With the efforts of everyone, the Japanese soldiers in the machine gun positions and batteries on the top of the mountain were quickly carried away, and began to be deployed under the command of Han Zheng and Major Liu, and the defense arranged by the Japanese was only aimed at the north, northeast and northwest directions, but Han Zheng and others had to be deployed on all sides of the mountain, and the Japanese could launch a counterattack on the top of the mountain from any direction.

It took more than an hour for Han Zheng and others to finally complete the deployment, and during this period of time, the Japanese did not move, and they also needed to study the tactics of recapturing the top of the mountain and mobilize troops.

The soldiers sat or stood or lay down in the fortifications to rest, and after arranging observation posts at various defense points, Han Zheng and Major Liu returned to the command room on the top of the mountain and sat down, Han Zheng took out a box of cigars and took out two cigars, one for Major Liu, and the other one in his mouth and lit it with a lighter.

After taking a few puffs of cigarettes, Han Zheng said: "Lao Liu, the next defense mainly depends on you, more than a dozen people on my side are not as professional as you in this regard, and they can't help!" ”

Major Liu held his cigar and said with a smile: "I understand, the above has already given me an order before I came, and the rest of the things will be handed over to us after the top of the mountain, you don't have to worry about anything, until we have full authority to seize the 203 heights!"

Han Zheng nodded and said: "That's good, we are not allowed to participate in the defense from above, as long as we lose one here, I have to go home and farm!" ”

Major Liu was a little surprised, and he said, "It seems that you are under a lot of pressure!" ”

"Who's to say it isn't!"

Around midnight, the Japanese launched a counterattack, and Japanese soldiers lifted the branches or haystacks on the hillside that protected the infantry bunkers. Holes were exposed, and Japanese soldiers crawled out of the holes. Soon these Japanese soldiers were all over the mountains and fields, densely packed.

"Little Toyo has touched it!" An observation post saw the situation and shouted for warning.

Major Liu heard the voice and rushed out of the command room and shouted, "Don't fight!" ”

The soldiers of the knife companies at the various defense points listened to the order and pulled the bolts one after another to load the bullets. They put the grenades in a place where they could get them later, and they wanted 200 troops to resist the attack of more than five times the number of troops, and this attack was still a siege, and the Japanese could attack from either side, but it was clear that the Japanese would not be stupid enough to attack the top of the hill from the front, because the artillery fire of the Chinese army could be reinforced by artillery fire when they attacked, and the Japanese attacked from the south, facing the port from the south. Halfway up the hill there was a Japanese barracks, and the barracks had a passage to the various infantry bunker defense points on the hillside.

Seeing the black shadows in the darkness quickly move towards the top of the mountain, only about fifty-six meters away from the top of the mountain, Major Liu immediately ordered: "Fire!" ”

"Bang, bang, bang??????".

"Dadada?????? Da Da Da ??????".

"Boom, boom, boom??????".

For a time, the explosions of short guns, long guns, light machine guns, heavy machine guns and grenades were incessant, and the lights flashed everywhere, and the bullets from the two sides shuttled like a meteor shower, and the explosions of the grenades exploded from time to time on the hillside with dazzling firelight, and the firelight illuminated the figures of the attacking Japanese soldiers very clearly, which provided convenience for the soldiers of the defensive sharp knife company when shooting.

Han Zheng leaned next to a shooting hole and quickly discovered the situation. He searched on the top of the mountain, found several barrels of gasoline, and asked Liang Zi and others to find a few logs, and asked them to carry the wood to the edge of the mountaintop. The wood is drenched with gasoline, and then the wood, which is drenched with gasoline, is set on fire.

"Push it down!" Han Zheng commanded.

Liang Zi found a stick and pushed the burning wood down the hillside. The log rolls down the hill and stops until the terrain is slightly flat. At first, the Japanese soldiers who were climbing to the top of the mountain were frightened, but later realized that the burning logs were not actually threatening.

Liang Zi and the others were a little surprised. He asked: "Chief, it's not ancient now, and besides, this hillside is not smooth, and there are strange rocks everywhere, and this burning log is quickly blocked by stones when it rolls down, and it has no lethal power!" ”

Han Zheng said: "Did I say that I used them to kill the enemy? Do as I say, dope a few logs here, dome them with gasoline, set them on fire, and roll them down the hill! ”

"Alright then!" Liang Zi and the others had to do so.

When several logs on fire rolled down the hillside, and each one was blocked by stones fifty or sixty meters from the top of the mountain, their effect appeared, and the burning of each log illuminated the surrounding area within a range of ten or twenty meters, and the figures of the surrounding Japanese soldiers were clearly seen by the soldiers of the sharp knife company on the top of the mountain.

"So that's the case, hahaha, Lao Han, you're too smart, now you don't have to worry about the night attack of the Japanese, hahaha, brothers, give Lao Tzu a fight to death!"

Bullets rained down on the Japanese soldiers on the hillside, and the Japanese soldiers fell to the ground one after another, and in just a few minutes, the Japanese soldiers suffered heavy losses, on the one hand, the ammunition of the soldiers of the sharp knife company was very sufficient, and the firepower was very strong, on the other hand, the Japanese soldiers did not perceive the effect of the burning wood, so that their bodies were completely exposed to the sight of the defenders on the top of the mountain, which would cause such heavy casualties.

