"Platform leader, do you think we can still go back to Taihang Mountain alive? In another month, the fruits on the mountain will be ripe. I haven't eaten mountain grapes for a long time. When I was a child, I lost my parents. My favorite thing is autumn. I can fill my stomach without hunting."

In Hengyang City, in an underground tunnel where more than half of the building had collapsed, Adong lay in Boss Cao's arms and murmured softly.

Luo Dahu, who was standing beside him, looked at his once extremely strong young squad leader with a worried look on his face, and said nothing.

Luo Dahu is no longer a new recruit. This middle-aged man who traveled half of China from north to south did not expect that he would become a veteran after only 60 days of joining the army.

Because, during these 60 days, he fought almost every day, from a farmer who could do nothing except strength to a veteran who could operate with pistols, rifles, submachine guns, machine guns, and even mortars.

He had to use these weapons because he could use them all but dies, and if he couldn't use them, he would die faster.

Of course, for Luo Dahu, the main reason why he believed that he could survive was not how fast he grew up on the battlefield, but more of luck.

Because the Class 4 where he is in is much more powerful than him.

For example, the Sergeant Precision Shooter nicknamed Hawkeye, who has been in the army for three years, has shot and killed the Japanese army at naked eyes 380 meters away. His gun handle has four regular characters engraved, which means that this Precision Shooter has shot and killed 20 Japanese soldiers with a certain record. The Japanese army's round of charges did not count.

According to such an algorithm, Hawkeye killed at least 50 Japanese soldiers, but even such a terrifying sharpshooter was dead.

He died in Huangchaling. 50 days ago, when the Japanese army organized nearly 3,000 people to conduct on-board charges on Huangchaling, he hid in a crater and shot several Japanese soldiers in succession and was discovered by the grenade launcher behind the Japanese army. At least six grenade launchers were organized to cover the craters that he was hiding.

The Japanese are crazy! They used at least 30 grenades to an infantry fire point.

He and his rifle were smashed by grenades, but it was the corpse that Luo Dahu collected for him. Because the remains were broken into several pieces and there were no bags on the position, he had to wrap him with his military uniforms and carry them to the tunnel behind him.

At that time, because the Japanese army sent another heavy artillery brigade, they kept blocking artillery fire day and night at the rear of the southern position, many stretcher teams and wounded soldiers who came to support disappeared into the terrible artillery fire.

In order to reduce losses, the command center had to order that except for the wounded, all the bodies of all the sacrificed officers and soldiers must be buried on the spot.

In order to prevent the brothers from even dying and being destroyed by Japanese artillery fire, battalion commander Li Jiujin ordered all the bodies to be placed deep in the tunnel. When they were to evacuate the position, they would blow the tunnel down and buried the remains of the sacrificed brothers deep underground.

After 10 days of battle, there were no less than 300 remains in the tunnel that was originally used for the hidden soldiers.

In fact, it is still rare. It is said that in Zhangjiashan, the Preparatory 10th Division's position in the tiger-shaped nest area, the sound of excavation sounds every night. It is not digging trenches, but digging a pit to bury people.

At least 2,600 people were killed in the 10th Division. It is said that because there were too many casualties, many of the wounded soldiers who killed red-eyed were refused to be sent back to the city and continued to stay on the front line.

The sergeant who once threatened Director Dan Tai with a gun in a field hospital, both legs were blown away, but he still refused to leave, and finally broke the front line. When the Japanese infantry crossed half of the "remaining corpse" and searched forward, a soft "silk" suddenly sounded under the half of the "remaining corpse".

That was the sound of the three grenade leads burning, and it was also the last weapon his comrade left for him before leaving.

He left the three grenades to himself and three Japanese infantrymen.

There is also Daxiong, who is good at bayonet fighting. He is a big man from southern Hebei. He is a fellow villager like Luo Dahu. He is tall and strong. He can pick up a 12.7mm heavy machine gun with one hand. He holds a Type 38 rifle he picked up, just as easy as carrying a bean sprout.

