Compared with the high morale of the soldiers of the Guo army in Nanfeng Mountain, the morale of the soldiers around Sanhezhuang seemed very low.

In recent days, the guo army launched many attacks on the besieged Japanese army, but did not make any progress, but instead lost a large number of guo soldiers.

The Japanese army was famous for its tenacity. In the famous Battle of Iwo Jima, the 100,000 American troops, with the powerful firepower support of the Japanese naval and air force, launched an attack on 23,786 Japanese troops defending the island. From February 19, 1945 to March 26, 1945, it took more than a month, consumed hundreds of thousands of artillery shells and aviation bombs, and paid a total of 28,686 casualties. Finally, the Japanese army was exhausted from ammunition and food, and finally captured Iwo Jima.

The guo army lacks the support of aviation and has very few artillery. It is basically a matter of human life to attack Japanese positions, so it is very difficult to make progress.

At this moment, in front of the enemy's position in Sanhezhuang, the soldiers were lying at the starting point of the attack, two hundred meters away from the Japanese position. They were all in a heavy mood, and their hearts were filled with sorrow, anger and helplessness.

In the hidden division not far behind them, the battalion commander was as heavy and depressed as the soldiers who were about to charge.

The Japanese in front of them were really hard to fight. Usually they hid in hidden soldiers, and the army had not much artillery fire, which posed no threat to them at all. When the army launched a charge, they drilled out of the cat's ear, hid in the trenches, and used fierce firepower to attack the soldiers of the army. The army suffered heavy losses every time the army charged, leaving corpses on the front of the position. Blood everywhere soaked the distance of this short two hundred meters.

No one has confidence in whether they can capture the enemy's positions, from the commander to the soldiers, and they will inevitably feel fear in their hearts. However, when the order for the attack was issued, the officers and soldiers had to bite the bullet and charge forward. Those who died would claim to be unlucky, and those who were alive did not have the slightest joy of happiness, because perhaps the next attack would lead to a fall on the road to charge.

The battalion commander raised his wrist and looked at his watch. It was already the prescribed attack time. He raised his hand and was about to issue a charge order to the Crewman beside him.

"Di Lingling." At this moment, the phone ringing suddenly rang on the desk that was temporarily piled up with ammunition boxes.

It was said that the attack time had reached, and the battalion commander should have ignored the phone and issued an order to attack first. However, curiosity still drove him to pause the order.

The phone ringtone or cell phone ringtone seems to have a mysterious power that can arouse people's great curiosity. There are many suicides who have decided to take medicine or jump off the building to commit suicide. However, when the cell phone ringtone rings, they still can't help but answer the call. Although the content of the phone will disappoint him in most cases, the cell phone ringtone still represents a glimmer of hope, driving him to answer the call involuntarily.

At this moment, the battalion commander was in his mood. In his subconscious, he hoped that the order to stop the attack would be sent from the phone so that he would not see the bloody scene that followed.

The battalion commander was not disappointed this time, and the voice of the regiment commander came from the phone: "Stop the attack! Wait for the order."

The battalion commander breathed a sigh of relief and immediately asked the messenger to stop the attack. The tense nerves just now relaxed, and his body was a little limp and sat on the ammunition box. He lit a cigarette, took a suck, slowly spit out the smoke from his mouth, squinted his eyes and enjoyed a moment of leisure.

After a while, a company commander who had retreated from the front walked in, saluted the battalion commander, and asked, "Battleman, why did you stop attacking?"

The battalion commander glanced at him and said, "Isn't it good to stop the attack?"

The company commander said, "Okay! This is too difficult for the Japanese to fight. Brothers rushed forward and died in vain. There are only 68 people left in one of my 123 people. If this battle continues like this, it will be all gone sooner or later."

The battalion commander thrust into the table and said, "Where is the cigarette, take it yourself." As he said that, he took out the lighter from his pocket and handed it over.

The company commander lit a cigarette, returned the lighter to the battalion commander, moved an ammunition box and sat next to him. He said, "Battleman, you have to suggest to the regiment commander. This battle cannot be fought like this, you have to think of a way."

The battalion commander was very depressed and said, "What can you do? The Japanese are hiding in fortifications. Our artillery can't deal with their fortifications. What can we do if we don't rush forward? Fortunately, the Japanese probably don't have many left. We have a lot of people. If two fight for him, they will kill these Japanese sooner or later."

