Chapter 11 we die here

In the division headquarters, there was a busy atmosphere of dispatching troops and generals.It may be due to the airtightness of the basement, the northwest wind is already howling outside, but the interior is extremely warm. Yu Chengwan sat on the bed, and then lay on the bed for a while. On his right was a 1/50,000 map of Changde, and on the left was a small table with a telephone. Looking at the map. "Dilingling," it was Chai Yixin, head of the 169th Regiment, who answered the phone and asked: "How is the situation now?" Chai Yixin reported the results of the 9th and 7th companies in detail at the other end. Yu Chengwan sat obediently, but suddenly stood up and said excitedly: "Very good, you tell Company Commander Zhang and Instructor Gu , I will reward them with 2,000 yuan first, and send a telegram to the army commander to ask for credit. You must ask Battalion Commander Meng to stabilize the southeast line, and the position should not be too prominent. When necessary, you can move to Xinmin Bridge. Gather your strength."

"Yes, yes." Head Chai expressed that he had heard the instructions clearly, and responded repeatedly. Yu Chengwan gave a few more words of advice before hanging up the phone. Zhou Yizhong was also talking on the phone in the room. It was Yuan Ziqiang, battalion commander of the 2nd Battalion of Du Ding's 171st Regiment from Hefushan.After the conversation, he reported to the teacher: "As far as we know, the enemy's situation and the invading enemy are divided into three groups: one is Gangshi's invasion of Huangtu Mountain, which is the vanguard of the enemy's 116th division; the other is Dai's big house, which attacked us Yuan Ziqiang's camp at the Hefu position has about 1,000 infantry and 100 cavalry. All the way from the Panlong Bridge to Zou City, it is the vanguard of the enemy's 3rd Division. At present, the fastest marching is the Dai family's big house. This enemy."

Commander Yu was looking at the map and meditating while listening. He continued Zhou Yizhong's words and said: "The Japanese army is very vicious. They want to cut off the communication between Changde and the army headquarters on the Southwest Road. In this way, the Hefu position in the west is very important. " "Yes." Commander Zhou agreed. "I'm talking to Battalion Commander Yuan." Yu Chengwan picked up the receiver and asked for Hefu's position. "Yuan Battalion Commander? I am the division commander. The enemy has invaded Zoushi, and they will definitely attack Hefu with all their strength. I have told you again and again that Hefu is our holy land. We must sprinkle water on this holy land." Glorious bloodstains. Every time I go to Hefu, I see the trust that the people of Hefu have in our 57th Division. We must not let them down. I order the 1st platoon of mortars to reinforce you and let them arrive immediately. You want Use it to the maximum. During the battle, injured brothers, don’t stay on the battlefield, they can be sent to the rear for treatment immediately. Let me tell you again, Hewei is our holy place!"

When Yu Chengwan said these words, the old Taoist priest from the Temple of Supreme Harmony appeared in front of his eyes.The old Taoist refused to withdraw, saying that he believed in the protection of the gods, but in fact, the gods still refer to "Hu Ben"?As the leader of "Hu Ben", he couldn't help but feel that the responsibility was extremely heavy.After a bloody battle, you can be forgiven if you can't keep it, but if you don't work hard to keep it, you will be guilty if you fail! Commander Yuan's answer was also very firm: "Everything is done according to the command of the teacher. If the teacher wants us to die here, we will die here!"

"No, I want you to live and fight the enemy alive!" After speaking, Yu Chengwan put down the phone. Here, Battalion Commander Yuan put down the phone and repeated the story with Long Chuyun.Long Chuyun jokingly said: "He Wei can fight a few good battles, and I will follow suit. I rushed here before dawn today, and it is finally a grand meeting." Chief of Staff Long Chuyun came to the Hefu position to supervise the battle.Long Chuyun is a native of Qingdao, Shandong. He is tall, with thick eyebrows and big eyes. He is a real talent.He joined the army after graduating from high school. He never went to a military academy, nor joined any department or faction. He was appointed as the chief of staff of the elite unit of the 57th Division at the age of 25. It was entirely due to his talent.He is quick in thinking, strong in understanding, and decisive in executing orders. He is very suitable for senior staff members.Although he is extremely smart, he never prides himself on his talents and puts on airs in front of his subordinates. He is good at conquering people's hearts and being close to officers and soldiers. In this way, strict orders and emotional ties can make things perfect.Yu Chengwan knew him very well, and it was precisely because he saw this point that he was sent to supervise the battle at various points.The role of war supervisor is not easy to play, it is too much to be annoying, and if it is not strict, it makes the chief feel incompetent, and he is in a dilemma.Fortunately, Long Chuyun has a good foundation in all units of the 57th Division, so he can still do his job with ease.

