Chapter 568: The Iron Beat Through the Mountain

readx; Chongyang, which was defended by the 6th Division of the Army, was in danger, and Tongshan, which was defended by the New 9th Brigade, was also in danger!

In desperation, he threw all his troops into launching wave after wave of attacks on the position of Tongshan. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 The bombardment of planes and artillery almost leveled the mountain!

When the sun rose on the sixth day, more than 3,000 officers and men of the New 9th Brigade suffered more than 1,300 casualties.

Under such circumstances, the Pillar was forced to abandon all the first-line positions and shrink his forces to the second-line positions for the final defense. And if it can't hold out today, then the new 9th Brigade will be forced to go into Tongshan, where there are hardly any street fighting fortifications, to conduct street fighting.

This is the fateful sixth day!

"I have put all my forces into the attack, and Chongyang can be recovered. I have ordered the 2nd Division to move closer to you with all its might. If you hold on for a while, you can take the initiative to abandon Tongshan and break through in the direction of Chongyang, and temporarily the 2nd Division will take on the cover to respond. ā€

Looking at the telegram sent by Gao Fei himself, Suozhu pursed his mouth: "Call back to the commander, just say that I have nothing to do, a turtle son's robe brother Mo Dela." Mingdian, just use Mingdian to send it to Lao Tzu! ā€

With a "boom", a cannonball exploded not far away, and the lock post slapped the dust on his body.

It's the sixth day, will you be able to hold on today? Sticking to it, how to break out? The pillar didn't have any plans in mind.

At this time, another frantic attack of the Yue army began again

The shells continued to explode around the position, and one after another flames rose into the sky, and the waves of air set off enveloped everything in it, smashing their heads and faces towards the soldiers on the position.

The 3rd platoon took on the task of covering the retreat of the battalion to the 2nd line position. Xiao Sizi and his brothers, saving the ammunition that the brothers had exchanged for their lives, shot steadily and accurately at the army.

There was about a small group of troops, scattered and surrounded here. The lock post took a look, pulled the trigger, and a gunshot rang out, and a man fell under his gun.

"This is the platoon commander of Sanfu" The little fourth son read softly in his heart: "The next one is Lao De's"

The twelve brothers around him were all scattered, and like the little fourth son, they deftly dodged the bullets of the Orientals, accurately killing and injuring the soldiers who rushed up one by one.

There are a lot of enemies, and they can't be killed, but the little fourth son doesn't care about these at all.

And the fourth son also made up his mind that he must not die, no matter what, even if he climbs, he must crawl home.

He had already made an oath in front of the Sanfu platoon commander and Lao De that he would help them restore their reputation. No matter how difficult it is!

At this time, the fourth son is no longer at all like a descendant of a diplomat, not at all like a child of a family. On this battlefield of blood and fire, he has turned himself into a beast!

I already say that I am a group of beasts, so if I want to keep myself alive, the only way is to turn myself into a beast!

The enemy opens his bloody jaws to eat you, and you can only show his fangs and tear him apart!

"Sir, sir, who's the chief here?"

"There, that, little four, our platoon commander!"

The order on the battlefield has long been disrupted, and those squad leaders, platoon commanders, and company commanders have already changed several times.

"Commander, I was sent by the battalion commander, my whole battalion has withdrawn to the 2nd line position, and the battalion commander asked you to withdraw quickly!"

The little fourth son focused on aiming at an enemy, and when he saw that enemy fall under his gun, he said loudly with satisfaction: "Brothers, withdraw, withdraw!" ā€

The 3rd platoon began to retreat to the rear, and the soldiers who survived the battlefield had already become veterans under the test of battle.

The concept of veterans and recruits is completely different, and their greatest strength is that they know how to survive as much as possible in the harshest environment.

Thirteen brethren were in cover, constantly using their limited ammunition to inflict maximum damage on those who tried to approach them.

"Platoon commander, let's go, let's go!"

"Wait, wait, what is this?" The little fourth son suddenly screamed.

