In the long darkness, Song Yuhang saw the familiar faces of the past, Hu Na, the captain, Xiao Nanjing and others were turning around in front of his eyes, and suddenly, all the faces turned into erratic skeletons, and bright red rain fell from the sky "Ah" Song Yuhang woke up violently, but with the great pain all over his body, he fell back to the bed.
Liu Mengzi, who had been guarding Song Yuhang's side, saw Song Yuhang wake up, and hurriedly shouted: "The chief of staff of the doctor is awake, come quickly."
With a rush of chaotic footsteps, Xu Tuan broke into the ward, and Song Yuhang also struggled to sit up, and found that it was dark outside In amazement, Song Yuhang touched the thick bandage on his neck, tried to move his body, and found that everything was normal except for the ricocheting abrasion on his shoulder, and when he looked up, he happened to see Xu Tu'an, whose head was wrapped like a zongzi, entering the door.
Song Yuhang didn't wait for Xu Tu'an to speak, he grabbed him and asked, "How long have I been in a coma, how is the position of the old bell tower?"
Xu Tuan held Song Yuhang's body with both hands and said: "Chief of staff, don't worry, you were injured in the afternoon and were snatched back by the brothers, and now it is 22 o'clock in the evening, and you have been stunned by the shell for more than 5 hours, which frightened the brothers."
Xu Tu'an paused and continued: "The old bell tower position lost contact at 18:29, and then we sent 2 platoons of reinforcements to try to intersperse reinforcements, but one platoon encountered the Japanese army at the entrance of Xiaoxi Street, only 3 people survived, and the other platoon lost contact, and now there is a fierce exchange of fire in the direction of the old bell tower, and the main position should still be in our hands." ” Song Yuhang knew that the military situation had reached a situation of 100,000 urgency at this moment, and when he was unconscious, Zheng Tingqian led a company of reinforcements to reinforce the 131 heights, and everyone knew that once the commanding heights of the whole city 131 were lost, then the central bank would be directly exposed to the direct fire of the Japanese artillery.
Zheng Tingqian's departure made Song Yuhang the supreme commander of the core position in Tonggu City, and all the burdens were on the shoulders of Zheng Tingqi and Song Yuhang.
Just as Song Yuhang was about to plan to draw half a company from the tense troops, and when he was reinforcing the old bell tower, the gunfire in the direction of the old bell tower suddenly stopped The position of the old bell tower has reached the point of running out of ammunition and food, and Qi Mingbin, whose face is covered with gunpowder smoke and blood, is also about to come to the end of his life, as early as a few hours ago, Zhao Guochang called to inform him that he can retreat, but the two wings of the old bell tower have been lost, and they have been cut off by the Japanese army.
After burning the documents and military orders in the main bunker, Qi Mingbin took out the blood-soaked photo in his pocket, and groped for a pregnant woman in the photo with his big blackened hands.
The Japanese artillery fire sounded again, Qi Mingbin knew that it was the prelude to the Japanese attack, how much he wanted to watch his child be born at this moment, and he was ordinary to accompany him and her father, who listened to the childish voice calling, but unfortunately he had no chance.
This is a kind of sadness with grief and helplessness, how many Chinese soldiers are like Qi Mingbin, on the one hand, sighing for the poverty of the country, with the last trace of attachment to their wives and children, parents and families, and on the other hand, they know that they are invincible, but they use their flesh and blood to fight to the death with the steel poured by the Japanese invaders, even if they shed the last drop of blood, they have no regrets.
Qi Mingbin probably didn't realize that it was countless people like him who supported the steel backbone of the Chinese nation with their flesh and blood at the critical juncture of the country and the nation, which is a will that no strong enemy can defeat.
The shouts of the Japanese infantry were getting closer and closer, and after Qi Mingbin took the photo closely, he led the last dozens of officers and soldiers to carry out a counter-assault on the Japanese army, while a dozen wounded remained in the bunker and shot at the Japanese with the only remaining ammunition.
Amid the shouts of long live the Chinese nation, dozens of hungry and ragged Chinese soldiers stumbled into the Japanese attack formation in the bright moonlight.
The Chinese defenders in the main position had already suffered casualties, and several seriously wounded were lying in the nearby rubble with tears on their faces, just now the Japanese used several flamethrowers to attack the core bunker.
The whole bunker turned into a melting pot in a blink of an eye, and from time to time there was the sound of ammunition exploding, and the flames rushed out along the perforations, ventilation holes, and dark cracks, and nearly a dozen Chinese wounded who stubbornly resisted in the bunker were all killed and sacrificed.
