Captain Koda, commander of the Japanese army at the Dongtuanbao stronghold, ordered the Japanese positions to destroy the attacking Eighth Route Army with the most intense firepower.

Captain Koda saw that the Eighth Route Army continued to bravely attack all positions under light and heavy firepower, and this murderous guy ordered to 'fire poison gas bombs'.

The soldiers of the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Division, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately took out the masks they had prepared in advance, dipped them in the water belt, covered their mouths and noses, and continued to attack in depth.

The Japanese army fired several poison gas bombs one after another, the poisonous fog spread was very thick, the masks were thin, and in a short period of time, more than 300 soldiers of the second and third battalions were poisoned and fell to the ground. The militia at the front of the branch ignored the poisonous gas infection, carried the poisoned soldiers and quickly withdrew from the battlefield.

Lei Jian's only regiment in the raid on the Tiger Leaping Gorge Bridge, Lao Ye Mountain Blockade Battle, Yuanshan Siege and other battles, in the fierce battle with the enemy, many times by the Japanese army to release poison gas, with a certain experience, when Lei Jian found the devil in the East Tuanbao, fired poison gas bombs, immediately ordered the soldiers of the troops, take out the autocratic thick cloth belt, immediately poured water to tie the mouth and nose.

Not to mention, the soldiers tied up this thick cloth belt specially designed to deal with the poisonous gas of devils, and none of the soldiers of the battalions who continued to attack the enemy were poisoned and killed.

Lei Jian did not dare to be careless, and ordered the assault company to throw cluster grenades into a place where the poison gas was thick, and disperse the poison gas with the power of the explosion, so that the follow-up troops would be less infected by the poison gas and reduce the attrition of the troops.

The militia carried the soldiers of the 1st Division and 3rd Regiment, who had been smoked down by poison gas and who had been sacrificed, and were quickly sent to the foreign medical team in Wulonggou for rescue.

On September 1, 1938, the medical team rushed to China by sea ship, with Edward as the captain and Zhuo Ke as the deputy leader, and the team members were composed of Kotnis, Basu, Mukeji and several other members.

He arrived in Guangzhou on 17 September and was warmly welcomed by Chairman Song of the China Defense League and representatives from all walks of life.

The medical team arrived in Hankou, Xuzhou, Changsha, Chongqing and other places, and made great contributions to China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

Kotnis and Basu have always insisted on serving the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and when they arrived at the anti-Japanese base area of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, they were cordially received by Commander Nie and treated the seriously wounded who had been transferred from the front to the rear in Gegong Village, where the Ministry of Health of the Military Region was located. During this period, he also rescued the military and civilians in the anti-Japanese base areas and helped the wounded, organized a group of medical personnel, and trained batch after batch of medical personnel by teaching and clinical teaching techniques.

In September 1940, Kotnis and Su Ke each led a medical team to participate in the Battle of the 100 Regiments on Zhengtai Road.

The death of the Japanese army and the deeply poisoned soldiers aroused Dr. Kotnis's strong dissatisfaction, and he angrily shouted: "A group of bastards, a barbarian people who do not pay attention to international conventions, such a country will not stand among the nations of the world." ”

The Lei Jian Regiment, which attacked Dongtuanbao, carried out seven consecutive storms on the Japanese stronghold overnight, broke through the extended single bunker, destroyed four bunkers, and occupied the Japanese positions on the periphery of the Dongtuanbao stronghold.

Captain Koda, the commander of the Japanese army who was holding the stronghold, ordered the Japanese soldiers who had fled from the surrounding strongholds and positions to a quadrangle compound connected to the central artillery tower, and used the firing holes in the wall to carry out the most ferocious fire resistance against the attacking Eighth Route Army.

The battle continued until 9 o'clock in the morning of the 24th, and the stronghold of Dongtuanbao had not yet been conquered, and at this time the enemy and us were in a state of stalemate.

Captain Koda attempted to break this state of affairs by sending more than 70 Japanese soldiers to suddenly jump out of their positions and counterattack the positions of the 1st Regiment and 1st Battalion.

Zhang Ting ordered a battalion to rely on the captured pillboxes and the high ground where the pillboxes were located, and launch the most fierce fire counterattack against the more than 70 little devils who pounced on them, and they must be sure that they will not return.

The enemy was getting closer and closer to the position, and the soldiers of the first battalion were ready for battle, calmly responding, and when the enemy was almost more than 30 meters close to the position, the thunder sword who caught up ordered in a low voice: "Don't worry, put it closer and fight again." ”

The little devils who counterattacked saw that the Eighth Route Army occupying the pillbox never fired, and one by one they began to grow bold, running with guns and launching an attack.

