Chapter 238: The Last Five Minutes Section 3 The devil is ahead
The devils wanted to keep their backs to the hillside, occupy this depression, and form a circle to resist attacks from three sides, but now the fire is rolling over from the northwest against the mountainside, and they are all stupid! The eight-way can be blocked with a gun, how can this fire be blocked!
There are no too tall trees in the mountains of northwest Hebei, basically half a person or a person tall shrubs, and then there are thick wild grasses, these herbaceous plants are basically dry after late autumn, even if it snows, as long as it is not covered by heavy snow, it is still dry forked.
As soon as it touched the sparks, the fire head jumped up, and then there was a little wind, and the fire could sweep a distance of more than ten meters in a second, especially in the densest mountain depressions of shrubs and wild grass, and the fire immediately became a whirlwind! The pillars of smoke and flames were whirling and whirling, looking up at the sky!
And this fire is not only the panic of the fire head, but also the basil and Lala seedlings all over the mountains, the smoke that comes out of the fire is particularly choking, and the smoke is roasted by the fire, these devils can be regarded as sinful! No one can hold it down, all of them are gray-headed, their faces are soaked, their faces and hands are soaked, and there are flames on their backs, and basically all the devils and beards and eyebrows are burned out.
There are so many fools, who have never seen a mountain fire, and still run in the direction of the fire, can you still run past the fire? All of a sudden, I was choked by the smoke, and as soon as the fire head was rolled, people were confused, and lying down in the fire was considered to be barbecue!
If you understand, run against the fire, cover your head and face with a coat, and if it's hot all of a sudden, you can run through the line of fire, and it's basically safe, but unfortunately not everyone understands, and in a blink of an eye, the defense circle of the devil in the valley will be scattered. It's the same as herding sheep. There are all the hills running!
And the Eight Roads who set fire to the wilderness have come from the west and south. Running with the fire leader, there is neither fire roasting nor smoking, and seeing the black devils coming out of the line of fire, it is okay to shoot or give a bayonet, the brains of the little devils who are made by the mountain fire are really roasted!
Originally, it was a yellow and blue and black pandao ditch, and there was still unmelted snow in the fork of the ditch, but now it has become a large black slope that has been overburned! The burned-out devils don't have a complete establishment anymore. In groups of three or five or a large group of chaotic noise, those who have no direction and no goal will run around in all directions!
More than 400 devils against more than 1,000 Eighth Route Army, it was originally an evenly matched battle, even if the Japanese army was finally annihilated, under this kind of field confrontation, the 20th Regiment had to pay at least half of the casualties to eliminate the devils, but the devil soldiers who fought continuously for a day and a night were still not as strong as the Eighth Route in their will, and their fighting spirit was completely destroyed by a mountain fire. The army is broken.
The 20th Regiment on the middle side of the road is full of mountains and the butts of the devils who are not choosing the road, but the 17th Regiment in the southeast has reached the most critical moment! After the devil's plane reached the sky over the battlefield. First, the strafing bombardment bombarded the position at the mouth of the river valley, cutting off the connection between the big river beach and the river valley, and at the same time, the devils began to move to the northern front!
A battalion of the 18th Regiment was arranged here on the northern line, but the 18th Regiment was also very fierce at night, and the battalion sent to Longmen Village in the south also suffered heavy casualties, and the people who came back were only one and a half companies, and the personnel of this battalion in Shiba were also dissatisfied, and they had to hold a position more than 500 meters wide, including Shiba and the slopes on both sides.
When the devils quietly touched the edge of the river, the first thing they found was that they were not the 18th Regiment of Shiba, but the two small units of the 17th Regiment on the east bank of the river.
When the devil was found, the law enforcement team led by the adjutant chief little devil was already less than two hundred meters away from the stone dam, and at the bend of the river, the only rapid-fire cannon was being erected.
