This morning, the four-year-old child got up late, and at this moment Xia Lily and Sun Nier were in the hall, restlessly feeding him breakfast.

The sound of explosions in the second half of the night, and the incessant gunfire this morning, all made Xia Lily's master and servant tremble. The shopkeeper Wang went to Nancheng yesterday to assist the 391st regiment to defend the city, and did not return all night, Xia Lily boiled millet porridge early, steamed two steamed buns, sandwiched in salted meat, and asked the old servant to send to Nancheng.

Thankfully, his man was sent to Southtown. Xia Lihe knew very well that the little devil had been attacking outside Beicheng, and the sound of gunfire was coming from that direction. This night, I don't know how my man survived, I don't know if the old servant who delivered breakfast can find him, and I don't know when he will go home. Just now, Sun Nier had slipped into the front yard and wanted to ask her big brother wood about the battle situation, but there were surprisingly few people in the regiment headquarters, the regiment commander, the chief of staff, and the big brother wood were not there.

"Maybe it's not good," Sun Nier, who returned to the backyard, said nervously to the hostess, "Why don't I think something is right, Brother Wood and the others are gone!" ”

Xia Lily asked in horror: "Gone?" Don't...... Could it be that Qin Tuanzuo they, the Central Army, also fled? ”

"It's impossible to escape!" Sun Nier hurriedly replied: "I mean, maybe Beicheng is a little tight, otherwise these commanders of the regiment headquarters are not in the front yard!" ”

The speculation of the elf's eccentric maid was quickly confirmed, and the regiment commander and Zhao Mutou retreated from Beicheng with their armor unloaded, and the front yard as the regiment headquarters suddenly became full of people. Sun Nier slipped over again to inquire about the news, but no one paid attention to her, and people rushed in and out of the courtyard in a hurry and rage.

Zhao Mutou's roar echoed outside the courtyard gate, after Sun Nier heard and confirmed, she rushed over in three steps and two steps, she saw the bunkers being piled up on the road outside the door at first glance, even if she didn't know how to fight, this young maid also understood what these two bunkers were doing, and suddenly her eyes darkened:

"Brother Wood!" Sun Nier screamed, "Is the little devil coming?!" ”

The spy company commander who was in a hurry to command the bunker was suddenly seeing the woman he liked standing at the gate of the courtyard in a panic and calling him, and hurriedly ran forward, pulled her past and let go of the door, and before he could say anything, his eyes were red:

"Girl...... Brother can't stand you...... The northern city is lost, and the Japanese have already entered the city......"

Sun Nier cried out loudly: What she and the hostess were most worried about still happened! She grabbed Zhao Mutou's arm tightly:

"What should I do, Brother Wood? What are we going to do?! ”

In the past, the spy company commander who fought in front of the two armies without any worries, at this time, finally realized the cruelty of war: the cruelty to women and relatives.

"Girl, run, take your wife and children, run to the south gate first, and wait at the south gate for the opening of the city—it will open soon; Our chief of staff is at the south gate, he will let you out!" ”

On the roof of a room in the distance, the soldiers of several spy companies were urgently calling the company commander to come over, Zhao Mutou turned his head to look, and then looked back at Sun Nier, who was bursting with tears, and ran over there ruthlessly.

Seeing his wooden brother running across the road and climbing onto the roof, the helpless Sun Nier cried, and then, while crying, ran into the courtyard gate of her house: she had to listen to Brother Mu's words and run away with the hostess!

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From the beginning of retreating to the regiment headquarters to build defenses, only ten minutes later, Qin Zhongxiao heard an alarm from outside the courtyard gate: The devil has shown his head!

The colonel of the Central Army immediately rushed to the bunker outside the courtyard, and he could already see clearly without binoculars, a group of devils appeared on the road a few hundred meters away, they were divided into two untidy columns, with 38 guns with bayonets on their heads, bowed their bodies, and drove forward in a search posture, and the pace was not very fast.

Qin Zhongxiao shouted to the soldiers of the spy company on the left and right roofs: "Tell the brothers in the houses on both sides, don't be in a hurry to open fire, wait for my machine gun to fire here!" ”

Zhao Mutou on the roof asked his subordinates to pass the word, and waved his hand to Qin Zhongxiao anxiously: "Tuanzuo, go back to the courtyard quickly, the bunker is not strong!" ”

Qin Zhongxiao ignored him, but moved to the side of the Czech light machine gunner and said to him: "Let the rifle hit first, you wait for my order." ”

The Japanese troops who searched for the advance had apparently found the bunkers lying across the road ahead, and a squad leader commanded the front-end column to disperse, turning into a skirmish line and starting to charge, and when there were still sixty or seventy meters left from the bunkers, the Japanese troops took the lead in firing, and the bullets made the improvised bunkers crackle.

