On the August 1st Army Day, even if someone is in the deep mountains and forests, he still does not forget to salute this festival, a soldier’s salute. Today’s double update.

After the renovation in the past two days, on September 20, the Zhao Zhenfan, the division of the 53rd Army's division, was first asked for the order and was arranged to the first attack sequence. Huo Kuizhang, Zhou Fucheng, Song Yuhang, and the commanders below all understood that in order to cover the detoured troops, the troops in front of the pass must attack the entrance desperately and attract the attention of the Japanese army. Otherwise, once the Japanese army had some doubts, not only would the attack plan be stranded, but the first division and brigade that penetrated deep behind the enemy would also be trapped in danger of being attacked by the Japanese army on both sides.

The weather seemed to be helping the first attack of the Expeditionary Force. Except for the peak, all the clouds and mists below the pass on the mountainside were scattered. Yesterday's shelling exploded a vacuum zone of 100 meters on the mountain to the direction of the pass. The coils of roads up the mountain were undulating in the vacuum zone.

First, the artillery group covered the fire near the mountainside that was covered by clouds during the shelling yesterday. After 10 minutes, the artillery group turned to the positions on both sides of the pass to suppress it.

The 37th Regiment of the First Division, as the starting unit, shouted and rushed up from the foot of the mountain! Following the 379th Regiment was the engineer regiment of the 20th Army. Their mission was to break through obstacles and build an attack starting position in a favorable position, gradually pushing the fortifications to the main peak pass.

Zhao Zhenfan's deployment was precise and the officers and soldiers who belonged to him were all trying their best. Zhou Fucheng, as the commander of the army, naturally had face!

After the gang engineering regiment set off, the 380th Regiment also began to advance immediately. Their mission was to stabilize the front and prevent the Japanese army from counterattacking the flanks and rear wings of our forward troops.

Under the leadership of the regiment commander Huang Chao, the 379th Regiment fought bravely. The generals in the command center were watching nervously. They all understood the truth about the long mountain road. At this moment, they wanted to give the troops two wings and fly over at once.

Two hours later, the attack troops of the 379th Regiment were exhausted, and only about 200 people in the assault camp arrived at the designated area on the mountainside, and the rest of the troops were scattered all over the mountain.

Seeing that Zhou Fucheng saw that Zhao Zhenfan's expression was wrong, Song Yuhang was determined to help him, so he interrupted: "The troops of Commander Zhao's land are very good. The lack of oxygen on the mountain is not as good as flat ground. Ordinary people have difficulty walking and breathing. The slopes are steep and steep, muddy and slippery. With such conditions, you can reach the predetermined position on the mountainside in two hours. You should remember to remember the merit!"

Song Yuhang looked at Huo Kuizhang with a smile, and Huo Kuizhang nodded and said, "It's really good. Even if the distance downward is one meter or one meter, the Japanese may not be able to bear it!"

The generals in the command center began to become blindly optimistic again. Song Yuhang repeatedly observed the artillery team mirror. About half an hour later, the main force of the 379th Regiment and the Engineer Regiment arrived at the predetermined position. Thousands of Chinese soldiers were carrying out civil engineering operations. The heavy artillery shelling on the top of the mountain collapsed and the earth and rocks fell from time to time. However, they were regarded as nothing by Chinese soldiers without any scruples. Soon, two fortifications, suitable fortifications for the top of the head fire point and slope-side trenches, appeared on the mountainside.

Huo Kuizhang looked at the starting position with a rough outline and scale that had appeared. He happily looked at Song Yuhang beside him: "Brother, the fact of excavation groundwork is so beautiful as you show. Where did you learn this? Americans? When you have time, send a few instructors to hand over to our troops. I'll give you a salary!"

Song Yuhang smiled slightly. Huo Kuizhang's envy of the first mechanized has now become an almost blind worship of the United States. He believes that the United States is all good. Song Yuhang is not optimistic about this kind of blind appearance among senior generals.

