Bu Zhenglong sat there calmly, unaffected by the fierce gunfire on the front line.

Such a situation. I have been mentally prepared for a long time, and there is nothing to worry too much about. Every extra minute here is the same as creating an extra minute of miracle.

There have been countless brothers who have sacrificed their young and precious lives to wash away their shame, but Bu Zhenglong believes that they must have died with pride and pride.

With a "boom", a bomb exploded not far from the regiment headquarters, and Bu Zhenglong was still sitting there, motionless

Bu Zhenglong also transferred the last only regimental guard company to reinforce the front line, and strictly ordered all departments to reorganize and deploy, fight desperately to the death, fight the enemy with all their might, and if necessary, go all out to defend Guihua County, and shed the last drop of blood!

From dawn onwards, the enemy, relying on the superiority of firepower and tanks, supplemented the rear troops of the 1st Regiment in a detour and cooperated with the frontal enemy, surrounded and attacked the first-line position of our Fengyangshan and the second-line position of the Ruchuan River in multiple ways, and the other part attacked the deep position of the Beishahe River. The entire front was divided and turned into a pot of porridge, the enemy and our positions were staggered, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the corpses were everywhere on the ground.

Our defensive positions were cut into disconnected pieces by the enemy's interspersed troops, but the small positions were still engaged in fierce fighting with the enemy. At one o'clock at noon, the enemy increased its troops to more than 10,000, and several positions in front of our Fengyang Mountain were broken through, and the remnants of Yao Chaolun's battalion, which had retreated from Fengyang Mountain to Ruchuan River, were surrounded by the pursuing enemy, and fought separately with the 3rd battalion and each unit of the 3rd Battalion that held here.

The 2nd Battalion, east of Ruchuanhe Town, was attacked by hundreds of enemies from the north-east detour at about 9 o'clock. The battalion commander Qu Liancheng immediately led the 1st and 2nd companies to engage in a fierce battle with the enemy.

At about 12 o'clock in the afternoon, the enemy broke through from the middle, divided the 1st and 2nd companies into two parts, the north and the south, and the south part retreated to Beishahe, and the battalion commander retreated with the north side to a village east of Ruchuanhe Town. After breaking through the lines of the 1st and 2nd companies, the enemy launched an offensive against the 3rd company.

Our defensive positions were all built in the direction of due north, so the 3rd Company used the east-west communication trenches as fortifications to block the enemy. Soon after the battle began, the machine gun platoon of the 1st battalion, the Feng platoon commander, with 1 heavy machine gun, was retreating from the position of the 3rd company Zhou Gongfu Company. ”

Platoon Feng replied loudly: "I was ordered to move closer to the regiment commander. ”

Zhou Gongfu roared again: "I just received an order, your order comes first, I receive an order later, and it should be executed according to the latter order!" "Platoon Commander Feng believed it, and the heavy machine gun entered the position and opened heavy fire on the enemy.

The attacking enemy was suddenly hit by machine-gun fire and was in disarray, but quickly adjusted his fire, returning fire with several machine guns and bombarding them with grenadiers. Zhou Lian's position was instantly filled with shells, and even the command post was hit, and one of the heralds inside was killed. Platoon Commander Feng gradually became suspicious of Zhou Gongfu's "order", and finally the heavy machine gun was withdrawn.

Persisting until about 4 p.m., Zhou Lian had already suffered more than half of the casualties, the lieutenant platoon commander Shi Caiyu was killed, and the second lieutenant platoon commander Wang Ziwu was seriously injured. At this time, Chen Yalin, the captain and adjutant of the regiment headquarters, braved the artillery fire to convey the retreat order, and told Zhou Gongfu that Platoon Commander Feng reported to the regiment commander that you had falsely passed on the order, but he did not expect the regiment commander to say that Company Commander Zhou was right and that he gave the order.

When Zhou Lian withdrew to the location of the regiment headquarters, there were only more than 30 people left in the company.

