At dawn the next day, several planes flew over the position, flipped up and down, and dropped bombs and strafed. Observing the balloon rising into the air, the devil soldiers swooped down on our position under the cover of enemy artillery and aircraft.

The officers and men of the 26th Division also fought against the enemy at all costs, using bayonet grenades when the devils rushed close to the position, and exerting the power of crossfire nets from a distance. This dense machine-gun fire highlighted the great lethality, and the charging enemy fell to the ground like a cut straw.

As soon as they discovered it, they blocked it with dense light and heavy machine gun fire and indicated the target to the artillerymen, and the artillery on the enemy's artillery positions smashed down with it, and bombs from the air also fell from the sky, bombing our firepower points devastatingly.

The two sides fought for a whole day, and our light and heavy machine gun fire points were constantly destroyed and regrouped, and the shooters were constantly killed and wounded in the enemy's machine gun fire and artillery fire. Each battalion and company formed a special shooter death squad, and each firing point changed shooters more than 10 times a day due to casualties. On this day, a total of more than 10 enemy attacks were repulsed, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.

On the position of the 1st Battalion of the 151st Regiment, a veteran surnamed Tang had his legs blown off, and the battalion commander ordered the stretcher soldiers: "Bear it!" ”

Old soldier Tang was insubordinate, and with a "suddenly" sound, he pulled out a grenade and held it high, and one pulled the fuse: "Whoever wants to pull me, I will die with him!" As everyone knows, veteran Tang is determined to fight the enemy to the death on the battlefield. The stretcher bearer had no choice but to say, "According to you, according to you." ”

Several brothers next to him jumped up together, hugged the veteran and cried. The regiment commander is a hard-hearted tough guy, and he has seen a lot of dead people on the battlefield, but at this time, seeing this heroic parting of life and death, he couldn't help but mourn in his heart, he quietly turned around and left. It can be regarded as acquiescing to the last wish of the veteran.

After the battle, Don died on the battlefield, and with him fell together, there were countless brothers

At this time, Wang Xuanzhong, the commander of the 3rd Company of the 151st Regiment, who was fighting, received an order to guard the Yezigou position on the outskirts of Xihe Town. Wang Xuanzhong, who received the order, did not stop and was responsible for directing two companies to rush to the position.

The battalion commander, who had already arrived first, brought a map of the composition of the position and a detailed map, and asked Wang Xuanzhong to quickly use the original position to build fortifications and deploy the position, and promised that the regimental supply company would ensure the transportation of grain and ammunition, and maintain line communication and flag communication between them.

With the fierce escalation of the fighting in the front-line positions, Yezigou became the key target of the bombardment.

The deployment has not yet been completed, and the first wave of bombardment has already arrived. The cannons slammed into the leaf ditch, and the planes in the sky swooped down with a screeching sound, dropping bombshells and incendiary bombs. The position was in a sea of fire, the waves of heavy bombs swept back and forth like a violent wind, the fortifications and the earth and rubble were thrown into the sky, and the trees were completely broken. A small leaf-ditch area was subjected to overwhelming bombardment, which lasted all day.

Obviously, he did not intend to use ground troops to capture Yezigou, but only to destroy this area with powerful firepower. Under this kind of crazy bombardment, the living personnel on Yezigou were choked by the smoke of gunpowder, and their whole bodies were sprayed with yellow sand. The communication lines were completely blown up, the flag language and the call did not work at all, and the communication and personnel exchanges with the battalion and regiment were completely interrupted.

The air-raid shelter of the cooking squad on the position was hit by a bombshell, and the cooking tools such as gongs, pots, and pans were completely blown up, and all the cooking personnel were killed or wounded. The soldiers were hungry and thirsty for a day, but fortunately it rained heavily that night, and everyone used empty shells and porcelain bowls and cups to catch the rain to quench their thirst.

The whole position was full of craters, some of which were like sieve holes, and some of which were unfathomable, and almost all the fortifications were blown up, and stumps and broken bodies could be seen everywhere on the position. Wang Xuanzhong counted the number of people, the fate of the commander of the 3rd company was unknown, the two companies suffered casualties and five platoon commanders, and the total number of soldiers was less than 100, so he had to merge the two companies into one company to command.

The next day, our front-line troops had already retreated, and it was said that the ground troops were close to the front of Yezigou, but they stopped uncharacteristically and still bombarded Yezigou by artillery fire and bombs.

The artillery of the military planes was still concocted in the same way, and the fierce bombardment continued throughout the whole day. At dusk, he also thought that after two days of bombardment, there was no more life in Yezigou, so he said that the infantry threw off Yezigou and directly attacked Xihe Zhenkou from the west.

At this time, Wang Xuanzhong counted the people, and there were only more than 30 soldiers left in the two companies of continuous bombardment.

At the same time as the army bombarded Yezigou, the army in front of the front-line position made a new move: dividing the troops and raiding in a roundabout way. In fact, this is also the method used by him in his own operations, and whether it is in a major strategy or in a partial tactic, he has never tired of doing it, and it has been repeated and has achieved quite a lot of results.

Of course, this requires that the troops who dare to take on the detour must have tenacity, tenacious perseverance, the spirit of courage to sacrifice, and outstanding courage.

The search party of our 3rd Battalion, which was ambushed in the mountains on the north side of the road, monitored the flank of the Japanese army. Through the dense foliage, they found that hundreds of enemy horsemen had bypassed the road, dragged several mountain cannons, and outflanked them from the trail of more than ten miles on our left flank. From this point of view, this group of enemies can be launched behind our flank the next day, and the situation is very urgent! In order to cooperate with the outflanking of the enemy cavalry, the enemy in front of him also intensified his artillery offensive from the air and land, so as to increase the frontal pressure on me and distract me.

