Seeing the enemy frantically rushing towards the position of the Third Regiment, Regiment Commander Wu decisively shouted according to the order issued by Lei Jian: "The battalions of the Third Regiment quickly withdraw from their positions under cross-cover and retreat along the Wufu Highway as quickly as possible." ”

The commanders of the battalions of the 3rd Regiment received orders to quickly withdraw from their positions and retreat as planned along the Wufu Highway as quickly as possible.

The commander of the devil led the troops to quickly occupy the position of the third regiment set up in the middle of the mountainside, looking at the third regiment that was 'fleeing', he laughed arrogantly and said: "Hahaha, the Tubalu is simply a group of rabble, my Imperial Japanese Army has just launched an attack, and it is desperate to flee without any resistance, and I ordered all troops to use the fastest speed and the greatest firepower to destroy the fleeing Tubalu in one fell swoop." ”

The 3rd Regiment withdrew from its position and retreated all the way to the northeast, intending to contain the pursuit of the enemy brigade, so as to relieve the Qingshuiqiao 1st Regiment and block the offensive pressure of the Japanese 364th Matsumoto Wing.

Commander Wu led the troops to retreat quickly, looking back from time to time to see the speed and distance of the devil's pursuit, and suddenly found that the Japanese brigade that rushed down the high ground was stranded in the position that the third regiment had just withdrawn and no longer pursued.

He resolutely ordered the troops to stop retreating, find a hidden place on the spot, and immediately switch to a fire counterattack against the enemy, so as to lure the enemy brigade not to give up the pursuit halfway, and instead move closer to the main force of the Matsumoto Wing, so as to complete the task assigned by Lei Jian to contain the enemy.

The third regiment concentrated its forces and firepower, and suddenly launched the most fierce fire attack on the hesitant devil brigade, and in order to achieve the authenticity of this attack, Commander Wu ordered the second and third battalions to cover the fire, and the first battalion launched an attack on the stagnant devils.

The captain of the devil brigade found that the third regiment of the Eighth Route Army was 'fleeing', and used the ditches and mounds of the Wufu Highway as concealment to start a fire counterattack, and launched an attack with the strength of a battalion——。 ”

The Devil's Brigade, which was standing halfway up the mountain, suddenly heard the commander's order 'Advance, kill, give-', and this group of well-trained Japanese troops rushed to the third regiment that had just prepared their firepower to counterattack the enemy at the most frantic speed.

When he found that the attacking enemy was still 40 meters away from the position, Commander Wu ordered the troops to quickly withdraw from the position and continue to retreat northeast along the Wufu Highway.

In this way, the third regiment continued to fight with the enemy, luring the enemy to pursue for a while, until it was chased out for six or seven hundred meters, and the captain of the devil brigade realized that he had fallen into the Eighth Route Army, and ordered the troops to stop the pursuit and quickly move closer to the Qingshui Bridge.

Seeing that the little devil was about to run, Commander Wu ordered the troops to bite the enemy tightly, and he couldn't just call the devil brigade to join the Matsumoto Wing happily, and he must contain this devil brigade according to the deployment of the thunder sword.

The Devil Captain couldn't see that the 3rd Regiment was always chasing after the ass and harassing, and angrily ordered one squadron to block the 3rd Regiment that was following up, and the other two squadrons ran to march towards the Qingshui Bridge.

In addition, the captain of the Matsumoto Wing stood on the high ground at 5:40 with a command knife in hand, and ordered the cavalry squad to covertly reconnoiter Sangtou Town, the west mountain of Sangtou Town, and the forest one kilometer away from Sangtou Town.

After a short time, the cavalry squad that touched the town rushed out and reported to the squad leader: "Report to Your Excellency the squad leader, no Tuba Road has been found in Sangtou Town, and there is a death-like silence in the town, and the pigs seem to be asleep, do we still want to enter Sangtou Town?" ”

The leader of the devil squad took out his command knife and waved it violently: "Kill it, as long as you find that the people of China are all dead." ”

Under the order of the commander, the devil cavalry squad whipped the war horse fiercely, the war horse could not bear the pain, and raised its front hooves violently and suddenly rushed out, and more than 50 Japanese cavalry were like more than 50 devils, brandishing sabers and killing into Sangtou Town.

These more than 50 devils are rampaging in the town, some rush into the households, burn and loot, some chase the villagers who fled for their lives, a burst of kung fu Sangtou Town is on fire, people shouting horses, gunshots are continuous, and the entire Sangtou Town is shrouded in a smoke and flames.

Some of the villagers in Sangtou Town listened to the advice and fled to hide, picking up a life, some were reluctant to their homes, found a hidden place to hide, and in the middle of the night, they did not find the little devils to kill into the town, and the brave villagers returned home one after another, and slept under the bed.

