September 11th at 3pm.

Shangguan Yun, Major Commander of the 4th Battalion, walked up to a position on the left flank of Qingshiyan and stared. The Army Major, who had experienced the Battle of Songhu and the Desperate Battle of Sihang Warehouse, could not help but feel a little dark in his eyes, because he was extremely anxious and dried up.

Pi's lips were even split due to the subconscious action of pursed lips tightly.

A trace of blood stained the lips.

In fact, the battle at this position that he personally named 'Doorbolt' was too brutal.

A small hill with a width of less than 100 meters and an altitude difference of less than 130 meters swallowed up 6 of his infantry squads and a fire support squad in less than two days. In the past, it was almost the strength of an infantry company.

For this reason, he even had to use three infantry squads from his two infantry platoon reserves yesterday night to supplement the position belonging to the first company. Unexpectedly, in less than a day, it was almost completely exhausted again.

Already.

The phone calls from First Company Commander Deng Ying always sounded like crying!

Shangguan Yun knew better than anyone who Deng Ying was. The 542 regiment had three infantry companies and one fire support company stationed in Sihang Warehouse. The company commander with the strongest individual combat effectiveness was Lei Xiong, the one with the most tactical accomplishments.

Counting Shangguan Yun, the one who could get along best with the officers and soldiers was Tang Li, but if we were to say that the company commander had the most tenacious personality, it really had to be Deng Ying.

Deng Ying, like Lei Xiong, is not an academic. He is a typical big-headed soldier who rose from the rank of sergeant squad leader to second lieutenant platoon leader and then to lieutenant company commander. As the name suggests, he is 1.75 meters tall and has a tall and heroic figure, but other

He is like a rock, he always talks less and does more, a typical doer.

On a battlefield in September during the Battle of Songhu, Deng Ying led his infantry company in a hand-to-hand fight with the Japanese army. He just relied on having grenades inserted all over his body. Once he was stabbed and seriously injured by the Japanese army, he immediately used his last strength to fire the grenade.

Everyone from the company commander to the privates was no exception. They used hand-to-hand combat to empty the grenade boxes of the entire infantry company.

In that battle, Deng Ying's men suffered only deaths and no injuries, but they managed to repulse the attacks of two Japanese infantry squadrons with one infantry company. After the war, the battle loss ratio with the Japanese army was almost 1:1. At that time, it was almost

It's a miracle.

Such a tenacious infantry company commander always cried heavily when requesting reinforcements from him, which shows how brutal the fighting was at the 'Doorbolt' position.

Therefore, during the break between battles, the battalion's cooking platoon was busy delivering lunch to this position. Shangguan Yun, who had removed his military rank and put on a steel helmet with an orderly who was no different from an ordinary soldier, decided to come and see this position with his own eyes.

As a result, this didn't matter, and Shangguan Yun almost cried.

After two days of fighting, Qingshiyan has been reduced to scorched earth! The only shrubs and small trees on many positions were blown away by Japanese artillery fire. Coupled with the special geology of Qingshiyan, they are basically bare.

However, many fortifications made of stones, wood and sandbags are still there, and there are even deer villages in front of some positions, which are still burning even if they are ignited by Japanese artillery fire.

But the 'doorbolt' position in front of us was bare. The trenches that the engineers had previously blasted and dug on the rocks with explosives seemed to have been torn apart by an invisible big hand. They were in dilapidated condition, and some of the gaps could still be used.

Sandbags and wood were piled up, but more places were filled with corpses...

There are "shit yellow" and dark blue, and broken black things are scattered everywhere on the rocks. A mature soldier will know what they are without even looking at them.

Destroyed by the air waves of bullets, grenades and even artillery shells, living people may be torn into pieces, let alone those 'fortifications'!

That was obviously a helpless move by the officers and soldiers on the battlefield, but it was still like a sharp bayonet, making Shangguan Yun's eyes turn red.

After you got closer, you saw a lone hand sticking out from the 'fortification', with a blackened copper ring on the middle finger of the hand.

Shangguan Yun held back his tears for a long time, and suddenly fell down. He squatted down, gently held the swollen and black palm like ice, and roared in a low voice: "Where's Deng Ying! Let him

Get over here, I brought my brothers to work hard to get here. It is true that I am killing Japanese people, but I don’t want to be treated as wood and bricks even after I die.”

The palm was deformed, but he recognized the ring.

After the battle between the four lines, everyone was imprisoned in the barracks where supplies were not guaranteed. There were only 280 people in total. Even if they were new recruits who were added later, they were already familiar.

The owner of this ring is a soldier from Hubei Province, who comes from Xiangyang City in the northwest mountainous area of ​​Hubei Province. It was supplemented by the Hubei Province Security Corps in the late Songhu War.

Moreover, due to supply problems, No. 280 people took out their personal belongings and sold them to exchange them for supplies for the entire battalion to feed and clothe. Even Captain Xie took out the gold pen given to him by his wife, but it happened that the nickname

The little "gouzi" soldier here in Xiangyang, Hubei Province has nothing to lose.

You can forget it if you don't have it, but the little soldier clearly wears a gold ring on his hand, and he has no choice but to live or die, and he is a soldier of his company, so naturally he can only let him, the company commander, do the work.

But in the end, he, the company commander who had been promoted to major, failed to get the ring from this little Xiangyang soldier.

It's not that the small soldier is tough, but that the ring is neither gold nor silver nor even copper, it's just a piece of iron. When he went to serve as a soldier, his mute mother who was born deaf spent an entire night on it.

, a round ring hammered with stones by hand.

Why use a ring instead of something else? It’s not a custom, it’s just that the family was too poor to find anything decent for the child to wear, and the mute mother couldn’t speak, so she made up such a thing by herself and put it on her son’s finger.

superior.

