Chasing a group of puppet soldiers who fled in a hurry, Zhao Shixun and the others soon came to the vicinity of the low wall on the outskirts of the town.

As an ancient town bordering the Yellow River, Lishan Town was originally surrounded by a rammed earth city wall built in the middle of the Qing Dynasty. Although the circumference is only more than two miles, it still has at least some defensive ability.

But at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, due to the fact that it has not been repaired for decades, coupled with the man-made destruction of the nearby people, the original city wall of more than four meters is now only a little more than one meter of earth platform.

In addition, due to the increase in the population of Lishan Town in the past few years, in order to facilitate the travel of people in the town, the merchants in the city have opened many gaps in the foundation of the dilapidated city wall, which has completely lost the original defensive ability of this wall.

Sure enough, after the puppet army ran under the ruined city wall, they did not stop at all, but ran straight into the gap.

However, just when the puppet soldiers fled into the town in a hurry, a messy rain of bullets suddenly hit them with their heads and faces.

Cracking sound......

Dense bullets hit the base of the tattered rammed-earth wall, bringing out several shallow potholes.

At the same time, before several puppet soldiers could figure out what was going on, they were knocked to the ground by bullets fired from a compound in the town.

"The ...... of the ball! We are the Imperial Army, brothers, don't shoot! ”

Suddenly attacked, the more than 30 puppet soldiers who had managed to escape here were also blinded at once.

In the panic, they kept shouting at the yard, trying to get their own people on the opposite side to stop shooting.

"Brethren! The order of the imperial army is to hold the position to the death, and I will turn around and fight the eight roads, who dares to take a step back, the gun in Lao Tzu's hand is not welcome......! ”

At this moment, Battalion Commander Liu, who had disappeared for a while, suddenly poked his head out of a compound, and then held his weapon and kept shouting loudly, trying to make these routs reflexively continue to block the enemy.

Seeing this scene, dozens of puppet soldiers who were stopped by bullets immediately scolded angrily.

"Grass, you uncle......! Liu, you have suffered a thousand knives this week, and you ran here to be a shrinking turtle, not to mention, and you still have the face to let Lao Tzu block bullets for you! Why? ”

"That's it, brothers, ignore him, it's important to run for your life!"

……

Seeing that the defeated soldiers under his command did not take their orders seriously at all, the face of the anxious battalion commander Liu suddenly turned cold, and he immediately raised the box cannon in his hand.

"I'll count to three, if anyone doesn't turn around and go back, then don't blame Lao Tzu for turning his face and being ruthless!"

"One...... 2. ......"

"Uncle Draft, are you scared to be grandfathers? If you have a caste Liu, you shoot! ”

"Three...... Call me! ”

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

Just when all the puppet soldiers thought that Liu was bragging this week, with a Czech sudden fire, the puppet army in the small courtyard immediately began to shoot those routs who refused to obey the order mercilessly.

At this moment, those routs who originally thought that Battalion Commander Liu was joking were instantly knocked down by seven or eight flying bullets.

Seeing that Shangguan was not talking about playing, but really killing. Those routs who had planned to run away dared to stay here, and they picked up the guys and ran back.

Obviously, the puppet army defending in the small courtyard also knew about the Eight Ways killing.

At the critical moment, between the two choices of destroying or killing their own people, they decisively chose the latter.

And those unclear routs have become the most tragic cannon fodder in this matter.

The next moment, these twenty puppet soldiers who had escaped the catastrophe by luck didn't have time to catch their breath after escaping the wall in a hurry, and tragically ran directly into Zhao Shixun and them, who had already come up.

Looking at a group of Eighth Route Army with bloody bayonets in front of them, they rushed over, seeing that the living roads in front and behind were blocked, these exhausted puppet soldiers simply didn't bother to run, and threw away their weapons and knelt down to surrender.

"The eighth master spares his life, let's stop fighting, spare my life, .......

"Who shot inside?"

"Back to the eighth master, it's our battalion commander who was cut a thousand times, and it was the bastard who ordered the gun just now. This bastard, he actually killed more than a dozen of our brothers! ”

Suddenly hearing the guns in the town, Zhao Shixun was also shocked, and he thought that the devil had reacted.

After learning that it was just a group of scattered puppet troops, Zhao Shixun breathed a sigh of relief.

"Throw all the weapons and ammunition on the ground, and hurry up and get out of the way!"

Looking at the puppet army kneeling on the ground, Zhao Shixun didn't have time to ink with them.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you, ......."

More than a dozen puppet soldiers who originally thought they would die were certain to die when they heard that Balu had actually let them go like this, they immediately kowtowed in the snow with excitement.

"Heiwa, you take a few people to explore the way, they are all smart!"

"Yes!"

Knowing that there was an enemy in the courtyard in front of him, although Zhao Shixun was anxious, he didn't dare to rush in with someone casually. After all, no matter how bad the puppet army is, it is also a group of soldiers with guns.

These days, bullets don't have long eyes.

Sure enough, just as Heiwa and the others passed through the surrendered puppet army and just rushed into the town from the city wall, the gunshots in the courtyard not far away rang out again.