During the first time when he was fighting with the Japanese army who rushed to the position, Luo Dahu saw with his own eyes that he had the strength to assassinate five Japanese soldiers with a Type 38 rifle. Even after he had no time to draw out his gun, he rolled on the ground with a Japanese army for several times, he strangled the strong Japanese army to death.

But even such a powerful veteran was dead!

The Japanese heavy artillery suddenly ignored the soldiers who were more than 200 meters outside the position and fired on the position. Big Bear was shooting at the front line at that time. The first round of 15 shells happened to hit the trench area where he was located.

Although his body, which was nearly 190 kilograms, was hidden in the trenches, a heavy artillery shell that exploded less than 20 meters away, easily rolled up his strong body and threw it out of the trenches.

When collecting his body, there was no damage on his body miraculously, but his chest was soft. Luo Dahu, who had enough experience in the battlefield, knew that the shock wave caused by the explosion of the shell had broken all his sternum, and the heart and internal organs inside were even smashed by huge force.

The death of two veterans with strong combat power is not the end, but just the beginning.

Although I have been mentally prepared, the cruelty of the battlefield is still beyond everyone's imagination.

The 3rd Battalion fought with the Japanese in Huangchaling for 28 days! Even though the main positions such as Zhangjiashan in the diagonal rear were successively occupied by the Japanese army, the 3rd Battalion still persisted for another 10 days.

During this period, Class 4 changed from 20 people in full mail to 18 people, then 15 people, and finally 9 people.

Luo Dahu didn't know how many rounds of attacks he had repelled from the Japanese army. In the end, he was too lazy to look at the time. He couldn't even remember how many days he had been in Huangchaling.

Because the death that keeps coming has long become the main theme of this battlefield. Whether on or outside the position, corpses and human tissues are scattered everywhere, and life and breathing have become rare things.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Luo Dahuma is so mad. He even hopes to die sooner, but the veteran continues to sacrifice, but he miraculously survived on such a battlefield like hell.

He shot the Japanese army with a rifle, shot the Japanese with a pistol left by Hawkeye, and stabbed the Japanese invaders' chest with a triangular sting.

It was a Japanese and a young man. However, at the age of seventeen or eighteen, Luo Dahu still clearly remembered that when the Japanese army stepped on the body of his companion, he was stabbed into the chest by his three-edged army, he was surprised, unwilling and relieved.

Or, for the young devil, there was no idea of ​​continuing to survive in such a bloody battlefield!

Death is a relief for the officers and soldiers of both China and Japan who have fought bloody battles for nearly one month!

Of course, Luo Dahu didn't know how many Japanese troops were killed in the Battle of Huangchaling. This number was not even announced until after the war. Until after the Battle of Ice Field, the infantry brigade established on the basis of the 3rd Battalion of the Four Army Regiment fought in Changjin Lake, and the statistics of Huangchaling in Hengyang were dug out by the Americans.

From July 9 to August 6, the remnants of the 3rd Battalion broke through the blockade and returned to Hengyang City. The 3rd Battalion of the Four Army Regiment on Huangchaling first destroyed the 27th Division, and then destroyed the 3rd Division, killing 9,368 Japanese troops, 497 missing, and injuring 13,000.

It is said that after seeing this data, the American commander was stunned for a long time, he scolded the intelligence officer. If he had known that the infantry brigade had such a brilliant record on the battlefield against Japan, he would not have fought against it with the first cavalry division, at least he would have to add the Second Infantry Division or the Seventh Infantry Division of the Army.

You should know that according to the battle report of the 11th Army, in Huangchaling, the 11th Army invested 24 150mm howitzers in a heavy artillery brigade, 62 75mm mountain field artillery in two artillery corps, and 31 Type 97 tanks in most of the combat vehicles, and the infantry had more than 24 infantry brigades attacked in turn.

If one division is exhausted, then another division will be replaced, and the total number of support on the mountains is no more than 1,800 Chinese infantry.

