It turned out that the place where the devils were hiding was already under our field of vision, and the regiment commander Xia Hao saw it in the telescope, and when the devils were crowded there, he commanded the soldiers at the front to approach in concealment, and then braved the enemy's fire to blockade, suddenly rushed to the rock wall, and repeatedly threw cluster grenades downward, and a grenade rained down.

On the left flank, the battle at Ma Dong Pass was still fierce. It was commanded by Sun Ganhua, the commander of the 1110th Regiment. He commanded Zhou Cexun's 2nd Battalion and Zhao Yuyu's 3rd Battalion to hold their positions.

When the battle was fierce, the Zhou battalion and the Yue army had already engaged in many hand-to-hand combat, using broadswords and grenades to repel the enemy. Battalion Commander Zhou Cexun commanded the battle without hesitation, was strafed by concentrated enemy fire, was shot in the head and abdomen many times, and died honorably at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve.

The battle on the 10th went on all day, and the devil could not move forward. At dusk of the same day, the enemy stopped attacking and retreated to the foot of the mountain.

Su Quanhe, the division commander at the division command post, ordered the officers and men to hurry up to eat and tidy up the fortifications.

The officers and men also had a chance to breathe because they repelled the enemy's attack. However, Su Quanhe did not have such an opportunity, and he could not take it lightly. He is well aware of the current dangerous situation, and the murderous plan he has laid is quietly approaching. And after this whole day of fighting, when the gunfire stopped, his heart was like a surging wave, and he could not be calm.

This is a national battle to defend the homeland and defend the country, and it is a battle of prestige, although it has suffered heavy losses, it has also given a major injury to the person who showed off his might!

"We must fight for the national character for China and the provincial character for the Sichuan army." The words rang in his ears.

Su Quanhe knew that he still had to fight for his own personality, and he had been a soldier for more than 20 years, and what he really wanted to do was to fight on such a battlefield. Izukawa has been preparing all the time for several months, and today I am finally fortunate to have a lifelong wish. The troops who had fought with him in advance all warned him that he was fighting fiercely, and now he finally learned it himself.

But what really shocked him was his own troops, the spirit of sacrifice and sacrifice that his own troops showed in the face of fierce opponents. He has been leading these soldiers for more than 20 years, but he has never seen them look at death as if they were at home and show their heroism like today!

After nightfall, the enemy began shelling. The shells exploded almost aimlessly in front and behind the positions and passes, and the flames from the explosions flickered continuously. Looking at the constantly flickering explosion and fire, Su Quanhe knew in his heart that this was a game of fiction and reality

Yijiang Town, February 8.

At eight o'clock in the morning, a roar from far and near broke the silence of the morning light.

Several military planes roared in, repeatedly dropping bombs and strafing at Yijiang Town and various positions. The artillery on the artillery positions of the army opened fire together for a full hour. With the exception of Puziling, most of the shells exploded in the empty position, and the smoke from the explosion shrouded several hills in darkness.

After the shelling, dozens of heavy machine guns roared together, spraying a dense rain of bullets, covering the charge of the Japanese army.

He said that the army artillery bombarded the Puziling position on his left flank, and then the devil soldiers charged with rifles and machine guns as if they were fierce. However, the company commander Huang Gaoyi, who was in command here, was not in a hurry, skillfully took advantage of the favorable terrain, and commanded the soldiers to protect themselves while striking at the enemy by surprise, and condescendingly threw grenades into the group of panting devils.

When the charging devil retreated downward, he chased the devil's ass with a machine gun and fired it, until the enemy's commander was ashamed and angry.

In the end, Huang Lian's grenades ran out, the devil rushed to the position, Huang Gaoyi commanded the soldiers to fight hand-to-hand with the devil, and was swept by the devil's concentrated machine gun fire, and was hit by dozens of bullets, and his body was penetrated into a sieve hole by the bullet, and he died heroically on the position.

In the afternoon, a dense burst of gunfire reached the city.

Luo Fenqin, commander of the 136th Division, went to the city with a telescope to inspect it, and it turned out that about several hundred cavalry of the vanguard of the Chinese army had arrived at Macun, ten miles east of the city, and was being attacked by our troops outside the city.

Luo Fenqin immediately ordered all units to prepare for battle.

It's finally here, Luo Fenqin's nervous mood has relaxed!

As is often the case, the wait is much more stressful than the coming!

Later, a large number of troops of the enemy's infantry wing came in one after another, saying that the army bullied our army for not having long-firing weapons, and some of the enemy marched with swagger, and some devils unloaded their cannons from their mule horses and built artillery positions in a hurry. Despite the attack, the enemy did not seem to have taken these sandal-wearing Sichuan people very seriously.

After the enemy's artillery was test-fired, a sudden and violent cannon fire suddenly erupted, and more than 10 artillery pieces bombarded the city wall of Yijiang Town, and several enemy planes flew at the same time and bombed in turn.

The large force of the army advanced forward, quickly cut off the connection between our 136th Division and the 135th Division, and confronted us with heavy troops, so that they could not support each other, and surrounded the north, east, and west of the county. He said that he left the south gate in order to let the Sichuan soldiers who had been frightened back by the dazzling force of the Great Emperor withdraw them.

However, Luo Fenqin ordered the last gate to be blocked as a sign of his determination to defend the city.

That night, the army uncharacteristically launched a night battle of siege.

