"It's not good, there's an army!" In a Japanese guard trench less than 50 meters away from the shore of the east bank, a Japanese reconnaissance scout discovered the abnormality, and couldn't help but exclaim, and at the same time raised his gun to shoot to stop it.

However, Lin Rui, who had already discovered him, reacted faster, and raised his hand with the Mauser 98K rifle in his hand to shoot!

Bang! A hot 7.92mm rifle whistled into the face of the devil scout, killing him in one shot.

Subsequently, while continuing to lead the team to assault forward, Lin Rui quickly pulled down the bolt, reloaded the bullet, and continued to raise the gun to shoot.

Saburo Hirano was the supreme commander of the Japanese army stationed in Lujiadu, with the rank of junior lieutenant, graduated from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and was an extremely fanatical militant.

His unit was subordinate to the 1st Marine Group of the 3rd Fleet of the Combined Fleet of the Navy, and the commander of the 3rd Fleet, Kiyoshi Kawatani, equipped him with 600 marines and a large number of automatic weapons and heavy weapons, so that he could hold on to Lujiadu.

Brainwashed by the spirit of bushido and ******, Saburo Hirano has a radical mind and an extremely tenacious and fierce will to fight.

Under his command, Lujiadu's Japanese army showed extremely tenacious combat effectiveness, and it was able to block the repeated onslaught of thousands of elites of the 2nd Regiment of the Tax Police Corps where Lin Rui was located, as well as the 22nd Independent Brigade.

When the gunshots rang out on the east bank, Saburo Hirano had just laid down on a simple wooden bed in the village's command post and was about to fall asleep.

When he heard the gunshot, he suddenly sat up and asked sharply, "What's the situation?" ”

As he spoke, Saburo Hirano grabbed the pistol and saber he had placed next to him and rushed out of the command post in stride.

At this time, the commandos led by Lin Rui had already fired at the Japanese alert troops, so when they looked out from Lujiadu Village, they could see tongues of fire raging and flying.

Seeing this scene, Saburo Hirano couldn't help but look shocked, and a lieutenant suddenly hurriedly ran over with a saber on his shoulder, saluted him, and said, "Your Excellency Commander, it's not good, there is a branch of the army smuggled over and is assaulting the imperial army alert troops. ”

"Baga Yalu, what do the vigilant troops do to eat? How could the Chinese army be smuggled over quietly? Saburo Hirano rebuked angrily.

The lieutenant bowed his head in some shame, for he could not figure out how the Chinese army had crossed the river by concealing the sentinels of his forward line under the illumination of flares.

At this time, the gunfire in front became more intensive, and Saburo Hirano knew that it seemed that the vigilant troops could not resist it, so he forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, and immediately ordered: "Order all the vigilant troops to withdraw immediately, and all squadrons will open full fire to block the Shina army, and call for naval artillery fire support to block the river, and we must not let other Shina armies take advantage of the situation to cross the river and attack!" ”

I have to say that Saburo Hirano is still very sober-minded, and he also has high tactical attainments.

He understood that since the Chinese army could conceal its own alert troops, there must not be many troops participating in the sneak attack, so his first reaction was to organize troops to block the attack, and at the same time call for naval artillery fire support.

As long as the river is blocked and the Chinese army's follow-up troops are not given the opportunity to cross the river, then these Chinese troops who have smuggled over will lose their support and will eventually be wiped out on the east bank by themselves.

At that time, after a day of fierce fighting, more than half of the 600 troops in the hands of Saburo Hirano had been killed or wounded, and only more than 400 people remained.

In order to facilitate his command, Saburo Hirano divided the 400 men into two infantry squadrons and a machine gun squad.

In addition to the more than 50 alert reconnaissance sentries deployed on the shore, the remaining 300 people quickly entered a combat state after receiving the order from Saburo Hirano.

Light and heavy machine guns, rapid-fire guns, mortars, grenadiers were set up, and they began to fire one after another into the open area from the outside of the village to the shore.

At that time, Lin Rui and his commandos had already captured several coastal guard positions of the devils and killed about 20 devil sentinels.

The remaining devil sentries received the order from Saburo Hirano and immediately quickly retreated.

With the help of night and the cover of the firepower of their own main defenders, they narrowly retreated into their defense line in the village.

Lin Rui, Lin Feng and the others led the assault team and were about to pursue forward, when guns and cannons suddenly rang out in Lujiadu Village, and dazzling tongues of fire suddenly flew out, forming a large number of dense fire nets, pouring towards them head-on.

Lin Rui instinctively sensed that something was wrong, and immediately threw himself forward and fell to the ground, narrowly dodging a few oncoming bullets.

But the two commandos who followed him were not so lucky, they didn't have time to react and dodge, and were hit by the hot bullets respectively.

Poof! The strong bodies of the two warriors were stunned, and then they stumbled under their feet, and after running forward a few more steps under the huge inertia, they fell to the ground with a bang and died.

When Lin Rui was lying down, he rolled on the spot and hid in a crater not far away, and then quickly raised his gun and aimed at one of the devil machine gun fire points and pulled the trigger.

Bang! A rifle bullet whistled out and accurately hit the main shooter of the devil machine gun in the firing point, and a Type 92 heavy machine gun that was roaring suddenly stopped firing and instantly fell silent.

Although Lin Feng and the other soldiers also fired at the village in time, they did not have Lin Rui's keen insight and world-class marksmanship.

Many bullets hit the Devil's fortified bunker, and failed to pose a substantial threat to the Devil's defense forces in the village.

It is impossible to suppress the firepower of hundreds of devils with a sharpshooter close to Lin Rui.

Therefore, as the casualties increased, the commandos had to stop the charge, and hid in the nearby guard trenches and craters of some devils, relying on these fortifications to shoot at the devils in the air.

On the west bank, in front of the forward command post of the Second Regiment of the Tax Police Corps, Sun Liren saw the gunfire on the east bank and the flames were everywhere, so he immediately ordered in a deep voice: "Staff Officer Zhang, pass on my order, and all battalions and companies will quickly erect pontoon bridges and cross the river to help Lin Rui and them according to the original plan!" ”

"Yes!" Staff Officer Zhang suddenly agreed, quickly turned around and took the order to leave.

The order was quickly conveyed, and preparations had already been made in advance, and the officers and men of the battalions and companies of the 2nd Regiment of the Tax Police, as well as the participating troops of the 22nd Independent Brigade, all quickly began to erect pontoon bridges.

There were also some officers and soldiers who pushed the wooden boats and sampans collected from the rear during the day into the water and began to cross the river to prepare to rush to Lin Rui's aid.

However, less than five minutes into the operation, a deafening whistling sound suddenly sounded in the night sky behind the Japanese position.

Sun Liren, who was supervising the battle on the front line of the west bank, and the staff adjutants looked up suddenly, only to see that a dazzling scarlet fire in the night sky was piercing the night sky like meteors, shooting towards the side of the Xiaoling River.

Seeing this scene, Sun Liren and the others couldn't help but change their faces one after another: "It's not good, it's the enemy's naval artillery firepower!" ”