Before dawn, the Five Saints Church was once again in flames. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

This time, the Japanese artillery fire came extremely fiercely, hitting the Five Holy Church and its surroundings as if the sky was falling apart, and in the shelling of various calibers for more than an hour, the fire of the shell explosion never stopped.

The sky was gradually bright, the dawn had appeared in the east, and the Japanese artillery fire stopped, but the smoke and dust from the explosion over the Wushengtang Village still did not disperse for a long time, and the infantry charge began again.

More than five miles to the west of Wushengtang Village was a wasteland, and the battle was in full swing in the village, but it was not affected here.

Spring has passed, and the soft green grass in a small depression is already an inch high, and the tips of the leaves are hung with early morning dewdrops.

There were two soldiers of the national army lying on their stomachs, and when they saw that the sky was already dawning, they all slowly raised their heads, and they were two young faces, one with a small stone lock and the other with a small stone.

"Climb a little further and take a look." Little Stone whispered.

So the two men crawled forward hand and foot.

This small depression is not deep, and it is just enough to cover the two of them lying on their stomachs, if the two of them sit up, two or three hundred meters away can see two heads emerging here. As the two of them climbed to the edge of the small depression, they slowly looked up and looked ahead, and then quickly retracted it.

"I see, almost a squadron." Xiao Shisuo whispered.

"Well, I saw that too." Xiao Shisuo responded.

They saw that there were Japanese troops more than 200 meters ahead, and the Japanese soldiers were lying in a depression just like them, which was obviously a little deeper than their own, but there were many Japanese soldiers, and they couldn't lie down in the depression, and after all, someone was exposed to the vision of the two people.

"Go back and find the leader, I'll be here to watch." Little Stone said.

"Hmm." Xiao Shisuo agreed, turned around while lying on his stomach, and crawled away again. He climbed out of the depression and forward for another sixty or seventy meters, and then burrowed into a poplar forest with a green trunk.

The small stone crawled through the woods, and when he turned back and could only see the gap in the trunk, he stood up and ran quickly in the direction of the Five Saints Church Village.

The soldiers of the quartermaster department were woken up by Huo Xiaoshan before dawn, and then they were separated in groups of two, and after coming out of Wusheng Village four miles west by night, each group crawled down at a distance of forty meters.

Huo Xiaoshan had already explained to them clearly, and the purpose of lying here was to monitor whether there were any small units of Japanese troops infiltrating.

The two of them were separated at the very edge, and there were no other soldiers outside.

Before dawn, they heard the faint and chaotic sound of footsteps coming from the east as they walked more than forty meters away.

Neither of them dared to say anything at that time, they both listened with their ears open, until they couldn't hear the sound clearly, and then they straightened up and followed them here.

Now that it was daylight, they confirmed by their own observations that the footsteps were from a Japanese squadron that had infiltrated under the cover of Japanese artillery fire and darkness.

The Japanese squadron that infiltrated in was also lying quietly at this time, and more than 100 meters ahead was a main road from Huangjialou to the Five Holy Churches.

At this time, the leader of the Japanese squadron really admired the intelligence officers of the Great Japanese Empire, and the location of the road marked on the map was not bad at all.

He believed that the Chinese army had to take this road if they were carrying artillery shells and other ammunition, because it was the main road, so both trucks and horse-drawn carts had to drive from here to Wushengtang Village.

Only he was looking into the distance with a telescope, and he didn't even dare to let his soldiers set up the grenadiers.

The terrain here is really too flat, and if the grenadiers are erected, they may be discovered by the observation posts of the Chinese army, not to mention that this time they brought a lot of grenadiers, a full twenty of them, and he expected that these grenadiers could completely knock out the transport vehicles of the Chinese army if they fired a salvo.

At this point, he cursed the damn terrain while waiting for the appearance of the hunted target.

The terrain is cursed because it is so peaceful that they can only infiltrate it like this, but they cannot drive in with swagger, otherwise they will only become a living target for the Chinese army.

But he never dreamed that more than a mile behind him, hundreds of Chinese soldiers would gather in groups and quickly.

An hour had passed, the sky had already brightened, and there were people on the road, but they were not soldiers of the Chinese army, and it was clear from the binoculars that they were all local people hiding from the fighting.

Why hasn't it been yet? The Japanese squadron leader and his men waited and waited and waited, only to wait for a sudden grenade from behind them.

All the Japanese soldiers turned their heads to look when they heard the familiar sound of "Tong" grenades firing from a hundred meters behind them, but when they saw that Chinese troops and several grenadiers had been erected there, the grenades had already smashed down with their heads covered in the face.

Oops! Discovered by the Chinese army!

This was the thought that burst out of the squadron leader in an instant, so he stopped hiding and turned around and shouted "Fight back, fight back!" Grenadier! Counterattack! ”

But there was a problem with his order, and his soldiers did not quite understand whether their superiors were saying that they had grenadiers or that they should also fight back, so they had formed an instinct to obey the order and got up to set up the grenadiers.

This mistake was fatal!

If you want to fire, you have to get up from the ground and squat, so the grenadier is generally launched from behind a hidden object to strike in a curve.

But this time they didn't have any shelter to use, because the terrain was too flat, and the depression was not enough to block their upper bodies.

So the inevitable outcome of daring to get up was that as soon as the ammunition men and launchers of the grenadiers squatted up, they were knocked down by the other side's bullets like raindrops.

The 20 grenadiers they carried, one of which required two people to operate at the same time, so these 40 people who dared to get up and expose themselves to the rain of bullets basically lost their combat effectiveness.

On the other hand, after firing the first grenade, there was no longer a shadow of a squatting person, because they had already fallen down, and even the grenadier that had been erected had fallen to the ground.

As a result, the first wave of those killed on their side and this wave of those who were swept down by machine guns immediately halved the number of fighters under his command.

But what is even worse is that the other side still has a grenadier falling into the depression where they are staying, and when they see that the other party has a grenadier in another direction and starts to shoot there, the soldier who operated the grenadier has already fallen down and also put down the grenadier in his hand.

Under the elimination of one and the other, Aneng is undefeated!

Half an hour later, there was no more gunfire in the depression. Fifteen minutes later, Huo Xiaoshan was already standing on the edge of the depression with his soldiers with a box cannon in his hand, and there were Japanese corpses in different postures. (To be continued.) )