On the night of the 29th, the gunfire in Zhaojialiang Village in Xuanhua gradually weakened. From the beginning of the 3rd Special Task Force Brigade no longer retreating in the afternoon, two infantry wings and one artillery wing of the Japanese army caught up, and the two sides launched a fierce battle in Zhaojialiang Village, which lasted for three hours. Because the 3rd Special Task Force Brigade was on the defensive side and the firepower was extremely fierce, the Japanese attacking troops suffered heavy losses, but the Japanese army launched a charge again and again without fear of life and death, and organized 7 group charges in just a few hours, which caused tremendous pressure on the 1st Regiment of the 3rd Special Task Brigade, forcing Liu Li to increase troops in Zhaojialiang Village.

However, the real danger came from the fact that after 9 o'clock in the evening, when the Japanese frontal attack gradually weakened, the reconnaissance unit found a large number of Japanese troops on the east and west sides of Zhaojialiang Village, and the 1st Regiment and the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment in Zhaojialiang Village were in danger of being surrounded and annihilated by the Japanese army.

The headquarters of the 3rd Special Task Force Brigade is located in Laohufen Village, which is less than 10 miles away from Zhaojialiang Village, and the atmosphere in the entire brigade headquarters is extremely solemn, and the 3rd Special Task Force Brigade has really reached a critical juncture of life and death this time, and the staff officers of the retreating brigade headquarters do not have a unified opinion, and some staff officers believe that the Japanese army is now strong, and this is less than 15 kilometers away from Xuanhua City, and the most correct choice is to retreat. However, there are also some officers who believe that staying in Zhaojialiang Village is the most correct choice, so that they can not only carry out the orders of the group army headquarters, but also contain the Japanese army and create conditions for the follow-up troops.

"Brigade, whether to fight or withdraw, hurry up and get an idea, otherwise it will be too late!" Chen Youliang said loudly.

"Lao Chen, what do you think we should do now? Fight or withdraw? Liu Li asked in a deep voice.

"Traveler. According to my thoughts, it is wiser to retreat, after all, our strength is not yet able to resist a reinforced division of the Japanese army, and you also know the situation from the front, the Japanese army on the front line of Zhaojialiang Village has at least 2 infantry wings and an artillery wing, and at least one infantry wing and one cavalry wing of the Japanese army on the west side, although the devils on the east side are less, but there is also an infantry wing, that is to say, there are more than 6 Japanese wings around the left and right of our special mixed brigade, and the total strength is almost twice as heavy as 20. Whatever the reason. The right way is to keep the number of the troops first. Chen Youliang said.

Liu Li thought for a while and said, "Lao Chen, your thoughts are very rational. But I can't listen to you now, the Japanese devils have already put their bayonets on the head of the old lady, and the price of retreat is too great, so it is better to stay and fight with the devils. Even if it's going to die. I can't let the bullets of the little devils kill my brothers from behind. The heroes who want to die are also going to die, and the heroism of death! ”

"But casualties" Chen Youliang wanted to say something, but was stopped by Liu Li.

"There is nothing but, the crockpot does not break from the wellhead. The general will inevitably die in battle, since we are soldiers and wear this military uniform, we are China's national defense strength, in this case the only thing we can do is not to retreat, but to straighten our chests and the Japanese devils to the end, life is not stopped, the battle is endless, and the brave wins when they meet on the narrow road. ”

"Yes, life is not stopped, the battle is endless! When the narrow road meets, the brave wins. Chen Youliang said loudly.

Liu Li said loudly: "Pass my order, the brigade headquarters and the second regiment immediately go south to reinforce Zhaojialiang Village, we will throw ourselves into the net, don't the little devils want to swallow us in one bite, the old lady doesn't believe it, see if their copper teeth are hard or our iron heads are powerful." In addition, he sent a telegram to Jiku, telling them that our army was besieged by more than six Japanese troops, and asked for an immediate increase in troops. ”

"Yes!"

After two years of fighting against Japan, Liu Li actually did not look down on the Japanese army in North China, she took a small number of small detachments to go deep into the tiger's den in Longtan many times, and witnessed the Fuping Independent Battalion in less than a year from a small infantry battalion to a reinforced brigade with tens of thousands of personnel, even the regular Japanese troops in Fuping County never dared to come out to find trouble with them, so in Liu Li's opinion, the Japanese army is actually not terrible.

In addition, she has confidence in the main force of the 52nd Group Army, she is Li Haiping's fiancée, and Li Haiping is the first batch of officers to fight with Chen Feng, so there are many things that others do not know Liu Li knows, she believes that the 52nd Group Army will not watch the 3rd Special Task Force be annihilated by the Japanese army. Instead of not, they will take advantage of this opportunity to make a big fuss.

Sure enough, not long after the first report was issued, the headquarters of the 52nd Army quickly responded, ordering the 3rd Special Task Force Brigade to hold off the Japanese 114th Division at all costs, and the main force could arrive in an hour at most.

"Boom Boom"

Looking at the dirt that was blown away in the telescope and the severed arm and stump mixed in the dirt, Major General Akiyama was in a good mood, although the casualties in this battle were indeed a bit large, but the effort was always rewarded, didn't the people of China become a dish on his plate now, just a branch of infantry brigade, as long as it entered his pocket, it was so easy to fly out.

