"Soldier, what's your name? How long have you been in the army? Xiao Zhenlei asked one of the fighters closest to him.

The person who was asked was Xiao Guangdong, he never thought that the president would ask his name, and said very excitedly: "Report to the president, my name is He Jialin, and I have been in the army for three years!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei could hear his accent, "Are you from Guangdong Province?" ”

"Yes, you are so powerful, you can hear that I speak Cantonese dialect!"

Xiao Zhenlei nodded with a smile and asked, "The temperature difference between the south and the north is quite large, are you still used to it here?" ”

"Fortunately, it's still summer, and the temperature in our hometown is not much different from here at this time, and the brothers take good care of me!"

Xiao Zhenlei nodded, reached out and patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Hard work!" ”

Xiao Guangdong almost didn't shed tears when he heard this, you must know that even if the Manchu Dynasty was overthrown, the idea of feudal hierarchy in people's bones would not be eliminated for a while, and a big president who was equivalent to the identity of the emperor actually said "hard work" to a small soldier, what a shock is this? This made all officers and enlisted feel valued.

Xiao Zhenlei walked in front of the next soldier again, he saw that this soldier was carrying the rank of sergeant on his shoulder, and said with a smile: "Sergeant, you are the squad leader of this squad?" Hello! ”

Brother Bao was a little at a loss, and he didn't know where to put his hand, at this time Xiao Zhenlei stretched out his hand, obviously wanting to shake hands with him, Brother Bao was so shocked that he hurriedly wiped his dirty hand on his military pants a few times one after another, and then carefully held Xiao Zhenlei's outstretched hand, straightened his body and said loudly: "Yes." Yes, lowly, lowly Thursday Treasure. It's a Sichuan person, long live the president! ”

Xiao Zhenlei smiled: "I heard it. Authentic Sichuan dialect. Don't call it long live, where is there any long live, a person can live to be eighty years old is a long life, the people are long live, the people are long live, the emperor will die, I, the president, will die sooner or later, only the people are long live, so many years. Our country has suffered from wars, poverty, large-scale famine and disease, all of which are caused by the great powers and feudal dynasties, whether the common people can live to the age of 80 or not, we all need you soldiers to defend the country, defend their dignity and lives, you are the greatest people! Today, when you are here to fight the Japanese aggressors and shed your blood, the country and the people will not forget you. Thank you! ”

After that, Xiao Zhenlei raised his hand and saluted all the officers and soldiers on both sides of the trench, because Xiao Zhenlei had explained in advance, so no one returned the salute. Everyone's love was very excited, and their eyes were extremely eager.

"Click!" A flash appeared, and the reporters accompanying the army took pictures of Xiao Zhenlei saluting the soldiers.

Xiao Zhenlei and the others went to the trench of the next platoon. Xiao Guangdong also muttered to himself stupidly and excitedly: "The president patted me on the shoulder, and I said that I was hard?" I'm not dreaming, am I? ”

"Smack!" Brother Bao slapped him over. patted him on the head and scolded, "You melon baby." Guawa, who has no interest, the president still shook hands with me and said thank you to me! You're a piece of! ”

Xiao Guangdong was beaten and said angrily: "Fart, the president is saying thank you to all of us, you?" Sort it out! Don't you know how ugly you looked when the President shook hands with you just now? Be as ugly as you want! ”

"Do you dare to say that Lao Tzu is ugly, believe it or not, Lao Tzu will kill you?" Brother Bao is about to fight.

The nine-headed bird said lazily: "Okay, the president has only been gone for a while, and you guys have pinched it, what if you let it be seen above?" ”

Xiao Guangdong snorted and glared at Brother Bao when he heard this, and turned around, Brother Bao smiled and came up: "Eh, Xiao Guangdong, don't be so stingy, just kidding, Lao Tzu doesn't really want to beat you!" ”

Xiao Guangdong hurriedly pushed him away and said, "Dead open, pretty boys don't like men!" ”

Everyone was happy: "Hahaha??????".

Xiao Zhenlei stayed in the offensive position of the Fifth Division for two hours, walked through all the offensive trenches, met with almost all the front-line combat officers and soldiers, and then went to the field hospital of the Fifth Division to visit the wounded, because the firepower of the Japanese was not very fierce, and the power of the Type 38 rifle was not very great, so there were not many people who were directly killed by bullets on the battlefield, but there were many wounded, but as long as these wounded did not cause lifelong disabilities, as long as they were wounded and discharged from the hospital, they would become veterans with rich combat experience.

At about 10 o'clock in the morning, Xiao Zhenlei and his party went to the Sixth Division, which was responsible for the offensive in the north, and the Sixth Division's offensive task was the heaviest, not only responsible for attacking the Japanese forts at Songshu Mountain, Longyinquan, and Erlong Mountain, but also for attacking the forts on Chair Hill and Sun Gully.

