The old blind man led the troops to advance in the rain, and the Eighth Route Army wore cloth shoes with straw shoe covers, which were non-slip and mud-proof, and the march in the rain was much stronger than the little devil's big-toed shoes. More than ten miles, it was quickly arrived, and the attack of the devil's squad in the morning had been repulsed.

Standing on the high ground on the east side of the small gutter, through the misty rain and fog, the old blind man looked at the surrounding terrain of the basin, at this time the devils under the mountain were sheltering the retreating soldiers, and the groups of devils in the sand dunes were busy in the mist.

The third battalion went north from Diaoling Cliff to the Siyuan Cliff at the northern end of the basin, leaving one company to guard the pass, and the other three companies lurked and waited for dark to go down into the basin.

The 2nd Battalion plunged through the turnip field northeast of Daozigou and lurked to the east of the basin, seizing the Japanese outpost in the turnip field after dark and then attacking the Japanese troops on the east side of the sand dunes.

The divisions of the 1st Battalion were centered at the mouth of the small ditch and spread along the south and west sides of the edge of the basin, and the artillery company and other units remained at the small ditch to support the counterattack at the mouth of the ditch as a reserve at any time.

After all the deployments were completed, the various departments began to take advantage of the light rain to move in, and the devils in the basin began to officially attack!

Fighting a war is not at all like acting in film and television dramas, how can there be so many bold words? If you talk too much, it's all nonsense, they are all soldiers, who doesn't know what is going on in the war, there is no need for a pretentious performance, and it is over with a simple order.

There is no sound of trumpets and killing on the battlefield, a gesture and a look pass instructions to each other, shouting at the top of their voices, that is looking for death! Whether it's an attacker or a defender. No one spoke. As far as the eye could see, there was smoke and fire. All I heard was gunshots and explosions. The devils all rushed up with their heads down, and the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who were hiding from the artillery fire in the ditch were also moving towards the forward position, no one hesitated or spoke, even the platoon leader was in front, and the soldiers followed closely behind.

There was a sudden explosion at the front of the position, and it was extremely close, it was the Japanese grenadiers using projectiles to open the way, which showed that the Japanese infantry was at least 100 meters away.

As soon as the battle began in the morning, the small trench heights guarded by the first company of the special training battalion caused the enemy's fierce artillery fire that had been prepared for a long time to lift, and most of the fortifications and trenches on the trench mouth position were leveled, and the three platoons had two holes in the cliff wall in the ditch that were civil engineering structures, which could not withstand this long artillery bombardment, so that the enemy's shells that had entered the ditch were blown down, and all the squads were buried inside.

By the time the other warriors dug up the collapsed cave, the soldiers who had been dragged out were already in shock, and the brothers hurriedly pinched and rubbed their chests, but in the end two of them could not be saved. Enemy artillery fire was fierce. Infantry moves faster and more ferociously!

As soon as the artillery fire was extended, the little devil began to concentrate a squadron and pounce on the small gutter position from three directions.

In addition, the devils at least have a reinforcement team. Carrying heavy machine guns and mortars to the foot of the hill to provide fire cover, all kinds of light and heavy machine guns, mortars, and grenadiers opened the pot on the small trench position, and the enemy's Type 92 infantry guns in the basin dunes posed a great threat to the soldiers of the special training camp.

The artillery fire was fired three times, and after the shelling, at 9:30, the flares rose again, accompanied by a sharp whistle, which was the signal for the infantry to charge. The devils of the 222nd Wing began to attack, and more than 200 soldiers rushed up in three teams. This real battle came suddenly in the drizzle, so that before the soldiers of the special training camp on the small gutter could say a word to each other, the battle suddenly came to their eyes.

