In the dark and cramped tunnel, Dan Tai Mingjing is writing a letter to his parents!

To be precise, it was not only for the old Dantai couple, but also for the parents of the 15 brothers in his infantry squad. Although most of them were not in the tunnel at all, they were basically left on the positions outside the tunnel.

But that was the request made by all the brothers before entering this position to him, a "cultural soldier".

It’s not that the positions we entered were so dangerous, but writing suicide notes before going to the battlefield is a custom for the four-line regiment. This job is naturally handed over to the cultural soldiers who come down from the battalion and often tell stories to them at night.

And now, what Dan Tai Mingjing wrote is a suicide note! Moreover, there is very little time left for him.

The battle was so fierce that it was beyond replenishment.

The Japanese army attacked one after another, almost endlessly. Even though it was already dark, flares were still flying all over the sky, illuminating the battlefield.

Death is no longer common, but can be seen everywhere.

Whether it is Chinese or Japanese.

Less than 10 meters away from Dan Tai Mingjing, there is the remains of the infantry squad leader who was in his place. It was found by Dan Tai Mingjing during the 15 minutes of searching for the battlefield.

He always remembered what the veteran squad leader said to him before going to the battlefield: "I am not afraid of death, but my body is raised by my parents. No matter how much it is, I will take it back and bury it next to my home. My parents always have a thought."

The veteran squad leader was smashed by an infantry cannon. The squad leader carrying the MP38 submachine gun killed at least dozens of Japanese troops in the fierce battle during the day, and completely became a thorn in the Japanese army's eyes.

An infantry cannon was transported by the Japanese army to a position less than 400 meters away from the battlefield. When the squad leader desperately shot and killed the Japanese infantry that had reached 70 meters, the infantry cannon fired, accurately hitting the fortifications where the squad leader was located, and shattered them together with the fortifications, people and guns.

Dan Tai Mingjing searched for a long time before picking up several remains. The man from Northeast China, who was extremely strong and had 130 kilograms, turned into pieces of flesh and blood with only a dozen kilograms.

Therefore, the suicide note written by Dan Tai Mingjing for the squad leader was: When the parents read this letter, the son had also died in battle, but the son did not regret it. The son's military merits and the accumulation of military pay, rewards and pensions should be enough for the parents to support him for the rest of his life.

I hope my parents will live a good life while being sad. My brother, sister and their children can live happily on their behalf. Only when their children's sacrifices are meaningful. My son's writing is the highest place in the Jinlong Peak of Zishan!

The Jinlong Peak Highland is located in the northwest corner of Zishan Mountain, where the ravines are crisscrossed and the mountains are steep. Not to mention that it is not suitable for large-scale equipment transportation such as artillery and tanks, even if light infantry advances, it also takes a lot of effort. Therefore, in the planning of the Tang regiment, only an infantry squad needs to guard the main peak, which can prevent the Japanese light infantry from crossing mountains and ridges into the Zishan Mountains.

No wise commander will spend a lot of effort on such a useless breakthrough.

This task fell on the 13th squad of the 7th Company of the Third Battalion.

This is an infantry squad with little honor, and not even much glorious combat history.

In fact, as a reserve or supplementary class, the 13th squad was only half a year old. There were only two veterans serving as squad leaders and deputy squad leaders. The rest were recruited from southern Hebei in the first half of 2019. In the words of veterans, it was a group of new recruits.

Compared with most of his comrades, Dan Tai Mingjing, who came from the battalion, was actually the third-ranked veteran in the entire infantry squad.

But except for the two squad leaders, no one knew that the communication soldier who was assigned from the battalion was called Dan Tai Mingjing. They only knew that this young man with a fair face was called Tan Mingjing, so everyone called him nicknamed Mirror.

And the soldiers who only proved themselves on the training ground did not know that at least half of the reason they came to the Golden Dragon Peak Highland was because of the young man nicknamed Mirror.

Dan Tai Mingjing finally met the training standards set by Leng Feng before the New Year. The Black Star Pistol 50-meter target had five rounds of ammunition and 45 rings, a submachine gun with a 100-meter target of 26 rounds of ammunition on the target, a Czech semi-automatic rifle 230-meter 10 rounds of ammunition and 87 rings, a 5-kilometer fully armed weight of 15 kilograms of off-road for 22 minutes, and the fighting can be fought against a veteran for 2 minutes without losing.

And this is already the criterion for the selection of reserve troops in the reconnaissance company.

Leng Feng could no longer refuse the request of Dan Tai Mingjing to go to the front line troops, but for the safety of this young man who was eager to fight, Leng Feng finally became selfish and arranged it in the 13th Infantry Squad of the four reserve squads of Li Jiujin's 7th Company.

However, this time, tens of thousands of Japanese troops attacked, and the main forces of the third battalion were all out, and the several high grounds located outside the main position could only be defended by the reserve squad.

The 13th class of the 7th Company was arranged in the Golden Dragon Peak Highland under this situation.