Dozens of enemy cavalry rushed close to the wall of the north gate, galloping back and forth. As soon as the enemy cavalry approached, the defenders opened fire with machine guns, and when they got closer, they threw grenades.

Later, hundreds of enemy infantry approached the city gate under the cover of machine guns, and the two sides engaged in a gun duel, with gunfire coming and going. At this time, small units outside our city began to attack behind enemy lines, and the gunfire was sometimes far and near. For a while, the gunfire was sharp and close, and it seemed that a small group had rushed into the depths of the enemy.

There were many houses outside the east and north gates, which became the best shelter for our small troops in the dark. The soldiers in straw sandals came out of nowhere, coming in and out, scratching the devils and setting all these houses on fire. The fire rose into the sky, reflecting half of the sky.

This kind of tentative and threatening attack has been fought all night.

At dawn, three planes with bright red suns on their wings roared towards Yijiang Town, dropping bombs and strafing the town of Yijiang, killing more than 10 Chinese civilians, and some of them were blown to the ground. Before the plane flew away, the army concentrated artillery bombardment at the north city gate.

Smoke from explosions spread across the city walls, bricks and stones flew wildly, and the towers burst into flames. Dozens of heavy machine guns roared violently again, covering the infantry charge.

This time, the devil soldiers rushed all the way to the city wall, and no one returned fire, thinking that after a night of firepower, the city had long been empty, and the defenders had retreated, so they moved the ladder and began to climb the city in broad daylight.

Just as the devils were crowded under the city walls, the defenders of the city suddenly came out of the anti-artillery holes, grenades rained down from the sky, rifles and machine guns opened fire together, and the devils scurried for a while, leaving corpses everywhere, and retreating in embarrassment under the cover of heavy machine guns.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, the devils concentrated their artillery to bombard the northern city, and countless shells blew a big gap in the city wall. As the gap in the city wall was blown open, the fierce battle suddenly escalated, and the two sides fought desperately around this opening.

Liu Gongcheng, the regiment commander who supervised the battle at the north gate, saw the breach in the city wall and immediately ordered a platoon commander next to him to lead the whole platoon to fill the blockage. The platoon commander accepted the task and knew that it would be difficult to survive, so he took off the badge he was wearing and handed it to the company commander, saying:

"I decided to sacrifice to serve the country, don't worry about it. I only hope that the brothers will continue to fight to the end! ”

led the whole platoon to brave the dense artillery fire to rush to the gap, and only three people survived in the end, and all the brothers, including the platoon commander, died on the gap.

Seeing the breach open, the enemy immediately concentrated almost all of their machine guns to block the gap and the surrounding walls. Machine gun bullets hit the masonry and dirt, splashing countless dirt flowers, and some bullets hit the city bricks, "squeaking, squeaking" and drilling as soon as they rebounded. Heavy machine guns suppressed the fire of the defenders, and a group of devils poured into the gap under the cover of machine guns and stormed the walls on both sides.

The company commanders Yang Xianmo and Xia Futao, who were guarding the city wall, led their subordinates to desperately intercept the city head, and used grenades and bayonets to drive down the devils who rushed to the city wall twice.

Another echelon of more than 300 devils, under the cover of fierce machine-gun fire, stepped on those dead corpses to attack the city wall. As soon as he saw the devil go to the city, the company commander Yang Xianmo raised his arms and shouted: "Brothers, follow me, destroy the devil, kill!" ”

Take the lead, face the devil's bright bayonet and rush into the enemy group, and fight on the narrow wall.

Company Commander Xia Futao also engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the devil on the other side of the gap.

The enemy continued to suppress me with firepower, and then continued to pour in, and finally because I was outnumbered, the devils who rushed to the wall firmly controlled the gap. Yang Xianmo, the company commander, was stabbed five times in the chest and died honorably. Company Commander Xia Futao was shot in the head and sacrificed his life for the country.

The devil controlled the gap, and the situation on the battlefield quickly reversed.

Two enemy planes flew in and strafed at low altitudes. The pilot's superb piloting skills and accurate shooting skills provided great firepower support for the Japanese army on the city wall.

The planes fired almost close to the top of the wall, repeatedly strafing along the stretch of the wall, the sound of the motors was deafening, and the machine-gun bullets rained death on the straw sandals who were incapacitated.

The walls were no more than five meters wide, there was nowhere to hide, and the fortifications made of sandbags could only protect against bullets fired horizontally, and there was no cover for air strikes at all. The defenders on the city wall were constantly knocked down, and many soldiers were beaten and rolled off the wall. The devils who poured up the city wall advanced to the east and west sides of the wall under the cover of the plane.

The division commander Luo Fenqin saw the devils going to the city, and immediately sent his staff officer Zhou Jizu to supervise the division to counterattack the devils occupying the wall. The devils on the city wall condescendingly set up machine guns and suppressed our counteroffensive team with fierce firepower, forcing our counteroffensive troops to be unable to perform under the inner city wall, but were frequently planted under the strafing of machine gun fire, and suffered heavy casualties.

The regiment commander Liu Gongcheng braved the rain of bullets to command the line of fire, ignoring the sharp cries of machine gun bullets flying in his ears, pointing to the gap in the city wall and loudly ordering Yang Yuemin, the commander of the second battalion, to lead a company of the reserve to follow up and organize forces to counterattack the gap. However, most of the company was killed when it rushed to the gap, and the rest were so overwhelmed by the enemy's machine-gun fire that they could not raise their heads and could not advance!

(To be continued)