The second battalion commander Song Zhida's emotional neck tendons jumped up, and he continued to shout regardless of it: "Commander Li, you give me a good word, what should I do?" Whether to hold the last grenade, kill the enemy group, and die with the enemy, or just wait for death, I ...... today. ”

Li Gang screamed unabashedly at the second battalion commander's rage, and the nameless fire suppressed in his heart was ignited, and he roared with a blue face: "Song Zhida, I am the commander of the only regiment, commanding this blocking battle, I have done my best, you howl like this, you are the greatest dissatisfaction with my performance of the duties of the regiment commander, I order you on behalf of the commander of the thunder sword, return to the position immediately, and give me the repulsion of the devil's attack." ”

"Captain of the Thunder Sword? Why did you suddenly bring up the Thunder Sword Commander? Could it be that Captain Lei really sacrificed himself? Bastard, you make it clear to me today. ”

"Song Zhida, you are a soldier of the Eighth Route Army and the commander of the second battalion of the only regiment, and you must be disciplined for not carrying out orders on the battlefield and insulting the commander like you."

Zhou Peng said fiercely, then grabbed Song Zhida's shoulder, pushed out a few steps and whispered: "Battalion Commander Song, you are too presumptuous, you dare to scold the newly appointed regiment commander Li Gang, are you still a qualified commander of the Eighth Route Army?" ”

"Chief of Staff Zhou, I know that Li Gang commanded this great battle and racked his brains, but why didn't he have a reasonable deployment to repel the enemy's attack or defeat the enemy? What does it mean to shirk responsibility and say, 'I order you on behalf of Commander Thunder Sword'? Could it be that Captain Lei ....... ”

Zhou Peng didn't have time to explain to Song Zhida why Li Gang said this, he said sternly: "Battalion Commander Song, your task now is to stick to your command post, and you can only wait for orders for how the troops will act next, do you understand?" ”

Song Zhijian turned around and rushed out with an emotional stalk, when he saw that a large number of little devils had rushed to the front line, Song Zhijian brutally snatched the machine gun of the soldier next to him, pulled the trigger in his arms, and swept towards the devil who was close in front of him with a tongue of fire.

He shouted as he strafed: "On behalf of Commander Lei Jian, Commander Li Gang orders the soldiers of the only regiment on the position to have a spirit that is not afraid of sacrifice, fight the enemy to the end, and kill the devils——。 ”

"Captain Lei is still alive, kill the devil——、 kill the devil——。"

The soldiers listened to their new regiment commander Li Gang, who gave an order on behalf of the commander of the Lei Jian regiment, and one by one excitedly thought that Lei Jian was still alive.

The soldiers of the only regiment shouted, exerting the firepower of the weapons in their hands to the extreme, the sudden outbreak of combat effectiveness, the devils who quickly broke through the forward position, suffered casualties, and quickly retreated.

At this time, the commander of the only regiment, Li Gang, deputy commander Zhang Ting, and chief of staff Zhou Peng were anxiously discussing the huge risks faced by the positional blocking war. Li Gang really had no choice.

Li Gang's only hope now is to wait for the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region Command to give an order to withdraw from the Beishan position.

More than 10 minutes have passed, and there has not yet been a reply from the military district headquarters, and there are still 45 minutes before the stipulated time for withdrawing from the position, but these 45 minutes are in danger of being broken through for the troops holding on to the Beishan Heights, even for every minute they hold on.

Once the forward positions were broken through, it was difficult for the entire Duyi Regiment and the Fifth Regiment to imagine what would happen.

Li Gang no longer waited, squatted on the ground like this and discussed for another day and night, this team that can now participate in the battle of less than 6,000 people, without bullets to replenish in time, to block the attack of nearly 10,000 devils, no commander can think of a way to repel the enemy's attack.

He stood up and ordered Zhou Peng: "Chief of Staff Zhou, now I can only pull up the artillery company and pour all the shells into the group of devils who attack the forward position, even if I can't ...... it." ”

"Commander Li, I understand what you mean, immediately transfer the artillery company, this is our last possessions, if the head of the military region still does not give the order to withdraw from the position, then we can only hold a belief that we will die, and find our regiment commander Lei to go on the road together."

