When the Japanese reinforcements in Linfen were still rushing in the direction of the exchange of fire in trucks, there was already a change in the blocking position of the second battalion of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army.

Major Chen Hao, commander of the 2nd Battalion, participated in the Battle of Xinkou with the Central Army last year, and repeatedly clashed with the main force of the Japanese Army's Itagaki Division, and was familiar with the tactics of the Japanese Army. Just now, the Makqin heavy machine gun he deployed defeated the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army in one fell swoop, and when he was complacent, unexpectedly, the position suddenly began to fall silently, and exploded and blossomed one after another. Major Chen Hao was taken aback and immediately realized that it was a grenadier firing - the Japanese were coming!

As if to prove the correctness of his judgment, a sharp whistling sound sounded in the air, and a * shot fell from the sky and exploded less than ten zhang away from Chen Hao. He has led the main force of the second battalion to fight with the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army here for a long time, and the other side does not have any caliber of artillery or small artillery at all, but now suddenly grenadiers and mortars have joined the battle, and there is no doubt that the Japanese army in Fengdian County has followed up.

Chen Hao immediately instructed the Makqin heavy machine gun to prepare for the transfer after firing, and the grenadiers of the Japanese army specially picked the heavy machine gun positions of the national army to fight, which was notoriously steady and ruthless, and the major battalion commander who had been fighting on the Xinkou front for half a month was deeply touched by this.

"Battalion commander, the Japanese army has arrived, do we want to defend it any longer?"

The commander of the fourth company ran to Chen Hao's side and asked loudly while dodging the explosion of Xiao *. The latter did not say anything, but he was thinking in his heart: at first there were only cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army, but now the Japanese have appeared, which shows that the Eighth Route Army, which was responsible for blocking the enemy army in the direction of Fengdian, has been completely defeated or even annihilated. The two companies under his command will have to withstand the frontal attack of the main force of the Japanese reinforcements alone, and I am afraid that this battle will not be able to continue.

"Let's take a look at the top first, they are already withdrawing, and now the key is whether the friendly troops after the railway line is broken, including our first battalion and three companies, can be safely withdrawn as soon as possible, if they arrive, we don't need to be on this hard top."

Before Chen Hao's words fell, fierce gunfire suddenly broke out at the far left end of the position: "What's the situation?" Go back and take care of it! ”

At the left end was the defensive line that the fourth company was responsible for, and the commander of the fourth company ran back without waiting for the battalion commander to finish speaking. Soon, the situation was ascertained, and a large group of enemy troops had sneaked up from that direction, and the fourth company judged from the sound of gunfire that it was a Japanese soldier, which should be no less than the size of an infantry squad.

The commander of the second battalion who received the report said "hey" in his heart: I am really afraid of anything, and before the little devil shells are finished, the infantry will attack, and they will attack from the flank, damn!

The so-called positions of the two companies of the 2nd Battalion of the 391st Regiment were only temporarily constructed by finding some dirt slopes, shallow ditches, and trees nearby, and there were almost no decent barriers. This sneak attack of the Japanese troops, bypassing the front of the defenders, touched up from one end, and hit the second battalion and the fourth company by surprise. In the thick of the night, the Japanese soldiers advanced very quickly, and the forward once reached the front of the fourth company, and a short small-scale white-knuckle battle broke out between the two sides! In the end, the officers and men of the 4th Company, who had come up with reinforcements, finally pushed the Japanese back with a near-suicidal counteroffensive of dropping bombs at close range.

At the same time, the Makqin heavy machine gun at the other end of the second battalion's position also fired again - the sound of dense horses' hooves sounded in front of the main position, and it was obvious that the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army was making a comeback.

The battalion commander of the major didn't pay attention to the front, the combat strength of the traitor cavalry was average, and he had heavy machine guns to sweep the formation, so there was no major problem for the time being. He ran directly to the fourth company, and the fourth company commander, who was still alive just now, is now sitting on the ground, his left thigh was wounded, and a bullet pierced his thigh, no need to ask, of course, it was the Japanese army's 38-type rifle that did it. The commander of the fourth company scolded his mother in pain, and the health soldiers were nervously bandaging him.

Chen Hao asked about the battle situation, and felt that the Japanese army that had sneak attack would not give up, they would either change the direction and start again, or simply continue to attack along the route of the sneak attack just now. The 4th Company has transferred a platoon to move the flank.

"Okay, go back and ask for credit for you and the fourth company!" Chen Hao squatted beside the commander of the fourth company, patting the other party's shoulder and comforting him. Just now, if it weren't for the brothers of the company who risked their lives to fight with the Japanese with bayonets and dropped bombs at close range, I am afraid that the position of the entire second battalion would have collapsed by now.

However, the battalion commander of the major, who secretly felt fortunate, had just breathed a sigh of relief when an even greater disaster suddenly struck!

If the reinforcements of the Linfen Japanese army and the truck driver who were driving all the way on the wasteland could only roughly correct the direction according to the sound of gunfire at first, then the grenadier canister* and the sound of the explosion that later entered the position of the second battalion of the 391st Regiment clearly allowed them to find the target.

