This is the matter of sharpening them, and if they have the strength to deal with a small detachment of the Japanese army, it will be a big deal.

During the period of delay on their way, the battle of Qiao's house became more and more intense, and the reinforced company launched no less than five attacks on the Japanese army's firepower points, only knocking out the machine-gun fire point of one of the Japanese army's forward positions, for which one platoon paid for the casualties, and the remaining two platoons firmly occupied the Japanese army's forward positions and fired at the Japanese troops who counterattacked the forward positions.

The Japanese offensive was fierce, and the shells of the grenadiers fell on the positions continuously, and a series of roars broke out.

"The little Japanese devil is up again."

In the hazy night, a detachment of the Japanese army, more than ten people, along the eaves on both sides of the street, launched a counterattack on the forward positions, the first to find was a soldier in three rows and a squad, he turned around and shouted, shocked to find that a group of soldiers behind him had died under the grenadiers of the Japanese army.

On both sides of the street, two Japanese grenadiers crouched, holding on to the grenadiers, aiming at the positions captured by the national army, and began round after round of shelling.

The cannonballs of the grenadiers fell on the positions almost without money, and the forward positions could not be held, so they had to retreat into the houses.

The first platoon was responsible for blocking the gate, while the third platoon occupied the second floor, using the shooting holes opened by the Japanese devils themselves to shoot at the Japanese devils shrouded in twilight.

The platoon commander was a smart man, and he knew in his heart that once the Japanese captured the house, all of them would die here, so he immediately ordered the second and third squads to go out and occupy the houses on both sides of the street.

The battle was fierce, and the two sides engaged in fierce street fighting on a 100-meter-long street.

In the alley on the other side, crossing the broken wall and entering a private house, Xia Yuan lit a cigarette and squinted to observe the situation in front of him, as well as the houses on both sides of the street, which had the charm of an ancient city.

This is not the center of Luodian Town, the houses are low and low, as far as the eye can see, there are few two-story huts, the Japanese devils are very smart, occupy almost all the two-story buildings near Qiao's house, and simply reinforce these two-story small buildings, and build a very strong machine gun fire point, defensive fortress.

In particular, Qiao's house has completely become the center of the Japanese army's defense, and it is difficult for the national army to penetrate from the surrounding areas.

"Scholar, how many shells are left."

If you want to take down Qiao's house, in addition to your own efforts, other troops also need to work together, and the grenadier in the scholar's arms is an important weapon to tear apart the Japanese defense line.

"Platoon commander, there are only ten left, and one has fallen on the road, and I can't find it." The scholar responded to him.

"Ten is enough." Xia Yuan took two puffs of cigarette and threw it on the ground to extinguish: "The Japanese army is attacking the two-story building in front of us, Lao Zhao, you take Zheng Dayong over first, set up the machine gun, there are our troops in that position." ”

"Okay." Zhao Shiguo kicked Zheng Dayong, and the two rushed out of the house with machine guns, burrowed into the twilight, and disappeared into the dark alley.

"The four of us will go to fight the Japanese devil's position later." Xia Yuan checked the bullets in the bullet clip and counted the grenades on his body.

There are still seventy-nine rounds of bullets, only three Japanese grenades remain, the number of grenades is not much, but it is not in the way, the battlefield is full of corpses of Japanese devils, and it is completely possible to replenish them through the corpses of Japanese devils.

Fight to feed the war.

"Let's go!"

After observing the general situation, Xia Yuan took it to the street, and groped forward with the help of the cover of the ruins.

Passing through a battle zone, the sound in the ruins made Xia Yuan stop suddenly, and signaled Lao Lei with his gun to keep watch in place, while he and the scholar took their guns and got into the window of the rubble hill, and under a broken beam, he saw a soldier of the national army covered in blood.

His chest heaved violently, his mouth murmured, the whites of his eyes rolled, he heard the movement of the window, and his black hand touched the ground, trying to touch his gun, but his gun fell far away.

The lower half of his body was pressed against the beams of the house, and there was an iron on the beams, which pierced his thighs and pinned him to the ground.

"Chinese." Xia Yuan saw the soldier's uniform clearly, and then spoke.

When the man heard Xia Yuan's voice, his eyes regained a little color, and his mouth made a gurgling sound, Xia Yuan slipped down from the rubble, reached out to hold the broken beam, and quickly approached with a gun.

The appearance of the person in front of him was extremely tragic, his body was pierced by three bullets, his thigh was nailed to the ground, and he insisted on it until now.

