readx; What makes Plateau 3 unique is that its tunnels are particularly deep, usually around three meters, and even five or six meters in some sections. The www.biquge.info diameter of the anti-artillery hole is one meter wide and one meter five high, and it can bend over to enter and exit. Looking through the hole, it was dark inside, and I don't know how long it was.

"Flamethrower, burn it", the officers pointed to the anti-artillery hole.

"Is there anyone in there?"

"There's a wounded soldier who can't run away."

"Then tell him to come out and surrender." The command has instructions, and there is a reward for capturing the prisoners.

"You're dreaming! They won't surrender, the devil soldiers are diehards. ”

This is also true, there are leaflets in Chinese language everywhere on the Lotus Mountain position, which are all persuasions to persuade the army to give up resistance. I didn't see a little devil going down the mountain to exchange guns.

In that case, let's set it on fire. Seven or eight shots were fired one after another, and half of the tunnel was on fire, and only a few hysterical curses and screams were heard, but I didn't see the soldiers come out.

However, when Cai Yuan flew to this point, he could only announce that he would stop working, because his gas tank was empty and the napalm was all used up!

There is an artillery observation post on the position, some people say that this is the artillery command post of the Japanese army, and some people say that this is the headquarters of the 113th Wing, but I don't know whether it is true or not. Anyway, at that time, as long as the various teams of [***] conquered the mountain, they all reported that they had taken down the enemy's general headquarters.

The bunker was originally quite large, but now most of it has been blown away by shells and bombs. A hole was revealed where the collapse had fallen, and a group of [***] officers and soldiers were throwing grenades into it. Colonel Wang Zhanjiao was also here, and when he saw Cai Yuanfei, he shouted: "Xiao Cai, come quickly, light a fire." ”

"I can't order it, I'm out of gas."

"Oops, oops, where's the oil?"

"I don't know."

"There's a Spitfire brigade in the military headquarters, and we're cleaning up the battlefield on the high ground," said Regiment Commander Chen Muren.

So, Colonel Wang Zhanjiao immediately spoke to the military commander. The military department happily agreed to transfer the Spitfire team immediately. At this time, grenades were thrown everywhere on the No. 3 position, and it didn't take long to shake off all the iron lumps, but those tunnel entrances and tunnel entrances were still unfathomably black, and everyone dared not go in to check them. Colonel Wang said helplessly: "Forget it, wait for the flamethrowers to come." ”

In this way, the officers and soldiers of the 209th Regiment all sat down to rest and waited for the arrival of the follow-up troops.

After waiting for a while, the Pyro did not come, but the Pyro came.

The prepared meals are packed in bamboo tubes, tied with ropes, and once the bamboo poles are worn, they become picks. The men led the way in front, and a dozen porters followed. Cai Yuanfei said curiously: "These ordinary people are really bold enough to dare to come to the battlefield to deliver food. ”

"I don't want to die if I want money." Luo Yanzhu shook his head and said: "A few days ago, when the military position could still open artillery, [***]'s car was overturned, and the people flocked to grab things, and they were not afraid of shells falling around and exploding."

"What is this?" The head of the Chen Muren regiment went on to break the story: "Once, when the road was full of dead bodies, these people ran behind enemy lines to pick up things. They brought back all the military leather boots sold at the stalls."

So I asked the husband how much money would I have to pay to the migrant workers for this meal? But the firehead replied with a grin, "They don't want money, and the men and women are all happy and rush to help." ”

This was a big surprise to everyone.

The rice tastes good and there are a few slices of meat in it. Cai Yuanfei remembered the corpses he met along the way, and he couldn't eat it. He took out the slices of meat and handed them to Luo Cigarette Stick, and swore that "I will never dare to eat meat in the future, and I will learn from the monk abbot." ”

The people next to him laughed: "You still want to be a monk?" I don't want to think about how many people you burned today."

The flamethrower and his deputy lay in the crater and chatted, listening to Luo Yanjia talk about the hardships from the poverty when he was a child to the present, and it was "bitter, bitter" from beginning to end. However, the veteran finally said: "It seems that we will not need to go into battle tomorrow." No matter what, you and I are lucky in this battle, we were not injured and did not die, and if we don't die, there will be a blessing in the future, maybe my Lao Luo will start the transfer"

It was getting dark, the soldiers were tired, and the Cai recruits, who had gone into battle for the first time, listened to Luo Li's verbosity of Luo Smoke Stick, and fell asleep unconsciously.

In the middle of the night, fierce gunfire suddenly rang out from the position.