Those villagers who stayed in the town and hid, seeing that the villagers who had escaped had returned, did not hide everywhere, but returned to the kang to sleep.

The villagers in Sangtou Town thought that the sky was about to dawn, and the little devil never appeared, so they simply took off their clothes and got into the quilt, enjoying the warmth of the home and sleeping well.

Danger suddenly came, how could the villagers of Sangtou Town never think that when the sky was gray before dawn, suddenly there was a crazy roar of earth dogs in the town, followed by a chaotic gunfire accompanied by a terrible scream, frightened the villagers who had just fallen asleep, boldly put on their clothes and slipped off the kang, jumped to the gate in a few steps to look out, when they saw a war horse trampling wantonly in the town, frightened and quickly tied the door and fled back to the house.

The villagers were so frightened that they got up and hugged the quilt and squeezed in the kang and shivered, there are men in the family can still support the women and children and the elderly, and in the homes without men, the old people and women and children cover the quilt and hide on the kang, they don't know when the disaster will come.

The leader of the devil's cavalry squad waved his command knife and ordered the cavalry team to rush into the people's homes, kill them all as soon as they saw them, and then set fire to the house.

Some little devils didn't enter the house at all, and directly lit the grass in the yard, and the raging fire caused by the sky, and the people in the burning house let out heart-rending screams, some were burned alive, and some rushed out of the burning house, and were shot and killed by the fierce devils as soon as they rushed out.

Sangtou Town is in a sea of fire, the villagers were cruelly devils burned their homes, shot their relatives, full of bitter hatred, in order to live only resistance, they picked up clumsy farm tools, and the little devils with guns and knives desperately.

The third battalion, which was ambushed in Beishan, a mile away from Sangtou Town, saw that Sangtou Town suddenly burst into flames, and Song Chun, the commander of the fourth battalion, climbed up to Zhou Peng and said in a nervous tone: "Chief of Staff Zhou, have you seen it?" The little devil rushed into the town of Sangtou before dawn and is now burning and looting.

The people in the town are in dire straits at this time, and we, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, are we just watching the little devils commit murder and ignore it? Hurry up and give the order, take the four battalions to rescue the townsfolk quickly, it's really too late. ”

Zhou Peng is not blind, he has long seen the sudden burst of fire in Sangtou Town, and even the gunshots coming from the town can be heard, but the order he received is to lead the fourth battalion to lurk in Beishan, ready to attack the Japanese 364th Matsumoto Wing marching to Qingshui Bridge at any time, and now there is no order Although he is very anxious in his heart, he does not dare to disobey the order and act without authorization.

He listened to the fourth battalion commander Song Chun angrily ask him what to do, he couldn't make up his mind for a while, and was about to ask Lei Jian for instructions immediately, when suddenly a black shadow rushed to him and reported in a low voice: "Report to Chief of Staff Zhou, Commander Lei ordered the fourth battalion to hold its position, and the target must not be exposed without an order, and those who violate the order will be dealt with by military law." ”

At this time, Wang Xiaoliang, who led the third battalion to ambush in the west mountain of Sangtou Town, received Lei Jian's order at the same time, and Wang Xiaoliang, deputy head of the regiment, and chief of staff Zhou Peng immediately conveyed the order of the head of Lei to the troops.

The soldiers didn't expect that Lei Jian, the regiment commander who regarded the lives of ordinary people as more important than himself, would give such a bastard order to put the villagers slaughtered under the enemy's butcher's knife and ignore it.

The soldiers couldn't bear to watch the villagers of Sangtou Town die tragically in the skyrocketing fire, buried their heads deep in the ground between their hands, and cried bitterly and shouted: "Commander Lei, why are you doing this? Why did you become so cowardly when you ran back from the hands of death when you were seriously injured, quickly give the order to save the villagers, please Captain Lei. ”

Some soldiers scolded angrily and cried: "Lei Jian, you coward, you have disregarded the lives of your fellow villagers, you have changed, you have become a cold-blooded lamb with no close affection, we hate you, why don't you die after being injured, why do you come back alive and command the only regiment, you are not worthy, you are not worthy, woo woo woo ......." ”

Wang Xiaoliang and Zhou Peng listened to the crying and abuse of the soldiers in front of the soldiers of the fourth and third battalions under their leadership, although they did not curse the thunder sword together, but they did not spare this ruthless thunder sword in their hearts, but this is a war, without the commander's order, even if they are anxious and resentful in their hearts, for the sake of combat tasks and battlefield discipline, they have to endure it, and they have to endure it, endure and endure the blood in their hearts.

Suddenly, there was a commotion on the positions of the Eighth Route Army on the west mountain and the north slope, Wang Xiaoliang and Zhou Peng were so frightened by the impulsiveness of the soldiers that they hurriedly shouted in a low voice: "Don't move, whoever moves, I will enforce battlefield discipline, and there will be no mercy." ”

(End of chapter)