The two infantry squads of the Nara Brigade, together with the machine gun squads, had not yet fully entered their predetermined positions, and the Makqin heavy machine guns, which had been roaring all night at the head of Kawaguchi Village, suddenly began to fire at them again.

At this time, the commander of the 6th platoon of the 5th Company commanded the battle at the head of the village, and that Makqin had also made the third position transfer tonight to avoid the Japanese artillery fire (including grenadiers) outside the village; The sixth platoon commander knew that there were not many bullets left in Makqin, but now the Japanese troops who appeared outside the village and on the other side of the Qinglong River actually brought two heavy Type 92 heavy machine guns, and it seemed that they were going to set up a fire point there. The commander of the sixth platoon had a clear heart, these two heavy machine guns, including this Japanese army, were here to block the passage between the village head and the mountain pass, so he did not wait for the opponent to gain a firm foothold, so he ordered the heavy machine guns to fire.

Not long after, the commander of the 5th Company arrived with the men who had just rushed down from the mountain pass, and all of them hid into the houses and bunkers that could still be used as cover, checked the bullets, and pulled out their bayonets and inserted them into the muzzles of their rifles. The comrades of the sixth platoon in the village head position immediately understood that the company commander might have to organize a charge.

At this moment, the Japanese mortars began shelling again, and the shells fell into the village of Hekou one by one, but the frequency of the shelling was already showing signs of sparseness.

In the sound of artillery, the soldiers of the puppet Mongolian army, who had been entangled with the Eighth Route Army on foot in the direction of the village for most of the night, left dozens of corpses and retreated. Li Tianlin noticed that the traitors retreated to the rear and got their horses, and the infantry turned back into cavalry, and the more than 100 horsemen and horses far bypassed the temporary position where the Japanese were setting up heavy machine guns, and galloped towards the west of the village.

The Eighth Route Army observation post, which was placed on the roof high in the village, also noticed the change and reported it to the deputy battalion commander.

Wu Zijian estimated that the enemy might have to concentrate on the use of the puppet Mongolian cavalry, and he didn't care much about these Mongolian cavalry, but he was more concerned about the Japanese troops who were still camped far away in the northwest wilderness outside the village.

This is the place where Wu Zijian has been vigilant and suspenseful after the moonlight comes out tonight. It is obviously the command center of the Japanese puppet army tonight, but the Japanese army there has never been able to trigger, what are they waiting for? Nine times out of ten, they are waiting for the defenders in the village to show their fatigue and then suddenly attack!

Wu Zijian, who had already decided to abandon Hekou Village, decided to fight a quick battle and take the lead in pulling out the camp before the Japanese army's standby new force moved.

In Hekou Village, there are now three and a half platoons of the 5th Company, two platoons of the 8th Company, and all the cavalry companies. There is only one way to retreat into the mountain, which is to retreat from the village to the mountain pass. Wu Zijian gave a detailed explanation of the plan for breaking through the encirclement to all units, and sent two members of the enemy engineering team who had just sneaked from the mountain * Tonggou to return to the mountain pass as soon as possible, and reported to Xiao Junping, the leader of the enemy engineering team, that the troops in the mountain pass should cooperate accordingly.

With an order, the breakout battle at the moment of death began.

The Maxim heavy machine gun at the head of the village has been instructed to use up the last of its ammunition and move into the pass. At this moment, the machine gunners aimed at the Japanese troops on the other side of the Qinglong River and began a desperate sweep; The bare river bank was unsheltered, and the rain of bullets and bullets killed and wounded many Japanese soldiers. What Wu Zijian wanted was to fight this Japanese army with an unstable foothold, so not long after Makqin opened fire, Li Tianlin personally led the half platoon just now, rushed out of the village with a cat's waist, and slaughtered the temporary position that the Japanese army had not yet set up on the bank of the Qinglong River.

This move greatly surprised the Japanese army - throughout the night, the Eighth Route Army in the village had been on the defensive of passive defense, but at this moment, it suddenly sacrificed an elite army to attack, and the momentum was so fast that it could be called lightning fast. Li Tianlin still personally controlled the Czech light machine gun to rush to the front, and more than 60 people on the left and right and behind him, each with a bayonet on the 38-type or medium-formal rifle, only about two miles of the charging distance, in the blink of an eye, approached the Japanese army. They deliberately chose an attack line that was staggered from the Maxim machine gun fire range at the head of the village behind them, so that the charge was always supported by heavy machine guns.

