The calm and tranquility were shattered by heavy artillery fire in just a few hours. At 11:15 p.m., the vanguard of the Japanese puppet army arrived at the front of Ma'anshan and rashly broke into the Xima River beach and the entrance to the mountain under the fire control of the new third regiment. The Frontier Brothers were ordered to open fire, and in just ten minutes they forced the invading enemy to leave behind dozens of corpses and retreat into the woods three or four miles away. At about two o'clock, the enemy's follow-up troops arrived one after another, dozens of heavy artillery muzzles stretched out from the woods, and the devil soldiers who made a detour back to the Xima River embankment also set up small steel cannons. At 2:30 p.m., heavy artillery and small steel artillery opened fire at the same time, and the forward position of Xiagangzi Village was quickly filled with a thick smoke of gunpowder.

Although they were quite mentally prepared, and although they were reminded by the stern orders of the staff officers again and again, they all knew that they were going to fight a vicious battle, but after all, the brothers had no experience in actual combat, and as soon as the bombardment was fired, the forward positions were immediately thrown into chaos. The atmosphere of terror, accompanied by the deafening sound of explosions and the bursting of shrapnel in all directions, spread rapidly like a plague in the trenches five hundred meters of the front. The brothers were stunned for a moment.

Ouyang Gui, the acting company commander of the second company of the third battalion, was the company commander for less than seven hours, and his left flank was the team of Lan Duzhong of the second battalion, and the right flank was the team of Zhang Mazi of the first company of the battalion. At the beginning, when he fought the rash invasion of the enemy, he did not realize the tragedy of the war, and the commander of the Lan battalion over there also shouted to the brothers, so he fought, but with a bag of cigarettes, the enemy retreated. There were no casualties in his second company, but the Japanese puppet army exposed to the land of Pingchuan left a lot of corpses. He was very proud, thinking that this was all there was to war, and that he understood war. When the elder Liu Tou came with a few hairy children to deliver lunch, he chewed the bun and proudly said to the second battalion commander Lan Qianzhong:

"The little devil doesn't need to be beaten, according to this way of playing, it's no problem to stay at the front for ten days."

Lan was very proud, thinking that he was an old man in the ranks of the national army, looked down on him, rolled his eyelids, and said:

"Blacksmith Ouyang, don't be bullish! The show hasn't started yet! It's a blessing for us to be able to keep this ghost place for three days! ”

It's really Lan Duzhong who said it, the devil has artillery, and the infantry can't attack it, so they use artillery to bombard. Damn it, the devil's cannon was so powerful, it could be roared from a long distance, and the cannonballs were still screaming when they came running, and the sound was strange and terrifying, unlike anything he had ever heard. God, the cannonballs exploded even worse, like a sun falling out of thin air. The burst of firelight and the loud sound of explosion and thunder made people tremble. As soon as the first shell exploded not far from him, he immediately retracted his plan to hold on for ten days, pessimistically believing that perhaps he would not be able to hold it all afternoon, and that he might be buried in the trench by the flying shells.

The shelling made former blacksmith Ouyang Gui unforgettable for the rest of his life. As the shells fell, he curled helplessly in the trench more than a meter deep. The trench was damp, and the wall of the trench against him was still seeping water, making his military coat wet and making him feel cold from the inside. Because of the cold, I shivered all over, and I couldn't stop thinking about it. Immediately to his left was Ding Hanjun, the former security chief. Ding Hanjun was also shaking, trembling presumptuously, his bare head was sandwiched between his bent legs, his hands were holding his knees, like a dangling ball, and water kept flowing out from under his buttocks, soaking the military hat that fell to the ground. Less than a meter to the right, there are three rows of elders. Lao Fu simply crawled on the ground, his thin ass pouted like a cannon, but his hands were holding his head tightly. There are still a few brothers from the second company on Lao Fu's side, and then there are people from Lan Duzhong's second battalion. The trench turned a few meters to the right of Lao Fu, and he could not see the men of the second battalion. Even if he didn't turn around, he couldn't see that the shells around the trenches exploded one after another, and the flying gunpowder smoke and dust covered the sky and the sun, as if the sky was suddenly overcast.

