The national soldiers who were huddled in the corner on the first floor stared blankly and looked up at the few brothers following them who were hit again by the Japanese machine guns. There was no sound. They got up and ran back. The Japanese soldiers

With this round of machine gun fire, four were killed. The Japanese attacking from both sides followed up again. The squad leader could be seen getting up and throwing grenades outside.

The roaring explosions slowed down the attacking Japs. The ones in front were hunched over, holding guns in hand, and slowly moving forward. The Japs behind were also throwing grenades into the door openings and window openings in front, and from time to time they heard the news.

Come the explosion.

In such an attack, the casualties on both sides will not be large, but the Chinese soldiers are few. Even if the Japanese take more casualties than you, your Chinese soldiers will not be able to hold on for long.

With such an offensive situation, the cannons behind the Japs were too lazy to move. The Japs commanders put their command knives on the ground and quietly watched the attack in front. They kept pointing and pointing, and they seemed to be exchanging offensive experiences.

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The national soldier looked at the squad leader's actions, hesitated for a moment, then picked up a grenade, fired it, and then threw it out after the squad leader. It didn't matter whether it could hit the enemy or not, but it was good to delay the enemy's attack.

The Japanese who attacked from the house attacked again. Seeing that there were wooden walls here, they immediately opened fire on these walls. The bullets passed through the walls and made bullet holes one after another.

Although the national army was small in number, they were not to be outdone. They fired at each other across the wooden wall. No one knew who was where. It was purely based on luck. If you were lucky, you would not be hit. Bullets were constantly on the wall.

Increase.

After a few minutes, both sides suffered casualties. The platoon leader saw that it was not an option to continue like this. There were too many Japanese soldiers, and there were only seven soldiers left who could move on his side. During this period of exchange of fire, three more were hit.

The platoon leader himself was shot in the arm, and there were only four people who could fight. They were still blocking the attack. Seeing that the situation was not right, he quickly ordered everyone to retreat.

Just after running two rooms, we arrived at the original defense area of ​​the first squad. At this time, we were ordered to find the soldiers from the company headquarters. We just came back, but we brought back a machine gunner. Seeing that the platoon leader had failed, a soldier who was left behind hurriedly

He took out a roll of bandages from the bag and went to wrap it up.

"The company commander's side has been basically lighted. The company commander is in the south, and only three brothers are left. The other injured brothers have been sent away by the deputy company commander. The deputy commander is now in the south to support them. Now the entire town

Maybe it’s just the eight of us plus the three brothers from the company commander’s side.”

The platoon leader was shocked: "It's all gone so quickly. Where is the second squad leader?"

The signal trooper quickly reported: "He carried the wounded and retreated to the south. It's still dark now, and a new order from the regiment headquarters has been sent. Originally, we were told to stay until dusk. Now that the regiment headquarters knows that we know such heavy casualties,

Let us retreat immediately. The company commander also said that we should find a way to retreat by ourselves and don't worry about his side. There are no Japanese outflanking him."

The platoon leader's face was gloomy: "If we are still defending like this, if the Japanese charge, we will all die."

"Platoon leader, you are also injured. How about you retreat first and I take the two brothers to break up the rear?"

"Yes, Liu Jian, I know you are good at skills, but you must also pay attention. I know your character is upright. We have done enough today. Let us save your life so that we can fight more Japanese in the future.

Take care." The platoon leader was not pretentious and left with the five people.

The machine gunner did not leave. After most of the time, after changing the barrel, I felt that the machine gun should be able to fire normally. I was originally planning to hit the Japanese in the south position, but after the Japanese crossed the river from the bridge, they walked along the house.

We searched inside but never found an opportunity, but we met this communications soldier who came to the company headquarters from the west. At this time, he actively asked to stay.

It didn't take long for the Japanese from behind to catch up again.

The platoon leader and his party who were retreating south evacuated through the passages in the house and even left the town. They could clearly see the Japanese and puppet troops, but the Japanese and puppet soldiers did not fire at all, let alone pursue them.

We didn't encounter any obstacles along the way. The platoon leader was a little strange. As long as he could escape, no one would pay attention to the strangest things. The few people ran very fast and soon arrived in the small bamboo forest in the south of the town, with the company commander and deputy company.

Long confluence.

When the company commander heard that there were still brothers in the town, he immediately took his people with him to prepare to bring back the brothers who had been cut off.

I had just ordered a few soldiers and were about to set off. I had already seen the Japanese machine gunners escaping from the national army. However, the bamboo forest where they were staying was just a shuttle. The bullets hit a bit high. This was puzzling and a bit like chasing them away.

The posture of a man, followed by a large group of Japanese soldiers, appeared in the south of the town.

At this time, the company commander had no choice. The Japanese from a small group behind him attacked again, and the group had no choice but to run south.

The Japs in the southwest finally moved and began to encircle them. The two national army soldiers who had been in a stalemate with the Japs for a long time in the bamboo forest had to surrender when they saw that the big forces were gone. The Japs did not kill them this time, but let the puppet soldiers

They were tied up and brought into the team.

Not all the national soldiers in the northeastern part of the town were wiped out by the Japs, but some were hiding. The two soldiers from behind who were the first to attack the Japs grenade position were blocked by the Japs. However, the two reacted quickly.

Climbed up to the attic where the sundries were kept.

The two groups of Japanese encircling each other thought that the other party had already searched for them. Just as the battle started on the southern side street, the Japanese sergeant immediately went south for reinforcements, but the two groups hid there and did not dare to move.

Liu Jian took the machine gunner and the communications troops, and agreed to block the attack, but the Japs never came up. Until he saw the platoon leader and several others running south from a distance, and when they were about to retreat, the Japs pretended to be in the southwest.

The army was surrounded.

There was no way to run away now. There were dozens of Japs at any given time, so how could the three of them dare to provoke them again.

Under the leadership of the squad leader, they hid in the house that they first defended. There was a well near the wall of the kitchen, and the three of them hid in the water in the well inside the family room.

This family originally ran a tofu workshop, so they dug a well in the house for convenience. After three people entered the well, they dug sideways to a depth of more than one meter. The three people were crowded inside. The Japanese and puppet soldiers came to search the house.

I checked again and found that there was a shooting hole in the attic of this house.

The Japanese didn't attack from the southwest, so naturally it had no effect. I saw a few people running away from this side a long time ago, so I naturally thought that everyone was gone, so I didn't search carefully.

The Japanese had no intention of wiping out all the Chinese troops in the town. They deliberately let these soldiers run away, but they didn't care.

It's getting dark.

Captain Quan Yileng of the Japanese army was getting angry because a Japanese squad was attacked in the mountains and nearly half of them were killed or injured. He attacked a town of the national army and only suffered a few casualties in street fighting, but the captain of the North Road squad suffered so many casualties.

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Captain Inuichiro was slapped several times, but the Japanese captain didn't even dare to say a word.

Quan Yiling ordered a small group of Japanese soldiers to pursue the remnants of the Chinese army southward. With his level, how could he let these Chinese people go without a purpose: if they killed all these Chinese people, how could they find more?

What about the national army?

Immediately ordered all other troops, including artillery, to garrison in the town except for the outer observation posts.
Chapter completed!