Because of the experience of the previous puppet army, Heiwa did not rush inward in a daze, but kept moving against the city wall.

As soon as the gunshots rang out, Heiwa immediately ordered everyone to lie down, so that the flying bullets tightly grazed the arm of one of the fighters, but did not hurt the others.

Pulling the fallen warrior behind a safe ridge, Heiwa quickly told the back what she had found.

"Detachment leader, there is an enemy in the compound in the southwest direction of the front! The number is unknown, there is a Czech machine gun! ”

Hiding behind a ridge at the base of the city wall, Heiwa carefully observed the courtyard in the distance, and at the same time told the other party that the weapon configuration was clear.

……

Lying on the root of the dilapidated city wall, Zhao Shixun glanced at Heiwa's shout a few times, and then secretly raised the binoculars to take a look.

"Fuck it...... These guys are pretty good at finding a place! ”

Finding the enemy hiding in a sturdy masonry compound, Zhao Shixun angrily smashed his fist on the rammed earth wall.

"Lao Zhao, the enemy's hiding position is easy to defend and difficult to attack, or let's take a detour, they won't dare to come out anyway."

Zhou Yu saw that these puppet soldiers occupied a rather solid courtyard, so he thought of making a detour. In his opinion, since these puppet soldiers are unwilling to come out, it is better to let them stay inside.

"No! This yard must be taken. ”

"But Staff Officer Xue and Doctor Shao are still waiting for us to rescue inside, and we're afraid it's too late.

And the people around them are only a dozen recruits brought by the old man, and I'm afraid they won't last long. ”

Seeing the sound of the firefight in the city becoming more and more intense, Zhou Yu was a little out of breath.

Listening to Zhou Yu's anxious inquiry, Zhao Shixun did not rush to answer, but observed the surrounding environment again.

Dozens of seconds later, his gaze finally returned to the courtyard in front of him.

"Old Zhou...... the Japanese reinforcement troops had entered the town from the east and west and south sides of the town. If we can't clear this firepower point embedded in the path we must pass, once we are pursued by devils, then these puppet armies will become our life-saving talismans.

In any case, we must not let the puppet army get stuck in our retreat! ”

While putting away the binoculars, Zhao Shixun also expressed his attitude to Zhou Yu.

Seeing the other party's resolute attitude, although Zhou Yu was worried about Xue Liqun and Doctor Shao, he finally nodded.

"Good! How do you say how to fight? ”

Seeing that Zhou Yu agreed, Zhao Shixun was not verbose.

"A platoon of machine guns for me to suppress the enemy's machine guns, old ghost, you bring a platoon of the rest of the people to reinforce Heiwa and them, and immediately launch a frontal feint!"

"Yes!"

"Old Zhou! You take the second platoon of the Roc back to the flank of the puppet army, and when we attract the attention of the puppet army, you immediately launch a flank attack! ”

"Good!"

"The others are standing still!"

……

"Detachment leader, let me shoot two cannons to support your attack, I, Qi Baoshan, guarantee that the light machine gun on the opposite side will be absolutely eliminated within two grenades, how about it?!"

Seeing that everyone had a task, and his own people could only stay and watch the show, Qi Baoshan hurriedly grabbed Zhao Shixun and wanted to fight for it.

Hearing this, Zhao Shixun looked at Qi Baoshan and the ten confident soldiers under him, and finally shook his head.

"Brother Qi, your people and shells are the last reliance of our detachment, and when it comes to a critical moment, Lao Tzu is reluctant to make a shot."

Looking at Qi Baoshan, who looked disappointed, Zhao Shixun suddenly pointed in the direction of the regimental headquarters.

"Don't worry, you kid, wait a while and run into a devil, I promise you'll beat you!"

……

A few minutes later, when Zhou Yu led people back to the flank of the courtyard, Zhao Shixun's feint attack on the front also began.

Under the alternating suppression of two crooked machine guns, the puppet army in the courtyard suddenly couldn't lift their heads after being beaten.

At the same time, the old ghost also began to lead people over the broken city walls, taking the opportunity to quickly spread out on the north side of the courtyard.

The courtyard where the puppet army is hiding is a private house facing north and south. The brick house, which has two entrances and two exits, is surrounded by an adobe wall covered with bricks.

Probably because of its proximity to the outskirts of the town, the walls of this courtyard are much stronger than ordinary houses, and at least bullets can't easily penetrate them.

It was precisely because of the thick wall that Battalion Commander Liu dared to lead a platoon of more than 30 people to defend here, hoping to hold out until the Japanese came to reinforce him.

Between the north side of the courtyard and the base of the city wall, there is a clearing of forty or fifty meters. There used to be a large row of houses, but a few months ago they were bombed by Japanese planes, so they all burned down, leaving only some dilapidated foundations.

It is precisely in this way that the position of the courtyard occupied by the puppet army has become relatively prominent, and it has become a very good fire support point.

Sure enough, although a platoon successfully climbed over the base of the city wall under the cover of machine guns, it was not long before it was stopped by the fire of the puppet army on a ruined wall.

…… To be continued, thank you for your recommendation votes and messages, your support is the driving force for Hanhai to persevere!

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