Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

At two o'clock in the afternoon on the 15th, in Xigou Village, not far north of Chengnanzhuang, Fuping.

Xigou Village is located in a dangerous area, with the exit on the north side of Xigou Village and the hillsides on the east and west sides intersecting at an angle.

At this time, the sound of 75mm mountain artillery shells exploding could be heard continuously from the hillsides to the east and west of Xigou Village.

The two Japanese regiments began to attack the hillsides on both sides of the village.

The sound of gunfire could be heard throughout Xigou Village.

On the position on the eastern hillside, a group of Eighth Route Army soldiers were struggling to withstand the Japanese artillery fire and continuously firing at the Japanese troops who were charging upwards.

From time to time, a shell would fall on the Eighth Route Army's position, causing a huge explosion.

Some Eighth Route Army soldiers who were blocking the Japanese army were instantly blown to pieces by Japanese artillery.

Liu Xinglong, commander of the 20th Regiment, had a bandage on his head. He was in the front-line command post, looking at the frontline position with an anxious look on his face.

Their regiment and the 6th Regiment engaged in a firefight with two Japanese divisions that arrived at Xigou Village yesterday morning.

After discovering their two regiments, the Japanese army immediately sent a battalion from each to attack the hillsides to the east and west of the village, attempting to directly destroy the Eighth Route Army troops blocking their way.

Yesterday, due to the Japanese army's insufficient understanding of the equipment and personnel of the two regiments, the Japanese army sent a battalion on each side to attack but failed, and then stepped up the attack.

Even at night, although the Japanese army's attack was not as fierce as during the day, it did not stop at all.

Early this morning, the Japanese army suddenly started to attack the positions of their two regiments frantically as if they had taken gunpowder.

The military strength was increased directly from a battalion to a regiment.

Although the 6th Regiment and his 20th Regiment were both large regiments of 3,000 people.

But the firepower of the entire regiment is completely incomparable to that of the Japanese. By now, the regiment is exhausted.

And just now, he had sent the last reserve team of the regiment up. The only ones who had not yet gone up were the nearly 100 people in the guard company who had been forced by the political commissar not to go up.

Looking at the front position, where soldiers continued to fall in the exchange of fire with the Japanese army, Liu Xinglong felt so sad that he couldn't speak. These were his brothers who he had been with day and night, and many of them had died on the battlefield until now.

Of the regimental and battalion-level cadres of the entire 20th Regiment, only the deputy battalion commander of the 4th Battalion is still commanding on the front line. The rest of the battalion commanders and deputy battalion commanders are either killed or seriously injured. The political commissar was also hit in the chest by the Japanese rifle just now, but fortunately it was not a vital part. Liu Xinglong immediately sent someone to send him back to the rear.

If Liu Xinglong had not been lucky, the Japanese artillery shells only slightly scratched his head with shrapnel, otherwise he would have died gloriously.

At this point in the battle, there were less than a thousand people left in the entire regiment, and everyone was injured. At the same time, due to the lack of ammunition, they had no choice but to let the Japanese troops into the front line and then engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese troops.

The entire front-line position was constantly changing hands between the 20th Regiment and the Japanese army.

Liu Xinglong looked at the current situation and felt that the 20th Regiment was in trouble today.

At the same time, the situation of the Sixth Regiment in the west is probably not much better.

In an open space about three kilometers away from the foot of the mountain, the commander of the 26th Division of the Japanese Army, Jun Gomiya, and the commander of the 109th Division, Shigeaki Yamaoka, accompanied by a group of staff officers, were looking at the situation on both sides of the position not far away with smiles on their faces.

"Mr. Yamaoka, the Eighth Route Army blocking our locust army doesn't seem to be a threat. In less than two hours, the locust army will be able to wipe out the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side and rush to Xingtang."

Hougong Jun's expression, which had been gloomy for a long time, finally improved a little, and he said to Yamaoka Shigehiro.