"Sir, the mortar squadron is over, the independent battalion has assembled almost twenty mortars to counterattack them, we only have six mortars, and we will be killed without even a chance to resist!" The communications officer rushed to Watanabe and reported with a painful face!

Watanabe Shaosa didn't speak with a calm face, no one knew what he was thinking.

The adjutant couldn't help it, stared at Watanabe and shouted, "Sir, the independent battalion is definitely going to wipe us out here!" ”

"A full twenty mortars, all the mortars equipped by all the garrisons in Lingqiu don't add up to so many. In addition to attacking us and annihilating us completely, I can't think of any other purpose for them to concentrate so many mortars! ”

"Sir, the Eighth Route Army outside the village has started digging trenches again, and there are many troops, at least a thousand more." A lieutenant next to him shouted.

Watanabe finally reacted, and immediately raised his binoculars to look out of the village.

With the help of flares, he could clearly see every move of the Eighth Route Army outside the village.

The trenches being dug by the Eighth Route Army were not in a straight line, but in a zigzag pattern, extending little by little towards the village.

Each trench was diagonally facing the village, and all the bullets fired by the troops hit the mound of dirt on the other side of the trench, which could not threaten the Eighth Route Army hiding inside.

At this moment, the front section of the trench was less than two hundred meters away from the village, and the entire trench added up to at least a thousand meters.

In such a long stretch of trench, Watanabe could not see a single head coming out, but the shovels in the hands of the soldiers still gave Watanabe a basic judgment of the Eighth Route Army inside.

Frowning and analyzing: "The trenches are full of the Eighth Route Army, and they are deepening and widening the trenches!" ”

The adjutant gasped and exclaimed, "Aren't there thousands of them? Plus the Eighth Route Army that didn't come out of the woods, that's not more. ”

"Sir, where did the independent battalion get so many troops, as well as heavy weapons, and actually gathered twenty mortars to counterattack our artillery unit!"

"Could it be that all their main forces have gathered here?"

"That's not right, their three main companies have our three-way feint troops staring at it, if they really come over, the three-way feint troops won't have any news!"

Watanabe's face was already gloomy and terrible at the moment, and the adjutant's question was also his question.

At the same time, a very bold conjecture had already appeared in his head

For two days, he had the same idea, the lack of news from the three-way feint troops was good news, which meant that they were still confronting the three main companies of the independent battalion, and the situation had not changed.

Now it seems that he is still too trusted, and the hopes for the three-way feint attack force are too great.

There was no news for two days in a row, and there was a terrible situation in which they had been quietly killed by the Independent Battalion and wiped out the entire army, and then no information came.

Now looking at the Eighth Route Army digging trenches outside the village, Watanabe still has a glimmer of hope, but he is more and more sure of this speculation in his heart.

If the three-way feint attack force is really killed by the independent battalion, and the main forces of the independent battalion are all gathered here, then so many Eighth Route Army in front of them can explain it.

The twenty mortars that the separate battalion had just used could also be explained.

The mortars of the independent battalion itself, plus the ones they had captured from the three feints, plus the ones they had captured last night, were exactly twenty or so.

"It's not good, the Eighth Route Army wants to annihilate us all here tonight!" Watanabe Shaosa judged with a calm face.

Evidence after evidence made him more sure of his current judgment

Although he still didn't want to believe this fact, as a commander, he had to prepare for the worst.

He added with a calm face: "It is very likely that the feint attack force that confronted the three main companies of the independent battalion has encountered an accident, if it is true, then we have become a lone army deep into the base area of the independent battalion!" ”

"Order, all the remaining troops in the village are ready for battle, if the situation is really as bad as I judged, we must hold out until dawn under the attack of the independent battalion, and then withdraw from their base under the cover of aircraft, otherwise we will all die here."

"The mountain artillery squadron will immediately open fire and destroy the trenches being built by the Eighth Route Army, and we must not let the Eighth Route Army approach our station through the trenches and shorten the distance of their attack!"

"Woo woo woo ....... boom boom ......"

Six shells flew through the sky with a piercing screech, and then smashed into the middle of the trench.