The 11th Army’s battle report records that they almost wiped out the stubborn Chinese defenders on Huangchaling. Only a small number of Chinese broke through the blockade line with the support of artillery fire. However, only Luo Dahu and the officers and soldiers of the 3rd battalion who withdrew to Hengyang City knew that. In addition to Tu Yunsheng’s Independent Company, there were 597 people who withdrew to Hengyang City.

After continuous battles, the 3rd Battalion has been completely destroyed. Except for a small number of 60 forced to be brought back, all howitzers and 81mm mortars, 150mm heavy, 20mm machine guns, 12.7mm heavy machine guns, and all heavy equipment over 40 kilograms were blown up and destroyed before evacuating Huangchaling.

When the 3rd Battalion entered Hengyang City for the final street battle, it had become a standard light infantry battalion.

After entering Hengyang City, Li Jiujin, the 3rd Battalion Commander, saw the regiment commander Tang Dao who came to greet him in person, just finished the military salute, he hugged the Tang regiment standing upright and cried loudly.

The middle-aged man, who was nearly 40, did not frown during the 28-day bloody battle; he did not hesitate when he personally ordered the blow-up of the weapons and equipment that he could not take away; he ignited the fuse and blew up the tunnel, buried 800 comrades without a single tear...

But the moment I saw Tang Dao, I cried like a child.

"Captain, my 3rd battalion is gone! My brothers in my 3rd battalion are almost dead! My heart hurts so much! I can't stand it anymore." Li Jiujin knelt on the ground and cried loudly. Even the strongest soldier couldn't bear to see it anymore.

"Blame me, blame me, Brother Li, it's all my fault that the 10th Division did not defend the position. The 10th Division is sorry for you, let you fight alone." Commander Ge Youcai, who came to pick up Li Jiujin and the 3rd Battalion, hugged the major battalion commander who was crying, and also burst into tears.

But can Li Jiujin and the 3rd Battalion blame the 10th Division?

No wonder.

The 10th Division has put all its efforts into pre-10th Division.

Their 3rd Battalion was attacked in turn by two Japanese divisions, while the 10th Division was attacked in turn by four Japanese divisions.

In 18 days, the Japanese army successively transferred three divisions from around Hengyang City to participate in the besiege of Hengyang, resulting in as many as 7 Japanese divisions attacking Hengyang City.

On the outskirts of Hengyang City, only 4 divisions and 5 independent mixed brigades were left with less than 70,000 people. In order to prevent the main force of the Chinese army from rescuing Hengyang City, the China Expeditionary Force Command urgently seconded two infantry divisions from the Kwantung Military Office to Tanzhou by train.

In the past half month, China has more than 300,000 troops outside Hengyang, and has sufficient air supremacy, and is fully capable of fighting an encirclement and annihilation battle with huge disparity in troops.

But what are they doing? Only four infantry divisions of the 27th Army launched an attack on the Japanese army under the leadership of Li Yutang, and three infantry divisions of the 62nd Army, led by his commander Huang Tao, rushed into Hengyang alone.

However, after breaking the Japanese army's three blockade lines in a row, the Chinese army had already tried its best.

The 151st Division of the 62nd Army arrived at Yumu Mountain in the southwest suburb of Hengyang, only 7 kilometers away from Hengyang City. The sound of gunfire fighting with the Japanese army can be heard throughout Hengyang.

But it was just there. Hengshanyong, who had arrived at the Hengyang front line and personally supervised the battle, personally ordered the suspension of the attack on Hengyang and attacked the Chinese army with the power of three divisions to aid.

In just one day, two regiment commanders and more than 2,000 soldiers were killed in the 151st Division, and the entire division had to retreat to prevent being surrounded by the Japanese army.

That was also the closest time for Hengyang City to reinforcements. When the two Kwantung Army divisions arrived, the Japanese troops outside Hengyang had reached 140,000 again, and China completely lost the opportunity to rescue Hengyang City.

The 300,000 army could only watch the hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops attacking around Hengyang City, breaking through all the defense lines outside Hengyang City, breaking through the last line of defense in Hengyang City, the city wall, and breaking into the city.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Most of the people who care about this war, including Western journalists and American soldiers, think that the city defense battle called "Oriental Moscow" is coming to an end.