Looking at the densely packed Japanese soldiers, a wounded man pulled a fuse and looked at the Japanese soldiers who were getting closer and closer with a smile.
There was an earth-shattering bang, and the huge fire generated by the explosion illuminated half of the ancient city, and almost all the glass of the reserve bank was broken, thanks to the fact that Song Yuhang had arranged for the soldiers to paste rice word tape for air defense on the glass, the broken glass did not produce a second kill.
The explosion came from the direction of the old bell tower, looking at the old bell tower with the flames soaring into the sky, Song Yuhang knew that the old bell tower was finished, and the loss of the old bell tower also marked the destruction of the 598th Regiment, Zheng Tingqi, who broke through the Japanese encirclement and entered the 131 heights, silently took off his military hat, and Wei Jingnan, who led dozens of remnants of soldiers to fight with the Japanese army in the old city, looked at the huge fire ball rising from the old bell tower and was silent for a long time.
At this moment, Lieutenant General Masao Watanabe, commander of the 56th Division, ignored the admonition of the staff guards and stepped over the layers of corpses into the old bell tower block in the fire.
Watanabe Masao looked around, in the ruins, there were dead Chinese and Japanese soldiers everywhere, in front of a defensive position of Chinese soldiers, Watanabe Masao stopped, the so-called defensive position is just a temporary bunker reinforced with door panels, sandbags and corpses in the ruins.
Broken weapon parts everywhere, scars on the corpses of every Chinese soldier, and around the remains of one of the Chinese soldiers, a dozen Imperial soldiers had fallen around Watanabe Masao looked at the remains of the Chinese soldiers who were part of the fortifications in a daze, using the corpses of his comrades as fortifications, he could not understand the seemingly crazy behavior of the Chinese soldiers, and the tenacious and tenacious fighting consciousness of the Chinese soldiers was beyond his imagination.
Especially the counterattack of Chinese soldiers before the explosion, in which case the Chinese can still fight back And his subordinates, the excellent soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire, have become numb and mentally exhausted, and as soon as a gun is fired, they will immediately fall to the ground and tremble, and the Chinese can still fight, and our soldiers are no longer good For the first time, Masao Watanabe felt the fear and powerlessness of this war, and could a nation with such soldiers be conquered Masao Watanabe didn't dare to think about it anymore, the corpse of the soldier had numbed him, and leaving this damn Shura field was his only thought at the moment.
Compared with Takeuchi Masao, who was scolded by the base camp, Watanabe Masao was happy, his 56th Division captured the positions of the Chinese defenders after paying heavy casualties, and Takeuchi Kan's 55th Division seemed to have gone unlucky since the beginning of the Tonggu Defense Battle, and after paying a heavy price, the 131 Heights were still in the hands of the Chinese defenders.
Takeuchi's concern is not about the future, but about how to survive At 20 o'clock on the evening of the 31st, the central bank, which was the core position of the Chinese defenders in the ancient city, was fiercely attacked by the Japanese army, and the mortars arranged by Song Yuhang in the dead corner of the back cover of the top floor played an important role.
After learning that the fifth offensive of the troops had failed, Takeuchi Hiroshi personally arrived in Xincheng to supervise the battle, and the offensive strength gradually increased from three infantry battalions of the 112th Wing to all of the 144th Wing, two squadrons of cavalry, all of the 55th Mountain Artillery Wing, and one of the 55th Engineer Wing, with a total strength of more than 15,000 people.
After personally inspecting the actual situation on the battlefield, Takeuchi Kuan, who thought that he had iron mouths and steel teeth, was shocked into a cold sweat, and it was difficult for him to imagine what kind of madman built this core fortification, the shooting range within 300 meters was all cleared, and the ground was full of small pits with a diameter of 20 centimeters Mountain artillery under 100 mm directly hit the main fortifications of the Chinese army, leaving only a helmet-sized pit, while most of the Chinese fire points were built underground, and when the imperial soldiers attacked, the entire bank became like a hedgehog "There will definitely be weaknesses, there will definitely be weaknesses" Takeuchi muttered several times, in his opinion, there is absolutely no fortress in this world that cannot be overcome.
After directly taking over the command of the wing commander, Takeuchi Kan directly ordered all the Yamada brigades to be put into attack, Yamada Nakasa was stunned for a moment, hesitated for a moment, and said: "Your Excellency, due to the limitations of the terrain, our army can only invest at most two squadrons in each attack, and one brigade cannot be deployed in any case."
