"How can there be enemies in Baga, how can there be so many enemies on the mountain beam, so many heavy machine gun grenadiers, what about our grenadiers, immediately destroy the heavy machine guns of the Eighth Route Army on the mountain beam" Seeing the 12 heavy machine guns that constantly devoured the lives of the imperial army around the mountain beam, the squadron leader of the army looked at everything in front of him in disbelief. He scolded loudly, but he didn't know that at this time, the grenadiers of the entire squadron were more than 200 meters behind him, how could his order reach their ears? Coupled with the fact that the mixed champion was so close to the Eighth Route Army at this time, even if those grenadiers heard the order, would he dare to fire?

Looking at the soldiers around him, one by one they were constantly hit by machine guns, and fell in a pool of blood without saying a word. And look at the soldiers who are fighting back next to them, because of the terrain, if you want to accurately aim at the Eighth Route Army less than 50 meters away in front of you, the elite imperial soldiers must raise their heads to aim. In this way, it undoubtedly became the target of the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side, and in less than 5 minutes of shooting time, there was only less than a squad of soldiers left around him to continue to fight back. On the other hand, the Eighth Route Army on the mountain beam only lost a dozen soldiers in the confrontation just now.

As for the grenadiers behind the avant-garde squadron, they really didn't dare to fire grenades rashly. Because at this time, the Eighth Route Army was only less than 50 meters away from its own people. If you rush to return fire, it is likely that half of the grenades will be fired at your own people. So, dozens of grenadiers, tightly holding one grenade in their hands. Seeing that the comrades in front of him were constantly killed by the dense firepower of the Eighth Route Army, and fell in a pool of blood, they were indeed powerless.

"Your Excellency Squadron Leader, retreat immediately, the firepower of the Eighth Route Army is too fierce, coupled with their geographical advantage, our soldiers have completely become their target squadron leader, I request to retreat immediately, otherwise, our squadron will be completely annihilated." I saw that the squad under my command had suffered more than half of the casualties in less than five minutes. The squad leader could no longer stand this situation of only being beaten but not being able to fight back, so he climbed to the side of the squadron leader and suggested loudly.

"When did the imperial army of this empire retreat. We are not allowed to retreat, and I believe that His Excellency the division commander will definitely give us the order to send reinforcements, and the soldiers will hold on to the reinforcements, and they must hold out until the reinforcements arrive. Hearing that his squad leader actually suggested that the invincible imperial army retreat, the squadron leader scolded loudly.

"Hi, Your Excellency Squadron Leader" listened to the squadron leader's scolding, and although the squad leader was dissatisfied with the squadron leader's behavior of not tolerating the lives of the soldiers, he still returned to his soldiers' side speechlessly. However, he didn't know that it was because of this insistent order of his squadron leader that this avant-garde squadron almost paid the price of total annihilation.

"Haha. Battalion commander, it's really interesting that the little devil didn't retreat" Seeing the little devil of a squadron in front of the position, in the blink of an eye, there was less than a squad of troops left. And the soldiers of this only remaining squad really resisted to the end and resolutely did not retreat, and the company commander who was lying next to the battalion commander said with a smile while shooting.

"It's okay not to retreat, I hope he doesn't retreat, order the soldiers to aim for me, one shot, don't let me go of the little devils below" The battalion commander obviously also found out about this situation, and ordered with a smile at the two company commanders beside him. At the same time, he also changed to a Type 38 rifle and began to shoot the remaining dozens of little devils accurately.

"Yes, battalion commander, promise not to let go of the little devil comrades, the battalion commander said, they all aim at me and fire at me, name all the little devils below and don't let one go" Listening to the battalion commander's words, the company commander next to him immediately ordered the soldiers who were shooting in full swing around him.

Suddenly, the sound of rifles on the entire position immediately became sparse from the dense just now. However, the sparse gunfire does not mean that the fighters' firepower is weaker, but more accurate. These sparse bullets did not make the Yue army under the mountain beam much better, but accelerated the time for their demise. Because although the guns of the soldiers have become sparse, their marksmanship is much more accurate. There are even a lot of fighters shouting at each other to see who hits the most little devils.