The two infantry squads in front of the Nara Brigade were originally much superior to Li Tianlin's team in terms of numbers, but because the two 92 heavy machines of the machine gun squad were unable to complete the fire in a hurry, the bullets fired from the charging team of the Eighth Route Army knocked down two or three heavy machine gun shooters and deputy shooters one after another. The temporary positions of the Japanese troops suddenly panicked, and many soldiers began to retreat involuntarily under the dense rain of bullets.

When he rushed to a position less than a mile away from this Japanese army, Li Tianlin waved his hand backwards, and more than 60 people fell to the ground, with Czech machine guns as the core, and began to block the attack on the spot. At this moment, behind Li Tianlin's team, the gap between Hekou Village and Guanmen Mountain Pass has been unimpeded.

The two platoons of the 8th Company ran out of the village first, and they ran desperately to the mountain pass, along the dry Qinglong River valley of the mountain pass, climbed the mountain pass, and disappeared into the huge shadow of the mountain pass.

Immediately after, more than sixty horsemen and horses of the cavalry company also galloped out of the village, and the horses were of course much faster than the infantry, and in a blink of an eye they reached the bottom of the mountain pass, and the cavalrymen dismounted one after another, led the horses, and climbed up with great difficulty but with great difficulty.

This scene, Kosuke Otsuka, who was sitting on the wilderness, was surprised to see it clearly.

The captain of the Japanese army, who was about to have some supper, never expected that the Eighth Route Army would leave as soon as he said it, and it would start to break through to the mountain pass without any warning. In the binoculars, he saw that the infantry squad and machine gun squad he had just sent over had been thrown into confusion by the premeditated attack of the Eighth Route Army's forward, and had retreated to an unfavorable position where it was impossible to cut off the enemy's communication between the two places. On the contrary, the fierce Eighth Route Army occupied the terrain with its back to the Guanmen Mountain Pass and the head of Hekou Village, lay down in a large area to shoot, and established a blocking position.

When the follow-up troops of the Eighth Route Army rushed out of the village and ran towards the mountain pass, Kosuke Otsuka even began to admire the commander on the other side - he was undoubtedly an excellent tactician! The mind is clear, the layout is powerful, and the action is not muddy.

But well-Otsuka laughed cruelly--the people of China would never have expected that they had already reserved a killer weapon for them!

"Artillery squad, fire now!"

Otsuka passed the order. The two Type 92 infantry guns of the artillery squad under the jurisdiction of the Nara Infantry Brigade had been aimed at the area around the mountain pass for a long time, and then the shelling began one after the other.

The 92 infantry cannon is a flat-fire gun, with a long range, high accuracy, and a large explosion point of the shells.

"Du Dongqiang's cavalry regiment, immediately charge to the west of the village! Tell them that the Eighth Route Army has retreated, and the defense line in the village has existed in name only, so quickly break through and drag the Eighth Route back! ”

Otsuka passed down the second order.

However, after Du Dongqiang received this order, he was still struggling, he did not believe the intelligence of the withdrawal of the Eighth Route Army, and was worried that this was an excuse for the commander of the imperial army to continue to use his Mongolian army as cannon fodder. At the moment, he had just gathered two cavalry camps in one place, but counting the damage of tonight's battle, nearly half of the four hundred men and horses were killed and wounded. This is undoubtedly the consequence of Captain Otsuka's blind order for the Mongolian army to risk their lives to attack this small village!

However, the appearance of the moonlight in the sky made his attempt to use a fake attack on the head of the Mixed Wing to come to naught. Seeing that the guns were already ringing in the direction of the village, if he didn't make some real moves, he would definitely not be able to explain. Thinking of this, the commander of the cavalry regiment of the Mongolian Xinjiang Army transferred a company and ordered them to cross the Qinglong River tentatively first to observe whether there was really no defense of the Eighth Route Army in the opposite village.

The cavalry of this company marched forward tremblingly, and they had barely walked a dozen steps on the ice of the Qinglong River when the guns rang out in the west of the village, and they were still machine guns. The cavalry of the Mongolian Army, which had become a frightened bird, immediately turned their horses and ran back.

Before the regiment commander Du Dongqiang could reprimand, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers ran from the direction of the temporary headquarters of the joint captain of Otsuka, and the leading lieutenant staff officer waved his hand, and the two Type 96 light machine guns with bayonets were set up on the hard frozen ground, and the lieutenant staff conveyed the order of the joint commander Dazuo: All the cavalry of the Mongolian army charged, and if they dared to retreat, these two machine guns would open fire and sanction them!

