Although Zhou Shiquan is a battalion commander, his command ability has far surpassed his military rank, and in the eyes of others, he cannot seek unreasonable problems, and he can often find a reasonable entry point.

How can you blow up a tank and destroy the infantry behind it? Zhou Shiquan lay in the trench, observed the attacking Japanese army with a telescope, carefully observed the formation of the attacking Japanese army, and then thought.

He decided that tanks and infantry, tanks are the main thing, because of the presence of tanks, the Japanese infantry can safely attack, blowing up the Japanese tanks from the front, obviously unlikely, only from the side to approach the tank.

Zhou Shiquan was suddenly inspired by the usual drill queue, which was originally a walking team, shouted to turn to the right, and the formation of the headquarters immediately became a line formation, if the tanks and infantry in the formation of the headquarters also became a horizontal formation in a line formation, the tank would suddenly lose the role of covering the infantry, and the demoman would be able to approach the tank.

However, how can we make the enemy's tanks consciously move the direction, after all, the Japanese tanks will not obey their own command.

He carefully observed and pondered with a telescope, and recorded in his mind all the formations of the Japanese attack, including the surrounding terrain, and soon found a way to deal with it.

He divided all the officers and men into two parts, one of which was commanded by the deputy battalion commander and quickly moved to the enemy's left in concealment. The other part, led by him personally, moved to the right of the enemy.

The deputy battalion commander who had agreed in advance to the left side was responsible for attracting and pinning down the enemy, and when the enemy was found on the left side, the Japanese would change the direction and formation of the attack and attack to the left, so that their backs would be exposed to the defenders on the right.

In this way, the Japanese tanks lost their role in protecting the infantry, and the demomen were able to quickly approach the tanks and blast them.

The deputy battalion commander, leading the officers and men, bent over, quickly marched through the grove to the south side of the natives, and after taking up the position, he immediately gave the order: 'Fight!' All the officers and men quickly fired at the Japanese troops, threw grenades, and at the same time made some illusions of charging at the enemy to confuse the enemy.

The enemy tanks and infantry did not know what to do, so they immediately turned to the right and walked sideways in a line-up formation, thus achieving the purpose of listening to the command during the exercise.

Zhou Shiquan, who was on the left side of the enemy, saw that the 'order' of the enemy was successful, and immediately ordered the demoman to attack and the sniper to take cover.

The sniper's bullets whizzed through the woods and fields, submerged into the Japanese infantry, and the demomen who received the order were like arrows off the string, wanting to run to the tank, at this time the Japanese tanks did not react at all, and when they were rapidly approaching the tank, some of them quickly climbed to the top of the tank, pulled the lid of the tank, and Chiang's grenade was stuffed in, and with an explosion, the enemy's tanker was killed, and a burst of black smoke came out of the tank, and the tank turned off and could not move.

There were also people who stuffed grenades under the tracks of the tank, and with a loud bang, the tracks of the tank were deformed, like a pile of scrap metal, and collapsed in place.

At the same time, the snipers on the left and right flanked the Japanese infantry in front and rear, and the bullets rained down, and the enemy fell in response, and the remnants of the enemy quickly fled.

Because the enemy was surrounded by the front and rear, it was blocked by the crossfire network of the Chinese army, and none of them escaped, and all of them were annihilated.

The battle situation at Hongmaoshan was reported to Commander Tang, who was rewarded by Commander Tang, and at the same time, in order to reduce casualties, Commander Tang sent a non-commissioned battalion and an anti-tank company to help. On the second day after the battle, stationed at the outpost between the second and first peaks of the Purple Mountain, that is, between the observatory and the Tuohutou Ridge, an observer noticed that a huge balloon had risen over the Japanese position, and under the balloon, a man with a telescope was hanging.

The sentry immediately reported the situation to the platoon commander, and the platoon commander who learned of the situation immediately reported the information to his superiors, and the platoon reported to the company headquarters, and the company headquarters reported to the battalion headquarters Gui Yongqing soon received a report that it was a dozen Japanese artillery shells hitting the Tiger Cave position in Purple Mountain.

The Tiger Cave position is located in the rear of the Purple Mountain, and it is obvious that the person who rose from the huge balloon is the scout used by the Japanese army to observe the Purple Mountain position.

He immediately ordered the battalion commander Gao Liansheng to send a squad of special shooters to solve this problem.

In order to shoot down this huge balloon, Gao Liansheng took the special shooter squad to set off from Weigang outside the Zhongshan Gate, climbed over two hills, crossed a river, and came to a position about 200 meters away from the balloon, and fired three shots in a row with the 38 big cover, not only the balloon exploded, but the enemy scouts were also killed by them, and the corpse fell from a high altitude, smashed into the pile of troubled times, and turned into a pile of meat paste.

