The officers and soldiers of Dingbei on the first fortification of the entire 306 Heights began to help the leper find his dominoes on the position. It turned out that the comrades-in-arms in the battalion all knew about the leprosy and naturally tried their best to find it, while the comrades-in-arms of other units heard others briefly talk about the leprosy, and they also began to help the leper find it seriously and carefully.

At this time, the sky had already become pitch black, and the officers and men of Dingbei on the position, under the leadership of Wang Yuwei, took torches and began to search for a small domino with heavy meaning to the leprosy head, until they searched for more than one hour, and a young soldier of the regimental engineering company found the domino of the leper head in the place where the leper and the Russian soldiers fought bayonets.

The leper clutched the dominoes in his hand tightly, and said thank you to his comrades on the battlefield one by one, except for these two words, the leper didn't know what else to say.

The leper turned to the battalion commander Wang Yuwei and said, "Battalion commander, thank you!" ”

Wang Yuwei patted the leper on the shoulder and said, "Okay, leprosy, remember that we are comrades-in-arms and brothers who can hand over our backs to each other, this little thing, no need to say thank you!" But you have to thank you, you have to thank this little brother, if he hadn't been careful, we wouldn't know when we would have found it! As he spoke, Wang Yuwei pointed his finger at the young soldier of the engineer company who had found the domino.

The soldier looked very young from his face, but his figure was very burly, at least 1.9 meters tall, and when he saw Wang Yuwei pointing at him, he smiled shyly and said, "It's my luck!" Found the dominoes of the leper brother, hehe. ”

Wang Yuwei patted his head and said: "Leper head, you will take this little brother first, he is 1 year younger than you, take care of him more on the battlefield." Engineer Company ...... He's the only one left, this kid has a lot of grenades, and he's almost ready to catch up with a mortar! ”

When the young soldier heard that he was the only one left in the engineer company, he had a sad look on his face, and he glanced at the young soldier, who was stronger than himself, nodded and said, "Battalion commander, then let him follow me!" ”

The leper led the young soldier into an anti-artillery hole, and then the leper said: "Brother, I really have to thank you, dominoes mean a lot to me, they are the only thing my relatives left me." Brother, what's your name? ”

"Brother Leper, my name is Guo Sibao, my ancestral home is Rizhao, Shandong, I have practiced martial arts since I was a child, I came to the Northeast with my father the year before last, and I only participated in the Dingbei Army at the beginning of this year, hehe, after the training of recruits, I was assigned to the engineer company of our regiment, I have long heard everyone say that Brother Leprosy, they all say that you are a gun god, more powerful than Yang Erwa, the captain of the special brigade of the Guards Division! I've always wanted to get to know the leper brother and learn marksmanship from you! Guo Sibao said a lot excitedly.

The leper scratched his head and said, "Don't listen to everyone's nonsense, I'm not a gun god." By the way, Sibao, according to your body, why didn't you directly enter the combat unit? ”

Guo Sibao smiled embarrassedly and said, "That...... That one...... My shooting score is a bit poor! ”

Later, the leper learned that Guo Sibao's marksmanship was not only poor, it was extremely bad, 10 bullets, 50-meter horizontal shooting. The recruits are all qualified with 60 rings in 100-meter horizontal shooting, while Guo Sibao's best score in 10-shot 50-meter horizontal shooting is 29 rings.

It was almost midnight that night, and the reinforcements of the two infantry companies of the Seventh Division went up to the 306 heights, which made Wang Yuwei, who was worried about the lack of defensive forces, breathe a sigh of relief.

Wang Yuwei immediately strengthened one infantry company to the first line of fortifications, and the other infantry company remained on the anti-slope as a reserve.

At more than 9 o'clock in the morning of the next day, the Russian artillery began to bombard the Dingbei Army outside the city, and more than 10,000 soldiers of the 1st division of the Russian 63rd Army withstood the artillery fire, shouted Ulla, and carried single-shot rifles equipped with bayonets, and rushed to the forward position of the Dingbei Army like a tide.

The supervision team of the division of the Russian 63rd Army placed the Makqin heavy machine gun behind the charging soldiers, ready to enforce battlefield discipline against the Russian soldiers who retreated without authorization.

On the first fortification of the 306 heights, artillery shells continued to fall, and many officers and soldiers in Dingbei were hit by shrapnel from the shells and fell into the trenches, and some shells fell directly in the trenches, and even blew people up.

With such fierce artillery fire, the officers and soldiers of Dingbei in the trenches still gritted their teeth and insisted, and did not enter the anti-artillery hole, because the Russian soldiers had already approached. Leper and Guo Sibao pressed their bodies tightly to the trench, and the soil that was blown up kept falling on the bodies of the two people. The leper pokes his head out from time to time to observe the distance of the Russian army.

When the Russian soldiers rushed to a distance of about 100 meters, the battalion commander Wang Yuwei in the first fortification trench shouted: "Fight!" Hit hard! ”

Immediately, the officers and soldiers of Dingbei in the trench began to fire fiercely at the approaching Russian soldiers, and the Russian soldiers who had been close to the forward position of the Dingbei Army less than 100 meters had blood flowers on their bodies, and they fell on the corpses left by the Russian army yesterday.

