A string of machine gun fire from the flank broke the lieutenant's dream.
Immediately afterwards, the sound of rifle shooting and grenade explosions also rang out.
In the blink of an eye, the first twenty or so Japanese and puppet troops were covered by sudden firepower, killing more than half of them.
"Enemy attack! Hidden..." The lieutenant fell to the ground subconsciously, then slowly raised his head, squatted on the ground, glanced at the battlefield and shouted.
"Looking at the enemy's firepower, there is only one platoon. Let's concentrate our firepower and rush over, using grenade cover to take out the enemy's firepower points!"
More than a hundred Japanese and puppet troops, armed with guns and light machine guns, roared and charged forward under the cover of grenades fired one after another from the grenades, at a very fast speed.
"Fire all the light machine guns, and you have to stop the little Japs to the death!" The platoon leader lay on the ground, picked up a rifle from a sacrificed soldier, and gave the order while firing.
"Boom boom..."
Two explosions sounded nearby. In the violent explosion, two machine guns misfired on the spot.
After the black smoke from the explosion disappeared, two machine guns fell beside them. The machine gunner was knocked to the ground with blood everywhere on his body and remained motionless.
"Come deputy gunner, there are too many enemies rushing towards us, and the machine gun fire cannot be stopped." The platoon leader became anxious and shouted at the top of his lungs.
A few seconds later, the deputy shooter touched the machine gun position, put the butt of the gun on his shoulder, and continued to shoot at the Japanese...
"Platoon leader, the Japs are crazy. They are rushing towards us without their lives. The attacking firepower is so fierce that we can hardly withstand it!" the deputy platoon leader shouted not far away. One of his arms was bitten by a bullet and there was nothing he could do.
To use a rifle, you can only lie down on the ground and wait for the Japanese to approach and greet them with a pistol.
The platoon leader gritted his teeth and ordered: "If you can't bear it, you have to bear it!"
"There must be our troops nearby. If we hold on for one more minute, they will have one more minute to kill us."
After finishing speaking, the platoon leader was still worried and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Comrades, unless we die, we must not let the Japanese enter the city, otherwise we will kill more troops..."
When a full infantry platoon was beaten down to its last ten men, reinforcements finally arrived.
A platoon came out from the flank, and three light machine guns sprayed flames towards the Japanese and puppet attacking troops.
The Japanese and puppet troops were caught off guard and immediately suffered heavy casualties. The surviving people retreated quickly because they were confused about the situation and feared being ambushed.
At the Japanese garrison headquarters in Huaiyuan County, the two blocking battlefields were too close to the county seat.
The command headquarters heard the gunfire as soon as it was fired.
It is still daytime, and the military chief of staff and wing commander are all gathered here.
The chief of staff reacted the fastest. He immediately realized that something had happened to the returning troops and immediately frowned.
The commander of the regiment followed closely, staring at the chief of staff and said: "Sir, the Eighth Route Army must be intercepting the imperial troops who want to enter the city. The battlefield is at most five kilometers away from the county seat. They can be killed by a quick march in half an hour."
"I suggest you send troops out of the city immediately to meet them."
The chief of staff shook his head and refused: "We can't send troops!"
"No one knows how many Eighth Route Army troops are lurking outside the city! If there are too many of them and we rush out rashly, not only will we not be able to save them, but the supporting troops will be left outside the city, losing both our wives and our troops. We cannot do this kind of stupid thing.
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"Then we just have to watch them being blocked outside the city?" the captain shouted unwillingly.
These return troops are so important.
Only when everyone enters the city can we have the confidence to defend Huaiyuan County.
Now that we can't enter the county seat, with only a thousand people in the city, it's too difficult to keep Huaiyuan County seat intact.
"Whether they can enter the city depends on themselves." The chief of staff thought for a moment and replied.
"The Eighth Route Army is so powerful. As soon as we were about to shrink our troops into the city, they divided their forces and rushed outside the city to intercept us. Now I am 100% sure that the target of these Eighth Route Army is Huaiyuan County."
"First use the method of luring snakes out of their holes to weaken the strength of the county garrison, and then prevent the troops outside the city from entering the city. When the time comes, they will gather heavy troops to attack Huaiyuan City."
"Order: Except for the guard troops protecting the warehouse, all other garrison troops in the city must go up the city wall."
"The baggage team transferred twelve heavy machine guns from the ammunition depot and forty light machine guns to the city wall to strengthen the firepower of the garrison."
"Half of the headquarters security force came out to assemble all the expatriate armed forces in the city, distribute weapons to them, and distribute them evenly to each city wall."
"Immediately send a telegram to the Taiyuan Military Headquarters: The Eighth Route Army will mobilize heavy troops to attack Huaiyuan County tonight. Please ask the headquarters to immediately deploy troops from nearby counties to reinforce Huaiyuan to ensure that there is no problem with the logistics supply of the more than 20,000 troops on the front line."
The commander of the regiment hesitated and reminded: "Your Excellency, Chief of Staff, should you send the request for reinforcements telegram to the Army Commander later?"
"Although we are short of men and the county town will be attacked tonight, this is our judgment after all, and it has not really happened yet."
"With such a big fanfare now, if we make a wrong judgment, the troops will be in vain, and it will be difficult for the Army Commander to give an explanation."
The chief of staff hesitated for half a minute and then firmly replied: "No, send the telegram now. Time will not wait for me."
"Look at the map. Excluding the front lines and no-man's land, the counties closest to us only have one garrison. Some of the garrison units are not full. Even if they divide their troops to reinforce us, they will send at most one or two infantry squadrons."
"The number of troops is too small, and it will be of very limited help to us in defending Huaiyuan County."
"Only Zhangjiakou, which is farther away, can send more than one brigade of troops to reinforce us."
"It would take more than 20 hours for the troops to march from Zhangjiakou to here. This is without encountering any accidents during the march."
"With the Eighth Route Army's fighting style, reinforcements must have been arranged, and they will not be allowed to easily reach Huaiyuan."
"So it will take thirty hours at the fastest for this reinforcement to get here."
"We will wait until the county town is attacked to send a telegram for help. Can we hold on for thirty hours?"
"If the enemy attacks the city tonight and we send a telegram now, the troops will have to guard the city for several hours."
"Even if we don't attack the city, the arrival of these reinforcements can strengthen the strength of the county garrison, ensure that there are no problems with the logistics base at our feet, and allow the front line to have sufficient ammunition supplies to eliminate the garrison."
The commander of the regiment was persuaded and immediately replied: "The chief of staff is wise and humble, so go ahead and give the order now."
"You are right. Send a telegram to the military headquarters now, as if you are returning to support the troops in the county."
"Regardless of whether the county town will be attacked or not, the strong garrison in the county town will definitely make us well prepared."
At the siege headquarters, a fast horse rushed over from the end of the road and began to slow down as it approached the entrance of the headquarters.
He turned over, jumped off the horse neatly, and rushed into the headquarters with a heavy breath: "Report to Commander Li, I am the communications squad leader of the 1st Battalion of the Independent Regiment."
"I was ordered to report: We have successfully intercepted a Japanese and puppet army returning reinforcements five kilometers east of the city. Two Japanese squads and one company of puppet troops are concentrating our forces to eliminate them."
Li Hao glanced at his watch and replied: "It will be dark in an hour, and all the enemy planes have left. Go back and tell your battalion commander: After the battle is over, quickly clean up the battlefield and attack towards the county seat."
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