On the Chakou Mountain, the heavy machine gun position of the Independent Regiment, the battalion commander Wei Gang is reporting the situation to the regiment commander Li Yong who is standing beside him: "Regiment commander, this anti-aircraft machine gun is too powerful to be changed to flat fire, it is very powerful, the firing range is still long, it can hit from the front line all the way to its second and third echelons, and it is still effective for more than 1,000 meters. ”

Li Yong: "Don't be too happy, the Kuomintang troops may not be equipped with this kind of weapon, even if you beat Liu Kan to death, you may not be able to get it." ”

Wei Gang said confidently: "There must be, how many anti-aircraft machine guns can there be in such a large corps?" ”

"We don't have a single plane in the field army, what are people doing with anti-aircraft weapons? Besides, not only do we understand that the enemy is not stupid, most of the Kuomintang officers are students who graduated from a professional class, and if they have anti-aircraft machine guns, they may have been used against us a long time ago. ”

After listening to Li Yong's words, Wei Gang said a little frustratedly: "Regiment leader, what can I do?" Our battalion can't just rely on these few treasures, you also said that after this battle, the heavy machine guns will be returned to each infantry battalion, and we will not look at it when we fight in the future. ”

Li Yong: "What's the hurry, Liu Kan didn't have it, it doesn't mean that other Kuomintang troops didn't, don't we often say that Chiang Kai-shek is a transport captain, the Kuomintang troops have a lot of good things, and they are all American goods, and there are still a few of the enemy's material storage bases in the northwest, and when the time comes, we will rummage through them one by one, I still don't believe it, and I can't find enough anti-aircraft machine guns for your battalion's equipment." ”

As soon as Li Yong finished speaking, Gao Xiang immediately asked a little excitedly: "Commander, what do you mean by this?" Our field army won't attack somewhere again, right? Where did you hear again? ”

said yes, but Li Yong thought to himself, is there anything that my old man doesn't know, I know everything, but I don't dare to tell you.

At this time, political commissar Wang Chengde also came over with a few guard soldiers, and when he arrived at Li Yong's side, Wang Chengde sighed: "Dayong, Wang Laohu's five battalions have suffered too many casualties, and several platoons drawn out of the fourth battalion have also been put in, and more than half of the battalion has been killed or wounded, what do you think?" Do you want to replace their battalion for a rest, and let the second or third battalion go up and replace them. ”

Li Yong: "No, Lao Wang, I think the fifth battalion should not move, our regiment has no more suitable troops than the fifth battalion to fight a positional defensive war, and there is no more suitable battalion commander than Wang Laohu, as for the casualties, you can increase their troops, and pull all the remaining infantry platoons of the fourth battalion to the tiger, let Wang Laohu use it carefully, and you must leave a little reserve in your hand." ”

At this time, the Fifth Battalion was hurrying to repair the guns and fortifications that had been blown up, and the sacrificed and wounded soldiers were carried down one by one by the personnel of the health team and the baggage battalion.

Wang Laohu was very annoyed, the casualties of the troops made him very angry, and the fifth battalion did not have such big casualties when he fought Yulin, although he had a certain psychological preparation, but he still couldn't accept it when he saw many familiar comrades-in-arms either injured or sacrificed.

The heavy firepower of the machine gun battalion made the attacking Kuomintang soldiers suffer a big loss, and the form on the position was slightly stabilized, but the battle did not stop, and the Kuomintang troops under the mountain were still attacking, but the scale of the attacking troops was very small, basically dozens of people attacked at the platoon level, and Wang Laohu didn't even look at such an attack, and the instructor divided the soldiers into several groups, and took turns to go down to rest and eat.

At this time, He Cuihua, the deputy battalion commander of the baggage battalion, came in from the outside, and He Cuihua, who came to the command post of the Wang Tiger Battalion, sighed and said, "Brother Tiger, how are you?" The casualties are not small, right? Shall I bring a few people to stay and give you some strength? ”

Wang Laohu knows He Cuihua's character very well, and knows that this girl has not been fighting for a few days, but in any case, He Cuihua is a deputy battalion-level cadre of the independent regiment, how can she just run to the front line to fight?

Wang Laohu usually treats He Cuihua as a ***, and likes to tell her some things that need to be paid attention to: "Cuihua, don't make trouble, hurry back, don't look at the small scale of the enemy's attack now, but in my experience, they must be brewing a big operation, you go back and hurry up to replenish all the ammunition we consumed, as for whether to let you come to fight is the matter of the regiment commander and the political commissar, you better go to them." ”

He Cuihua: "Don't worry, the ammunition has been brought to you, I just feel that we are depressed enough to be beaten, and the casualties are so big, it's a bit disturbing." ”

Wang Laohu: "Cuihua, it's good that we can hold on, don't you see how many enemies there are under the mountain, it's a whole big army, you go back and organize the people of your battalion and prepare for battle, maybe you will be used at that time." ”

He Cuihua took his soldiers back along the trench, and when he went back, he snatched the rifle in the hand of a soldier, and put two shots at the bottom of the mountain.

