The aircraft fleets of the Japanese Army's 3rd Flying Regiment and the Navy's 2nd Combined Air Force flew over Wanjialing amidst the roar of their engines.
Under the guidance of the ground troops, they dived and fired at the position of the blocking troops of the Chinese 4th Army.
"Teng Teng Teng——"
The airborne machine gun spit out tongues of fire, and strings of scarlet bullets swept towards the trenches of the defending troops with the smell of death.
"Hide quickly!"
"hidden!"
When the Chinese officers and soldiers in the trench fortifications saw the Japanese planes swooping down, the officers kept shouting and the brothers also ran away one after another.
In the chaos, the Japanese soldiers' plane passed by at low altitude, and the strong air flow brought by the wings knocked many brothers over.
Before they could crawl into the trench to escape, the second wave of Japanese planes swooped down again.
"Puff puff!"
Strings of bullets swept down, blood spattered, and the exposed brothers were punched with holes all over their bodies that were bleeding.
"Ah! My legs!" Some brothers were tumbling on the ground wailing after their thighs were pierced by machine gun bullets.
"Well...well..."
Some brothers were lying on the ground unable to move like blood gourds, watching helplessly as the third wave of Japanese planes swooped down and beat their bodies into pieces.
The Japanese planes were arrogant and arrogant. The anti-aircraft gunners hidden on the hillside angrily fired at the Japanese planes, and the anti-aircraft guns also rumbled.
Clouds of black mist erupted in the sky, but the Little Devil's plane did not suffer any damage. Under such a sparse air defense firepower network, they were able to break through easily.
"Boom, boom, boom..."
In a series of explosions, the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine gun positions were shrouded in thick black smoke, and the bodies of the brothers were blown up and down in pieces.
The heavy bomb fell on the hilltop of the garrison fortifications as if for free. The ground shook with rumbles, the entire position was blown into a piece of scorched earth, and most of the fortifications were destroyed.
The hilltops covered with weeds and shrubs became bare in an instant, full of craters, and the defenders' officers and soldiers were littered with casualties.
"Kill Gai Gai!"
When the leading troops of the Japanese 136th Brigade saw the plane ascending and circling, they immediately pounced fiercely towards the hilltop full of scorched earth and bomb craters.
"Is there anyone alive?"
Some brothers who were buried by the blasted soil emerged from the soil. They looked at the corpses lying all around, and their shouts were filled with tears.
After just a few rounds of strafing and bombing, one company was wiped out. Looking at the Japanese soldiers rushing up like wild beasts with bayonets drawn, the surviving brothers were left alone and helpless.
"Why are you crying? There is no future!"
A squad leader whose face was covered in blood said as he overturned the two corpses that were pressing him down. He groped and lay down in the collapsed trench and glanced towards the hillside. When he saw the Japanese soldiers pressing up, he took a deep breath.
"Squad leader, you are still alive. I thought everyone was dead."
When the brother from before saw that his squad leader was still alive, he was filled with excitement and stumbled to the squad leader.
The squad leader glanced around at the familiar corpses, his eyes a little red.
These were fellow villagers who came out of Guangdong with him. They agreed to go home together after fighting the Japanese, but unexpectedly they died in this wilderness.
However, he quickly adjusted his emotions. Looking at the only surviving brother in his class with a complicated expression, he soon straightened his face.
"Shame on you, stop crying, don't embarrass us Cantonese people," the veteran squad leader scolded.
The brother stretched out his sleeve to wipe the tears from the corner of his eyes, looked at the squad leader who was groping for grenades nearby, and said with a sad face: "Squad leader, our company is dead."
The squad leader tied several grenades together and said, "I know."
"The position cannot be defended."
The monitor said without raising his head: "I know."
Looking at the squad leader who kept collecting grenades, the young brother said cautiously: "Squad leader, let's run."
"Damn you, you coward!" When the squad leader heard this, he flew into a rage and kicked the brother to the ground.
When he was angry and ready to kick him a second time, he looked at the dirty look of this brother. As if he had thought of something, he took out a longevity lock from his arms and stuffed it into this brother's hand.
"Hurry down and find the battalion commander for reinforcements. I'll hold you here for a while." The squad leader paused and said, "What if I die? Take this longevity lock back to my mother."
Seeing that this brother was still stunned and unable to react, the squad leader kicked him again and urged: "If you don't want me to die, hurry up and get reinforcements!"
This brother was urged by the squad leader to stand up and stumbled towards the battalion headquarters. When he was about to leave the position, he looked back at the squad leader who was left alone in the position. Tears burst out uncontrollably and he clutched the longevity lock tightly.
, and ran towards the camp headquarters.
The squad leader saw his brothers disappearing from sight, and then looked at the Japanese soldiers approaching a hundred meters up the hillside. He lay down along the trench and panted heavily. He looked at the black smoke-filled sky and showed up with relief.
smile.
The Japanese infantrymen covered each other's advance and soon rushed towards the messy-looking Chinese officers and soldiers. When they saw the corpses lying on the ground, they burst into cheers.
"Boom, boom, boom--"
Just as the Japanese soldiers raised their rifles and shouted long live to celebrate the capture of this position, the explosion of cluster grenades shattered their cheers.
More than a dozen cheering Japanese soldiers were blown to pieces and their flesh and blood flew everywhere. The scene was too horrific to watch.
Fierce gunfire resounded throughout the entire blocking defense line. Several regiments of the Japanese 136th Brigade launched successive rounds of fierce attacks on the 4th Army. Many defenders were killed in entire rows and entire companies.
"If the platoon commander is dead, enter the company commander! If the company commander is dead, enter the battalion commander! If you are all dead, I will come in person! Even if you are all dead, we must stop the Japanese!"
In the headquarters of the 4th Army, General Ou Zhen faced the urgent calls from the front, his face twitching, and he also issued a death order.
Because this time the Ninth War Zone has deployed more than a dozen divisions to completely annihilate the Japanese 106th Division. Now the troops are encircling them. If he doesn't catch it, he can't afford it and is ready to fight.
Faced with General Ou Zhen's death order, the frontline units of the 4th Army knew that there was no hope of temporarily retreating, so they all took the risk.
"Shame on you, kill me!"
In the mountains and ravines, countless officers and soldiers of the 4th Army came forward one after another. Officers at all levels took the lead and fought bloody battles with the advancing Japanese troops.
The two sides killed corpses everywhere in the Jinshan and Jinshan areas, and blood flowed into rivers. The brave and skilled Japanese 136th Brigade was blocked by them and could not move forward for a day.
The stubborn resistance of the Chinese ** team caused the casualties of the troops to rise rapidly. The leader of the Japanese division, Matsuura Junrokuro, was shocked and had to re-evaluate his opponent.
"General, Chinese troops were also found on the Zhanggu Mountain and Changling lines. Their designation is the Chinese 58th Division."
When Matsuura Junrokuro was thinking about whether to change the direction of attack.
The serious-looking Chief of Staff, Colonel Yoshitaka Akiyama, walked into the division headquarters established by Matsuura Junrokuro in a village at the foot of Wanjialing Mountain.
"The 58th Division?! Is it a unit of the 74th Army?" Upon hearing this number, Matsuura Junrokuro's expression suddenly changed slightly.
Chief of Staff Colonel Yoshitaka Akiyama nodded and said: "Yes, they are indeed troops of the 74th Army."