Wang Tingyue's suggestion seemed reasonable, Huang Wenlie raised his head and pondered for a while, and said, "It's okay." However, the rescue of soldiers is like fighting a fire, and an hour delay is too long, and the second battalion set off half an hour after the departure of the first battalion! Even if there is no flank attack, with the strength of one of our battalions, we will still beat the Japanese army! ”

I took the lead with a battalion to take the lead, and from the riverside to Tengxian County, I had to climb a mountain range, and then bypass Tengxian County to reach the designated place.

The night march was already arduous, and the mountain roads were rough and difficult, and the speed of the march was much lower than I had estimated. Before the mountains have been crossed, more than half of the time has been consumed as expected.

I was a little anxious, so I discussed with Zhou Dalei: "Old Zhou, with such a marching speed, I'm afraid we can't reach Baijiazhai at the scheduled time, the second battalion will attack the Japanese army, and we may only reach Teng County!" ”

Zhou Dalei took out the map and illuminated it with a flashlight, looked at it for a long time, and said: "This is also no way, we have too much baggage, and we can't go fast if we want to go fast on such a mountain road...... Otherwise, I'll take a vanguard and rush over first! If there's a firefight over there, I'll come to the rescue first, and you'll be almost there. ”

As soon as I thought that this was also a way, I asked Zhou Dalei to take two companies, without any baggage and heavy weapons, and go straight to the county seat of Tengxian County.

I led the large army on the arduous climb over the mountains, and I was also marching as fast as I could, hoping to reach the goal in five hours.

It is getting closer and closer to Tengxian County, but what makes me strange is that there is no gunfire in the direction of Baijiazhai, and it is said that at this distance you can at least hear the exchange of fire between the 17th Division and the Japanese army, which is more incredible than the silence when we crossed the river.

When we finally arrived at the predetermined location, we were greeted not by Japanese bullets and bayonets, but by the exaggerated embrace of Geng Huaiqi, the commander of the 17th Division.

"Thank you, brothers, for coming to relieve the siege! Camp Commander An's hard work! Geng Huaiqi laughed and personally greeted the position.

I felt very surprised: "Master Geng, what's going on?" The Japanese retreated? ”

Geng Huaiqi said with a smile: "Withdraw, the little devils are very cunning, they may have sensed that our reinforcements are coming, and it is impossible for them to eat my division in a short time, so they just slipped away!" ”

Me: "Then why haven't the rest of our regiment arrived yet?" ”

Geng Huaiqi: "Oh, I have already informed Commander Huang and asked them to repair two miles away from here, so as to form a rivalry with my division......"

Before Geng Huaiqi's words fell, there was a loud bang, and black smoke rose behind us. Then the shells whistled and rained down on us one after another.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

Shells of various types exploded among us, and the men of the 17th Division were better, they all had already set up positions, and when they heard the sound of artillery, they immediately began to hide in bunkers to defend against artillery.

My battalion had not yet had time to set up its position, and was almost undefensive, and was blown into disarray by a sudden burst of artillery fire.

"Find hidden! Find shelter in place! ”

"Spread out the formation!"

Zhou Dalei roared, then threw himself to the ground, letting the cannonballs fly over his head. The Japanese artillery bombardment came and went quickly, and the dense shells were blown up almost within ten minutes, and then there was no sound.

"The devil's artillery is retreating!" I slapped the dust on my body and stood in place, and a flash of inspiration occurred in my mind, and I suddenly understood the tactics of the Japanese army.

This kind of guerrilla warfare was originally a tactic that we have been using against the Japanese army, but now it has been plagiarized by them without a penny, and the Japanese artillery must have taken advantage of the fact that we were dizzy by the bombing and began to retreat!

From the analysis of the direction of firing, the Japanese artillery was hiding between the cols not far away.

The Japanese retreated with a large force, but secretly ambushed a small amount of artillery, and only waited for our "victory" to join the division and neglect to take precautions, and then opened fire again, so as to inflict maximum damage on us!

In fact, they did the same, and in this round of intensive bombardment, because of the surprise and defenselessness, our battalion suffered heavy casualties, and according to preliminary estimates, there were at least forty or fifty casualties.

I didn't even care about Geng Huaiqi, who had just stood up from the ground and was also covered in dust. Immediately ordered Zhai Li to take his platoon as the vanguard, and I personally led the guard platoon behind the hall and went straight to the hiding place of the Japanese artillery.

I believe that in such a mountainous battle, the Japanese artillery will not be able to withdraw too quickly, and I will take their small artillery force anyway.

At this time, the sky was getting brighter, and while we were running, we had already seen dozens of Japanese soldiers pushing artillery wagons on the mountain road.

"! Brothers, rush me! Skinned these little devils alive! "Many of the Qiu Bazhong who died just now were Zhai Li's original brothers, because they had not experienced artillery battles, so they were the group with the largest casualties this time. This made Zhai Li's eyes red, he raised his gun and slammed it, rushing forward first.

The Japanese did not expect us to come up so quickly, and it was impossible for them to push the artillery wagons to run past our group of lightly armed troops, so they relied on the defensive shields of the artillery wagons to fire at us.

Tan Weimin held a machine gun, stood on the commanding heights, and fired a series of fierce shots at the Japanese army, and the bullet casings fell to the ground like rain.

Ani went up and knocked down Tan Weimin, and roared at Tan Weimin, who looked inexplicable: "Fake foreign devil, you don't want to die!" ”

Ani didn't look at Tan Weimin's complicated expression of happiness and surprise, quickly found a big tree, put the sniper rifle on his shoulder, and climbed to the tree with dexterity like an ape.

I said to Tan Weimin, who was still immersed in confusion: "If you beat you like this, I have no choice but to send you to replenish the platoon!" ”

Tan Weimin relieved himself and said, "Huh? Why? ”

I put my Thompson aside, pulled out my Mauser pistol, attached it to the butt, and fired a burst of fire.

I was stunned before I turned around and said, "Don't you know what a tactical move is!" Do you think the devil's marksmanship is vegetarian? What are you doing in a daze! Find shelter and work! ”

Tan Weimin suddenly woke up, hurriedly found a place behind a rock, set up the machine gun, and lay on the ground to start another round of strafing.

"Bang!" Ani in the tree pulled the trigger, and a Japanese soldier fell.

"Bang!" Ani's gunfire rang out again, and another Japanese soldier fell.

Finding out that we had snipers, this group of Japanese artillery did not dare to move around, and hid behind the defensive shields, for fear that they would be killed by the snipers as soon as they showed their heads.

Our fire suppression made it impossible for the Japanese artillery to escape with these bulky artillery trucks, and they were finally forced to have no choice but to choose to abandon the artillery trucks, so that they could hope to get rid of our pursuit.

The Japanese threw the grenade into the barrel, destroyed the artillery, and then began to fight and retreat backwards.

"You can't let the little devil run away, the brothers will rush with me!" Zhai Li held his rifle and charged and shot at the same time.

I tried to stop him, but he was faster than a rabbit, and with the constant sound of gunfire in my ears, I couldn't hear him even if I shouted.

Soon we caught up with the guns that were blown up by the Japanese army, which were two battle defense guns and three 92 infantry guns, but because the breeches of the guns were blown up, they were basically scrapped.

Zhai Li didn't have the heart to look at these scrap copper and rotten iron, he shouted almost without pause, and led his platoon to rush in the direction of the Japanese army's escape.