With a touch of confidence on his face, Yang Erniu said: "These devils move so slowly, but they are much easier to fight than the wild boars on the mountain."

As he said that, he continued to load the ammunition, and the other militiamen with guns also loaded the ammunition, or filled the gunpowder and iron sand.

Unfortunately, this time, before Yang Erniu could continue to fire, the Japanese from Yamazaki Battalion launched attacks one after another.

"Da da da, da da da!"

“Pah, pah, pah, pah!—”

Gunshots rang out, and a large amount of bullets immediately poured towards the militiamen.

The stone wall at the head of the village suddenly suffered a blow, with sparks flying everywhere.

Yang Erniu, who was lying behind the stone wall, also fell to the ground and fell on the cotton hat next to him. There were also two eye-catching bullet holes.

"Er Niu, are you okay?"

Not far away, Yang Tieniu rushed over and helped Yang Erniu up from the ground. Then he saw that his brother's entire crotch was soaked, accompanied by waves of unpleasant stench.

taste.

Yang Tieniu knew this smell very well. It was the stench of fresh feces. He thought that Yang Erniu had been beaten to death by the Japanese and was incontinent, so he didn't even check whether Yang Erniu had any injuries.

, and burst into tears.

Yang Tieniu had just cried for a while when Yang Erniu's voice suddenly sounded in his ears: "Brother, I'm not dead, why are you crying?"

"What?"

Yang Tieniu was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then carefully inspected Yang Erniu's body, especially his head. After confirming that the other party was not a fake corpse, he immediately said overjoyed: "You stinky boy was not hit by the Japanese.

Why are you pretending to be dead to scare me? Do you know that if you have any bad intentions, my skin will be peeled off!"

Yang Erniu said with some embarrassment: "I...although I wasn't hit, I was almost scared to death."

"By the way, brother, what can we do now?"

In just this moment, hundreds of Japanese soldiers had already descended to the river bed, and then crossed the river along the gentle part of the river bed. After a while, these Japanese soldiers were able to climb ashore, and then launched a siege against them.

Yang Tieniu picked up the box gun that had just been placed on the ground. It was also the only one in their militia team.

The devils fight hard!"

As soon as Yang Tieniu finished speaking, two militiamen with sabers in their hands jumped out from behind the stone wall.

As a result, within two steps of running out, he was beaten to a pulp by the Japanese machine gunners on the other side of the river.

This is how fighting is, bullets will not take a detour just because they are militiamen, weak, and do not have guns in their hands.

The widest part of the river at the entrance of Dongyang Village is less than 30 meters, and the river banks on both sides are no more than 100 meters. For the Japanese shooters, this distance is just a way to deliver food, whether it is a rifle or a machine gun.

The Japanese soldiers of the Yamazaki Battalion were caught off guard at first simply because they were unprepared.

Now that we are on guard, it is naturally impossible to give the militia team any opportunity to take advantage.

"Don't move, wait until the Japanese get close and then fight!"

Yang Tieniu quickly stopped other companions who wanted to rush out and shoot.

What he didn't know was that when the Japanese got closer, although they could avoid being shot by Japanese machine guns and improve the hit rate of their own bullets, the Japanese's marksmanship and bayonet skills were beyond their reach.

Just the 20 or so militiamen they had were not enough to fill the teeth of the Yamazaki Brigade's Japanese soldiers.

In less than a moment, hundreds of Japanese soldiers passed through the gentle slope and reached the road outside the village entrance from the river bed.

Although the people in the village had not yet left, and there were even women and children, which made the eyes of these beast-like devils dazzle, they were not in a hurry to enter the village, but turned around and charged towards the entrance of the village.

"Pah, pah, pah, pah!"

"Thud, tug, tug, tug, tug..."

The Japs from the Yamazaki Battalion were charging and firing continuously. At the same time, the Japs machine gunners on the other side of the river also pulled the triggers to provide them with fire cover.

Amidst the fierce gunfire, the Japanese from Yamazaki Battalion quickly approached, and in the blink of an eye they were less than 50 meters away from the stone wall.

Just when Yang Tieniu gritted his teeth and was about to order a counterattack, and when the Japanese from Yamazaki Battalion took off the grenades on their waists and prepared to drop bombs.

Changes occur suddenly!

"Whoosh! Whoosh!——"

The scream of bullets piercing the sky was heard, but suddenly tongues of flame appeared on the ridge on the left side of the village, and then a hail of bullets poured over them.

The Japanese in the Yamazaki Brigade were caught off guard and fell to the ground screaming and being shot.

In the blink of an eye, most of the Japanese who rushed across the river were killed and wounded. The remaining Japanese reacted quickly and immediately ran into a small courtyard next to the village entrance to hide.

Yang Tieniu froze on the spot. Could it be that Battalion Commander Zhang led his troops to come for reinforcements?

That's not right. Dongyang Village is nearly 10 places away from Sunjiazhai. No matter how fast the monkey is, this trip will take at least an hour.

How long has it been now? Less than 5 minutes.

Yang Erniu and the other 20 or so militiamen also looked at each other, wondering what was going on.

Looking around, they found that the Japanese seemed to have forgotten about them. No matter whether it was the Japanese on the other side of the river, the Japanese who were crossing the river, or the group of Japanese who fled into the small courtyard at the entrance of the village, they no longer cared about them.

All the Japanese firepower and attention were attracted by the machine gun fire on the ridge on the left.

…

"Bagayalu! Where did these damn Tubal Route Army troops come from?"

Yamazaki Jihei's nose was almost crooked with anger. He never thought that he just wanted to massacre a village so that his subordinates could be freed.

As a result, before entering the village, a Tubal army suddenly appeared and killed and wounded dozens of his soldiers.

Kobayashi Jiro asked for instructions from the side: "Captain, what should we do now?"

Yamazaki Jihei said coldly: "Of course we will continue the attack. What are we doing here? It is to eliminate the independent battalion of the Eighth Route Army. You see, this Eighth Route Army has so much machine gun firepower. It is probably Wang Chengzhu's independent battalion."

"They came just in time, which saved us from running away!"

"Order all squadrons to immediately abandon the Chinese civilians in the villages and launch an attack toward the mountain ridge on the left!"

"Hiyi!"

Kobayashi Jiro immediately agreed, and then conveyed the order of Captain Yamazaki Jihei...

I have to say that this time, Yamazaki Jihei really guessed it correctly. The one who arrived in time to reinforce the militia team was none other than Wang Chengzhu's independent battalion.

To be precise, it is the first company of the independent battalion.

Of course, it was not that Wang Chengzhu had the ability to predict the unknown and issued combat orders to the First Company in advance.

But when the Yamazaki Battalion first entered the Eighth Route Army's defense area, it was targeted by the independent battalion's scouts.

It happened that in order to deal with Qian Bojun, Wang Chengzhu transferred his troops from the vicinity of Wangjiacun to the vicinity of Lijia Town in advance.

The first company happened to be closest to Dongyang Village. After receiving the news, Xu Hailang, the deputy battalion commander and commander of the first company, ordered people to report the news to the battalion headquarters, and on the other hand, he assembled the troops and rushed over.
Chapter completed!