"Retreat? We still have six or seven thousand men in our hands, well-equipped, and supported by the air force, how can we flee without a fight? As I said, the more ferocious the army's counterattack, the more important Sujiatun is, and the greater the need for us to defend here! ”

"Pass my order, the armored company immediately detour to the west to the area of Wicker Village, the reconnaissance company will make every effort to reconnoiter the location of the heavy artillery brigade and the anti-aircraft artillery wing, use the armored company to kill the devil's anti-aircraft artillery wing first, and then guide the air force to bomb! In short, at all costs, I must kill the heavy artillery brigade and air defense wing of the Japanese army. Zhang Xinghan ordered resolutely.

"Yes, I'll do it right away!" Shen Xingye immediately took the order and left.

As soon as Shen Xingye left, Liu Jianguo, the head of the 701st regiment, walked in in a hurry.

"Master, I said that I am heavy and overwhelmed, are we ......?" Liu Jianguo did not finish his words.

Zhang Xinghan raised his hand to interrupt him and said: "To build the country, we must hold on to Sujiatun for at least a week, and after a week, the entire battlefield situation will undergo earth-shaking changes, please trust my judgment." ”

Liu Jianguo nodded, and said worriedly: "Since the division seat is determined to hold on, Jianguo will naturally go all out, but the division seat, the enemy is outnumbered, and our weapons and ammunition consumption will definitely be very large in the next battle, and whether we can hold out for a week is a big problem." ”

"You don't have to worry about this at all, pass on the order, officers and soldiers at all levels don't have to save ammunition, in a word, give me a tough beating of the little devil raised by a bitch, it's okay if the ammunition runs out, as long as people are alive, I guarantee that they will not lack bullets and shells." Zhang Xinghan is confident.

"Yes, with the words of the division, you can rest assured, as long as there is still one person in my 701st regiment, the little devil will not think about taking a step forward." Liu Jianguo stepped forward very happily.

After receiving Zhang Xinghan's order, most of the scouts of the reconnaissance company immediately scattered out, and Li Zhenyuan also led the armored company to quietly leave Sujiatun and head west.

On the forward position of the 701st Regiment, Niu Erzhu, who had been promoted to the commander of the third battalion of the 701st Regiment, was patrolling the front-line trenches with two guards with chest-carrying flowers.

Wherever Niu Erzhu went, the officers and men of the third battalion, who were reinforcing the fortifications and sorting out the equipment and ammunition, stood up and saluted.

Suddenly, a vigilant soldier carried a Garand semi-automatic gait and hurried towards the forward position.

Jumping into the trench with a snort, he came to Niu Erzhu and saluted: "Camp, the forward of the army is less than three kilometers away from us. ”

"All ready to fight!" Niu Erzhu immediately shouted loudly, and after saying that, he took a Garand from a soldier, opened the insurance, and skillfully lay on the fortification.

In the trenches, the other soldiers lay down, and all their weapons were mounted on the fortifications.

The muzzles of the black holes invisibly exuded a murderous aura.

The cold wind continued to blow, and Niu Erzhu and the soldiers of the third battalion were still patiently waiting for the appearance of the army.

In order to prevent their fingers from freezing on the trigger, many soldiers had to put their fingers in their mouths to ward off the cold.

After nearly half an hour of suffocating waiting, Niu Erzhu and the others finally found the trace of the Yue army.

At the end of the line of sight, a faint figure flickered.

Niu Erzhu hurriedly raised his binoculars and looked, only to see about dozens of ghost soldiers wearing yellow winter military uniforms and plush hats on their heads approaching this direction.

However, they didn't advance far before the dozens of soldiers stopped.

Niu Erzhu frowned suspiciously, damn it, what are you doing here? Isn't this the old-fashioned tentative surname attack?

Puzzled, Niu Erzhu raised the telescope again, and soon he discovered the anomaly again, and a tank appeared behind dozens of soldiers.

First one, then two, three, and finally Niu Erzhu counted about a dozen tanks.

"Fuck, these devils aren't simple, they have so many tanks?" Niu Erzhu was shocked.

With the arrival of the tanks, the number of infantry in the army was also increasing, and soon a company platoon commander shouted in surprise: "Battalion, look, the main force of the devil is coming!" ”

Niu Erzhu held the binoculars and looked at both sides, only to see that a large number of troops poured out of the area with more than 10 tanks as the center and a width of more than 1,000 meters, not to mention a wing.

In addition to the infantry, there was also a considerable number of cavalry.

"Hurry up and inform the division and regiment," Niu Erzhu turned his head and shouted.

A communications soldier quickly bent down the traffic trench and headed to the rear.

Not long after, Zhang Xinghan and Liu Jianguo, Guo Zhong and others came to the front trenches.

"Battalion Commander Niu, how's the situation going?" Zhang Xinghan followed the trench to Niu Erzhu's side and asked.

"Shizao, the little devil is not small this time, you see, the tanks and cavalry have come up." Niu Erzhu pointed ahead.

Zhang Xinghan stepped on the fortifications with one foot and looked forward with binoculars in both hands.

