Days of shelling have blown up all the surface and trees in the Gaizhou area, and in the area where the two armies are fighting, there are half-man-high tree trunks and dense craters like the surface of the moon.

Now for them, there are only two sounds that can provoke a reaction: one is the sound of the enemy's artillery, and whenever the cannon fire comes, all the soldiers hide in the cat's ear hole as if they are radiating, and then pray for God's blessing - even in the deep cat's ear hole, they cannot resist the Japanese 280mm guns, if this kind of shell explodes in close proximity, the result will only be killed or shocked; The other is their own military trumpet, whenever the artillery fire passes, the Japanese army babbles and rushes over, or in the middle of the night when the Japanese army crawls in the dark, the loud military horn will sound, and the soldiers hiding everywhere suddenly appear in the trench, load bayonets or pick up the sapper shovel, and fight to the death with the Japanese army.

At this moment, in the rumbling cannon, the squad leader Jiang Dadong sat obliquely on the side of the cat's ear hole, he was wearing a Shenwu winter coat, the helmet was on the back waist, the fat riding boots were comfortably on the other soldier, and a brother on his mouth lit it and sucked and sucked, and the triangular eyes closed his eyes in the smoke and enjoyed it for a while, and then he comfortably opened the cigarette and passed it to the side. There were eight or nine people in the cat's ear hole, and when they came back in a circle, the smoke was only buttocks. He didn't think it was enjoyable, and when he reached into the cotton coat and wanted to order more, the old mouse squinted his eyes and persuaded: "That's it, save it." I don't know when I'll come next time. ”

"! it! Jiang Dadong's eyes were angry, and he scolded: "I'd rather eat one less meal." This smoke can't be broken! ”

"You talk to the Japanese!" The old mouse smiled dryly when he heard this: "If it weren't for the Japanese shooting the train in Qinhuangdao, this smoke would have stopped?" This soldier is better than before. What to eat, use, and wear...... If you really have equipment, you won't lose the battle eighteen years ago. ”

"What was it eighteen years ago?" The little kid next to the old mouse asked out loud, he was a reserve soldier who had just been replenished not long ago, and Jiang Dadong's feet were on him. His age is falsely reported, and there is no way for his father to send him to the battlefield, there are many people in the family, half of the eldest child eats the poor old man, and if he can go out, he will go out one. This kid is smart and obedient, but with the curiosity peculiar to young people. He likes to ask about everything, and he heard the old mouse mention the war eight years ago.

"Don't listen to this old immortal fool," Jiang Dadong still couldn't help but take out a cigarette and light it again, but this time he didn't give it to everyone, "Eighteen years ago, it was the Tartars who sent these things, can they get into the hands of our poor soldiers?" I see that I have long been taken by those eight lambs to exchange foreign land for silver, thinking that when I was on the mountain, I only caught the concubine of a county official, and knocked him 20,000 taels of silver! 20,000 taels of silver. But now it's S$30,000! Damn, that day, that day......"

Jiang Dadong used to be a beard, and it is said that he is still a big boss. Of course, this statement was only said when he was drunk, and no one knows whether it was true. But with the vision of the old mouse who has been walking the rivers and lakes for many years, this person has indeed mixed in the green forest. But if you really have been a bearded master, how can you not fall into the field where you hide a cat ear hole with yourself, right? You have to know the beard of the previous dynasty. After the new emperor opened the country, he had a general amnesty, since he had this experience, then he should always be a sentry chief or something with his subordinates to join the army, no matter how bad he is, he can rely on the silver accumulated over the years, and he can live a good life in the city, and he will not be in the situation of fighting in the same cave as himself.

The more Jiang Dadong spoke, the more energetic he became, and the leisurely life of the beard made the little boy who had never seen the world look forward to it, just when he was saying the most energetic, the whistle of the company commander in the trench sounded, and everyone found that the Japanese artillery fire had stopped, so they all came out of the cat's ear hole, and stood near the hole waiting for the horn of the charge, but not long after a few people came out, the whistle sounded sharply again, and the people immediately retracted -- the artillery of the two armies clashed many times, and after suffering many overt and covert losses, indirect aiming, artillery preparation, and effective shooting, the new technology of these artillery, The new tricks were learned by the Japanese artillerymen, who were already equipped with Type 38 field guns and Type 41 mountain guns, and many times the Japanese artillery would make a brief stop, and then start a rapid shelling, so as to lure the infantry to jump out of the trenches and be destroyed by artillery fire.

