The explosion in the tent made everyone's hearts rise to their throats, and just when everyone didn't know what to do, Yang Rui had already come out of the tent. The shrapnel from the grenade just now didn't hurt him in the slightest, only the rope on the back of the chair was blown up. Half of his body was covered in blood, and there were some ropes wrapped around his body, but he walked towards everyone with Xu Liezu's body in his arms, and the people outside watched Yang Rui come over step by step, and they were stunned for a while.

"Liezu is dead, you should take care of him first." Yang Rui gently gave Xu Liezu's body to his fellow countryman Chen Guangshou, and after putting it down, he said resolutely: "The rest of the people go back to their posts, and we will repel the Japanese!" ”

Yang Rui walked quickly to the staff headquarters, tearing off the ropes on his body as he walked, and Lei Yizhen next to him said: "...... first, you ...... Hurt ......"

Yang Rui saw him talking to himself, but he couldn't hear what he was saying at all, until Lei Yi repeated it again and again: "I can't hear it!" ”

Then he said, "How is the battle?" ”

Lei Yizhen was startled by Yang Rui's inaudible words, but seeing Yang Rui's calm expression, he guessed that he should have just been deaf by the explosion, just slow down, his heart was relieved, and when he saw Yang Rui asking about the battle situation, he said loudly: "Sir, now...... I restrained it, and the south ...... Let it in,...... found out, Lu Mengxiong ......, blocked it, and the enemy ...... The rear area ....... ”

Yang Rui frowned when he heard that the enemy had arrived in the rear area. Unlike the Russian army, which fought with a trench, the fortifications of the Baath Army were not one-line but three-dimensional, and the defense was not rigid but elastic, and it was not like the Russians who kept the enemy out of the trenches, but was good at putting the enemy in, and then eating the enemy who rushed into the "mouth" through the predetermined firepower of the battlefield. Under such a principle, the defensive position was divided into three parts: the warning zone, the combat zone and the rear zone, since the beginning of the war. The Second Division was not defending a key area, it was only arranged in the first trench at the junction of the warning area and the combat zone, while the combat area and the rear area about two kilometers behind the first trench were always under the control of the First Division. If it is a normal confrontation, after the 2nd Division abandons the defensive cordon area, then the incoming enemy will be eliminated in the combat area by the crossfire fired from various hidden bunkers and firing points, but because of the suddenness of the attack, the 1st Division only stabilized the second front and gave up the bunker and firepower point between the first trench and the second trench, making it impossible to effectively kill the enemy who broke through.

According to the contingency plan, the first division fought hard but not painfully, while the Japanese troops attacking them had an unspeakable pain. The 13th Brigade of the 7th Division attacking the southern position was better, because of the surprise attack, the Japanese occupied a lot of positions and commanding heights on this side, and they were basically able to draw with the independent army on the opposite side by virtue of their numerical superiority, but Lieutenant General Iida Shunsuke of the 1st Division attacking the north was startled by the fire from the opposite side as soon as the battle began: after the night attack of more than 3,000 soldiers of the 1st Brigade Regiment safely passed the obstacle area. It was blown up by a burst of artillery that burst in to "instigate, instigate, instigate, instigate......, and the sound of explosions continued to roar. No one knows how many shells fell in those few minutes. But everyone only knows that after this round of artillery fire, the night attack troops are almost gone.

Seeing his soldiers disappear in an instant, Major General Matsumoto Takemoto, the commander of the 1st Brigade, grabbed the collar of the liaison officer sent by the 2nd Staff Department and shouted desperately, "This is your plan?!" This is your intelligence?! You are sinners of the Empire!! ”

The liaison officer of the Second Staff Department didn't need to think that things would get so weird, and his own soldiers stood with his head hanging to the side as if they had been sent to be destroyed by the enemy. Don't dare to say anything more.