After a while, the voice of the battalion commander Lan Duzhong came, and the voice seemed to be far away, and Lan Duzhong asked the brothers to pay attention to concealment. Because of Lan Qianzhong's reminder, Ouyang Gui pressed his back and the wall of the trench tighter, looked to both sides, and saw that Ding Hanjun and Lao Fu were well hidden, so he thought that he was the company commander who was quite competent. Coincidentally, at this moment, a shell exploded in front of the trench, and his body was shaken, and he involuntarily planted on the other side of the trench, and the flying earth fell to his body.

In a daze, he saw his uncle and brother Ouyang Jun. This unscrupulous man had no idea what was hidden, wandering around the trenches as if no one was around, like a general patrolling the battle, clapping his hands and laughing at the light of the explosion. Next to the crazy cousin is his own brother Ouyang Fu. The elder brother knew that he was hidden, and he also tried to make the crazy cousin hidden, crawling all over the trenches to chase the crazy cousin. He saw his brother hugging his crazy cousin's legs, and he saw his crazy cousin push his brother away and run away.

He hurriedly crossed Ding Hanjun's body together and moved to Ouyang Jun's side, wanting to cooperate with his brother Ouyang Fu to catch Ouyang Jun and make him hidden.

Unexpectedly, he didn't move far - a few meters at most, another shell fell, exploded, and a huge wave of air knocked him down on his back, and the trench around him also collapsed. In an instant, the sky was dark, like hell, and the earth was rushing towards him like raindrops, and before he could understand what was going on, half of his body was buried in the dirt.

After the explosion, Ouyang Jun disappeared, and an arm with a half-wet sleeve fell on his chest. Thinking he was injured and his arm had been blown off, he screamed and scrambled to his feet. After holding the ground with both hands, he found that his two arms were still there, and only then did he connect the half-bloody arm with Ouyang Jun, and realized that Ouyang Jun had been martyred in the glory of the cannonball explosion.

It was not only the mad cousin who died in the country, but also the elder brother and the two brothers of their second company who also donated their lives. The trench was blown open at least five meters long, and his brother Ouyang Fu was torn open by a piece of shrapnel, his stomach and half of his ribs were missing, and blood penetrated the broken military uniform, and his head was covered with blood. The other two brothers, one of whom was like Ouyang Jun, was broken into pieces, and the other half of his body was buried in the soil, revealing most of his head with palm-sized shrapnel embedded in it.

The bloody death near him exacerbated the panic on the battlefield, and first a series of pockmarks collapsed. As the company commander, Zhang Mazi took the lead in abandoning the front line and fled to Xiagangzi Village. The brothers of their second company fled without his consent. However, the elders of the third row were still interesting enough, crawled over, patted his feet and asked:

"Lian...... Company commander, the company has withdrawn, let's ...... Shall we withdraw too? ”

He was staring blankly at his brother's body, trying to figure out what was going on, how could someone who was fine just now turn into a pile of rotten meat in the blink of an eye? He didn't hear what he said.

Lao Fu simply hugged his legs and shook them wildly:

"Lian...... Company commander, ...... quickly Withdraw! ”

He was shaken awake, his eyes were withdrawn from his brother's body, and the ghost said to him:

"Withdraw! All...... Remove! ”

As soon as they withdrew, the brothers of the second battalion also climbed out of the trenches and scurried backwards like rabbits. As a result, the forward positions collapsed for the most part before the actual enemy offensive began.

Many of the brothers who ,——had fallen apart were thrown into the trenches in a panic because they threw them in the trenches without guns in their hands. He did bring a gun, a box gun "snap", "snap" and slap the buttocks, and the other Hanyangzao was also very real in his hand. However, his brother Narien was nowhere to be found, and the mountains were full of people, and he could not figure out who should be under his command.

The bombing is not over yet. Death followed them relentlessly. When they arrived at the head of Xiagangzi Village, they found that the village was also not safe, and many houses were on fire within the range of Japanese artillery fire, and the smoke was billowing with the wind, like a yellow dragon.

