The Japanese pulled out a long horizontal line, stepped through the trenches that had been cooked by artillery fire, like a huge comb, and sifted towards the town.

The first battle between the Xicun Brigade and the 424th Regiment was a street battle in Liudian in Lingqiu. In that street battle, the Nishimura brigade suffered a small loss, and it was precisely because of this that Nishimura was so impressed by the street battle.

This time, Nishimura can be said to have remembered the lesson, and did not disperse the soldiers into small groups to infiltrate inwards as he did that time.

In the original street fighting in Liudian, many soldiers were attacked after they were dispersed. This time, Nishimura simply ordered the soldiers to search street by street, shoulder to shoulder, side by side.

This may seem like a stupid solution, but it's actually the most efficient way to do it. When the specific movements and specific positions of the enemy are not known, this is the only tactic that is the safest.

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"The devil is here, get ready for battle!"

In an oil and salt shop on the street, a combat group of the fifth platoon set up a light machine gun on the window, waiting for the arrival of the little devil. During the previous shelling, they lost contact with several other groups. Now I'm just fighting alone.

After a while, the figure of the devil appeared from the corner of the street.

"Da Da Da ......"

Seeing the devil showing his head, the combat team opened fire without hesitation.

"Yaga!"

The bullets from the light machine guns pushed over like a curtain, and the sudden attack made the devils at the head of the team immediately swept down a few of them.

The rest of the devils immediately looked for cover and immediately opened fire.

"Smack! Syllable! Syllable! ……”

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"Very well, our soldiers have already exchanged fire with the Eighth Route Army. Tell the machine-gun squadron not to concentrate on it.

The Eighth Route Army was scattered throughout the town, and the heavy machine guns were given the maximum fire support to our soldiers. ”

Nishimura can also be said to be well versed in the fighting style of the Eighth Route Army, and knows that for the scattered Eighth Route Army, no matter how strong the firepower is, it will not help.

As Nishimura's order continued, the twelve heavy machine guns of the machine gun squadron began to consciously disperse.

After the devil's machine gun squadron dispersed, it was not like a straggler, finding a few positions at random to determine the firing point, but following the devil's infantry formation in a very orderly manner.

The advance of the infantry is a struggle for living space for the heavy machine guns, and the firepower of the heavy machine guns also escorts the advance of the infantry.

The four devils carried the heavy machine gun to the street where the oil and salt shop was located, set up the Type 92 heavy machine gun, and the loader immediately stuck the bullet board.

"Da Da Da ......"

Huang Chengcheng's bullets continued to spray out one after another, and the doors and windows of the small oil and salt shop were shattered into sawdust on the ground at that time!

The soldiers in the oil and salt shop were stunned by the fierce fire of the devil's heavy machine guns.

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Exchanges like this soon broke out in many parts of the town, and the command received reports from below, both good and bad. Most of them are bad news!

The devils are at least a detachment of thirteen people who act together, and there are even more devils who act together. As a result, the success rate of things like knocking sticks and shooting black guns has become extremely low.

In the end, more battles turned into head-on battles, in which the devils showed their extraordinary military qualities and advanced weaponry.

Light and heavy machine guns, Type 38 rifles, mortars, grenades, grenades, the devil's equipment is more advanced than that of the Eighth Route Army, and it is also much more comprehensive, which makes the soldiers suffer a big loss in the squad-level battle!

"Battalion commander, you can't fight like this anymore, half of the company is about to be defeated!"

Zhang Chi is almost crying when he speaks now, how could they have fought such a battle? After more than three hours of firefighting with the devils, more than 80 people were lost!

Bai Lin was obviously not much stronger than Zhang Chi at this time, which could be seen from his occasionally throbbing eyelids and clenched pale bone joints.

"No hurry! How many devils are in our pockets now?! ”

It took a long time for Bai Lin to ask Zhang Chi.

"Battalion commander, there are almost 400 devils who have been put in! Let's close the net! ”

Zhang Chi said eagerly that strategies such as closing the door and beating dogs had been formulated before. However, this incident made Bai Lin and even Yue Siliang not expect that the devil would send a brigade to press it!

For a long time, Yue Siliang tried his best to ensure the numerical advantage in the battle with the Japanese army, and this time it was with this idea that the first battalion was reorganized into a reinforced battalion. What I think is, even if the devil sends two squadrons over, he can eat them in one bite!

However, Yue Siliang miscalculated that Sasaki attached great importance to him, and he directly mobilized a brigade in one breath!

"No! The devil has a brigade! Even if we lock these 400 devils in, there are more than 600 people outside! In that case, all our arrangements would be meaningless!

The order given to us by the regiment commander is to nail it to the south ridge, and we must not move without his order! If he is driven out of Nanzhang by a brigade of devils like this, the regiment commander's arrangement will be ruined! Hold on to me! Even if one of us fights two devils, we have to hold on! Even if you bite with your teeth, you have to drag the little devil down! ”

At this time, Bai Lin's appearance was extremely determined. From his eyes, Zhang Chi clearly saw the iron will.

"Okay, since you insist, battalion commander, then I have nothing to say! Even if you bite with your teeth, you have to drag the devil down! ”

Zhang Chi reluctantly repeated Bai Lin's words, and then stomped on him again.

