Sanyi Village is located in the west of Lanfeng, adjacent to Qixian County in the south, facing the Yellow River and Fengqiu across the river in the north, less than 30 kilometers away from Kaifeng in the west, and is the only place to connect eastern Henan and southwest Shandong.

Tufeiyuan took a fancy to this place with its back to the Yellow River, and it could attack and retreat, and then it could escape across the river if it was not good, so it was regarded as the center of guarding and waiting for help.

Although he is a Chinese expert, Tu Feiyuan knows China's customs, territory and history very well, but he also knows a lot about sesame large and small places, which has to be convincing.

After a whole night of rapid marching, the 116th Regiment and the newly formed 1st Regiment led by Zhang Xiaohu first arrived at the 18th Village on the outskirts of Sanyi Village, and then ordered Lai Wenli's 115th Regiment to capture Zhuzhuang and Guanzhai on the edge of the Yellow River, cutting off the back route for the Japanese army to retreat from the Yellow River crossing.

At this moment, Sun Yumin, who was still on the march, did not know that the forward troops had arrived at the attack site, let alone that Lai Wenli's troops, who were going to attack Zhuzhuang and Guanzhai, had fallen into the conspiracy of Tufeiyuan.

In the fields outside Zhuzhuang, the soldiers of the third battalion of the 115th Regiment, under the leadership of Dai Cunxiang, groped their way to Zhuangzi, he wanted to prepare for the defense before dawn and prepare for the coming cruel battle.

The small village shrouded in darkness was as quiet as the surroundings. If it were an officer from Nanjing or from the enemy-occupied area, such tranquility would definitely be noticed, but Dai Cunxiang did not have such experience, as an officer of the former 20th Division, he was firmly protected and raised by Sun Tongxuan as a treasure like everyone else, and his combat experience can be said to be basically none, if it were not for the recent major military operations after Sun Yumin took office, it is estimated that he would have less experience in this area. Dai Cunxiang didn't realize that it was about to dawn, there were no roosters crowing in this village, no dogs barking, and no farmers who got up early, his mind was completely about how to arrange the defense line and heavy firepower points after entering the village, and he didn't consider whether there would be devils here.

How could he have thought that this village had been occupied by heavy troops sent by Tu Feiyuan early, and a death trap was set up waiting for their arrival.

Fortunately, Dai Cunxiang was a highly vigilant officer, and he sent a squad of top soldiers in front of the third battalion, and it was this habitual measure that gave the 115th regiment a chance to work hard and Sun Yumin a short time to adjust.

Dai Cunxiang and the commander of the third battalion walked towards the village with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and said a few words about the defense from time to time as they walked.

In the faint light, a room stood alone in front of it, and more than a dozen soldiers who served as spearheads cautiously approached the room.

This is already the outer edge of Zhuzhuang, as a small village with only a few dozen households, the houses in the village do not have any planned layout, and they are scattered here and there. This adobe thatched house is very common in eastern Henan and southwestern Lu. At least 100 meters away from this house are three or four other houses with similar styles and structures, followed by most of the Zhuzhuang buildings built on the hillside, and less than a kilometer to the northwest is the mother river of the Chinese nation: the Yellow River.

To the west and south of the village are large wheat fields, and only to the east is a small wood, and a dirt road formed by mules and horse-drawn carts leads to the village along the edge of the woods. Dai Cunxiang's troops did not enter the village along this dirt road, which can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune.

The soldiers in front of the third battalion stopped, and the steps of the entire team were stopped, and the commander of the third battalion whispered as he ran forward, "What's wrong?" What the situation. ”

It is too close to Sanyi Village, and the 115th Regiment is secretly inserting it here, of course, it can't make too much noise.

"Battalion commander, the third shift didn't send a signal back, and everyone is gone." The first platoon commander replied that the squad that explored the path was his soldiers, so he would naturally care more than others.

"What?" The third battalion commander didn't realize the seriousness of the matter, and said, "Send me another squad to see what the hell they are doing?" ”

"Lie down." Without waiting for the platoon commander to answer and arrange, a person shouted loudly, it was Dai Cunxiang's voice. What else does it mean that the spearhead suddenly loses contact? He didn't have that kind of luck mentality, and he shouted this sentence without even thinking about it.

As soon as his shout came out, a muffled sound suddenly came from the village not far away, followed by a blazing white dot that hit the sky, like a bright star hanging in the sky, illuminating the whole place as bright as day, and revealing Dai Cunxiang and the soldiers of the three battalions who had nowhere to hide under this light.

