In order to cooperate with the 180th Division of the Japanese Army, the Ninth Brigade sent a brigade of devils to reinforce the Liujiayu area northwest of Tiehuo Mountain through Fangjia Town.

Commander Chen of the East Column ordered the Independent Regiment of the East Column to immediately withdraw from the battle and quickly assemble at Liujiayu to block the enemy's reinforcements along the Zhengtai Road.

The only regiment of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region repelled many Japanese attacks in the course of engaging the enemy, gained experience, and took advantage of the gap between battles to strengthen the training of its troops in mountain warfare, and rearranged the troops and firepower of the entire Tiehuo Mountain after the withdrawal of the independent regiment of the Eastern Column.

In the past few days, the Japanese army's attack on Iron Camel Mountain has been repulsed and suffered a crushing defeat, and the commander of the Yoshimaru Kiyobu Brigade, who was embarrassed and angry, ordered the Japanese troops in Quyang City to go out to entangle the wild militarist elements among the Japanese overseas Chinese in the city and in various towns and villages, and after training and arming, they formed a force of more than 800 people, and at dawn on September 2, shelled the positions of the Eighth Route Army on both flanks of Iron Camel Mountain with the most intense artillery fire.

The enemy attacked in groups, and this group of wild militarists, arrogantly shouting among the troops, was very ferocious every time they launched an attack on Tieshan Mountain.

Lei Jian ordered the first battalion and the cavalry battalion on both flanks of the Iron Camel Mountain to avoid the enemy's edge and seize the tactics of the fighter plane to strike hard at the attacking enemy, and several attacks were successively defeated.

The commander of the 576th Wing of the Japanese Army, Hetun Dazuo, ordered the troops to adopt a separate offensive posture, forming a number of triangular formations, and once again launched a ferocious attack on Tiehuo Mountain.

By one o'clock in the afternoon, the sky was covered with dark clouds, thunder continued, only in a few minutes, it rained heavily, the whole world was shrouded in dark clouds and thunderstorms, the mountain trenches were full of water, weapons and ammunition were moved to dry positions again and again, but continuous heavy rain, where can I still find a dry place to store weapons and ammunition?

The Japanese army braved the fierce fire and continuous heavy rain, and never showed any signs of withdrawing from the battle, launching attacks again and again, and the heroic soldiers of the Eighth Route Army lay in the muddy water of the trenches and fought fiercely with the enemy.

Lei Jian ordered the soldiers of the troops in each position to protect the grenades and grenades, see the triangular formation of the devil's attack, throw the grenades and grenades into the devil's group, and annihilate the attacking enemy with the greatest firepower.

At about half past two in the afternoon, there was a sudden 'rumbling' sound in the air, and it was discovered that from the direction of Shijiazhuang, from far to near, more than 20 enemy planes flew in, roared and soon reached the sky over Tiehuo Mountain, and began to circle and reconnoitre.

One bomb after another, a string of tongues of fire rushed to the Iron Camel Mountain position, and the mud, stones, and shrapnel that exploded from the bombs frantically swept towards the position to block the enemy's soldiers, some of whom were hit by shmelnel and fell into muddy water and blood, and some of the soldiers who were wounded by bullets ignored the bombing of the planes in the air, and bravely blocked the enemy's attack with their guns.

At this time, with the help of the fire of air fighters, the Japanese army attacked and covered with the help of air fighters, one main force frantically attacked the main position, and the other attacked the two flanks, and the entire position was bombed by enemy planes.

The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, who had always held the forward position, were not intimidated by the aircraft and artillery of the devils, but were more courageous and blocked the enemy's attack with the most fierce firepower.

The trenches were destroyed, the fighters hid in the craters as cover, and continued to fight fiercely with the enemy, the machine gunners were killed by bullet shots, and the ammunition men immediately rushed to the machine guns, set up machine guns to strafe the attacking enemy.

The fascist devils, who had lost the constraints of international law, used poison gas bombs on the Iron Camel Mountain, which had not been attacked for a long time, and one after another the poison gas bombs fell on the front of the position, and the poisonous gas suddenly emitted by the explosion seriously injured the soldiers who were blocking the enemy with firepower.

Lei Jian ordered loudly: "Take off your rain-soaked coat, tie your mouth and nose, make a cluster grenade as fast as possible, throw it into the thick smoke of poisonous gas, destroy the poisonous gas, and hit the attacking devils fiercely." ”

The only regiment of Tiehushan Mountain, which fought with the enemy, experienced a life-and-death struggle, some cadres died, the platoon commander immediately took command, the platoon commander sacrificed, the squad leader rushed up, the squad leader sacrificed, and the soldiers grabbed the command flag and continued to command the operation.

