The Daoganling Heights in front of the breakthrough have steep slopes, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack. However, the place above the high ground was not large, and it could not put many troops, so the 32nd Brigade only put a 3rd company in Daoganling, and strengthened the firepower of the 3rd company. On the basis of the original 6 Gatling machine guns of the 3rd Company, 4 Gatling machine guns were added to the 3rd Company.

Li Qingyao, who was sitting in the anti-artillery hole, suddenly heard the sound of Japanese artillery outside stopping, and the squad leader immediately ordered: "Quick! The Japanese are attacking! Get into the ground now! ”

Li Qingyao, who was very nervous, hurriedly followed the squad leader out of the anti-artillery hole and entered the position.

Li Qingyao's squad leader shouted to the soldiers in his squad: "Listen to the company commander's order and shoot again!" When the enemy gets closer, don't forget to skim the grenade! Remember, don't forget to pull the strings when throwing grenades! ”

The grenade is a handle-type grenade developed and produced by Lin Daxin's order arsenal, a style of grenade used by the Eighth Route Army during the Anti-Japanese War in history, and it has lethality within a radius of 5 meters after exploding, and the power is not bad, so Lin Daxin put the grenade, a very practical weapon for infantry, equipped with various integrated divisions of the Dingbei Army!

After a while, Li Qingyao was lying in the trench more than half a person high, and when he saw a dense array of Japanese soldiers in the distance, Li Qingyao felt that the palm of his hand holding the rifle was already sweating!

As the Japanese army continued to approach, the artillery fire of the Dingbei Army began to bombard the Japanese infantry! The soldiers of the 8th Division of the Japanese Army continued to charge the position of the Dingbei Army despite artillery fire and regardless of casualties!

The range of the 127-mm howitzers of the Japanese heavy artillery brigade was very long, even a few hundred meters longer than the range of the 105-mm howitzers of the Dingbei Army.

The 105-mm howitzers of the Dingbei Army also began to bombard the Japanese artillery positions, and the Japanese artillery and the artillery of the Dingbei Army began a tragic artillery battle!

The charging Japanese army approached the forward position of the Dingbei Army when the artillery fire of the Dingbei Army weakened.

On the Daoganling Heights, the company commander of the 3rd Company saw the Japanese approaching, picked up a Mauser revolver and fired a shot at the Japanese "horn", shouting: "Brothers! Hit me hard! ”

Immediately, 10 Gatling machine guns on the Daoganling Heights began to shoot dead bullets at the Japanese troops.

Li Qingyao used the rifle in his hand, according to the shooting essentials taught by the instructor during the training of recruits, three points in a line, aimed at a Japanese soldier, and then Li Qingyao hooked the trigger, he felt the butt of the gun against his shoulder, and then saw that the Japanese soldier he was aiming at fell to the ground!

Li Qingyao turned his head and shouted at the squad leader with great joy: "Squad leader! I killed one! ”

The squad leader shouted as he opened fire: "Good job! Li Qingyao just fights like this! Keep your head down! The Japanese are old in the marksmanship! ”

Li Qingyao heard the squad leader's words, pulled the bolt, and aimed at another charging Japanese soldier!

After the Japanese army paid an unimaginable price, they rushed to a distance of forty or fifty meters from the Daoganling Heights, and someone on the position of the Dingbei Army shouted: "Throw grenades!" ”

Li Qingyao followed the other soldiers of the 3rd Company, took out a grenade, unscrewed the safety cover, pulled down the string, and threw it out to the Japanese army!

"Boom-boom-boom-" Hundreds of grenades were thrown into the crowd of Japanese soldiers, and a large number of Japanese soldiers who were charging in front fell down, and then hundreds of grenades were thrown into the crowd of attacking Japanese troops, and a large number of Japanese soldiers were killed by grenades.

Coupled with the non-stop firing of the Gatling machine gun, the attacking Japanese army finally couldn't bear it, and the surviving Japanese soldiers turned around and fled, Li Qingyao and the soldiers of the 3rd Company did not let go of these fleeing Japanese soldiers, continued to shoot, and killed many Japanese soldiers!

Li Qingyao was still calculating how many Japanese soldiers he could kill, and he was dragged by his squad leader to the anti-artillery hole, and the squad leader said as he walked: "The infantry has retreated!" It's time for Japan to fire at us! ”

Li Qingyao followed the squad leader into the anti-artillery hole, and sure enough, the Japanese shells fell on the Daoganling Heights!

After the commander of the 32nd Brigade, Li Kai, put down the binoculars at the headquarters, he asked the adjutant beside him: "How is the artillery of our brigade?" ”

The adjutant said with a not very good face: "Brigade commander! The artillery regiment lost 3 75-mm field guns! The 3 artillery battalions below combined lost 10 75-mm mountain guns! Even the heavy artillery regiment sent by the division to support us lost a 105-mm howitzer! Now because the Japanese army has long-range heavy howitzers, the artillery must fire a few shots before moving the position, otherwise they will be bombarded by the Japanese heavy howitzers immediately! This has made the artillery fire for infantry support a lot weaker! ”

Li Kai nodded understandingly, and ordered: "Let the reserves be ready to support at any time!" In addition, let the communication corps keep the telephone between the positions and the headquarters open! ”

On Daoganling, Li Qingyao watched the tide of Japanese troops retreat again, and there were shells falling on the position, so he quickly ran back to the anti-artillery hole belonging to his class, but this time Li Qingyao was the only one in the anti-artillery hole!

