"Sir, the head of the city is too small, and our people are concentrated, there will be casualties when the shells fall down, and everyone can't dodge the shells when they lie on the ground!" The adjutant climbed over to the captain and shouted!

Seeing that the captain had a calm face and didn't speak, he continued to shout!

"At least twenty shells came from the Eighth Route Army just a few minutes ago, and we have already suffered almost thirty warriors, and if we continue to let the shells blow up, our casualties will increase!"

"Yaga!" The captain finally spoke, and scolded!

"The Eighth Route Army must be trying to force us out of Lingqiu City, this is already the head of the city, and if we retreat, we will be out of the city!"

"We paid such a big price yesterday to enter the city, and we must not retreat!"

"What about artillery? The Eighth Route Army has artillery, and we have it too! Order them to strike back immediately and take out the artillery units of the Eighth Route Army! ”

Before the adjutant moved, the artillery staff officer next to him shouted: "Sir, it's useless!"

"I just observed that the shells fired by the Eighth Route Army were all coming from different directions, and none of the shells were fired from other shells!"

"The Eighth Route Army is too cunning, they must have used the usual artillery tactics, the artillery hits one shell to transfer an artillery position, otherwise it is impossible for three mortars to fire more than 20 shells at us in a few minutes!"

"Even if we concentrate all the mortars for a counterattack, it's useless!"

"The Eighth Route Army is constantly shifting artillery positions, and we have no chance of locking them on, let alone destroying them!"

"Nani?"

The captain opened his mouth, but he couldn't say a word, and his face was full of shock!

"Boom ......"

Two shells exploded not far away, and the flames made the captain clearly see the tragic picture after the shells exploded!

The two soldiers lying on the ground were directly overturned by the air wave generated by the explosion, blood flowed from the corners of their mouths, and they lay motionless on the ground!

There was also a devil who was injured by the explosion and was lying on the ground squirming while screaming in pain!

The imminent death woke up the captain at once!

Make a decisive decision: "Retreat, everyone leaves the city, let's go straight out of the city!"

"We lost more than 500 people in the afternoon, and the Eighth Route Army lost nearly 100 people in the sneak attack just now and the current artillery bombardment, and if we continue to hold on here, the entire combat unit of the brigade will be killed by the Eighth Route Army!"

"Warriors can't die in vain!"

"Everyone must keep their useful bodies and continue to attack the Eighth Route Army tomorrow, kill them all, and avenge the warriors who died in battle!"

On the road nearly ten kilometers away from Lingqiu City, the road that has been winding in the mountains is rare to come across a plain here!

Three or four hundred meters on both sides of the road are wheat fields that have been harvested, which is very flat!

Major General Sakai commanded two infantry brigades, and finally arrived here at two o'clock in the morning!

"General, the soldiers have been on the road for more than ten hours in a row, and there are only less than two hours left to Lingqiu! The terrain here is flat, and it is impossible for the Eighth Route Army to ambush the troops, so do you want to order the troops to rest here for half an hour! "Captain Shaozuo, who was walking beside the major general on horseback, suggested!

Although he has a war horse to walk, he is also very tired after walking for such a long time at once, without stopping in the middle!

Especially the inner thighs, because of the long riding to maintain a movement, it has been grinded red, and the slightest movement will be very painful!

Another captain immediately came up and said, "General, I also support resting here for half an hour!"

"The soldiers are so tired, I heard that the Eighth Route Army still has troops outside the city! If we encounter a sneak attack from outside the city, and the soldiers are very tired, there will definitely be heavy casualties! ”

"Then rest!" The brigade commander finally relented and ordered!

He has his troubles, and the military department came to order after dark that he must rush to Lingqiu before dawn, otherwise the military law will be engaged!

In order not to be sent to a military court, he could only endure the fatigue that kept coming from his body, and forced his body to lead the troops to hurry!

Now that he has determined that he can rush to Lingqiu City before dawn, the brigade commander is like a deflated ball, and his whole body suddenly has no strength at all!

He needs to rest too!

The two brigades were not equipped with cavalry, but with the attached mountain artillery squadrons, the total strength still reached 2,300 people!

As soon as the order to stop advancing was given, more than 2,000 devils sat on the ground and gasped!

What formation, what guard post, it all has nothing to do with you...... No matter how much the chief scolds, he doesn't want to move!

On the high ground two kilometers away, Li Hao held a telescope and stared at the fire dragon on the highway motionlessly!

Seeing that the devil suddenly stopped to rest, the formation was gone, and the whole team was in chaos!

A flash of excitement quickly flashed on his serious face, and he shouted excitedly: "God help me, the little devils stop and rest now, they are just waiting for us to blow them up!"

Yuan Qingfeng stood beside him and immediately asked, "Regiment commander, do you want the artillery to open fire now!"

"It's all set!" Li Hao didn't look back, didn't put down the binoculars, and asked very seriously!

"Ready!" Yuan Qingfeng hurriedly replied!