However, because their group went too deep, they were discovered by the enemy, and were intercepted by nearly 100 Japanese soldiers near the new village of the cemetery, and the two sides launched fierce firefights, and the battle lasted until dark, and the soldiers of Gao Liansheng and the special marksman squad had already run out of bullets, and there were few grenades left.

The Japanese seemed to anticipate that this national army was running out of ammunition and began to charge.

The soldiers thought that the few grenades returned fire, and after the grenades were thrown, the rifles were loaded with bayonets, and they rushed to the Japanese with the determination to die. Under the huge disadvantage of being outnumbered by the enemy, more than a dozen soldiers stabbed many Japanese soldiers in succession, and finally lost all the Japanese soldiers and died heroically.

When the enemy attacked the Tiger Cave with artillery fire, the officers and soldiers stationed in the Tiger Cave were stuffy under the command of Luo Yufeng's battalion commander, and urgently entered the bunker, and the artillery fire stopped, Luo Yufeng knew that the enemy's infantry was about to attack, and ordered the soldiers to quickly return to the position.

As expected, the enemy group not far away was like ants, rushing to the tiger hole, when the enemy rushed to the tiger hole thirty meters, the devil's eyes and nose were clearly visible, Luo Yufeng saw that the time was ripe, and shouted "Fight!" ”

In an instant, there was a loud burst of gunfire on the position, and several Czechs formed crossfire, like harvesting wheat, and a long chain of bullets was thrown into the ranks of the Japanese army, and a large number of Japanese soldiers fell to the ground with bullets.

The bundled cluster grenades fell on the enemy group like blooming flowers, and some Japanese devils were directly swept out by the huge shock wave.

The Japanese army was suddenly attacked, and their heads were beaten and they couldn't lift them, so they threw a large number of attempts, and the surviving devils even rolled and crawled back.

At the end of this battle, Luo Yufeng believed that the Purple Mountain was the commanding heights to control Jinling City, and the Japanese devils would not give up attacking the Purple Mountain, so they must strengthen the defense of the Tiger Cave. He expected that the Japanese devils would definitely launch a more fierce attack on the Tiger Cave in the future, and it would be difficult to defend it by relying only on one battalion.

Thinking about it, Luo Yufeng thought that if he wanted to control the Tiger Cave, he could use the trick of wanting to capture the old man, and it happened that Gui Yongqing called to inquire about the battle situation on this day, Luo Yufeng first reported the battle situation to Gui Yongqing, and then reported his thoughts to him.

Gui Yongqing listened, and was silent for a short time: "If you want to capture the old people, this idea is good, but in the process of implementation, you must prevent the enemy from seeing the flaws." When you do this defensive plan, it's like a magic trick performed on a stage, and once you let the audience see it, it loses its meaning. ”

Gui Yongqing agreed to Luo Yufeng's plan.

Early the next morning, Luo Yufeng commanded the troops to leave the Tiger Cave and hid on both sides of the Tiger Cave.

At about 8 o'clock in the morning, a group of enemy planes flew at a low altitude and came to the top of the Tiger Cave, where they bombarded indiscriminately like raindrops and dropped more than a dozen incendiary bombs.

The fire burned for a whole day, the woods around the Tiger Cave were burned to ashes, the trees were completely burned, some broke and fell to the ground, the whole Tiger Cave was bare, the position became charred black, and the cement fortifications were also burned into powder under the high temperature, and it was impossible to approach at night as if it was a charcoal fire of a brazier.

Luo Yufeng saw all this, and he was afraid for a while, if he hadn't left in time, Luohudong would be the crematorium for the officers and soldiers of the whole battalion.

The officers and soldiers were also happy, and they all said that Luo Yufeng was simply Zhuge Liang.

Only Luo Yufeng knew that he was not Zhuge Liang, but he just happened to be here today and hid.

This time also reminded him that the Japanese devils would not give up, and would increase their attack on the Tiger Cave.

He estimated that the Japanese army did not expect to bomb the position in the direction of Tiger Cave and did not hurt a single person. They must have thought that the Tiger Cave had become a ruin, and they would definitely send troops to occupy it in the front row.

The battle for the second day was inevitable, and in order to have enough energy to meet the enemy's attack, he asked everyone to hurry up and get a good night's sleep for the next battle.

In the early morning of the next day, as soon as the sky showed a glimmer of dawn, Luo Yufeng and the officers and soldiers came to the Tiger Cave and dug a simple fortification.

As soon as breakfast was over, the enemy began to attack the Tiger Cave, and the enemy's infantry, under the cover of tanks, rushed up with a roar. In the face of the menacing Japanese tanks, Luo Yufeng did not panic at all, and Gui Yongqing sent someone to send more than a dozen anti-tank guns the night before, which came in handy at this moment.