The Japanese had a very good plan, but the shells they used were too ineffective, especially the soldiers who were not cowering in the trenches but hiding in the cat's ear holes, and with the steel helmets on their heads, the shrapnel was even less lethal. On the contrary, it was the artillery of the Renaissance Army, which was equipped with a bump fuse, one by one, and smashed firmly on the Japanese trenches, harvesting human lives one by one.

When Jiang Dadong's gang hid in the cat's ear hole again, the Japanese inferior fireworks were being set off frantically over the trenches, and there was a loud sound of 280 fortress cannons in between. Just when everyone was meditating on not winning the bid, the whole cat's ear hole was pushed by someone, and the people in the hole were thrown to the top of the cave like canned miscellaneous fish, and at the same time, the thunder seemed to explode in the ears, and a wave of air pressed from the mouth of the hole, so coercive that people couldn't breathe. Breathing and thinking paused for more than ten or twenty seconds, only waiting for the little boy 'Mom' to scream, the frozen time began to flow, and in the thick smoke of gunpowder, several people coughed out.

But before he could speak, a faint shout came from outside: "Company commander! Captain...... Hygienist! Hygienist ......"

Stopping the cough vigorously, the old mouse's face full of mud began to white, he shook his head, and said uneasily: "It's miserable." The company commander also had braids, and it was the prison soldiers who died yesterday. ”

"Bah......" Wang Dazhi, who was shrunk in the innermost side, spit out the dust on his mouth, and said with some fear: "It's over, the official is dead, he won't kill our heads, ...... in the play"

"Play your mother!" Jiang Dadong scolded very unhappily, his head was hit hard by the shot just now, and his head still hurts. What he hates most is Wang Dazhi's mud legs, everything is said in the play, if it weren't for the court, he wouldn't understand what this world is like at all. Such a stupid person, he is ashamed to be with him. "The company commander is dead, it's a matter of our ball! What to watch? Fuck the bayonet out of the basket again. Don't say Lao Tzu won't save you! ”

As the squad leader, Jiang Dadong is not only imposing but also skilled, but also able to convince the public. And as long as you recognize him as a brother, he will be there in everything. Wang Dazhi and the little kid and another Wang Maocai are all newly added, these three people are Wang Maocai, who doesn't like to talk, is more reliable, and the other two are too timid and stupid.

When Jiang Dadong still wanted to teach a lesson, the military horn suddenly sounded, his face sank, his triangular eyes widened, and he shouted: "It's all there." Copy guys! ”

The trench of the Fuxing Army was built under the city of Gaizhou, starting from the mouth of the Daqing River on the west side, stretching 18 kilometers eastward along the Daqing River, directly into the mountains on the east side of Gaizhou, and then going north, also along the Daqing River, and then to the east, the defense line stretched to Xiuyan. On this nearly 100-kilometer defensive line, there are heavy military groups on both Chinese and Japanese sides. The Japanese army had 13 divisions and nearly 200,000 people, and the Revival Army had 6 corps and 18 divisions. More than 220,000 people. Because more than 70 kilometers on the west side of the defense line were in mountainous areas, the focus of contention between the two sides was the 20-kilometer plain near Liaodong Bay, and the 10 kilometers north to Da Zaomaling and Tuandian after 20 kilometers.

Jiang Dadong's battalion. It was stationed on the old dragon head 433 high ground at the corner of the defense line from east to west, because the ridge was east-west. After passing the highest point, the old dragon's head, the mountain will stretch for four or five kilometers to the west. Fearing that the defense along the entire ridge would be too far forward, the defensive line was terminated at the three ditches in the saddle of the saddle, a kilometer east of the old dragon's head. In order to prevent the Japanese from attacking along the ridge, the 300-meter ridge of Sandaogou was blown up by the defenders with explosives, making the already low saddle even lower.

