At this time, Captain Ono was really troubled. He has just been criticized by the commander, and he has not yet extinguished the fire. Once again, he was attacked by the intensive artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army, which caused heavy losses to his subordinates, and even himself, if his guards were not too conscientious, would have died in the artillery fire just now.

Finally, the annoying artillery fire stopped, Captain Ono raised his head from a hidden corner, and what he saw was a tragic battlefield, the originally bare city wall, but at this time there were countless large pits, and the broken corpses were densely distributed on the hundreds of meters long city wall, and as far as the eye could see, the entire city wall was barely alive except for some still burning ruins, and there was hardly any life in sight "Baga, is there anyone else, prepare for battle immediately" Captain Ono shouted loudly at the empty city wall.

After a while, dozens of soldiers began to emerge from their respective hiding places. Looking at the dozens of soldiers in front of him, Captain Ono wanted to die. Because according to his own statistics, his squadron has changed from a full squadron before the shelling to a remnant army of less than a squad now. What's even more infuriating is that most of the less than fifty soldiers are still wounded. Looking at the soldiers' weapons, in addition to one rifle per man, Captain Ono sadly found that his squadron now had only three light machine guns.

"Eight Grid Tooth Road, the cunning Eighth Route Army. Order, immediately enter the position, why didn't you see the puppet army, are they all dead" Seeing the miserable scene in front of him, Captain Ono scolded loudly. However, suddenly, he thought of the puppet army who was fighting with him, so he shouted loudly.

"Report captain, when our army was shelled just now, the puppet army had all fled, and I estimate that these puppet soldiers should be hiding in the county seat now" This is, a squad leader with an arm wound stood up and said.

"Baga, yours, go back to the headquarters immediately, ask His Excellency the Commander to send reinforcements, and the others will defend the city with me, quickly, check the weapons and ammunition" Captain Ono ordered angrily. Next to the corpse of a soldier, he picked up a rifle, took out a cartridge box, and ran quickly to the city wall to hide.

Captain Ono quietly poked his head out of the battlements of the city wall, trying to get a clear picture of the current battle outside the castle. However, just as he poked out less than half of his head, the sound of a bullet hitting the brick wall reached his ears, and even two bullets grazed his scalp directly, and a hot pain came from the wound.

"Baga Eighth Route Army is cunning and cunning" Captain Ono touched the wound on his head that began to bleed and scolded loudly. However, two wounds on the head did not stop him from continuing to observe the enemy. Because his task now is to take the rest of his men and hold the city wall until reinforcements arrive.

This time, though, Captain Ono was clearly a lot smarter. Picked up a head emblem that fell to the ground, buckled it on the rifle in his hand, and quietly stretched out from a battlement next to it, just when the bullets of the Eighth Route Army hit the head emblem with a bang, Captain Ono quickly stretched out his head from another battlement, and finally saw the scene outside the city wall clearly.

Seeing the battle situation outside the city, Captain Ono did not relax, but broke out in a cold sweat. Because just as he poked his head out, he clearly saw that on the flat ground outside the city wall, about a company of the Eighth Route Army was slowly approaching the city wall in a straggler formation with rifles, ladders, and explosives. And now they were less than a hundred meters away from the city wall.

"Baga, when did the excellent emperor [***] people be beaten like this by the Eighth Route Army, machine gun cover, all of them, prepare grenades" Captain Ono scolded loudly, ordering the machine gunner with only three machine guns beside him.

"Hi" the three Heavy replied reluctantly, quietly popping their heads.

"Bang bang bang" a machine gunner who had just popped his head was shot in the head and fell in a pool of blood. The remaining two machine gunners quickly retracted their heads, and began to rejoice that they had not rashly stretched out their heads to target the Eighth Route Army outside the city.

"Baga, you are not soldiers of the Empire, shoot now, otherwise you will die and die, shoot immediately" Looking at the machine gunner with a panicked face in front of him, Captain Ono drew his command knife and put it on the neck of a machine gunner, and scolded loudly.

