under fire

Chapter 429
On the eighth day of the lunar calendar, when the sun has just set, the half moon has already hung in the sky.

The devil gendarmes led their miscellaneous troops and confronted Balu by the river until dark. When the moon was shining brightly, Balu didn't attack from the bridge in a daze.

However, the gunfire from the west was getting closer and closer to the stone bridge.

It shows that the chasing troops are squeezing the living space of Balu.

Sergeant Cao once suggested blowing up the bridge first!

Of course, Second Lieutenant Guizi knew that after the bridge was blown up, Eight Routes completely gave up. They had to either cross the river directly, or turn south and north.

Seeing that the Eight Routes on the other bank could head north directly, it seemed that they were probably looking for a place to cross the river, and the second lieutenant didn't have any more troops in his hands, so it was impossible to stop the Eight Routes from crossing the river.

Therefore, he didn't even think about arranging human troops to stop at the position where the eight roads cross the river!

According to the news from the headquarters, there are thousands of eight roads on the opposite side!

The detective teams under him, who would turn around and run when they heard a gunshot, were useless in the past.

The warrior in charge of guarding the north ran back panting: "Report, about five miles to the north, the vanguard of the Eighth Route has crossed the Wei River and is now heading south! The distance is three miles."

The second lieutenant was helpless, there were only a dozen imperial warriors under him who could fight, and the other Imperial Association Army and investigative teams were simply unreliable.

There are only a few light machine guns on the ground, even if it is just a small army from the Eighth Route Army, it will not be able to defend here!
For the position guarding the bridge, if the opponent does not attack from the bridge, then what else is there in the position?
With the foot strength of Tubalu, if there is no accident, Balu will rush here in less than 10 minutes!
The gunshots to the west came closer.

The second lieutenant began to estimate whether bombing the bridge would be useful.

Seeing that the second lieutenant was silent, the sergeant also understood what the second lieutenant was thinking, so he quickly suggested in Niaoyu: "We are only one team, and we have blocked the Eighth Route for about an hour. If we persist, we will be attacked on three sides!"

"What do you mean by that?"

"It doesn't make much sense to stay here any longer!"

"You mean to retreat?" The second lieutenant looked at the sergeant with a livid face.

"Our warriors are only a dozen or so. I just think that we don't need to fight head-on with Tuba Road. What's more, most of them are the elite civilians of the empire. Letting them fight with Balu with guns is like hitting stones with jade !"

"I didn't realize that you are so afraid of death? Have you forgotten how you swore an oath to the Bird Emperor before you went abroad?" the second lieutenant sneered.

"Even one of their regiments can't completely annihilate this group of Tuba Road, and the consequences should not be borne by our civilian staff!"

"It is said that the merchants in Osaka are good at calculating, you are really embarrassing to the imperial soldiers." The second lieutenant suddenly smiled.

"Please punish me!"

"Retreat!" The second lieutenant suddenly ordered again.

"Then, is the bridge still blowing up?"

"Boom? Bomb it, how will you let the Fourth Mixed Cavalry Regiment complete the pursuit mission?"

That being said, the explosives had to be disposed of.

Sergeant Cao patted the devil next to him on the shoulder, and the two jumped out of the trench and ran towards the bridge hole. Since they didn't blow it up, of course they couldn't let Eight Routes blow up the bridge!
"Huh? They seem to be running back?" The observation post on the other side of the bridge has been staring at the devils in the night on the opposite side. With the help of the moonlight, they immediately discovered that the two devils jumped into the bridge hole and put the explosive package directly into it. River, and then ran to the east of the city.

More than 100 mud-covered eight roads in the north, detoured across the river from the upper reaches, and finally went down the river.

The legendary positional battle did not occur, because the enemy guarding the bridge ran back to the city without firing a single shot.

When did the devil learn to escape?

Didn't you say that you have to fight to the last man on the battlefield?
The cavalry crossed the river, but the horses could not be sent over in a short time.

The objective of the task he received was to occupy the devil's position on the east bank, and he had to bluff to make the devil think that the eighth road didn't value the bridge at all. Stop the devil on the other side of the river.

Since the bridgehead was taken down without firing a single shot, why not walk directly from the bridge?

After half an hour.

The eighth road is on the east bank, and the devils are on the west bank. In the bridge hole under the bridge, explosives are piled up again.