In the face of the increasingly accurate bullets of the soldiers, immediately, more than fifty little devils under the mountain beam tasted the price that the invaders should pay. The little devils who were lying on the ground and preparing to fight back had just raised their heads, and before they could aim, they were shot by the soldiers and fell to the ground.

"How can there be so many sharpshooters in the Eighth Route Army of the Eight Grid Tooth Road, Baga immediately organized our sharpshooters to fight back, fast" Seeing the only remaining more than fifty soldiers around him, they were constantly being shot in the head by the Eighth Route Army on the mountain beam one after another. Soon, half of the soldiers were beaten to pieces in the head. Looking at the faces of the remaining twenty or so soldiers, they all showed a look of fear, and the squadron leader of the army was also anxious, and couldn't help but draw his command knife and scolded loudly to the sky.

But he didn't know that it was because of his scolding that several fighters targeted him at the same time. Seeing his head moving, he was looking at the command knife in his hand. The fighters who were staring at him did not show any melancholy and pulled the trigger one after another. Several Type 38 rifle bullets flew accurately and quickly into the head and back of the squadron leader's chest

A scream rang out, and a trace of bright red blood flowed down his head. The squadron leader looked at the position of the Eighth Route Army not far away in disbelief, and slowly, the things in his eyes became more and more blurred, and he closed his eyes and fell unwillingly in a pool of blood.

"Eight Geyalu, now that the squadron leader has died, I will take over the command of the entire squadron. Now I order the remaining people who can move to retreat immediately, quickly withdraw from the position" Seeing that the squadron leader Yu Sha had just suggested that the squadron leader retreat, the leader of the first squad immediately took over the command of the entire squadron, and ordered loudly to the only twenty or so soldiers who could move behind him.

Immediately, more than 20 soldiers who had received the order to retreat retreated to the rear of their positions. Finally, more than two dozen soldiers again paid half of the casualties. The captain of the army led the remaining dozen soldiers of the entire vanguard squadron to withdraw from the effective range of the soldiers' rifles in confusion and ran towards their positions.

"Report to Your Excellency, Division Commander, the avant-garde squadron encountered stubborn resistance from the ambush troops of the Eighth Route Army at the entrance of the village in the process of entering the village. The vanguard squadron was immediately taken by surprise by the sudden appearance of the Eighth Route Army, and less than 40 men of the entire squadron were left to retreat (including all the grenadiers who did not participate in the attack). Among them, the leader of the avant-garde squadron Yu Crush. "After receiving the news that the avant-garde squadron was stubbornly resisted by the Eighth Route Army and almost completely annihilated. The chief of staff did not dare to slack off, and immediately reported the shocking news to the division commander Itagaki Seishiro, who was recuperating with his eyes closed.

"Nani's entire army is destroyed, how can there be an ambush of the Eighth Route Army here, is the Eighth Route Army crazy? We have a division of troops, and they dare to send heavy troops to the edge of their base area to block us" Listening to the words of the chief of staff, Seishiro Itagaki opened his eyes and asked in disbelief.

"Hi, Your Excellency, Division Commander. I think it is also possible for the Eighth Route Army to set up a blocking position here. Because this is our gateway to their base area, as long as the imperial army occupies the entire Gong Village and breaks through Gong Village, then the entire base area of the Reading Force Division will be completely exposed to the eyes of our imperial army, and we will be slaughtered."

"In addition, this time we attacked suddenly, and Li Yong's army aviation destroyed the command system of the Eighth Route Army's Reading Division in advance. I think that at this time, the Eighth Route Army in the base area must not be ready to meet our encirclement and suppression. So they are delaying the march of our imperial army as fast as possible. The situation we encountered two days ago may have been a tactic of the Eighth Route Army to delay time, but their mine warfare was easily cracked by His Excellency the division commander with mules and horses. And here, perhaps, they are trying to buy enough time to delay our last resort. The chief of staff, relying on his own analysis, made a bold guess.