The Hefu Mountain links the Taifu Mountains in the northwest corner of Changde to the north bank of the Yuan River, shielding the Hefu Market.The path from Dai's big house to Hefu City is just blocked by this mountain.Although the mountain is not very high, it is still hilly.The 57th Division had expected that this was the only way for the Japanese army to invade, and had already built fortifications and prepared to stop it.Along the foot of the mountain, there are trenches dug more than ten feet deep, and sharpened bamboo nails are inserted upside down in the trenches.In front of some trenches, there is a deer stockade piled up with disordered branches.After that, according to the slope of the mountain, it is the skirmisher trenches of the defenders.In several places, small semi-underground bunkers were built, which looked like half a big steamed bun from a distance.Although there is still a lack of barbed wire, the enemy's small number of teams equipped with light weapons cannot break through.

The commander of the 6th company reported to the battalion headquarters that the enemy rushed up twice and was suppressed.The enemy's follow-up troops are filling up, and the next charge is expected to be even more fierce. Long Chuyun heard the rumble of artillery in front of him, and the attack became more and more intense. He told Battalion Commander Yuan that he was going to the forward position.For any request of the war supervisor, the troops must implement it, and battalion commander Yuan sent a battalion to accompany him. They leaned forward and bent forward along the trench, and from time to time Japanese mortar shells exploded beside them. When they heard the sound of whirring shells stimulating the air, they quickly fell to the bottom of the trench, and with a "punch", they splashed. Covered with sand.When they walked into the bunker of the 6th company headquarters, the company commander Liu Guirong was very surprised, not at the supervisor, but at the surprise that the chief of staff could come to the front line so far.

The inside of the bunker is very simple, with three soldiers holding a light machine gun, and the company commander Liu and the deputy company commander each holding a rifle and guarding the telephone.They saluted Long Chuyun, and there was no trace of fatigue on their red faces. Long Chuyun said: "I heard all the way from the division headquarters to the battalion headquarters that the fighting here was very good. I was very happy, so I came to see it for myself. The division commander has sent a platoon of mortars to help the battle. We must fight." better!" Company Commander Liu reported: "From midnight last night until now, the enemy has attacked 7 times, 5 times they were suppressed by our firepower halfway, and 2 times they rushed to the front, and we jumped out of the trench to fight hand-to-hand. The devils were beaten back. Please look at the director," Lieutenant Liu led Long Chuyun to the gunhole of the bunker, "there are 23 enemy corpses on the opposite hillside, and we have killed at least 50 of them."

After Long Chuyun encouraged him, he leaned over the eye of the bunker and looked out of the position.The green smoke from the burning deer village formed a continuous piece. In the gaps in the smoke, you could see the corpses of enemies in yellow uniforms lying at the foot of the mountain. Long Chuyun was about to silently count the number of corpses from afar. But I heard the sound of an airplane.With a few loud bangs of "Chong Chong", the flames flashed twice in front of him, surrounded by bomb smoke like white mist.He turned to Company Commander Liu and said, "Be alert! The enemy dispatched planes to bomb, it must be another offensive."

Lien Chang Liu stood upright and said: "Never ambiguous! We suppressed it seven times. With the director here, we will definitely be able to suppress it the eighth time!" The shells fired by the Japanese army's mountain gun mortars, one after another, fell on the left and right of three or four nearby bunkers.It seems that the enemy has noticed these few bunkers that are his life-threatening, and wants to destroy them.Because the shells fell so many times, there was already a misty cloud of smoke gathering in front of the foot of the mountain.Twice the shells fell very close, shaking the earth hills and small stones behind the bunker like rain, and rushed in through the hole of the bunker, and people inside could feel the ground shaking.