Cai Yuanfei woke up from his sleep and stood up, his ears full of shouts. He was suddenly a little confused: "Oh my God, where did so many devil soldiers come from?" ”

It was pitch black all around, and it was impossible to see where the enemy was or where his comrades were. The two of them hid in the pit for a long time, and did not hear the commander come out and give orders. Cai Yuanfei was in a hurry, got up and wanted to go to the head of the regiment, but Luo held him down: "Don't run around, you are lying here, I'll go and see the situation." With that, he left the crater and crawled towards the artillery command post. The veteran left, leaving the recruit squatting alone in the pit, holding a useless flamethrower, listening to the sound of gunfire and the roar of the army, Cai Yuanfei was so nervous that he muttered "What should I do if I am discovered by the devil soldiers", and regretted that he did not practice martial arts with his brothers when he was a child.

The position was still the same, the 209th Regiment held the No. 2 Height, and the Army controlled the No. 3 Height. Speaking of which, [***] has already occupied most of Bamboo Shadow Mountain. However, as long as the army controls this last hill, it can cover the Changling Gang behind it, so that the [***] troops on the "sub-highland" cannot successfully launch a general attack.

The 209th Regiment launched four attacks on the army, all of which ended in failure. During the battle, the regiment commander Chen Muren was shot in the abdomen and sent to the ambulance team; Colonel Wang Zhanjiao was wounded in the shoulder, but he still insisted on commanding. Cai Yuanfei turned around the position, did not see Luo Yanjiao, asked a few people, some said that he was dead, some said that he was injured, and everyone had different opinions, and he did not know the essentials -- at this time, there were only more than 40 fighters left in the 209th Regiment, and it was already good to be able to hold the existing position, and it was simply unable to launch a new attack. Things have come to this point, and the deputy commander is also anxious. He personally rushed to the front line to supervise the battle, and demanded that a general attack must be carried out on April 6, and that Lianhua Mountain must be taken within three days.

On the evening of May 5, the 3rd Regiment of Rong and the 244th Regiment of the 82nd Division were ordered to take over the No. 2 position of Zhuyingshan, and they brought six Spitfire teams.

According to the instructions of the deputy commander, the next day's attack was commanded by Commander Zhao Fabi of the Rong 3rd Regiment. At this time, although three regiments were assembled on the position, the total strength of the total force was only about 1,500 people. However, when the three regiments got together, it was immediately clear that the equipment of the Rong 3rd Regiment was much better. The weapons of the 244th Regiment and the 209th Regiment were all "Wanguo Brand", while the Rong 3rd Regiment was all medium and formal rifles and machine guns, and was also equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns and direct-aim artillery. That night, the sentries had been firing flares in front of the positions. This kind of flare is newly bought from the United States, and it looks like a gun grenade, which can be fired with a rifle, and when it hits the sky, it explodes a small parachute, which is swaying and bright, like a gasoline lamp hanging in mid-air, and can effectively stop the night attack attempt of the Chinese army.

In the early morning of April 6, [***] artillery first shelled the Zhuyingshan position. At 9 a.m., before the explosions had subsided, the attacking forces launched an assault. The main attack was the 3rd Regiment of the New 1st Division, the 244th Regiment of the 82nd Division and the 209th Regiment of the 37th Division cooperated and coordinated.

To tell the truth, the new 1st Division usually bakes cowhide, and it is indeed magnificent when it fights.

The posture of the Rong 3rd Regiment when charging was different from that of the miscellaneous troops. There were anti-aircraft machine guns and heavy machine guns in the back, and light machine gunners in front of them holding the "303" to open the way. The officers all had submachine guns in their hands, and they looked like they were in a big way, and they shouted: "The little devil is not good, brothers!" The soldiers also responded: "Come on! Come on! "Stand in line, push forward with your waist straight.

From time to time during the attack, people were shot and fell to the ground. The people of the 244th Regiment lay on the ground and cried as soon as they were injured, but the soldiers of the 3rd Regiment were all old characters who returned to service again after recovering from their injuries, and their wills and qualities were relatively strong. Their wounded soldiers covered their wounds and gritted their teeth, stunned that no one was silent. The health soldiers of the 3rd Regiment of Renrong also have a rule, whoever cries and screams will not give anyone treatment, because those who can cry and shout indicate that they still have the strength, and they must first save those who are physically exhausted. Therefore, although the 82nd and 37th Divisions were full of opinions about the new 1st Division, they had to admire them when it came to fighting. Not to mention anything else, just because of the momentum of others charging into battle, their own troops will not be able to learn.

