Round after round of enemy shells, they poured into the vicinity of the second pontoon bridge, blasting the positions on the east bank into flames, and the mud and rocks fell all over the sky, blowing up the pontoon bridges on the river to the sky, and the water curtain rose one after another, and the surging river water stirred up and down the 60-meter-long pontoon bridge, and swayed in a serpentine shape.

Fortunately, since the rapid reinforcement of the two engineer platoons of the Model Battalion once again supported the collapse, not a single shell fell within ten meters of the pontoon, and perhaps the heavens were also moved by what had just happened.

Under the threat of fierce artillery fire, none of the more than 1,000 defeated soldiers who swarmed rushed to the position of the Sixth Company on the east bank, but rushed down the river embankment early, lay on the low-lying and sloping river bank, and watched the pontoon bridge that would be hit by shells at some point, and no one dared to rush up and flee to the west bank.

The fierce exchange of fire stopped, and three lightning-fast figures swept down the east bank and rushed onto the rickety pontoon, like three ghosts, unaffected by the violent turbulence.

Under the light of the raging flames of the woods on the east bank that were ignited by the blazing air currents and flames of the bombs, and under the frightened gaze of thousands of officers and soldiers on both sides of the river, the three figures rushed across the pontoon bridge at an incredible speed, instantly landed on the west bank, and soon found An Yi lying in the depths of the woods.

These three men were Hu Jialin, Xia Jian, and Gu Changfeng, the generals of the model battalion who were in good faith with An Yi, and the three of them, together with the experienced Lu Mingdi and Zhang Qiquan, led the Sixth Company and a special detachment, totaling more than 200 brothers, to take advantage of the superior terrain and good fortifications, and with the strong support of the brothers of the mortar company on the west bank, with their own powerful firepower and bold tactics to fight in, they repelled the attacks of more than 2,000 enemies in one fell swoop.

Seeing the enemy drop hundreds of corpses and retreat violently, the three immediately gave up everything and rushed down to the east bank, looking for their brother An Yi with great anxiety and anger.

**An Yi, who was stripped of his full body equipment and clothes, was tightly wrapped in a thick quilt, except for a long leg that had been cut with a twenty-centimeter-long wound exposed.

Commander-in-Chief Jiang, Vice President Bai and other generals on the side watched worriedly as the doctor stitched 39 stitches on An Yi's valgus thigh wound, and then bandaged it layer by layer with white gauze and tied the last knot.

Before the young surgeon could raise his hand to tie the knot, he was grabbed by the collar by Gu Laoer, who was running quickly, and threw him four meters away.

The unapologetic Gu Lao Er immediately rushed to An Yi's side with Hu Zi and Xia Jian, looking at his closed eyes and trembling purple lips, his heart was like a knife for a while.

"Big brother—"

"Xiao Yi—"

"Boss—"

The three sad and indignant voices sounded at the same time like thunder, startling the more than ten generals and dozens of anxious model battalion officers and soldiers who were watching in half a circle.

"He, he, his grandmother...... Dare, dare, dare...... With a cannon ...... Boom me, give to ...... Give Lao Tzu...... Dry ...... him......"

"Big brother—"

"Xiao Yi—"

"Boss—"

In the hoarse call of the three tiger generals, An Yi, who had lost too much blood, finally fainted, Hu Jialin, whose eyes were red and his thick hair stood upside down, suddenly stood up and turned to leave, Xia Jian gritted his teeth and turned away almost at the same time, Gu Changfeng, who was hideous because of anger, just took a step, and the major and military doctor who was thrown out by him came to find justice uninterestingly.

"Are you a revolutionary soldier or a bandit?"

The young medic was so angry that his face turned red and his ears were red, and he asked loudly.

"Qiang ......"

The dark broadsword behind Gu Changfeng was already two feet out of its sheath.

"Tiger Head!"

The majestic admonition of the beard came in time.

