On the high ground, there was only Lei Jian's cavalry team left, and they continued to block the strong attack of the enemy's puppet army, Wang Xiaoliang saw that the enemy's firepower was very fierce, and the enemy was about to encircle him from three sides, he shouted anxiously: "Battalion Commander Lei, look, if you don't retreat, it's too late." ”

Lei Jian ordered the soldiers around him: "Immediately withdraw from the position, every group of five people, run in different directions, and then cross back and forth, disrupt the pursuit target of the devil, quickly jump out of the encirclement that the enemy puppet army is about to form, and retreat quickly."

Takeshita Injiro saw that the Dohachi Road had withdrawn from the position one after another, and he angrily ordered: "Immediately report to the commander of the Hoshino Shusuke Brigade, and request the Imperial Army troops within fifty miles east of the Shahe River to quickly reinforce and destroy all the Tuhachi Road that has infiltrated the Japanese theater." ”

He then ordered: "Order all the troops, speed up the pursuit, and be sure to destroy this Tubalu on the east bank of the Shahe River." ”

The enemy puppet army ran at the fastest speed to pursue Lei Jian's independent battalion, if Li Gang had not led the newly formed assault team to withdraw from the position in advance, Lei Jian's cavalry team would not have retreated all the way to the west without scruples.

Approaching the east bank of the Shahe River for more than ten miles, hearing the sound of fierce gunfire in front, Lei Jian immediately ordered the cavalry to beat their horses and approach quickly, he couldn't figure out which unit of the independent battalion was ambushed by the enemy, so that the guns and cannons in front of him were loud.

At the place where the sound of gunfire was heard in front, less than two or three miles away from the east bank of the Shahe River, Niu Dali's 6th and 9th companies, which had withdrawn in advance, fought continuously, and their stomachs were unbearable with hunger and thirst.

As soon as the troops settled down, they were alarmed by the gunfire outside the village when they were in a hurry to drink the hot water sent by the villagers.

Niu vigorously jumped up nervously and ran out of the village, ran to the entrance of the village, and met two soldiers running from outside the village, panting and shouting: "Deputy Battalion Commander Niu, we are surrounded by little devils in the village, devils." ”

"Tell me how many little devils there are?"

"Battalion Commander Niu, at least there is a brigade of little devils who have surrounded the village."

Niu Dali ordered the commander of the sixth and ninth companies standing beside him: "The sixth company is covering, and the ninth company will immediately organize the villagers to break through from the south of the village and protect the villagers to retreat to the mountains to the south." ”

He led the sixth company to block the enemy surrounding the village at the west entrance of the village, the enemy's firepower was very fierce, a large group of devil troops surrounded the village, relying on an unformed sixth company to block the attack, to cover the retreat of the villagers, like an egg hitting a stone, the end of the battle will be very miserable.

The devil brigade that came from the west of the village was a devil of a brigade of the Tokugawa Company that moved with Takeshita Injiro on the east bank of the Sand River.

Takeshita Injiro was attacked from both sides by the Thunder Sword Independent Battalion in the woods, and he was destined to be able to wipe out the dirt eight roads in the woods soon, but he didn't expect to be attacked by the Imperial Army cavalry team disguised on the periphery, and he fell short.

In order to retaliate and eliminate Thunder Sword's independent battalion, he reported to Wing Captain Kameda at the fastest telecommunication speed, and crossed the rank to report directly to General Shusuke Hoshino of the 13th Brigade, requesting reinforcements from the nearest Japanese troops.

General Shusuke Hoshino, receiving an urgent telegram report from Captain Kameda and Captain Takeshita Injiro that told him to go crazy, cursed hysterically: "Yaga, a group of bastards, two wings of Imperial Army troops, was actually played around by a half-grown child of Dirt Eight Road, stupid pig, stupid pig. ”

"Your Excellency General, the commander of the Eighth Road, is it really the little devil who killed the imperial army, the half-big branch of the boy known as the Thunder General, the work of the Thunder Sword? It's incredible. Brigade Chief of Staff Yanagi Shibei asked in confusion.

"It's him, it must be this little bastard, the captain of the Kameda United team Takeshita just said it himself, there must be no mistake."

