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Let's put aside the boring statistics and the subsequent memoir descriptions, and follow the footsteps of one person to witness the siege of the Raineville-Shire Valley, which was later hailed as the "roar of the dragon" in Europe and the United States, and witness the birth of a tenacious iron army.

His name is Du Zishan, 23 years old, a native of Heze, Shandong, and a former worker at the German Coal Plant in Qingdao. In 1914, during the Sino-Japanese War, he joined the National Society for helping wounded soldiers, and in the same year, he volunteered to become a registered national reserve soldier in Shandong Province, and in July 1916, he was conscripted into the army and went to the Western Front in France. In November, he participated in the "Hundred Days of Soldiers" and was promoted to corporal with second-class meritorious service, and in this capacity, he was transferred to the 1st Company and 3rd Platoon of the 2nd Battalion of the 88rd Armored Brigade and the 883rd Infantry Regiment as a sergeant. When the Hai Dongqing fighter flew overhead and threw down the herald bamboo tube, it had been 35 hours since he jumped into the German trenches in the Avila Valley. Of course, he didn't know it now, and there were still 31 hours before the end of "Dragon's Roar".

At that time his position was 8 km from Artigny, 37 km from Rainywell and 46 km from the Shire Valley.

"Oil drums, unload the oil drums." In the sunset, he and the others unloaded the oil drums from the accompanying truck. A barrel of 180 kilograms of gasoline was just enough for the T2 infantry support vehicle to drink, but there were not only infantry support vehicles in the company, but also fire support and transport vehicles, so after moving this barrel, he turned around and got busy again. In the end, the four oil drums made him panting, and by the time he had taken out the compressed biscuits and luncheon meat and stuffed the dates, the company commander had already returned from a meeting.

Decades later, Du Zishan clearly remembered that the company commander's face was very bad at that time. No! It should be said that it is extremely poor.

"Checking the equipment and pooling all the ammunition. We're going to make a big deal! The company commander shouted loudly while checking the readiness of each vehicle. The tone is like a copy of whether you want to eat bandao noodles or wontons in the 800-mile Shuibo Liang Mountain. Du Zishan did not dare to slack off, although the company commander was not a few years older than him, but he had a great temper, and he had met a stubborn resistance to the German infantry battalion before, because he had killed two brothers, he ordered the tank to run over when he was already injured and could not move.

Therefore, everyone said that you must not reason with the company commander. That guy is a pure lunatic who doesn't know his relatives!

Du Zishan used an American-made M1912 shotgun, and when he set off, he added two base ammunition, and the consumption along the way was not large, so it was enough. But after seeing the tank machine gunner load a captured German MG8 heavy machine gun and four boxes of 500 rounds of ammunition onto the car and fasten it to his 25 rapid-fire gun with rivets and ropes. He immediately realized that he was seriously lacking in firepower! Fortunately, a lot of weapons were seized on the way, so he deliberately picked a Mauser 98K rifle and 200 rounds of ammunition, but after thinking about it, he took a captured German-made Stern submachine gun. Finally, don't forget to bring four 20-round magazines and a 300-round 9mm cartridge. Of course, if he carried it all on his back, he would probably be exhausted without fighting, so he, like everyone else, hung the selected weapons on the armored car, and the ammunition was stuffed behind the steel plate and used at any time.

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the brigade commander gave the order to set off.

A total of 128 T2 infantry support vehicles, 24 fire support vehicles, 85 transport vehicles, 47 trucks and 300 pack horses captured along the way with their own brigade. The 103rd Division, which had been following behind, also transferred a bicycled combat engineer regiment to reinforce the 883rd Regiment.

Du Zishan's 2nd Battalion and 1st Company had 14 infantry support vehicles and 8 transport vehicles, and I don't know if the company commander was related to the brigade commander, and finally brought in 4 fire support vehicles and supporting ammunition vehicles. But at this time, in addition to the ammunition trucks that were already stuffed, even the 14 support models were hung with 70 infantry guns and filled with soldiers, and the transport type he was riding in was even more crowded. There were already 10 people stuffed in the open carriage for 6 people, and after the 6 people were seated on the folding chairs, there were 4 guys who were slow to move their hands and feet and simply stood and drank the wind while holding the steel plate.

