On April 18, the fighting in the area of the Woniu River entered the fifth day, becoming more and more fierce, the position was lost and lost, lost and regained, and changed hands several times in a day, each time it changed hands, accompanied by earth-shaking artillery bombardment and dark fighting, the position was full of corpses, and blood stained the high ground red. Due to the narrow territory of the battlefield, only two battalions of troops can be deployed at most, and the two sides can only adopt the tactic of increasing troops one by one, with one battalion and one company, and even one platoon and one squad going into battle. On this day, the biggest gain of the Japanese attacking troops was to know that the Anti-Japanese Union had dug tunnels in the position. This is when the rear just participated in the Anti-Japanese Federation and was sent to the front line of a line of fire transporters to deliver ammunition, because of the continuous artillery bombardment, the terrain and topography have completely changed, he was captured by the Japanese army when he was looking for the mouth of the tunnel on the position, he casually said during the interrogation that we have dug a tunnel, you will hide in it, and come out after the artillery. Maybe he thinks this is not a secret, but it solves the problem that the Japanese puppet army has been baffling for the past few days: how can anyone survive under such heavy artillery fire? Lieutenant General Yamashita Fengwu of the Japanese Army attached great importance to this, and specially sent Kobayashi Asaburo, chief of intelligence staff of the 10th Division, to personally lead capable reconnaissance personnel to verify it.

On the 19th, the two infantry squadrons of the 103rd Wing of the Japanese Army and the 3rd Regiment of the 13th Brigade led by Zhang Wenzhu, commander of the 3rd Military District, relied on the positions they had occupied to carry out a strong expansion. The 103rd Wing of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army fought against the regular army of the Chinese people in the Guannai of China, and established numerous meritorious achievements; The mixed 13th Brigade of the Jing'an Army is also the elite unit of the Jing'an Army, and has long been a mobile force in the Third Military District, and has participated in many crusades with the Japanese army. It was quite appreciated by Yamashita Fengwu. Under the all-out attack of these two strong brigades, the garrison of the third division resisted desperately. In the end, due to heavy casualties, there was no backup. Forced to retreat into the tunnel and persist in the battle. For the first time, all the surface positions in the area of Waist Tun Township have been lost since the war!

After six days and nights of bloody fighting, the three divisions had invested nearly 20 companies, and these troops suffered heavy casualties after fierce fighting, with the largest remaining only 30 men and the least less than 10 men. When Guo Bingxun, commander of the Third Division, learned that the commander-in-chief was going to act tonight, he discussed with Zhang Lingfeng, the political commissar of the division who had returned from the Shengshan Fortress, and decided to devote all his efforts on the evening of the 19th. Twenty companies that have not been willing to use are all thrown in, and strive to regain the position in one fell swoop. In order to avoid being killed or wounded by enemy artillery fire during the daytime movement, the 20 companies participating in the counterattack, except for the five companies that were in reserve, the remaining 15 companies moved to the vicinity of Yuantun Township overnight on the night of the 18th, and Guo Bingxun, commander of the 3rd Division, specially told Shen Taishan, commander of the 17th Regiment, that the 17th Regiment participating in the counterattack was only responsible for the counterattack and was not responsible for the garrison, because the 17th Regiment was the trump card of the Third Division, and Guo Bingxun would not use it until the critical moment, and he did not want the 17th Regiment to be exhausted in the defense. -- The predecessor of the regiment was an old unit pulled up by Meng Qingshan from the elm tree. They were the anti-coalition fighters of the 2nd Regiment and 3rd Battalion of the former Independent Division, all of whom had been tested by the war and were known for their invincibility, and they were captured in battle in the early days. When the other regiments were still holding Liao 13, old sleeves, and red tassel guns, their whole regiment had 38 big covers and 19 crooked machine guns. Five small steel cannons, this equipment is second to none among all the previous anti-coalition forces.

On the evening of the 18th. More than 1,500 people of the 17th Regiment moved to the tunnel in Yuantun Township under the leadership of the regiment commander Shen Taishan and political commissar Fan Delin. A mountain col more than 1,500 meters wide on the north side of the highland where the upper waist Tun Daoban must pass is a blockade area for Japanese artillery fire, a road to death paved with artillery fire. The most typical is that on the evening of the 16th, 180 members of the ambulance team of the headquarters rushed to the front on stretchers to treat the wounded through this blockade area, and the casualties reached 60, accounting for 33 percent. However, the 17th Regiment was an extraordinary elite division, and before passing through, it first found out the terrain, landforms, roads, and firing patterns of Japanese artillery and flares in this area, and then sent a company of sharp knives to blow up the seven Japanese positions that threatened the passage of the troops. When they arrived near the tunnel, the communicators of the 7th Company who led the way could not find the mouth of the tunnel because the position was completely deformed due to artillery fire. In the search around, the company commander Li Laogen inadvertently fell down the tunnel, and then found the mouth of the tunnel, the eighth squad leader Cui Yong volunteered to act as a guide, and brought the troops into the tunnel, he crawled back and forth on the position full of shrapnel and gravel more than 20 times, and brought the whole company into the tunnel, his military uniform was worn into a ragged, chest, abdomen, legs and arms were all bloody and blurred, after the war, he was awarded the glorious title of "Iron Soldier", while the Japanese army did not find that the officers and soldiers of the whole company except for the vigilant personnel held the logistics department to transport 1 ordnance shovel to repair the tunnel, The tunnel was repaired to allow the whole regiment to pass, and then the fortifications were urgently built in preparation for battle. -- By about 4 o'clock in the morning of the 19th, the 17th Regiment had entered the tunnel with only five casualties and was almost full, laying the foundation for victory.

