The officers next to them were also very confused and didn't understand what Tuanza was thinking.

Although Zheng Tietou couldn't guess what tactics Li Hong had in mind, he didn't ask too much, so he had to give an order to the artillery unit.

Soon after, the artillery units of the security regiment fired smoke bombs at the forward positions in the central street.

"Tom, tom, tom!!"

Fierce shelling sounded, and smoke bombs flew to the position one after another and exploded.

Large smoke bombs fell on the forward positions, and soon a thick smoke rose and the smoke surrounded the streets. 、

At this time, neither of the two sides who were exchanging fire on the position could see the target clearly, and they were shooting indiscriminately.

Li Hong saw that the forward position in the central street was covered with a smoke screen, and immediately he gave the order to the 6th Battalion to abandon the forward position.

Wang Desheng, commander of the sixth battalion, received the retreat order conveyed by the signal corps, which was really a bit unexpected.

The officers and men of the Sixth Battalion fought tenaciously and fiercely with the little devils, and neither side took advantage of it, and suddenly let the Sixth Battalion withdraw from its position, and the officers and men naturally couldn't figure it out.

Wang Desheng hurriedly called the regiment headquarters and personally asked Li Hong the reason for his retreat.

"Tuanza, although the casualties of the sixth battalion are not small, the position is still in our hands, and the officers and soldiers of our sixth battalion will live and die with the position!"

"Without further ado, hurry up and carry out my order and let the troops withdraw!"

Wang Desheng, the commander of the sixth battalion, insisted on his own opinion and continued: "But the regiment, our sixth battalion has suffered so many casualties in order to hold the position, and now we take the initiative to abandon the forward position and the second line of defense, then the blood of the brothers is equivalent to ...... in vain."

Li Hong yelled at the commander of the sixth battalion on the other side of the phone: "Wang Desheng, listen, Lao Tzu repeats it again, order the troops to retreat!" ”

Wang Desheng's ears were "buzzing" by Li Hong's loud voice, and instead, he put down the phone and immediately went to carry out the order of the regimental seat.

The signal corps and heralds of the 6th Battalion notified the officers of each company and platoon to transfer and retreat.

After receiving the order to retreat, the officers fighting on the front line also couldn't figure out why they wanted to abandon their positions and retreat.

The officers, who did not know the situation, ran to the battalion headquarters one after another.

"Battalion commander, the position is still in our hands, why retreat?"

Seven or eight officers gathered around Wang Desheng, the commander of the sixth battalion, and asked about the reason for the retreat.

"Don't ask why, this is the order of the group, you can't understand it, and Lao Tzu can't understand it either!"

The commander of the sixth battalion severely reprimanded his subordinates, and then he led the officers and men of the sixth battalion to quickly transfer from the position and evacuate the block where the fire was exchanged.

"The second company is responsible for fire cover, and the rest of the company is evacuated !!"

"Quick, quick, brothers!!"

The officers and men of each company of the 6th Battalion left their positions in an orderly formation and withdrew to the third line of defense behind the block.

"Da !!"

"Sudden !!"

The officers and soldiers of the second company, who remained in the position, continued to exchange fire with the devil soldiers on the street.

Bullets flew in all directions, and grenades exploded on both positions.

The officers and men of the second company lowered their bodies and fought and retreated through the bunkers on the side of the street, resisting the attacking little devils step by step.

The streets were surrounded by smoke screens, and the soldiers on both sides were two or three hundred meters apart, and no one could see the target clearly.

The two sides fired at each other across the street, countless bullets flying through the smoke screen, grenades exploding from time to time.

"Ahh......h

Many devils were hit by stray bullets flying across the street, and their bodies fell to the side of the street.

The devil's chariots were destroyed and there were only a few left, and the devil's infantry lost the cover of the chariots and slowed down the attack.

For the time being, the little devil did not realize that the officers and men of the companies of the sixth battalion had withdrawn from their positions, and the enemy slowly moved forward by taking cover.

"Slap, slap, slap!!"

"Da Da Da, Tu Tu !!"

The devil soldiers who rushed to the front suppressed it with firepower, and the little devils behind couldn't use their firepower at all.

The smoke screen blocked the forward position, and the devils behind did not have a clear vision, and the enemy did not dare to shoot indiscriminately.

When the officers and men of the companies of the 6th Battalion withdrew to the third defensive position, the officers and men of the 2nd Company also received the order, and the officers and men quickly withdrew from the battle and retreated to the rear.

After more than ten minutes, the officers and men of the second company also withdrew to the third line of defense.

All the troops of the 6th Battalion were withdrawn from the front-line positions, and the companies of the 6th Battalion relied on the favorable terrain of the streets to shrink their forces and redeploy their firepower points for defense.

The third defensive position guarded by the sixth battalion is five or six hundred meters away from the little devils, and there are no buildings or houses in the streets in front of the position, which is very suitable for attacking the attacking troops of the little devils.

Li Hong asked the six battalions to evacuate, mainly because the six battalions defended multiple defensive positions, so that the troops were too scattered, and it was difficult to resist the attack of the devil's armored troops.

As soon as the ground troops of the devils attacked, they had a slight advantage, and the front-line troops of the sixth battalion and the devil's troops exchanged fire in close combat, and the heavy firepower of the security regiment could not give full play to its superiority at all.

In order to give full play to the superiority in firepower, Li Hong could only let the troops abandon their positions and withdraw first, so that the sixth battalion could receive sufficient artillery support and also have more time to redeploy for operation.

In accordance with Li Hong's instructions, the officers and men of the Sixth Battalion all hid under the fortifications, creating the illusion that the position was undefended.

After the 6th Battalion withdrew from its position, the smoke screen on the street gradually dissipated, and the visibility was much clearer than before.

Soon, the devil soldiers attacking from the center and the left flank merged and occupied the front-line positions.

The devil soldiers who rushed to the position found that there was not a single shadow of the officers and soldiers of the security regiment on the position.

The devil soldiers searched the position, and then the devil soldiers reported the situation to the commander.

"Report to the captain, the security corps troops in the middle and left flanks have withdrawn!"

As soon as the devil commander heard the report of his subordinates, he picked up the binoculars and observed the situation on the street in front of him through the smoke screen.

"Why did the security corps troops voluntarily abandon their positions?" The devil commander's heart was full of confusion.

A devil next to him, Shao Zuo, pointed to the corpse of the soldier of the security regiment on the ground, and said: "Captain, the casualties of the security regiment are not small, they gave up their positions, obviously they were afraid of us!" ”

The captain of the devil team thought about it, and his subordinates' guesses were right, it seems that the security team was indeed scared.

However, the security regiment has always played cards according to common sense, and for the sake of prudence, the captain of the devil brigade first sent two small teams to attack.

"Squad forward, quickly drip !!"

The devil's squad bent over, they stepped over the corpses of the soldiers of the security regiment, and cautiously approached the position of the six battalions in front.

The main purpose of these dozens of little devils is not to attack, the enemy is afraid that the security regiment will be cheating, so they send devil soldiers out to conduct fire reconnaissance.

It is a correct tactic for devils to send such a small team to test the attack, after all, the streets are narrow, and once they encounter an ambush, a large number of the little devils crowded on the street will have to die.

(End of chapter)