The battle lasted for half an hour, the Japanese army could not fight, the casualties were too great, mainly because the number of machine guns in the top knife company was too large, and there were grenades, in terms of firepower, the Japanese army was almost completely incomparable with the Chinese army, the Chinese army had a light machine gun in each squad, a heavy machine gun in each platoon, a heavy machine gun platoon in each company, and a mortar platoon in addition. It is not an exaggeration to say that this kind of firepower is the first in the world in this era, even the equipment of the Germans is not so good, let alone the Japanese, the current Japanese officers do not even have standard pistols, the soldiers are all 38 rifles, a division has only 18 heavy machine guns, grenades and mortars are not seen in the Japanese army.

The Japanese army dropped about 200 corpses and withdrew into the tunnel, and Major Liu immediately asked the soldiers to rest in batches, and after reporting the battle situation to the military headquarters on the radio, he rechecked the defense situation, and then went to visit the soldiers who had died in battle and the soldiers in their hands.

After dawn, Major Liu received a telegram from the military headquarters, and he took the telegram as some officers and said: "Shangfeng ordered us to use the fort on the top of the mountain to fire at the Japanese ships in the harbor, and this task will be handed over to Liu Zijun, Liu Zijun!" ”

"Here!" A young man stood up and said yes loudly.

Major Liu looked at him and ordered: "You take your people to operate the artillery, give Lao Tzu a little accuracy, the Japanese don't have many shells left for us, strive to hit the target with every shell, understand?" ”

"Yes, sir! Mission completion guaranteed! Liu Zijun saluted and agreed.

The largest of the Japanese ships in the harbor were only a few thousand tons of ships, and they were old cruisers with weak armor and little firepower, and the others were some small tonnage ships, and several of the guns in the hilltop battery were all 280 mm caliber big guys, and even if the shells of this caliber hit the cruiser, the cruiser would be hit hard after a few hits.

Under the command of artillery captain Liu Zijun, boxes of shells were moved out of the pillbox on the top of the hill and moved to the fort, and the gun jacket was lifted, revealing several cannons of 280 mm caliber with extra-long barrels.

After twenty minutes of busyness, as soon as Qi Qi was ready, Liu Zijun and the others stood by the fort and watched the Japanese ships anchored in the harbor under the mountain waiting for Major Liu's order.

While waiting for the order, Liu Zijun asked the artillerymen to aim at the Japanese ships in the harbor, and as soon as the order arrived, he ordered several cannons to fire together for a salvo.

"Boom, boom, boom, ??????".

The artillerymen adjusted the firing of Zhuyuan according to the point of impact of the shell, and after two consecutive salvos, the shelling Zhuyuan was corrected, that is, the cannon was fired, and the third salvo had a very obvious effect, and the two old cruisers were each hit by a shell, and the shell fell on the deck and exploded, one of which destroyed one of the turrets of an old cruiser, and the other blew a large hole in the deck of another cruiser.

The Japanese soldiers on the Japanese ship that were shelled suddenly began to panic, the sailors began to put out the fire, and the others still didn't know what was going on, how could there be shells in the harbor? Here are half of the last ships of the Japanese Navy, and the other half are in Vladivostok, but they are old cruisers or gunboats that are not very combat-ready, mostly torpedo ships and minelayers.

The Japanese ships that had been shelled began to fire at the order of the commander, because the Japanese had already discovered that the shells were coming from the top of the mountain, that is, the harbor was no longer safe, and the Japanese ship commanders were ready to direct the ships to force their way out of the harbor and break through the blockade of the Chinese navy.

The shelling from the top of the hill went on for more than an hour, and half of the Japanese ships in the harbor had already been sunk, all of them were ships of small tonnage, if they could withstand the shelling of artillery of 280 mm caliber? The remaining Japanese fleet was ordered to break out of the harbor, but as soon as the Japanese ships rushed out of the harbor, several ships touched the mines deployed by the Huaguo Navy in this area, and then the Huaguo coastal defense fleet appeared and began to shell the remaining Japanese ships, and the two sides engaged in a skirmish.

In the end, only a few small gunboats remained of the Japanese naval ships, and these Japanese gunboats finally chose to surrender under the white flag.

Major Liu and others held on the top of the mountain for two days, the Japanese army launched more than a dozen attacks in these two days were repulsed, and the loss of more than 600 soldiers, the original strength of a brigade was only less than half, the Japanese defense line also appeared because of the reduction of troops and loopholes, the fourth division of the second army of the Chinese army seized the opportunity to launch an attack, first with heavy artillery to collapse all the hidden bunkers behind the barbed wire, all the Japanese soldiers hiding in it were buried alive, and then began to attack with infantry, this time the Chinese army for the first time used mortar flat firing technology, Use mortar flat firing technology to shoot the shells directly from the fortress shooting hole in the Japanese outer trench, a shell can destroy a fortress, soon, all the fortresses deployed by the Japanese army in the outer trench were destroyed, and then the Chinese army organized troops to enter the tunnel in the mountain to clear the Japanese army hiding inside, after two days of clearing, the Japanese army on the 203 heights were all cleared, on September 10, the Chinese army officially captured the 203 heights, the casualties paid were almost negligible, but the ammunition was consumed a lot. (To be continued......)