The leper quickly stretched the Type 96 rifle in his hand out of the trench, and continued to shoot at the Russian soldiers, but Guo Sibao, who was next to the leper, put the rifle in his hand in the trench, opened the lid of a box of grenades, picked up a grenade and threw it at the crowd of Russian soldiers, this grenade was actually skimmed by Guo Sibao about 100 meters, and fell in the crowd of Russian soldiers, although the Russian soldiers were relatively scattered in the charging formation, but still blew down 3 or 4 Russian soldiers.

Guo Sibao then continuously skimmed the grenades in the box into the crowd of Russian soldiers, specifically skimming the crowds, not only skimming the distance, but also very accurate.

When the leper changed the magazine, he shouted: "Sibao, be careful with the grenade, don't let the bullet bite!" ”

Guo Sibao threw another grenade and shouted, "Got it, big brother leper." ”

The attack of the division of the Russian 63rd Army was quickly defeated because of the heavy losses of the charging soldiers, but the rear supervision team began to strafe the retreating Russian soldiers with Makqin heavy machine guns.

One of the Russian colonels in the overseer shouted: "Continue the attack, and those who do not order to retreat will be shot!" ”

The remaining Russian soldiers of this division had no choice but to turn around and continue to charge at the forward positions of the Dingbei Army, until the commander of the 63rd Army saw that the division had indeed suffered too many casualties, so he ordered the remnants of the Russian soldiers of this division to retreat.

Immediately after that, another division of the 63rd Army took over the defeated division and continued to attack.

The 3 divisions of the Russian 63rd Army attacked in turn for more than 2 hours, suffered nearly 10,000 casualties, and did not break through the forward positions of the Dingbei Army, and then the commander of the Russian army, Kuropatkin, asked another 1 army to take over the attack......

On the day of the 21st, the Russian army dispatched 4 more armies, regardless of casualties, to attack the forward positions of the Dingbei Army in turn, and finally at the cost of nearly 30,000 casualties, only a few sections of the Dingbei Army's positions were briefly captured, and then these positions were recaptured by the counterattack forces of the Dingbei Army.

On the 22nd, the Russian army, under the orders of the commander Kuropatkin, continued to send several corps and launched an attack......

Starting from the 20th, the Russian army attacked for 8 consecutive days regardless of casualties, during which the Russian army had two new corps, nearly 60,000 people from the 68th Army and the 69th Army, who rushed by train from Europe to Irkutsk, Siberia, and then rushed to Haktu on foot.

Moreover, the newly formed corps of the Russian army is still pouring from Europe to the Siberian theater of operations, and the power of the Russian steamroller is beginning to show.

By 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the 27th, the Russian army had captured many positions of the Dingbei Army outside the city at the cost of more than 200,000 dead and tens of thousands of wounded, so that the forward positions of the Dingbei Army had been divided into many places.

The two divisions of the Dingbei Army in Maimaicheng have been inflicted unprecedented losses in the 8-day offensive and defensive battle like a flesh mill, so that the lost forward positions can no longer organize enough forces to recover.

In the headquarters in the trading city, the two division commanders of the Dingbei Army, Ni Fan and Hu Desheng, had a more solemn face, Ni Fan said: "It seems that the positions outside the trading city can no longer be held, so the troops in the outer positions can withdraw to the trading city and prepare for street battles with the Russian army." ”

Hu Desheng frowned and said: "Our artillery losses are too great, and the Russian artillery has been supported, our artillery has been suppressed by the Russian artillery, if we retreat into the trading city and engage in street battles with the Russian army, without the advantage of artillery fire, the losses may be even worse, and our 2 divisions will have to be planted here." ”

Ni Fan nodded slowly, he knew that what Hu Desheng said was reasonable, in the 8-day offensive and defensive battle, the two divisions had killed more than 25,000 people, and thousands of people were seriously injured, especially the artillery losses were less than 50 guns with a caliber of more than 75 mm, and the Russian artillery, which suffered even more heavy losses, was supported by the newly transported artillery from Europe, and had already occupied a clear advantage in artillery, which made the Dingbei Army lose many forward positions outside the city.

Ni Fan said: "Old Hu, do you mean that we give up the trading city and retreat to Darhan City?" ”

Hu Desheng nodded and said: "Wang Peng, the commander of the Eighth Division of Darkhan City, sent a telegram that the newly expanded 21st, 22nd and 23rd Divisions, and the 3 B divisions have reached Darkhan City, and the fortifications of Darkhan City are much stronger than those of Buying and Selling City. Coupled with the fact that we had expected to buy and sell ammunition that could be used in the city for one month, three-quarters of it was consumed in eight days of offensive and defensive battles, and I think we could consider retreating to Darkhan City and continuing to hold back the Russian army. ”

The 12th Cavalry Corps of the 1st Siberian Front of the Russian Army, after the battle of the city, was sent to the back of the city by the commander of the Russian army, Kuropatkin, and the supply channel of the city was blocked. R1152