Chapter 34 Alpine Alley Pole Battle

In a house with half of the roof collapsed, a class of soldiers from the national army was sitting on the ground to rest.They are a group of mixed arms, led by Squad Leader Liu of the Engineer Battalion. They were originally ordered to reinforce the 3rd Battalion of the 169th Regiment, but the 3rd Battalion was temporarily transferred to the direction of Xiaoximen, so they stood by and became the 2nd Battalion. battalion reserve.This group of brothers, some with knives and spears, and some with guns and bullets, have extremely high morale, waiting for the commander to assign them combat tasks, but after waiting for a long time, they have not yet issued an order, and they are a little impatient Temper.

"It's not a problem to stay here all the time, let's go to the officer and ask?" A soldier suggested. "Yes, yes, go ask, sir, don't forget about us!" Several other soldiers agreed. Squad leader Liu was so urged by everyone that he couldn't sit still. He stood up and was about to go to the battalion command post to inquire about the news, but at this moment, he saw a messenger running. The messenger came from the battalion command post. When he saw Squad Leader Liu, he handed over an order written in a pencil. Squad Leader Liu took it over and read it. It read:

"It is reported that in the broken house in Dagaoshan Lane, a group of enemies, about 20 people, were found. They sneaked into the east of the library. The squad leader immediately led his troops to destroy them, and occupied Dagaoshan Lane, and guarded it." "Okay!" Squad Leader Liu punched his fist, and he said to the messenger, "Go back and report, and say that we are determined to complete the task and set off immediately!" The orderly answered yes, turned and returned. Squad leader Liu said to the brothers who were ready to go, you all heard me read the order just now, and there is nothing to say, and the last person will take Gaoshan Lane into his hands.Just right, I walked this road twice today, you all follow me, don't make any noise.After finishing speaking, Squad Leader Liu made a gesture and rushed forward to open the way.The brethren lined up in a single line, snaking and following him.

When Squad Leader Liu was walking, he kept looking around in the alleys between the bare walls. When he saw sticks and the like under the eaves of the collapsed houses, he picked them up and handed them to the brothers. He walked through twenty or thirty houses. Picked up a bunch of these weapons.He picked up a jujube pole by himself. Two nails were nailed to each end of the pole. He liked it very much. When he was charging, someone had to fight. He carried the pole on his shoulder like a gun. , led the team to march with high spirits between the bare walls of the burnt houses. After walking about three or four hundred meters, Squad Leader Liu stopped suddenly. He observed the successive ruins around him, looking left and right.The brothers asked puzzledly: "Squad leader, why don't you leave?" He suddenly came to his senses and said, "Don't worry, I remembered, this is the small road connecting Gaoshan Lane." He went to the front alone and surveyed for a while , Come back and say: "That's right, if the enemy wants to invade the library in the north, they have to pass through here. If they go south, it is the defense line of the 3rd Battalion. They can't go there. They have only one way to go."

Squad leader Liu resolutely decided to set up an ambush here. There were only four rifles in their squad, and squad leader Liu ordered two rifles to stand guard on the masonry counter with a pharmacy on the left, and two rifles to hide behind the splayed gate on the right.He told the four rifles to block the enemy no matter what. As long as they block it, the rest of the brothers he led can circle around and flank the enemy, achieving the goal of destroying this fleet of Japanese soldiers.The brothers with rifles all said that there was no problem, so Squad Leader Liu led the six brothers who did not have guns, drilled into the broken wall from the left, and then passed through three broken walls.There are two blue brick walls in front, and a corner protrudes facing the ruins. The west of the corner faces the tail between the bare walls, and the south faces a rubble field with about two acres of ground. Squad leader Liu pointed to the three windows on the west wall. , Ordering one brother to ambush each, he softly ordered: "When the enemy gathers and runs past the window, you will hit him with grenades behind him!" The two brothers nodded and "ah".Squad leader Liu arranged for the other two brothers to jump out of the window and go to ambush under a short wall.

Five minutes after Squad Leader Liu's arrangement had stopped, a swaying figure was found on the rubble field to the south.Although the gunfire was so loud that it suppressed all the small sounds, the sound of the Japanese soldiers' leather shoes stepping on the tiles could still be heard clearly when they got close.Squad Leader Liu looked out from the top of the short wall and saw a group of people raised their rifles and turned out from under a few short walls outside the ruins. They leaned slightly, and there was a distance of two feet from each other, echoing each other's forward movements .Although they were not many in number, they were divided into three groups and made a wave-like attack. In the front, two pioneers rushed to the foot of a brick wall vigilantly, and then looked around before walking into the alley between the bare walls.At this time, Squad Leader Liu had seen their clothes clearly, with steel helmets on their heads and yellow military uniforms on their bodies, and he knew at a glance that they were the enemy.

