readx; Zhang Xinxin endured the severe pain of two gunshot wounds, slowly climbed down from the tree, and his feet just hit the ground, and he almost fell to his knees. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Info held on to the trunk of the tree and gasped for a while, and when he regained a little strength, he picked up a branch from the ground to make a cane and limped back.

At this time, the neighing of war horses and the roar of car motors came from the road, and the army was hurriedly forming a team, preparing to continue advancing.

It took Zhang Xinxin half an hour to return to the place where he had blocked the Yue army, Wu Huitu still maintained the posture of sacrifice and lay in the middle of the grass, the rifle was thrown a few meters away, and there was no trace of the Yue army on the road at the foot of the mountain. He dragged his comrades to the bottom of a big tree, leaned against the trunk of the tree, and then took off the grenades and bullets from the corpse, and then said: "Ah Tu, I'm sorry, I'm going to fight devils, I can't take you back, and I'll send you home after I finish this battle!" ”

At this time, fierce gunfire suddenly sounded in front, mixed with the explosion of shells from time to time. Zhang Xinxin hurriedly stood up, bowed to the corpse, and then dragged his rifle towards the mountains and forests, and disappeared among the dense branches and leaves after a few minutes.

The commander of the 21st Army, Ando Toshiki, was a very cunning fellow, and when he got the news that the main force of the Ninth Army had entered Guangdong in a big way, he immediately withdrew all the garrisons of the coastal port cities to Guangzhou, and pretended to be a turtle with a shrunken head, so as to eliminate the vigilance of the [***] team, even if the Bao'an garrison was surrounded and annihilated, he did not move, so that Gao Fei mistakenly thought that he just wanted to simply stick to Guangzhou. However, before the 21st Army landed in Guangdong, it had already dispatched a large number of Han and Jianjian spies and spies to collect intelligence on the Guangdong army, and after occupying Guangzhou, it spared no effort to find out the truth of the [***] team, so the troop movements in the Fourth Theater were all under his control. In view of the deployment of troops in the Fourth Theater, Ando Toshiyoshi formulated a countermeasure to use Guangzhou and surrounding cities as a base, waiting for an opportunity to annihilate the units of the 12th Group Army, which was relatively weak in combat effectiveness, and then fighting a decisive battle with the Ninth Army when the ratio of forces changed favorably. The 21st Army is like a poisonous snake coiled around its body, ready to bite the [***] team at any time!

Toshiyoshi Ando was overjoyed after receiving the report that the 154th and 157th Divisions had assembled in the Zengcheng area - wouldn't he be looking for death if he entered the hinterland of the 21st Army without the support of the elite troops of the powerful 9th Army?

Toshiyoshi Ando immediately made a decision and ordered the Fifth Division to hold on to Guangzhou, the 104th Division sent six infantry brigades to attack the troops of the 154th Division around Zengcheng in six directions, and the 18th Division approached Zengcheng with a cavalry wing, with four squadrons and a machine gun squadron, and an infantry brigade, to defeat the 157th Division, and then turn around and clean up the 154th Division. In order to prevent the 157th Division from escaping, Ando Toshiyoshi asked the Yue army stationed in Zengcheng to take the initiative to attack and bite the 157th Division to the death. In Ando's view, the 157th Division may not be able to stop even the offensive of two infantry brigades.

In all fairness, Ando Toshikichi's deployment and previous strategic deception were quite successful, so it was not until ten hours after the start of the battle that the Fourth Theater Command figured out the true purpose of the Yue Army, but Ando Toshiyoshi never imagined that it was the vulnerable Cantonese Army in his eyes that changed the outcome of the battle!

The 154th Division's blocking position was set up on a small hill called Bijia Mountain on the right side of the road, and three small peaks more than 100 meters high were connected together to form a huge Bijia nearly 1,000 meters long. Since it was only a few kilometers away from Zhang Xinxin's hiding place, the sound of gunfire and explosions in front of him was clearly heard.

With the order of the regiment commander, the soldiers quickly entered the position, the light and heavy machine guns were quickly set up, the muzzles of the black holes pointed to the road down the mountain, and behind the hillside, more than a dozen mortars were lined up, and the gunners were half-kneeling in front of the muzzles with shells in their hands, ready to fire at any time.