After watching the meeting, Zhang Xinghan frowned and said: "The little devil should really build a sortie position and an artillery position, and it is expected that an attack will be launched soon." ”

Liu Jianguo also put down the binoculars and said, "Master, should we transfer the armored company back?" There seem to be a lot of devil tanks. ”

"No, we have a way to deal with these bean chariots." Zhang Xinghan said and raised his hand to measure the distance and said: "The devil's tank and cavalry should be two thousand meters away, tell the artillery company, first do a few shots of his dog's words, even if it can't hit, refresh the little devil, and immediately transfer the artillery position after the fight." ”

"After the artillery bombardment, the infantry should be ready to defend against artillery at any time, and call the air force to rush to the aid immediately!" Zhang Xinghan did not forget to instruct.

"Yes!" Liu Jianguo, Niu Erzhu and others responded at the same time.

Immediately, Liu Jianguo said: "Master, you better withdraw first, right?" ”

Zhang Xinghan waved his hand, took a flower mechanism from the guard behind him, and said in a dignified voice: "Inform the soldiers of the whole regiment, the first battle of Sujiatun is either the enemy dies or I die, Zhang Xinghan fights side by side with you, if you don't win, you are willing to live and die with all the soldiers!" ”

......The 12th Division is menacing, and its strength cannot be underestimated, and the 701st Regiment is outnumbered and encircled, if he does not inspire the morale of the officers and soldiers, this battle is really difficult to fight.

As for staying at the front line, although there is a certain danger, Zhang Xinghan, as the king of special forces, has a greater chance of survival than any veteran on the entire position.

As the saying goes, there is no diamond and no porcelain work, and Zhang Xinghan still has this self-confidence.

"The division has an order, and swears to live and die with the position!"

"Master's command, he fights side by side with us!"

"The division has an order, and swears to live and die with the position!"

"Master's command, he fights side by side with us!"

Soon, there were heralds who passed Zhang Xinghan's orders to the ears of the soldiers of the whole regiment.

After hearing the news, the officers and men at all levels of the 701 Regiment all looked awe-inspiring and made up their minds to fight to the death.

As the commander of the first division, he personally picked up the guy and went to the front.

What else do they have to say about those who are soldiers?

Soon, the eight 70 field guns of the 701st Regiment's artillery company opened fire one after another, and the shells whistled and smashed towards the tanks and cavalry of the Japanese army more than 2,000 meters away.

Soon it landed and exploded, although it was not accurate, but it still startled the devil cavalry and tank crews.

They all retreated backwards for a while.

After five rounds of salvo fire, the artillery company stopped the shelling and began to shift positions as ordered.

And only ten minutes later, the artillery of the Yue Army, which had just been prepared, launched a retaliatory counterattack.

Including a group of positions, they were all hit by the artillery fire of the devils.

However, to Zhang Xinghan's surprise, judging from the explosion range of the devil's shells, the devils did not seem to use the 150mm heavy guns of their heavy artillery brigade.

Most of them are 75 and 70 mountain guns, field artillery.

Zhang Xinghan's judgment was not wrong, before Sugiyama Yuan ordered the assembly, all parts of the 12th Division of the Army were deployed in Liaoyang, Dengta, Anshan and other places, and its 5th Heavy Artillery Brigade was still in Anshan.

Because part of the section of the railway from the lighthouse to Sujiatun was damaged by the reconnaissance company of the reading division, a heavy artillery wing of the 5th Heavy Artillery Brigade was still at the lighthouse station at this time, and the main force was still in Liaoyang, waiting for the engineer wing to rush to repair the railway.

In such a situation, the tank and cavalry wings arrived first.

The devil's shelling didn't last long, and compared to this, it was just an artillery bombardment that didn't have an accurate target location, and it was just a waste of shells if it hit too much.

About ten minutes later, the first attack of the Yue army began.

Relying on the presence of tanks and combat vehicles, it also combines the experience of other divisions and divisions in the exchange of fire with the reading division some time ago.

This time, the 12th Division did not send another death squad to test the attack, but dispatched a full brigade at one time, supplemented by twelve tanks and fighting vehicles, to directly launch a formal assault.

At this time, more than 20 minutes had passed since Zhang Xinghan called for air force support, and several Stuka dive bombers were approaching at full speed.

The 12 tanks of the Yue army took the lead in charging ahead, followed by a large group of devil infantry, and after entering a distance of 1,000 meters, the tank guns of the Yue army began to fire with great force.

From time to time shells fell on the defensive positions of a regiment of three battalions.

In the trenches, Zhang Xinghan was patrolling back and forth with a gun in one hand, emboldening his subordinates.

Everywhere Zhang Xinghan went, the morale of the officers and men was greatly boosted, and they couldn't wait to immediately rush out of the trenches and have a bayonet battle with the little devils.

"Master, the little devil is less than two hundred meters away from us." Niu Erzhu shouted in a somewhat anxious voice.

Zhang Xinghan lay on the ground, leaned on a bunker, exchanged weapons with a soldier next to him, and aimed a Garand rifle at a devil soldier who was advancing with a tank about two hundred meters away.

After adjusting his breathing, Zhang Xinghan decisively pulled the trigger, and the Garand rifle in his hand suddenly let out a gunshot.

A 7.62 bullet suddenly spun out at high speed, and with a pop, it hit the devil soldier Cao accurately.

At the same time that the devil army Cao fell in response, the officers and soldiers of the third battalion, who had been waiting for a long time, opened fire one after another.

For a time, the entire position of the three battalions was filled with gunfire and flames.

(To be continued)