On July 10, the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938), that is, the day when the Baoshan Division recovered Shimen and Zhengding, the base camp of the Yue Army and the headquarters of the Central China and North China Front Armies quickly responded and mobilized three elite divisions to attack Shimen, in an attempt to reopen the Pinghan Railway and restore this strategic communication line between life and death.

On July 12, that is, the second day of the Baoshan Division's recovery of Shimen, the 20th Division's forward, the 78th Infantry Wing of the 39th Infantry Brigade, under the command of Wing Commander Kobayashi Hengichisa, launched an attack on the blocking position of the Reading Regiment of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, ten kilometers east of Pingding County!

In order to coordinate with the offensive of the 20th Division and to quickly open up the Pinghan Line, the Air Corps directly under the North China Front of the Chinese Army dispatched 36 sorties of fighter-bombers from the airports of Taiyuan, Datong, Baoding, and Beiping.

The fierce battle lasted until 12 o'clock at noon, and the left flank of the 386th Brigade Reading Regiment was lost!

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Ten miles away, the headquarters of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army.

Brigade Commander Chen had a blue face, and was shouting angrily into the microphone: "Crazy Wang, you listen to Lao Tzu, the Woniu Mountain Heights must be taken back, at all costs!" Even if there is only one person left in your reading group, you must win it! Aren't you a madman usually quite capable, how can this be cowardly? Go, don't come back to see me if you can't regain your position! ”

"Smack." After Brigadier Chen finished speaking, he hung up the phone heavily.

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Forward position, 386 Brigade Reading Force Regiment Headquarters.

Captain Wang, nicknamed "Madman", walked out of the war room with a black face, and immediately raised his head to the sky and roared angrily: "Zhao Dezhu! ”

Zhao Dezhu is the commander of the 1st Battalion of the Reading Force, a native of Cangzhou, Hebei, a tall cow and a big horse, and has practiced kung fu for more than ten years, and is good at making a ghost-headed knife, when Commander Wang called him, Zhao Dezhu was scolding his mother outside the regiment headquarters, on qualifications, he was the battalion commander during the Long March, in terms of strength, the 1st Battalion is the trump card of the Reading Force, why do the 2nd and 3rd Battalions have meat to eat, but the 1st Battalion doesn't even have soup to drink?

"Yes!" Hearing Commander Wang's shout, Zhao Dezhu hurriedly rushed into the regiment headquarters and answered loudly.

Head Wang glared at Zhao Dezhu coldly, and scolded: "You kid, scolding your mother behind your back again?" ”

"How dare I?" Zhao Dezhu suddenly shouted and said bitterly, "Commander, I just sent a few words of scratching." ”

"Okay, don't fucking scold your mother." Commander Wang said, "The 3rd battalion is not fighting well, Woniu Mountain is lost, you will take the 1st battalion to take the position back now, the brigade commander told me, the position of Woniu Mountain must be recaptured, at all costs, even if your 1st battalion fights to the left, you Zhao Dezhu is left alone, you must also take it!" ”

"Yes!" Zhao Dezhu suddenly straightened up and repeated loudly, "At all costs, the position of Woniu Mountain must be recaptured, even if the whole battalion fights and I Zhao Dezhu is left alone, I must take it!" ”

"Go ahead." Captain Wang waved his hand and said with satisfaction, "Lao Tzu is waiting for your good news at the regiment headquarters." ”

Zhao Dezhu turned around suddenly, walked out of the regiment headquarters, and immediately opened his throat and roared: "1st battalion, urgently assemble ......"

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Pingding County, the headquarters of the 78th Infantry Wing of the Army.

Kobayashi Tsunichi was calling Major General Yoshito Takagi, commander of the 39th Infantry Brigade: "General, the Woniushan Heights on the right flank have been occupied by our 78th Wing, and in half an hour at most, the Xifengtai Heights on the left flank will also be captured by us, and the blocking position of the Chinese Army will soon collapse completely!" ”

"Yo Si." Yoshito Takagi nodded happily on the other end of the phone and said, "Kobayashi-kun, I hope you will not live up to His Majesty the Emperor's respect for you, and I hope that the 78th Infantry Wing can show the supreme military might of the Imperial Army, quickly annihilate the enemy in front of you with a devastating momentum, and clear the obstacles on the way forward for the main force of the brigade!" ”

"Hello." Kobayashi Hengyi suddenly bowed his head and said, "Humble duty will never be dishonored." ”

However, Kobayashi Hengichi had just hung up the phone, and the deputy captain Kamei Saburo walked in with a blushing face, and said angrily: "Your Excellency Dazuo, the Woniu Mountain Heights have just been lost again. ”

"Yaga." Kobayashi Hengichi was furious, and slapped Kamei Saburo in the face.

"Hello." Kamei Saburo suddenly retracted his feet and stood upright, and bowed his head heavily, but he never dared to complain after being beaten.

Kobayashi Hengichi grabbed Kamei Saburo's shirt again, and roared in a cruel voice: "Yours, lead the 1st Infantry Brigade to immediately recapture the heights of Woniu Mountain, if you can't complete the task, then you are ready to apologize to His Majesty the Emperor!" ”

"Hello." Kamei Saburo bowed his head heavily, and then suddenly turned around and walked away with the adjutant sword.

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Woniu Mountain, the main peak position.

The army had launched six attacks, but they were all pushed back by the 1st Battalion.

Before the start of the seventh attack, the army carried out another artillery bombardment, as usual.

As soon as the shelling ended, Zhao Dezhu struggled to get up in the trench, shook his head vigorously, and threw out the dirt on his eyelids, nostrils, and between his hair.