Seeing this rising flare, Dai Cunxiang's heart suddenly swelled with a warning of danger, although his cry was responded to by many veterans, but at least half of the third battalion were newly added recruits, except for some clever guys who followed the veterans to fall down, most of the recruits were still looking around, looking at the dazzling white light on the zenith that they had never seen before, or looking around, looking for the source of the sound, where would they expect the sudden arrival of the catastrophe.

Giggles......

The unique rooster-like roar of the Devil's Type 97 heavy machine gun reached Dai Cunxiang's ears, and he watched the soldiers who were constantly falling with blood splashes, and let him shout at the top of his voice: "Get down!" Get down! ”

But there was still no follow-up, and there were still recruits who were swept by machine guns.

It was okay to be hit by a single shot, and they died directly in the local area, but the soldiers who were not hit by the vital point but were shot several times fell to the ground and screamed, screaming for help and screaming for pain, like a bullet or a knife, were digging through Dai Cunxiang's heart.

As soon as the heavy machine gun sounded, the crooked handle and the 38 big cover also began to sound, and the veterans on this side also quickly began to shoot back, there was no cover to cover it, and now it is still in the open, so they can only pull the corpses of the soldiers who have died and died to build a temporary line of defense.

As soon as the lights hit the sky and the devil's machine gun went off, the fourth battalion, which was more than 1,000 meters behind the third battalion, immediately accelerated its pace of advance under the leadership of the battalion commander.

Dai Cunxiang lay on the ground, hiding behind the bunker made of the corpses of his own soldiers, his heart seemed to be dripping blood, he didn't dare to look at these familiar faces, for fear that he would not be able to bear the torment of conscience, and do something that would make his relatives and enemies happy.

Seeing the four battalions coming regardless of casualties, Dai Cunxiang suddenly felt an inexplicable touch. The previous 20th Division was a good place to be pampered, and some of them were fighting for power and profit, intrigue, and they all wanted to fall into the well and step on two feet when they saw that you were unlucky. How could there be such a thing that disregarded his own life, stepped forward to help, and shared weal and woe.

"Deputy regiment, it seems that the village in front of us is occupied by devils, and it is impossible for us to attack it in a short time." The commander of the fourth battalion climbed all the way to Dai Cunxiang, he was the backbone of Sun Yumin's spy company from the 46th Division, and he did not rely on this relationship to have any disrespect for Dai Cunxiang.

"The order of the division seat is for us to occupy Zhuzhuang and Guanzhai, block this position, and prevent the devil from stepping over. Now, although there are devils in the village, how can we give up because of this? The 115th Regiment is the Sharp Knife Regiment and the Ace Regiment of the 20th Division, if we give up the task, then can I and the regiment still be able to raise our heads in the division? Although Dai Cunxiang was very distressed about the casualties of the soldiers, in order to take into account the overall situation and carry out Sun Yumin's orders, he decided to occupy Zhuzhuang without hesitation.

"Deputy Commander, this place is too close to Sanyi Village, if a wave of attacks does not take the village, we will be in danger of being surrounded. When the time comes, you can't withdraw if you want to. The third battalion commander said.

"Withdraw? Do you think we can pull it down? Even if we leave the regiment commander and the first and second battalions behind, we still can't shake off the group of Japanese dogs that are following behind our butts. Dai Cunxiang said flatly, and it was completely impossible to see the true thoughts in his heart from his face.

In fact, the current situation is very unfavorable to Dai Cunxiang and them, first misjudged that there were no Japanese troops in the village; Furthermore, the firepower and strength of the Japanese troops in ambush were misjudged, and the third and fourth battalions did not enter the village from the highway as usual, but stepped on the wheat in the fields to enter the village, so that the heavy firepower deployed by the Japanese army basically did not play a big role. This also made Dai Cunxiang have a serious misjudgment of the strength of the devil, which indirectly caused the third and fourth battalions to be in a desperate situation, and also affected the first and second battalions led by Lai Wenli, resulting in less than 30 people left in the nearly 3,000 people of the 115th Regiment after this battle.

Before the men and horses led by Lai Wenli arrived at the periphery of Guanzhai, the sky in the north suddenly lit up with an incandescent light, and then the sound of pheasant's neck sounded, even if it was nearly a kilometer or two away, he could hear it clearly, his heart tightened, and he said secretly: It's not good, it seems to be in ambush.

Time did not allow him to think too much, and it was impossible to retreat at this time, Lai Wenli was heartbroken, took out the red spike broadsword behind his back, and shouted to the messenger beside him: "The first battalion will follow me and attack the village at a speed, and the second battalion will follow." ”

The gunfire in the direction of Zhuzhuang behind him became more and more intense, indicating that the men and horses led by Dai Cunxiang had not completely lost their combat effectiveness, but if they continued to consume for such a long time, they would not be able to do it at all, if they did not quickly capture the village, they would arrange a defensive line. Once the reinforcements of the devil are close at hand, the end will undoubtedly be annihilated. Lai Wenli's heart at this moment is completely thinking about how to attack the village, and then hold on, so that even if Dai Cunxiang and they can't capture Zhuzhuang, there is an enemy behind them, and there can be a place to stay.

