On Shuishen Mountain, with Wang Gensheng's loud roar, a gunshot rang out, and a bullet flew over Gao Yuanzhi's head.

Gao Yuanzhi lay on the ground, ignoring the pain of being dragged down and falling to the ground by Wang Gensheng just now, and felt a cold sweat on his back.

——Walking before the ghost gate closes, who can not have palpitations?

He forcibly calmed himself down and hurriedly asked Wang Gensheng:

"Did the little devils sneak attack?"

"Scouts who look like little devils, three or four people!

Right on the opposite hillside! ”

Wang Gensheng replied as he climbed and rolled to the side.

At this time, the guards who followed them had already picked up the 38 big cover in their hands and "crackled" and aimed their guns at the little devil.

Seeing that our army was strong and their own side was unfavorable, the scouts of the little devils immediately withdrew while fighting, preparing to withdraw to Heyuan County.

Gao Yuanzhi saw it with a telescope, and immediately shouted at the bottom of the mountain:

"Pull a mountain cannon up for Lao Tzu! Fast! ”

He was almost attacked by a sneak attack just now, and he was very angry in his heart, and decided not to give these little devils a way to live, and to send them back to their hometown with artillery - the kind with thousands of broken corpses!

At the foot of the mountain, the soldiers of the artillery battalion heard the gunfire on the mountain and heard the shouts of Gao Yuanzhi, so they naturally knew that something was wrong, and hurriedly drove the war horse to climb the hillside with a mountain cannon.

At this time, those little devils had already run farther and farther, and it was estimated that they had reached six or seven hundred meters away.

Gao Yuanzhi immediately ordered the guards to stop firing so as not to waste bullets, and then personally commanded the mountain gun to unload the mountain gun from the back of the cart and set it up.

The little devil scout didn't know that Gao Yuanzhi was about to shoot them, but when he saw that the gunfire behind him stopped, he immediately turned around and laughed arrogantly.

He also made all kinds of provocative actions, and he looked very proud.

Arrogantly shouted:

"Dirt Eight Road!

Your marksmanship is terrible, so let's go back and practice for a few more years!

It can't be because you don't have bullets to practice, right?

Hahahaha......"

Because the distance was too far, the soldiers of the artillery battalion could not hear what the little devils were shouting, and even if they did, they could not understand their bird language.

But the fighters don't have to think about it to know, it's definitely not going to be a good thing.

Naturally, everyone was filled with righteous indignation and ruthlessly helped set up the cannons.

Soon, the mountain cannon was erected.

Gao Yuanzhi and Wang Gensheng personally operated the cannon, aimed at the direction of the gang of little devils to escape, and carefully adjusted the shelling of Zhuyuan.

Then he pulled the gun rope suddenly, and an 11-pound shell flew out.

"Boom!"

With a loud bang, the shell landed thirty or forty meters in front of those little devils and exploded.

Shrapnel flies!

It almost scared them to pee their pants on the spot.

couldn't help but exclaim:

"Yaga!

Tubalu actually blew up the four of us with cannonballs? ”

"Eight grid tooth road, this is too much of a waste of cannonballs!"

Another little devil roared.

"Run, it's just a school shot just now!"

As soon as he reminded him, several other people also reacted, and hurriedly ran away, and in order to reduce the load, some people even took off their guns and threw them on the ground.

Gao Yuanzhi walked outside the Ghost Gate, and at this moment he was on fire, seeing that they were about to run, he adjusted the angle of the mountain cannon slightly, and fired two rapid shots directly at them.

No matter how fast the little devils run, they can't be as fast as the cannonballs.

The Type 41 75mm mountain guns have a shell velocity of 360 meters per second, and they can run less than 10 meters in a second!

The cannonballs landed precisely within a few meters of the little devils, and the shock wave of the explosion and the shrapnel like the sickle of death immediately sent them to see the Lord of Hades, and they could no longer say a word.