The frustration of the 1st Division's attack caused the attack to stop in the north for a while before resuming it, but the night attack turned into a strong attack and the Japanese made no progress, and the north was stalemate for a while, but the gunfire in the south was very fierce. Lieutenant General Shang Min, commander of the 7th Division, was very annoyed when he looked at the darkness a few miles away, he felt that he was already outside the last line of defense of the independent army, and he wished he could further penetrate the enemy camp, but the Qing people on the opposite side were extremely tenacious, especially those machine guns in the darkness that fired from time to time in different positions, which made the attacking troops very taboo, for fear that they would be surrounded by a small group of enemies if they were not careful, and then the collective jade would be shattered under the indiscriminate bombardment of machine guns and mortars.

"Your Excellency, the number of enemy machine guns is beyond our imagination, and the soldiers are very tenacious in fighting, should we wait for dawn and artillery before attacking?" The chief of staff of the division, Yoshida Heitaro Nakasa, said that he was constantly calculating his own casualties, and he knew very well that the elimination of the independence army was only one of the steps in the encirclement of Mukden, and if the casualties in this step were too large, then the follow-up operations would be difficult to maintain.

"Nope! We can't stop the offensive, but we should strengthen the offensive, and only by making the enemy unable to rest and breathe, can the attack after dawn go smoothly! If you don't break it, you can't break it! "After all, Lieutenant General Da Qiang Shangmin was born on the battlefield, and the two armies faced each other, and what he cared about was each other's momentum rather than the number of staff officers who came out of the military academy.

"Hay!" The lieutenant general's order could not be disobeyed by the chief of staff, so he had to turn around and pass the order.

When Yang Rui arrived at the headquarters, the people in the staff put down the things in their hands, and they happily looked at the commander who was standing at the door with blood on his body, and Leo also stood up from the chair neatly, limped to the door, and the only remaining left hand grabbed Yang Rui's shoulder and shook it a few times, and laughed brightly.

Yang Rui grabbed his arm, feeling the concerned eyes of everyone, his heart couldn't help but be hot, he said loudly, "Look at what, work!" Knock the Japanese out! Everyone was shocked when they heard this, but after a while, their faces laughed, and the previous depression in the room was swept away, replaced by a confidence of victory.

“…… Lu Mengxiong's troops suffered heavy casualties, and Jian yì immediately withdrew, and a regiment and a battalion went up to the top......"

“…… The Flying Thunder Artillery on the side of the artillery regiment is already in place, and it can start bombarding the Japanese troops in the south, and it will start ...... immediately."

"What...... What, louder, right...... Yes, this point is important! Yes, take it back now! Gotta get it back..."

“…… Did you arrive, hey, did you cross the line, how many people crossed the line, dozens or hundreds? ”

“…… The fourth regiment has already set off, and now the wind and sand are very strong. Let him detour back to the rear of the Japanese 1st Division, and then wait for an opportunity to attack ......"

“……”

The noisy sound in the staff headquarters calmed Yang Rui's heart, when he was tied up by Xiao Yinfeng just now, he only thought about whether his troops were in chaos and how many people they would lose in the Japanese raid, as for whether he could survive or not, he didn't think too much. After experiencing the danger of Fushun, he wrote a suicide note of hundreds of pages in his spare time, just in case he died, or traveled back again, the revolution planned by this time and space could continue, and history would not develop as before. But now. After learning that everything was normal, he was afraid for a while, if the sniper's bullet missed, or the grenade that fell out of Xiao Yinfeng's arms was closer to him, then. Yes, then I'm really going to go back and sell fruit.

Report. The troops who came out of the civilian tun have already left the civil tun. Preparing to make a detour back to the flank and rear of the 1st Division, Pan Chengye called and said when to attack the 1st Division? "The staff officer reported the latest battle report.

Yang Rui came back to his senses from his thoughts, glanced at everyone, and asked, "How is the south, have the commanding heights and hidden forts in the battle zone been recaptured?" If only to stabilize the battle line in the second trench. Once we had drawn troops to attack the 1st Division, there was a high risk that the southern line would collapse under a massive and decisive charge by the Japanese. ”

"A regiment and three battalions are already on the south side, but the combat zone is completely occupied by the Japanese army, and if they want to counterattack, the commanding heights will be used by them. The cost of regaining it is enormous, and the gains are disproportionately rewarded. The staff officer did not speak, this time it was Leo who explained, and it is true, there is no problem for a regiment to defend a brigade as long as the fortifications and firepower are complete, but if a regiment wants to attack a brigade, especially when the length of the battle lines on both sides is the same, the difficulty and casualties are unbearable.

