At this moment, the entire defense line west of the village was almost overwhelmed by the rain of bullets from heavy machine guns and rifles on the opposite side, and the soldiers of the 6th Company could only maintain the fire with the Japanese army if they relied on concealment, and they could be shot if they left the bunker slightly; Coupled with the roar of gunfire and explosions, the platoon commander's cries for help did not receive support in the first place.

The Japanese soldiers in the courtyard took advantage of this time difference to attract more than a dozen companions, and this dilapidated courtyard was firmly controlled by the Japanese army.

By the time Wang Shuanglong got the report, the platoon commander had just gathered a few nearby soldiers and started to beat the courtyard, but he could no longer get close to the courtyard wall. At first, all rifle bullets were fired from the small courtyard, and after a while, the Type 96 light machine gun began to fire long and short bursts. Wang Shuanglong, who saw this scene from afar, suddenly felt his scalp tingle: the position had been breached!

At this time, the commander of the 6th company was only thinking about how to recapture the compound as soon as possible and expel the Japanese soldiers from his position, and he ordered a squad leader to lead his subordinates to lean up, and prepared to solve it all with throwing*; However, before the squad could be assembled, in the other direction, another group of Japanese troops advanced to the front of a position, and several soldiers of the 6th Company guarding there were forced to jump up and brand bayonets and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the incoming enemy.

Wang Shuanglong, who had been in battle for a long time, finally realized that the catastrophe was coming-in the dark night when he couldn't see anything ten zhang away, this narrow defense line in the west of the village should be on the verge of falling in more than a few places!

Let's fight for each other, fight!

The commander of the 6th Company roared, picked up the medium rifle with a long bayonet, and pounced on the position where the white-knuckle battle was taking place.

Wang Shuanglong had a good premonition, at this moment, at least six or seven positions on the entire western defense line of the village were rushed up by Japanese soldiers, and more and more soldiers of the 6th Company were forced to engage in close combat.

In order to prevent accidental injury, most of the heavy machine guns that lagged behind gradually stopped firing, and the phenomenon of throwing * at each other also decreased, and the battlefield where the deafening sound of gunfire just now was quiet, and was slowly replaced by another sound: the metal collision of white-knuckle fighting, and the shouts and roars of soldiers on both sides.

At this moment, moonlight appeared in the sky, and the heavy clouds became thinner at some point, and most of the moon, which had been suffocated for a long time, finally broke out and sprinkled hazy light on the earth. The two armies, who were originally stumbling and slashing and killing in the dark, saw each other's faces so clearly at this moment, so a more tragic and targeted white-knuckle battle broke out in a large area in the west of Xiping Village.

Feng Changzhi finished arranging the defense line at the end of the village, told the instructor of the 7th Company to be ready for battle, and he asked for two squads of troops from him, and rushed to the west of the village.

On the way, they caught up with the moment the moonlight appeared, Feng Changzhi hurriedly jumped onto a high stack of wood in three steps and two steps, and looked at the defense line in the west of the village dozens of zhang away, and he was immediately stunned by what he saw.

At present, there is no clear line of defense in the west of the village, but it has evolved into as many as a dozen sub-battlefields, each of which is a hand-to-hand combat with hand-to-hand combat, the Eighth Route Army wearing gray cloth uniforms, and the Japanese soldiers wearing yellow army coats, are clearly distinguished, and the sound of killing is shocking.

What frightened the commander of the second battalion even more was that outside the village, the Japanese soldiers, who were several times his size, were pressing towards the west of the village from a distance. Feng Changzhi, who was condescending, saw that the commanders and fighters of the 6th Company were falling from time to time, but none of them flinched, they were desperately brandishing bayonets or broadswords to fight with all their might—they were carrying out the order they had given before to defend the frontal defense line in the west of the village!

Feng Changzhi's nose was sore, tears welled up in his eyes, he raised his hand to wipe it vigorously, and turned to shout under the firewood stack: Commander!

There is no need to fight to the death, the baggage materials in the east of the village may not have been completely withdrawn into the Guanmen Mountain Pass, but they can come back if they are lost, and these elite officers and soldiers who have come all the way from Jiangxi must not be lost here.

"Blow the emergency rallying call!" Feng Changzhi gave an order to the commander of the battalion headquarters.

The mournful sound of the horn sounded in the cold night sky, and the Japanese soldiers did not know what to do, but the officers and men of the 2nd Battalion of the Forest Division immediately understood it.

They began to fight in the direction of the trumpet, and fought and retreated.

Wei Xin, the commander of the 7th company at the head of the village, climbed onto the roof of a house after the moon came out, which was the roof of a crooked machine gun. In the moonlight, the wilderness outside the village where the brief battle had taken place just now was bare, and there was not a single figure in sight; And when he looked back at the west of the village, he also felt shocked: how many little devils came? How do you feel that there are their yellow figures everywhere in the wilderness over there!

