On the silent mountain path, Zhao Shixun took steps forward like a machine.

On the stretcher behind him, lying quietly was the pillar of the deputy commander of the Seventh Company, who had fallen into a deep sleep forever.

Not long ago, Captain Devil, who had been missing, suddenly appeared behind the courtyard wall on one side of the road.

It turned out that the kid jumped up and climbed into the courtyard wall of a house just before the grenade exploded, dodging the deadly rain of bullets.

After escaping, Kimura did not take the opportunity to escape, but was bent on killing the pretending military cao who deceived him.

Just when everyone was cleaning up the battlefield, Kimura found an opportunity.

Just when Kimura was about to start, the pillar who was lighting a cigarette happened to see this scene, and after pushing Zhao Shixun away, he shot and killed the other party.

Unfortunately, Kimura's gun rang out at the same time. Although the bullet did not hit Zhao Shixun, it accidentally hit the pillar that pushed him.

The eight-millimeter bullet of the Southern Type 14 pistol, although not very powerful, is still a killing thing.

The bullet was impartial and hit exactly the heart of the column. In just a few minutes, the pillars that had been alive and kicking before were gone.

……

"Sir, the pillars are hardened. I think this generation is good, let's bury the baby. ”

The old immortal woke up the distracted Zhao Shixun at the right time, and pointed to the hillside not far away.

"Okay...... that's it."

After choosing a place, the warriors began to dig the pit with all their hands and feet, while the old immortal wet a rag and carefully sorted out the remains of the pillar.

Looking at the scrubbed pillars, the old immortals shook their heads helplessly and sang the tune of their hometown.

"The big pillar is ......, the baby from Yicheng, Shanxi ......."

In a tactful and sad tune, Zhao Shixun came over and squatted down, took out the remaining half box of Hardmen from his coat pocket, untied the pockets of the pillars and slowly put them in.

"Don't be reluctant to smoke on the road, Lao Tzu will have the opportunity to burn two more boxes in the future. Go down and help me get a place first, maybe I'll go to you someday." ”

……

Just as Zhao Shixun stood up, Zhang Dapeng walked over with six Jin Sui troops.

"Well......, that Chief Zhao, a few of us have summed it up, and we want to kill devils with you, do you think it can be done?"

……

Dingjiawa south, Maoliangou.

In the sparsely vegetated Maolian Ditch, hundreds of tired soldiers of the Jin Sui Army were walking down the hill briskly with guns in their hands, dragging their steps to cross the southern slope and search southward.

And 200 meters behind them, Shi Boying was leading the main force of the 701st Regiment, supporting the lightly wounded all the way and struggling to follow behind.

Da ......, Bang Bang!

Suddenly, a dense burst of gunfire rang out on the southern slope of Maolian Ditch, and while a dense rain of bullets like flying locusts poured down, grenades also exploded at the bottom of the ditch.

The soldiers of the Jin Sui Army, who had just walked down the bottom of the ditch, were caught off guard and were suddenly knocked down in a large area.

Suddenly encountered an ambush, and the Jin Sui army in the ravine was suddenly in chaos. Some officers tried to stop the resistance, but the unsheltered ravines simply did not provide them with the slightest cover. Condescendingly, the Japanese army was almost using Chinese soldiers as targets.

Soon, the puffs of smoke and dust from the grenadiers scattered several small groups that tried to resist, leaving the force out of command.

Amid the screams, the forty or so remaining soldiers crawled back almost on their hands and feet, barely escaping back to the northern slope.

Just as these routs were about to flee from the northern slope, they happened to meet Shi Boying, who was hurrying with a battalion.

"Stop! Hold it! ”

Looking at the army in front of him, Shi Boying's face was pale.

"Behind you are the devil's pursuers, where do you want to escape?"

"Sir, the ravine is occupied by little devils, and we can't get out."

A desperate soldier looked at Shi Boying and said with a crying voice.

"Fart! If you dare to shake the heart of the army again, Lao Tzu will kill you first!

You all listen to me, if you want to live, kill the little devil in the southern slope mountain for me, and rush with me! ”

……

When returning to the north slope, Shi Boying raised his glasses to observe the situation on the south slope, and his worry was even stronger.

It's only been a day's work, and the little devil actually went around to the back of his own side to establish a blocking position, which made Shi Boying never expect it.

It seems that the intelligence of the Eighth Route is right, the little devil is definitely planned this time, obviously not a simple defeat battle, but to eat the remnants of the Seventy Division in one bite.

Up to now, Shi Boying knew that the afterthought was useless, and the only way to take advantage of the devil's unstable foothold was to find a way to take Maoliangou and open up the road to retreat south.

Thinking of this, Shi Boying didn't even care about letting the soldiers rest for a few minutes, and hurriedly launched an attack on the southern slope of Maoliangou occupied by the Japanese army.

"Machine gun cover! Others rush with me! Kill! ”

As five or six Czech and one Republic of China No. 2 or four heavy machine guns began to roar, more than 200 soldiers of the 70th Division divided into two waves and rushed down like a tiger descending from a mountain.

As the Nationalist soldiers rushed down the hill, the Japanese troops blocking the southern slope also opened fire. In the midst of the gunfire, the charging Chinese soldiers were shot and rolled to the ground. Although the casualties were not small, the attack of the 701st Regiment was not affected in the slightest, and hundreds of soldiers soon reached the bottom of the ditch and began to climb the southern slope towards the bullets.

Just when the Chinese soldiers stormed the southern slope of Maoliangou, on the other side of the southern slope, a small group of Japanese soldiers was also desperately climbing up the mountain.

