Chapter 15: Memories of That Year
On the first high ground of Kunlun Pass in the 28th year of the Republic of China, Dai Anlan, commander of the 200th Division of the Fifth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, was lying on a stretcher! Looking at Zheng Tingji, he did not salute, but stretched out his right hand stained with blood, Zheng Tingjian was stunned, looking at the other party's eyes full of bloodshot and expectation that had not slept for a few days, stretched out his hand and held him tightly, Dai Anlan covered it with his left hand, patted it, and was very pleased.
A month ago, the Japanese army took advantage of the loose defense line of the Chinese army, assaulted Kunlun Pass to occupy Nanning, cutting off the main artery of the Nationalist Government and the southwest, you must know that only in the 29th year of the Republic of China, 12,500 tons of 14,700 tons of materials transported by the allies, that is, 85 percent of the foreign aid to be transported through this artery, it can be said that this is now the most important lifeline of China, how can there be no eggs under the nest, the national situation is like this, can only desperately, only by taking the Kunlun Pass can Nanning be recaptured, only by taking the first highland can the enemy of Kunlun Pass be suppressed, and only then can there be hope of recapturing Kunlun Pass!
In this battle, the national army mobilized almost 150,000 troops, except for the 200th Division and the 3rd Regiment of Zheng Tingji, the first division of honor, the other troops were sniping the Japanese reinforcements on the periphery, especially from Silong north of Kunlun Pass to the south of Kunlun Pass is Wutang, Qiu Qingquan's 22nd Division of the Liutang area of the tank troops, after many days of hard fighting, has almost been unable to resist the enemy, the Japanese infantry 21 brigade and the 42nd company under the leadership of the brigade commander Nakamura Masao launched a crazy assault, the Japanese army in order to deal with the national army's tanks, mobilized a lot of rapid-fire artillery, and dispatched a large number of death squads, armed with explosives to blast the tank, with the support of the aircraft Wutang has been recaptured by the Japanese army, the original intention of the Chinese army to prevent reinforcements behind the enemy can not be realized, it is necessary to capture the Jieshou Heights before the Japanese reinforcements arrive at Kunlun Pass.
On the 24th, Zheng Tingjian touched the headquarters of the 21st Brigade of the Japanese Army at night and forcibly killed Nakamura Masao, but he still could not slow down the pace of the Japanese army's rescue, and the fifth division of the Japanese army stationed at Kunlun Pass was the elite unit with the title of "Steel Army" that had been tested by the Russo-Japanese War.
On the night of December 28, the Japanese reinforcements on the opposite side had captured Jiutang and arrived at the Kunlun Pass area, but they were still blocked under the pass, leaving little time for Zheng Tingjian and his third regiment! High underground, hastily eating dry food, the adjutant began to issue weapons and silver dollars to each daredevil, the roar of guns and cannons in the south of Kunlun Pass is getting closer and closer, but no one speaks, only the sound of chewing and swallowing, Adjutant Li Jun's glasses legs are broken at some point, and he happens to be injured on the head, so he simply wraps his head in bandages like a mummy, and just ties his glasses inside, and cuts two holes on the outside, only revealing two lenses, what a smart person! He was stuffing the silver dollar into the expressionless Yang Dawei's hand, Yang Dawei was from the Northeast, and his mother-in-law and two children died under the Japanese bayonet, so he didn't care, and threw the four silver dollars in his hand to Erdan, and continued to wipe his big knife. Erdan just turned sixteen years old, is the eldest in the family, when the army passed by Changde, he was still in middle school and secretly escaped from home to join the army, usually when charging, the people in the class always intentionally or unintentionally left him behind, he is still young, in silent tears, picked up the silver dollar that fell on the ground and got up to find the person who wanted to stay in the position, it is estimated that he wanted to ask someone to bring it to the old lady. Before Lu Dongbin was brought in to serve as a soldier, he was a fortune teller wearing a Taoist robe, and he got a cigarette out of nowhere and stuck it in the mound, kneeling there and not knowing what to say, Zhang Xiaochun, a native of Sichuan, was an old smoker with 40 years of smoke, and when he saw that the cigarette actually didn't go up to grab it, it seemed that his brain was in the water! Looking at the familiar faces, I don't know how many people will be alive and the dry food will be eaten.
Zheng Tingji's stomach seemed to be filled with lead, and he was convulsing and aching! The ninjas he met when he killed Nakamura Masao a few days ago had caused him great internal injuries, he stood up, holding a big knife in one hand, and his body was full of grenades, and he picked up the sea bowl and said to the more than 200 death squad members: "Brothers, I don't need to say more about the importance of the Jieshou Heights, the Jieshou must be taken, and the blood feud with the Japanese can only be washed here with blood! Either we die or they die! We must win! We must also win!" Replace wine with water, and wish victory! Drink victory!"