No one would believe that the less than 8,000 Chinese defenders in the city could withstand the attack of more than 100,000 Japanese troops.

Because the telegram sent by the Supreme Commander of the Hengyang Defense Army to the Military Commission at that time was as follows: "The enemy has broken through all positions outside our city, and the 10th Division has 7,000 troops, and there are only 2,000 troops, which is less than a daily regiment; the 3rd Division has more than 8,000 troops before the battle, and there are still 3,000 troops left; the 190th Division has only 800 troops left, and the Hengyang Guard Regiment has suffered all casualties in the counterattack of Zhangjiashan, with less than 200 wounded soldiers; the Four Army Regiment has fought hard, and the entire army is less than 3,000; there are still 8,000 troops in the whole city of Hengyang, and I don't know when to wait for reinforcements.

However, my Hengyang army is determined to serve the country with death and to repay the most of our education. See you again in the next life! Fang, Zhao, Sun, Tang, Zhou, Rong, Ge Tongkou!"

Perhaps at this time, only the Westerners who were confident in the Battle of Hengyang were the only one who was confident in the Chinese theater chief of staff.

He said to Miss Laura, general manager of the Far East Company of Rockefeller,: "Although the outskirts of Hengyang are lost, there is still Hengyang City with an area of ​​2.8 square kilometers. Street fighting has always been the most dangerous military battle. Commander Fang and Commander Tang are the strongest commanders. They are all under their command. I think the Japanese cannot conquer this city, even if they are willing to bear more than 100,000 casualties for it!"

In the eyes of many people, it was just a word to comfort Miss Laura, and there was no possibility at all.

But General Stilwell said: "Before the war, the Japanese army's training skills and combat effectiveness were rarely matched in the world. When using troops to form a formation, from generals and officials to the gentry, they all fought according to tactical combat principles, without any confusion, so that the opponents could not easily have any gaps to take advantage of.

Although there are few outstanding strategists among the senior Japanese generals, in basic principles, there are few major mistakes, which are already an extremely rare quality in war.

At that time, the combat capability of a Japanese soldier was about seven or eight Chinese soldiers. If the Chinese soldiers were slightly stronger, the Chinese soldiers might have a little advantage in their "non-fear of death" but Japanese soldiers were also above 95% of the world's army in this regard.

Even if it is placed on a global scale, it is difficult to find an opponent's army on a tactical level.

I think China will never win this war, even if their opponents are invaders and are unjust, because the difference in strength is too great."

Stilwell's evaluation is no longer high, but praises it.

But if you think about it carefully, this seems to be the fact.

"However, after the July 7 Incident in 1937, as a military officer of the Embassy in China, I once passed by a mountain and saw a scene, and I changed my view.

Looking from afar, I found a long thing on the top of the mountain in the distance moving slowly like a centipede. When I walked closer, I saw that it was a truck that was damaged after being bombed by Japanese fighter jets. As a result, a Chinese soldier from an infantry regiment actually pushed the truck from both sides with pure manpower, and advanced slowly like a snail!" Admiral Stilwell continued.

"I watched silently for a long time until the truck weighing thousands of tons gradually disappeared in front of my eyes. I said to myself in my heart: This spirit of the Chinese will surely allow them to go through the most difficult moments of the war and eventually conquer Japan!"

"And now, isn't that true? Seven years have passed, Japan has not conquered this country, and they have become increasingly weak.

Just like now, they still cannot conquer an ancient small city with more than 6 times their troops.

I personally believe that not only will they not be able to conquer this small city defended by the most elite Chinese soldiers, but this battle will also become a turning point in history. Since this war, the Japanese Army will no longer have any large-scale offensives on the Chinese battlefield, and will basically become defense until the end of the war."

Admiral Stilwell said loudly to Laura, who was full of sadness in his office.

And his words were also recorded in famous quotes of World War II.
To be continued...