Gu Lao Er slowly inserted the knife into the scabbard behind his back, not caring at all about the extremely shocked eyes of more than ten generals such as Principal Jiang a few meters away, staring at the young military doctor who was already sitting on the ground in fright, and said in a deep voice: "Dog, even if you have vision, Lao Tzu is a bandit!" ”

Gu Laoer, who exuded a cold and murderous aura all over his body, strode away after speaking, caught up with Hu Zi and Xia Jian, and rushed down the river bank with a long roar, and three terrifying figures once again swept across the pontoon bridge, and rushed to the opposite bank in a blink of an eye, seeing that the officers and soldiers on the west bank were stunned and terrified.

Wang Shihe, the chief of the guard beside Principal Jiang, let go of his right hand gripping the handle of the gun, wiped away the sweat on his hands, and let out a long exhalation of the concussive turbidity between his chest and abdomen, as if he was talking to himself and sighed in a low voice: "What a terrible murderous aura, ten times more violent than a beard......

"Huh? Are they really going to fight out? ”

Bai Chongxi heard the sound of gunfire on the east bank position, and then saw the signal corps standing on a high platform under the fire on the opposite bank, drawing a large arc on the west bank with a small white flag and a small blue and white flag, and then decisively waved upward, and the mortar position more than 80 meters in front of the side immediately rushed out 35 officers and men all carrying flower machine guns, rushed down the river bank and stepped on the pontoon bridge without hesitation, and quickly crossed the pontoon bridge in a long line to board the east bank position.

The small flag waved again, only to hear a shout from the mortar position, "Give Lao Tzu a hard beating", and the 12 mortars that had been silent for 20 minutes roared again, and one shell after another dragged the blazing flames over the river, and finally landed in an area about 100 meters in front of the position on the east bank, and exploded violently, stirring up bursts of fire and thick gunsmoke.

On the east bank, the beards on the battlefield roared, and more than 200 officers and men of the model battalion, whose eyes were red from the burning of hatred, shouted in unison, jumped out of the trenches, rushed into the thick smoke of gunpowder, and rushed towards the surging enemy, like a sharp knife quickly plunging into the enemy group.

More than 20 light machine guns and more than 100 flower machine guns gathered in the hands of more than 200 warriors spat out scarlet flames on three sides at the same time, and the more than 2,000 enemies who were unprepared and only rushed forward with their heads were suddenly swept by like huge scythes, and fell one after another.

Hu Zi and Gu Laoer, who rushed in front of the two long columns, did not wait for the bullets to be fired, and under the fierce fire of the brothers around them, they quickly changed the light machine gun magazine, pulled the load, and aimed at the front and left and right to the front and left and right for a round of headless and brainless strafing.

In just over five minutes, this fierce team of more than 2,000 people slaughtered the enemy's charging formation, quickly changed the magazine under the loud shout of the beard, and then divided into two teams to turn the dragon head and start a frenzied killing of the chaotic enemy again.

In the rapid advance, no one paid attention to the fall of any of the two columns, and the strong team that had lost their minds did not care, but only shot at all the targets that were still moving, and in the midst of the screams one after another, they killed each other again.

"Abandon the spear--shine guy-kill-"

"Kill—"

Under the soft moonlight approaching the Double Ninth Festival, Hu Zi and Gu Laoer, Xia Jian and other brothers with big knives and sapper shovels who once again entered the enemy formation all came out of their sheaths, and the heads and arms and shoulders of the enemies flew up one after another, and the violent brothers who followed behind them drew out shell guns and sharp sapper shovels, and began a bloody and primitive pursuit and slaughter, the splashes of blood and the sound of bones breaking continued, and the remaining more than 1,000 enemy soldiers completely lost their courage, threw everything in their hands, turned around and ran backwards with all their might, The gallbladder was already paralyzed on the ground, crying out in mourning, and never dared to look at the tragic scene like hell on earth.

