But it was too late, the Chinese soldiers opened fire, and the power of dozens of Chinese rifles was also quite amazing, and seven or eight Japanese soldiers fell in an instant. Before the remaining Japanese soldiers could set their guns straight, dozens of Chinese soldiers rushed over, and four or five Chinese soldiers crackled at a Japanese soldier, crackling with a bayonet sound, and the rest all fell under the bayonets of the Chinese soldiers.

Second Lieutenant Fukada had been shot in the stomach, but he still laboriously pulled out the command knife that Squadron Leader Otama had passed to him, swung it, and then another shot came and hit him in the chest.

Ensign Fukada's eyes couldn't open anymore, and with his stomach full of incomprehension, his mind couldn't be solved, and he went to report to the Japanese Emperor Xià.

Zhao Xu led the 7th Company Shun Lì to capture the top of the 2625 Heights, but there were only a dozen devil corpses on the high ground, a light machine gun and the rest of the Type 38 rifles. But where are the rest of the devils?

It turned out that this was only one squad of the 11th Squadron and the 1st Squad Devils, and the other two squads were still patrolling the western side of the 2625 Heights. As soon as the gunshots rang out on the mountain, the devils of the two squads knew that they had been attacked, and immediately wanted to go up the mountain to support. However, just in time for the 8th and 9th companies of the 3rd Battalion, they were searching and advancing in this direction.

The devil wanted to go to the top of the mountain for reinforcements, and he had already been seen by the 8th and 9th companies, which happened to be equipped with heavy machine guns. Four heavy machine guns, one according to the devils, opened, and put down more than a dozen devils at once.

As soon as the devils of these two squads saw that they had not yet supported, they had already lost half of them, and with the remaining dozen or so people, they could not complete the task of supporting the 2625 heights, so they had to retreat. They evaded the Chinese soldiers and made a detour back to the 3120 heights.

The 8th and 9th companies quickly arrived at the top of the 2625 highlands and joined the 7th company led by Zhao Xu. Zhao Xu asked the troops to hurry up the construction of fortifications and prepare for defense, and at the same time sent people to contact the large army of the 618th Regiment and waited for the arrival of the large army.

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the 18th, the Japanese heavy artillery suddenly bombarded the 2625 heights. The huge fleet artillery shells, with a killing radius of up to 60 meters, huge fires, flying shrapnel, and columns of smoke that soared into the sky, made the 2625 high ground full of wolf smoke and flames. The fortifications built in the hurry of the 3rd Battalion could not withstand the bombardment of the fleet's heavy artillery at all, and they were beaten to pieces at once, and the officers and men also suffered heavy casualties.

After the bombardment, the Japanese rushed down from the 3120 position and launched an assault on the 2625 heights. There were only forty or fifty of them.

This is more than a dozen remnants of the 11th Squadron who escaped from the 2625 heights, returned to the 3120 heights, and reported the situation on the 2625 heights to the 3rd squad leader, Dong Caochang.

After listening to the report of the dozen or so remnants, the leader of the 3rd squad, Dong Caochang, was speechless for a long time. The soldiers of the Chinese army have one battalion, and the 11th squadron only has a little more than two squadrons, that is, seventy or eighty people, and the difference in strength is huge!

However, there is such a concept in Dong Caochang's heart, that is, a Japanese soldier tops ten Chinese soldiers, and he still has an advantage in terms of strength.

Dong Cao Chang decided to launch a counterattack on the 2625 heights before the arrival of a large number of Chinese troops. As for the troops, 2 squads were transferred from a squad of soldiers on the 3120 heights, plus the soldiers who came back from the 2625 heights, to form a death squad composed of forty or fifty soldiers, waiting for the opportunity to launch a counterattack on the 2625 heights.

Of course, there were artillery openings before the counterattack, and Dong Cao Chang immediately reported the situation to his superiors and applied for fire support.

If there was no bombardment from the fleet artillery, Zhao Xu's three battalions would have no problem guarding the 2625 heights at all. However, I have to admit that the firepower of the fleet guns is too powerful, as long as the people exposed to the top of the mountain are either dead or wounded, even the four heavy machine guns have long been blown apart, and I don't know where they flew.

Before the contest between soldiers, there is first a contest of science and technology, and to put it more bluntly, a contest of industrial base.

Dong Cao Chang personally led the death squad and stormed the mountain, in fact, there was no one on the mountain anymore, it was not killed by them, but destroyed by powerful artillery fire.

Dong Cao Chang rushed to the top of the hill and occupied part of the position.

In the simple ruins, Zhao Xu woke up, he saw that the devil had rushed to him, and immediately raised the shell gun in his hand to shoot. Some warriors came out of the red soil and immediately raised their guns to shoot at the devils. Many wounded soldiers raised their guns to shoot at the lightly wounded, and the seriously wounded were handing guns and loading bullets to the lightly wounded.

On the dilapidated position, the bullets fired are also powerful.

Dong Cao Chang only occupied part of the position, and the other double position was still in the hands of three battalions, and the two sides formed a stalemate.

At this critical moment, Zhang Xiaosan led the special operations platoon of the first company of the special operations battalion to the front.

"Suddenly, suddenly, suddenly......" "Dadada......" dozens of assault rifles spat out tongues of fire, and they suppressed these firepower of Dong Cao Chang at once. Especially Wu Xiaoming's assault rifle, "da-da-da" and "da-da-da" are three rings, and every time a gunshot sounds, there is always a devil who falls to the ground.

