The instructor of the 11th Company saw that the squad leader Fan was shot and died, he braved the enemy's dense bullets and rushed forward, grabbed the cluster grenade next to the squad leader, quickly climbed the ladder, pulled the fuse, and stuffed the grenade into the hole.

Before the instructor jumped down from the ladder, a sudden continuous explosion collapsed the enemy bunker, and the instructor of the 11th Company was suddenly exploded by the power of the explosion, and when he landed again, he had died heroically.

The enemy of the other fortresses in the East Regiment Fort increased their firepower to counterattack the powerful attack of the Eighth Route Army, and the soldiers of the 1st Division and the 3rd Regiment under the leadership of the commander of the Qiu Regiment rushed to the devil's position with indomitable strength, destroying the five bunkers and pillboxes on the periphery, and the remnants of the little devils retreated to the northwest corner of the compound and resisted stubbornly.

The soldiers of the three regiments launched a powerful offensive against the remnants of the enemy, and these elite devils who had been specially trained and had the spirit of bushido, knew that resistance was death, but they were still resisting frantically.

Regiment Commander Qiu called in a communications staff officer who knew Japanese and continuously shouted at the enemy to force him to surrender.

Under the erosion of a large amount of poisonous gas, most of the soldiers of the 3rd Regiment were poisoned and fell to the ground.

The militia stretcher team behind them, covering their mouths and noses with clothes, quickly lifted the soldiers who were smoked by the poisonous gas, lifted them up and ran out, and some did not run out a few steps, and the militia carrying the stretcher suddenly fell down and never stood up again.

Although the three regiments attacking Dongtuanbao destroyed five open and dark forts and occupied many positions outside the Japanese Dongtuanbao, the soldiers who were shot on the battlefield and were smoked by poison gas and sacrificed were lost, and the losses were too great, so they could only temporarily abandon the attack.

The Japanese stronghold in Dongtuanbao, under the powerful offensive of the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Division and the 1st Regiment of Lei Jian, cleared many Japanese positions such as the extended single bunker and the light and dark fort, and now the entire stronghold is only the largest pillbox in the northeast corner.

Lei Jian saw that the three regiments of the first division, in the brave attack, were injured by the poisonous gas released by the devils, and the troops were greatly reduced, and they had withdrawn from the battle at this time, he ordered Zhang Ting of the first battalion: "You lead the first battalion to clear the remaining firepower points of the enemy on this passage leading to the main running tower of the East Regiment Fort." ”

He also ordered Song Zhida and Huang Yong, the commanders of the second and third battalions: "When the second and third battalions advance forward, they will attack the enemy's central artillery tower from both flanks, and they must destroy this last enemy pillbox within an hour. ”

At this time, Koda, the outgoing captain of the brigade who had retracted into the central turret, and the captain of the Inide brigade, who had just taken office and had not yet had time to hand over, shook their heads with a wry smile.

Suddenly, Captain Koda grabbed the phone and wanted to call the 180th Division, and directly named him to talk to the commander of the Hino Division.

The head of the Hino Division frowned and asked, "Is yours Koda Daisa?" Why haven't you returned to the 9th Independent Mixed Brigade to report for duty? ”

"Report to General Hino, the strategic place of the Imperial Japanese Army in Dongtuanbao was attacked by two regiments of the Tuba Road, and it has been fighting for three days and three nights, and now the positions of the bright and dark forts outside the Dongtuan Fort have been completely destroyed by the Tuba Road, and now we are concentrating our forces and firepower to attack the central turret, I and the newly appointed Captain Iide Brigade, ask the air fighters to drop weapons, ammunition and fire support, please Your Excellency the General, quickly send fighters to reinforce."

"Koda-kun, the stronghold of Dongtuanbao is the training base of our Imperial Japanese Army in North China, and it is also an important stronghold of the military fortress, you and your subordinates are specially trained imperial elites, why were you broken through the outer positions of the Dirt Eighth Road, why is this?"

"General Hino, at this time, I don't understand what I say to you, I am less than 200 soldiers of the Japanese Empire, and I am fighting against the six or seven thousand troops of the two regiments of the Eighth Road, and I have done my best to hold out for three days and three nights, at this time, please don't hold the general accountable, quickly send fighters to reinforce, please."

After Koda finished speaking quickly, he hung up the phone and ordered the soldiers beside him: "Stick to every gun hole, aim at the attacking Dohachi Road, and wait for the fighter reinforcements of the Imperial Japanese Army." ”

Zhang Ting, the only regiment of the Eighth Route Army, led the 1st Battalion to continuously clear the remaining enemy firepower points on the passage leading to the enemy's central artillery tower, and the 2nd and 3rd Battalions cooperated with each other to launch an attack on the enemy's central pillbox.

