The troops of the third battalion fought in the slope ridge area in the east that day, and the main attack was on the small high ground west of the radish field, which was the passage occupied by the devils in the basin to go east and join the brigade in Heiyaogou.

The only small mortar equipped in the battalion had a total of 11 shells, all of which hit the devil's position, and at the beginning of the attack, they took the surface position of the small high ground in the turnip field in nine minutes. Then he took down the support points of a dozen or so devils on the edge of the basin.

The lurking of the third battalion was the best, and the individual platoons were actually about ten meters away from the devil's firepower point, so the battle on the south, west, and north sides of the basin was so hard and fierce, and the battle on the east side was much easier. At the mound on the edge of the basin, the third battalion also took a few prisoners, all in a hole.

When clearing the surface position of the devils, it was very unexpected to block four devil soldiers in a hole dug by devils, these devils just couldn't come out, and they shot and threw grenades out, in Chinese and Japanese, how to shout, the devils in the hole just don't come out, the hole is too small, our people can't rush in, the last time it didn't break, it was blown up with a grenade, and the hole was blown up, all buried inside.

The little devils are really fateful, these devils who were buried alive, after they were picked up, they were all alive, and as a result, the three battalions captured these four prisoners, and the other troops caught very few prisoners, and they were all missing arms and legs.

At this time, the battle in the middle of the basin has basically ended, and only the sporadic remnants of the devils are hiding in the soil caves and are still desperately shooting, often shooting and not surrendering, so it is indeed difficult for the little devils to surrender. The old blind man had no choice but to order. Bomb with cluster grenades, hole by hole. Forget about the ones that were killed, and those that weren't killed can be saved if they can be saved.

At the northern end of the basin, the third battalion on the northern front, which was temporarily adjusted due to the fog, was transferred to fight the slope ridge in the east, and the second battalion was transferred to attack the devil's position on the northern front.

It turns out that the old blind man is still very discerning, and the loose devil defense line of the third battalion to clean up the radish field is still quick enough. If you really want them to attack the devils who went to fight the four cliffs on the northern front at the beginning, they are not underestimating the third battalion, and their teeth are indeed not as good as the second battalion!

The remnants of the devils on the northern front and the remnants of the troops in the center of the basin retreated to the cliff in the northeast corner, occupying two mounds at the foot of the mountain, while Captain Yazaki retreated to the cliff and organized the most rear-end counterattack, and at this time, the second battalion could only surround it due to too many casualties, but it could not organize the forces to attack.

And the battalion that followed the old blind man all the way from the small gutter also suffered heavy casualties, and the casualty ratio of one team exceeded one-third. Some companies were even larger than that, with nearly half of the casualties. Together, the first and second battalions were not as numerous as the original one.

It's about to dawn. When the sky began to turn slightly white, fog began to rise on the ground again. The old blind man is organizing his strength, preparing to transfer the third battalion up, launch an attack from the back of the earth cliff, and eat the most rearly devils.

In terms of specific deployment, the first and second battalions were used to surround the earth cliff on the east, south, and west sides, and the third battalion interspersed a detour to the northeast, and then attacked from behind the earth cliff, so that the Yazaki brigade of the devils could be completely annihilated.

Pressed for time! After a while, after a while, the devil will inevitably send planes to support the remnants of the Yazaki Brigade to break through, and the old blind man judged that the 222nd Wing in Laiyuan County is now ready to send ground troops to rush here, and the brigade in Heiyaogou is the closest, if they hear the sound of gunfire in the middle of the night and come to reinforce, this will also be connected with the three special training camps in the reed depression on the east side of the radish field.

Not to mention, after the brigade in Heiyaogou received a call from the Yazaki brigade for rescue at night, it was very unusual that it did not immediately send troops west to reinforce, but did not move, but the old blind man judged very right, the devil 222 team headquarters in Laiyuan City reacted quickly, and as soon as he received the call for help from the Yazaki brigade, he immediately sent a fully loaded brigade to the direction of Xiaotiangou.

As expected, this reinforcement force just left Laiyuan County, stepped on the mines, and the soles of the feet should be more careful, the road around it is not peaceful, in the light rain, the guerrillas of the Eighth Road will come out from time to time to attack and disturb, cold guns and cold artillery, plus the rain and the road is slippery, the reinforcements will arrive at Shichengdun at dawn, and there are still more than ten miles of mountain roads from the besieged Yazaki Brigade.

The remnants of the Yazaki Brigade surrounded in the northeast corner of the Xiaotiangou Basin had reached the moment when they ran out of ammunition and food, and when Yazaki Nakasa learned on the radio that the friendly troops in Heiyaogou were still standing still, and the reinforcements from Laiyuan were still more than ten miles away, he no longer had the determination to hold on, and he decided to use the fog to break through!

All the wounded soldiers were abandoned on the earth cliff position, not that Captain Yazaki was ruthless, the soldiers who could fight were exhausted, and then brought these more than ten wounded soldiers, the muddy mountain road could not run far before they had to be caught up by the Eighth Road, and if they wanted to bring out some of the people alive, they had to leave the wounded soldiers.

So when the old blind man found that there seemed to be no one in the position of the devils in the fog, and when he commanded the troops of the first and second battalions to rush up the earthen cliff, what they saw were the wounded Japanese soldiers who shot themselves or committed suicide with grenades, as well as all kinds of things that were discarded all over the ground.