The 2nd Battalion had more than 200 officers and men ready to move towards Ruchuanhe Town, but as soon as they reached the west entrance of the village, they were met by a burst of machine gun fire, and the first few soldiers in front were killed and wounded. The battalion commander immediately ordered to occupy the earthen wall around the village and defend it, and at this time they saw more than 100 devils advancing in the direction of the Ruchuan River through three or four miles north of the village.

Gu Yueming's 1st Battalion, which was holding on to Longshan east of Ruchuanhe Town, first made contact with the Yue Army and constantly repelled the attacks of the devil soldiers. The rest of the Yue army divided into two routes, passed through the two flanks of Longshan, and directly attacked Ruchuanhe Town and Longshan Position.

The 1st Regiment of Supplement fought the front line, treating death as home, and the people of Guihua County were also desperately supporting the front line. This unprecedentedly deep relationship of interdependence between the military and the people has infinitely strengthened the sense of responsibility of the officers and men to protect the country and the people, and this sense of responsibility has greatly enhanced the fighting spirit and combat effectiveness of these Chinese men in military uniforms who regard death as if they were at home.

A local private school teacher wrote:

In the afternoon, the propaganda team stopped propaganda and greeted the masses and the corpse transport team pushed the cart to the front line. How many cars there are, I don't know. I can't remember where I picked it up now, but where it was sent, it may be the northern suburbs of Guihua County. On the road, there were carts pushing corpses, and there were also empty carts going back. It was getting late, and I couldn't see people's faces clearly. There were two bodies on the car I was using, so I could see them more clearly and remember them for a long time. The two bodies were naked: one looked to be about thirty years old, with a flat head and a big mouth as if he was still shouting, 'Kill!' Rush! ’

He was shot and killed, with gold teeth in his mouth, like an officer; The other was about the same age, with a deep knife mark on his face, the bridge of his nose was cut off, and the flesh was blurred, and he couldn't bear to see it. The cart was pushed by an adult, and the young man who pulled the cart was a young man of seventeen or eight, who said that he was afraid and did not dare to pull it. I will come down for him. Sent to the northern suburbs of Guihua County and back to Beishahe, when it was time to light the lights, we gathered in the same place again.

Another thing, and one that I will never forget. When I passed by Shilipu to welcome the corpse, I saw an old lady about fifty years old, she carried a corpse on her back, and followed to the south, she walked slowly, we walked fast, and left her for a while. How heartstrings this is! Later, I heard that the people of Beishahe and nearby villages, regardless of men, women and children, were killed by the devils. What happened to this old lady with a corpse? Did you survive it? At the time, I didn't ask her where the old man's surname lived, and now I don't know."

What a tragic picture!

The old lady who walked with difficulty and the unknown martyr on her back condensed into a whole. It was an ordinary mother, carrying the cold corpse of her son, struggling to the eternal place of peace in her mind; This is a tall statue, draped in scarlet falling, higher than Mount Tai, awe-inspiring!

At the same time as the fierce battle at the Ruchuan River position, a very fierce battle was also going on on the left flank of the big stone wall. The fighting was far more tragic than the previous day.

Due to the successful detour of the enemy on the front and right flanks of Fengyang Mountain, the attack of the enemy on the left flank was greatly stimulated**. On the 31st of January, the enemy had 400 infantry, more than 100 cavalry, and more than 10 cannons, and attacked along the road leading from the stone wall to Guihua County.

At the same time, there is another enemy army hundreds, more than 100 cavalry, 12 cannons, so the trick is repeated, divided into two roads, bypassing the front of Daji Village, to the Changyu, Jindoushan position behind.

At 7 a.m., the three positions were shelled at the same time with unusually heavy shelling, and the devil soldiers took turns charging under the cover of artillery fire.

At about 9 o'clock, all the alert positions of the three positions were occupied by the enemy. However, the terrain of Changyu and Jindou Mountain is good, the slope of the mountain is steep, condescending, and the fortifications are very strong, which is conducive to defense. Although the enemy captured the alert position, the attack on the main position was repeatedly frustrated and stopped.