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"The battalion commander said! Even if you bite with your teeth, you have to drag the devil down! ”

The commander of the second company gritted his back molars and said to the cadres below that from the battle with the devil to the present, their company has lost the most, and one of the platoons now has only an old squad leader on top. This made his heart extremely annoyed.

"Company commander, what are we going to do? The comrades have already persevered very hard. ”

The person who said this was the new deputy company commander of the second company, that is, the deputy captain of the previous sharpshooter team. Because he is a sniper, he is more adept at stealing and long-range sniping, and frontal combat like this is still a bit rusty for him.

"What else can you do to attract the enemy's firepower as much as possible, but at the same time try not to make too much contact with the enemy.

Don't you understand? We're a bait that can't be bitten by a fish, and our mission is to attract more fish to come together. ”

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Outside Nanzhang Castle, in the temporary headquarters of the West Village Brigade.

The old god of Nishimura was sitting under the pergola with his sword, and the westerly sun shone on Nishimura's face, shaking him subconsciously moving the bench under his buttocks.

After moving, Nishimura realized something, took out his pocket watch and looked at the time on it: a quarter past three in the afternoon.

"It's already three o'clock in the afternoon, I really didn't expect the 424 regiment to be able to hold out for such a long time. From seven o'clock in the morning until now, it has been eight hours. ”

"Yes, Captain. I really didn't expect that the Chinese could also have such backbone. One way or another. I'm willing to admit that Lingqiu's battle was not won by luck. ”

The auxiliary officer of Nishimura also said with emotion on his face, today's battle with the 424th Regiment can be said to have completely dispelled the pride in his heart. It suffered a heavy artillery bombardment, and then the entire defensive circle was constantly shrinking, but that's it, the Eighth Route Army has not yet been defeated!

"Spine? Yes, I like your wording. can withstand such high pressure, and it is indeed qualified to be called backbone. How many of our soldiers are now engaged in battle? ”

Hearing Nishimura's question, the assistant officer flipped through the folder in his hand before he spoke again.

"Now all of them are on the battlefield, except for the brigade headquarters, the artillery unit, and the two squads used for guarding.

The ratio of friend to foe is nearly 1 to 2, if it didn't happen in front of my eyes, I really wouldn't dare to happen on the battlefield in China to be able to do such a thing! ”

"One to two?! What do you mean by that?! ”

Nishimura stood up suddenly, his falcon-like eyes fixed on the adjutant.

"Captain, my words are literal, after several hours of fighting, we have come to the conclusion that the number of people participating in the battle of the Eighth Route Army is about 400 people, most of them participated in the battle in the form of small units, and now it is estimated that their losses have exceeded half......"

The auxiliary officer said to himself, but he didn't see that Nishimura's face was as black as an iron pot.

"Yaga! Why didn't you say something so important earlier?! Our opponent is a regiment, and you tell me that now there are only more than 400 people? ”

The assistant officer who was slapped immediately bowed his head, but at the same time defended himself.

"Captain, we've just counted the numbers. And as far as I know, the Eighth Route Army has a habit of keeping reserves, and perhaps they are still keeping reserves.

And don't forget, our shelling destroyed all their fortifications on the outskirts of the town, and perhaps the rest of the soldiers died in the trenches......"

"Are you thinking I'm an idiot?! Dead in the trenches? And what about corpses? Now it's more than a thousand people less than expected! You tell me about dozens of corpses? Has your head been soaked in seawater? Or do you have enough intelligence to be a sailor? ”

Nishimura was a little flustered, he hated uncertainties because he knew the opponent of the 424th regiment, and the other party was very good at taking advantage of those uncertainties to catch him off guard.

"That's not right! There is no need for the Eighth Route Army to retain reserve troops under such a disadvantage. Now I'm afraid there are only two possibilities, one is that there is no regiment at all on the Eighth Road in Nanzhang! And then after the main force of the Eighth Route Army left a small number of people to break off, the main force planned to escape! ”

Nishimura's analysis was accurate, and his assistant nodded approvingly after listening to it.

"So what do you think is the possibility, Captain?"

"I don't know, and I don't like to speculate. If it's the first case, it's better to say, it's just that we're going to get a not big enough result. But if it's the second case, it's bad, it means we're going to lose the big with the small!

The Eighth Route Army is very good at using the mountains to escape, and if we let them into the mountains, it will be difficult for us to catch them again! Bring the map! ”

Hearing Nishimura's order, the assistant immediately unfolded the map of the Nanshan area and handed it to Nishimura.

"There is a Hualang Mountain in the west of Nanzhang, and there is a Jianshan Mountain in the north! Except for these two mountains, the Eighth Route Army had no other escape route, and Jianshan was behind us, and this road was a dead end.

That means that the only escape route of the Eighth Route Army may be Hualang Mountain, if this is the case, we must divide our troops to cut off the route of Hualang Mountain! While this may be a remedy, it's not too late. ”

Nishimura said with a complicated expression, and there were things that he couldn't control in this battle, just like when he was in the Black Mountain Pass and in the Buddha Ridge.

In the headquarters of the Nanzhang Town Battalion, Bai Lin pulled out the shell gun on his waist at some point and wiped it repeatedly.

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