The drizzle, just like the tears of sorrow from above, kept dripping.

The huge scorched earth was covered with red-hot craters, large and small, the water-filled pools and ditches were smoked by the flames of war, the half-charred damp reeds and shrubs were smoking, the 300-meter-long mound was cut into sections of low ruins, and the suffocating, stinging lung lobes of the rich smell of gunpowder smoke and blood were still steaming.

Gradually, the whining cries rang out, and in a moment they rang out in one or two sharp wails that made the heart palpitate and hurt to the bone marrow.

The muddy beard picked up Yin Jinan, whose head was grazed by shrapnel and bleeding profusely, took out the first-aid triangular towel around his waist and bandaged it quickly, seeing Yin Jinan regain his senses, staggering to stand up and walk towards the fallen brothers, the beard breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly rushed to the direction where An Yi was last standing, dug An Yi, who only showed half of his face, out of the soil, and hugged him in his arms and called loudly: "Xiao Yi, wake up!" Xiao Yi ...... I call you uncle, open your dog's eyes......"

An Yi coughed violently, spat out a mouth full of slimy dirt, and asked weakly, "How are the brothers?" And also...... And what about Brother Xiang? Are you still alive......"

"Get up! Stand up for Lao Tzu, and Lao Tzu will help you go and see ......"

Hu Zi picked up An Yi, stopped for a long time to wake An Yi up, and saw An Yi stubbornly pushing himself away, so he slowly let go of his hand.

An Yi stumbled towards his brothers, nodded silently with the brothers who were lucky with each other, knelt in front of Bian Guangda, who was bleeding in his chest, pressed Yin Jinan's hands tightly covering Bian Guangda's chest with one hand, and gently held Bian Guangda's head full of mud and dust with the other hand, and shed tears:

"Guangda, Lao Tzu can't stand you......"

Xiao Bian Dan Xu Guangda opened his eyes that were about to lose his mind, and under the excitement, blood clots and fragments of his lungs gushed out of his mouth, he stretched out his trembling hand, grabbed An Yi's remaining half of his sleeve, and said with difficulty with his last strength:

"Battalion commander, I ...... The machine gun makes it good, but I can be stupid...... Doesn't dig holes...... The brethren are better than me...... Dig fast...... Battalion commander...... I want to learn from you...... Dig...... Cave ......"

"Guangda—"

An Yi hugged Bian Guangda's head and cried bitterly, but Xiao Biantan couldn't hear it anymore, his eyes were closed, and the blood at the corners of his mouth was still flowing, but his expression was serene.

Shi Junren wiped away his tears, half-knelt beside An Yi, persuaded An Yi to let go, and told An Yi in a nagging voice: "Battalion commander, Guangda has closed his eyes and walked smoothly......"

The brothers followed An Yi, who was silently choked, and walked to the side of the brothers who died one by one, and watched An Yi wipe his eyelids for the brothers who did not close their eyes.

In the blink of an eye, 27 people died, 36 were seriously injured, and more than 60 people were slightly injured by shrapnel and mud stones.

Looking at the bunkers of different sizes and depths, looking at the bloodstained hands of the brothers and the charred black faces that could not distinguish people, An Yi felt for the first time that he was so powerless and helpless, and so helpless and vulnerable.

"Ji Nan, gather the brothers above the squad leader and platoon leader, check the injuries of the brothers, collect the bodies of the dead brothers, and I will come back...... Beard, you and I go to the friendly side to have a look. ”

An Yi turned around, accompanied by his beard, and walked to the east, where he saw Huang Qixiang and two adjutants walking staggering on the artillery position full of scrap metal and deep pits, smoke everywhere, and full of mess, and the surviving dozen or so artillerymen numbly dragged a mutilated corpse and gathered next to the large crater in the middle.

Huang Qixiang, who had half of his hair burned, turned to An Yi under the adjutant's reminder, wiped off the black smoke and mud on his face, swallowed his saliva and asked with difficulty, "Are you okay?" ”

An Yi nodded: "Brother Xiang, are you still planning to go tonight?" ”

"Go! Lao Tzu must go! ”

Huang Qixiang gritted his teeth, squeezed out a sentence viciously, and stared at An Yi resolutely with a pair of red eyes.

An Yi nodded: "Brother Xiang, please leave a boat for the junior brother at night." ”

"Worthy of my brother! Big brother leaves you with the best boat! ”

An Yi nodded, glanced at the miserable artillery position, hiccuped and immediately turned to leave, and when he walked towards his brothers, his steps gradually became calm, and his red eyes shot a strange brilliance.

This momentary change made the beard who had always been by his side sigh deeply.

When the brothers saw An Yi returning, they all stood up and silently looked at An Yi with sad eyes, who raised his head high.

An Yi licked his dry lips and asked, "Brothers, tonight Lao Tzu is going to cross the river, beat those bastards, and avenge the dead brothers...... Whoever wants to go with a raise a hand. ”

After being stunned for a while, Lu Xiong, who had a thick gauze wrapped around his head, strode forward: "Boss, Lao Tzu will go with you!" ”

"Count me in." Old Sichuan Qu Tongyuan walked to An Yi's side with a machine gun in his hand.