"Yo Xi, the chief of staff is very reasonable. Hehe, since these Eighth Route Army want to fight a decisive battle with our main force in advance, then we are not easy to bully the Fifth Division of this empire. We are going to be here today to eliminate this blocking force of the Eighth Route Army. After listening to the chief of staff's analysis, Seishiro Itagaki nodded approvingly and said affirmatively.

"Hi, Your Excellency, Division Commander. With all kinds of artillery in an artillery wing behind us, coupled with ample shells, it was easy to destroy the Eighth Route Army in front of us. His Excellency the Division Commander is requested to give the battle order. After listening to the words of the division commander, the chief of staff also said very approvingly.

"Yo Xi, I ordered the mountain artillery brigade of the artillery wing to immediately drive to the forefront of the position, build an artillery position, carry out indiscriminate artillery bombardment of the position of the Eighth Route Army in front of me, and blow up Gongcun in front of me to the ground. The 11th Infantry Wing was responsible for eliminating the Eighth Route Army in the village. Tell Yu-Lang Dasa Nagano that they must destroy the Eighth Route Army in the village before dark," the division commander Seishiro Itagaki ordered in high spirits.

"Hey, Your Excellency Division Commander, I'll go and deliver the order right away." The chief of staff replied loudly, turned around and ordered the herald behind him to convey the latest battle orders to the two wings.

After receiving the order, the various wings of the army immediately began to move. In particular, the mountain artillery brigade of the artillery wing, after receiving the order to join the battle, immediately drove the mules and horses, pulled a mountain artillery with a door covered with artillery clothing, carried boxes of shells to the front line, and stopped only one kilometer away from the mountain beam in the fastest possible time, and began to build an artillery position.

The 11th Infantry Wing, which received the task of annihilating the Eighth Route Army, also moved at the same time, and the strength of an infantry brigade, under the order of Wing Commander Yuichiro Nagano, broke away from the main force and slowly moved to the mountain beam 500 meters away. At the same time, 12 heavy machine guns of a heavy machine gun squadron also followed closely behind the infantry of the Yue Army, moved to a place only 300 meters away from the position of the Eighth Route Army, and began to build a heavy machine gun position, preparing to provide sufficient fire cover for the charging imperial army.

In less than 20 minutes, the artillery positions and heavy machine gun positions came one after another to complete the order to be prepared, as the direct commander of the campaign of the Eighth Route Army, which completely annihilated the imperial army, the commander of the 11th Infantry Wing, Yuichiro Nagano. He looked at the neat row of 12 mountain guns behind him, the heavy machine guns in the row in front of him, and the more than 800 infantry in a brigade lined up in a neat attack formation. The Wing Captain nodded confidently.

"Yo Xi, order the mountain artillery brigade to prepare for the shelling of the enemy's hilltop position for ten minutes. Heavy machine guns, infantry, ready to attack at any time" Like the other three-plate axes of the Japanese army's attack, the first axe was the artillery bombardment that the Japanese army was proud of, and began under the order of the wing commander.

"Woo woo woo" reached the ears of the fighters with a whistling sound that broke through the air, followed by a violent explosion, which sounded less than 30 meters away from the position. The violent explosion immediately blew a huge crater out on the flat hill, and the debris that had been blown into the air fell into the trenches and on the heads of the soldiers.

"Oh no, the little devil is going to shell." Hearing the explosion behind him, the third battalion commander's face turned white, and he said to himself. At the same time, he shouted loudly to the fighters beside him.

"Comrades, the little devils are going to shell. Leave a squad of guard posts, and the rest of the people immediately enter the tunnel with equipment, and quickly "As soon as the order was issued, the battalion commander began to organize the soldiers to withdraw into the tunnel from several tunnel openings connected to the trenches, preparing to avoid the artillery fire of the little devils.

Due to the limitations of the terrain at the entrance of the village, the entire trench fortification is only less than 200 meters away. However, at a distance of 200 meters, the 3rd Battalion dug four tunnels in this trench to connect the tunnels in the village. So, it took less than two minutes to wait for all the fighters to withdraw into the tunnel.

