Suddenly hearing that a Japanese army appeared and was approaching here, Li Qiang was also taken aback, and then said angrily: "Devil? How could there be a devil suddenly under the mountain? How are you all on guard? How did you let the devil find out right under your nose? ”

The soldier who hurriedly came to report the news stammered at this time: "Squad leader, no...... No, little devil...... The little devil turned out to be at the foot of the mountain, but there was a slope below to block it. We just saw the little devil's plaster flag and found out! Now the little devil seems to be coming up the mountain. ”

Li Qiang scolded in a low voice: "What is it like? Get ready for battle! The warriors immediately stopped resting and quickly crawled along the north-facing hill, where they wanted to seize the favorable terrain before the Japanese appeared. Zhuo Fei also woke up from his memories at this time, and when he turned around, he just saw Li Qiang's skillful tactical movements, and couldn't help but admire the soldiers whose equipment could not be described as simple alone. Zhuo Fei immediately suppressed the grief brought by the memories in his heart, and quietly followed him to the edge of the mountain, slightly revealing half of his head, and observed at the bottom of the mountain.

Li Qiang, who was on the edge of the cliff, only glanced down the mountain with a telescope, and then couldn't help but gasp, only to see that at the foot of the north mountain, about eight or nine hundred meters away, about sixty or seventy Japanese soldiers were walking up the mountain. Li Qiang had heard the defeated soldiers of the national army who had fought with the devils introduce the combat establishment of the Japanese army, and the number of these Japanese soldiers in front of him looked like the formation of a small team.

Li Qiang first pressed the panic in his heart, and then carefully looked at the equipment of these Japanese soldiers, and was surprised to find that this squad of Japanese soldiers actually had two light machine guns and two grenadiers. Li Qiang couldn't help frowning, his independent guerrilla brigade had only been formed for a short time, and it had not yet fought with regular Japanese troops. Although his squad was the most combat-effective knife squad in the entire independent guerrilla brigade, and its weapons and equipment were quite neat, except for seven "four-year-style" rifles and one "Hanyang-made" rifle in his hand, there were less than 20 grenades.

Thinking of this, Li Qiang couldn't help but smile bitterly, in fact, not to mention confrontation, with their existing firepower and combat effectiveness, to fight with such a small group of Japanese troops, even if he still has the 5 good guns he just captured, I am afraid that it is still not enough to stuff people's teeth, and even the more than 140 people of their entire independent guerrilla brigade may not be able to please me.

Zhuo Fei also frowned, he had not seen the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army, but Zhuo Fei knew that the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army would definitely not be bad. There is no doubt that in the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army's permanent divisions and regiments was definitely stronger than that of the vast majority of the Nationalist Army and the Communist Party's Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army. Looking at the squad escorting them, although the weapons are quite neat, there are 7 "four-year-style" rifles, one "Hanyang-made" rifle, and 5 "38-type" rifles captured by the puppet army yesterday, as well as some grenades. But if they really want to fight, with the terrain they are in now and the obvious firepower inferiority, I am afraid they will not be able to hold out for 15 minutes!

Li Qiang quickly began to think about the contingency plan, rushing forward, obviously not, the mountain is a plain, even if it can rush down, it will only give the Japanese army's firepower a better space, and it is more likely that this team, which is mostly weak students, has not rushed to the devil and has been beaten into a sieve by dense firepower. On the right side of the hill was the river that had passed, about 20 meters wide, and the students in front of them had no time to cross the river before the Japanese troops rushed up.

Not to mention that on the other side of the river, there was still an open field about 200 meters wide, and as long as the Japanese set up grenadiers and machine guns on the ridge here, all those who crossed the river would be a live target. On the left side of the mountain is a cliff, and the devils can't go up, but they don't want to go down from there. It seems that there is only one road behind the mountain, Li Qiang couldn't help but think of the green gauze tent he passed when he came over, and the continuous sorghum fields that were more than one person high were enough to hide hundreds of people. However, even the foot of the mountain is about 300 meters away from the sorghum field, and the southern slope of the mountain is relatively steep, and it takes time to descend the mountain.

Time, the most pressing issue now is time, Li Qiang roughly estimated, according to the speed of the students' retreat, it will take at least twenty minutes to retreat from the top of the mountain to the sorghum field. And the key at present is how to win the twenty minutes required for the students to retreat, the north slope is only eight or nine hundred meters long, and it is a gentle slope, if the Japanese army suppresses and cooperates with the charge with firepower, I am afraid it will not take ten minutes to rush up, Li Qiang couldn't help but glance at the Japanese troops down the mountain, but this glance immediately gave him hope.

It turned out that although the Japanese troops who appeared at the foot of the mountain were walking towards the mountain, their movements were slow, and almost no one was on guard with guns, and a bold idea immediately popped up in Li Qiang's mind - this group of little devils did not find us. Li Qiang's train of thought suddenly smoothed out, and after observing the terrain again, he quickly drew up a plan in his heart, so he decisively retreated to Captain Zhao, who was not far from him.