Lien Chang Liu opened his eyes wide, staring at the enemy in front of him.On the undulating hills in front, there are two higher slopes, and a sidewalk is built, extending towards us.These two small hills, the enemy must pass through, and they will be exposed when they pass by, so when they get here, they always run towards them.Liu Lianchang's gaze was on these two hills, and he finally spotted the enemy. There were about two or three hundred enemies swarming under the hill and rushing to the top of the hill.It was too late to say, and then soon, a light machine gun guarded by the next group on the left was already in the mouth of the bunker, spitting out a tongue of fire, "cracking" bursts of fire, and poured towards the top of the hill. .The enemy fell to the ground one after another.But after all, there are many Japanese soldiers, and most of them have rushed over the hill and rushed into the valley below. This is a blind spot for shooting. After the enemy takes a short rest, he will rush up to the second hill, and then he will follow the position here.Three enemy planes overhead flew low and whined strangely, and the machine guns on the planes kept firing back and forth on the trenches.While the Chinese defenders were dodging bullets, about a hundred Japanese soldiers jumped up from behind the top of the hill and rushed towards this place. Lien-chang Liu waved his hand gesture, and the machine gun "click, click, click" shot out bullets like meteor water.The machine gun on the left was not far behind, and it sounded at the same time. Two fire dragons aimed at the exposed enemy and fired fiercely. The Japanese soldiers ran and fell down like a row of bamboos, but they were extremely brave and were not afraid of death. When the people in front fell, the people behind still ran forward.During only four or five minutes, seventy or eighty people had rushed over the top of the hill and ran down the slope. Come again, it is the frontier of the position.At this time, the number of enemy planes increased to seven or eight, and they patrolled back and forth, dropping bombs and shooting at the same time.The Japanese mortars behind the hill also intensified their bombardment here, covering the Japanese troops who ran down the slope and rushed over.Looking down from the bunker to the opposite hill, it was originally a bird’s-eye view. The enemy’s infantry gradually moved closer, and the defenders could easily aim and shoot. However, the Japanese army was full of tricks and tricks. They released smoke bombs in front of the movement. Immediately beyond the flames of the shells, another puff of white smoke rose.Needless to say, behind the white smoke is a group of enemies who are about to follow. Company Commander Liu Guirong turned around, grabbed the rifle in his hand, and said to the deputy company commander: "Put this machine gun down on the enemy well. I'll go outside and have a look." As he spoke, he didn't bother to say hello to Long Chuyun, Just drilled out. There was a squad in the skirmish trench outside, lying on the edge of the trench and holding a gun ready to fire. As soon as Lianchang Liu arrived at the shelter under the trench, the squad leader came over to ask for instructions.Liu Lianchang only said one sentence: "Tell them to bayonet!" The smoke became thicker and thicker, and a wall of smoke had formed outside the barracks. Due to blurred vision, rifles and machine guns could not be released aimlessly, so they stopped firing. The battlefield was surprisingly quiet. Outside the smoke screen, several corners of the enemy's clothes were found, and the distance was still 100 meters away.Then, the soldiers whispered that they found more clothes corners, all crawling on the ground like snakes and drilling forward. 70 meters, 60 meters, the enemy crawled forward quickly.Liu Lianchang took one of the grenades hanging on his body in his hand, and the squad leader was on his right, walking down the road next to him, ordering the brothers lying in the trench to prepare to charge.The soldiers all held grenades in their hands, looking warily at the corners of their clothes that were vaguely hidden in the smoke.Seeing the enemy on the ground, Company Commander Liu advanced a few meters, and he gave a shout. Following his order, all the brothers suddenly stood up from the trench. Liu Lien-chang is a well-known bomb-throwing expert. He can always hit 60 meters with a random shot on the spot.At this time, he expected that the enemy had reached the killing distance of his bomb, so he pulled the fuze, raised his hand, and threw it at the enemy.Afterwards, the grenades of this group of brothers were also thrown out. "Boom, boom!" A series of explosions.Then, Liu Lien-chang made a signal to charge with one stroke, and he jumped onto the edge of the trench first with a gun in his hand. The soldiers rushed up the trench together, shouting to kill!Following the shout, a row of guns was fired at the standing Japanese soldiers first.After the shots were fired, some of the enemies who had just stood up fell down again.When charging, every second is very precious, the soldiers of the 6th company shouted again, charge!Everyone raised their guns and knives and ran towards the enemy in front of them. Company Commander Liu Guirong rushed first, and he encountered a rather strong Japanese soldier first.He took advantage of the slope, took a condescending posture, rushed forward with the man and the gun, and aimed a sliding