Outside the mouth of the pig, the underground headquarters of the 28th Division of the Japanese Army.

Tonegawa walked in with a saber on his shoulder, and said in a daze: "Division commander, Your Excellency the General orders us to immediately abandon the fortifications and retreat to the commanding heights on both sides of the pig-killing mouth. ”

"What? Retreat to the commanding heights on both sides of the pig mouth? ”

Ishiguro Sadazo snorted coldly and said, "What are you kidding? The 3rd Infantry Wing and the 30th Infantry Wing have stabilized the defensive line, and as long as the offensive of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army is frustrated, they can launch a counterattack with the 36th Infantry Wing, and they can severely damage or even annihilate the main force of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army. ”

Tonegawa frowned and said: "Division commander, the offensive of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army shows no signs of slowing down, and the 3rd Infantry Wing and the 30th Infantry Wing may not be able to hold out to the end. ”

Ishiguro Sadazo said coldly: "Tonegawa-kun, you have to have confidence in the warriors of the empire. ”

Tonegawa said in a deep voice: "Division commander, this is a strict order from His Excellency the General, please be sure to strictly follow it. ”

"Will be outside, the king's order will not be affected." Ishiguro said, "What's more, Your Excellency the General is far away in Beiping and doesn't know the actual battle situation of killing the pig, so we can't obey the order of the 28th Division." ”

Isamu Tonegawa was about to speak again, but was interrupted by Sadazo Ishiguro.

"You're enough." Ishiguro Sadazo said coldly, "Tonegawa-kun, you are the chief of staff, not the division commander, and the 28th Division is not your turn to call the shots!" So, execute the order. ”

"Hello." Isamu Tonegawa could only pause.

……

Two hours passed quickly.

The siege of the 28th Division of the Japanese Army by the Northwest Column of Jin had already lasted for two hours.

At one o'clock in the morning, after the artillery regiment had finished shelling the Japanese camp, six regiments of the first and third detachments simultaneously launched a fierce attack from the southeast and southeast directions of the pig-killing mouth.

However, the tenacity of the Japanese army was somewhat unexpected.

Li Yunlong commanded three detachments to storm for two hours, but they only advanced less than 500 meters, and according to this progress, it was impossible to annihilate the Japanese 28th Division before dawn.

After all, the camp of the Japanese 28th Division was three kilometers deep.

Seeing that Jiulian's attack was pushed back again, Shen Quan pounded the ground hatefully.

After a while, the disgraced deputy regiment commander and 3rd battalion commander Xu Yougeng came to Shen Quan's face, the attack just now was led by Xu Yougeng himself, because he failed to succeed, Xu Yougeng would inevitably be a little annoyed.

Shen Quan had a temper tantrum, and he didn't care that Xu Yougeng was actually very uncomfortable at this time, and splitting his head and covering his face was a scolding.

"Xu Yougeng!" Shen Quan scolded with a dark face, "What are you doing on dog days?" Huh? With such a line of defense, you couldn't take it down with the 3rd battalion for an hour? ”

"Captain, this group of devils is different from what we have encountered before."

Xu Yougeng flattened his mouth and said: "I have never seen such fierce devils, and their fortifications are also very exquisite. ”

"Fart!" Shen Quan became even more angry when he heard this, and said angrily, "No matter how fierce the devil is, he still carries a head on his shoulders, are you holding a burning stick in your hand?" Huh? ”

"I think you're just cowardly."

"Damn, Lao Tzu's face has been lost by you."

"In the future, don't say that you are from our three regiments when you go out to meet people, I can't afford to lose this person."

After a pause, Shen Quan said again: "Okay, I will personally lead the team in this wave, you kid will stay here for me, and watch with wide eyes how Lao Tzu takes the devil's position." ”

Speaking of this, Shen Quan took out his pistol and prepared to go into battle in person.

Xu Yougeng suddenly became anxious and said, "Leader, give me one last chance!" ”

Shen Quan said angrily: "Lao Tzu gave you less chance? But do you cherish your dog's day? ”

"For the last time! Just this once! Xu Yougeng hurriedly said, "If you can't take it this time, you will shoot me!" ”

"Okay, I'll believe you again!" Shen Quan snorted coldly, grabbed the walkie-talkie again and yelled, "Hey, the fourth company of the first artillery battalion?" Here are three detachments and three regiments. ”

"Received by four in a row." The other side replied, "Please report the coordinate parameters." ”

Shen Quan spread out the map, and asked the guard to shine a flashlight on the map, and then said: "The coordinate parameter is ......."

