"Battal commander, the main force of the regiment has come over, why are the little devils still staring at us!" Instructor Liu Wenxuan asked, looking at Huang Sheng's puzzled face, with worry on his brows.
Huang Sheng saw the purpose of the Japanese army at a glance and replied with a long sigh: "The Japanese are trying to jump over the wall in a hurry!"
"Destroy us first, and then concentrate our forces to defend the position."
"Otherwise we will threaten their backs and give them fatal attacks at critical moments."
"The Japanese commander is very powerful. He can still maintain his sanity even when the war situation has deteriorated to this point."
"Boom boom..."
Two explosions sounded not far away, and a light machine gun hidden in the ruins instantly misfired. The machine gunner and assistant shooter were blown out of the ruins and fell motionless next to the machine gun.
A few seconds later, three or four Japanese soldiers reached the machine gun position, confirmed that all the machine gunners were dead, and then continued to attack.
Seeing this scene, the worried expression on Liu Wenxuan's face became even more intense. He stared at Huang Sheng and asked anxiously: "I don't care how desperate the little devil is to jump over the wall. We only have these more than a hundred people in the Laiyuan Independent Battalion. We must not do this."
The whole army will be destroyed here."
"Battalion Commander, you must find a way to lead us until the main force of the regiment enters the station!"
Huang Sheng didn't talk nonsense, stared at the battlefield and asked: "How many machine guns do we have?"
"Excluding the one that was blown up just now, there are still thirteen left!" Liu Wenxuan blurted out.
These data were collected when the Japanese and puppet troops had just retreated. I originally thought that everyone could survive until the end of the battle. Unexpectedly, the Japanese and puppet troops actually killed one of them, and the offensive became more fierce than before, which was completely beyond everyone's expectation.
Huang Sheng made a decision after thinking about it in his mind, and ordered with a serious face: "Place them all fifty meters in front of us, build a temporary defense line, and all the soldiers who can still move will pass by, and the remaining grenades and grenades will be removed."
Use them all to keep the Japanese army fifty meters away from the defense line at all costs!"
"What?" Liu Wenxuan's eyes quickly widened and he asked with a look of disbelief on his face.
"Battal Commander, are you right?"
"The strength of the Japanese and puppet troops is several times that of ours. If they continue to fight in the streets, they can hold on for a while longer."
"If we gather the soldiers on a defensive line and confront them head-on, they will kill all of us in twenty minutes at most."
"I don't agree with this!"
Huang Sheng did not relent and gave a serious order: "Execute the order!"
"Is this the only way we can repel the Japanese and puppet attacks?"
"Why?" Liu Wenxuan still did not carry out the order.
In his eyes, there is no difference between the battalion commander doing this and committing suicide. As the instructor of the Laiyuan Independent Battalion, he must not let such wrong orders be issued to the combat troops unless the battalion commander can explain clearly.
Huang Sheng had to explain: "There are only more than a hundred of us, and we will definitely not be able to hold on to the end of the battle on our own."
"There are a large number of Japanese and puppet troops between us and the main force. The only thing they can bypass the Japanese and puppet troops and immediately reinforce us is artillery."
"If we continue to fight in the streets, the artillerymen will not be able to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy, and they will definitely not dare to fire artillery to reinforce us."
"Only when a defense line is established to separate us from the Japanese and puppet troops can the artillery dare to fire."
Liu Wenxuan understood that as long as there were artillery reinforcements and a fire zone was blasted in front of the defense line, no one would be afraid no matter how many Japanese and puppet troops came over.
The worry and confusion on his face quickly disappeared, and he quickly replied: "I will arrange for the troops to establish a defense line now."
Outside the garrison, Datong Independent Battalion, Guangling Independent Battalion, Hunyuan Independent Battalion, special agent company, independent company, and guard company have surrounded the Japanese troops tightly.
The Datong Independent Battalion, which was the first to reach here, attacked the garrison twice, but both retreated due to too many casualties.
The surrounding walls of the garrison have been razed to the ground, and the two trenches have been blown away, but hundreds of craters, large and small, have been blasted inside the garrison.
The Japanese and puppet troops took advantage of the waste and hid inside to divide their forces to block the attacking troops.
