Chapter 53 The Bloody Battle of Firewood Splitting the Ridge Section 2 The Red Flag Does Not Fall
The devils in the bunker at the mouth of the canyon left a squad of troops as a cover, and the squadron leader led the team to retreat south along the traffic trench before climbing a hillside and seeing a flower in front of them! What's wrong? There were a lot of bonfires lit in the river beach under the mountain to the east, and there were also torches and fires on the opposite hill, which were as bright as day.
This is still a place where there are no people and no birds fly during the day, where are these people coming! He also openly lit a bonfire and lit a torch, beating gongs and drums to attack the imperial army! These people are crazy!
If you are crazy or not, you don't have time to study, because this group of devils on the hillside was discovered by the mountain, and the bullets splashed over, and the white smoke rose, and the iron sand sprayed by the big lifting pole and the earthen cannon fell like rain, falling into the neck collar and shoe shell, and the hot devil bared his teeth and screamed!
Run! If you don't run again, you can be eaten alive by the dirt eight roads that will be brought up! The squad that served as cover in the back didn't have to worry about it, Yang Bangzi took care of the devil squadron leader, a shell exploded in the middle of the bunker, and the half-pulled bunker collapsed, and none of the devils in the squad ran away, and they all covered it.
Solve the devil at the mouth of the canyon, Yang Bangzi immediately asked people to shoot three red signal flares into the sky, this is the agreement before the action haode, after the success of the three red signal flares, is to report to the old five sons, but also to the people in the opposite Lingman area.
After asking the time, the second vulture said that it was 2:40, and it was time for the old fifth son to send a signal, why hadn't the signal flare risen yet?
I didn't think much about it, and immediately ordered to leave two squads of soldiers to stay at the mouth of the canyon and wait for the people from the Lingman Prefecture to come. The others went with him to support Chai Choling with small cannons.
It was in full swing on the firewood splitting ridge. But this will really not be the old five sons, they and the devil shoot against each other. They were under the hill, looking at the tracer bullets and squeaky projectiles flying back and forth overhead, and they were angry!
Originally, Jihua went very smoothly, from the Harrier River valley along a sheep's intestine path, the old five sons of the company, under the leadership of the local cadres, unknowingly touched the west side of the Chai Split Ridge under the cliff, according to the sketch drawn by Yang Bangzi. On the top of this mountain cliff is the westernmost part of the devil's defense line in Chai Split Ridge, and there is a fortification of the devil's stone base.
The soldiers used the method of building a human ladder to send a few skilled haode to the halfway up the mountain, and the people at the bottom took the leggings and connected them into ropes and passed them up, and several soldiers pushed their hands and feet to the ground, and after a while, they quietly touched the top of the mountain.
Sticking out his head, he saw that on the flat ground on the top of the mountain was a small bunker built with stones, and a circle of stone walls had been built, and he crawled over to reconnoitre, except for a devil who was sitting in front of a bonfire that was about to be extinguished with a gun and dozing off, the other devils could not see anyone. I guess they all hid in bunkers and slept.
This kind of work, the soldiers of the guard regiment have handled a lot before. There is no need to ask the leaders under the cliff at all, a few people divided the work as soon as they discussed, touched the little devil's neck, hung the grenade to block the bunker door, pressed the bullet and opened the bolt to aim, and looked for the telephone line to cut it, and looked, it has become a standardized operation!
So when the old five sons and they all climbed up from the cliff along the legging rope, even the devils in the bunker were solved, a total of eight devils, and they died honorably on the post without saying a word.
Three small strongholds were touched in a row, and the mountain beams on the west side of the Chai Split Ridge were controlled, and then the two-story turret on the main ridge was taken down, even if the work was completed, but there was a turret in this Zuihou, and there was a problem.
When Yang Bangzi came to reconnoiter in the afternoon, there were still five devils stationed on this firewood splitting ridge, the cannon tower controlled the valley and the dirt road passing from the ridge, and the other four were built on the mountain beams that stretched out diagonally to protect the flanks.
Unexpectedly, at dinner, the brigade headquarters called, saying that the activities of the Eighth Road were very powerful, and asked the devils in the turret to go to the cliff on the east side of the dirt road, and then build a machine gun point, in case there were eight roads from touching from here.
It was this machine gun point that brought trouble to the old five! Originally, they had to take a long detour than Yang Bangzi, plus climbing the cliff and solving the small stronghold of the devil, and when they were about to blast the cannon building of this zuihou, the hour and minute hands on the pocket watch of the old fifth son pointed to 1.45 minutes!
The barbed wire fence was also cut, according to the horse piles were also bypassed, the trenches that were not too deep were also crawled over, and then crawled through the 20-meter open space of Zuihou, and the explosives package could be sent to the bottom of the turret.
Just when the commandos quietly touched the edge of the trench with the explosives bag and began to crawl towards the turret, Yang Bangzi, the second goods, pulled the cannon two minutes in advance, and as soon as the cannon in the southeast sounded, the devil's flare rose into the air, and the commando picked up the explosives bag and wanted to rush over, and the newly built devil machine gun fire on the side cliff fired!