The almost crowded posture made Du Zishan doubt whether the car could be driven for a while, but in fact, the armored car was still very easy, and the speed was much faster than before it came. On the contrary, it is the direction that makes everyone very confused. Because the convoy actually turned back to the south, it also changed the one-word column when it came, and it was divided into nine roads with a company as a unit, and drove back for nearly 10 kilometers side by side. Filling up with gas and stuffing weapons, and finally squeezing so many people into the crowd made everyone realize that something was wrong. So I lost even the interest in talking. Most of them lowered their heads to either check their guns or organize their things, and even Xiao Sichuan, who loved to be lively, didn't speak. By the way, Xiao Sichuan is the infantry who rushed out to rescue him when he broke through the valley pass, and after dozens of hours, the two have become iron buddies who have nothing to say.

To say that France is really a good place. In the sunset, the earth is so flat that there is not even a wide ditch, and all the fields are enviable as far as the eye can see. "Dog's day, bashi is such a good land, he deserves to be beaten." Du Zishan cursed a few words with envy in his heart, and then turned his head to look back. They were followed by the three trucks assigned to their company, and the armored vehicles that ignored the obstacles were slower than the trucks, and from time to time they had to avoid obstacles. Behind the truck was a company of the Combat Engineer Regiment sent by the 103rd Division, all of them riding bicycles, and in addition to ammunition packs and machine guns, there were dozens of blasting canisters on board. According to veterans of the 88 th Brigade, these were all violent elements of the 103 Guard Division, and they took the greatest pleasure in studying and bombing the enemy's fortifications into the sky, and they also sent the enemy on a "dirt plane" in the name of the United States. Yes, a few pounds of explosives from a blasting canister can blow up a closed building, but it's not flying into the sky and taking a plane! But even if they didn't have this skill, as long as they thought about it, they were all masters who came out of the sea of blood in the Battle of Qingdao, and no one dared to despise them.

At the back is the main force of the 103rd Division, which is trotting all the way, and as for the 202nd Division, I heard that it will continue to Artini. However, when he returned, the armored car accelerated significantly, so he soon saw no shadow of the infantry of the 103rd Division.

By 7 p.m., the 1st Company had run back 20 kilometers when suddenly gunfire was heard from the front.

Almost without any hesitation, Du Zishan jumped out of the car with everyone. He was holding a Mauser 98K rifle because he was afraid that the shotgun would have too short a range to be useful, and of course he was not willing to throw it in the car. Instead, carry two guns on your back at once. Luckily, he had more strength than the average person, so bringing two guns and so much ammo didn't affect his tactical movements too much. The bullet was fired from a row of low woods in front of it, because it was dark and it was impossible to see the target clearly, and only the reflection from the fire point could vaguely tell that there should be a ditch behind the low woods blocking the view. Since night strafing requires the identification of the target first, the squad leader hid next to the armored vehicle and shouted for the spearhead to go up and attract the enemy.

Spearheads are not human work at all, they are scouting, luring the enemy, and scouting. Scratch your tongue, and when it's critical, you have to sweep mines and let no one live! Poor Du Zishan is the top soldier in the class, and so is Xiao Sichuan. So the two of them rushed forward. Xiao Sichuan is short in stature and can run fast, walking like flying a few times before rushing out of forty or fifty meters, and then a fish jumps down and waits. See him ready. Du Zishan also gritted his teeth and rushed forward, and at this time, a bullet grazed his ear and flew over.

Chirp.

