"The 15th Brigade organized a death squad to seize the position of the Senkou Infantry Brigade of the Yue Army, and the brigade suffered more than 1,200 casualties, and the brigade commander Mao Shiyuan was martyred!"

Tang Shizun's body shook, and he had just launched an attack, and he had lost a brigade commander?

"At present, the Yue army is building a defense on the spot, although our army has divided the Yue army into three parts, but the Yue army has a strong air and ground advantage, and our army is in an offensive posture, and the casualties are very large" Zhou Conghua's brows were tightly locked.

Gao Fei, who was sitting in a corner, moved in his heart and wanted to speak, but when he thought that he didn't have the part of his little major battalion commander here, he could only swallow back the words again.

But all this did not hide from Tang Shizun: "Gao Fei, what do you want to say?" ”

"Report to the Commander-in-Chief." Gao Fei stood up: "Our army's weapons are completely backward, although the army has been divided and surrounded, but the casualties will be very huge, so I don't think it is time to carry out such a charge."

Tang Shizun frowned, looking a little dissatisfied: "For soldiers, life and death should be put in the back of their minds, soldiers are not brave, how can this battle be fought?" ”

"Sir!" Gao Fei also let go, and loudly argued: "On the front line of Xi'er Village, the Yue army has repeatedly launched counter-charges, and on the front line of Yijiang Town, the vanguard of the Yue army has arrived, and our 135th and 136th divisions are about to usher in a bloody battle. If we can't deal with the enemy in front of me as soon as possible, I'm worried."

"Okay, you sit down, I naturally have a sense of proportion." Tang Shizun did not allow Gao Fei to continue, but connected the phone call of the 148th Division:

"Pan Zuo, I'm Tang Shizun, it's good to seize the position of the Senkou Infantry Brigade, and it's one step closer to annihilating the Field Wing. What, big casualties? I know that you have heavy casualties there, so I will transfer the 17th Brigade to you again, and be sure to annihilate the field wing of the army before tomorrow! ”

Goofy sighed softly and sat back down.

Tang Shizun took a fancy to himself, looking at his bravery, not his own views on the battle situation. If I could be a brigade commander or division commander, maybe my words would carry a lot more weight

Yijiang Town.

The vanguard of the army had already arrived, and under the order of Seishiro Sakagaki, they launched a frenzied attack on Yijiang Town and Liantang Town at the first time.

Early in the morning of 8 February, when the sky was still filled with thick morning fog, the artillery bombardment of the Japanese army began. Dozens of cannons, firing more and more fiercely, bombarded until 9 a.m., from the stables to Liantang Town, shells fell on both sides of the road where they were considered suspicious.

After 9 o'clock, the army began to attack and advance along the road.

But the progress of the army was not smooth, the road had long been destroyed, there were deep ditches and barriers, there were many obstacles, and bullets were sprayed from time to time on the slopes on both sides, so that those devils who were looking around fell to the ground from time to time. The devil walked and stopped, and it was not until the evening of the same day that he arrived in front of the main position of our army in Liantang Town.

A fierce battle is about to begin, and the commander of the 135th Division, Su Quanhe, and his chief of staff, Tang Mubai, are already standing at the head of Liantang Town with a pistol company, and he wants to go to the front line to command this long-awaited first battle. Su Quanhe's visit to the front line gave great encouragement to the officers and men of the division, and their morale was greatly boosted.

In the early morning of the 9th, the army began to bombard the main positions with artillery. Later, the muzzle of the gun was turned and all the artillery was concentrated to bombard the Shuangjiafeng position in front of Liantang Town, until the commanding heights were dusty, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and many fortifications were destroyed. Obviously, the army will launch an attack on Shuangjiafeng.

Shuangjiafeng is located in the right flank in front of Liantang Town, which is the highest point in front of Liantang Town, and you can overlook the whole territory of Liantang Town when you occupy Shuangjiafeng, and it is easy to defeat the defenders of the whole line and take the Guancheng. However, he obviously miscalculated, the steep slope of Shuangjia Peak is deep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is a difficult bone to gnaw.

Commanding the operation in Shuangjiafeng was Zheng Qisong, the commander of the 1109 Regiment!

He used Zhuang Bokai's 2nd Battalion as a defense and Du Chishan's 3rd Battalion as a reserve. When the enemy launched an attack under the cover of artillery fire, Zheng Qisong calmly commanded, and the two battalions fought in turns, taking advantage of the steep terrain and strong fortifications, to suppress the enemy with dense firepower, and fought until noon, although the defenders in the fortifications continued to suffer casualties under the enemy's fire, but the enemy's repeated attacks were never effective.

After noon, the enemy saw that Shuangjiafeng was difficult to gnaw, so he changed direction and launched an attack on the main position of Xinghan Pass in the center.

The army again concentrated all its artillery and bombarded Xinghan Pass frantically. The main position was hit by smoke, flying sand and rocks, and the fortifications collapsed.

In charge of the command of the main position was Pan Guanghua, lieutenant colonel and deputy commander of the 1110th Regiment, who used Mu Zedong's battalion as the first line of defense and Deng Xiuzhi's battalion as the reserve.

When the enemy shelled, Pan Guanghua asked the soldiers to hide in the fortifications, and as soon as the shelling stopped, they immediately entered the firing position.

When the charging devils advanced to the rifle's fire net, the machine rifles opened fire together, the distance was close, the firepower was fierce, the attacking devils could not take advantage of the slightest advantage, repeatedly charged several times, were all repulsed, except for the dead and wounded, the rest were completely stopped at the front of the main position, unable to move forward.

