On the position of the Fourth Division of Thirty Miles, Chu Jingming made a preliminary count of the casualties, and in the battle just now, the Fourth Division suffered a total of more than 600 casualties, of which nearly half were killed, and the others were injured to varying degrees.

However, the casualties of the devils were similar, and with the task force that was completely annihilated, there were more than 150 corpses left in front of the position of the Fourth Division alone.

Most of the casualties of the Fourth Division were caused by the sudden appearance of devil tanks and armored vehicles, and in the unobstructed wilderness, the power of tanks and armored vehicles could be brought into full play, and the combat power they displayed was very amazing.

During World War II, Germany's armored forces swept almost the entire European continent, destroying the enemy all the way and destroying countless countries.

The average infantry encountering armored troops in the field without relying on strong fortifications will end up much worse than the ancient infantry encountering cavalry, and the heavy armor of armored fighting vehicles can make the infantry's individual weapons useless, and they cannot be hurt in a dense rain of bullets.

After collecting the corpses of the fallen soldiers to the rear of the position, Chu Jingming transferred the remaining officers and soldiers of the regiment to the front-line position.

After deploying everything, Chu Jingming took the adjutant and the surviving guards company soldiers to stick to the first-line trenches, because of the death of the commander of the first regiment, Xie Shan, the morale of the first regiment has now suffered a great blow, so Chu Jingming understands that as the commander of the division, he must stay, and stay with the officers and soldiers of the leaderless regiment to live and die together, and live and die together, only in this way can the first regiment continue to hold on, and win time for the reinforcement of the second-line position and the arrival of friendly troops.

Suddenly, the familiar whistling sound suddenly sounded in the sky, and Chu Jingming looked up at the sky, only to see countless fire balls in the sky dragging long tail flames towards his own position.

Chu Jingming hurriedly shouted hoarsely: "Enemy attack, anti-artillery, all enter the anti-artillery hole!" Before he could finish his words, a dull and deafening explosion rang out in a mass of formations.

Chu Jingming and the soldiers, who had just drilled into the anti-artillery hole, only felt that the mountains were shaking for a while, and the entire sky was filled with choking gunpowder smoke and dazzling firelight, and the huge air wave set off the dirt all over the sky, and the anti-artillery cave was also shaken to the ground with debris falling down.

In a large anti-artillery hole, the adjutant shook his head and shook off a little dirt on his head, and said to Chu Jingming: "Division, where is our artillery?" Don't let the artillery fire back, this little devil is too rampant. ”

Chu Jingming shook his head with a heavy face and said: "The artillery regiment is in Yingzhou, and the light artillery battalion brought by the first regiment is not the opponent of the devil's artillery at all, listening to this cannon, the caliber of the devil's artillery is definitely more than one hundred 105mm large-caliber heavy artillery." ”

"More than one hundred and five calibers? Obediently, what kind of cannon is that? The adjutant asked.

"It is estimated that it could be a heavy large-caliber gun of one hundred and fifty millimeters!" Chu Jingming said in a solemn tone: "The devil is equipped with this kind of artillery, and even our artillery regiment is powerless to compete with it. ”

"What then? Are we just being bombarded like this? The adjutant asked urgently.

Chu Jingming pondered for a moment and said, "Adjutant Li, as soon as the devil's artillery fire extends, you will run out quickly, and then send a telegram to the military seat, asking him to send the air force to assist our department in the battle, and it is best to send bombers to kill the devil's artillery position." ”

"Yes!" Adjutant Li hurriedly nodded in response.

The artillery sound on the position is still roaring, the artillery fire on the entire regiment of positions is raging, the debris is splashing, and from time to time there are anti-artillery holes that are unfortunately hit by the devil's shells, and the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army inside are suddenly blown into a pool of flesh and blood, and unfortunately die.

After about 20 minutes, the artillery fire of the Japanese army began to extend, and Adjutant Li was the first to climb out of the anti-artillery hole, and immediately ran down the bombed and shattered communication trench in the direction of the regimental headquarters.

Chu Jingming then also came out of the anti-artillery hole, and at the same time, a group of soldiers also rushed out of the anti-artillery hole under the urging of their respective commanders, but there were nearly a hundred soldiers who could never come out of the anti-artillery hole.

Chu Jingming patted the dirt on his body, and immediately began to inspect the trenches.

"Master, the devil is going to attack again." Chu Jingming was inspecting the room, and a sentry pointed to the outside of the position and reported loudly.

Hearing this, Chu Jingming raised his binoculars and looked out of the position, and couldn't help but gasp, only to see a large group of devils on the road and in the wilderness on both sides of the road rushing towards this side like a tide, and several tanks were rumbling forward in front of the crowd of devils.

Chu Jingming roughly counted, these devils must have at least one wing of strength in the thousands.

The devil actually used so many troops at one time, it seems that he wants to take down Thirty Lipu in one fell swoop.

Chu Jingming turned his head to look around the trenches on both sides, and saw that most of the officers and soldiers were frightened, obviously so many devils attacked at the same time, which caused a lot of psychological pressure on the officers and soldiers of the regiment.