The immense power instantly raised a large amount of smoke and dirt.

One of the shells hit the trench right in, blowing up a huge gap.

Several soldiers of the Eighth Route Army fell to the side, their flesh and blood blurred.

The soldiers who happened to be hit by the shells were the worst, they were directly blown apart, and the minced flesh and stumps and broken arms were blown away along with the soil, and they fell everywhere, which was very tragic.

"Yo Xi, just blow it up, destroy those trenches for me, and kill the Eighth Route Army hiding in the trenches!" Watanabe Shaosa stared at a pair of red eyes and shouted with a hideous face.

The effect of the shelling just now gave him hope, and then a pair of eyes fixed on the battlefield, looking forward to the next surprise.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The second round of shells soon rang out in the middle of the front trenches.

But this time Watanabe was not happy, as soon as the shell exploded, there was also an explosion from the artillery position in the village.

Watanabe's face changed and he shouted, "Yaga, it's a mortar from an independent battalion...... I forgot that the whole village was covered by mortar fire, and the mountain artillery positions must also be ......: the mountain artillery squadron is finished! ”

Before the words were finished, a more dense explosion had been heard from the mountain artillery position,

Watanabe waited for almost half a minute, and the six mountain guns did not shoot a single shell, and all the mountain guns were dumb!

"It's over!"

Watanabe Shaosa shouted in despair, his face brushing and becoming defeated.

Mountain artillery shelling was his last chance to destroy the trenches, and now that the mountain artillery is gone, this opportunity is gone, and he can only watch the independent battalion repair the position.

The adjutant hesitated for a moment and comforted: "Sir, we still have more than a thousand troops, as well as a large number of light and heavy machine guns and ammunition, plus this earthen fence that is no less than the city wall, even if there is no artillery, we can hold the village!"

"Not bad!" Watanabe Shaosa regains his fighting spirit.

Raising the binoculars and observing the situation outside, he reported: "Tuweizi dug out a few shooting holes and arranged for the Imperial Association Army to remove some more young grass from the village, I want to build a few machine gun bunkers behind Tuweizi, as long as the mortars of the Eighth Route Army do not hit directly, they will not be able to hurt the warriors' simple bunkers!"

"That's right! As it was, the separate battalion dug trenches outside the village to shorten the offensive distance. We will build machine gun bunkers in the village, strengthen the fortifications, and fight a tough battle with the independent battalion here, so that they can have a good taste of the strength of the imperial army! ”

"The other troops have strengthened their vigilance, and we must not allow the trenches of the Eighth Route Army to continue to approach us!"

"As long as the Eighth Route Army emerges from the trenches, immediately concentrate firepower to counterattack and kill them."

For the next hour or so, the entire battlefield was surprisingly calm.

Except for the flares that kept rising into the air and exploding, neither side nor the enemy fired a single bullet.

Li Hao has been observing the situation on the battlefield and the progress of the excavation of the trenches.

As soon as the first trench was dug he left the woods and entered the trench, as close as possible to command the troops.

"All light and heavy machine guns entered the position, built machine gun positions on the trenches, and set up all the machine guns. If there are devils who come out of the village to fight back, resolutely kill them! ”

"Contact the mountain artillery company, the artillery in the hands of the devil has been killed by us, immediately send six mountain guns to the front-line battlefield, I want to give Watanabe a cannon with a bayonet. If the devils send armored vehicles to counterattack us, these mountain artillery are the best weapons to destroy them. ”

Hong Linfeng next to him was in a good mood, and replied half-jokingly: "Battalion commander, if I were a little devil, I would definitely not come out."

"How good it is to rely on the earthen fence around the village to defend, how can you be stupid and come out to die!"

Li Hao replied confidently: "Then you are optimistic, I promise that even if the little devil doesn't want to come out to fight back, we will have to come out in a while!"

Peng Yunfeng lay next to him and did not speak, until this time, he was still immersed in surprise.

The method he proposed by himself could not have succeeded, but now Li Hao has gone through a series of actions, and finally it has been achieved.

So after listening to Li Hao's words just now, not only was he not shocked, but he also had a little more expectation.

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