Accompanied by a roar, shells blossomed on the forward positions.

A large group of Japanese troops came out of the woods and launched an attack on Nantianmen.

The figure on the tree jumped down, rolled on the ground, aimed the gun at the Japanese soldier in the distance, pulled the trigger, a Japanese soldier fell to the ground, the Japanese soldier in the rear stepped forward to check the injury of the soldier, the soldier was already dead and could not die anymore, the bullet hit its head accurately, penetrating his steel helmet and skull.

"Snipers, enemy snipers!"

There were Japanese soldiers in the ranks of the Japanese who shouted and screamed, followed by the crackling of bullets from the woods, the branches were broken, the leaves fell, the trunks were hit by bullets, and the bullets that did not stop whizzing around.

Xia Yuan hid in the grass, holding a gun, since the Japanese army began to assemble in the depths of the forest, he had time to go deep into the forest to observe the Japanese army, after such a long period of observation, he found that the Japanese army troops were assembled in large numbers in the forest, and there was already a brigade, about 5,000 people.

The entangled troops of 5,000 people attacked a Nantianmen with only 700 defeated soldiers, and the Japanese army really looked up to Nantianmen.

"In such a hurry to tear open the Nantianmen, it is estimated that their logistics are also starting to struggle."

Xia Yuan was right, since the end of 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, invaded the Philippines, and fought everywhere, the already difficult armament force has become more difficult, and the resources plundered through the war have been far from keeping up with the resources consumed by the war, China is a big cake, and the Japanese army is eager to occupy China and use China as an ovary to hatch Japan.

As a result, the Japanese army accelerated the pace of the offensive, especially the Burmese War, the Japanese army was overwhelmed, and soon defeated the British army and the expeditionary force, and successfully occupied the Burma, and the Japanese army wanted to quickly open the door to the Sino-Burmese border and enter from the rear of China.

At this time, in addition to the local troops of the national army, the rear of China was basically the militia, guerrillas and the Red Party, the national army because of the reinforcements of the allies, the weapons and equipment were superior, and the militia guerrillas were very backward, the weapons they used were made in the border area, the only gun was also the old sleeve left over from the Westernization Movement, the number of times used led to the low accuracy of the Hanyang made, the range is only more than ten meters away from the border area of the folding pistol, these self-made guns are not far away, the ammunition is not much, the power is very small, the accuracy deviation is too large, It often doesn't work.

If the Japanese army successfully crossed the border and invaded China from the rear, it would be much smoother than from the frontal battlefield.

Therefore, defending the Nu River defense line is almost equivalent to defending the whole of China.

It is precisely because of this that the Japanese army urgently opened the door of the Nu River defense line, the Pacific War has broken out, military supplies have begun to struggle, they do not open the door to China, sooner or later, they will fail because of logistics, they have to seize the time to complete the encirclement of China.

The Japanese army gathered for three days in the mountains and forests under the Nantianmen, frantically hoarded 5,000 troops, and all kinds of heavy equipment were pulled to the Nantianmen, Xia Yuan knew the danger of the Nantianmen blockade, but at this moment, the entire Chinese anti-Japanese war mood was facing a serious test, and once he retreated to Chanda, not to mention this group of routs, Xia Yuan could not even guarantee whether he could live.

The rout will return to the same scene they had seen in the containment station.

On the ridge, the routs have quickly taken position, gunfire broke out in the jungle, Japanese shells raged over Nantianmen, far away on the other side of the Nu River Yutuan defense line, Yu Xiaoqing observed the situation on Nantianmen with a telescope: "It's been three days, the Japanese army has begun to attack!" The defenders on the Nantian Gate could not stand for long, and the Japanese army used three days to hoard a large number of troops, and their goal was not only a mountain like Nantian. ”

After observing for a while, Yu Xiaoqing put down the binoculars, turned his head and shouted: "Zhang Lixian, how is the deployment of the defense line along the Nu River?" ”

Zhang Lixian immediately replied: "Except for the artillery, it is basically in place, and with the help of the mountainous terrain and the Nu River, we can withstand the attack of a brigade of the Japanese army!" ”

Yu Xiaoqing said: "This is still when the water level of the Nujiang River is rising, if the water level of the Nujiang River drops, we may not be able to withstand the attack of a brigade of the Japanese army, no matter if the Sichuan Army stays on the other side of the river, they can greatly eliminate the strength of the Japanese army and reduce the pressure on our rear, at the cost"

Yu Xiaoqing stopped talking, and turned his head to look at the Nu River, which was gradually flooded with gunsmoke.

