Chapter 714: The Hill Resists
The gunfire behind was very tight, and listening to the gunshots turned out to be mostly the gunshots of the "eight hooks and eight hooks" 38 big covers, it was obvious that there were not many Sichuan troops covering behind.
At this moment, the more than ten senior generals of the Sichuan Army had no time to ask where this rescue force, which was obviously the Central Army, came from, and Huo Xiaoshan could not ask how many pursuers there were behind these officers.
When a senior officer kills the enemy, if he can take the lead, it is certainly desirable in spirit, but if he dies in defeat, it is actually a shame for the army, and it is definitely a huge blow to morale.
So the group of officers ran past the officers and soldiers of the battalion directly under the surviving army guard battalion, and Huo Xiaoshan and the others also withdrew to the hill with their guns facing west, ready to engage at any time.
Before reaching the top of the hill, Huo Xiaoshan saw the soldiers of the Sichuan Army rushing out from the opposite hill.
Some of them had just rushed to the top of the hill before falling headlong, apparently being knocked down by the Japanese army behind.
More often than not, they turned around with long guns and short guns in their hands and threw themselves down on the ridge line to shoot, obviously trying to use the cover of this hill to block the pursuers behind them, so as to buy a little more time for the generals who had just run past in front of them to escape.
It's just that it was obvious that there were many pursuers behind them, and it was only a blink of an eye, and more than 10 of the more than 20 soldiers who had just turned around to block the attack were lying there motionless, and it was obvious that they had been hit by the Japanese again.
"Tell them to withdraw, cover up, and seal the devils behind!" Huo Xiaoshan shouted.
At this time, it was naturally not only the people of their direct battalion who stayed to prepare to block the Japanese army again, but also left more than 30 people in the Nachuan Army Guard Battalion when they escorted their generals to retreat.
As a result, some Sichuan soldiers pulled their necks and shouted: "Come back quickly!" ”
At this time, the Sichuan soldiers who were blocking the attack in front turned around and noticed that the hills behind them were already densely covered with guns, and even Makqin and light machine guns were erected.
Only then did they know that reinforcements had arrived!
It was obvious that there were officers in their group, but they saw that everyone did not retreat immediately, but drew the grenades hanging on their bodies, twisted the strings and threw them.
It was in the dust rising from behind the hill that these Sichuan soldiers put away their guns and turned around and ran.
"Ready to shoot!" Huo Xiaoshan figured it out, the devils behind the Sichuan army were chasing really closely, he estimated that the grenades thrown by those soldiers were not even more than twenty meters, and he actually saw a Japanese soldier's cloth military cap being swept up by the wave of the grenade and falling down.
As soon as Huo Xiaoshan finished shouting this, the Japanese army on the opposite side had already appeared.
The Japanese obviously did not expect that there would be an ambush on the opposite side, and they had already regarded the officers and soldiers they were pursuing Sichuan as fat ducks to their mouths, so they adopted a dense attack formation.
The dense crowd of human heads really swarmed in, and in the blink of an eye, the earthy yellow body had already exposed its upper body from behind the ridges.
At this time, Huo Xiaoshan's "hit" shouted out, and in an instant, the direct battalion was in full swing, and he saw that the smoke and dust on the top of the hill rose sharply, and it was all the dust and dust that had been hit by the dense bullets!
You know, a bullet is not a grenade or a cannonball, and how much ash can a bullet stir up when it hits the soil?
But at the moment when the Japanese army showed its head and rushed forward, the dust and dust that was hit by the bullet actually pressed over the heads of the Japanese soldiers.
In the dust, the earthy yellow line that was originally suppressed by the green mountain due to the excessive impact of the Japanese army collapsed in an instant, and I don't know how many Japanese soldiers were killed at this moment!
Japanese troops rushed out from both sides of the hill, and without waiting for Huo Xiaoshan's order, the firepower of the battalion directly under it was automatically separated.
