?? Zhang Ting looked at the group of devils under the mountain, howled and rushed up with a gun, he decided to rub off the devil's sharpness with the most fierce artillery fire first, and told the little devil commander to be afraid of the attack organized again later, he decisively ordered: "The artillery team adjusts the artillery position, aims at the place where the devils are concentrated, every shell must hit, give me a shot." ”

The leader of the artillery squad received the order, and carefully checked the direction of the aiming of each artillery position, he was not at ease, ran to the front of the position again, visually inspected the group of devils rushing up, turned around and ran back to the artillery position, adjusted a mortar again, waved the red flag in his hand, and waved it forward and shouted: "Open the artillery." ”

'Boom, boom, ......boom', five shells in a row, dragging orange flames, flew out from behind the high ground and fell into the enemy group in an arc.

The shells exploded in the enemy group, and the devils who exploded screamed, but in order to capture this high ground and eliminate the Eighth Route Army that was holding its position, these hungry and crazy devils rushed to the pond behind the high ground as soon as possible to quench their unbearable thirst and continue to charge at the positions of the first battalion and one company of the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment with their lives.

Zhang Ting saw the crazy devil, he was not afraid under the artillery fire, as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, he accelerated the attack without hesitation, he frowned and shouted to the back: "The attacking devil assaulted forward ten meters, adjusted the gun position to close to fifteen meters, and opened fire——。 ”

'Boom, boom' five more shells flew out and exploded in the enemy group, and the little devils who were blown up fled in all directions, and some of the devils turned their heads and ran back, and the formation of the devils who attacked for a while was in chaos.

Zhang Ting ordered light and heavy machine guns, under the cover of artillery fire, to concentrate fire on the enemy, and must repel this hungry and thirsty devil.

In order to eliminate the Eighth Route Army on the position, the devils rushed to the pond under the mountain in the west, drank water early, shouted to gather troops, and began to launch a fire counterattack to speed up the attack.

At this time, Zheng Tie, the commander of the Eighth Route Army in the No. 1 position, under the strong attack of the superior forces of the two Japanese brigades, the soldiers fought back hard, and repelled the eleventh attack of the devils with great difficulty.

During the short break in repelling the twelfth attack of the devils, Huang Yong, the commander of the second company, climbed to Zheng Tie's side, looked at Zheng Tie, who was covered in blood, and asked, "Battalion Commander Zheng, are you injured?" ”

"I was bitten by a bullet a few times, and I couldn't die."

"Battalion commander, the second and third companies of our first battalion held on to the No. 1 position for more than five hours, repelled the enemy's twelfth attack, and the troops suffered heavy casualties.

"Company Commander Huang, hold your position and block the westward advance of the 372nd Wing of the Japanese Army, this is a death order, there is no order to retreat, even if you fight to the last person, you can't lose your position."

Just as the two were talking, the captain of the 372nd Wing, Fujita Osa, who was standing at the foot of the No. 1 Position Mountain, held a telescope and scanned the position filled with gunpowder and war on the No. 1 Heights, he frowned and asked the chief of staff beside him: "Matsumoto-kun, what kind of army is the Tubalu on the high ground?" The fact that my two brigades of Imperial Army warriors could not attack the No. 1 high ground occupied by two companies really made me very incomprehensible and incomprehensible. ”

"Yes, since the 372nd Wing entered the East Asian battlefield, it has never encountered such a heroic and warlike Tubalu troops, our Japanese army launched twelve attacks on the No. 1 Heights, each time it is about to approach the forward position of the Tubalu, only a few steps away from destroying the Tubalu, and the Tubalu will be wiped out, every time at this critical moment, the cavalry of the Tubalu will rush out from behind the green gauze tent and enter my attacking troops. Immediately forming an encirclement of the cavalry of the Eighth Road, this hateful cavalry would actually break out of the encirclement and escape. ”

When Fujita Osa heard Chief of Staff Matsumoto say this, he said angrily: "Order the 638th Brigade as the main force to attack the No. 1 Heights, the two squadrons of the 637th Brigade attack from both flanks, and one squadron as a reserve to block the sneak attack of the Tubalu, and immediately launch the most powerful thirteenth attack on the No. 1 position, and we must take the position of the Tubalu in the shortest possible time." ”

The little devil regrouped his team, and under the supervision of commanders at all levels, launched an attack on the No. 1 high ground with guns.