After a day of repeated attacks, the attacking devils were unable to capture the position of the Eighth Route Army for a long time, but they did not give up and continued to launch more ferocious attacks.

Night fell almost dusk, Lei Jian was attacked by the enemy's chest of anger, he wanted to make the attacking devil not get a chance to go back, he held the captured Japanese adjutant command knife, bravely stood at the front of the position, issued a counterattack order to the troops.

Lei Jian shouted: "All the cadres and soldiers of the only regiment, fight out of the position, rush into the enemy group to start hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, you must come down in the night to repel this attack of the enemy, kill——。 ”

The soldiers of the main position and the two wings of the only regiment, armed with rifles with bayonets and some with machetes, bravely jumped out of the position, smashed into the enemy group, and fought to the death with the enemy.

The devil commander saw that the night was falling and the rain was continuous, this kind of sky and weather was very unfavorable to the imperial army's operation, and in the shouting and killing of all the soldiers of the only regiment of the Eighth Route Army, he abandoned the little devils who died in battle, and took advantage of the darkness of the night to flee down the mountain in panic.

On 3 September, the only regiment and the enemy's 576th Wing had been engaged for three days and two nights, and the enemy launched many attacks, but was never able to capture the position of the Eighth Route Army at Tiehuo Mountain for a long time.

The commander of the 9th Brigade, Yoshimaru Qingwu Brigade, who was extremely angry, implored Hino, the commander of the 180th Division: "Your Excellency, the only regiment of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, which is firmly guarding the Iron Camel Mountain, is very stubborn and asks for a large number of fighters to reinforce it again. ”

At about nine o'clock, more than 20 Japanese fighters flew to Tiehuo Mountain again, and the cunning commander of the fighters ordered a formation of eight fighter groups to repeatedly hover over the peaks of Tiehuo Mountain, first deterring the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army with force, covering the ground forces to launch an attack, and when the Eighth Route Army carried out a counterattack, all the fighter groups bombed Tiehuo Mountain in batches.

Under the cover of fighter planes and artillery fire, a large number of Japanese troops launched the most fierce attack on Tiecamel Mountain, and for a time the entire Iron Camel Mountain was in flames, and the smoke from the explosion of bombs and shells came and fell, and the entire mountain peak position of the only regiment was shrouded in the enemy's flames, and the troops suffered a large number of casualties.

The attacking Japanese fighters and long-range mountain artillery thought that the position of the Eighth Route Army on Tiehuo Mountain had been destroyed, and the arrogant little devil howled and pounced on the position of the main peak of Tie Hump Mountain with guns.

Zhang Ting's battalion on both flanks, as well as the cavalry battalion led by Li Gang, engaged the attacking enemy at close range, and the battle was very fierce for a while, and the position changed hands several times, and was bravely recaptured by the soldiers.

The enemy's main force attacked more than ten meters in front of the main position, and Lei Jian shouted violently: "Throw grenades and grenades, and you must hit the attacking little devils with the greatest firepower, kill them——。 ”

The only group of fighters who were extremely angry by the repeated attacks of the little devils threw the grenades and grenades that had been prepared, containing the blood and tears of the soldiers, into the enemy group crowded by the devils, and thousands of grenades and grenades exploded in the group of devils.

Raindrops of grenades and grenades were thrown out of the position of the Eighth Route Army, and they exploded in the enemy group, and the bones of the devils flew sideways, and the ghosts cried wolves, and fled down the mountain without hesitating anything.

The commander of the devil who followed closely behind waved his command knife and forced the fleeing devil to turn around immediately and continue to attack the frontal position of the Eighth Route Army.

The devil rushed up again, and Lei Jian shouted again: "Throw the grenades and grenades, and when the explosion stops for a while, all the soldiers will shoot out of the position, start hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, kill our heroism without fear of death, repel the devil's attack, and hit me hard." ”

Another wave of grenades and grenades exploded violently, and before the smoke cleared, Lei Jian jumped up and shouted: "Kill the enemy, kill the devil, kill the devil——。 ”

"Kill the devil-", "Kill the devil-" ......

With the cooperation of Zhang Ting's 1st Battalion and the cavalry battalion led by Li Gang on both flanks, all the soldiers of the 1st Regiment who were angry and angry in the sky launched a new round of life and death fighting against the attacking enemy.

(End of chapter)