"Company commander, the devils are attacking again." Before the shelling of the devils stopped, the cries of the guard posts sounded on the position. Zhou Cheng, the company commander who got the news, hurriedly raised the telescope in his hand and poked his head out of the trench.

This attack of the army is still the strength of a small team, if you guess correctly, this team should be the team that has just retreated. The attack was still the same as the previous one, without any changes, and under the cover of mortars and heavy machine guns, the infantry lined up in three rows of stragglers and slowly advanced towards the position.

"Comrades, you have aimed at me, and when you see it, you will shoot again, and as long as the devils advance to 100 meters in front of the position, you will fire at me." Zhou Cheng shouted an order to the remaining 50 or so soldiers on the battlefield.

"Comrades, give me a fight" Just when the devil was about 100 meters close to the position, Zhou Cheng shouted loudly, and suddenly, a wave of guns hit the advancing army, and half of the dozens of soldiers in the first row immediately fell. Next, it was the fighters who fired freely.

The deputy captain who pressed the formation behind the troops, although he lost nearly ten soldiers again in the platoon just now, did not have any intention of retreating, and it should be that after the failure of the first attack just now, the deputy captain personally assured Ono Jiro that he would use the remaining forces to completely annihilate the squadron in front of him, and if he could not complete the task, he would commit suicide directly on the position by disembowelment and apologize to His Majesty the Emperor.

For the sake of his future military career, the deputy captain at this time didn't care about the life or death of the soldiers, and kept waving the command knife in his hand at the back of the team, urging the soldiers to move forward.

In the face of the suicidal charge, the remaining soldiers of the Yue Army also seemed to be dead, regardless of the casualties of their comrades, bent over, rushed forward without their lives, and aimed and shot while charging.

Similarly, in the face of such a fierce charge of the Yue Army, the position of the Eighth Route Army, which was already weak in strength and short of ammunition, suddenly felt tremendous pressure. There was even a time when the soldiers rushed to a distance of 20 meters from the position, but they were all pressed down by the fighters with grenades, but the casualties of the soldiers were also very huge, and in just a few minutes, the soldiers who could move on the position were reduced by half again.

In the face of huge casualties, the fierce charge of the army, the gunfire on the position became weaker and weaker. As the company commander, Zhou Cheng suddenly felt tremendous pressure, and kept looking at the rear of the position, hoping that the third platoon of the instructor would hurry over. Finally, the hard work paid off, and the figure of the instructor suddenly appeared at the entrance of the village.

"Comrades, hold on, reinforcements from the instructors are coming." Seeing the instructor and the three heavily armed platoons behind him, Zhou Cheng's confidence surged again, and he shouted excitedly to the remaining soldiers on the battlefield.

"Company commander, how's the situation? Turning over into the trench and seeing the tragic scene in the trench, the instructor hurriedly asked.

"Let's not talk about this for now, order the three platoons, enter the position immediately, and repel this attack of the little devils first." The company commander ignored the anxious instructor and shouted to the three platoon commanders behind the instructor.

With the reinforcement of the third platoon, the vitality of the position was immediately more than doubled, and under the fierce blows of the fighters, the position was finally preserved. And the deputy captain of the army also fulfilled his promise, and after ordering the remaining two dozen soldiers to retreat under the leadership of a military cao, he knelt in front of the position and committed suicide by disembowelment.

"Alas, the little devil has finally retreated." It only lasted less than ten minutes of the blocking battle, and it seemed like a day, or even longer, when I saw that the little devil had dropped two-thirds of the corpse, and retreated back in embarrassment. Company commander Zhou Cheng breathed a sigh of relief and sat on the ground with his buttocks.

"Instructor, you have also seen the casualties of the soldiers, such a large casualty was caused by the two mortars of the little devil, so I want to knock out the two mortars of the little devil." I saw the corpses of the little devils all over the ground in front of the position, and I saw the remains of the soldiers lying here and there in the trenches. Company commander Zhou Cheng said.

"Company commander, you are the commander of the unit, or should I go, give me two squads, and I will knock him out." The instructor quickly refused.

"Okay, now is the critical juncture, I won't fight with you, in this way, you take the guard squad of the company headquarters, three platoons and one shift, remember that no matter whether you can complete the task or not, you must remember to come back alive." The company commander gave a cherished explanation.

"Don't worry, company commander, the little devil can't kill me for the time being. Do I have to save my life to watch the little devils being driven out of China by us? The instructor said with a smile, hoping to dispel Zhou Cheng's concerns.

"Okay, instructor, I'm waiting for your good news. Militia company commander, Li company commander. You collect all the excess bullets from your militia company and give them to the troops in the position. In addition, there is an important task for you to do, leaving two platoons of troops to transport the seriously wounded here, you take a platoon with combat experience, take all the mines we have, detour back to the rear of the little devils, on their retreat, pick up the terrain where the terrain is dangerous, bury mines for me, I want to wipe out this group of little devils. Zhou Cheng ordered the militia company commander who ran over.

"Yes, Company Commander Zhou."

