In the Italian Allied Army Headquarters in the rear, after learning that a division of the squadron had attacked a regiment of the Austrians for two days in a row but suffered heavy casualties, not only did not express sympathy, but laughed and gloated and said that the Chinese should suffer some hardships if they are not able to do their best, and they deserve it. As the only flat valley defense area in the squadron's defense area, Xizhong's defense area is between the two mountains, about 5.5 kilometers long, and the opposite side of the squadron is about two meters above sea level in this area than the Austrian defense line, so the squadron dares to charge from top to bottom. The Austrians' biggest problem was the lack of troops, and they were responsible for defending the area like the mouth of a gourd, only five kilometers long, with the Lodroone plain behind them, and the Austrian army's heavy artillery on the top of two hills. Both sides have their own advantages, and both belong to the easy to defend and difficult to attack. The defense line of the squadron is at a higher altitude, and the Austrian defense line is narrow and difficult to attack, with the help of artillery.

Therefore, after heavy losses, the squadron had to change its way of fighting. On the third day, the squadron only carried out artillery bombardment and shooting, but did not dare to charge again, but the accuracy of the squadron's marksmanship was indeed not flattering, and the wire in front of the Austrian trench was clanged.

It turned out that the First World War had brought the development of trench warfare to the extreme, with mines and wires buried in front of the trenches, and a Maxim heavy machine gun every fifty meters behind it to block the enemy's charge. And in order to prevent the enemy from sneaking up at night, bottles and canned boxes will be hung on the barbed wire, and once the enemy makes any moves, the canned boxes on the wire are moved to make a clanging sound. The squadron couldn't hit the Austrians, and most of the bullets floated to it. The canned box was cracked.

The soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian 73rd Regiment saw that the Chinese soldiers were tired, and Haubenstock and his subordinates discussed and ordered the 73rd Regiment to launch a counter-charge. So Haubenstock asked his superiors for instructions, and the commander of the 18th Division agreed to his plan. So the Austrians, taking advantage of the Chinese's late dinner, moved the barbed wire fence in front of their trenches and took the mines. Early the next morning, with the help of artillery, the charge was launched. The Chinese soldiers were a little confused, if it weren't for the explosion of the mines in front of the Chinese positions by the Austrians, the Austrians would have jumped directly into the trenches. But even so. The Chinese soldiers were also caught off guard, and after a period of panicked resistance, the Austrians frantically attacked after testing the Chinese resistance.

Originally, the second division of the squadron participating in the war was composed of new recruits. Although the Japanese instructors were strict in discipline, but the recruits were recruits, the atmosphere of defeat in the past few days made the morale low, the Austrian attack made these people scatter in a panic, the officers screamed and shot the deserters could not effectively build a defensive line, so they had to retreat back.

Seeing this, Haubenstock threw two main battalions and two supplementary battalions into it, and after paying the price of more than 300 dead and wounded, a regiment of Austrians drove away a brigade of Chinese soldiers consisting of three regiments.

The 2nd Brigade of the Squadron withdrew two kilometers back to continue the attack, and the Austro-Hungarians pursued the victory, and the two sides fought again fiercely in the village of Serto, where the headquarters of the 2nd Brigade was located.

In order to recapture positions. The commander of the 2nd Brigade, Hee Chung, personally led the army to counterattack, but was still defeated by the Austrian 73 Regiment. With the support of the other squadrons, Xi Zhong had no choice but to continue to lead the defeated army of the 2nd Brigade to retreat back five kilometers to the defense line of Baglino Town. On this day, both the attack and defense suffered extremely heavy casualties, and fought until dark, when the Austrians were afraid of an ambush to stop the attack.

The 73rd regiment of the Austro-Hungarian army occupied the village of Serto. Looking at the mess in the village of Serto, and the countless tent leather shoes discarded by the Chinese, the Austro-Hungarian soldiers laughed. Haubenstock ordered the construction of a defensive line and sent troops to the high mountains on both sides, while the soldiers sent the wounded back. He then returned to the headquarters of the 73rd Regiment and sent a telegram to the 18th Division, saying that he had won a complete victory, defeating a Chinese division with one regiment. Captured an acre of Chinese captivity.

At one o'clock in the morning at night, Wang Maoru looked at the time and then ordered the blade to be unsheathed, and the main elite fourth division attacked.

More than 6,000 soldiers of the elite 4th Brigade of the 4th Division, armed with bayonets and light machine guns, and cuirasses on their chests, secretly rushed down the hills on both sides. Kang Dongsheng, commander of the Fourth Brigade, personally led the team and led the guard company and the 28th Regiment down from the east side of the valley, while the 29th Regiment and the 30th Regiment came down from the west side of the valley. The Chinese carried 37 bazookas, E1 rifles with bayonets, S1 general-purpose machine guns and C1 submachine guns, grenades on their waists with open lids, ready to fight at any time, and rushed down one by one with steel helmets on their heads.

The Austrians had just captured the village of Serto in the afternoon, and had only built a superficial defensive line, and during the attack on the village of Serto, the Austrians destroyed the only defensive position in the village. The most important thing is that Austria has been very contemptuous of the squadron after several days of fighting, just today they captured about a regiment of Chinese soldiers, and they did not expect that the Chinese would dare to fight back, let alone that the Chinese would sneak attack at night.

