readx; "Baga! Support, support! ”

Seishiro Sakagaki shouted angrily: "Order, all troops are reinforced, and we must break through the defense line of Yijiang Town and rescue the Kunisaki Noboru Brigade for me!" Order the planes to intensify their bombing! Bomb, blow up Yijiang Town for me, and bring Kunisaki Noboru to me! ”

Seishiro Sakagaki is crazy, and the entire Fifth Division is crazy!

At this time, the 135th and 136th Divisions, which were struggling to hold on to Yijiang Town, also launched a counterattack against the crazy enemy on the opposite side in a timely manner after receiving good news from the rear

The first target of the counterattack was placed on the commanding heights of Shuangjia Peak, which was captured by the Yue army!

Dense gunfire rang out on the battlefield, followed by grenadiers and mortar shells falling on the road and exploding. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Mu Zedong, who commanded the commando team, knew that he had already encountered the enemy, and the enemy was on Shuangjia Peak, judging from the intensity of the gunfire, the enemy on the mountain was no more than a brigade.

That is, the enemy's follow-up forces have not yet arrived. That is, the number of friends and enemies is almost equal, one-on-one. The enemy has the advantage of firepower, but the night is approaching, there are woods and weeds on the hills, which makes it easy for our troops to conceal and have the conditions for night fighting, and in addition to the imminent arrival of our follow-up regiments and brigades, the number of people will be overwhelming.

After Mu Zedong made a quick judgment, he immediately ordered heavy machine guns to cover it, and two companies attacked the mountain on the left and right sides respectively, and the other company acted as a reserve to prepare for a second wave of attacks.

It soon darkened, and the two companies quickly disappeared into the weeds and trees shrouded in the night. Mu Zedong set up a battalion headquarters and directed heavy machine guns and mortars to fire at the enemy, attract enemy fire, and cover the infantry to approach the hill. Shao Lean, the regiment commander arrived with two other battalions to support the attacking troops with firepower, and Mu Zedong immediately personally led the reserves into battle.

Approaching the top of the hill, the enemy desperately blocked the way forward with fire, the bullets hit like splashing water, there were no large trees on the top of the hill, and the shrubs and weeds were flattened by several bullets fired in a fan-shaped plane. The two sides exchanged fire near the top of the mountain, and taking advantage of this opportunity, Mu Zedong ordered the death squad to take advantage of the terrain and the darkness to advance in ambush and hide in the near area.

In the middle of the night, as the bursts of dense grenades of the death squad suddenly exploded on the top of the mountain, the death squad and the front-line attacking troops all charged, and they met each other at the top of the mountain. At this time, the reinforcements led by the regiment commander also rushed to the top of the mountain, and this group of devils desperately resisted, but finally could not support it, and retreated down to the halfway slope before standing still.

These companies have been desperately attacking, and indeed they have inflicted a large number of casualties on the squadron, and have also achieved major results, which are already arrogant and careless, and even the fortifications on the top of the mountain have not been completed seriously. Now that the straw sandals are attacking at night, they have finally suffered from it, but it is too late to regret it.

Dawn was approaching, and the whole brigade participating in the attack arrived under the leadership of Chief of Staff Tang Mubai, who ordered to make persistent efforts and plunge into battle, forming an absolute superiority in numbers. At this time, the enemy's artillery began to bombard me, the planes took off, roaring and strafing overhead, and the enemy halfway up the hill received fire support, and they untied their leather backpacks and stacked them neatly together, and under the wielding of the commander's command knife, they made a strange "wow, wow" strange cry and desperately charged at me, trying to regain the commanding heights of Shuangjiafeng.

Mu Zedong, who was at the top of the mountain, ordered all the soldiers to condescendingly attack with grenades. The grenade used at this time was a horsetail grenade produced by Liu Xiang Arsenal, which was an iron thallium with no wooden handle and only a bullet body, and a hemp rope was tied to the iron thallium, and there was a small wooden bolt at the end of the hemp rope.

When throwing, the soldier first took the hemp rope and a small wooden bolt to throw the projectile body so that it "whirred" and then threw it forward with force. This kind of grenade is thrown farther and more powerful than ordinary grenades, and everyone vividly calls it "kohlrabi".

Before the devils rushed to the top of the mountain, they were shrouded in the fire and smoke that rose up, and the "kohlrabi" that exploded one after another blew up the corpses of the devils all over the ground, and the ghosts cried wolf, like a group of drunks who were constantly hit and fell to the ground, no matter how the commander of the devils shouted, they could not organize an attack, so they had to flee to the bottom of the mountain in embarrassment.

The "kohlrabi" thrown out by the soldiers was like a flock of black crows, flying straight above the enemy's heads, some exploding on the ground, some hanging on the branches. In a panic, the enemy ran under the branches, but they ran into grenades hanging from the branches. This grenade was a trigger fuse, and it exploded as soon as it touched it, and bursts of explosions and flames sounded in the trees, and the fleeing devils thought that the straw sandals had set up an ambush in the woods, and ran out of the woods, and were killed by our machine guns.

Two hundred corpses of devils were left on the hillside, and more than a hundred wounded escaped under the cover of artillery fire and seaplanes!

The commander of the army, Nobuo Arihara, was killed, and his command knife, binoculars, pistol, and document purse were seized. The leather backpacks and military coats placed together before the devils charged were also seized, with a total of more than 500 victories and a large number of guns and ammunition.