A smile involuntarily appeared on his face, and he continued: "Coupled with the one that was just captured in the first half of the night, the mountain artillery battalion already has a full twenty mountain guns and four infantry guns, and I have already set them all up!"

"According to your order, the regiment commander, the twenty-four artillery pieces are divided into two, and half of the artillery will fire first, hitting the little devils within a hundred meters in the front!"

"In one minute, five rapid fires, after firing the remaining half of the artillery, the artillery fire was fired, and the area covered by the artillery fire extended a hundred meters back!"

"During the shelling, half of the artillery that had just ceased fire immediately adjusted its firing and prepared to shell the Japanese puppet army within the next 100 meters!"

"Twenty-four artillery pieces fired continuously, one by one, and blew up the road at the foot of the mountain!"

"Then fire!" Li Hao did not hesitate and ordered decisively!

"Fire...... Thundered...... Woowoo woo ......"

As soon as the words were spoken, the shelling order, the sound of artillery fire, the scream of shells across the sky......

Let's pass it to Li Hao's ears together!

After waiting for less than three seconds, more than a dozen flames exploded on the road!

It took a long time before the sound of the explosion reached Li Hao's ears!

The commander of the Devil's Major General Brigade was so tired that he didn't want to get up when he sat on the ground!

However, after hearing the explosion, the whole person seemed to be suddenly beaten with chicken blood, and jumped up from the ground with a rub!

Snatch the telescope handed over by his subordinates, hold it up and look at the place where the explosion sounded!

I don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it!

His face turned pale with a brush, and then he exclaimed with a stunned expression: "Bage Yalu, at least ten mountain guns are shelling our forward troops in front!"

"The troops immediately dispersed and hidden......"

"Artillery troops, find the enemy's artillery positions immediately, counterattack and kill them, ...... quickly"

Explosions constantly sounded on the positions!

Mountain artillery is different from mortars, in addition to shrapnel can kill, so can the shock wave generated by the explosion of the shell!

Even if the devils are lying on the ground, as long as the cannonballs are smashed nearby, the powerful shock wave can still shock them to death and injury!

So every shell was smashed down, and there were subordinates on the highway who were killed, and the brigade commander saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart!

The guns of the two mountain artillery squadrons were disassembled and mounted on mule horses, and if the devils wanted to counterattack, they had to assemble the artillery first, and then they could establish artillery positions for counterattack!

It was definitely a very painful wait for the brigade commander.

Before the artillery unit could wait for the news, a burst of exclamations from the subordinates around him made his heart rise directly to his throat!

"General, the enemy seems to be extending its artillery fire, and the impact point is getting closer and closer to us!"

The artillery staff officer next to him immediately shouted: "No!"

"General, the enemy shelled us definitely more than ten guns!"

"Judging from the humble judgment, they have at least twice as many guns, and after half of the guns are fired, the other half of the guns continue to fire, and the impact point is constantly approaching us! Only in this way will they be able to ensure the continuity of artillery fire, the point of impact approaching us without interruption of shelling! ”

"Hiss ......"

The brigade commander gasped and shouted!

"More than twenty artillery pieces, how is it possible, isn't our opponent the Eighth Route Army? When did they have such a powerful artillery unit, and the number of artillery was even more than that of the Imperial Army! ”

The facts are in front of us, and the brigade commander can't believe it!

Seeing that the shell hit point was getting closer and closer to him, and he didn't stop in the middle, he continued to shout: "I don't care how many artillery pieces the enemy has, our artillery will counterattack!"

"Even if the Imperial Japanese Army dies, it will die on the frontal battlefield, not passively beaten and killed by shells!"

"The troops immediately dispersed, evaded artillery fire, and waited for the artillery units to counterattack!"

After this order was issued, the brigade commander completely led the officers and men under his command to a dead end!

In the face of the rapid assault of the cavalry troops, the troops gathered together, relying on light and heavy machine gun fire to counterattack, and there was still a chance to fight!

But once the troops are dispersed, there is no chance!

It is impossible for the scattered troops to block the fire of the cavalry, and in the face of the cavalry that comes by surprise, there is no other way to retreat except to be chased and killed!

When the cannon rumbled and the violent explosion enveloped the entire battlefield, the cavalry battalion moved!

More than a hundred cavalrymen, their sabers raised high above their heads, quickly killed the battlefield that had been covered by artillery fire, and the speed was getting faster and faster!

At this time, the Devil Forward Force is struggling in pain!

The road covered with craters was littered with corpses, and the seriously wounded were screaming in pain!

A squadron of fully formed infantry, intact little devils are not even a squad!

With a mixed expression of shock and fear on their faces, everyone shuttled back and forth between the craters to treat the wounded!

The horse's hooves of the cavalry assault at the beginning were not loud and were completely muffled by the sound of artillery!

When the devil was less than a hundred meters away, the assault speed had reached the extreme, and the thunderous sound of horses' hooves finally overwhelmed the sound of the cannon and reached the devil's ears!

"Baga, cavalry! A cavalry is coming at us, and we will fight back immediately! A devil lieutenant was the first to realize the danger, stared at a pair of big eyes, and shouted!

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