Liu Yuqing, who was in the division headquarters, had already been ordered to retreat, and at this time he had received a report from the reconnaissance team, knowing very well that the battle line had reached a critical moment, and once the enemy cavalry succeeded in a roundabout, the battle line would surely collapse completely!

At this time, hesitation and hesitation are not the way to general, rather than waiting for the army to succeed in a roundabout way, it is better to strike first, advance and retreat, and fight to the death! The frontal enemy seems to be attacking aggressively, but in fact he is waiting for the opportunity to attack me front and back, and the defense will inevitably be slack, and this is the time to attack him unprepared. So he immediately picked up the phone and ordered Zhu Zaitang:

"Quickly send a strong force to monitor and block the enemy's roundabout cavalry. In addition, come up with your method of counterattacking the Japanese army in Shanghai, organize death squads, and attack the main force on all fronts tomorrow morning, and the divisional reserves will be put into battle, which will inevitably break the enemy in front of you. ”

Zhu Zaitang, who received the order of the division commander, immediately drew two battalions from the 153rd Regiment and rushed to the ambush site on the road of the enemy's cavalry overnight to monitor its movements. Two other companies were sent to feint and interfere with the left and right flanks from the front, advancing and retreating, all of which were only to paralyze the enemy.

In the early morning of the next day, the whole army had a full meal. As soon as dawn arrived, three red signal flares flew into the sky, and the whole division concentrated all its artillery and dozens of heavy machine guns to open fire together.

At the moment when the explosion sounded, the trumpet of the charge sounded, and Rong Guang, the captain of the death captain and the platoon commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 151st Regiment, went into battle shirtless, holding a shiny broadsword, and shouted: "Brothers, rush!" ”

Quickly jumped out of the trench and led the whole platoon to take the lead in the enemy formation. Almost at the same time, the soldiers of the death squads of the battalions on the front line jumped out of the trenches one after another, wave after wave, and smashed into the enemy group with lightning speed.

The commander of the army was waiting for the news of the success of the roundabout troops, and he did not expect that the Chinese defenders, who had been beaten to the ground of parry, would launch such a powerful counterattack at this time.

Ignoring the enemy's machine-gun fire, our charging soldiers quickly approached the enemy immediately after the death squad, twisted together with the devils at close range, and exerted their power with broadswords and grenades, flesh and blood flew everywhere on the position, the enemy's machine-gun fire points were blown up by grenades, and the aircraft artillery that relied on their superiority completely lost their effectiveness, and was soon completely defeated and collapsed on all fronts.

And our army also suffered heavy casualties, and the captain of the death captain, Rong Guang, was seriously injured.

Under the cover of firepower, the 26th Division pursued the victory, captured countless military flags and swords, and said that the corpses of the devils were all over the field. In addition, the enemy's detour troops were also repulsed, killing countless enemy horses and wolfdogs. The enemy's conspiracy to sneak attack and attack from both sides was shattered.

Liu Yuqing got the report of the successful counterattack and immediately began to arrange the next move. Zhang Rongfa, commander of the 152nd Regiment, was ordered to lead a death squad of more than 500 people from the rest of the regiment to occupy the key points, stop the enemy's advance, and cover the retreat of the whole division.

The troops immediately rushed to transport the wounded, and before the enemy launched a new offensive and the artillery positions advanced, the troops withdrew from their positions along all lines and moved behind the division headquarters.

Zhang Rongfa, also known as Zhang Shufan, a native of Zhouxing Township, Longchang County, Sichuan, was born in poverty, studied in private school for two years, dropped out of school later, cut grass and herded cattle, picked coal as a helper, and became a soldier at the age of 18. Because of his bravery in battle, he was deeply respected, and was escorted to Yunnan Jiangwutang for training, and was promoted to battalion commander after returning to the team. During the battle in Shanghai, he fought bloodily, and after the death of Xie Guji, he was promoted to the commander of the regiment.

Seeing that the 26th Division had finally begun to retreat, Noboru Kunisaki immediately ordered the front-line troops to reorganize a little, and then launched a ferocious attack on Zhang Rongfa's regiment, with planes, tanks, and artillery overwhelmingly coming over, and infantry charging in turn.

At this time, the attacking Yue himself had learned that the defenders were heroic troops who had participated in the Battle of Shanghai, and besieged Zhang Tuan with several times the crowd in the shouts of the Han annihilators shouting "capture Zhang Shufan alive".

Zhang Rong's troops exhausted their ammunition and retreated while fighting.

In the midst of the enemy's siege, Zhang Rongfa led the remnants of the personnel to help the wounded and wade into the water. The commander of the army still did not give up his last hope, and Xu used high-ranking officials to lure Zhang Rongfa and the soldiers in the water to go ashore and surrender with their guns.

In the end, amid the angry scolding and slogans of the soldiers in the water, the thunderous commander of the Yue army ordered his subordinates to shoot wildly at these unyielding warriors, and all of them were shot in the lake.

As the bullet pierced the body, the blood of the Sichuan soldiers poured out of the bullet hole and converged into the surging lake that never dried up

Zhang Rongfa was forty-four years old when he died, and there were only more than 60 survivors of the 500 death squads!

Even though it once again paid heavy casualties, the 26th Division had already completed the task of blocking Xihe Town, and at this time, the pocket formation of the 23rd Army had been opened, just waiting for the army to take the bait.

A great war of annihilation is about to kick off the earth-shattering curtain!

(To be continued)