"Order: The artillery wing will suppress the artillery fire for ten minutes, and the chariot troops will charge, and be sure to completely annihilate the opposite Zhina troops before the arrival of the reinforcements of the Zhina people!" Major General Akiyama said loudly.

"Hay!"

At the headquarters of Zhaojialiang Village, the senior management of the third brigade of the special task force looked at the battle outside with a pale face, and the news just came that Li Zhiqiang, deputy commander of the first regiment and commander of the first battalion, was concentrated in front of the Japanese artillery shells at the front line, and died on the spot, not even leaving a whole corpse, and the air-raid shelter where a platoon of the third battalion of the other regiment was blown up by the Japanese artillery, and all the soldiers of a platoon were buried in the hole, and they were all suffocated when they were dug out, and the troops suffered more than 300 casualties in less than half an hour, and the number was still rising in a straight line.

"Send a telegram to the army group headquarters and ask when reinforcements will arrive?" Liu Li said loudly. ”

Soon the operator came back with a telegram: "Brigade seat, the General Headquarters has called back, the 5th Division of the Special Mixed Forces has already left Xuanhua, and it will arrive in 40 minutes at most, but the General Assembly hopes that our 3rd Brigade can delay for a while longer to buy time for the 5th and 6th Divisions to encircle the Japanese army in a roundabout way." ”

Liu Li and Chen Youliang glanced at each other, and said in the end: "Call back to the general manager immediately, just say that our 3rd Brigade can still hold on, and swear to complete the task!" ”

"Boom, boom!" Several shells exploded outside the brigade headquarters, blowing up the radio antenna of the headquarters and at the same time startling the brigade guard battalion, but fortunately the Japanese artillery shells missed, and if the shells hit another 50 meters to the east, the entire headquarters of the 3rd Task Force Brigade would be killed.

"Report to the brigade seat, the position on the west side was torn open by the Japanese army, and the second regiment and the first battalion suffered heavy casualties!"

"Tell Shen Changxing that the western position cannot be lost, not to mention a battalion, even if he loses a regiment, he has to be withstood by the old lady."

"Yes"

"Report to the brigade seat, the artillery battalion position has just been shelled by the Japanese artillery wing, 3 75 mountain guns and 2 field guns were destroyed, and the commander of the first company and the deputy commander of the second company of the artillery battalion died."

"Tell Hu Dalong that he will die for his mother to die on the battlefield, let him not care about those broken copper and iron, if it is blown up, it will be blown up, and the old lady will get him an artillery regiment for him to play!"

"Yes"

"Report to the brigade seat, the headquarters of the second regiment was shelled by the Japanese army, the commander of the second regiment, Shen Changxing, was seriously injured, the deputy commander Yang Bing was sacrificed, the chief of staff Li Guang was sacrificed, and three other staff officers were killed!"

Another bad news, Liu Li calmed down the anger in her heart, and said to Chen Youliang: "Old Chen, the regimental headquarters of the Second Regiment is equivalent to being taken by the devil, where do you need a capable and high-ranking person to sit in the town, you can take the guard battalion to a company." ”

"Okay, then you have to take care of yourself, I'm leaving!" After speaking, Chen Youliang hurriedly rushed to the regimental headquarters of the second regiment with the first company of the guard battalion.

At the same time, the Japanese front headquarters, Major General Akiyama happily listened to the report of the troops below, and those stupid Shina people on the opposite side dared to stop and fight a positional battle with the Imperial Japanese Army, they really didn't know whether they were alive or dead, and now they were surrounded by the Imperial Army on three sides, and it was almost impossible to escape from the Imperial Army.

"Yo Xi, order all the troops on the front line to press up, we must fight quickly and fight quickly, and strive to completely annihilate this infantry brigade within two hours!" Major General Akiyama said.

"Hay!"

"Report to Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, that there is confusion in the positions west of China, and it is suspected that its command system has been devastated, and Captain Yamada has requested artillery support for the positions on the west side of China, and they will launch a group-level charge there in fifteen minutes?" The Signal Corps came in and reported.

"Yo Xi, Yamada is worthy of being the descendant of the most famous samurai family in the Great Japanese Empire, and he is really bloody, and he ordered the artillery wing to immediately bombard the position on the west side of China, and fire rapidly in fifteen minutes!" Major General Akiyama said loudly.

"Hay!"

Zhaojialiang Village is now surrounded by the Japanese regiments, the 3rd Brigade of the Special Task Force has set up 3 lines of defense in the frontal position, each line of defense has an infantry battalion, and two lines of defense have also been set up in the east and west directions, and each line of defense has also placed an infantry battalion.

In addition, the third brigade of the special task force went south only to reinforce the reconnaissance company besieged by the Japanese army, so the armored battalion and other troops did not carry it, and the artillery only brought 4 small mountain guns and 4 field guns, and the gap between the artillery and the Japanese army was even greater.

However, Major General Akiyama's good mood did not last long, and he was scared into a cold sweat by a telegram sent from the regimental headquarters of the Lower Garden Division! (To be continued......)