Hearing the reminder of the squad leader beside him, the squadron leader nodded helplessly while looking at the [***] team that was getting closer and closer. So, the squadron leader, under the protection of the last remaining squad on the city wall, retreated while blocking the attack, and slowly retreated towards the headquarters.

At this time, the second and third companies under the personal command of the third battalion commander had already successfully broken through the gap and entered the county seat. Due to the fierce battle on the city wall, the squadron leader of the army almost exhausted all the defenders in the county. And in this way, the empty county town is more convenient for the two companies to enter the city.

Under the leadership of the third battalion commander, the two companies were like bamboos all the way, and after eliminating a few sporadic Japanese troops. In less than a few minutes, they attacked next to the headquarters of the Japanese army...... In the face of the fierce offensive of the two companies, the few civilian staff officers left behind in the headquarters were quickly wiped out. As a result, the two companies successfully occupied the headquarters of the army in Taigu County.

"Battalion commander, the devil has retreated from the city wall and is rushing to this side, and there are about more than a squad of troops." A soldier who had gone out to reconnoiter quickly ran to the battalion commander and said.

"Okay, it's just the right time, it seems that the great merit of attacking the county town this time will fall on the heads of our three battalions. Order, the second company, the first two platoons to hold the devil command, the third platoon, the third company and one platoon are ambushed on the left flank of the command center, and the third company, two platoons and two platoons are ambushed on the right flank, and when the devil's attack is frustrated, they will immediately launch an attack, and they must be wiped out outside the command headquarters and not let a single person go. The battalion commander ordered loudly to the cadres and fighters in front of him.

"Quick, retreat immediately, retreat to the headquarters...", the squadron leader kept shouting to the dozens of soldiers behind him, dreaming of returning to the headquarters and holding on until dawn with the fortifications of the headquarters......

Just when the command appeared in everyone's field of vision, the accident happened. The two searchlights at the entrance of the headquarters suddenly turned on, and the bright lights shone on the squadron leader. In an instant, the entire team of the army clearly appeared in the field of vision of the soldiers.

"Yaga... The squadron leader is back, why don't you hurry up..."The squadron leader beside the squadron leader scolded loudly. However, before the squad leader could finish his sentence, a fierce machine-gun fire interrupted him. Under the illumination of the searchlight, the bullets of the soldiers are like eyes, constantly harvesting the devils in front of them who do not know what to do.

"Yaga, the headquarters has been occupied by the Eighth Route Army, the time has come for the heroic imperial warriors to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, rush with me, and recapture the headquarters..."The squadron leader suddenly shook off the guards who were protecting him, stood up, drew his command knife, and shouted to the soldiers lying on the ground behind him.

The reason why the squadron leader did this was because he knew that if he wanted to be exposed to the dawn, he had to recapture the headquarters, otherwise he would die sooner or later under the robbery of the Eighth Route Army.

Seeing that the squadron leader actually led the team in person, the Yue Jun, who was lying on the ground dodging bullets, revealed their murderous surnames, quickly stood up, followed behind the squadron leader, bent over, and began to launch the final charge.

Looking at the ever-changing charging formation of the Yue Army, the light machine gunners who were controlling the two light machine guns of the Yue Army Headquarters immediately rushed to the pressure. Because their bullets obviously followed the footsteps of the Yue army, they were still dodged by their well-trained tactical moves.

Gradually, the remaining more than half of the squad approached the headquarters with rifles, and the two platoons in the headquarters reached a life-and-death juncture.

"Tick tock..."Finally, at this moment, the loud trumpet sounded. The second and third two companies, together with the pursuing company, launched a charge against the remaining dozens of Japanese troops, and the sound of machine guns, rifles, and grenade explosions immediately drowned dozens of devils in the sea of soldiers.

"Report to the regiment commander, political commissar, the third battalion has successfully captured Taigu County, and a squadron of the county defenders has been completely wiped out..."" The third battalion commander, with the joy of victory, hurriedly ran to the regiment commander and political commissar and said.

"Okay, very good, order the soldiers to clean up the battlefield immediately, now there are less than two hours before dawn, we must hurry up, pick up important things and take them away, and destroy all the unimportant ones..."The regiment commander Shen Qinghua also ordered happily.