Different from the trenches in the plains, the trenches in the mountains are not completely coherent, except for the main positions of a few ring trenches, the other positions are often built only after selecting key points and high grounds, if you look down from the air, you can see that the entire ridge and slope are covered with dense small herringbone fortifications and T-shaped trenches, some on the ground, some underground, intricate like a nest of rat holes. Jiang Dadong and the others were guarding the east side of the mouse hole near the three ditches, and when he shouted to copy the guys, the people rushed out of the cat's ear hole, and the soldiers in the squad all grabbed rifles and followed him. These people were about to run forward along the traffic trench, and the two Maxim machine guns in the first-line trench were already roaring 'bang bang bang', listening to the dense gunfire, Jiang Dadong didn't look at it and knew that there were a lot of Japanese people coming this time.

rushed to the end of the communication trench in one breath, and without waiting for Jiang Dadong's order, the soldiers who followed him shot with their guns, and at this time, the saddle of the Sandaogou mountain that was blown up was hastily filled by the Japanese army, and hundreds of Japanese soldiers stumbled and stumbled along the ridge from there. Spat and foamed at the mouth, Jiang Dadong felt that these Japanese were simply looking for death, and before they could retreat, he aimed at a few yellow hats and opened fire.

Machine guns and mortars high up on the ridge, as well as the defensive fire of the infantry in the trenches, quickly dispersed the Japanese who were desperately charged, and the attack was not long in coming, and within two hours of the attack another group of Japanese troops rushed up to their deaths, and so on and so on until it was dark. The abnormality of the Japanese was not only strange to the soldiers on the front line, but also to the staff officers of the battalion headquarters to detect that something was wrong, and at night, a message was sent from the battalion headquarters to everywhere: that is, all companies must save ammunition and be on alert in all directions to prevent the Japanese from sneaking up at night.

Hurriedly came back from the company, Jiang Dadong's butt had not yet landed, and as soon as he did it, he surrounded him, and the old mouse asked, "What's wrong?" I guess it's not right. ”

"Surrounded!" The east side of Jiangda does not change color. "The Longwangmiao Heights in the northeast, Zhanglangzhai in the west, and Aiquan Village are all occupied by Xiaobi. The battalion headquarters ordered that the ammunition should be spared, and all ... What, the whole circle is on guard, beware of the night attack of the little nose. ”

"Ahh As soon as the squad leader said this, someone in the class exclaimed, Wu Laocai, who was in the same tun as Jiang Dadong, said: "Why will you be surrounded by miles?" I've never been to the north, but I've been to the west, and ...... there."

"Grass, you mother, Wu Laocai! With this kung fu, it's better to save some effort and dry your little nose later. Jiang Dadong scolded and interrupted Wu Laocai's words, and then ordered: "Old mouse, count all the bullets, grenades, and grenadiers in the squad, and report back to the company, we are short of grenades, see if we can ask the company to make up for some." ”

After Jiang Dadong finished speaking, he took out the dry food and took a few bites, ate a few handfuls of snow, and then leaned against the wall and pretended to sleep. In fact, just now at the company headquarters, the platoon commander of the acting company commander introduced a worse shape, the Japanese army should have increased its troops again, and the 30-kilometer defense line of Gaizhou was their decisive attack everywhere. At dawn today, they succeeded in occupying the Longwangmiao Heights in the northeast and the Zhanglangzhai Heights in the west, regardless of human lives. As soon as these two places were gone, the four three threes, who were already at the corner of the defense line, were suddenly isolated. After the platoon leader gave a briefing on the enemy. He also encouraged everyone to strictly guard against stubborn defense and fight for every inch of land, and that the members of the revival and peasant associations should play a leading role as backbones and never take a step back in the battle, and they were extremely sure that as long as they held on all night, the division headquarters would beat back the Japanese troops in the west and north at noon tomorrow and completely relieve the siege of the 433 heights.

After a few months of contact, Jiang Dadong could see that the platoon leader was a scholar, and he came out of a special war school, and he was not bad at fighting. But he didn't believe his word too much. How many devils there are, he knew it a few years ago when Japan and Russia started a war in the Northeast. The 433 Heights were located at the corner of the defensive line, and were the key points connecting the eastern and western defensive lines and the northern and southern defensive lines......

