At 5 o'clock in the morning on April 21, 1938, the sky was still dark, and the long-roaring gunfire finally stopped, and after dawn they were about to go to the battlefield to start their war, and the rest was only an hour or two of calm!

Chen Liang's sharp knife squad passed through a calf-thick forest, and saw a small village in front of him, and there was a stone tablet at the entrance of the village that read: "Chen Wafang"!

"Squad leader, there's a village here, should we go in and search"? A soldier spoke. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Chen Liang frowned and said, "Go back and report to the company commander, just say that our troops have arrived at Chen Wafang and ask for instructions on the next move"! Chen Liang said.

"Yes"!

Chen Liang took a careful look at this seemingly dead and silent village and didn't speak, and after a few more glances, he didn't see anything abnormal, and he didn't dare to break in without permission, so he simply took a few steps back, lurked in the woods, and said: "After walking all night, hurry up and eat something, and when the battalion commander orders us, we will quickly occupy this village"!

"Yes"!

More than ten people hurriedly untied the bag of dry food on their bodies, took out a steamed bun that had been dried and hard, and ate it with the water on their bodies.

Chen Liang had just eaten a steamed bun, but the guards who had just gone out to report the news had already rushed back and said: "The battalion commander ordered that the vanguard troops quickly occupy Chen Wafang and open the way for the vanguard troops"!

"Got it"! Chen Liang said that he was about to get up and continue marching, when he heard a crisp gunshot, and the helmet of the communication soldier who had just spoken instantly splashed a blood flower, and his body also fell down.

"Hidden"! Chen Liang ordered loudly, and Yu Ci hurriedly searched the village in front of him at the same time, but at this moment, some of the sergeants around him were already disrupted by this sudden attack and shot indiscriminately at the village.

Chen Liang was about to open his mouth to stop the village opposite, but he also began to shoot back, Chen Liang followed the little fire that had just flashed on the earthen wall, and a black shadow instantly turned over and rolled down.

For a while, the two sides were in a mess, and the guns were loud, but because of the visibility in the dark, almost all sides were suppressing the shooting, and it was difficult to say how lethal it was.

"What's the situation? The gunshots that came"? Yin Guohua, who was still hundreds of meters away from Chen Liang and them, exclaimed.

"Could it be that our vanguard and the devil have encountered"? The second company commander guessed.

"Isn't there still Tang Enbo's Corps and Yu Xuezhong's 51st Army in front"? Hurry up and follow and see what's going on"! Yin Guohua wondered.

"Yes"!

The gunshots in front of him continued, but he couldn't see clearly in the dark, Chen Liang took out a grenade from his body and threw it out.

"Boom"!

A flash of fire exploded in the opposite village, setting fire to a grass hut next to it, and by the light of the fire, they finally saw what they had encountered!

On the thatched house of the Chen tile house, there were sixty or seventy Japanese devils wearing yellow military uniforms and grass green helmets scattered at this time.

"It's a Japanese devil, aim for me!" Chen Liang said loudly.

The firelight let the dawn come in advance, the distance between the two sides was only 100 meters, and by the firelight they could even clearly see what the other party looked like, for a while the gunfire was loud, and both sides were killed and wounded, Chen Liang raised his hand and shot down a devil lying on the top of the tulou, and shot at the side again.

"Whoosh".

"Whoosh".

I only heard two sharp sounds of breaking the air, and the two commanding heights that occupied the devil in front were instantly hit by two mortar shells and turned into a sea of fire, and at this time, Chen Liang and their backs were full of gunfire, Chen Liang hurriedly turned around, but it was the battalion commander Yin Guohua and others who had all rushed over.

"What's the situation"? Yin Guohua said with a blue face.

"We were about to enter the village, but we found that the village had already been occupied by the Japanese, but fortunately they shot first to expose the target, otherwise we would have encountered an ambush"! Chen Liang said.

"You have set fire to me with a cannon, and the battle will be resolved quickly!" Yin Guohua ordered.

"Signal troops, hurry up and inform the troops behind, just say that the front line has collapsed, and the Japanese army will take advantage of the weakness to enter, let them quickly stop advancing and organize defense on the spot"! Yin Guohua continued.

"Yes"!

"Mortars prepare, give me a fierce bombardment of those grass houses, the assault team prepares, and after the shelling, quickly rush into the village to deal with the remnants of the enemy. I want to see where these Oriental devils are hiding." The commander of a company ordered.

"Yes"!

"Whoosh... Sou... Whoosh..."!

A series of five or six shells roared out and smashed down on several grass houses that occupied the devils, and more than a dozen devils were torn to pieces in the firelight in the roar, and a company, including Chen Liang and others, had already rushed towards the village when the shells landed.

The fire quickly spread in the village with the spring breeze, and soon burned most of the houses in the village, and the devils in the village suddenly had no place to defend and began to retreat in a hurry, but where else could they retreat now?

"Bang... Bang..."The sound of fried bean-like gunfire rang out instantly, and the devils who had just run out of the house were overturned by the whistling bullets, and there were only a dozen people left, and at this time, Chen Liang and they were only four or five meters away from these Japanese soldiers.

