my bright sword career

Seeing that Brigadier Chen called for the battle first, Brigadier Wang of the new first brigade was anxious, "I said, old Chen, don't take you like this? Why do you let your 386 brigade take the main attack, and our new brigade has to stand aside.

I can tell you, I can let you do other things, but today this matter will definitely not work! "

Seeing Brigadier Wang standing up to protest, Brigadier Chen asked calmly: "Old Wang, I'll just ask you, have you made up for all the losses in your brigade during this period?"

"I……"

Brigadier Wang went dumb for a moment. He fought too hard in Ping'an County some time ago, and the troops lost a lot. Although a batch of new recruits have just been recruited, everyone knows that recruits who have just entered the army will not be able to fight without a period of training. .

The 386th Brigade is different. After a month of training, not only has the troops lost some time ago been replenished and recovered, Gao Hongming has also replenished all the weapons they lost, and the ammunition is so extravagant that the recruits can conduct shooting training every day. It also made the eyes of many Eighth Route Army soldiers who had no chance to participate in the war turn red with envy.

Brigadier Chen is such a shrewd person. After seeing this, he patted Brigadier Wang on the shoulder: "Old Wang, don't be discouraged. War is like singing, there are always protagonists and supporting roles. If everyone is the protagonist, then Are you still messing around?

But don't worry, our 386th brigade will be the main attack this time, and next time it will be your new brigade's turn.As the saying goes, the emperor will come to my house next year on a rotating holiday. Do you think this is the reason? "

Seeing Brigadier Chen's series of punches that made Brigadier Wang speechless, Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, Kong Jie and other regiment leaders were all overwhelmed with admiration.

As expected of a figure who was known as the Three Heroes of Whampoa back then, his words alone are not comparable to ordinary people.

But I admire it in my heart, but none of them dare to say anything, after all, everyone knows the rules, and they can only sit on the chair and make eye contact with each other.

But the heads of the new brigade were another matter. They all stared anxiously at their brigade leaders with wide-eyed eyes.Although many people wanted to stand up and say a few words, no one had the courage.

After all, everyone knows the rules. It is a confrontation between the brigade commander and the brigade commander. No matter how they quarrel, it is their business.

Brigadier Chen and Brigadier Wang were arguing there, but Commander Liu and the political commissar Heping looked on with a smile on his face. Finally, Commander Liu said: "Okay, stop arguing. Chen* is right, the new brigade is indeed I haven't rested well, so I will be behind as a reserve team this time, and it will not be too late to start again if necessary."

Hearing Master Liu's words, Brigadier Wang could only agree, while Chen* couldn't help laughing.

Political commissar Ping added from the side: "Chen*, since this task is given to you, you have to fight the battle well. If you loose your penis and lose the chain, then don't blame me and Master Liu for not showing affection."

Chen* also suppressed the smile on his face, and said loudly: "Master, please don't worry, if we can't win Niangziguan this time, I, Chen*, will come to see you!"

Commissar Ping's face became serious, "I don't want your head, Chen*, I just want Niangziguan!"

History is always strikingly similar. When the Japanese army attacked Taiyuan in 1937, they also attacked Niangziguan and Xinkou at the same time. In those two battles, more than 20 people participated in the battle, with tens of thousands of casualties. In the end, the Japanese army won.

Five years later, a great battle also broke out here, but the offensive and defensive postures of the two sides were reversed, and it was the Japanese army's turn to defend the Chinese army and launch an offensive.

For this battle, in addition to two brigades, Neiji Okamura dispatched four brigades from various places in Shanxi and assigned them to the mixed sixth brigade and the mixed No.4 brigade defending Xinkou.

On September 9, the 12th Brigade officially launched an attack on Xuehua Mountain.

"boom……"

A 75-caliber shell landed on a hillside not far away with a sharp roar, blowing up two puffs of thick smoke that filled the sky.

This was deployed on a fortification built by the Japanese army on Xuehua Mountain. Then, accompanied by a few screams, several Japanese soldiers fell into a pool of blood, and they wailed in pain while covered in blood.

One thing to say here is that Xuehua Mountain is a half-rock and half-earth mountain. It is very troublesome to build fortifications on such terrain.

In 37, the 165th Division led by Zhao Shoushan, who was in charge of defending here, suffered from this loss, and today the [-]th regiment commander of the Japanese mixed sixth brigade here in Fangshan is also very angry in his headquarters Jump your feet.

Since the first half of Xuehua Mountain is mostly rocks, the Japanese army often encountered hard rocks when digging trenches. The 165th Regiment had no choice but to rely on sacks to build some crude fortifications as bunkers.

The most terrible thing is that such terrain is extremely unfriendly to defenders. These sacks can only resist rifle or machine gun bullets at best, but they have nothing to do with artillery shells.

Once a shell falls, the huge shock wave will explode the stone, and the splashed stone will become a deadly scythe and splash into the defender's body.

Ikegu Sanxizhai, who was hiding in a bunker, watched the Huaxia army throw shells one after another into the Japanese positions, blowing up the Japanese soldiers hiding behind the fortifications to bloody gourds one by one.

"Your Excellency, Captain, it is impossible to continue like this." The chief of staff of the alliance on the side was also anxious, "The number of shells of the Chinese people has far exceeded our estimate. If this continues without the Chinese people to attack, our warriors will die Will be blown up by their shells."

Chigu Sanxizhai kept his face sullen and silent. As a unit that had just been transferred from other battlefields in North China, the Mixed Sixth Brigade obviously did not have the experience to adapt to the Eighth Route Army with such a wealth of ammunition.

In their previous experience, although the troops of the Eighth Route Army were brave in battle, their equipment was too poor, and their ammunition was pitifully scarce. In a battle, the amount of ammunition carried by each soldier did not exceed ten rounds. Not to mention artillery, a few mortars can be called an elite unit.

But judging from today's battle, this is not the Tuba Road in their impression, their equipment is simply better than their elite Central Army.

From the beginning of the war to the present, the shelling has lasted for 10 to [-] minutes, and there is still no sign of stopping. I really don't know where they got so many shells.

After a long time, Ikegu Sanxizhai sighed: "Order the troops to withdraw to the second line of defense in the back mountain, it is impossible to defend here."

Houshan’s line of defense is the second line of defense of the 165th Regiment, and also the last line of defense. Originally, Ikegu Sanxizhai almost relied on the first line of defense to kill and injure the Eighth Route Army as much as possible, and then retreated to the second line of defense when it was exhausted. , Wait until the Eighth Route Army catches up, and then gather troops to severely injure or even annihilate the invading enemy.

It's a pity that the plan was good, but it was only when it was actually implemented that I realized that I didn't even hold it for half an hour, let alone killing a large number of enemy troops.