Yang Rui also had a headache when he thought of the arrangements in the combat area, he was going to let the little devil drink a pot before, who knew that the offense and defense were mutually reinforcing, but what he arranged was used on his own head, it was really ...... After thinking for a while, Yang Rui's eyes were fierce, and the pencil he was holding was broken into two with a "snap", and he gritted his teeth and said, "Then let the fire dragon troops go!" ”

"Fire Dragon Troops?!" Many of the staff officers sitting here didn't know what it was, but they thought that Bei Shoutong and these old qualifications did fully understand, "But...... But this is not only in the last critical ......" Speaking of this, Bei Shoutong did not speak, now is the most critical time -- the Japanese troops on both sides of the north and south have not yet pressed with all their strength, if the will of the Japanese is not broken before dawn, after dawn the Japanese army will surprise with artillery support, it will be difficult to resist with their own three regiments, and even, they do not need to break through their own defense line, as long as they compress the independent army into a small area, and then keep shelling. Only by taking the initiative and quickly repelling and crushing the enemy before dawn can the 1st Division gain a chance to breathe. When the time comes, Colonel Madrydov, who was escorted out by the cavalry to find reinforcements, may bring in reinforcements, and the whole situation will improve.

In fact, the fire dragon unit is just a life-saving force, with only three platoons of 120 people, far smaller than the company-level establishment of 220 people of the Fuxing Army, and the commander is Wang Shizheng, who was born in the first phase of the engineer and is a fellow villager of Lin Songjian, the head of the engineer. After the start of the war, this team was organized in the army directly under the army and had nothing to do, although Wang Shizheng knew that as long as he was dispatched, the situation would be extremely critical, but as a soldier who only watched the war and did not participate in the war, what a humiliating thing it was.

But now this qiē has changed, the command of the command made Wang Shizheng, who put down the phone, can't help but tighten his whole body, both hands to comb the hat, collar badge, and belt, after making sure that there is no problem with his appearance, he went out to the playground with high morale, and shouted to the tent in the open space: "All assemble!" ”

One hundred and twenty people stood in a standard phalanx, looking at the soldiers who were wrapped in asbestos cloth and standing still, Wang Shizheng did not do any mobilization like other troops, but bowed deeply to all the soldiers, he fully knew the danger of his troops' operations, but he also hoped that the troops could appear on the battlefield and raise troops for a thousand days and use them for a while. Looking at these soldiers who may or may not come back, he couldn't say any words of comfort or encouragement, only a deep bow.

"Everyone is ready to go, and the squad leader stays to wait for the arrangement!" He disbanded the team.

The few platoon leaders who remained looked at the mission map, and Wang Shizheng arranged specific tasks: "Now that the Japanese in the south have attacked our rear area, they only need to go one step further to rush into the headquarters." The commander ordered us to support the 1st regiment, and the 1st to 4th vehicles entered the battlefield according to the previous exercise, and it should be noted that the ground in the combat zone should be very uneven due to the constant shelling. Pay attention to bumps in the process of advancement, and try to avoid craters as much as possible; Cars No. 5 to No. 8 follow behind the car in front, don't fire, and be sure to pay attention to anti-artillery and avoid bullets! Speaking of this, Wang Shizheng glanced around at the officers around him, and everyone saw that his eyes were swept away, and their hearts were tight, everyone still remembered the accident that happened in the previous exercise, if he was really hit by the enemy, then everything would be over.

"Alright, the mission is arranged. Are there any questions? ”

"No problem... No problem... No problem! ...... "After training for so long, every time I see the wounded carried down from the front line, I feel a sense of guilt, I am also a soldier, how can I always shrink back, if I want to die, I will die happily!"

"Good! Let's go! Wang Shizheng exclaimed.

