Although the combat effectiveness of the Fifth Company is slightly weaker than that of the old companies such as the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Companies, it is also a company that has undergone intensive training and has a tough combat style.

Company commander Liu Sutang is from Taihang Mountain to follow Liu Tianshu over the old Eighth Road, combat experience is quite rich, under his leadership, a platoon quietly lying in the trench, until the devil rushing to the top of the mountain rushed to two hundred meters, the platoon of two soldiers with good marksmanship, this is not in a hurry to raise the gun to fire, with the crisp gunshot, from time to time there are devils who are shot and fall to the ground.

The leader of the devil squad who commanded the team to attack saw only sporadic gunshots in front of him, and although there were soldiers falling from time to time around him, he didn't pay attention to it.

At the cost of five people, the attacking devil finally rushed to within a hundred meters, and at this time, the devil squad leader seemed to see victory in front of him, stood up straight all of a sudden, and ordered the soldiers to start charging.

So, dozens of devil soldiers howled from their mouths, held their bayonet rifles, and rushed forward while firing continuously. The shiny bayonet reflected a cold light in the sunlight, giving people an indescribable coercion.

At this moment, the leader of the platoon shouted and fired, and dozens of soldiers in a platoon immediately raised their guns and fired at the rushing devils, and the attacking devils were also red-eyed at this time, and they didn't care about the fallen companions around them, and rushed forward while shooting.

When the remaining 30 or so devils rushed to the forward position 30 meters, the crooked machine guns and grenadiers arranged in the back suddenly opened fire, especially the grenadier group that Liu Sutang had been holding in his hands and did not put into battle, watching the devil's grenadier constantly spitting shells towards the position, but he just watched coldly. It was not until the grenadier group and the crooked machine gun of the devil came into range of the grenadier that they opened fire sharply at the order of the company commander.

The three grenadiers fired twelve shells in the blink of an eye, and the attacking devils did not expect that the defenders in front of them still had grenadiers in their hands, and they were immediately caught off guard, and the four grenadiers mounted in the back were immediately blown up, and at the same time, the two crooked machine gun groups were also blown away by the grenadiers of the fifth company.

The leader of the devil squadron, who was holding a telescope in the back to observe, did not expect how despicable the Chinese on the opposite side were, and allowed his grenadiers to blow up their positions to the ground, and did not expose the grenadiers in their hands, until their infantry rushed to thirty meters in front of the opponent's position, and their grenadiers and crooked machine guns began to move forward.

Liu Sutang knocked out the devil's support firepower at once, and the devil who rushed in front immediately fell into embarrassment, and at this time, the crooked machine gun in Liu Sutang's hand immediately fired its power and knocked down the oncoming devils one by one.

The leader of the devil squad who commanded the attack was unfortunately hit by a soldier and fell to the ground screaming, and the Japanese squadron leader saw that his first squad had suffered heavy casualties and could not capture the opposite hill, so he had to order the troops to retreat.

Seeing the devil retreating, Liu Sutang took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, and found that it had been blocked for more than half an hour, so he immediately ordered the troops to take advantage of the devil's retreat and quickly run to the position of the sixth company.

As soon as his troops left the mountain, they heard the roar of devil planes in the sky, Liu Sutang's face changed, and he urgently ordered his troops to hide in the woods on the side of the road, and then ran backwards from the woods.

The devil plane that came to help the war arrived at the top of the mountain, saw that the smoke of gunfire was filled below, and there was no shadow of the Chinese, and after circling on the mountain, it immediately flew to the northeast.

After receiving the Air Force's observations from the group leader, the Devil Squadron Leader was very puzzled when he learned that the Chinese on the opposite side had disappeared, and immediately sent a small team to carefully approach the mountain, but this team did not encounter any resistance from the Chinese at all, and occupied the mountain very smoothly.

The Japanese squadron leader determined that the Chinese who blocked the attack had fled, and immediately led his troops forward in pursuit.

Just as the Japanese army was chasing forward over the hill, suddenly a burst of gunfire rang out in the woods on the left, and the three unlucky devil soldiers were shot and fell screaming.

The remaining devil soldiers were startled and immediately sent troops to pursue to the left, but when they chased over, they only saw a few empty bullet casings under the trees, but the attackers were nowhere to be seen.

Half an hour passed by this delay, and by the time the Japanese continued the pursuit, Liu Sutang's Fifth Company had already passed through the blocking position of the Sixth Company and ran to the rear to build a defensive position.

The attack from the flank was the guerrilla force of the Eighth Route Army, southern Shen Guang, which was operating in Jiping County, and he received orders to harass the Japanese troops as much as possible and delay their pursuit. As for weapons and ammunition, Shen Guangnan is not worried at the moment, last time Liu Tianshu specially gave him a batch of guns and ammunition, in addition, he didn't fight hard with devils, just ran away with two shots from a distance.

Shen Guangnan ran out of two miles with the team members in one go, and heard the sound of no devils behind him, so he went back slightly.