Hundreds of war horses galloped along the road, more than a thousand iron hooves rolled up billowing smoke and dust, and the earthy yellow figure of the cavalry appeared from time to time.

"Hit!" With a roar, dozens of light and heavy machine guns and hundreds of rifles opened fire at the same time, spraying bullets at a rate of hundreds of rounds per second, enveloping the vanguard of the cavalry wing in an instant, and then a dozen shells landed accurately in the middle of the road, bursting into brilliant fireworks.

More than 100 cavalrymen and horses fell to the side of the road, and the frightened horses raised their front legs high, overturned the soldiers to the ground, and then galloped wildly, and then a terrible scream sounded behind them, and finally stopped suddenly like a rooster whose throat had been cut.

The soldiers who were not shot turned their horses' heads one after another, struck the horses with whips, escaped from the fire net as fast as possible, and then jumped off the horses and charged the hillside in a loose formation, and the soldiers who lost their horses and fell to the ground climbed on the back of the horse's corpses and shot at the hillside, without the slightest panic, the machine gun squadron at the rear of the team quickly set up the machine guns, and used fierce machine gun fire to suppress and shoot to cover the cavalry's charge.

At this time, the trucks loaded with infantry also caught up, and the commander of the army immediately threw in a large group of troops to assist the cavalry, and at the same time, ordered the artillery to quickly establish positions to provide cover for the infantry.

In the face of the surging army, the defenders used their established positions to calmly counterattack: from the middle of the crevices in the rocks, behind the roots of the trees, countless fiery snakes erupted from the edges of the trenches, frantically devouring the enemies who tried to approach; From time to time, grenades flew down from the high hillside and exploded in the air above the heads of the attacking troops, and countless shrapnel whistled and scattered, happily cutting **!

Half an hour later, the army retreated from the hillside, leaving more than 100 corpses at the front of the position. At this time, the artillery of the army had been prepared, and more than 30 75-mm mountain guns and 70-mm infantry guns opened fire at the same time, drowning the defenders' positions in smoke and fire with continuous salvo fire. After ten minutes of artillery bombardment, the Japanese army again threw in a large group of troops to attack, and the defenders came out of the dirt and dust, fought back desperately with machine guns and grenades, and once again pressed the enemy back.

The commander of the army did not expect that in just a few dozen days, the performance of the Guangdong army would be like two people, and they would not retreat from fighting to the death here! He knew that the Cantonese officers and soldiers at this time were determined to die to wash away the shame on their bodies, how could they retreat!

In a fit of rage, the commander ordered the artillery to bombard the positions of the [***] team with all their might, and to raze all the fortifications exposed to the ground.

After half an hour of shelling, almost the entire hill was burning, and the dust and thick smoke from the explosion blocked out the sunlight, and there was no longer a single figure on the position.

The two squadrons of the Yue army quickly rushed up, ready to clear the squadron, however, when they were still 50 meters away from the top of the mountain, countless figures suddenly appeared from the front, throwing down nearly 100 grenades, and dozens of Yue soldiers in front were blown to pieces without shouting, and the Yue soldiers behind hurriedly lay on the ground and shot back. The defenders tilted the grenades down without stopping, and some of the soldiers with superior arms even threw the cluster grenades down. The army soon couldn't hold on, and climbed down the mountain with both hands and feet.

Unable to do anything, the Japanese army had no choice but to request bomber support while continuing the shelling.

Ando Toshikichi knew that this was the key to the success or failure of the battle, and he did not hesitate to send all the twelve bombers he had at hand.

The bombers that took off from the Guangzhou airport arrived in an instant, like magic birds flying out of hell, swooping and hovering over Beacon Hill, turning all the trees and weeds on the top of the mountain into ashes with heavy incendiary bombs, and then strafing back and forth several times with machine guns before returning home.

Zhang Xinxin hid in the woods two hundred years behind the artillery position of the Yue Army, looking at the flames rising from Beacon Mountain, his heart twitched sharply!