Maybe it was the hope that he would be safe after this, or maybe it was the hope that he would get married and have children in peace.

My thoughts as a mother are nothing more than these two.

'Gouzi' was young, and when he arrived in the big city of Jiangxia, he was afraid that others would laugh at his ring because it was made of iron, so he got some brass powder and dyed it golden, so that people would mistake it for gold.

Shangguan Yun always remembers what Gouzi said: "Company commander, this ring was given to me by my mother. I don't know if it's worth it, but I beg you to let me keep it. I can keep it for two days. No,

Not eating for three days.”

What is the value of the iron ring? Naturally, Shangguan Yun would not embarrass this little soldier under his command. This time he reorganized the 4th Battalion and specially cared for him to become the bugler of an infantry platoon. He was the soldier responsible for blowing the charge bugle and also had a part-time job.

Signal Corps.

Unexpectedly, he did not die on the Songhu battlefield, nor in the Sixing Warehouse, but in North China, and his remains were filled in the fortifications.

His mute mother could no longer look forward to having her son back.

Tell me, how could Shangguan Yun not be angry after witnessing all this?

"Battal Commander, why are you here? It's too dangerous here. The Japanese may attack again at any time. Let's go, go quickly!" Fan Mobei, who personally led his deputy company commander and also served as the platoon leader, crouched.

Deng Ying, who came over, was shocked when she saw Shangguan Yun squatting in the dilapidated trench.

Without any explanation, he and Fan Mobei prepared to take Shangguan Yun away with each other and one hand at a time.

"Bastard, I'm asking you, if the dog dies in battle, he dies in battle, but why don't people carry him down? Your Deng Yingteliang's will be brought to the military court." Shangguan Yun glared at the company commander under his command.

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Deng Ying was stunned and squatted on the ground, speechless for a long time!

"You're such a fool, but you've given me a reason. As long as you, Commander Deng Dal, say this, even if no one is without supplies, I, the battalion commander, can cut down trees and dig out rocks, and I can help you build a few fortifications!" Shangguan Yun said

Seeing that Deng Ying didn't speak, he became even more angry.

"Battal Commander, don't blame our company commander. This was done voluntarily by our 2nd Platoon." Seeing that he could not escape, Fan Mobei could only take out a dirty piece of paper from his arms.

Shangguan Yun took it and took a look, and became as silent as his company commander.

"I voluntarily use my useless body to protect my comrades after my death! No regrets!"

Except for this sentence written in charcoal, the dirty paper was covered with bloody handprints.

"This is signed by the remaining 30 brothers who were in line during roll call last night, as well as the brothers from the three classes who came to support today." Fan Mobei placed his fingers on the first fingerprint.

"Battal Commander, look, these are the fingerprints I pressed."

Then, he put the paper against the finger with the ring, and gently printed one of the fingers on it, with a trembling voice: "This belongs to Brother Gouzi. He even told me specifically that if he really died in the battle,

This body of flesh will also be burned to ashes, so it is better to block the bullet for the brothers, and don’t send the ring back, just let him wear it, so that even if he goes underground, he can still think about his mother.”

"Why is this so!" Shangguan Yun's anger disappeared, but his throat could not help but choke.

The Army Major was very sad, sad that even though his soldier was dead, he still had to stay on the battlefield until his body was broken into pieces, as if this person had never existed.

But he was even more proud of the soldiers under his command. He believed that perhaps there were soldiers in the world who were stronger than the 4th Battalion of his Si Xing Regiment, such as the three infantry battalions that ranked before the 4th Battalion in the regiment. They were composed of

His record of fighting a bloody path on the Songhu battlefield is unparalleled.

However, Shangguan Yun believes that no one in the world wants to prove that he is not a coward more than his brothers, and even fear like death cannot stop them.

Because two-thirds of his 4th Battalion had stayed in Japanese or Western prisoner-of-war camps. They ate food that even pigs would not eat, were physically and mentally abused, and even had to encounter their own race.

Scorned by others, he struggles to survive.

The Four Troops gave them a platform to prove themselves again. Living is not that important. What is important is to kill the Japanese.

Even if you die, you must use your flesh and bones to block the Japanese guns!

"Battal Commander, you don't know, the Japanese offensive in the past two days has been like crazy!" Fan Mobei shook his head in pain, pointing to the gaps in the fortifications that seemed to be torn open by invisible hands.

"Those holes were not blown up by artillery, but were made by the Japanese with explosive bags. We had no time to block them with anything else, but if they were not blocked, the Japanese heavy machine guns would aim at this place and cover us with firepower."

If you cannot maneuver in the trenches, you will be separated by the Japanese sooner or later. If a position is lost, the lives of all the brothers will be handed over here."

It turns out that the reason why this position is called the "door bolt" is that this position has the gentlest terrain compared to the entire Qingshiyan. As long as this position can be broken through, the entire Qingshiyan position will almost be open to the Japanese army.

Shangguan Yun attached great importance to this position and specially gave it to Deng Ying's company to defend. This was because he believed that Deng Ying would be able to live up to his trust.

Through unremitting observation for most of the day, Kuyeda Shiro also set his sights on this area.

Therefore, on the afternoon of the first day when the battle began, the Japanese army invested 8,000 troops in the Qingshiyan position, which was thousands of meters wide, but only less than 200 troops were invested in the 'door bolt' position.

In other places, strong attacks are used to test the firepower, even without enough blood, but using free attacks on this identified breakthrough is more paralyzing!

Sure enough, the battlefield on the second day was completely different. Thousands of people were once again put into the attack. A complete infantry brigade was put into this position alone, and the attacks were repeated for up to 13 rounds throughout the day.

In the evening, the Japanese army used special attack teams crazily!

What is a special attack team?

I don’t mean elite, but death squad!
To be continued...