After many days of fierce fighting, the Japanese army barely aroused Yu Yong, and Yamashita Fengwu had to send Japanese tanks, which swarmed up and braved artillery fire to attack the front of the position, suppressed the infantry in the Henan Tun position with machine gun fire, and led two squadrons of Japanese troops to rush into the trench controlled by the 2nd Battalion of the 27th Regiment of the 4th Division of the Anti-Japanese Alliance. There were thousands of men in the two combined forces, and they were emboldened and ready to charge again.

However, they never expected that the anti-United Nations troops, who had always been despised by them, actually had anti-tank weapons that directly cut off their offensive plans, and the precise coverage of the anti-United Nations rocket launchers made the tank soldiers unable to parry, and the Japanese army's Type 97 tank belonged to a light tank, a tin box that was stained and broken when rubbed, and his advantage was that he was interspersed with maneuver and galloped across the plains, and now it was a disaster for him to stop in front of the formation and block the door in place. The successive fires and explosions, coupled with the close firing of almost a dozen rocket launchers from the Anti-Japanese Union, really made Kawasaki Shiro Nakasa, the 10th Division of the Japanese Army, who was supervising the battle in the rear, very distressed, and had to issue an order to retreat on all fronts. The surviving tanks covered the two squadrons of the Japanese attack, and the infantry who had attacked the position retreated out of artillery range. The second wave of the offensive became a complete battlefield rescue operation.

The 4th Battalion of the 27th Regiment, who rushed over to support, was determined to watch the enemy run, feeling that the results of the battle were not enough to make up for his mistakes, so he kept correcting the parameters, chased after others, and lit two fireworks before stopping. A thrilling offensive and defensive battle ended with the successful holding of the position by the Anti-Japanese Union. It can be said that both the morale and courage of the Anti-Japanese Federation have confirmed to the Japanese army that the Anti-Japanese Federation is no longer an era of running all over the mountain chased by you, but it is also the key force for the spirit of the Anti-Japanese Federation to win this war.

The commander of the second battalion experienced great joy and sorrow with the ups and downs of the battle, and watched the various units on the position begin to clean up the battlefield, treat the wounded, and strengthen the fortifications before he walked out of the hidden department with joy, and came to Shan Lizhi, who led the team to support, to pay tribute to them, and to express his gratitude for their timely arrival, if the third battalion did not come again, the second battalion would be exhausted in half an hour.

At the temporary headquarters of the Japanese army in Sunwu County, Yamashita Fengwu's face was gloomy and asked: "Baga, Baga Yalu, you tell me that this is the first few days, what about your original promise!" It's been almost a week, you can't even take a small Woniu River, and several squadrons have been disabled by the Zhina people, have you all been eating all these years? Now the red flag of the people of China is still on that mountain, and the flag of the empire is still under the mountain, why, you tell me why. ”

"Your Excellency Commander, this group of people is too tenacious, we just captured the position in the morning, and we were recaptured by the people of China at night, and during the day we sent artillery bombardment, and the people of China hid in the tunnel, we have no way to do it, at the moment according to the analysis of our intelligence department, the people of China are now almost out of soldiers, although they are still desperately resisting, but their follow-up supply has become a problem, I think another week can eliminate them."

"Yaga! It will take a week for our dignified Imperial Japanese army to wipe out the small anti-Manchu forces, and if His Majesty the Emperor knows that we must not be laughed at for our incompetence, and now that the supply of the troops has been cut off, you should hurry up and send a telegram to Chief of Staff Sugimoto asking him to send a convoy quickly, otherwise the enemy will not be defeated, and we will collapse ourselves. ”

"Hey!"

"Your Excellency Yamashita Fengwu, although the resistance alliance in front of us is very tenacious, but through observation and analysis these days, we have found their weaknesses, as long as we attack their weaknesses, the resistance alliance that is blocked in front will not be self-defeating." Zhang Wenzhu, commander of the Third Military District, said.

"Oh? Wen Zhujun: Do you have any opinions? Yamashita asked.

Zhang Wenzhu walked to a detailed map of Sunwu County and pointed to Shengshan Fortress with his hand and said: "Your Excellency Commander, ladies and gentlemen, after many days of fighting, according to the reconnaissance of the Air Force, it was found that Shengshan Fortress is the logistics supply center of the Anti-United Nations, and the reason why the troops on the front line of the Anti-Japanese Union have not lost confidence in the face of our powerful military is that it is here that all the weapons, ammunition, food, and recruits needed by the troops on the front line of the Anti-United Nations are transported from here, and we only need to send planes to bomb here. If we take away their logistical supplies, they will never have the confidence to fight us again.

"Wen Zhujun, your method is very good, but we have also sent planes to go before, but there is no return, from the analysis of the intelligence department, the people of China have at least deployed nearly 100 anti-aircraft machine guns in that fortress, and our plane can only be meat buns and dogs." Yamashita Fengwu said with a sigh.

"Do you know, Your Excellency the Commander, that there is an old saying in our China, that the thief first captures the king, and now all the forces of the Anti-United Nations have been taken to the area of the Woniu River, and their rear must be empty, as long as we send a small force to attack the rear of the Anti-United Nations, then they will definitely be in turmoil, and then we can go down in one battle to break the line of the Anti-United Nations on the Woniu River." (To be continued.) )