The exhausted 637th Brigade of the Japanese Army, which was about to turn around and return to the military column that had been attacked by the Eighth Route Army, suddenly burst into flames from the cliff top on the east side of the railway, and condescendingly poured heavy bullets.

The devil's brigade was hit by fierce firepower, panicked for a while, the advance was blocked by firepower, and the retreat was a dense bullet, this was a cliff wall dug by the construction of Zhengtai Road on both sides, sandwiched in a narrow road that could only pass through one train, like a donkey in the mill road, the turtles shrunk together, and under the suppression of powerful firepower, desperately fled to the north and south.

The narrow road formed between the two cliff walls was blocked by a large group of devils, and there was a strong fire strike, just to resist with firepower, but the elevation angle was too large, and before he was ready to open the robbery, he was wiped out by the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army on the top of the cliff.

In order to avoid the dense bullets poured by the Eighth Route Army on the top of the cliff, the captain of the devil brigade leaned closely on the edge of the cliff on the east side, sat on the ground smoothly, and ordered the devil soldiers who protected him: "Convey my order, order the troops to stick to the east cliff, hide in the dead corner of the fire of the Eighth Road on the top of the cliff, quickly break through to the south and north, and be sure to break through the ambush circle of the Eighth Road." ”

Li Gang, deputy commander of the Eighth Route Army on the top of the cliff, saw that the little devils were about to run, so he ordered the cavalry company to stay in the position and eliminate the little devils under the cliff wall, and ignore the devils who retreated towards the Tiger Leaping Gorge Bridge.

The second and third companies of the cavalry were ordered to withdraw from the battle immediately, rush out of Sanli on horseback, and set up an ambush with the help of the favorable terrain on the top of the cliff, preparing to attack the military column that returned to the Zhengtai Railway and entered the entrance of the Taihang Mountains.

At this time, the 'only regiment' assault company of the 638th Brigade of the Japanese Army, which pounced on the bridgehead position of the Tiger Leaping Gorge Bridge, was attacking the enemy with the most fierce firepower on the bridge deck.

Seeing that the 638th Brigade of the Devil was about to break through the bridgehead position of the assault company, the commander of the assault company, Fang Liqiang, ordered one platoon to be left to hold the bridgehead, and the other two platoons retreated at full speed under the cover of crossfire from the 1st and 2nd battalions on the top of the mountain and the platoon left behind.

The assault company suffered heavy casualties under the powerful firepower of the 638th Brigade of the Devils, which was about to rush to the south bridgehead, and although the rapid crossfire blocked each other and covered and retreated, it still could not get away from the firepower of the devils who rushed up.

Fang Liqiang, the commander of the assault company, shouted: "Why hasn't the explosive package placed in the south bridgehead position exploded yet, all the soldiers of the assault company immediately fell on the spot, and with the most fierce firepower, the devil brigade was blocked in the south bridgehead position, and only when the placed explosive package exploded, could the assault company ...... take advantage of the enemy's confusion." ”

Just when the assault company fell to the ground, at the cost of his life to block the enemy's firepower, seeing that the devil brigade was about to break through the bridgehead position and pounce up, at this critical juncture, suddenly there was an earth-shattering explosion sound in the bridgehead position, and the gunpowder and stone blocks and dirt that rose into the air, mixed with the broken corpses of the devils, flew up and landed quickly, and the smoke shrouded the bridgehead.

Fang Liqiang, the commander of the assault company, saw that several explosive bags placed on the bridgehead had blown up the little devils who had pounced into the sky, and he did not dare to slack off, and shouted at the first time: "Run quickly to the bottom of the cliff on the top of the mountain, take advantage of the fire cover of the first and second battalions on the top of the mountain, and with the desperate spirit of either death or life, as long as we rush to the top of the mountain, we can survive and retreat quickly." ”

The 638th Brigade, which reinforced the Japanese base camp at the south bridgehead from the north end of the bridge, saw that it had broken through the bridgehead position of the Eighth Route Army and was pursuing the small unit of the Eighth Route Army that had fled at the fastest speed.

The captain of the devil brigade fled from the smoke of the explosion with a disgraced face, fortunately, this guy was not injured by the explosion, when he found that the troops of a company of the Eighth Route Army who had fled had fled to the bottom of the cliff on the top of the mountain in the south, and was quickly grabbing the rope to climb to the top of the cliff, he waved his command knife and roared: "The warriors of the Imperial Japanese Army are invincible, and the Tubalu that broke and fled in front of them tried to climb to the top of the cliff to escape for their lives, we must rush up as fast as possible to destroy all the Tubalu." ”

The little devils of the 638th Brigade saw that under the cliff wall 100 meters away, the Eighth Route Army was bravely grabbing the rope and climbing up the cliff, and under the command of the captain, they rushed over with their guns and tongues of fire.

The cunning devil captain saw the soldiers running, although they kept shooting, it was impossible to eliminate the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who were climbing. He ordered the troops to stop their advance, lie down on the spot, and hit the fighters of the assault company, who had climbed to the half-cliff, with the most intensive bullets, fire,

Soldiers who were racing against time with their lives and desperately climbing rocks, under the intensive bullet blows of the devils, many soldiers were shot and fell off the cliff and died heroically.

