When it was dark, the valley that had been noisy for a day like a big pot of fried beans finally quieted down, and the late autumn sky was dotted with stars, and the night breeze was like water, but Kuroda was not in the mood to watch the stars blow the cool breeze, and this deathly silence was not a good thing for him!

Without the support of the air force, the rescue forces on the periphery are also making slow progress, the two troops closest to him are blocked more than ten kilometers away, and he is still in danger of being surrounded by the eight roads, and the boss of his most trusted cavalry group only told him on the radio that he will go all out to help, as for when it will arrive, His Excellency Lieutenant General did not say anything clearly.

Food can last for two or three days for the time being, but drinking water is a problem, this large valley is dry stones and hard soil, there is no water source, there is a sand river flowing by the road on the side of Xingshutai, Kuroda is not still setting up a fire and roasting and eating the Chinese killed by his cavalry, but now you can hear the sound of rushing water, and you can also smell the slightly moist air in the mountain wind, but you can't drink the sweet river water!

The river is an open river beach, only 100 meters away from the position of the opposite 8 roads, who dares to let that take water, it is a live target! There are quite a few snipers on the Eighth Road, and more than a dozen devils who risked their lives to fetch water are lying on the riverbank.

Thousands of people can still fight with bayonets without ammunition, but without water, the pain of tearing and pulling like smoke in their throats and fire can't stand it, and they have to organize people to grab water! Kuroda asked the adjutant to personally dispatch artillery and machine guns to block the eight-way positions on the opposite bank, and at the same time organize soldiers to fetch water.

After a lot of effort, he finally snatched some water back, and Kuroda also took a few sips of water from the kettle to moisten his chapped lips. I have left all my baggage in the valley to the south. Each soldier carried a couscous biscuit. Dinner is a biscuit on the cold water, the water is not afraid to drink more, a kettle a few people can not drink a few sips, who knows when the next pot of water can be had?

The Eighth Road was very happy, and Yang Bangzi took out the angry old trick again, and ordered the logistics department to come to the front of the branch to stew all the meat and vegetables that could be found, and the pigs raised by the villagers in the nearby villages were collected at a high price. Although it has not yet reached the time of killing the pig in Layue, the pig shelf is almost there, just slaughtered on the spot, and the big pot is stewed on the spot!

Yang Bangzi also specially arranged for more than a dozen men next to each stew pot to ensure that there were more than a dozen men, holding the branches and branches that were pouted, fanning them vigorously, and fanning the fragrant meat smell to the devil's side, which is much more powerful than bullets and shells! The aroma of stewed meat sent by the mountain breeze makes the little devils who drink cold water and chew hard biscuits angry!

A dozen pigs and a hundred and ten captured canned Japanese meat. Divide it, divide it, in fact, the people from the Eighth Road side who came to participate in the war. One person can't divide a few pieces of meat, but this big pot is steaming, pork stewed cabbage and vermicelli, a big bowl for one person, the cake nest is enough, and it looks like it boosts morale!

Before the meal, Yang Bangzi had a more mindful eye, and gave an order to all the cooking classes and cooks, to throw a soybean or a stone to a cook, and finally counted how many people came to eat dinner in the next time, so that after checking with the numbers brought back by the signal corps in the morning, the total casualty figure for today would be known.

In comparison, in the whole day of fighting, more than 1,400 casualties were lost! Yang Bangzi is distressed, but he can't bear to let the child catch the wolf! We're going to have to make the little devils pay a little more tonight!

Captain Kuroda sat on the hill and flashed flashlights with a few subordinates, checked the map and prepared to adjust the defensive deployment again, the whole army can no longer draw the ground as a prison like this, waiting for the periphery to respond, there is not much food at present, and there is not much ammunition left, so arrangements must be made as soon as possible.

Several subordinates all thought that they should concentrate all the artillery and machine guns and open the blocked road in Xingshutai, even if they could break out of the city and kill half of the people, it was better than waiting to die like this, and the adjutant chief Judging from today's eight-way offensive in one day, although there is no artillery on the eight-way road, and there are not many machine guns, these miscellaneous eight-way operations are really too tenacious! According to this situation, it is a few fights for one, and the Kuroda United team is also spelled out.