stab at the enemy.The Japanese soldiers attacked with their backs. Although they had already raised their guns, it was difficult for them to charge forward.Lien-chang Liu let go of his bayonet, took a step obliquely, and the spear pierced deeply into the opponent's right rib.After killing one, Lieutenant Liu heaved a sigh of relief. He could only see a company soldier and a chunky Japanese soldier less than 3 meters away, raising their guns and smashing their bayonets into each other. Standing on the slope and raising his gun to stab, Liu Lianchang was afraid that his brother would suffer, so he jumped sideways, raised the butt of the gun upside down, and stabbed at the short and fat Japanese soldier with the point of the gun facing down.The opponent was stabbed and squatted down.The brother didn't have time to make a lunge, so he crossed the butt of the gun and swept the Japanese soldier's head vigorously. Suddenly, the Japanese soldier's brains burst out and he fell to the ground. Lieutenant Liu was about to praise this brother for his bravery when a Japanese soldier rushed over from the side and stabbed him in the leg with a gun.When he saw the white light of the bayonet, he had no time to fight back, so he shrugged back half a step, and the tip of the bayonet cut a deep hole in his calf.The brother was also quick, and immediately stabbed the Japanese soldier from the side, stabbing the opponent's shoulder.The Japanese soldier was so painful that he dropped his gun and fell down.The brother was about to stab him a second time, but Lianchang Liu stopped him. Because Company Commander Liu saw that all the soldiers of the 6th Company on the hillside stood there except for those who were killed in battle, and there were no more entangled enemies in front of them.Those Japanese soldiers who ran away were already 50 meters away. A few brothers who were good at throwing bombs took out a grenade and threw it at the enemy before the enemy took a breath.The machine guns in the bunker also began to shoot in pursuit, and the enemies who failed to find cover were all wiped out down the slope. Since the battle has been won calmly, there is no need to kill this Japanese soldier, "Leave him alive and take him away!" Lieutenant Liu ordered. On the hillside, 5 soldiers from the 6th company were killed, and 3 wounded were moaning.The brothers dragged them, including the Japanese soldier, into the trenches. Long Chuyun had been supervising the battle and commanding the machine guns in the bunker. Seeing the victory in the battle, he ran out very happily. In the trench, he shook the hand of Company Commander Liu and said, "I admire you so much! You fight hand-to-hand!" What a wonderful scene!" He asked again with concern: "Are you injured?" Lianchang Liu felt a sharp pain in his calf when he reminded him, and when he looked down, there was a lot of blood on the bottom of his trousers. "Quick! Bandage the company commander!" Long Chuyun called the soldiers.Back at the bunker, Long Chuyun called the division headquarters and reported excitedly: "The Hefushan position suppressed the enemy's eighth attack!" Unexpectedly, Yu Chengwan admonished him with love and anger on the phone He: "Why did you go to the front of the company? Withdraw to the battalion headquarters!" Long Chuyun verbally agreed, but put down the phone, thinking in his heart that the Japanese prisoner would still have to be interrogated. The Japanese soldier was seriously injured, but his mind was still clear. He sat at the bottom of the trench, lowered his head, and slightly closed his eyes. Not only did he not reply a word to the questions asked by the Chinese soldiers, but he also did not express at all.Long Chuyun wanted to know his details, so he nodded to him and said, "Hai!" The Japanese soldier actually understood the meaning of "Hai", and nodded to Long Chuyun in response.Long Chuyun asked in English: "You know English, can you speak English?" The Japanese soldier shook his head again.Long Chuyun asked again: "Do you understand Chinese?" The Japanese soldier still shook his head.Long Chuyun took out his diary, wrote his name and military rank on the blank page, and then wrote: "My friend, if you put down your arms, we will no longer treat each other as enemies. The Chinese are tolerant, my teacher It is a civilized army and will definitely treat each other with courtesy, please don’t be afraid, can you tell me your name and rank?” After writing, hand it over. Seeing that Long Izumo was a lieutenant colonel, the Japanese soldiers smiled at him with their bright white teeth showing on their gray face.Long Chuyun seized the opportunity and handed over a piece of white paper and a pencil, as well as a cigarette.Seeing that the Chinese chief was being polite again and again, the Japanese soldiers stood up and bowed at ninety degrees, and then wrote on the paper: "I am the current Sergeant Matsumura, and I belong to the 28th Regiment of the 3rd Division. Thank you very much!" As the chief of staff of the division, Long Chuyun has been paying attention to the movements of the Japanese army in this battle. He knows that the 116th Division of the Japanese Army is the main force to attack Changde. He also detected that the main attack direction of the 116th Division is the northern line, but the enemy is often cunning. , is very likely to change. In order to prevent this and maintain the best deployment of the 57th Division to stick to Changde, he