This attack was no longer the first tentative attack, but an all-out attack, and a large number of Japanese troops appeared on the left, center, and right flanks at the same time.

In this attack, the Japanese army concentrated 10,000 infantry, 80 tanks, hundreds of artillery pieces and more than 40 aircraft, only to see the dense planes continue to pour bombs on the defenders' positions, and the Japanese artillery and the artillery regiment of the Jin Sui Army started an artillery battle, the infantry continued to charge under the cover of tanks, the 14th Army and the Ninth Army continued to resist the Japanese attack with machine guns and grenades, in the face of the Japanese tanks, and then the anti-aircraft guns were wiped out by the Japanese artillery and aircraft. The defenders fought with the steel tanks with their bodies with cluster grenades and explosives, but often a squad of death squads rushed up, but they couldn't even touch the Japanese tanks. In just one day, several positions such as Nanhuaihua and Dabaishui Village were lost one after another.

At night, the battlefield after a day of fierce fighting gradually quieted down, and several commanders also took this opportunity to get together and hold a combat meeting.

Li Mo'an's left flank was the worst place to be beaten today, and he sighed, "The devil's planes are so annoying, as soon as our firepower is exposed, they will come to, and dozens of my machine guns have been knocked out." If we continue like this, we will not be able to hold on. ”

Hao Mengling in the middle of the road also said, "Yes, Commander Wei, we can boil the artillery, and we can blow up the tank with our lives, but the brothers of this plane really can't stand it, you must know that the soldiers below have never even seen a car, and the first time I saw the plane, there were many people who saw the plane, and when the war just started, I saw the plane, and a few dirt buns knelt there to ask God to bless, you say, what is the matter." ”

Wei Lihuang nodded to the table and said, "Don't say it again, what can I do about the devil's plane, our plane is only twenty or thirty." Not even half of the devils, we can only give priority to protecting the safety of artillery positions, if there is no artillery support, do we still need to fight this battle? Don't talk about the difficulties again, let's talk about how to fight the battle ahead. ”

Fu Zuoyi, who had not spoken, said: "After today's battle, I feel that although the strength of the devil is strong. However, it is also limited, not only is the strength not as large as ours, but the firepower is also inferior in some aspects. I think we can fight a counter-attack. ”

Several other people looked at him in surprise, after all, since the start of the war, except for the ambush of the Eighth Route Army, there has never been an active attack, and the Eighth Route Army is also an ambush, not a real positional war.

I only saw Fu Zuoyi and continued: "Generals, please look, the Nanhuaihua position is completely covered by our artillery fire. Our army can attack Dabaishui Village by the 10th and 83rd Divisions, and the 9th and 17th armies can flank Nanhuaihua Village on both sides. ”

It's a big deal, the result of destroying a wing has never appeared until now, and I heard that several other generals were enthusiastic. Hao Mengling was the first to say, "Okay, just fight like this, I will personally lead the team to attack Nanhuaihua." ”

Wei Lihuang also nodded and said, "You can indeed give it a try." Soldiers are fast, we will act tonight. ”

Night. The Japanese positions were being repaired, and yesterday's fierce fighting was something they had never encountered before, and where they could not see, tens of thousands of Nationalist troops were crawling towards them.

A large group of Japanese troops was stationed in Dabaishui Village, and after a day of fighting, only more than 600 people remained at this time. The captain Jiro Matsusaka patrolled the position with a few guards, looking at the starry sky, Jiro Matsusaka always wanted to say some poems to cater to his mood, but he finally gave up after holding it for a long time, after all, he was just a farmer's son. It's no surprise that you can't write poetry. Jiro Matsusaka, who comforted himself, beckoned and led people to continue walking, and when he turned back, hundreds of pairs of bright eyes opened suddenly, the officer at the head waved his hand, and the people behind him gritted their teeth and continued to crawl forward.

Matsusaka Jiro felt that something was wrong, and turned his head suddenly, but only saw the dark field, Matsusaka Jiro rolled his eyes and said, "You guys, go over and have a look." ”

Although I didn't understand, but I saw three Japanese soldiers walking towards me with a 38 big cover, and I knew that I couldn't hide it, and the regiment leader shouted "Fight" only to see dozens of grenades that had been prepared and flew towards the stunned Matsusaka Jiro together, Matsusaka Jiro was stunned and watched the grenade rain, fortunately fainted first, and then a series of explosions, Matsusaka Jiro and a dozen guards plus a squadron leader who accompanied him didn't even leave his last words and was sent back to his hometown by the 10th Division.

When the other Japanese soldiers heard the explosion, they woke up violently and asked each other in a panic what was going on, only to see countless enemies with black faces, or with broadswords or bayonets, pounce on them.