Just when the devil rushed to the blocking position of the sixth company, the devil's plane caught up with the troops who were withdrawing to Stone Ridge, and several laborers heard the roar of the devil's plane approaching, so frightened that they dropped the materials in their hands and ran around on the avenue.

After the aerial bomb fell, thick smoke exploded on the avenue, and more than a dozen laborers were hit by the fragments of the bomb, and fell to the ground screaming with blood in their mouths, and some even had their bodies blown off.

When the devil saw that there was no one on the avenue, he immediately began to swoop and strafe the woods on both sides, and more than twenty of the soldiers hiding in the forest were unfortunately hit by bullets and fell into the forest without a word.

The devil's plane raged in the air for a while, and when he saw that there was no movement below, he left slowly.

When Liu Tianshu and Cheng Zhihua saw the plane leave, they immediately asked people to rescue the wounded and clean up the losses.

When he learned that the devil's bombing and strafing had brought 26 dead and 18 wounded to the team, he couldn't help but have tears in his eyes.

He left a company to bury the dead, and the rest immediately walked out of the woods and hurried towards Stone Ridge.

Watanabe received a call from the brigade commander and received that the independent battalion had hijacked the train east of Linheji, and immediately according to the order of the brigade commander, he concentrated the strength of the two brigades and more than 1,000 imperial troops and rushed to the northwest in two ways.

He knew that after Liu Tianshu succeeded in rescuing people, the first thing he would do was definitely to return to the base area with these laborers and soldiers, so one of his brigades set off from Pingyuan Town and rushed directly to the direction of Shigou Village, while the other brigade rushed to Shiling.

The Japanese army that rushed to the direction of Shigou Village was the Saito Brigade, and Saito suffered heavy losses at the hands of Liu Tianshu many times, so he naturally did not dare to advance this time, but adopted a steady and steady approach, gathering the four newly replenished and complete squadrons together, the machine gun squadron and the artillery squad followed the action of the brigade headquarters, and the more than 500 Imperial Allied troops who cooperated with the operation were arranged around the brigade.

More than 1,000 people slowly pressed towards Shigou Village like a snowball, and although the speed was not fast, except for some sporadic attacks along the way, there was no major fighting.

It's just that everywhere he passed, all the people ran away, looking at the empty village, Saito held back the idea of burning the village to the ground.

Liu Tianshu is a strong opponent, in the first few battles, the corpses of the soldiers who died on his side were neatly arranged, letting him know that this is a warning, but also a respect for the opponent, once he burns and loots in his base area, he will definitely meet his unruly revenge.

Last time, he split a few old people alive in Songkan Town, and that Liu Tianshu asked the Imperial Association Army who had been released back to bring a letter and warn him.

Although as a soldier of the Great Japanese Empire, he would not be afraid of the threat of anyone in the world, but after hearing Liu Tianshu say that if a similar incident happened again, he would behead the Japanese soldiers of the Saito Brigade he encountered, and his heart began to feel a little unnatural.

The task given to him by the joint captain Watanabe was to take the opportunity to occupy Shigou Village and Xiaotangba Village and cut off the retreat of Liu Tianshu's department.

As long as the independent battalion is driven out of Fuya Mountain, without the independent battalion, he will not be able to do whatever he wants.

When the Saito Brigade was about to reach Ishigou Village, the Noeda Brigade, which was heading to Ishiling, also connected with the Prefectural Brigade, which had set up a position there earlier.

Zeng Wei personally commanded two companies of soldiers, one of which repelled two rounds of attacks by Noeda's brigade, but his troops also suffered a third of the casualties.

After all, it is not the main force, although these soldiers are very brave in battle, but their combat quality is still a little worse than that of the attacking Japanese army, many soldiers raised their guns and fired at the Japanese army, the gunfire was fierce and lively, but the casualties caused to the attacking devils were not large.

Fortunately, the county brigade had a geographical advantage, the devil was attacking from the back, and the terrain of the stone ridge was not conducive to the deployment of the Japanese army, and the county brigade finally retreated the Japanese army's advance.

At this moment, the devil's plane arrived, and two planes came from the west, heading towards the hill is a wild and indiscriminate bombardment, although Zeng Wei's county brigade learned from the independent battalion and also built anti-artillery holes, but the repair was not standardized, several anti-artillery holes were blown up, and more than 20 soldiers died on the spot.

Zeng Wei couldn't help but bleed in his heart when he saw his soldiers falling down in the bombardment of devils, but he knew that Shiling was related to whether the independent battalion could successfully withdraw to the base area, so he had to grit his teeth and order the troops to resist.

Finally, the devil's plane left, and the infantry artillery and mortars of the Noeda brigade began to bombard the ridge again.

After Noeda looked through the binoculars and found that the defenders on the opposite ridge seemed to have only four crooked handles, not even a single heavy machine gun, let alone mortars, etc., he immediately decided to increase the speed of his attack. He ordered a squadron of Japanese troops to follow behind a company of Imperial Allied troops and launch a fierce assault on the hill to the left of Stone Ridge, and to bombard the hill on the right. (To be continued.) )