The bloody battle by the river continued, but as if there was a tacit understanding, the Japanese artillery bombardment did not hit the pontoon bridge.

In fact, if you cross the river from here, you can walk dozens of kilometers less, and you can fully reach the retreating rout and the people.

"The commander has not returned, we must be crucified here, you bring a rifle company to the front, and there is no order for everyone not to retreat, otherwise military law will be involved."

At the moment Hansen. Raul's eyes were bloodshot, and he spoke with a fierce intensity. This surprised Cao Zijin a little, because this product was in front of Zhang Sixing, although he was only a non-commissioned officer, he rarely had a positive shape.

I didn't expect that when I was alone, I could still calm down, and muttered in my heart:

Presumably he thinks he is German, and it will not be good for all the Japanese to catch him. Isn't it supposed to be better than everyone else in such a relaxed mind?

Originally, there were 3,000 defeated troops collected on this side of the river, but in addition to the 1,000 or so people arranged in front, they could only fill the road defense line in one group.

"Let's go, let's go to ......"

Cao Zijin, who was wearing an M35 steel helmet on his head, ran back to the back of the position and beckoned the infantry who had just been replenished.

"Follow Lao Tzu and go to the front...... Remember, one shift at a time forward, and people are more than three meters apart......"

He took two steps, then stopped and yelled at his men,

"Give Lao Tzu all the ears to the edges, and lie down when he hears the cannon is coming......"

Under the blockade of enemy artillery, how to bring troops up was a difficult problem. Especially now that everyone is on the flat plain, there is nothing to hide.

But the good thing is that the soldiers are now accustomed to the "small group run" way through the artillery blockade.

One class at a time, scattered on the ground of Nuoda, especially when the devils don't hit the pontoon bridge, it is not so difficult to pass.

Cao Zijin, who was running at the front with a class, thought:

The devil didn't play the pontoon bridge at first, probably because he was lazy to rebuild. But after a day's fighting, there is no pontoon bridge to save them time, but why don't they blow up the bridge?

Just as he was thinking about the sound of cannonballs flying in the distance, Cao Zijin suddenly threw himself to the ground, while holding his head with his arms and covering his ears with his hands.

"Boom ......"

In the violent explosion, stones, water, and other fragments rose up together and fell on Cao Zijin's body. Although it was very painful to be smashed, and the steel helmet was also smashed with a "thump" sound, Cao Zijin still lay motionless on the ground.

Why didn't the Japanese blow up the bridge?

As soon as the explosion ended, Cao Zijin, who had already run on this road a few times, ran forward violently, but the question was still thinking about that question in his heart.

When he ran onto the pontoon, his heart was much more secure. Although the two headings of the pontoon bridge are stacked with craters, the pontoon bridge is still intact.

He turned his head to look at the soldiers behind him, who had run several times on this road because of the rules of rotation.

Although my heart was still beating faster in fear, I knew in my heart that as long as I listened to the sound of the cannonballs flying by, it would not be easy for the cannonballs to kill a person unless it was particularly unlucky.

Recruits are afraid of artillery, veterans are afraid of machine guns......

Cao Zijin had a hint of clarity in his heart, why did he run back and forth on this line like this. Don't do more, after a few trips, they will all be veterans.

But why didn't the Japanese blow up the bridge?

If the Japanese blow up the bridge, then it may be time for the entire line to withdraw to this side of the river. Then the Japanese advance, and everyone fights with the Japanese on the preset main position.

Is there anything wrong with this, of course not, at least it saves everyone from running under fire.

"Plop"

Finally, Cao Zijin could fall into a crater without pain in his arms or knees.

This made him admire the people in the rear miscellaneous barracks very much, and saw that the equipment that Zhang Sixing brought from the concession was actually made out of wooden rags to support his knees and elbows.

Why can he Lu Feizhang and them change to new equipment, and why......

Cao Zijin, who was a little aggrieved, lifted his steel helmet, and the battlefield appeared in front of him, but it was not bloody.

Taking out the binoculars, Cao Zijin habitually lifted his steel helmet and observed the battlefield with the telescope.

Compared with the road line, which was often shelled, the arc-shaped single-man single-pit battle line on the plain in front also suffered a lot of shells. However, from the muzzle fire analysis of the pistol team shooting, there should not be many casualties.

The devils don't have large-caliber guns, and there is nothing they can do about such a front, there are no machine guns here.

Yes, there is not even a machine gun on the single-player single-pit front, but the box gun with the butt can not be suppressed by the rate of fire of the 38 rifle in a short-range engagement.

Against semi-automatic, only machine guns and grenadiers can suppress it.

However, the sniper-shot-gun with a silencer is the nemesis of these weapons. Far away, the firepower is poor, the accuracy is greatly reduced, and the closer is to deliver food to the sniper.

Especially at this time, the devil has not paid attention to the concept of sniper operation, and it will take a few years to wait for the Pacific War, and the tactics are all wrong.

The ...... of this array of cloth As a gendarmes trained by the Germans, Cao Zijin really couldn't imagine that fighting a war was such a painting style.

At the beginning of this battle, he felt that the single-man single-pit battle front in front of him might not be able to withstand the Japanese charge. In particular, Zhang Sixing gave 800 rounds of ammunition and dozens of grenades to each of the pistol team inside, and he didn't feel like he was fighting like this.

Now take a look...... Three hundred meters outside the pistol team's battle line was the newly dug trench of the devils. The reason why it is so far away is that it is too close to the range of the gasoline barrel cannon.

Instead, as a rifle front, the remains of people and weapons were scattered everywhere. Although at this moment the soldiers are also beginning to dig a single pit front, such losses are smaller than those of traditional trenches.

Another advantage is that when individual soldiers want to escape, they will think about running on the unsheltered plain, that is, to deliver food to devils with good marksmanship.

Cao Zijin didn't have to worry about digging a ballade pit, he lifted his steel helmet and continued to observe the battlefield with a telescope, but at the same time, he always had a question in his heart:

Why didn't the devils blow up the pontoon, if they did......

In fact, he didn't understand this matter, but Major General Sato Shozaburo of the 101st Division and the 101st Brigade thought very thoroughly:

Lost fast columns, more than two and a half thousand people. Nearly two infantry brigades were lost in the ensuing battle...... In any case, he had to get something to explain to his boss.

At the moment, he only hated one thing, and that was that the people who blocked his troops had so many box cannons.

The attack of the box artillery at close range was not at all something that the 38th Brigade could deal with, and it was not that the soldiers did not do their best when attacking.

In fact, a considerable part of those box guns were asked by Zhang Sixing from the patrol police in the concession, and the quality of Qingyishui's German origin is much better than that made in China.