under fire

The motorboat coming up the river was actually a medium-sized wooden boat with an engine propeller.

It's just a devil patrol boat with a crooked machine gun on the bow with a circle of sandbags as a cover.

Hu Yi didn't take the patrol boat to heart.

But something always feels wrong!

Because the devil plane has not appeared yet.

Mancang came out of the gun tower and trotted all the way to the heavy machine gun position on the river embankment.

Followed by pulling the belt, pushing and pulling the trigger continuously.

Depress the trigger skillfully.

Tom tom tom tom tom.
Min [-] quadruple machine guns began to howl dully.

The whistling ballistic trajectory hits the devil's motorboat in the center of the river from the oblique front bank.

After the ballistic caused a few splashes in the river, it began to tear at the Devils motorboat.

The Devil machine gunner who hadn't had time to shoot on the bridge was taken aback, and subconsciously shot back on the shore.

Chug Chug. A three-point rear machine gun was hit by a heavy machine gun bullet after hitting the helmet.

The heavy machine gun continued to swing from side to side like a poisonous snake with its ruthless trajectory, and bullet holes appeared in the wooden hull instantly.

Pull from left to right and left, smashing everything on the launch.

After a puff of white smoke rose from the wooden boat, the engine stopped screaming.

Mancang raised the rear tripod and turned the barrel of the machine gun to face the west bank of the river.

Raise the muzzle and shoot again.

In an instant, the machine gun's trajectory was on the shoulders of the devil's iron bastard who was shooting wildly on the road.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was more than 500 meters, and it was impossible to aim effectively at all, so they could only rely on experience to shoot.

The distance was too far, and the bullets couldn't penetrate the 24mm armor on the front of Iron King Ba, but the bullets scurrying around suppressed the devil infantry behind.

Gong Shaofeng was stunned for a moment, and immediately ordered to the soldiers lying on the ground: "Squad one block the attack, don't let the enemy get close...the others retreat immediately!"

More than twenty figures spread out in the field and ran eastward with their waists bent.

There were really too many devils, and the squad that stayed behind to fight the blocking didn't last for half a minute, and all fell to the ground.

The squad leader was panting with a bloody breath. He didn't know how many bullets he had been shot by the Devil infantry.

It hurt so badly that he wanted to pull the grenade on the little finger of Griph, but he didn't have the strength to fight to die with the enemy.

He was hit by two bullets again, and watched helplessly as the devil rushed over.

He really didn't have the strength to pull the fuse that had already been unscrewed from the back cover.

Next to him was a soldier with both arms broken.

With difficulty, he kicked the ground, slid to the side of the squad leader, opened his mouth and bit the wooden handle of the grenade that fell in the squad leader's hand, and turned his body.
Pfft, a bullet hit the soldier in the head.

In the sun, the bluish-white smoke behind the wooden handle of the grenade was almost invisible, doused with blood.

One second, two seconds, three seconds.
boom.
The two devils who were holding bayonets and were about to make another knife to the corpse on the ground were pierced by the shrapnel fired.

Gong Shaofeng, who was bleeding from one arm, led more than a dozen soldiers to finally rush across the stone bridge, and came to Minister Liu: "Report to the chief."

Looking at the remains of at least two hundred Eighth Route fighters left on the road across the river, Minister Liu waved his hand in grief and indignation: "Bandage first!"

Gong Shaofeng was in a hurry: "This is a conspiracy of the devil. We have to retreat quickly."

Minister Liu shook his head: "Now... can't run anymore!"

Gong Shaofeng froze for a moment: "Why?"

"You have already run such a long distance, if you continue to run, you will all be sacrificed before reaching the green gauze tent"

Gong Shaofeng's combat experience is not bad, so he immediately figured it out: "I understand, the devils let the common people plant the sorghum fields near the river into small patches, just waiting for us to get in, and they will catch up and encircle them one by one!"

Minister Liu nodded: "So, we have to send away the wounded and weak soldiers first."

Hey, why are they digging fortifications behind the embankment
I didn't understand it at first, but I heard from the soldiers of the Ninth Battalion that this is called a reverse slope fortification, which is specially used to prevent devils from shelling!

"Anti-bombardment?" Gong Shaofeng was stunned for a moment. The Eighth Route Army's battles with devils were basically guerrilla warfare.

He had never heard of such a tactic, and he immediately became interested regardless of the tearing pain in his arm.

The heavy machine gun stopped firing after firing a belt.
Mancang asked people to put heavy machine guns into the holes dug early after Heti.

Not surprisingly, the devils will definitely bombard the heavy machine gun positions.

The east and west embankments are 70 meters apart.

Because it rarely rains, the river is not wide, only more than [-] meters.

The exposed river bed is covered with weeds.

The devils did not last long to attack.

Sporadic gunshots still erupted in the wheat fields in Hexi.

The devils lined up stabbed the eight roads on the ground again with their bayonets.

The battle appears to be over.

The traitors of the puppet city defense army, police force, and detective team who followed behind looked at the eight roads all over the place, and couldn't help but shudder from the bottom of their hearts.

It's not that they haven't experienced such a scene.

The people on the ground who are wearing patched clothes of ordinary people were once their compatriots,
The rabbit died and the fox was sad
The Eight Routes seized the Wangjiabao stronghold ahead of time, which was very difficult for the chasing devils.

Not good news.

To continue the pursuit, you must first cross the river.

Two [-] infantry guns were unloaded from the back of the armored vehicle.

More than a dozen mortars lined up in Maili.

The stone on the stone bridge was pried in half by Eighth Road. Obviously, the chariot troops could no longer cross the river.

The remaining twelve Warring States vehicles immediately turned south along the West River embankment.

Boom. Boom.
Smoke billowed on the stone bridge.

I watched helplessly as the stone bridge was blown apart in two holes.
Then, two teams of devil engineers carried bridge-building materials.

Rushing to the position more than [-] meters away from the upstream and downstream of the stone bridge, intending to erect a pontoon bridge.

Another team of devils carried long tree trunks and planks, and prepared behind the embankment on the west side of the river, intending to quickly set up the position of the arch bridge that was blown up after the battle broke out.

A new round of attack is about to begin.

Amidst the yelling and cursing of the company commanders of the Puppet City Defense Army, more and more figures appeared in the fields.

After crossing the river this time, the Eighth Route Army would probably hide in Gaoliang, telling them that the siege at that time was the critical moment.

The Commander of the Puppet City Defense Force squatted in the ditch behind, pretending to look at the map
The battalion commander under his command asked: "Commander, these eight roads have obviously crossed the river, why don't they escape?"

"Escape? Hehe, where can he escape?"

"Balu ran eastward and entered Qingshazhang, can we still catch up?"

"Hehe, escaping is selling your back to the opponent. Besides, do you think that with the physical strength of Balu, they have already run so far from the mass grave to here, how can he still outrun the imperial army?"

"I understand, that's why the Eighth Route Army attacked on the other side of the river!" The false battalion commander suddenly realized: "Then if the imperial army asks us to rush to the stone bridge later, what should we do?"

The false city defense commander glanced at his subordinates: "The stone bridge is only so wide, isn't it normal for brothers to stumble and fall into the water?"

"Hey, it's still the Commander's opinion"

rumbling
The clamor of Devil fighter jets finally sounded in the sky.

The four fighter jets slowly grew from small black dots.