strength of about an infantry brigade of the army had already rushed up quickly.

Iron Bull whizzed out the machete, which was already covered with blood, and raised his arms into the air and shouted, "Brothers, copy guys! Fight with them! ”

"Fight! Fuck the bitch! ”

"That's right! Fight! ”

"Little devil, your ancestor!" The remaining dozens of fighters of the company loaded their rifles with bayonets and roared angrily.

Several veterans, who were seriously wounded, received several grenades from their companions, and the veterans calmly unscrewed the back cover of the grenades, revealing the fuse.

As a soldier, it is the mission to defend the land and resist the enemy, and it is the honor of the soldier who swears not to surrender.

Tie Niu turned his knife horizontally and whispered to several seriously injured people behind him: "Brothers, let's go first!" ”

A veteran who had his legs broken by the explosion said with a hideous face: "Company commander, we will fight devils together in the next life....!" ”

Tie Niu pulled the big knife in his hand forward, and roared with red eyes: "Brothers, kill me!" ”

"Kill! Come on! Dozens of wounded soldiers jumped out of the trench with the iron bull, shouting hoarsely and rushing towards the devil soldiers who had already rushed up.

On the third line of defense, Wang Hanshan, the commander of the second company, walked into the battalion headquarters quickly, and said uprightly: "Battalion, it's not good, Tie Niu led the remaining brothers of the first company to start a white-knuckle battle with the army!" ”

"Huh? Didn't you say that you should lead two companies to replace one company? Li Gang asked puzzled.

"Camp! I had just been careful, and the army had once again launched an attack on the position of the first company, and the commander of the iron company was forced to lead the whole company of soldiers to launch a counter-charge! Wang Hanshan replied with great pain.

"Fuck! Bring the second company with me! No matter what, I have to save Lao Tie to Lao Tzu! Li Gang said anxiously.

"Yes!" Wang Hanshan immediately stood upright, put on the steel helmet in his hand, turned around and left to gather the troops.

After a while, Li Gang also walked out of the battalion headquarters in uniform, without any extra words, he took a submachine gun from the hand of a soldier, waved his big hand and led the way towards the forward position with a cold expression.

Li Gang and Tie Niu can be said to be born and died, brothers in distress, both of them are veterans around Zhang Mingyu, they have experienced several life and death battles, all of them survived, this time Li Gang absolutely did not want to see his good brother, and his comrades-in-arms died here.

At this time, the iron bull was like crazy, covered in blood, and the machete in his hand had already been cut to the edge, and it was unbearable to use anymore, at this time, the iron bull had a pair of iron palms across the enemy formation, and the soldiers who charged with him had all fallen under the enemy's bayonets.

He was the only one left still doing the final battle, and at this time, in Tie Niu's mind, there was only the sentence "swear not to surrender"! Swear not to surrender!

Yue Jun also deeply admired the Chinese warrior in front of him, and an adjutant officer respectfully persuaded in blunt Chinese: "This warrior, the Imperial Army admires your courage and courage very much!" As long as you are willing to give up resistance and surrender, I say that this imperial army will treat prisoners preferentially! ”

"Fuck you! The [***] of me can only die standing up, never live on my knees! If you want Lao Tzu to surrender and be your mother's spring and autumn dream, go! Ha ha! Tie Niu laughed happily a few times, then turned his head to look at Wangdu Mountain in the distance, and said secretly: Military seat, staff seat, Tie Niu go! It's a pity that I can't fight on the battlefield with you, and I can't fight devils with you anymore.

At this time, after the adjutant of the army understood the meaning of Tie Niu's words, he was furious, and he drew his command knife and screamed: "Eight Ga Ya Road! Kill Quack! ”

Iron Bull pulled out a rifle from the corpse of a devil, looked up to the sky and roared, "One company! Offensive...! ”

After picking up his rifle and stabbing forward, after knocking over several devil infantry in a row, suddenly two bayonets pierced his broad chest from the back of Tie Niu, Tie Niu was in pain, shouted, and the rifle in his hand swept backwards sharply, and immediately smashed the heads of the two sneak attack devil soldiers.

Iron Bull staggered and stood up straight, with the rifle in his hand to support his body, as the blood passed, Iron Bull's will gradually blurred, thinking of the old lady at home, Iron Bull's intuition endless thoughts swept through the whole mind.