The enemy is coming! The black whirring is lined up in a straggler line and attacks along the ridge! Behind the skirmish line, there were obviously three groups of infantry, moving towards the mouth of the small gutter and the high ground on both sides, and the instructor of the special training camp who led the first company looked at the sand dunes in the distance and the looming ghost soldiers moving slowly, and scolded in his mouth: "Damn! With so many people, how many troops have the little devils concentrated is really bound to win! ”

To describe the mood of the soldiers on both sides of the enemy in any language, it is pale and powerless, and no one can experience the despair and determination before the decisive death, and the nervous excitement and agitation brought about by the extreme tension fill the veins of every soldier, and stiffen the muscles into hard lumps like stones, and there are no words to describe this breathless battle.

The gunshots in the rain curtain were continuous, there were absolutely no points, and the bullets poured from the muzzles of various guns to the two sides of the fierce battle like rain, and the clusters of warheads like a storm tore through the rain and fog, so that the breath of death filled the entire battlefield space, and all the bullets could almost find its ultimate destination in a soldier who was killed or wounded by a bullet.

Death! It numbs people's nerves with metal sounds, bursting fireworks and hot metal shards anytime and anywhere, tearing people's limbs and entering heaven or hell in an instant. When the soldiers fought back in the tide of the offensive; Dodging and jumping in the rags of fire and iron, fighting and slaughtering in bloody hand-to-hand combat, all the clever commanders have lost their brilliance, and in this slaughter, people can only prove two things with each other: survival and slaughter.

In this land soaked in rain and ploughed by artillery fire, and then like a swollen sponge again in a handful of blood, the lives of all the combatants are highly condensed into a momentary silhouette because of the insignificance and helplessness of life, and the silhouettes bloom with blood-red flowers under the sky like a background cloth!

Only true warriors can taste the true taste of life like a phoenix. The course of the battle was so long and arduous, and it was so short, that in one morning, the first company of the special training battalion repelled a total of eleven enemy attacks on the scale of small squadrons to two squadrons, and left more than a hundred corpses in front of the small gutter position.

The offensive of the 222nd Wing was obviously halted under the stubborn resistance of the special training camp, and the entire Xiaotiangou battlefield was scorched hot by artillery shells, although the drizzle in the sky never stopped from dawn to noon, the bare skin of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army was still like dry land, and it was extremely dry. Almost all people's skin is called gravel and sand burns painfully.

In this land that has been ploughed and plowed countless times by fire and steel, it is believed that no other creature will be able to struggle to survive, but in the anti-artillery hole dug by the soldiers of the special training camp, I don't know when hares, squirrels and rats ran into the road, and there were even turtle doves and sparrows, and even a dozen or so snakes that seemed not to be poisonous, these animals that were already natural enemies, actually hid in the same hole!

This scene is a novelty that echoes this burning mountain. In the afternoon, another shelling by the devils under the mountain forced the soldiers back into the cave, and the sound of explosions outside the cave was incessant, and people were bleeding and dying at every moment; But the animals in the cave became more and more active and restless in this hellish scene.

The position of the special training battalion company at the mouth of the ditch in the small ditch is a relatively forward position on the whole battlefield, and the peaks on both sides of the ditch mouth still have a height advantage, so that our army controls the initiative on the battlefield of the enemy in front of it, and this is also the key point of the enemy's breakthrough.

The old blind man saw that more than half of the casualties of the company of the special training battalion were killed, and decided to withdraw them to rest and recuperate, and replace them with other troops to resist, but he didn't expect that the company commander of the special training battalion did not go to the oath meeting of Yinfang Town.

This kind of red-eyed cadres and fighters, let them withdraw it is better to kill them! The old blind man understood this, so he also let the special training battalion guard the main position of the small gutter, but handed over the defensive task of the high ground on both sides to the reserves.

Even if the high ground on both sides is no longer defended, the company, platoon, and squad of the special training battalion have to hold a position at least 50 meters wide, and the whole company has to resist the attacks of thousands of enemy troops in waves. Just after twelve o'clock in the afternoon, the twelfth enemy attack began again! (To be continued......)