The two companies of the third battalion were still untouchable, and the fog was getting bigger and bigger, and at this time they plunged into the fog to chase the fleeing devils, which was not necessarily a good idea, and for the sake of insurance, the old blind man sent a lot of messengers to find the two companies of the third battalion, and the other troops hurriedly cleaned up the battlefield and prepared to transfer.

When Captain Yazaki was determined to break through, he ordered all wounded soldiers to be distributed grenades, let them do it themselves, and not take prisoners, and then ordered the soldiers who could move with the team to discard all useless things, keep weapons and ammunition, and then burn battle flags and documents. The whole team used the fog to leave the cliff. Flee to the north.

Yazaki was not unaware of the way to reinforce his troops in the west. The reason why he ran north first was to avoid the eight-way detour troops that were copying him in the west and east, and then turn west to join the reinforcements.

The thick mist drifted around the mountains and forests, gradually gathering into wisps of water, as if they were soaked in white towels, and in a short time they soaked people's hair and clothes with all the droplets.

The remaining hundred or so men of the Yazaki brigade hurried through the mountains with a compass, and according to the calculation of the footsteps, they had already left the small Tiangou basin for more than five miles. There is still a lot of fog all around, and you can't see the terrain clearly, so you can only judge from the map, and the front is more than a mile in front of the open land in front of the foot of the mountain, and from here you can go west and climb over a few mountain beams to reach the stone city pier.

The open land where the devils are located is the small plain of impact in front of the broken beam ditch at the southern foot of Baishi Mountain, from here to the west through Kashiwashe, Houqing and other places, it is indeed not far from Shichengdun, and at this moment the Japanese reinforcements in Shichengdun have also received a call from the Yazaki Brigade and are rushing to this side.

After contacting the rescue force, after identifying the direction. The devils began to retreat west in the hazy mist, and one soldier had just been hung by a tree branch and a sour date tree. When he was in a hurry, he didn't have time to pull out the sour jujube thorn that was pierced into the flesh, and when the whole team was resting just now, he sat on the stone to check his bloody leg and pick the thorn in the flesh.

As soon as the order to retreat was given, the soldier put on his shoes, lifted his rifle leaning against the stones, and was just about to catch up with the group, when his intuition told him that something was not quite right in the dense fog behind him! The milky white mist was surging back and forth, and I couldn't see anything clearly, but I just felt a murderous aura.

Curiosity kills people! You said that if you think something is wrong, run quickly, or walk a few steps to see what's over there, and when this devil soldier sees it clearly, it will be too late for him! A few shiny bayonets with water droplets suddenly burst out of the mist!

This scream frightened the soldiers of the Yazaki Brigade, who had already walked out of the rue for dozens of paces! The timid simply squatted down, looked around, and nervously pulled the bolt! The bold ones also stopped, formed a circle, and looked everywhere.

Clouds of white mist crashed in from the east, and Captain Yazaki felt that something was wrong and shouted for the soldiers to leave! Leave the soldiers behind behind! But in this little or so minute, like an elf hidden in the mist, suddenly appeared, and the two companies of the 3rd Battalion of the 20th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army who were ordered to intersperse the earth cliff appeared!

It was really a crooked mistake, these two companies were originally interspersed from the side of the turnip field to the northwest, and in fact, they could turn around and come back without going far, just behind the side of the Japanese position on the earth cliff, but the fog also made them lose their way, and the troops of the Eighth Route Army had no radio or compass, and they walked out of the road for several miles as soon as they left!

When the instructor of the third battalion who led the team felt that he had taken the wrong path and ordered to return, he encountered the devils who had withdrawn from the earthen cliff through the fog.

After all, they are the children of the mountain people, and the soldiers of the third battalion are discovering each other in advance of the Japanese army through the fog, and the instructor can't hesitate any longer, and immediately orders the whole army to bayonet and spread out to surround it! And instructed the soldiers to stab and shoot when they saw the yellow-clothed ones! Can't be wrong!

The miscellaneous clothes of the Eighth Road are all black, blue and gray, and the color difference between them and the yellow uniforms of the Japanese army is still relatively large.

This encounter started with that scream, and the devil was caught off guard! It's so different from when you can still see each other's formations and figures when you fight at night! The dense fog in the ravine was thicker than that on the top of the mountain or on the open ground, and the fog in the wet air even gave people the feeling of being wrapped in suffocation, and in this suffocation, the shadow of death appeared on the road from which direction!

The Japanese army didn't look exhausted and ran here, but the soldiers were still able to maintain the battle formation, as soon as they realized that the tail of the team was attacked, they immediately dispersed to form several circles, the muzzles of the guns were all facing outward, and they shot when they felt that something was wrong.

The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army are basically the same, such a big fog, the visual force does not play a role, you have to put your ears up, listen to the movements around you, the fog is first-class and slightly reveals a little gap, and when you see the yellow-clothed one, you will hold the fire and it will be very thorny!

But whether it was a Japanese soldier or a soldier of the Eighth Route Army, they all found that when they pulled the trigger, they couldn't fire the bullet! It turns out that the light rain for days, this kind of rain is called "mildew rain" in the south, and the mildew rain season at the end of April and early May every year is when the river rises.

It is said that this kind of rain is very mildewy, or why is it called mildew rain, this Baishi Mountain and Yinfang and other places have been raining this drizzle for two days and one night, after the rain stopped, there was a heavy fog again, and the soldiers on both sides of the war had almost no time to breathe and rest in the fierce battle, let alone spend time wiping the guns, as a result, many guns and were rusted by the rain and fog, and the most serious bolts could not be pulled. (To be continued......)