Tao Jingsun had no choice but to pick up the phone and call Qiao Shouyituan!

But Qiao Shouyi on the other end of the phone said: "What's the use of talking about this now, I have too many casualties here, and even the people in my command have taken guns into battle, and they can't hold the position by mouth." ”

Qiao Shouyi, who directly commanded the operation in the line of fire, did not buy the account of relying on political encouragement alone.

Tao Jingsun still gives full play to his advantages as a political trainer: "Now that the enemy has attacked me and has not moved until now, he is also 'one drum, then decline, and three exhaustions', they are also exhausted, as long as we persist, we will definitely win." I asked Regiment Commander Qiao to convey the intention of the brigade seat to the officers and men of the whole line, and all the people from top to bottom worked together to stand firm and wait for help. ”

Qiao Shouyi still insisted there: "The situation on the front line is already very critical, with more than half of the casualties and no reserves. The wounded could not go down, water and food could not come up, and all the officers and men fought hungry for a day, except for the dead, the living were already exhausted. The enemy attacks again, what should I do, what to block! ”

Tao Jingsun was a little annoyed: "The way to fight, kill 3,000 people, and lose 800 yourself, our casualties are large, and the enemy is not small." As long as all our officers and men understand this and show the spirit of Napoleon's last five minutes, we will surely be victorious. As for the reserves, the headquarters is drawing a regiment of troops, galloping to reinforce them, and expect you to attack and counterattack as a defense. You can definitely win the final victory. ”

Qiao Shouyi on the other end of the phone was a little helpless: "Political trainer, I know all this." Let's hurry up and bring in reinforcements, I can't stand it anymore! ”

"Reinforcements will be here soon," Tao Jingsun did not even miss the last opportunity to give encouragement, and added: "We are waiting for the news of your final victory." ”

At this time, there was a dense explosion of shells from the telephone, and Tao Jingsun could hear it clearly.

"Political trainer, let's do it. The enemy is attacking again, and I put the phone down. ”

He picked out two platoons of stragglers gathered in the rear, mobilized them one by one, and temporarily formed a company, led by Brigade Commander Jin Ziyao, a staff officer of the brigade headquarters, and braved artillery fire to reinforce the troops. After a while, Qiao Shouyi called, saying that the reserves had arrived one after another, and the morale of the front line had greatly increased. Tao Jingsun's tense heart began to let go slightly.

Qiao Shouyi, who received reinforcements, fought hard for two more hours against enemy planes, artillery and poison gas.

That night, Qiao Shouyituan took advantage of the fact that the army was also exhausted, and actually launched a counterattack!

As the trumpet sounded, the whole line attacked.

The enemy did not expect the already exhausted opponent to launch a ferocious counterattack, and watched the soldiers in straw sandals rush towards them with desperate shouts, and they were caught off guard, and they were beaten in disarray, and hurriedly retreated.

With one blow, Qiao Shouyi completely destroyed the front-line enemy, and launched a fierce attack on the highest peak of Mazi Peak.

When the enemy's fortifications were crushed, they piled up their own corpses into fortifications and resisted stubbornly. Our officers and men approached the enemy's position, and when they saw that the enemy could no longer support them, they desperately pounced on the enemy's corpse array, and finally routed the enemy. A devil captain was killed, and he didn't even have time to transport the body and saber away

While the 17th Brigade was struggling to hold on, the general assault on the Field Wing began at the same time.

The first target of the attack was directly placed on the Kujo Infantry Brigade, the last fresh force of the Field Wing.

The Pan Zuo Brigade of the New *** Division defended the Coffin Hill position behind the left of Mazi Peak.

The Coffin Mountain has a peculiar mountain situation. On the top of the gravel ground, there is a depression about 1,000 meters long and about 100 meters deep, and the stone ridges on both sides are 2 or 300 meters apart, resembling a huge coffin open in the open air, hence the name.

Just after the 148th Division, which was the main attacker, launched an attack, a burst of smoke suddenly rose from the army's position, and after a while, it quickly spread.

Panzo immediately reported to the corps command post: "The enemy has gassed me!" ”

At the same time, he ordered all officers and men to cover their mouths and noses with wet face towels and wet water, and wet the towels with urine and urine if they could not find water.

After a while, no one smelled the pungent smell, and no one felt poisoned. Panzo reported the situation to the military command. Chen Wancheng, who answered the phone at the military command post, thought for a moment and replied: "It is estimated that the enemy is going to flee and is putting a smoke screen." ”

Pan Zuo suddenly realized and slapped his thigh: "Fire cover, pursuit!" ”

Sure enough, the enemy retreated. The heavy machine guns and mortars that were concentrated by Pan Zuo were powerful, killing and injuring a large number of retreating devils and seizing a large amount of supplies!

Just when the 23rd Group Army concentrated two divisions and one brigade to launch a general attack on the elite field wing of the Yue Army, Liu Zao, a reporter from the Yucheng Sweeping Daily, was on the battlefield from time to time, writing an article to publish the Yucheng "Sweeping Daily":

"Poor Wakaku dreamer.

After the reporter charged in the spring of our army in northern Jiangxi, he went deep into the Japanese with a certain army attack team, advanced to a certain army, and went to the main battlefield in person.

