But after waiting for a long time and did not see the Chinese attack, the commander of the army decided to send people out to investigate, and the two soldiers quietly felt out of the door, and without taking a few steps, a string of firelight was lit up from the dark interruption of the city wall, and a bullet flew over, and the two soldiers immediately rolled down the stairs. The machine guns in the watchtower immediately sprayed a long series of bullets at the place where the fire occurred, and there was a series of bean-like sounds. Before the commander could figure out what was going on, a faint light flashed from the darkness, accompanied by the crisp sound of three or eight guns, and the roar of the machine gun was immediately interrupted. The commander of the army was shocked, and cold sweat flowed down his cheeks, what kind of person is this? There is such accurate marksmanship in the dark! He immediately ordered to stop shooting, such blind shooting in the dark had no effect except to expose his own point of fire.

But on the other hand, the scouts he sent brought back shocking news, in the middle of the city wall, the [***] team set up a ring defensive position with sandbags and iron plates, and the commander of the army was very puzzled, what is the middle [***] team going to do about this? Do not use the night to carry out night attacks, but are busy building such defensive positions? Is it to besiege us? But although we can't go down, we can still do the follow-up replenishment, although the three ropes can't get more troops up, but it's completely okay to keep the supply. He couldn't figure it out, so he attributed these two positions to the defensive measures taken by the squadron.

When the sky was white, the soldier in charge of monitoring the movement suddenly shouted: "Shao Zuo! Shaozuo! The scream woke everyone in the watchtower, and the officer moved quickly and quickly walked to the side of the observation post.

The soldier pointed to the door of the opposite watchtower in horror, the officer grabbed the binoculars, and the door of the building in the telescope stretched out a black hole with a cannon muzzle, and the figure in the black watchtower shook.

"Ask for artillery reinforcements! Fast! The officer instinctively shouted, he now understands that last night's [***] team of a series of actions to prepare for today's dawn attack, the two positions have both defensive functions and offensive starting points, and even more terrible is the artillery stretched out from the opposite side, the Chinese endured a whole day, but used the time of the night to silently get the artillery up the Great Wall, and also into the watchtower? Shaozo felt that his military career might be over.

As soon as his words fell, the signal soldier grabbed the phone and just shouted a word, a red signal flare rose in the sky, and Shao Zuo saw from the telescope that the muzzle fire on the opposite side flashed, and the cannonball crashed into the watchtower with a sharp whistle.

"Boom!" "Boom!" The cannonballs that flew out from another watchtower also hit the outer wall of the watchtower, the watchtower shook for a while, the soldiers in the building desperately curled their bodies, leaned against the corner, and after the shaking ended, they were surprised to find that the two cannonballs actually blew down the watchtower built by the ancient Chinese hundreds of years ago, this discovery surprised them inexplicably.

The commander of the squadron on the opposite side cursed frustration and ordered to continue the bombardment, this time the artillery aimed directly at the door of the building, and the two shells exploded on the outer wall of the watchtower almost simultaneously. The explosion point reminded them that the squadron [***] was trying to shoot shells directly into the building.

"Request artillery support! Let them fight at the watchtower No. 57! Fast! Shao Zuo shouted in despair and ordered loudly, no matter how strong this stone tower is, it can't block a few shots. The distance between the two watchtowers was only three or four hundred meters, and the battle defense artillery fired almost 100 shots at fixed targets at this distance.

But he replied that he continued to shell, and under the bombardment of four shells in a row, the upper watchtower collapsed with a bang, most of the stones collapsed inside, and a few stones rolled down the stairs with a clatter. After the smoke cleared, the Chinese soldiers rushed into the watchtower, there was no gunfire, the dead and the undead enemies were mended, and the blue sky and white flag fluttered high on the No. 6 watchtower.

But there was no cheering in the watchtower of No. 57, the length of the watchtower was not enough to erect the battle defense gun, they were forced to remove the bracket and fix the gun body with sandbags, but the soldiers were still worried about damaging the gun body, two soldiers put their bodies on the sandbags, and after the last continuous shelling, the two soldiers collapsed to the ground on the spot, and blood oozed from their facial features. And the artillery group of the No. 7 watchtower also coincidentally adopted the same method.

After dawn, the army found that the deed that had entered the Great Wall had been pulled out, and the angry commander of the Eighth Division, Nishi Yoshiichi, launched a retaliatory artillery bombardment, and the continuous cannonballs rained down inside and outside the Great Wall, exploding one after another, stumps and broken arms were splashed everywhere, and the Great Wall was shrouded in blood.

After the shelling stopped, more than 10 planes appeared in the sky again, and batches of bombs were dropped from under the belly of the planes, and the sound of explosions once again resounded inside and outside the Great Wall. By the time the smoke had passed, the walls had changed beyond recognition, and more openings had appeared, and the corpses of the soldiers had been thrown onto the hillside.