These extremely tired Japanese soldiers repeatedly attacked the No. 1 position, and every time they were repulsed by the Eighth Route Army, they would suffer heavy casualties.

Battalion Commander Zheng Tie saw that the Japanese army had begun to attack again, and he asked the commander of the Huang Company beside him: "How many shells do we have now?" How many bullets are there? ”

"Report to Battalion Commander Zheng, there are not many shells, less than five rounds per cannon, the bullets are okay, and it should be able to hold out for a while." Company Commander Huang Yong looked at the little devil who rushed up and replied.

After listening to the report, Zheng Tie said with a tight heart: "The consumption of weapons and ammunition is too great, if we continue to fight like this, I don't know if the weapons and ammunition of the devils can be replenished in time, we can insist on repelling the devil's attacks six or seven times at most, if we continue to fight like this, I am afraid that we will soon run out of ammunition and food, and the first battalion of the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army will be in danger." ”

"Yes, we have been able to hold on until now, thanks to the cavalry battalion, which rushes out to raid the devil's attacking troops at every critical moment, consuming the enemy's combat power, otherwise, our battalion would have been unable to withstand it a long time ago." Huang Yong sighed with some emotion.

At this time, Li Gang, the commander of the cavalry battalion, led the first and third companies of the cavalry battalion to repeatedly raid the rear of the Japanese 372nd Wing attacking the No. 1 Heights, causing great force and firepower to the enemy, and greatly relieving the frontal battlefield pressure of Zheng Tie's 1st Battalion in the No. 1 position, but the horses and soldiers of his cavalry battalion had reached the point of being sleepy and lacking horses, and he really had no ability to launch a sneak attack on the enemy.

As a matter of fact, Fujita Osa, the commander of the 372nd Wing of the Japanese Army, who attacked the No. 1 Heights, knew very well that his troops had long since lost their combat effectiveness, and that if it were not for the fact that a small No. 1 Heights would not have launched more than a dozen attacks, they would not have been able to destroy the positions of the Tsuchibalu.

His long-distance attacking wing, crossing the Yellow River is dangerous, unable to bring enough heavy weapons and supplementary ammunition, Shangfeng ordered that as long as they reach the Deshi Road assembly area, they will get the weapons and ammunition support of the local garrison, but now they are blocked by the small troops of Tuba Road, and the fire is blocked to the east of the No. 1 Heights, and they have launched many attacks, but they have never been able to destroy the Tuba Road position.

The war horses with the army to replenish the weapons and ammunition of the troops, when passing through the green gauze tent, were attacked by the cavalry of the Tuba Road, the war horses were killed, and the weapons and ammunition of several war horses were snatched away by the Tuba Road, and now his wing, not to mention the weapons and ammunition, even the food and water are about to run out, if he can't eliminate the Tuba Road of the No. 1 Heights in the shortest possible time, and forcibly march to the Deshi Road assembly area, then his troops will be dragged alive under this highland.

The current situation of both the enemy and us is not optimistic, and it depends on the patience of both sides, the degree of replenishment of weapons and ammunition, and whether the soldiers' diet can keep up, and these conditions directly determine the outcome of this battle.

The soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the Independent Regiment of the 5th Detachment of the Eighth Route Army were divided into two routes to stick to the No. 1 and No. 2 heights, and at this time, the first company of the No. 2 highland was undergoing an unprecedented fierce battle.

The commander of the 639th Brigade of the Japanese Army, Kuno Nakasa, threw at the soldiers to destroy the position of the Eighth Route Army on the high ground, and then he would reach the pond under the mountain west of the high ground to replenish drinking water.

The soldiers of the company who held their positions, in the face of a large number of devils who pounced on them, counterattacked with the greatest firepower, but it was difficult to block the enemy's strong attack with firepower, and the forward position was almost broken through by the devils who rushed up several times.