After the ten-minute shelling, it seemed that the national rescue army used more than 1,000 shells. In fact, they only used more than 300 shells, and the remaining more than 700 shells were all blown out by black gunpowder in the village.

At this time, the small village had been blown up in a mess, and even a complete house could not be seen.

There are many places where the flames were ignited by the explosion of shells, and a house was engulfed by a raging fire in the blink of an eye.

A multi-battalion troops rushed out of the offensive force, holding guns, and approaching Gangtou Village at the same time from three directions.

The Japanese Major who followed Zhou Cheng quickly raised his telescope.

The attack was particularly smooth at the beginning. The attacking troops of the three routes rushed to four or five hundred meters outside the village. No gunshot came from Gangtou Village, shrouded by gunfire and fire.

The Japanese Major frowns involuntarily.

He had seen the strength of the Eighth Route Army. A shelling would never be able to defeat them. There was no movement in the village now. He subconsciously thought that the Eighth Route Army was engaged in some conspiracy in the village.

When the attacking troops were more than 300 meters away from the village, there was no movement in Gangtou Village.

The Major's brows became deeper and deeper, and he became more convinced that the Eighth Route Army had brewed a new conspiracy in the village.

"Dongdongdongdong...dadada..." When the attacking troops were more than 200 meters away from the village, gunshots finally came from the battlefield. Then they saw the attacking troops falling to the ground, and it seemed that they were hit by bullets fired from the village, with heavy casualties!

The gunshots were very dense, and it sounded like there were at least two heavy machine guns and more than six light machine guns firing. In the blink of an eye, nearly one hundred people were "injured and injured" by the three attacking troops.

The offensive troops were obviously caught off guard. After a brief panic, they carried the "wounded and corpses" and quickly withdrew from the battle.

Zhou Cheng's face suddenly sank, and he suppressed his anger and ordered: "Today, I and the Eighth Route Army have been formed! The artillery battalion will continue to fire, and then blow me up for ten minutes, razed the village to the ground, and blow all the Eighth Route Army inside into minced meat!"

The Japanese Grandmaster did not respond.

Although I felt that the national rescue army retreated with one blow, it was too cowardly and didn't look like a soldier at all, I didn't say much.

Zhou Cheng just explained that in order to allow the troops to slowly accept the fact that the National Salvation Army was reorganized into the Imperial Army and not cause turmoil, the troops must fight against the Eighth Route Army step by step and cannot be too rushed, otherwise it may backfire and cause mutiny, which will be a disaster.

The best way is to dispatch artillery soldiers to fight the Eighth Route Army first and let the artillery play the leading role.

After the battle is over, the infantry gradually adapts to their current status and is ready to continue fighting with the Eighth Route Army before officially joining the battle.

The Grandpa felt that Zhou Cheng was very reasonable, and the counterattack firepower that the Eighth Route Army had just launched was indeed too strong, causing more than 100 casualties to the National Rescue Army in less than half a minute.

If you really want to fight head-on, even if the National Salvation Army wiped out the Eighth Route Army in the village, it would suffer heavy casualties. Such a result would not be consistent with the immediate interests of the Imperial Army.

If the National Salvation Army was crippled by the Universe as soon as they took action, then their influence on the Universe would be greatly reduced, and it would be impossible to force more Eighth Route Army back to the aid base, and there would be no way to reduce the combat pressure of the front-line troops of the Imperial Army.

Therefore, the National Salvation Army must not cause too many casualties when attacking Gangtou Village.

Artillery fire strikes are the best way to reduce casualties in the army, and of course the Major would not refuse.

In less than two minutes, the small village was once again covered by gunfire, and Gangtou Village was filled with smoke again...

At this moment, Fang Shanlin, the battalion commander of the second battalion who was in charge of the attack, walked towards Zhou Cheng with a serious look on his face, with a trace of blood on his body...

"Battor Fang, are you injured?" Zhou Cheng asked anxiously after seeing him.

Fang Shanlin pointed to the blood on his body and explained: "I was not injured, the blood on my body belonged to the wounded!"

"In the assault just now, a total of 28 people were sacrificed, and more than 30 people were injured. The first battalion was sacrificed and 21 people were injured."

Zhou Chengchang breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, this casualty will not hurt us. You immediately arrange the militia and baggage troops behind to send the bodies of the wounded and dead soldiers back to the defense zone. We Chinese people pay attention to returning to the roots and falling into the ground for peace. Therefore, the National Salvation Army has never left their own people outside in wars, and this time is no exception. Moreover, marching with the bodies of the wounded and dead soldiers is too affecting the morale and morale of the troops! It is not conducive to our next battle."

Fang Shanlin immediately received the order: "Please rest assured, the regiment commander, I will make arrangements now to ensure that all the wounded and the soldiers who died in battle will return home safely."

The Japanese Grandpa still didn't say anything. Zhou Cheng's order just now was reasonable and the offensive troops did carry back more than 100 wounded and dead soldiers from the battlefield.

In this case, he had no doubt about the authenticity of the injured, nor did he intend to check the injured.

The second round of artillery was soon over, and Gangtou Village had been bombed into ruins.