At this moment, the familiar sound of the charge horn sounded behind Tie Niu, and the submachine gun in Li Gang's hand "Da Da Da" spat out tongues of fire, and shouted with a hideous face: "Come on, little devil!" The guard battalion is here! Come on if you're not afraid of death! ”

The second company's timely counterattack immediately drove the unruly devils out of the first line of defense, and after leaving hundreds of corpses, they fled back in a hurry.

As soon as the battle ended, Li Gang and Wang Hanshan found Tie Niu, who was still bleeding from the corners of his mouth with two Type 38 rifles stuck in his back.

Both hands gripped the handle of the rifle in their hands, and the rifle bayonet had pierced deep into the ground.

I saw Tie Niu looking ahead with sloppy eyes, as if he was missing his family in the distance.

Li Gang hurriedly shook it twice, and called eagerly in his mouth: "Iron Bull!" Tractor! ”

No matter how Li Gang called, Tie Niu didn't respond. Li Gang tearfully removed the steel helmet on his head and stood up with tears in his eyes.

Wang Hanshan and the others behind him also took off their steel helmets, and everyone unanimously saluted the corpse of Tie Niu with a standard military salute.

Reason told Li Gang that he couldn't be too sad, he hadn't completed the task assigned to him by the military seat, Li Gang wiped away his tears and said to Wang Hanshan: "Take him away, the rest of the people will quickly clean up the battlefield, and the enemy may attack again at any time!" ”

"Yes!" Wang Hanshan said with a sad expression.

When the two warriors pulled out the bayonet on the iron bull and tried to break the iron bull's hands and carry it away, they were surprised to find that they could not break the iron bull's heavy hands.

A sentence flashed in Wang Hanshan's mind, that is, the gun is in the person! Thinking of this, he said to the two fighters: "Bring back the guns with them." ”

……………… The 8th Division was stationed.

At this time, it was already artillery fire and shouting, Zhang Mingyu personally commanded the three main infantry regiments to attack the Eighth Division from three directions, although the Eighth Division resisted very stubbornly. However, this time, the Reading Force broke out of his old roots, and all kinds of shells smashed into the defensive fortifications of the Yue Army as if they didn't want money.

Under the "fatal" dispatch of the Reading Army, the forward position of the Eighth Division was broken through one by one, but it was also recaptured repeatedly! The two sides fought a fierce battle for this.

At the foot of Wangdu Mountain, blood flowed like a river, artillery fire filled the sky, and the shouting of killing was shocking.

Zhang Mingyu took Chief of Staff Liu Cheng to Li Shisan's former enemy command post and observed the situation ahead through a telescope.

I saw that both sides were fighting the most tragic battle with all their strength this time, and often the reading army had just broken through, but they were quickly driven out by the death squad organized by the army.

The 3rd Regiment and 1st Battalion and the 5th Infantry Wing of the 8th Division of the Chinese Army fought to the death in their forward positions, and the positions alone changed hands more than 10 times.

Seeing that the troops could not attack for a long time, Zhang Mingyu couldn't help but be a little anxious, he didn't know what the situation of the guard battalion was now, but his intuition told him that he could definitely not drag it out any longer, and the longer it dragged on, the greater the pressure on the guard battalion.

Thinking of this, Zhang Mingyu turned his head and said to Liu Cheng: "Chief of Staff, you send another urgent message to Su Dingtian, the entire Flying Eagle Division will be dispatched to carry out a twenty-four-hour fierce bombardment of the Eighth Division, I want to completely destroy their fortifications, and they must be destroyed before dawn tomorrow." ”

"Yes!" Liu Cheng snapped upright, and immediately turned to leave.

Zhang Mingyu's purpose was very clear, the reason why the frontal attack of the third regiment was unfavorable was entirely because the army dug many large and small anti-tank trenches before and after its position, which led to a great reduction in the assault capability of the armored division, and with infantry alone, he did not know when he would be able to destroy the eighth division, and his own casualties should also be huge.

Only non-stop bombing, completely destroying those blockade ditches and anti-tank trenches, so that the armored troops can drive straight in, with the armored division as the vanguard, it will be much easier to take out the eighth division.

About half an hour later, the planes of the Reading Army that had taken off from the Taiyuan airport arrived one after another, and Li Shisan immediately ordered the troops to stop the attack.

