Chapter 43: Rescuing the Prisoners
Seeing that Liu Tianshu and the others were all hiding behind the barricade, Tan Liu and Liu Jianguang also immediately squatted behind with people. Only the players who stayed in the back two lines of defense did not react for a while, and they were still lying on the defense line.
Hearing a sound of footsteps at the city gate, Liu Tianshu silently calculated the distance between the little devil and himself.
There were about twenty devils who rushed into the city gate first, and when these devils saw that the city gate of Liugu County had been opened, they all let out a beast-like howl from their mouths and rushed towards the city viciously.
Rushing into the city, he saw three barricades in front of him, but he didn't see any figures, but in the distance, on the street lined up with sandbags, countless figures appeared.
At the same time, I also saw countless Chinese dressed as ordinary people, running down the city wall in a panic and running towards the city.
Suddenly, these devils shouted and quickened their pace, shooting while rushing towards them, and soon rushed to the open space thirty meters in front of the barricade where Liu Tianshu was.
Liu Tianshu heard the footsteps of the little devil approaching, estimated the location of the open space, immediately turned over and lay on the sandbag, shouted loudly, and the light machine gun in his hand screamed happily.
A string of bullets swept towards the devil who was rushing forward unscrupulously, and at the same time, Liu Jianguang and Tan Liu heard Liu Tianshu's roar, and they poked their heads out from behind the sandbags, and the guns in their hands slammed towards the devils in the clearing.
For a while, countless bullets rained down the entire clearing, and these devil soldiers had no way to dodge, so they were sieveed by the sudden bullets, and fell to the ground like fallen leaves in the autumn wind.
The devil who followed into the city behind did not expect such a fierce firepower to appear in front, and when he saw that his companions were slaughtered, his eyes were even more excited, and the grenadiers and crooked machine guns that followed the advance were quickly set up and began to aim at the barricade where Liu Tianshu and others were.
Liu Tianshu saw that the devil in the distance had set up a grenadier, and he was in a hurry, grabbed a few grenades beside him, shouted and left, and while making a retreat gesture to Liu Jianguang and Tan Liu, he dragged the machine gun and ran backwards with Shi Qiang and the others.
As soon as a few people ran along the passage to the second line of defense, they saw smoke coming out of the devil's grenadier, and then countless shells shot out, which landed right where they were just now.
Seeing that the smoke raised by the explosion was immediately enveloped there, Liu Tianshu couldn't help but secretly scream a fluke, and Tan Liu and Liu Jianguang, who followed Liu Tianshu and their retreat, saw that the position that had just blocked the attack was flooded by artillery fire, and they couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat on their backs.
If he hadn't withdrawn immediately according to Liu Tianshu's instructions, I'm afraid he would have been blown into several pieces by this time.
Liu Tianshu wiped the smoke on his face, turned his head and saw that there was no one on the city wall, and immediately knew that the self-defense forces defending the city wall had dispersed, sighed in his heart, and said to Liu Jianguang and Tan Liu: "Two, the brothers who defend the city have dispersed, and the little devils will attack here soon, I think so, we don't have to defend these two lines of defense, everyone is divided into two groups, hide in the houses on both sides, and when the little devils rush to the street, we greet them with grenades, but don't fall in love with the battle, after the grenades are finished, immediately retreat to the west of the city." ”
Liu Tianshu knew that the city gate was lost, the fall of Liugu County was a foregone conclusion, and his dozens of people were of no avail, the most important thing at the moment was to meet Zhao Xiaomei and others as soon as possible, and the idea was to go out from the West Gate.
When Tan Liu and Liu Jianguang heard Liu Tianshu's words, they immediately divided their men into two pieces, picked up the grenades beside them, and quickly got into the houses on both sides of the street.
Liu Tianshu, Shi Qiang and a few team members quickly entered a house on the side of the street, and when they saw a few people hiding in the corner, he immediately shouted: "Go to the west gate, the little devil will come over immediately." ”
When I followed the Self-Defense Forces to the east gate, there were no devils at the west gate, and at this time, the west gate should still be in the hands of the security group. At this time, these people ran to the west gate, and maybe there was a chance to escape.
It's just that he didn't know that when the second battalion of the security regiment withdrew to the west gate, a little devil appeared at the west gate.
When the people heard this, they came to their senses, and immediately rushed out with their heads in their hands, and ran quickly in the direction of the west gate.
Liu Yuancai received the news of Yan Guoye's death and the loss of the East Gate in the county government, and he was so shocked that he sat on the chair and was speechless for a long time.
He didn't expect that there was a strong city wall in Liugu County, but it was broken by the little devils in less than a day, and the self-defense force he temporarily formed was defeated as soon as the little devils exchanged fire.
He glanced at Xu Yifeng, who was stunned beside him, and came back to his senses after a while, and said hurriedly: "Director Xu, I will hand over the Self-Defense Force to you to command, and you will immediately block the devils and cover the retreat of the villagers from the West Gate." Just go. ”
When Xu Yifeng heard this, he cursed in his heart, nodded and said okay, took those policemen, and immediately ran out, and at the same time, he also called the self-defense members who could be recruited, but he did not run to the east gate, but after running half a street, he immediately turned around and ran towards the west gate.
