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On September 31st, there was light rain and the weather was getting cooler, but the Jiao'ao front was still silent.* But this silence was more like the calm before the storm.

Suddenly, a burst of artillery fire lit up in the darkness in the distance. When the roar came, the artillery shells roared towards Mount Tieqi. In the past few days, Mount Tieqi has been the center of the storm. In order to lay down this

Looking down at the hundreds of square kilometers of highland strongholds in front, it can be said that the Japanese army has spent a lot of money. The Japanese 18th Division used human sea tactics and violent attacks in wave formation many times. Although the 6th Battalion was tightly guarded here every time they attacked.

They were defeated, but the Japanese army had already fought from the foot of the mountain to the mountainside.

In the distance and nearby, the flames of rifle machine guns were flashing in the night, the machine guns were roaring with joy, and tracer bullets were flying through the air with red and green tracer trajectories.

At this moment, several white light groups suddenly appeared in the sky. The slowly falling flares in the sky tore through the night, emitting dazzling light and illuminating everything in the world. Under the illumination of the flares, the hills,

The parapets of the Japanese trenches, the woods, and the figures of the Japanese troops in action were all illuminated. In the next moment, intensive machine gunfire rang out, and red tracer bullets dragged dazzling trajectories toward the exposed Japanese troops.

Takada didn't care about everything above his head. At this time, he was wearing only a Japanese-style loincloth. He was sweating like rain, and like the fellow villagers around him, he was constantly digging tunnels with a steel pick.

Tunnel operations, this is the bloody experience gained by the Japanese army using human bombs in Lushun ten years ago. Ten years ago, the Japanese 3rd Army Group that attacked Lushun was ordered to seize fortresses one by one at any cost.

After Gentaro came to take command in person, each division began to carry out tunnel operations, cut through rocks, and blasted the fortress parapets. But this time, almost as soon as the troops arrived at the foot of the cavalry mountain, the Japanese army made the decision to tunnel operations and blast fortifications, which was completely different from the previous one.

This decision was made only after launching countless "meat bomb" attacks.

However, while carrying out tunnel blasting operations toward the front, they also continued to launch "meat bomb" attacks to deceive others. In the past three days, Takada's engineering brigade had dug a tunnel nearly 100 meters deep.

"Quick, top beam"

Every time a meter is excavated, several thick wooden boards, steel beams, pillars, and steel nails are always sent to the rear. During the Battle of Lushun, the Russian army used anti-tunnel operations to bury Japanese troops alive in the tunnels.

After learning the lessons inside, the Japanese army always reinforced the tunnels when carrying out tunnel operations to prevent bombs from falling or explosions from destroying the tunnels.

That's almost it

After measuring the length of the tunnel with a tape measure, Hashimoto Ryuichi took the telescope and looked towards the Chinese Army's defensive position in the distance.

"Sir, if you carry out explosive operations from here, you can completely destroy the China Army's barbed wire fence and mines, and the assault troops can directly reach the front line of the China Army."

"Xingxi, let's do it"

A few minutes later, Takada, who was carrying a box of explosives on his waist, and his comrades beside him continued to carry the explosives into the tunnel. The 116-meter-deep tunnel was equipped with 2.3 tons of explosives, enough to completely tear apart the tunnel.

Breaking the Chinese army's defense line, and imagining the moment when the sun flag was raised on Mount Tieqi, Takada felt a surge of blood rush into his heart.

It was a sleepless night. The Japanese soldiers in the trenches at the foot of the mountain gathered in front of the shrine. After the monks accompanying the army performed rituals, nearly two thousand Japanese soldiers from the 36th Regiment tightly wrapped the white cloth strips.

The soldiers put the ground around their foreheads, and then the soldiers quietly stacked their backpacks. Those who had clean underwear were replaced with clean ones - they must die cleanly.

Under the pale light of a crescent moon obscured by dark clouds, they stood behind the trench. With a clanging sound of metal, bayonets were raised on the tips of guns, and the troops prepared to attack.

The general attack began at 1 am.

After attaching a bayonet to his rifle, Onojiro felt someone grabbing his hand. When he turned around, he saw that it was Private Kobayashi. After setting off from Nagasaki, the two of them became friends on the ship. Kobayashi was a city man and had already

He was engaged, and originally planned to get married two days ago, but an unexpected recruitment letter took him to Qingdao, so he had no time to say goodbye to his fiancée.

"I could die fighting tonight,"

Xiao Lin said while looking at the crescent moon that was completely blocked by dark clouds.

"I used to think about getting married, but now I don't have this dream. This is my address. After I die, will you write to my... mother?"

Ono held his hand tightly and nodded vigorously.

"Don't worry, Mr. Xiaolin, if I am beaten to death, please ask Xiaolin to write a letter to my wife."

Because it was a night assault, all the officers hung white cloth strips on each other's backs so that the soldiers could keep up with them in the dark. At this time, the officers held their command knives tightly and waited for the order of the general attack.

initiation.

Sato Shinichi, who was holding the command sword, felt that his palms were sweating. At this time, the "feint attack" of the 48th Regiment had already ended. In these days, nearly a thousand people had been killed and injured just for this moment. As long as the cavalry was captured

The mountain can knock out the eyes of the Chinese Army, and the light railway can send heavy artillery to the front line of the Chinese Army, quickly tear apart the Chinese Army's river defense line, and attack Qingdao.

Six days, the end of the Battle of Qingdao in six days has long become a joke, and the most important thing now is to break into Qingdao, no matter what, we must break into

"Da, da..."

Looking at the pocket watch in his hand, Hashimoto Ryuichi held his breath nervously. Even though he was sleeping, he still thought he could hear the sound of the second hand of the pocket watch moving.