A number of soldiers of the 391st Regiment in the bunker were shot and killed, Qin Zhongxiao endured for a while, and finally shouted: "Fight!" ”

Behind the two bunkers, one high and one low, dozens of rifles fired at the same time, and on the bare road, the charging Japanese soldiers almost became live targets, and they were instantly knocked down. The rest of the Japanese troops hurriedly crawled on the ground and fired, and the two Taisho 11 light machine guns were quickly moved to the front row, erected on the ground and began to strafe.

Qin Zhongxiao stopped the shooting and ordered everyone to hide under cover.

The Japanese machine guns strafed for a while, and seeing that there was no movement on the opposite bunker, they got up one after another and continued to charge, and soon rushed to a distance of thirty or forty meters from the bunker.

Qin Zhongxiao patted the shoulder of the machine gunner squatting in the bunker, and the latter immediately poked his head out, grabbed the Czech-style fire, and the Czech-style on the high bunker behind him also roared.

As soon as the machine guns rang out, on the roofs of the houses on the left and right sides of the road, more than 20 people from the spy company suddenly swept downward, and the Japanese army searched and charged all the way, not noticing that there would be people in ambush on the roofs on both sides. The soldiers of the 391st Regiment hidden in the houses and shops on both sides took the opportunity to open the doors and windows to attack the devils, and a few* were thrown into the middle of the road.

On the street, which was less than 10 meters wide, the Japanese army was attacked from three sides, suffering heavy casualties, and the wolf rushed back.

The colonel of the Central Army exhaled: the position was temporarily stabilized. Now, he eagerly hoped that the two battalions of the East Gate and the West Gate would be able to press over in time to form a connection with the line of defense here. Otherwise, once the Japanese troops blocked in the front outflanked them from both sides of the main road, the position of the regimental headquarters would be dumpled.

Soon after, the chief of staff arrived first with more than 100 men, this was a company assigned to the south gate by the second battalion last night, and the chief of staff left one of the platoons to guard the south gate, and brought the rest with him. Qin Zhongxiao immediately asked the more than 100 people to spread out to the east and west with the bunker as the center, occupy the houses and commanding heights along the line, and meet the first and second battalions that were about to press over.

"The south gate is opened, and I have people look out from the city walls, and if there are devils coming, the city will be closed at any time;" The chief of staff panted and reported to Qin Zhongxiao: "However, the people who assisted in the defense of the city have begun to flee down the city, and I have few people, so I can't stop it." ”

"Don't stop, let them run," Qin Zhongxiao sighed: "We can support for a while longer, and cover for the people to go out of the city." ”

While speaking, Qin Zhongxiao walked towards the courtyard of Xia Baihe's house, with the adjutant and chief of staff following behind.

They met the servant of the summer lily and the young child. Xia Lily held the child in her arms, standing in the front yard and hesitated, while Sun Nier dragged the hostess's arm and persuaded her.

"Captain Qin!" Seeing Qin Zhongxiao and his entourage coming in from outside, Xia Baihe seemed to see a savior: "Do we really want to escape from the city now?" My man, I'm still helping you defend the city in Nancheng, if he doesn't come back, how can our mother leave? ”

Qin Zhongxiao looked at this beautiful housewife and the crying young son in her arms, shook his head painfully and said, "You can't stay here, you go to Nancheng to find your shopkeeper, walk along the road, maybe you can meet it." ”

Xia Lily cried out in despair.

The colonel of the Central Army, who was in a state of confusion, was hesitating whether to ask the adjutant to send a soldier to escort the three women and children to the south gate, but suddenly explosions sounded one after another outside the courtyard.

It's the grenadiers of the Japanese army, firing at the bunkers in the road! In addition, the roofs on the left and right were also bombed, and one of them actually hit the backyard of Xia Lily's house and exploded, causing the women and children to scream.

Qin Zhongxiao realized that after the grenadier attack, the devil's infantry would soon make a comeback. He couldn't take care of Xia Lily and them anymore, turned around and rushed out of the courtyard.