The Japanese infantry brigade that landed did not delay too much after occupying Xingzi County. Then he followed the Danshi Road leading to Mahuiling to the east. The valley between the Gulings in the west rushed over. However, this time, they were severely injured at the Gulings' Pass, and finally more than 200 corpses were evacuated in a hurry.

The first to land on the tidal flat on the west side of Xingzi County was the 1st Battalion of the 101th Battalion of the Japanese Infantry Regiment. When the captain of the 101th Battalion of the 101th Battalion stepped onto the shore of the lake, the 1st Battalion's first attack on Dongguling had just failed, and more than 300 casualties were killed or killed. Even more than 200 bodies of the dead officers and soldiers were not stolen.

Iizuka Kunogoro was born in a peasant family in Tokuoka Prefecture. He went to high school but basically didn't learn much culture. He went to Lushi but never entered Lushi University. He was a member of the Wutian Group who was ridiculed by his colleagues. The so-called Wutian Group specifically refers to officers who did not go to Lushi University. Because students who graduated from Lushi University will issue a "Chrysanthemum and Star" graduation badge. Because the shape is similar to the coins issued by the Tenbo year in the Edo period, it is nicknamed Tianbo money. Officers who graduated from Lushi University are also called Tianbo money.

The Tianbao Qian Group has a huge promotion advantage compared to the Wutian Group. In addition, there is the Sabre Group, which is even more of a pride of heaven.

Just because he had never attended the Army University, Iizuka Kiyogoro, an old devil who was over fifty years old, was still a colonel. Many of his classmates Lu Shi's classmates at the same time have been promoted to generals and become brigade commanders or even division commanders. However, Iizuka Kiyogororo is definitely not an Yi Yu character. Not only does he look vicious, he is particularly fierce in wars, but he is also cunning.

Iizuka Kiyogoro climbed up a mountain near the county town to observe the terrain, and found that the valley guarded by the National Army in front was like a tiger's mouth. On both sides of the valley, the lonely ridge in the west was like two fangs. In addition, there was a stone mountain hanging by the lake in front of the tiger's mouth. By deciding on the map, we learned that the stone mountain was named Niu Shitun.

The main reason why the 1st infantry brigade failed just now was that the terrain of the East and West Guling was unfavorable, and the fierce firepower of the National Army was the one that was the one that was fierce, but the side fire from Niu Shitun also caused great damage to the Japanese army. If the Iizuka Regiment wanted to open the passage from Xingzi County to Mahuiling and realize the intention of the Okamura Commander, it must first pull out these three fangs.

Iizuka Kiyogoro took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, and found that the hour hand was already pointing at 10 a.m.

The military situation was like fire, and the Matsuura Division's attack on the front line of Lushan northwest was in trouble. In order to break the deadlock as soon as possible to win the victory, the commander of Okamura ordered the 10th Pei Regiment to capture Ma Huiling within two days, and the division commander Ito Masaki only gave Iituka Kungoro one day to hit the tunnel before dark.

Time is limited, Iizuka Kunogoro dared not hesitate anymore, and immediately called the communications soldier to the front and ordered: "Order, the artillery squadron immediately prepares for artillery fire on Niu Shitun, and then calls for artillery fire support from the navy and aviation corps. The infantry brigade immediately enters the attack position and launches an attack on Niu Shitun when the artillery is over."

"Hayi." The communication soldier bowed his head and turned around.

After Iizuka Kiyogoro gave the order, he was about to sit down and smoke a cigarette, but the second lieutenant suddenly rushed up the mountain to report to him: "Captain of the regiment, Xiao Wusang is following again."

"Haga." Iizuka Kungoro said angrily, "Don't I let you leave him at the command center?"

The little misunderstanding man was a war correspondent who accompanied the army. In the first battle, this guy accidentally learned from his British colleagues that Li Yunheng was about to hold the graduation ceremony of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University on U.S. day, and promptly reported this information to Shigeichi Hatano. As a result, he made great contributions and was granted the right to move freely in the army.

As a member of the Wuye Group, Iizuka Kiyoro always hates these media reporters because most of the time, these media reporters only know how to lick the butt of the Sabre Group or the Tenbao Qian Group. They always look down on officers who have never been to the Mainland University, so Iizuka Kiyoro always shirked the blame for the interviews asked by the little misunderstanding man.

Faced with the excuse of Kiyogoro Iizuka, the adjutant did not dare to argue, but just lowered his head and said nothing.

Iizuka Kiyogoro still wanted to scold the adjutant: When a few words were made by the adjutant, several officers with cameras on their chests had already climbed the rugged mountain road to the hillside. The little lieutenant walking in the front waved to Iizuka Kiyogoro. Iizuka Kiyogoro saw the gold medal worn by the little lieutenant on his chest at a glance. Needless to say, this guy must have been a little misconduct man. This gold medal was awarded to him by the base camp to commend him for his special merits in the Battle of Madang.

When Xu Shijiu went to the company's position at the foot of Niu Shidun Mountain, Zhang Youquan was smoking old cigarettes. The War of Resistance gradually deepened, and the national army's military supplies began to be in severe shortage, including cigarettes. Many officers and soldiers could not buy cigarettes, and when they got addicted to cigarettes, they could only tear their diary and rolled up cigarettes by themselves. Zhang Youquan became even more amazing and simply smoked old cigarettes.

Seeing Xu Shijiu coming with his men, Zhang Youquan quickly stood up and saluted.