"Hey" At this time, the machine gunner had the intention of killing Ono, but when he saw the cold command knife on his neck, he could only answer in a low voice. But this time, he was smarter, and he didn't stick his head out like the Heavy just now. Rather, from the battlements of the city walls, the muzzle of the light machine gun stretched out directly, and, according to his own experience, aimed, pulled the trigger.

A series of bullet casings landed on the city wall, and at the same time, a series of screams were remembered under the city wall.

"Quick, grenade" At night, I felt that the Eighth Route Army outside the city had advanced to the corner of the city wall, and hurriedly threw the grenade that had been drawn out of my hand. Immediately afterward, dozens of grenades were dropped on the city wall one after another.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom," the explosion of a grenade, mixed with the screams of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army under the city walls, reached the ears of Captain Ono.

"Yo Xi, don't stop, keep dropping bombs, machine gunner, keep shooting" Hearing the screams of the Eighth Route Army, Captain Ono not only felt proud of his decision, but ordered loudly. So, after receiving the order, dozens of little devils squatting in the corner of the city wall began to throw grenades, and the city wall was completely enveloped by the sound of grenade explosions, and finally, no longer a little wailing could be heard under the city wall.

Captain Ono ejected his head with the help of the smoke from the grenade explosion. Through the thick smoke of gunpowder, Captain Ono could clearly see the situation on the battlefield. Under the attack of the Imperial grenade, a wing of the Eighth Route Army, which attacked itself, had already thrown down the ladder at this time, carrying dozens of wounded, and the bodies of the martyrs retreated to their positions in disarray.

"Yo Xi, immediately go to the body of the fallen soldier to collect grenades, quickly" Seeing his own tactics and successfully repelling the attack of the Eighth Route Army, Captain Ono couldn't help but be excited, and hurriedly ordered.

And while the soldiers were rummaging through the bodies of the fallen soldiers, there were bursts of footsteps under the city walls. Immediately afterwards, I saw my captain Nakamura Shaoza walking up to the city wall with about a squadron of more than a squadron and a battalion of puppet troops, and more importantly, he also saw the light and heavy machine guns, mortars and other heavy weapons that he urgently needed.

"Captain Ono, what's going on now" I heard the voice of my captain Nakamura Shaosa from a distance.

"Hi, report to the captain, I have led my subordinates to successfully repel the first attack of the Eighth Route Army, and the attacking troops of the Eighth Route Army suffered heavy casualties" Seeing the captain, Captain Ono hurriedly ran over and answered.

"Yo Xi, you are a real soldier, with less than a squad of troops, you actually repelled the attack of the Eighth Route Army. I will definitely ask Your Excellency the Commander for credit. Quick, let your subordinates replenish their ammunition, as a reserve, and leave the rest of the defense to the second squadron and the puppet army who came to take over" Nakamura Shaosa patted Captain Ono on the shoulder and said appreciatively.

"Hi, thank you for your kindness, Captain, Ono will definitely live up to your kindness," Captain Ono replied excitedly.

Just as Captain Ono had just turned around and was about to gather his subordinates to retreat, the whistling sound of a cannonball crossing the sky suddenly reached everyone's ears.

"Baga is quickly hidden, the squadron [***] has begun shelling, quickly" Captain Ono, who was very familiar with the sound of the Eighth Route Army's shelling, was the first to react and shouted loudly to the hundreds of soldiers gathered on the city wall. At the same time, his body pounced directly on the captain behind him, pressing the captain to the corner of the city wall.

"Boom boom" Sure enough, at the moment when Nakamura Shaoza fell, the entire city wall exploded violently, and the huge explosion sound mixed with the screams of the soldiers immediately reached the ears of Captain Ono. The stumps and severed arms of the soldiers, who were torn apart by shells, also kept falling on their backs.

