"Sir, General Luo Yousheng of the Military Police Regiment was killed by enemy planes."

At this time, on the battle line, the soldiers were leaning out of their bodies or risking life and death to replenish mines, or constantly throwing grenades.

At this time, more than a dozen fighters in the sky dived one after another, and the sound of machine guns could be heard clearly on Niushou Mountain, and they could be seen clearly even without binoculars, and several machine guns at the nose of the plane sprayed a dense rain of bullets.

The bullets hit the ground like a piano with the keys pressed. It's just that instead of beautiful notes, they are like elves made of gravel and dust, dancing a bewitching and bloody dance on the ground.

The soldiers, attracted by the approaching Japanese soldiers, did not notice the strafing of the enemy fighters, and one by one they fell into their own holes with blood mist.

Behind the battle line, brave single soldiers carried simple stretchers made of rope nets and thick bamboo poles, and the four of them rushed forward quickly. Two were infantrymen in cover, and two were stretcher bearers unarmed.

If the worst thing about the potted front is the lack of communication trenches, the support of troops, the delivery of ammunition, and the transportation of the wounded are all problems. However, in the same way, after the front was occupied by the enemy, it was difficult for them to gain access to advance.

The only things that can be used are the craters and the specially left passages between the individual potholes. After all, the barbed wire, bullets and mines in front of the position were scattered by the heavy artillery of the devils.

But behind the entire battle line, only the narrow passage between the potholes was safe, and the rest of the place, although there was no barbed wire, was full of traps and bullet mines.

Of course, this is not a normal front, if Zhang Sixing is now leading the strongest army on the surface of the future, which has been fully trained and educated, of course, there is no need to use such a position.

But here, especially when commanding a group of stragglers, then we have to use this method of "hardening the village and fighting in a dumb battle".

Watching the stretcher bearers rescue soldiers from the battlefield regardless of casualties, one of the two soldiers accompanying him stayed in the pit to hold on, and the other three quickly retreated with stretchers, before he put down his binoculars.

I thought back to that General Luo Yousheng, who was not very young and could withstand pressure. At least when the training team was still tempting, when he asked his military police to attack the 18th Division at night, he exchanged tasks with the teaching team without saying a word.

The death of such a general under the bombing of the Japanese army really made Zhang Sixing a little sad.

Of course, that's all there is to it, as he told his men,

"When you're on the battlefield, you don't have to think about anything other than the mission. When you get out of the fight alive, there is time to think about these things. ”

At this time, the old cigarette pouch Li Youtian contacted through the walkie-talkie,

"Sir, hurry up, there aren't many people chatting by the river."

Looking at the watch, it was just over eight o'clock and less than nine o'clock at the moment, and it was time to try to get out of the fight. Although several wings of the Sixth Division, the Third Division, and the Eighteenth Division did not attack the positions of Niushou Mountain, Guanyin Mountain, and Jiangjun Mountain violently, they kept attacking in turns, obviously not wanting the breakthrough troops in front of them to leave.

Heavy artillery threw earth and rocks from various positions, and the planes that had dropped the bombs did not leave. Instead, they swooped down and strafed from time to time under ground fire, and although the Japanese had lost several fighters here, they showed no sign of protecting their eyes.

But the problem now is that a certain number of casualties are inevitable in the daytime retreat, especially when the evacuation by car is greatly hindered. Even under the cover of smoke along the way, several cars transporting the teaching team were lost.

But if it continues to fight like this, it is definitely not a good thing. Especially don't think about holding out until night, if you really want to be surrounded by several divisions besieging Jinling at night, don't think about walking alone.

Don't look at the distance from the river crossing point, it's only a few dozen miles away. It is obviously unlikely that Mrs. Ping Ping walked over.

"Hu Yang, take your reconnaissance company and motorcycle squadron to set up more smoke piles along the way."

Sending away Hu Yang and his men, Zhang Sixing began to order the artillery,

"All the artillery is gone, and then the artillery is blown up."

Although Xue Xishan's subordinates attacked the Third Division from behind, they captured more than 200 of their artillery and captured many Japanese gunners, and then mixed with the gunners of the Jing'an Army to form the artillery team in front of them.

But the number of shells was not much, so Zhang Sixing kept the shells and waited for the moment of retreat.

With his order, the main artillery force hidden between the three mountains of Niushou Mountain, Jiangjun Mountain, and Guanyin Mountain opened fire together.

These were the remaining artillery pieces of the Japanese 3rd Division, all 75-mm field guns, howitzers, and a few 37-mm anti-tank guns, and the remaining shells for each gun were only one or twenty rounds.

However, when these cannons were fired together, they still brought strong damage to the attacking Japanese troops.

"Don't be chaotic when retreating, act as a company, take a platoon as a unit to fire at the air at any time, the stragglers at the crossing point will not cross the river, and the officers who have no troops will be shot on the spot."

Leaving Niushou Mountain, Zhang Sixing took a cavalry platoon under Wang Hanqing to act as his herald. He never thought that the major general of the military police regiment would be killed, and now he had to retreat with the military police regiment by himself.

Especially when he wore ostrich boots, almost every soldier of the gendarmerie could see him, which was very reassuring to the soldiers.

As everyone knows, the soldiers of the Fruit Army are poorly trained. Fighting positional warfare may still be successful, and stubbornly defending can also have tenacity. But retreat, if you don't do it well, it will cause you a big rout.

In particular, high-ranking officers are accustomed to running first, and Zhang Sixing's retreat order stipulates that it is actually for those officers. There were no soldiers left to run away officers to do anything, shot well.

With the firing of thousands of shells, one shell after another fell in the attacking group of devils. These Japanese gunners, because they had personally cut off the heads of prisoners of war who did not surrender, handed over a "letter of surrender" to Zhang Sixing.

If they are disobedient, Zhang Sixing only has to publish the photos, then they don't know what will happen, and none of the family members will survive.

As the order to retreat was given, while the gunners opened fire, the soldiers piled up the surplus ammunition together according to Zhang Sixing's order, and used blasting canisters to make tricks, and then quietly descended from the mountain in groups.

At this time, with the westerly wind, puffs of white smoke filled from the riverside, which almost blinded the Japanese planes that swooped from time to time. Zhang Sixing knew that Hu Yang was using smoke to show him that his task was well accomplished.

Looking at the smoky battlefield, Zhang Sixing knew that the air time created by the artillery would not be too much, and the Japanese would enter the existing positions in an hour at most.

I only hope that the almost ubiquitous mines and bullet mines will slow them down.

Yes, the retreat of the troops was the most troublesome thing, so when leaving the hills and reaching the plains, all the troops were retreating centimeters and arranged a large array of mines composed of bullet mines and steel helmet mines to block the Japanese pursuit.