"Uh-huh......."

In response to the compliment of the person in front of him, the Japanese captain nodded his head.

At this moment, a devil messenger with a radio on his back ran over and respectfully handed a telegram to the captain.

"Report to the chief, Okazaki Shaozo has just sent another urging telegram saying that they have captured a headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, driven the enemy into the mountains, and asked us to speed up and join him!"

Hearing this, he took the telegram and glanced at it, and the Japanese captain was also taken aback. Before, he thought that Shao Zuo had just found a few dirt roads, but he didn't expect the other party to really catch a big fish.

Handing the telegram to the communications officer, he said in a deep voice with a straight face:

"Call back to the captain immediately, and say that we have passed Baihua Village, and we are marching in a hurry at the designated location, and we are expected to arrive before half past six in the morning!"

After the words were closed, the Japanese captain immediately ordered the whole army to speed up the march again.

……

As the speed of the Japanese army accelerated suddenly, Zhao Shixun and his party, who were digging bunkers on the west bank of the river not far away, had to stop what they were doing after more than ten minutes, and they all lay quietly in their respective bunkers.

……

In the dark, looking at the torches that were getting closer and closer, Zhao Shixun glanced at the time on his pocket watch, 3:25.

"Everyone is lying down for me, and no one is allowed to fire without an order!"

After telling him, Zhao Shixun threw his briefcase to Hu Tian beside him, and then carefully climbed out of the foxhole.

Due to the rush of time, Zhao Shixun and the others only had time to dig dozens of foxholes of different sizes, which could barely be regarded as allowing people to squat in them.

After climbing out of the bunker, Zhao Shixun climbed the hillside all the way to the position of the fourth company located on the ridge.

As a machine gun company, Qi Baoshan did not put the position and infantry together, but moved to the ridge dozens of meters away from the third company.

With two Type 97 90mm mortars, plus four grenadiers and a Type 92 heavy machine gun, the firepower of the Fourth Company at this time is definitely one of the best even if you look at the entire Eighth Route Army in southern Jinnan.

……

Coming to the position of the fourth company and touching the dark mortar barrel, Zhao Shixun looked at Qi Baoshan, who was tinkering with the heavy machine gun, and said:

"I haven't bothered to ask you, how much heavy weapons and ammunition do we have left?"

Hearing this, he glanced at the other party, Qi Baoshan inserted the wiped bullet plate in his hand into the bolt, and then gently pulled the reentry spring.

"There are still a lot of bullets from heavy machine guns, but there is not much ammunition for mortars and grenadiers."

With that, he turned and pointed to a few boxes behind him.

"There were eight more shells from the mortars, a little more grenadiers, and twenty-three rounds, but two of them were flares."

Hearing the real number, Zhao Shixun secretly calculated in his heart.

"Brother Baoshan, I won't hide it from you, in this blocking battle, if we want to notify the other party before the Japanese army arrives at the column station, we must hold out until five o'clock in the morning, that is, at least one and a half hours."

Since the next communication time with the column was five o'clock, Zhao Shixun also set the time for blocking the attack at five o'clock.

When the time comes, the independent detachment will pass the information of the approaching Japanese army to the column in Nanyang Village, and it will be able to withdraw from the battle with confidence.

Hearing this, Qi Baoshan was silent for a while, and then shook his head gently.

"It's dawn at half-past four, and if we don't evacuate then, it won't be so easy to evacuate in the future. Detachment leader, it's not me Qi Baoshan who is so ambitious that he will destroy his prestige, why can't you fight with the devil. You must know that the Japanese puppet army on the opposite side must have about 500 people, which is much more than we can. ”

Seeing Qi Baoshan's lack of confidence, Zhao Shixun hurriedly changed his statement.

"Brother Baoshan, I'm not trying to fight the devil, I mean can we hurt the enemy in one round of attacks, at least so that they don't dare to act rashly against us in a short time, do you understand?"

Hearing this, he silently lowered his head, Qi Baoshan opened an ammunition box and took out a ten-pound mortar shell from it.

Caressing the cold projectile body, he pondered for a moment before raising his head to look at Zhao Shixun's eyes and gritting his teeth.

"Good! But I have one request, that is, I have the final say on when this battle will be, and you can wait for me to shell before it can begin. ”

Qi Baoshan's idea is very simple, since you want me to guarantee the lethal effect of the grenadier mortar, then you have to let me play the first round of attacks. Otherwise, once the guns are fired first, the Japanese troops with extremely high combat quality will definitely immediately hide on the spot. In that case, the firepower output of the fourth company will be greatly reduced.

"No problem...... I can guarantee that when your shells hit the ground, the battle will start! ”

With Zhao Shixun's assurance, Qi Baoshan finally relaxed a lot.

For this ambush battle, Qi Baoshan was actually under a lot of pressure in his heart.

With their current strength, even just the last Japanese squadron will be extremely difficult. Now facing at least three squadrons or more of the Japanese puppet army, the danger in this can be imagined.

