As soon as he rushed into the barracks, Zhao Shixun was choked by the smoke on his head and coughed.

These two rooms were originally the barracks of the puppet army, but because the back wall was blown up, many of the puppet army's bunks were ignited by the flames, and the eyes of people choked on the smoke from the burning of cotton and linen hurt.

Because he couldn't see the situation in the house clearly, Zhao Shixun was afraid that the soldiers would be injured by mistake, so he opened his throat and shouted:

"The people on the ground are all devils, clean up the ground first!"

In the smoke, with the sound of puff, the devil's miserable howl became louder and louder.

Soon, as a gust of wind gradually blew away the smoke, the devils who had survived the explosion lost their last hiding place and were exposed to the blood-dripping bayonets of the soldiers. In the face of the Eighth Route Army rushing in, the devils who were either killed or injured by the explosion had no power to resist at all.

In less than a minute, more than 20 Japanese soldiers who were hiding in two rooms were killed.

When the last Japanese soldier hiding in the corner and begging was stabbed through the heart by a large pillar, the whole battlefield finally fell silent.

Looking at the corpses of devils on the ground, Zhao Shixun picked up the military hat of a devil, wiped the blood on the knife, and walked out of the house coughing.

"Four platoons rescue the wounded, one platoon and two platoons clean up the battlefield, out of the puppet army, not a single prisoner is wanted!"

After the words were closed, Zhao Shixun rushed to the grain truck in a few steps, and turned Zhou Yu on the ground over.

"Old Zhou! Old Zhou! ”

Seeing that there was blood on the other party's face, Zhao Shixun quickly took off the other party's hat and checked it.

After a moment, Zhao Shixun breathed a long sigh of relief.

Fortunately, Zhou Yu only had a little skin injury and finally escaped.

"Company commander, is the instructor okay?!"

At this moment, Zhou Dahu, the leader of the fourth platoon, who was treating other wounded, ran over.

"The instructor is fine, just a little skin injury. The breathing is very steady, I should be dizzy. What about the rest of the people in the third row? Is Kiko okay? ”

"There are grain trucks in the way, there are three of them who have lost their breath, and the others are all slightly injured, Xizi just woke up, it shouldn't be a big deal."

Nodding silently, Zhao Shixun carried Zhou Yu to a backlit place and ordered a soldier to stay and take care of him.

The battle has just ended, and Cho Se-hoon still has a lot to do.

"Black baby!"

"Here!"

"Take your platoon and go out five miles in the direction of the county seat!"

"Yes!"

Although he laid a stronghold and annihilated the Japanese puppet army entrenched here. But Zhao Shixun knows very well in his heart that this is the territory of the Japanese, and he is definitely pulling his teeth out of the mouth now.

Although it was successful, the Seventh Company also succeeded in angering the tiger.

……

After sending out the vigilance troops, Zhao Shixun asked Dazhuzi to gather the captured puppet army together.

Looking at the more than two dozen puppet soldiers squatting on the ground trembling, Zhao Shixun pulled out the big knife on his back and walked around them, then touched the back of the knife and asked coldly:

"Which of you is from the county seat? Lao Tzu had something to ask him. ”

Hearing Zhao Shixun's words, the puppet soldiers, you look at me, I look at you for a while, more than a dozen of them suddenly raised their fingers and pointed at the few puppet soldiers opposite them and said:

"Eighth master, a few of them are not from us, they all came in the devil's truck yesterday afternoon."

Hearing this, looking at a few puppet soldiers with bewildered faces, Zhao Shixun suddenly pointed a knife at one of the fat-headed and big-eared guys.

"You stand up, Lao Tzu has something to ask you."

The puppet army who was pointed at by the big knife was stunned for a moment, and then looked at the people around him stupidly.

"Don't look at it! Just say you, stand up quickly! ”

"It's ......, it's the eighth master."

Raising his hands high, the fat-headed and big-eared puppet army stood up tremblingly.

"You're stationed in the county seat?"

"Yes, the small one is the county garrison, and being a puppet army is just a mess."

While the puppet army was talking, his eyes were always staring at Zhao Shixun's big knife, for fear that the other party would cut himself with a knife.

"Let me ask you, have there been any new Japanese soldiers in the county recently?"

"The new ......, except for the 100 Japanese in the gendarmerie, I haven't heard of any other devils in the county."

Hearing this, Zhao Shixun's pupils shrank, and he put the big knife on the other party's neck.

"Alas...... Alas! The eighth master spared his life, I really didn't tell a lie! ”

His eyes were staring at the big knife under his neck, and the puppet army was sweating profusely.

Feeling the pain of the blade cutting his neck, the puppet army seemed to remember something all of a sudden, and suddenly shouted:

"Oh yes...... I know an important piece of news, important news!"

Feeling that the blade had finally stopped advancing, the puppet commander exhaled.

"In the past three days, there have been seven or eight devil trucks transporting food and supplies to the county seat, basically once a day. They all came at noon and returned empty in the afternoon, supposedly from the railway.

…… By the way, this time the Japanese were very strange, and the materials they brought were not allowed to be put into storage, and they were all piled up in the courtyard of the gendarmerie. ”

Hearing this, Zhao Shixun's heart sank.

Sure enough, a large force of the Japanese was about to arrive.

As the saying goes, as the saying goes, soldiers and horses go first before grain and grass are used, not to mention that the Japanese attach great importance to logistics when fighting a war, even far more than the Chinese army.