And two minutes is enough time for the artillery to carry out a new firing adjustment. Just when the fighters, organized by commanders at all levels, carried weapons and ammunition into the tunnels, the real large-scale shelling of the enemy finally began. After the test firing just now, this time, 12 shells were fired at one time. With a loud whistling sound, 12 shells burst through the air and accurately smashed into the hidden positions of the soldiers just now. Suddenly, a violent explosion exploded above the warriors' heads. Even the dirt overhead fell under the vibration of the powerful shock wave of the shell explosion.

"Damn, the little devil's artillery fire is really fierce. When will it be great for our Eighth Route Army to have such fierce artillery fire" Listening to the violent explosion overhead, the commander of the third battalion and the first company couldn't help but be envious.

"Hehe, company commander, you don't know this! I've heard from our regiment commander that there is a heavy artillery regiment in the headquarters of our Reading Division, and the artillery fire there is several times greater than here. Now the artillery shelling of our position outside is at most a brigade of artillery, and our headquarters has so many artillery," said the commander of the third battalion, who knew some of the situation.

"Really? Battalion commander, when will we be able to meet our Eighth Route Army's own heavy artillery regiment" Immediately, nearly 100 soldiers in the tunnel, under the leadership of the battalion commander, joined the discussion one after another, ignoring the shells that kept exploding overhead. It was a good relief for the tension of these fighters who had not gone through any major battles.

"Yo Xi, the mountain artillery brigade is really good. I believe that under such heavy artillery fire, the Eighth Route Army on the mountain beam will definitely be blown to pieces," Wing Commander Yuichiro Nagano Osa, holding up the binoculars in his hand, ordered with satisfaction while observing the effect of the shelling.

Because, in his eyes, as the shells continued to explode, the trench that had just been hidden suddenly revealed his magnificent face. A stiff heavy machine gun slowly turned into a pile of scrap metal under heavy artillery fire. (The heavy machine guns that were blown to slag were all made of wood by the fighters, and the real heavy machine guns had long been carried into the tunnels by the soldiers.) The straw men in military uniforms were torn to pieces in the fierce artillery fire, and in less than five minutes, the entire Shanliang position was plunged into a sea of fire.

"Your Excellency, Wing Commander, do you want the Mountain Artillery Brigade to stop the shelling. Otherwise, after our excellent Imperial Army rushed to the position of the Eighth Route Army, there would only be the task of collecting corpses. Your Excellency, Wing Commander, just leave a little leftovers for our First Brigade" Looking at the Shanliang position, which had fallen into a sea of fire, the captain of the First Brigade, who was tasked with attacking and destroying the Eighth Route Army, said solemnly.

"Nani,,, Murakami-kun, please don't let down the kindness of the artillery wing to us, the imperial soldiers of the artillery wing also want our infantry to be less threatened." Wing Captain Yuichiro Nagano did not agree with the captain, but explained with a smile.

"Hi, Your Excellency Wing Captain, please rest assured that my Murakami will definitely live up to your love for me" The captain of the first brigade hurriedly promised.

In the blink of an eye, the ten-minute shelling time was over, and looking at the position of the Eighth Route Army that had fallen into silence, Wing Commander Yuichiro Nagano Osa raised the telescope in his hand and looked over. After the devastation of the bare mountain beam, which was still bare just now, after the destruction of the fierce artillery fire just now, countless firepower points of the Eighth Route Army were exposed in front of the imperial army, and the positions were blown into a flat ground by the fierce artillery fire of the imperial army.

"Yo Xi, Murakami-kun, it seems that our artillery bombardment has been very good, I think that only after such fierce artillery preparations, there will not be many living Eighth Route Army on the mountain beam. Ordered, covered by heavy machine guns, the infantry immediately launched a charge, occupied the position of the Eighth Route Army opposite, and completely annihilated the defenders of the Eighth Route Army. The co-captain said with a smile.

"Hi Your Excellency, Captain, I promise to complete the task and annihilate the Eighth Route Army on the mountain beam." The captain of the army said with confidence on his face, turned around and ran towards his troops.

(To be continued)