As soon as the troops on the river bank opened fire, the soldiers on the other side of the stone dam became alert, they had been listening to the fierce gunfire in the south valley, but they did not see the shadows of the two devils guarding the north, and they were already anxious and on fire! As soon as he heard the sound of gunfire nearby, he poked his head out of the stone dam and the hillside to look around.
The devils moved fast enough, as soon as the East River Bank fired, the 37 rapid-fire guns fired shells at the stone dam with a tom, and at the same time two light machine guns blocked the East River Bank, and more than 100 devils rushed out of the bend of the river valley with their waists!
The stone dam is in the middle of the river, and on both sides are the mountain beams that stretch up diagonally, and it is not a big rock beam with a bare plate on the side of the gyro mountain, but a hillside with mixed earth and rock, which is convenient for building a position, and the devils who come from the bend of the river have to rush through the river more than 100 meters long to get to the stone dam, and this 100 meters they must withstand the blocking of crossfire from three sides.
The first few times the eight-way blocking position that attacked the northern line had not yet passed through this river, and the soldiers lost a lot, and when they arrived at the stone dam, they were subjected to side fire from the left and right.
This time it was the last fight, and the devil's adjutant also knew that this stone dam was not easy to take, so he divided all the more than 300 people who had gathered into two teams, and the law enforcement team with the strongest combat effectiveness was in front, using the cover of artillery fire to rush under the stone dam, not climbing the stone dam, but immediately blocking the left and right mountain beams with firepower, and at the same time the second team of soldiers rushed up and climbed up with a human ladder!
The fight was brutal from the start! There is no easy attack and retreat, the devils are determined to break through with the determination to die, they have no way to retreat, and the Eighth Route is also determined to block this opening!
The three-meter-high stone dam is stacked with corpses in the blink of an eye! Although the law enforcement team rushed up, braving the rain of bullets and fighting hard to suppress the firepower of the eight roads on the hillsides on both sides, regardless of the casualties, but the eight roads were the same, if one died, they would immediately go up later, and all the positions were people who kept their guns, starting from the second when the devil rushed to the bottom of the stone dam, someone on both sides would fall down every second, and blood would be splashed on the river every second!
On the slopes on both sides of the hill are the positions of one company each, on the stone dam is a platoon, and the other two platoons are behind the stone dam as a reserve, three minutes, just three minutes after fighting, the stone dam more than three meters high is about to be stacked to the top by the devils with the corpses of their own people! Some of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army on the stone dam threw out more than a dozen grenades in one breath, and at first the grenades exploded and splashed sand, and in the end, the last few simply burst out with blood foam and pieces of minced meat!
The last 300 or so devils brought out all the machine guns that could be brought out, three heavy machine guns, eleven light machine guns, and more than a dozen grenadiers, the rapid-fire gun that ran out of shells was gone, and a grenade was stuffed into the chamber of the cannon and it was blown up!
The heavy machine guns were on the river, and the light machine guns were all on the front line, such a strong firepower, coupled with the devils' stunned rush, caused very large casualties to the Eighth Route Army in Shiba, just five minutes after the battle, the defenders on the high ground on both sides lost more than two-thirds of their troops!
And the platoon on the stone dam, none of them retreated, and none of them were all corpses! They were all shattered by the shells and grenadiers of the devils, several seriously injured simply rolled down the stone dam with grenades, and the stumps and broken arms blown up by the cluster grenades flew to the reserve positions dozens of meters away!
Here leading the troops to fight the blockade was the deputy commander of the 18th Regiment, Shi, who was wounded when he was plugged at night, and was stabbed in a hole by the devil's bayonet in his waist, which was pierced through the flesh, bleeding a lot, and did not hurt the muscles and bones and vital points, and returned to the army after bandaging to stop the bleeding.
He held the rifle with the bayonet, his face that had been pale with blood loss turned red, and after the last soldier on the stone dam threw himself forward with a grenade, he turned his head sideways and nodded to the more than fifty soldiers behind him, without saying anything, this will be all, what else to say, the devil is in front! (To be continued......)