The fierce exchange of fire lasted a full eight hours, and the six Japanese brigades had already carried out two full rounds In the face of Song Yuhang's preset terrain firepower, the Japanese mountain artillery was not powerful enough to destroy the Chinese army's fortifications, and the Japanese attacking troops were driven and slaughtered by the defenders' fire like ants on the lattice, and their only role was to consume a large amount of ammunition of the Chinese army.
Song Yuhang, who was tired, couldn't even open his eyelids, and the many torn and dusty military uniforms on his body could no longer see the color, and the hard fighting and pain of the days almost consumed his last trace of energy.
In the ruins 300 meters away on the opposite side, two Japanese soldiers who were also covered in gunpowder smoke and tired faces sat helplessly on the ground back to back, and more than 200 Japanese soldiers who were also embarrassed squatted in the temporary trench to rest, which was the only remaining personnel of the two Japanese brigades.
There was a bleak atmosphere in the air, as if it was the Japanese army who had run out of ammunition and food and were surrounded by groups, and some Japanese soldiers who had no intention of resting looked up at the sky, their empty eyes as if they had lost their souls.
Undoubtedly, the forcible use of light infantry to attack such a well-defended, well-fortified, and fire-equipped fortress cluster would be a nightmare for the army of any country in the world.
It is undeniable that most of the Chinese army lacks the confidence, equipment and training to attack the fortification, but when it comes to defense, the vast majority of the Chinese army has incomparable perseverance, they can silently endure and fight in the overwhelming artillery fire of the Japanese army, and fight until all the members are killed, which may be the essence of the seemingly ordinary Chinese soldiers.
In Tonggu, every minute of dragging the Japanese army is to win a glimmer of hope for future victory, although most of the Chinese soldiers do not understand the true meaning of this sentence, but the meaning of the word hope is still understood by most of them, that means that the living can get a reward, eat a hot meal, can wear clean clothes, and if you are lucky, you can even go home to visit relatives, and for a few days there is no gunsmoke, and maybe you can use the reward money to say a family and leave a seed for yourself.
The demands of these simple Chinese soldiers are so simple, even to the point of poignant.
The sparse gunfire on the 131st Heights finally stopped, as if a powerful engine was on fire, and the mood of the Chinese soldiers in the main position was infected to a certain extent, and it was only a matter of time before everyone would die.
Song Yuhang, who was lying on his stomach and fell asleep in the bunker, was woken up by Xu Tu'an, who had been missing for a day, and looked at it in vain with half of the broken binoculars Song Yuhang threw the telescope aside, looked up and down at Xu Tuan, who even had his left arm and left eye wrapped in bandages, and said, "Is the injury serious?"
Xu Tu'an was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Song Yuhang to care about his injury first, nodded his head in gratitude, and then shook his head violently, maybe the shaking of the head was too violent and stimulated to hurt his eyes, Xu Tu'an pressed his temple with his right hand, and his mouth made a gasp sound.
Song Yuhang glanced at a trace of fish white that appeared in the sky, the battle was fought to this point, he himself could not help but say that he was responsible, he thought he understood the process of history, and as a result, he made many small swabs and won a lot, but he also put the remaining thousands of brothers in the 200th Division into a desperate situation.
Dai Anyan's death broke Song Yuhang's heart, and he didn't expect such a result after the great change Xu Tuan knew how much pressure Song Yuhang was under, but at this moment, the military spirit needs encouragement, and the soldiers need to set an example So Xu Tu'an pulled out a blue sky and white sun full of red from the armed belt on his back waist and handed it to Song Yuhangdao: "Chief of Staff, raise the flag" Song Yuhang looked at Xu Tu'an in confusion, and in an instant he understood Xu Tu'an's intentions, and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Blow the trumpet and raise the flag" Although the tone of the two trumpets was not very coordinated, and the level of the trumpeters who were temporarily arrested was limited, it did not affect the solemnity and solemnity of the flag-raising ceremony at all.
The Chinese soldiers in all positions twisted their heads to the skewed flagpole on the third floor of the Central Bank, and after the two military policemen fixed the flagpole, they slowly raised the national flag. salute The corners of every Chinese soldier's eyes moistened, it had been seventeen days since they arrived in Tonggu, and they had been holding on here for a full seventeen days, and the previous battles in the mountains of corpses and the sea of blood were nothing compared to here The wounded in the basement who were still able to move struggled to see what was going on, and the seriously wounded struggled to raise their right hands At this time, the Japanese soldiers seemed to have forgotten the existence of the Chinese snipers they were most afraid of, and they stood up one after another, looking hesitantly.
And the two Japanese soldiers looked at the flags slowly rising in the smoke with a desperate expression Masao Watanabe, who insisted on inspecting the front line despite the obstruction of his subordinates, was stunned by the scene in front of him, before he had heard the old-timers of the year mention the tragedy of the Battle of Arthur during World War I, and in front of him was the front line of the Chinese defenders' position, which was less than 1,000 meters wide and 300 meters deep, and the corpses of the Japanese soldiers were stacked on top of each other, and there were discarded weapons and corpses everywhere.
