Chapter 363: The fierce battle is in full swing, and the outcome is uncertain

South of Lin'an County. Inside the north gate of Lin'an Town. Midnight.

The soldiers of the first company, second platoon, and third platoon of the reinforced battalion of the supplementary regiment of the Eighth Route Army carried their bayonet rifles and attacked bravely and silently with anger and anger like a fierce tiger descending from the mountain and a hungry tiger pounced on food. However, in the streets of West Street, except for the ghost soldiers whose corpses were strewn all over the streets, they did not see a single figure alive and panting. When he chased more than 300 meters to the east, the deputy company commander who was rushing to the front with a shell gun stopped, turned around and shouted loudly to stop the pursuit of the troops behind him. He ordered the soldiers to immediately collect the weapons and ammunition dropped by the dead devil soldiers and quickly withdraw to the position at the north gate of the town, and ordered a squad of soldiers to pile the corpses of two or three devil soldiers tightly together, stuff one* into the corpse's arms, and then gently pull out the arquebus and firmly put it on the fingers of the other corpse. The warriors, who had returned with a full load, withdrew their positions with great reluctance and prepared for another battle.

The instructors of the first company made a rough count and found that the weapons seized were: more than 80 38 large cover rifles, more than 2,000 rifle bullets, more than 200 Japanese-style melons, two light machine guns with crooked handles, two boxes of machine gun bullets, four grenadiers, two boxes of grenadier shells, two mortars, two boxes, three pistols, three binoculars, and three command knives. There are also items such as watches, pens, water bottles, belts, and cowhide bullet boxes. It's really a lot of gains, and you can almost equip a company. It's a pity that I didn't catch a single captive, so I ran away in vain.

Han Dagang ordered the deputy company commander to select 20 strong, agile and dexterous soldiers from the three platoons to form a surprise team, each with 100 rounds of ammunition and 20 guns*, to infiltrate eastward into the alleys and alleys on both sides of the street seven or eight hundred meters away, and wait until the battle at the north gate began, and then disperse in groups of three to find suitable and advantageous fighters, and launch an attack from behind or from the flank of the Japanese army with sudden movements. Special attention should be paid to the artillery that must first find the devil, and it must be resolutely defeated. Otherwise, it will pose a fatal threat to our army. The deputy company commander took the order, and he quickly selected twenty soldiers to rush into West Street and run east.

After the first street battle and night battle, the Japanese army lost more than two squads of officers and soldiers, and it can be said that they suffered heavy losses and lost their souls in a foreign country, and they will never see Mt. Fuji and cherry blossoms again.

Hegu Shaozo led the reorganized nearly one and a half squadrons and the infantry of an additional squad to rush towards the north gate with a fierce and murderous spirit, and there were four mortars and two mountain guns behind them, and there was a great battle to regain the west gate of the town.

The night was quieter, Yu Genshan lay on the bed in the dormitory of the regiment headquarters and couldn't fall asleep, thinking that the night attack battle in Lin Anzhen should have started at this time, how was the battle? Did the fighters of the reinforced battalion suffer heavy casualties? Can the intended purpose be achieved? At four o'clock in the morning, he personally led the 6th Company of the 2nd Battalion to the north of Shuihe Village on time to carry out a secret mission. Francis asked me to do these things in secret, so what is he going to do in the county seat?

After Fang Jiren and Fang Luqing left the Fang family compound, they quietly and secretly walked through the streets and alleys to the Fangjia stove shop in the north of the west gate of the county seat, and went down the tunnel through the city wall to the backyard warehouse of the Fangjia Coal Factory in the north outside the west gate. Nearly 20 people, including Lao Lu, Lao Lu's son Xiao Liang, seven or eight men from the coal factory, several correspondents of the special column, and several scouts, were anxiously waiting for Fang Jiren to issue an order for action. Fang Jiren took out his pocket watch, looked at the time, thought about it, and then told everyone that according to the battle plan, the operation on the side of Lin'an Town has begun, and the operation in our county town should be in full swing in an hour.

The soldiers of the first company of the reinforced battalion were hidden behind the fortifications in the west gate of the town, and the soldiers of the two squads were scattered and hid in the dark places on both sides of the street at the entrance of the west street, and they were on high alert. Han Dagang stood behind the broken wall of the collapsed and dilapidated Zhenxi Gate Gatehouse more than one meter high, watching the movements in the West Street with a stern expression and a high degree of concentration.

The Japanese troops rushing towards the west gate of the town stopped advancing when they reached a distance of more than 500 meters from the west gate of the town. Looking at the dark streets and the west gate of the town in front of him, he ordered a squad of devil soldiers to cautiously search and advance along both sides of the street, while the rest of the squad was on standby to attack. West Street was silent. Moments later, Rivervalley ordered two squads of soldiers to drag the dead bodies out of the way from the street and clear the road obstacles. Unexpectedly, it sounded the * hidden in the corpse, and killed and injured more than a dozen devil soldiers. Heya yelled in anger and ordered the soldiers to move on around the corpses and make sure to destroy the Eight Roads.

A squad of devil soldiers bent over their backs with rifles, slid against the wall and carefully searched and advanced, and when they reached more than 200 meters away from the west gate of the town, the rifles and machine guns opened fire together, and threw *, launching a tentative attack. However, there was no movement in the position of the Eighth Route Army, and no one was in sight. In the brief light of the explosion, the valley faintly saw the exact location of the Eighth Route Army's position more than 500 meters away, and immediately ordered the grenadiers, mortars, and mountain artillery behind him to prepare to fire on the spot, and then led all the soldiers to advance rapidly to the west.