The follow-up troops of the devils continued to arrive, and they could not replenish the front edge to launch an offensive. This group of newly arrived devils bullied our army for not having artillery, and openly gathered at the foot of the mountain.

That night, the devils at the front of the position retreated back to the foothills outside of our firing range. After nightfall, the enemy lit a ditch fire at the foot of the mountain and released a platoon to prevent a sneak attack by our troops. On our side, we seized the night to repair the fortifications, treat the wounded, and prepare for a more fierce battle.

10 And from the very beginning of the morning, the army assumed the posture of swearing. At about 8 o'clock, the enemy flew two groups of eight sorties over the main position, repeatedly dropping bombs and strafing them.

The enemy artillery was lined up in more than a dozen places, with at least two guns in each place, and fired a fierce salvo. Smoke rose from our position, flames rose to the sky, branches and mud flew into the sky, and fortifications were constantly destroyed. Dozens of heavy machine guns from the enemy's heavy machine gun fire point roared in unison, and the entire position was like a sea of fire, and the sound of gunfire was deafening.

The two men on the position of our army could no longer distinguish what they were talking about, and the herald's eyes widened, and he looked at the commander with his mouth moving, but he did not know what order he was ordering. Pan Guanghua ordered the heralds not to move, so he had to personally brave the artillery fire, shuttle back and forth in various positions, and even make gestures to tell everyone to calm down, prepare grenades, and prepare to shoot.

The shelling had not completely stopped, and the enemy infantry was already charging under the cover of machine-gun fire. There is a small hill called Yiziling in front of the main position of Xinghanao, which is the outpost position of our army. The heavy shelling and bombardment had already stripped the top of the hill from a layer of soil and completely shrouded in smoke. The enemy thought that the defenders of Yiziling had long ceased to exist under the fierce bombardment, and more than 100 devils actually bypassed Yiziling and rushed towards the main position, but they did not know that they had not yet run through Yiziling, and a dense gunfire suddenly sounded on Yiziling, and bullets shot out from behind their buttocks like flying locusts. On the main position, battalion commander Mu Zedong saw that the charging devils were attacked from the flank, and immediately ordered the machine rifles to fire at the same time, and the two positions formed a crossfire network in front of the devils and behind the sides, and more than 100 devils who were scurrying back and forth were all killed in front of the position.

More than 100 devils had already rushed to the firepower blind spot in front of the main position, and when they were about to charge upwards from this dead corner, the two flanks in front of our main position suddenly opened fire again, and the more than 100 devils had no way to advance or retreat.

The battle became more and more intense, with enemy artillery bombardment and infantry charges taking turns, and the devil soldiers, under the command of officers with sabers, charged in waves, regardless of casualties.

The devils charged down several times, and the Mu Zedong battalion on the front line of me was killed and wounded, and was replaced by the reserve Deng Xiuzhi battalion.

Soon, Deng Xiuzhi's battalion also suffered heavy casualties. The enemy's fierce artillery bombardment caused the flesh and blood of our defenders to fly, and the seriously wounded could not be transported, and the lightly wounded could not get out of the line of fire.

Pan Guanghua, who was commanding the battle on the position of Li Zanxu's company, suddenly heard a roar next to him: "Just fight!" ”

Turning his head, he saw that a soldier of the company had already jumped out of the fortification, this soldier was covered in blood, grabbed a few grenades in both hands, rushed forward a few steps, and threw grenades at the rushing enemy in succession, blowing up the stunned devils to the front and back, and fell to the ground in the smoke of the grenade explosion.

The intrepid soldier also staggered to the front of the flaming position from the roaring machine guns of the enemy, never to get back to his feet.

Like millions of unknown martyrs, this soldier who flew to the enemy left us with only a glorious figure, not a name.

Seeing that the devil soldiers were constantly pouring towards the position with their bright swords, Deng Xiuzhi's battalion was almost full of casualties, and there were few people and grenades left in the position that insisted on fighting and made the enemy fearful.

Pan Guanghua was anxious when he suddenly saw dozens of soldiers coming out of the smoke from the cannonballs, rushing to the battle like divine soldiers. It turned out that Su Quanhe, the division commander at the command post in Liantang Town, saw that Xinghan Pass was missing, and Tong Jianqi, the commander of the special service company of the division headquarters, was ordered to lead a platoon to reinforce him. The Tong platoon rushed in time, and when the devils had already rushed into our position, a fierce grenade and machine gun fire drove the enemy back, consolidated the position, and turned the danger into a disaster.

The enemy's offensive on the 10th was all-round, and while storming the main position of Xinghan Pass, he also launched a fierce attack on the left and right flanks.

On the Shuangjiafeng position on the right flank, the devils were repulsed many times in a row, and the position stood majestically.

The enemy in front of the position was beaten to the ground, with many dead and wounded, and they were looking for a dead spot to hide.

There are more than 300 devils hiding under a rock wall, thinking that they are safe from bullets. When the team was organizing and preparing for another attack, bundles of grenades suddenly rained down from the top of the rock, hitting the group of devils crying wolves. The terrain below the rock wall was narrow, and the devils were huddled together, and the devils who rushed out were shot by us again and fell down on the hillside.

The rest of the devils under the rock wall were beaten like chickens flying and dogs jumping, many devils were killed, and some devils fell to the bottom of the rock several meters high with the rocks raised by the explosion!

(To be continued)