Zhang Lixian said: "They will be left on the Nantianmen by the Japanese army. ”

Yu Xiaoqing nodded, "I have to say, Xia Yuan is indeed a character, at the moment when the peak has no will to fight, the army is full of routs, the weapons and equipment of the ace army are lost, and the anti-Japanese sentiment has fallen into a trough, he still stands up, which I didn't expect." ”

Yu Xiaoqing knew that he was used as a gun by Xia Yuan, but Xia Yuan wanted the Sichuan Army to be valued and seen, and as he said in his heart, their death could not be unknown, if there was no one, maybe no one would be able to see this battle on the Nantian Gate.

He Shuguang walked in from outside, "Tuanzao, the people of Chanda and the newspaper want to come to the position, they say that the Sichuan Army is an anti-Japanese hero, and they want to report the deeds of the Sichuan Army, and the people of Chanda have brought a lot of materials to donate to the front-line anti-Japanese soldiers." ”

Yu Xiaoqing said: "Take me to see." ”

At the foot of the mountain along the Nu River, the old mayor of Chanda led the people of Chanda on crutches, carrying all kinds of fruits, food and other rich materials, and the newspaper staff also followed closely behind, seeing Yu Xiaoqing's car arrived at the foot of the mountain, they hurriedly stepped forward.

The old mayor said, "Commander Yu, we ask to be able to go to the position to have a look, to see the heroes who protect Chanda. ”

Yu Xiaoqing got out of the car, and the newspaper staff who followed the old mayor also said: "Commander Yu, China cannot be without heroes, now the people of the whole country are paying attention to the war on the Sino-Burmese border, I implore you to think about it seriously, the expeditionary force was defeated in Dian-Burma, and now China is in mourning, they urgently need a hero!" ”

Yu Xiaoqing looked at the people in front of him and said: "The defensive position is a military secret, once it is leaked, the Japanese army will study the corresponding offensive plan according to the deployment of our army along the Chanda coast, so I can't take everyone to the position, but, Zhang Lixian, you lead everyone to the mountain, we can observe the Nantianmen on the other side of the Nu River from the mountain." ”

Zhang Lixian: "Yes! ”

At this time, on the Nantian Gate, the rumbling sound was like thunder, bursts of sound, the people of Chanda stood on the mountain, watched from afar, looked at the mountain in the distance, the sound of guns and cannons was intertwined, forming a magnificent movement, and the smoke of gunpowder wafting in the sky dyed a heavy ink color for this movement. They couldn't imagine how fierce the battle on the other side of the Nantianmen was, but they could deduce from the sound of gunfire alone.

A newspaper staff member asked: "Chief Zhang, do you know which unit is on the Nantianmen, what is the number of troops, and how many Japanese devils they will face?" ”

The others took their eyes off the Nantian Gate and turned their heads to look at Zhang Lixian.

Zhang Lixian said: "According to the information from Nantianmen, the defenders stationed at Nantianmen only have about 700 people from two battalions of our Sichuan Corps, while the attacking Japanese army has more than 5,000 people, a brigade, and is equipped with various heavy firepower. ”

The old mayor was dumbfounded: "Seven hundred people against five thousand people, when they stayed, they never thought about victory, they thought about how to leave the Japanese army on the other side of the Nu River." ”

Everyone was silent, and some of the people's faces showed sadness, and they looked at the gunpowder smoke from the Nantian Gate from a distance, and they didn't know what to do for a while.

Zhang Lixian did not say a word, and the latest intelligence brought back by the previously dispatched scouts through the forced crossing of the Nu River showed that most of the remaining Sichuan Army members had no weapons and equipment, and were seriously short of weapons and ammunition.

He recalled that when he was in the shelter, he also thought that Xia Yuan was a person who was greedy for life and afraid of death, and now the other party stayed on Nantianmen, wanting to martyr the country and awaken the determination of tens of thousands of people in China to resist Japan, such a feat, Zhang Lixian did not think that he could do it.

The old mayor looked at the food in the hands of the people and said, "Sir Zhang, do you have a way to give this food to the heroes, we have seen those soldiers in Chanda, they have already eaten the last meal in their own homes, and they stay on the other side of the river, I am afraid that there is nothing to eat." ”

Zhang Lixian said: "We have long considered sending supplies to the other side, which is also what we asked for at the top, but now the heavy rain in the upper reaches of the Nu River has caused the water level of the Nu River to rise, and the river is turbulent. ”

He reassured: "The river will not rise for more than three days, and if they can hold on for three days and the Nu River will ease down, we will be able to transport supplies to the other side of the river." ”

"Seven hundred men are facing an attack of five thousand men, can they hold out for three days?"