Time passed little by little, and Liu Kan kept walking back and forth in his headquarters, still muttering, why hasn't this plane been there yet, didn't he say that he would come at noon.

While he was walking around, an officer walked in: "Seat, Peng Dehuai's main force of the communist army is getting closer and closer to us, and the 42nd Guards Division is about to meet the enemy, and the 42nd Division calls us to ask how long they will hold out and how long it will take to break through the position of the communist army." ”

Liu Kan: "Sue the 42nd Division, the plane sent to us by Commander Hu of Xi'an will arrive immediately, as soon as the plane arrives, we will launch an attack on the position of the communist army together in the open field, so that the communist army knows what a modern air-ground integrated battle is, and strive to solve the problem in one battle, so that they must hold their positions and block the main force of the communist army in the northwest, as long as they can block it for half a day, I will go to Commander Hu in Xi'an to ask for merit for them." ”

Liu Kan turned around again and instructed the officer: "Order the attacking troops to be ready for battle, use all the artillery fire that can be used, use small-caliber shells if there are no large-caliber shells, and use all mountain artillery, field artillery, and infantry artillery, including mortars at the company and battalion level, and strive to break through the communist defense line with the cooperation of aircraft." ”

At the position of the Independent Regiment at the fork point, regimental commander Li Yong, political commissar Wang Chengde, chief of staff Fang Xin, and others were discussing the combat situation, and the enemy who was severely beaten down by the machine-gun battalion was a little strange, and for two or three hours he did not launch an effective attack, but only used some platoons and sized troops to carry out harassing attacks.

This strange scale of the attack aroused the vigilance of the regiment commander Li Yong, and the platoon-level attack obviously had no effect, and if something was abnormal, it would be a demon, and it seemed that the Kuomintang troops under the mountain were brewing a big operation, and the specific deployment of the operation was still unclear.

Just when Li Yong, Wang Chengde and others were guessing the enemy's intentions, suddenly there was a rumbling roar from the sky in the distance, and gradually the roar became louder and louder.

Li Yong immediately used a walkie-talkie to order the troops to enter the air defense state, and most of the people went into the air-raid shelter to hide and wait, looking at the small black dots that emerged from the sky one by one, Li Yong checked the number of planes one by one in the telescope, and Li Yong's face also changed a little.

There are more than 20 small black dots emerging from the sky, and it is the first time Li Yong has seen so many sorties, and it seems that this commander Hu, who commanded his hundreds of thousands of troops in Xi'an, has also made a bloody investment and used all the planes that can be sent.

This situation is also the first time Li Yong has encountered it, in the past, the enemy flew several combat flights, and the independent regiment could still deal with it with ground weapons, but what should be done if more than 20 planes came at once? Is it okay to rely on ground weapons?

Just as Li Yong's head was running at full speed, the Kuomintang artillery fire under the mountain rang out again, although the number of large-caliber 105 grenades was very small, but a large number of 75 wild mountain guns, 92 infantry guns and I don't know how many mortars were concentrated.

Li Yong hurriedly ordered all the troops on the position to enter the anti-artillery hole, gritted his teeth and ordered the machine gun battalion to also enter the anti-artillery hole, leaving only a few anti-aircraft machine guns outside to deal with the enemy's planes, Li Yong, who thought about it, said to Gao Xiang: "Put all your precious anti-aircraft machine guns into the hole, and leave nothing outside." ”

Gao Xiang was a little unconvinced: "Why the head of the regiment?" Our anti-aircraft machine gun is specialized, why did you let us withdraw into it? ”

Li Yong: "It's true that the anti-aircraft machine gun is specialized, but it also depends on how many planes there are, just your machine guns can't deal with a large number of aircraft air raids, and people are now fighting an air-ground integrated battle, how can we deal with these few baby machine guns?" It may have been blown up by artillery fire from below the mountain before it could compete with the plane. ”

Gao Xiang: "Then we're going to do it now?" Li Yong: "There is no good way for the time being, so we can only stiffen up." ”

As the two of them spoke, the plane was already overhead, one circled over, the pilot pushed the control stick, the nose of the plane stabbed down, and in batches of two, the strange screams took turns to dive on the ground.

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