under fire

Losing North China two months ago, the life of the wilting leader was not easy, and he became angry and mobilized heavy troops to prepare for a blitz in northern Shaanxi.

All the six main regiments of the three verticals stationed in Wutai and the eastern plains of Taihang were transferred to the west.

The strength of the Eighth Route Army on the plain became extremely weak.

In order to unite in the war of resistance, northern Shaanxi suddenly published statistics on the strength of the war of resistance in major newspapers and periodicals. Except for the Kwantung Army of devils stationed in the three northern provinces and the devil garrison in the occupied areas, there were 36 divisions on the frontal battlefield with a total of 60 devils. Divisions, totaling 25 people (40.00% two), the Eighth Route Army fought against 21 divisions, totaling 35 people (50.00% eight).

As for the complex 62 puppet troops, almost all of them were fought by the Eighth Route Army.

Even the puppet army publicly declared that it only suppressed the Eight Routes and not the KMT!

As for the severe drought in Yu Province, Chairman Wei even publicly believed that the devils should be responsible for disaster relief for the people in the occupied areas.
The whole country was in an uproar.

All of this seems very far away to the raging Juanzi Village.

A group of devils grinned and set fire to everything they could see in the village.

Some devils carried the wounded and dead bodies onto the cars.

Thousands of years old villages have been turned into ruins.

The second company commander lying in the ditch outside the village was full of grief and indignation, holding up his binoculars, watching the Devils convoy go away.

A team of more than a thousand people hid in the green gauze tents on both sides of the road.

Sitting by the ditch, Hu Yi rolled up the brim of his hat to half cover his brows and eyes, his face was angular, and he handed a telegram to Cheng Haibo.

Cheng Haibo had a bad premonition in his heart. After receiving the telegram, his face changed drastically, and his lips could not stop trembling: "The 23rd Regiment Commander Zhao Zhenya, the Director of the Political Department, and the Battalion Commander Dai all sacrificed."

Hu Yi looked back at the map on the ground across the ditch in a daze, and didn't answer.

After a while, Cheng Haibo's red eyes dripped with tears: "Make a battle plan, and I will not be human if I don't kill these devils!"

Hu Yi withdrew his gaze from the map, and spoke calmly: "It stands to reason that a main battalion guards a village, and this kind of sacrifice of all commanders should not happen."

"Regimental Commander Zhao stayed behind to block the enemy in order to cover us, and was later surrounded by the enemy. According to the news sent by the commander of their first battalion and second company, the devils could not attack for a long time and used poison gas bombs!" Cheng Haibo was a little uncertain.

There are many types of devil gas bombs.

Hu Yi had a bad feeling in his heart: "Which one is it?"

"Tea bombs, the most poisonous kind."

"Report, the enemy convoy is only five miles away." A scout hurried over.

Hu Yi looked at the generals of the guard battalion next to him, and ordered without hesitation: "Ready for battle!"

roadside.

Tall towers stand tall.

On the road, the wood refuses to be wrapped with iron wire.

Crazy Yang, dressed as a puppet army, was pacing back and forth leisurely with his rifle in his arms.

On the top of the gun tower behind him, Li Laosan, who was also dressed as a puppet army, was holding up a telescope to observe.

If those jackals return to Qinghe County, the convoy will pass by the gun tower soon!
No matter how many people he came, as long as he dared to walk this road, he would have to shed his skin if he didn't die.

In the car, Captain Guizi was in a bad mood.

This battle lasted for a day and a night, killing more than a hundred and eight soldiers, and the imperial army suffered as many as two or three hundred casualties.

If it hadn't been for the decisive use of gas bombs at the last moment, the casualties might have increased.

I didn't expect that there were more than a thousand and eight roads hidden in the village.

It's just a pity that most of the eight roads were allowed to protrude from the encirclement before dawn.

With such a large casualty, it is difficult to explain it back.

Suddenly, two black figures, a man and a woman, emerged from the sorghum field beside the road and stopped in front of the convoy.

The devil's tricycle in the lead stopped immediately.

The truck's machine gun was aimed at the two traitors who suddenly appeared.

The devil on the tricycle said with a dark face, "Your, what are you doing?"

The face of the woman in black did not change: "Please inform me, we have an emergency and we need to report to Maharaja Xiong Erlang."

