Volume 1: Battle of Songhu Chapter 44: The Last Pawn (II)
When Xu 19 was thinking about Yu Jiaxi, Yu Jiaxi was following the 19th Brigade to Wusong Town.
Yang Ruofei's 61st Division was defeated by the Japanese army yesterday morning, and the first to know the news was Zhang Zhizhong, commander of the 9th Group Army, and then the Nanjing Command, but these big people will not pay attention to the life and death of small people like Xu 19, they will not urge Zhong Song Brigade, let alone notify the 19th Brigade that has not yet been launched.
Zhu Xia also remembered to inform the 19th Brigade to start ahead of schedule after returning from the artillery platform.
Therefore, when the 19th Brigade learned the news, it was already past two o'clock in the afternoon, and at that time, the remnants of the 61st Division had already fought with the Ohara Brigade in the artillery platform.
Scar, One-Handed, and One-Eyed jumped to their feet and immediately gathered their team to get ready to pull.
Of course, such a big movement of the nineteenth brigade can't hide from Yu Jiaxi, and they don't plan to hide it, and the one-eyed dragon even took the initiative to tell Yu Jiaxi what happened, and heard that Xu Nineteen was in danger, where could Yu Jiaxi still sit still, and took Shu Tongwen to join the queue of the nineteenth brigade with the medicine box on his back, and urgently marched towards Wusong Town.
However, there are wars going on everywhere in Shanghai, and the road from the North Railway Station to Wusong Town is not easy.
Due to the delay in the two districts of Yangshupu and Hongkou, the 19th Brigade could only go west first, and then bypass Zhabei blockaded by Japanese naval guns from Nanxiang, and then enter Xinshi from Jiangwan.
By the time the 19th Brigade arrived at the Zhanghuabin Railway Station, it was already past four o'clock in the morning the next day, and the Zhanghuabin Railway Station was the terminus of the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway, and not far ahead was the Fuzaoba Bridge.
Walking to Zhang Huabin Railway Station, more than 100 veterans were fine, but the newly replenished 200 recruits were already tired, Scar was helpless, and was about to stop to rest for a while, when a group of Central Army suddenly came, two of them were still carrying stretchers, and there was a seriously wounded man covered in blood and flesh lying on it.
Without waiting for the people of the 19th Brigade to come forward for questioning, the officer in the uniform of the security team in the Central Army rushed forward and asked again and again: "Is there a doctor?" Do you have any doctors among you? ”
"Yes, I'm the doctor, I am." Yu Jiaxi stood up without hesitation.
"Great, I found it, I found a doctor." The man shed tears as he spoke, and quickly asked someone to carry the stretcher in front of Yu Jiaxi, and said in an almost choked voice, "Doctor, please, please save him, I promised Captain Xu that I would save him no matter what." ”
"Captain Xu?" Yu Jiaxi's heart trembled and asked, "Are you talking about Xu Nineteen?" ”
"How do you know?" The man was naturally a seal, he and the old man carried the dying artillery back to Wusong Town at night, and found that the town's Western medicine and Chinese medicine had run clean during the day, and seeing that the artillery was about to die, he had to carry all the way to the city to find a doctor, and ran into Yu Jiaxi.
At that moment, the seal said, "What, do you know Captain Xu?" ”
Yu Jiaxi held back the tears that were almost coming out of her eyes, and shouted loudly in her heart, we don't just know each other, we are lovers, but she just said lightly: "Please rest assured, I will do my best to rescue the wounded, as long as there is still a chance, I will never give up lightly." ”
After that, Yu Jiaxi asked Shu Tongwen to open the medicine box and prepare for surgery, as a doctor, it was originally her duty to save the life and help the wounded, not to mention that the injured person was still the person Xu Shijiu specially told to rescue, but Yu Jiaxi also knew that every time she delayed here for an extra second, the chance of seeing Xu Shijiu would be a little smaller.
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At this moment, Xu Jiujiu didn't know that his lover was rescuing the wounded more than ten miles away, and in fact, he couldn't care about it, because Zuihou's moment had come.