Just when Company Commander Zhou Cheng arranged how to specifically surround Ono's squadron, Ono Jiro also fell into a dilemma. So far, his squadron has lost almost two squads to 100 people, and even the deputy captain has been killed. Although, according to the reports of the retreating soldiers, the squadron [***] on the opposite side also suffered heavy losses and almost had no combat effectiveness.

But in any case, now his squadron has been dragged here for at least half an hour by the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side, not only has it gained nothing, but it has also lost so many troops. If he goes back like this, not only will the military industry that he worked so hard to build up in the past be gone, but he may also be canceled as a squadron leader.

However, if you don't retreat, you will continue to attack. Don't think about it, the reinforcements of the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side must be on the road at this time, if you continue to attack, the reinforcements of the Eighth Route Army are coming, can you retreat with your whole body? This is a very important question. If you even lose your surname, what's the use of those military exploits?

Faced with the two questions in front of him, Ono Jiro fell into deep thought. In this way, after thinking about it for five minutes, Ono Jiro made a decision and chose to lose his official position between losing his official position and losing his head. After all, with his military command ability, even if the group leader revokes himself from the post of squadron leader, as long as he performs well in the future and makes more meritorious contributions, he may be promoted sooner or later.

Thinking of this, Jiro Ono stood up.

"Herald, immediately notify the heavy machine gun squad and the artillery team to retreat." Jiro Ono, who had already made his decision, immediately gave the order to the herald behind him.

"Hi Your Excellency Squadron Leader." After the herald finished speaking, he ran towards the heavy machine-gun position a few hundred meters away. However, at this time, almost ten minutes have passed since Zhou Cheng arranged the task, and in these ten minutes, the soldiers of the two squads, under the leadership of the instructor, have quietly detoured to a place less than 30 meters away from the artillery position of the Japanese army under the cover of the grass, and at the same time, it is also less than 20 meters away from the heavy machine gun position of the Japanese army.

However, at this moment, the instructor lying in the grass was in a dilemma, like Ono Jiro, because at this time, the team he led was between the two positions of the Japanese army, and the instructor could not pay attention to which position to attack first for the first time.

Obviously, there are more little devils on the heavy machine gun position, and if the artillery is attacked first, but then the heavy machine gun position is attacked in turn, then the own small detachment will have to face dozens of well-prepared heavy machine gunners, and attacking the heavy machine gun position will undoubtedly face a huge problem, that is, whether the artillery of the Japanese army will take advantage of the attack of their small detachment to escape with two mortars.

In the end, after careful consideration, the instructor decided to leave a light machine gun and half a squad of soldiers to attack the artillery position of the devil, not to ask for the total annihilation of the little devil artillery, but only to ask for the mortar of the devil to blow up, while the rest of the soldiers followed themselves with all their strength to attack the heavy machine gun position of the Yue army, which was close at hand.

After quietly assigning the task, the team of dozens of people was finally ready for the assault, and the instructor also took out the shell gun on his waist and loaded the bullet.

"Charge" did not have any superfluous words, just two words were finished, the barge gun in the instructor's hand rang out, and the twenty rounds in the magazine were all shot at the first heavy machine gun of the army by the instructor.

And at this time, the three light machine guns of the squad also went off. The three fighters, armed with light machine guns, jumped up from the grass where they were hiding, and swept wildly at the place where the devils were concentrated. And the remaining riflemen did not rush to shoot, but when the instructor gave the order to attack, they threw grenades that had been delayed for three seconds into the group of devils.

"Charge" The soldiers shouted the slogan, holding the bayonets of their rifles, and rushed towards the heavy machine gun position of the little devil who was close at hand, and the momentum of the whole charge was not at all caused by less than thirty fighters in the eyes of the little devil, but a platoon, or even more

"Baga, the reinforcements of the main force of the Eighth Route Army are coming, everyone retreat quickly" The little devil captain, who had dodged the first round of shooting by the soldiers, listened to the shouts of the Eighth Route Army that was getting closer and closer not far away, and immediately ordered loudly. Before even waiting for the soldiers around him to react, under the protection of his own orderly, he fled in a hurry in the direction where the squadron leader Ono Jiro was.

And the little devils who had dodged the first round of shots from the fighters, and before they could react from the shots just now, they were again attacked by a dozen grenades. Suddenly, in the grenades that continued to explode, the remaining dozens of little devils immediately turned into frightened birds, and after hearing the order of their squad leader to retreat, they didn't care about their weapons and equipment, spread their legs, and fled in the direction of the main force, running faster than the other.

The detachment of less than 30 people followed closely behind the rout of the Yue army, pursuing and firing at the same time, and finally, in less than a minute of fighting, after eliminating a dozen little devils, they successfully drove the little devils out of their heavy machine gun position.

"Stop the pursuit, clean up the battlefield immediately, take your weapons and retreat quickly" Seeing that there were still more than twenty little devils left who were quickly fleeing in the direction of their main force, the instructor wisely ordered the troops to stop the pursuit.