About two minutes after Shen Quan reported the coordinate parameters, rows of shells fell overwhelmingly, completely covering the Japanese positions in front in an instant.

Xu Yougeng said with a dark face: "Regiment commander, the shelling is useless at all, the devils on the opposite side are similar to us, they are all ghosts and ghosts, and before the shells fell, they had already drilled into the anti-artillery hole, and our artillery fire stopped and drilled out, so it is difficult for our artillery to kill them." ”

"Whether it's useful or not, hit the fuck first."

Shen Quan snorted and said, "Remember, you must win this time!" ”

"Yes, I will definitely take it!" Xu Yougeng agreed, and then turned around and shouted, "Seventh Company, urgently assemble!" ”

The eighth and ninth companies of the third battalion have been basically disabled in the battle just now, and now there is only the seventh company left as a reserve, if the seventh company still can't be taken, Xu Yougeng really can't raise his head in the third detachment.

Naturally, the targeted removal of artillery cannot be compared with the shelling of the scrubbing type.

After about five minutes, the artillery shelling stopped, and the front positions were filled with smoke.

Xu Yougeng immediately jumped up violently with the big mirror, and shouted hoarsely: "Qilian, rush with Lao Tzu!" ”

Before the last word was roared, Xu Yougeng had already rushed out, like an agile cheetah rushing towards the Japanese defensive position a hundred meters away from the opposite side.

More than a hundred soldiers who had already cowered in the trenches and were waiting for their orders also jumped up one after another.

"Rush! Kill! Fight with the little devils of dog days! Amid the overwhelming shouts of killing, more than 150 veterans of the Seventh Company rushed forward like tigers descending from the mountain.

A few legs and feet quickly rushed to the front of Xu Yougeng.

Xu Yougeng knew that these veterans wanted to protect him, but he didn't need this kind of protection, as a party member and cadre, he had to have the consciousness of taking the lead and having the courage to sacrifice himself!

At that moment, Xu Yougeng accelerated his speed again and rushed to the front.

After rushing for about fifty meters, gunshots suddenly rang out from the opposite side.

At least two Type 92 heavy machine guns, six Type 96 light machine guns, and more than 50 38 large covers, instantly intertwined into a dense network of firepower, like the scythe of death swept over.

At this time, if you turn around and retreat and leave your back to the devil, it is simply looking for death.

At this time, the only correct thing to do is to charge forward while firing with higher morale and more fearless courage, not only to overwhelm the opponent in firepower, but also to overwhelm the opponent in momentum.

"Little devil, I'll be your grandma!" Xu Yougeng roared loudly with his neck stalked, but his right hand turned horizontally to the big mirror, and fired fiercely at the devil in front of him, and the soldiers accompanying him also fired fiercely.

In an instant, the sound of light machine guns, submachine guns, shell guns, and rifles rang out.

In an instant, the firepower of the Seventh Company was intertwined into a denser firepower network, and it swept violently towards the Japanese position fifty meters ahead.

The two nets of fire were instantly intertwined.

The Eighth Route Army continued to fall, and no devils were killed.

The ammunition on both sides is being consumed at an alarming rate, and along with the ammunition, there are still fresh lives, and one by one the big living people who were still screaming just now fell in a pool of blood in a blink of an eye, and their vitality disappeared.

In general, the casualties of the Eighth Route Army were significantly faster than those of the Japanese army, almost twice as fast as the Japanese army.

The reason for this is simple, the Japanese army was hiding in the trenches, and the area of bombs was much smaller than that of the Eighth Route Army.

In a short charge of fifty meters, the 7th Company suffered nearly half of the casualties, but the remaining seventy or eighty fighters finally rushed to the front of the Japanese position.

At this distance, you can only fight with a white knuckle.

Amid the howling, the Japanese soldiers also rushed out of the trenches with the 38 big covers with bayonets on them.

In the exchange of fire just now, the Japanese army also paid about 30 casualties, and there were about 30 people left.

Although they were at a clear disadvantage in numbers, with 30 men against 70 of the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese army had no fear, and launched a fierce counter-assault with a roar.

The battle then entered a fierce white-knuckle battle.

Xu Yougeng handed over the large mirror to his left hand, and held the bayonet in his right hand, and while firing coldly, he used the bayonet to wipe the throats of the devils who rushed to the front one by one.

As a veteran who was killed from the sea of blood in the mountain of corpses, Xu Yougeng's skills are also quite good.