Although there are not as many devils, there are two of them.

"Why didn't you blow up the bridge?" the staff officer asked the commander suspiciously.

"I was chased away by the devil for a day, and I didn't charge his mother some interest?" The commander's dark face could not see any expression, and his tone was full of hatred.

"If the devils also cross the river, it will be a big problem if we can't blow it up!"

"It's not a cement bridge that can be blown up at any time."

"I think we should go all night?"

"We have too many people. If we evacuate together, the wounded will not be able to leave. Therefore, we must arrange for the wounded to leave first!"

"Our plan is to take over Qi County and then occupy Hua County. Do we want to take advantage of the darkness now?"

"When I made the plan, I didn't know it was a trap made by the devils, and there would be so many devils chasing after them? You still have to move your ass now." The commander sat down in the ditch, pulled off his hat and fanned the wind.

The staff officer thought for a while: "Hua County is almost an empty city, and it's not too difficult to take it down."

The commander was stunned for a moment: "Empty City? What's going on? Uh, Captain Yu and the others got in touch?"

"Captain Yu is still in the city. There was originally a squadron of devils stationed in the city. Most of them went out of the city to the west yesterday, preparing to surround us with the cavalry, but they were directly defeated by the cavalry regiment and the independent regiment. Now there is only one security regiment in the city. And some miscellaneous devils and puppet army investigation teams and police, the number of people is less than three hundred!"

"Can I contact Captain Yu now?"

"You can contact us at any time. There were originally some of our people in the puppet army guarding the city, but yesterday they all followed the devils to the west. It is estimated that they were mixed with the devil cavalry they encountered when they came here. The main force defending the city now is from the north. The security team that was transferred said that they were guarding the city, and there were not many guards on the city wall, and they basically did not check the entry and exit of the city!"

"In that case, apart from the troops deployed along the river, immediately send a battalion to find a way to take down the county seat and send the wounded to the city for treatment. With this river blocking the devils, I will not leave today!" The commander said directly Stand up from the ditch.

Seeing that most of the eight roads had crossed the river, the chasing devils immediately rushed towards the stone bridge, but were covered by a rain of bullets at the bridgehead, and the ones who charged couldn't even lie down on the ground and shoot, and they were all corpses.

Several grenades from the fire team rushed to the other side of the river, kicking up a large swath of mud and rocks.

Numerous Eight Routes lay in the ready-made trenches on the east bank, behind sandbags, and fiercely shot at the charging devils.

The vanguard was once again blocked by the Eight Route Army for more than half an hour, and the main force of the devils finally reached the west bank!

There is no time to rest, and they go straight to the battle. There are more and more devils on the open ground, and they are getting denser, because they are not worried about the artillery attack from the Eight Routes. There are only two mortars on the Eight Routes. How useful are they in the dark?

The team that had been running all day was scattered on the west bank of the river in a mess, the grenades were replenished, the heavy machine guns were selected, the mortars were erected, and the tanks roared.

Before preparing for a confrontation, there was a tentative attack. For a while, fires appeared in the open field, and ghost sounds were noisy.

The commander of the division arranged people to go to the county seat, and then looked back at the densely populated devils on the other side. His scalp was still numb. If the cavalry vanguard hadn't been allowed to cross the river directly to take down the stone bridge, the troops would definitely not have crossed the river so quickly. I don't know how many there would be. Soldiers died on the way across the river!

"Do you want to blow up the stone bridge now?" The staff officer watched nervously as more and more devils appeared on the other side.

"Hey, the devil wants to use this bridge to blow me up. This time, let the devil go on the bridge and light the fuse! If you don't blow up dozens of him, it's a waste of explosives!"

The soldiers scattered along the river are crawling on the ground and trying to dig trenches. Since it is not easy for the eight roads to cross the river, can it be easy for you devils to cross the river?
The cavalry had already set up observation posts along the river, and they were not afraid of devils crossing the river at all.

It wasn't that the division didn't want to retreat, but after being chased by the devils and running under the scorching sun for a day, he was exhausted. The division had nearly a thousand wounded soldiers, and hundreds of sacrificed soldiers were still in the wilderness.

Some wounded soldiers had to be carried on stretchers before they could continue marching, and those who could walk by themselves couldn't go faster.

Therefore, it is the best way to defend Juhe and let the soldiers carry away the seriously wounded first.

(End of this chapter)