In the early morning of December 10, the left flank position of Jinzhou, a kilometer away from Potou Mountain, was a Japanese defensive position.

Lieutenant Okuda of the 1st Squadron of the 2nd Brigade of the 14th Wing was woken up by a feeling of distension in his lower abdomen, and subconsciously reached out to grab his rifle, but after working hard for a long time, his arm, which was already almost cold, did not obey the call at all.

"Oh, it's so cold, it's even more extreme than the winter in my hometown."

Born in Kokura Castle, he was already able to resist the cold, but now his body was almost frozen by the cold after the snowfall. He struggled to push away the sack that covered his body with his still nimble left hand, stood up in the trench, and twisted his waist joints hard, trying to squeeze a little heat out of his muscles in this way, warming his frozen body.

Stomping on the ground, the muffled sound of the bang attracted the attention of the other soldiers around them, who were awake or confused, shrunk into the shape of hedgehogs, desperately hiding in the pit trying to avoid the biting cold wind. But it didn't do much use, and the constant cold from the ground quickly made them stiff.

"When will such a day be the end? said that he was going to enter Lushun for the holiday, but now I'm afraid I can't count on it, right? ”

As the squad leader, Lieutenant Okuda was very supportive of the generals' grand strategy, and he also imagined that one day, he would personally lead the troops to plant the flag on the top of Lushun, which is known as the "first fortress in the Far East".

In the continuous fighting, although the 12th Mixed Brigade did not get much opportunity to play, but in the past month, after changing guards, they have put in great efforts. At least withstood the attack of the powerful enemy on the opposite side, which is also a lot of credit, right?

However, Lieutenant Okuda also knew that it would continue like this. Don't wait for the opponent to attack. The cold weather alone could freeze them all to death in the crude trenches.

The numbness of the right hand. It made Okuda feel an inexplicable fear. He remembered those limbs that had been frozen out of carelessness, blackened and began to fester, and had no choice but to have their limbs amputated and wait to see if they survived the inflammation. It feels terrible to be resigned to fate.

He made his way to the corner of the trench, pulled open his pants hard at a dead end, and poured hot urine on his right arm. It's a really hard move, but it finally has some effect.

After staring for a while, his right finger finally showed signs of movement. The tingling and stinging that followed made people sad to want to cut it off. Lieutenant Okuda, however, was overjoyed that the arm was saved.

He used to pay great attention to cleanliness, but now he doesn't care about the anger of his arms at all, he hasn't taken a bath for more than a month, and the smell on his body can already smoke anyone away. Their noses were so cold that they couldn't smell anything.

Gritting his teeth and enduring the pain, he crawled out of the trench with his rifle on his back, stepped on the creaking snow, and began to patrol the road.

Before the dark dawn, there was a sparse starlight in the sky that was rarely clear. You can see your surroundings clearly. Lieutenant Okuda walked around the team's trenches, waking up seven or eight guys who were about to stiffen in the middle - leave them alone. I'm afraid that by daybreak, his squad will lose its combat effectiveness by another squad.

The activity is still useful, at least the body can be softer. The right hand was bent like a chicken's claw, not enough to pull the trigger, but it was able to hold the gun.

Lieutenant Okuda turned his head to look at the end of the dark earth, the enemy position that was not tall and majestic, but which gave him and his comrades nightmares, and sighed leisurely. Then, he saw a light rise.

"One, two, three!"

Three red flares chirped into the sky, and immediately after, I saw the skyline in the distance flashing, flashing, and shining one after another!

"Shelling!"

Lieutenant Okuda was startled and shouted at the top of his voice: "Enemy artillery bombardment——! All pay attention to concealment! ”

After shouting, he jumped into the trench with a reflexive fish, and his head hit the hard edge, and he was dizzy when he touched it, and he didn't care about scolding, so he hid himself with his hands and feet, and covered his head with both hands.

In a few seconds, a wild whistling streaks across the sky!

"Woo-boom!"

It was as if a whistle was blowing, and like a fierce cold wind blowing through a narrow mountain crevice, and the piercing sound seemed to be in my ears, and finally ended in a chest-wrenching explosion.

The flash of light was brief above the trenches, and Lieutenant Okuda was not too afraid of being blown up, knowing that the trenches he had learned from the enemy could effectively hold back the artillery bombardment. This is also the key means that they have been able to hold on to this day.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

…… Various explosions of varying severity followed, messy, monotonous, as if there was no accuracy at all.

Lieutenant Okuda counted clearly, until it was over twenty, and his face slowly began to stiffen.

"Enemy, this is about to launch a fierce attack!"

The number of cold artillery test firing alone exceeded twenty, indicating that at least twenty cannons were involved in the bombardment, including the most common 70 small cannons, and the most hated 150 cannons. This means that the enemy will launch a bombardment on a large number of artillery positions, and judging by previous experience, the total number may exceed fifty!

The first shell makes the barrel of the cannon and the medicine chamber from the same cold inside and out, and quickly warms up to the point that it can be fired continuously, which can be regarded as a warm-up action for the cannon.

The second shell was test-fired, the coordinates of the landing point were calculated, and the third shell officially began to bombard!

Lieutenant Okuda sprang to his feet, running down the trench from end to end, pushing away the stupid recruits and pressing their heads and buttocks under the mound to prevent shrapnel from unknown sources. His mouth kept shouting: "Cheer up!" The enemy is about to rush over, this time it's real, pay attention! Note! Give all your strength and don't let them cut off your head! ”

Intimidation was more effective than encouragement, and the Japanese soldiers were now afraid of the violence of those guys on the other side. Chop off your head and take it back at every turn, what a barbaric style! Is it any wonder that they are called uncivilized barbarians, and they still use such backward means of calculating military merits?