Then he bent down, kicked in the dirt, and then pulled out a box of explosives from the dirt as if he had found a treasure, and exclaimed, "Fuck, why didn't you find such a box of good things left?" ā€

"Platoon commander, you are a recruit, I don't know, this is the rule set by our brigade commander!" Xu Luoya, who was temporarily appointed as the deputy platoon commander, fired a shot outward, and said: "Each platoon has to leave a box of explosives, in case the position cannot be held, there will be nothing left." The platoon commander and Lao De were killed, and the box of explosives was not touched. ā€

"Fuck, don't blow up your own people!" The little fourth son said viciously: "Buckteeth, cover Lao Tzu, give the Oriental people such a guy!" ā€

Xu Luoya hated itchy: "Crazy, fucking crazy, Lao Tzu's life must be sent here!" ā€

The explosives were re-buried, the fuse was pulled to the longest place, Xiao Sizi and Xu Luoya hid behind a broken wall, lit half a cigarette, and took a puff Meimei, Xu Luoya quickly took it, and also rushed to take two puffs, and returned the cigarette to Xiao Sizi: "Hey, platoon leader, your Lao Tzu doesn't allow you to smoke at home, right?" ā€

"Of course." The fourth son rummaged in the soil for a long time, found a small half of a cigarette, lit it, and glanced at the position: "There is an ancestor in my family who smokes big cigarettes, and then the family made a rule that smoking is absolutely not allowed." Not to mention smoking, even if you drink, you can only drink a small glass during the New Year's holidays, and the family education is strict. ā€

"A good diplomat is not a good soldier, he has to be a soldier." Xu Luoya picked up the cigarette butt that Xiao Sizi threw away again, and took two puffs greedily: "If you want to say that in the new 9th Brigade, there are not many people like you who can read and hyphenate." Our brigade commander is afraid that he will not even be able to write his own name. Hey, when the battle is over, you can just be our teacher. ā€

"Yes." Seeing that the Oriental people had rushed up, the little fourth son took the cigarette butt that was about to burn out and put it on the fuse, looked at the fuse "sizzling" and covered his ears: "But you all have to call me sir"

With a loud "boom", the position was instantly submerged in a sea of gunpowder smoke and fire, and the screams of the person were heard. "Pounced", and an arm that was blown away fell on the body of the little fourth son.

Xiao Sizi picked it up and looked at it, made sure that it was an Oriental, and threw his arm to the ground: "Go, go!" ā€

Tongshan 2nd Line Position, New 9th Brigade, Noon on the sixth day of the Battle of Tongshan.

The only "supplies" were delivered, and three cigarettes were assigned to the 3rd row.

"Dog, this thing can't fill the stomach, and it can't be used as a bullet to hit the Oriental!" Xu Luoya scolded hatefully, but after all, he couldn't resist the temptation, lit one, and then gave one bite to each of the brothers.

The stomach was so hungry that the chest was close to the back, and the frozen and hard loess really couldn't be eaten. When I ate these things, my stomach swelled so badly that I couldn't even get out of my.

The luck of the 3rd platoon was relatively good, and last night they caught a mouse that God knows where to climb up the position, and it was "formed" by the brothers on the spot at that time.

I didn't dare to start a fire, so I peeled the skin and ate it raw, but the taste was definitely the most delicious thing the brothers had ever eaten in their lives!

The little fourth son picked up a handful of snow and wiped his mouth, looking at the listless appearance of the brothers: "Teach everyone to sing." Our Sichuan army has ten military songs, and teach you two of the best ones. ā€

As he spoke, the little fourth son sang:

"A man rides the wind to break thousands of miles, it is best to die on the battlefield, how to become famous before the national humiliation, and the sword is carried out on the expedition. Resist power, remove national thieves, sweep away the atmosphere and conquer the Yu domain, the reckless Great Wall, enter and exit, and broadcast the voice of heroes on the earth.

The frost wind is fluttering, and the iron cavalry is embracing thousands of groups, holding high the autumn rolls and thousands of clouds, and standing tall for the Yue family army. Resist power, get rid of national thieves, drown in hatred and blood, calm the sea atmosphere in the east, suppress Hu dust in the west, and make meritorious deeds in war. ā€

Listening to this heroic and tragic song, the brethren were in good spirits. The enemy planes flying overhead, they didn't seem to see them at all.

The little fourth son sang over and over again, until everyone could sing, and then stopped.