Dajizhai was defended by the guard company of the regimental headquarters, and the company commander Kang Ping commanded the platoons back and forth. At this time, Wang Lin, deputy commander of the regiment, came to the front line of Shiqiang Village to command the battle before the war, and He Xuanrong, chief of staff of the regiment, also went to the front line to assist Wang Lin. At the height of the battle, He Xuanrong was ordered by Wang Lin to come to the Kangping camp to supervise the battle. At this time, the enemy could not attack Changyu and Jindoushan, so he concentrated all his artillery fire and attacked Kangping Company with all his might.

The terrain of Dajizhai is relatively open, which is suitable for cavalry combat. After the bombardment, the enemy charged with infantry and cavalry, and at the same time five enemy planes flew low to assist in the battle. The position was filled with gunsmoke and a sea of fire, and the enemy actually rushed into our positions several times, and they were all wiped out by grenades and broadswords.

At 11 o'clock, Kang Ping suffered heavy casualties and became overwhelmed. Wang Lin drew Cheng Ziyi's platoon from the reserve to reinforce him. When the platoon ran to Daji Village, the enemy had already attacked our position. As soon as Cheng Ziyi saw it, he immediately ordered the whole company to charge, picked up the big knife and rushed into the enemy group, more than 30 men went down the mountain like a tiger, and a grenade increased the slashing and killing, and the blood splashed on the position! Seeing that reinforcements had arrived, Kang Lian's morale doubled, and he drove the enemy out of his position. The platoon commander Cheng Ziyi was wounded in the struggle, and more than half of the platoon suffered casualties.

At 12 o'clock, the enemy's reinforcements arrived again, and the 3rd platoon of our Kang Lian was killed.

At the moment when the Kanglian position was in a desperate situation, another group of the enemy bypassed Kanglian and the Jinshan and Changyu positions behind it, and directly engaged in a fierce battle with Xiong Shunyi's platoon and Jiang Youhou's platoon, which had been reinforced from the defense of Guihua County, in our deep Chitou.

After Xiong Shunyi's reinforcements came the day before, he deployed on the hill north of Chitouji. However, the rocks here were hard and difficult to build fortifications, so Xiong Pai and others pushed the fortifications to the northern foot of the mountain and the deep ravine in front of the mountain, and rushed to build fortifications here, forming a dense fire net, preparing to block the enemy.

When the enemy's roundabout troops arrived in front of Chitouji, they did not expect our troops to be ambushed at the foot of the mountain, so they opened artillery and bombarded each hill fiercely, causing the mountains to fly sand and rocks, and it was a mess. But the troops in the foothills and deep ravines suffered few casualties, and they stayed there to watch the excitement.

As soon as the charging enemy entered the front of our position, the machine rifles in our fortifications opened fire in unison, causing the enemy to turn on their backs and lose their heads. In particular, some young men from Chitouji also joined the ranks of our defenders, and in the deep ravines on the side of the mountain, they flickered forward and backward, left and right, and were out of nowhere, repelling the enemy's four charges in a row, and never allowing the enemy to cross Chitouji.

Naturalized County Chronicles:

On January 31, 1938, in order to prevent the Yue army from advancing south into Guihua County, the 1st Regiment was supplemented to the north of the stone wall and the ancient road junction to deploy defenses and blockades. After fierce fighting, our defenders retreated to the southern slope of Lingnan. Our unit only has one or two light machine guns, and the company commander is not tall, and he is not afraid of death in battle! He took four or five people to the north of Hongshan Pass to fight the devils who climbed the hillside and rushed straight over. The machine gun hit a few shuttles in a row, and it was said that many of the devils were killed! It is said that the devils who rushed up had a company formed by our China, and there was not a single one left, so let the supplementary 1st regiment be wiped out

Protecting the people from poison is the highest interest of the nation and the most sacred duty of military personnel.

Later in the battle, the brothers of the supplementary regiment, who were about to die generously, called on the villagers to avoid the bullets.

What a respectable and lovely officer and soldier!

(To be continued)