Luo Yufeng shouted loudly: "Artillery brothers, it's up to you, aim a little, hit hard, and don't let go of a tank." ”

Boom, boom, several deafening roars, the soldiers on the position looked under the tiger hole in the position one after another, but saw that the tracks of several tanks in front of the Japanese army were blown up and collapsed there like a pile of scrap metal, which not only affected the attack of the infantry, but also affected the advance of the tanks behind.

Then he heard a few sharp whistling from the head hole, Luo Yufeng raised his head, but saw a few shells dragging the arc of the road and falling on the Japanese tank, and even the infantry behind him were also shaken down.

"Beautiful!"

Seeing the appearance of the Japanese devils, the officers and soldiers in the direction of the Tiger Cave happily slapped the ground and shouted excitedly.

The tanks could not attack, and the infantry of the Japanese devils began to rush up the mountain, Luo Yufeng saw that there was no threat from the tanks, so he immediately let the light and heavy machine guns on the left and right sides of the position open fire, and the crossfire formed blocked the road for the Japanese devil infantry to attack, and it was impossible to advance at all.

But this time, the Japanese devils had a lot of infantry, and even if Luo Yufeng's battalion headquarters occupied the terrain advantage, it was far less numerical than the enemy, and it was impossible to solve the battle in a short time.

It was destined to be a bitter battle, and the gunfire and roar of the Tiger Cave lasted from early morning until dark. The fighting was very fierce, and the casualties on both sides were very heavy.

During the bombing of the capital by Tiger Cave, the 16th Division of the Japanese Army used planes, tanks, and artillery to carry out many attacks on Xiaolingwei, Xishan, Linggu Temple, Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, Cemetery Xincun, Weigang, and other areas.

In the end, a fierce hand-to-hand fight with the Japanese army began, with a radius of more than 20 miles outside the Zhongshan Gate, no tiles remained, the smoke sprinkled with the smell of burnt paste, and the corpses of the enemy and the national army were everywhere, accumulating layer by layer.

In some areas, the meat is muddy and muddy.

The whole battle was fought quite fiercely.

Yuhuatai.

The people of Jinling mentioned will tell the moving stories of Zhu Chi and Gao Zhisong, two generals who stained Yuhuatai with blood.

Yuhuatai, which is located outside the Zhonghua Gate of Jinling, is the famous place of Jinling, and is the place of martyrdom of the martyrs of the Chinese revolution.

Legend has it that the monk Yunguang of the Liang Dynasty of the Southern Dynasty once preached here, moved to be rich, and the flowers fell in the sky like rain, from then on, it was called Yuhuatai, and the stone of Yuhuatai was also called Yuhuashi.

Before leaving Jinling, Chiang summoned the senior generals in each important area to the office one by one, first, to explain the combat mission, and second, to carry out ideological mobilization.

Responsible for holding Yuhuatai is Sun Yuanliang, commander of the 72nd Army and commander of the 88th Division.

When he received the news that Jiang called him, he was not surprised, during this time, in order to defend Jinling, Jiang met many people in the office, and this time he saw him, it must be for the important task of defending Jinling.

As soon as Sun Yuanliang stepped into the office, he saw Jiang standing in front of the map, holding a command stick in one hand, and pointing at the map: "You come to see the map." ”

Sun Yuanliang approached the map, and Jiang pointed to the map and said, "There are two important defense points in Jinling, one is the Purple Mountain, and the other is Yuhuatai. The area of Purple Mountain is wide and there are many troops that can be placed, while Yuhuatai is small in area and the defense line is less than 3,000 meters, which is relatively difficult to attack, and it is not easy to defend in three-dimensional warfare. However, the Yuhuatai defense line is extremely important, it is good to defend it, and you have to defend it to the death, do you understand? ”

Sun Yuanliang put his legs together and said loudly: "Principal, I understand your intentions!" ”

Jiang nodded, and said: "Yuhuatai has the second spring in the south of the Yangtze River, and there is a tomb behind it, and there is a stone tablet in front of the tomb, which is engraved with 7 big characters of 'Yang Zhongxianggong's dissecting the heart'. ”

Who is Yang Zhongxiang?

Yang Zhongxiang is Yang Bangyi, is the Song Dynasty's Jiankang Mansion judge, Jin soldiers hit Jinling, Jin Wushu tempted him to surrender, he scolded the thief, resolutely not to die, not to surrender, righteous and awe-inspiring.

The Jin people were helpless against him, so they cut open his heart and buried him in Yuhuatai, and the descendants set up a stone tablet here in order to commemorate him.

"I know that Yang Bangyi died tragically." Sun Yuanliang didn't know much about this history, so he only said one sentence, and didn't dare to talk nonsense in front of Jiang, for fear of being reprimanded by Jiang if he made a mistake.

He was also wondering in his heart whether Jiang was pointing at himself when he said that stone tablet, like Yang Bangyi, who would rather die than give in, and be awe-inspiring.

He wondered in his heart.

(End of chapter)