The anxious Li Qiang had already broken out in cold sweat on his forehead at this time, and now he didn't have much time to think, so he simply gritted his teeth and whispered to Captain Zhao: "Old Zhao, you take your people to escort the students to the south slope to the mountain immediately, and hide in the sorghum field below the mountain as soon as possible." Me and my people stay, stop the little devils here, you must move quickly, I'm afraid we won't be able to stop much time. Li Qiang didn't tell a lie, as to whether the eight people on his side could block the attack of sixty or seventy Japanese soldiers. Li Qiang has no confidence at all.

Captain Zhao, who also knew the importance of this mission, didn't say much, and immediately withdrew from the position with his guards, but when they withdrew, they took away the extra rifles and left all the grenades on their bodies to Li Qiang. When they turned around, Captain Zhao and the others clearly had tears in their eyes - everyone knew that in the face of the Japanese soldiers who had an absolute advantage in the most vicious forces and weapons, staying would mean sacrifice, and if the resistance failed to buy enough time to retreat, their sacrifice would not even be worth anything.

The students and teachers all knew about the crisis in front of them, and they all quickly packed their bags and began to retreat down the mountain with Captain Zhao and his party, while Li Qiang continued to think about how to fight the next battle in distress. Even if all these people are exhausted, they must let the students behind them evacuate safely, but look at the well-equipped devils in front of them, how easy is it to let the students "evacuate safely"? "What should I do?" Li Qiang asked himself repeatedly in his heart.

Captain Zhao and the others had just withdrawn from their positions for a short time, and the Japanese soldiers under the mountain had already discovered Li Qiang and them on the cliff, and immediately began to suppress fire with machine guns. In the face of the absolute superiority of the Japanese army's firepower, Li Qiang and the others didn't even have a chance to fight back, and they were beaten so breathlessly when they fought the Japanese army for the first time, which Li Qiang never expected. Suppressed by the Japanese machine-gun fire, they couldn't raise their heads at all, and Li Qiang's accuracy when shooting was not guaranteed, and the Japanese grenadiers then joined the battle group, and Li Qiang's side immediately suffered casualties.

Turning around and looking at the students who came down the mountain, they were only halfway away, Li Qiang couldn't help but feel anxious, but the current situation no longer allowed him to have other ideas, only to firmly hold on here and entangle this group of Japanese soldiers. Almost at the same time as Zhuo Fei and the others staggered into the sorghum field, the fierce Japanese soldiers had already rushed to Li Qiang's position in the smoke of grenade explosions. In order to shoot the 8 dirt roads in front of him, his team also paid the price of five dead and six wounded, and Yamaguchi Hongichi, who commanded the team, was thinking about how to explain to his boss when he returned, when he heard a soldier report that a large number of footprints had been found on the side of the mountain.

Yamaguchi's eyes lit up, and the footprints showed that the people who had been shot and killed still had companions, and that the targets who had fled here should not be combatants. Yamaguchi Hongichi, who was in high spirits, immediately followed the soldiers who reported the news to the place where the footprints were found, the footprints on the ground were deep and shallow, and the shallow footprints with obvious straw rope marks had disappeared, but what Yamaguchi Hongichi saw were footprints left by leather shoes. Yamaguchi Koichi suddenly remembered that his military academy classmates who had fought with the Eighth Route Army had mentioned to him that the equipment was poor, most of them wore shoes woven with straw rope but fought bravely.

Looking at the direction in which the footprints disappeared, Yamaguchi Hongichi seemed to suddenly understand the true intention of these dirt eight roads to fight to the death, and immediately ordered loudly: "Quick, go down the mountain, we will continue to chase." "Looking down the mountain through the binoculars, there was no one on the river or in the river below, and there was no one in the open field on the other side of the river, so it was impossible to hide people or cross the river in hiding from the river with such a good view. Yamaguchi Hongichi moved the telescope to the right again, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and more than 300 meters away from the mountain was a large sorghum field, and the sorghum field full of sorghum for more than one person was definitely a good place for Tibetans.

Yamaguchi Koichi immediately pulled out his saber and swung it vigorously at the bottom of the mountain, shouting: "Go down the mountain to pursue, target, the sorghum field under the mountain." Soon after Captain Zhao and the others led the students and teachers into the sorghum field, they heard the gunfire on the top of the mountain stop, and they immediately realized that Li Qiang, who was staying on the top of the mountain, must have had an accident. At this moment, Captain Zhao's heart was full of sourness and grief, but now is not the time to say frustrating words, the plan for now is to protect these students and teachers to leave here as soon as possible, otherwise Li Qiang's sacrifice is worthless.