"Commander, the little devil is retreating!" The commander of the second company caught up with the regiment commander who was moving and shouted.

"There is no one on the city wall, what are they doing if they don't take the opportunity to occupy the city wall, retreat!" The regiment commander didn't understand what the devil was doing.

Turning back to the city, I wanted to see some clues.

The attacking force had less than two hundred men left, and while turning back and shooting at the head of the city, they retreated in an orderly manner.

A few hundred meters away from the heavy machine gun position, the explosion continued, and all six heavy machine guns ceased fire and seemed to be moving.

"Boom ......"

A new round of explosions came, and in the flying firelight, a retreating heavy machine gun group was instantly enveloped in gunsmoke.

The regiment commander reacted suddenly, and shouted with a look of regret: "It's not good, we miscalculated, the artillery was exposed too early." ”

"The devils must have been frightened by the number of our artillery, and feared that there was a conspiracy in the city, and then retreated."

When the political commissar heard the news, he rushed over, saw the attacking troops retreating farther and farther, and asked anxiously: "If the devils don't attack, the cavalry battalion will have no chance to assault them from behind." ”

"If the devil is really frightened by a dozen mortars, he will definitely suspend the attack and wait for another brigade to come."

"When they join forces and continue to attack the city, we will definitely not be opponents."

The head of the regiment frowned deeper and deeper, racking his brains to think of a solution.

One thought after another flashed through his head, and then he vetoed it.

Suddenly, a cavalry battalion hidden in the woods was dispatched.

The three cavalry companies were divided into two routes, all the way to the artillery position, and all the way to the devil's attack position, and the speed was very fast.

The regiment commander immediately reacted: "It's not good, the cavalry battalion commander Zhou also noticed that the battle situation had changed, and he was ready to attack in advance." ””

"This is our only chance to defeat the little devils."

"Order the artillery to continue firing after the transfer, aiming at the devil's offensive position, not allowing them to establish a defensive line and cover the cavalry assault."

"The rest of the heavy machine guns of the whole regiment all went up to the head of the city, strafing the retreating troops of the devils and their offensive positions."

"Open the city gate, kill the second or third company, drag the retreating troops of the Japanese puppet army, and reduce the combat pressure of the cavalry battalion."

After several orders were given in a row, the regiment commander's tense nerves were relieved, but the frowning brow did not loosen.

Even if he dragged the devil's retreating troops, the offensive position still had one infantry squadron, one guard team, one artillery squadron, one infantry artillery squad, and one more company of the puppet army, adding up to more than 500 people, twice the strength of the cavalry battalion.

Whether the cavalry battalion can win or not, no one knows.

Squatting behind the battlements, through the shooting holes, staring at the battlefield without blinking.

The devil had already spotted the cavalry rushing behind him, and after a short panic, he began to arrange the defensive line.

The light machine guns of the offensive positions were all mounted on the makeshift defensive line, ready to meet the cavalry battalion.

There are still two or three hundred meters of cavalry battalions about to exchange fire with devils, and the regiment commander seems to have seen countless cavalry killed by machine gun bullets.

Staring at the battlefield, he shouted anxiously: "Why don't the artillery fire yet." ”

"Immediately shell the Japanese assembly area, and don't care about the devil's counterattack artillery fire."

"There is a cavalry company that rushes towards the devil artillery position, as long as you blow up the devil's defense line and let the cavalry rush over, the devil artillery unit will definitely be finished, and the infantry will be killed completely."

"Heavy machine guns fire quickly, three heavy machine guns strafe the devil's retreating troops, cover the second and third companies to go out to counterattack, and other heavy machine guns strafe the devil's offensive position, so that they can't concentrate on dealing with the cavalry battalion."

"Da Da Da ......"

Anxiously waiting, the heavy machine gun finally joined the battle.

The heavy machine gun company of the independent regiment, the fire company of the cavalry battalion, a total of thirteen heavy machine guns roared at the same time.

With an effective range of more than 1,000 meters, the heavy machine gun bullets have great lethality after flying to the devil's offensive position.

On the defensive line of the cavalry battalion, many devils were half-squatting on the ground, with their backs to the Laishui city wall.

Heavy machine gun bullets swept past, and these backs were like live targets, one after the other.

At the last moment, the artillery also joined the battle.

The offensive position is different from the artillery position, the range is very large, there are little devils everywhere, as long as the shells are smashed through, there will be results.

More than a dozen shells exploded on the position, and the defense line improvised by the devils immediately became chaotic.

"Just like that, the artillery continues to fire, and the heavy machine guns don't stop, the more chaotic the devils, the more beneficial it is to the cavalry battalion." The regimental commander slammed his fist on the battlements and shouted excitedly.

The captain of the devil brigade was thrown to the ground by his subordinates, successfully avoiding the shells and bullets flying towards him, but he was not in a good mood at all, and his face became more and more pale.

The roar of the horse's hooves grew louder and louder, but the troops were in disarray under mortar and heavy machine-gun fire.

If you can't concentrate your fire on the cavalry, everyone here will be slaughtered by the cavalry.

"Eight grid tooth road, don't mess around...... The machine gunners were ready for battle and must block the cavalry. The captain shouted at the top of his voice.

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

The order that had just been exited was instantly overwhelmed by the explosion, and few people heard it, and the chaos not only did not stop, but further intensified.

They were on the attacking side, and no one could have imagined before the war that there would be a conspiracy of the Independent Regiment.

Notta's offensive position did not have a single bunker except for a few machine-gun positions stacked with sandbags.

The troops were completely exposed to the surface, there was no way to hide, and in the face of round after round of shell rain, it was impossible not to mess up.

"Captain, the Eighth Route Army has come out of the city!" One of his subordinates rushed over and reported.

The closed city gate had been opened, and countless Eighth Route troops poured out of the city gate hole, launching a counter-assault on the retreating troops with their guns in hand, shooting as they charged.

The captain immediately understood what the opponent meant, and shouted with a look of despair: "The independent regiment wants to hold back the retreating troops and prevent them from joining us. ”

According to the efforts reported by the subordinates, the cavalry had already reached a position of less than 300 meters from the offensive position.

Several light machine guns fought back under artillery fire.

More than two hundred meters away, cavalry continued to fall on the road along with their war horses, but their assault was too fast, and the living cavalry was not affected in the slightest, and continued to assault forward over the corpses.

The deputy captain lying next to him was in a hurry, he didn't want to die, so he hurriedly shouted.

"Sir, the artillery fire of the independent regiment is too fierce, and we have no position to defend, and the troops are attacked by the enemy on their backs, and they can't stop it with all their might, and they will definitely not be able to stop the cavalry rushing over."

"Rather than waiting here to be slaughtered, it is better to divide the troops to break through, withdraw to the east of the county, join the feint troops to occupy a high ground, and wait for reinforcements, so that the chances of the troops surviving will definitely be greater."

The captain of the group recognized this proposal very much, and decisively ordered: "The third squadron, the fourth squadron, alternately cover the retreat, and the other troops will go with me first and retreat to the east of the county seat." ”

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