The sky was gray and gloomy, and although it had just passed lunch, it was as if it was getting dark, and the mood of the brothers of the Northern Jiangsu Corps, who were responsible for blocking the devils along the way, was as gloomy as this day.

The devils poured out of the nest, although the Northern Jiangsu Corps had previously organized people to dig up the highway and demolish the bridge, so as to delay the northward advance of the devils as much as possible.

However, the little devils are not vegetarians, and their troops actually left their trucks, carried weapons and ammunition on pack horses, and even advanced north on foot, and there was a great posture of not giving up without attacking and destroying the northern Soviet army.

Shen Biao, the commander of the 3rd Battalion of the Northern Jiangsu Corps, who was responsible for delaying and blocking the devils on the southern front, was worried, although they planted mines along the way, fired cold guns, and even established blocking positions on many river banks to conduct small-scale blocking battles.

But in the face of the mighty army of devils, everything they did seemed so powerless, and they lost almost 200 brothers in just one morning, and the devils were still advancing.

At this rate, I'm afraid that the devil troops won't be able to enter the realm head when it gets dark, and once the devil enters the realm head, a bridgehead will be established.

Then the weapons and ammunition of the devils will be able to be transported along the canal through the waterway to the Jieshou wharf, and when the time comes, in the face of the strong devil troops, the Northern Jiangsu Corps will face an unprecedented crisis.

"The devil must be blocked south of the Boundary!"

Shen Biao, the commander of the third battalion, decided to let go, since the cold guns and cold artillery could not stop the pace of the devil's attack, he could only fight head-on, hoping to buy a little more time for the troops going south, so that they could rebuild the defense line at the head of the boundary.

"Every time you block the devil in an hour or two, you can complete the task! When the time is up, you can take it down! ”

Soon, Shen Biao, the commander of the third battalion, gathered up the troops who were scattered to fight devils and cold guns again, and they had to carry it hard now, otherwise they would not be able to drag those devils who were bent on going north.

"Are the tasks clear?" Shen Biao looked at these company commanders and deputy company commanders with solemn faces, and asked in a deep voice.

In the morning, the one-eyed company commander had already died in the middle of the blockade, and now these company commanders and deputy company commanders also knew that this was originally a battle to the death, and they had no choice.

"Battalion commander, I don't know if you can stop it for two hours, but if the little devil wants to take a step forward, he must step over our corpses!"

The eyes of the second company commander with a pockmarked face were full of determination, and he already had the will to die.

"We are not even a bad breed, fight one by one, and let the little devils know how powerful our Shandong masters are!"

The old Shandong urn of the machine gun company slapped his chest with a loud sound.

The company commanders expressed their positions one after another, followed by the platoon commanders' blood oath, everyone knew that this was a tough battle related to the life and death of the Northern Jiangsu Corps, and they had to fight.

"Okay, they're all well-known men! If we are alive, we will drink celebration wine, and if we die, we will fight devils together! ”

Seeing that the brothers were not afraid of death, the heart of Shen Biao, the commander of the third battalion, was full of heat, and it was enough to be able to fight side by side with these brothers and stain the battlefield with blood.

Without any rhetoric, no gongs and drums, the assembled brothers, under the leadership of their respective company and platoon commanders, silently entered the pre-built blocking positions in various places.

The brothers of each platoon held a position, and the brothers of the entire battalion were distributed on a position several miles deep to prepare to block the devils and delay the northward advance of the devils.

The blue sky and white sun flag with the sound of hunting were planted at the front of the position, where was an outpost of infantry squad guards, and the brothers lay in their respective foxholes, quietly waiting for the devil to come.

In this plain area with a dense network of rivers in Jiangsu, if you want to fight a blocking war, it is not comparable to those dangerous mountainous areas, and there is almost no danger to defend here.

The only thing the brothers could rely on was the crisscrossing rivers and trenches dug overhead.

Although the attack of cold guns and cold guns can cause some casualties to the devils, compared to the vast troops of the devils, that loss is almost negligible.

In order to be able to slow down the northward advance of the devils, the brothers had to fight head-on to block it, although they knew that it was a grasshopper shaking the tree, but none of the brothers retreated.

From Shanghai to Nanjing, from Xuzhou to Wuhan, every battle between the Chinese army and the little devils was a life-and-death struggle for this nation, and now the brethren know that now it is their turn, this is the fate of the soldiers, and it is decided from the moment they put on the military uniform, and they are destined to shed the last drop of blood for this land.

"Are you afraid?"

The squad leader of the outpost squad looked honest and honest, but he was a real veteran, his eyes swept over the immature faces of the brothers lying in the foxholes on the left and right, and he asked slowly.

Most of the young people in their twenties were thin and small because of long-term malnutrition, like dolls in their teens.

"Squad leader, I'm a little scared in my heart......" Seeing that everyone was silent and did not speak, a brother's lips trembled a little.

Since the beginning of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, warlords have been fighting, bandits have been fighting, and now they have to resist aggression, the smoke of the land of China has not stopped, this generation has almost grown up in the war, they have seen too much life and death, and at this moment they are going to step on the battlefield and fight with the devils, saying that they are not afraid that it is false.

The rest of the brothers in the class listened to this brother, and they all sweated for him, and said that they were afraid at this juncture, that is, they wanted to be deserters, and they would be shot.

"I'm afraid, I'm scared when I go to the battlefield, and I'm scared when I hear the gunshot."

The veteran squad leader did not want to use military law to oppress people as expected, but took out a pack of cigarettes from his arms by leaning on the foxhole, and generously took out one cigarette and threw it at the brothers.

"But I'm afraid there's no way, if we don't fight as soldiers, then our parents and brothers and sisters behind us will be harmed by the little devils, so we have to fight even if we are afraid!" The veteran squad leader lit himself a cigarette.

"When our ancestors planted crops on this land, the little devil didn't know where to be a savage in the forest and ravine, our ancestors taught them to be people, and they also thought they were a person, and now the little devil has grown up by himself, and he is going to rob the land left by our ancestors with guns, do you say this is okay?" The veteran squad leader smoked a cigarette, as if telling a story, telling the story.

These young descendants listened carefully, thinking that the little devil was the white-eyed wolf, who had learned Chinese things, and in turn wanted to grab China's land.

"How can the things left by the ancestors be easily given to others, since ancient times, there have been people riding animals, how can there be animals riding people, the little devil, this beast wants to be powerful on top of our heads, robbing our things, they are miscalculated."

"The little devil wants to rob us Chinese land, then let's fight!" One brother clenched his fists and said.

The veteran nodded and said, "Yes, don't look at the little devil who is arrogant now, but Chief Yang said that as long as our 45,000 Chinese are united to fight the little devil, even if one is changed for another, the little devil can't afford it."

"The old ancestors are watching us from the sky, we can't embarrass the old ancestors, when the little devils come up, they will give me my life to fight to the death, let the little devils know that our Chinese masters have no bad seeds, if they want to rob our land, then exchange their lives!" The veteran took a hard puff of his cigarette and said murderously.