Although the vanguard of the Japanese army had already entered the alley, the soldiers of the national army did not mind and remained silent.When the first wave of the Japanese army, about 8 people, turned into the alley, the leading soldiers at the front had already arrived at the counter of the pharmacy.Squad Leader Liu yelled a password, and the two leading Japanese soldiers hurriedly lay down. The two national army rifles on the medicine cabinet had been aimed long ago, and the two guns fired simultaneously, killing the two leading soldiers first.The first wave team of the Japanese army in the back also found cover to hide, lying down and shooting, but this section of the alley was tightly clamped by the bare wall, and they were not allowed to spread out. There was nothing one foot high to shoot with, so all the Japanese bullets flew away.

In contrast, the four rifles of the national army are well concealed, especially the masonry medicine cabinet, which has become a small fortress.After only a few minutes of contact, the first wave team of the Japanese army was killed 6 people.The two groups of enemies in the back had gathered under the corner of the brick wall. Squad Leader Liu saw it very accurately. His heart was "pounding" in his clothes, but he gritted his teeth, held the grenade in his hand, and persisted. If they didn't throw it, the other two brothers also held the grenade in their hands. They watched Squad Leader Liu's signal. Squad Leader Liu was holding back, and they followed suit.

When the Japanese soldiers walked under the brick wall at the end of the alley, they suddenly shouted loudly and rushed into the alley.The brothers hiding in the windows of the brick wall couldn't bear it anymore, "Boom, boom, boom!" The fire burst out continuously, and the grenade fell in the middle of the dense enemy ranks and exploded. The alley was narrow and the grenades were thrown so close that the Japanese soldiers had no room to dodge.The enemies who were not bombed in the flames and smoke hurriedly pulled back and ran back.Squad leader Liu suddenly stretched his body upwards, and a grenade hit his head, and then the other two brothers also threw the grenade. There were more than 20 enemies, and only 5 of them ran back to the corner of the brick wall. At this moment, the distance between the enemy and us was at most a dozen meters away, and it was no longer possible to throw grenades. Weapons, rushing bravely at the enemy.

One brother ran up to the enemy first, aimed at a dwarf, raised his long-handled ax, and slashed at the head and neck.The enemy raised his gun to parry, and the ax fell diagonally from his shoulder.The brother shouted: "Boy, lie down!" After the enemy lay down, the brother was happy for a while, but he ignored that there was another wounded enemy running out from the depths of the alley alone. He ran in a panic, He was colliding with his brothers in the national army.The enemy acted first, and stabbed him with a bayonet.Squad leader Liu was only two or three feet away from this brother. He and another messenger soldier, with a jujube pole and a flower gun, had already knocked down an enemy. , with a loud roar, he flew up his pole and threw it down.The Japanese army's bayonet had pierced the clothes of the soldiers of the national army. When the shoulder pole hit the butt of the gun, the bayonet slid down and tore a large piece of the clothes of the soldiers of the national army.This brother had learned martial arts and knew that there was a murder weapon behind him, so he jumped forward and turned around again.The enemy saw that he hadn't been stabbed, so he turned the point of the knife back and slashed at Squad Leader Liu. Squad Leader Liu was caught off guard, and a deep cut was cut on his shoulder.The rescued brother was also quick in his hands and feet, he raised his ax and slashed at the enemy.Seeing that they couldn't get any cheap money, the enemy stopped fighting recklessly, retracted their guns, and fled southward.No one knew who threw half a brick at it, and it just hit the shoulder of the fleeing enemy, causing him to charge twice and kneel down.The other brother chased after him, swung a long knife, and cut off the enemy's head alive, and the blood shot out like a fountain.

