Xia Xinsheng and the three of them quickly rushed to the observation port, picked up the binoculars and stared nervously at the battlefield for fear of missing any confidence. Smoke www.biquge.info the Pen, Fun, and Pavilion positions were everywhere, and from time to time fortifications were hit. As the level of destruction of fortifications increased, the number of casualties of the Red Army began to rise. However, the preparation of the Red Army was fully prepared, and the fortifications were built as densely as possible, Xia Xinsheng looked at it casually, did not say anything, picked up the combat records and looked through them carefully.

There is really nothing to see back and forth in front, and it is impossible to see until the last trace of strength is exhausted. Su Jin and the others also gave up and continued to watch.

Xia Xinsheng turned around and asked, "The artillery of the Guo Army is like this, can the shells resist?" Our records show that they fired at least a thousand shells from yesterday to this time. ”

Su Jin shook his head and said, "It's not, it's almost morning, I feel hanging." ”

Xiao Jinguang looked at Xia Xinsheng and asked, "You mean?" ”

Xia Xinsheng pointed to the record and said: "A mountain artillery shell weighs more than ten catties, they are afraid that they have hit tens of thousands of catties of shells, plus mortar shells, it is not less than this number." Their supplies are not ......"

Xiao Jinguang slammed his fist on the table and said loudly: "Oh, yes, yes, they must not have many shells, it is difficult to transport them on mountain roads, and there are many things such as food, bullets and medicines, and they can't bring many shells." According to intelligence, Chiang Jieshi's Bofors mountain guns, which were imported in large quantities from Germany, were only equipped with the Third Route Army. And judging from the power of the shelling, they really only have Shanghai-made Krupp in their hands, and the number should be less than thirty. ”

"Then what do you estimate the number of enemies we have in front of us?"

"According to intelligence, the establishment of Zhou Hunyuan's column is nearly 50,000 people, but the fruit army is seriously paid, and it should be 30,000 to the top, and the one who fought with us yesterday was also Zhou Hunyuan's column, but it does not belong to the 36th Army. It is now estimated at around 25,000. Coupled with our guerrilla attacks all the way and the two-day battle, it should be about two thousand four troops. ”

"That's right!" Xia Xinsheng jumped up excitedly and said.

"We should immediately let the scattered direct companies attack the supply line of the Guo army, delay the time for Zhou Hun Yuan to get supplies, and we should go up and directly command the first-line defense to master the rhythm. You see, they are running out of shells, and both of us are using Shanghai-made Krupp, and the range is the same. The firepower advantage is back on our side. And our artillery has not been exposed, this is an opportunity. Xia Xinsheng continued. Xiao Jinguang and Su Jin strode to the front of the map, carefully looked at the situation of the two armies, and shouted "feasible".

The three of them summed up for a while, Xia Xinsheng called the command headquarters, and after explaining the situation, Chen Geng put down the sentence, "Wait, I'll ask for instructions!" "That's it.

The frontal attack and defense continued, and the orders of the direct company had already been issued. Su went in to get busy with the supply transportation and the treatment of the wounded. Xiao Jinguang led the staff officers to deduce step by step in front of the map. Xia Xinsheng didn't have the heart to do anything else, holding a telescope and staring at every move on the battlefield, and he was already sweating after a while.

The death squads of the fruit army have long been exhausted, and the various troops have also rotated in the position, and the battle team has also killed many fruit troops who retreated from the battle. The shells are also beginning to thin out, and the stamina on the opposite side should be insufficient. It's just that the fortifications on the positions are almost destroyed. The number of shells that brought flesh and blood also increased. Seeing that the victory or defeat was about to be decided, the Fruit Army unreservedly increased its offensive forces, taking advantage of the fact that it was only noon, to seize the attack, and strive to break through the defense line in front of the Fruit Army before the sun turned to shoot directly at the Fruit Army.

The 61st Regiment took the initiative to abandon the first-line position and move from the communication trenches to the second line to avoid the enemy's edge. The fruit army thus occupied a front-line position, and the morale was greatly boosted, and the follow-up troops also pressed forward rapidly. It's just that they never imagined that the Red Army's fortifications were so cunning that it would be really difficult to attack from the front. However, the Red Army was condescending in the second-line position, and grenades could be thrown into the first-line trenches, and suddenly hundreds of people were suppressed in the only remaining narrow trenches on the first line. The two armies were very close in a straight line, and the artillery of the Fruit Army also lost its effect. If you want to force an upward attack, the Red Army can resist it for a while by throwing stones, not to mention that there is no shortage of bullets and grenades for the time being.

The follow-up attack echelon of the Fruit Army continued to approach, and the newly formed death squad risked death to rush forward with explosives packs, and the two sides fought for more than an hour, and the Fruit Army left thousands of corpses, and countless wounded before a number of blasting points opened a few openings in the second line fortifications of the Red Army, attacked the second-line position, and the Red Army turned to the third line, but when the Fruit Army was ready to repeat the old tricks, the explosives under the feet made a roar that shook the ground and shook the mountains, and half of the regiment was close to a thousand people completely disappeared.

The attacking ranks of the fruit army were stagnant, and their morale fell to the bottom. The sun began to move westward, and the accuracy of the fruit army's shooting began to inevitably decrease, because as they gradually ascended to the mountains, the attack surface began to narrow, and there were fewer troops that could deploy. The numerical advantage is even more unfoldable.

The combat strength of the 61st Regiment has also dropped seriously, and the third battalion has already suffered more than half of the casualties, and it can even be said that all the battalions except for those killed in the battle are wounded. The second battalion had already been fully replenished to the position, and the casualties were more than a third. Two companies of the 1st Battalion, which had been urgently rebuilt, were brought up to the battlefield to replace the lightly and seriously wounded. Many liberation fighters of the supplementary regiment also asked for the battle not to rush forward. There was only one battalion left in the reserves in Xia Xinsheng's hands. There are only two lines left in the defense line, and the Guo army is about to go up to the top of the mountain.

After the Guo army had rectified military discipline, the mountain artillery carried out the last five minutes of fire preparation, and a group of death squads full of officers all armed with automatic firearms quickly joined the battlefield. The line of defense was too close and there were too many fruit troops, so that the rifles of the Red Army were not as useful as the rolling stones. The grenades had been depleted in the heat of the battle, and the explosives had been detonated by the red-eyed fighters who jumped into the enemy one by one. The machine guns were also intermittent and the bullets were about to stop, and the mortar shells had long since finished firing the last round. Only a few rifles remained. After more than half an hour, only the last line of defense remained.

The last reserve of the sixty-first regiment was also pressed up, and only Su Jin's guards were left at the command to watch Xia Xinsheng, and the rest of the people joined the battlefield to participate in the white-knuckle battle. The sick and wounded, who were still able to move, were also organized to prepare for the battle for the summit.

Just when Xia Xinsheng was hesitating whether to use a few mountain artillery to support, He Changgong, Luo Binghui and Chen Geng, who received a request for help, rushed up with the Red Eighth Regiment, and the addition of the new force pressed the balance to the side of the Red Army. The loud trumpet of the charge sounded, and the Red Army pressed the Fruit army all the way back to the first line of defense, and the two sides continued to stalemate between the first and third lines of defense. Nearly 1,000 Guo troops were captured as prisoners, and the 61st Regiment quickly cleaned up the battlefield and replenished a lot of ammunition. Let the form stabilize again.