In the early morning, the mountains are covered with a layer of mist, the blue mountains appear and disappear in the white, and the smell of gunpowder smoke in the air dissipates with the mountain wind. Silence, silence, the chickadees that love to make noise in the mountains have long been frightened away by the continuous sound of cannons. The bloodstained walls, the dark red earth, and the corpses lying on the hillside constitute a strange battlefield morning.

This tranquility is so intoxicating, but it is the most uncomfortable and fearful for the soldiers, but Song Xilian, who is standing on Sima Tai at this moment, has a feeling of seeing the clouds, and after so many days, he can finally raise his eyebrows.

"Let's get started." With Song Xilian's calm command, the tranquility was broken. Twelve 75-mm mountain guns from the artillery battalion of the 87th Division opened fire together, and the shells whistled on the opposite hill. Soon the regiment's 83-mm mortars also joined the attack, and the smoke suddenly covered the hill.

The army reacted quickly, and began to return fire five minutes later, the shells exploded on the position with a scream, but this time it did not cause panic on the position, the soldiers on the position, just crouched on the edge of the trench and looked at the opposite side with a little nervousness, and the mud splashed by the bomb fell on them in a mess.

The shelling, which lasted for seven or eight minutes, soon ended, and with the sound of the fierce trumpet, a group of earthy yellow people jumped at the foot of the opposite mountain, and they rushed towards the hill with a shout, and when the crowd approached the mountainside, a gunshot rang out from the top of the mountain, and a dozen figures fell from the crowd in front of them, and the rest avoided the bodies of their comrades and continued to charge upward.

The gunfire was fierce, and flesh and blood were flying; The Chinese soldiers charged up fearlessly, and the soldiers on the top of the hill also resisted the Chinese soldiers with the same bravery. Seven or eight machine guns were lined up, the fire dragon was reaping the life, the Chinese soldiers were pressed down on the mountainside and could not raise their heads, and Yi Anhua, the commander of the 522nd Regiment who was in charge of directing the attack, pulled the regimental mortars behind a hill at the foot of the mountain and bombarded the fire points of the Yue army.

The shells overturned the two machine guns, temporarily suppressing the enemy's fire, and the Chinese soldiers on the mountainside took the opportunity to charge up a distance, and the machine guns of the army fired at the gunfire, suppressing the attack of the squadron [***] again.

A row of fires rose on the mountainside, stumps and severed arms fell with the earth, and the return fire of the army artillery built a blockade on the mountainside, and more than a dozen soldiers were drowned in the smoke. The Chinese soldiers who rushed to the front outside the smoke endured the blows of machine gun and artillery fire, hiding behind the rocks and firing upwards with all their might.

"Report, the 521st Regiment has successfully attacked."

Song Xilian hurriedly looked his telescope to the left, and saw that the blue sky and white flags of the 367 highlands on the left were flying high, and the earthy yellow crowd was swarming to the top of the mountain, and the army was fleeing down the mountain in a hurry. He nodded with satisfaction, and said in his heart that Yang Guangyu did a good job, and turned his head to look at the top of the mountain opposite.

"Damn, the little devil is tenacious enough!" Song Xilian scolded hatefully, and was beaten down four times in a row, which made him very angry, he turned to the chief of staff Qian Lunti and said: "Tell Yi Anhua that I will be replaced if I can't beat it!" Damn, there is only one squadron of devils on the mountain, and I can't attack it after a few attacks, so I eat dry rice! ”

Song Xilian was influenced by Zhuang Jihua, usually gentle and elegant, but when he arrived on the battlefield, he became full of swearing, and scolded when he was not satisfied.

Song Xilian has always received an immediate response, and Yi Anhua immediately organized a fifth time, this time he personally supervised the battle, threw the whole regiment into the attack, and attacked forward in waves.

The shelling did not stop, Yi Anhua's charge horn sounded, and the Chinese [***] team let out an earth-shattering cry, and the earthy yellow military uniforms spread all over the mountains, covering the slopes of the mountains with a layer of yellow. The army did not open fire, and when the yellow covered the mountainside, the shelling stopped, and the army rushed out of the shelter one after another, but in just a few tens of seconds, the [***] team had already rushed upwards for nearly 20 meters, approaching the edge of the mountain.

The machine guns of the Yue army went crazy again, the corpses of the fallen Chinese soldiers rolled down, the living soldiers threw grenades one after another, and took advantage of the smoke They jumped forward a few meters, and the Yue army on the top of the mountain saw the situation, jumped out of the trench with three or eight guns, and rushed down the hillside.

Song Xilian, who was in the distance, couldn't help but sneer when he saw this scene, it was impossible for the remaining more than 100 devils on the mountain to beat down more than 1,000 of his people.

The counterattack of the [***] team in the direction of Simatai was fierce, and the Honma brigade lost three hills in one day, losing half of its troops, and the [***] team broke through to Sanli, posing a threat to the 14th mixed brigade that was attacking Nantianmen from the flank. The commander of the 14th Brigade, Hattori Hyojiro, scolded Honma and ordered the Samura Wing to quickly support Honma.

Samura's departure weakened the strength of the front of Nantenmon, and Hattori Hyojiro had to stop the attack, and Xu Tingyao, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately transferred the last of the 83rd Division, to the front.