Jiang Dadong didn't know too much military jargon and military common sense, but with his not stupid brain and instinct to go through the rivers and lakes for many years, he understood that this catastrophe would be difficult to overcome. Thinking that he would die here in the East Side Road, he couldn't help but laugh dumbly. Fortunately. Several of the other people in the cat's ear hole were either munching on dry food or sleeping with their eyes closed, and they had no time to see what he was doing. When I think about these messy things, I only listen to the soft sound of 'poo, poof'. The lantern hanging in the cave went out suddenly, and after a low shout, 'Leave it alone,' he fell into a deep sleep.

History is always an irresistible torrent for individuals. It is the process of drifting in the torrent that people call fate.

Jiang Dadong's life is relatively back, and his parents died when he was a child. Later, in order to make a living, he was given to a storyteller by his relatives as an apprentice, and he should be a storyteller in a few years. I didn't want disaster from the sky, so I was tied by a beard when I walked across the mountain, so the storyteller turned into a mustache. Gengzi when the northeast made a big fuss about the Boxer, the big nose sent troops to fight, a dry beard all voted for the Loyal Army, and the Loyal and Righteous Army dispersed after two years of fighting, but after a few years of tempering, he seized the opportunity to take advantage of the chaos, and took a vote of people to open the mountain and set up a village, and reported the number of Dajiangdong, which was really beautiful for a while.

But people are not good for 100 days, flowers are not red for 100 days, and they couldn't get through that year, and the cottage was flattened by the Tonghua patrol police. In the next few years, if he wanted to take revenge, he heard that the patrol police chief died, but he didn't want to join the gang again, and he couldn't set up a village, so he had to change his name to Jiang Dadong, and followed as far as Heilongjiang in the north. The next thing was no different from others, the reclamation peasant soldiers became reserves, and then they became reserve divisions, and they joined the army once during the Mukden War, and this time they joined the army again.

Jiang Dadong's fate is ups and downs, the rest of the class is basically the hungry people in northern Jiangsu, Shandong, and then transported to the northeast by the agricultural reclamation company, which is a little special is the old mouse, in the early years was a horseman, the first day was requisitioned by the imperial court to go to North Korea, after saving his life in Liaoyang to live, the first year of the war between Japan and Russia, the livestock in the hands were first robbed by the big nose most of the half, and then by the small nose robbed the rest, had to go to the north to enter the agricultural reclamation company.

When the horse lamp went out in the cat's ear hole and everyone was snoring, the front-line command of the 433 main position was in a meeting. The commanders of the three companies, the political commissars of the two companies, the commander of the artillery platoon, and the commander of the machine gun platoon were all gathered here at this time, and the battalion staff officer only frowned when he took the ammunition collected by each company. After several consumption and replenishment, there are still 424 people in the whole battalion, excluding the guard platoon, the cooking platoon, and the sanitary platoon, there are still more than 370 people who can fight on the front line, not counting rifles, only 73 bullets per gun, three and a half grenades per capita, even fewer grenades, only two on average, six machine guns at most two cartridges, and finally six mortars, the shells were in a hurry a few days ago, and now each gun is averaged, no more than 15 rounds. After a night's work, these ammunition may be enough, but if the ammunition is exhausted and the reinforcements have not arrived, then these more than 400 people will have to fight with the Japanese with bayonets.

Listening to the staff officer read all the numbers, the battalion commander Qin Chengwu said: "That's it, if there is still no one under the mountain at dawn, then everyone is going to throw stones." ”

The battalion commander is a veteran soldier who has fought in the Battle of Mukden, and the company commander has been very clear about the thoughts of the people below for a few years, and he deliberately said it so funny, because he saw that the faces of several people present were a little panicked. When everyone heard him say that he was going to throw stones, two people couldn't help but laugh.