The most important thing is that the brainless Japanese army means that the soul cannot return home, which is terrible.

Even if the Japanese army froze. I also struggled to get up and prepare my guns. Pull the bolt hard to make sure the bullet is loaded. Use friction to bring a little temperature to the barrel to ensure that the firing does not explode.

After three rounds, the artillery fire of the bombardment suddenly intensified several times! From the rear of Potou Mountain, the artillery shells from the artillery positions in the middle of Daheshang Mountain gradually increased at a rate of hundreds of rounds a minute, extending from the inside and outside of the trenches in front of the Japanese army to the rear, and even hitting as far as their wing headquarters, exploding one after another. The shaking, cold winter morning is a hustle and bustle!

With the help of the flash of the explosion, Lieutenant Okuda saw that in the trenches on both flanks, the troops were nervously preparing, and more than eighty percent of the soldiers raised their guns and prepared to meet each other after the explosion.

"Luckily, everyone reacted quickly. You don't have to worry about enemy attacks, right? We've got trenches too, so let's see how you get through them! ”

He not only cheered himself up, but also the soldiers around him.

But as the explosions became more and more precise, they began to explode near and above the trenches, flying shrapnel and steel balls whistling across the air. From time to time, soldiers were wounded in the back or buttocks, and let out a terrible howl! A little courage that I finally accumulated. Suddenly it came to naught!

"Nasty airburst bombs!"

Okuda gnashed his teeth and scolded like most Japanese soldiers! This vicious weapon, I don't know how the enemy army researched it, specially exploded at low altitude, shrapnel produces the greatest killing effect, there is nowhere to hide!

But scolding is useless, and no curse can make the other party's subordinates merciful. They could only hope for a quick end to this wave of attacks, as had happened many times before, with brief exchanges of fire and then each turning back to continue the confrontation.

One minute, two minutes, three minutes...... Ten minutes!

It seems that a long day has passed, a full ten minutes, and the shelling continues!

Lieutenant Okuda's eyes widened in horror, this is not an ordinary blow, and the other party's attack is by no means an ordinary attack! After ten minutes of artillery preparation, are they going to flatten the frozen ground with shells?

He raised his head from the trench with all his courage, and saw that there seemed to be countless figures, behind the wall of fire exploding, approaching silently with weapons in hand!

Lieutenant Okuda's squad was at the front, and he was horrified to find that the enemy troops were less than five hundred meters away from them!

He turned his head and shouted with all his might: "The enemy is coming, ready to fight!" ”

"Boom!" An imminent explosion swallowed the rest of his sentence, but it was enough to keep the others on their toes. The Japanese soldiers of the entire squad didn't care about the death or life of the squad leader whose head was cut off by shrapnel, and they all threw themselves out and raised their guns forward.

Then, they were stunned by the sight ahead!

What appeared in front of them was a crowd of people! How many there were, I can't count at all, but it must have been ten times more than any previous attack!

There are 10,000 people, and there is no boundary!

Although the 2nd Regiment of the New Army had only 3,000 men and less than 2,000 infantry, it was scattered in front of the position as wide as one kilometer, and the loose formation formed by the staggered front and back made the enemy troops on the opposite side look terrifying!

This is the upgraded version of the crowd tactic, which is more than a step stronger than the original version of the Japanese army's deterrent, so much so that the Japanese army who discovered this scene was frightened to at least a third of their bodies stiff and dumbfounded!

"Hurry, hurry! Hurry up, don't worry about being accidentally injured by your own shells, step on the smoke and dust of the explosion, and don't lag behind! ”

Zhou Dingchen personally led the team, holding a Mosin Nagant rifle in his hand, and his rough voice echoed in the position, so that the soldiers on the left and right could hear it clearly.

"Don't give the little devil a chance to react, we flattened him in one fell swoop and rushed forward! Is the machine gun mounted, what the hell is grinding, ready to fire! ”

Five hundred meters! Four hundred meters! Three hundred meters!

The loose skirmish line formed a continuous attack triangle formation in battle groups, which spread over the mountains like a tide and rushed to the front of Tulingzi, which was defended by the Japanese army!

More than a dozen mortars temporarily transferred by an artillery battalion to support them roared in unison! The dense shells smashed accurately on the front and back of the trench, and the shrapnel cut and shattered the exposed Japanese troops, and the rest of them hurriedly shrank back after being frightened.

With such a delay, the rear bombardment artillery suddenly advanced forward, and the charging infantry burst into the 100-meter line!

The surviving middle and lower-ranking officers of the Japanese army shouted in panic: "Stop! Shoot them all and stop them ......! ”

Where is the time? They had just raised their heads from the trenches and were greeted by a brutal sweep of Grimm's cannons, followed by a salvo of New Army soldiers in the front row! The squad leader, who had been preparing for a long time, took the opportunity to shoot all the grenades out and cause a series of explosions in front of their respective attacks!

Fifty meters!

The mortar stopped suddenly, and the brave Japanese soldiers came out to shoot, only to see a hail of grenades smashing down their heads and faces!

"Boom, boom, boom......!"

Hundreds of explosions spread almost throughout the trenches, and only crudely trenches and foxholes just over half a meter deep were filled with endless explosions!

Commandos wearing body armor and armed with eight-shot shotguns rushed into the trenches, and the "Bang Bang Bang" kept spraying the 12th bullet at every low target, and in a terrible scream, the remaining Japanese soldiers were scattered on the spot one after another, and the galloping figures poured into it one after another!

Zhou Dingchen looked at it from behind the battle, touched the sweat fiercely, and showed a satisfied smile on his face: "This battle has been won!" (To be continued......)