The big one has more actual combat experience than the shovel monkey, and the years of leading the troops are also long, and it is okay to see the defensive layout of the shovel monkey, but it is a passive defense, under the shelling of the devil's artillery, the position will be lost piece by piece, and the existing forces will not last until dark.

The devil has now occupied two small mountain bags, and has transported rapid-fire guns and two infantry guns to the mountain bags, and has begun to fire at the high platform, and the infantry has also been assembled, ready to go down to the ravine and start attacking the platform. On the side of Tuliang on the west side, the devil temporarily retreated, apparently preparing to use heavy artillery to completely destroy the fortifications on the eighth road on Tuliangzi.

Of the 180 men of the reconnaissance company, more than 90 of whom are currently capable of fighting, the eldest ordered them to be organized into three groups, with the lightly wounded instructor leading a group to act as a frontal blockade on the line of the platform facing Xiaoshan Baona, and the two remaining platoon commanders each leading a group to control the road pass on the west side of the platform.

The big one saw the large row of rocks on the edge of the terrace and asked what was this for? The soldiers said that the shovel monkey led the big guy to pry it off the rock wall, and said that if the devil entered the pass, he would push the stone down and block the pass.

After a little groaning, the big one ordered, and now push it all down! The big guy took advantage of the pause in the devil's shelling to work together and pushed all these large and small stones down the hillside! The highway pass was rumbling with falling stones, and a cloud of smoke and dust rose up!

Then the big one told the instructor of the reconnaissance company that the devils who attacked from the mountain pack had to cross the ravine to the platform, and the detours on both sides had to meet the mountain beams, and the three groups at hand were enough for defense, and they must not attack. Far away with a gun. Get close and smash it with a grenade!

It's arranged. The big one, with the company that had come to reinforce him, crossed the platform and headed northeast.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the second round of large-scale attacks of the devils began! With the rumbling roar of the artillery group, the Japanese infantry below the mountain also began to maneuver.

The big man judged well, this time the Japanese army really launched an attack on the left, center and right at the same time, and the Japanese army no longer used the infantry cluster method for Tuliangzi on the west side. Instead, infantry guns and heavy machine guns were used to fire at close range, covering the squad-based multi-unit infantry battle group slowly approaching Tuliangzi.

In the middle of the road, the Japanese cavalry team with heavy machine guns slowly marched along the road to the pass with the cooperation of three tanks, and the big one was right to push the stones down, so that the Japanese cavalry and tanks could not quickly enter the pass, while the defensive reconnaissance company was able to use the stone piles and the hillsides on both sides of the pass to block the dismounted devil cavalry.

Of course, the devils invested the most troops in the battle for the platform on the east side of the left flank, and the captain of the infantry brigade simply set up the brigade headquarters on the hill and commanded two rapid-fire guns and two Type 92 infantry guns to suppress the fire on the high platform, and the devils of the two squadrons were divided into three echelons on the front of more than 300 meters wide and began to cross the ravine to attack the position of the reconnaissance company!

On this side of the terrace are cliffs that were naturally formed after the landslide. Millions of years of rain, wind and sand erosion have eroded and collapsed between the slopes and terraces on the other side of the hill to a maximum depth of more than 10 meters. A ditch more than 10 meters wide, in which the fighters defending the hill sheltered from shells.

The ravine runs east-west, starting from the rock face of the plateau in the east and leading to the valley next to the road in the west.

Two squads of Japanese soldiers detoured along the edge of the ravine to the east end of the ravine, trying to climb the cliff from there to the back of the platform, and the other group was also two squads along the ravine to the position between the highway pass and the platform, preparing to cut off the control of the platform to the pass from here.

Almost a whole squadron of more than 100 Japanese troops was concentrated in the middle of the ravine, and the focus of the attack was here, compared with the rock wall several feet high, the slope of the edge of the platform facing the middle section of the ravine was not very steep, and the reddish-brown mud mixed with the gravel blocks, which was much easier to climb than the smooth stone wall.

The devil infantry of the 27th Division are all veterans, none of them are new recruits who have just joined the army, and the division has already received an order to go south to Southeast Asia to fight, and this time a brigade was sent to help sweep the Eighth Road, for them, it was equivalent to a curtain call before leaving the Chinese battlefield.

