The group went around to the side of the merchant fort, and the merchant Wei led everyone straight to a hidden small village gate.

Several men with big knives and spears in their hands on the wall were staring at the mountains and forests outside the wall, and when they saw a group of people running, they immediately became nervous.

A man about thirty years old stopped a young man of eighteen or nineteen years old next to him, and was about to let him run into the village to report, when he saw that the people in front of him were somewhat familiar.

After taking a closer look, he found that the people running in front were Shang Wei, Shang Jiancai, and Shang Ping, who had joined the guerrillas, and couldn't help but shout in surprise: "It's Jiawei, Jiawei, they're back, open the gate quickly." ”

The man ran down the wall with people, and as soon as he opened the door, he saw several people running over.

"Third uncle, this is our Captain Liu, how is the situation in the village?" Shang Wei saw the man and asked anxiously.

"Jiawei, the devil has broken through two levels, and is currently storming the walled gate, and the villager may not be able to hold it." When the man named Third Uncle heard Shang Wei's inquiry, his cheeks burst into tears.

"Third uncle, we can build another village when it's gone, as long as the people are okay, in this way, I will take Captain Liu to find the old lady, and I am going to organize the villagers to withdraw into the mountains as soon as possible." Shang Wei nodded, said with tears in his eyes, and ran towards Hanzi with Liu Tianshu.

However, as soon as a few people ran to the empty dam in the center of the village, they heard a fierce explosion at the gate in front of them, and at the same time, some people shouted in panic that the devil had entered the village, and the devil had entered the village.

When Liu Tianshu heard this, his face suddenly changed greatly, and he shouted at Shang Jiancai: "Jiancai, you go and send a signal to Platoon Commander Li and them, and the rest of the people will follow me." ”

As soon as a few people ran through the two alleys, they saw panicked villagers running from the front, and a few saw Shang Wei and others, and shouted with shocked faces: "Jiawei." The devil has entered the village, run. ”

As they spoke, the crowd ran past several people.

"Qiangzi, you take the first group to organize the villagers to retreat, and I will take the second group to pick up the merchants and." Liu Tianshu saw that these villagers were very chaotic because there was no one to organize, so he said to Shi Qiang.

"Yes. Captain, be careful. After speaking, Shi Qiang waved his hand and shouted to the soldiers of the first group, "The first group follows me", and took the first group of soldiers, under the leadership of Shang Wei, to run towards the villagers who were running around.

Liu Tianshu led the second group of fighters, under the leadership of Shang Cai. Run towards the front of the stockade where the battle is raging.

After half an hour of fierce fighting with the devils at the second level, there were only seven people left in the fort around him, he looked at these brothers tragically, and then at the level that had been blown up, wiped a handful of tears and said: "Brothers, this place can no longer be defended, let's go, let's return to the village." ”

The rest of the bunkers were also worried about their relatives in the stockade. Hearing this, immediately follow the merchant and remove the second checkpoint. Run towards the gate.

When Yoshino saw that the second barrier had been breached, he couldn't help but shout excitedly to kill Gege, and ordered the Japanese army to pounce like wolves towards the stockade of Shangbao.

As soon as the merchants and a few people entered the fort, the devils chased them under the stone wall of the stockade.

Shang Wu saw the devil menacing, his eyes were fixed on the devil who was getting closer and closer, and he ordered the two pine cannons behind him to get ready.

The two gunners sucked in the dry smoke in their hands. His eyes were fixed on Shang Wu, and when he saw Shang Wu's big hand, the two of them immediately put the red-burning cigarette butts towards the lead on the pine cannon, and with a swishing sound, the spark flew quickly into the barrel. After a while, two loud bangs were heard, two pine cannons roared, a ball of fire flew out from behind the wall, and countless pieces of broken iron flew like raindrops towards the devils who were rushing towards the gate.

The attacking devils saw that the village was in front of them, and countless devils had indescribable excitement on their faces. The squadron leader said that once he attacked the stockade, in order to reward the imperial warriors, he would relax military discipline for a day.

Thinking that they could do whatever they wanted in the village and indulge in satisfying their unsightly desires, these devils rushed to the avenue in front of the village as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

A huge sound came, and these devils who were shooting and charging couldn't help but be stunned, and before they could understand how they came back, they saw the smoke of gunpowder rushing towards them, and more than a dozen devil soldiers in front of them were hit by the broken iron shot out of two pine cannons, and they fell to the ground covered in blood and screamed.

Several of the ghost soldiers were hit in the face by the iron sand, and their faces immediately became covered in blood, like ghosts from hell.

However, the momentum of the pine cannon is very scary, but the power is really not optimistic, although these devils were hit, most of them were only slightly injured, and not even seriously injured.

At the same time as the pine cannon rang out, the forts on the walled wall held their guns and fired at the devils who were getting closer and closer, and for a while, the gunfire in front of the gate was like firecrackers.

Yoshino was also startled by the pine cannon at first, but when he found out that it had only caused more than a dozen Imperial soldiers to fall to the ground and scream, he immediately understood that the power of this earthen cannon was very limited.

Yoshino immediately ordered the infantry artillery to launch a retaliatory bombardment of the pine cannon positions in the stockade.

