"Company commander, the little devil is moving!" the instructor reminded.
He kept an eye on the little Japs who were gathering at the hiding spot, fearing that they might pursue him in the wrong direction.
As soon as the Japanese forward moved, Li Zhiyong could see the specific direction of the Japanese troops, his face quickly turned pale, and he screamed.
"No, they chased us southeast!"
The instructor was also anxious and asked with a puzzled look on his face: "How could this happen?"
"The transfer traces in the southeast direction have obviously been worn away, and there are a lot of transfer traces left in the southwest. The Japanese scouts will definitely be able to find those traces. Why did they pursue them in the southeast direction?"
Li Zhiyong frowned, and he couldn't figure out the reason.
Five minutes after the forward walked, the main force of the Japanese moved and followed the forward in the southeast direction where the villagers had moved.
Seeing this, Li Zhiyong's last hope was shattered, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead like rain.
Without the harassment and obstruction of the troops, the Japanese marched very fast.
The folks in the mountains helped the old and the young, and brought a lot of supplies. It would be great if they could do it half as fast as the Japanese.
If we keep chasing at this speed, the Japanese will catch up with the folks in less than four hours.
Li Zhiyong's face became paler and paler, as if he had already seen the scene of groups of villagers being captured and massacred by the Japanese four hours later.
He trembled and cried out: "No matter what the reason is for the Japanese army to pursue in the southeast? We must protect the safety of the villagers, even if the whole company is wiped out."
After finishing speaking, Li Zhiyong forced himself to calm down, and after thinking for half a minute, he began to give orders: "If the Japanese army wants to catch up with the villagers, they must pass through the cliff. The terrain there is difficult, so I decided to fight the Japanese there to stop them and delay time.
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"We must march from here to Yakou in two hours to kill them."
"Five people from the security squad were left with me to slow down the Japanese pursuit. Every minute we can delay it is a minute."
"Others immediately went to find our troops and search where the gunshots were fired."
"No matter what they were doing at the time, they would end the battle immediately after receiving the order, and march quickly to join me at the mouth of the cliff."
"Instructor, take a small road to catch up with the local troops who have established the Suspicion Formation in the southwest, and ask them to march quickly to the cliff mouth."
When the Japanese army rushed to the cliff, Li Zhiyong was surrounded by only one company, two dissatisfied infantry platoons and half a company of local troops. There were less than a hundred people in total, five light machine guns, three grenades, mortars and heavy equipment.
There are no machine guns.
Facing the 500 Japanese who came in a fierce attack, Li Zhiyong had no confidence at all.
But he must fight this battle.
After passing the cliff mouth, although the terrain behind is also mountainous, it is difficult to find such an easy place to block.
The right time, the right place and the right people, Li Zhiyong must occupy at least one of them to have the possibility of defeating the Japanese.
"Company commander, the Japanese are coming!" the instructor reminded with a frown.
"Get ready for battle!" Li Zhiyong personally controlled a light machine gun and ordered.
"Concentrate our firepower and strive to severely damage the Japs' forward troops and make their main troops worry, so that we can have a chance to hold them off for an hour."
In order to ensure the marching speed, the more than 40 Japanese soldiers in the front were not very vigilant.
But they are all veterans, and their combat instincts have been deep-rooted in their bones, allowing them to subconsciously make evasive actions after being attacked.
"Da da da……"
The moment Li Zhiyong pulled the trigger, four other machine guns and more than ninety rifles mounted halfway up the mountain fired simultaneously.
Bullets flew down the mountain road like rain.
The Japs' subconscious reaction was too quick. Although the first round of fire killed at least half of the Japs, the remaining Japs did not panic.
He threw himself down behind the bushes and rocks beside the mountain road and retreated while fighting back. In the end, at least fifteen Japanese escaped.
A few minutes later, the main force of the Japanese army heard the news and came over to kill them.
There is no probing attack, no fire preparation...
An infantry squadron formed a skirmish line, holding guns and carrying light machine guns, and rushed towards Yamiao like a wave.
It wasn't until the attacking troops rushed to the foot of the mountain that the three heavy machine guns were set up and fired wildly at the location where the shots had just been fired, covering the attacking troops' forward assault.
Li Zhiyong moved to a new position with a machine gun.
It was not targeted by heavy machine guns and was very safe, but he was not happy at all.
The so-called safety is temporary. As long as you shoot yourself, a heavy machine gun will shoot at you immediately.
If you react quickly, you can escape and move to a new position to continue fighting the Japanese.
If you react slowly, you will definitely be beaten to death on the spot.
He couldn't control so much. The Japanese attacking troops were close at hand. He had to repel their attack at least once before he could choose to retreat. Otherwise, the good terrain at Yakou would be wasted, and he would be killed by the Japanese attacking troops.
"Da da da……"
Li Zhiyong did not hesitate to pull the trigger when facing a Japanese attacking group fifty meters away.
The bullet flew out of the barrel wrapped in flames and flew towards the three little Japs one in front, two in back, in a fan shape.
Two people were killed on the spot, and one person fell to the ground and escaped death.
Li Zhiyong ignored him. He wanted to strive for maximum results before the Japanese counterattack arrived. He quickly adjusted the muzzle of his gun to aim at another attacking group and continuously pulled the trigger.
Two long bursts of fire will eject all the bullets in the magazine in just three seconds.
As soon as the sound of the empty gun reached his ears, Li Zhiyong quickly retracted his head and lay on the ground.
A string of heavy machine gun bullets passed right over his head and hit the hillside behind him, sending dust flying.
A soldier next to him had half his head cut off on the spot because he reacted too slowly, with red and white brains splattering everywhere.
Li Zhiyong had no time to feel heartbroken, so he moved the machine gun and put on a new magazine.
On the mountainside, various gunshots were heard, and not all machine gunners had the skills and reflexes as good as Li Zhiyong.
The two machine gunners were killed by heavy machine gun bullets fired from the front before they finished firing the bullets in one magazine. The assistant gunner stepped forward and continued shooting.
Two minutes after the exchange of fire, the Japanese had already rushed thirty meters away.
At this time, Li Zhiyong could only place his hope on another weapon of the Eighth Route Army: grenades.
After more than a hundred grenades and hand grenades were thrown out in succession, the attacking troops were finally blown back, leaving at least 60 corpses in front of the formation.
Adding in the wounded taken away by the Japanese during their retreat, a full infantry squadron was considered disabled.
But Li Zhiyong is not much better.
Despite taking advantage of the terrain, they still lost more than fifty people, only forty-five were able to continue fighting, and only three machine guns were left.
If you continue to defend and attack once at most, everyone will die here.
Li Zhiyong looked pained and hesitated whether to give up such good terrain.
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