Squadron Leader Ikeda, who was entrenched in the main pillbox, ordered the three little devils in the pillbox to save bullets and seize the opportunity to concentrate their firepower on the attacking Eighth Route Army.

Unexpectedly, as Thunder Sword said in Ikeda's last letter of surrender, the two auxiliary pillboxes would be destroyed in less than half an hour, and now that they have lost the protection of the two auxiliary pillboxes, the main pillbox is ushering in the fiercest attack of the Eighth Route Army.

Ikeda ordered the devils in the main bunker to count the available weapons and ammunition, and the numbers were so frightened that he almost collapsed on the ground.

He shouted to the devil operator: "Send a report to Matsumoto Daisa, if reinforcements cannot arrive within two hours, Ikeda's squadron will fight to the last bullet, and the warriors of Ikeda's squadron will be smashed into Fuping Castle." ”

At this time, he received an order from the commander of the Katayama Brigade of the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade, ordering Matsumoto Daisa to lead the 364th Wing to get rid of the entanglement of the 3rd Regiment of the Eighth Route Army as quickly as possible to reinforce Fuping Castle and eliminate the only regiment of the Eighth Route Army attacking Ikeda's squadron.

The 364th Matsumoto Wing, which was bitten by the 3rd Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, broke through the defensive line of the 3rd Regiment with maximum firepower, and Matsumoto ordered a brigade as the rear team to block the pursuing 3rd Regiment, and ordered the devils of the two brigades to run through the Qingshui Bridge and go straight to Fuping City.

The position of the 3rd Regiment was broken through, and the regiment commander Wu Yude immediately reported the battle situation to the head of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, and Commander Nie ordered the 3rd Regiment to bite the enemy, and must contain the 364th Wing of the Japanese Army on the east bank of the Qingshui Bridge, waiting for the large force of the only regiment to occupy the west bank of the Qingshui Bridge, carry out a flank attack, and wipe out the 364th Wing on the east bank of the Qingshui Bridge.

At this time, the 364th Wing, under the command of Matsumoto Daisa, broke through the defense line of the 3rd Regiment and went straight to Qingshuiqiao, and the speed of the march forced the 3rd Regiment to follow closely.

Wu Yude, the commander of the third regiment, saw that the little devils broke through the position and went straight to the southwest, and received Commander Nie's order to bite the enemy and contain the enemy on the east bank of the Qingshui River.

Zhou Liheng, deputy commander of the Third Regiment, led the assault team, discarding all equipment that had nothing to do with the battle, rushing into the mountains and forests of Taihang Mountain lightly, stepping on thorns to climb mountains and mountains, striving to occupy the high ground on the eastern slope of Sangtou Town in front of the enemy, stepping up the construction of fortifications, and preparing to block the 364th Wing marching towards the Qingshui River.

After more than an hour of forced march, the assault team finally arrived at the high ground on the eastern slope of Sangtou Town one step ahead of the enemy, and Deputy Regiment Commander Zhou Liheng ordered the soldiers to put down the equipment they were carrying and go all out to devote themselves to the tense action of building a position.

In less than half an hour, the soldier in charge of the guard ran up to the high ground and shouted: "Deputy Regiment Commander Zhou, I have discovered that the vanguard of the 364th Wing of the Devils has appeared on the road, and it is already rushing towards our position at a frantic speed. ”

Deputy Regiment Commander Zhou Liheng stood on a big rock on the high ground, holding a telescope and looking at the road passing under the mountain, and the large army of devils running and marching burst into the dust before and after, like a soil dragon quickly pounced on the highland on the eastern slope of Sangtou Town.

He shouted to the commando fighters: "Comrades, the 364th Wing is rushing towards our position at the fastest speed, and it will attack our position in less than twenty minutes.

All the fighters have listened to me, we are a commando team that runs lightly to occupy this high ground, and there is not enough weapons and ammunition, and once we engage the enemy, we can only take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness to destroy the enemy who rushes in front.

If our 3rd Regiment, which pursued and pinned down the enemy's large forces, failed to keep up, then our assault team would face a life-and-death battle with the enemy.

Comrades, we are faced with the strong strength of a wing of the Japanese army, which is simply not capable of fighting the enemy continuously for a long time, but we have not received an order and will never abandon our positions and flee. Tell me if there is any? ”

"Yes, yes, yes——。"

"Okay, all of them are here, get into position immediately." Deputy Regiment Commander Zhou jumped into the fortifications and rushed to the light machine gun position, and ordered the machine gunner: "We don't have many bullets with us, we must concentrate our firepower to eliminate the group of devils who are about to rush to the forward position, every time we waste a bullet will bring the greatest risk to our commando, remember?" ”

He did not wait for the machine gun shooter to answer, he left quickly, and seized the time to check the other soldiers who had entered the fortifications and were ready for battle.

