After Shu Zhi commanded the artillery to finish firing two base shells, he immediately dismantled the 92nd infantry gun, and then with the help of the third battalion and three companies, he carried the infantry gun and ran backwards. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Liu Tianshu and Shi Hu saw that the Japanese assembly position under the ridge was blown up and filled with gunsmoke, and after holding a telescope to confirm that the devil's artillery position was directly destroyed, the two of them took a few soldiers and quickly withdrew from the ridge, and together with the more than ten warning posts left on the position, they quickly ran towards Qinglong Gorge.

At this time, Political Commissar Liao was commanding the villagers and the troops transporting supplies to quickly walk towards Qinglong Gorge, and to the east of the mouth of Qinglong Gorge, Han Fangping commanded the first battalion and the third battalion of the third regiment, and fought fiercely with the Japanese Putian brigade.

The 3rd Regiment was supported by two infantry guns and four mortars, and the soldiers were well loaded with ammunition, and with the favorable terrain, they stubbornly resisted the frenzied Putian Brigade, which launched two squadron-sized attacks, and finally was beaten back.

Urada Shaozo didn't expect the Eighth Route Army in front of him to be so tenacious, and when he saw his soldiers constantly falling on the way to charge, he had to ask the plane to help.

An hour later, two planes taking off from Qingdao arrived and carried out a round of heavy bombardment of the positions of the three regiments, blowing off all the trees on the positions, and the entire position was covered with burning branches.

Han Fangping didn't expect the devil to put on a posture of not giving up until he reached his goal, so he had to let the first battalion that repelled two rounds of attacks by the devil withdraw from its position.

The third battalion was placed behind the position of the first battalion by Han Fangping. After the first battalion retreated, Ma Chaoyuan, the commander of the third battalion, looked grim, held a telescope to look at the devils who rushed to the position of the first battalion, and said to the platoon commander of the artillery company who cooperated with the operation: "Ning platoon commander, after you finish the two bases, immediately withdraw to the rear." ”

After following Liu Tianshu for so long, he also learned the tactics of shooting and leaving. Anyway, the regiment commander's order is to block the devils and ensure that the villagers and brother troops transport the supplies into Qinglong Gorge, as long as they drag the devils themselves, and there is no need to fight to the death with the devils.

When the first battalion was fighting fiercely with the devils just now, the two infantry guns and four mortars of the Ning platoon commander did not fire, but prepared to fire at the back of the third battalion.

Their target was the position that the first battalion had just held.

The excited cheers of devils came from the opposite position, and more and more devils appeared on the opposite hill.

When Platoon Commander Ning saw this scene, he shouted excitedly.

Two infantry guns and four mortars roared towards the hill where the first battalion had been defending, and the shells whistled and flew towards the opposite side. As the shells landed, smoke rose everywhere on the opposite position. The devils who were cheering did not expect that the Eighth Route Army would cover the newly occupied positions with artillery fire and be blown up to hide in Tibet.

It's a pity that this position has long been bombed by its own planes, and all the trees have been blown down, and there is no place to hide.

The more than 100 devils who rushed to the position immediately fell into a sea of fire, explosions everywhere, blazing shrapnel everywhere, screams of wounded soldiers everywhere, and stumps and broken bodies flying everywhere.

The soldiers immediately fell into despair and allowed the flying shells to blow themselves into thin air.

Platoon Commander Ning commanded the artillery to quickly finish the two base shells, and then carried the artillery in the direction of Qinglong Gorge.

Less than five minutes after they left the firing position, the devil's artillery fire finally hit, and at the same time, the devil's plane, which had just flown away, also flew towards this side again.

Ma Chaoyuan's three battalions were arranged in echelons, and the artillery position of Ning Platoon Commander was not arranged on the blocking position of the third battalion, but on the flank.

The devil's retaliatory artillery fire came according to the estimated position, mostly in the deserted woods.

Urata learned that one of the squadrons occupying the position had suffered heavy casualties in the sudden artillery bombardment of the Eighth Route Army and had lost the ability to fight again. Suddenly, the face was clouded.

After reporting the situation to the wing commander, he had to let the more than 30 surviving devils of the squadron withdraw under the strict order of the wing commander, and the third squadron went up.

Liu Tianshu and Hua Xiaohu ran to Qinglong Gorge with their troops in one go, and saw Political Commissar Liao waiting there.

Liao Zhifeng saw Liu Tianshu and Hua Xiaohu coming, and greeted him with a smile on his face and said, "Commander, the villagers and soldiers have all entered the canyon, and all the materials have been transported into the valley, just waiting for you and Captain Han." ”

"That's good, political commissar, I have to work hard for you, you go command the transport troops, pay attention to the devil plane, and I will pick up the head of the Han regiment." Knowing that Han Fangping, the head of the group, had not withdrawn yet, Liu Tianshu said to Liao Zhifeng.

"Okay, I'll arrange it." Liao Zhifeng knew that this was not the time to be polite, so he immediately nodded and walked towards the valley with the guards.

At this time, Shi Qiang and the soldiers of the reconnaissance brigade also retreated.

"Commander, why haven't you left yet?" Seeing Liu Tianshu waiting at the mouth of the valley, Shi Qiang's heart warmed and said anxiously.

"Captain Shi, the villagers have withdrawn into the valley, in this way, you immediately take someone to plant explosives in those two locations, and if the devils dare to chase after them, immediately detonate the explosives and bury this group of devils alive for me." The blocking battle just now made the third battalion sacrifice more than 80 soldiers, Liu Tianshu thought of these originally bright red lives, and in a blink of an eye, he slept on the Dai Po Ridge, and even the body could not be brought back, and he had an indescribable anger towards the ghosts who were chasing.