The 1st and 2nd battalions on the top of the mountain, under the command of deputy regiment commander Wang Xiaoliang, used the most fierce firepower to cover the assault company to quickly climb to the top of the cliff, but the 368th Devil Brigade and the little devils in the barracks concentrated their firepower to pour dense bullets and kept hitting the soldiers who were desperately climbing to the top of the mountain.

Wang Xiaoliang roared and roared: "Hurry up and fire the cannon for me, you must blast the devils a hundred meters away for me, and cover the assault company with fire to climb to the top of the mountain." ”

The five shells of 'boom, boom, boom' came out of their chambers and landed on the enemy group quite accurately, and the devil brigade that was shelled did not dare to continue to advance, and lay on the ground to quickly find a hidden place to avoid the shells that suddenly fired.

In this short period of effort, half of the soldiers of the assault company, braving the powerful fire of the devils in the barracks, climbed to the top of the cliff, and less than a platoon of soldiers hung in the air on the cliff wall.

At this time, Fujita Osa in the devil's base camp saw twenty or thirty soldiers of the Eighth Route Army hanging on the half-cliff, climbing to the top of the mountain, he snatched the rifle in the hand of a devil next to him, and ordered while aiming: "Order the warriors of the Imperial Japanese Army with good marksmanship, aim at the dirt eight roads on the half-cliff, and kill them all for me." ”

With the sound of sharp gunshots, the twenty or thirty soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, who were still desperately climbing to the top of the mountain at this time, became the live targets of the devils, and they were shot one by one and fell off the cliff.

Wang Xiaoliang saw that the soldiers fell off the cliff and died, and he shouted angrily: "Artillery team, quickly adjust the gun position, aim at the little devils in the barracks, open fire, and blow up all these mongrels to me." ”

The commander of the artillery squad reported in a panic: "Report to Deputy Regiment Commander Wang, the mortars are condescending, and the distance is short, so it is impossible to carry out artillery strikes. ”

"Bastards, all bomb throwers, with the most powerful grenades and grenades, throw them into the devil barracks, blow up these little devils, and avenge the soldiers who fell off the cliff and died."

'Boom, boom, boom ......', raindrops of grenades and grenades flew from the top of the mountain to the devil barracks, but for the soldiers, the mortar attack distance was too close, but they used all their strength, and the grenades and grenades could only fall twenty meters away from the barracks, and they could not eliminate the devils in the barracks at all.

Wang Xiaoliang ordered the soldiers with good marksmanship to aim at the devils in the barracks, and immediately shoot and kill, the condescending fire strike, the distance is long, the marksmanship loses accuracy, and the blow to the devils is not strong.

At the tense moment when the enemy and us were fighting for the right to life for the soldiers on the half-cliff, the commander of the 638th Brigade of the Devil ordered the troops to once again carry out firepower to attack the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army hanging on the half-cliff.

Of the twenty or thirty soldiers who struggled to climb to the top of the mountain, only three soldiers struggled to climb the top of the mountain under the intensive fire of the two armies of the devils, and the remaining twenty or thirty soldiers were all shot and fell down the mountain, dying heroically.

Fang Li, the commander of the assault company, scolded angrily: "Little devil, your grandma, Lao Tzu will fight with you today." He rushed to the machine-gun position a few paces away, pushed away the machine gunner, held the machine gun in his arms, and launched the most intense fire on the little devil down the hill.

Wang Xiaoliang looked at Fang Liqiang, the commander of the assault company, and fired at the bottom of the mountain with a machine gun like crazy, he rushed to the front and hugged Fang Liqiang and shouted: "Fang Liqiang, don't go crazy with your kid, the bullets you shoot can't destroy a little devil at all, you kid listen to me, after receiving the order of the regiment commander Lei, immediately withdraw from the battle and retreat quickly." ”

The troops of the Eighth Route Army on the top of the mountain, in the blink of an eye, had withdrawn from their positions, and the top of the mountain, which was stained with the blood of the soldiers, was quiet at this time.

Fujita Osa, the captain of the 372nd Wing in the devil's barracks, saw that the figure of the Eighth Route Army had disappeared on the top of the mountain, and said arrogantly to the 639th Brigade of the Japanese Army Nagano Toshio Nakasa, who was standing beside him: "The Eighth Road was completely defeated by the 372nd Wing of our Imperial Japanese Army, and it lives up to the high expectations of General Hino, the commander of the division, and the Tiger Leaping Gorge Bridge is still in the hands of my 372nd Wing, hahaha, I will immediately report to the upper peak and report the victory of the Tiger Leaping Gorge Battle, hahaha." ”

Without waiting for Fujita Daisa to finish laughing, a devil combat staff officer handed Fujita a telegram with the following message: Our 637th Brigade was less than five kilometers south of the bridge, and was devastatingly attacked by the Tuba Road, and we quickly asked for reinforcements.

(End of chapter)