The plane was accompanied by soldiers who were slowly climbing up the hill, their bayonets glistening in the early spring sun. The soldiers looked very excited, and after two full hours of shelling and bombardment, the gray wall was already crumbling, and they only had to rush up and kick him once, and the wall would fall.

But they were disappointed, and when they approached the halfway point of the mountain, a rain of bullets was still pouring on the walls, and grenades were still falling from the walls.

After circling in a circle, the planes began to dive along the Great Wall, and the Chinese soldiers, who were busy dealing with the ground forces of the Chinese army, had no time to pay attention to the planes in the sky, and allowed them to dive and strafe, and the Chinese soldiers suffered heavy casualties under the long series of bullets.

"Fire!" With Zheng Dongguo's order, the artillery regiment that had been holding back for a long time began to counterattack, and bursts of fire rose on the mountainside; This sudden artillery bombardment surprised the Yue army, and the attack stopped at once. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Chinese defenders stopped the anti-aircraft fire again, and a dozen machine guns built a fire net to net a Japanese military plane, and when it dragged a long black smoke to explode on the hillside, a cheer rang out up and down the Great Wall.

Artillery regiment commander Jin Ruiding divided his dozen cannons into four parts and carried out intermittent shelling on different positions, but the Japanese planes soon discovered two of them, so they rushed like flies, and the machine gun company and brigade guard company of the 11 th regiment, which were responsible for guarding the artillery, set up machine guns and set up machine guns to build a protective net over the artillery regiment.

"Help! Head Deng asks for reinforcements! ”

"! It's only been less than two days! Zheng Dongguo couldn't help but scold, there are currently two and a half battalions of troops including the battalion directly under the brigade on the Badaolou, and they have only been fighting for two days before asking for reinforcements.

"Send troops, the enemy's artillery fire is too fierce, and their casualties should be large." Du Yuming reminded calmly.

The losses of the troops were too great, the Eighth Regiment had been crippled, and less than half of the withdrawn troops remained, and they were led by Deputy Regiment Commander Rong Junxian to rest on the second line of defense, and there was only one battalion left of the troops that could be mobilized.

"Order the first and second companies of the third battalion to be reinforced immediately, and the third company to remain as a reserve!" Zheng Dongguo didn't dare to think about anything else, and dealt with the current situation first.

"Let the Eighth Regiment be ready, and go up when needed." Du Yuming suggested that he was extremely impressed by the fierceness of the artillery fire of the Yue army, but he believed that the command of the Yue army was rather rigid, and the terrain of the eight towers was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and if there was a strategy of the No. 6 watchtower yesterday, it would be understandable that he chose to storm the eight towers, and the attack after dawn was completely the move of the commander of the Yue army, if it were not for the poor equipment of our army, he would have suffered a big loss if it were not for the poor equipment of our army.

After Du Yuming finished speaking, he returned to the table and recorded the thoughts just now, and Zheng Dongguo came over and stood behind him to see what he remembered.

"You're quite idle." Zheng Dongguo teased mockingly: "After all, I came to observe." ”

"If Xiyi wasn't a fool, Badaolouzi's attack would have stopped, and you said he would choose to attack there next?" Du Yuming did not directly answer Zheng Dongguo's ridicule, but skillfully changed the topic.

Zheng Dongguo rushed to him and took the notebook in his hand, and after reading a few pages, he couldn't help but ask, "This is what you have achieved in the past few days?" ”

"Well," Du Yuming nodded lightly, and Zheng Dongguo couldn't help but shake his head and said, "In your eyes, the tactical level of the Yue Army is so low?" ”

"They are not high," Du Yuming said unceremoniously: "The individual soldier technology of the army is good, and the army organization is also good, but their infantry and artillery coordination, air-ground combination, especially the company and platoon assault tactics, etc., are not as good as the Seventh Company." ”

The two were discussing, Cui Yiming, chief of staff of the 11th Regiment, came over to report that the enemy had retreated, Zheng Dongguo and Du Yuming exchanged a look, immediately walked to the observation point, picked up the telescope and looked out, sure enough, the gunfire gradually disappeared, and the soldiers on the city wall began to busily transport the wounded. And the army did not fire any more at the Badaolou.

In two days, due to the loss of the No. 6 watchtower, the Fourth Brigade lost nearly 1,000 people in the Badaolouzi position, but they also eliminated more than 1,000 people, and the casualties of the squadron were mainly caused by artillery bombardment and bombing, while the casualties of the Yuejun were mainly caused by grenades and machine guns, which was also thanks to the dangerous terrain of Badaolouzi.

After the army ran into a wall in Badaolouzi, it began to shift the direction of attack, and the focus of the attack was on the 421 Heights, the main position in the center of Nantianmen, and a new round of fierce fighting began again.

(To be continued)