However, even Leng Feng and Li Jiujin did not expect that a small high ground that was 10 miles away from the main position and was easy to defend and difficult to attack would become the breakthrough point of the Japanese army's heavy troops.

In other words, it became the only position in the entire Zishan battlefield where the Japanese army could prove itself.

The battle broke out in the Jinlong Peak Highlands was from the morning of the fifth day when the battle on the Zishan battlefield was fought!

The first three days of the Zishan battlefield were basically staged by the Four-Road Regiment. The Japanese artillery fire posed a threat to various positions in Zishan with a complete defense system. Once the artillery fire stopped, infantry attacks were used, and the officers and soldiers of the Four-Road Regiment who drilled out of the tunnel and entered the trench would use dense firepower to teach the Japanese army to be human.

After two consecutive days of strong attacks, the Japanese army was beaten to death without saying that they were corpses and bloodied!

Until the fourth day, the Japanese army suddenly changed their tactics and no longer used cannons to bombard the infantry's attack, but instead launched cannons and infantry to attack together.

The barrage of the explosion on various defensive positions was less than 100 meters away from the Japanese infantry at the closest time. Even if the infantry and artillery collaborative training reached the top level, it was impossible to ensure that their soldiers would not be swept into by their own artillery fire.

But the First Division did just that.

The distance of 100 meters was not enough for the officers and soldiers of the Four Lines to drill out from the narrow tunnel entrance into the already fragmented trenches.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Since the Japanese are so crazy, the battalion commanders of the Four Lines Regiment are all ruthless people fighting from the sea of ​​corpses and blood. Who is a good person?

He immediately ordered all the artillery fire that he could only know to cover the front of the position, and at the same time ordered each squad to enter the trenches with one-third of his troops.

If you dare to die, then we will accompany you. At least I have a trench that is 2 meters deep to protect you. What are you doing?

In just two days, in this almost cruel battle of death for death, the three infantry battalions of the Four Army Regiment reduced more than 500 people.

The Japanese army's war losses cannot be counted because both sides invested a large number of artillery bombing, and many of the corpses were fragmented, but it is estimated that nearly 3,000 war losses are necessary.

In fact, the Four Army Regiments were still conservative. According to the war reports of the Japanese army after the war, only Okabe Saburo cruelly issued a decisive attack order. On the first day when the infantry and artillery were launched with less than 100 meters of infantry artillery, the First Division and the Third Division died in battle and were seriously injured 1,700 people. Almost all the infantry regiments were fought.

That is, the First Division has sufficient troops, with the entire division reaching 30,000 troops, otherwise the day's combat losses alone would make an infantry brigade lose its combat effectiveness.

But even with extremely sufficient troops, on the fifth day of the war on Zishan, the First Division replenished baggage troops to the four infantry corpses on the front line, with 4,000 engineers, which also means that even if the losses of the 3rd Division were not calculated, the first five days before the war started, not counting artillery and other troop losses due to artillery battles, the First Division lost more than thousands of people, including the front-line infantry alone.

Almost an average of one infantry troop disappeared in one day.

It is said that when Yoshio Shinozuka watched the First Division battle report after the battle, his forehead was covered with cold sweat in just over a dozen degrees.

Compared with the tragic battle of Zishan, the losses of his 10th Division in Zhaojiazhuang are simply not worth mentioning.

But no one would have thought that in the future, experts in Sino-Japanese war history discussed the Battle of Zishan. The first one mentioned was not the three main battlefields of the Japanese main attack, nor was it the jungle hunting battle where both sides committed elite soldiers to kill each other and chase each other in the mountains and forests.

Instead, it is located in the Golden Dragon Peak Highland, which is nearly 10 miles away from the main battlefield.

It was not because there was the brother-in-law of Tang Dao, the highest commander of the Zishan battlefield, but because an infantry squad that could not stand against the main force actually fought a bloody battle with a Japanese infantry brigade.

The comparison of troops is exaggerated to the point of being 1 to 70!

That was just the number of Japanese troops facing the enemy head-on in order to prevent China's rescue, Miyanuchi Yoshio, who had completely fallen into madness, also requested to use 4 105 howitzers and 8 150 howitzers to block the area uninterrupted artillery fire.

That's not all. Kaoru Kaoru, who was scolded by Duotianjun on the phone, also took the initiative and sent 12 fighter jets to drop nearly 100 incendiary bombs at the area at high altitude, burning the forest with a radius of nearly 0.5 kilometers to a charred black.

The purpose of these artillery fire and bombing is no longer to kill Chinese soldiers on the high ground, but simply to prevent Chinese reinforcements.

In other words, it is the Chinese troops that are trapped in the Jinlong Peak that are surrounded by numerous encirclements to kill and reinforce.

Purely tactical, this may be the only highlight of the First Division's combat in the northwest direction of Zishan.

Because, they did hit the weak point of the 3rd Battalion of the Four-Ring Regiment with a left hook.

With the Four Lines Group, they will never abandon any comrades-in-arms. Even if they know that it has become hell, they will rush into hell!

Even if the comrades have turned into ashes, they will hold back the ashes with their hands!