During the First World War, almost all the battles took place after 8 a.m. and ended before 5 p.m., as if they were going to work and leaving work.

The fierce shelling confused the Austro-Hungarian 73rd Regiment, and they were also frightened by the powerful artillery fire of the Chinese. For several days, the Chinese attacked only a few Japanese 75 field guns and the lightest 50 infantry guns, where did this cannon come from? After a shelling, Haupbenstock's 73rd Regiment suffered heavy casualties. The cannonade stopped, and the Chinese immediately shouted and rushed forward with guns frantically. But the remaining Austro-Hungarian soldiers immediately counterattacked under the organization of the commander, but the Chinese attack was too fierce, and the 73rd Regiment of the night battle withdrew south under the leadership of deputy commander Abenschneider.

However, Wei Hongbin and his men of the 6th Brigade of the 4th Division had already jumped over the high mountains on both sides of the valley, cutting off the rear road of the 73rd Regiment, and the 73rd Regiment was besieged and all annihilated. At the same time, the 14th Brigade under the command of the Chinese Fourth Division, under the leadership of the brigade commander Wu Jiangcheng, rushed to the Austro-Hungarian defense line overnight.

Due to the light enemy of Haupbenstock, he left only half a battalion of soldiers in his original position to defend the long defensive line, which led to the fact that the enemy of Ollie could not take care of the head and tail. The Austro-Hungarian 73rd Regiment was lightweight, and the defenders in the trenches were greatly reduced, especially at night, making it more difficult to support each other. The 14th Brigade of the Squadron seized the trench with a charge, and the panicked Haubenstock asked for artillery fire from the rear, but it hit an ammunition depot of the 73rd Regiment and blew it up by mistake, killing many of his own people.

Haubenstock led all the soldiers who remained in the rear to counterattack, and encountered the squadron, but was met head-on, this army was not a half-year army that had been fighting them for three days, but a battle-hardened Northeast China Frontier Army. Haubenstock had no choice but to retreat back to the second front, and many Austro-Hungarian soldiers in the rear did not yet know that the front had been defeated. The 14th Brigade rushed so violently that it was difficult to communicate at night, so that it pursued until dawn and ran to the rear of the enemy.

"Up, on,, cat waist, cat waist." Zang Hao, the leader of the trouble-making squad of the 3rd Battalion of the 35th Regiment of the 14th Brigade, wearing a steel helmet, beckoned his subordinates and said that the enemy's bullets kept flying overhead, with light, and everyone was afraid to raise their heads.

At this time, Diao Delong still had the leisure to joke, and said: "Geng is a big man, you can't have a cat waist?" Let you eat so many and grow so big, or you will crawl on the ground? ”

"." Geng Ming scolded back.

Diao Delong said again: "Ergouzi, Ergouzi, why do you say that you have such a big head, how easy it is to get shot." ”

"Let your mother's heart go, Lao Tzu will never be shot." Long Ergou finally rose from a recruit to a veteran, because there was a Yuan Zhihua, who was holding a rifle, unlike Yuan Zhihua who was carrying a Li Yi Enfield rifle (more than 2,000 from Indian soldiers in Singapore), but also carrying four 53-round machine gun drums. Fortunately, this Yuan Zhihua has practiced martial arts since he was a child, although his body is thin, he is full of muscles, and these weapons are carried on his back and followed behind everyone.

There are eleven people in their squad, nine long guns, a light machine gun and a submachine gun, the squad leader Zang Hao and the grenadiers Geng Ming, Ren Bench, and Li Ercang are the first combat group, the submachine gunners Lao Xiao and Lao Fang and Diao Delong are a combat group, the machine gunner Lao Huang with Lao Shu, Long Ergou and the recruit Yuan Zhihua is a combat group, the three groups advance in an inverted triangle formation, the left and right flanks are the two combat groups of the squad leader and Lao Xiao, and the back is supported by Lao Huang's machine gun group.

Different from the general army, Wang Maoru's army rarely has night blindness, who let this army in the northeast of "beating roe deer, scooping fish, pheasants flying into the rice pot", material resources are extremely rich, except for the winter vegetables are somewhat monotonous potatoes, sauerkraut, dried wild vegetables, summer is wild vegetables everywhere, birds and animals are everywhere, and the food is extremely abundant. In contrast, the Northeast Army, which has high loess slopes, little grain, single variety, little meat, and general night blindness, is indeed far superior to them in terms of material.

"Attention, there's a sound up ahead." The ear-eared Ren bench whispered, and the voice came, a series of foreign words.

Zang Hao immediately made a hugging action, and Lao Xiao on the other side knew that this was the meaning of surrounding, nodded and took Lao Fang and Diao Delong to detour to the other side, and Zang Hao took the bench and Geng Ming to lurk from the left side. And Lao Huang, who was in charge of support in the middle, quietly took a drum from Yuan Zhihua's hand, pressed it on the machine gun, slowly pulled the bolt, and whispered: "Follow me for a while, don't run around, especially Xinjiapi, if you lose the bullet for me, I will go back and stuff the drum in your asshole." Lao Shu, the grenade is ready. ”

"Hmm." Lao Shu said.

Yuan Zhihua hurriedly said: "Brother Huang, Singapore, not Xinjiapi. ”

"Okay, Singapi." Lao Huang smiled evilly. rs