under fire

Chapter 928
In plain battle, the strength of troops is equal, and the defense is dominant.

The dry canal in the wilderness has become a natural bunker for the defender.

The Devil second lieutenant who was standing on the roof put down his binoculars and was in a much happier mood.

Bringing a small team and losing nearly half, if no suitable reason can be found, the headquarters will probably order an apology!
Now there are more than a thousand guerrillas outside the village, only a few more, and at least three or four hundred people only surround the village!
As long as he can persevere in the village, it is impossible to apologize, and he may even gain an honor!
With one against twenty, can anyone do it?

Seeing that the Imperial Association Army from Baliying retreated back in defeat, he didn't care.

The Imperial Association Army are cowards who can't go to the battlefield at all!

However, I still feel a little uncomfortable.

A defeat is a defeat. He does not deny that he was indeed defeated by these cunning guerrillas, and even the warriors of the Imperial Army still need the Imperial Association Army to rescue them.
Although the face is dull, what could be more important than surviving and bringing those good things back to China?

Fortunately, they first sent someone to the west to report the situation to the Imperial Association Army.

When the reinforcements arrived in the west, if you write a report, of course you can’t say that you asked for help, you must write that with a small team, you fought fiercely with a regiment of the Eighth Route Army, so the loss was “heavy”.
The warriors who had previously arranged to go eastward also brought a Ban Huangxie army with them. None of them have returned yet.

He was a little worried.

There are quite a lot of guerrillas outside the village, and they dare not send people out of the village to investigate the situation easily.

Surrounded in the village, it is indeed shameless.

It's not that he really didn't dare to go out, but he felt that even if ten guerrillas were killed, it would not be worthwhile to kill one warrior.

The situation determines the attitude.

In his opinion, how could the life of the guerrillas compare with that of the warriors of the imperial army?

As long as you don't go out, the eight roads outside the village will definitely not come in.

The sound of gunfire from the west was suddenly mixed with the sound of shelling. It seemed that the reinforcements had already launched an attack on the guerrilla positions!
Ignoring the village surrounded by the divisional team in the north, the members of the Ninth Battalion trotted westward.

It was getting closer and closer to the place where the guns were fired in the west.

Two soldiers leaned out of the ditch: "Stop, what part do you belong to?"

It should be the security post of the division, Luo Fugui stepped forward directly: "Your grandma is blind, and the Ninth Battalion of the Independent Regiment doesn't know?"

The gunfire in the west kept going, and Hu Yi suddenly got a little upset. He was about to ask the security post where the political commissar of the division was, when the correspondent of the division suddenly appeared and appeared in a hurry on a bicycle.

The correspondent naturally knew Hu Yi: "Report, Commander Hu. I was just looking for you. Why are you here?"

Hu Yi frowned: "What's the situation over there?"

"The puppet army has 600 people, and the firepower is very fierce. We are retreating while fighting."

"Are you sure it's all puppet soldiers?"

"Correct!"

"There are no ghosts?"

"I didn't see a single one anyway"

"Then why did you come to see me?"

"The political commissar said that the sub-divisions should hold off the devils first, and tell you to retreat north immediately."

"Did you say how to deal with those devils in the village?"

"The political commissar didn't say that just after we received the order, the devils had encircled the New Five Armies, and the prefectural committee asked us all to go underground immediately."

Combined with the information obtained before, Hu Yi knew that it would be a matter of time before the hostile New Five Armies took action.

But the order from the superior should not come sooner or later. If he comes at this time, there must be something he doesn't know about.

However, as a friendly army supporting the division, the independent regiment naturally had to obey the division's arrangements.

While the two were talking, a troop of cavalry came from the west. It looked like they were in their forties.

The political commissar and company commander Zhang fell behind the cavalry, followed by a group of people from the work team.

When the political commissar saw the group of Jiuying who had already left the road to the wilderness, he gave Hu Yi a wink without showing any signs, and immediately said without saying anything nonsense, "Counselor Hu, retreat immediately."

Instead of calling Hu Yi a military officer, he called Hu Yi a staff officer. What does this mean?No matter how stupid Hu Yi was, he knew something was wrong, so he quickly saluted: "Hello, political commissar!"

The political commissar jumped off the horse, his face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and he replied: "Yeah"

Hu Yi hesitated for a moment: "The correspondent just said that there are only two battalions of puppet troops, I think"

Behind the political commissar, a middle-aged man on a horse jumped off his horse: "This is the decision of the prefectural committee, obey the order!"

This guy actually interrupted his conversation with the political commissar, making Hu Yi, who was standing opposite the political commissar, stunned for a moment: "Excuse me. Are you?"