In this way, the soldiers who received the order quickly disengaged from the little devil rout, carrying the captured heavy machine guns, mortars, and ammunition along the opposite direction of the army, and quickly retreated to their positions.

Of course, all the battles that had just taken place did not escape the messengers of the army who came to the heavy machine-gun position to convey the order. Just as the soldiers launched an attack on the little devil, the herald of the army happened to run less than 200 meters away from the battlefield, and when he saw that the squadron of less than 30 soldiers had killed the imperial army of a heavy machine gun squad of nearly 50 people, he was stunned. It wasn't until he saw the squadron [***] swaggering retreat with the captured booty and wounded that the herald reacted, and immediately turned around and ran to the position of the squadron leader, ready to report the situation.

At this time, Ono Jiro was anxiously walking back and forth on the position, constantly picking up binoculars and looking in the direction of the position. I hope that my heavy machine gun squad and artillery will be able to withdraw soon. Because just now, the sudden gunfire made Ono Jiro suddenly feel a sense of crisis.

However, although he heard the gunshots, he didn't believe that the Eighth Route Army, which no longer had much combat effectiveness, was sneaking up on the heavy machine gun squad that had three heavy machine guns, not to mention that the heavy machine gun squad had dozens of excellent imperial soldiers.

However, he did not wait for the retreating soldiers, but saw the herald running over in sweat, and seemed very anxious.

"Something happened to Baga, something happened to the heavy machine gun squad, why didn't you retreat. What happened to the gunfire just now" Seeing the panting herald, Jiro Ichino realized that something must have happened. Unable to care about his usual gentleness anymore, he asked eagerly to the herald.

"Hi, Your Excellency Squadron Leader. The heavy machine-gun squad and artillery positions were attacked by the squadron [***] and suffered heavy losses, and now the remaining soldiers of the heavy machine-gun squad are on their way to retreat and will come over soon. The herald hastened to reply.

"Baga, it's impossible" Ono Jiro's face was full of shock, but the moment he looked up, more than two dozen soldiers fled in confusion appeared on a mountain beam less than fifty meters away from him, and it was obvious that it was the herald's mouth, and the remaining dozens of soldiers of the heavy machine gun squad. They were running towards them at a fast pace.

"Baga, you bastard, the face of the emperor [***] has been lost by you, I order you, immediately come to me and want His Majesty the Emperor to apologize" Looking at the heavy machine gun squad Zhang who was disheveled and panicked, Ono Jiro scolded loudly, and ordered the captain who fled back and gasped to commit suicide by disembowelment.

"Hi" The captain of the army replied in a low voice with his head down, he thought that he could escape the catastrophe by escaping back to the position, but he didn't expect to end up with a suicide result, the team leader walked to the side of the team with a desperate face, pulled out his command knife, and gently wiped it.

"Long live His Majesty the Emperor" The squad leader roared loudly at the sky, inserted the spotless command knife in his hand into his stomach, used his last bit of strength, stirred it vigorously, and fell to the ground in pain.

"Yo Xi" saw the heavy machine gun squad commit suicide in front of him, and the unhappiness and sense of failure in his heart only improved a little.

"Order, the troops will retreat immediately, return to the county seat, quickly" After speaking, the squadron leader Ono Jiro rode his war horse under the protection of his own orderly, and ran at the front of the team, while two more than 150 soldiers in small groups followed closely behind Ono Jiro and quickly marched in the direction of the county seat.

However, will he be able to return to the county seat smoothly? Will Zhou Cheng, who has suffered heavy losses, let the tiger return to the mountain so easily? The answer is no, just when Ono Jiro was anxiously waiting for the heavy machine gun squad, 30 soldiers of the militia company, already carrying mines, took a shortcut, and felt in advance the section of the road that the army had to pass, and prepared a mine array with a high density for the little devils.

What's more, this minefield is buried by a river, that is, if the little devil can't get rid of this minefield, he can only wade through this ten-meter-wide river in this cold winter.

Because it was a rapid march, in less than ten minutes, Ono Jiro led his troops to the place where the militia company had laid mines.

"Boom" A huge explosion sounded only five meters away from Ono Jiro's mount, the smoke dissipated, and the two soldiers in front of him, who were the avant-garde, fell crookedly on the explosion point just now, dragging their legs that had been blown off in pain and groaning, "Baga, there are mines, sappers, go to mine quickly" Seeing the two injured little devils who were used to seeing casualties today, Xiao Jing didn't care, and ordered loudly to follow a sapper group that came out of his own order.

"Hi" a military officer, with a few soldiers, immediately walked to the front of the line with a mine detector and began to detect mines. Soon, two iron-clad mines were found.

"Yo Sai," saw that the sappers had quickly cleared the two mines, and Ono Jiro, who was riding on his warhorse, nodded in satisfaction. However, the good times did not last long, and just as a sapper stepped on the land with a mine detector and the mine detector did not react, a violent explosion sounded again. The sappers, together with the mine detectors in their hands, were lifted into the sky by the tremendous impact of the stone mines. Immediately after, two more violent explosions sounded, and two more sappers were blown to the ground.

(To be continued)