The feeling of bullets flying his scalp made his sweat all over his body explode, and when he saw a "mound" in front of him, he didn't want to lie down in the back as a cover. But after lying down, I found that it was actually a large cow dung heap. "Whew!" At that moment, the gunfire rang out, and hundreds of fire points suddenly appeared behind the low woods, and several of the soldiers who ran out at the same time were caught off guard and fell to the ground. The heavy machine gun sounded behind him, Du Zishan turned his head and saw that the machine gunner in his car was holding the captured Makqin MG8 water-cooled heavy machine gun, and sprinkled the bullets neatly along the low woods from left to right, but compared with the guy in the car next to him, it was obviously a small thing, because the guy in the car was a more terrifying 12.7mm fanged heavy machine gun.

"Boom, boom." White smoke came out from behind the armored car, and 4 80-mm mortars opened fire. As for the fire support vehicles further behind, they were reluctant to get 160 heavy shells, so they all hid from a distance to watch the big show. The stinky cow dung made Du Zishan particularly uncomfortable, and he saw an opportunity to quickly jump up and run towards the big tree on the left, and when a string of bullets chased his footsteps, he finally saw the enemy on the opposite side by the light of the fire swept by the machine gun. About one German company was hiding behind a low wood. A drainage ditch is just right to hide their bodies. Since it was a company, Du Zishan had to be cautious, because most of the German companies carried Makqin heavy machine guns, which were absolute infantry killers.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the enemy being suppressed by the vehicle's fire, Du Zishan changed into his customary shotgun and slowly crawled towards the dwarf forest, just at this time Xiao Sichuan also climbed forward like him. After exchanging glances between the two of them, they drew their grenades almost at the same time.

Now is the time!

When the heavy machine gun behind him ravaged the low forest in front of him again, Du Zishan took advantage of the moment when the other party did not raise his head, suddenly jumped up and threw the grenade out, and at the same time as the grenade exploded, the M1912 shotgun had already fired three bullets, and even the Alaskan reindeer could kill the bullet with one shot and spilled a piece of lead after exploding, directly blocking the large area in front of him. At this time, Xiao Sichuan also threw out a grenade, but the guy had a Type 12 rifle in his hand, so after running a few steps and firing two shots, he had to lie down and prepare the second grenade, unlike Du Zishan who directly forcibly used a shotgun to sweep through the low woods.

But they and all the infantry had no room to play, because an infantry support vehicle with small sandbags in front had already rushed over. This does not conform to the rules of night engagement, and the infantry will not come up before the enemy is completely understood, which shows that the company commander is in a hurry. Fortunately, the Germans did not have artillery and heavy machine guns, and the Han III heavy machine gun, which was much smaller than Makqin, rushed directly into the 50-meter and swept through the low woods, and after a while, there was no sound. After Du Zishan rushed in, he saw that the dry canal was already full of German soldiers, and those who did not die in the end were also killed by the swarming infantry.

"Clean up the battlefield and put all the weapons in the car." The company commander was unceremonious, in his eyes there were only dead enemies and living enemies.

Du Zishan only learned later why the company commander was in a hurry, and also knew that this not very fierce encounter was just the prelude to a long and bitter battle.

The troops soon continued on their way, and when the hands of the pocket watch reached almost 10 o'clock, everyone felt that their eardrums were suddenly stuffed into hundreds of drums, and they couldn't even feel their hearts beating! The fire in front of him was like blood, and at this time, the company commander finally told everyone why he came back.

The French are defeated! If you want to save and intercept the 100,000 robes of the 5 infantry divisions of the German army, you must kill the German First Army in the encirclement at any cost! Deprives the enemy of reinforcement targets. Commander Yue's order is simpler, fight to the end! Whoever retreats kills whom! The purpose of this order is to settle the battle quickly and go home for dinner. Of course, if you don't want to eat, you have to eat, otherwise you will eat guns instead. When Du Zishan wanted to command "despicable" in the dark, he saw the company commander pull out a flower machine gun out of the corner of his eye, and his heart suddenly trembled a few times, he believed that the mad company commander would definitely carry out the order "strictly and happily".