Kikuchi Shaosa, who led the team, had already climbed from the cab to the truck bed, listening to the wind and judging the direction. When it was still about two or three miles away from the battlefield of firefighting, Kikuchi Shaoza ordered the convoy to stop, and all the officers and men got out of the convoy and formed a team, except for a small number of troops left to guard the convoy, the rest of them all attacked in the direction of the battlefield on foot.

It is certain that the position where he appears now is the flank and rear of the position of the Chinese army, which is an excellent angle for attack! Kikuchi, who was extremely excited, ordered all units to advance in concealment and not to be exposed until they approached the position of the Shina Army.

Nearly 300 Japanese soldiers were armed with guns and ammunition and swooped down. In front of them, the battle was going on, and each short distance they advanced, they could see and hear the fierce exchange of fire on the battlefield more clearly.

In contrast, the 2nd Battalion of the 391st Regiment was completely focused on dealing with the attack of the Japanese puppet army in front of them, but was completely unaware of the presence of a sinister and vicious enemy in their flank and rear. This was not due to the negligence of the commander of the second battalion, because originally behind the flank of their current position, the sixth company of the second battalion with Qin Tuanzuo and the chief of staff personally supervising the formation established a reserve position; It's just that just before the arrival of this group of Japanese reinforcements roaring in a car, Qin Zhongxiao led his subordinates to leave.

The god of luck stood behind the Japanese at this moment.

Kikuchi Shaosa personally followed in the lineup of an infantry squad, and quietly approached the position of the Shina Army step by step. The order has been carried out a long time ago, as long as Shao Zuo himself does not fire the first shot, no one is allowed to open fire without permission - he wants to maximize the effect of this sneak attack!

Seeing that the team was getting closer and closer, and the soldiers at the front even had to crawl on the ground, Kikuchi Shaosa visually measured that there were still about 100 meters left at most from the position of the Shina army. Given the flat wilderness beneath his feet, he decided to strike right at this distance.

Bang!

Shao Zuo snapped the Southern Type 14 pistol in his hand, and three hundred elite Japanese troops attacked.

When the flares fired by the Japanese troops from the military trains on the railway line pierced the night sky one after another, Wu Zijian realized that the general situation was not good, and the alternate cover retreat they had just launched with the first battalion and three companies of the friendly 391st Regiment was originally going to be carried out by nightfall, but the flares forcibly split the night, which would undoubtedly let the Japanese see the truth clearly.

Sure enough, not long after the flare fell, Wu Zijian heard a fierce firefight from the right front, and he understood that it should be the third company of the first battalion led by Deputy Battalion Commander Liu of the Central Army, which was bitten by the Japanese army. At this time, the 5th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Xu Brigade had just broken away from the entanglement with the Japanese troops in front of the railway line and retreated to a relatively safe area.

However, the situation has changed: the 3rd Company of the 1st Battalion of the 391st Regiment failed to withdraw smoothly, so that the alternating cover retreat agreed by the two sides came to naught - if the 5th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Xu Brigade continued to retreat, it would undoubtedly be equivalent to losing this company of friendly forces to the Japanese army!

Wu Zijian naturally refused to do such an act that violated morality, so he decisively adjusted his strategy and ordered the deputy company commander of the 5th Company to lead two platoons to protect the artillery platoon and heavy machine guns to continue to retreat; He himself and Li Tianlin led the remaining four platoons and turned back to the railway line. As a result, they collided head-on with the Ushijima squadron of the Japanese army, which was hurrying after them, and they were killed in an instant.

Ushijima's squadron began the pursuit with all its might under the death order shouted by Captain Maori. The flare that lit up the night sky just now made Squadron Leader Ushijima also see that the Shina Army in front of him had escaped a considerable distance, and in a fit of rage, the pursuit carried out by his subordinates was almost a wild run. But what he didn't expect was that the Chinese army, which had fled far away, turned around in the night, which directly caused the two teams to collide face to face in the wilderness. The strikers on both sides were initially taken aback, but soon they got mixed up and began a scuffle.

It was a terrible melee battle, with soldiers on both sides at the forefront of the confrontation, many of whom had difficulty distinguishing between friend and foe, to the point of repeatedly injuring their own people. It was not until the rear teams of both armies realized the confusion in the front and then restrained the pace of the forward rush that a clearer confrontation gradually re-formed, and the melee turned into a frenzied confrontation.

Li Tianlin had already rushed to the front to fight desperately, but Wu Zijian, who was dragging behind, quickly felt anxious: a company of the Central Army was bitten by the Japanese army, and his own company originally wanted to kill back to help, but it was also pushed here by the oncoming enemy; It is not a good thing to go on like this!

Just when the deputy battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army was worried but helpless, the Japanese position on the opposite side suddenly began to loosen, and in the flank and rear position of the Japanese army, a cavalry rushed in a whirlwind oblique stab, instantly crushing the enemy in front of him. The Ushijima squadron, which was caught in the middle of the attack, was caught off guard, the formation was in disarray, and it was forced to start retreating.

That cavalry, of course, is the cavalry company of the second battalion of the Xu Brigade commanded by Xia Lianshan!