The deputy captain who remained at the headquarters was frightened by the surging offensive and hurriedly called the Nanhuaihua position next to him, after all, there was a wing of troops stationed there, and it was finally connected, but only countless explosions were heard. The deputy captain hurriedly looked at the Nanhuaihua position, only to see countless fire regiments appearing on the position, yes, there is no need to ask for help, they ask for more blessings.

Itagaki Seishiro can never forget this night for the rest of his life, the continuous night raid siren, the command of the rescue was instead a small ambush by the Ninth Army, which was familiar with the terrain and had long been prepared, and finally when the sky was bright, I don't know if the land of China is really blessed by the gods, and the two Chinese fighters flying in the wrong direction actually found their station, looking at the high antenna, the two planes naturally knew that this was a big fish. As the pride of the empire, Itagaki was chased by the bombs dropped by the two Chinese planes, but fortunately, the planes of this era did not carry many bombs, or Itagaki Seishiro Hachishi would have become the first division commander to die in battle.

The fire at the headquarters that was finally extinguished, and looking at the battle situation, Dabaishui Village had been reoccupied by the Chinese army, and a wing of Nanhuaihua was completely surrounded. It is being bombarded indiscriminately by more than 200 artillery pieces.

Itagaki Seishiro gasped, he didn't dare to slack off, even if Dabaishui Village was over, then Nanhuaihua had a wing flag, and if it was captured, he should commit suicide. Hurriedly ordered the troops to attack desperately.

Hao Mengling looked at the crazy Japanese army, and said to Li Xianzhou next to him with a smile, "Master Li, it seems that we have indeed controlled the veins of the devil." ”

Li Xianzhou looked at the army on the other side who were struggling to attack and said, "Usually, the Japanese army is attacking, but I didn't expect the devil's defensive ability to be above their offensive ability." ”

Hao Mengling nodded and said, "Then I will block the attack of the Japanese army, and the task of destroying the Japanese army will be handed over to Division Commander Li." ”

At this time, Li Xianzhou saw a cannonball suddenly fall next to the two. With red smoke, Li Xianzhou hurriedly pulled Hao Mengling and ran, and after a while, dozens of shells blew up the place where the two of them had just stayed.

Hao Mengling looked at it and said with palpitations: "Thank you, Master Li, for saving your life." Li Xianzhou smiled and said, "Where, it should be." With that, the two separated and commanded the battle, and the Japanese attack was sharp. The defense is even better, several charges were blocked by the Japanese army's 92 heavy machine gun and grenadiers, the angry Li Xianzhou took the submachine gun on the front line, saw the division commander desperate, where did the soldiers below dare to spare their lives, and hurriedly followed the charge. Seeing that the soldiers in front of him were knocked down one by one, even the men and coolies behind were infected and rushed forward to pick up the guns of the fallen soldiers and rush up the mountain. However, such an impact was really not a big threat to the Japanese army, and it was not completely defeated for half a day.

Seeing that he couldn't attack for a while, Wei Lihuang concentrated his artillery fire on Nanhuaihua and began to shell it. Let the army advance under the cover of artillery fire. But at this time, the artillery of the Jin Sui Army could not fully coordinate the infantry and artillery, and only saw many officers and men of the 17th Army who rushed too fast to die under their own artillery, but even so, the soldiers did not flinch at all, because their division commanders accompanied them to stand on the front line. Every soldier who wanted to retreat was scolded by the commander next to him: "The division seat is in front, is your life worth more than his?" The retreating soldier looked at it, stomped his feet, and shouted, "Dead birds to the sky." immortality", rushed forward with his eyes closed.

After a day of bloody fighting, the Japanese had not yet broken through the defensive positions of the Ninth Army. However, the Nanhuaihua position has been broken by the 17th Army.

Because the defense of the Japanese army was too strong, Hao Mengling and Li Xianzhou came to the offensive position to discuss countermeasures, and when they were watching the battle, suddenly Li Xianzhou suddenly felt a pause in his chest, and felt nothing when he touched it, so he continued to observe the battle. Hao Mengling, who was following behind, saw Li Xianzhou's back slowly turning red, and said in fright, "Senior Commander Li, you have been shot!" ”

Li Xianzhou felt a little at this time, touched his chest, and found that there was really a hole. But it didn't seem to be very serious, so he smiled and said, "It's nothing, just touched something, it should be a flesh wound." ”

Hao Mengling hurriedly said, "Still saying nothing?" Bullets are coming through. Hurriedly put Li Xianzhou down with a few guards, and then gave him Yunnan Baiyao, and then urgently dragged him to the rear hospital, but took off his clothes and looked, the bullet passed straight through, Li Xianzhou had lost too much blood, Li Xianzhou had already felt dizzy at this time, and hurriedly found the subordinate regiment commander and said, "The command is taken over by the deputy division commander, and the brigade commander is taken over after the death of the deputy division commander, our 17th Army escaped once in Pingxingguan, that time we had friendly troops not to help as an excuse, but now Commander Hao is really anti-Japanese, You must not disgrace our 17th Army. After saying that, he fainted, I have to say that the penetrating injury of Sanba Dagai at this time helped a lot, and after being transported to the back hospital, Li Xianzhou had nothing to do after penicillin and blood transfusion.