Of all the Japanese soldiers, only two remained and got into the cracks in the broken wall and ran away.Squad leader Liu didn't care about the severe pain in his wound, shouted to kill, and chased him all the way to Dagaoshan Lane.This alley was also sandwiched after the houses on both sides were burned down. There were still a few sections of trenches dug on the ground that could be used. Squad Leader Liu ordered the brothers to jump in immediately. It's all right. Squad Leader Liu breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "We have finally completed the task!" At the end of the battle, they counted the number of people. One brother with a rifle was killed by the Japanese grenade, and the other four, including Squad Leader Liu, were injured. Just as he was talking about asking someone to report to the battalion headquarters, Gao Zi said that the deputy head of the regiment sent a lieutenant from the command post to check the battle situation, and he just arrived.Seeing that Squad Leader Liu was injured, the lieutenant said: "Here I will take the place of the commander. Squad Leader Liu and the wounded brothers, go to the infirmary to get bandages." Squad leader Liu said: "Report to the lieutenant, I can't walk away. After our wounded walks away, the defense here will be too weak." The lieutenant persuaded: "You should go. You can't fight here. If you bleed a lot, your life will be in danger. Wait until you are all bandaged up, and if it's okay, come again!" Squad leader Liu looked sideways, and saw that blood had covered his clothes, and the cool wind was pouring down his spine, making him shiver.As for the other two brothers, some had injured their legs, some had injured their heads, and they were all bleeding. He felt that he really had no strength to hold on for a while, so he agreed to obey the lieutenant's order and go to the infirmary for treatment. The field hospital of the 57th Division, which was bombed and burned by the enemy, has been moved twice. At this time, some soldiers with minor injuries and bandages were moved near the lower south gate.Squad leader Liu and several wounded brothers rushed to the bandage station, almost covered in blood. When the military doctor saw them, he immediately washed the blood and wiped the wounds and put on bandages.The combat conditions of the national army have always been difficult. Soldiers with minor injuries have no other comfort except to let you rest and stop fighting. This is a brick-walled civilian house, and medical staff spread some straw on the floor. A hospital bed for the sick and wounded to lie down. Squad Leader Liu has been running around with the officer waiting for orders since midnight yesterday. He was injured again in a hand-to-hand fight just now. Fell asleep. When he woke up in a daze, he heard a few "boom boom boom boom" sounds, and his body was suddenly pushed by something, and sand, stones and pieces of wood fell all over his body.When he opened his eyes, the sky was already a little bright, and it was dawn on November 30. The ear-piercing sound of the propellers of the plane, the strange sound of "da da da", bombs exploded one after another, two of them landed near the bandage and exploded, making him jump up.Squad leader Liu desperately thought that this time it might be the end. He opened his eyes and looked up. The eaves were tilted, the tiles were cascading down like water, and there was a big hole in the wall, reflecting a gloomy white light rising.He jumped up and ducked to the corner of the house to avoid being crushed by the collapsed house, and shouted anxiously: "Burning bombs! Burning bombs!" But when the walls collapsed and the shells were bombarded, the noise was earth-shattering, and the shouts of Squad Leader Liu could not be heard!The bandage store was full of wounded brothers, and no one had the strength to put out the fire. In an instant, the pale flames outside turned into a stream of fire that surged upwards with black smoke. In less than two minutes, the entire bandage was covered with fire. Here, it is already smoky and hot. Squad Leader Liu saw a few wounded soldiers stumbling out, he thought, instead of sitting in the corner and waiting to die, it would be better to go outside and find a way out. If he went outside and was killed, he would be willing .He walked out from the gate and came to the alley. Looking around, sparks fluttered towards him like mosquitoes and flies. The alley was full of fire and smoke.Fortunately, he was dazed just now, and with some energy, he ignored the pain on his shoulder and chose a place with thin smoke and flames to get out. He walked aimlessly, and suddenly he saw a wounded soldier with a bandage on his head. He came out of a small crooked shop with a sharp knife for killing pigs, and was trying to kill it. blade.Squad leader Liu asked: "Brother, where did you find such a short weapon?" The brother pointed to the shop.Squad leader Liu asked again: "Is this short weapon easy to put together?" The brother said in a low voice, "It doesn't matter whether it works or not. Anyway, when it comes to hand-to-hand combat, I don't want to live. If the enemy touches me, I will kill you." I can’t let him come and take my life comfortably!” Squad Leader Liu said: “I also mean the same thing. If you fall asleep and don’t move, you will either let the enemy blow up or burn you to death. However, if we leave the bandage station, we have to Report to the commander." "What are you reporting? You didn't hear that there were gunshots all around the division headquarters. It's too late. All the slightly injured brothers have returned to the team. My friend, you can also find a good guy to take it." That brother After speaking, he left quickly. Compared with others, Squad Leader Liu felt a little ashamed. Why did he pretend to be a bear after suffering such a small injury?He was determined to go back to the position in Gaoshan Lane, but he must have a weapon to fight back. The brother just said was right, and he had to find a good guy as soon as possible. He also ran into the small shop to search.This shop turned out to be a pork case, and knives and knives were neatly arranged on the case and in the wooden basin.Squad leader Liu picked out a flat meat-cutting knife and stuck it in his trouser belt first, then he ran out of the shop and continued to look for sharper weapons in the streets and alleys and