Xu Rui's creed is that if you don't send it, you will have it, and once you send it, you will never leave any room.

Since he has decided to take the food from the tiger's mouth, and since he has decided to eat Kawaguchi Heiji's fishing bait, Xu Rui will never just send Niu Dazhuang's artillery to shoot a single cannon and finish the matter.

You can't defeat the little devil just by hitting the gun!

Even if the devils are defeated, it is impossible to destroy them all.

If you want to completely annihilate the little devils who were lured into Xiaolizhuang, you have to rely on the infantry!

When Niu Dazhuang's artillery company began to carry out cluster shelling of Xiaolizhuang, the 3rd Battalion, which had never appeared before, finally appeared, and more than 500 officers and soldiers quietly drilled out of more than a dozen hidden tunnels around Xiaolizhuang under the cover of night, and then quickly entered the periphery of Xiaolizhuang, forming an encirclement of Xiaolizhuang from three directions.

In peacetime, it is pure wishful thinking to surround a brigade of devils with the strength of a battalion.

But now, this impossible thing has become a reality, because at this time almost all the forces of the Muto Brigade have entered Xiaolizhuang, and although the heavy machine gun squadron remained on the periphery of Xiaolizhuang, it was deployed by Muto Akira to the west side of the village, preparing to ambush the remnants of the independent regiment who "broke through" from the village.

Therefore, when the 3rd Battalion spread out in battle formation and pounced on Xiaolizhuang, there was only an artillery squad of the Muto Brigade and an artillery squad in front of them, and there was not a single machine gun, and there were only a dozen rifles.

In less than a moment, the 3rd Battalion completed the encirclement of Xiaolizhuang from the north, south, and east.

In this world, there are some things that are so coincidental, Muto Zhang hopes to drive the main force of the "non-existent" independent regiment to the open area between the west side of Xiaolizhuang and the Meihe River, so that the heavy machine gun squadron can use machine gun fire to harvest the remnants of the independent regiment.

What's even more coincidental is that Xu Rui also prepared a heavy machine gun platoon for the little devils!

The heavy machine gun platoon, which had not appeared with Niu Dazhuang before, finally appeared at this time, and planned to build a crane gun position on the west bank of the Meihe River!

But here, things are a little off.

Xu Rui is not an immortal after all, he didn't expect Muto Zhang to put a heavy machine gun squadron between Xiaolizhuang and Meihe, as a result, the heavy machine gun platoon of the machine gun company just appeared from the west bank of the Meihe, and was immediately discovered by the devil heavy machine gun squadron on the east bank.

The heavy machine gun squadron of the Muto Brigade is a reinforced squadron, with three machine gun squads, each squad has four heavy machine guns, and the entire squadron has a total of 12 Type 92 heavy machine guns, while the heavy machine gun platoon belonging to the machine gun company on the opposite bank has only four Type 92 heavy machine guns, so the fire density of the two sides is not at the same level at all.

The firing lasted less than two minutes, and the machine gunners of the heavy machine gun platoon on the West Bank wounded more than a dozen.

As soon as Niu Dazhuang heard that his heavy machine gun platoon had suffered a loss, he immediately became angry, and immediately transferred an artillery platoon to attack the devil's heavy machine gun position on the other side of the river.

Dealing with heavy machine-gun positions, which lack the protection of closed bunkers, is a piece of cake for artillerymen!

Although Niu Dazhuang's artillery company said that its tactical literacy was very average, it could not hold more artillery and more shells, and the four artillery platoons not only carried three base shells, Xu Rui also specially organized a transport team of 50 people to continuously deliver shells to the artillery positions from the underground arsenal, and Xu Rui was also out of the way.

However, after such a trouble, Xu Rui's original plan to drive the little devils to the west side of Xiaolizhuang in an open area, and then use heavy machine gun fire to harvest, immediately fell through, and found that there was also an ambush by the Chinese army on the west side of the Meihe River, and the devils hiding in Xiaolizhuang simply did not come out, and even the remnants of the heavy machine gun squadron also hid in Xiaolizhuang.

Although hiding in Xiaolizhuang is said to be bombed by artillery, there are still houses as cover, if you stay outside the village, it will be an open land without shelter, so the devil would rather hide in the village to be bombed than stay outside the city to be beaten by the independent regiment, in this way, Xu Rui's siege immediately became a joint attack on all sides!