He knew very well that if he couldn't let the Fourth Company inflict heavy losses on the Japanese troops in one round of attacks and defeat them, then his side would very likely be bitten by the Japanese troops who came against him.

After getting Qi Baoshan's assurance, Zhao Shixun did not stay on the position of the fourth company for long. Before leaving, he still said that after the fourth company had finished all the ammunition, it must immediately retreat to the anticline of the hillside and hide on the spot, so that it does not need to participate in infantry battles.

……

3:40 a.m.

Thundered......

In the midst of lightning and thunder, Zhao Shixun subconsciously looked at the ridge behind him.

At this moment, although he knew that the mountain he chose was not the highest point in the vicinity, Zhao Shixun couldn't help but be a little worried that Qi Baoshan and they would be taken care of by the angry Lei Gong .......

Gradually, as the torches winding under the mountain gradually approached the embankment, Zhao Shixun on the other side of the river also withdrew his gaze.

Since most of the land in this generation was watered in the mountains, the road to Dongfeng Town was placed on the river embankment. This time, the figure of the Japanese army was completely exposed under everyone's noses.

Not long after, as the Japanese army started to march along the sand waist bend, the distance between the two sides was suddenly shortened to less than 100 meters!

Facing the Japanese soldiers walking in front of them with torches, the soldiers on the hillside suddenly became short of breath.

"Steady...... Hold steady and wait for the command ....... ”

Aiming at a ghost soldier carrying a heavy machine gun, Zhao Shixun kept comforting the soldiers around him.

Boom......

Suddenly, as a red light flew into the sky, a flare instantly burned in the sky.

And when the flares began to fall, the long marching column of the Japanese army suddenly revealed a large area.

"Nani? What is this for? ”

Looking at the flares that Leng Buding flew into the sky, many Japanese soldiers subconsciously stopped, looking at the white points of light slowly falling in the sky in confusion.

As for the sudden appearance of the flares, many Japanese soldiers thought that they had fired them indiscriminately.

Bang bang bang......

Boom...... Boom...... Boom......

Just when the Japanese army was still wondering if the stupid hat fired a flare, three ** grenades exploded in the queue in an instant.

Due to the marching column of the two columns of the Japanese platoon, three exploding grenades separated by more than ten meters covered the queue of nearly 50 meters at once.

Da Da Da ...... Da Da Da ...... Bang bang .......

At the moment of the explosion, the gunfire on the west bank of the river also broke out. A dense rain of bullets flew in, knocking over the Japanese soldiers who had not had time to lie down and hide to the ground.

"Enemy attack ......!"

Doodle...... Doodle......

In the shouting, the sound of the Japanese guard post sounded in one place.

However, the next moment, the terrible whistle was completely drowned out by the sound of another explosion.

Along the line of the Japanese troops on the riverbank, Qi Baoshan commanded the grenadiers to continuously fire accurate three salvos.

Although the Japanese army began to disperse immediately after the attack, because the crops by the river had just been harvested, the bare fields were completely unsheltered, so many Japanese soldiers could only pout their butts and lie in the muddy crop fields.

And as the baggage wagons caught in the infantry queue were swept away, the mules and horses pulling the carts were also frightened by the shelling, which caused even more confusion. In the face of several mules pulling carts and running wildly, many Japanese soldiers even jumped into the river in order to escape, and they were extremely embarrassed.

Boom......

As the bombardment of grenadiers spread near the ranks of the Japanese troops, another flare flew into the sky.

It's just that this time the flare flew farther, directly to the rear of the Japanese ranks.

More than ten seconds later, I looked at the figure of the Japanese infantry cannon that was gradually exposed to the flares.

Qi Baoshan, who was standing on the ridge, put down his binoculars violently and shouted out the enemy's coordinates and distance to the two mortars behind him.

The next moment, the four mortar shooters quickly adjusted their firing positions, and then reduced the pill pack at the end of the shell.

"Target Japanese infantry artillery, ready ...... Put! ”

In Qi Baoshan's shouting, the two Type 97 mortars shook violently, and two ten-pound shells were fired out in an instant.

And at the moment when the shell flew out of the barrel, Qi Baoshan hurriedly raised the telescope and stared at the ninety-two rifle cannon that was being untied from the mule by the devil in the distance without blinking.

A few seconds later, as two flames rose near a 92-step gun, several Japanese infantrymen who were running over to help unload the truck were suddenly blown to the ground.

"Twenty miles away, ready to ...... Put! ”

Under Qi Baoshan's calibration, the hit rate of the next two shells suddenly increased greatly, and one of them exploded a few meters away from the 92-step gun that had just been unloaded, directly sending several artillery pieces flying out along with the gun body.

"Ten to the left, extend! Preparation...... Put! ”

In the afterglow of the last flare, two shells fell again near the overturned 92-step gun, completely scrapping the 92-step gun and taking away a few Japanese soldiers who had just gotten up.

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