Section XX

The 3 infantry companies of the 1st Battalion of the 302nd Regiment plus the machine gun company personally joined the battle of the most advanced defense line northeast of Luodian under the leadership of the regiment commander Cheng Zhi.

Under the command of the regiment commander, Zheng Pusheng, the commander of the 3rd Company, commanded the remaining 80 people of the 3rd Company to immediately rush to a position on the right flank of the hillside.

The stone lowered its body and followed a long gray snake towards the right side of the hillside, the whistling of bullets and the sound of non-exploding explosions sounded on the north side of the hillside, at this distance, they could even feel the mud foam brought by the bullets into the dirt, and the roar of unknown fragments across their heads.

"Instigation"......

A long whistling swept through the air, and the stone's face changed greatly when he heard this sound, and at the same time, Zheng Pusheng, the company commander who was leading the way in front, suddenly pulled his throat and shouted: "Get down, get down." ”

The explosion sounded almost after they heard the whistling sound, and a cannonball actually strangely crossed the hill and smashed on the north side of the hillside, which had to be said to be greatly unexpected by everyone, but their dodge was quite timely, plus the shell landed a little below the hillside, and there were no casualties after the explosion, which was also a blessing in misfortune, and everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Company Commander Zheng in front got up and left, not stopping at all, looking at his appearance, he was obviously more concerned about the gains and losses of the position than the casualties of his subordinates.

After running on the back of the hill for more than ten minutes, they finally crossed the back of the mountain under the leadership of the company commander, but as soon as they saw the scene of the frontal battlefield, everyone's faces suddenly became extremely difficult to look at.

The rain in the sky had stopped at some point, and the scene in the distance on the hillside was completely different from what they had imagined, it was a vast open area, and several roads could be faintly seen passing through it, and at this time, there were cars speeding on the road in the distance, and it seemed that people were constantly getting out of the cars.

And in the position in front of the car near them, among the rows of busy figures, there was a constant roar, so that needless to say, it was the enemy's powerful mortar position, which was pouring shells on their position without stopping, and the fierce offensive looked as if it was about to completely wipe out the hill where they were.

The closest place to them was a dense crowd of earthy yellow figures, in the rice fields, these figures opened a certain distance, swarming towards the top of the hill where they were, and people kept being shot and fell, but this offensive did not stop at all. In some places near the top of the mountain, those Japanese soldiers simply relied on the corpses of their dead comrades to stack machine gun positions, and the powerful heavy machine guns were constantly spitting flames on those "flesh and blood fortresses", looking murderous.

The stone poked his head out of the trench and looked ahead, and he was a little puzzled why these devils didn't attack from the two flanks of the hillside, just a tendon to attack the front, but when his eyes fell on the flank of the hillside, it was suddenly clear that on both sides of this small hillside, the earthy yellow Japanese corpses were not less than those on the frontal battlefield, and it seemed that they had experienced bloody battles before, and naturally in the case of pinching up and down, the enemy had no choice but to drop a corpse.

"Fire, press the little devil down." Between the stones looking left and right, the shouts of Company Commander Zheng were heard not far away, and then the gunfire on the position was loud, and the newly arrived new forces attacked mercilessly, and the light and heavy machine guns fired together, and the Japanese troops who had rushed to the foot of the mountain were suddenly overwhelmed, and after falling a large area, they quickly retreated.

And after the devil had withdrawn some distance, the fierce gunfire on the position suddenly stopped.

Stone hadn't fired a shot until this point, and he looked around the position with a calm expression, looking around like a nobody. I saw a young man in the captain's uniform in the distance talking about something with their company commander, holding Company Commander Zheng's hand and shaking up and down excitedly, obviously very grateful for their timely arrival. The stone's interest was not here, his eyes scanned the surroundings, and he saw corpses being cleared out of the trench, in this case, the living people did not have much sadness at all, because no one knew whether it would be their turn in the next moment. They worked hard to remove all the debris in the trench to ensure the communication between the squads and platoons, to prevent the enemy from breaking through, for the corpses of their comrades to strengthen the position, no one felt inappropriate, everyone knew that if they died, they would appear there in the next moment, and they could make a little contribution after death, which could be regarded as making the last contribution to the country and the fathers and villagers on this land.

