Chapter Fifty-Eight: Encounter

Zhang Wei sat in the train, but his heart did not relax in the slightest, the reason is very simple, the train has passed Lincheng, unloaded a batch of ammunition at Lincheng Station, replenished the 89th Division stationed there, and then carried Zhang Wei and the remaining ammunition to the parking point between Lincheng and Tengxian.

The news of the encounter between the Japanese army and the 4th Division has not yet been transmitted, but Zhang Wei feels that he should be careful.

Zhang Wei's actions and emotions obviously infected other people, some soldiers saw that the company commander was like this, and had to start to get nervous, especially Xu Yi's soldiers from the regiment, who had never even seen the devil's hair, nervously pulled the rifle and didn't let go, Zhang Wei saw this, and went over to exhort a few words, but it was of little use, this kind of fear can only be overcome by yourself, just see the blood.

Bang, a few dull gunshots came, Zhang Wei took out his weapons, and the soldiers under his command pulled the bolt one after another, and stood up the soldiers at the door of the carriage, ready to open the door, before the preparations were complete, the train that braked sharply brought down the people in the carriage, Zhang Wei fell directly to the bottom of the carriage, and the soldiers were also choked by the car, and there was a burst of scolding from the rear carriage.

"Damn, how did this car drive, it was killed by the car before it was killed by the Japanese." "Li Ergou, you are a mouse, what are you doing running around."

The soldiers were still in chaos, Zhang Wei couldn't panic, he took the butt of the Zhongzheng rifle and continuously knocked on the partition of the carriage, and shouted: "Everyone, get out of the car, get ready to fight!" "There were gunshots just now, and now there was the noise of the crowd outside, Zhang Wei had to be careful, even though those gunshots were all medium and dull gunshots.

The soldiers guarding the door of the carriage hurriedly opened the door panel, and some anxious soldiers simply climbed out of the carriage.

Zhang Wei jumped from the car door, on the left and right, Qiu Wei and Hao Zhong had already begun to organize their respective platoons to prepare for battle, Xu Yi's people were with him, Zhang Wei kept staring, no problem, He Kun's side was about the same.

Zhang Wei saw that everyone was together, and shouted: "Pay attention to each platoon, prepare for battle, and get on the bayonet!" The last to get off the bus was Dong Erli's mortar squad, carrying a mortar and two boxes of shells brought by the soldiers.

"Unfold, lie down, and see what's going on on the other side of the train?" It had been down for most of the day, and there was no imaginary attack or artillery fire, but the gunfire had stopped. The situation is not right, Zhang Wei kicked He Kun, He Kun understood what Zhang Wei meant, and took a squad to run to the gap between the carriages to observe the situation on the other side of the car.

"My own people, the company commander, are the national army, and they are our people." Zhang Wei put down the gun and went directly from the front of the car to the other side, and the officers and soldiers behind him also followed. When he got there, Zhang Wei saw a group of people dressed the same as himself, wearing German-style steel helmets, and holding them in their hands.

"Brother, what's going on?" Zhang Wei asked. "Sir, we are from the 4th Division, in the morning, we fought with the Japanese in the mountains, I heard that a train was coming, and the division temporarily transferred two companies, just waiting for the train on the side of the railway, so quickly stop it."

Zhang Wei listened carefully, and there was indeed a faint sound of gunfire in the distance. "Thanks, brother, where did the fight start?" The second lieutenant pointed out, Zhang Wei didn't talk nonsense, since there was a battle, then go directly.

With more than 100 people from the independent company, they rushed towards the place of fierce fighting, and the soldiers of the 4th Division completed the task of blocking the train, and after seeing the train returning, they also rushed over with Zhang Wei. It is said to be rushing, but in fact it can't be rushed at all, that place is the Hushan area, two or three kilometers away from the railway of the Jinpu line, and now it is at most a forced march.

"Come on, brothers," Zhang Wei cheered up as he trotted, without being reminded that the formation of the troops had been slowly unfolding as they were advancing, thanks to the training in Xuzhou. In the distance in the area of Hushan, Colonel Chen Chunyi, commander of the 23rd Regiment of the 12th Brigade of the 4th Division, is directing the battle, the 23rd Regiment is the vanguard of the 4th Division, and it is also a regiment that has fought the most fiercely with the Japanese army in front, the two sides encountered in the area of Hushan Dangshan, the Japanese army in front of them does not know how many people there are, in the Hushan area, the 23rd Regiment and a small part of the 63rd Wing only fought for four hours, and the total casualties of the 23rd Regiment have approached 300 people.

The 23rd Regiment and the 63rd Wing of the Japanese Army fought for Tiger Mountain, which was said to be a mountain, but in fact it was a small high ground, and the two sides encountered here at first, and the Japanese army's surprise attack caught the officers and soldiers of the 23rd Regiment off guard, and the Japanese occupied the high ground in less than ten minutes. Chen Chunyi looked at the high ground in the distance.

Just now, the 1st battalion organized an attack, and now there is no decent fire cover at hand, and the 82nd mortar company of the regiment only brought two mortars because of transportation problems, and the Shishan artillery battalion does not know where it is now!

Chen Chunyi accepted orders from division commander Chen Daqing and 12th Brigade commander Shi Jue, and could only launch a counterattack. In the binoculars, Chen Chunyi saw the charge of the officers and soldiers of the first battalion.

The 82 mortars fired several rounds at the heights, and the soldiers, led by the company platoon commanders, stormed the heights. The troops suffered a lot of losses after several major battles, so many of the troops had never fought.

The platoon commander and the soldiers directly launched a frontal attack, and the soldiers held rifles with bayonets, roared and shouted to kill, and attacked the Hushan Heights, and the Japanese 63rd Wing needed to deal with the entire 4th Division, so the troops were not rich. Garrisoned on the Hushan Heights were two infantry squadrons of the 63rd Wing, equipped with half a heavy machine gun squadron (two Type 92 heavy machine guns) and a mortar squad (two Type 97 81mm mortars).

Direct fire from machine guns and rifles, a network of crossfire from heavy machine guns and light machine guns, and curling support fire from mortars and grenadiers, formed a barrier of death on the way of the 1st Battalion of the 23rd Regiment.

The support fire of the 23 regiment consisted of only two 82 mortars, which fired in turns, and finally brought some casualties to the Japanese troops on the high ground.

The officers and soldiers who charged kept falling in front of the Japanese fire net, and Chen Chun saw it in his eyes and felt pain in his heart, but he could only fight to the end.

The officers and men who charged were knocked down by the Japanese fire, and some soldiers subconsciously retreated, waiting for them with the bayonets of the veterans and the overseers. "Fight with the dog, kill."

Everyone had no way to retreat, all of them charged at the Japanese army, and some veterans who had experienced the battle array tried to shoot on the march, and these bullets hit the Japanese position, and really killed a few devils.

The Japanese army's greatest reliance was still on mortars, and the two guns took turns to fire, and the barrage and dust directly covered the officers and men of the charging battalion, and the shrapnel flying everywhere and the cooperation of the grenadiers caused extremely heavy casualties to the officers and men of the charging battalion.

Now that they had rushed to a distance of 200 meters from the Hushan Heights of the Japanese army, the two companies of the first battalion's main attack were almost half of the casualties, and it was the deputy battalion commander of the first battalion who led the charge with these two companies.

Seeing that it had rushed to 200 meters, and nearly 100 brothers had been killed or injured just now, he couldn't give up at this time.

The deputy battalion commander raised his shell gun: "Brothers, rush forward and avenge the fallen brothers!" "Kill!"