When Xu Shijiu was about to raise his hand to return the gift, a short roar suddenly came to the air. Heixiao roared and the captain carefully threw Xu Shijiu to the ground. Then there was a bang, and then a large amount of hot mud and stones fell on his head, making Xu Shijiu bare his teeth.

Before the smoke from the explosion dissipated, Zhang Youquan rushed forward and helped Xu Shijiu up.

"Captain, are you okay?" Zhang Youquan nervously checked Xu Shijiu's whole body while asking, for fear that there would be some missing parts. Lu Erdan even reached out to Xu Shijiu's crotch. He had just learned the skills of injury testing from the veteran, and wanted to verify from Xu Shijiu to see if the captain had incontinence.

Xu Shijiu patted Lu Erdan's claws and said, "I'm fine, look at Lao Hei."

Before Zhang Youquan could see, Hei Xiazi sat up there and scratched his head and said, "Captain, I'm fine."

Duzi picked up two bomb fragments from the side and said, "Captain, you and Brother Heizi are really lucky. The Japanese shell only exploded two. If it exploded into dozens or hundreds of small fragments, you will have nine lives."

Xu Shijiu looked back and saw that the landing point of the shell just now was very close to him. Fortunately, only two large pieces of fragments were produced in the bullet body. If it were usually blown into countless small pieces, he and Heixiao might have been blown into sieves long ago. Especially Heixiao is definitely alive, not just burned by stones and mud.

However, Xu Shijiu no longer cared about being grateful for himself, because the shell just now was obviously just a test shot of Japan, so the next step was to be a large-scale cluster shelling. He shouted: "Everyone is hidden, all is hidden, and the little Japan is about to bombard me the Niu Shitun cluster shelling. Hurry, everyone is hiding..."

Before he could finish his speech, rows of shells were already coming from the air with a harsh roar. More than 100 officers and soldiers from the 19th Brigade Company scattered and hid in the anti-cannon caves built in advance. The body of the Niu Shitun Mountain was mainly stones and difficult to dig. Fortunately, there were many caves on the mountain, and a little repair would be an excellent bunker fortification.

Xu Shijiu also followed Zhang Youquan into a nearby natural cave. As soon as he entered the cave, the shells fired by the Japanese artillery were already falling down. As the earth shook, the entire position outside the cave entrance was soon filled with thick smoke. Judging from the momentum, I was afraid that even the Japanese gunboats on Poyang Lake would also join the shelling.

Zhang Youquan kowtowed the smoke pot on the stone wall, knocking out the old ashes from the pot, and turned around and said to Xu Shijiu: "Feeling this attitude, do you really plan to attack the cow shit dock?"

Xu Shijiu and Zhang Youquan and the others had analyzed that if the little Japanese attacked Guling, they would have to attack Niu Shi Dun first, because when the little Japanese attacked Guling, their backs would inevitably face Niu Shi Dun. As long as the 19th Brigade set up a few machine guns on the Niu Shi Dun, they could form cross-fire with the defending positions on the East-West Guling positions, leaving Japan without any escape.

It was precisely for this reason that Xu Shijiu volunteered to guard Niu Shitun.

After inspecting the terrain of Niu Shing Dun on the spot, Feng Shengfa found that although Niu Shing Dun was not as high as the east, Xiguling was high and steep, it was especially difficult to climb, especially when facing the front of Poyang Lake, the other three sides of Niu Shing Dun are in the east. Under the cover of the firepower of Xiguling machine guns, it can form a seamless cover with the main position of Dong and Xiguling. Therefore, he agreed to Xu Shijiu's request. If it is good steel, it should be used on the blade. If the 19th Brigade does not guard the Niu Shing Dun, who will let him guard?

Xu Shijiu did not take Zhang Youquan's words, but just looked at the smoke outside the cave entrance and did not speak. The little Japanese did not expect it to launch a fierce attack on Niu Shi Dun, but Xu Shijiu was not proud of it, because there would be a bloody battle in Niu Shi Dun next, and the 19th Brigade will also face the cruel test again.

The Iizuka Regiment's artillery bombardment lasted for half an hour. As soon as the shelling ended, an infantry squad of the Iizuka Regiment launched a long scattered line and launched a tentative attack from the northwest side to Nizuka Dun. In the infantry attack mode, the Japanese still had three-pronged axe, artillery bombarded, the infantry rushed, the artillery bombarded again, and the infantry rushed again, and then continued this cycle until the Japanese gave up the attack or the national army voluntarily gave up their positions.

Xu Shijiu followed Zhang Youquan out of the anti-aircraft artillery hole and got onto the first line of defense.

Seeing Xu Shijiu following, Zhang Youquan said, "Captain, are you here? I'm not very excited and can't fight. You'd better go back to the brigade headquarters as soon as possible."

"Just just fight your war, just be fine when I am not here." Xu Shijiu paused and said, "There is no one that needs to be brought closer and then fight. This time, we must not take the corpse back when the little Japanese retreat. At present, the troops urgently need medicines to treat malaria. We have to supplement the medicines from the corpse of the little Japanese."

"Captain, don't worry." Zhang Youquan pulled out the box cannon and opened the nose of the machine again, saying murderously, "Leave the medicines to me, no one in front of him will go back alive." After that, Zhang Youquan ordered Du Erdan again, "Erdan, pass the order immediately, no one is allowed to shoot, and wait until the little Japanese approaches before firing."
Chapter completed!