The lights of the cars that moved forward from the blocking position of the 7th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Xu Brigade were the trucks of the second infantry squadron sent by the Japanese army from Fengdian County. They joined up with Kosuke Otsuka's team.

The Japanese squadron commander ignored the report of the squadron leader who had just arrived, but directly asked where the machine gun squad was—the machine gun squad he was referring to was sent by the machine gun squadron directly under the Nomura Infantry Brigade garrisoning Fengdian County—and after receiving the answer, Otsuka ordered the four Type 92 heavy machine guns of the machine gun squad to be erected in front of the artillery position immediately. At this moment, his patience had reached the limit, and he roared and ordered his officers: within fifteen minutes, he must completely break through the blocking position of the Eighth Route Army in front.

The latest telegram sent by the brigade headquarters from Bunjo pointed out that the Shina Army, which was attacking the railway line, was fleeing, and the direction should be towards the area of Kanmon Mountain, and Captain Mori, the deputy commander of the Nara Infantry Brigade, was ordered to lead a part of his troops to pursue and kill; For this reason, Major General Hagiwara strictly ordered Kosuke Otsuka to be sure to seize the main force of the Shina Army before it fled into Kanmon Mountain, and commanded the troops to intersperse and intercept in place, so as to completely encircle and annihilate this stubborn enemy.

Wing Commander Dazuo secretly calculated in his heart that there should still be twenty or thirty miles away from blocking the direction of the eastward fleeing Chinese army, and if he could not complete the breakthrough and march forward within fifteen minutes, it was very likely that he would miss the fighter!

The machine gun squad carrying four 92 heavy machines stumbled into the front line of the artillery position in the thick of the night, and Kosuke Otsuka grabbed their squad leader and briefly laid out the situation of the linear-like blocking position of the Eighth Route Army in front. For this reason, Otsuka asked for four 92 heavy machine guns to also be arranged in a-for-tat fan.

"Don't worry, I'll let the Mongolian army go up first, attract the opposite side of the eight-way fire, you observe the shape of their position clearly, and then aim and strike hard!"

When he talked about the Mongolian army, he couldn't help but grit his teeth: in the last attack just now, this group of Mongolian cavalry still didn't go all out! But after all, Wing Commander Dazuo can't shoot the second Mongolian Xinjiang Army officer one after another, so simply let them be the human flesh target to attract the Chinese army to open fire!

The cavalry of the Mongolian army, who did not dare to disobey, had no choice but to regroup and start the latest attack on foot. This time, almost all of them crouched on their stomachs on the wasteland and prostrate forward, and the order given to them by Wing Commander Osa was: after advancing to a certain distance, they should fire the guns in their hands, but they did not have to stand up and charge.

The guns rang out, and a few crooked machine guns creeping in the front were the first to fire, and many Type 38 mounted guns followed closely and began to shoot indiscriminately. They let go of their guns while waiting in horror for a rain of bullets to return fire from the opposite side.

Before the start of the fifth attack by the puppet Mongolian army, a small quarrel had just ended on the blocking position of the Eighth Route Army, and the commander of the 7th Company, Wei Xin, and the commander of the 6th Company, Wang Shuanglong, failed to convince anyone, the former insisted on holding the position to the death, and the latter insisted on taking one of his platoons to attack the Japanese truck team.

"Dalong, listen to me, the blocking mission was delivered to our 7th Company, and I am grateful that you can come to help;" Wei Xin relied on his big shoulders and round waist, and grabbed one of Wang Shuanglong's arms and didn't let go: "But I must not watch you take a platoon of people to death!" ”

Wang Shuanglong, who couldn't break free, retorted angrily: "Didn't you insist on taking 7 companies here to die!?" Besides, the sneak attack on the trucks behind the enemy positions has already been talked about just now! ”

"Just now, now it's now - don't you see that the Japanese are driving so many trucks again? I estimate that there should be no less than five or six hundred people on their positions now, and you take a platoon of more than 30 people to burn cars, not to send them to death! ”

Neither of the two Eighth Route Army company commanders could convince each other, and they fell into a short silent confrontation for a while.

Finally, Wei Xin let go of his hand and sighed heavily, he admitted that if the truck convoy that came over just now was indeed the new reinforcements of the Japanese army, then the position of the 7th Company would really not be able to hold it.

Wang Shuanglong's eyes lit up, and he couldn't wait to grab one of Wei Xin's arms, and said excitedly: "Old Seven, the one who knows the times is Junjie, if you want to carry out the task, you have to save your life first, if you lose your life here, what will you do to complete the mission given by the battalion headquarters?!" ”

Unexpectedly, Wei Xin immediately proposed to hold the position and wait for the Japanese puppet army on the opposite side to launch a new offensive, if it was really difficult to defend in the face of the new offensive, he could give the order for the entire 7th company to withdraw from the position.

The commander of the 6th company swallowed with difficulty, although he disagreed with Wei Xin's arrangement, he could only end the quarrel as soon as possible.

Considering that the situation had changed drastically, the two company commanders finally gave up their plan to attack the Japanese trucks, but Wang Shuanglong and a platoon of the 6th Company immediately moved to the far right end of the entire blocking position, where they lurked and did not move. When the Japanese puppet army on the opposite side launched a new offensive, once the 7th Company could not resist, Wei Xin issued an order to retreat in the direction of Hekou Village behind the flank, get out of the way of the front of the blocking position, and let the enemy's forward pass. Then, Wei Xin and Wang Shuanglong each led their subordinates to attack the team of the Japanese puppet army from the flank and behind.