However, the belly is black, and the 100,000 brothers who went to France together can't watch people die, isn't it just a matter of doing business! With this idea in mind, everyone quickly dispersed. At this time, the company commander also began to remind: "Pay attention to the formation, run with the armored vehicle as the center, and don't rush to the front of the car." Remember the essentials of the battle! ”。

In the shouting of the company commander, the comrades of the 103rd Division who were riding bicycles behind them also caught up, and in order to unify their actions, the two company commanders discussed and merged the troops into a reinforced company. This makes a total of 264 soldiers. But what made Du Zishan strange was that at this moment, he could only judge from the distant fire point that there were probably 3 armor companies around, but the remaining 5 were already missing. Later, it was learned that Brigade Commander Xue personally led 5 companies to make a detour to the Shire Valley, where the open terrain allowed the T2 tank armored vehicles to give full play to their advantages. More than 100 armored vehicles suddenly came out from behind, completely disrupting the German army, and the five German divisions that had no chance to build fortifications because of the chaos in the rear were finally surrounded by an expeditionary force twice as large as them for 30 hours, and all collapsed.

Later, there was a small story in the 88th Armored Brigade, after an armored company suddenly drilled out of the woods at night, it actually encountered a German heavy artillery regiment that was completely unprepared and on standby, and the result was that more than 20 armored vehicles with more than 200 infantry companies swept and crushed and directly killed all the 2,000 German soldiers who were eating. Twenty-four 150-heavy howitzers were also captured. As for the truth and falsehood, no one could confirm it afterwards, because they were afraid of arousing the sadness of the Germans, so the veterans of the company all shook their heads and said nothing when they talked about this later. But regardless of whether this matter exists or not, it can be seen that Commander Yue's ability to grasp the battlefield and tactics is precisely because he perceives the threat and decisively determines that the heavy equipment has not yet fully arrived. Using the tactics of light infantry movement, which the expeditionary force is best at, and the brigade formation, quick fight and quick withdrawal, etc., caught the heavily armed German army by surprise, and finally confirmed that more than 40% of the German heavy equipment was disrupted and captured without using it at all.

Of course, at this moment, Du Zishan's mind was full of the red-hot sky more than ten kilometers ahead, which was another place of death in the siege battle, the small city of Rainyvale, which had been entrenched by the German army for two years and had a relatively complete defense.

The 70 infantry guns were unloaded and pulled away first, so as not to damage the fish pond. Then the four fire support vehicles assigned to the company quickly turned around and raised their barrels. After the scouts ran back to inform the coordinates, four 160 heavy mortars took the lead and fired heavily at the enemy at a rate of two per minute. The explosion and the orange fireball focused the attention of the Germans in front of them for a moment, and by the time they turned around, the four fire support vehicles had fired 32 shells, and the protected infantry began to shift their positions.

As soon as they withdrew, the infantry support vehicles and transports immediately fanned out and advanced, and most of the transports were filled with heavy machine guns and light machine guns, and it was estimated that the company commander used them as fire support vehicles. The rumbling sound of the engine quickly attracted the attention of the enemy. The intercepted Germans appeared a kilometer away, and the shells began to fall between the "fans", and from time to time comrades were hit by explosive shrapnel and fell to the ground, and finally were carried to the back by the medical guards.

As the distance got closer, a German 47-mm gun hit a fire support vehicle in the middle of the group, and the car rose black smoke while it was itself damaged by a 25-gun gun. After there was no artillery, the German army could only rely on 2 Maxims to save the emergency, but the Maxims were not powerful enough to penetrate the front of the T2 armored vehicle, but many people were killed by heavy machine guns and machine guns on board. After the armored car approached 50 meters, two Maxims declared a mute of fire. "Brothers, kill." Xiao Sichuan waved his hands and rushed out from behind the chariot with a big wave, as if he were a company commander. I don't know who he exchanged with for a flower machine gun, and the rabbit was involved in the German army in a few clicks. Du Zishan was afraid that he would lose, so he followed behind and rushed into the German position. Sure enough, this guy is probably overexcited! I actually forgot to pull the trigger of the machine gun once, and I could shoot up to 3 bullets each time, so when I killed a German soldier, I forgot to send my finger and buckle it again in the face of the two German soldiers who suddenly came out of the dark woods. Fortunately, both of them were startled by the sudden raised muzzle, and by the time they found that there were no bullets and were ready to shoot, Du Zishan had already rushed up and fired a deer-hunting bullet.