"This song is the first to have it in General Yang Sen's troops, if you want to say that this General Yang Sen, although he is a big warlord, he is definitely rare in terms of national integrity!" The little fourth son gave a thumbs up:

In the second half of 1926, the Guangdong National Revolutionary Army of the Northern Expedition achieved brilliant results in the Yangtze River valley and the battlefields of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the power of various countries, especially Britain, in China was dealt a heavy blow. In order to consolidate their power in the Yangtze River valley, the British political axe stepped up its interference in the Chinese revolution; they not only dispatched a large number of warships to China to demonstrate and cause bloody incidents along the southeast coast, but also used their merchant ships to commit misconduct in China's inland rivers, provoke and cause trouble, and make it a child's play to sink Chinese wooden boats and drown the Chinese people. In a short period of three months from June to August 1926, the British committed four bloody crimes in the Wanxian section of the Yangtze River, sinking four Chinese civilian ships and drowning more than 40 people. On 29 August, the British steamship 'Wanliu' of the British Swire Pacific Company sank three Chinese wooden ships again in the Yangtze River in Yunyang, and one company commander, one platoon commander, and 56 soldiers of the Yang Sen Department stationed in Wanxian County were drowned, and 56 guns, 5,500 bullets, and 85,000 yuan were paid."

Seeing that the platoon commander set up a dragon gate formation, the brothers all gathered around, and the fourth son told the magnificent story of General Yang Sen's resistance to the British very seriously.

When the incident occurred, Yang Sen sent the chief inspector of the steamship to lead eight soldiers to the round to investigate the incident, but was attacked by the British ship "Kirktev" anchored in Wanxian County, seriously injuring several people, and the "Wanliu" ship also fled from Wanxian under the cover of the British ship. That night, when the British ships "Wanxian" and "Wantong" arrived in Wanxian, Yang Sen immediately sent troops to detain the two ships, and at the same time called the supervision of the Yucheng Customs, demanding that the British consul in Yucheng protest and compensate for the losses. After that, Yang Sen sent a telegram to all parties, detailing the accident caused by the British ship and the reasons for the detention of the two rounds of "Wantong" and "Wanxian", and put forward the demand of "punishing the culprits and compensating for losses". The brutal British imperialism not only did not meet the demands of the Chinese side, but instead sent warships to gather in Wanxian in an attempt to recapture the detained British ship by force.

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon of 5 September, the British "Jiahe," which had been converted into a warship, arrived in Wanxian and approached the "Wantong" on the left and right sides with the British ship "Kirktev" that had been originally stationed in Wanxian in a vain attempt to forcibly seize the ship by force. The Chinese soldiers stationed on the "Wantong" returned fire, killing more than 20 British soldiers and the deputy captain of the "Kirktev," and more than 30 Chinese officers and men also died heroically. At about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, another British [***] ship "Wei Gong" that had been stationed in Chongqing arrived in Wanxian County, and together with the "Jiahe" and "Koktev" they used cannons to carry out a frenzied bombardment of the peaceful residents on both sides of Wanxian County, which lasted more than two hours, fired more than 300 rounds, shelled 33 places in the urban area of Wanxian, killed 604 residents, injured 398 people, destroyed more than 1,000 houses, and lost about 20 million yuan in property, creating the appalling "Wanxian Ninth Five-Year Tragedy."

After the "Ninth Five-Year Plan Massacre in Wanxian County" occurred, Yang Sen immediately launched an anti-British struggle and organized the people of Wanxian County to set up the "Snow Shame Society" and the "Hoe Annihilation Regiment".

On 8 September, the Kuomintang Left Provincial Party Department came forward to convene a meeting of nearly 800 representatives of more than 390 organizations in Yucheng to set up the "Sichuan National Shame Association for the Wanxian Massacre," and adopted 17 resolutions, including telegrams and declarations to all countries in the world, ministers in China, and the national government of Guangdong, and to hold strikes, school boycotts, market boycotts, and demonstrations, and decided to use 10,000 yuan of Huayang relief money and the city's tax revenue as relief funds, and to send representatives to Wanxian County to investigate the incident and go to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River to publicize the truth of the tragedy. and contact all relevant organizations to cut off the supply of British businessmen in the area of Longmenhao and Danzishi, and implement economic severance.