Although the separation of firepower was not as fierce and dense as at the beginning, the unprepared Japanese troops were still taken by surprise, and the Japanese soldiers in front fell down, while the Japanese troops in the back saw that there were Chinese troops busy on the commanding heights in front and retreated one after another.
"Two rounds of small cannons!" Huo Xiaoshan shouted again, and with his shouting, the sound of more than 20 grenadiers erected behind the front-line shooting fighters was incessant.
The distance between the two hills is only sixty or seventy meters, this distance is not necessary to test firing at all, and Huo Xiaoshan used a firepower covered play, the distance was too close, and after the bombardment hit that side of the hill, it had already exploded, and I don't know how many Japanese soldiers were killed, but when I saw the rising dust and ash, it instantly covered the hill!
At this time, the Sichuan soldiers who had withdrawn from the opposite hill rushed to the hill where the battalion was located.
"How many devils are on the other side?" Huo Xiaoshan had the time to ask.
"A brigade!" An officer-like Sichuan Jun replied.
Huo Xiaoshan gasped, I'll go, a brigade, more than a thousand people, this light can't stop our direct battalion!
Don't underestimate a brigade of the Japanese army, that brigade of the Japanese army can completely fight a miscellaneous division of nearly 10,000 people in the national army.
Although Huo Xiaoshan's direct battalion is strong, there are only a few hundred people and people can't afford to fight!
Huo Xiaoshan glanced back and saw that the group of senior officers in front of him had already run out for more than 200 meters, and if they ran more than 200 meters further, they would enter the woods, and Deng Wenxian's Sichuan Army should be almost there.
"Small artillery, two salves behind the hill, Hanzi left four light machine guns to cover, and the rest retreated!" Huo Xiaoshan ordered.
He was so familiar with the Japanese way of fighting that he had to run.
In absolute terms, his own battalion can't fight the Japanese army, and there is only a small hill here that is not dangerous to defend.
Immediately, the small artillery of the Japanese army will also hit the grenade, and the Japanese army will definitely outflank it on both flanks, and within 400 meters behind him, there is still a flat river, but there is not even a tree, and if the withdrawal is late, there will be nowhere to retreat.
Once this mountain is occupied by the Japanese army, then their own people in the treeless area four or five hundred meters behind will become a live target.
The military order was like a mountain, and the personnel of the directly subordinate battalion withdrew one after another.
In this regard, the people of the Sichuan army did not raise any objections. They also saw that now this group of reinforcements is from the Central Army, and they have no obligation to listen to the command of their Sichuan army, so if they want to withdraw, they should all be withdrawn.
And sure enough, just when Huo Xiaoshan's battalion had just withdrawn from the hill, the Japanese army's grenades whistled, and at the same time, from the gaps in the trees in front of the oblique front on both sides, the Japanese troops had already begun to move to the side of the hill.
"The fastest way into the woods!" Huo Xiaoshan shouted.
He had to do this, because if he did not get into the woods as soon as possible, his men would be shot at by the Japanese who had begun to detour diagonally ahead, and at the same time he could only provide cover for the enemy who were still holding back the enemy on the hills.
The eight people who stayed behind to cover also need to be withdrawn, of course Huo Xiaoshan hopes that none of his people will be missing, but it is obviously not possible to leave people on the mountain to block the Japanese army.
The soldiers of the battalion flew away again, but by this time the Japanese troops had also moved into the woods on both sides of the hill, and there were already bullets shooting at the hills.
Huo Xiaoshan ran desperately, and as soon as he got into the woods, he couldn't care about his movements being too fast, so he picked up the box cannon with the wooden box and fired into the woods in front of him.
The rest of the soldiers arrived, and the fire intensified again, suppressing the Japanese fire that had detoured back to Hanzi's flanks.
And Hanzi, when they saw that Huo Xiaoshan had already arrived at the position, they also drew their guns and ran back.
It's just that when they ran back more than 200 meters, the gunfire of the Japanese army came from the hill behind!
There are still more than 200 meters in the open field, can they return safely?
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