The counterattack of more than one squadron failed like this, and Kataambi understood in his heart that the troops could no longer hold on, and now they could only strengthen the defense and wait for orders from the detachment.

"Captain, what's next?" Katano sighed lightly, waved his hand, and said, "Send a telegram to the detachment headquarters and ask about the next stage." ”

Soon, the order of the Sakamoto detachment was sent to Katano Tasumi, a rather irresponsible order, the content of which can be simply summarized as: fight separately, and the camera will deal with it. This is also something that cannot be helped, and today it was almost a whole day, and it was met with a large-scale counterattack from the Chinese army.

Katano lost the telegram and made arrangements for his troops.

"Order, the main forces of the two brigades shrink the stragglers on the periphery, concentrate on guarding the existing positions, and the artillery will concentrate on the remaining shells, and if necessary, they can blow up the artillery, and be ready to retreat to the area around the Red Furnace at any time."

"Yes" Zhang Wei just relieved himself and put down the 38 rifle in his hand, the soldiers around him were covered in blood, some of them were injured, lying on the ground and wailing, and the uninjured were cleaning up the mess while cleaning up the wounded soldiers, all the wounded were gathered aside, and the second battalion commander limped over, revealing a big blood hole on his left arm, which seemed to have been hit by the 38 rifle.

Zhang Wei got up and helped the second battalion commander, the two sat down slowly, and the second battalion commander smiled.

said: "Thank you, this battle is too dangerous. Our battalion will not be able to continue the main attack at this time. ”

"The Japanese can't stand it, they can't organize a counterattack, the 23rd Regiment still has the ability to continue to organize the attack, and the Japanese can't fight anymore.

The second battalion commander nodded, looking at the soldiers around him, in the battle just now, the strength of one and a half squadrons of the Japanese army was almost completely wiped out (a squadron was assigned to fight the position of the 52nd Army), of course, the main thing is that these madmen didn't want to go back alive, if they were trying to withdraw the remnants, it was really not something that Zhang Wei and the second battalion commander could stop.

The troops of the second battalion commander were killed and wounded, adding up to more than 100 numbers, and Zhang Wei's one, two, and two platoons suffered more than 30 casualties in hand-to-hand combat, but if they were wounded soldiers, because the tactics of the independent company were better, and they were engaged in battle during the battle, the casualties were relatively small.

In addition, the three or four platoons that blocked the Japanese army on the position suffered more than 20 casualties, adding up, the Chinese troops on the position suffered more than 160 casualties, and the Japanese squadron of one and a half less than the formation added up to nearly 100 people. Fortunately, the independent company did not have any casualties in the formation, the formation of each squad and platoon was complete, and the squad with the greatest casualties only suffered more than half of the casualties, and the impact on the continuation of the operation was not great.

Therefore, Zhang Wei still has to continue to fight with the independent company. On the other side, a squadron of madmen launched a counterattack on the position occupied by the 52nd Army, defending the position were the two infantry companies of the 25th Division and the battalion's heavy machine gun company, the Japanese raid and a certain degree of artillery fire cover, so that this madman squadron successfully rushed into the position after paying the price of more than 30 people, and then it was the same hand-to-hand combat as Zhang Wei and them, the reinforcements of the 25th Division were quickly sent, they were not the same as the reinforcements of the 23rd Regiment, they were raided and shelled after the departure of the forward position, Instead, he went to the front line without hindrance.

The two armies were flanked, and with the arrival of reinforcements, the Japanese troops on the position no longer had the possibility of escaping, and were eaten away by the officers and soldiers of the 25th Division little by little, and finally were completely annihilated on the position.

The so-called "counterattack" of the 21st Wing was completely lost.

Katano was making the final defensive preparations, and he was also preparing to retreat. Zhang Wei returned to his position, Xu Yi and Hao Zhong were counting the number of people and ammunition, and the seriously wounded were gathered together, some were hit by shrapnel in the legs, some were stabbed in the chest, about two dozen of them.

Qiu Wei came over and asked Zhang Wei how to deal with these seriously injured soldiers, take it, it can't be saved at all, Zhang Wei knows that Qiu Wei is afraid that these people will not return, so he will run away after sending them to the back.

"It's okay, I'll hand it over to the back later, don't worry, our people can't run.

"Someone must have made up their minds about these soldiers, these days, the most valuable human resources are strong men and adult men, and what is the most expensive in the army?

Officers are officers who have received military education and are on the passing line, and soldiers are naturally veterans who have fought in wars, and Zhang Wei dares to guarantee that under normal circumstances, it is impossible to send these people away and find them back.

However, he is now a friendly army, and he has a good relationship with Chen Chunyi, so he has also made a name for himself in these big battles, so let's talk about Chen Chunyi.

The people in the back will have to think about it.

"Come, help those brothers, come with me!" Zhang Wei asked people to help these wounded soldiers to go back, and the same is true for the second battalion over there, the wounded soldiers are in front, this battalion is about to start retreating, and the second battalion commander is organizing a retreat with injuries.

Seeing Zhang Wei coming, he took a few steps forward.

"Company Commander Zhang, what's wrong?" Zhang Wei pointed to the wounded soldiers on the side and said, "Sir, my brother has a reluctant request, these seriously injured brothers still want you to help send them to the 23rd regiment and find a way to send them to the hospital, please!" ”

The second battalion commander smiled: "It's nothing, leave it to me." ”

After finishing speaking, he was about to leave, Zhang Wei grabbed him, stepped forward and whispered.

"Sir, these brothers are fighting with me for life and death, it's not easy, when I see Captain Chen, help my brothers say a few words, don't let these brothers go back to the nest after they get better, Captain Chen will also give me a little thin noodles, and I hope the chief will help."

The two looked at each other, first speechless, and then the second battalion commander looked at Zhang Wei thoughtfully and nodded.

"Well, wrap it up on me." After saying that, let the men of the 2nd Battalion take the wounded from the independent company and withdraw to the rear position.

Everyone is a reasonable person, Zhang Wei believes that this battalion commander will not be uninteresting, hum, we are allies!

The first to retreat is the wounded, the rest of the second battalion still have to lie in the position, just now the reinforcements were shelled, indicating that the Japanese artillery has been eyeing the advance position to the main position, if the whole battalion retreats at the same time, and then is shelled, it will be a big death, so the second battalion commander first took the risk of retreating with the wounded who needed emergency treatment, and the rest of the people had to retreat in platoons little by little.

Qiu Wei looked at the team in the distance, sighed, and asked Zhang Wei, "Is this okay?" Zhang Wei didn't reply immediately, and patted Qiu Wei on the shoulder.

"Don't think about it so much, it's okay, write down the dead first, and look back to find a few on the roster, and if you can give money, get the pension back, alas."

Qiu Wei walked back, and began to complain in his mouth: "Don't check, the last batch of supplements is either from the supplementary regiment or the strong men sent by the division management area, the information and list are not here, and it is useless to find them, they are all forced, and those old men are too lazy to remember their names." ”

"Let's go, the heads of people in troubled times are worthless."