Chapped lips squirmed, "Water, water." ”

The scholar behind him got in, saw the appearance of this soldier, couldn't bear it, took out the kettle from his waist, and was about to fill him with water, Xia Yuan stretched out his hand to stop it, looking at the blood under this soldier: "He was so seriously injured, the blood in his body was almost drained, you give him water, it will only make him die faster." ”

The scholar was puzzled, but Xia Yuan didn't explain too much.

The quality of the national army units was uneven, many of them were strong men captured from the countryside, they had no experience in dealing with the battlefield and first aid knowledge, many of the wounded lost too much blood, causing thirst, and the unwitting soldiers fed them water to drink, and soon, these wounded died.

It is not possible to drink water due to excessive blood loss, and drinking water can cause death.

The soldier in front of him was completely left to hang with a breath, Xia Yuan stopped the scholar and asked: "Your injury is too serious, I can't save you, if you have anything else to say, just tell me, if there is someone you want to tell, I can help you tell it." ”

In the face of these soldiers who went to the front line, Xia Yuan always maintained the maximum kindness.

"I, my name is Ding Kaijin, kill, kill four Japanese soldiers, enough, enough, let me drink saliva, I, I know that drinking water will die, drink, take a sip."

Xia Yuan looked at his scorched face, sighed silently, and nodded to the scholar.

The scholar carefully fed him a large mouthful.

Ding Kaijin moistened his chapped lips and asked tremblingly, "Yes, is there any smoke?" ”

"Yes." The scholar had a cigarette in his pocket, took out one and put it in Ding Kaijin's mouth, drew a match and lit it, Ding Kaijin took two puffs, his eyes gradually lost focus, and the cigarette on his mouth was crooked and fell to the ground.

"Platoon commander." The scholar raised his head and looked at Xia Yuan.

"Let's go, maybe sometime, we'll be like him, lying here."

"Platoon commander, if I lie here like him one day, you are going to shoot me, I don't want to wait for death like this."

"Hmm."

"Stinky boy, run faster, you run so slowly with a gun, if you are chased by Japanese devils, you will be chased to death."

Zhao Shiguo carried a light machine gun and was full of ammunition, and ran down the alley.

Zheng Dayong gasped for breath in the back, shook off his legs, and ran fast, but he couldn't catch up with Zhao Shiguo, the two rushed out of the alley and ran to the street, Zheng Dayong saw Zhao Shiguo rushing to the left, and his eyes were glaring.

Zheng Dayong gasped for breath in the back, shook off his legs, and ran fast, but he couldn't catch up with Zhao Shiguo, the two rushed out of the alley and ran to the street, Zheng Dayong saw Zhao Shiguo rushing to the left, and his eyes were glaring.

"Lao Zhao, Japanese devil, Japanese devil."

Bang bang bang.

The gun rang out, and one bullet after another flew over, hitting the wall behind Zhao Shiguo, startling him into a cold sweat, and reacting that he had run to the wrong place, Zhao Shiguo carried a light machine gun and went to chase Zheng Dayong, and the two turned into the alley again, stepped on the broken rubble, and got into the ruins.

Using the broken walls and crumbling ruins as cover, they touched the vicinity of the two-story building occupied by the Nationalist army, where the gunfire intensified, and the Japanese grenadiers continued to fall in the courtyard and on the walls, and the hole that was blown open was the size of a man.

"Lao Zhao, how are we going to go up?"

In the dark, they could clearly see that the Japanese troops were attacking the two-story building, and they relied on the wall as a cover to throw grenades into the house, and the explosion was deafening.

"Go up, go up to a fart, I didn't see that the Japanese devils have already hit the door, we go up now, we are throwing ourselves into the net!" Zhao Shiguo's face was ugly, it was too dark, and he couldn't see clearly how many Japanese troops were attacking the two-story building, but it could be judged that this two-story building was definitely not going to go.

"So what are we going to do? The platoon commander said that he would let us go to support the national army brothers here. Zheng Dayong put the light machine gun on the ground and wiped the sweat from his face.

Without Xia Yuan, Zhao Shiguo didn't know what to do next.

Listening to the sound of gunfire from the second-story building, Zhao Shiguo said, "No matter, let's go to support them first, set up the machine gun outside the wall, and clean up the Japanese devils outside the wall first." ”

"Good!"

The two of them acted immediately.

The situation of the two-story building was not good, the Japanese firepower was very fierce, using grenades to destroy the outer wall, the already fragile wall was fragmented, so that a row of soldiers could not rely on the outer wall to shoot at the Japanese army outside the wall, the Japanese grenadiers also kept falling on the damaged wall, the wooden structure of the house was seriously broken, some even burned, emitting choking smoke.