If you glance at the village, it is hard to see the ruins and the ruins are all razed to the ground. The village can see raging fires and rolling smoke everywhere, which looks like hell on earth and is very tragic.

The offensive troops fought very smoothly this time. From the beginning of the attack, the team rushed to the edge of the village without being attacked again!

The Japanese Grandpa saw it for no reason. He was about to propose to go to the battlefield to see what happened in the village? Why didn't a gunshot come out when he saw the main attack battalion commander Fang Shanlin running towards them again.

Compared with the expression just now, there was a trace of anger on his face.

"Captain, the Eighth Route Army in the village ran away!"

"This is impossible!" Zhou Cheng vetoed without hesitation.

"The village has been surrounded by us. The Eighth Route Army has at least one battalion of troops. If they really want to break through, how could there be no movement at all? And it's daytime now, with the goal of a battalion so big, we are not blind. If they really break through, we can definitely see it!"

The Japanese Major also showed an expression of agreement, and he did not believe that the Eighth Route Army had the opportunity to break through their noses.

"But there is indeed no Eighth Route Army in the village, and even the body is not found!" Fang Shanlin continued to report, insisting on what he saw with his eyes.

"The Eighth Route Army, which blocked you just now, caused a large number of casualties, went there? Don't tell me that they all escaped!" Zhou Cheng still didn't believe the news and stared at Fang Shanlin and continued to ask.

The Japanese Grandpa's eyes were also focused on Fang Shanlin, trying to see some flaws from his face.

Fang Shanlin felt very wronged and could only continue to explain: "Captain, there is really no Eighth Route Army in the village."

"The artillery battalion flattened the village. There was no place to hide people. Hundreds of us had searched the village, but we just couldn't find an Eighth Route Army!"

"But we found a large number of bullet shells where they just opened fire, all of which were generated when they were firing just now. The bullet shells were still hot, but we just couldn't find the Eighth Route Army and the weapons they used!"

"Who can tell me what's going on?" Zhou Cheng couldn't figure out why, so he could only ask his subordinates around him.

This matter is so strange today. Not only Zhou Cheng can't understand it, but everyone else, including the Japanese Grandpa, all showed a confused expression.

"Captain, we found it. We know why the Eighth Route Army is not in the village!" The deputy battalion commander of the Second Battalion suddenly ran towards everyone from the entrance of the village, shouting while running.

After rushing to Zhou Cheng, he gasped and reported: "Captain, we found an authentic tunnel in the village that leads directly to the outside of the village!"

"The Eighth Route Army in the village must have run away from the tunnel!" Zhou Cheng made a judgment after hearing this.

Then he pretended to be angry and cursed: "No, they killed so many of our National Savior Army, and even caused us to use more than 2,000 shells. We must not let them run away like this!"

"Check out where the tunnel is immediately available, and then send troops to pursue it, intercept them at all costs and kill them!"

"The cavalry battalion is ready to chase after the Eighth Route Army. As soon as the direction of breaking through and running away was determined, they began to pursue it!"

In order to make the Japanese believe that the Eighth Route Army in the village really broke through the tunnel and fled, Zhou Cheng took them into the village after the order and headed straight to the tunnel entrance found by the attacking troops.

Next to the opening was a large number of broken logs, and there were black holes inside, and a shout came from time to time.

Seeing this, thinking about the villages around you that had been blown into ruins and the dense shell craters, the Japanese Grandpa finally believed in the fact that the Eighth Route Army broke through the tunnel.

"Captain, we found the Eighth Route Army that broke through and fled. They were about 500 meters southeast of the village, with a total force of more than one battalion and carrying a large number of wounded people!" A reconnaissance platoon leader suddenly ran over to report.

Zhou Cheng quickly climbed up a pile of ruins beside him, raised his telescope, and looked down at the target from a high place.

The houses in the village were blown up and there were no obstacles to block his view.

In less than three seconds, the Eighth Route Army was found by Zhou Cheng.

He clenched his fists and cursed angrily: "The Eighth Route Army breakout troops are indeed there, with a total force of more than one battalion and a dozen or two hundred stretchers."

"The Eighth Route Army also has the habit of taking away casualties and soldiers' bodies before retreating. More than 200 stretchers mean that we destroyed at least 200 Japanese and puppet troops in the battle just now."

"That's great. The soldiers who died in the first round of attack were finally not in vain!"

"The cavalry battalion set out to pursue immediately, and must block them."

"The other troops followed and chased after them. They brought so many wounded and corpses, so they would definitely not be able to run fast!"

Less than five minutes after the cavalry set out, a large number of gunfire sounds came from the direction of the Eighth Route Army's breakthrough.

More than ten minutes later, several cavalry rushed towards Zhou Cheng with a whip.

When I came back, the deputy battalion commander of the Cavalry Battalion reported excitedly when he saw Zhou Cheng: "Captain, we are catching up with them!"

"The other party was very cunning. Seeing that we were cavalrymen, we decisively gave up on the road and divided the troops to break through, but we still couldn't escape our pursuit. We captured at least two hundred prisoners!"

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