Under the repeated attacks of the Japanese army, the second line of defense on the mountainside has been lost, Xu 19 took the remaining three remnants of Zuihou to retreat to the Zuihou line of defense near the top of the mountain, taking advantage of the gap between the Japanese attack, Zuihou checked the equipment, and the four people had a total of five bullets left, two grenades and a melon grenade.
Xu 19 pressed all five rounds of ammunition into his rifle, and then distributed the grenades and grenades to the three remnants, exactly one for each of them, and when the grenades and grenades were distributed, Xu 19 gently patted the heads of each of the remnants, and the remnants smiled in return, they all knew what was going to happen next.
Nothing to say, but the remnants are ready.
Perhaps, after experiencing too much killing and parting with life and death, death is no longer so terrible for these remnants, the faint smile on their faces, and the calmness in their eyes, can even give people the illusion that they seem to be looking forward to death.
The Japanese offensive began again, and this time the Japanese Navy did not prepare for artillery fire.
The large-caliber shells of the Japanese Navy were not blown by strong winds, and they had already wasted too many shells for the sake of this small battery hill, and it was impossible to give more artillery support to the Ohara brigade.
At this time, the eastern sky has revealed a trace of fish belly white, through the thin morning light, you can vaguely see that about half of the Japanese soldiers holding the 38 big cover of the bayonet is touching the mountain, just a dozen Japanese soldiers, but pulled out a skirmish line of nearly 100 meters, from the north foot of Fortress Mountain to the south foot.
Xu 19 pulled the bolt to load the first bullet, and then pulled the trigger.
A crisp gunshot rang out, a Japanese soldier Cao Chang overturned in response, and rolled down the hill with bones, Xu 19's shot directly pierced his heart, and the remaining dozen Japanese soldiers immediately lay down, set up rifles, machine guns and grenadiers to shoot wildly at the top of the mountain, and the entire top of the fort was suddenly splashed with smoke and dust.
However, the Japanese army on the side of the back attack has a natural disadvantage in the shooting range, Xu 19's marksmanship is even more incomparable to ordinary Japanese soldiers, and in a blink of an eye, Xu 19 knocked down four Japanese soldiers, but unfortunately, Zuihou's remaining five bullets were all gone, pulled the bolt, looked at the empty chamber, Xu 19 sighed.
As soon as the gunfire on the mountain stopped, the Japanese soldiers immediately discovered it, and more than a dozen Japanese soldiers who were lying on the ground and shooting stood up again, first rushing up the hill with bayonets in dodge, and found that there was no gunfire on the mountain, and the Japanese soldiers gradually became bolder, and one by one they began to straighten up their waists and rush up the mountain with a big grin.
However, as soon as the little Japanese rushed to the mountainside, a few grenades and grenades were thrown down from the top of the mountain, and after the violent explosion, three or four Japanese soldiers were killed on the spot, and the remaining seven or eight Japanese soldiers hurriedly lay on the ground again, and then waited again, and after a long time, the Japanese soldiers got up again and rushed to the top of the mountain.
This time, the Japanese soldiers finally managed to reach the top of the mountain.
Then, a brutal white-knuckle battle broke out again on the top of the mountain, the three remnants of the soldiers fought for their lives, all of them pulled a Japanese soldier on their backs before they died, and the remaining few Japanese soldiers were picked to death by Xu 19 on the spot, but Xu 19 was also flesh and blood after all, and after a night of fierce fighting, both physical strength and energy were seriously overdrawn, and he was also injured.
At this time, the sky was already bright, and Shigemi Ohara saw the white-knuckle battle on the top of the mountain clearly through the binoculars.
Seeing that there was only one person left on the top of the mountain after the bloody battle, although the person who survived Zuihou was a national soldier, Ohara Shigemi still had a lot of money in his mouth, put down the binoculars, and Owara Shigemi instructed Captain Fujimoto: "Fujimoto-san, order the Noguchi squadron to attack immediately, seize Fortress Mountain, and occupy Artillery Taiwan!" ”
"Hello." Captain Fujimoto bowed his head suddenly.
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It wasn't only Shigemi Ohara who witnessed the white-knuckle battle just now.