"The little devil is here!" Zhao Dezhu immediately raised the face purification box and shouted, "Prepare to fight!" ”

The originally dead and silent position came to life again, and hundreds of soldiers struggled to crawl out of the scorched earth, nervously but orderly took out the last few remaining rounds from the bullet pouch, calmly pressed into the chamber, and then put the rifle to the front of the trench, the muzzle of the black hole was already aimed at the devil soldier who was climbing up.

Suddenly, Zhao Dezhu slammed the trigger of the clean face box in his hand.

Fifty meters away, a canopy of blood mist suddenly bloomed on the head of a second lieutenant of the Japanese army, and he immediately fell on his back.

The next moment, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army on the hilltop position opened fire one after another, and the only two machine guns also violently spat out fire at the Yue Army, and the Yue Army, which was attacking upwards, suddenly fell to the ground one after another, each looking for cover and shooting at the Eighth Route Army on the mountain.

However, less than ten minutes later, the Eighth Route Army ran out of bullets.

The only two machine guns were the first to mute fire, and the machine gunner Zhao Chengzhu roared angrily: "Battalion commander, there are no bullets!" ”

"Out of bullets?" Zhao Dezhu pulled the trigger fiercely, but the clean face box in his hand only made a soft click, and no bullets shot out of the chamber, and those who dared to love him ran out of bullets, and then reached out to touch the grenade on his waist, and roared angrily, "Grenade, use the grenade to greet these dogs!" ”

"Battalion commander, the grenades are long gone!" The deputy battalion commander yelled, "None of them are gone!" ”

"Fuck it!" Zhao Dezhu took off the broken military hat on his head, and then unloaded the ghost-headed broadsword from his back with his backhand, and roared angrily, "Brothers, get on the bayonet!" ”

A crisp sound of bayonets suddenly sounded on the position.

Zhao Dezhu turned his head and yelled at the trumpeter Wang Yufang: "Xiao Wang, blow the trumpet!" ”

Wang Yufang is only sixteen years old this year, she looks like a girl, but she is an out-and-out old man, who rose up from the trenches at the moment, raised her military horn, puffed up her cheeks and blew hard, and in an instant, the crisp, loud and penetrating sound of the charge resounded throughout the main peak of Woniu Mountain!

"Kill!" Zhao Dezhu brandished the ghost-headed knife and jumped out of the trench first.

"Kill, kill, kill!" The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, who had survived the battle, roared angrily and poured out of the trench with bayonets.

The devil soldiers who were lying on the ground and raising their guns to shoot suddenly howled like beasts, and immediately got up one after another, and clicked out of the bullets in the chamber, and then faced the Eighth Route Army with bayonets.

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At the foot of Lying Niu Mountain, Saburo Kamei is observing the battle situation on the mountainside through the artillery mirror.

Seeing that the 4th squadron that attacked the mountainside actually fell into a disadvantage in the white-knuckle battle, Kamei Saburo couldn't believe his eyes, the brave and good fighter Emperor Army actually lost to Tsuchibachi in the white-knuckle stab? It's intolerable! At that moment, Kamei Saburo turned his head and roared angrily at the flag soldier beside him: "Send a signal to the artillery brigade immediately and start shelling!" ”

The flag soldier said awe-inspiringly: "Sir, the 4th squadron is fighting against the white blades of the earth eight roads on the mountain!" ”

"Yaga!" Kamei Saburo slapped the flag soldier hard and roared again, "Go!" ”

"Hello." The flag soldier bowed his head suddenly, and immediately hurried up to the nearby high ground to raise the flag to the artillery brigade.

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Lying cow mountainside.

Zhao Dezhu slashed the devil captain in front of him to the ground with a knife, and when he looked around, there was no longer a standing devil soldier on the mountainside, but there were only a dozen soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who could stand! At this moment, Zhao Dezhu's heart was dripping blood, these soldiers were all veterans from the snow-capped mountains and meadows!

Suddenly, the screech of cannonballs sounded overhead.

"Quick!" Zhao Dezhu hurriedly shouted, "Hurry up and retreat to the trenches!" ”

As soon as the words fell, a cannonball landed next to Zhao Dezhu and exploded suddenly, Zhao Dezhu's strong body suddenly flew up like a piece of paper, and when it landed again, it was no longer complete.

Half an hour later, the bombardment ended.

At the end of the shelling, the commander Wang Yufang struggled to get up from the thick layer of soil.

At this time, the slanting sun had fallen in the west, and the sunset was as beautiful as blood, Wang Yufang found that the position was quiet, as if he was the only one left in the whole world! When I turned my head to look down the mountain, I saw that hundreds of devil soldiers had climbed up the mountainside, and the bright bayonets were like blood stained under the sunset.

"Anyone?" Wang Yufang's voice already had an obvious crying tone, "Is there anyone alive?" ”

The empty mountain was silent, no one responded, only the ghost soldiers on the mountainside were still cautiously climbing up.

"Are there any alive?" Wang Yufang shouted bitterly, ran from east to west, but no one responded, but found a grenade that had been unscrewed under a veteran who had been killed, and soon, hundreds of devil soldiers rushed to the top of the mountain, more than a dozen devil soldiers smiled fiercely, held bayonets, and fanned back to Wang Yufang.

Wang Yufang retreated step by step, and soon retreated to the dead corner of the trench, there was no way to retreat, but the little soldier plucked up the courage, pulled the grenade behind his back with his left hand, and raised the military horn with his right hand.

(To be continued)