"Machine gun cover, others stand up with me and kill those Eighth Route Army troops!" This was the only way the sergeant could think of.
But the reality was too cruel. As soon as the light machine gun fired, and before a few people could stand up, a dense stream of bullets flew over from the Eighth Route Army's offensive position more than a hundred meters away.
The light machine gun that fired for less than three seconds instantly misfired, and the machine gunner fell beside him. He was hit by bullets in the chest and head at the same time, and was too dead to die.
"Get down, take cover!" The sergeant was so frightened that he quickly retracted his head and shouted subconsciously.
Several other people all looked at each other with expressions of fear.
Fortunately, he didn't raise his head just now, otherwise he would be beaten into a corpse now.
Then everyone focused their attention on the sergeant, waiting for him to give the order.
The sergeant's expression was very complicated, including happiness, fear, and anxiety.
After his own machine gun misfired, the Eighth Route Army's light machine gun did not cease firing, but continued to fire. Listening to the sound of gunfire, it appeared that they were equipped with at least two machine guns, and they took turns shooting at each other.
The crater where everyone was hiding was not big, and the bullets fired by a light machine gun were enough to seal the top of everyone's head tightly.
So now, no matter who it is, as long as their head emerges from the crater, they will be exposed in an instant.
Facing the eyes of his subordinates looking at him, he had no other option but to wait and hope that a miracle would happen or that the main force behind him would use heavy machine guns to support him.
A few minutes later, cold sweat began to break out on the sergeant's pale forehead because he was anxious.
The Eighth Route Army also crawled fifty meters away, but the miracle he expected did not appear.
If you still can't find a way to stop them, you will definitely die.
Several subordinates seemed to have thought of this result, and their faces were full of despair, especially the two puppet soldiers, whose entire faces had turned pale, and the hands holding the rifles began to tremble with nervousness.
"Everyone get down. If you can avoid the Eighth Route Army's grenade attack, you must wait until they rush to you before you fight back. Use grenades to kill them together, and bury a few more people with us!" This was the last order issued by the sergeant in his lifetime.
Order.
After saying that, he lay down on the edge of the crater with his head in his hands, waiting for the Eighth Route Army to continue approaching the crater.
The reality was cruel. Two minutes later, the grenade arrived as promised, and three explosions rang in my ears at the same time.
The sergeant was lucky that none of the fragments caused by the explosion of the three grenades hit him.
He was so nervous that a look of joy quickly flashed across his face, subconsciously thinking that he had escaped a disaster.
He quickly took out the grenade, preparing to wait for the Eighth Route Army to rush over and then counterattack, and finally die with them.
"Boom boom boom..."
But the crawling Eighth Route Army did not give him this chance, and immediately threw three more grenades into the crater.
This time the sergeant was not so lucky. One of the grenades exploded right next to his ear. At the moment of the explosion, he lost consciousness on the spot.
The Japanese command post was four hundred meters behind, and it was not that the battalion leader failed to notice the plight of his subordinates.
I really want to give them reinforcements, even some fire support.
But the strength in hand is limited, and there is no other way except watching them be killed by grenades.
When they first broke through the encirclement, the troops were hit by a heavy counterattack by the Eighth Route Army. They had to retreat to the garrison in a hurry and switch from offense to defense. In the whole process, many heavy weapons were lost.
Although there were still 2,000 troops in the army at that time, they brought back only light machine guns and rifles, only five heavy machine guns, and even fewer mortars, only three.
Looking at the entire battlefield, the Eighth Route Army organized a total of more than fifty offensive troops.
With just these heavy machine guns and mortars, if you reinforce here, you won't be able to reinforce there.
Moreover, the Eighth Route Army attacking itself obviously has several times more heavy machine guns and mortars than itself. Once these heavy weapons are exposed, they will definitely attract counterattacks with several times the number of heavy weapons. By then, even self-protection may be a problem, let alone
Said to reinforce the men hiding in the crater.
Soon, more than a hundred bomb craters on the outermost edge of the garrison were captured by the Eighth Route Army, and the troops defending inside also lost hundreds of people.
Subtracting the losses from the siege of the Laiyuan Independent Battalion, there are at most a thousand subordinates left on the battlefield.
The Major was devastated and decided to change his approach.
"The bomb craters cannot stay any longer. We retreat to the barracks area and use the ruins there to engage in street fighting with the Eighth Route Army. We can hold on as long as we can."
"After the officer was attacked, he must have sent a telegram to his superiors asking for help. Now there must be troops coming to reinforce us."
"The longer we stay here, the greater the chance of waiting for reinforcements."
Another captain next to the major agreed: "I agree to retreat to the barracks area."
"The troops guarding the outermost crater must hold back the Eighth Route Army attacking us and buy time."
"The others retreated to the barracks area."
A captain suddenly reminded: "What to do with the remaining Eighth Route Army troops in the barracks area? They occupy almost one-third of the barracks area."
The major frowned and replied: "Ignore them, they take theirs, we'll beat ours."
"Everyone retreats to the barracks area, takes over the remaining areas, and waits for reinforcements."
With the regiment's main artillery support, the Laiyuan Independent Battalion successfully repelled the Japanese and puppet attack.
But this battle also completely consumed the independent battalion's meager ammunition, especially hand grenades and hand grenades.
After confirming that the Japanese and puppet troops were constantly retreating due to artillery fire, Zhao Wen decisively seized the opportunity and ordered the troops to launch a counterattack, intending to seize some ammunition from the killed Japanese and puppet troops in case of emergency.
This counterattack was out of control.
The main force of the regiment is outside the station, and the main force of the Japanese and puppet troops must be deployed outside the ruins to stop them.
Therefore, the total number of Japanese and puppet troops attacking us was only five to six hundred.
In the initial attack, both sides lost nearly a hundred people in the battle. Hundreds of artillery shells suddenly fell, killing another two to three hundred people.
The remaining more than 100 Japanese and puppet troops saw that the situation was not good and had to withdraw from the no-man's land.
Zhao Wen happened to see the Japanese and puppet troops retreating in embarrassment, so he couldn't let go of such a good opportunity to beat up the drowned dog.
On the spot, he ordered the troops to continue their counterattack and killed the Japanese and puppet troops until they reached the outside of the ruins.
Due to their limited strength, they did not kill many Japanese and puppet troops during the counterattack, but they captured a large amount of equipment and ammunition, including ten light machine guns that were intact and more than 500 grenades.
After replenishing so many weapons and ammunition at once, and with the main force of the regiment a few hundred meters away to provide him with artillery support at any time, Zhao Wen became more and more confident and full of energy again. He decided on the spot to build a new line of defense here to prevent the Japanese
The puppet troops entered the ruins again.
More than twenty light machine guns were lined up, hidden among the ruins and on standby.
The riflemen were scattered among the machine guns, each equipped with at least four grenades.
If the Japanese and puppet troops are too far away, they will greet them with rifles; if they are approaching, they will greet them with grenades.
As soon as all these arrangements were completed, a group of Japanese and puppet troops came towards them aggressively.
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