Xu Deping hurriedly asked, "What way?" ”

Qi Lei said: "You withdraw first, you and your subordinates have few people, and the enemy will not notice." ”

Xu Deping shook his head and said: "We are now brothers in the same trench, how can we leave you and withdraw first?" ”

Qi Lei smiled helplessly and said, "Staff Officer Xu, you are not a member of the front-line combat unit, it is better to go back first and report the situation here to His Majesty." ”

When Xu Deping heard this, he became angry, and thought to himself that I was a member of the sniper team back then, and I had been following His Majesty for a long time, and I had made great achievements in the Battle of Zamboanga, and now you actually say that I am not a person from the front-line combat unit.

Xu Deping just wanted to say that he would also bring people to stay, but suddenly remembered what Lin Fei had said to him: "The map is the commander's eyes, and the surveyor is the person who makes the commander's eyes, you have to do your best to protect your subordinates and prevent them from making senseless sacrifices." ”

Xu Deping took a deep breath, lowered the surging hot blood pressure, and said, "Then we will withdraw first." ”

Qi Lei nodded, Xu Deping waved at his subordinates, and said, "Let's go." ”

Several young soldiers said one after another: "Instructor Xu, we are not leaving, we are going to stay and fight the Spaniards..."

Xu Deping glared at him and said angrily: "Your battlefield is on the map, and your weapons are theodolite, scale and compass, don't talk nonsense, follow me." ”

After Xu Deping finished speaking, he took his subordinates away, and Qi Lei called several platoon commanders to his side and asked, "Have you reconnoitred the situation on the high ground?" ”

The platoon leader said: "The reconnaissance is clear, there are a total of five roads that can go up the mountain, including the one we came up, the mountain road is very wide. ”

After listening to the report, Qi Lei's heart suddenly rose to his throat, five roads up the mountain, which means that only about 20 people can be deployed on each road; The mountain road is very wide, which means that the enemy can disperse the formation and attack the mountain in places that cannot be covered by his own firepower, so it is almost impossible for the company of Qi Lei to block the attack of five or six hundred enemy men.

Qi Lei's only hope now is that Lin Fei will send reinforcements, but this hope is extremely slim, because Lin Fei does not know the situation here at this time, and when Xu Deping reports the news to Lin Fei, Lin Fei will send reinforcements, it will take at least two or three hours, and Qi Lei will not be able to support such a long time.

Qi Lei took a deep breath and said, "The only chance we have now is to hold on as much time as possible... The enemy is coming from the east, and if they want to attack, they will also attack from the east side of the high ground, and how many roads up the hill are there on the east side? ”

The second platoon commander replied, "There are two." ”

Qi Lei said: "Let's bet that the enemy will attack the mountain from the east two roads, the first platoon will guard the one to the north, the second platoon will guard the one to the south, and the third platoon will take advantage of the fact that the enemy is still not coming, go down and pick up all the bullets on the corpses on the mountain road, and pick up as many as they can." ”

The three platoon commanders agreed in unison and went to prepare, Qi Lei looked at the five guns that were damaged in the open space and secretly regretted in his heart, thinking that if we didn't blow them up, how good it would be, we could use these field guns to hit the Spaniards...

Although Qi Lei thought so, a question arose, that is, how did the Spanish army come so quickly?

It turned out that Brigadier General Raceno did not expect to encounter Lin Fei's troops when he sent artillery to seize Heights No. 1 from the beginning, because Heights No. 1 was on the south side of the battlefield, and the confrontation between the Spanish army and the Chinese Imperial Army would be carried out in the east-west direction, so Raceno did not let the large infantry force follow, and the infantry that followed the artillery was only the guard unit within the artillery formation.

But after sending out the artillery, Racello suddenly thought, I want to occupy the high ground of that town, will Lin Fei also want to occupy it? Could Lin Fei's troops have already taken the lead? If his troops take the lead, won't my artillery be wiped out? If the artillery is completely annihilated, the ten field guns will all fall into the hands of the Chinese pigs, that is ten field artillery, won't the firepower of the Chinese pigs be increased many times at once?

Racello didn't know that Lin Fei already had a brand new artillery, and he didn't care about their artillery at all, the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, and hurriedly sent an infantry unit to support the field artillery unit, which rushed to the No. 1 high ground just in time for Qi Lei to drive away the Spanish artillery unit.

The commander of this unit, named "Pokinvis", specialized in offensive tactics, when he arrived at Heights 1, he encountered the retreating Spanish artillery, he did not know what was happening, and hurriedly called an artilleryman and asked: "What is happening on the heights?" ”

The artilleryman said with trepidation: "Hua ...... The Chinese pigs suddenly attacked the high ground and killed many of us, and we couldn't resist it, so we had to retreat all. ”

Pokinworth hurriedly asked, "How many Chinese pigs are there?" ”

The artilleryman shook his head and said, "I don't know, they attacked suddenly, I don't know how many people there are." ”

Po Jinwei asked several people in a row, but they couldn't tell the number of Lin Fei's troops, so Po Jinwei had to ask, "How many roads are there to the high ground?" ”

The artillerymen replied, "There are five, and two of them are the closest to us." ”

Polkingwes held up his binoculars and looked at the way up the mountain, wondering what kind of play should I use? Should you concentrate your forces on one road, or do you split your forces to attack several roads at once? This has something to do with the number of enemy troops, if there are many enemy troops, then concentrating forces to attack is undoubtedly the first choice, if the enemy troops are small, then it is much easier to divide the troops to attack.