As the 92nd infantry cannon sounded in front of the gate of the village again, several shells flew into the village one after another, and Shang Wu's two pine cannons were hit by shells before they could finish loading, and several gunners directly blew them out.

Subsequently, the devil's grenadiers, infantry guns, and mortars of the Imperial Allied Army fired at the wall, and at the same time, there were dense bullets spit out by the devil's 92 heavy machine gun.

Seeing the forts on the wall of the wall one by one lying in a pool of blood, Shang Wu's eyes were dripping with blood, and he raised his pistol and shot desperately outside the wall.

"Uncle Wu, the devil's firepower is too strong, even if we fight all the way up, we won't be able to hold the village, so we should send someone to inform the villagers in the village to retreat through the back door." Although the merchants and the Bunding were brave, they were unable to stop them in the face of the well-equipped and well-trained devils, and now several parts of the walled wall have been blown down.

If the villagers in the village are not allowed to retreat, once the village is breached, with his understanding of the devil, the village will not become a hell on earth.

"Jiahe, in this way, you go and send the old lady out of the village, and I will lead someone to block the devil here." Shang Wu glanced back at the village, and there was a determination in his eyes.

"No, Uncle Wu, I'll lead someone to block the devil, you go and send the old lady." The merchant gritted his teeth and said loudly.

"Jiahe, I am the captain, so many brothers have died in battle, how can I retreat at this time? You go quickly, and if you don't go, it's too late. Shang Wu scolded loudly and angrily kicked Shang He to the side with one kick.

Seeing this, Shang He couldn't help but burst into tears, shouted Uncle Wu, turned his head and took a few bunkers, quickly ran down the wall, and ran towards the old man's house.

As they ran, they shouted for the villagers to run back to the mountain, and when they ran to the front of the old man's compound, they heard a violent explosion at the gate of the village, and then countless smoke rose from there.

After a few steps into the courtyard, I saw the old man Shang sitting on a Taishi chair, holding a pitch-black cane in his hand.

"Old lady, the stockade can't hold it, let's go, we'll send you out of the stockade." The merchant and the old lady who saw the merchant had hot eyes and shouted with a crying voice.

Old lady Shang glanced up at the blue sky at this time, slowly withdrew her gaze, looked at Shang He and said: "Jiahe, I am the patriarch of Shang Fort, this is my home, I will not go anywhere, in this way, you can take them away." ”

"Grandpa," "Daddy." "Crying rang out throughout the courtyard.

Seeing this, Shang He glanced at the two brothers who followed him, and then said to the men and women in the courtyard who surrounded the old man Shang: "The eldest young master, the second young master, the young lady, you go quickly, the village is about to be broken by the devils, and it will be too late if you don't leave." ”

Old Man Shang's son and grandchildren were crying loudly on the side, and then slowly walked out of the courtyard.

When the two burghers saw the crowd surrounding the old man Shang leaving, they immediately stepped forward to grab the old man and prepared to take him away despite the opposition.

Unexpectedly, the old man Shang suddenly flipped his wrist, took out a snowy sharp knife from his long sleeve, and then shouted at Shang He across his neck: "Jiahe, the old man has made up his mind, if you don't want me to die in front of you, take them away immediately, go." ”

The last word, the old man Shang simply shouted.

"Grandpa, if you don't leave, I won't leave, if you want to die, I will die with you." A seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl suddenly ran out, ran to the old man Shang at once, looked at the old man Shang and shouted with great vigour.

"Jiayan, don't mess around, come with them." When the old man Shang saw that it was his favorite granddaughter, Shang Jiayan, his heart couldn't help but warm, and his old eyes trembled and shouted.

"No, grandpa, if you don't go, Jiayan will accompany you." After speaking, Jiayan actually took out a dagger from her sleeve and put it on her neck.

Seeing this, the old man Shang actually showed a smile on his face, looked at his eldest son Shang Shang and his second son Shang Caifa and said: "Merchant, Caifa, you go quickly, leave us alone, go quickly." ”

Shang and Shang Caifa and others saw that their grandfather and grandson had made up their minds, so they had to take their families and run towards the back mountain under the protection of Baoding.

Shang He saw that the old man Shang and Shang Jiayan decided not to leave, only to feel that his blood was surging, and after asking Bao Ding to protect the business and Shang Caifa and others to evacuate, he looked at the old man Shang and shouted loudly: "Old lady, if you don't leave, I won't leave, it's a big deal that we die together, and there is a care on Huangquan Road." ”

When the old man Shang heard this, he didn't say much, and began to close his eyes to recuperate.

Merchants and began to load pistols with bullets.

Before Liu Tianshu and the others ran to the gate of the village, they saw a few villagers with burdens running towards this side, and behind them, six devils were shooting while chasing this side.

Two women who were running behind were unfortunately hit by bullets and fell to the ground screaming.

Seeing this, Liu Tianshu immediately waved his hand, and several people flashed to the side of the alley, and when the villagers ran away, they immediately leaned out and raised their guns at those devils.

Five short guns fired at the same time, the devil was caught off guard, the five devils were knocked to the ground, and the devil who walked at the end saw this, and immediately hid in a corner and kept shooting in this direction. (To be continued.) )