So Song Yuhang turned around and said seriously: "Commander Huo. This method is the deputy brigade commander of the Mountain Brigade from the Sichuan Army. The United States allies provided us with arms and supplies to help us help them restrain the Japanese military deployment in the Pacific. During the first battle, the United States and Japan were as good as their brothers. Today's friends may be the enemies of tomorrow."

Huo Kuizhang was stunned and put down the telescope. He felt something in Song Yuhang's words. He savored it carefully and muttered: "Who said it was not! This international affairs are really not accurate."

Just as Huo Kuizhang and Song Yuhang were talking in a low voice, the group of artillery responsible for suppressing the ground also stopped shooting. Zhao Zhenfan, who was watching the mountainside, received a call from Huang Chao, the commander of the 379th Regiment, on the mainland of the walkie-talkie. It turned out that the 380th Regiment had also arrived at the preset position on the mountainside. Huang wanted to ask the division commander Zhao Zhenfan to ask the division commander Zhao Zhenfan. He sent three companies to make a search and tested the fire range and location of the Japanese firepower before the Japanese army to accurately indicate the target.

Zhao Zhenfan hesitated for a moment and agreed to Huang Chao's suggestion. Zhao Zhenfan also knew what the temper of his commander Huang was, otherwise he would not have sent his regiment to serve as the main attacking regiment. Moreover, the attack was too smooth, and testing the Japanese defensive position center and firepower range was a must, so Zhao Zhenfan agreed to Huang Chao's suggestion.

Huang Chao, who had received approval from the division, stood on the grenade box. Due to lack of oxygen, the Northeastern man looked red. Huang Chao pulled his already open collar and shouted: "Brothers! It's time to show his face. The Japanese on the top of the mountain probably had already bombarded the artillery fire in the past two days. Maybe it's not possible to run away. In a while, the 1st Battalion and the 4th Company of the Second Battalion surrounded me along both sides of the indentation in front to the south, and pulled our second war defense cannons up."

When Zhao Zhenfan saw Huang Chao pulling away in the telescope, he was so angry that his hands holding the telescope were trembling involuntarily. Huang Chao was not testing it! He clearly thought it was a rushing to get the pass.

After several hours of rest, the officers and soldiers of the 379th Regiment recovered some of their physical strength, so the attacking formation was very beautiful.

As the division commander, Zhao Zhenfan did not interfere with Huang Chao's operations because he knew that once the troops were launched, how serious the chaos would be caused by a hurry. Another thing was buried in Zhao Zhenfan's heart. Even Zhao Zhenfan himself would not admit it. That is, Zhao Zhenfan, like Huang Chao, had the idea of ​​pulling the pass in one go.

After all, soldiers live for honor. If you can understand the sentence "the more difficult it is, the more you move forward", you can understand that some calm and rigorous professional soldiers often make desperate moves, because "the more difficult it is, the more you move forward" will be followed by a glory of no good fortune. The opposite of huge difficulties and sacrifice is to become famous in one battle and keep it in history. This is a temptation that soldiers cannot resist.

Song Yuhang, who had different opinions from Zhao Zhenfan, was also observing carefully. The abnormal deployment of the Japanese army made Song Yuhang a little confused. According to normal principles, if the Japanese army wanted to hold the positions on both wings of Zhai Gongfang Pass, they would inevitably maintain the depth of the front of the pass.

But at this moment, the Chinese soldiers had built their positions to a height above the mountain, and the Japanese did not respond. If he were the Japanese commander, he would carry out counterattacks when the Chinese army was not yet stable, and control all positions above the Yunwu Line in hand, making it easier to observe the opponent's mobilization and deep defense.

Song Yuhang knew that there was another worst possibility, that is, the Japanese army built defense systems from the mountain neck to the pass, and these defense systems did not suffer major losses in the previous artillery attacks, so the Japanese were full of confidence.