……

Blowing up this group of little devil scouts who almost succeeded in sneaking up on him, Gao Yuanzhi finally let out a bad breath.

Thinking about it, the little devils in Heyuan County, hearing their two waves of artillery, may have been preparing to attack, and immediately ordered the soldiers of the whole battalion to quickly drag all the artillery up and prepare to shell Heyuan County!

……

On the little devil's side, Kurata Shizuyuki Shaozo was leading people to stand on the northern city wall of Heyuan County, observing the distance with a telescope.

Silently waiting for the scout's reconnaissance news.

However, before the scouts could return, they heard several cannon shots coming from the direction of Shuishenshan.

Kurata Shizuyuki's face was ugly, and he said suspiciously to Nakata Shouzaburo next to him:

"Nakata-kun, it sounds like Tubalu has moved the artillery position forward to Shuishen Mountain.

But the target of their shelling was not us, why is that?

This cannon sound should be the Type 41 75mm mountain cannon of our Locust Army, and the range is definitely enough for us here! ”

His binoculars didn't see the death of those scouts and the sneak attack on Gao Yuanzhi.

It is even more unimaginable that Gao Yuanzhi would be so extravagant and bombard these scouts who are not of much value with artillery.

Nakata Shouzaburo was also full of question marks, shook his head and said:

"Tu Hachilu's behavior was unexpected, and I couldn't figure out why.

However, I think that Tubalu is definitely going to attack Heyuan County in a big way, and I think we should think about the back road of my Eighth Brigade first. ”

"Nakata-kun, do you mean that we can't hold it?"

Kurata Shizuyuki's brow furrowed.

When did the locust army of nearly 3,000 people defend a county town, but before the battle starts, they feel that they can't hold it?

That's outrageous, isn't it?

If this situation becomes the norm, is it still necessary for the Locust Army to continue to implement the original strategy of swallowing the Celestial Empire?

That's a joke, right?

Although he felt that things were ridiculous, Kurata Shizuyuki decided to follow Nakata Shouzaburo's advice and prepare a retreat plan.

After all, these days, although he also tried his best to let people repair the bunkers and artillery towers on the outskirts of Heyuan County, due to the lack of cement and steel bars, in the end he could only reluctantly replace the steel bars with bamboo and replace the cement with adobe bricks, which really could not give him more confidence.

Especially now, it is clear that the opponent still has heavy artillery!

According to the situation reported by that guy Takayanagi, more than a dozen 105mm howitzers fired a salvo, and his own fortifications may not be able to carry it for long!

He immediately ordered a squadron leader beside him:

"Fu Yuanjun, immediately take your people to guard the south gate of Heyuan County!"

When the other party heard this, he immediately received the order, and then hurried away with his own people.

arranged for his henchmen to defend the retreat, Kurata Shizuyuki ordered that the two devils, traitors and others in Heyuan County who had just defected to them were all issued military uniforms to the little devils, and they gathered seven or eight hundred people, and randomly issued some broken guns, so that they could go to the city wall to disguise themselves as little devils.

Prepared to be used to confuse our soldiers.

However, when all the preparations were made, he still said to Nakata Shouzaburo suspiciously:

"Nakata-kun, why hasn't the scout we sent out back yet?

Are these bastards looking for a place to sleep?

Eight grid tooth road! ”

Nakata Shouzaburo naturally didn't know that the scouts they sent out had been sent back to their hometown with incomplete bones, so he could only shake his head and say:

"I don't know, maybe it was discovered by the sentinels of the Dirt Eighth Road, and the jade was broken?"

"Nani?

Can't even scout the enemy with these idiots?

When did my locust warriors become so wasteful? ”

Kurata Shizuyuki feels that this rotten locust army can't stay at all, go on like this, eat jujube pills!

However, just when he was full of MMP, suddenly there was a loud thunderous sound from the direction of Shuishen Mountain-

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

……

"Shelling ——!"

"Avoiding the !!"

(End of chapter)