That morning, several regiments attacked several times in turn, all of which failed. At noon, the deputy commander called from the sub-highland side to warn that he must take Mt. Bamboo Shadow that afternoon, otherwise military justice would be involved. The commanders were suddenly anxious, and the commander of the 3rd Rong Regiment and the commander of the 244th Regiment Zeng personally went into battle to organize the charge, and finally entered the position of the Yue army at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

Based on past experience, attacking the top of the mountain is only half the task. If the remnants of the enemy are not eliminated in time, the army may be able to recapture the position with a counterattack. As a result, all the officers, including the U.S. military advisers, ran to the position to supervise the battle.

Cai Yuanfei followed Wang Zhanjiao to climb to the No. 3 Heights and saw that the [***] troops were clearing the tunnels one by one. The remnants of the army are hidden in the anti-artillery holes, these caves are not big on the outside, but the inside is very complicated, and some are divided into several layers, I don't know how many people are hiding inside.

On the position, the riflemen of [***] covered the Spitfire team's search and advance, and threw grenades when they found a hole in the tunnel. If you only throw one or two at a time, it is easy to be thrown out by the enemy, so you must concentrate your forces and throw seven or eight at the same time, so that the little devil has no way to choose. After clearing the hole with grenades, the Pyro then sprayed fire into the hole, or simply blasted the tunnel and threw blasters into it, causing the explosion to collapse all the holes, saying that the soldiers were suffocated to death if they were not burned to death.

Some little devils couldn't hold back in the hole, and rushed out screaming wildly. The submachine gunners and machine gunners who had been guarding [***] on both sides of the tunnel for a long time, and the devil soldiers encountered a rain of bullets as soon as they appeared, and they didn't have to run at all. This style of play is really clean and thorough, and the only problem is that it is impossible to count the specific number of enemies destroyed. In the end, no one could figure out how many of the soldiers were burned to death and blown up in the tunnels, so everyone had to arbitrarily estimate and report the results of the battle.

On April 6, Cai Yuanfei only heard the deputy commander of the Rong 3rd Regiment report to the military headquarters with a wireless telephone: "Our regiment has conquered the position, occupied the headquarters of the army, and killed the captain of the enemy's Lianhua Mountain garrison."

Cai Yuanfei did not participate in the battle on April 7. After conquering Lotus Mountain, the 209th Regiment completed its task, handed over its position in the afternoon of the same day, and went to the rear to rest and recuperate. After more than ten days of hard fighting, only 35 people remained in the 209th Regiment who were able to walk down the hill on their own, including him, a "supernumerary".

On the morning of April 8, Cai Yuanfei was writing a letter to the family of the company commander You Xiangjiang in the house, when he suddenly heard the crowd outside, and it turned out that the headquarters had announced: [***] had recovered Lianhua Mountain at 4 o'clock in the morning and completely annihilated the garrison of the Yue army. However, after learning the news, everyone did not feel particularly happy, because the casualties of the troops were too great, and the survivors could not be happy if they wanted to. The 37th Division suffered the heaviest losses among the troops participating in the war, and the division headquarters hired more than a dozen teams of migrant workers to the position to collect the bodies of the victims, and finally divided them into three large pits and buried them, and also built a "Monument to the Fallen Martyrs of the 37th Division" on Lotus Mountain.

Before this, the Chinese battlefield was all attacked by the army and defended. Now it's finally [***]'s turn to take the initiative to attack, but after a battle, everyone finds that their defense is even more terrifying than their attack. It would take so long and so many casualties to recover this small piece of land. So, how long will the war continue to eliminate all the Japanese invaders and achieve the goal of recovering all the land? How many more people will need to be sacrificed?

At that time, Cai Yuanfei discussed this issue with his comrades-in-arms, and the more recognized view was: "At least five years, at most ten years, fight our generation and kill all the men in this book, and this war can end." So, Cai Yuanfei, who had just stepped on the battlefield, began to predict how long he would be able to survive. He felt that he was unlikely to survive to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, and only hoped to hold out until the counterattack on Wuhan. If you can see that the place where the eldest brother sacrificed is recovered by [***], you can die without regrets.

No matter how long the war lasts, as long as a soldier dares to sacrifice, an officer must constantly learn new knowledge and master new tactics.

After the Battle of Lianhua Mountain, in view of the characteristics of the defensive tactics of the Yue army, a large-scale observation and discussion activity was organized. For a time, all departments of the Fourth Theater sent high-ranking officers to visit and inspect the Lianhuashan position. The original intention of the headquarters was to hope that everyone would seriously study the method of "conquering the position", but what is interesting is that these officers went to the position for a long time and did not come up with a new method of attacking, but they were attracted by the strong fortifications of the devils and felt that it was an eye-opener.

