The first shells whistled and screamed and landed on the hilltop positions.

Although he was mentally prepared, Chen Yu was still panicked by the powerful artillery fire cluster of the Japanese army, and he even forgot that it was impossible to cross the tall Nantianmen on the east bank position to strike at the Japanese artillery fire in the woods, because we did not have such equipment as walkie-talkies.

No one was born to see a big battle, and this was the first time he had commanded a battle of this magnitude, and some things were difficult to cover everything. If he was commanding a company, Chen Yu could be handy, but commanding the strength of a battalion was inevitably a little reluctant.

The Japanese began to charge, at first in a small group, but before they could reach the halfway point of the mountain, they were suppressed by strong fire and artillery fire, and it was difficult to advance, and finally only a dozen people survived and ran into the forest in panic. Then there were two squads, supported by cluster artillery fire, taking turns attacking, and we were like girls on the side of the road, so we could only spread our legs and let the Japanese take turns to visit.

Repelled a Japanese attack, and before taking a breath, the Japanese army sorted out another unit and began to attack again. The attacks continued like a tidal wave, wave after wave, and the Japanese commander insisted that we would not get rest and reinforcements, and would not leave us time to retreat.

What we did to them made the Japanese commander extremely hateful, and wanted to grind us to death on this mountain.

Chen Yu was observing with a telescope, and next to him lay two comrades who had been killed by the Japanese army's cluster fire.

'Woohoo——! ’

The 75mm mountain artillery on the east bank began to echo our resistance, and the high-explosive grenades exploded in the distant forest, and the dense jungle trees covered the Japanese troops, and we did not know that they were hiding in the forest, so we could only bomb the distant mountains and forests aimlessly.

Dead and dead climbed up the mountain, followed by more than a dozen clusters, panicked and dodged one bomb crater after another, Chen Yu saw this group of young people panicked and a little excited face and wanted to laugh.

"Don't follow the behind, look for death, hide in the crater." Chen Yu shouted.

Dead Cat turned around in a crater and said, "Japanese shells can't blow up in the same pit, some of them are unlucky." ”

Hearing this, more than a dozen people hid their bodies in the crater, and when they saw that there were really no shells falling in the same crater, they were relieved and glad that they had learned another useful tactical skill.

"How's it going?"

Chen Yu lifted the front edge of the steel helmet and shook off the gravel and dirt on his shoulder. "I can still hold on, I have asked the veterans to withdraw to the anti-slope to rest, and then return to the position when the Japanese artillery fire is over and the infantry charges.

The old brothers who followed us all the way from the airport, more than 300 people, and now there are more than 170 people left, and they have to rest. You sent five hundred recruits, and now there are more than two hundred, all on the hills. ”

"So many dead?" Dead, dead, dead, different.

"Or else? It's all a group of defeated recruits who haven't fought. As soon as the Japanese reinforcements arrived, the first round of cluster artillery fire killed almost a company, and they couldn't even hide the anti-aircraft guns in the bomb crater, so they ran around the position, and I was so angry that I almost didn't kill a few. ”

"It's a pity, it's the future of the country."

Chen Yu threw the telescope to the dead, pointed to the mountains and forests in the distance, and said: "A squadron of the Japanese army has almost been reimbursed, and a brigade of follow-up reinforcements is hiding in the forest to rest, all of them are coming on bicycles, not carrying heavy artillery, they are all infantry guns and mortars that can be disassembled and transported, and there are a lot of them."

We fought with them at the airport before, and the Japanese Takeuchi Wing, fighting all the way and chasing all the way, hated us to death for a long time. It is estimated that in the early hours of the morning, their large army will be able to arrive. ”

"It doesn't take place in the early hours of the morning

Dead and dead stared at the Japanese cars that came out of the woods: "They are infantry on foot, and the artillery and heavy firepower are mechanical transport, and they would rather make people tired to death than have heavy fire support for the forward, which is more ruthless than us." ”

"How many people are there by the river, didn't the military headquarters send people to reinforce the fortification, and how long will it take for the people to arrive?"

"Others can never count on us, and we have to look at us, and there are still most of the people who haven't left the river."

Dead and dead, he said: "Master Mai has already pressed the radio to smoke, desperately urging reinforcements, and the above just let us defend it, and also said that the defense of the river will be promoted to one level and awarded a medal." ”

Chen Yu spat out: "Who wants?" There is no one who died, who will be awarded a promotion? ”

"You!" Dead and dead smiled ill-intentionedly: "The military department ordered Chen Yu, the captain and company commander of the Sichuan Army, to fight bravely and take the lead, and bravely captured the Nantianmen Heights with 300 remnants, and was promoted to the rank of army major and battalion commander. ”

"You gave it?"

"Who gave it, the deputy staff of the military department personally ordered it." Dead, dead, said with a strange expression.

There was no time to talk to the dead, Chen Yu snatched his glasses to check the position, the Japanese artillery fire had begun to weaken, and their infantry was about to attack. The Jin Ren order couldn't move Chen Yu's heart, he just wanted to block the Japanese army now, let the routed soldiers and refugees by the river cross the river, and then go to the inherent position on the east bank to defend, which could not be held here.

"Hey! Why are you going? "Dead, dead, turned over and asked.

Chen Yu walked in the trench with his head down: "Go and call the people on the anticline, the Japanese army is coming, and they must enter the position quickly." ”

"Go quickly, come and go, come and escort Major Chen, hehehe."

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Night.

The bombardment of Japanese artillery never stopped, and Chen Yu also took the trouble to issue orders over and over again, and when the Japanese artillery group fired a salvo, let them go to the anticline to avoid the artillery fire, leaving a platoon to guard the position. When the Japanese artillery fire ceases and the infantry attacks, let the people hiding on the anti-slope return to their positions and block the Japanese troops.

This anti-slope tactic is very useful, digging anti-artillery holes and trenches on the anti-slope plane, arranging observation posts on the ridge line of the hill, and the Japanese army will return to the position when attacking. The Japanese artillery fire was basically curved artillery, and there were also direct-aim guns, but this was already the best way.

The flares rose into the air, and Chen Yu lay in the foxhole, chewing biscuits weakly.

Most of our people have night blindness, and they can't see clearly at night, so they have to use flares to observe the Japanese troops down the mountain. And the Japanese attack again and again like a tide made the defenders on the top of the hill tired, but it was better than giving their lives in vain.

The crowd on the banks of the river has decreased, and the veterinarian is sending his wounded across the river, and more than 100 wounded are lying neatly on the positions on the east bank, and it is not known whether these wounded will survive. Chen Yu thought about the cure rate of the Guofu Military Hospital, more than 100 people can probably live more than 20, this is already God's grace.

Dead dead is right, the Japanese army let the infantry on foot, equipped the means of transport with heavy firepower, pulled by cars, and carried by mules and horses, preferring to let the infantry die of exhaustion on the road, rather than allow a single heavy firepower to fall behind the infantry.

Explosive bombs, anti-personnel grenades, white phosphorus bombs, gas bombs, they almost lost gas bombs. Chen Yu had already taken precautions for this matter, and had already begun to collect the Japanese army's gas masks and wait for the arrival of the Japanese army.

The lights were lit on the east bank, and the chief of the A-Yi carried the unused guns from the hill to the east bank, and we had plenty of firearms, but we didn't have enough ammunition.