"Baga, get down quickly, hide" Seeing that the captain was safe and sound, Captain Ono quickly took advantage of the gap between the shelling to stand up and shouted at the soldiers who were in chaos. "Bumping" two panicked puppet soldiers fell under their own guns, this is already the fifth person of his own killed by Captain Ono today.

Under the coercion of Captain Ono's pistol, under the bayonets of the soldiers of the first squadron who had survived the first blow of the Eighth Route Army's artillery fire and survived less than a squadron, those chaotic puppet troops quickly became honest and scattered under the command of their respective commanders, and they scattered and hid near the root of the city wall.

The gap between the shells was very short. Just as the soldiers on the city wall had just regained their order, another whistling sound reached everyone's ears. Captain Ono didn't have any reason, the first one lay in the corner, and similarly, as a well-trained army, he also hid at the first time, and once again there were only those puppet troops on the city wall who were at a loss or trembling directly on the city wall.

The shelling time was not particularly long, and it stopped after only five rounds of shelling. As the sound of artillery stopped, hundreds of stumps and severed arms were once again found on the surface of the entire city wall, but among these corpses, the only thing that made Captain Ono and Nakamura Shaosa feel relieved was that less than a squad of corpses were from the Imperial Army. That is to say, the army standing on the city wall now, plus the remnants of the first squad, is enough for the strength of a squadron, and there are still more than 100 puppet troops.

"Tick tock" The position of the Eighth Route Army outside the city sounded a loud trumpet of charge, followed by the shouts of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, which shook the sky, and the sound of heavy machine gun fire. A dense barrage of bullets sent bullets flying across the battlements of the city walls.

"Baga, immediately enter the position, prepare to fire machine guns, fire cover, grenadiers, open artillery" Nakamura Shaosa was not frightened by the bullets flying in front of him, and began to arrange the task in an orderly manner. "Captain Ono, it seems that your subordinates can't retreat, so let's join me in the attack of the Eighth Route Army first" Nakamura Shaosa looked at Captain Ono, who had just saved his life, and replied embarrassedly.

"Hi, Your Excellency Shaozo, it is my duty to guard the city wall, please don't be polite, Captain. 1st Squadron, Grenade Ready" Captain Ono shouted loudly to his own troops, less than 50 men, standing beside Nakamura.

A mortar squad and grenadiers brought by the second squadron lined up the mortar grenadiers in their hands in a straight line and began to suppress the fire, and more than a dozen shells and grenades drew a perfect arc in the sky and fell into the charging formation of the Eighth Route Army less than 300 meters away from the city wall.

The sudden artillery attack of "Boom Boom" caught the soldiers off guard at once, and more than a dozen fighters died on the way to reunion before the enemy could open fire.

"Quick, immediately disperse the formation, don't stop, continue to charge. Xiao Wang, immediately retreated to the position, and asked the commander to cover the artillery fire, "This time the Eighth Route Army dispatched the seventh company of the Reading Regiment, and the local troops with two companies were added, and the strength of a whole battalion was added.

"Yes, company commander" a soldier, receiving the order, immediately turned around and ran towards his position. However, the rate of fire of the mortars of the Yue Army was several times that of the mountain artillery, and before the formation of the Eighth Route Army could disperse, more than a dozen shells fell in the charging formation, reaping the lives of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army......

Finally, a minute later, just as the devils fired the sixth round of shells, the mortar sound of "all passes" sounded on the positions of the Eighth Route Army far behind. The mortar battery of the Reading Regiment had a total of 12 mortars of various types, and at the same time, 12 shells were fired at the city walls. Twelve shells, from the top of the soldiers' heads, crossed a beautiful arc, flew towards the heavily guarded city wall of the Japanese army, and flew towards their artillery positions.