Because he attacked the county seat, from the beginning to the end, it only took two hours, and in two hours, a county town was captured by his own regiment, can you not be happy?

The battle of the first regiment to attack Taigu County ended successfully in less than two hours, but the Shouyang county seat of the third regiment was not so easy When the first regiment began to shell, the shelling of the third regiment also began, and 12 shells accurately landed in the material warehouse of the devils. Immediately after the second round of shells, the third round of shells....until the army's material warehouse was ablaze, the artillery battalion had no intention of stopping.

"Baga, from there the [***] team, order the artillery squadron to return fire immediately, quickly, immediately return fire, and destroy the artillery positions of the [***] team..."

"Report to the team leader, the commander of the artillery squadron has just called back, the squadron [***] is using field artillery, and our mountain artillery can't hit ......them at all," the chief of staff replied with the same fear.

"Baga, how can this be, quickly, order the soldiers to organize the Chinese to immediately enter the warehouse to put out the fire and transfer the materials in the warehouse" The captain looked at the increasingly burning material warehouse, which was already sweating profusely. You must know that the materials in the warehouse are the materials that the Central China Front will continue to have, and if they are lost in their own hands, then there is only one way to choose in the future, and that is to apologize..."Your Excellency Captain, the soldiers have tried just now, but the artillery fire of the Central [***] team is too fierce, and the soldiers can't get in at all. Without destroying the Chinese artillery outside, it is impossible for us to enter the warehouses. The chief of staff replied.

"Baga, are these materials really going to be destroyed in my hands? No, absolutely not, even if I apologize to His Majesty the Emperor, I must also catch the artillery of these squadrons [***], and order, the first and second squadrons will go out of the city at once, and destroy the artillery units outside the city at all costs. The captain gritted his teeth and ordered.

"Hi...," replied the Chief of Staff with a sigh of relief.

At this time, it had been half an hour since the artillery battalion began shelling, and the artillery battalion had already consumed half of the shells it had brought. However, there was still no movement from the army in the county. Wang Benqing held a telescope and kept staring at the city gate, waiting anxiously.

"Here, the devil is out..."Suddenly, a shout reached Wang Benqing's ears.

Wang Benqing hurriedly looked at the city gate. Sure enough, the closed city gate didn't know when a gap had opened, and a devil poked his head out and kept looking around. "Damn, little devil, you're finally here, I can't wait, order the first battalion, the second battalion, and the artillery company to prepare for battle, and the devil is dispatched." Wang Benqing ordered decisively.

Sure enough, at the moment when Wang Benqing spoke, the city gate was opened, and a team of devils carrying various weapons drove out of the county town and went straight to the artillery position.

"Regiment commander, the devil has dispatched a total of two squadrons of troops, you see if you send out the three battalions as well, I'm afraid that the strength of the two battalions will not be able to quickly resolve the battle." The political commissar next to him reminded.

"No, the devil still has reserves, we must also keep a hand and tell the artillery company not to save shells for a while, give me a desperate fight." And a heavy machine gun company, don't save me bullets either. This is a plain where machine guns and mortars can bring out their maximum power. The regiment commander immediately vetoed the opinion of the commissar.

At this time, the devils who went out of the city were already less than 500 meters away from the ambush circle of the troops, and everyone stopped talking and quietly looked at their commander. Finally, the vanguard of the devil entered the ambush circle, and then, the main force, finally, all entered the ambush circle..."Begin..."Wang Benqing ordered to the chief of staff behind him.

"Bang bang bang...", three flares were lifted into the air. Immediately after, less than a kilometer away from Wang Benqing, there was a violent explosion, followed by dense heavy machine gun fire....

12 mortars fired shells at the devils in the ambush circle. 12 heavy machine guns surrounded the devil, constantly spitting tongues of fire.

"Baga, we have been ambushed by the [***] team, hurry, lie down..."The chief of staff who led the team looked at the countless light and heavy machine guns with tongues of fire around him, and immediately gave an order. However, this order has harmed a lot of devils. Because just as they were lying down, swarms of mortar shells fell again.

In order to achieve a more intensive firepower density, after discussions between the two battalion commanders, 12 grenadier canisters belonging to the two battalions also joined the attack. 24 shells at a time, raining down into the dense group of devils, setting off patches of blood rain....