Zhou Peng shouted and rushed out, and he could still hear it when he ran far away: "Artillery company commander Zhao Sicong, regiment commander Li Gang ordered to immediately adjust the artillery position, aim ten meters away from the forward position, fire the cannon at me, blow up the devils who rushed to the forward position, and open fire——。 ”

Zhao Sicong saw Chief of Staff Zhou Peng rushing to the artillery position like crazy and issuing an artillery bombardment of the enemy group ten meters outside the forward position, and he shouted an order to all the soldiers who were sticking to the artillery position: "You have all heard, carry out the order of Commander Li Gang, aim at the enemy, and open artillery——。 ”

More than 80 mortars, under the order of the artillery company commander, these artillery fighters, who had been prepared for a long time, knew that the only regiment must have reached the most critical moment, otherwise they would not have used the artillery company to concentrate all their artillery fire and attack the enemy attacking ten meters outside the forward position.

Shells of artillery, carried by a sharp whistling, fell over the heads of the fighters in the forward positions and fell into the enemy group, as if they were exploding right next to them, and the dust kicked up flew to the positions.

At this time, Li Gang, who rushed to the forward position, shouted: "Get down quickly." ”

A piece of flying shrapnel flew out grazing Li Gang's left arm, Li Gang seemed to have been bitten by something, thanks to Zhang Ting, who rushed up, he threw Li Gang down on the position, otherwise he would have been shot by shrapnel flying everywhere.

Li Gang violently pushed away Zhang Ting, who was pressing on his body in order to cover, got up and ordered loudly: "Save bullets, aim at the locked little devil, give me a bullet to destroy an enemy." ”

Song Zhigang, the commander of the second battalion who was standing in the forward position and rushed to the front of the position with machine guns and strafing fire, was hit by the enemy's bullets, his body shook and fell, he was hit by three bullets, but he did not hit the vital point.

Song Zhigang looked at the three gunshot wounds, which were bleeding out, gritted his teeth and lay on the ground, quickly set up the machine gun, pulled the trigger, and the machine gun burst into flames again, sweeping towards the little devil who was not killed by the shell.

The artillery company, under the command of Zhou Peng, immediately ordered to extend ten meters forward and fire when the first shell fired.

The mortar position of the only regiment was whistling with shells one after another, and under the continuous artillery fire that extended forward, the group of devils who rushed more than half the mountain was constantly bombarded by dozens of shells, and the attack on the Beishan position was blocked, and they retreated in panic.

The commander of the Katayama Brigade, who was standing at the foot of the mountain and commanding, did not expect that the Eighth Route Army, which was blocking in Beishan, would have such powerful artillery fire, causing the Japanese troops who were about to break through the forward position of the Eighth Route Army to be routed by artillery shells, and the living devils turned around and fled down the mountain.

The commander of the Katayama Brigade roared angrily: "Our Fourth Brigade is nearly 10,000 elites of the Japanese Imperial Army, and in the front line of the military city, it has been fighting fiercely for two days and two nights in a row, and it is a shame for me to be unable to break through the blocking positions of the two regiments of the Eighth Route Army. ”

He brandished his command knife and gave an order: "Order my artillery squadron to destroy the forward positions of the Eighth Route Army with the most intense artillery fire, and order the attacking troops, under the cover of artillery fire, to speed up the attack, and must destroy the Eighth Route Army troops who are holding their positions, and those who retreat are dead and dead." ”

The five mountain guns of the Japanese artillery position, nearly 100 mortars and more than 100 grenadiers, under the command of the leader of the devil squadron, fired shells at the position of the Eighth Route Army in Beishan almost simultaneously.

Hail of shells fell on the position of the single regiment of the Eighth Route Army, and the dust, stones, and shrapnel kicked up by the explosions one after another swept towards the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who were blocking the enemy in the position.

Li Gang was shocked by the enemy's sudden and fierce artillery bombardment of the position, and he saw that the shells fell on the position, exploding the soldiers lying on the position to block the enemy.

With tears in his eyes, he shouted: "Pay attention to concealment, quickly jump into the bomb crater that was blown out, and fire on the little devils who are attacking the mountain position under the cover of artillery fire." ”

Before Li Gang gave the order, the soldiers with combat experience shouted to their comrades-in-arms: "Hide in the bomb crater that has just been blown up, and you can avoid the shell bombardment of the devils." ”

(End of chapter)