Chapter 31: The Longest Day (7)

On the afternoon of December 12, 1937, the Purple Mountain Teaching Corps position

Lu Yuding kicked the Japanese army in front of him, the pain in his waist and abdomen made him unbearable, after the Japanese army captured the first trench, and the defenders of the main position repeatedly tug-of-war, fighting to the death, and finally let the superior Japanese army attack the main line of defense, which is also the last line of defense.

The grenades kept exploding in the Japanese army that broke through, it was Zhang Wei's reinforcement on the high ground, Lu Yuding knew why Zhang Wei wanted to throw grenadiers, but unfortunately this favor, I am afraid I will not be able to do it in my life.

With all his strength, he stabbed his bayonet hard at the fallen Japanese soldier. Rao Guowen, who was not far from him, was like a killing god wielding two military shovels, and the two military shovels cooperated with each other, hitting the Japanese soldiers in the face, and bursting out of the white and red mixed brains.

Almost next to each other, the blood was seen, and the Japanese army was so frightened that they didn't dare to get close for a while, and the image of this murderous god with a bloody face was really terrifying. On the battlefield, the remaining 50 people of the 3rd Battalion and the Special Service Company fought desperately hand-to-hand with the Japanese troops several times their size, but the figure of Chinese soldiers was constantly decreasing............

On the western heights, Zhang Wei and the officers and men of his reinforced company were occupying the second line of trenches and shooting at the Japanese troops in the first trench.

In the face of the frantic offensive of the Japanese army, even the western highlands, which had the advantage of terrain, could not hold on, and after paying the casualty figure of nearly a platoon, the first trench was lost, although the Japanese left more corpses.

The Japanese troops who occupied the first line of trenches adopted a posture of leaning back and reinforced the company's fire, and the two fire dragons crossed on the semi-sloping hillside.

The Japanese army concentrated the mortars at the foot of the mountain, and the 81 mm shells played to their strengths, constantly hitting the trenches above the slope, tearing apart the bodies of Chinese soldiers, and the Japanese mortar counterparts on the mountain--- Dong Erli and his mortar squad, were also throwing grenades at full speed, hitting the Japanese troops in the first trench, Zhang Wei held the middle formal, expressionless aimed at a light machine gun group, this light machine gun group in this terrain in order to carry forward firepower, The bodies of two Chinese and Japanese soldiers were piled together to form an improvised bunker and tripod, exposing half of their bodies and strafing at the position diagonally above.

Zhang Wei didn't need to aim carefully, since they wanted to be loyal, then fulfill them. Click—After the dull sound of gunfire, the Heavy collapsed onto his carefully placed human sandbag. On the western heights, Zhang Wei and his remaining 110 men were engaged in a final counterattack, Qiu Wei and Hao Zhong gathered together, each holding a Czech-style strafing downward, and four of Zhang Wei's four platoon commanders had been killed in the battle for the first trench.

At this time, there is no need for any tactics, only to shoot bullets and firearms as much as possible at the enemy.

Zhang Wei's grenadier group arranged at the rocks in advance did not withdraw, and dutifully carried out the task of supporting the main position at the foot of the mountain. The two armies below were already fighting together, and they could only fight the follow-up troops of the Japanese army farther away, and the main position under the mountain was a hundred times worse than them.

Rao Guowen split two bayonets, and the momentum generated by the stabbing also made him take a few steps back, killing red-eyed people will always do crazy things, Rao Guowen roared angrily, raised the two army shovels and slashed around, completely ignoring the sporadic Chinese soldiers, fortunately, the Japanese soldiers were slashed earlier, and the resistance of the skull stuck the flying spurs, embedded in the shattered eye sockets.