Someone asked about the worries in their hearts.

Zhang Lixian stopped talking, calmly looking at the Nantianmen on the other side of the Nu River, but he was praying in his heart, silently praying that this Sichuan army could hold on to the Nantianmen for three days.

After the Shangchuan Regiment of Nantianmen was left behind to resist the Japanese army, and the heroic and fearless performance of the expeditionary force in Dianma and Burma was published in the newspapers, many students in major cities paraded through the streets, and the people spontaneously organized and shouted the slogans of 'Down with Japanese imperialism' and 'swear to die and not be a slave to the country'.

After learning that this army was a lone army without any number, and learned that this lone army was Xia Yuan, the former commander of the 150th Regiment of the New First Army, they immediately ordered Yu Xiaoqing's department to give the number of the Sichuan Army to the lone army on the Nantianmen, and the superiors attached great importance to this.

At this time, the national army is also using that note to carry out hype, although the expeditionary force was defeated, but the soldiers fought bravely to kill the enemy, and the spirit of not fearing life and death still shines on the sons and daughters of China, this note can greatly change the performance of the national army on the battlefield, and therefore, the Sichuan army led by Xia Yuan will be valued by the peak.

This has never been the case before.

At this time, in Nantianmen, Xia Yuan was hiding in the first line of defense and was shooting at the Japanese devils who were attacking frantically, and the bullets whizzed through the battlefield, accurately hitting the Japanese soldiers among the charging Japanese soldiers, and the Japanese soldiers with grenadiers.

"Hurry up, move faster, press a bullet like ink, if you delay for a few seconds, Japanese troops will rush up!"

The minefield placed on the first line of defense resisted the first wave of Japanese attack, but after the minefield was dispersed by the first wave of Japanese attack, the second wave of Japanese attack followed, accompanied by Japanese poison gas bombs, which were not poison gas bombs, but a kind of mustard gas that could not be breathed, and this mustard gas could choke people to death.

"Poison gas, it's poison gas!"

"Ahem, ahem."

The position was full of the shouts of the defeated soldiers, and Xia Yuan shouted: "Don't panic, use the method given to you before, quickly!" ”

They seized a large number of marching kettles from the corpses of Japanese soldiers, Xia Yuan had long considered that the Japanese army would use poison gas bombs, and filled everyone's kettles with river water before the war, and they also used extra helmets to fill a lot of water.

But seeing that Xia Yuan quickly took out a piece of cloth, put some soil on the cloth, sprinkled water on the soil, and then used a bag of cloth, like wearing a mask on the mouth and nose, the soil wrapped in the cloth has a certain degree of air permeability, but it can greatly block the poison gas of the Japanese army, this way has dealt with the poison gas bombs of the Korean army when he was in Shangganling, and the effect is very significant, at least the tunnel where he is located, no soldier died because of the poison gas of the American army.

The only bad thing is that the breathing is getting worse, after all, blocking a ball of mud wrapped in cloth in front of the mouth and nose, and trying to breathe like before, the result is predictable.

In the face of the mustard gas thrown by the Japanese army, the soldiers of the Sichuan Army reacted very quickly, after all, a few days ago, Xia Yuan and the defeated soldiers had demonstrated this kind of cooking, basically everyone did it quite quickly, in this misty fog, one by one the Japanese soldiers with poisoning masks showed a hideous figure in the thick fog.

Whoosh, a burst of fire flew by, and a Japanese soldier fell to the ground.

"The people of China are not dead yet, pay attention to concealment!"

The sound of the Japanese army Cao came from the fog, Xia Yuan used the sound to defend his position, and shot at the source of the sound, the gunshots rang out, only a soft groan was heard, and Xia Yuan obviously heard someone fall to the ground.

Although the mustard gas released by the Japanese army seriously affected the vision of the soldiers, Xia Yuan still caused heavy losses to the Japanese army with the help of listening to the voice, and the Japanese army approached the forward position, and their figures appeared in the misty fog, and the rout soldiers quickly fired back, the sound of light machine guns echoed in the valley, and the Japanese troops in the front row fell one by one.

The Japanese troops in the back row scrambled to crowd up, and they charged desperately, but the fortifications on the forward positions had been very solid after the previous construction, and the defeated soldiers were not weaker than the Japanese troops in combat after they really came into close contact with the Japanese army.

(End of chapter)