As soon as the time arrived at 3 o'clock in the morning, Zheng Tingjian took the team members to touch it quietly, the soil on the ground had been soaked in blood, it looked muddy, and the fishy smell was even worse when lying on it, and the upward ramp was covered with comrades who had died before, and their bodies still retained the posture of impacting upwards, but they seemed to be asleep with their eyes closed, and the corpses on the road provided cover for Zheng Tingjian and the team members, but they were still discovered by the cunning enemy. The sound of machine guns and grenade explosions and shouts mingled with the flames, and the sneak attack was changed to a strong attack.
The machine guns of the second battalion to provide cover in the back rang out, and the death squad began to rush up, but the barbed wire fence all over the mountains exposed more than 200 members of the death squad to the enemy's fire net, and became the target of the enemy's shooting。
The soldiers held big knives in their hands, and strapped grenades to the high ground, they relied on fire support, quickly approached the target in mutual cover, blasted the Japanese bunker fortifications, and for some targets that were not good to blast, some soldiers took a meat bomb offensive, pulled the grenade and rushed directly into the cave of the Japanese army, deep in the tunnel, and the Japanese army perished! The Japanese soldiers dug out a row of square holes about one meter long on the stone wall, about 20 meters apart, five in a row, each hole has a soldier with a machine gun, it is difficult to fight, in addition, there are heavy machine gun positions of the Japanese army above, the daredevils can not rush through, like cutting leeks constantly people fall, the impact of the team members by the Japanese powerful fire on the ground can not raise their heads, from time to time someone muffled and shot.
At this critical juncture, Zheng Tingjian suddenly jumped up from the ground, like a sharp arrow running through the firebelt, while running wildly while throwing the grenade in his hand into the hole accurately, the Japanese machine gun bullets on the high ground continued to cover him, Zheng Tingjian felt like he had been hit by a few heavy hammers, Zheng Tingji's mouth spurted blood, and the right arm that threw the grenade was hit by the bullet and hung down on his side, he took a deep breath, lifted the internal force, and smashed himself into the heavy machine gun position of the Japanese army, the big knife in his left hand danced, and he knocked down several people, and the remaining daredevils in the back saw the regiment commander personally rushed into the enemy group, morale was greatly boosted, and then rushed up, and the remaining Japanese troops pulled the grenade in despairAfter a series of loud bangs, the smoke rose into the air, and the daredevils below cried and rushed to the high ground, and as the smoke thinned, they vaguely saw the figure of the regiment commander standing alone on the high ground like a god of war.
The ring-headed big knife was deeply inserted into the rock, Zheng Tingjian supported his body with both hands on the handle of the knife, covered in blood, more than ten shrapnel drilled into his body, causing wounds like an open mouth, and the bullet holes kept spurting blood, but the hateful thing was that one of them was deeply embedded in his left face, and his cheekbones should be broken, but it was a pity that his beautiful face was gone, Zheng Tingjian didn't feel pain, he vaguely heard the cry of the second egg, this kid is still alive, it's so good! Seeing that the Japanese army had just rushed into Kunlun Pass, he opened his bloody mouth and tried to make himself laugh.......
In this battle, nine infantry companies and seven company commanders of the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Division of Honor were killed or wounded! Adjutant Li Jun was killed, and almost all the members of the death squad were wiped out! Regiment commander Zheng Tingjian himself was seriously wounded and fell into a coma. Although the main force of the 42nd Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army in Jiutang also happened to break through the main position of Kunlun Pass at this time and converged with the remnants of the 21st Infantry Wing, but it was too late, after conquering the Jieshou Heights, the 21st Brigade of the Japanese Infantry was completely surrounded by the National Army in Kunlun Pass.
The past buried in his heart was awakened by familiar actions, Zheng Tingjian looked at the young man who called his old brother in front of him, and inexplicably liked him in his heart, Zheng Tingjian stretched out his hand, held Wang Shixian's hand and pulled him up.
"Little doll, let's go back to the mountain gate with my brother, Jiang Li's girl cried so much that I felt distressed" The old man was a little distressed, he was meditating in the back mountain, and when he heard the movement at the mountain gate in front of him, he went over to see the excitement, at his age, he didn't care about what "Alchemy" was, and even practicing martial arts was just a habit, maybe it was this kind of enlightened letting go that made him make a breakthrough in his state of mind, but in the ancient years, martial arts advanced again and again. Tonight, he saw that Wang Shixian was crying and laughing along the way, which made him quite interested, so he couldn't help but want to match the two of them.