Zhao Shixun knew very well that the reason why the Japanese kept using trucks to transport supplies to Jiangxian showed that their large army was already on their way.

The fact that the materials were not put into storage but were directly in the courtyard of the gendarmerie means that these materials will be taken away soon, so there is no need to put them into storage one by one.

Thinking of this, Zhao Shixun had to deeply admire the scheming of the Japanese.

The Japanese transported the supplies here in advance by truck, just to catch the 70th Division by surprise. A Japanese army is generally equipped with a transport team of 121 people, equipped with dozens of carts or an equal number of mules and horses, and if necessary, the division will transfer the trucks of the transport squadron to the wings below for use.

According to the other party's statement, Zhao Shixun estimated the team from the bottom of his heart. The fact that supplies were transported by truck for three consecutive days showed that the Japanese army had to have at least one wing of strength when attacking.

For the sake of safety, Zhao Shixun asked several other puppet soldiers, and the answers they got were basically the same.

……

Confirming the intelligence that the Japanese army was about to attack on a large scale, Zhao Shixun knew that there was not much time left for the 7th Company and the 70th Division.......

……

Not long after the end of the interrogation, the pillars counted the results and casualties.

This battle benefited from Qi Baoshan's precise artillery bombardment. The 7th Company suffered only six casualties, five seriously wounded, and four lightly wounded, and most of the casualties occurred in battles within the stronghold.

During the storming of the barracks where the devils were hiding, the third platoon suffered a lot of casualties. The platoon lost four killed, three seriously wounded, and two lightly wounded. But fortunately, this time the instructor and the third platoon leader Xizi were not seriously injured, but only a little concussion, and finally did not hurt the muscles and bones of the seventh company.

Of course, compared with the casualties paid by the Seventh Company, the results achieved by the Seventh Company were quite amazing. In this battle, the Seventh Company annihilated 68 Japanese soldiers, 42 puppet soldiers, and captured nearly 30 puppet soldiers.

At the same time, the 7th Company also captured 50 Type 38 rifles, three crooked machine guns, and two Czech-style guns. Hanyang made 51 guns, 13 in the middle form, and 5 shell guns.

The only pity is that the Type 92 heavy machine gun in the stronghold was smashed by the collapsed turret, so it had to be abandoned.

In addition, the Seventh Company also seized three intact Type 89 grenadiers.

In addition to the weapons, a lot of ammunition was also seized in front of them, totaling more than 2,300 rounds of 65 bullets, more than 1,200 rounds of 792 bullets, and more than 100 rounds of pistol bullets. In addition, there were more than 20 Type 97 grenades and 38 grenades.

After collecting the weapons, Zhao Shixun allocated all three grenadiers to the second platoon, and then asked Qi Baoshan to be called.

"Brother Qi, this time I can successfully lay down the devil's stronghold, and Brother Qi should be the first credit."

In front of Qi Baoshan, Zhao Shixun bluntly praised the other party.

"Company Commander Zhao is serious, Qi is just doing his best, your army's determination to resist Japan and the courage to kill the enemy make Qi someone ashamed."

Hehe smiled and shook his head, Zhao Shixun took a devil's hand cannon from the second row of soldiers beside him, raised his hand and handed it to Qi Baoshan.

"Eight-nine grenadiers! Good thing....... ”

Stroking the metallic barrel of the grenadier in his hand, Qi Baoshan praised it from the bottom of his heart.

"Brother Qi, Zhao has a reluctant request, and I hope Brother Qi will not refuse."

Hearing this, Qi Baoshan squinted at Zhao Shixun and said lightly:

"Company Commander Zhao is going to see the outside, but it doesn't hurt to say it."

Looking at Qi Baoshan sincerely, Zhao Shixun gently patted the second-row soldiers beside him.

"I believe Brother Qi also saw it, although my troops captured the grenadiers, but including me, no one in our company will use this thing.

I knew that Brother Qi was an artillery soldier in the Arsenal, so I asked Brother Qi to do Zhao another favor and help me train my brothers to operate grenadiers. ”

After hearing this, he looked at Zhao Shixun for a while, and Qi Baoshan suddenly asked.

"Company Commander Zhao, you have to think clearly, grenadier training can only be learned by firing a large number of live ammunition, and you don't have many grenades captured."

Since the shells of the mountain artillery were exhausted, Qi Baoshan had already led people to bury the useless mountain artillery on the spot, so he was now back in the state of a bare-bones commander.

Regarding the matter of helping the Seventh Company train soldiers, although Qi Baoshan was willing in his heart, but due to the grenadier itself, its training was very special, so he felt that he still had to make it clear to Zhao Shixun in advance.

Qi Baoshan was born as an artillery engineer and has worked in the arsenal for a long time, so he is very familiar with this kind of grenadier that the national army also imitates in large quantities.

Having worked in the arsenal for many years, he was well aware of the superiority of the grenadier canister. For this kind of material-saving and powerful weapon, Qi Baoshan has always been highly respected.

However, it is a pity that after Qi Baoshan arrived in the army, he found that the weapon he admired was not very popular.

Originally, due to the special aiming method of the grenadier, it became a weapon that required rigorous training to be effective. Therefore, in the hands of soldiers under the large training level of the national army, the grenadier is often extremely accurate, and it is difficult to exert actual power, so many national army units are reluctant to equip grenadiers.

With these lessons from the past, Qi Baoshan felt that it was necessary for him to explain things clearly to the other party in advance, so as not to mislead people in the end.

…… To be continued.

(End of chapter)