Chapter 645: The Price of Saving People

"What to say after the battle is over! Now it's time to save people! ”

Shen Zhengwen didn't expect that his staff would hold him at this time, and his eyebrows were burned, and if he delayed for one more second, an ordinary person might fall under the butcher's knife of the little devil.

"Captain, listen to me first!" The staff officer was in a hurry, although he only had one arm, he grabbed Shen Zhengwen and didn't let him move.

"Speak up if you have something to say!" After Shen Zhengwen broke free a few times, he didn't break free, so he had to agree to let the staff officer finish his words first.

"Captain, you have to think clearly, these soldiers have followed me all the way, nine deaths, they are the main force of our mine protection team, as long as we can return safely, Brother Fan will definitely promote us to the main force. Now if we are suddenly exposed, the little devils of a squadron in front of us are a trivial matter, and the defense line of the little devils is more than ten kilometers ahead, and the surrounding Japanese strongholds make up for it, captain, have you ever wondered if we can leave alive? ”

The staff officer of the mine protection team was not wrong at all, as soon as the guns rang out, a squadron of the Japanese army was a piece of cake in the eyes of the current mine protection team. But the mine protection team was completely exposed, surrounded by strong enemies on all sides, how could their team of less than 2,000 people stand out from the heavy encirclement of the Japanese army, and the rescued civilians would definitely follow them.

The mine protection team is now unable to protect itself, and if so many civilians are transferred, the soldiers of the mine protection team must all be explained here, and after they are all killed in battle, the common people will definitely not be able to escape.

If nothing happened to them if they had chosen to do anything, they would have been able to do so without having to sacrifice many soldiers as long as they had finished slaughtering the village, continuing their march north, and then breaking through the Japanese blockade with the help of Ma Wanzhong's division.

Shen Zhengwen looked at his staff officers, they had thought about turning the mine protection team into the main force when they were training troops in the Jingcheng mining area before, and now they were one step away, but they had to make a more difficult choice in the last step.

The air smelled of something burning, and several officers waited for their captain to give orders.

Shen Zhengwen put his hand on his staff officer's chest and said calmly and forcefully: "If you watch the Japanese army slaughter our compatriots, do you have a conscience?" We usually scold the Japanese army for brutes, but we don't save our own compatriots when they see death, so what is the difference between us and brutes. ”

"Don't forget, we are all soldiers, the duty of a soldier is to protect the country, that is, to protect the people, at this time we will not make sacrifices, do we have to wait for the little devils to slaughter our Chinese people, and then we will do it? No! When they are slaughtered, you will still stand by and watch, because you are numb! Shen Zhengwen put down his hand and said to the officer behind him.

"If you are afraid of death, you can go, I will call the shots for Brother Fan, as long as you put down your weapons, take off your military uniform and leave here, as long as you don't be a traitor and lackey for the little devil in the future, if you can survive one day, I am willing to treat you as my own soldiers! Prepare to fight without fear of death! ”

"Captain......

From Hebei to Shandong to Henan and back to Hebei, they went around a long circle and saw more than a dozen burned villages, and they saw too many ordinary people who were killed by the little devils along the way. The Japanese army has become accustomed to slaughtering villages on the land of China, and the staff officers of the mine protection team are now completely for the sake of the mine protection team, and they do not need to take the lives of their soldiers for the sake of the people of a village, because after being saved, no one can escape.

However, Shen Zhengwen didn't pay attention to him anymore, the other officers of the mine protection team just glanced at their staff officers, then nodded heavily, and then followed Shen Zhengwen away, they were thanking the staff officers for their life safety, but the people in the village not far away needed them.

"Captain Two and Captain Three, take your men to outflank the village in a roundabout way! Captain 1, immediately lead your troops to fire guns and divert the attention of the Japanese troops in the village! The war was urgent, and Shen Zhengwen simply arranged the task.

"Bang Bang Bang"

The first captain led his soldiers to the sky and fired their guns, and sure enough, after the Japanese soldiers who were slaughtering the common people heard the sound of gunfire outside the village, they immediately gave up the pursuit of the common people, and immediately turned to a defensive state in a nervous and orderly manner, and then observed the situation outside the village.

"Report to the captain, I found that two groups of Chinese troops are detouring towards both flanks of the village, as if they want to outflank us!" A Japanese soldier reported to the Japanese squadron leader.

"Which troops?"

"It's not like the Eighth Route Army, it's not like the National Army, you can't tell which unit it is from the uniform!"

After hearing Jun Cao's report, the Japanese squadron leader showed a smile on his face: "It turned out to be a guerrilla, since it is a guerrilla, why should we defend it, order all the soldiers to attack!" ”

The Japanese squadron leader's order was not wrong, but he misjudged the enemy's situation, and even if it was the right order, there was only one result in the end when he did not know the enemy's situation. It was not the guerrillas who were surrounding them, but an elite unit that had just experienced the flames of war, and they belonged to the New 33rd Army.