At this time, the guards standing outside the cover department shouted: "Battle, the regiment is here."

The battalion commander and the company commander hurriedly stood up and walked out.

When they left the hidden department, they saw the regiment commander coming over. Behind him, they followed the engineers and staff of the regiment headquarters, and then the guard platoon of the regiment headquarters. No one in the guard platoon brought guns and carried a lot of shovels and pickaxes on their shoulders, and they didn't understand what they were going to do.

The battalion commander stepped forward to salute and asked, "Roun, this place is dangerous! Why are you here?"

The leader replied to the courtesy and walked straight forward, saying as he walked, "Go inside and talk."

After everyone entered the hidden department and sat together, the regiment commander said excitedly: "I just went to the division headquarters to hold a combat meeting. The chief department has issued an order to temporarily stop the attack and let the Japanese in front of him live for a few more days. However, they will be finished soon."

The battalion commander asked in confusion: "The Japanese army has been very tired these days. If we don't continue to attack, we will give them time to breathe. Wouldn't the battle in the future be even more difficult? Is there any way to deal with them?"

The regiment commander said to the engineer staff officer who followed him: "Tell me."

The engineer staff took out a drawing and spread it on an ammunition box. Everyone saw that it was crisscrossing, which should be trenches and traffic trenches.

The battalion commander and the company commander looked at each other and didn't understand what they were going to do.

The engineer staff said: "The reason why the Japanese are difficult to fight is because they dug cat ear pierced in the trenches. Our cannons are basically ineffective when we attack, so when we attack the Japanese, they hide. When our people launch a charge, they emerge from the trenches and our people are exposed to the open space at the front of the position, of course there will be heavy casualties.

The only way to overcome them is to dig trenches. We start digging the trenches from the starting point of the attack, and dig them all the way to the front of the Japanese trenches. We can throw grenades to the distance between the Japanese trenches.

The Japanese trenches have no advantage. We have many people, and we can beat them even if we pitch grenades to each other.

When it gets dark, tens of thousands of people launch a general attack from all directions at the same time. With such a short distance, you can quickly rush into the enemy's trenches, and the casualties will be much smaller.

We have many more people than the Japanese. If we go to the trenches to fight them in close combat, are you still afraid that we can't deal with them?"

The company commander's eyes lit up and he clapped his hands and said, "Good idea!"

The battalion commander also nodded and said, "This idea is good, I think it's OK."

Then he asked in confusion: "Room, but it takes a long time to dig the trench. What should I do if the Japanese reinforcements come?"

The engineer staff officer said: "It is only 200 meters away, and we have a lot of people. It won't take long to dig the trenches to the enemy's position in at most three days."

The commander smiled and said, "Don't worry, this time the chief officer gave him five days and didn't have to do anything. Just dig the trenches."

Speaking of this, he said mysteriously: "The master told me that the legendary Gao Jiu was in Nanfeng Mountain. He brought a supplementary regiment of only a thousand people, and he forced a reinforcement corps of the Third Division of the Japanese. I really don't know how the other person's battle was fought."

Gao Jiu's reputation is so great that everyone is familiar with the wonderful battles he has fought in the past. In the past two days, a news came that the 62nd Division's supplementary regiment was defeated by the Japanese, and the entire army was about to be destroyed. Gao Jiu went to rescue the supplementary regiment, and then he took the supplementary regiment to ambush the Japanese, defeated a large group of Japanese soldiers, and wiped out more than 500 Japanese soldiers.

What's even more outrageous is that the Xinfeng River Bridge, which hundreds of Japanese guarded day and night, was blown up by Gao Jiu alone, and killed thousands of Japanese soldiers directly. When listening to what they did, they were simply a god.

The battalion commander and the company commander heard that Gao Jiu was blocking the Japanese reinforcements not far away, and they both wanted to meet this legendary hero.

The regiment commander continued, "This hero Gao is really capable. Do you know? The way to dig trenches and fight the Japanese was told by Gao Ying. "

The battalion commander said in surprise: "No wonder Gao Yingxiong can win battles, he is really capable."

The engineer staff officer said: "Yes. The methods of digging trenches are provided by Gao Yingxiong. According to this method, the Japanese had no way to do us, so they could only watch the trenches approaching them."