Shao Jianbo, who was checking the situation of his subordinates along the trench, saw the sentry attentively observing the movements of the Japanese troops with a small mirror and a periscope made of wooden boards of ammunition boxes.

"Wow..."

I don’t know whether the cans on the barbed wire were blown by the wind or bumped by Japanese soldiers. The sentry quickly took out a 30mm hand-held flare from his hand, unscrewed the back cover, exposed the pull ring and the match rope, and then held it tightly

Point the signal tube in the direction of the sound and pull the match cord to ignite the rocket.

"Tum..."

The barbed wire fence where the sound had previously been made was illuminated. In the past few days, this red-light hand-held flare had made many surprise attacks. Although it could only provide illumination for a few seconds, it was enough to make suspicious movements.

"No movement?"

Shao Jianbo also looked there. Although there was no movement in that direction, he felt a little uneasy in his heart, but he had no reason for such emotion.

"Attention police..."

Before he finished speaking, the ground beneath his feet seemed to bulge for an instant, followed by a violent explosion. The next moment, black smoke rushed into the sky and the ground shook. Barbed wire fences and minefields dozens of meters away were violently destroyed.

It was thrown into the sky fiercely, and amid the tremors of the ground, the entire Tiejia Mountain was almost completely shrouded in choking gunpowder smoke and dust.

"Give Tusi..."

At the moment when the explosion ended, when the smoke rose into the sky, crazy shouts rang out throughout the trenches. First, the officers wearing white scarves jumped out of the trenches, their sabers pointed straight ahead in their hands, and then there was a burst of

The Japanese soldiers shouting "Ban Zai" from the formation mouth jumped out of the trench with bayonets pointed out. Their movements did not stop at all. Even before the gravel in the air fell, they rushed towards the smoke-filled front.

Although the officers pointed the way forward for the soldiers with their unsheathed command swords, and although the night and smoke obscured their sight, in fact, they did not need their eyes to see the road at all. Their feet could tell which direction they should go.

The land that has been blasted is soft.

"Buzz..."

Like his comrades around him, Chen Haitao was also shaken to the ground during the tremors. When he came to his senses, the stinging pain in his mind and the ringing in his ears made him unable to even stand upright.

Everything became silent. Through the light of the knocked down kerosene lamp, he saw blood gushing from the ears of his comrades.

What's going on?

Just when he didn't know what was going on, a clay figure-like figure rushed towards the entrance of the shelter. His body was covered in dust and dirt, so much so that he couldn't even see his appearance clearly. He seemed to be shouting with his mouth open.

"The Japs are coming"

The soldiers who rushed into the shelter shouted loudly. Apparently everyone was deafened and no one could hear his shouts. At this time, a staff sergeant struggled to stand up from the ground. His steps seemed a little unsteady.

, but when he grabbed his gun and rushed outside the fort, other soldiers also rushed past.

When Chen Haitao rushed to the shelter, he almost didn't dare to see that the ruins in his sight were the previous positions. The trenches were completely razed to the ground, and there were stumps and broken arms everywhere.

"...go to the right, the second row to the left, the third row to hold on to the stronghold..."

It was only then that some sounds reached his ears. Beside Chen Haitao, dozens of soldiers were running, grabbing weapons, and rushing towards the designated position.

"Ban Zai, Ban Zai..."

The shouts of the Japanese came from all directions, and from behind, several dazzling light beams were shining towards the Japanese soldiers. They were searchlights from the rear, but through the thick smoke and dust, it was impossible to see their exact position.

.

"Grenade"

Following an order, dozens of grenades were thrown towards the voice of the Japanese army.

It is difficult to distinguish the enemy's position in the dark. At this time, the battle line is not only in the dark, but the previous explosion has further blocked the line of sight. At this time, for most soldiers whose vision is affected and their hearing is also damaged, they only have to

A capable man fights on his own, and a sergeant or ordinary soldier can only fight in the dark and rely on instinct.

Shouts of "Banzai!" resounded across the entire line. Led by a black figure with a mysterious white cross hanging on his body, nearly two thousand Japanese soldiers surrounded the Ninth Company's position. Chen Haitao raised his submachine gun and aimed at

When the trigger was pulled from the direction where the shouts came from, a series of dull explosions sounded in the darkness.

Among them were Japanese artillery fire and mortar counterattacks. The air waves from the explosion of the artillery shells lifted everyone off the ground. Mud and broken branches fell on the soldiers on both sides. At this time, whether it was the Japanese artillery,

Or maybe the 6th Battalion's mortars were actually conducting blind shelling.

During the tremor, Jiang Zhiqing was so dizzy that he stood up almost staggeringly.

"That's that, that's that"

"The report is from the Ninth Company. The Japanese army used tunnel explosions to blow up their trenches..."

"The Tenth Company immediately reinforces the Ninth Company and orders the Ninth Company to hold off the enemy until reinforcements arrive..."

After issuing several orders in succession, he still seemed uneasy and took off the submachine gun from the wall.

"Batalion Headquarters Platoon, follow me immediately to reinforce the Ninth Company."

At this time, on the ninth company's position, the soldiers fighting on their own relied entirely on instinct. When the Japanese army rushed to their position, they started hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army in the smoke of gunpowder. One after another, the soldiers pointed their rifles at them.

He rushed towards the nearest Japanese soldier.

"kill……"

Chen Haitao, who was emptying his submachine gun of bullets and engaging in hand-to-hand combat with the same Japanese soldier, shouted loudly. While he was shouting, a soldier holding a light machine gun held a light machine gun and fired recklessly at the surroundings.
To be continued...