The air force began to bombard the fortifications and headquarters of the Eighth Division, and the entire position of the Eighth Division was suddenly plunged into a sea of fire, thick smoke filled the sky, and scarlet flames rose into the air.

Accompanied by the firelight and the stump and broken arm of the army, Li Shisan picked up the telescope and observed the position of the army that had fallen into a sea of fire in the distance, and couldn't help but gloat and laughed: "Haha, great, blow up this group of dogs." ”

………… The commander of the 14th Division of the Qingdu Chengcheng Army Xi Duo Cheng swept over the 2,000 imperial warriors in front of him with a cold expression, because the first nine attacks ended in failure, the group army had urged the 14th Division no less than ten times, requiring them to break through the position of the [***] team before dark, otherwise the military commander above the commander of the 14th Division would have to cut his own stomach to thank His Majesty the Emperor.

The stakes were so high that Lieutenant General Kita Seiichi decided to personally go out and lead the main force of the first wing to carry out the last onslaught, and this attack was related to his military career and life and death, and Kita Seiichi naturally did not dare to be careless.

The second infantry wing, the most elite under his command, was transferred, and due to terrain restrictions, the army could only invest about 2,000 troops at most in each attack.

In the first nine attacks, the other two infantry wings lost more than half, their combat effectiveness declined, and their morale was low, but this second infantry wing has not fired a single shot or a single shot since the beginning of the battle.

The whole team was full of more than 2,000 people, and Kita Seiichi put a samurai cloth symbolizing the honor of the samurai on his forehead, and then slowly pulled out his imperial sword, and said with a grim expression: "Loyal warriors of His Majesty the Emperor! The time has come to show that I say that this imperial army is invincible and invincible! Use the bayonets in your hands to tell the Chinese pig on the other side that we are invincible! ”

"Hay! Long live His Majesty the Emperor....! More than 2,000 devil soldiers responded in unison.

"Kill Quack!" Kita Chengyi waved the command knife in his hand and roared forward.

"Kill Quack...!" More than 2,000 devil soldiers immediately shouted and rushed towards the position of the guard camp.

Li Gang stood in the trench, looking at the dense devil soldiers rushing up under the hillside, he couldn't help but gasp, it seems that the devil is serious this time.

Li Gang turned to Wang Hanshan and said, "Company Commander Wang, are you ready?" ”

"Ready! Battalion commander, don't worry! There is absolutely no one in the second company! Wang Hanshan said with a hideous expression.

"Good! Death squads attack! Li Gang said with an awe-inspiring expression.

"Yes!" Wang Hanshan snapped to the ground, and immediately turned around and shouted to the soldiers of the second company who had been waiting for a long time: "Brothers, we are an invincible iron army, take out the appearance of an iron army, and let the little devils taste our power!" ”

"Company commander, don't worry! Never disgrace the Iron Army! The fighters responded in unison.

"Good! All on the bayonet! Follow me! After Wang Hanshan finished speaking, he clicked his rifle and loaded it with a bayonet.

"Click!" The soldiers of the second company loaded their bayonets and jumped out of the trench after Wang Hanshan, and hundreds of people swept down the hillside like a desperate flood.

Li Gang watched Wang Hanshan gradually go away with the second company, and listened to the moving shout, and couldn't help but shed two lines of tears. Due to the lack of ammunition, the ammunition of the guard battalion is now running out of fuel. At the height of the previous fight, the ammunition was consumed severely.

Although the second and third companies did not suffer much losses, the ammunition of the whole battalion was also consumed by the first company, and the logistical supply of the Reading Force had been cut off for nearly a week, and the ammunition in the hands of the various units was not sufficient.

The 1st Division had to take on the heavy task of encircling and annihilating the 8th Division, so the ammunition that could be distributed to the guard battalion was pitiful, and the shells of the machine gun company had long since run out, and now the mortars had become burning sticks.

Now only the third company still has the last ammunition in its hands, so the second company can only form a death squad to carry out a counter-charge, which is also a last resort, otherwise when the army rushes into the position, the casualties will be even greater, it is better to rush up and kill a heart.

Just as the Second Company had just made a close encounter with the main force of the Second Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army, there was a roar of planes in the sky.

(To be continued)