"Don't laugh! Throwing rocks at the top of a mountain is no fun. Qin Chengwu suddenly became stern when everyone was laughing. He actually doesn't like to laugh, but what he doesn't like more than laughing is a sad face. "It's hard to find stones at night. Then wait until dawn to look for it, and a stone will roll down. Kill no less devil than a grenade. You have to hold on, the devils will not let us have a good time tonight, their attacks will only be fiercer than during the day, and more people will come than during the day. ”

"Your Excellency, are you really going to launch such an attack?" At the same time as the meeting of the reconstruction army, the headquarters of the 7th Division, which attacked the 433 heights, was also in a meeting, and in the face of the division commander's request for a charge from one brigade after another, the chief of staff, Heitaro Yoshida, raised his objection when no one was around, "Such a thing. Our troops simply could not deploy. In many parts of the highlands, the mountains were extremely steep, making it difficult for soldiers to climb. If you can give up attacking this high ground and turn to ......"

Faced with the question of the chief of staff, the division commander, Lieutenant General Hayashi Taiichiro, knocked the whip in his hand and asked, "Yoshida-kun, what are the more important points in the entire defense line of China?" ”

"Important?" I didn't expect the division commander to ask this question, but while Yoshida was thinking about the answer, his eyes were aimed at the map on the table. More than two months of fierce fighting. At the same time as their own troops were increasing, the Chinese were also increasing their troops, and no one expected that the Chinese would actually learn from the independent country and the Buddhist country, and establish a simple reserve system in Northeast China and North China. As a result, the number of soldiers in the entire China War quickly increased to 2 million, but fortunately, the military production capacity of China was too weak, and the countries imposed a blockade on it. So it is really armed with only a million people.

Because they have the right to control the sea, this million people are divided between inside and outside the customs. But even so, relative to your own existing forces. The people of China still have the advantage. Now they are defending the mountainous area of Liaodong, in a vain attempt to use the terrain advantage to offset the skill advantage of the Great Japanese Army. Under this attempt, the entire Liaodong defense line is now very much like a staircase going upstairs: the beginning is the mouth of the Daqing River in Gaizhou, where and even the entire Liaodong Bay is full of mines and shipwrecks to prevent our own army from attacking around the sea; Twenty kilometers east from the mouth of the sea is the 433 Heights, the defense line turns 10 kilometers to the north, and then turns to the east, and after 60 kilometers is Xiuyan, which is basically the southern line of the defense line of China.

The entire southern route is 100 kilometers long, and except for the eighteen kilometers by the sea, the rest are mountains. In the mountainous areas, as long as the Chinese army strangles the passages, and the mountain operations are easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is difficult to break the own side with poor supplies.

After Xiuyan, the entire defense line turned to the north and extended more than 60 kilometers, where was the Motianling where the 1st Army and the 3rd Army attacked, which had been completely fortified by the Chinese army, and it was difficult to break through the defense line even if large-caliber fortress artillery was used. After Motianling, the defense line turned more than 40 kilometers east again to Saimaji, after which it went north to the alkali factory, and then went east to Huairen County for the last time, and extended to Ji'an.

The entire defense line is a section of steps on the map, the first section is Gaizhou, the second section is Xiuyan, the third section is Motianling, and the fourth section is the alkali factory. In this section of steps, the most important ones are Gaizhou, Xiuyan, and Motianling. Yoshida's eyes swept over the map, and when he was about to speak, the division commander said: "Yoshida-kun, do you think that Gaizhou, Xiuyan, and Motianling are the most important?" ”

Seeing that Yoshida Heitaro nodded, the division commander said again: "This is just the appearance," he stretched out his hand and turned the map on the table in one direction, and then said: "If you look in another direction, you will find that the defense line of Shina is not a step, but an angular wavy line, and the trough is Gaizhou, Tuandian, Motianling, and Soda Factory, and there are three peaks, one is the 433 highland, the second is Xiuyan, and the third is the horse race.

Attacking the trough will incur a counterattack on both sides of the defense line of the Chinese army, and it will be difficult to achieve the goal, and the attack on Motianling can very well illustrate this; But the crest of the attack is different, it's actually the salient of the whole defensive line, we have two or even three offensive directions. Among the three crests, among the mountains of Xiuyan and Saimajidu, it is inconvenient for the troops to supply and deploy, and only the 433 Heights are on the edge of the plain, which is the best offensive position for the entire defense line. Now that we have isolated the point while the people of China are unprepared, it is imperative that we completely occupy the reinforcements of China without paying the price. Here, it's the second Erling Mountain! (To be continued......)