The Japanese army on the other side was not so good, the Mauser gun was powerful, because the Chinese army's marksmanship was generally inaccurate, it was no longer the pursuit of killing an enemy a few hundred meters, so it simply put it close to the fight, and then grinded it twice on the bullet with a stone, this is good, a bullet does not hit, once hit, a small hole in the front, and a fist-sized hole in the back due to the rolling of the bullet, there is no way to save it, so that the Chinese side on the battlefield is more injured and less dead, and the Japanese side is more dead and less injured.

Later, the Japanese army, who learned about this incident, asked this incident to be irrefutable evidence of the weak lethality of the 38 Dagai.

In order to match the frontal battlefield. At this time, Pingxingguan and Yanmen Pass were also killed, the 115th Division and the 120th Division ambushed and raided on the two logistics lines at the same time, especially the 115th Division, due to the capture of a large number of machine guns and artillery in the first two ambush battles, this time simply surrounded and attacked the logistics troops stationed at rest, and the Japanese commander of the logistics unit even had the mind to cry, and it was clearly said that only in dangerous areas such as canyons would it be attacked by the cunning Zhina Army, why is it still attacking now, Lin Sanhu took the binoculars and looked at the Japanese logistics team that was in a sea of fire by his own artillery team, and said with a smile: "It seems that there is another machine gun company again." ”

And He Long of Yanmen Pass held a pipe and looked at a convoy marching in the twilight in the drizzle. Said "Attack! ”

In an instant, the gunfire at this Yanmen Pass was loud, grenades fell like raindrops, and the moving trucks were staggered, and the Japanese troops could not see the fire points on the mountain at all in the rain, and the usual accurate shooting was greatly reduced at this time. He Long did not stop doing anything, divided his troops to send reinforcements, and in a day and a night of fighting, more than 30 trucks were destroyed, and more than 600 Japanese puppet troops were killed.

Itagaki Seishiro saw that the elusive Eighth Route Army had begun to attack his logistics line again, so he had to order the troops to concentrate more than two brigades of troops for each transport, and to reconnoiter all the way with firepower and aircraft escort.

Lin Sanhu and He Long saw that the transport team had turned into hedgehogs, and without saying a word, they turned their guns and began to destroy railways and highways. Your Japanese army can heavily protect your transport team, you can't surround the entire railway and highway, the Ninth Brigade that rushed to reinforce was faced with such a tragic situation, stopping and repairing all the way, because the troops were all on trucks in order to quickly reinforce, looking at the potholed roads. The truck is not as fast as walking, if you can see it from above. The 115th and 120th divisions dug pits everywhere around the two roads, and used message trees to transmit news to each other, and the Japanese transport troops kept filling the pits in the middle.

Kunizaki Noboru built the road for three days, and finally angrily took his ancestral katana and slashed at the tree next to him. Before the cut was finished, a burst of gunfire came, and a Japanese soldier who was building the road fell down with his chest clutched, and the Japanese soldier nervously took the machine gun and shot at the place where the gunfire came from, but where did it hit. It turned out that after digging the road for a day, Lin Sanhu suddenly thought of the sparrow war mentioned in the book sent down by Kang Da, and simply sent dozens of people with the best marksmanship in the troops, wearing camouflage uniforms and bringing enough ammunition and dry food, to fight a sparrow war, not seeking to kill the enemy, but only to delay the reinforcements of the Japanese army.

Kunisaki Noboru was completely made to collapse, do you want to ignore such a small casualty and advance quickly, the road is not passable, do you want to build the road, from time to time he is shot coldly, so that everyone in the engineering unit is in danger, and people go around to defend and protect the engineers, and every time they take it back, they will find that there are a few missing. Go and find the corpse again, and the corpse is 100% deceitful. Kunisaki had no choice but to let the cavalry patrol in front of him, wanting to use the mobility of the cavalry to ensure that no one would dig the road ahead, but the cavalry's target was even greater, and several people were hit by sharpshooters each time. The Eighth Route Army was not found, and the cavalry died almost a hundred times. In the end, Noboru Kunisaki simply ignored the main force and carried ammunition on pack horses and marched on foot in order to make the truck lighter, and everyone had to carry a sack of dirt on their backs, and when they reached the dug place, they threw it down to fill the road. Take it out when you're done. Indeed, the brigade of more than 10,000 people, whether it is Lin Sanhu or He Long, dare not touch, but the engineer troops who stayed to repair the road, hehe, the two of them combined, on a night with a high wind and a high moon, they completely ate the road repair troops who had been scared like a girl, looking at the engineer brigade besieged by tens of thousands of troops, Lin Sanhu ate soybeans, He Long smoked a pipe, but he was quite proud.