Higher-level officers inspect the business, and it is not the turn of a small soldier like Cai Yuanfei, whose task is to receive visiting civil organizations.

After the Battle of Lianhua Mountain, a large number of condolence groups were organized from all walks of life to go to the front line to work for the army. Under normal circumstances, the military does not allow these groups to enter Lianhua Mountain, because there are still many uncleared mines and uncleared corpses in the war zone, which cannot guarantee the safety of civilians.

As a result, enthusiastic people ran to the door of the barracks of the troops, delivered cigarettes, wine, ham, shook hands, hugged and took photos, presented flowers, plaques and banners, beat gongs and drums, and set off firecrackers.

Cai Yuanfei stood at the door of the barracks every day wearing a brand-new military uniform, saying "hello" when he saw Chinese, saying "Harrow" when he met foreigners, and then reciting the glorious deeds of [***] soldiers who bravely killed the enemy. The more active characters in the condolence group, either the white-haired celebrity squire, or the flower-like lady and lady, have a very good impression of the courteous Cai Yuanfei. After listening to the battle stories told by the student soldiers, the white-haired and pale beard was so excited that they waved their books, "Gao Ge generously went to the battlefield, and the strong man bent his bow to shoot the tiger and wolf", "Three Mountains and Five Mountains Optimus Prime, immortal and famous" and those who were like flowers and jade asked for a group photo, so Cai Yuanfei had to fiddle with the magnesium lamp more than a dozen times a day.

In the camera, he is holding a fire-breathing gun in his hand, with a gasoline tank in front of him, and a large group of cheongsam women with heavy makeup snuggled up to the front and back, which is really sassy and heroic.

The condolence group often asks a question: "Are there many student soldiers like you in the army?" Cai Yuanfei always replied: "There are many, and now they are all on a mission." But he knew in his heart that not to mention the student soldiers in the barracks, there were not many strong soldiers left, and after a bloody battle in Lotus Mountain, the 37th Division was almost disabled, and the three regiments became empty shelves.

There were few people in the barracks, but the hospital was overcrowded, so when he was free, Cai Yuanfei went to visit the wounded.

The head of the Chen Muren regiment was lying on the hospital bed, but he was in good spirits. A bullet pierced his stomach without injuring any vital organs, which is good luck.

Once, Cai Yuanfei said that the tenacious spirit of the Lotus Mountain army was terrifying, but Commander Chen had a different opinion: "The soldiers are also people, and they will also be afraid of death, and the reason why the Lotus Mountain garrison has never retreated is because they thought that there would be reinforcements to rescue." In the past, we fought against the Japanese army in Shanghai, Hubei, and Hunan, and even if there was only a small team of devils around, they would desperately rush over to support. So as long as Xiao Yueben knows that there is his own team nearby, he will not be afraid, and he will fight with you. But this time it was different, and in the end, I didn't see a single soldier to help, what does this mean? It shows that he knew that the top of Lotus Mountain could not be stopped, so he simply left them! Let me tell you, as long as such a thing happens once or twice, the morale of the army will be slack, and no troops will be willing to defend it to the death. If it goes on like this, Xiao Yueben will not be far from the final end! ”

"What are people most afraid of when they wander the rivers and lakes? I'm afraid of not having friends. Chen Muren continued: "What is the army most afraid of fighting on the battlefield? I'm afraid that there will be no friendly cooperation. No matter how fierce the enemy is, it is not terrible, and we can muster up the courage to kill them. The terrible thing is that we don't trust each other, calculate each other, and don't save each other. In this case, if the battle has not even started, you will be deflated first, and if you can't clench your fists, you will eventually have your fingers broken by others."

In the hospital, Cai Yuanfei found Luo Yanjia.

Luo was shot in the face, and the bullet went through his ear and flew out of his mouth. When the gun went in, he tore off half of his ear, and when he came out, he tore off a piece of his lip, which broke the cigarette stick. However, although this injury will make it difficult for him to eat and drink soup or marry a daughter-in-law on a blind date in the future, it will not affect him to serve as a soldier and fight. Therefore, after Luo Yanzhu recovers from his injury, he must continue to carry a gun to the front line.

In the Kuomintang army at that time, ordinary soldiers did not have formal files, so after the wounded soldiers healed, they may return to their original units, or they may not go back.

In general, wounded veterans have a lot of combat experience, and all units are rushing to get them!

(To be continued)