In fact, the Japanese army had just penetrated into Maoliangou and happened to encounter the 70th Division that had just withdrawn here.

The Japanese army, which had just repelled the advance of the 701st Regiment, was actually only a small squad of troops, and they were almost ten minutes earlier than the 70th Division.

After Shi Boying led people to counterattack, the Japanese team on Nanpo Mountain soon couldn't stand it. Due to the lack of time to dig bunker positions, the devils on the southern slope suffered heavy casualties under the suppression of the machine guns of the 701st Regiment, and they were about to be unable to withstand it.

However, at this moment, reinforcements from a devil squad finally arrived here.

Seeing that the soldiers of the 701st Regiment were getting closer and closer to the top of the southern slope, and when they were almost about to touch the southern slope, the Japanese firepower suddenly became fierce, and even a Type 92 heavy machine gun was added!

Suddenly, encountering such a fierce fire counterattack, the 701st Regiment, which had attacked halfway up the southern slope, was immediately knocked down in pieces. In particular, the Type 92 heavy machine gun, the fierce fire directly pressed the attacking troops on the mountainside and could not move.

At this time, the only heavy machine gun of the 701st regiment was knocked to the ground by several grenades from grenades and completely scrapped.

Losing the suppression of the heavy machine guns, the Japanese army's crooked handles immediately launched a majestic attack, and in just a few minutes, Shi Boying and their casualties were more than half.

Seeing that the offensive was already weak, and that if it continued to fight, it might even be completely annihilated, Shi Boying had to order the team to withdraw to the northern slope.

When he was driven by bullets all the way back to the northern slope, Shi Boying found that a main battalion of his 701st Regiment had suffered more than 200 casualties and was almost disabled.

Now that the Japanese army occupies a favorable position and has been strengthened, without the support of artillery fire, Shi Boying knows that even if he flattens the troops, it will be impossible to capture the southern slope of Maoliangou.

Combined with the previous intelligence, Shi Boying was desperate to find that the 70th Division was completely besieged here by the Japanese army.

Sitting tiredly on the north slope of Maoliangou, Shi Boying looked at his men who had no fighting spirit, and could only let them continue to hold on and wait for help.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for the personnel of the 70th Division to arrive here one after another, including the division commander Shi Ziyu himself.

Knowing that the passage to the south could not be opened, Shi Ziyu was angry, but he did not blame anyone.

He knew very well in his heart that the 70th Division had come to this day, and it would be difficult for him to escape responsibility as the division commander. At this time, no matter who he deals with, it will greatly shake the morale of the army.

After coming to the position and observing, Shi Ziyu gathered all the officers above the company commander together.

"Brothers, I believe you all already know how critical the situation is. We are already surrounded on all sides, and the Japanese are determined to eat us this time. ”

Speaking of this, Shi Ziyu looked at everyone's expressions, and then took a flower trap from the guards beside him.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the land has been ruined, and lives have been ruined. As a soldier, I should fight bravely to kill the enemy's horse leather shroud! Today the little devil wants to destroy us, that's a dream!

Although I'm not a big hero, I also have a lot of blood! ”

"Master, you can give the order. Sword mountain and sea of fire, brothers follow you! ”

Shi Boying looked at Shi Ziyu excitedly, and was the first to shout.

Subsequently, others also echoed it, and they all swore to follow the division to kill the enemy and serve the country.

Seeing that the military heart is available, Shi Ziyu is not ambiguous.

"Ladies and gentlemen, now that the Japanese army occupies the advantage of the terrain in Xiaobeishan, Maoliangou, it is definitely not a good strategy to attack. Taerliang was the main attack site of the Japanese army, and it was not a place to break through.

For today's plan, we can only break through to the west, in the direction of the small temple. ”

"The little temple?"

Seeing everyone's doubts and surprises, the chief of staff of the 70th Division hurriedly explained:

"Ladies and gentlemen, everyone knows that the direction of the small temple is a wide valley, and although the vegetation is dense, the terrain is also relatively open, which is conducive to the killing of our troops by Japanese machine-gun fire. If our army wants to break through from here, the risk is indeed not small.

But everyone thought that if it was at night, even the open terrain would greatly reduce the lethality of Japanese weapons. Not only that, but the open field will also disperse the defensive firepower of the Japanese army, which is conducive to the breakthrough of our army.

The most important point is that the Japanese would never have imagined that our army would break through from here, and there would inevitably be loopholes for our army to take advantage of. ”

Looking at everyone, the chief of staff took out the map and pointed again.

"And after we break through from here, we can immediately turn towards the south of the ditch and the east recess, where the mountains are high and the forests are dense, but it is very conducive to our army to get rid of the pursuit of the Japanese army."

After listening to the chief of staff's explanation, there were a lot fewer doubts in everyone's minds.

Everyone knows the terrain in the direction of the small temple, after the 70th Division was stationed in Dingjiawa, although there was no commanding height conducive to defense, but the place to enter Dingjiawa in this direction had to pass through a narrow valley, which was very conducive to the defender's ambush, not to mention, the Japanese army's artillery superiority was still difficult to play.

It is also for this reason that the Japanese army has not listed this position as the first direction of attack to this day.

Although the Japanese army had moved to the periphery, it was only monitoring the outside line to prevent the 70th Division from breaking through here.

However, although the Japanese did not attack from here, the 70th Division did not necessarily want to break through from here as easily as the chief of staff said. Everyone knows very well in their hearts that no matter which direction they break through, it will be a vicious battle to the death!

…… To be continued.

(End of chapter)