And there are no recruits in the reconnaissance company, although one soldier is only seventeen years old, but he is a veteran of three and a half years of military experience! Zhang Dafu, a native of Baiyun Township, Shunping County, a family of seven, in 1938 in the sweep of the devils, only the 12-year-old he and his 4-year-old sister hid in the hole and survived, grandparents, fathers and sisters, all were captured by the devils, grandma was slaughtered in the ditch outside the village with the old people in the village, and the father and sister were imprisoned in the "human circle" and died of illness and were killed by the devils.

He and some of the surviving fellow villagers were rescued to the mountains by our Eighth Road, and the next year Zhang Dafu participated in the Shunping County Guerrilla Brigade, followed Fan Dadao to fight devils, and it has been almost four years, and the 17-year-old Zhang Dafu has killed more than ten devils with his own hands!

Today, he and his comrades-in-arms in his squad are guarding the front end of the defense line on the edge of the platform, the edge of this tortuous platform, the most prominent part is a small earth cliff, which is exactly in the center of the entire ravine and the edge of the platform, and this is also the key position for the devils to break through.

From the first shell of the devil, the small earth cliff was filled with smoke and dust, flames burst out, explosions continued, shrapnel and bullets swished back and forth, and it never stopped! Zhang Dafu and his comrades-in-arms couldn't even stand upright, so they could only crawl back and forth in the bombed-out fortifications and trenches to fight back.

The devil's two rapid-fire guns and two heavy machine guns are specifically bombarding and strafing this small dirt cliff in the salient blockade, and the devil infantry under the cliff has already begun to climb the earth cliff! On the eastern side of the high mountain beam, the devil's soldiers retreated halfway up the mountain, looking for cover on the spot and firing at the eight roads on the mountain beam.

The devils in the roundabout pass to the west were blocked by the soldiers of the reconnaissance company in the valley and could not move, and the devils attacked little by little under the cover of the small cannons and machine guns carried by the cavalry on the road, and the platform was filled with gunsmoke and shrapnel everywhere from east to west! Whether it is the devil or the Eighth Route Army, they all seem to be deaf to the muffled snorts and screams of the people who were shot, and at this time, no one can care about the wounded, and the normal thinking of everyone in the artillery fire does not exist! Those who attack must attack, those who defend must defend, and everything that can be used as a weapon at hand beckons to the opponent!

Whether it is above or below, the small earth cliff is undoubtedly the same as hell on earth! The machine gunner on the cliff was already the third, and the first two had his legs directly blown off by the shell, and one was shot in the head and died without snorting. Zhang Dafu's shoulder was also scratched by a bullet, and when he poked his head out to shoot, he was spotted by the devil light machine gunner along the ditch and shot at a long point.

The deputy squad leader's stomach was opened by the shell skin, he took the belt to wrap his clothes vigorously, his stomach was tightened, he picked up a bundle of grenades and pulled the string and rolled down the earth cliff, and a cloud of flames and black and yellow smoke thundered at the bottom of the cliff, and the blood of the devil who was killed was carried up by the air waves like rain, and sprinkled Zhang Dafu's neck, sticky.

When Zhang Dafu went to the place where the ammunition was stored and dragged back two boxes of grenades, the third machine gunner, his squad leader, was hit by bullets in the neck, shoulders and chest, and the bullet holes on the military uniform were red, but there was no gurgling blood out, and when Zhang Dafu lifted the upper body of the squad leader, he found that the squad leader's left hand was broken at the wrist!

I don't know if the road was interrupted by bullets or cut off by shrapnel, the squad leader used his shoulder and body to hit the machine gun with two magazines, only to be hit by the devil's machine gun bullet again, and the blood had already flowed from the broken wrist! The squad leader was lying in Zhang Dafu's arms and couldn't speak, his lips moved, and he wanted to say something, but he didn't spit out a word, and his breath was broken!

Putting down the squad leader, Zhang Dafu held the machine gun in his arms, pulled the bolt, and there were no bullets! I looked around, and it was all empty magazines! The stinging and stabbing of the devil's big-toed shoes climbing the hill can be heard very clearly! As soon as you turn around, pull the grenade box to your side, lift the lid, pull the grenade with your right hand, twist the lid, pull the string, and skim it outward, pull it out again, twist the lid, pull the string, and skim it out! (To be continued......)