The commander of the fourth company led the soldiers to quickly surround the courtyard where the puppet army lived, and he ordered in a low voice: "Now there are still two hours before the general attack, when the battle is resolved, no one should shoot, and strive to capture these dozen puppet soldiers alive, but there is resistance, and find other ways to kill the guys who don't want to live on the spot." ”

The soldiers approached the gate of the compound, and the commander of the fourth company gently pushed open the street door, sneaking into the courtyard with a sharp knife squad, and from the dimly lit room, there was a lewd laugh and frolic of the puppet army, which was nothing more than talking about the ** things in the crotch of women and the like.

The commander of the fourth company waved his hand, and the soldiers kicked open the door and rushed into the house, holding their guns and shouting: "Don't move, whoever is not honest will be killed on the spot." ”

More than a dozen puppet soldiers in the house, as soon as they saw that they were taken to the nest by the Eighth Route Army, those who did not sleep quickly knelt on the kang, raised their hands and begged for mercy, and those who fell asleep were woken up by the sudden majestic drinking, and when they saw the Eighth Route Army standing in the room with a gun, they were so frightened that they knelt in the quilt with the quilt, kowtowing and begging for mercy.

The soldiers of the fourth company easily destroyed the puppet army's nest stationed in Niangziguan Village, successfully withdrew from the battle, and accepted a new mission.

The second battalion saw that the fourth company successfully eliminated the puppet army in Niangziguan Village, and the battalion commander ordered in a low voice: "Quickly pass through the village and raid Niangziguan Chengguan." ”

The battalion commander led the knife platoon, under the cover of night, along the steep steps, and cautiously approached the city pass.

At this time, the devils guarding the important pass of the castle pass were ordered by Ikeda to relax their vigilance, and three puppet soldiers were left on guard at the pass.

In the night sky, the dark clouds have not yet dispersed, except for the two 'angry you' glass lamps lit at the pass, which keep shaking under the wind, revealing dim lights, and the whole pass is pitch black.

The commander of the second battalion ordered the assault platoon commander: "You take the sharp knife squad and wipe out the enemy in the city pass." ”

The assault platoon commander with a sharp knife squad, crawling on the steep steps, climbed up carefully little by little, approaching the city pass, and was about to enter the city cave, suddenly a puppet army came out of the city hole, stretched his waist and looked down the mountain, this look frightened the bastard back, almost fell, and then shouted: "There is a ...... under the pass." ”

Without waiting for the unlucky puppet army to finish shouting, the assault platoon commander Huo Di jumped up from the top steps, threw the swaying puppet army to the ground, and whispered an order to the soldiers behind him: "Quickly rush into the city pass and take the enemy's position." ”

The puppet soldier who was knocked down by the assault platoon commander really deserved his fate, fell to the ground, hit the back of his head on the stone of the city pass, and was killed on the spot.

There were three puppet army guards at the Niangzi Pass, one was killed and two were captured, no one would have thought that they would take the city pass so smoothly and open up the way for the attack on Mianshan.

The commander of the second battalion then boarded the city pass, and ordered the follow-up troops to quickly pass the ladders, ropes and light and heavy weapons to the city pass, he stood on a big rock, and said in a loud voice: "Comrades, we have successfully seized the enemy position in the city pass of Niangzi Pass, and are about to attack the enemy in Mianshan from the north. ”

At 22 o'clock on August 20, 1940, Commander Guo, who commanded the right column attacking Niangzi Pass, received the order to attack Zhengtai Road on time, and he issued a signal to all battalions of the Fifth Regiment that had been deployed to attack Niangzi Pass.

Three flares shot up into the sky, grazing the flames of the night sky, like three rainbows across the sky, inspiring all the cadres and soldiers of the right column. At one time, there was a loud gunfire, and the entire Niangzi Pass was held by the enemy, and at the same time it was attacked and attacked by the fire of the Eighth Route Army.

The Japanese artillery tower built on the cliff, the little devil defended it with danger, thinking that it was foolproof, machine guns, rifles, and grenadiers blocked the attacking Eighth Route Army assault troops with the most fierce firepower.

When the commander of the second battalion saw the offensive signal flares fired by the command post, he shouted to the company commanders: "Build a ladder, cover with machine guns, quickly occupy the devil's position, and destroy the Japanese fortress." ”

The assault team bore the brunt of the attack, when the ladder was erected, the soldiers stepped on the ladder to hang the ladder on the cliff wall, and the soldiers braved the dense bullets of the enemy's turret, and went forward to climb forcibly one after another.