However, the devils on the opposite side were also really fierce, and after only killing two devils, Xu Yougeng met his opponent.

A ghost soldier Cao just stabbed his backhand, and he picked up the large mirror of Xu Yougeng's left hand into the air, and then left a deep blood groove in Xu Yougeng's chest with another knife.

Xu Yougeng instantly realized that the strength of this devil army was above him.

Facing an opponent whose strength is better than his own, especially the opponent with a long knife, and he only has a short knife in his hand, retreating at this time and opening up the distance can only be a dead end.

At that moment, Xu Yougeng took a step forward.

Hearing only a soft sound, the saber of the devil army Cao had pierced Xu Yougeng's right rib, but by feeling, Xu Yougeng knew that he had not hurt the vital point, but only pierced through the muscles.

Because if he was injured, he would definitely be unable to move.

The devil army Cao obviously didn't expect this hand, and it was too late when he was about to put away his knife and retreat.

Xu Yougeng stretched out his left hand and hugged the neck of the devil soldier Cao, and the bayonet in his right hand had already stabbed into the chest of the devil soldier Cao, and the texture of the sharp blade piercing through the flesh and blood was transmitted back through the arm, Xu Yougeng knew that the devil army Cao was dead, because the sharp bayonet had already stabbed into his heart and pierced his heart.

The body of the devil army immediately softened.

Xu Yougeng stretched out his hand and pushed, and the devil army Cao fell to the ground in despair.

Looking around again, I found that there was not a single devil in sight on the battlefield.

The devils guarding this trench have all been killed by them, but the Seventh Company has also paid a heavy price, and there are less than 50 veterans left in a full company of more than 150 veterans at this moment.

Taking a breath, Xu Yougeng was about to send a messenger to report to Shen Quan,

Dazzling bullet streamers suddenly roared from the front, and several soldiers of the Seventh Company fell in an instant.

When he looked up in a hurry, it was the devils who launched another wave of ferocious counterattacks, and at least one squadron of devils rushed over with rifles and firing at the same time.

"Quick, get into the trenches!"

Xu Yougeng shouted: "Hold the position, you must hold the position!" ”

I have to admit that the devil commander on the opposite side is really old and spicy, and the timing of the counterattack is also very fatal, because now is the weakest time for the Seventh Company, and the main force of the third regiment can't support it for a while.

Fortunately, the veterans of the Seventh Company are all experienced in a hundred battles, and their reaction speed is also first-class.

The remaining thirty or so veterans quickly entered the trenches, either set up crane guns, or set up light machine guns, or raised their submachine guns and rifles and opened heavy fire.

The situation is reversed.

It became the defense of the Eighth Route Army, and the Japanese army assaulted.

Xu Yougeng felt that something was not good, this group of devils was really difficult.

With such a small number of people as their Seventh Company, I am afraid it will be difficult to hold the position, and they can only hope for the main force of the Third Regiment.

However, looking back, Xu Yougeng immediately despaired, because the devil actually mobilized six or seven mortars and blocked the passage of reinforcements with a short period of intensive artillery fire.

At least for five minutes, it will be difficult for the main force of the regiment to come up.

But these five minutes are enough to decide the life and death of the Seventh Company.

If it is an ordinary devil, Xu Yougeng still has the confidence to hold his position.

But like tonight's devil, I'm afraid it's hard for the Seventh Company to go back alive.

The thoughts in his mind were spinning, but Xu Yougeng did not stop at all, holding his shoulder against a Type 96 light machine gun and firing fiercely, and by the light of the fire on the battlefield, he could see that the devils were falling one by one.

But this killing efficiency is no longer enough to stop the devil's charge.

……

About a kilometer away, inside the forward observation post of the Eighth Route Army.

The brigade commander was obviously anxious, and kept raising his wrist to look at his watch.

From the beginning of the attack to the present, a full two hours have passed, but neither Li Yunlong's team nor Ding Wei's three teams have yet to succeed.

Didn't even break into the heart of the devil's camp.

Two detachments, six regiments, have been circling the periphery.

The distance of the breakthrough is not even five hundred meters, and the progress is too slow!

