readx; The 309th Regiment had no time to repair the fortifications on the occupied heights because of the fierce fighting with the enemy, and at night the Kou counterattacked seven times in a row, and the battalion commander Huang Renwei, who was guarding the C Heights, was wounded three times, and refused to retreat from the line of fire, shouting to supervise the battle, which greatly boosted morale, and finally repelled the Kou. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 After the dawn count, the number of casualties in the battalion reached more than 200, most of whom were stabbed by devils in hand-to-hand combat, and more than 80 corpses of devils were also left.

Due to the heavy losses, the deployment had to be adjusted: the engineer battalion was used to take up the task of defending the sub-heights, and the troops of the Honorable Third Regiment were drawn to sweep away the remnants of the enemy on the C and D heights; After the 309th Regiment was reorganized, it attacked the No. 4 Heights, and the mountain artillery originally belonging to the regiment was drawn out to advance on the unnamed heights on the north side of the sub-Heights to support the Honorable 3rd Regiment in the battle.

The newly transferred 15th Engineer Regiment set aside a company to take up the task of constructing fortifications of the Honorary 3rd Regiment, and the Zhuzipo and Yinshan Artillery also fully supported the Honorary 3rd Regiment in its operations.

After the 309th Regiment was reorganized, it attacked on Heights No. 4 on the afternoon of 31 August, and after fierce fighting, occupied the position in the evening. The attack of the 3rd Regiment of Honor was due to the sudden appearance of two enemy bunkers in the grass, which opened fire with crossfire. The casualties were quite large, and one Yin Mountaineering artillery and one battle gun were transferred to fire at close range, destroying the two dark forts.

It was only after he lost his flank cover that he gave up his position and fled. The 3rd Regiment of Honor occupied the position and communicated the traffic between Songshan and Yinshan. There was a dense forest between Heights 4 and 3, and the 309th Regiment was ambushed up and down in the dense forest, which made the attack of the 309th Regiment quite difficult, so they cut down the wood, which not only made slow progress, but also suffered heavy casualties, because the attacking troops found that they had been wary of the snipers on their trees, so they changed their tactics and arranged more machine-gun snipers in the bushes. When the attacking troops lurked while searching, and waited for the large force to cross the border, snipers from all sides opened fire at the same time, forming a network of crossfire, so that the attacking troops could neither resist nor disperse and retreat, and suffered heavy casualties.

Therefore, although after a day and night of hard work, the attacking troops had reached within 100 meters of the No. 3 high ground, but their morale was not high, and their troops were weak, and they could not break through head-on, so they switched to attacking from the flanks near the double spikes, but they were attacked by hidden flank fires, and more than half of the troops were killed and wounded, and the battalion and company commanders were also gone. Only one deputy company commander acted to direct the remnants to continue the offensive. At dusk, a large fortress at the easternmost end of the enemy was occupied, and the attacking force was left with only 10 soldiers left, so they could only hold their positions and wait for reinforcements.

The enemy in positions E and F attacked by the 245th Regiment was isolated, and the 3rd Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of Honor was transferred to attack Heights C, the 3rd Regiment of Honors was assigned the task of sweeping the valleys, and the 245th Regiment was to attack Heights E.

The artillery first sabotaged the bombardment, the infantry followed suit, and before dusk, the units completed their mission. However, there was a large shelter on the ridge line of the G heights, and when the besieging troops approached on all sides, Kou was afraid of being attacked by flamethrowers, so he rushed out of the shelter and prepared to desperately break through, and the artillery destroyed it in time. After the attacking troops occupied their positions, fearing that there would still be an ambush in them, they burned the shelter with flamethrowers. The 308th Regiment also made progress in the offensive and occupied the unnamed heights between the G and H heights. Due to the continuous advance of the attacking troops, Dazhai said that Kou had become a turtle in an urn.

However, the Kou was very tenacious and did not waver because of the disadvantage, and at the same time, the Kou Air Force did not empty the airdrop of supplies to support the continued resistance of its ground forces. It was precisely because of the strong will to fight that the attacking troops made slow progress and paid heavy casualties. On September 2, the headquarters originally set up in Zhuzipo advanced to Zigaodi. The 4th Artillery Company advanced to the vicinity of Highway 774 in order to support the attack on Loess Slope; The 5th Company advanced to Heights F near Rolling Dragon Slope and was placed under the command of the 103rd Division. The deployment was ready, and the siege of Dazhai began. The attacking troops had to repeatedly rush and kill each stronghold before they could occupy it, and they often gained a few losses, and the fierceness was unprecedented.