A sneak attack from behind under unknown circumstances at night would be fatal for any army, so the Germans were desperate! Bullets and grenades flew over as if they were deadly, and several times Du Zishan was almost hit by shrapnel. After the fright just now. Xiao Sichuan finally calmed down, and the two of them also cooperated very well with a shotgun and a submachine gun, and soon swept away this group of enemies with their comrades. But everyone didn't feel very good when cleaning up the battlefield, because in order to clear the German army that was in the way, 11 brothers died in the 1st Company.

"Kill me when I see one!" Facing the remains of his comrades-in-arms, ice slag popped out of the company commander's mouth! At this time, there was no need for Commander Yue's strict orders, and everyone was red-eyed.

The tanks continued to attack the areas where the artillery fire was most intense, and the night was getting darker. At 11 p.m. After successively killing several waves of intercepted small German troops, the 1st Company finally reached a wooded area only 6 kilometers away from Rainywell, and at the same time made its first big contribution. On the railway through the woods. Capture of a German transport train that was being repaired because the tracks had been blown up. At that time, the train was preparing to transport one large Belta gun used in the attack on Verdun and two German-made 280 mm heavy siege guns made in 1916 to avoid falling into the hands of the enemy, and the result was one company cheaper. Du Zishan and Xiao Sichuan excitedly measured the 420 mm caliber cannon with their hands, and it was definitely able to drill into one person. It's a pity that the Germans were careful to transport the shells and cannons separately, so these three guns did not play a role in the later tragic siege of the city, otherwise they would not have fought so hard.

During the break, the scouts also brought back a lot of scattered friendly troops, both from the 208th Division and the 231st Division, a total of 572 brothers, with two heavy machine guns and 2 70 infantry guns to join the 1st Company. The company commander hooked the corners of his mouth, and now there are a total of 21 vehicles, 4 70 guns, 6 80 mm mortars (heavy mortars have left in separate formations), 12 heavy machine guns and 821 infantrymen, including the brothers of 1 company. There are also veterans of the 103rd Division, and of course there are also stragglers who have just joined the stragglers. Later, I learned that this was the most faces in the 1st Company that night, and the number of people continued to be reduced since then.

The 1st Company almost became 1st regiment, but unfortunately the formation was temporary. So continue to use the 1 serial number. The strength of the surge naturally led to a big deal, so after discussion, several officers decided to rely on the cover of the armored company to attack Huanglong from the weakly defended north.

After a two-hour break, the 1st Company was on the road again, and just after 2 kilometers, it encountered the most fierce resistance, and the whole two German infantry regiments blocked the last section of the road, and the rain of bullets spilled by Maxim took 73 comrades and 3 armored vehicles were blown up. Close fire support was provided by 70 infantry guns. The company commander went crazy and personally commanded the remaining armored vehicles to rush left and right, relying on powerful fangs and heavy machine guns and machine guns, and finally opened the gap to complete the breakthrough, when Du Zishan and everyone rushed up to the German position, the German troops with a strong will to fight were quickly crushed by the continuous grenades and machine guns.

At 4 a.m. the 1st Company appeared north of Rainyvale, and the battlefield was chaotic, with shells and shouts on all sides, both infantry comrades from other divisions and stubbornly defending Germans. Du Zishan only remembered one thing, the bell tower in the firelight of Rainyvale City Square was very high and very beautiful, but then he hated this beautiful bell tower to death.