A massive anti-British campaign quickly spread to Yucheng and the whole of Sichuan: the coal trade union announced that it would stop loading coal on British ships; Yinglun Chinese Lingjiang voluntarily retired; The barge union announced that it would not ship goods to the British. Immediately afterwards, more than 500 loading workers who served in the British Ship all withdrew, and under the leadership of the trade union, they formed a "National Salvation Group" to participate in the picket tasks in Tangjiatuo and Longmenhao. At the same time, the business community also organized a "business association" to pledge not to trade with the British.

On September 18, the whole city of Chongqing held a strike, a boycott, and a boycott of the city, a total of more than 400 groups, more than 60,000 people, and hundreds of steamboats and wooden boats composed of water and land teams participated in the demonstration, and the cheering masses along the two rivers were as many as 100,000 people, and the angry masses shouted slogans to protest against the atrocities of the British imperialists, and the crowd was indignant and unprecedented, and affected Luzhou and Syria along the Yangtze River, fully demonstrating the tremendous strength of the people from all walks of life in Sichuan, and dealing a heavy blow to Britain.

Since then, the British ship did not dare to sail Luzhou and Syria again, and "the inland river merchant ship has since changed to fly the Chinese flag". At the end of March of the following year, British businessmen and personnel of British companies and British and Chinese steamers were all forced to evacuate Yucheng, and they did not dare to come to Sichuan again for more than a year.

"Amazing, amazing!" Xu Luoya listened to the "tsk" and praised: "Lao Tzubai is a native of Sichuan, if you don't say this, we really don't know, hey, don't say it, there is a learned person who is different." Then again, Lao Tzu Sichuan people are really good! ā€

Xiao Sizi smiled: "Speaking of our Sichuan army, we have to start from the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, in the second year of Xuantong, the Qing government axe abolished the green battalion, and built 36 towns of the army in the country. At the same time, the establishment of the military academy, the army primary school, the military academy, the army accelerated school, the army lecture hall, etc., to train middle and lower officers, these students later became the backbone of the Sichuan army, among which the outstanding ones were also sent abroad for further study. In the Xinhai Uprising, the provinces set up a military and political axe to announce the reading power, but the revolutionaries in Sichuan first set up the Han military and political axe in Chongqing, and then some people set up the Shu military and political axe in Chengdu, which is unique in the provinces. But we used to have a bad reputation for fighting civil wars."

Speaking of this, Xiao Sizi was silent: "From 1912 to 1934, we Sichuan people fought ourselves after 22 years of more than 400 battles, although the Sichuan army is famous for fighting civil wars, but our personnel quality and equipment can be called China's worst miscellaneous cards!" Finally, Sichuan was roughly unified by Chief Liu Xiang, but the soldiers of the Sichuan army did not have time to enjoy themselves on the land of abundance, and the War of Resistance broke out.

At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, the soldiers of the Sichuan army asked Ying to participate in the war, and Yang Sen once said, "We fought in the civil war in the past, and we are sorry for the country and the nation, which is extremely humiliating." Today's war of resistance against Japanese aggression is to defend the land and defend the country, shedding blood and sacrificing, this is the duty of our soldiers, and our Sichuan army must not live up to the expectations of our fathers and fellow villagers, and we must shed all our blood to win glory for the country. These words are our hearts, brethren! ā€

The brethren fell silent.

Xiao Sizi took a deep breath: "Since the Sichuan army went out of Sichuan to resist the war, no one has ever wanted us, to our bloody battles, the Orientals who fought to obey us, and the friendly troops who fought mentioned us all gave us a thumbs up, and the notoriety that we only fought the civil war has been washed away." It's not easy, it's really not easy."

It is really not easy for these Sichuan army brothers, holding the "twist grenades" that can only be used to fight hares, local chickens, and Sichuan's own manufacturing, which cannot explode eight out of ten, and they have created one miracle after another on the battlefield with their blood and flesh.

With their loyalty to the nation, their blood and their lives, they have shown the world the iron bones of the Chinese!

The brothers were still there, silent, as if they were all thinking about something. At this time, the cannon of the army rang out again, but this was nothing in the hearts of the brothers.

"Brethren!" Glancing at the Yue army lined up to attack, Xiao Sizi smiled and said: "We still have 28 bullets and 2 grenades, but we still have big knives, help Sanfu platoon commander avenge, help the old Dage squad leader avenge, everyone, let's all prepare to die here!" ā€

The brothers all smiled as they faced the swarming Orientals and took off their broadswords behind their backs!

(To be continued)