After Song Yuhang thought about it, the second battalion of the 379th Regiment had already penetrated into the clouds and mist, but Huo Kuizhang, Zhou Fucheng, Zhao Zhenfan and others from the observation center across the mountain were still holding the telescope in vain, concealing their inner tension.

Suddenly, gunfire sounds were made in the clouds and mist, and there were crisp explosions from time to time. Huo Kuizhang's face suddenly changed color.

Everyone present had experienced bloody battles with the Japanese army. They could estimate the size of this Japanese army from the number of light and heavy machine gun firepower and grenade mortars.

Zhou Fucheng, the commander of the 53rd Army, put down his telescope and murmured to himself: "At least it is the size of a regiment!"

Sure enough, the 379th Regiment soon retreated in a scattered manner. Zhao Zhenfan took the walkie-talkie and shouted at Huang Chao: "Where is the situation in the pass? What is the casualties of the troops?"

On the other end of the walkie-talkie, Huang Chao said frustrated: "Standard, once the troops enter the clouds, they can't find the southeast, west and north. There is no one in front of the feet, so I can't tell you any passes or positions! Even where I can't shoot, I don't know, so the troops have to retreat along the slope."

Zhao Zhenfan was stunned at first, then he shouted to the step phone with a blue face: "Huang Chao. Give it to me!"

Before Zhao Zhenfan finished speaking, Huo Kuizhang said coldly: "If the Japanese were so easy to fight, they would have been liberated long ago. I always have a lucky mentality in my heart, which is the most undesirable on the battlefield."

Huo Kuizhang's words made Zhao Zhenfan put down his walkie-phone in disappointment. He knew that Commander Huo was referring to him as he was.

Seeing this, Song Yuhang quickly coughed and found an excuse to turn around and leave. After all, that was an internal matter of the 20th Group Army, and it was inconvenient for him to be present as an outsider.

Back at the command center, the sound of the radio dripping made Song Yuhang a little annoyed. He followed the 54th Army into the back of the Japanese army's rear brigades, which had been without any news for five days. Before leaving, Song Yuhang repeatedly instructed Zhang Tiansheng to start the plane every three days to report on the progress, and on the other hand, it was also to provide feedback on the war situation.

Song Yuhang firmly believed that his mountain infantry brigade would be fine, but he just encountered a small problem!

Song Yuhang guessed it right, and the mountain infantry brigade of the 54th Army and the First Mechanized Army, which were interspersed with the back road of Zhai Gongfang Pass, were indeed in trouble.

The unnamed valley passed by the marching was not only steep but also slippery. From the time when entering the valley two days ago, more than 100 officers and soldiers and dozens of mules and horses fell into the valley.

The rich iron ore contained in the valley almost blocks all wireless signals and also interferes with the normal work of the compass. Fang Tian and Zhang Tiansheng are worried about this, worried that they will not be able to perform mobile emergency responses once the situation changes. At this moment, the journey has passed seven or eight. It is probably too late to turn back.

"It's a blessing or not a disaster, it's a disaster, and you can only fight it!" Fang Tian made up his mind to fight for luck with the Japanese, so he urged the troops to speed up the march.

He was busy and was in a mess. While passing through a narrow and slippery path on the back of the valley, a poisonous snake that slid down from the hillside alarmed the mule and horse team. Including several drivers, twenty mules and horses rolled and disappeared from everyone's sight, and screams and wail echoed in the valley.

The Chinese soldiers along the way couldn't help but stop. They have frozen to death these days, killed by snakes and insects, and fell from cliffs. There are countless missing brothers. Almost every company and platoon of the 54th Army has suffered a reduction in personnel. Today's tragedy has left the officers and soldiers without hope.

Moreover, the mule and horse team carrying twenty mortars on the cliff were carrying, which was also the only supporting firepower carried by the 54th Army this time. Looking at the subordinates beside them, Fang Tianzhen didn't know how to fight after leaving the mountain?
Chapter completed!