The news of the arrival of the four armored companies almost at the same time made the infantry comrades-in-arms who could not open the situation in the face of the city's perfect defense cheer, and after a simple formation, the last 70 T2 armored vehicles of the four armored companies began to attack the north of the city under the order of the commander of the 227th Division.

The shells that rushed out of the city rained down on the left and right of Duzi Mountain, and the black dirt that was stirred up almost submerged the armored car, and wave after wave of heat made people feel as if they had entered the height of summer! Du Zishan, who was hiding behind the armored car, had no other thoughts in his mind at this time, but just numbly followed the armored car to charge, shoot, lie down and charge again!

A shallow river blocked the footsteps of the armored vehicle, Du Zishan couldn't help but jump into the icy river water to wade across the river, and the machine gun fire from the city on the opposite bank made many comrades die and reached the opposite bank only a few meters away. After Du Zishan climbed ashore, he felt that his lungs were about to burn, and he turned his head to see the corpses that had been covered with a layer on the river.

Under the rain of bullets, he and Xiao Sichuan rushed to the back of the nearest house, and the bricks temporarily blocked the bullets, and the two of them looked at each other and felt very happy. But before he could breathe, a shout came from behind him: "Don't stop, occupy the house, kill those machine guns, protect the armored car across the river!" Turning his head, the mad company commander raised his gun and crossed the river as an infantryman, his clothes and pants were covered with blood in the firelight, and even his cheeks were covered with a few shallow blood marks.

Whether you are afraid or not, whether you want to fight or not, you must grit your teeth and rush up, and if you want to live, you must kill the enemy.

The Germans were clearly very skilled in urban warfare, with several heavy machine guns crossing to block the roads. Two combat sappers of the 103rd Division were swept down before they could get close to the blaster. Du Zishan took a deep breath, leaned against the wall and Xiao Sichuan and slowly touched forward, and when he arrived at the intersection, he just observed a string of bullets and flew the stones swept by the brick wall above his head, so frightened that he hurriedly squatted down and rushed to the opposite side. A machine gun was fired at him, and the road under his feet burst into small pillars of dust.

After rushing through the street, he and Xiao Sichuan quickly got into the shops along the street, preparing to bypass here and take out the most threatening machine guns, but they didn't expect a German soldier to rush out of the middle as soon as they took a step. The bright bayonet stabbed hard.

"Brother Du, be careful!" Xiao Sichuan burst out, and the machine gun in his hand swept diagonally, and while the German soldiers could not reach it to prevent it from falling, the tip of the bayonet still cut through Du Zishan's arm.

"Are you alright?"

"It's fine. You're a kid this time. ”

The two gasped and comforted each other, and then continued to feel inside, but fortunately no Germans rushed out again. Arrived at the back without any problems. The raging Maxim machine gun was just across the street at the window on the second floor, and under the window was the corpse of a comrade armed with a blaster. "Cover me." Du Zishan shouted, and after throwing out two grenades with Xiao Sichuan, he quickly ran to his comrades to pick up the blaster, and Xiao Sichuan also hurriedly aimed his submachine gun at the window and swept it. Dense sparks lit up from all around the window, and the machine guns were silent for a moment, but two rifles poked out of the window on the right, snapping and firing at Xiao Sichuan. Thanks to his cleverness, he immediately hid behind the wall after firing a shuttle of bullets, and at this moment Du Zishan had already unscrewed the lid of the blasting canister. A string pull shoved the blaster into the machine gun's downstairs window.

After a violent explosion, half of the house collapsed, and the German heavy machine gun squad that had lost cover was suddenly exposed to everyone, and the two light machine guns were fired at the collapsed place almost simultaneously, and only the clanging sound of bullets hitting steel was heard. This machine-gun point was completely destroyed. Du Zishan gasped and shook the dust against the wall, and just as he was about to probe to see if it was completely destroyed, a black shadow swooped over and crushed him to the ground, and at the same time there were a few muffled snorts from his back.

