under fire

Chapter 810 The meaning of battle

Li Huanzhang rubbed his sore shoulders from the butt of the gun, and carefully watched the silent night. Just now, he emptied the magazine twice. Based on his feeling, he hit at least nine bandits with torches!

No one in the west of the village dared to show off with torches anymore, and the bandits stopped in the open area for the time being and stopped attacking, and the two sides occasionally fired two black guns.

If you don't have a target, you'll be blind, and most of the bandits have rifles with seven or nine old sleeves, and the muzzle flash is obvious.

Whoever shoots a flash will shoot the bullet directly.

After hearing the gunshots from the east of the village, Li Huanzhang became a little restless.

The task now is to keep this batch of prisoners captured and captured by friendly forces.

It was already expected that the enemy would directly come to the fore if the negotiation failed. He was surrounded by a group of bandits in the village and couldn't move.

The bandits who have taken refuge in the devil are no longer compatriots, they are enemies, and for enemies, then beat their mothers!
He deeply hated the escorted bandits who survived by burning, killing, and looting, but he is a soldier after all, not a political cadre, and he thinks from a different angle. What he is thinking about now is how to complete the escort task, and he has not considered releasing the prisoners in exchange for the bandits to retreat. question.

From the mouth of the bandits who entered the village to negotiate, he knew that the messenger calling for help had successfully passed the enemy's line of defense. Now that the news of asking for help had been sent out, he had to hold on until the reinforcements arrived.

He believes that it will definitely not take long!

The enemy first attacked from the west, and there were also outflanking bandits from the north and south. Now the bandits from the east came up again. What he was worried about was how long Company Commander Zhou's militiamen, most of whom had never even touched a gun, could hold off the enemy.

Fortunately, he entered the village in advance to set up a position, and he arranged for a squad of soldiers to lead the militia, so that he was not afraid of the bandits' attack on both sides for the time being.

But if the bandits really attacked in an all-out manner regardless of casualties, the village's own team and Company Commander Zhou's militia would definitely be wiped out immediately!

The current situation is obvious, the bandits don't have that determination!
The purpose of the bandits fighting is to capture the guns in the village. With the temper of the bandits, it is unlikely that they will not be afraid of casualties.

Faced with this situation surrounded by the enemy, the combat methods used are related to the commander's temper.

Although Li Huanzhang's education level is not high, he has a strong temper. After careful consideration, he finally made up his mind to let go of the bandits here!
Turning his head and explaining to the next squad leader: "Attention, inform everyone immediately, leaving two people to fight with the bandits with black guns, and the others give up long-distance fighting with the bandits, all retreat into the village yard, use the courtyard wall to fight the bandits from a favorable shooting position." Street fighting to the death, only in this way can we persist for a longer time."

"Yes, platoon leader, I have fought so many battles, don't worry!" The squad leader blushed with excitement. Take these bandits seriously.

"Don't be careless, you must deal with the enemy according to the street fighting tactics I taught you a while ago. I will go east for a while!"

"Are you worried about Company Commander Zhou and the others?"

"Don't talk nonsense, take care of yourself."

After carefully checking the defenses of the soldiers on the west side again, Li Huan turned around and walked towards the village with a soldier.

Not long after, a group of militiamen carried the guy into the wounded soldier's yard.

Smelling the smell of disinfectant and blood, Li Huanzhang looked at the wounded sitting in the courtyard and said straight to the point: "Comrades, I'm very sorry, there are too many enemies at the moment, so I have to trouble everyone!"

The wounded who were recuperating heard the gunshots outside the village and kept making noise and guessing. How could they not understand what was going on at this time?
The wounded squad leader of the Second Company was the first to express his opinion: "Don't be that mother-in-law, hurry up and bring the gun to me, thinking that if I get shot in the leg, I can't shoot? How dare this bastard bandit challenge me?"

After speaking, leaning on a wooden fork, he swayed forward and pulled up a rifle.

Those who were able to move immediately followed and took the bullets. Those who could not shoot or move sat on the ground and asked for a grenade directly.

Li Huanzhang looked at the wounded bandages that were still oozing blood, and his eyes were wet: "Everyone, all of you are assigned to the unified command. Your task is to cooperate with the divisional troops and militiamen to block the entrance of the village in the south and block the outflanking from the south. enemy."

"Don't worry, people are on the ground, I promise, even if you don't believe it, our side will definitely be the last direction to be broken by the bandits!"

In fact, everyone knows that if the village's defense line is breached by bandits in any direction, it is definitely the result of the sacrifice of all!
Li Huanzhang's idea was crazy. In order to delay time, most of the soldiers and wounded in the village might be sacrificed!
Outside the encirclement in the south, there is a squad ready to respond at any time. Except for Company Commander Zhou, no one who stays in the village knows the final direction to break out of the encirclement.

