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The bloody smell in the air was still there, and the movement of the army had followed. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Battalion commander, division telegram!"

The lock post was answered, and it was a telegram from Fei Ge:

"I know your purpose, and your tactics are clear, very good. Hold on to the reinforcements, distract the enemy's attention, form a horn with the 151st Regiment, and hold on to the appointed time, earnestly. ”

The lock pillar burned the telegram, and his expression was extremely firm: "Order the 4th company of the reserve to receive the enemy first, delay the enemy's attack, and gain time for holding on to Dagu Village!" ”

As he spoke, he swept around his subordinates, and then set his eyes on the people of Dagu Village: "Now, I want to establish a defense line in Dagu Village, and I need your help!" ”

The people didn't say a word and silently returned to their homes. But after a while, they appeared in front of the lock post with their tools

From Dagu Village forward, there is a Yangong Temple at the east end of the village, which is also a position.

Three enemy planes appeared overhead, flying as high as the top of a tree, taking turns hovering overhead, locking posts temporarily dodging in the trenches that cut across the pavement.

The enemy plane had gone and was about to get up, but when they saw more than 20 ordinary people and more than a dozen brothers who had rushed to save [***] from the dry rice fields, they stood still, half of them were carrying the wounded brothers with door panels, but the brothers who had rescued [***] were carrying their guns and following them.

I was feeling strange, but I saw clearly that the last one wearing a military uniform was Li Shuijin, a battalion political training officer who was ordered to supervise the 4th company in front. With great joy in his heart, he immediately jumped out of the trench and stepped forward, Li Shuijin Fang saluted him, and the lock pillar had blurted out a sentence: "How is the situation ahead?" ”

Li Shuijin gasped and said, "Up to now, the enemy in the 4th Company has increased to about five hundred, and there are five or six mountain artillery. The 4th company killed at least three hundred of the enemy. However, the enemy's follow-up troops came in a steady stream, and we fought ten of them one by one, and more than half of them were wounded and wounded, and just now, the enemy copied the flank of 4 companies. The 4th Company was almost attacked by the front and rear, and all of them became benevolent. It just so happened that the commander of the 2nd Company, Lou Ziping, arrived with two rows of people, and he made a charge when he walked. The enemy did not expect a new force to appear here, and the three hundred men who came in we'd let us kill at least fifty or sixty. They did not know the truth and withdrew. 4 even got this help, and then transferred to the financial management shop to meet. Now there are only about 80 people. The number of enemies is overwhelming. We got the information, and the enemy attacked the left rear of our army again, and the rear was threatened. I discussed it with Company Commander Lou and slowly moved here. Xiaoshiqiao has Liu Sihai, the deputy battalion commander, who is close to this place, so as not to be surrounded by the enemy. What do you think of this approach? ”

Suozhu thought for a moment, nodded and said, "This is more appropriate, I was going to go to the front to have a look, so that I will wait here and don't have to go forward." ”

Li Shuijin said: "I don't think it matters in front, the enemy is just here to contain us." And on the other hand, we are also holding back the enemy, depending on who can survive. ”

Suozhu glanced at the people around him: "The group of people you are leading are these in the past?" I put them in charge of building only the fortifications, why did you let them go to the front? ”

Li Shuijin smiled and said: "Although they have no combat experience, the blood is hot, I think there is no need for them to participate in the line of fire, but in the line of fire to rush to transport wounded soldiers, transport bullets, food, and water, they are of great help." I have been in the line of fire, and for the sake of safety, I decided to transport these wounded soldiers to Xiaoshiqiao, where they are waiting, and I have to follow them, and when I talk to the city of Wuhan on the phone, I will come. ”

With that, he hurried away.

The lock pillar is standing here, but a little hesitant, go forward? I don't know how the two companies in front of them shifted their positions. Not moving forward? He heard the gunfire in front of him still moving closer violently, and was anxious to see how he wandered along the road.

Niu Sanwang, a staff officer on the side, said: "Battalion commander, we don't have any interest here, let's go to the first two miles to have a look." ”

The pillar didn't say yes, but the two feet had moved forward. Enemy planes only sometimes fly straight in front of them, but as long as they don't fly overhead, they ignore it.

After walking more than two miles, there is a small river, and there are embankments on both sides of the river. The embankment on the west side was unequipped, and at the foot of the embankment on the east side, a defensive trench was dug. Standing on the east embankment, you can see a rice field in front, about a mile wide, directly to a small river embankment at the front.