In the East Fort observation post, Battalion Commander Sun Shengzhi also had a full view of this scene through the artillery mirror, when he saw the security officer on the opposite Fort Hill struggling to get up from the ground again, and straightened his spine, Battalion Commander Sun Shengzhi could no longer hold back his tears, good, the brothers of the Wusong Security Team are all good!
"Miss Ye, come and take a look." Letting the tears slip down his cheeks, Battalion Commander Sun Shengzhi turned his head and said to Ye Ruxue, a reporter from Miller's Review Daily, "Haven't you been looking for heroes?" There was a hero standing on the opposite side of the Fortress Hill, and he was a real hero, compared to him, we were nothing at all. ”
Ye Ruxue looked at the battalion commander Sun Shengzhi who was in tears in surprise, and then put her beautiful eyes behind the artillery mirror.
Through the field of vision of the artillery mirror, Ye Ruxue easily found the hero that Battalion Commander Sun Shengzhi said, he was standing on the top of the bare Fort Mountain, when she saw clearly that this person was wearing the uniform of the security team, Fang Xin felt as if she had been pinched by something, and then looked closely, yes, it's him, it's him!
"Camp, flag, he's waving the flag to us!" One of the observers suddenly shouted.
Battalion commander Sun Shengzhi hurriedly raised the telescope and adjusted the focus as quickly as possible, and the officer of the security team on the top of the opposite mountain really had two more signal flags in his hand, and he continued to make various gestures to transmit groups of letters to the observation sentries in the East Fort observation post.
Ye Ruxue didn't understand the flag language, but she also seemed to feel something, and almost sobbed and asked Camp Commander Sun Shengzhi: "Camp Commander Sun, what is he talking about?" ”
"He's talking......" Battalion Commander Sun Shengzhi's hands holding binoculars were trembling slightly, and he said in an almost choked tone, "He is saying that the Nineteenth Route Army is not a rebel, for the sake of the country and the nation, the Nineteenth Route Army has fought to the ground, and they should also be the heroes of the nation...... They are the old 19th Route Army! ”
"Nineteenth Route Army?" Ye Ruxue muttered, "No wonder he wants to change his name to Xu Nineteen." ”
He also said......" The flag of the man on the other side continued, and the battalion commander Sun Shengzhi also continued to explain, "Later, after the Japanese army goes up to the top of the mountain, let us fire at the top of the mountain, and he will die with the Japanese army!" ”
Ye Ruxue's pretty face suddenly turned pale, he was going to die with the Japanese army?!
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Xu 19 typed a group of letters zuihou, then threw away the signal flag and picked up the rifle with the bayonet again, and then turned around and took two steps forward, at the western foot of the fort mountain, the Japanese soldiers who were pressed by the black pressure had already crushed up along the mountain beam with bayonets, looking at the momentum, there was also a reinforced squadron of more than 200 people.
Due to the obstruction of the ridge, the Japanese army did not see the flag that Xu 19 had raised.
Looking at the Japanese soldiers who were surrounding him from all directions, Xu Shijiu couldn't help but show a smile on his face, it's good, there are so many little devils on the road with Lao Tzu, and the Huangquan Road will not be too lonely and boring.
Turning his head again, Xu Shijiu looked at the city outline of Shanghai from afar, and silently said in his heart, Shanghai, farewell, Jiaxi, my love, farewell, and the brothers of the 19th Brigade, let's be brothers again in the next life......
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East Fort Observation Post.
Battalion Commander Sun Shengzhi picked up the telephone and almost gritted his back teeth and roared: "All artillery platoons, target Fortress Mountain, according to the calibration of Zhuyuan ten rounds of rapid fire, no, give me all the shells, all the shells, blow up these little Japan, blow them up for me, blow them up, blow them up, blow them up......"
Battalion Commander Sun Shengzhi's roar almost shattered the microphone.
A moment later, rows of shells flew towards Fortress Hill on the other side of the river with a piercing scream...... Looking at Fort Mountain, which was completely shrouded in gunsmoke, Ye Ruxue's tears fell like rain.