Du Zishan was so frightened that he crawled away from the black shadow and hid in the ruins, and when he raised his gun and turned around, he found that the black shadow turned out to be a mad company commander! At this moment, two bottomless blood holes had appeared on his back. No matter how stupid he was, he knew that it must be the company commander who found the other gunman, and he didn't have time to inform himself, so he used his body to help him block the bullet.

"Company commander! Captain. ”

Although he has not spoken a few words to the company commander after joining the 88th Brigade. But now he felt that something in his chest was as uncomfortable as being dug up, so he went crazy and tried to stop the bleeding with his hands, but it had no effect at all except the blood on both hands.

"Brother Du, the company commander is dead! Get out of here, I'm afraid the enemy shells will come in a moment! ”

Xiao Sichuan and several comrades-in-arms rushed over and came to comfort him when they saw him holding the body of the company commander. Du Zishan actually knew in his heart that he had to leave as soon as possible, and after losing this machine gun point, the Germans would definitely mobilize artillery to counterattack. After holding back his tears and putting down the company commander, he snatched the blaster from a comrade-in-arms next to him, wiped his face with his hand, and shouted blood-red eyes: "Why are you stunned?" Fried! It's all blown up, don't care if someone blew it up! The bloody hand brushed his cheek, making him look as hideous as a bloody man. Xiao Sichuan and other comrades-in-arms were also driven crazy by the death of the company commander, and as long as they saw houses and buildings, they would not care if they were grenades, or they would simply blow them up with a powerful blasting canister.

Under this frantic attack, the German machine guns in the north of the city gradually became scarce, and at this moment, after the efforts of the engineers to erect a temporary pontoon bridge, the armored vehicles finally crossed the river and entered the city. However, when the armored vehicles spread out on all roads, German artillery fire also came! Boom, a T2 infantry support vehicle was hit from the top by a shell in the open cabin, and the explosion was violent, and the steel plates and parts swirled and injured a dozen soldiers who followed it.

But the shells did not stop the officers and men of the expeditionary force who swarmed in from the gap in the north, and the battle officially entered the most brutal street fighting.

When the sun gradually rose, Du Zishan and Xiao Sichuan and other comrades-in-arms were suppressed behind the broken walls of the house by the high bell tower he admired last night, and the bell tower isolated in the center of the square became the biggest obstacle to everyone entering the south of the city, and four Makqin machine guns and two 57 guns continued to fire outward from the bell tower. The square is even more like a sand-yellow "carpet". But this carpet is too glaring and bloody! More than 200 comrades-in-arms who tried to snatch the bell tower died here, broken walls and stumps were everywhere, the rolled flesh wounds were blown black and purple by the cold wind at night, the intestines were dragged out dozens of meters and stuck to the surface, and the blood stained the entire square red!

"Brother Du, I have a way!" Xiao Sichuan's eyes rolled and pointed to the three-story building next door: "Isn't the 70 infantry gun able to be disassembled?" Just find one. A few brothers carry it up to the third floor, and 50 meters don't believe it! ”

"Damn, what are you doing earlier!"

"Lao Tzu had already thought of it. I just didn't say it. ”

The comrades-in-arms were full of foul language and mocked each other, but they were very satisfied with the plan. Xiao Sichuan didn't know that these guys were talking the opposite, and his chapped and white lips were cracked all the way to the root of his ears. Standing up against the wall and laughing: "Just watch, when Lao Tzu makes this skill, he will definitely be able to be a platoon commander, but he will scold you to death every day." ”

"Smack."

Du Zishan just wanted to say, "Don't talk nonsense, go find 70 guns." When everyone looked up, they found that Xiao Sichuan's gun had fallen to the ground, his entire neck was bitten by the bullet, his head was tilted against the wall, and the corners of his mouth had not even been retracted.

"your grandma, it's a hunter!"