If the Japanese squadron leader knew that the opponent was a unit of the New 33rd Army, he would not have given the order to take the initiative to attack at all, but directly sent a telegram to his captain asking for help, and then held on to the reinforcements.

"Da Da Da"

Japanese heavy machine gun fire suppressed the Chinese troops flanked at them. However, a few seconds after their machine guns fired, shells flew in the sky.

"Boom Boom"

The shell accurately blew up the heavy machine gun position of the Japanese army, watching his heavy machine gun position turn into a sea of fire, the squadron leader of the little devil swallowed his saliva nervously, this plot seems to be different from what he imagined, where did the artillery come from, and it hit so accurately, this is impossible!

Just when the Japanese squadron leader thought it was impossible, his troops had already exchanged fire with the soldiers led by the captain, and he could clearly see through the binoculars that those soldiers were recruits who had not been in battle, and each of them was extremely brave and strong.

"No, there must be something wrong, all the troops retreat and enter the village for defense!"

Under the onslaught of the Chinese soldiers, the Japanese army had no power to parry at all, especially the new 33rd Army had a lot of good equipment from the Japanese warehouse, and their overall equipment was much better than that of the group of little devils in front of them.

By the time the little devil squadron leader realized that something was wrong, his troops had withdrawn from the village. Soldiers of the mine guards poured into the village from all directions, and the guns crackled like fried beans.

For half an hour, Shen Zhengwen looked at the squadron leader of the Japanese army, and there was a circle of ordinary people around Shen Zhengwen. The Japanese squadron leader tried to escape, but was caught by the civilians, and before the soldiers found out, the Japanese squadron leader had been beaten half to death.

Shen Zhengwen looked at the squadron leader of the little devil: "Your order to slaughter the village?" ”

The Japanese squadron leader was supported by the fighters, kneeling on the ground, holding his head high, unable to say a word.

"It seems that it was really your order, in that case, it is time to pay for the lives of these unjustly killed people!"

Shen Zhengwen didn't give the little devil squadron leader a chance to speak, and directly pulled out his pistol and shot the Japanese squadron leader's braincase.

"Folks, don't be afraid, we are from the New 33rd Army, the Japanese devils have been killed by us, you will definitely not be able to stay in the village, if you believe us, you can transfer with us!"

The staff officer of the mine protection team commanded the living soldiers, gathered the corpses of the dead soldiers, and then burned them, they could not leave the corpses to the little devils, otherwise the little devils would definitely insult the corpses of the soldiers.

"Captain, arrange a platoon of soldiers to take care of the wounded and the soldiers who are moving with us, and no one is allowed to be left behind when retreating!"

The one-armed staff officer still insisted on his pre-battle point of view, it was not that he did not want to save the people, and if he proceeded from the future of the mine protection team, there was nothing wrong with his approach. However, now that things have happened, no matter how much you talk about it, it's better to arrange the troops and prepare to break the net with the little devils.

The Japanese moved quickly, and from the start of the battle to the end of the battle, the Japanese had enough time to prepare.

As the mine guards withdrew from the village, a company behind the palace exchanged fire with Japanese reinforcements.

"You retreat with the troops, and I will take the troops to the queen! When encountering the Japanese army, don't care so much, just use the mortar to blast a hole and rush over! Shen Zhengwen said to his staff officer.

"Da Da Da"

The mechanization speed of the Japanese army was very fast, and if it were not for the soldiers of this company to block it, the Japanese army would have now rushed the mine protection team to pieces.

"Fight and retreat, don't entangle with the little devil!"

Shen Zhengwen took over the command of the troops behind the palace, and he ordered the troops to withdraw while fighting.

"The machine gun occupies the commanding heights on the right side to cover the retreat, and after retreating three hundred meters, all the soldiers cover the machine gun retreat!"

Their troops retreated blindly, and they must retreat in an organized and covered manner, otherwise the little devils will stick to them even tighter, and once they stick together, they can't retreat if they want to.

Ma Wanzhong, who was far away in Jingcheng, heard the news of the mine protection team, and immediately became excited, since the mine protection team disappeared, he had sent several groups of scouts to the enemy to inquire about Shen Zhengwen and the mine protection team, but the mine protection team seemed to have disappeared, and there was no news at all.

Almost everyone thought that the mine protection team had been wiped out and it was impossible to come back, but today Ma Wanzhong heard the news of the mine protection team, which made him overjoyed.

"Commander Ma, our captain asked you to take the troops to support ...... immediately" The soldier of the mine protection team panted, he ran all the way, he didn't even drink a sip of water, and his physical strength was almost exhausted.

After he passed through the Japanese defense line and arrived at the defense line of Ma Wanzhong's division, he almost fainted, and was carried to Jingcheng by the soldiers, and then he saw Ma Wanzhong.