"Fuck it!" The brigade commander said hatefully, "What the hell is Li Yunlong doing?" ”

"Isn't he quite capable of fighting? Isn't he quite capable of rushing? Why can't you rush at the critical moment? ”

At this time, Wang Ye had already seen a little eyebrows, and said in a deep voice: "Brigade commander, from the current point of view, we have underestimated the devils, the devils of the 28th Division not only built the fortifications more solidly than expected, but also their combat effectiveness is significantly stronger than the 69th Division, and even stronger than the 2nd Guards Division. ”

"So what?" The brigade commander snorted, "Even the heavenly soldiers and generals have to gnaw it down!" ”

There is no turning back from the bow, and there is no retreat at this point in the battle.

If the 28th Division can't be gnawed down this time, the battle behind it will not be able to be fought directly.

The key is that the base area is not guaranteed, and the more than one million fathers and villagers may not be able to protect it.

Wang Yedang said: "Brigade commander, judging from the situation, although the 28th Division has blocked the onslaught of one and three detachments, it is estimated that the strength is also sufficient, at this time, if one or two more regiments are put in to launch a surprise attack from the west, it should be able to break the situation, it is better for me to lead a regiment of the second detachment to attack from the west." ”

The brigade commander was a little hesitant, because the second detachment was a reserve.

The so-called reserve is reserved for saving lives at critical moments.

Or at the end of the battle, expand the results.

But now is neither the moment of salvation nor the final moment of the battle.

After hesitating for a moment, the brigade commander still shook his head and said, "No, the reserves can't be moved lightly!" ”

Speaking of this, the brigade commander said again: "By the way, what about Li Sigen's tank company?" Why hasn't it arrived yet? Didn't he say he would be there in two hours? ”

"I ...... this too"

Before Wang Ye's second half of the sentence could be spoken, a sudden change occurred.

I only heard the north of the camp of the 28th Division, that is, in the direction of the pig killing mouth, suddenly there was a roar of engines.

The brigade commander and Wang Ye turned their heads sharply to look north, and saw that more than a dozen tanks and armored vehicles had already formed an arrow formation and rumbled out of the pig-killing mouth.

Behind these tanks and armored vehicles, four or five hundred infantrymen followed.

"It's a tank company!" Wang Ye was overjoyed and said, "Brigade commander, the tank company of the four roots has arrived!" ”

"This guy is really good at picking the time, does he want to be the protagonist or what?" The brigade commander scolded with a smile and said, "But it's really time, and this is enough for the 28th Division." ”

……

Almost at the same time, Ishiguro Sadazo also discovered the tank company.

"Yaga Yaru!" Ishiguro's facial muscles twitched violently for a moment.

The Eighth Route Army actually had a chariot company, which was enough to surprise Ishiguro Sadazo, and this chariot company suddenly came out of the pig-killing mouth at this time, which caught Ishiguro Sadazo even more off guard.

Because by this time, the 3rd Infantry Wing and the 30th Infantry Wing had already used up their strength, and they were both fighting fiercely with the troops of the 386th Brigade to the east and south of the camp.

The 28th Search Team and the Tank Brigade have also been redeployed.

At this time, Ishiguro Sadazo could not spare troops to meet the chariot troops of the Eighth Route Army.

Do you count on the baggage soldiers of the baggage wing? Or count on the medics in the field hospital? Or maybe the guards at the division headquarters?

The only thing to count on is probably the 36th Infantry Wing, but at this time, the 36th Infantry Wing and the 36th Engineer Wing are still on the commanding heights on both sides of the pig mouth.

At that time, Ishiguro Sadazo actually kept an eye on it.

I thought that if the camp couldn't hold it, I could retreat to the commanding heights.

So the 36th Infantry Wing and the Engineer Wing were not brought down at that time.

That is, the 36th Infantry Wing was already behind the tank unit of the Eighth Route Army.

Therefore, at this time, even if the 36th Infantry Wing is transferred back, it is no longer possible to block the chariot units of the Eighth Route Army, that is to say, it is inevitable that the chariot troops of the Eighth Route Army will break into the hinterland of the 28th Division barracks.

Tonegawa once again proposed: "Division commander, quickly move the main force of the division to the commanding heights on both sides of the pig killing mouth, and then rely on the advantage of the terrain to wait for reinforcements." ”

"Damn it." Ishiguro stomped his foot hatefully.

He immediately shouted: "Order, the 3rd Infantry Wing, the 30th Infantry Wing, the 28th Search Team and the Tank Brigade alternately cover and withdraw from the battle, and the division headquarters, field hospital and baggage wing will immediately move to the commanding heights on both sides of the pig killing mouth and join up with the 36th Infantry Wing and the Engineer Wing." ”

"Hello!" Tonegawa Yong was the first to say.

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