The devil's cannon is simply a meat chopper, this Xiagangzi Village is five or six hundred meters away from the front line, and it has been chopped up, and I don't know how many people will be chopped to death?! If the staff officer and the head of the regiment are chopped off, I am afraid that this blocking battle will be over.

As soon as I had the idea of finishing the game, a sharp whistle sounded from behind, or from in front of him, or from the top of his head, and he shouted "lie down" - the voice was very familiar, and it was the second battalion commander Lan Duzhong, who was pushed by someone, and fell to the ground half consciously and half forced. Before he could get to his stomach on the ground, the cannonball hit the ground, and he saw a blazing white fireball suddenly rise from the ground not far in front of him, blasting several thick black locust trees into pieces and throwing them into the air. He closed his eyes in horror and waited for death to come. However, when the fireball turned into smoke, he was left with nothing but dust and black locust branches and leaves, and his body was undamaged.

God is still bless him.

He could not live up to God's kindness, and before the smoke cleared, he got up and ran again, and after running a few steps, he approached the mill at the head of the village.

There were quite a few people standing in front of the mill, and a few of the officials were shouting like crazy, and the guns in their hands were still in the air from time to time. He was stunned, and the faces of the officials were not recognized, and they did not hear what they were calling, but only drilled forward.

One of the brothers grabbed him, looked back, and recognized the brother as a third-row elder.

Lao Fu said:

"Don't run, then...... There was a machine gun on the roof. ”

Sure enough, there was a machine gun on the roof of a large house behind the mill. The muzzle of the gun was pointed at him and the crumbling crowd around him. Only then did he calm down and humorously stopped retreating.

Staff Officer Fang opened his blood-red eyes and stood on the big stone at the door of the mill and howled, and the first company of Changzhang Mazi to retreat under his feet had been killed, lying on the ground like a dead dog.

Because of the dead Zhang Mazi, he became frightened, suddenly remembered the duties of the company commander, turned around, and shouted very heroically:

"Go back! The brothers of the three battalions and one company, all of them, all go back to the uncle! ”

After drinking, his body did not move, and he still fantasized in his heart that Staff Officer Fang and Commander Duan had ordered a retreat. The thing is clear, the devils have cannons, they don't, this ghost place can't be defended.

At this moment, I saw Captain Duan.

Commander Duan stood on a new mill behind Staff Officer Fang, and Staff Officer Fang shouted, and he repeated the shout, asking them to return to the front line. And clearly announced: Zhang Mazi, the commander of a company, has been executed by military law, and anyone who retreats without authorization will be shot!

Disillusioned, he and his brothers around him had to honestly return to the front under the coercion of military law. The second battalion commander, Lan Duzhong, waved his gun behind them, scolded them, and asked them to run.

By this time, the artillery fire had already sparsely settled. After they had run past the bodies of many of their companions, and most of them had entered the front line, the artillery fire had completely ceased. Far behind the embankment. In the grove, devils and traitors wearing steel helmets rushed out one by one, and the fierce gunfire replaced the roaring cannonball, and the attack began.

He wasn't afraid. The devil's cannon is gone, and that's good, better than anything. He decided that the cannon was the most terrible, and since he had escaped the most terrible bombardment, the rest was fine. As soon as he entered the trench, he bravely walked the nearly 100-meter section defended by the second company and ordered the brothers to fight well.

The brothers did not fight well, the machine guns shouted non-stop, the old sleeves and Hanyang made "boom horns" sounded, and the excitement was quite lively, but the attacking traitors and devils did not suffer any casualties, and they even pushed forward in the east and west. Later, Camp Commander Lan and Camp Commander Hou shouted everywhere: "Stop, wait until the devil is close before fighting!" No one listened, but the brothers continued to arm each other with their guns as if they were playing a game.

He thought that the traitors and devils should be kept as far away as possible, so he didn't care about the words of Camp Commander Lan and Camp Commander Hou, and still fought very seriously. He first swept for a while with an unattended light machine gun on the machine gun position, and then found that the section of the trench that had been blown up by the shells was undefended, so he took the machine gun over and lay down next to the bloody corpse of his brother Ouyang Fu.