Although there were not many soldiers in each crater, and they could not last long before they were killed, each of them could use their superb marksmanship to kill at least two Eighth Route Army soldiers and be buried with them before they were killed.
There are still 2,000 Japanese puppet troops hiding in the garrison. According to this casualty ratio, even if the garrison regiment is exhausted, they will not be able to annihilate them all.
"Huang Sheng, what did you do? You've been waiting here for almost half an hour and you haven't gotten in yet!" Li Hao's curse suddenly sounded behind Huang Sheng.
Huang Sheng was anxiously thinking about how to get into the camp, when he suddenly heard the regiment leader scolding him, and he was so ashamed that he almost crawled through the cracks in the ground.
He quickly walked to Li Hao and asked with a look of embarrassment.
"Captain, why are you here?"
Li Hao replied with anger and dissatisfaction: "If I don't come again, the Laiyuan Independent Battalion surrounded by Japanese soldiers will be killed."
Huang Sheng quickly explained: "Commander, please don't be angry. The Japanese and puppet troops are really too cunning. They still have two thousand people, divided into hundreds of bomb craters to stop us. The attacking troops are unable to defend themselves. If they charge hard, the casualties will be too high."
It would be too time-consuming to use mortars to blow them up one by one, and the effect would be very limited. The Japanese and puppet troops in the crater in front were blown up, and the Japanese and puppet troops nearby would hide in again..."
"Then we can't just wait here!" Li Hao continued to curse.
"Didn't you hear another gunshot inside the camp? The Japanese must be attacking the Laiyuan Independent Battalion. They want to pull out the nails we have driven into their stomachs, and then concentrate their forces to wait for reinforcements."
"Da da da... boom boom..."
As soon as Li Hao finished speaking, the gunshots coming from the station began to become thicker, with many explosions mixed in.
"No, Zhao Wen and the others are in danger!" Li Hao's face quickly turned pale.
Quickly climb up a small mound next to it, hold up the binoculars and look in the direction where the sound of the crossfire came from.
The gunfire that was just chaotic slowly became organized.
Under the darkness of night, the flames from the light machine gun were clearly visible.
If it was a street fight, they would be scattered everywhere.
But it was different now. More than a dozen machine gun flames formed a semicircle and fired wildly at the Japanese and puppet troops.
In front of the machine gun, there were constant explosions.
In the splashing firelight, the figures of some Japanese and puppet troops who were blown away could be vaguely seen.
"This is Zhao Wen asking for help again. They need artillery support!" Li Haoyi quickly saw the reason why Zhao Wen gave up street fighting and gathered all his troops to confront the Japanese and puppet troops head-on.
While continuing to observe the battlefield, he ordered: "Set up all the mortars we are equipped with. Do you see the defense line formed by the machine guns? Fire a range of fifty to one hundred meters outside the defense line and plow the area with artillery shells."
"The Japanese and puppet troops are eager to eliminate the Laiyuan Independent Battalion, and must have gathered a large number of troops there. Now firing can definitely achieve unexpected results, and also relieve Zhao Wen and others from danger, killing two birds with one stone."
Huang Sheng also saw Zhao Wen's purpose for doing this. As soon as Li Hao finished giving the order, he rushed towards the troops, shouting as he ran.
"All artillerymen are ready to fire. Target the area fifty to one hundred meters in front of the Laiyuan Independent Battalion position. Hit the artillery shells as fast as possible!"
"Boom boom..."
Three nearby mortars fired first, and a few seconds later three balls of flames appeared in the center of the station.
This time Li Hao could see clearly that several figures were blown away in the explosion.
On the Laiyuan Independent Battalion's position, battalion commander Huang Sheng and instructor Liu Wenxuan all held their breaths and stared closely at the Japanese and puppet troops approaching in front of the defense line.
This is the only way for the Laiyuan Independent Battalion to sustain victory, but no one can guarantee whether the main force of the attacking regiment outside will be able to see their intentions and order the artillery to fire in time.
Originally, the battalion headquarters had a radio station that could contact the regiment headquarters, but the radio operator died in the battle when he was injured.
Although the radio station is intact, there is no one operating it, and the message cannot be sent out.
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