"Platoon commander, let's withdraw, the Japanese devils are too fierce, they control the perimeter, we can't hide behind cover at all." The squad leader's face was blackened and he coughed constantly.

"No, we can't retreat, we paid huge casualties to knock down the forward positions of the Japanese devils, and it is absolutely impossible to abandon the forward positions and retreat now." The platoon leader had an ugly face and asked loudly: "What about the second and third squads, do they control the peripheral positions?" ”

"The second and third shifts rushed out, but there was no sound, and I don't know where to run." The squad leader said sharply: "Could it be that they ran away?" ”

"Huang Xingsong of the dog day, if you say such depressing words again, believe it or not, Lao Tzu shot you." The platoon leader would never believe that the No. 20 people in the second and third shifts ran so cleanly.

The first squad leader smiled bitterly: "Platoon commander, I definitely didn't say anything discouraged, but you can also see the current situation, the second and third squads are not defended on both sides at all." ”

"You wait, I'll take someone to take a look." The platoon commander called two people, and as soon as they rushed downstairs, the sound of light machine gun firing sounded outside, and when they listened carefully, it turned out to be the crooked handle of the Japanese army, not the Czech style of the national army.

His heart sank.

In the courtyard, a living soldier hid in a narrow corner, using wooden planks to cover the shrapnel splashing after the Japanese shells fell, and he saw the Japanese soldiers outside the wall fall to the ground one by one, and immediately became surprised, "It's our people, platoon commander, it's our people who have arrived." ”

He rushed into the house and told the platoon commander about the situation outside.

Sure enough, the two crooked handles clicked for a while, and there was a lot less movement of the Japanese devils attacking outside.

"A squad leader, take people, fight out." Seeing this, the platoon leader immediately knew that the opportunity was coming, and immediately ordered, and then rushed outside with two more people to look for the second and third classes, but the second and third classes were not found nearby.

His heart sank.

Could it be true that as the first squad leader said, the people in the second and third classes all ran away?

The first squad leader was leading seven or eight soldiers to clean up the Japanese troops outside the wall, and then they met Zheng Dayong and Zhao Shiguo, and the first squad leader stepped forward and said happily: "Brother, you are really timely." ”

"Get out of the way, these little devils have to kill them." Zhao Shiguo asked him again: "What is the situation now?" ”

"We occupied the forward position of the Japanese devils, but the second and third classes were nowhere to be found, otherwise we would have cleaned up the Japanese devils outside a long time ago." The squad leader crouched on the ground and ordered one of the fighters to keep an eye on the street to keep the Japanese devils from approaching, and then stared at the two of them.

"Hey, I know you, that's called Xia."

"Xia Yuan." Zhao Shiguo reminded.

"Yes, yes, what about your platoon commander?" The squad leader patted his head and asked again.

"Our platoon commander has taken someone to fight the Japanese devils in front, let us come over to reinforce you." Zhao Shiguo said: "What is the situation ahead? ”

"It is not optimistic, we have beaten down the forward position of the Japanese army, which has paid huge casualties, and in the front, it is the rear position of the Japanese army, there are several light machine guns, and heavy machine guns are watching, forming crossfire."

The squad leader squatted on the ground, pointed to the front, and continued: "We have a platoon, which fought several times but did not come down, suffered heavy casualties, and had no choice but to retreat. ”

After a pause, he asked again: "How many people did your platoon commander bring over?" ”

Zhao Shiguo thought for a while and said, "Three people." ”

"Three or three!?" The squad leader was shocked for a moment, and his expression was incredulous: "Three people went to fight the Japanese devil position, your platoon commander is not joking." ”

"Four people, to be exact."

"Four people can't do it, the cross-fire of the Japanese devils is too fierce, let alone four people, even forty people can't beat it." The squad leader glared at a pair of eyes with disbelief.

"What's going on?" Zheng Dayong asked.

"There's no way, I can only pray that your platoon commander has nothing to do."

"Squad leader!!"

A platoon leader came over with someone.

"Platoon commander, they are Xia Yuan's soldiers." The first squad leader said happily.

"The sharpshooter!?" The platoon leader glanced at the two of them and nodded, "You saved us, thank you, you came in time." ”

The platoon leader thanked him and said, "The first squad leader, I didn't find the figures of the second squad leader and the third squad leader, it is estimated that as you said, they are very likely to retreat." (End of chapter)