Li Jiujin, who had never even scratched the oily skin in his 12 years in the army, was seriously injured!

Li Jiujin, who was eager to increase his troops in Jinlongfeng, personally led two main infantry squads and a reserve squad, a total of 40 people advanced in the mountains and fields under the Japanese artillery fire.

A 150 howitzer unfortunately landed less than 70 meters on the side of Li Jiujin who was advancing.

No matter how strong the body and indestructible courage are, they are very fragile in the face of heavy artillery that can collapse solid fortifications.

Six officers and soldiers died on the spot, and 13 were injured, including company commander Li Jiujin. Looking at the Jinlong Peak Highland less than 800 meters, the reinforcements could only carry the remains of serious wounded and comrades.

Otherwise, all the wounded people who remained on this battlefield would die, and all the remains would be torn to pieces by continuous artillery fire.

Leng Feng, who had always been calm and almost cold, received the news that Li Jiujin was seriously injured, and his eyes were instantly stained with a layer of blood mist.

Anyone who knows him knows that Leng Feng is already extremely angry!

"Another support, tell the 7th Company and the 8th Company that all our officers and soldiers who climb to the heights of Jinlong Peak will be remembered for second-class military achievements!" Leng Feng issued a tragic military order.

Another six infantry squads were drawn from the front-line battlefield to form new reinforcements, ready to rush into the battlefield of death that was already filled with incendiary bombs and artillery fire.

"Suspend reinforcements and wait until the artillery battalion suppresses the Japanese artillery enough before reinforcements are carried out!" Tang Dao's military order came in time, preventing Leng Feng from being irrationally irrationally in his anger.

If Tang Dao did not order it in time, perhaps these 100 elite soldiers could pass through the heavy artillery fire and enter the Jinlong Peak Highland, but based on the intensity of Japanese artillery fire that was also in a crazy way at that time, the best result for one of ten was to save one.

The 3rd Battalion will suffer greater losses due to the Battle of the Golden Dragon Peak Highlands and the main battlefield.

"But if the regiment commander does not support, let alone can't tell the company commander Dan Tai. Director Dan Tai, I have no shame to see the families of the 15 brothers of the 13th squad. As long as I enter my 3rd battalion, I will be my Leng Feng's soldiers. I can't give up on them because of the loss, not just because Ming Jing is there." Leng Feng's extremely rare eyes were in tears.

That should be the extremely rare tears of Battalion Commander Leng since Leng Feng's brother died in his arms.

On the other end of the phone, Tang Dao, who had always been killing and decisive, was rarely silent for a few seconds, but he still said firmly: "Execute the order! I will explain the family members of the sacrificed officers and soldiers and their parents. The officers and soldiers of my Four-League regiment can sacrifice, but the sacrifice must be valuable enough!"

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! The reinforcements of the 3rd Battalion were all staying in the mountains and forests 4 miles away from Jinlong Peak. Looking at the high ground in its own side that was flooded by artillery fire, there was nothing we could do.

No one knew what Tang Dao, who issued this extremely cruel military order, felt at that time. Perhaps only Ye Chenghuan, who was also in the command post, could know that Tang Tuanzhao, who rarely revealed his personal emotions during the war, hung up the phone call between Leng Feng and Leng Feng, sat on the chair for ten minutes.

On the one hand, there are 15 officers and soldiers on our side and his wife's brother-in-law, and on the other hand, there are more than a hundred elite soldiers who are ready to die. This is indeed an undecisive choice.

Especially, the wife and father-in-law were in the army. If they knew that this military order that almost gave up rescue came from the mouth of Tang Dao, what would they feel?

Dan Tai Mingjing, but the only son of old Dan Tai, how could Mrs. Dan Tai be heartbroken, who is far away in Shu?

"Regiment, should I order a mountain infantry company to enter from the other side of the battlefield? Even if I cannot reinforce the Jinlong Peak Highland, I can still involve some of the Japanese troops to relieve the pressure on the Jinlong Peak Highland?" Ye Chenghuan stared at the map for a while and carefully gave suggestions.

"The terrain is dangerous. Even if the mountain infantry company abandons all heavy weapons and light equipment, it will take three hours to detour 13 miles, and there is also a risk of being surrounded by the Japanese army that will continue to increase its troops." Tang Dao waved his hand and rejected Ye Chenghuan's proposal.

Obviously, Tang Dao had already imagined this move and was overthrown by him.

"Are we helpless and just watched Mingjing and 7th Company 13 squad were swallowed by the Japanese? This is my fault. When we received the tactical planning of the Third Battalion, considering the pressure on the main position, we did not ask them to send an additional main infantry squad to the Jinlong Peak Highland, otherwise they would have to hold on until our reinforcements arrived." Ye Chenghuan was full of regret and blamed himself.

"Director Ye, do you believe there will be miracles in this world?" Tang Dao suddenly raised his head and looked at Ye Chenghuan who was blaming himself.

"What?" Ye Chenghuan obviously didn't understand the meaning of Tang Dao.
To be continued...