From about 10 o'clock in the morning to noon, Xiao Zhenlei inspected the offensive positions of the 6th Division, and the offensive positions of the 6th Division were relatively far away from the Japanese fortresses of Songshu Mountain, Longyinquan and Erlong Mountain, and could not be too close, because the 203 Heights that the 4th Division was responsible for attacking were not far from here, and if they were too close, they would be easily attacked by the fire of the Japanese batteries and forts on the 203 Heights, so if the 6th Division wanted to attack these forts and forts on Pine Mountain, It will have to wait for the Fourth Division to take the 203rd Heights before it can be moved.

The 203 Heights is one of the forward positions of the Arthur Fortress, in addition to the 203 Heights, there are Phoenix Mountain and Xiaogu Mountain, of which Phoenix Mountain and Xiaogu Mountain have been taken by the Sixth Division and the Fifth Division, only the 203 Heights are still firmly controlled by the Japanese army, it seems that to break through the fortress, the first thing to take is to take the 203 Heights, which has become the unanimous view of all the high-level of the Second Army.

In the afternoon, Xiao Zhenlei and some others went to the offensive position of the Fourth Division, and after inspecting the attack, they entered the field hospital to visit and comfort the wounded, the number of wounded in the Fourth Division was obviously more than that of the Fifth and Sixth Divisions, and it was obvious that the firepower and strength deployed by the Japanese army in 203 were much stronger than those of other fortresses.

At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Xiao Zhenlei convened a meeting of the divisional commanders and generals of the Second Army to listen to their opinions and views on the attack on Arthur Pass, as well as the practical problems and difficulties encountered in the battle.

After the personnel arrived, Xiao Zhenlei said: "I summoned you all here today, just to hear your opinions, how to fight this Lushunkou fortress in order to take it with the fastest speed and small casualties, if it takes more than five months like the Japanese attacked the Lushunkou garrisoned by the Russians ten years ago, and there are countless war dead, then we will really make a joke, our current soldiers' tactical literacy and weapons and equipment are many times stronger than the Japanese army ten years ago, and the Japanese army has not changed much in the past ten years. If it takes us another five months to win Lushunkou, do you think it looks good? Therefore, fighting a war is not a full force of martial arts, fighting a war depends on the brain, brute force can only increase casualties, the lives of soldiers are not a number, our officers and generals are responsible for them, it is not easy for the country to train them into a real soldier, the cost is huge, at any time can not throw their lives meaninglessly on the battlefield, to minimize casualties! Okay, I'm not going to talk nonsense, now please feel free to speak."

The commander of the fifth division looked left and right, and saw that no one spoke, he stood up and saluted and said: "President, Chief of General Staff, Your Excellency the Commander, and Army Commander, I think that now 203 has become one of the biggest obstacles to our attack on the fortress of Arthur Pass, and it has become a hard bone, and the other obstacle is the Japanese ships in the port, there are several old Japanese cruisers in the port, although the speed and armor are not good, but their naval guns are not small, and the naval guns in the 203 heights and the harbor cooperate with each other, These firepower have a great hindrance effect on our attack on the Japanese fortress, and also caused a lot of casualties to our soldiers, if we can take the 203 heights, or solve the Japanese ships in the port first, it will be of great help to our attack on the fortress, at least our casualties will be reduced a lot! ”

Xiao Zhenlei nodded when he heard this, and asked, "Do you have any other opinions and ideas?" ”

Chen Yu, the commander of the Fourth Division, stood up and saluted and said: "President, I think we can first concentrate firepower and troops to take the 203 heights, but this requires some casualties, and some equipment support, after taking the 203 heights, we can use the large-caliber artillery on it to bombard the Japanese ships in the port, and after solving the Japanese ships in the port, I believe that the Japanese fire support will be more than half smaller, which will be of great help to us to attack the fortresses of the fortress!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei thought for a while and said, "What is the situation with the Japanese ships in the port?" How many ships are there? ”

A lieutenant colonel came over and reported: "5 old armored ships, 5 old cruisers, 3 of which are thirty years old, 24 mine-striking ships, 4 gunboats, 2 mine-laying ships!" ”

Huang Yingjie, commander of the Second Army, said: "We also thought about contacting the navy to shell these Japanese ships in the open sea and sink them, but the batteries deployed by the Japanese on the east side of the port, on the Golden Mountain, Dianyan and on the west side of the tiger tail are very powerful, and the navy said that it is not that we can't kill those coastal defense batteries, but even if we kill the batteries, we will have to build them ourselves in the future, and the cost is not a small amount, so it is ??????."

Xiao Zhenlei's first reaction after hearing this was to send the air force to blow up and sink all the Japanese ships in the port, after all, those Japanese ships were already very old, and even if they were captured, they would not have much effect, so they could only be sent to the shipyard to dismantle and return the scrap iron to the furnace, which was not worth a few dollars, so it was better to sink them all and salvage the sunken ships later.

However, he remembered that he had said that he could no longer bomb the country with aircraft groups, and this was also his own territory, and it was not allowed to do so regardless of whether it would harm civilians, not to mention that if the Japanese were forced to hurry, the Japanese would be the opposite of what they wanted to massacre the civilians in the city. (To be continued......)