The gradually increasing Japanese troops on the main position have slowly drowned the Chinese defenders, and the remnants of the defenders began to retreat in groups, Lu Yuding ran backwards with blood all over his body to Rao Guowen, Rao Guowen finally regained his composure at this time, looked at Lu Yuding in front of him and said: "Battalion Commander Lu, what should we do now, we can't hold it!" ”

Lu Yuding fell to the ground and held Rao Guowen's hand tightly, "Brother, I can't do it, you take them to withdraw, take the rest with you...... The rest of the people withdrew, and Zhang Wei and their people, we can't hold it now, that kid has a lot of ideas, you can listen to him more, go quickly, go quickly. ”

After Lu Yuding said these words, his breath had become very weak, and his body on the ground began to become cold. Rao Guowen finally realized that the blood on the person in front of him was not only from the Japanese army, but also his own.

"Battalion Commander Lu, Battalion Commander Lu." Rao Guowen and several soldiers beside Lu Yuding shouted in unison.

It's a pity that Lu Yuding on the ground has no breath, and the penetrating wounds of three or four bayonets, as well as the bullet holes covered by blood, completely drained the life of this iron man. Rao Guowen held back his tears and watched the soldiers beside him give the order to retreat, and these soldiers needed to rush into the enemy group again with Rao Guowen and convey the news of the retreat to the fighting soldiers.

"Ah, up," Rao Guowen cheered up again, and rushed into the enemy group with a few soldiers, shouting while slashing: Retreat to the mountain, retreat to the mountain. Several other soldiers shouted.

The officers and soldiers who were fighting were given the order to retreat, and the vast majority of them failed to carry out this order, and they could no longer get out of the Japanese army, which was several times their size. The soldiers who were not in the center of the crowd were still able to rely on the support of other comrades-in-arms to get out, while the people in the center of the whirlpool had almost no chance.

Ding Guiwu was a soldier of the third battalion and the second company, with the scars of fighting on his body, and just now, he finally killed the Japanese soldier who had been entangled with him for half an hour. He saw it, and the company commander Rao Guowen in the distance rushed in with a few people, and shouted in his mouth: "Retreat" Since you are retreating, then retreat, Ding Guiwu thought. The crowd that could not be seen made it impossible for him to get out at all, and looking at the Japanese soldiers around him, he felt a chill in his heart.

A Japanese soldier rushed towards Ding Guiwu, and another Japanese soldier who had just killed the Chinese soldier also followed closely behind and launched an attack on Ding Guiwu.

"It's over, I can only resist one at most"

Ding Guiwu straightened the body of the gun, since he couldn't take care of it all, then block the one in front of him, the body of the gun that came over horizontally pressed the 38 big cover, and Ding Guiwu was dodging backwards while pressing the gun, trying to drag on for a longer time, avoiding the Japanese army who couldn't stop it.

Although, he also knew, it was in vain. Ding Guiwu held the intersection of the Zhongzheng Gun and the 38 Gun, waiting for the Grim Reaper to come. Poof—the sound of a bayonet entering the flesh, it was not Ding Guiwu who was stabbed, but the second Japanese soldier, a soldier of a special service company who saved him. Then he smashed the head of the Japanese soldier in front of Ding Guiwu with the butt of his gun, and the two of them worked together to kill him, close together.

"Thanks, brother" Ding Guiwu thanked him, and the soldiers behind him only smiled and did not answer. There were fewer and fewer Chinese soldiers around, those who could stand out had rushed out, and there were fewer and fewer people in the center of the whirlpool, and it was clear that the two of them had become the focus. Eight Japanese soldiers surrounded them and raised their bayonets.

"The two of us are going to go on the road together, I don't recognize you, but it's good to have a companion on the road" The soldier behind Ding Guiwu finally spoke. Ding Guiwu said: "Then together." The butt of the rifle poked back and rushed forward, and the soldiers of the special agent company got the signal and killed in the opposite direction.

Thirty seconds, four lives, two national soldiers, two Japanese soldiers.

In the distance, the shouts and retreats of Rao Guowen and others continued, and the soldiers who should retreat and could retreat were desperately killing outward.

The main position of the 3rd Infantry Regiment at the foot of the Purple Mountain was lost.