The battlefield was littered with makeshift graves and corpses all over the ground. Next to the five mutilated corpses, a bamboo plaque was erected, and on the faintly legible handwriting, the tomb of the deceased was the enemy army infantry captain He Tian Iwagoro. Next to the grave of Captain He Tian, there are about 50 zhang of earth where the Japanese army is buried. From some bamboo plaques inserted in the mound, we saw the ghost soldiers sent to foreign countries

On a tomb plaque, the names of the deceased are Ryoshi Takeshiki, Yoshito Matsumoto, Senior Private Yoshimori, Kazo Iwami, Takeo Hashiguchi, Shigetoku Umeda, Tomio Sameshima, Nobuyoshi Miyazaki, and Hitoshi Ota

In this vast cemetery, each tomb plate carries a steel helmet of the Kou army, or a small pointed hat. Looking at it from afar, it seemed that countless ghost soldiers were crying for his comrades.

In the vicinity of a thatched hut, the bones and graves of the Kou army, as well as broken documents, books, and threads in the thatched hut were everywhere. On another large mound in the mountain stream, a large pile of bones, a broken plaster flag across the bones, and the words 'so-and-so troops' can be faintly seen."

The tragic situation of the army at that time can be seen at a glance in the pen of this reporter.

Just when the two sides were fighting, it rained in the sky, and the officers and men of both sides continued to fight in the rain, and the battle was inseparable.

At this time, the artillery fire of the field wing of the army became a big problem for the attacker!

Pan Zuo, who was commanding the operation of the former enemy, called Wang Shaoren, the commander of the special service company, to the division headquarters with a serious face: "I want you to take a reinforced company, insert it into the artillery position west of Ma'erpo, and blow up the enemy's artillery, are you sure?" ”

"Report to the master's seat, and ensure that the task is completed!" Company Commander Wang replied in a loud manner.

"Okay, you bring four more light machine guns, and I'll give you two captured mortars as well, and cooperate with an engineer platoon at the division headquarters to form a reinforced company under your command. At night, he touched up from the right flank of the enemy formation and blew up all the enemy artillery, so that our division could annihilate the enemy! ”

The reason why Pan Zuo gave this task to Wang Shaoren was because he was a shrewd and meticulous officer.

Sure enough, after accepting the task, he first selected two peasants who were familiar with the terrain around the enemy line as guides, and ordered the engineers to prepare explosives, detonators, and electric ignition equipment, and then ordered all the officers and men of the company to carry a saber in addition to their own weapons. In the end, four more sabber-wielding and resourceful and brave soldiers were selected to cut down enemy sentries.

He also demanded that after the officers and men of the whole company entered the enemy position, they should use the most rapid and prudent means to not only cover the engineers to blow up all the enemy artillery in an instant, but also to annihilate the enemy artillery and other units.

After dark, the reinforced company went into action. From the mountain trail in the gap between the positions of the enemy's right flank to the artillery positions of Maerpo behind the enemy.

Wang Shaoren also left four soldiers at various turning points along the road and at places where the terrain changed, and told them to be on strict guard and stand up to cover the whole company to complete the task at the critical moment.

The whole company passed through the darkness of the night, barely making a sound, and reached the vicinity of the Ma'erpo artillery position without incident. Wang Shaoren touched the front and observed, and in the darkness he could see that the position was surrounded by barbed wire, and there was a door on its right side, which was probably the place where the enemy would enter and exit for water or relief. Outside the door, two sentries swam with loaded guns, and even their footsteps could be heard clearly in the silence. The two devils went back and forth, completely unaware of the imminent danger.

Wang Shaoren motioned for the saber soldiers to move. The four men were divided into two groups and lurked close to their targets to ambush them.

When a devil approached the ambush site, a saber soldier jumped up unexpectedly with a knife, and the cold light flashed and the knife fell, and the devil didn't even have time to snort, and threw himself to the ground. Another devil heard the noise, came over with a gun to see the movement, and was stabbed again and died.

As soon as the sentinels were resolved, the ministries sprang into action. The covering troops occupied the key points, and the attacking troops quickly broke through into the enemy positions.

The sappers stuffed the prepared explosives into the barrels, and the infantry approached the enemy's tents. Only a whistle was heard, the sappers pressed the electric igniter, and with an earth-shattering thunderous explosion, our infantry simultaneously fired and threw grenades at the tent. When Wang Shaoren saw that the task was completed and the goal was achieved, he immediately ordered the evacuation.

This lightning attack lasted only about ten minutes, and our troops suffered no casualties. All four of the enemy's artillery pieces were blown up, and it was really like a cat and a mouse, and it was like an eagle fighting, clean and neat.

Later, reconnaissance learned that the devils in the tent were killed or wounded seventy or eighty. The enemy was so angry that they simply sent planes to completely blow up the four guns.

The army, which had lost the cover of artillery fire, suddenly became more passive.

In the face of the layered attacks of the [***] team, the army, which had completely lost ammunition support because of Gao Fei's surprise attack, was embarrassed and passively beaten everywhere. Victory, already beckoning to the 23rd Army!

Takashi was anxious, but he couldn't think of any solution at all. In particular, the delay in the arrival of reinforcements increased the speed of their own demise.

But at this time, the exhausted Takashi Takashi didn't know that another huge crisis had gradually appeared in front of Takashi Tano!

(To be continued)