After a day and night of hard work, one by one, they were able to completely occupy the position. After dawn, the battlefield was cleaned, and except for the flamethrowers in the shelters, which could not be identified, there were more than 300 enemy corpses in each position, but there were no prisoners. On the night of 2 September, the 309th Regiment launched a fierce attack on Heights No. 3 and devoted all the forces of the regiment in the hope of capturing the heights in one fell swoop under the cover of night.

However, after a night of fierce fighting, the whole regiment did its best, and all the battalion commanders were seriously wounded, and the company and platoon commanders were almost completely killed and wounded, but no progress was made. On the morning of the 3rd, the 3rd Regiment of Honor attacked to the right flank of the 309th Regiment and launched an attack on the 1st and 2nd heights. The attack of the third regiment of the army formed a stalemate with the enemy.

On the night of the 3rd day, the Kou made a fierce counterattack on the fortress occupied by the 309th Regiment, and the attacking troops also put up a resolute resistance, so the fortress suffered several losses. On the morning of the fourth day, when the fort fell back into the hands of the enemy, the commander of the 309th Regiment Chen was furious, and immediately organized the non-combatants of the whole regiment, and personally led this "miscellaneous" force of 200 men to rush to the position. The command sent Wang Guangwei, the commander of the first supplementary regiment, to act as an agent, and he was also a tough guy, taking the lead and bravely launching an attack on the other two fortresses.

Later that night, more than 100 Yue Kou counterattacked, so that the fortress obtained from the No. 3 Heights was captured by Yue Kou. Upon hearing the news, all units sent small units to support the counteroffensive, and the commander of the 3rd Regiment of the Honorable Regiment Zhao personally led 20 "miscellaneous" soldiers to help in the battle, and recaptured the fortress at dawn, while Regiment Commander Wang Guangwei was seriously wounded, and only 20 soldiers remained in the 309th Regiment. Therefore, the position and soldiers were handed over to the commander of the third regiment, and Zhao took over and defended it.

Fourth, the 3rd Regiment of Honor repeatedly attacked the 1st and 2nd heights, occupied a fortress at the eastern end of the 1st and 2nd heights, and only 18 soldiers remained; At the same time, the No. 2 high ground was occupied, and only six soldiers remained, and due to the weakness of the forces in each position, it was unable to launch another attack.

The 245th Regiment garrisoning Songshan handed over its position to the engineer battalion to prepare for the attack on Heights 3, but the regiment was so dilapidated that the corps command had to withdraw the first company of the search battalion of its direct subordinate troops to the command of the regiment. On the night of the fifth day, he launched an attack and occupied one of the No. 3 Heights Fortress. Get in touch with the fortress occupied by the Rongsan Regiment, but when it tries to develop, it is blocked by the fire net. Sixth, they occupied a fort between Heights 3 and 4 and occupied a trench leading to the road. So he searched in a suspicious direction, only to find that there were three hidden bunkers in the valley, which were very cleverly camouflaged and became a powerful side defense of the No. 3 heights, which was extremely difficult for artillery to destroy accurately. However, if the flank fire force is not destroyed, it will be difficult to capture Heights 3 - which is also the reason for the heavy casualties caused by the attack on Heights 3 in the first place.

The 245th Regiment contacted the 3rd Rong Regiment and decided that the 3rd Rong Regiment would be responsible for eliminating the fire force on the right side. The regiment eliminated the fire force on the valley side. That night, both regiments attacked at the same time.

The third regiment of Rong attacked to the right and pounced many times, but was repulsed by the powerful fire of Yukou. The 245th Regiment first suppressed the enemy fort with firepower, and then sent sappers to blow up the enemy fort with explosives packets, but the sappers used 50 yellow explosives packets but did not blow up the enemy fort.

Seeing that the troops were too weak and the attack would be ineffective, the command quickly transferred the first battalion of the 244th Regiment, which was serving as the river defense on the east bank of the Nu River, to take over the defense of the No. 4 and No. 5 heights and Songshan, so that the 245th Regiment could concentrate its forces to attack the No. 3 heights.

During the attack, the 245th Regiment also used the special service battalion directly under the army as a reserve. On September 7, the regimental commander personally supervised the battle, and the soldiers followed one after another, and the heroic was unprecedented, and finally the infantry used the enemy fort to shoot at the dead end, and after approaching, the cluster grenade was stuffed into the shooting hole, so that the three enemy forts were occupied, and then attacked in a roundabout way to assist the Honor 3rd Regiment to sweep away the fortifications on the side of the enemy. It was said that the main fort was shaken, and all the troops coordinated to besiege it, and finally occupied the high ground.

