under fire

Chapter 443 The Gap
Amidst the sound of people neighing and horses whistling, hordes of security forces lazily marched in company units, at different speeds.

Most people walk on the saline-alkali uneven ground, just trying to eat a few mouthfuls of dust, occasionally pulling the grass in boredom, and rubbing two handfuls in their hands to absorb the sweat from the palms of their hands.

Perhaps because of the rumors that there were eight roads infested, and rumors that three reconnaissance squads disappeared, several security forces on bicycles on the road did not dare to rush forward in the evening wind.

It's like a crooked straggler flowing, marching fifteen miles in three hours!
Looking at the desolate village not far away, the sky was getting darker, maybe because of the large number of people, someone finally started to quicken their pace.

The light in the sky turned red and gray, and finally someone found through the gaps in the swaying weeds in the field, it seemed that there was dust flying, mixed in the afterglow of the setting sun.

The bicycle team stopped on the road, and a few people were looking carefully. The dust may have been flying all the time, or it may be blown by the evening wind, which is thicker than usual.

Cautiously riding the bicycle and continuing to move forward vigilantly, I was surprised that the road ahead was cut off.

"Hey, will there be eight roads ahead?" A security guard who jumped off his bicycle turned his head and asked the squad leader following behind.

The squad leader at the back didn't care: "Haha, it's right to dig the road on the eighth road! There are so many of us, they ran away early, and the purpose of digging this ditch is to make us chase slower."

The implication is that it is not normal for Balu not to dig a ditch
The security forces nodded: "It's true, every time we dispatch, Balu will dig ditches on the road. Do these mud legs really think that we can't get through if we dig a few ditches?"

"Hey, Balu just wants us to be suspicious, but we don't even look at how many people we have! Don't dawdle, go quickly, or the brigade commander won't see you later, and it will be a sad reminder for us to shovel the soil and fill the ditch."

"Squad leader, there are not many ordinary people in this area for dozens of miles. Why did the army commander lead the team himself this time?"

"You know what a fart, the headquarters called and asked the army commander to lead the team by name, and said that the county must be taken down. Can he not come?"

"Commander's car is really nice, it's shiny, if only I could sit in it for a while." The guy stretched his neck and looked back.

"Sit? Do you know how much the army commander spent to buy it? This time I drove it just to experience the feeling of a car."

"No matter how good it is, it's a second-hand product. I don't know which bastard in Tianjin sold it to the army commander. It is said that it cost us [-] oceans!" The group continued to move forward while talking.

"Oh, why is there another ditch here?" Not far away, another ditch was found on the road.

The squad leader of the Security Force finally got a little vigilant, and stepped forward to observe carefully: "This ditch has not been dug for a long time. Could it be that there are eight roads hidden in the village ahead?"

The subordinate responded with what the squad leader said just now: "Even if there are, so what, don't look at how many of us there are!"

The squad leader rode on the bicycle, with one foot on the ground, and looked up at the dead village three or four hundred away, and there was nothing unusual: "Uh, you are imitating me again, hurry up, we have burned down the broken village in front of us three times, those ordinary people It's also cheap, always running back, so we have to burn it again!"

Hu Yi held up the binoculars. Based on his feeling, the security forces on the road should have reached the ambush position in the division, but the gunshots never rang out.

If it is released again, the security forces will enter the second line of defense!

Hu Yi guessed right, Brigadier Zhu did have to bring the enemy closer to fight because of the lack of ammunition in the troops!
Although the military division supported them with a lot of ammunition, more than 2000 of them came, and each person was allocated three bullets. Including the original ones before departure, the average per capita did not exceed six bullets.

After all the bullets are loaded into the gun, there is only one bullet left in the bullet bag!
Although Jiulian occupied the devil's warehouse in Hua County, it's a pity that except for some old gun parts, food and daily supplies, there is no ammunition at all!
The ammunition seized was only picked up by some of the devils who were killed during the breakout, and the ammunition of the devils and puppet troops defending the city was hacked when they occupied the county. The more than 1000 rounds of ammunition seized were still six or five bullets, and most of them went into the hands of the second company and the ninth company. .

The devils usually distributed 3000 rounds of ammunition to the puppet army, and with the addition of a dozen devils, a total of more than [-] rounds of ammunition were seized.

The division issued an order to ambush the security forces, and the reloaded ammunition in the border area promised to be supplemented would take a day or two to arrive!

Therefore, Brigadier Zhu, who was short of ammunition, planned to let the enemy get closer!
On the road far away, a black guy with a light appeared in the marching team!
As the distance approached, the low engine sound could be heard faintly. A black car with two headlights turned on before dark, and under the protection of dense guards, walked slowly in the flying dust brought up by the infantry in front.

The brigade commander behind the bushes squinted slightly, turned his head and looked to both sides. The soldiers were covered with weeds to camouflage their heads, and they were all lying in shallow foxholes away from the road.