"I'll go!"

"Take me!"

"Lao Tzu is the best machine gunner."

"Rabbit, you dog said get out of the way, don't fight with Lao Tzu ......"

…… An Yi looked at the brothers whose eyes were full of anger and grievances, and nodded with satisfaction: "There is only one boat, and it can only seat thirty people...... Except for me and Beard, there are only twenty-eight vacant seats left, since the brothers want to go, let's get ready, after dinner, Beard will go to inform, who is notified, and those who have no chance to go will take care of the injured brothers at home with Ji Nan, and pack up and be ready to pull out. ”

"Big brother, how can this work? You have to ask the divisional department. Yin Jinan said anxiously.

An Yi said confidently: "Don't worry, you watch at home, otherwise I and the beard are not at ease, let's go back, and I will go to the master in person after I go back...... Brothers, take our brothers back to the camp. Lao Lu, Lao Shi, help me lift Guangda up, I'll carry him ......"

Hundreds of sad and angry remnants pulled the long procession, marched in the drizzle, slowly turned a corner, and gradually disappeared at the end of the green reeds.

At 3:50 a.m., 23 large and small wooden boats sailed out of the lake area and into the northeast water alley in the dark night.

Huang Qixiang, who was wrecked, stuffed at least fifty people into each wooden boat, and scared dozens of boatmen who received a huge amount of remuneration trembling and cautious, lest one accidentally lose his life to enjoy the windfall that flew in, only the boat boss on the third boat carrying An Yi's 30-person team and Huang Qixiang's more than 20 entourage said very reassuringly: It is more resistant to wind and waves if it sinks.

More than ten minutes passed, and Huang Qixiang sighed in a low voice to An Yi, who was carrying a machine gun on his back:

"Your people are amazing, at a glance, you can tell that all of them are battle-hardened old fritters, especially the twelve light machine gunners with magazines on their backs, they are definitely villains who kill people without blinking, it is a pity that such elites are placed in the second-line troops!"

"Brother Xiang, don't worry, soon they will all go to the front-line troops, including the younger brother. I'm not afraid of your jokes, all of us have killed people, only the younger brother has killed the least, and he has never been on the real battlefield. ”

An Yi, who was full of wine, replied easily.

Huang Qixiang sniffed and smiled: "I understand, I guess this battle can't kill you, you are going to rise again, haha...... Did you drink? ”

"I drank it all, the five bottles of wine sent by Chief of Staff Hu Zhuang Xing, took out the inferior wine bottle that was dangling white, and lied to me that it was Du Kang, but it was quite pure." An Yi grinned.

Huang Qixiang just wanted to laugh, but immediately closed his mouth in amusement, shook his head and gave An Yi a punch in his chest: "It's almost out of the estuary, stand firm." ”

On the black river, there was a light white mist, and the stars in the sky after the rain poked out their white heads from the gaps in the clouds.

As soon as the experienced boatmen entered the wide rapids, they immediately rocked the oars desperately, and the warriors on each boat picked up the short oars and planks prepared in advance to paddle with all their might, and the closely connected wooden boats rode the wind and waves in the low guidance of the boatmen, and quickly crossed the river.

When the first boat approached the embankment three kilometers upstream of the north bank of the bridge, the fifty-six brothers of the 36th Regiment on the first boat quickly jumped onto the embankment, and dozens of people tightly pulled the thick cables and dragged the front of the wooden boat onto the slippery shore.

The 1,257 warriors closed their lips and quietly left the boat and climbed onto the embankment, covering their heavy steps with the help of the sound of the surging rapids, and looked from a distance in the night, like a black line slowly floating up the embankment.

"Brothers, rush—"

With Huang Qixiang's earth-shattering shout, the earth-shattering roar and the dense gunfire broke the darkness before dawn, and the sleeping enemy soldiers in tents and makeshift huts were beaten by a dense barrage of bullets before they could wake up.

More than 1,000 warriors lined up in a line, moving rapidly from east to west, and thousands of light machine guns, flower machine guns, and shell guns with powerful firepower protruded thousands of deadly tongues of fire, causing the enemy to cry and howl wolves, and the screams and exclamations came one after another, and the sound shook all over the wilderness, and the thick smoke and fire caused by the explosion of the grenades illuminated the enemy's position on the north bank one kilometer deep, and then rows of bullets flew towards the pile of people fleeing in terror, and the enemy troops fell in pieces like wheat seedlings harvested by a huge sickle.

At the same time, the 120 artillery pieces of the Seventh Army, the Fourth Army, and the Second Division of the First Army on the south bank roared violently from the ground to the earth, and under the unified command, the dense artillery shells covered from west to east, turning the enemy's right flank position into a red sea, and the two sides of the Tingsi Bridge were filled with gunpowder smoke and dust and smoke, and even the air and clouds over a radius of dozens of miles were sharply expanding and rolling in the scorching air current.