Later, Seishiro Itagaki who knew the situation angrily slapped Noboru Kunizaki seven or eight times, and scolded repeatedly, "Eight ga, eight ga." In the end, he reluctantly ordered the troops to be divided into four teams, two teams to the front to repair the road, one team to protect the truck in the middle, and one team to guard the rear road, so that the 115th and 120th divisions did not have a chance to attack again. But the speed of logistics supply has slowed down more than a little, especially since the artillery units can no longer pour fire on the defenders' positions at will.

Just when Itagaki Seishiro and Wei Lihuang were fighting to the death in Xinkou, Xu Xiangqian, the deputy commander of the 129th Division, was advancing to the rear of Itagaki Seishiro with the 385th Brigade.

Zhao Chongde, the commander of the third battalion of the 385 Brigade 769 Regiment, was resting outside a village with his troops at this time, and the people in the village looked at the Eighth Route Army dressed up by the National Army, and thought it was the Jin Sui Army or the Central Army.

Zhao Chongde took the guards to search the entire village but did not find anyone, let alone food, Zhao Chongde couldn't help but make a difficulty, although everyone brought field military rations such as compressed biscuits, but everyone knew the preciousness of this thing, now it is not in Yan'an, the supply is very inconvenient, in the words of several chiefs, unless it is a last resort, or if you are dying of hunger, you must not eat field rations.

At this time, one of the guards suddenly limped his feet, found a cellar, and hurriedly shouted, "Battalion commander, there is something here." ”

Zhao Chongde walked over and opened the cellar and found that it was full of sweet potatoes and potatoes. happily said, "Great, I finally found it." ”

The guard next to him said, "But there is no one, what should we do?" ”

Zhao Chongde was also embarrassed, according to discipline, no one can take this, he gritted his teeth and shouted, "Folks, we are the Eighth Route Army that fights devils, can you hear it?" We're here to buy food. How about you guys coming out? ”

The peeking farmer next to him saw that Zhao Chongde had found the grain that could not be moved away in the village, and he was so anxious that he burst into tears.

The young peasant hurriedly said, "Uncle, that's our food, it's been snatched away by these soldiers, what should we do?" Besides, didn't he say he came to buy it? So I asked him for money. ”

The uncle slapped him hard and scolded, "Food is important or life is important, he said to give money, why are you so stupid, when the time comes, who will raise your mother?" Stay honest with me. ”

Zhao Chongde saw that there was no one for a long time, thought about it and said, "Move, I will bear the responsibility." ”

Seeing that the grain that had been accumulated in the village was moved away, several farmers had tears in their eyes, and it was not until Zhao Chongde left the village with the people that everyone came back weakly.

The young student opened it and saw that it was empty, and he was about to curse, but found that he had left a cloth bag. The next generation picked it up and touched it, and it was hard, and when I took it, it made a clanging sound. Hou Sheng hurriedly opened it, but found that it was a bag of silver dollars and a letter.

Hou Sheng climbed out and said to an old man wearing a robe and glasses, "Second master, you have read a book, take a look, this is the letter and money left by those who were soldiers just now." ”

The second master took the letter and read it, "The headquarters is the 769th Regiment of the 385th Brigade of the 129th Division of the 18th Group Army, there is a shortage of food on the way to the anti-Japanese army, I wanted to buy grain from your land, but no one responded, the military situation is urgent, the headquarters left 80 yuan in silver, bought 25 bags of potatoes, 20 bags of sweet potatoes, if there is a loss, please use this letter to find any part of our 18th Army or wait for our department to make up the difference after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War Zhao Chongde, the commander of the third battalion of the 769th Regiment." ”

After listening to this letter, everyone looked at each other, when will the army pay for things, the young junior hurriedly bit the silver dollar hard, and said in surprise, "Really, this is a real silver dollar." What kind of troops is this? I actually paid for it. ”

The old man slowly put down the letter and said, "I know, the Eighteenth Group Army, that is, the Eighth Route Army, is fighting devils in Pingxingguan, Zhao Guan, you go to find this unit immediately, you must find it!" (To be continued......)