On this high ground, a half-moon-shaped machine gun bunker was dug up, all the grass and trees in the firing range had been cut down, and a chicken and duck in front of him could also be seen. The lock pillar nodded and said, "This terrain is very good, let's take a little rest here." ”

Niu Sanwang pointed to the front: "If there is a machine gun in this place"

Before he could finish his sentence, a group of people turned over on the embankment of the small river in front of him, and the two of them jumped into the machine-gun bunker dug together, each with a rifle obtained from the enemy's corpse, set up on the edge of the trench, and opened their four eyes in front of them. For four or five minutes, the people who came over were clearly seen, they were wearing [***] uniforms, and there was no state of alert, and they calmly walked over from the sidewalk, Niu Sanwang breathed a sigh of relief: "Battalion commander, this is our own team coming down." ”

The lock pillar was still a little uneasy: "Don't make a noise for the time being, wait until they get closer." ”

As he spoke, his eyes were still fixed on the group, and there were less than twenty people in total. As they went, the ranks were rather distant from each other. In his heart, he thought that if the enemy plane came and strafed back and forth, our team would definitely suffer.

When they reached the bottom of this high ground, two enemy planes flew in, so they evacuated and lay down in a shallow trench at the foot of the embankment. When the enemy plane flew overhead, although it circled back and forth several times, it did not notice that there was anyone here, and actually walked away. The pillar shouted, "What's the team down there?" ”

The crowd who came happily greeted us and said, "We are the 151st Company of the 3rd Battalion and 9th Company, and we were scattered by the devils. I was the deputy class leader of the first shift. Are you reinforcements? ”

Seeing that there was no mistake, the lock pillar went forward to explain his identity, and the deputy squad leader reported the situation ahead, they were originally the 151st Regiment 3rd Battalion 9th Company Death Squad, they were scattered, and they were killed all the way here. The company commander and squad leader have been killed, and the deputy company commander has been injured and has been carried to the small stone bridge. He combined these two groups of people and brought them here as acting company commanders. When the report was finished, he asked the lock post for instructions.

The lock post exhaled: "It's all good, just put the machine gun in the bunker and dig this open area in front of you, covering the transfer of the 4th company of my reading battalion." Contact has occurred at the intersection of Luo, and there is a danger of exposure at the rear, so there is no need to dig so long in front. ”

When the deputy squad leader heard this, he arranged more than a dozen of his brothers on the high ground, and in less than ten minutes, he saw two brothers who were loyal to save [***] and a few ordinary people running quickly from the small stone bridge road. When watching, two ordinary people carried a basket of white rice, and two ordinary people carried a wooden bucket of boiling water. Another common man carried a pair of baskets, two bowls of pickles at one end and chopsticks and bowls at the other. Suozhu recognized that the brother who was loyal and righteous to save [***] was the one who followed Li Shuijin and walked over just now. Then he asked, "Did you bring food here?" ”

An officer who was loyal to the rescue [***] replied: "When we arrived near the small stone bridge, the common people were delivering food to the troops, and there were a lot of meals, and the brothers there could not eat at all, Li Shuijin told them that the brothers on the firing line had fought for a day and a night, and there was very little food or drink, so these ordinary people volunteered to bring half of the food to water, they had no guns, and they did not understand the rules of the battlefield, so the two of us turned around and sent them here." ”

The lock pillar listened, faced the people, and immediately stood upright and made a military salute, panicked so that the people did not know the height, some also raised their hands to make a military salute, some hugged their fists and arched a few times, and some even hugged their fists too late, and nodded their heads even again, and the lock pillar said gratefully:

"It's rare that you are so enthusiastic, risking the artillery of the plane, to bring us food, we can't be grateful, you just send it here, you don't have to move forward. The terrain here is very good, and there is a river sandwiched between two embankments, and we can control all the banks of this river. ”

As he spoke, he asked the deputy squad leader to divide all the soldiers into two groups, one for guard, one for dinner, and take turns to rest. I also held a bowl of rice, sandwiched some dishes, and talked to the people: "It's rare for you to be so enthusiastic, take the risk to send us food to eat, eat a full meal, naturally care about this meal, but we will never forget our spiritual encouragement." ”

An old man crossed his hand to watch him eat, then touched his beard and said, "Official, don't you say that we countrymen are not sensible, aren't we Chinese?" For the sake of the country, you fight with the devil with your surname, what is it if we send a meal once or twice. If you're still here in the evening, we'll bring you food again, we know how to do it. ”

Another young man said: "Really, we know how to do it, that kind of irrelevant army, we don't send them food, he doesn't need us to send it, you are honest, where you go, where you eat." I know that you are the 26th division of the Tiger Ben, and you Tiger Ben are too good, and you have never taken advantage of us. Others don't know. Last time I picked up a load of turnips to enter the city, you firemen bought them all, and carried the burden for me into the division headquarters. I sweated in my heart, thinking that this was the end. I can't get a lot of money, I can't think of the big kitchen, the fireman gave me a big ticket, I can't find two dollars, he gave me for nothing, this is the first time to do business with the soldier. When I went out, I met an officer, and when he saw me coming out with an empty load, he asked me if I had brought a turnip, and asked me again and again if my brother had given me less money. I said, "Not only did I give less, but I also gave two dollars more." Doing business with you GIs, I took advantage of it for the first time. The officer laughed, and then the officer left, and the people on the street told me that it was Commander Gao Fei. I was shocked! Master Gao is so kind! ”

(To be continued)