He suddenly regretted it. After visiting the positions dug by the independent regiment, he realized that he had taken it for granted.

The trenches dug by the Ninth Company and the Second Company were half a person deep, and the pile of soil was just up to the chest. There were two trenches at the front and back, and there was a zigzag traffic trench in the middle. The fortifications dug by my men were all shallow foxholes.

In fact, it’s not his fault. Anyway, in battle, three bullets are fired, and then they charge, go forward to confront the security forces and fight with bayonets. Digging such a deep trench is useless!

Of course, the hardware facilities are not as good as those of the independent regiment. They have an engineering shovel in a group of three, and their own troops have to use bayonets and planers with bare hands. Naturally, the efficiency is a lot worse.

The guys from the Independence Regiment didn't care about their military uniforms at all. They looked like divisional fighters who took off their whole body except for a pair of shorts when digging trenches.

If, as Company Commander Hu said, the battle can be won, at least the clothing problem of the soldiers can be solved.

The devils dug blockade ditches and repaired gun towers everywhere in the occupied area, resulting in no raw materials for the clothing factories in the sub-regions, and almost all spinning and weaving were at a standstill.

Jizhong was originally a place of cotton production, but it was a pity that the devils took control of cotton and bought it. The devils even opened more than a dozen textile factories in Ding County. Unfortunately, the devils sent all the spun cotton back to Bird Country.

As a result, half of his brigade could not afford to wear the regular uniform of the Eighth Route Army, which was no different from the guerrillas in appearance.

Therefore, his brigade number is called the North China Anti-Japanese Militia!
Because there is no uniform, no regular army number granted by the division, the only number in the Eighth Route Army.

He has always been brooding about this.

As for the uniforms of the security forces, the security forces must be naked, but does this have anything to do with him?

He has a different mentality from other army commanders, and what he values ​​most is not the captured weapons!but military uniform

Most of the other troops think that as long as they have guns and bullets, they can pull a few more troops out at any time!

A black shadow on a bicycle had already run across the divisional defense line from the road, and was about to enter the village, but the brigade commander still hadn't issued an order to fight.

The commander who stayed at the entrance of the village squinted slightly and did not order the guard company to fight against the reserve team.

Have to wait for the wings to make contact with the enemy!
It wasn't until now that the commander realized that what Hu Yi said was true. The first contact with the security forces was on both sides of the road, and the soldiers in ambush gave up the frontal ambush on the road.

The two wings of the public security army were walking in the saline-alkali soil, and they were still 400 meters away from the ambush position.

The security forces began to gather on the road. A company commander of the security force jumped off his horse and looked at a shallow pit on both sides of the road where even a person lying on his back would show his ass. What is this Tuba Road doing?
After pinching the excavated floating soil, it was obvious that it was not long before it was dug out, and everyone had to build a grave for such a shallow pit. What is the meaning of this?

Of course, if he saw the trenches of the Second Company and the Ninth Company, he would immediately lay down on the ground and shout for the enemy to attack!
The company commander of the security forces thought carefully, and the hundred or so security forces he brought surrounded the shallow pits on both sides of the road and looked around boredly with big eyes.

A platoon leader squeezed to the side of the company commander: "Look, company commander, it took no more than half an hour to dig this hole at most!"

"Really? You are not bad, you are worthy of being a talented student who went to a military academy, you can see that." The company commander disdainful.

"What are you talking about, company commander? I just participated in the officer training camp for half a year." The platoon leader replied embarrassingly.

"You can read and write, but you are no worse than me. My brother Hua Dayang is worthy of sending you to the military academy." The company commander praised the related party sincerely.

"There is a problem with these pits. It's a bit like the trenches dug by Balu, but they are so shallow that they obviously didn't succeed in digging! I didn't understand. They said they dug foxholes, but they couldn't even cover a person. That's weird! "

"What is the meaning of Balu digging this hole? Is it for them to dig their own grave?"

"Hahaha" There was a roar of laughter all around.

"Company Commander, something is wrong with this." The platoon leader looked serious.

"Huh? What's wrong, aren't you stupid with reading?"

"Look, these pits are wet, and they are not dug deep, which means that the eighth road is not far away." The platoon leader under him has just graduated from the North China Army Military Academy. A platoon leader position.

"You also know that the digging is not deep, which means that Balu originally wanted to dig deeper, but ah, seeing our large army coming, he can only run away, right?"

"Could it be that Balu set up an ambush in the village?"

"Set up an ambush, didn't the reconnaissance team come back and say that they still left half of them in the village? You boy is too suspicious to be a master."

After the company commander finished speaking, he immediately got on his horse.

With the light from the car behind him, the company commander suddenly noticed a flash of light in the grass in the distance.

Grass, is there really an ambush?That reflection must have been observed by eight people with binoculars!
(End of this chapter)