The little devil in the bunker is a specially trained elite unit, with the help of the turret as a cover, with the maximum firepower to hit the attack of a battalion, under the enemy's desperate struggle of firepower, the advance of the troops is blocked, and every step forward has to pay the price of blood.

At this time, the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Division also joined the encirclement of the enemy's central pillbox, and the Japanese army's fortified pillbox became an isolated island and reef, surrounded by soldiers of the Eighth Route Army on all sides, surrounding the artillery towers.

Lei Jian saw that this central turret was about to be conquered, and was about to give an order to forcibly launch a general attack with the most powerful firepower, when at this moment, an enemy plane appeared in the air, roaring and hovering over the turret, dropping bombs from time to time, and bursting out with a fierce bullet whistling sound when diving.

Commander Qiu of the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Division ordered the attacking troops to retreat immediately, quickly conceal themselves, and evade the bombs and fire strafing dropped by enemy planes in the air.

Lei Jian ordered the soldiers to lie down on the spot, find a concealable cover, raise their guns to aim at the dive enemy plane, seize the fighter plane and shoot the devil plane.

The enemy plane in the air dived again, flew at an ultra-low altitude, did not drop bombs, did not burst into fierce flames, but dropped one box after another, and the boxes landed from the air, some of which were slightly damaged, and some of the boxes fell to the ground and bloomed, scattering the contents of the boxes all over the ground.

When the soldiers saw that the boxes dropped by the devils were filled with weapons, ammunition, canned food, compressed biscuits and other urgently needed items, these soldiers urgently needed to replenish weapons and ammunition, but after three days and three nights of fierce fighting, they needed to replenish food and drink.

When they saw the weapons, ammunition, and delicious food rolling out of the broken boxes, they jumped up and packed up with joy.

Originally, the good things dropped by these fighters were the little devils in the reinforcement bunker, but they all fell outside the bunker and in the ranks of the attacking troops of the only regiment of Lei Jian, and the captain of the Koda brigade shouted angrily: "Open fire, shoot and kill these people who have robbed our Imperial Japanese Army of weapons and ammunition." ”

The devils in the central turret of Dongtuan Fort saw that such a good thing was effortlessly obtained by the Thunder Sword Regiment, and roared angrily one by one, exerting the weapons in their hands to the maximum firepower, and shooting and killing the Eighth Route Army that had packed up the military supplies scattered all over the place.

When Lei Jian found that the enemy plane dropped boxes in the air, he concluded that it was the enemy's military reinforcements, and was just about to order the soldiers of the troops not to rush out to pick up this covetous good thing, but the soldiers couldn't bear it anymore, and suddenly attacked and snatched back the military supplies around them.

At this time, not only the only regiment of Lei Jian was red-eyed when they looked at the weapons and ammunition and the good things they ate and drank all over the ground, but even the soldiers of the third regiment of the 1st Division who retreated to the back saw the weapons, ammunition and delicious food scattered from the enemy planes around the enemy's central turret, and these soldiers were happy for a while, and rushed forward before they could give an order.

Lei Jian saw that the soldiers of his only regiment and the third regiment of the first division were desperately grabbing weapons and ammunition on the ground, and he shouted with trembling in his heart: "Give me all lie down on the spot, whoever messes with a gun, a bullet, and a box of canned food dropped by the air, my Lei Jian will shoot him." ”

It was late, just as Lei Jian was shouting violently, wanting to stop the troops from frantically grabbing weapons, ammunition and delicious food on the ground, the little devil in the central turret of the Japanese army, under the order of the captain of the Jiatian brigade, concentrated his firepower to strafe the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who were picking up military supplies on the ground.

Lei Jian saw the soldiers fall in the enemy's dense rain of bullets, and he shouted angrily: "The soldiers of the battalions of the only regiment, listen to my orders, suppress the enemy's dense fire in the turret with the most fierce firepower, and cover the soldiers of the first division and the third regiment to retreat immediately." ”

In the face of life and death, the soldiers of the 1st Division and the 3rd Regiment did not run away, but immediately used the weapons they had grabbed in their hands, and launched a fire attack on the central turret of the devil when they lay on the ground.

The battle of the central artillery tower to conquer the last of the Japanese army was fought from 8 o'clock in the evening to dawn and from dawn to 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and the enemy and us formed a state of confrontation, and neither side could win the other in the shortest time.

At this time, Lei Jian and the commander of the third regiment Qiu quickly bumped together, analyzing the battle situation in front of him, Lei Jian said a little anxiously: "This little devil stubbornly defended the stronghold of the East Regiment Fort, wounding my soldiers and costing me bullets, and it has not been completely destroyed until now, we must come up with a way to defeat it in the shortest possible time, otherwise once the Japanese army ......." ”

(End of chapter)