On the high hilltop defended by the guerrilla brigade, Liu Senyun, the commander of the first battalion, stood at the top and could clearly overlook the entire battlefield.
Every move of the Japanese and puppet troops could not escape his eyes.
Suddenly, Liu Senyun frowned, and then began to give orders: "No, the little devils are starting to retreat and assemble."
"Immediately send a signal for firepower to bombard the Japanese and puppet army gathering areas to disrupt them."
"The 1st and 2nd companies will strengthen their offensive and hold back the remaining Japanese and puppet troops on the battlefield."
"Guerrilla brigade and guard platoon, all go out. This is an excellent opportunity to defeat the enemy one by one."
Wang Xin, the captain of the guerrilla brigade, shouted with gleaming eyes: "I have been suppressed and beaten by the Japanese all afternoon, and I can finally fight back."
"Captain Liu, don't worry. Although we don't have many people in the guerrilla brigade, the rest are elites. They will definitely cooperate with the main force to wipe out all the Japanese and puppet troops below the mountain. We will avenge the sacrificed members, blood for blood, tooth for tooth."
"Boom boom..."
Six artillery shells appeared above Lieutenant Colonel Miki's head at the same time, and then crashed down with a screaming sound.
"Shell attack...protect sir..." the guard captain was the first to react.
Like a leopard, he pounced on Lieutenant Miki, who had a farewell look on his face, and pressed him down with his body, very quickly.
The explosion soon rang in the ears. Several soldiers who were caught off guard were blown away, and more soldiers were blown over. Some people fell to the ground motionless, and they suddenly lost their sound. Some people were covering their wounds and squirming on the ground, letting out bursts of pain.
of screams.
The shelling was like a flood that broke a bank. It had no intention of stopping after it started. The shells rained down one after another, as if they were free of money.
Lieutenant Colonel Miki lay on the ground, his ears filled with the screams and explosions of his subordinates.
I don't know how long it took, but the man lying on his back suddenly stopped moving, and then he felt a hot liquid flowing onto his body.
Miki has been on the battlefield for a long time, and he knows without thinking that this is the blood flowing from the body of the guard captain. Maybe his guard captain is dead now.
After about ten more minutes, the artillery fire finally stopped.
Miki was lucky. Under the protection of the guard captain, there was no wound on his body.
After pushing away the guard captain who had lost all movement behind him, he slowly got up from the ground.
Exactly as he had judged, the guard captain had expired, with two thumb-sized shrapnel stuck in his back. One of the shrapnel was like a bullet, directly embedded in the back of his heart, causing the guard captain to die on the spot.
Looking around again, we can no longer use the word "tragic" to describe it, but should use the word "hell on earth".
He was on the offensive side and never thought that he would be attacked. Therefore, when the troops arrived here, they did not prepare any positions, not even a bunker.
The shells fell from the sky, and everyone could only hold their heads and lie on the ground to try to reduce the damage caused by the shells to themselves.
Of course, if a cannonball hits you right next to you, it will be useless even if you lie down on the ground.
His subordinates were not treated as well as Lieutenant Commander Miki, and some of them risked their lives to protect themselves after being attacked.
Facing the shelling, they could only pray that the shells would not hit them.
But the six mortars fired too many shells, one after another, staring at them.
Most of the devil's prayers had no effect.
At a glance, the surroundings were full of mutilated corpses and wounded, and there were only a handful of intact imperial troops.
"We're done, sir..." At this time, a lieutenant rushed over and shouted, his uniform was in tatters, his body was stained with blood, and his face was full of despair.
"The Eighth Route Army is everywhere, and the attacking troops cannot retreat at all..."
"No, they had no chance to retreat. The Eighth Route Army's offensive was too fierce. Our troops couldn't resist it. They were attacked and eaten."
The battlefield more than two hundred meters away soon came into Lieutenant Colonel Miki's field of vision.
The Eighth Route Army pounced on the retreating Imperial Army like wolves, bullets flying behind them, and some people were constantly shot in the back.
The Imperial Alliance Army was even more unbearable. Facing the advancing Eighth Route Army, they did not even have the courage to resist and simply knelt on the ground and surrendered.
The army was defeated like a mountain...
Miki Lieutenant Colonel realized the meaning of this sentence for the first time.
"Da da da……"
Gunshots suddenly rang out behind Miki, and at some point, dozens of Eighth Route Army soldiers had already touched his back and started firing at his figure.
Lady luck no longer favors Lieutenant Colonel Miki.
The guards who were exhausted were unable to stop the bullets for him, and two bullets penetrated his body right from the back...
The fighting in Yixian County is still going on, but the flames of war have spread into the city. There are intensive exchanges of fire everywhere around the Japanese garrison headquarters.
Li Hao stood on the city gate tower, with a commanding view, and he could have a panoramic view of almost half of the county.
"Reporting to the head of the regiment, we have broken through all the city defenses in the four directions of Yi County, and the remaining Japanese and puppet troops have all retreated to the headquarters." The third battalion of communications soldiers rushed over and reported with excitement.
"Preliminary statistics show that there are still more than 400 puppet troops and more than 100 Japanese soldiers."
"Our battalion commander asked for instructions: If the troops want to continue the assault, we only need to mobilize mountain artillery and mortars into the city. They can be eaten up in two hours at most."
Li Hao shook his head and replied: "Tell your battalion commander to change the forced attack into a feint attack."
"We will not occupy the courtyard with a radius of 100 meters with the Japanese garrison headquarters as the center."
"As long as the Japanese and puppet troops inside do not take the initiative to provoke us, the troops will not destroy them and will just continue to hold them back with feint attacks."
"Yes, commander!" the signal soldier replied loudly, and then rushed down the tower like the wind.
As soon as the communications soldier left, communications platoon leader Zhou Liang rushed over with excitement on his face.
"Captain, Chief of Staff, good news!"
"They have severely damaged the main force of the Japanese and puppet troops by encircling the points and providing reinforcements. They are currently wiping out the remaining enemies. They will definitely end the battle and capture all the military ranks within half an hour."
"The chief of staff also reported that the food and materials transported on the military trains were far more than we had judged. Please ask the regimental commander to remind the political commissar to prepare more carts and mules."
"Great..." Li Hao punched the battlement in front of him and shouted excitedly.
"The intention and purpose of this battle is food. As long as we capture the county seat and military columns, we will win half of this battle."
"The remaining half is how to transport all these seizures back to the base before the Japanese army counterattacks Yixian."
"Platoon leader Zhou, immediately forward the telegram from the chief of staff to the political commissar and ask the political commissar to gather another 10,000 men from the base area and enter Yi County overnight to help us transport food."
"Call back to the chief of staff. After taking the military column, the main force of the cavalry battalion will immediately dispatch to eliminate all Japanese and puppet troops within a radius of 20 kilometers. At the same time, buy carts, mules and horses from the local people. The more the better."
"At the same time, all roads and alleys leading to the outside world in the east of Yi County were secretly controlled before dawn. Within two days, ordinary people could only come in but not go out."
"If there are Japanese and puppet troops who want to come in, if there are not many troops, let them in first and then eat them. If there are many troops, block them firmly."
"The longer the news that Yixian County is occupied by us is kept secret, the more time we will have to transport food."
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