"Brother Shi, go on." Just as Shi Shi was silently paying attention to the surrounding situation, Xiao Shandong ran towards him with an excited face, looking at the golden thing he was holding in his arms, and Shi suddenly smiled on his face.

"Where did you get so many bullets?" Stone asked with a chuckle.

Xiao Shandong smiled, the young man's heart is undoubtedly revealed, the sadness of losing his comrades in the morning has disappeared after a short period of digestion, this kind of optimistic mood should be unique to young people, which makes people of their age can continue to experience blows in the principle of growth, and constantly stand up from the blows. Placing a string of bullets on the dirt in front of the stone, Xiao Shandong pointed to the bottom of the hillside next to him and said, "There are many more down there, but Uncle Meng won't let me go down." ”

Shi Shi touched Xiao Shandong's head with concern, and said in an old-fashioned manner: "Bullets are such things, when there are not enough, someone will naturally send them, why do you need to spend so much effort to get them?" ”

"Huh? Someone else sent it, who? Xiao Shandong asked in surprise.

Stone chuckled, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "You'll find out later." At this time, Xiao Shandong finally reacted and said in surprise: "Brother Shi, do you mean those little devils?" ”

Seeing Shi noncommittally picking up those bullets, Xiao Shandong said with a sad face: "Brother Shi, I don't have your skills, if I meet the devil face to face, let alone one person to deal with a few, even if I am alone, I don't know if I can survive." ”

"The little devil is also a human being, and he also has two arms and a head, why can't he be killed?" Shi tilted his head and asked with a chuckle, maybe only when facing Xiao Shandong, he had this expression, and he didn't know if it was because Xiao Shandong saved his life, or if he felt that the age difference between the two was not too big, for this aspect, Shi himself didn't think much about it.

Xiao Shandong thought about it, the sadness on his face was even worse, when he thought of the devil who pounced from the dark shadow that night, like a ghost, the fear in his heart could not be erased, swallowed a mouthful of spit, Xiao Shandong said: "I'm afraid", and then he lowered his head embarrassedly, as if he also felt ashamed of his answer.

The stone on the side didn't react, and after putting away the rows of bullets on his body, he said calmly: "It's strange if you're not afraid, a person can only burst out of his body's potential if he is afraid of death, and only by being afraid of death can he kill and injure the enemy to the greatest extent." ”

"Huh?" Xiao Shandong looked at the stone strangely, obviously very ignorant of what he said, but after seeing his skills with his own eyes, this made him have to believe it.

"Brother Shi, how do you know this?" Xiao Shandong hesitated for a moment and asked.

Shi Shi was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly, shook his head and said, "I don't know why I know this, I just said it in passing, as if it was originally in my head." ”

Xiao Shandong smiled strangely at this time: "It seems that the squad leader is right." ”

"What did they say?" Stone asked curiously.

"The squad leader said that you must have been a staff officer before, and you had a university question!" After Xiao Shandong finished speaking, he jumped towards the old Meng on the side, and after the old Meng quickly cleaned the trench in front of him, he was hurrying to smoke two puffs of cigarettes, perhaps because he smoked too hard, and coughed all of a sudden.

"Staff officer?" Shi pondered what Xiao Shandong said, and immediately looked at his rough hand, and said with a wry smile: "It seems that the staff officers are all people who draw with a pen, and my hands will be the hands with a pen?" ”

"Uncle, whether it is attacking or retreating for a while, you take Xiao Shandong to follow me, don't get separated." After thinking about it for a long time and not thinking about the result, Shi gave up this kind of hard thinking, put all his energy into the upcoming battle, and turned his head to shout at Lao Meng.

Lao Meng nodded hurriedly and said with a smile: "Stone, I bothered you." ”

"You didn't save my life, so why bother." Shi said calmly, after speaking, his face suddenly changed, and a whistling came from the sky, and he shouted in vain: "Lie down, lie down......"

A barrage of shells exploded on the hillside, and as the flames rose into the air, it was possible to imagine that the enemy's next attack was coming.