As long as there are still people standing in front of them, the souls return to the underworld, the dull roar of killing the enemy and the terrible roar of the big knife piercing the air are endless, and the painful screams of the dying and the seriously injured who have their arms cut off or their bodies are cut off one after another, resounding in the night sky one after another, hearing the horror and horror of the four directions, and the whole body is weak, this shocking and cruel night battle has made countless officers and soldiers look back in a state of great sorrow.

An hour later, all the gunfire completely stopped, all the enemies fled into Nanchang City and closed the city gates, the wilderness in the southwest of the city was as silent as death, even the insects that were about to hibernate stopped their swan song in advance, and the rich blood spread dozens of miles away under the blowing of the north wind.

When Yin Jinan, Yang Bin and others led four engineering companies and nearly 700 brothers to rush to support, the miserable scene on the thousand-meter battlefield made all the brothers silent, and the eight people who could still stand, such as Hu Zi, Xia Jian, and Gu Laoer, were like blood-splashed stone statues, and stood in a large circle, only a pair of ruthless eyes were turning vigilantly, and in the middle of the circle lay a group of brothers who were all tired, nearly half of them were lying in a pool of blood and snoring, and the other half were lying quietly on their backs to the sky, staring at the sky with distracted eyes. Large hands covered with blood and flesh still clung to the steel shovel and the hilt of the knife, and the spasmodic arms and fingers made it impossible for the brothers who stepped forward to help them to remove them, and when they were helped to the backs of the brothers, the blood accumulated in their bodies was still flowing like water.

Faced with corpses, severed limbs and hideous heads all over the ground, dozens of rescue brothers who could not face it bent over and vomited one after another, and even Liu Zhi and Bai Chongxi, who came next, and their guards were shocked by the tragic killing, their hearts beat faster, their chests and abdomen churned, and then they vomited violently one after another.

Three and a half hours later, one hundred and seventy-one brothers, who had been scrubbed and dressed cleanly, slept quietly beside a pile of campfires, and thirty-seven brothers who could never wake up were washed and carefully buried.

In the face of the mountains of seized weapons and loot, Yin Jinan and the others did not have the slightest joy, their hearts were very heavy, so heavy that it was difficult to even breathe.

Bai Chongxi, accompanied by several guards, sat down in the circle of six school officials, including Yin Jinan and Yang Bin, and asked Yin Jinan kindly: "Lieutenant Colonel Yin, I want to hear your statistics. ”

Yin Jinan straightened his waist, squeezed out a smile, nodded and replied respectfully: "In the first battle last night, our battalion destroyed 1,871 enemies and captured more than 1,200 long and short guns and six light machine guns. Among them, 225 veterans led by Hu Jialin, deputy of our model battalion, went through the defensive battle at nightfall last night and launched a countercharge battle at about 9:30 last night, destroying 971 enemy troops, capturing 773 long and short guns, five light machine guns, 21 sabers of the enemy generals, 67 wounded officers and men of our battalion who participated in the countercharge battle, 37 killed, and the figures from other battlefields, totaling 244 officers and men wounded and 162 officers and men killed in battle. ”

Bai Chongxi sighed: "Where is this an engineer battalion...... It's a division of tigers and wolves! ”

Yin Jinan shook his head: "Sir, it should not be said to be the 'Tiger and Wolf Division', but the 'Iron and Blood Division', which is the highest goal that our battalion commander An Yi has diligently pursued since the establishment of our battalion, the full name is 'The Sharp Blade of the Country, the Iron and Blood Division', and the officers and soldiers of our whole battalion have been working towards this lofty goal." ”

Bai Chongxi looked at Yin Jinan, who was determined, in surprise, nodded approvingly, and slowly stood up and said goodnight.

Walking through the woods to the middle of the road, Bai Chongxi, who bowed his head and pondered, walked out of a few hundred meters and slowly stopped, raised his head to look up at the starry sky, and couldn't help repeating:

"The blade of the country, the army of iron and blood...... The blade of the country, the iron-blooded army...... can let his subordinates shed blood for him without regrets, what kind of person is this An Yi......

(To be continued)