The war of resistance against mountains is heavy

Chapter 2297: Counterattack in the Unfavorable

On the Qingfeng Mountain position, many Chinese soldiers were leaning against the rocks to rest. It would have been fine if they were all covered in smoke from the battle, but they were all sweating profusely. The sweat mixed with the mud and dust from days of fighting and turned into dirt on their bodies.

There is always a reward for hard work. Between the place where they were hiding and the trench in front, there was a communication trench that could accommodate two people crawling side by side.

The communication trench was only half a meter deep.

But there's nothing they can do, they've tried their best.

The place where he is hiding now has protruding rocks on the mountain, which is a natural anti-artillery position.

Considering the hardness and thickness of the mountain, not to mention the Japanese Type 92 infantry gun, even heavy artillery was helpless against it.

The 226th Regiment's fighting style was that when the Japanese army started shelling, they only had individual observation posts on the position, and the main force all hid here.

And when the Japanese artillery bombardment ended and the infantry launched a charge, they rushed from this place similar to a permanent combat fortification to the surface position and counterattacked the Japanese army.

In the first few attacks by the Japanese army, the Japanese army, who had no idea of ​​the situation, simply blew the surface positions into pieces, which did not cause much damage to the Chinese defenders.

But the problem was that the Japanese army occupied Houer Pass, which was higher than Qingfeng Mountain.

Through observation, the Japanese army discovered the passage from the defenders' hiding place to the surface position, and they continued to bombard that passage. Eventually, there was no cover left, and a large number of officers and soldiers of the 226th Regiment were killed or wounded here.

And just today, a battalion commander in charge of guarding here led his soldiers and dug a new passage, which is the current communication trench.

The communication trench could only be dug this deep because there were rocks underneath and they could no longer dig any deeper.

"Our regiment is defending the position so badly, and I don't know what the Sixth Regiment is doing. We are holding on here, and they are still chatting nonsense in the back." A soldier finally complained.

The Sixth Regiment was their abbreviation for the 226th Regiment. Correspondingly, their regiment was called the Fourth Regiment by the other two regiments, and the 223rd Regiment was called the Third Regiment.

"What can they do? What can we expect them to do?" a companion continued.

"That's not right. Didn't they say that they killed more than 200 Japanese devils in the north this time?" another soldier replied.

But when he said this, someone nearby poked him.

After being poked, the soldier remembered that these words were not said by someone else, but by the battalion commander who was leading them to work just now.

Since this matter involved their battalion commander, the soldiers stopped talking and looked at their battalion commander.

"I said this. If they say how their regiment wiped out more than 200 Japanese devils, I don't believe them because they are just bragging.

But it is true that many soldiers in their regiment changed to Type 38 rifles, because I saw it with my own eyes." said the battalion commander.

He didn't understand either. With the usual behavior of the 226th Regiment, they would be no more vulnerable to the puppet army, but he really didn't believe that they wiped out more than Japanese soldiers in one go!

Moreover, he did not believe the reasons given by the people of the 226th Regiment about the company commander Zhang Jidong and his sworn brother, and that the two brothers were very good at fighting the Japanese!

What kind of reasons are those? They don't sound real.

But as he said, there is no point in not believing it! The Type 38 rifle in the soldier's hand is real.

God knows how lucky those people in the 226th Regiment were to be able to wipe out so many Japanese devils in one go!

But no matter what, if a cat catches a mouse, it is a good cat, whether it is black or white. When will their camp be so lucky?

The battalion commander was also a little depressed.

Sometimes being an officer is not necessarily better than being a soldier. Soldiers can complain without restraint, but he cannot. He has to enlighten the soldiers.

The officer was feeling depressed when he saw a soldier loading bullets into his rifle.

But he tucked the rifle under his left armpit because his left arm was injured.

"I told you that you can't do anything on the battlefield. I'm getting angry if you sit here. Just go down." The battalion commander said to the wounded soldier. "I won't go down." A wounded soldier who was loading bullets into his gun did not obey him just because he was the battalion commander.

"Why?" asked his battalion commander.

"If we go down, a minor injury will turn into a serious injury, and a serious injury will turn into death. Living will be more tiring, so we might as well die here together with the Japanese!" the wounded man replied.

"Fuck, your first and second companies failed to hold their positions, how do you know that the third company can't hold it?

Boy, just because of what you said, I have to let you live and let you suffer a little!" The battalion commander said angrily.

Once the battalion commander frowned, the soldiers had no choice but to be serious.

But who would have thought that the battalion commander's face would change and he would burst into laughter.

Laughter is contagious, and the soldiers next to them also started laughing. For a moment, the tragic feeling of defending the position was diluted a lot.

To be honest, the people of the 224th Regiment had the same attitude towards the 223rd and 226th Regiments. They also had no hope for the 223rd Regiment that came to relieve them. They would be lucky as long as they could not hold back their regiment or run away at the critical moment.

But they didn't know that at this moment, on another attack route of the Japanese army, hundreds of Japanese soldiers were lined up like a long snake and rushed into a ravine.

Dahong Mountain blocked an important highway, and the Japanese army had been trying to open up this highway for a long time.

The Japanese army had attacked Dahongshan more than once, but they always returned empty-handed.

Seeing that the Qingfeng Mountain position held by the Chinese army was really difficult to attack, they would naturally use the flanking attack that they were so-called good at.

This time, the Japanese army finally broke through the checkpoints that blocked their advance by making a detour, and now they are advancing straight ahead.

The Japanese army was of course aware that the enemy they were facing now was no longer the 38th Regiment of the 224th Brigade of the 226th Division that was nailed like a nail on Qingfeng Mountain, but the th Regiment that had just been replaced.

Both the enemy and us have a clear idea of ​​what kind of opponent we are facing.

Compared with the 224th Regiment and the 226th Regiment, the 226th Regiment is undoubtedly the easy target.

So after a fierce attack, they finally rushed into the defensive position of the 226th Regiment.

The 226th Regiment itself did not have much combat effectiveness, and of course, that position was not as prominent as the Qingfeng Mountain terrain.

Moreover, that position has another characteristic, which is that it is conducive to the defense of the Japanese army.

In other words, when the Japanese army was defending that position, they had no geographical advantage at all.

So after the Japanese army captured that position, they would certainly not stop. They needed to rush through this narrow valley as quickly as possible and seize the opposite mountain pass.

And once they occupied the mountain pass and established a position, the strategic goal of the Dahongshan expedition would have been half achieved for the Japanese army.

The terrain of this narrow valley is not prominent. There are dry thatch on both sides of the road, and underneath the thatch there is a deep green color, which is the thatch that is growing for another year.

Didn't the Japanese know there were risks when they advanced so far? Of course they knew, but that's how war works. Sometimes, thousands of troops are fighting for a single-plank bridge, and you have to fight for it no matter how much it costs. The same was true for the Japanese.

However, the Japanese army did not expect that the 226th Regiment they were facing at this time was no longer the weak and ruthless Wuxia Amon of the past. They also did not expect that the Chinese army would use fire attack this time!

"Tum" "Tum"

The sound of mortars rang out, but the shells did not fall on the road where the Japanese army was marching, but fell into the thatched grass on both sides of the road.

Seeing that the shells did not hit their path, the Japanese commander was of course overjoyed. He waved his hand and ordered the soldiers to charge forward quickly.

But it was at this moment that he noticed the fire, and then he smelled a pungent smell of sulfur!