The army cautiously rushed to the top of the mountain again, 100 meters, 80 meters, 50 meters, 30 meters, still there was no movement, just as the army on the mountain and below the mountain was about to cheer for victory, suddenly dozens of blackened soldiers came out of the craters, baring their teeth and screaming wildly, and the weapons in their hands were firing wildly. The stunned Yue army fell down one by one, and the fear quickly spread throughout the ranks, and the Yue army behind threw away the weapons in their hands and ran down the hill with wild shouts, unwilling to stop no matter how the officers reprimanded.

By this time, the sky had gradually darkened, and the commander of the army had no choice but to order to camp on the spot and let the artillery continue to bombard the defenders on the top of the hill.

Zhang Xinxin knew that the brothers would never be able to resist the next attack of the Yue army! Thinking of this, he tied six grenades together, tied them firmly to his back, then unloaded the bayonet of his rifle, bit it with his mouth, and crawled towards the artillery position of the army.

The open space between the woods and the artillery position was overgrown with weeds more than ten centimeters high, barely able to cover people's bodies, Zhang Xinxin could only move his body very slowly, try not to make a sound, and listen carefully every time he advanced a distance, judging the direction from the sound coming from the military position.

Zhang Xinxin climbed the distance of 200 meters in an hour and came to the edge of the artillery position of the Yue Army. The enemy had stopped the shelling, gathered around the campfire to eat, and from time to time came the sound of the chatter.

Zhang Xinxin felt a wave of dizziness and almost fainted, he hurriedly spit out the bayonet and bit his arm, using the pain to keep himself awake. He quietly raised his head, looked inside, and found that his target was stacked in a corner of the position, a heavily loaded sentry walked back and forth next to the ammunition box, Zhang Xinxin climbed over from the edge of the artillery position, but when he walked in front of him, he found that the ammunition box was still more than ten meters away from him, no matter how careful he was, it was impossible to avoid the enemy's sentry!

After resting for a few minutes, Zhang Xinxin felt that his strength had recovered a little, so he stood up while the sentry turned around, put the pull ring of the grenade with his wounded right hand, grabbed the bayonet in his left hand, and staggered over.

"Eight grids!" As soon as he took five steps out of the sentry and was discovered by the sentry, Zhang Xinxin mustered up all his strength and ran.

The sentry made a fatal mistake, he subconsciously withdrew the bullet after seeing the bayonet raised by the other party, and rushed over with a rifle, at this time, the distance between Zhang Xinxin and the ammunition box was less than three meters.

With a swing of the bayonet, Zhang Xinxin's bayonet was knocked away, and then with a sharp thrust, the bayonet was pierced into his chest, however, what Yue Jun didn't expect was that the other party had a happy smile on his face!

Zhang Xinxin grabbed the body of the rifle and rolled in the direction of the ammunition box, and at the same time pulled hard with his right hand, drowning the artillery position of the army in a sea of fire!

Just as Zhang Xinxin was approaching the artillery position of the Yue Army step by step, the brothers of the 1st Regiment of the 154th Division, who were guarding on Beacon Hill, quietly gathered on the back of the hillside, preparing to attack the enemy at night.

After a full day of fighting, the three battalions of the 1st Regiment had suffered casualties, and even the special service company and communications company, which had been put into battle as reserves, had suffered more than half of the casualties, and the 2,500-strong troops were now able to stand up to 500 people.

Regiment Commander Zhang Teng looked at the faces in front of him that were blackened by gunsmoke, and nodded with satisfaction: "Brothers, although our army has suffered heavy casualties, the army has also suffered a lot of losses, and the corpses in front of the position are not one thousand but eight hundred, which is enough!" Now that our shells have run out, and there are few bullets left, the position will definitely not be able to hold, so I want to lead the brothers to risk their lives and attack the army at night, if it succeeds, tomorrow there will be a chance to drag the enemy for another day, if it fails, the whole army will be annihilated! ”

"Commander, it's a death anyway, let's fight!" One of the soldiers in front said loudly.

"Now the common people see that we soldiers are either sneering, or like seeing ghosts, life is better than death, simply use this more than 100 catties to fight for the reputation of the Fourth Route Army, and the living brothers are also good people!" A company commander suggested.