"Damn, it's really a plan that can't keep up with the change." Xu Rui slammed his fist on the ground, and said in annoyance, "Did you say that the devil commander on the other side was okay and put the heavy machine gun squadron in the open field on the west side?" Doesn't that hurt me? ”

"Can you think of harvesting devils in the open field on the west side, and the commander of the little devil can't think of harvesting the remnants of the Independent Regiment in the open field on the west side?" Leng Tiefeng pursed his lips and said, "But Lao Xu, now that the situation has evolved into a strong attack, our troops seem to be a little insufficient, do you eat this bait or not?" ”

"Nonsense!" Xu Rui said hesitantly, "Kawaguchi's bait is all sent to the mouth, how can there be any reason not to eat it?" ”

Leng Tiefeng said: "But Lao Xu, I have to remind you, in half an hour at most, the reinforcements of the old devil in Kawaguchi will arrive, don't eat the bait at that time, but take everything into the fishing guy." ”

"There is no turning back arrow when I open the bow, but there is only a group of stunned devils left and right, I don't believe that I can't take it!" Xu Rui picked up the 38 big cover at his feet as he spoke, and then took the 38 big cover and led it forward, shouting, "Brothers, rush with Lao Tzu and kill all these little devils!" ”

Xu Rui's words were like a spark falling into a dry pyre, which instantly ignited the enthusiasm in the chests of the special combat team members and more than 100 officers and soldiers of the independent regiment behind him, and then grabbed their weapons one after another, followed behind Xu Rui, and rushed to the south entrance of Xiaolizhuang with a roar, almost at the same time, the shelling of the machine gun company also came to an end.

Xu Rui personally led the 3rd Battalion and 1 Company to attack from the south side of Xiaolizhuang, Leng Tiefeng led the special combat team to serve as the attack arrow, and the firepower group composed of the soldiers and the Siberian Tiger became the arrows of the arrows.

It's not about changing the bucket, it's about changing the gun!

The three teams of the special combat team have a clear division of labor, the firepower team is only responsible for the output of firepower, and the sniper team is long-range protection, shooting at fixed points to kill devil shooters who may threaten the fire team, and the combat team provides close protection, killing the devils who suddenly rush out from hiding in the shadows along the way, so as to ensure that the advance of the firepower team is not hindered.

In just a moment, the special combat team had already broken into the depths of Xiao Li Zhuang!

Leng Tiefeng originally thought that he would encounter stubborn resistance from the devils, but in fact, the attack of the special combat team was much easier than expected, and they didn't even suffer decent resistance at all, and they had already rushed all the way into the village, and it was not very far from the Li family's compound in the center of the village.

What puzzled Leng Tiefeng even more was that, judging from the gunshots, the attacks in the other two directions seemed to be smooth.

What's going on? Leng Tiefeng was very confused, the little devil only had this level? Shouldn't it? Impossible?

The more Leng Tiefeng thought about it, the more uneasy he became, and immediately turned back to Xu Rui's side, and said loudly: "Old Xu, the situation is not right, the little devil's resistance is too weak, what the hell is this first-class division, I think even the combat effectiveness of the Taiwan brigade encountered in Nantong is far inferior, I suspect that there is fraud in it!" ”

Xu Rui smiled and said, "Haven't you seen it yet, veteran?" The reason why the little devils are so weak is not because their combat effectiveness is weak, but because they have completely lost their effective command! You can't see that this little devil is fighting on his own, and there is no alternate cover and coordination at all! ”

Let Xu Rui remind him, Leng Tiefeng also reacted.

really let Xu Rui say that the Muto Brigade has indeed lost its effective command.

Because in the first round of shelling of the artillery company, Akira Muto was already killed!

Originally, even if Muto Akira was killed, there would still be Oshihara Toshisi, who could take over the command.

But unfortunately, Okahara Toshisi can replace Muto Zhang, but his special combat team members can't replace the squadron leaders and squad leaders under Muto Zhang, because Muto Zhang is far more than the one who was killed, and the squadron leader and squad leader under him were also killed a lot, and the person who replaced him, Kokahara Toshisi didn't know him at all.

If the generals do not know the soldiers, and the soldiers do not know the generals, it will inevitably cause confusion in command.

No matter how well-equipped a unit that has lost effective command and how well it is trained, it will never be able to display more combat effectiveness than 10 percent in peacetime.

The morale of one side is high, but the morale of the other side is low.

One side advanced and retreated in an orderly manner, while the other side completely lost effective command.

Although the Muto Brigade still had a slight advantage in strength at this time, it was useless at this moment, and the three companies belonging to the 3rd Battalion advanced from the north, east, and south, and at the same time broke into Xiaolizhuang.

The two sides quickly entered into a hand-to-hand encounter.

It is said that the little devil's stabbing skills are obviously higher than those of the independent regiment, especially the officers and soldiers of the 3rd battalion are mostly recruits, and the stabbing skills are even less than the devils, and it is said that the result should be that the devils have the upper hand, but in actual combat, the little devils are almost without exception at a disadvantage, as for the reason is also very simple, because the recruits of the 3rd battalion are basically fighting more and less, but the little devils who have fallen into despair are basically fighting on their own.

Of course, there is one of the most important reasons why the 3rd Battalion can gain the upper hand in white-knuckle warfare, that is, in addition to the new recruits, the 3rd Battalion also has many backbone veterans, these veterans are the elite of the 79th Route Army, the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army, and almost all of them crawled out of the pile of dead!