"Okay, I'll arrange it, if the devil dares to chase after him, I guarantee that they will not come back." Shi Qiang heard that Liu Tianshu asked him to plant explosives on both sides of the canyon, and immediately comprehended and ran towards the two positions with the soldiers carrying the explosives.

As soon as the fighters of the reconnaissance brigade left, Han Fangping withdrew with three regiments and one battalion. Seeing Liu Tianshu, he wiped the smoke on his forehead and asked with concern, "Captain Liu, how are you?" ”

"Old Han, the devil didn't get a bargain, so you immediately take the troops into the valley, and I will be responsible for the break." Liu Tianshu looked at him and said directly.

"How can this work, you should go first, and I will stay and break off." After hearing that Liu Tianshu was going to stay and break off, how could Han Fangping agree?

"Commander Han, don't fight, take the soldiers away, don't worry, with me, the devil will never be cheap."

Seeing that Liu Tianshu said so confidently, Han Fangping also knew that he was going to talk about fighting, and he really couldn't compare to this young man, besides, the brigade commander clearly instructed the three regiments to listen to Liu Tianshu's command.

"Okay, then take care, I'll invite you to drink when I get back." Han Fangping's eyes were a little moist.

As he spoke, Ma Chaoyuan and the three battalions also withdrew to this side, and behind them, gunshots kept coming.

Although Putian suffered a lot of losses, when he saw the retreat of the Eighth Road, he still chased after him desperately.

Ma Chaoyuan saw Regiment Commander Liu standing at the mouth of the valley, and as soon as he shouted a word to the regiment commander, he saw Liu Tianshu waving his hand to him and shouted loudly: "Battalion Commander Ma, immediately take the soldiers into the valley, and your regiment commander is waiting for you in front." ”

When Ma Chaoyuan heard this, he knew that Commander Liu was going to stay and cut it off personally, and his heart was hot, but he also knew Commander Liu's temper and what he decided, which no one could change, so he had to salute Liu Tianshu and hurriedly ran into the valley with the soldiers.

At this time, in addition to Liu Tianshu, there were only Shi Qiang and Chen Jian's reconnaissance brigade left in Gukou.

In this long-distance attack, in addition to reconnoitering the enemy, the reconnaissance brigade was also responsible for blowing up the railway with explosives.

At present, the reconnaissance brigade has set up a special demolition team, which is responsible for planting explosives to blow up enemy fortifications and so on.

Shi Qiang personally commanded the fighters of the demolition team to bury explosives in dangerous positions on both sides of the valley, and at the same time connected them with homemade battery detonators.

Anyway, this is not a high-tech thing, not only Liu Tianshu has this knowledge, but also the reconnaissance brigade also has two students who studied electricity in college, as long as there are materials, it is easy to make an initiator.

Seeing that Shi Qiang had buried the explosives, Liu Tianshu signaled to Shi Hu who was lurking at the mouth of the valley to retreat, and then slowly retreated into the valley with the reconnaissance team.

After 20 minutes of fierce fighting with Ma Chaoyuan's 3rd Battalion, Pu Tian found that the 8th Route that was blocking the front had suddenly withdrawn, because he had learned the lesson of the last time he captured the 8th Route position but was subjected to heavy artillery bombardment, he couldn't help but be careful.

The sergeant who sent a squad tentatively occupied the position, and found that the Eighth Route had indeed fled, so he immediately let the squad quickly advance forward, and at the same time let the troops behind cross the position of the Eighth Route in an evacuated formation.

Fortunately, this time it was not shelled by the Eighth Road, but in this way, the speed of the pursuit suddenly became slower.

After contacting the Kawasaki Wing Commander, Urata commanded the troops to chase them to the mouth of the canyon, where they waited for a while to meet up with the Kawasaki Department who had arrived from the direction of Daipo Ridge.

Seeing that the troops under the personal command of Wing Captain Kawasaki were not much better, Urada's face was finally better.

At this time, the order of the division commander came again.

It turned out that aerial reconnaissance found that the Chinese brigade was passing through the Qinglong Gorge and running towards the mountains to the north, but because the canyon was surrounded by high mountains on both sides, the effect of the aircraft bombing was not good.

Since the Eighth Route was running into the mountains, and at the same time Taniguchi had not found any trace of the Eighth Road, the division commander naturally ordered the two troops to join together and continue the pursuit through the canyon.

At the same time, Sakai's mixed brigade was approaching the Seiryu Gorge.

The Eighth Route carried so many supplies, and the action was naturally not as fast as the Imperial Army, if you don't catch up with it, and wait until the Eighth Route is broken into pieces and hides in the mountains and forests, I'm afraid it really won't be able to catch up.

After reading the order, Kawasaki found that Urata was eager to try on the side, so he simply let his brigade go in front and the brigade under his command go behind.

In fact, at this time, the combined number of Japanese troops in the two brigades was only about 1,400 people.

In other words, in the fierce battle with the Eighth Route Army in the morning, more than 600 imperial soldiers served His Majesty the Emperor.

If you count since last night, the Great Japanese Empire has lost more than a thousand excellent Yamato people, and what embarrassed the empire even more is that these damned Chinese have all fled into the Qinglong Gorge.

This is simply a disgrace to the soldiers of the Empire! (To be continued.) )