The fighters said babblingly: "Fight, fight!" ”

Zhang Teng raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and said: "My brother and I have the same idea - even if we die, we Cantonese people will die, and we Cantonese soldiers will fight for face!" Then he said in a sad tone: "Our European brigade commander was born in the army, and has been promoted from private to major general, whether it is to suppress bandits or the Northern Expedition, he has always charged in the front and retreated in the rear, and his bravery is unmatched, but when Guangzhou fell, he could only watch his troops rush away from his side, and finally pulled out his gun and cut himself, and I was standing less than five meters away from him at that time!" I still remember the last words he said before he died: Zhang Teng, are we Cantonese really bad seeds? ”

"Are we Cantonese really bad breeds?" This sentence is like a hammer on the chest of the fighters!

"It's not!" The warriors roared in unison and swung their fists vigorously.

At this time, Head Zhang raised his head, looked at the gradually dimming sky in the distance, and said softly: "Calling yourself a man in vain is willing to suffer from the servile spirit." If you don't fight, you will be ashamed of all generations. My women, I am willing to die on the battlefield, and I will change my clothes for your clothes! This is a poem written by Ms. He Xiangning to the Central Army back then, and how appropriate it is to use it on our compatriots now! Then he said to the silent soldiers: "Only by spilling the blood of our Lingnan children can we wash away this great shame!" ”

In the end, Commander Zhang ordered loudly: "The mortar company, special service company, communication company, small artillery company and civilian personnel directly under the regiment headquarters have all joined the death squad, the lightly wounded of the infantry battalion protected the seriously wounded to retreat, and the rest of the personnel were all incorporated into the death squad!" ”

The night sky was darkened by smoke, and through the smoke, the sickle-shaped crescent moon high above was strangely shining. The silence that had just dominated the mountain after the terrible gunfire had ceased was broken by the sound of hurried and orderly footsteps—more than 300 daredevils carrying short guns, grenades, submachine guns, and light machine guns to the edge of the cliff on the left side of Beacon Hill. The rope made of leggings and bark hung down, and the team members slipped down in turn, each biting a piece of wood in their mouths to prevent accidental falls.

Half an hour later, the daredevils regrouped at the bottom of the cliff and groped their way along the narrow valley to the flank of the Japanese position.

Although night had fallen, the army remained extremely vigilant, firing flares every few minutes, light machine guns firing vigilantly from time to time, and sentry posts walking around the edge of the trenches with rifles on their backs, always keeping an eye out for movements on the other side.

The two soldiers at the front were hit by the light machine gun bullets of the Japanese army, and in order not to expose the troops, the wounded grabbed the thatch around them and buried their heads deep in the soil, allowing the blood to soak the soil under them.

Zhang Teng waited anxiously, hoping that the army would be able to relax, however, a full half an hour passed, but he did not wait for the result he wanted, looking at the gradually stiffened bodies of the two brothers in front of him, he felt a pain in his heart like a knife, and almost couldn't help but order to charge.

Suddenly, a violent explosion sounded from the artillery position, and the flames rose into the sky, turning the sky into a bright red color, and then the explosions rang out one after another, as if the arsenal had been detonated. The soldiers on the position panicked, got out of their sleeping places one after another, picked up their weapons and ran towards the artillery position. The sentinels also stopped, looking into the distance, not knowing if they should go over or not.

Zhang Teng hurriedly waved his arms, used his hands and feet together, and crawled forward, and the daredevils fanned behind him.

By the time the explosion had subsided, the death squad had climbed to a distance of only twenty meters from the trench, and the voices of the soldiers were clearly discerning.

At the moment when the fire on the artillery position was extinguished, Zhang Teng jumped up violently, brandished his pistol and shouted: "Brothers, brothers, kill!" ”

The explosion of dozens of grenades set off the prelude to the night attack, and the sound of daredevils shouting like a tsunami of death immediately sounded above the position of the army, and the short guns, submachine guns, and light machine guns opened fire at the same time, combing the enemy's trenches with strips of flames, and the grenades passed high above their heads, falling far away in the middle of the army, and preventing the army from restoring order with continuous explosions!

(To be continued)