The casualties of soldiers and the loss of technical equipment are just a report in a numbers game for decision-makers, and for generals who are on the front line, they are a small or large number of replacement and replenishment of subordinates, but more than 3,000 soldiers died in this narrow space, and Masao Watanabe seemed to be about to suffocate.
Almost all the infantry brigades of the 55th and 56th Divisions participated in the attack on the core fortifications, and yesterday a junior officer even proposed to abandon the attack, although the latter was forced to commit suicide, but the impact was enormous, and this was also the first request of a junior officer since the start of the war in 37 Looking at the empty eyes of his soldiers, Watanabe Masao looked up at the flag flying over the Reserve Bank again, he clearly knew that his soldiers could no longer fight, but the Chinese could still fight, what did these Chinese soldiers do, are they all iron men?
Masao Watanabe, who was puzzled, finally got the good news, that is, the Chinese are running out of ammunition "Hand-to-hand combat is the strength of the Imperial Army," a smile finally appeared on the corner of Watanabe's mouth.
A new round of attacks was finally launched, with Takeuchi and Watanabe Masao dividing a 1,000-meter frontal semi-circular position, and the 55th and 56th Divisions each sent a brigade to attack.
After distributing the last three boxes of ammunition, Quartermaster Fu Quancai led two assistants holding a few grenades to find Song Yuhang, and at the same time brought him dozens of received messages.
The white-knuckle battle that the Japanese had hoped for finally broke out at the main gate of the bank, which had already been bombed into rubble, and more than a dozen heavy machine guns with sufficient ammunition remained silent under Song Yuhang's orders, and Song Yuhang gave them an order that all the Chinese soldiers in front of the gate should fall, or all the Japanese soldiers could open fire on their own if they were filled up within 300 meters.
Song Yuhang personally led a company of gendarmes to go up, and the rest of the troops withdrew to the second line to reorganize, and a second lieutenant who wanted to hold Song Yuhang was hit by Song Yuhang's rifle butt.
As the Japanese army continued to approach, at a distance where the Chinese soldiers could already see their eyebrows and beards, Song Yuhang roared: "Brothers, who have not died in the battle with the masters today since ancient times, they all follow the masters to enjoy the happiness after going down, our old Song family is a family with a lot of money, and it is my brothers who kill the little devils with me above, and I will not treat everyone badly when I go down."
Most of the honest Chinese soldiers lack culture, in their eyes, Song Yuhang is a relative of the emperor, people are not afraid of death, what are we afraid of, and most Chinese soldiers believe that there is a saying about the following world Ignorant and brave, the Chinese soldiers, who had long since broken the idea of returning alive, fired their only ammunition one after another, and soon staggered with the Japanese army, and were overwhelmed by the Japanese army in more than ten seconds.
The heroic and senseless Chinese soldiers used bayonets when they ran out of bullets, and when the bayonets were broken, they used the butts of their rifles, and when the butts were broken, they swung their fists, steel helmets, sapper shovels, and everything else they could use as weapons, and swung them at the dense Japanese troops in all directions, and when they were tired and thought that it was time for everything to end, they rang for their own grenades.
The Japanese soldiers, who were as ferocious as wild beasts, were stunned, and they hid from the Chinese soldiers in all directions, and the whole offensive situation suddenly fell into chaos, and the follow-up support troops were also blocked and mixed together.
Song Yuhang, who was at the forefront with a hot head, didn't have any grenades, and after stabbing down several Japanese soldiers in a row, he was pushed to the ground by the crowd, and he could basically see that the yellow school uniform saved his life, and the two Japanese soldiers dragged him up from the ground as his own.
Song Yuhang, who casually took out a pistol to deal with two well-wishers, was knocked to the ground by a wave of air detonated by a nearby Chinese soldier detonating a zha medicine bag, and his head fell to a stone and fainted.
The machine guns of the Chinese defenders finally rang out, and the dense barrage of barrage tore the Japanese soldiers in the confusion to the ground one by one, like harvesters harvesting rice.
When the hopeless Japanese army retreated like a tide, the medical soldiers were lucky to find Song Yuhang, who was breathing weakly, in the corpse mountain From the Japanese positions came the angry shouts of the officers, and the wolf howls of the soldiers, which were the Japanese officers beating their soldiers with sticks and scabbards, and the Japanese soldiers were helpless to be killed by the officers rather than attack the Chinese defenders.
The more than 10 days of bloody battles have already made the arrogant Japanese know what it means to have an iron wall, and the arrogant and arrogant Japanese Imperial Army has met in front of the iron wall and broken its blood.
Even an extremely arrogant Japanese tank wing has disappeared, and dozens of Japanese tanks have been destroyed in front and behind the position by heroic Chinese soldiers during the so-called outflanking in the past few days, especially those Chinese chariots that serve as swimming firepower and ghosts, and the Japanese charioteers privately call Tonggu the chariot grave Song Yuhang, who was carried back to first aid, woke up quickly, first, the injury was not serious, and second, Xu Tuan almost inserted a tube of cool oil into his nostrils
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