"Ah, Baga, the shelling of the [***] team, quickly conceal, immediately transfer the boom boom" Just as the leader of the artillery squad of the Yue Army raised his command knife and was about to order his artillery to fire again, the whistling sound in the sky caught his attention, and when Tai looked up, he saw 12 shells smashed towards him at a rapid speed. The leader of the artillery squad didn't think much about it, and when he gave the order, he was already lying on the ground quickly, and at the same time kept rolling, hiding in the only safe place on the city wall, the base of the city wall.

A loud explosion sounded on the walls, affecting not only the artillery without any fortifications, but also the infantry hiding near the walls.

However, the shelling did not stop, and the shells continued to explode on the city walls, and from time to time the corpse of a devil would be violently lifted out of the city wall. At this time, the attacking troops, who had lost almost a company in the artillery bombardment just now, slowly got up, bent over, ran an S-shaped offensive route, and slowly approached the city wall under the cover of artillery fire.

"Baga, quick, fire, machine gun fire" Seeing the [***] team getting closer and closer, Nakamura Shaosa couldn't care about the artillerymen behind him who were struggling on the verge of death, and immediately ordered the machine gunners hidden in various fortifications around him to fire.

Immediately, more than a dozen dense tongues of fire suddenly erupted from the city wall less than a few hundred meters long, and the dozens of soldiers who charged at the front saw that they had all fallen in a pool of blood in the blink of an eye.

"Quick, get down, immediately start firing back at the machine gunners, cover the retreat," ordered the commander of the company who was responsible for the attack. Several machine gunners carrying strong machine guns quickly set up light machine guns under the cover of various obstacles and began to suppress fire. At the same time, dozens of various machine guns guarding the position also opened fire one after another. The few sharpshooters in the Reading Force Regiment also lay down in the trenches, killing the machine gunners one by one. Destroy their living force.

However, at this time, the army seemed to be really driven crazy, regardless of the shells that kept exploding behind him, the bullets flying in front of him, the machine gunner in front was killed, the deputy shooter immediately made up for it, the deputy shooter was killed, the rifleman next to him put a gun against the head of the puppet army next to him, the puppet army continued to make up, the puppet army was killed, and he continued to make up for it. In short, more than a dozen light and heavy machine guns of the Yue Army did not stop firing after a few frenzied beatings by the Eighth Route Army.

Of course, although the Eighth Route Army's move of not wanting to die suffered heavy losses, the worst thing was indeed the Eighth Route Army, which was hidden less than a battalion between the trenches and the devil's city wall. can only fight a few times in the madness of the army, and slowly lose troops.

Looking at the soldiers around him, one after another were killed by the Yue army and fell in a pool of blood, the company commander, who was the commander-in-chief of the attacking force, was anxious. If the soldiers are rashly ordered to retreat, then the remaining less than 200 soldiers will completely become the target of the army, and in the end, those who can return alive do not know how many people will be left, so they will stalemate, and their troops will eventually be wiped out.

"Comrades, grenade cover is ready to retreat. I shouted one, two, three, and everyone threw grenades directly in front of us. Quick, grenade ready," the company commander shouted loudly to the soldiers behind him. At the same time, pull out a grenade from the grenade pouch around your waist, pull out the safety cover, and pinch out the pull tab inside.

"One, two, three," the company commander shouted, throwing the grenade in his hand. Immediately, more than a hundred grenades successively crossed the head of the company commander and landed 10 to 40 meters in front of Daqian.

The grenades that landed on the ground began to explode one after another, and immediately, there was a sea of fire in front of everyone. At the same time, the thick smoke from the grenade explosion also quickly rose, blocking the view of the army.

"Comrades, retreat at once. Hurry," the company commander hurried and shouted loudly to the overwhelmed soldiers behind him. So, under the cover of the smoke from the grenade explosion, the fighters quickly withdrew from their positions. Although, on the way to retreat, more than a dozen soldiers were still left behind by the flying bullets of the army, but this result was much better for the destruction of the rest of the army.

(To be continued)