When the reinforcements of the 3rd Brigade of the 12th Infantry Wing arrived at the position of the 11th Mountain Artillery Wing, Lin Rui and others had basically destroyed all the 75 mountain artillery on the position.

Without any hesitation, both sides opened fire directly.

The first to engage the Devil reinforcements were a dozen or so death squad members on guard, who had two Czech light machine guns and a few pistols, and spotted them when the Devil reinforcements arrived.

With two Czech light machine guns and a few Mauser pistols, they fired first, and the devil reinforcements were caught off guard.

Kill all the more than ten devil soldiers who rushed to the front.

And temporarily suppressed the devils who followed behind, and as soon as the gunshots rang out here, someone immediately ran over to report to Lin Rui: "Camp, there are devil reinforcements coming behind." ”

Lin Rui saw that the Japanese artillery position had been almost destroyed, so he immediately raised the submachine gun in his hand and shouted in a deep voice: "The first commando team is behind me, and the others will retreat to the south first!" ”

Zhou Weihan was not far behind Lin Rui, and when he heard him say that he was going to retreat to the south, he couldn't help but be taken aback, and hurriedly walked over and said: "Yingzuo, to the south is Yuepu and Baoshan County, I heard that it has also been attacked by the devil's heavy troops, is it too dangerous for us to retreat south like this?" ”

Lin Rui said: "It is more dangerous to retreat directly to the Lion Forest, because the 12th Infantry Wing has been alarmed, and with them in the way, it is impossible for us to withdraw the same way."

So we had to retreat south to see if we could break through from the junction of the 12th Wing and the rest of the Japanese army. ”

After speaking, Lin Rui carried a submachine gun and rushed towards the 3rd Devil Brigade with dozens of daredevils who were also equipped with submachine guns, and picked up the dozen or so fighters who were blocking the 3rd Brigade.

At that time, the devils of the 3rd Brigade had already reacted, set up light and heavy machine guns, and were about to force a breakthrough.

was violently strafed by Lin Rui and dozens of soldiers with submachine guns, and dozens of devil soldiers who tried to forcibly assault were immediately beaten and fell, and the remnants retreated in panic.

"My First Commando Palace, you retreat!" Lin Rui held a submachine gun and fired fiercely at the devil while shouting orders to the dozen or so soldiers in charge of vigilance.

More than a dozen fighters, especially the few who were in charge of operating the two light machine guns, immediately stopped firing, turned around and withdrew, holding the light machine guns and ammunition boxes.

Lin Rui, with dozens of soldiers from the First Commando Team, also continued to fire at the devil while retreating alternately.

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Lion Forest Fort Position, National Army Headquarters.

"Tuanza, the front line has been verified, the explosion just now came from the rear of the Japanese army opposite us, it should be Lin Rui who succeeded in sneaking up on the devil's artillery position." A staff officer of the 2nd Regiment of the Tax Police walked in from outside and reported to Sun Liren.

Sun Liren couldn't help but look excited when he heard this, and praised him: "Great, Lin Rui did a good job, we can defend the Lion Forest, he and the third battalion have made a lot of contributions!" ”

At this moment, a communications soldier suddenly hurriedly walked in, still holding a telegram in his hand, came to Sun Liren, saluted him upright, and said: "Sir, we have received an order from our superiors, let us immediately withdraw from the Lion Forest position and move to Dachang!" ”

"What?" Sun Liren and the staff adjutants present were all taken aback when they heard this, and Sun Liren asked with a puzzled face: "Why?" The Lion Forest is guarding it well now, why do we suddenly give up? ”

The signal soldier handed the telegram in his hand to Sun Liren with both hands, and replied: "Tuanzao, judging from the telegram, Yuepu has been completely lost, and the main force of the 11th Division of the Japanese Army has begun to outflank our troops and the friendly forces in Baoshan County.

In order to prevent our Lion Forest defenders from falling into the encirclement of the Japanese army, the superiors decided to immediately abandon the Lion Forest position and move to the rear to wait for another battle! ”

Sun Liren took the telegram, read it in a hurry, and handed it to the staff officer with an ugly face: "Yuepu has been lost, the 98th Division has suffered heavy casualties, and the flank of the Lion Forest has been lost, and it can no longer be defended." ”

The staff officer also hurriedly read the telegram, and immediately said to Sun Lidao: "Tuanzuo, since this is the case, let's retreat quickly, if we delay any longer, once the devil completes the roundabout outflanking, we will be in danger." ”

Sun Liren said with a look of embarrassment: "However, Lin Rui and his death squad haven't come back yet, and we withdraw like this, wouldn't we ignore them in danger?" ”

The staff officer was also a little embarrassed, but gritted his teeth, and still said to Sun Li: "Tuanzao, the situation is like this, we can only abandon the car to protect the commander!" Moreover, Lin Rui and the death squad attacked the Japanese artillery position, which is equivalent to stabbing the devil's nest, whether they can break through and come back is still unknown, and it should be the overall situation! ”

Sun Liren is a patriotic soldier, his bones and blood are full of loyalty and love for this country, and the motherland is above everything else for him.

At the same time, he is also a professional soldier, and he knows that it is a soldier's duty to obey orders, especially when he learns that the orders of his superiors are correct orders to reduce unnecessary casualties and for the sake of the overall situation, he has no way to refuse to carry them out.

Therefore, no matter how much he appreciates and feels guilty about Lin Rui in his heart, he will only and can only choose to abandon Lin Rui and the death squad at this time.

So, Sun Liren walked to the gate of the headquarters, looked at the direction of the Japanese position, where the flames were soaring into the sky and there were constantly gunshots, and turned his back to his subordinates with a guilty face and ordered: "Order all units to act according to the order, and immediately take alternate cover to withdraw from the position." ”

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At the front line, a herald found Yu Weiguo's temporary command post on the forward position along the communication trench, and said to him in a deep voice: "Major Yu, the superior has an order, immediately abandon the position and retreat to the rear. ”

Yu Weiguo was also taken aback when he heard this, stared at the soldiers who came to give the order with a confused face, and asked, "What did you say?" Fall back? Why? ”

The herald was a little frightened by Yu Weiguo's fierce eyes, and lowered his head and said, "Sir, I don't know what I want to do, this is an order from the command." ”

Yu Weiguo reprimanded angrily: "Battalion Commander Lin and the death squad haven't withdrawn yet, now retreat, what should they do?" ”

"This..., the lowly office is just doing what he is told." The herald said with some panic.

"Orders? Whose order? Sun Liren? I'm going to find him! Yu Weiguo said angrily.

After saying that, he handed over the task of forward command to his subordinates, and rushed towards the headquarters with a guard.

However, when Yu Weiguo arrived at the headquarters, Sun Liren and other senior officers had already evacuated in advance, leaving only a lieutenant colonel officer in the aftermath.

Before Yu Weiguo could come forward to reason with him, a deafening sound of gunfire and explosions suddenly came from the forward direction behind him.

Yu Weiguo turned around suddenly, only to see clusters of red light rising up one after another on the forward position, and his face couldn't help but change greatly, and he immediately said to the accompanying guards: "It's not good, the enemy is attacking the forward position." ”

After saying that, he didn't bother to go to the lieutenant colonel's theory, so he walked out of the headquarters and ran at full speed along the communication trench to the forward position.