After pondering for a moment, Chu Jingming ignored the artillery fire that was still extending, jumped out of the trench, looked around and said sharply: "A group of brothers! At the moment of the great enemy, please listen to what I Chu said. ”

The eyes of all the soldiers turned to Chu Jingming, Chu Jingming paused, pointed to the position under his feet and said: "Brothers, many of you are local soldiers in Yingzhou, I don't say it, you should also know that behind us is our hometown, where there are your fathers, mothers, wives and children, and sisters. And we are in the thirty miles, is to defend the gateway to Yingzhou, if this place is lost, Yingzhou will not be protected, Yingzhou city broken, our hometown fathers, wives and children and sisters will suffer, do you bear to watch our relatives, compatriots, slaughtered by the army? Can you bear to see the blood flowing in Yingzhou City? ”

"Never!"

"Never!"

"Never!" I don't know who shouted first, and then all the warriors shouted loudly.

"Well said! Never! The little devil wants to pass through here, unless he steps on our corpses! For the sake of our hometown, for the sake of our fathers and fellow villagers, all the officers and men of the Fourth Division of our Huben Army from Chu Jingming down to Chu Jingming should have the determination to resist to the death with every inch of mountains and rivers and every inch of blood, and swear to live and die with the position! Swear to defend Yingzhou City! ”

"Swear to live and die with the position! Swear to defend Yingzhou City! ”

"Swear to live and die with the position! Swear to defend Yingzhou City! ”

"Swear to live and die with the position! Swear to defend Yingzhou City! ”

More than 1,000 officers and men of the regiment roared hoarsely, and a huge wave of sound soared into the sky.

"The man wants to repay the country's kindness, and he will show his loyalty if he dies on the battlefield! For the honor of the soldiers, for the sake of the thousands of hometown fathers and elders behind us, we have no way out, only to make sacrifices and fight to the death! If you don't succeed, you will be a benevolent! Chu Jingming waved his big hand and said sharply: "Brothers, enter the position and meet the enemy!" ”

"Fight to the death, if you don't succeed, you will become a benevolent!" The blood of all the soldiers was boiling, and they shouted moving slogans and turned into the position, clenched the steel guns in their hands, and aimed at the surging army in front of them.

Maybe it wasn't until this moment that they suddenly remembered that they had no way out, because Chu Jingming was right, behind them was their hometown, where they raised their hometown, where they had their home, their parents, wives and children, brothers and sisters.

Not for the ocean, not for the merits of war, only to protect the family, followed by the defense of the country. This is the voice of all the fighters of the regiment at this time.

It wasn't until this moment that they, the soldiers who had just put down their hoes and picked up their guns, vaguely understood the meaning of the slogan they had shouted every day since the day they joined the army, "Defend the family and defend the country, even if you die, you are still honored!" ”

Chu Jingming changed into a Garand semi-automatic rifle and lay in a foxhole, his cold muzzle searching for prey like a hunter.

Due to the lessons learned last time, the devil's tank did not blindly roar this time, but began to shell at a distance from the position of the Tiger Ben Army, in order to provide fire cover for the infantry and cover the infantry group to charge.

In fact, the devil's caution is completely superfluous, and the battle defense artillery equipped with a regiment has already been destroyed under the fire of the devil's 150 heavy guns just now, and some of the surviving artillery has already picked up rifles and is ready to fight.

Just when the devils were getting closer and closer, the artillery battalion that had been hidden behind a group of positions suddenly opened fire, and the first salvo of the 82 mortar group was fired, and dozens of grenades accurately fell into the crowd of devils who were charging.

However, the devils did not stop charging because of this, and all the devil soldiers accelerated in vain towards the position of the tiger army as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and at the same time, the commander began to call for artillery reinforcements, and their 150 heavy artillery wing behind the devil's position began to adjust the direction and recalibrate the shooting of Zhu Yuan.

At the same time, the devil's attacking force had already entered the range of the Tiger Army, Chu Jingming, who was lying in the foxhole, aimed at a devil soldier Cao, and took the lead in pulling the trigger, before the gun sounded, the bullet had already whistled out, the speed of the bullet was twice the sound, and when the gun sounded, the bullet had accurately hit the head of the devil soldier Cao.

The devil's forehead was like a bursting watermelon, and in an instant it became a blur of flesh and blood, and the whole person fell straight forward before he could even scream.

Chu Jingming's gunshot was an order, and the officers and soldiers of a regiment opened fire one after another, and for a while, thousands of guns were fired in unison, and dense bullets flew towards the devil crowd, and the devil soldiers who rushed to the front were suddenly knocked down one after another.

The MG34 general-purpose machine gun once again burst out of its amazing power, and as soon as the special gunfire sound of tearing the oilcloth was remembered, a series of hot and dazzling tongues of fire erupted from the muzzle, and the tongues of fire fired by these general-purpose machine guns were like the scythe of death.

(To be continued)