Liu Kan, the commander of the 83rd Division, couldn't hold back for a long time, the second division has been in front these days, and the brigades took turns to fight, and the casualties were amazing, and finally even the cavalry regiment dismounted as an infantry envoy, Huang Jie also asked for help several times, Xu Tingyao just let the 25th Division resting in Miyun County also be transferred by him, but he just turned a blind eye to the 83rd Division on the side.

The 83rd Division, which was holding its breath, came up like a tiger out of the cage, rushing down from the Nantianmen and rushing all the way to Gubeikou, where the terrain was dangerous, and Hattori Hyojiro easily blocked Liu Kan. The two armies fought fiercely along the Gubeikou.

"Look at the newspaper! Newspaper! [***] counteroffensive, fierce battle on all fronts of Gubeikou! The streets of the ancient capital of Beiping resounded with the immature cries of newspaper boys, and the citizens who were in a hurry stopped one after another, looking at the newspaper boys waving their newspapers excitedly in amazement.

After a while, "Boom! There was a burst of exclamation from the street, and a large number of citizens surrounded the newsboy, countless hands stretched out to the newsboy, and countless banknotes fell beside the newsboy.

"Give me one! Give me one! ”

The newsboy was sweating and distributing the newspaper, and he didn't have time to make up the money to find money, but no one bothered him, and the pair of newspapers that he got immediately disappeared from the crowd. Groups of readers immediately formed on the streets, and some people couldn't help but read it out loud.

"......, Sima Tai fought fiercely all day, our soldiers rushed to kill, fought until the afternoon, the army did not retreat, our army conquered its first-line position, and then, the Song general Xilian supervised the army to storm and attack, and the strong strongholds of the army were all over the place.

Following the counteroffensive of General Song, a greater offensive was launched in Nantianmen, and General Liu led his troops to attack Yuekou with a fierce attack, capturing the high ground south of Gubeikou, and then taking advantage of the situation to recover Hexi Town and enter the Gubeikou Pass.

The soldiers of our army kept in mind the instructions of the chairman of the committee, fully carried forward the spirit of sacrifice, and fought hard to kill one lieutenant and several young soldiers, wounded one large lieutenant, and killed and wounded more than 4,000 soldiers, thus winning the greatest victory since the beginning of the war. ……”

counteroffensive, the long-awaited counteroffensive of the countrymen; The counteroffensive, the counteroffensive that the Chinese people want to wear, and the desolation in the city of Beiping were swept away in a flash.

Although the counteroffensive has not yet achieved complete victory, the Chinese have greeted this counteroffensive with great joy, as if victory was already in hand. The military headquarters of the 17th Army of Miyun and the general front headquarters of Guqiao Town, which were originally snubbed, gathered reporters from all sides.

The Associated Press reported in Beiping: "Military experts here have confirmed that the offensive of the Chinese army has come to a halt on all fronts, and the [***] squadron has switched to a counteroffensive, which is beyond the expectations of all professional military experts..."

AFP news: "....... the ancient country is in jubilation, and this is the first time in nearly 100 years that they have launched a counteroffensive by an aggressor. ”

The Times correspondent in Peking reported: "... The ancient Great Wall served as the protector of this ancient nation, and Chinese began to devote himself to the war, and even the prestige of the Nanjing political axe, which was defeated in the Jiangxi battlefield, was ......increased to a certain extent. ”

The citizens of Wuhan and Guangzhou first began to raise donations, and on the same day, more than 30,000 oceans were raised.

"These Whampoa dolls, sooner or later, they will have a big fight with Yue himself and cause trouble for the country." Huang Yan put down the newspaper in his hand and sighed.

Shortly after Huang Yin arrived in Beiping at his own request, he handed over the matter of negotiations with Yue Jun to He Yingqin directly after negotiations with officials of the Shanghai consulate in Shanghai failed to achieve results. However, the Great Wall battle began to change instructions, but the Kwantung Army put forward the hope that Huang Ying could come, so Chiang Kai-shek sent Huang Ying to Beiping with a delegation. The members of the delegation, Yin Tong, Liu Shisun, Yin Rugeng, and Yuan Liang, were all called Bentong.

Huang Yin was very encouraged by the change in his attitude, and he felt a kind of excitement, a feeling of turning the tide and helping the building to fall spontaneously in his heart.

The negotiations with Yue himself were not very smooth, and he was very tough, and asked the [***] team to show the sincerity of peace, withdraw from Nantianmen to the Kaiping-Yutian-Shunyi line, and at the same time stop military operations on the front line.

But at this time, the [***] team on the front line of the Great Wall began to counterattack, and broke through the defense line of the Yue army in one fell swoop. The change in the battlefield situation made the attitude of the Yue army tougher, demanding that the [***] team retreat to the line of Miyun, Yutian, Luanzhou, and Luanhe, and at the same time claiming that the request of the Yue Ben would never be refused, otherwise the imperial army would not hesitate to expand the war.

"Zhaogong, that's a good point." Yin Rugeng nodded and said, "Actually, my own conditions can be considered, and I can take this opportunity to sign a treaty with them." ”

(To be continued)