"Baga, despicable Chinese, this is simply a massacre, a massacre ... Warriors of the Empire, rush out, rush through this encirclement, it's all right, give me the beard..."The chief of staff of the army drew his command knife and shouted at a place where the fire was weak.

In fact, how can this place be weak in firepower? This was the result of discussions between the two battalion commanders before the war. In order to hit the vitality and eliminate the Yue army in the encirclement, he deliberately gave the Yue army a trap and let them drill it. In fact, behind the weak firepower, several heavy machine guns were hidden, waiting for the Japanese army to take the bait.

"Give me a beard...", one by one, the soldiers could no longer bear this feeling of lying on the ground and waiting for death, so they jumped up, held their rifles with bayonets on them, and rushed towards the positions of one battalion and one company under the cover of the weak fire of their squadron.

"Battalion commander, let's fire!" The commander of the first company, who was personally indulging in a heavy machine gun, looked at the devil who was getting closer and closer, and said excitedly to the battalion commander beside him.

"Don't worry, wait a minute, they'll shoot when they get to 30 meters..."The battalion commander said with a smile.

Finally, the Yue army rushed to a distance of thirty meters, and just as they were happy that they were about to jump out of the encirclement of the [***] team, a sudden burst of gunfire completely shattered their sweet dream.

Four heavy machine guns formed a dense network of fire in front of the position. Destroy one devil soldier after another who dares to approach the position. Perhaps the chief of staff of the army was also shocked by the massacre in front of him and lost his mind, looking at the soldiers in front of him who kept falling, and still kept urging the soldiers to die. Finally, it wasn't until the last devil fell under the machine guns of the fighters that the battlefield slowly calmed down.

The soldiers walked on the battlefield that had been stained red with blood, carefully cleaning the battlefield, counting their casualties, and no one was excited by the victory just now, because all this was so cruel that hundreds of devils fell under their guns alive and almost without resistance...

Of course, all this did not escape the eyes of the captain of the army, and when he saw that his troops were besieged by the squadron, the captain decided to transfer another squadron from the county town to rescue the trapped army. However, I didn't expect the stupid chief of staff to order the soldiers to launch a counter-charge against the Eighth Route Army, which had powerful automatic firepower, this is not death, what is it. The captain also doesn't know how many times he scolded the chief of staff in his heart.

But their own curses, their own prayers. It didn't make any difference. His two squadrons were still buried in the hands of the [***] squadron in vain, no, they were buried in the hands of the chief of staff, it was his stupid command that wiped out the whole army, and deprived himself of the capital that he was desperate for with the [***] squadron.

"Baga, stupid chief of staff, order the troops to hold on and wait for reinforcements, no matter how the [***] team challenges, they are not allowed to open the city gate to meet the battle." Faced with the scarce troops in his hands at this time, the captain had no choice but to give the order to hold on and wait for reinforcements. Because he knew that as soon as the morning dawned, the imperial air force would come to support him, and at that time, no matter how powerful the Chinese artillery was, it would die at the hands of the imperial air force.

"Report to the regiment commander, political commissar, the battlefield has been cleaned, after preliminary statistics. In total, we eliminated about 420 devils. A batch of weapons and ammunition was seized. The fighters lost 78 killed, 21 seriously wounded and 180 lightly wounded. A large part of these casualties were inflicted during the suicidal charge of the devils. But..."

"But what..."After listening to the loss report of the chief of staff, the regiment commander and the political commissar were relieved, "but the ammunition consumption of the soldiers is very huge, the ammunition consumption of the artillery company is at least eighty percent, and now each mortar has an average of less than 5 shells." At least seventy percent of the heavy machine gun bullets were consumed, but fortunately, a batch of heavy machine gun bullets had just been captured, and it could still support a battle for the time being. ”

"Regiment commander, it seems that we will have to fight less in such a war of attrition in the future, although the casualties of the soldiers are not large, but we can't afford to supply ammunition, just one battle, almost all the ammunition of our heavy weapons has been consumed." The commissar listened to the words of the chief of staff and reminded.

"Well, that's what I mean...."Wang Benqing also nodded in agreement.

(To be continued)