Lei Jian saw that the little devil was only a dozen meters away from the forward position, and at such a close distance, once the blocking was weak, the position was easily forcibly broken through under the enemy's powerful firepower.

At this moment, Lei Jian picked up a machine gun and shouted: "Concentrate your firepower and destroy this counterattacking Japanese squad in the first strike." ”

'Suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, ......', the two dozen or so machine guns of the first battalion burst out with dense bullets almost at the same time, sweeping towards the little devils who were approaching the forward position.

'Bang, pop, ......', the soldiers quickly pulled the trigger, aimed at the enemy who rushed up, and launched the most powerful firepower, and the position of the first battalion suddenly broke out into fierce firepower, and the enemy who hit left behind most of the corpses, and fled back to the turret in panic.

When the first battalion attacked the counterattacking Japanese attack, the assault company, under the leadership of the company commander Fang Liqiang, launched a surprise attack on the Japanese bunker not far ahead, and under the powerful fire attack, it conquered the bunker and continued to advance in depth.

At this time, the captain of the Koda brigade in the main bunker, seeing Fang Liqiang's assault company, quickly rushed towards the main bunker, directly threatening the safety of this main bunker, and the captain of the Koda brigade shouted: "A dozen of you will go out with me and destroy this attacking Tubalu." ”

This brutal and arrogant fellow, the dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, went into battle shirtless, personally led a dozen Japanese soldiers out of the main pillbox, and fiercely pounced on Fang Liqiang's assault company.

Fang Liqiang saw the little devil rush over frantically, leading the assault company to start hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, the soldiers of a company fought desperately with the enemy, this combat backbone selected from the main force, in the fight with the enemy, still obviously felt that the physical strength was exhausted, and the fighting skills were very different, and several soldiers fell under the devil's bayonet.

Seeing the enemy's ferocious slaughter of his comrades, the seventh squad leader of the assault company took three grenades in his hands, held them high and rushed towards the little devil, and shouted to the soldiers around him: "Get out of the way." ”

'Boom, boom' three explosions, the seventh squad leader resolutely pulled the grenade and rushed into the enemy group amid the shouts of the soldiers, and died with the enemy.

The new stronghold commander in the main bunker, Captain Ide, saw that the dozen or so Japanese soldiers he brought out were engaged in a tragic hand-to-hand battle with the Eighth Route Army, and he immediately ordered more than 20 little devils to quickly reinforce them.

Zhang Ting's first battalion held its position, repelled the enemy's seven attacks in a row, the battle was very fierce, in order to keep the position from being lost, consolidate the position and continue to advance in depth, the first battalion, the second company, the sixth platoon commander Feng, led the soldiers to kill the position, rushed into the enemy group, and launched a tragic white-knuckle battle with the enemy.

At this time, Lei Jian led the guard platoon to meet with Regiment Commander Qiu, and the two regiment commanders conducted a study on the Japanese stronghold in Dongtuanbao and the courtyard under the remaining main artillery tower, and finally decided that the stronghold of Dongtuanbao must be conquered before nightfall.

Lei Jian returned to the unit and ordered all main battalions, assault companies, and special service companies to launch an all-out attack on the enemy's last fortress at 8 o'clock in the evening after the sun set.

Song Zhida, the battalion commander of the second battalion, personally led the fifth company to launch an attack on the courtyard under the enemy's artillery tower, and under the cover of the powerful fire of light and heavy machine guns, he threw out a grenade, blew up a passage, broke through the southeast corner of the courtyard, entered the courtyard, occupied two bungalows, and immediately carried out a fire attack on the devils who counterattacked.

The first battalion, under the leadership of Zhang Ting, used grenades to blow up the east wall of the courtyard, and the soldiers bravely rushed into the courtyard through the gap that was blown out, and immediately took advantage of the favorable terrain to launch a fire attack on the enemy inside.

The commander of the 11th Company of the 3rd Battalion, Fan Company, shouted to the soldiers around him: "Carry a long ladder, quickly approach the central turret of the stronghold, cover with light and heavy machine guns, and rush ——,."

Under the cover of powerful firepower, the soldiers quickly broke through to the turret with a long ladder, and Hu Di, the leader of the ninth squad of the 11th Company, tied more than a dozen grenades together, put them on his shoulders and took the lead in 'rubbing, rub.......bing, rubbing' to climb the ladder, and stuffed the grenades into the turret from the perforation.

The little devil in the turret pushed out the grenade from the inside, and squad leader Hu leaned his whole body on the perforation, resisting the grenade pushed out by the devil to death, just when he was about to pull the grenade, two evil bullets hit Woody, his body stumbled out, and the whole person fell off the ladder.

(End of chapter)