Li Gang's analysis of Lei Jian admired the five-body throw, and the other people in the command post before the war were all impressed by Lei Jian, Lao Sun heard Li Gang ask whether the command post was moving forward, he looked at Lei Jian and said: "Commander Lei, do you really want to put the main battlefield between Sangtou Town and Qingshui Bridge?" ”

Lei Jian nodded and said solemnly: "Commander Li and Lao Sun both think that the pre-war command post should be pushed forward, and I really have this idea.

In fact, the 2nd Battalion, which is now deployed on the west bank of the Qingshui Bridge, has become a reserve on the main battlefield, and it is not easy to use the 2nd Battalion to participate in the battle to block the Matsumoto Wing unless absolutely necessary. ”

He said to Li Gang: "Order the field command post to pass through Qingshui Qiao, quickly reach the hilly heights 1,500 meters west of Sangtou Town, and set up the pre-war command post of the only regiment of the Eighth Route Army blocking the Japanese Matsumoto Wing. ”

The front-line command post of the Qingshuiqiao Campaign quickly passed through the Qingshui Bridge and arrived at the high ground in the hilly area 500 meters away from the Qingshui Bridge in half an hour, and immediately went into the frontline to command the operation.

Lei Jian looked at the positions of the third and fourth battalions on the north slope of Sangtou Town with a telescope, and at this time a fierce gunfire broke out, it seems that the main forces of the enemy and us have launched a large-scale blocking and counterattack battle, Lei Jian didn't know what the battle situation was, and said to Zhang Ping, the former director of the telecommunications office of the only regiment around him, who is now the telecommunications commander next to Lei Jian: "Immediately contact Deputy Regiment Commander Wang of the North Slope position, as well as Regiment Commander Wu of the Third Regiment who fought against the rear guard of the Matsumoto Wing, and Deputy Regiment Commander Ma Ming who led the cavalry battalion to raid the enemy's artillery position, and immediately report the battlefield situation to the command post. ”

After a short time, Wang Xiaoliang reported: The 3rd and 4th Battalions holding the position on the northern slope are engaged in fierce positional battles with the two main brigades of the Japanese army, and both sides have invested the maximum firepower, and the troops have suffered casualties.

Lei Jian ordered Wang Xiaoliang to lead the third and fourth battalions to hold the main position and wait for reinforcements from the first battalion.

He immediately ordered Deputy Regiment Commander Zhang Ting, who was lying in ambush in the woods 800 meters away from Qingshui Bridge as originally planned, to lead the 1st Battalion to stealthily break out of the woods and move towards the position on the northern slope, striving to launch the most fierce fire attack on the enemy's vanguard when it was not discovered, so as to alleviate the fire pressure of the 3rd and 4th Battalions and reverse the unfavorable battlefield situation for the 1st Regiment.

Wang Xiaoliang received Lei Jian's latest order, knowing that it was impossible for the third and fourth battalions to carry out the original battle plan and withdraw from their positions and retreat to Qingshui Bridge, he called Duan Zhiquan, the commander of the third battalion, and Song Chun, the commander of the fourth battalion, to convey Lei Jian's latest order, ordering the fourth battalion to continue to hold the main position and strike at the attacking enemy with the greatest firepower.

All the soldiers of the 3rd and 4th Battalions of the 1st Regiment received the new operational order to completely dispel the mentality of withdrawing from their positions as originally planned and retreating to the west bank through Qingshui Qiao under the unfavorable situation of blocking the enemy.

Wing Commander Matsumoto held a telescope to pay close attention to the battlefield situation in the Beishan position, and when he found that it was only two battalions of the Eighth Route Army that were carrying out fire blockade, he ordered the advance guard brigade and the middle brigade to concentrate the most superior forces and firepower, and must break through the position on the northern slope of the Eighth Route Army within one hour, eliminate the Eighth Route Army and immediately withdraw from the battlefield, and quickly march through the Qingshui Bridge to Fuping City.

The artillery squadron of the 364th Matsumoto Wing of the Japanese Army, after receiving an order from Matsumoto Daisa, moved the artillery position forward by 20 meters, readjusted the gun position, and aimed at the northern slope position to support the attacking devils with maximum artillery fire.

Shells roared out of the artillery position and exploded at the position of the Eighth Route Army on the northern slope, and the earth, rocks and shrapnel kicked up by the explosion flew towards the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who were lying on the position to block the enemy's attack.

Some soldiers were suddenly blown up at the center of the shell explosion, and when they landed again, their bones were separated, and they became bloody limbs and legs. Some soldiers were hit by shrapnel and died heroically, and although some soldiers were wounded by shrapnel from the sand, they did not stop firing to stop the attacking enemy, but braved the enemy's artillery fire and fought to the last moment of their lives, regardless of the condition of their injuries.

The two attacking brigades, supported by heavy artillery fire from the rear, launched an even more frantic attack on the position of the Eighth Route Army on the northern slope, seeing that the enemy was about to break through the positions of the three battalions on both flanks and encircle the positions of the third and fourth battalions on the northern slope.