The puppet Mongolian army crawled close to the position of the 7th Company and opened fire, Wei Xin heard from the chaotic gunfire that its willingness to attack was not strong, so he ordered the commanders and fighters on the arc position to return fire cautiously, save ammunition, and wait for the enemy's next move. Despite this, there were still quite a few guns firing at the position, which allowed the Japanese machine guns on the opposite side to capture the general orientation of the arc-shaped position.

Click-ta-ta! Click-ta-ta! Four Type 92 heavy machine guns fired almost at the same time. The dense rain of bullets was immediately vented, and the commander of the Japanese wing, who was personally standing behind the two heavy machine guns in the middle, was afraid that the bullets would not be able to enter the position of the Eighth Route Army, and roared and ordered the shooters to lower the firing range, without caring about the life or death of the soldiers of the Mongolian Xinjiang Army who were approaching the position of the Eighth Route Army.

This sudden rain of heavy machine gun bullets really swept the preset target relatively accurately, and many officers and men of the 7th Company were immediately shot, while the rest were suppressed by this powerful firepower and could not raise their heads. Fortunately, the puppet Mongolian army that was crawling forward also bowed their heads on the wasteland and did not dare to get up to attack, otherwise the battle would break out in the front line of the position.

Kosuke Otsuka counted three minutes in silence, and these three minutes were the time he left for the Type 92 heavy machine gun to slaughter and destroy; Immediately, he ordered the four infantry squads, which had been lined up behind the artillery and machine-gun positions, to begin the charge.

The charge was also carried out in a creeping manner at first, and four squads of Japanese infantry, with a drill that was clearly superior to that of the Mongol army, crawled forward quickly and silently. A rain of heavy machine-gun bullets whistled behind them and overhead. Suddenly, the furious fire of the four 92 heavy planes came to an abrupt halt almost at the same time—it was a pre-arranged signal, and more than 200 Japanese soldiers who had already crawled for some distance jumped to their feet, screaming and began a real charge.

The commanders and fighters of the Eighth Route Army, who were huddled behind the arc-shaped position fortifications, did not realize what was going to happen next at the moment when the Japanese heavy machine guns stopped strafing, and the sudden outbreak of shouts of killing surprised everyone.

Wei Xin had been hiding behind the Min Type 24 heavy machine gun. On the opposite side, it was obviously a strafing shot from the 92 Heavy Machine, which made him guess that this should be a heavy weapon carried by the Japanese reinforcements who had just arrived - it seemed that the Japanese really wanted to break through their positions at all costs.

"Fire! The devil charged, fire quickly! ”

Wei Xin, who was the first to react, got up and shouted at the 24-style shooters beside him, this time, it was the turn of the heavy machine guns of the Eighth Route Army to shoot angrily. With the fire of heavy machine guns, the soldiers of the 7th Company leaned out from behind the fortifications and bunkers and fired hard. But soon, everyone felt the difference in the power of the enemy's attack, the attackers were dense in number, the fire was fierce, and there were no less than a dozen light machine guns rushing to the forefront!

A chill rose on the back of the commander of the 7th Company, he knew that the last moment had come, in the face of this round of powerful impact that was almost crazy, the 7th Company would either resist to the death until it was exhausted, or avoid its edge and choose to retreat!

After hesitating for more than ten seconds, Wei Xin finally turned his heart and shouted out the retreat order - the deputy battalion commander Wu Zijian explained to him that he must resolutely defend the position, but even the deputy battalion commander himself probably never expected that the enemy army that appeared in front of the 7th Company's position would be so large and strong.

At this moment, Wei Xin was holding a Czech-style light machine gun in his hand, which originally belonged to the 6th Company, and just now Wang Shuanglong personally handed it over to the commander of the 7th Company. The 6th Company had a total of two Czech-style fortifications, all of which were arranged in Hekou Village and the Guanmen Mountain Pass fortifications, and they were all brought over by Wang Shuanglong tonight. Knowing that there was about to be a bloody battle in the 7th Company, the commander of the 6th Company did not hesitate to give them one of them.

Getting this light machine gun, which was full of the deep affection of his old comrades-in-arms, Wei Xin did not transfer it to any of his subordinates, but only handed over three of the six * to the company commander who was not leaving an inch. At this time, while firing fiercely with the Czech, he ordered the heavy machine gun team on the side to move immediately. The bulky Min-24 gun with ammunition boxes was slow and cumbersome to carry, and had to be evacuated first.

At the right end of the arc position, the deputy company commander of the 7th Company commanded another Czech gun and kept firing angrily, forming an angle of firepower with the one in Wei Xin's hand. Under the cover of this concentrated firepower, the officers and men of the 7th Company, at the far left end of the position, began to break away from the position and run towards the defense line of Hekou Village in the darkness of the night under the command of the company instructor. Just now, the instructor resolutely disagreed with Wei Xin and Wang Shuanglong's retreat plan to abandon the position, and even proposed to urgently convene a squad-platoon-level party group meeting of the 7th Company to make a decision, but the commander of the 7th Company vetoed it in his capacity as the military commander. Wang Shuanglong also swore to the instructor that he would share all the responsibilities and consequences with Wei Xin for this.

Despite the reservations, the order was forbade at the head of the war, and the instructor of the 7th Company carried out the order to retreat to the letter, and the platoon he led quickly withdrew. Immediately afterwards, the platoon in the center led by Wei Xin gradually broke away from the position flank, and the platoon commanded by the deputy company commander was the last to leave.

The Japanese soldiers conquered the position of the 7th Company!

But this doomed night battle has only passed half of it.