"My surname is Zhang. I'm an officer of the Confidential Department of the Prefectural Committee. Just call me Officer Zhang." After speaking, this man looked Hu Yi up and down, and then looked left and right at the soldiers of the Independence Regiment.
Everyone has a gun, and many people not only carry rifles, but also have shell guns on their shoulders!
I heard that the independent regiment has developed rapidly in the past two years. I didn't expect it to reach this level. There is not an old slide in the rifle!
What kind of shit luck did this independent group have?

"Good job Zhang!" Hu Yi squinted his eyes slightly. He had contacted the prefectural committee last year, and he seemed to have never seen this person in front of him.

Director Zhang's tone was a little cold: "How is the situation over there?"

"The puppet army was beaten back to the Eight Mile Camp by us!"

Director Zhang seemed to be a little worried: "Is it the political commissar who gave you the order to wipe them out?"

Hu Yi was stunned for a moment. The meaning of this man's words was unclear. When he saw the political commissar turned his face away, he immediately understood: "Hehe, it seems that the confidential department can't handle military matters, right?"

"What's your attitude?"

This man’s words were full of gunpowder, and Hu Yi was stunned for a moment. After spending so long on the plains and studying with the platoon leaders at the headquarters for so long, he didn’t know the relationship between the various committees and district committees and the combat troops: " We are ordered by the division, if you have an opinion, you can report it to our regiment leader, of course, you can also report it to the division.”

"Then what are you doing here now?"

This one must have taken gunpowder!Hu Yi didn't want to give him a good face: "I heard that the guerrillas in the division are short of ammunition, so I'll come and see...do they need help!"

The political commissar next to him heard that the smell of gunpowder was strong between the two, and smiled with a black face: "Hey, I said Xiaohu, the prefectural committee has other arrangements, let's withdraw first!"

First called the staff officer, then Xiao Hu, Hu Yi was speechless: "Then I know."

Officer Zhang suddenly said: "Staff Hu, I have something to remind you. According to reliable sources, the devil has dispatched a squadron of troops and is looking for you everywhere. If there is nothing else, I suggest that you rush back to your independent office tonight. Regiment base."

He knew that there was a group of devils who had been running around from east to west, and the plain had only gone through a round of raids. This group of devils was not strong, and since they had stayed in the Ninth Battalion for a long time, they were obviously looking for trouble for the Ninth Battalion. .

The division was directly defeated in the face of the puppet army in the west, saying that the retreat might only be a matter of face.

Hu Yi didn't know that a group of devils had been looking for him, and he and Luo Fugui's footprints had listed them as the key targets for removal.

Now that the partition has decided to retreat, there is no need for him to express his views.

From entering the town to rescue people to fighting an unexplained ambush, losing troops and losing generals, the political commissar seemed to have no intention of letting Jiuying stay.

It made Hu Yi very puzzled, and it was completely inconsistent with the normal situation of brothers and troops getting along.

The political commissar didn't say hello to Hu Yi again, and directly led the sub-regional retreat team to the southeast.

The gunfire from the west was getting closer and closer, and the guerrillas besieging the village in the east were also withdrawing.

There's no point in staying any longer.

Hu Yi beckoned and asked Luo Fugui to lead the team, bypassing the village in the north where the devils were staying, and heading north directly.

The cavalry is not suitable for blocking, and will not fall behind because of retreating and running fast. It is he Huanzhang who is blocking.

Zhang Lianchang kept silent all the time, seeing that the political commissar had a bad face.

He gave the soldier next to him a wink, and the soldier understood, and deliberately fell off the horse, and bumped into the confidential officer who was riding on the horse next to him, and both of them fell off the horse.

Company Commander Zhang immediately took advantage of this opportunity to join the political commissar: "I think the equipment of the Ninth Company is really enviable. If it weren't for the one in the confidential department, we would be together with them, and we would be able to beat the puppet army hard!"

The political commissar nodded: "You have to understand that the rafters in the early years are rotten first, and the superiors must have their considerations. Everyone in the party committee felt that Secretary Li should be rescued at any cost. It seems that it is still ill-considered to take action against the puppet army in the Bali Battalion."

"The prefectural committee must still want to win over the surname Wu. That guy can become a traitor. I think it's better to kill him directly."

"Hehe, do you think my political commissar is weak?"

"How dare, just now I heard that the wounded soldiers of the Independent Regiment were surrounded by puppet troops, shall I go and see the assembly?"

"It's a good idea, the people in the confidential department are watching"

"Then let me take a step to complete the assembly first?"

The face of the political commissar was finally not so dark again: "It's okay, we have too many people and our goals are too big. When it gets dark, this land will be our world. Let me tell you first, you are not allowed to go to Jiujianfang Village in the north, yes Now, I have to let Captain Geng keep an eye on you."

"Hey, just look at it." Lian Zhang was overjoyed, just in time to lead the way.

(End of this chapter)