Wang Xiaoliang shouted violently: "Brothers of the soldiers of the third and fourth battalions, we are the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army Jinchaji Military Region." For the honor of the only regiment, in order to block the Matsumoto Wing on the east bank of the Qingshui Bridge, and for the organs and main forces of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region to smoothly pass through the Qingshui Bridge and march to the base area of Fuping City and Beiyue District, even if we die on the battlefield, we will never let the little devils continue to rush to the Qingshui Bridge from under our noses, do you have confidence? ”

"Yes, yes, yes——。" More than 1,000 soldiers of the Third and Fourth Battalions of the Eighth Route Army shouted loudly while pulling the trigger in their guns to strike at the enemy, and for a moment the entire Eighth Route Army's northern slope position erupted into a battle cry that shook the sky, and every soldier's passion for killing the enemy was once again aroused, and they launched the greatest firepower counterattack against the enemy without fear of death.

Takada Jun, chief of staff of the Matsumoto Wing, who commanded the two Japanese brigades and attacked the position of the Eighth Route Army on the northern slope, brandished his command knife and ordered the captain of the avant-garde brigade: "Quickly transfer the squadron that monitors the emergency situation of the avant-garde to the battlefield of frontal attack, and strive to break through the position of the Eighth Route Army within half an hour, eliminate the Eighth Route Army, and continue to reinforce Fuping City." ”

The commander of the avant-garde brigade frowned and looked at Takatajun and asked: "Chief of Staff Takata, what you said is that the avant-garde alert squadron will be transferred over to participate in the main force's attack on the Tubalu position, once a Tubalu reinforcement rushes over from the direction of Qingshui Bridge, and if the blocking force is not set up in advance, the main force of our attack will be hit by sudden firepower, which will directly affect the entire process of attacking the Tubalu position, and please think twice about Takata-kun." ”

"No, no, no, all the troops of the Tuba Road are concentrated here, and there should be no reinforcements sent from the direction of the Qingshui River, my order will be to put the avant-garde squadron into the large force attacking the Tuba Road position, which will speed up the destruction of the forces of the Tuba Road position, once the Qingshui Bridge direction of the Tuba Road is sent to reinforce the Tuba Road, we have eliminated the Tuba Road guarding the position on the northern slope, and then we will concentrate the superior forces to eliminate the reinforcements of the Tuba Road."

Hearing what Chief of Staff Takada Jun said, the captain of the avant-garde brigade looked at the firepower competition between the enemy and us on the northern slope position and the input of troops, and found that the firepower of the Eighth Route Army holding the position was constantly weakening, and the vanguard of the Japanese army was almost about to attack the forward position of the Eighth Route Army.

Not only did he nod and said, "Shout, Takata-kun's arrangement is very reasonable, and I will immediately put the guard squadron in charge of the guard into the operation of attacking the Tuba Road." ”

The third and fourth battalions holding the position on the north slope were under the enemy's artillery fire, and the large army of little devils rushed to the position like a pack of wolves predatoring, seeing that the position was not guaranteed, and the soldiers of the two battalions were going to be surrounded by a large number of devils, Wang Xiaoliang shook his head and sighed: "Commander Lei, it seems that the battle of Qingshui Bridge is the last battle for you and my brothers to kill devils together, I don't want to die, but the enemy rushes to the front of the position, in order to defeat the little devils, what is there to fear of death?" Twenty years later, Lao Tzu is a good man who kills devils again. ”

Wang Xiaoliang held a light machine gun and swept towards the attacking little devil with a tongue of fire, but the enemy's strength and firepower were too strong, and it was not easy to rely on the combat effectiveness of two battalions to block the attack of the two Japanese brigades.

Now the situation on the battlefield is in a one-sided situation, and the soldiers of the 3rd and 4th battalions of the only regiment who are holding their positions, although they have fought bravely to kill the enemy without flinching, they can see that the little devils are about to break through the forward position under the enemy's powerful firepower.

At this moment, the attacking devil troops suddenly added a squadron of devil reinforcements, it was originally very difficult to block the enemy's large army attack with firepower, and now another squadron of devils joined the attacking team, how can the third and fourth battalions that hold the position on the north slope block a large number of attacking enemies outside the position?

Wang Xiaoliang looked at the treacherous battlefield situation and watched the soldiers fall one by one under the artillery guns of the groundmen, he really felt that the third and fourth battalions would fight to the last man in this blocking position, and more than 1,000 soldiers would die heroically on this land.

Duan Zhiquan, the commander of the third battalion, and Song Chun, the commander of the fourth battalion, dodged the enemy's bullets and bullets with their waists, rushed over quickly, and suddenly fell in front of Wang Xiaoliang, so frightened that Wang Xiaoliang shouted: "Bastards, Duan Zhiquan, Song Chun, what's wrong with you two?" ”