The 103rd Division fought at Huangjia Shuijing and Malutang. The 307th Regiment attacked Huangjia Shuijing in the middle of the night on the 2nd day. After a day and night of fierce fighting, only one fortress on the edge was captured, and the forces were almost exhausted. The 246th Regiment sent a reinforced company, and the divisional search company also joined the 307th Regiment at the same time, and only then did it organize an attack, break into the Huangjia well, and occupy two more forts. At midnight on the 4th, the commander of the 307th Regiment gathered his troops and swore an impassioned oath: "If we cannot occupy all the positions of Huangjiashuijing tonight, I will cut myself in front of the brothers after dawn, and ask the division headquarters to send a capable regiment commander to lead the brothers to continue the battle!" ”

Several battalion and company commanders also excitedly shouted: "Good! We rushed with the regiment commander, and if we could not rush forward, we would die in front of the enemy's position, and we would never retreat! ”

The soldiers were so emotional that many soldiers threw their military caps on the ground, opened their shirts, and slapped their chests loudly: "Fuck, this blood is sprayed on the devil's position tonight!" ”

The reserve troops and the right-wing troops were used at the same time, which was really a desperate gamble! This enthusiastic army marched forward bravely, the regiment commander was wounded several times but still refused to retreat, the soldiers roared angrily, and all kinds of firearms kept shooting at Yuekou, like pouring heavy rain, oppressing the devil's firepower could not be exerted. This angry team is invincible, advancing one by one, and completely destroying the devil!

At dawn on the fifth day, all the positions of Huangjiashuijing were occupied by the attacking troops. In addition to the shelters and fortresses that were burned, blown up, and buried and could not be counted, there were more than 150 corpses in the trenches alone.

The 308th Regiment attacked Malutang.

This was the last stronghold of the attack of the counteroffensive forces in the Battle of Matsuyama. The counter-attacking forces had surrounded the stronghold on all sides, and the 245th Regiment and the 3rd Honorable Regiment could cooperate with the attack from the flanks. However, Yue Kou did not panic because of this, and still responded calmly and tenaciously as before.

The 308th Regiment attacked and advanced along both sides of the highway towards Malutang, and said that Kou was ambushed at the cliff of the highway and resisted step by step, so the 308th Regiment fought from dawn to noon before approaching Malutang, but the main force was blocked by the side fire from the No. 3 high ground and could not advance.

The 103rd Division also attacked Malutang in a roundabout way under the highway with a special service company directly under the division headquarters, and although it occupied part of Malutang for a time, it did not gain a firm foothold and was forced back by the Yuekou.

The 245th Regiment made a detour to the left and united with the right flank of the 103rd Division to attack Malutang, and the 103rd Division handed over the remaining forces to the command of the 307th Regiment and went straight to Malutang from the highway to fight hand-to-hand combat with Yuekou. The 3rd Regiment of Honor broke in from the north end and the 245th Regiment from the south end. By the evening of the seventh day, all the devils had been eliminated, and none of them had escaped the net. The corpses were counted, and more than 600 devils were killed.

In the battle of Matsuyama, a total of more than 3,600 devils were eliminated.

Gao Fei received the good news, personally went to the front line to express his condolences, and read out Chiang Kai-shek's commendation order for the officers and men of the Eighth Army, but the officers and men of the Eighth Army did not rejoice, but accepted the award with embarrassing silence. Because the price they paid was just too great.

In the evening, at the command post of the Dayakou Army, the staff officer reported to Li Mi: Deputy Army Commander, we have won!

Li Mi sat motionless on a stone outside the headquarters, like a wooden man, tears rolling down his cheeks

"I'm going to report to the president on the real situation on this battlefield. Now, as the division commander, I hope that the officers and soldiers will be solemnly buried with them. ”

After speaking, Major General Li Mi folded his hands in front of a corner of the position and performed a Buddhist salute to pray for the souls of those who died in battle.

September 8-9:

All day, our army cleaned the battlefield in Songshan.

An inventory of the corpses of the entire battlefield revealed more than 600 bodies, not including those buried in the forts and trenches. Only a few dozen of the Songshan Kou escaped in all directions, and some were captured or killed by our friendly and neighboring forces. More than 20 miscellaneous personnel and more than 10 military officers were captured in the shelter department.

In addition to a large number of machines, infantry, pistols, and knives, there were also 8 105-mm field guns, intact excavators, automobiles, and a considerable number of mule and horse saddles for cavalry and artillery. Wang Guangwei, acting commander of the 309th Regiment, remembered that the officers and soldiers who cleaned up the battlefield opened a large warehouse of the Yue Army in Dayakou and put on the Yue Army's overcoats and uniforms; Some even took canned food. The 103rd Division's Xiong Shouchun Division got a car, which was the special car of Matsui Hideji, the commander of the 113th Wing of the Chinese Army; The tap water pump set up at Da Yakou was dragged away by Wang Boxun, commander of the 82nd Division; Deputy Commander Li Mi got a sewing machine. Zhou Pengjun got Wang Guangwei a war knife and 5 cavalry guns. There is no tradition of "all seizures must be returned to the public", not to mention that the 8th Army is a "poor army", and it is naturally "really busy dividing the fields and dividing the land" for these spoils of war that they have exchanged for their blood and lives.