If it were in peacetime, Takeuchi would have seriously considered and adopted Yamada's suggestion, but the emperor's edict of fighting bravely has been issued, and the lives of soldiers are no longer an insignificant thing, the key is how to take the most difficult bone to gnaw on the ancient city as soon as possible, with the annihilation of the only mechanized unit of the Chongqing Army as a shield, Takeuchi is confident that with his connections in the Ministry of the Army, he can still pass the test safely, and he must not let Watanabe Masao, the old fox, share his glory.
After several slaps, slaps, slaps, slaps, Takeuchi yelled at Yamada, "Are you scared, coward, how can you be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, you can solve it yourself?"
Takeuchi Kuan threw the knife in front of Yamada's eyes, and Yamada, who had a face of gunsmoke, was stunned for a moment, knelt on the ground with a plop, and slowly stretched out his hand, the white gloves on his hands could no longer see the color Many officers on the side all looked at Yamada with unbearable expressions, although they knew that Yamada was right, but without the presence of the wing commander, no one dared to intercede for Yamada.
After a while, Yamada, who was holding a katana, suddenly turned around and bowed to Takeuchi Kanichi and said, "Your Excellency, I hope to die on the battlefield like a real soldier, please."
Takeuchi hesitated for a moment and waved his hand, after all, Yamada was the most capable captain under him, which was a pity Facing the position of the Shina defenders hidden in the darkness, Yamada helplessly slowly drew his command knife, Yamada knew that this would be the last attack he wielded, and no matter what the outcome, he had to die The dense offensive formation of the Yamada Brigade made Song Yuhang stunned in the dark, and the infantry shock formation like a wave of Japanese infantry was layered under the flash of artillery fire, and rushed to the Chinese defenders' positions in waves.
Takeuchi watched the dense and messy shock formation of the infantry in the telescope, it was obvious that the small crater in the ground was trapped, the troops were already close to the distance of a hundred meters from the Chinese defenders' positions, the Chinese army had not yet opened fire, although his own artillery fire was very fierce at the moment, but Takeuchi knew that if the artillery fire was so fierce that it could suppress all the firepower of the Chinese defenders, the solid reserve bank would have been captured a long time ago.
"Time-delay fuse, ruler binding 80-meter flare," Song Yuhang shouted Five or six flares fired by mortars floated in the air with small parachutes, illuminating the ground in a miserable white, and the Japanese attacking troops stopped slightly, and countless bullets blew into the Japanese shock formation like a storm, and the reserve bank positions in the dark night were full of long flames from machine guns.
Yamada Nakasa, who rushed to the front of the team, like the soldiers beside him, burst out of the blood mist, and the fire net formed by nearly 100 light and heavy machine guns was like a life harvester, forming a life harvesting line on the ground, and the Japanese soldiers who advanced to this line were shot and fell down one after another.
Painful struggle, miserable groans The Japanese troops who were too dense in the shock formation suffered heavy casualties in just a few tens of seconds, because the shock formation was too dense, the soldiers in the front row were shot and fell to the ground, and the follow-up soldiers did not have time to react to dodge, and they were also shot and killed. personally picked up a ZB light machine gun, regardless of the danger of the shoulder wound being shattered, Song Yuan frantically strafed a magazine At the same time, Hang shouted in joy, and ordered the troops to pay attention to saving ammunition, and the momentum of the Japanese offensive was quickly contained, but a large number of Japanese corpses actually formed a fortification, allowing the follow-up Japanese troops to rely on the corpse wall to launch a counterattack on the Chinese defenders.
The Yamada Brigade, which had not taken advantage of the attack, withdrew to its starting position half an hour after the attack, and as usual, the Japanese artillery began to routinely shell the outer fortifications and the main body of the building, and only 127 of the 831 people in the Yamada Brigade attack survived.
The huge casualties violently shook Takeuchi's fragile nerves, and after understanding, Takeuchi learned that the Chinese defenders' firepower points had to make most adjustments after almost every attack, and due to the limitations of the terrain, the previous method of using anti-aircraft artillery to resist and destroy here completely failed, and the heavy artillery bombardment effect of the lack of concrete destruction shells was not ideal, and the urgently needed special ammunition was shipped from Tokyo.
Takeuchi slammed his fist into the wood at the observation port, knowing full well that he had run into a defensive man who was good at fighting defensive battles
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