constantly checked the dynamics of the Japanese army.Now it seems that the 3rd Division is still assisting from Hefu, so the 116th Division will keep the northern line of Huangtudian unchanged, so he feels a little relieved.He wanted to report this situation to Commander Yu again, so he told Company Commander Liu that he was going to the back, and that the 6th company should work harder and keep the position.Lien-chang Liu resolutely asked him to rest assured! But as soon as Long Chuyun left, the 6th Company was hit by Japanese artillery fire. He and Company Commander Liu Guirong had just met each other for the first time, and it was already a farewell. After 8 attacks by the 28th Regiment of the Japanese Army, the Hefu position failed. The captain of the Hashimoto Regiment changed the attack method.The infantry did not move for the time being, and all the mountain artillery and mortars of the follow-up troops were deployed, and they focused on every trench and bunker of the Chinese defenders, and continued to bombard them.The planes supporting the battle in the sky also bombarded the point where the shells fell, and waited until they thought that this fortification was completely destroyed, and then concentrated on bombing in another place.In this way, the soldiers of the 6th Company hiding in the fortifications were all buried in the mound and died holding their weapons. At first Liu Lianchang thought that the Japanese bombing would stop after a while, but he didn't mean to stop after nearly two hours of continuous bombing.The bunkers were all knocked down.Liu Lianchang and platoon leader Tang Anhua wanted to drag the prisoners out together. They saw that Songcun had been cut off half of his head by a piece of shrapnel this time. He might have ascended to heaven with a good impression of the Chinese army.Without the protection of a bunker, Lien Chang Liu was severely injured when he got out of the ruins of the bunker. His face and eyes were covered with blood, and the world instantly became bloody in his eyes.Knowing that he couldn't do it anymore, he said to Platoon Leader Tang, "Dai, Dai, command for me..." He tilted his head and fell forever in the mud mixed with gunpowder smoke. After the defenders' positions were completely destroyed, the Japanese infantry attack also adopted a new formation.About 20 or 30 people form a wave, and the wave follows the wave. No matter how much the soldiers in front suffer, they still press on.This intensive charge immediately broke through the defense line of the national army, and the Chinese defenders suffered heavy casualties. "Hey, hello!" Battalion Commander Yuan Ziqiang was about to call the division headquarters, and shouted hoarsely, "Please tell me what to do?" Yu Chengwan calmly asked Commander Zhou to pass on his order: "The enemy is a dense assault tactic. It is called a wave formation in the Japanese non-commissioned officer academy. It is most effective to use mortars to destroy it. In addition, machine gun nests can be used to assist "Yu Chengwan used to be an instructor of the Capital Guard Army, a role similar to that of Lin Chong, the instructor of the 800,000 Imperial Army, so his current tone seems to be giving military lessons to students. Yuan Ziqiang, who had studied in Whampoa, understood the commander's instructions as soon as he heard it. The two mortars dispatched from the city had arrived at Hefu in the morning. He immediately notified the artillery platoon leader to point the artillery at Gaowanpo.After the 28th Regiment of the Japanese Army broke through the position of the 6th company, it then used the same wave formation to attack the position of the 5th company. The position of the 5th company was called Gaowanpo. With a sound of "boom", a white smoke shot out at the enemy near the battalion headquarters near Luo Jiachong, and the ballistic trajectory made a whirring sound in the air. , several Japanese soldiers crouched on the ground. "Boom, boom, boom" was a few more cannon shots, and the dense assault team suddenly became commotion, and the Japanese soldiers looked for cover on both sides.Taking advantage of the momentum, the machine guns and rifles of the national army swept across. The engineer squad leader climbed up the tree, hid in the leaves and looked ahead. The angle was right at the front of the position. He called a few brothers to climb the tree, hacked it with an ax, and sawed it with a log. At the place, the frame of a fake building was erected.The machine gun nest pointed out by Yu Chengwan is called the bird's nest fortification in a complete way. It is a kind of local method, which is to use a machine gun to mount a tree and shoot at the enemy condescendingly.After Yuan Ziqiang finished the wave formation, he quickly arranged for the bird's nest fortification, because he had used this method in previous battles and knew it was very effective.The engineer squad leader cut the fork of the big tree into a tie, embedded or nailed the sawn wood in the fork, paved the bottom of the fake building, and then used large and small branches to imitate a bird's nest In the form of a gun, it is obliquely facing the direction of the enemy's attack, and a gap is made for the gun. "Battalion Commander, the Bird's Nest fortification is ready!" The engineer squad leader reported to Yuan Ziqiang. "Okay!" Yuan Ziqiang ordered the two machine gun crews to climb up. But at this time, the Japanese offensive has temporarily retreated.