It was only about two o'clock, and there were still nearly three hours to go until dawn, and the Japanese army attacked frantically as soon as it came up, apparently having seen through the fact that the large forces were retreating, and the attack was only getting more and more fierce.

The shells finally rose into the air again, and there was a huge explosion on the river beach, and in the raging firelight, the figure of the Japanese army became more concrete, and the locust-like Japanese army rushed forward against the bombardment of artillery fire.

On the defensive line of the first battalion, all kinds of guns have been fired, and it can be seen from the firing points that their living forces have not been crippled by the Japanese artillery fire, and the attrition in the battle is not as terrible as imagined.

Fortunately, the position where the independent regiment is now located has been repaired by the expeditionary force and the Japanese army, and the civil fortifications are not strong, but the trenches are deep enough, and there are many anti-artillery holes and cat's ear holes, so it is not very difficult to dodge.

Half of the shells of the six guns were only 300 rounds, and they were quickly exhausted, and the forward positions began to dominate with machine guns and rifles, and the bullets flew everywhere and densely rained.

Stretchers began to carry the wounded back in the trenches, and more and more of them appeared.

Tian Long stopped a stretcher and asked a wounded soldier whose injuries did not seem to be very serious, and said, "Are there any casualties in the first battalion?" ”

"Great!" The wounded man replied with a grin, the expression on his face was very painful.

"How many troops is the enemy?"

"Dense!"

Tian Long knew that he couldn't ask anything from the wounded soldier's mouth, so he waved his hand and motioned for the stretcher soldier to quickly carry him to the rear field hospital, and he immediately walked to the command headquarters.

The headquarters was built under a low-lying hillside, although it was safe and hidden, but the perspective was not good, and if he wanted to see the overall situation of the battlefield, Tian Long had to go out of the headquarters.

Walking into the bunker-like headquarters, Xu Quan, the chief of staff of the regiment, immediately greeted him, and said hurriedly: "Tuanza, the pressure on the battalion is very high, and the enemy is an infantry brigade storming as soon as he comes up, so I ask for more artillery support, you see 616161616161."

"What, it's only been ten minutes and you can't hold on? You tell Yao Mengzi that there is no artillery fire, even if he runs out of a battalion, he has to give Lao Tzu an hour to defend. Tian Long said sharply.

Xu Quan seemed to be a little unrelenting, and said: "Tuanzao, the position of the first battalion is on the river beach, which is relatively low-lying, which is not conducive to defense, I think we should focus on the second line of defense, after all, this is the riverbed, the terrain is high, and the field of vision is also wide, it is relatively easy to defend, and it can also reduce the casualties of our army." ”

Tian Long said domineeringly: "No, although the terrain of the river beach is low, but the firing distance reaches the water, it is impossible for the Japanese army to set up artillery in the water, so it can effectively prevent the Japanese army from all kinds of small-caliber artillery fire, but if we retreat to the second line of defense, the Japanese army's curved artillery firepower is quite fierce, we occupy the terrain advantage, but we will be blown up by their shells, so we cannot withdraw from the first line of defense unless we have to." ”

Xu Quan nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll inform Yao Mengzi and let him defend the river beach." ”

After Xu Quan finished speaking, he raised his leg and walked to the telephone, and Tian Long also called a staff officer to learn about the casualties of the troops during the artillery attack.

The first line of defense of the Independent Regiment of the River Beach.

Light and heavy machine guns and rifles rang out, the two sides fired at each other, the bullets shot out streamers, weaving a dense net, less than 300 meters away from the forward position, the Japanese army had already fallen a large piece, but the follow-up troops were still charging forward one after another.

In the trenches, Yao Menglin, the commander of the first battalion, personally operated a Makqin heavy machine gun, he was tall, at least one meter eight, gritted his teeth and stared, his sleeves were rolled up high, and the two strong arms were bulging with green tendons.

A soldier ran to his side and screamed a few times in his ear before he handed over the machine gun to the assistant shooter next to him, jumped off the machine and shouted: "What's the matter, Lao Tzu has just been happy for a few minutes, and your kid is here again, tell me quickly, what's the matter?" ”

Yao Menglin's eyes widened with a straight face, and he really had a bit of a fierce charm, no wonder Tian Long and Xu Quan called him Yao Mengzi.

The soldiers reported loudly, and the regiment commander said that there was no artillery support, and even if the first battalion was exhausted, it would have to hold out for another hour.

Yao Menglin immediately puffed up his eyes and scolded: "I'll wipe it, this dead field chicken, a few shells buckle the rope, like covering a baby son, you go and tell him, it's okay if the shells don't have it, let him give me a few more boxes of machine gun bullets." ”

Because Tian Long is not tall, but he is very stocky, the soldiers secretly call him Tian Ji.

The soldier turned around and ran away quickly, and Yao Menglin also roared loudly, "Brothers, you all give Lao Tzu a hard time to make him a dog's day, you don't need to save bullets for Lao Tzu, the regiment will send ammunition soon." Oh no, the dog's day is starting to throw bombs, everyone be careful. ”

Yao Menglin was talking, when he suddenly heard the screaming sound of the cannonball, the sound was high-pitched, and he knew that it was sent by the grenadier as soon as he heard it, and the Japanese army had advanced to a distance of 300 meters, and this distance was when the grenadier exerted its power, so he hurriedly reminded everyone.

As soon as Yao Menglin's words fell, several places on the position suddenly exploded, one of which exploded next to the Makqin heavy machine gun he had just operated, only four or five meters away from him.

When he got up from the ground with a curse, he was horrified to find that the Heavy had been blown away, lying in the trench and pumping.

"Brother, are you alright?"

Yao Menglin stepped forward quickly and helped the machine gunner up, but found that half of the machine gunner's head was gone, and the remaining half of his face was also covered with a chyme-like substance, and there was no possibility of life at all.

"Little devil, your grandmother!"

Yao Menglin got up angrily, rushed to the machine gun in a few steps, kicked the ammunition hand next to him, and said loudly: "Are you dead?" ”

The ammunition hand raised his head, shook off the dust on his head, and spat out twice before saying, "Battalion commander, am I okay?" ”

"It's okay to quickly load Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu can't wipe him to death?"

The ammunition man hurriedly got up and loaded, but said loudly: "Battalion commander, is it okay to be vigorous?" ”

"Dead Ball!"

The ammunition man paused, glanced apprehensively at the place where the Heavy had fallen, and immediately began to reload, faster than before.

"Dada, Dada"

Maxim finally roared, but before he could finish firing a single round of bullets, the muzzle of the gun sank, and the whole body of the gun danced on the ground, without a single head.

The grenade just now blew off the rack of the machine gun.