When they came to the high ground on the eastern slope of the road, Deputy Regiment Commander Zhou waved his pistol and shouted: "Comrades, concentrate your firepower to destroy the enemy's vanguard and give me a hard blow." ”

The commando fighters received the order to maximize the weapons in their hands, and the loud bullets swept towards the enemy, and the little devils who rushed in front did not expect to be suddenly hit by fire, and the little devils were shot and fell on the road.

When the leader of the devil squad saw that the soldier rushing in front was shot and fell to the ground, this cunning guy immediately fell on the spot and rolled into the ditch, shouting to the lying devil: "Shoot, shoot quickly." ”

Wing Commander Matsumoto, who was following closely, suddenly heard fierce gunfire in front of him, and the vanguard was blocked by fire, so he rode on his horse and held up his binoculars to observe the battle situation ahead, and ordered his troops to halt their advance.

Wing Commander Matsumoto observed for a few minutes, and heard that although the gunfire coming from the front was fierce but not dense, it should have been intercepted by a small group of troops of the Eighth Route Army, and he decisively ordered: "Speed up the advance, break through the blocking position of the small group of Tubalu, leave a squadron to destroy the Tubalu, and the large force will run towards the Qingshui Bridge." ”

Deputy Regiment Commander Zhou commanded the assault team to block the devil squad of the vanguard of the 364th Wing under the high ground, and for a while the enemy's large army slowed down and was in a state of stagnation, but only in a few minutes, the devil's large army not only did not form a battle formation and launched a counterattack on the high ground occupied by the Eighth Route Army, but ordered a squadron to launch an attack on the high ground of the Eighth Route Army.

The squadron of the devils attacking the high ground attacked the high ground at full speed under the command of the squadron leader, trying to eliminate the small group of the Eighth Route Army on the high ground in the shortest possible time, so as to clear the road obstacles and not delay the continuation of the westward advance of the large Japanese army.

He knew that just by leading a company of commandos to use the fortifications on the high ground, under the condition of tight weapons and ammunition, it would be impossible to stop the attack of a squadron of devils, and in the end, he could only lead the soldiers to fight to the death with the enemy and fight to the last man.

Just when the enemy's vanguard was blocked by the assault team led by Zhou Liheng to the east of the high ground, blocking the enemy for more than ten minutes, followed by the large force of the third regiment that pursued the enemy, and soon bit the rear of the 364 Matsumoto Wing and launched a fierce fire strike.

The 364 Matsumoto Wing was hit by the front and rear fire of the 3rd Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, and the Captain of the Matsumoto Wing shook his head and laughed arrogantly: "A 3rd Regiment of the Eighth Route of the Eighth Route cannot prevent my Matsumoto Wing from marching to the Qingshui Bridge in a prepared blocking position, and it was only in less than five hours that our Imperial Japanese Army broke through the defensive line, and now it is unexpectedly determined to follow our Wing, bastard, I want to wipe out the 3rd Regiment of the Eighth Route of the Dirt Road." ”

Wing Commander Matsumoto ordered his troops to halt their advance and immediately enter into battle to engage in a fierce battle with the pursuing 3rd Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, which must be destroyed within an hour, and then cross the Shimizu Bridge at full speed to reinforce Ikeda's squadron trapped in Fuhei Castle.

Wu Yude, the commander of the 3rd Regiment, found that the 364th Matsumoto Wing of the Japanese Army, which had been bitten, was rapidly passing through the high ground occupied by the assault on the eastern slope of Sangtou Town, and suddenly stopped and lay down on the spot.

Commander Wu Yude did not expect that the little devil would give up reinforcing the enemy in Fuping City, and suddenly stopped to deal with his third regiment, Commander Wu ordered the troops to avoid its edge as much as possible in the battle with the enemy, and once the enemy's large force attacked the position, he immediately adopted the tactics of retreating while fighting, luring the enemy's large army to form a disadvantage in battle, giving up the pursuit and reluctant situation, and quickly rushing to the Qingshui Bridge position for the only regiment commanded by Lei Jian, so as to gain favorable time.

Captain Matsumoto did not want to give up and quickly reinforce the Ikeda squadron that was trapped in Fuping Castle by the only regiment, but he could not shake off the entanglement of the third regiment of the Eighth Route Army in the full-speed march, if it was pinned down by the third regiment on the way forward, it was better to destroy this force in one go, and then make time to advance at full speed, so that there would be no delay in time, and it was possible to reach Fuping Castle ahead of schedule.

At this time, both sides have their own calculations, and a bloody battle of life and death will be launched on the eastern slope of Sangtou Town.

(End of chapter)