Since the beginning of this morning, the Japanese army has launched 6 attacks on the Daoganling Heights! Especially in the last two attacks, the Japanese army ignored the accidental injury, and when the infantry charged, the Japanese artillery fire did not stop, and continued to bombard the Daoganling Heights, although many Japanese troops were injured by mistake, but also brought great casualties to the 3rd Company guarding the Daoganling Heights!

Li Qingyao's squad, including the squad leader, died in these two Japanese attacks! Most of them died under the fire of the Japanese army!

As soon as Li Qingyao entered the anti-artillery hole, he heard the soldiers of the 3rd Company who had been left outside to observe the Japanese army shouting: "The Japanese army is coming up again!" Li Qingyao quickly turned around and ran out of the anti-artillery hole alone and rushed to the position, but Li Qingyao was a little worried and saw that there were no more soldiers of the 3rd company in the entire Daoganling Heights!

At this time, Li Qingyao suddenly heard a phone ringing, and there was a soldier of the 3rd Company not far from Li Qingyao, shouting at Li Qingyao: "Brother Li! The company commander's phone rang! What now? The company commanders were sacrificed! ”

Li Qingyao knew this soldier, he was in the same platoon as Li Qingyao, a soldier belonging to another squad, he was younger than himself, less than 18 years old, and now there were only two of them left in his platoon!

Li Qingyao walked along the trench to the anti-artillery hole where the company commander was originally located, and saw that the phone on the table was ringing. Li Qingyao saw how the company commander used the phone, picked up the microphone of the phone and put it to his ear, and a voice came from the earpiece: "Let your company commander answer the phone!" ”

"Our company commander has died!" Li Qingyao shouted into the phone.

Another voice came from the receiver: "Let your platoon commander answer the phone!" ”

Li Qingyao immediately shouted to the positions of the other two platoons: "Let the platoon commander answer the phone!" ”

Soon after the arrival of the platoon commander and squad leader, "The platoon commander and squad leader have all died!" ”

Li Qingyao hurriedly said into the phone: "We even sacrificed 3 platoon commanders!" 3. Even the squad leader of the so was sacrificed! ”

There was silence for a moment in the earpiece and said, "I am your brigade commander Li Kai!" Who are you? ”

As soon as Li Qingyao heard that it was the brigade commander, he immediately replied: "Hello brigade commander! I am Li Qingyao, a soldier in the 3rd Company, 1st Platoon, 2nd Squad! ”

Li Kai said: "Li Qingyao, how is the situation on the battlefield now? How many more people? ”

Li Qingyao replied: "Brigade commander, there are less than 10 people alive in our position!" The Japanese are now launching their 7th charge against our positions! ”

Li Kai shouted loudly: "Li Qingyao! I now appoint you as a company commander! You must give me this charge from the Japanese! Reinforcements are coming soon! You have to hold on! "Originally, there was a company of reinforcements to reinforce the Daoganling Heights, but the reinforcements were bombarded by 127mm howitzers on the way to support, and the casualties were exhausted, and the reinforcements were not successful!

When Li Qingyao heard that he had made himself a company commander, his head was suddenly a little cloudy, and he stumbled and said, "Brigade commander, I'm ...... I can't! ”

Li Kai said categorically: "There is nothing that can't be done!" Li Qingyao, you are the company commander now! You must hold your ground! Hold out until reinforcements arrive! After speaking, Li Kai hung up the phone.

Li Qingyao said to himself: "Why do you answer a phone call, I will become a company commander!" ”

At this time, the young soldier next to Li Qingyao shouted to Li Qingyao: "Company commander! The enemy is approaching! ”

As soon as Li Qingyao heard this, he immediately turned around and ran out of the anti-artillery hole, and the Japanese army was indeed less than 300 meters away from the position on the Daoganling Heights, and Li Qingyao immediately shouted loudly: "All the people are ready to fight!" Our reinforcements are coming! ”

After shouting, Li Qingyao led the young soldiers to run to a Gatling machine gun that was not damaged by artillery fire, fortunately, when the recruits were trained, Li Qingyao learned to use the machine gun.

Li Qingyao and the young soldiers quickly loaded the machine guns with bullets, and then Li Qingyao shouted: "Fight!" ”

Then Li Qingyao used the Gatling machine gun to start firing at the Japanese troops, and the other two Gatling machine guns on the position, which were not damaged by artillery fire, also opened fire.

Li Qingyao took the remaining 9 soldiers of the 3rd Company and continued to hold the Daoganling Heights.