houses that were not empty.Along the way, he met several wounded soldiers, all of whom came out of the ruins with tools, some with sticks, some with axes, and some with kitchen knives.Squad leader Liu always felt that it would be difficult to fuck without a long handle, so he continued to dig into the houses that were completely or half collapsed.After digging three or four houses in this way, he finally found a long-handled hoe at the foot of a collapsed wall. He looked at the place where the hoe and the wooden handle joined. They were all wrapped in iron sheets, which were very strong. He bumped his hand twice, and said to himself happily: "Okay, with this thing, I can kill his two little devils!" He carried a hoe, and under the hail of bullets, he rushed towards Gaoshan Lane in a detour Come. When squad leader Liu rushed to Dagaoshan Lane, he saw that the lieutenant and his brothers were still guarding in the trenches, and each of them had a rifle in their hands.The lieutenant said that they found seven usable 38-type rifles in the alley next to them. Except for one for each of the brothers in this class, the rest were sent to the regiment headquarters.Squad Leader Liu held his hoe and raised his chest and reported: "Sir, it's okay, I will kill the enemy without a gun!" Seeing his courage, the lieutenant felt that everyone had a gun but he didn't. It was a pity, so he divided the grenades he had brought for self-defense into two and handed them over. At this time, there were only about 10 national army soldiers left in the national army position on the front line of Qiaojia Lane. The regiment commander Chai Yixin and the deputy commander Gao Ziyue each held a light machine gun, and they also became combat privates. Guard the bunker, and guard a section of skirmishes with stone strips covering the front, each with the assistance of a soldier with a rifle.On the road, in the foxholes on both sides, and under the broken walls, only one soldier or a company platoon leader was stationed.The Japanese army attacked from the front, and the national army defended with a point. As long as there is a point, the enemy cannot rush over.The Japanese army knew that the strength of the 57th Division was getting smaller and smaller as Vietnam fought, but the brothers of the national army used broken walls, rubble piles, dilapidated houses, bomb craters, and artillery shell craters to resist every shot, which made them uncertain how strong the defenders were. . On the morning of the 30th, the Japanese army at least doubled the number of cannons, aiming at the brick walls and dilapidated houses on both sides of the street. , Not even letting go of a wooden stake, the degree of madness has reached the point where there is no way to increase it. Because the officers and soldiers of the national army received orders from the division commanders and regiment commanders, no one was allowed to change their positions under any circumstances. Therefore, the brothers who guarded the point, even their guns, were buried in the soil by the bombs of the Japanese army. . By noon, the bunkers and covered corridors in Qiaojia Lane had been completely destroyed by flat-firing guns.Head Chai then asked Commander Yu for instructions, and the commander ordered him to go to Niachxiang to the east. There was a blockhouse at the entrance of Niachxiang. Chunshen Tomb, there are two blockhouses next to the tomb as the second line of defense, it looks much stronger than Qiaojiaxiang. Not long after Head Chai and Deputy Head Gao withdrew to Loach Lane, the artillery team chasing after the Japanese army began to bombard them. After more than an hour of bombardment, they saw that the defenders in front of the national army did not respond, so they organized Wave troop rushed over with loud shouts. The heart-piercing shouts of the Japanese soldiers gave a notice to the National Army on the left and right flanks of Loach Lane. The troops in Dagaoshan Lane on the north side and the Chunshen Tomb troops on the south side of the National Army all took up their weapons and got ready. Wait for the enemy wave team to rush over. The Japanese soldiers with their big leather boots "creaking" rushed to the bottom of the alley without thinking. Before they could regain their composure, the national troops on both sides threw grenades at them.The Japanese army was in chaos, and taking advantage of this opportunity, the commander of the national army who led the team yelled to kill, and led all the brothers to rush out. Most of the soldiers of the national army who rushed out to fight hand-to-hand were armed with silent weapons, such as knives, spears, and spears.There was a bloody soldier who chopped down two Japanese soldiers with a hoe. He was Squad Leader Liu.He gritted his teeth, looked reckless, caught the enemy, and rushed at him without any hesitation, scaring the Japanese into thinking that ghosts and gods had appeared.But Squad Leader Liu was a person who had been injured after all, so he exhausted his last bit of vitality by fighting so hard. Gradually, his legs became weak and he staggered every step.In hand-to-hand combat, the situation like him is the most dangerous, and he is likely to become the prey of the enemy. Sure enough, a strong Japanese soldier wearing glasses rushed towards him with a shining bayonet.The lieutenant saw it and hurriedly reminded squad leader Liu to pay attention, but it was too late. The Japanese soldier's bayonet pierced his heart, and a stream of steaming blood sprayed on the rubble behind him, like a bucket of paint overturned.The Japanese soldier grinned grimly and wanted to draw his bayonet, but he didn't expect that Squad Leader Liu was still alive.With the last bit of strength, Squad Leader Liu rang the grenade given to him by the lieutenant. With a bang, the spectacle lenses of the Japanese soldiers flew into the sky. According to the old man Yue Qilin who was in charge of building the memorial tower for the fallen soldiers in the Changde Battle, it was impossible to collect the remains of the martyrs of the national army in the streets and alleys of Changde City after the fierce street battles, because there were fragments of flesh and blood everywhere.They held up a pile of soil and cried, thinking to themselves, dig out a few meters of soil in the whole city and pile it up into a mountain, called the Anti-Japanese Heroes Mountain.