As soon as I lay down, I felt nauseous, the strong smell of blood drilled into my nostrils for a while, and the dirt under the legs of the gun was wet, and I couldn't tell whether it was blood or water. The horror hit my heart, and the scene I had just played reappeared in front of me, and I felt that it was not my brother who was killed by that shell, but myself.

He ordered the two brothers to move his brother's body to the side of the trench, and dragged Ding Hanjun, the former security chief who had been working hard to put his gun away, and asked him to hold the machine gun. Ding Hanjun said that he would not hug, he kicked Ding Hanjun down, and said sharply:

"I can't learn to cuddle!"

Ding Hanjun had to learn to hug, but he didn't learn well, his hand shook, the gun went off, and a row of bullets flew into the air without a purpose.

He's hot:

"Wow! Ding Baochang, you empty guns! Uncle is the law of your dog's day! ”

As he spoke, he pulled out the box gun, which frightened Ding Hanjun and shouted for mercy.

The old soldier Liu of the third platoon came over:

"Company commander, I'm coming!"

Liu Rag is a person, the machine gun is quite serious, but the first burst of bullets swept into the wheat field more than ten meters in front, and as soon as the muzzle of the gun was raised, it swept down a bunch of leaves from a locust tree not far away. Liu was unyielding, adjusted the muzzle of the gun again, and then successfully fired the bullet at the river beach.

He patted Liu's tattered back and said;

"Fight well!"

Liu Ragged turned around and asked:

"Ou Ye, do all the bullet casings belong to me?"

He said:

"Of course it's yours! As long as you fight well, the traitors and devils you killed will be yours for the fuck! ”

Liu became more and more heroic, shouting in the sound of gunshots:

"Ou Ye, you can leave! I'll give this place to me! ”

He left with peace of mind, and dragged Ding Hanjun with him before leaving. He was bent on cultivating the former security chief, and made up his mind to get a machine gun for the security chief to play with. Two hours before the start of the battle, the reinforced 1761 Regiment sent forty-two machine guns, and they divided three into three, plus the original four, a total of seven, and there were seven machine guns without giving Ding Baochang one to play with, which is really unreasonable. People are doing the chief of the security guard in the unloading of Jiadian, and the price can't put down the shelf of the chief all day long, his generation of company commanders naturally has to treat him as a personal figure, let him hold the old sleeve, how can he appear to be identious? !

He told the elders of the third row about this idea - Ding Baochang is in the third row and is under the control of the elders. Lao Fu was originally attached to Ding Baochang, and as soon as he Ouyang Gui became the acting company commander, Lao Fu stuck to him. Lao Fu thought that his idea was good, so he asked Ding Bao to stay by the machine gun and fight, as a reserve machine gunner, and as soon as the current machine gunner was martyred, he immediately filled in and took over the machine gun.

The arrangements were in place, the attacking traitors were approaching, and the bullets and locusts flew like they, beating the ground in front of the trench into white smoke. He and his brothers fought back nervously through the puffs of white smoke. A few hours ago, the scene of beating the enemy's vanguard team reappeared, and many of the devils and traitors who rushed to the head fell down, and the first 100 meters in front of the battle simply became the enemy's circle of death.

The enemy struggled for his life inside and outside the circle of death, three in a group, five in a group, stubbornly crawling forward, and the devil soldiers crawling on the head kept sweeping up the position with machine guns. The brothers of the second battalion were the first to use the grenades. Then, the brothers in the three battalions also used hand grenades. With the vigorous explosion of the grenade, the devil soldiers who climbed to the front of the formation died one after another.

After about half an hour, the devils and traitors were forced to stop their attack and retreat behind the woods and the distant river embankment.

It was only then that he breathed a sigh of relief, and secretly wondered to himself that it might be certain that this position would be held until tonight. It was also at this time that a wave of deep grief hit my heart. He looked at the corpse of his brother Ouyang Fu, and some of the brothers around him who had died in battle, and cried, tears rolling on his face blackened by the fireworks. Former blacksmith Ouyang Gui's fighting career began.