Chapter 1171: Siege and Interception
"Quick, run!"
Artillery roared northwest of Baoying, and a large group of guerrilla officers and men in ragged uniforms were rushing towards a village without formation.
"Boom!"
The devil's cannonballs flew from time to time in the distance shrouded in gunpowder smoke behind them, and landed in the running crowd, and with the roar of opening gold and cracking stones, from time to time someone screamed and was blown up into the sky.
Many people were torn into the sky by the strong force of the cannonballs before they fell, and they were shrouded in the running crowd like rain, and everyone's bodies were mixed with mud and blood, looking particularly embarrassed.
In the face of the shells that kept exploding around, they did not dare to stop to collect the bodies of the brothers who had been blown up and their flesh and blood were blurred, so they could only grit their teeth and run away for their lives, because they knew that the brothers behind them would not last long.
Behind them, on the battlefield filled with choking gunsmoke, the sound of gunshots like popping beans continued to sound, it was the covering force behind the palace blocking the little devils.
At this moment, a large number of little devils were pouring in from all directions like a tide, some of them were attacking the covering forces behind their palace, and some were trying to intercept their retreat in a roundabout way.
The little devils had been carrying out a week's sweeping and sweeping operation against the guerrilla corps in northern Jiangsu, and the brothers of the guerrillas had initially relied on the vast space of the guerrilla zone to carry out scattered guerrilla operations.
But the little devils were too insidious, they couldn't catch up with the elusive guerrillas, they even threatened the lives of the common people, and they also washed several villages in blood.
Many of the officers and men of the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps were local soldiers, and they could bear it, so they came out from their hiding places one after another to fight the little devils, trying to lure away the little devils and prevent them from harming the local people.
It's a pity that this was originally a trap for the little devils, who had been waiting for the officers and soldiers of the guerrillas for a long time.
As soon as the officers and men of the guerrillas came out, they were surrounded by devils, and the officers and men of the guerrillas, who felt that the situation was wrong, had no choice but to rush left and right and began to break through.
However, the strength of the little devil is strong, and the strength of the army occupies an absolute advantage, how can it be so easy to break out of the encirclement of the devil.
What's more, the little devils are also shrewd, and they set up a series of traps, and the guerrillas who surrounded some small groups did not kill them, but used them as bait to attract other guerrillas to come to the rescue.
Under the chain of devils, many scattered guerrilla companies in the game were constantly involved in the battle, and then surrounded by devils, and the situation deteriorated sharply.
When the battalion commanders of each battalion sensed that something was wrong, the various companies under their command that were scattered had been divided and surrounded by little devils.
They can't watch their troops being wiped out by the devils, after all, they are all brothers fighting side by side in the trenches.
Although they knew that it was a conspiracy of the little devils, the battalion commanders had to take people to save them, but the strength of the little devils was very strong, and it was not so easy to rescue people.
When the blacksmith of the first battalion took two companies of brothers to save people, although he tore a hole in the encirclement of the devils, he took out one company that had fallen into the encirclement and suffered heavy losses.
But when they retreated, they suddenly found that they were caught in a larger encirclement of the devils.
The blacksmith has been leading the brothers to rush left and right for a day, breaking through the two blockades of the little devils in a row, but unfortunately, the devils are like kraft candy, sticking to them and can't get rid of them.
As time passed, the blacksmiths who had been fighting for a day could be said to have not made a drop of water, and they had been fighting and breaking through, and they had long been tired and exhausted.
But they didn't dare to stop, because once they stopped, more little devils would surround them, and then there would really be no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth.
"Quick, enter the village!"
The blacksmith and his group ran panting, and soon saw a small village with only a few dozen houses in front of them, and the blacksmith waved his hand and led the people towards the village.
Although the river network in Baoying is dense, most of the places are unsheltered and flat areas, and it can be said that the guerrillas do not have the slightest advantage when they are chased and beaten by superior little devils on such a battlefield.
This is also the reason why the brethren of the guerrillas have always had difficulty getting rid of the siege of the little devils, because the devils have a wide field of vision, and they can know no matter which direction the guerrillas are running.
Besides, the little devils had already deployed heavy troops in this area, and there were several infantry brigades, so it can be said that important bridges and strongholds were controlled by them.
As long as the guerrillas are sure to run in that direction, the devil can call the troops in front to intercept them, and under such encirclement, pursuit, and interception, the guerrillas are indeed like trapped beasts, and it is always difficult to break through this cage.
The blacksmith, the commander of the first battalion, panted, rushed into the village with a group of scattered brothers, and a few hundred meters behind them, the brothers covering behind the hall were also chased by the bullets of the little devils and rushed towards this side.
"Quick, machine gun, cover brother!"
The blacksmith of the first battalion commander was covered in sweat and soot and turned a dark gray, and without taking a breath, he ordered the brothers to immediately build cover.
In contrast to the shelter that had been built on shallow ditches and ridges in the empty plains, the houses in this village allowed the brothers to finally find decent shelter.
The heavy, with the help of several brothers, quickly climbed to the roof of the house and set up the machine gun, and all the brothers with rifles leaned against the walls and windows to carry the rifles out.
They all pressed the few remaining bullets into the magazine, and then they gasped for breath and watched the brothers in the back of the palace being chased by the devils.
"Dog leftovers! Take a few brothers to the village, let the people hide in their homes and don't come out, bullets don't have eyes! ”
The blacksmith, the commander of the first battalion, leaned against a broken wall and glanced at the retreating brothers, anticipating that the battle was about to begin, and shouted behind him.
"Yes!" The lieutenant named Gou Yu grabbed his shell gun, got up from his hiding place, ordered a few brothers, and headed for the village.
"The second platoon will go to the other side to arm the defense, let's hold on until dark and then break through!"
The blacksmith has been fighting with the little devil for a day, and the physical exertion is very great, and now they really can't run, rather than being wiped out in the empty field, it is better to rely on the village to hold out until dark, and then find a way.
While the blacksmiths were nervously arranging in the village, dozens of brothers in the palace also retreated towards the village in desperation.
"Puff puff!"
A large number of devils were chasing after them, bullets whistling everywhere, splashing the dirt behind them, and from time to time stray bullets flew into the crowd and penetrated their bodies, bursting with blood mist, and some brothers fell to the ground.
"Quick, run!"
Looking at these brothers who were chased and beaten by the bullets of the devils, the hearts of the brothers who had already entered the village and were panting for breath rose to their throats.