Then, Li Dazhong's big knife arrived again, and it was just a flurry of slashing on the little devil's head. "Brush!" A devil's head was cut off. "Brush!" Suddenly, a devil's head was cut off again.

The death squad of Dong Cao Chang, with the firepower on Zhao Xu's heights in front and the all-out slaughter of the special operations platoon in the back, really couldn't support it anymore, so he could only choose a way to escape. In the process of escaping, some more Japanese soldiers were killed and cut down.

Zhang Xiaosan's special operations platoon no longer chased and hurried to the 2625 heights.

What a terrible sight on the high grounds. Everywhere were the bodies of the officers and men of the 3rd Battalion who had been killed, there were broken guns everywhere, there was a pool of blood here, a pool there, and there were not many people alive.

Zhang Xiaosan helped Zhao Xu up and reported: "Zhang Xiaosan, the platoon commander of the first company and platoon of the special operations battalion of the Southern Expeditionary Army, came to answer, you have worked hard. ”

Zhao Xu also hurriedly saluted and said: "Zhao Xu, commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 618th Regiment of the 103rd Division of the 86th Army, reports to you, thank you for your support, it is really timely." ”

The two hands were clasped tightly together.

It turned out that after the Southern Expeditionary Army established a base in Xiangu Mountain, after Han Xing and Zhang Weihan discussed, they sent a small force of the special operations battalion to the enemy's rear to move around in order to achieve the purpose of reconnoitring and harassing the Japanese army. After Zhang Xiaosan's platoon came to the Songshan area, he just arrived at the 2625 small high ground to fight fiercely, so he rushed over.

At this time, the 362nd Regiment of the 121st Division of the National Army rushed from Qichun to get in touch with the 3rd Battalion. Zhao Xu learned that the main force of the 618th Regiment had also arrived nearby, so he handed over the garrison of the 2625 Heights to the 362nd Regiment and prepared to return to the main force of the 618th Regiment. He said to Zhang Xiaosan: "We are going back to the 618 regiment, I don't know what you plan?" ”

Zhang Xiaosan thought about it, the purpose of the special combat team is to disrupt the rear front of the Japanese army, and the third battalion of the 618th Regiment can be regarded as a unit that can still fight, if it can join forces with them, it will definitely be much stronger than the combat effectiveness of one of his own platoons. So he said to Zhao Xu: "Our purpose is the same, that is, to counterattack the Japanese army and disrupt their deployment." If you don't, I'll join you! ”

Zhao Xu was really happy to see that Zhang Xiaosan's special operations platoon was willing to act with him, not only did they have strong combat effectiveness, but also their weapons were particularly good. In particular, these assault rifles are really "da-da" when they start a war, which is similar to some light machine guns.

Zhao Xu said happily: "You saved our lives on the 2625 heights, it's too late to thank you, how can we dislike you." Okay, let's work together to fight these little devils. ”

So, Zhao Xu led Zhang Xiaosan to meet Zhang Dawen, the commander of the 618 Regiment, and explained the capture of the 2625 Heights and the situation of holding on.

After listening to Zhao Xu's report, Zhang Dawen encouraged Zhang Xiaosan, and then said to Zhao Xu: "You guys played well, and you are ready to receive awards in the future." Now the situation in the area of Songshan is like this, three small heights, the 2625 position is occupied by us, and the 3120 small heights are still occupied by the Japanese army. In addition, we also attacked the small high ground southeast of the 3120 position, but it was unsuccessful, and the attack of the first battalion was thwarted, and only more than 100 people remained. In this way, I will hand over all the more than 100 people of the first battalion to you, and your three troops will be combined together, and then attack the 3120 position, I don't know if you have confidence. ”

Zhao Xu thought for a while and said: "There is no problem with the attack, it's just that our artillery fire is a little worse." It would be great if there was artillery support in the regiment or division. ”

Zhang Dawen said: "Due to the heavy rain, the artillery could not be pulled in at all, so the artillery fire could not be counted on, and we could only count on the attack without artillery fire." ”

Zhang Xiaosan suddenly interjected and said: "There are our cannons on Xiangu Mountain, not far from here, I can ask them to shell the 3120 heights to support our attack." ”

Zhang Dawen was overjoyed when he heard this, and said happily: "It would be great if your Southern Expeditionary Army has artillery." However, as far as I know, that Xiangu Mountain is very steep, and the cannons are not easy to transport up the mountain at all, how did you transport them up the mountain. ”

Of course, Zhang Xiaosan knew that it was transported by helicopter, but it was not good to say too much to him. I had to say, "I don't know how to transport the cannons." All I know is that Chief of Staff Han has said that if you need artillery support, you can apply for it at any time. ”

After Zhang Dawen heard these words, it was not easy to ask anything, as long as the cannon could come to support, what did he care about so many things, what he wanted was the result, not the process.

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, a deafening cannon sound suddenly sounded on the 3120 small heights, and the bad luck encountered on the 2625 heights also befell the heads of the 3120 heights. Although there are not many shells, those powerful shells have a killing radius of 60 meters, and no matter how strong the fortifications are, they cannot block the bombardment of these 105mm howitzers.

Clusters of fire shone brightly, black smoke rose into the sky, and the remaining guns, the limbs of Japanese soldiers, all the materials for building fortifications, and broken rocks flew into the sky, and then fell from the sky, smashing the ground into scattered and messy messes.

To survive under such heavy artillery fire is really fatal.