Unlike the opinions of those staff officers who strongly advocated capturing Xingshutai at all costs, the adjutant general believed that if the direction of the main attack was placed on the platform with such a dangerous terrain, if the Eighth Route wanted to give up, he would give up when he led the troops to attack, and he would not defend it for two days.

However, the breakthrough of the baggage team during the day successfully inspired the adjutant chief, and he suggested that it was better to send some scouts out of the city at night to find a way, this map will not be fully marked with ravines or anything, rather than stubbornly defending and only attacking Xingshutai, it is better to find a gap and highlight the Lu from other directions.

He listened to the report of a battalion of devils who organized artillery fire to cover to grab water, and he understood that there was no water source in the besieged devil's position, which was overjoyed, and then ordered a battalion to organize personnel to keep an eye on the river bank and resolutely prevent the devils from taking away another pot of water!

The second battalion fought relatively lightly during the day, and on the east side of the entire battlefield, in addition to warning the devils coming to the east to help, they were guarding the south side of the east-west road in Xingshutai, and Yang Bangzi added the task to the second battalion tonight, organizing an assault group with squads and platoons as a unit to sneak attack the high ground on the east side of the valley occupied by the devils!

The combat effectiveness of the third battalion in the entire Hekuroda Wing for more than ten days was the unit that paid the greatest casualties, participated in the most battles, and had the most fatigued soldiers, and the main expanded battalion of nearly 900 people, and now there were only more than 400 people left.

At the end of the open land to the north of Zhaitou Village, the Japanese troops in front of the three battalions occupied a platform several tens of meters high and the high ground on both sides, forming a three-sided crossfire network.

During the daytime battle, the Japanese army had aircraft in the sky and artillery support on the ground, so that the many attacks organized by the old blind man were ineffective, and this open land was about to become a chasm that the three battalions could not cross, and the other troops basically forced the enemy in front of them to retreat, and the hard bone in front of the three battalions could not be gnawed!

So the old blind man was mobilizing before the war, preparing to take advantage of the night to pull out the central area of this defensive position at the southern end of the Japanese army! The old blind man drew out all the surviving members of the Second Commando Brigade that had been formed last time, and formed ten groups, each group of six people, each group had a light machine gun, explosive packs, cluster grenades, short guns, and long guns, and the whole battalion concentrated its firepower on the opposite platform.

The battle on the highway line, Yang Bangzi also noticed it during the day, he didn't think that this was the most important battlefield, the southern end was equal to the bottom of the ten pockets, the devil was bent on defending, even if he wanted to break through, he would not turn back, so the southern line was relatively the safest.

And now Yang Bangzi decided to use the dark night to divide the devils in the valley, from the topography, the north is an inverted iron pot like an east-west mountain, it is impossible for the devils to storm here, the east and west sides are north-south mountain beams and ravines, the devils want to break through and have to find a way from these two sides, so it is best to divide the devils from the north and south, and it is best to divide the devils in the valley into two!

Even if the north and the south cannot be separated from each other, judging from the battlefield situation, taking the southern section of the platform will have a major impact on both the enemy and us, and as soon as the southern position is lost, the entire defensive circle of the Japanese army will be wide open, and the artillery and wing headquarters in the valley will be exposed to the fire of the Eighth Road.

Yang Bangzi listened to the old blind man's arrangement, and felt that the firepower of the whole battalion was so great that it was easy to expose his intentions, so it was better to feint and attack the high ground on the east side, so that the assault team could secretly lurk under the platform, and the devil's attention would be attracted to the east side, and then suddenly attack. Yang Bangzi also wanted to take the guard company together, so that the old blind man stopped him, what people mean, so many people died in the third battalion, how could they complete the task by themselves, this is a matter of principle!

The face still has to be taken care of, but Yang Bangzi didn't leave, he took the guard company to the third battalion's pressure formation, he had his plan, if the third battalion attacked successfully, immediately send the guard company up, consolidate the position, prevent the devil from counterattacking, if the third battalion attack did not go well, the guard company happened to be the leader of the new force. (To be continued......)