The Japanese attack slowed down when they advanced to about 150 meters from the west gate of the town, but the rifle and machine gun fire was more intense and intensive.

When the Japanese attacked and advanced forty or fifty meters, Han Dagang ordered a row facing the street to open fire, and the soldiers hidden in the west street also opened fire.

The Japanese soldiers, who had suffered losses, immediately dodged and hidden, and only killed and wounded a few devil soldiers. River Valley immediately ordered machine guns to be set up on both sides of the street to frantically return fire, and ordered the well-trained, skillful, and accurate soldiers to take cover in groups of three alternately, rushing onto the street in a rapid movement to shoot in a loop, while the rest of the devil soldiers hid themselves on both sides of the street and opened fire.

The tactical play of the river valley was quite effective, and the powerful and dense firepower gradually suppressed the firepower of the Eighth Route Army, and also forced the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who were hidden in the darkness on both sides of West Street out of the street entrance, and they avoided the left and right shooting boundaries and made a bend to return to the position. When Han Dagang saw the soldiers who had withdrawn from their positions, he loudly ordered the second and third platoons to open fire, and the rifles and machine guns of the whole company formed a powerful and dense firepower and poured into West Street like a storm in a fan shape, suppressing the offensive momentum of the Japanese army. The two armies fired at each other, and the battle was deadlocked.

The 167 or 70 Japanese troops were crammed into the narrow West Street, and their strength and firepower could not be fully deployed at all, and they would only become more and more passive as they fought, let alone launch a charge. This was absolutely unbearable in the valley, and he immediately ordered a squad of soldiers to climb the rooftops on both sides of the street and attack westward. Then, Hegu issued an order to the heralds around him that the artillery would immediately open fire on the position of the Eighth Route Army at the west gate of the town. The herald turned and ran east.

More than a dozen sharpshooters who had already been lying in ambush on the rooftops on both sides of the street fired together, and all the devil soldiers who were taking ladders to get up the houses on both sides of the street rolled down. Ambushed on the rooftop, the fighters of the two reconnaissance squads followed and threw them into the pile of devils*.

The Japanese troops who were attacked from three sides, suffered heavy casualties and were in disarray. Gradually, he could no longer hold on, and retreated eastward while frantically firing back on three sides. After the Japanese army retreated more than 100 meters, the decline of the passive beating was somewhat lessened. Just as the valley was about to organize its soldiers to launch a new counterattack, shells flying from behind them bombarded the Japanese ranks. River Valley was quick to lie down in the corner with his head in his hands and escaped death, but he didn't understand what was going on. Why didn't the stupid artillerymen shell the positions of the Eighth Route Army? But he mistakenly shot a cannonball at the head of his own people.

Twenty minutes ago, the deputy company commander led the 20 soldiers of the raid team who had already secretly infiltrated the alleys and alleys of Xijie Zhongzhong, and when the two armies were fighting fiercely to a stalemate, they bent down and bowed their heads, slipped against the wall, and quietly surrounded the Japanese artillery who were ready to open fire at any time. When there were still more than ten meters away from the devil artillery, the deputy company commander let out two slight cricket cries, and the soldiers immediately put the rifles in their hands lightly on the ground and pulled out their bayonets. After walking a few more meters, the deputy company commander roared, "Go on!" The warriors rushed out with bayonets in their hands and stabbed them when they found their targets. When the devil artillery found out and reacted, it was too late to dodge and fight back, and the sharp bayonet had penetrated from the back of the heart to the front of the chest, and the sixteen devils were killed and fell to the ground in an instant. The raid team captured four grenadiers, four mortars and two mountain guns. After the deputy company commander commanded the soldiers to put away their bayonets and pull away the corpse of the devil, he raised the thumb of his right hand to determine the firing distance and reset the shelling of Zhuyuan. The four soldiers were ordered to pull two mountain guns and shell boxes to bypass the West Street, walk through the alleys and alleys, and quickly withdraw to the position at the west gate of the town. If you encounter a devil on the road, immediately hide and never shoot and fight. The four soldiers untied their gaiters, tied two boxes of shells to the mountain guns, pulled up the mountain guns and drilled into the alleys next to them. The deputy company commander ordered sixteen men to be ready for battle. At this moment, the Japanese herald ran over and shouted loudly in Japanese, open fire! Hurry up!

The deputy company commander pulled out the shell gun, and the gun rang out, and the herald fell to the ground and died quietly.

The deputy company commander obeyed the order of the Japanese herald and immediately opened fire. Four grenadiers and four mortars roared together, causing the Japanese soldiers to fly flesh and blood and corpses all over the streets.

Two squads of Japanese troops attacked and advanced violently towards the position of the Eighth Route Army from the streets north and south of the west gate of the town. The soldiers of the second and third platoons, who had prepared in advance, immediately turned their guns and opened fire on the Japanese troops from the south and from the north, and the rifle and machine gun bullets swept the devil soldiers like iron brooms. And use the newly captured grenadiers, mortars to bombard the enemy group. The Japanese troops on the north and south sides stopped their advance, organized powerful and dense fire counterattacks, and also used grenadiers and mortars to bombard the positions of the Eighth Route Army. For a time, the Eighth Route Army was at a disadvantage of being besieged on three sides, and the battle situation was critical.