It's finally dawning. The commander of the field artillery wing of the 7th Division, Tsurumi Shuma Nakasa, stood on a high ground with great interest, looking at the place where there was still a fierce exchange of fire to the north. Very interested in pointing out the country. Compared with the grinding and chirping of the infantry troops, he believed that as soon as the twenty-four cannons of his wing fired, the Qing horse thieves on the opposite side would retreat, and the two divisions from the north and south would completely wipe out this pesky enemy. He even thinks. If it weren't for the division commander ordering him not to shoot blindly at night, and the fact that the base camp gave too few shells to the artillery, he would have helped the infantry to storm the enemy headquarters.

"Red deer!" Thinking of the accompanying shells, Nakasa couldn't help but curse loudly at the base camp again, and he felt that being a Japanese artilleryman was extremely miserable. The artillery has the lowest rate of fire, not to mention the range recently, even the artillery shells are pitiful, when they first landed in Liaodong, each cannon only had a pitiful fifty rounds, and it was increased to one hundred rounds during the battle of Shahe, and this decisive battle gave two hundred and twenty rounds, but there are not many artillery shells left for more than ten consecutive days, minus the forty rounds that completely surrounded the Lucia army for the final guard, and the annihilation combat power that can be used in this time is only seventeen rounds, maybe ten rounds are enough, Zhongzuo looked at the darkness in the north again, I felt in my heart that it was not worth wasting shells for the thousands of enemy troops who had already entered.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency the Chief of Staff asked when the shelling would begin?" A signal corpsman had just received a call from the divisional staff headquarters and ran out of the command post to inquire.

"Well......" Tsurumi looked at his pocket watch again, and said, "It's 4:45, 5:15 minutes can be shelled, and the shelling will end at 5:22." Nakasa said the exact time of the shelling, according to the calculation, today's sunrise time is 5:18, a few minutes before the sky will be bright, and the observer's view will be unobstructed. In addition, he decided to fire only 10 shells per cannon at the enemy to be annihilated, and 24 shells were 240 shells, and these 240 shells could still be of great use if they landed on a battle line of more than 1,000 meters.

Seeing that His Excellency Nakasa had set the time, the signal corps immediately went back to the command post to reply. The time of the attack was 5:15 on the side of the artillery wing, and it became 5:25 on the side of the infantry on the front line, under the order of the superior officer, as soon as 5 o'clock arrived, the soldiers of the entire front ceased fire, and as soon as there was a ceasefire on this side, the independent army on the opposite side also ceased fire, the sudden silence on the battlefield made everyone very unaccustomed, the heavy darkness before dawn was even more indescribably dangerous, there was only the smell of gunpowder smoke and blood in the air, but in this taste, everyone did not feel the slightest warmth, the decisive battle was coming, More blood and life will be spilled in this fertile black soil.

In the quiet of the night, the 14th Brigade under the 7th Division began to enter the front line, and after half an hour of shelling, this disgruntled brigade with only 4,300 men would launch a large-scale white-knives charge, and all the Japanese officers believed that with the more than 2,000 Qing people who had been fighting hard for a long time on the opposite side, and the short distance of a few hundred meters between the two armies could not resist this charge, and rushing in was victory, which was their unanimous idea.

Second Lieutenant Jialan couldn't see his squad in the dark, but he could feel them around him,

"Yamamoto?"

"Hey!"

"Suzuki?"

"Hey!"

"Arai?"

"Hey!"

The three army commanders are here, Jialan is more steady, and she is afraid of falling behind in the dark. "On the opposite side is the position of the Qing people, we just need to run over later, the empire will surround the Lucia in Mukden, the Lucia will surrender, and we will win the final victory." The soldiers were so tired from the days of fighting that Second Lieutenant Jialan had to cheer up the unqualified reservists before the battle. "Before the attack, the artillery will bombard the opposite position vigorously, and those Qing people will retreat when they hear the sound of artillery, they have always been afraid of artillery, so after dawn, we just need to run over easily."

After a long speech, the second lieutenant didn't hear any response from the soldiers, and he couldn't help but become stern, "If anyone dares to retreat, or doesn't charge forward, it is not a subject of the emperor, but a sinner of the empire, do you hear?!" ”

"Hay! … Hail! ......," the soldiers replied sullenly.

"Yaga, it's really a red deer! Be louder! ”

"Hay!" This time, the effect was much better than before, and Second Lieutenant Jialan couldn't help but be satisfied. (To be continued......)