Wei Xin had just been ordered by the battalion commander to divide half a platoon of troops to the position of the 6th Company, and at this time, by the light of the moon, the 7th Company Commander saw clearly that the Japanese army was going to use the numerical advantage to organize a strong attack, and then blossom more on the long and narrow defense line west of the village.

The bunnies have really made it a little bit more blooming! Wei Xin scolded, and was thinking about whether to give up the village head and go all out to support Wang Shuanglong. Just then, the emergency call sounded.

This was undoubtedly a call to retreat. Wei Xin glanced at the battlefield situation again, and immediately ordered to leave a squad on guard at the head of the village, and then evacuate by himself after the main force withdrew across the Qinglong River. the other squad, protecting the crooked machine gun shooters and collecting all the Type 38 rifles*, to occupy the roof of a house in the village; When the 6th Company broke away from the enemy's entanglement and retreated to the other side of the Qinglong River, it carried out fire cover to intercept the Japanese pursuers from flanking.

"Oh, that's the roof!"

The commander of the 7th company pointed to the target and showed the squad leader and the crooked machine gun shooter, which was a brick house almost in the middle of the village: "Remember, when it was almost gone, I quickly got off the roof and retreated at full speed towards the Guanmen Mountain Pass." ”

After the deployment, Wei Xin gathered the strength of the remaining platoon, all of them put on bayonets, and killed the west of the village from the direction of the head of the village.

At this time, on the west defense line of the village, which is close to the head of the village, there are two groups of hostile sides fighting hand-to-hand, ranging from a dozen to twenty people on each side, and the bayonets are frequently red.

Wei Xin, who was running, had already slung his pony pistol to his shoulder, and asked for his cold weapon from the company communicator: a slender iron rope soft whip. Wei Xin is a person who practices martial arts, and the total length of the iron rope soft whip is less than five feet, and the root is a handle wrapped in red cloth. They suddenly appeared on the position in the west of the village, Wei Xin, who was running in front, jumped up in the air, and the soft whip in his hand was picked out, and a Japanese soldier screamed with a "snap" - half of his face was whipped by the sharp whip in an instant, and the 38 big cover in his hand fell on the hard frozen soil - Wei Xin, who was holding the whip in his right hand, suddenly waved his left hand, and a short bayonet "poof" pierced the neck of the Japanese soldier covering his face, splashing Lao Gao's blood, and the Japanese soldier suddenly stopped howling and fell to his knees.

The 7th Company Commander's attack action frightened another Japanese soldier who witnessed this scene next to him, and even forgot that he was fighting, and was stabbed into the chest by the Eighth Route Army soldier on the opposite side.

More than a dozen soldiers of the 6th Company who were in a bitter struggle nearby cheered, and the soldiers of a platoon that followed Wei Xin rushed into the battle one after another, and the Japanese soldiers who had the upper hand were suddenly reversed, and several people were put down one after another, and the rest saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly retreated backwards.

Wei Xin, who rushed to the front, did not chase the retreating Japanese soldiers, but swept along the position west of the village, and wherever the soft whip went, the whip was thrown by him with a crackling sound, and it was specially swept towards the face and head of the Japanese soldier holding the 38 big cover. After joining the Red Army, he still practiced every day, and when his wrist was shaking, the whip tip could accurately smash the small clay pots placed on the low wall, and won the warm applause of the Red Army soldiers.

Wei Xin rushed with a platoon of fresh troops like this, causing a lot of panic to the unguarded Japanese soldiers on the flanks, and they retreated in a chaotic manner, widening the distance between them and the soldiers of the 6th Company.

This was an excellent opportunity to get out of the battlefield, and the soldiers of the 6th Company withdrew to the bank of the Qinglong River in the village in stride, amid the sound of the emergency assembly cry that still sounded.

At the other end of the village, after the second battalion commander Feng Changzhi ordered the trumpet, he also threw the soldiers of the two squads brought from the end of the village into the white-knuckle battle group. Although they were not as murderous as Wei Xin's side, they had reinforcements of more than 20 people at once, and they also repelled two fierce Japanese soldiers in a short time.

As a result, the main force of the 6th Company, together with the 7th Company, began to retreat towards the Qinglong River, which flowed through the village.

With the help of their comrades-in-arms, the wounded basically followed and withdrew, but the bodies of the dead commanders and fighters were powerless to take away - after a short panicked retreat, the Japanese troops stabilized their positions and quickly shouted and rushed up again with their bayonet rifles glowing in the moonlight.

Feng Changzhi, Wang Shuanglong, and Wei Xin were all shouting at the soldiers near them to retreat quickly, they had already seen that once they were re-entangled by the Japanese army, it would be even more difficult to break away.

At this moment, the crooked machine gun lying in ambush on the roof of the large brick house in the center of the village suddenly fired, and the muzzle of the machine gun was aimed obliquely at the Japanese soldiers who were chasing after it, spraying tongues of fire. The Japanese army, which was caught off guard, was hit unexpectedly again, and the pace of pursuit was delayed again. The roar of the crooked machine guns on the roof seemed to remind the retreating 6th Company, and the two Czech light machine guns also honked one after the other.