After Liu Yuan saw Xu Yifeng leave with people, he took his subordinates and hurriedly ran towards the west gate.
On the way to run, he asked his subordinates to inform the people to immediately withdraw from the county seat from the west gate.
Qi Fuyou got the loss of the east gate and knew that the defeat was decided, so he immediately ordered Long Xuehu's three battalions guarding the south gate and the north gate to withdraw to the west gate. As for County Magistrate Liu, he naturally couldn't take care of it anymore.
Liu Tianshu looked through the window and saw countless people running towards the west gate, sighed in his heart, and turned around to let Liu Jianguang, Shi Qiang and the others get ready.
After the little devil who rushed into the city bombarded the fortifications on the street in front of him with a grenadier, but did not encounter the slightest counterattack from the Chinese, he cautiously rushed forward, and when he reached the back of the fortification, he found that it was already empty, and the squad leader who commanded the team scolded the coward, and ordered the troops to move forward quickly.
Rushing through the blocking fortifications abandoned by the Chinese, about thirty devils rushed into a wide street, saw that people were running forward quickly in the distance, and immediately chased forward while shooting under the command of the squad leader.
Those who fled, some of them were shot and fell, and screams of pain rang out throughout the street.
Liu Tianshu had already grabbed the two grenades in his hands at this time, and when he saw the little devil running closer, he suddenly pulled the lead, and the sound sounded, and in less than two seconds, the little devil arrived at the street not far from him, and he threw it violently, and the two grenades flew out of the broken window and landed at the feet of the little devil.
Seeing the smoke rising from his feet, the little devil exclaimed, and before he could lie down, he heard a bang, a grenade exploded, and several devils were directly blown away.
Then, grenades flew from the windows on both sides, and explosions were heard all over the street.
The thirty or so devils who rushed in front of them suddenly fell into a hell of shrapnel, and there were cries of terror, wounded and painful cries for help everywhere.
It's a pity that the devil who followed behind was across the corner of a street, and he didn't know what was going on in front of him, so he could only look around in horror, and then run forward quickly.
When the devils in the back ran over, they saw the street where the smoke of gunfire gradually dissipated, and I saw the corpses of soldiers of the Japanese Empire lying all over the street, with blown limbs everywhere, torsos covered in blood, and bloody heads.
The more than thirty Imperial soldiers who rushed to open the way in front, except for five imps covered in gunpowder smoke like those who came out of hell, the rest either screamed or turned into corpses without breathing.
When Yoshino saw this scene, his eyes immediately erupted with fire, he didn't expect that he had lost almost a squad in less than two hundred meters into the city, and with the loss of the siege, his Yoshino squadron was left with less than one squad left.
In pain, he had to report the situation to Captain Kojima.
Kojima heard Yoshino's report that he had been ambushed by Chinese inside the castle and that his troops had suffered heavy casualties, so he held a telescope and observed, and asked Miura's squadron to replace Yoshino's squadron and slowly advance towards the castle.
Anyway, the entire county was already surrounded by itself, and according to intelligence, there was only one security regiment in Rugu County, and since the county town had been breached, it was only a matter of time before the Chinese who dared to resist were eliminated, and he did not want the heroic soldiers of Great Japan to be shot in the shadows by the despicable Shina people.
Because of Kojima's decision, Liu Tianshu and they finally breathed a sigh of relief.
After Liu Tianshu and the others threw the grenade, they immediately ran westward, but Tan Liu's self-defense squadron now had only about 20 people left.
When passing by the police station, Liu Tianshu saw that the police station seemed to be empty, and his heart moved, and said to Liu Jianguang: "Second brother, you take your brothers to the west gate first, and tell my sister for me, saying that Shi Qiang and I will arrive soon." ”
"Tianshu, what are you going to do?" When Liu Jianguang heard this, he asked worriedly.
"It's okay, I need about ten minutes at most, while the little devil doesn't come, you guys go quickly." Liu Tianshu pushed Liu Jianguang, then called Shi Qiang, and quickly ran into the police station.
The police station was home to a number of prisoners, including captured Communists, and he feared that the police had not taken them with them when they fled.
If these people fall into the hands of the Japanese devils, I am afraid that there will be no good results.
Liu Tianshu and Shi Qiang rushed into the police station, only to see that the entire bureau was in a mess, he glanced at it and rushed towards the building on one side.
The building was low and sturdy, and it was supposed to be a prison cell for prisoners in a police station.
Ran closer, sure enough, he saw an iron door locked, Liu Tianshu was not polite, raised the machine gun and a shuttle of bullets, only to see sparks splashing, the big iron lock fell to the ground, he kicked open the iron door, let Shi Qiang guard the door, and ran inside.
After opening three iron doors in a row, he finally rushed to the cell where the prisoner was held, and when he saw the figure shaking inside, he immediately felt happy.
As expected, these guys just wanted to run for their lives and threw these people inside.