Stepping on the glimmer of the morning light and listening to the lively gunfire of fried beans behind him, Lai Wenli and the hundreds of soldiers of the first battalion ran forward vigorously.

The sound of heavy breathing and the clashing of guns and water bottles on their bodies, as well as the chaotic footsteps, converged into a majestic symphony, which seemed to beat the drums of war for these valiant soldiers; It also seems to tell people that the heroic soldiers are embarking on a journey to sacrifice their lives for the country.

Lai Wenli and his soldiers were waiting for the first gunshot to come from the village, waiting for the first bullet to be fired from the village, and they all looked forward to the fact that it was an empty village. In fact, everyone knows that this can only be a good wish, from the first gunshot in the direction of Zhuzhuang behind him, Lai Wenli and his officers, backbones and veterans all know that they are already more than lucky.

200 meters

100 meters

50 m ......

Seeing that the company that rushed to the forefront was about to enter the village, and still did not hear the gunshots, this made the soldiers behind breathe a sigh of relief, and even Lai Wenli secretly sighed that he was lucky, if there were no devils stationed, he could turn this place into a qualified defensive place in just ten minutes.

But just when everyone thought that they were about to occupy the fortress without blood, there were suddenly a few strange noises in the sky, followed by a few fires in the middle of a company of soldiers.

"Fuck it!" Lai Wenli cursed a swear word in his mouth, the few bombs that he had just received were not fired by mortars, and the sound of breaking through the air and the power of the explosion could show that this was the signature weapon of the Japanese army invading China: the grenadier canister.

He knew very well in his heart that since the devils used grenadiers to drop grenades, it meant that their first line of defense was not at the entrance of the village, that is to say, the devils gave up on their own initiative. He couldn't understand what the devil commander here was thinking, and he would actually give up the village entrance as the best position for the first line of defense, and replace it with himself, and he would not do it anyway.

Although the power of the grenadier is not as great as that of the mortar, it is also a door gun, and a few grenades come down, and the company suffers a lot of casualties.

The sound of the grenade explosion had not yet disappeared, but more strange noises broke through the air, and the terrible screams seemed to pierce people's ears, and from the sound of the sound, at least twenty or thirty grenades fired by grenades could reach this formation, and the direction of the sound was to cover the area where the first battalion was located.

"Spread out." In fact, Lai Wenli's sentence is redundant, the soldiers of the first battalion and the second battalion are different from the third battalion and the fourth battalion led by Dai Cunxiang, most of them are veterans, and as soon as they heard this familiar scream, they quickly scattered around, looking for a place to hide.

A series of fires rose from the position where Lai Wenli and them were just now, and a series of explosions resounded in everyone's ears.

Lai Wenli was still glad that the devil grenade was divided into two attacks, if the first wave of grenades had such a scale and the direction and location were so accurate, at least one-third of the gang of people he brought would be hanging over there.

He was still secretly glad in his heart, but he felt that something was abnormal, he crawled on the ground for a distance of a few meters, wanting to lean on a small dirt slope in front of him to see the situation in front of him.

Crawling and crawling, Lai Wenli felt that something was wrong, the wetness and looseness of the soil on the ground seemed to tell him something, and there seemed to be a smell in the soil that should not be there. The smell is familiar, as if the same smell is in the air at the moment. What does it taste like? Lai Wenli's mind seemed to be like a short circuit, and he couldn't turn around.

In a brick and stone building in the village, a short and fat devil officer stood in the corridor on the second floor and looked out, the grenade explosion at the entrance of the village did not stop, and the sound kept rippling in the village.

The devil officer had a sly smile on his face all the time, and his eyes did not look at the mouth of the village that kept exploding, but at the fields that were still not so clear in the morning light.

"Ogasawara-kun, it's over." The Humpty Dumpty officer said to one of the devils beside him, and without waiting for the man's response, the Humpty Dumpty officer turned and walked into the house.

Thundered......

In the field outside Guanzhai, a huge mushroom cloud suddenly rose from the large area where the first and second battalions were hiding, firelight, smoke, explosions, shaking ground and flying mud and dust, as well as severed limbs and stumps scattered everywhere, and Lai Wenli's eyes that could not be closed, and when he was pushed into the sky, he finally recognized the smell of the wet earth: sulfur saltpeter.