Chapter 429: Retreat to the Great River

Seeing that the opportunity could not be missed, Qiao Youhua and Wu Ming also ordered the officers and soldiers to jump up from the ditch and launch a counter-charge against the devils.

It wasn't until he saw that the poisonous gas of the devil began to permeate that Qiao Youhua stopped the pursuit and asked Guo Mengdao: "Political Commissar Guo, why are you here?" Have the fortifications been repaired? ”

Guo Meng's face was a little tired, and he said with a strong spirit: "Well, the defense line has been constructed and can be stationed at any time." ”

Qiao Youhua nodded with great satisfaction: "Okay, let's withdraw our position and prepare for the final block." ”

Guo Mengdao: "Do you want to give up the minefield?" ”

Qiao Youhua said helplessly: "If you don't give up, you can't do it, the minefield is basically penetrated by the devils, and now the enemy is current, we don't have time and enough mines to repair, you have also seen, the devils used poison gas bombs, and there is an advantage in artillery fire, we still retreat to the defensive position, relying on the fortifications to resist more powerfully." ”

"By the way, seeing that your spirit is very tired, you don't want to stay, hurry up and retreat from the tunnel to Feiyunling with the people, and rest for a while."

Guo Meng shook his head and said, "I'm not tired yet, besides, now that the base is facing the enemy, I can sleep." ”

"That's not right, no matter what, you have to rest, you have been working for two days and two nights in a row, and if you don't rest, the base area has not been lost, and you, the political commissar, fell first, that is a great blow to the soldiers of the whole regiment!

So you better hurry back and rest, as for here, don't worry, with me and the third battalion commander here, there will be no problems, no matter how bad it is, we can still retreat through the guò tunnel. Qiao Youhua said bitterly.

"Okay, I'll listen to you." Guo Meng's heart was warm and he no longer insisted.

Their kung fu of speaking, Wu Ming, Liu Xiaohai, Zhao Youde, Zheng Yunshan, Sun Dahai They have already led the soldiers to clean up the battlefield as quickly as possible and replenish some ammunition.

Of course, the most important thing is to take off the gas masks carried on the faces of the hundreds of devils they have just killed.

Some officers and men of the guard company and the first battalion have already captured a lot of devils' gas masks in the defensive battle of Erdaogouzi before, and in addition to the seizures this time, although it is not possible to guarantee that more than 2,000 officers and soldiers at the scene will have a pair of guns.

But it is enough to equip half of the officers and soldiers, and with this batch of gas masks, there is basically no need to worry about the devils using poison gas.

The officers and soldiers retreated in turn, retreating into the position that Guo Meng led the people to repair, the position was built on the basis of Dahe Village, basically blocking the road from Dahe Village to Luquan County, if the devils want to attack Luquan County or Feiyunling, they must break through this line of defense.

Otherwise their military trucks, motorcycles, tanks, armored vehicles will not be able to pass.

After entering the position, Sun Dahai, Zhao Youde, and Liu Xiaohai were busy, directing the soldiers to deploy firepower points, troop allocation, etc. to prepare for the next battle.

Qiao Youhua was busy leaning on a foxhole to smoke, Wu Ming was sitting next to him, and Zheng Yunshan, the commander of the guard company, was standing in the trench in front of the two.

"Why, look at your sad face." Qiao Youhua tilted his head and looked at Wu Ming, who was silent on the side, and asked.

"Just now, in order to cover me, one of my guards rushed towards the little devil with a grenade, and was beaten into a sieve by the devil, and before he lost his breath, he pulled the grenade again, and died with the devil soldiers." Wu Ming said with a little choked up.

Although these words were said very bluntly, Qiao Youhua could imagine the tragedy at that time, and his mood was also a little heavy, he handed the cigarette he had just lit recently to Wu Ming's mouth, and patted him on the shoulder with a heavy expression: "Relax, kill more devils!" This battlefield is a disaster for the Chinese nation, and every battle is full of blood and tears! There is a good saying, an inch of mountains and rivers is an inch of blood!

To defend these thousands of miles of mountains and rivers and protect these hundreds of millions of compatriots, how can you not die! ”

Wu Ming took a few puffs of the cigarette in his mouth, exhaled from his nostrils, as if he was a little relieved, and exhaled a breath of turbidity and said in a deep voice with some emotion: "Yes, it is really an inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood, our predecessors and martyrs have truly interpreted the meaning of this sentence with practical actions, and now we are also in it, fighting side by side with them, we are really lucky!" ”

"Commander, the devil is here." While the two were talking, a reconnaissance platoon commander in charge of the guard suddenly bent his waist from the front, ran back quickly, and said loudly.

As soon as these words came out, the officers and men on the position quickly put them on high alert.

Qiao Youhua and Wu Ming also stood up together, quickly took out the binoculars and began to observe the enemy's situation, when they withdrew to the position just now, Zhao Youde, the deputy commander of the third battalion, had already returned the telescope to Wu Ming.

Wu Ming's telescope was originally lent to Liu Jianhua, the commander of the reconnaissance company, but later, Liu Jianhua was wounded, and Zhao Youde took it, and now it has been returned to its original owner.

The two of them held up the binoculars and soon saw that thousands of devils were slowly advancing from the minefield to this side, in addition to a large number of infantry, there were also tanks and armored vehicles, and the formation was huge and amazing.

When Major General Aoki learned that Qiao Youhua and the others had withdrawn to Dahe Village and that the minefield had been completely penetrated by his own side, he was overjoyed and immediately ordered all the troops to move forward quickly, intending to capture Dahe Village in one go and completely open the way to attack Luquan.

Out of the minefield, the Japanese artillery, armored troops, can play their due power, this time Major General Aoki is full of confidence, finally not limited by the terrain, can play at full strength, and the people of China have a good fight.

The Japanese came out of range of the Dragon's Tooth Task Force and stopped, and the tanks and armored vehicles were lined up, and large groups of infantry were attached to them, relying on various weapons.

Behind the infantry, there were cavalry and artillery units.

The Devil's Type 92 infantry guns, 75 field guns and mountain guns, one by one, were untied from military trucks by artillerymen and ammunitionmen, and began to prepare for shelling.

About ten minutes later, the artillery group of the 10th Division was basically ready, and as Major General Aoki nodded triumphantly, the artillery commander of the devil immediately waved the command flag, and dozens of large and small artillery pieces that were ready roared one after another.

Shells burst out of their chambers, dragging meters of scarlet flames through the blue sky, emitting bursts of piercing whistling sounds towards the Dragon's Tooth Task Force's position.

The shells flew down, exploded violently, and clouds of fire and smoke rose into the air.

Countless shrapnel raged on the positions of the Dragon's Tooth officers, and some of the dirt was lifted high by the shock wave and sprinkled on the heads of the Dragon's Tooth officers and soldiers hiding in the trenches, but it did not cause them much substantial damage.