However, the condescending fire blockade of the Devil's Artillery Tower caused great resistance to the assault team climbing the ladder, and groups of soldiers were hit by bullets from the ladder and fell to the bottom of the cliff, and the ones behind followed closely behind, and the attacking troops were temporarily blocked from attacking, and the troops suffered heavy casualties.

The commander of the second battalion looked at the devil's turret on the top of the cliff and fired at the soldiers climbing the ladder with the greatest firepower, and he shouted angrily: "Machine gun cover, we must break through the devil's fire blockade in the shortest possible time, comrades, rush——。 ”

Seeing the soldiers who rushed to the front falling down from the ladder one by one, the cadres and soldiers of the second battalion shouted angrily: "Climb the ladder to climb the mountain and blow up the turret set up by the devil on the Niangzi Pass." ”

The little devil in the turret, from the eye of the gun, saw that the Eighth Route Army used the ladder to brave the powerful firepower to storm the Mianshan Artillery Tower, and the devil commander ordered the fire of each turret to cross the firepower to block the attack of the Eighth Route Army from different angles, and the attacking Eighth Route Army must be wiped out under the Mianshan cliff.

The Japanese army built four turrets on the Mianshan on the cliff wall, and the crazy little devils threw out the turret from the turret after igniting the explosives bag made by themselves, and the explosives bag tumbled down the steep slope and rolled down in flames, and several powerful explosions of "boom, boom" blew up the ladder that the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army were climbing, and the soldiers who had climbed the ladder suddenly fell off the cliff by the broken ladder, and fell to the bottom of the valley heroically, attacking the group, and stagnating for a while.

The commander of the second battalion saw that the casualties of the troops were so large, but his task was to destroy the Japanese artillery tower set up on Niangziguan at midnight, destroy the enemy's condescending firepower point, and cover the first battalion to storm the Niangziguan railway station.

The soldiers of the unit are well aware that time is tight and the task is arduous, but under the enemy's powerful firepower counterattack, many strong attacks have been defeated, and the casualties have been heavy; seeing that time is passing rapidly, it is less than two hours before midnight, and once it cannot destroy the enemy's artillery tower at Niangziguan on time, it is bound to bring irreparable fire suppression and heavy casualties to the battalion attacking the train battle.

The commander of the second battalion was sweating anxiously, and he shouted firmly: "Comrades, time is life, we are the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who bravely killed the enemy, the ladder is blown up, we will use the human ladder, as long as we are alive, we will definitely climb the cliff and destroy the fire position of the devil's turret." ”

He shouted to the light and heavy machine gunners behind him: "Suppress the devil's turret with fire, and cover the soldiers to climb the rock wall by a human ladder." ”

The machine gunner holds the machine gun, increases the fire at an elevation angle, and strafs the devil turret on the cliff wall, and the gun hole set up in the turret is difficult to shoot the bullet into the gun hole and enter the turret by flat fire.

The commander of the second battalion saw that the first batch of human ladders collapsed by the fire of the devils, and he ordered the formation of a death squad, took off all the leggings, and took the human ladder again to brave the enemy's strong firepower, and must climb up.

Finally climbed to the bottom of the cliff devil turret, the soldiers lying on the ground, the connected leggings, down the cliff, the soldiers grabbed the leggings, climbed to the cliff, flexibly controlled the climbing speed, dodged the bullets shot by the devils in the turret.

The soldier who had already climbed to the bottom of the rock wall turret, lit the fuse of the prepared explosive bag, and watched the flames rush towards the explosive bag, seeing that it was about to cause an explosion, and the soldier who had calculated the explosion time suddenly stuffed the explosive bag into the gun hole, only to hear the devil inside shouting: "The explosive bag, the explosives of the earth eight roads ......." ”

'Boom' exploded, and the powerful explosive package exploded in the devil's turret, but it failed to destroy the devil's reinforced concrete turret at all, and only killed and injured most of the devils inside.

When the soldiers stuffed the explosives bag into the gun hole of the turret, at the moment when they were about to explode, in order to save their lives, they desperately rolled down the slope into the communication trench between the enemy turrets in Mianshan.

Under the cover of the soldiers who climbed the cliff wall to destroy the first turret, the soldiers who climbed up with a ladder and leggings quickly entered the traffic trench, and used the cover of the traffic trench to hunch over the other three turrets with tongues of fire.

The cunning little devil, just after nightfall, heard the sound of gunfire under the Niangzi Pass, and the commander of the Mianshan garrison ordered all the turrets to link all the thistles and do a good job of firepower coordination, so as to prevent the Eighth Route Army from attacking the turrets and breaking them all.

(End of chapter)