Du Dongqiang was taken aback, and at the same time understood that the battle that had been stalemate for most of the night might be about to enter a decisive battle, and the captain of the imperial army actually used a machine gun to supervise the formation, which showed that the situation had reached the most severe moment. The commander of the cavalry gritted his teeth and ordered all the people to form two teams, one in front of the other, and launch an attack.

When the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army swept over, there were only 5 companies and one platoon in Hekou Village that were responsible for the defense, and the deputy company commander personally commanded them. Wu Zijian judged that there would be no enemy troops in that direction, so he asked the deputy commander of the 5th company to make every effort to defend the west of the village and implement the rear, so as to strictly prevent the puppet Mongolian army from taking the opportunity to break in. Of the Czech-style machine guns sent down by enemy engineers from the mountain pass, Wu Zijian left most of them to the deputy company commander, and he knew very well that once the breakthrough began, Li Tianlin's forward blocking position and the defensive line in the west of the village would become the most critical support at the beginning and end, and the danger here would be greater.

Sure enough, the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army tried once, and the brigade began to charge. The soldiers of the 5th Company and the first platoon did not know that this was a charge of the opponent without hesitation - there were Japanese machine guns in the back! After the whole platoon opened fire and knocked down the cavalry in front, the commanders and fighters were surprised to find that the puppet Mongolian army did not retreat, but continued to rush forward one after another.

A fierce battle broke out in the west of the village.

At the same time, there was already chaos in the mountain pass, and the Japanese shelling aimed at the mountain pass valley effectively blocked the retreat of the Eighth Route Army, and the cavalry company of Xia Lianshan was killed and wounded under the hammering of the 92 infantry artillery shells; And the delay blocked the retreat of the 6th platoon of the 5th Company (including the Makqin heavy machine gun) deployed at the head of the village to the mountain pass.

Seeing this scene, Wu Zijian couldn't help but be secretly frightened. He knew very well that the two platoons under the command of the company commander and deputy company commander of the 5th Company could not hold out for long in their respective positions: Li Tianlin's platoon had taken the initiative for a while by making a sudden attack, but their so-called blocking position was nothing more than an unsheltered wasteland, and once the Japanese army stabilized its position and used heavy firepower to strike, the platoon would die without a place to be buried. And if the platoon left behind the west of the village cannot quickly join the evacuation ranks, the possibility of being dragged by the enemy and annihilated in the village will also surge.

These two platoons are the elite of the 5 companies, and nothing can end here!

Wu Zijian, who was sitting at the head of the village, immediately sent people to rush to the mountain pass, and ordered all the cavalry companies to abandon their horses and withdraw into the mountain pass on foot. At the same time, he had to guard the six platoons at the head of the village, leaving one squad to follow him, and the rest took Makqin and went up the mountain through the traffic ditch. That communication ditch was originally a very cleverly disguised secret passage, and it was said that it should not be publicly exposed and used when the two armies clashed open fire, but at this time, life and death were at stake, and there was no need to care so much.

When he received the order, Xia Lianshan was still restraining the team at the bottom of the mountain pass, and he watched the soldiers who had led their horses up the gentle slope of the mountain pass, and the cavalry company commander who was in pain and anxiety roared again and again, urging the men and horses under the mountain pass to continue to risk death into the ravine. Before Wu Zijian's order was delivered, Xia Lianshan actually felt desperate - this slow speed of leading the horse, even if there was no interference from the enemy's artillery fire, he was afraid that he would be caught up by the pursuers. When he saw the angry eyes of the heralds, Xia Lianshan finally realized that his cavalry company had affected the implementation of the entire retreat plan, he gritted his teeth, and ordered the horses to be let go and let them run away, and all the cavalry went up the mountain on foot.

At the same time, the commander of the Japanese army, Kosuke Otsuka, also gave the order for a general attack, and the infantry squadron led by the commander of the Nara brigade, Shaosa, who had been on standby, began a rapid charge in the direction of the head of Kawaguchi Village.

Wu Zijian, who was condescending at the head of the village, immediately discovered the Japanese army's charging infantry squadron, and he gasped - the most feared thing really happened! The charge of the main force of the Japanese army at this moment really hit their weakness with a punch, there was only one squad left in the village, and Makqin had also run out of bullets and was moving to the mountain pass! Wu Zijian visually inspected it, the Japanese army charging was only more than a mile away from the head of the village, and if effective fire was not implemented, they would be killed in ten minutes at most!