After the north end of the big iron bridge was covered by a round of dense artillery fire, the blazing tongue of fire and the steaming gunpowder smoke were rushing up, and the attacking troops hidden on the south bank shouted in unison, swarming forward, and Ye Tingbu of the Reading Force Regiment of the Fourth Army took the lead, quickly rushed to the bridge and opened fire in unison, and the dense rain of bullets enveloped the enemy north of the bridge along with the thick steel beams and straight rails.

Li Zongren's Zhong Zupei Brigade and Hu Zongduo Brigade, who were tormented by the enemy and full of anger, followed closely behind, and the shouts of killing resounded in the sky and resounded in the sky.

The position on the north bank was deep, and the unstoppable 36th Regiment and An Yi's task force platoon were red-eyed, and more than 1,000 warriors under the command of Huang Qixiang killed back and forth for two rounds, and after achieving the predetermined combat goal, they immediately divided into three routes and attacked the enemy's various command centers.

An Yi led twenty-nine indomitable brothers to suddenly turn around and kill in the northwest of the enemy formation, and the brothers only cared about concentrating their blows in the direction of the charge, and in the high-speed running and shooting, they ignored the black pressure on both sides and rushed to the enemy, and fought their way out of the hundreds of headless deserters who were like flies, and quickly boarded the Sunjialing artillery position to launch a crazy blow against the chaotic enemy artillery.

Approaching the main position, fifteen brothers threw grenades to blow up the camp fence in an angry roar, rushed into the gap in the thick smoke of gunpowder, and immediately scattered after entering the position, and the powerful firepower made the chaotic enemy soldiers wail and flee wildly, and it only took a few minutes to easily attack the artillery headquarters on the anti-slope at the foot of the mountain, aiming at more than ten enemy generals who had no time to escape is a burst of roaring and strafing, making the flesh and blood of these more than ten generals blurred like a sieve.

The brothers, who had already been numb to the slaughter, turned around again and pulled out of formation in the midst of An Yi's beastly roar, and launched another round of killing against the scattered fleeing enemies, and the barrels of their guns were red and hot, and they still did not give up, as if they wanted to vent all their hatred on all movable objects on the artillery position.

The light of the sky slowly sprinkled onto the earth through the billowing smoke, and the morning sun that had not yet shown its face dyed the clouds in the sky golden.

An Yi, who was standing on a high place, overlooked the thousands of troops and horses who quickly rushed under the position to launch a rapid pursuit of the fleeing enemy, and shouted loudly in a hoarse voice: "Huang Yingwu, put up the flag for Lao Tzu——"

"Yes—"

Huang Yingwu, who was covered in gunpowder smoke and had an unrecognizable face, put the smoking flower machine gun in his hand on the ground, took out a flag stained with bacon oil and smoke from his bosom and rushed to the sacrificial flag stand 50 meters above, quickly lowered the enemy's five-color battle flag "呲呑" and tore it off, tied the fiery red battle flag of the "First Army and Second Division" and quickly pulled it to the top of the flagpole.

Huang Yingwu, who was extremely proud, jumped on the big stone slab that stretched out several meters in the air, looked at Liu Xiao and more than ten other officials who were rapidly approaching the foot of the mountain below, and opened his voice that was already hoarse as a broken gong: The engineer battalion is worthy of its mission! Finally avenged the dead brother - in front of the enemy's artillery command department north of the hill, Qu Tongyuan of old Sichuan wrinkled his face like a black cat, and happily reported to An Yi: "Boss, there are so many oceans in it!" That's two big boxes, at least five or six thousand! ”

An Yi, who was smoked into black charcoal by the gunpowder, was in the mood to care about the affairs of the ocean at this time, he looked closely at the four brothers who counted the artillery on the position, and eagerly wanted to know how much the total number of large artillery pieces captured this time would never be robbed by others again, and saw that Lao Sichuan was still chattering around him, and turned his head angrily and scolded:

"That's what you say? Thousands of oceans are happy to hang you, how can you mix with Lao Tzu in the future? Get out of the way! ”

"No, Boss......"

Lao Sichuan saw that Liu Xiao and other officers and commanders strode into the position under the escort of dozens of officers and soldiers of the special service company, and in a hurry, he couldn't care about any subtlety anymore, so he directly hugged An Yi and said anxiously in his ear: "Listen to me, boss, a box of gold bars is more than three hundred taels, if I take away the blood in my heart for the division headquarters!" ”

An Yi was taken aback, and suddenly turned around: "Put it away, you idiot!" Go ahead! ”

"Hey, hey! Boss, all of his subordinates have been stuffed into the stomachs of the two enemy generals who were beaten into a sieve by us, and they have put on two guards' clothes and tied them tightly, hehe! Subordinates aren't stupid, right? ”

Old Sichuan laughed even more sensually.

An Yi was overjoyed: "The dog said yes!" This time, Lao Tzu would rather not be promoted to get you a second lieutenant, remember, God knows that you know and I know, and you must not reveal it, and you must be personally responsible for getting it back, and quietly deposit it in our provident fund private account with Jinan, and Lao Tzu will reward you with another 500 oceans! ”

"I knew it was right to follow the boss, haha! Ouch...... The master seat is here, you go up quickly, the subordinates have gone down to collect the corpses......"

(To be continued)