Xiong Erlang looked at the two detectives in black who had been searched and brought over by his subordinates: "Bage."

The middle-aged man was the first to speak: "Report to the majesty, the gun tower on the side of the road five miles to the north has been taken over by the Eighth Road, and is going to ambush the majesty."

"There are eight roads?" Xiong Erlang was stunned for a moment, and immediately became interested. Tuba road is interesting, and he dares to come to die?

So, I immediately got out of the car and held up the binoculars to observe, and then gave orders to the devils in the carriage behind: "Squadron [-] and squadron [-] immediately change their outfits and go over to do some reconnaissance."

The two traitors who have been waiting by the side are ordered to lead the way
A team of more than 40 devils immediately changed their clothes on the spot.

Then, the devils scattered into the sparse green gauze tents on both sides of the road.

Five miles away is more than ten minutes for soldiers.

Suddenly a row of gunshots rang out in the sorghum field [-] meters ahead, and the first few devil soldiers dressed as ordinary people fell to the ground on the spot.

Two of them were still howling.

The devils behind immediately lay down in panic, scattered to find cover, and panicked to find their target.

The ghost observer in the team, because he didn't sleep well all night, his eyes were a little bit bad under the sun.

For a while, I didn't see clearly how many people from the Eight Routes ambushed the elites.

He simply yelled at the reconnaissance lieutenant: "The enemy is attacking, the strength of the troops is not good, and there are more than ten rifles firing."

The devils were furious. Someone dared to open fire on the imperial army. Is this going to change the sky?

Immediately, the machine gun position was quickly set up, and then opened fire indiscriminately on the green gauze tent in front.

However, no guns were fired in the green gauze tent. If it weren't for the more than ten soldiers of the imperial army who fell on the ground, the second lieutenant who led the team even suspected that there was no one in the green gauze tent in front of him.

Perhaps it was because the imperial warriors suffered heavy casualties last night, and there were no devils who charged directly for a while.

Ordinary soldiers kept pulling the bolts and shooting into the sorghum ground.

The second lieutenant, clutching the scabbard tightly, first ordered the machine gun to maintain fire suppression, and then led the other devils under his command to bypass the position where the black gun was fired just now, preparing to outflank.

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Hearing gunshots from the east, Crazy Yang, with his rifle crossed, stopped and looked at the east side of the road quietly.

Liu Yuanqing came out of the blockhouse, stood beside Crazy Yang and looked east, smacking his lips: "Here you are?"

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Liu Yuanqing turned his head and asked Li Laosan who was standing on the top of the turret: "What's the situation?"

"The situation is not quite right. Two figures seemed to appear on the east side of the road, and then stopped the devil convoy, followed by a group of devils got off the car and scattered into the sorghum field beside the road. Somehow, the big dog on guard in the east got into fire with them .”

During the conversation between the two, Hu Yi and Cheng Haibo came out of the blockhouse.

The order to prepare for battle had already been issued.

The guard battalion and the first battalion that Captain Cheng brought back were spread out on both sides of the road, and it would take time to arrange them all in place.

The big dog was lying on the sorghum field, and Wen Wuquan next to him was carrying a grenadier and holding a telescope in his hand as an observer.

"Why are there so many devils here?" The big dog said in a serious tone.

"It should be more than that, I guess it's a devil's vanguard."

"What the hell are you talking about? Devil vanguards with cars usually use three-wheeled motorcycles to clear the way."

Lying on the sorghum field and holding up the telescope is purely superfluous.

Because, apart from the earth, the blue sky, and the stems and leaves of sorghum, there is nothing to see.

The sneak attack just now had at least overturned more than a dozen devils.

As for how many people were killed and how many were injured, there was basically no one in the Ninth Battalion to make statistics, and there was one less devil killed.

The fighters seemed indifferent to the rewards from their superiors.

Of course, it can also be said that the soldiers of the Ninth Battalion lack a sense of collective honor.

It can even be said that apart from fighting the devils better, the Nine Battalion can definitely rank among the bottom of the Eighth Route Army in terms of other ideological consciousness.

At least, Lao Qin, the trainer, is not very competent. For example, the matter of making Luo Fugui literate was not arranged well.