"German hunters fuck you! Big-eyed thief. Do you have a burning stick in your hand? Find out and avenge Little Sichuan! ”

Du Zishan lay on the ground and looked at Xiao Sichuan's neck twisted at ninety degrees, and slowly slid from the wall, and the blood stains in the big pool behind him were so shocking! He didn't know what his mood was at the moment, the company commander was dead, the squad leader was dead. Now even Xiao Sichuan is dead, and the comrades-in-arms around him are all scattered on the road and regrouped.

"What are you waiting for, climb out and find the cannon! Revenge for Little Sichuan! Du Zishan cried and shouted, crawling backwards with heart-rending pain, and the soldiers also rushed out of cover with the sergeant major. After finding a 70 infantry gun, he didn't wait for the artillery to speak, so he dismantled it into parts and dragged the artillery to the third floor next door.

The 70 infantry gun was the most favorite weapon of the infantry. The weight is light, two people can push the cart away, the power is no worse than the European and American 75 guns, and all parts can be quickly disassembled and very flexible. After arriving on the third floor, everyone quickly loaded the cannon and pushed the muzzle of the cannon to the window and pointed at the bell tower. At this time, the German gunners also noticed the abnormality here, and Du Zishan could even see the panicked expression of the German soldier.

"Fire, quick."

As soon as the shell was stuffed, the gunner fired a shot! The wind at the muzzle of the cannon shook the room with smoke and dust, but Du Zishan had forgotten everything, and after seeing a fireball explode from the top of the bell tower, he jumped to his feet and shouted loudly: "Fight, fire!" Kill these kings and calves! Fight, fight, fight. By the end, his voice had completely changed tone, and tears and blood were mixed and slid down his cheeks. The artillerymen infected by him continued to fire at the bell tower, and after the two boxes of shells were fired, the upper part of the fine bell tower seemed to have never appeared, the parts and steel rails of the mechanical bell were twisted into twisted shapes, and the corpses of dozens of German soldiers hung horizontally on the outside of the wall.

The sun slowly went west, Du Zishan returned to Xiao Sichuan, picked up his gun, and stood quietly like that looking at the lip line that the corners of his comrades' mouths opened but could never be recovered.

Behind the background, thousands of comrades-in-arms rushed to the south of the city like a tide, steel armored vehicles covered with gunpowder smoke and minced meat, and hoarse shouts of killing in their throats! Strike at a brisk pace, surprise from behind, break through all the way to get here, and then storm the small city that the Germans have occupied for more than two years with twice as many allies as the enemy. The explosion was still spreading southward, and buildings were razed to the ground in the anger of their comrades. No one will take pity on it, because this is not their own country, as long as they can win, as long as they can reduce casualties, everyone would rather blow up every inch of land here!

The Germans began to retreat from the city in an attempt to break through, and their comrades quickly narrowed the encirclement. Before nightfall, a Chinese Army Flying Tiger Flag was finally planted high on the top of the city hall, as if to announce that this is the city that the Chinese men fought with blood and courage!

After nightfall, Xiao Sichuan's body was carried away by his comrades who cleaned up the battlefield, and Du Zishan also found his troops again. At its peak, there were only 67 people left in the 1st Company, which had 821 people, and the remaining comrades-in-arms who joined temporarily either died or returned to the old unit, and the actual loss was forty percent. The squad leader of the 2nd squad has become the highest officer of the 1st company, and according to the regulations, he automatically becomes the company commander. He began to gather his troops and beckoned everyone to his side, and walked to the ammunition truck that had arrived from Pulong for everyone to collect the ammunition. Du Zishan stuffed the last small piece of black bread left by the Germans into his mouth, and swallowed it hard before slowly walking towards his comrades.

After stuffing his whole body with ammunition, he turned his head and burst into tears: "Company commander! Monitor! Little Sichuan! I'm going to avenge you! ”

Half a year later, he was promoted to lieutenant and served as the commander of the 101st Guards Division, the 88th Armored Brigade, the 2nd Battalion and 1st Company of the 883rd Infantry Regiment, and returned to China with 430,000 officers and men of the expeditionary force...... (Your support on this site is my biggest motivation.) )