Pokingwis knew that the key to determining the way of fighting was to figure out the number of Lin Fei's troops, so he turned his brain, called an artilleryman, and asked, "From which way did the enemy attack?" ”

The artilleryman pointed to the south with his hand and said, "It's from that side." ”

Pokingworth waved his hand to the two scouts and said, "Go to the south and look for their footprints, and see if you can see the number of enemy troops in the footprints." ”

The two scouts ran to the south, and in a short time came back and said: "Report to Battalion Commander Pokingweis, we have found their footprints on the path of the enemy's advance, and from the depth of the footprints and the width of the ground on which they are present, the enemy's strength does not exceed 150 men. ”

Pokinworth nodded, waved his hand to let the two scouts go down to rest, and then began to ponder, he did not dare to let his subordinates attack directly, because he was not sure of the results of the scouts' reconnaissance, after all, the number of enemy troops judged from the footprints was only a rough estimate.

After much thought, Pokingwis finally made a decision, he waved his hand to his subordinate officers, and ordered in a loud voice: "Divide the troops into five parts, divide them into forces, and attack." ”

The officers agreed loudly, and then arranged the troops, and soon the deployment of the troops was completed, and the troops were divided into five ways to surround the high ground, and the place where the Spaniards were hiding was a wood, sheltered by woods, so the Qi Lei on the high ground and the soldiers of the Great Meritorious Company did not see the movement of the Spaniards.

Ten minutes later, the two mountain roads on the east side of the No. 1 Heights were the first to appear the figure of the Spanish soldiers, they pulled the straggler line, walked towards the mountain, the first and second platoons immediately opened fire, many Spanish soldiers were knocked to the ground, but the road up the mountain was very wide, and there were many protruding rocks on both sides of the road, these Spanish soldiers hid behind the rocks on the side of the road and fired at the top of the mountain.

At this time, the Spanish soldiers had made a lot of progress compared to the past, they were all half-crouching behind the rocks, leaning out and shooting at the top of the mountain, so that the exposed area was very small, and it was difficult for Lin Fei's bullets to kill and injure them.

The first and second platoons were in a stalemate with the Spanish soldiers, and Qi Lei's heart was very happy, secretly thinking that since the Spanish soldiers did not attack the mountain with all their strength, the reinforcements would have time to come, and not only would we not be eaten by the enemy, but we would also be able to fight back and eat the enemy...

Qi Lei was happy in his heart, and the third platoon commander suddenly ran over and reported: "Company commander, the enemy is coming from the mountain road on the south and north sides..."

Qi Lei hurriedly asked, "How many people?" ”

The third platoon commander said: "There are quite a few people, everywhere..."

Qi Lei said: "Immediately take three platoons to stop them." ”

The leader of the third platoon had a difficult look on his face and said: "If the three platoons are divided into three roads, there is only one squad and twelve people on one road, and they can't stop the enemy at all..."

Qi Lei said in a deep voice: "The first platoon and the second platoon can't divide the troops, because once the enemy notices that the strength is weakening, he will storm it, don't say more, you go quickly, try to drag the enemy down." ”

The third platoon commander agreed to leave, Qi Lei's heart was filled with a burst of despair, His Majesty's reinforcements were far away, the enemy army divided his troops to attack, and we didn't have many bullets, we couldn't hold this high ground, did we want to be eaten by the enemy? From the beginning of His Majesty's army to the present, not a single army has been eaten by the whole system, and it seems that we will be the first in a row.

Qi Lei has always liked to fight for the first, but he doesn't want to fight for this "first", he secretly warned himself that he must find a way to stop the Spaniards...

At this moment, dense gunshots rang out one after another on the three mountain roads on the south and north sides, and Qi Lei knew it very well...... These three mountain roads would soon be breached by the Spaniards, and the whole company would be surrounded by enemy troops.

At this critical juncture, a solution illuminated Qi Lei's mind like lightning...... Since the enemy forces are divided, then their forces at every point are weak, why don't we concentrate our forces and break out?

Qi Lei hurriedly called the three platoon commanders and said, "I have decided, the first platoon and the second platoon will withdraw from the defensive position, join forces with the third platoon, and we will break through from the third platoon's defense area." ”

The first platoon leader and the second platoon leader hurriedly said, "No... In this way, the enemy forces opposite us will rush up and outflank our rear, and we will be attacked from the belly and back......"

"Of course I know that we will be attacked on our backs, but now that we have no way out, we will definitely die if we stay on the mountain any longer, we can only fight to break through."

The first platoon commander and the second platoon commander nodded silently, and at this moment, a scout suddenly ran over and reported in a loud voice: "Company commander, the enemy has come to reinforcements..."

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