I saw that these Japanese troops were facing Chen Liang, who had an absolute advantage, and none of them really expressed their intention to surrender, but they screamed and rushed over in reverse with bayonets.

Chen Liang picked up his rifle and opened the head of a devil, followed by a step forward, and violently picked up a Japanese soldier's spear thorn and smashed the butt of a Japanese soldier directly in the face, and then the remaining Japanese soldiers were also killed by the sergeants, and the Japanese army annihilated this time was a small team.

"This is just a devil squad, the first company hurried to the village entrance to set up defenses, the second company was deployed on the right side of the village, and the third company was deployed in the village, ready to fight at any time"! Yin Guohua ordered.

"Yes"!

Immediately afterwards, Chen Liang's company hurriedly rushed to the entrance of the village, and when he was about to dig the trenches, he found that they didn't even have a sapper shovel for digging trenches, and the company commander looked at the soldiers who looked at each other and said angrily: "A bunch of **** cowards, they collapsed without a fight, and directly exposed the Lao Tzu, how to deploy the Lao Tzu fortifications if they can't dig out"?

As soon as the words fell, it was Yin Guohua who had come to the front at some point, glanced around at the entrance of the village of Ma Pingchuan, and frowned: "Your company also quickly retreats into the village, relying on the village to defend, if the Japanese army attacks, we must buy time for the follow-up troops, otherwise it will be a big trouble"!

"Battalion commander, this is a flat river, and we can't hold a village full of earthen walls." The commander of the first company said with a bitter face.

"If you can't hold it, you have to defend it, and if you can't hold it, you have to guard it for Lao Tzu, if we can't hold it, the devil's army will rush over, and the troops behind us will not be prepared, and then our sixty armies will be all over!" Yin Guohua said angrily.

"Brothers, rely on the private houses at the entrance of the village to defend them"! A long voice was raised.

"Yes"!

"Battalion commander, this fire can easily attract devils in the plains, should we put it out"? The second company commander was worried.

"Don't extinguish it, you can't extinguish it, there will be a fire here that will attract devils, we are under pressure, and the troops behind will have time to prepare"! Yin Guohua said.

"Hurry up and arm, we can't stand it, we're thinking about retreating"! Yin Guohua said.

"Yes"!

Everyone hurriedly retreated to the entrance of the village and relied on the village to set up defenses, but Chen Liang's group was behind a wall made of earth and stone at the moment, and everyone was nervously watching the darkness not far away, ready to meet the incoming Japanese army at any time.

In the darkness not far away, the Zuo Wing was marching quickly under the cover of the night, and a communications soldier hurriedly ran over and said: "Report to Da Zuo, our front army squad encountered the main force of the China Army in Chen Wafang, and all of them were gone"!

"Are you sure it's the main force of China? How many people are there"? Saji Daisa frowned.

"Not sure, but they have artillery, and it should be a main regiment of China"!

"Order, let the Osaka Brigade quickly defeat this Shina army and rush in the direction of the Five Holy Churches"!

"Hey"!

Two kilometers away from Chen Wafang, Pan Shuoduan, commander of the 1081st Regiment of the 183rd Division, hurriedly stopped the forward troops and said: "Signal soldiers, quickly find out what the situation is!"

After a while, I saw a sweaty soldier running to salute and said: "Regiment commander, we annihilated a Japanese squad in Chenwafang, the battalion commander judged that Tang Enbo and Yu Xuezhong had abandoned their positions, and he asked me to inform you, hurry up and spread the news to the whole army, so that the whole army can seize the key points and prepare for battle"!

Pan Shuoduan's face changed, and then he scolded angrily: "Damn, these greedy things are afraid of death, damn"!

"Commander, what now"? The second battalion commander spoke.

"Hurry up and inform the other troops, we hurry up and move closer to the first battalion"! Pan Shuo said urgently.

"Yes"!

......

The sky gradually turned white, and the long night came to an end at this moment, and no one would know what was next, or they were just a small team that came in through the gaps in the battle line, maybe they were the vanguard of the devils, or maybe the answer would be revealed at dawn.

Chen Liang rubbed his eyes, and strengthened his spirits, everyone was a little sleepy after a night of rapid marching, the more tired they were the more they were in the morning, several soldiers around Chen Liang had even begun to nap, Chen Liang frowned and said casually: "Brothers, cheer up, let them taste our power when Little Japan comes"!

Chen Liang's voice made the sergeants present instantly cheer up, and at this moment, a soldier spoke: "Squad leader, the devil is here, look there"!

Looking in the direction pointed by the soldier, I saw a Japanese brigade of more than 1,000 people rushing towards this place with cannons, and what surprised everyone even more was that there were eight tall Japanese tanks in the team.

"Quick, inform the battalion commander". Lu Hai shouted.

"Don't shoot, no one is allowed to show firepower, and you will listen to my orders to shoot!" The commander of a company who arrived in a hurry ordered.