Three assaults were organized in a row, but because the cross-fire of the devils was too fierce, the team members who went up were exposed to the open space under the flares, whether they were crawling or detouring, they were all sacrificed.
The old five sons in the trench were also discovered by the devils, and the bullets and grenadiers greeted them vigorously, so that the soldiers couldn't raise their heads, and the other soldiers under the slope were also in a hurry, the terrain was too unfavorable! Devils really pick places!
The steamed bun-shaped hill, surrounded by slopes, were dug with barbed wire, from the edge of the trench to the turret, and the side of the ditch had to go up in all directions over the empty slope, without any cover, directly exposed to the guns of the devils, and it was impossible to detour from the dirt road, and the firepower point on the earth cliff completely sealed the side!
Far and near were fought, and the blue-black peaks of the north and south were illuminated by firelight, and the flashes of collapse and the faint sound of thunder told the old man that a great battle had begun! And he hid in the trench aggrievedly and watched the strings of tracer bullets flying around the top of his head.
In the sky above the southeast canyon, three red signal flares rose, and the red and bright ground were conspicuous, which also made the old five sons even more breathless! Yang Stick's side is a success!
I can't wait any longer, it seems that it's time for the villagers to move from the valley to break through, this turret can't be taken down, and the devil's heavy machine gun and mortar fire can seal off more than half of the valley, what consequences will happen, I can't imagine it!
Lao Wuzi immediately held a temporary meeting for more than a dozen soldiers hiding in the trench, no nonsense, just one sentence, the party members took the lead, divided into three groups, and launched an assault from three sides at the same time, as long as one person can live to send the explosives package to the turret, we will complete the task!
Passing the words one by one, no one will still be arguing about whether they are party members or not, so what? Isn't it? If you're not, you can lick your face and say that you're the masses, and I'll look at you? Yes, needless to say, the day I took the oath to join the party, I knew that if there is a difficulty, which party member will not go up?
The fifth son said, even if you fight for your life in a while, you have to take this place down! Three in a group, three in a group, alternate cover, to the devil fire point on the cliff to charge, one dead, the one behind is supplemented, one is injured, the one who can move is in charge of himself, and he can't lie down in motion, this will be no time to manage!
The comrades at the bottom of the slope are also very clear, and when they see the three signal flares raised at the mouth of the canyon, they all know that the other side is finished, and we are still stuck, and the red signal flares are laughing at us!
What are you waiting for! I can't fight anymore, what's wrong! Only by taking down the side-firing devil fire point can the comrades on the other side of the turret have a chance to rush forward! The squad and platoon leaders took the lead in making lateral maneuvers and approached the bottom of the earthen cliff.
The commander in the Devil's Turret also noticed that the enemy was attacking the fire point on the side of the dirt road under the hillside, and immediately ordered two heavy machine guns and a small cannon to block the bottom of the earthen cliff.
The devil on the cliff also noticed that the eight roads under the hillside were coming towards him, and two of the three machine guns turned past the muzzle and began to fire down the hillside.
Nearly 100 soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, on this bare hillside, were under fire from both sides, attacking meter by meter.
The casualties were increasing, but no one retreated, and the person in charge of the red flag with bloody handprints had all been replaced by the third flag bearer, and suddenly, a devil's grenade exploded at the foot of the flag bearer, and the flagpole and the body of the sacrificed soldier were blown into two, and the red flag hula fell to the ground all of a sudden.
More than a dozen figures jumped up from all directions to support the crooked red flag, and more than a dozen pairs of blood-stained hands stained with gunpowder smoke and mud scrambled to reach the flagpole with the red flag!
A soldier named Luo Qigong was the first to catch the flagpole, he was shot in the leg by a devil, his knee was broken, he struggled to rush two steps with the red flag, he really couldn't rush, he simply put the rifle bayonet xiangxia, poked it into the dirt hard, leaned on the gun and stood straight, and held the flagpole tightly in his arms.
Turning around, he shouted to his comrades: "Comrades! Rush up! Burn more paper money for Lao Tzu next year! As soon as the words fell, Luo Qigong was hit by a few bullets, his body shook a few times, and with the rifle firmly poked into the dirt, he did not fall, and the red flag in his arms still stood firmly on the hillside!
In the slight mountain breeze, this red flag printed with blood, this red flag erected by the martyrs with their bodies in the flames of war and gunsmoke, instantly reflected the eyes of all the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army!
"Rush! Kill! you grandma little devil! "Almost all the soldiers who had just been pinned down on the hillside by fire from both sides burst out with a roar! The devils on the slope were so frightened by this deafening roar that their fingers were not working, and the machine guns and rifles stopped for a few seconds, and these few seconds were enough!
Taking advantage of the opportunity of the devil's machine gun to stop, the soldiers rushed to a place twenty or thirty meters away from the top of the slope, and threw out forty or fifty grenades in one go. After a burst of fire, the devils and their machine-gun positions were wiped out! (To be continued......)