This drawing for excavating trenches was provided by Gao Jiu. It not only ensures the safety of the people who excavated trenches, but also prevents the Japanese army from sending people out to destroy the trenches. The trenches were designed very reasonably, and even professionals such as engineers and staff were amazed.

This simple and effective tactical method can greatly make up for the gap in military quality and weapons, and give full play to the advantages of military strength.

The company commander said excitedly: "Now, we don't need to charge in the enemy's artillery fire anymore. I will go back and take my brothers to dig trenches."

Soon after, under the guidance of the engineer staff, a group of Guo soldiers began to dig a two-meter-deep pit 200 meters away from the Japanese army. Then, they began to dig trenches. The trenches were not straight towards the enemy's positions, and could effectively prevent the attack of the enemy's guns and cannons from the opposite enemy.

On the Japanese position in Sanhezhuang, the Japanese corps leader heard the sound of gunfire coming from the front and knew that the guo army was about to launch an attack again.

This was already commonplace for him, and he didn't care, so he asked an orderly man to hold a mirror and shave there.

Soon, he received a report that after the enemy had prepared artillery fire, the infantry did not launch an attack and retreated directly, which instead aroused his curiosity.

The Japanese corps leader personally came to the front of the position. He saw from the telescope that there was no Guo soldiers on the surface in front, but dust continued to fly out from the underground. It could be seen that they were digging trenches.

At first, he thought the enemy was going to garrison troops there or set up mortar positions. He was not worried about this. Even if the enemy's mortar was set at a distance of 200 meters, as long as the Japanese officers and soldiers hid in the ear piercing of cats, the enemy's mortars would still be decorated.

He called the artillery commander and prepared to let them knock out the artillery soldiers from the enemy who came to the door.

After setting up this matter, he walked around the trenches and visited the Japanese soldiers who were standing on the front line.

The captain of the corps met the soldiers and spoke cordially to them, encouraging them to continue fighting bravely.

The Japanese army was of strict hierarchy, and those ordinary soldiers could not see such a high-ranking official as the corps leader. When they saw the corps leader visiting them in person, they were all very worried and their morale increased.

The captain of the corps saw that the soldiers were in good spirits and felt very satisfied, so he returned to the corps headquarters.

In the afternoon, he received a report from the frontline position, saying that the enemy did not launch an attack and continued to dig trenches there, as if the trenches had been dug towards the Japanese position.

Then, he received reports from the Japanese army from various frontier positions, saying that enemies from all directions were digging trenches and were digging towards the Japanese position little by little.

"No, the situation is not good." The Japanese corps leader realized the danger and immediately summoned the officers to discuss countermeasures. At the same time, he sent a telegram to the division headquarters again, urging the reinforcements to arrive as soon as possible.

Nanfeng Mountain.

After dawn, Gao Jiu went to see the weapons and equipment he sent. He was most interested in two of the French Hatchcas 1930 13.2mm anti-aircraft machine guns.

This anti-aircraft machine gun was developed based on the 1914 heavy machine gun of Hatchcais. It uses 30 rounds of double-row magazines to supply ammunition. It is generally equipped with dual-mounted and quad-mounted R3B tripods that can be fired and flat-mounted. The quad-mounted anti-aircraft machine gun is installed on the R4 gun rack. The gun has a fast firing speed, high accuracy, and high reliability. It is widely carried around important facilities such as vehicles and ships to provide short-range air defense firepower to the ground.

After the founding of the Republic of China, the country was in a long period of war. European and American countries, including the Soviet Union, all went to China to sell weapons. When the French sold weapons, they brought some samples, including these two French Hatchacas 1930 13.2mm anti-aircraft machine guns. Later, the Guo army adopted a large number of German weapons. The French business was not negotiated. These two anti-aircraft machine guns were left behind. Because the number was too small, there was no equipment force and it was stored in the warehouse of the military command. This time, Gao Jiu took it over. Gao Jiu was preparing to take it back and use it as an air defense weapon in Taohua Mountain.

Qin Feng, Guan Lie and others saw Gao Jiu skillfully manipulating this anti-aircraft machine gun that they had never seen before, and they all admired Gao Jiu very much. They felt that there was nothing that Gao Jiu didn't understand. They were really puzzled, and they didn't know how they learned it.

Gao Jiu explained the performance of this anti-aircraft machine gun to everyone and said with some expectations: "I wonder if the Japanese will send bombers to this battle? I'm really itchy."
Chapter completed!