A few of the slower runners were captured by our troops.

Armed with the spirit of bushido, there were also some miscreants in the Imperial Army, and there was a devil who was carrying a crooked machine gun and was pointed at by several bayonets that I rushed up, and immediately raised the machine gun above his head with both hands, and knelt on the ground as soon as his knees were weak, and kept shouting in his mouth:

"Big top!".

After the machine gun shooter was taken out of the line of fire, he knew that his surname was in danger, and he became angry again. He forgot his identity, and when he saw the soldier fiddling with his machine gun, he jumped up and shouted, "My gun, don't move." ”

When he saw my soldiers eating in front of the big pot, he said, "Missy, Missy." When he was served food, he was disgusted with the uncleanliness and said, "It is not hygienic, but the bread is good, and the bread is wanted." ”

After arriving at the command headquarters, Mu Zedong handed him over one by one, and finally arrived at the division headquarters. Division Commander Su Quan took a piece of paper and a pen to him, and gestured to the paper with his mouth, and then he wrote a few Chinese characters on the paper with a pen: Araki Shigenosuke, a native of Chiba Prefecture, has a wife and two boys, and holds the position of Cao Chang. He was also told that he was a graduate of Waseda University.

This Araki is a treasure, and when the army group command heard the news, they immediately sent someone to extract it. So, he was sent to the headquarters of the army group again.

Later, the officers and soldiers concluded through Araki's incident that the most fatal of the devils in the war were unmarried young people, and they had the most fanatical devotion to the emperor and the martial arts. And some of the soldiers who came out of the reserve are already fathers and husbands, and they have families to worry about. The warmth of the family, the delicate and affectionate women of the Samurai, and the children who were waiting to be fed, diluted the madness of the samurai in their blood, and these soldiers did not regard the pursuit of samurai honor as the highest spiritual realm of life, and they were much more realistic on the battlefield.

Later, the captive was sent to the Yucheng prisoner of war camp. When he got there, he filed a complaint saying that he had been abused. For this matter, Mu Zedong and they also received a demerit punishment.

In the battle of Shuangjiafeng, the battalion commander Zhou Daochang was killed, and more than 200 officers and soldiers below the company commander were killed or wounded.

This battle stopped the frantic offensive of the Yue army. Although this was a small partial victory, it did not play much role in the overall situation, but everyone still felt happy because of the victory. Sun Neng, a teenage soldier, is smart and clever in doing things, working, and fighting in ordinary times, and is deeply loved by everyone, and they all call him "elf". Holding a large bag of booty, he made up a song and sang happily: "Kohlrabi, it's so good!" It is said that this devil can't eat, either his stomach is swollen, or his knees are busy and he is on his knees! ”

The soldiers were also laughing.

The local optimism of the battle did not last long, and more pressure followed.

The Fifth Division of the Chinese Army quickly set up an offensive posture amid the ferocious offensive of aircraft and tanks, and immediately pointed the spearhead of the attack at Yijiang Town.

Fierce battles are back in flames!

A wing of the enemy, accompanied by artillery and cavalry, launched an attack on the frontal position of the 136th Division on the left flank of the bridge with 12 light tanks. At about 8 o'clock, 12 enemy planes flew into the skies, frantically bombing and strafing at low altitudes.

The pilots of the army were so rampant that the planes flew over the treetops on the position, and even the pilots could clearly see the appearance of the pilots looking down sideways. The fire and dust on our position were completely destroyed, and the dust was so thick that the soldiers could hardly open their eyes. From morning to noon, we repelled five enemy charges, and our troops were strewn with corpses and heavy casualties, and their combat effectiveness was brought into full play.

In the face of such a treacherous battle situation, the commander of the 136th Division personally supervised the battle on the front line, constantly encouraging the officers and men to "fight to live, and to turn their backs to die."

At the same time, the division commander made a contingency arrangement, ordering the flank troops to reduce the front, concentrate their fire on a few points, and if the front was breached, concentrate their fire on the enemy cavalry pursuing troops in order to cover the retreat!

At the same time, the old, weak, and disabled were formed in the rear.

As soon as the deployment was completed, the Japanese army launched a sixth attack, and during the heavy artillery bombardment, the planes bombarded the forest behind the position. The bomb injured the mules and horses hiding in the forest, and for a moment the people shouted and neighed, and the horses galloped wildly. The frontal enemy took advantage of the momentum and stormed, the position was broken through, and the first-line defenders retreated.

The enemy cavalry immediately took a detour and pursued our retreating soldiers. Seeing the frontal retreat, the officers and men of our unit on the flank immediately attacked from the flank and fired at the enemy cavalry with heavy firepower, causing the enemy cavalry to dismount one after another. The enemy was caught off guard by a flank attack and had to stop the pursuit and concentrate on turning around and attacking the flank.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the headquarters of the 136th Division contained the stragglers at the three-fork junction behind the position and directed the retreat of the officers and men who had retreated. Some of the retreating officers and soldiers looked at the commander from a distance, and their panicked hearts suddenly had a backbone.

At this time, it is time for the final battle between the offensive and defensive sides, and any fear and retreat will evolve into an irreparable situation.

Whoever can hold on to the end will be able to achieve the final victory!

February 17, 1938 has become the most critical day for both sides to decide the outcome of the day!

The army is making its last effort, and the 23rd Army is also making its last effort!

(To be continued)