At this moment, only those health workers who are dealing with the burial of the fallen martyrs are still immersed in infinite sorrow. Huang Zhizhong, a second lieutenant and military doctor of the new 39th Division at the Lameng Army Field Hospital, said that he remembered that at that time, the army was killed 850 people and 9 were captured, while our army suffered more than 6,000 casualties. Huang Zhizhong led the team up the mountain to bury the body, "dug 3 big pits, which can hold 1,000 people, 800 people, and 500 people respectively, and they are all filled!" ”

On the side of the army, Li Meirong, a soldier of the army, was separated from his companions in the Shuiwuchuan River valley and fled to Longling alone, and was captured by our 71st Army. Because he was wearing civilian clothes, he claimed to be called "Xiu Wenming", and he spoke fluent Chinese, so he was mistaken for Han Jian at first and beaten violently. After finding out his true identity, our army took him to Matsuyama on this day, asked him to identify the location of the radio communication machine buried by the army, and asked where the chrysanthemum imperial flag crown on the military flag was, and Satomi said that he did not know -- this spiritual totem of the army handled by the people of Manabe Kunitsu has since become a secret buried in Matsuyama

When passing the Rolling Dragon Slope position, Sato Meirong saw that several places were covered with straw mats. As soon as it was revealed, the black-pressed flies "buzzed" up, and the corpses below were already decomposing, and the stupid wriggling maggots were like hills. Li Meirong knew that they were all decomposing corpses of the soldiers

In the notes of the officers of the squadron, it is written:

"As soon as the battle was over, we were ordered to come to Matsuyama. We were accompanied by a major general from the headquarters of the Commander of the Expeditionary Force, and he told us to get ready, because the smell of dead men on the mountain was terrible, and before the car had even reached Lameng, the stench came to our noses, and it became more and more intense, and it was very uncomfortable to block our chests, as if the air had been frozen. A few of us immediately became nervous. What you see here is a corpse first, a corpse second, and a corpse third. The officers of the combat unit took us around. We cried all the way, including the officer and the two major generals who led the team.

Matsuyama is made up of many hills and is very large. Wherever there was a defensive position, the pine trees were blown off by shells, uprooted, or burned bare. Every section of tunnel, every bunker, was captured after a struggle. In addition to the smell of corpses, there was also the smell of gunpowder smoke and things being burned. We went up along the route of the attack of the troops at the Da Ya Pass, and everywhere there were corpses and bombed heads that were still in various postures when they were dying, and hands, feet, and thighs could be seen everywhere, which was really shocking.

Towards the top of the mountain, the slope is steep and there are not many corpses here. The soldiers who said they had been shot rolled into the valley. Some officers and soldiers walked around the piles of corpses, collecting guns, looking for comrades and people who were still alive, some seemed to be looking for something of value, and some were only aware of what they were doing.

"On the top of the hill, weapons and ammunition are piled up into a small hill. The soldiers had terrible beards and hair. The gaze of the burning flame was extinguished. The soldiers were resting, laughing, and sleeping. It's more of a vigorous smoking, in a daze under a tattered national flag

We lived in a tent at the big pass in Matsuyama for more than a week, and every day we heard the sound of bulldozers buzzing all day long. It was a bulldozer burying the body. They used bulldozers to push the bodies into dug trenches and hollows, and then bulldozed and buried them. Sometimes moaning or squirming in the pile of corpses, people would stop and find a living person to pull out and work again. There was no counting of the number of people, identification of bodies and registration of badges, and sometimes even the weapons of the deceased were buried.

I couldn't stand it anymore and ran over with my nose covered and told them I couldn't do that. But they didn't pay any attention to me. The officer on the side pulled me away, saying that some people had been dead for months, and that it would be even more terrible if there was a plague

One day in the field, somehow, the major general from the headquarters of the commander of the expeditionary force who accompanied us was killed by the small cover horse pistol he was carrying, and the gun was given by the Matsuyama troops, one for each person. Some say it's a fire, others say it's suicide. People are playing this thing, alive and dead, I don't think it's interesting. But really, you say people kill each other, what kind of play is this, it seems like it's fun to be alive, fuck

Leaving Songshan, we went to Longling again. When I returned to Kunming a few days later, when I passed by Songshan, the sound of bulldozers was still not over."

(To be continued)