If the reinforcements have not arrived when the village is destroyed, then the people and soldiers who can run will be brought to the south to break through, and at the same time attract the bandits to pursue.

He put all the wounded soldiers in the south, intending to break out of the encirclement when it is absolutely necessary, so that these wounded soldiers will travel less at that time!

He didn't hold much hope that the people who stayed in the village could run out in the chaos.

It has to be said that in the current situation, Li Huanzhang's decision was not inappropriate and beyond reproach.

After Li Huanzhang arranged for the militiamen to follow the civilian men who helped the wounded to the battlefield, he turned around and went to the east.

In the light of the fire burning outside the village, he quickly turned into a small courtyard along the road in the village.

Li Huanzhang leaned directly on the wall and greeted Company Commander Zhou next to him: "How is the situation?"

Company Commander Zhou retracted his head from the courtyard wall: "The situation is not good now. I think we should change our thinking. Only someone with a gun can attack the enemy. Standing here is not in line with the superior's spirit of guerrilla warfare!"

Li Huanzhang asked casually: "You mean we give up those prisoners and run away now?"

Company Commander Zhou nodded: "These captives will be released in the end anyway, so we should save our strength for now, and we will get revenge on them when we assemble a large force in the future!"

Li Huanzhang shook his head: "This is part of the first battle against the enemy in the enemy-occupied areas organized by the division after the puppet army swept up the plains this year. If we compromise even when the bandits come to our door, what will the common people think?
What will those local armed forces who have been watching think?
They must think we can't even beat bandits!

Well, in the future, everyone on the plain will think that our Eighth Route Army is a soft persimmon, and who will follow us to fight devils in the future? "

Seeing what Li Huanzhang said was so serious, Company Commander Zhou couldn't help being stunned for a moment: "I just think that the enemy is strong and we are weak, so we should avoid their edge first, and make plans when the big troops arrive. Where is all this going?"

Li Huanzhang looked serious: "If half a month in the morning, the enemy came and we moved, there is no problem with your thinking, but this time is different, our purpose is to play the name of the Eighth Route Army fighting against Japan on the plain, so this time we must not retreat!"

Company Commander Zhou looked worriedly at the open land not far to the east: "What are you talking about? I just think it doesn't make much sense to fight head-on with the enemy even though they know they are strong. Everyone sacrificed here for nothing!"

"Even you think the bandits are very powerful, so we should let the bandits know that our Eighth Route Army can't be pinched by anyone who wants to pinch it!"

"You are so awesome. What kind of logic do you have? It is a fact that the enemy is strong. The point of guerrilla warfare is to avoid the truth and pretend to be false. Otherwise, why would even our division headquarters have to move when the puppet army came to sweep it?"

"If you are afraid of death, you can lead the militia to withdraw first. I believe that the bandits can't do anything against you in the dark night!"

"Your mother, who do you think I am?"

"Hey, I said this time is different. The reinforcements of the independent regiment should have received our request for help, and the wounded soldiers here are all theirs. They will definitely arrive as soon as possible. Besides, the reinforcements sent by our base may When will it be there! You are afraid of a fart."

Company Commander Zhou was still babbling: "Independent regiment? They are sixty miles away from here, so they can't quench their thirst. Besides, there are so many enemies outside, we can't hold it at all!"

Li Huanzhang comforted: "I have arranged to send guns to the wounded just now. In this way, we have more than 200 people. Even if he has twice as many bandits as us, we have a village as cover. When I take the prisoners and capture them I heard that the bandits have run out of mortar shells, and they don't have heavy firepower now, are you afraid of a ball?"

Company Commander Zhou couldn't help but feel ashamed. Brother Li really deserves to be a member of the Eighth Route Regular Army. He heard that he had attended the Anti-Japanese University. Death, I just don’t think it’s meaningful, I’m willing to go out after hearing you say that, you go to take care of the west side, I’ll keep an eye on this side, as long as I don’t die, none of those bandits can enter the village from here!”

Li Huanzhang didn't move, and sat down on the crooked millstone in the yard, rubbing his sore shoulder from the gun butt when he shot continuously just now: "Now we can't rush, the bandit leader must be discussing how to attack , let's wait now!"

Company Commander Zhou froze for a moment: "Wait? What are you waiting for?"

"Wait to find out the main attack direction of the bandits!"

"what do you mean?"

"Hey, there are our people outside the bandits' encirclement. They will launch a sneak attack from behind the bandits' main attack direction and copy the bandits' rear path! We can tell which side the bandits are focusing on by hearing the gunfire!"

　Some old iron mentioned whether there was a muzzle flash, and Babu shot it himself, absolutely.

　　As for the caliber of the [-] Dagai during the Anti-Japanese War, the caliber was not much smaller, and there should be muzzle flames.

　　The devil's regulations are very strict, and the bandits who surrender cannot be covered with [-].

　　
　
(End of this chapter)