"Your Excellency General, how many troops are there in the area occupied by our Imperial Japanese Army?"

When General Hoshino heard the chief of staff ask such a question, he said in a tough tone: "It is this half-large branch that kid, commanding a regiment of troops to infiltrate the occupied area of our Japanese army separately, and carrying out the most brutal sabotage war against the imperial army's cage plan, my roads, artillery towers and quarries have been greatly damaged, I really want to catch this little bastard and kill him to death." ”

He angrily ordered to the operational staff officer: "Order the Kameda Wing that has entered the Tuba Road base area to clear and suppress, leave a brigade in the Aoshan area, block the Tuba Road from entering the occupied area of our Japanese army, and rescue this Tuba Road Regiment that has infiltrated to the east of the Shahe River. ”

The commander of the Hoshino Brigade walked up to the sand table, pointed to the location where the Tokugawa Wing was stationed, and asked, "Where is the Tokugawa Wing now?" ”

"Report to Your Excellency General, the Tokugawa Wing is about to be north of Yagozhuang in the south of more than fifty miles, from the Tokuhachi Road that has infiltrated into our war zone." The combat staff officer hurriedly said.

"Order the captain of the Tokugawa Wing, in the area of Yagezhuang and Songzhuang, leave a large group of imperial troops to block the southern line of Tuba Road to cross the Shahe River for reinforcements, and order him to lead the troops to advance parallel from Yagezhuang to the north, and be sure to wipe out a regiment of the Tuba Road Thunder Sword in their current position."

The chief of staff of the brigade, Liu Sheng, heard the brigade commander deploy his troops in this way, frowned and said: "Your Excellency General, use such a large number of troops to encircle and suppress a regiment's Tubalu, isn't it." ”

The commander of the Hoshino Brigade shook his head, and scolded in a very bad mood: "The imperial army of the empire, swept from the northeast to North China, all the way was smooth, and there was no decent resistance from the Chinese troops, but I didn't expect that in this place in Jiaodong, it was repeatedly harassed by Lei Jian, a half-large Chinese child, the imperial army suffered heavy losses, the reputation of the Japanese imperial army was discredited, and it was greatly humiliated. ”

The Kameda Wing and the Tokugawa Wing, at the same time, received an order to encircle and suppress the Thunder Sword Independent Battalion, deployed the remaining troops, led the brigade of devils, and assembled violently in the area of the Shahe River.

Niu Dali's troops were surrounded in the village, and the Ninth Company carried out Niu Dali's order to cover the villagers to move immediately, but the devils outside the village were blocked by fire, and they couldn't break out of the village at all.

The commander of the devil commanded the troops to surround the village, and ordered the encirclement to be gradually reduced, pressing the Tuba Road to a corner of the village, concentrating superior forces, and destroying the encircled Tuba Road.

In order to protect the common people, the soldiers of the 6th and 9th companies did not dare to leave the villagers alone, and responded to the attack of the devils with the greatest firepower.

The commander of the devil saw that the Tu Ba Lu was surrounded in the village, and he had scruples in fighting each other, and he had no intention of giving the enemy the opportunity to increase his firepower to attack, so he pressed forward step by step, and the 6th and 9th companies of the independent battalion covered the retreat of the masses while blocking the enemy, and quickly retreated into several large courtyards to launch a fire confrontation with the enemy.

The brutal little devils rushed into the village, burned, killed and plundered, did all kinds of evil, and every time they went to a house, they rushed into the house to kill people when they saw them, and robbed them when they saw them, and when they came out, they lit the house grass, and the raging fire gradually devoured the village, and the smoke shrouded the village that was plagued by the evil.

Niu Dali was forced to anger by the savage devil, he has fought so many battles, he has never been forced to this by the devil, just out of the tiger's den and into the wolf's den, the two companies he brought with the soldiers, after several life and death battles with the enemy, now there is less than one company left that can fight with the enemy, just his hot temper, how can he bear it?

He led the sixth company to rush left and right in the village, and the streets and alleys that had been occupied by the devils all became the enemy's positions to encircle and kill the Eighth Route Army, and the cunning devil commander, in line with the tactics of fighting steadily and not seeking fast forward, gradually encroached on the positions of the Eighth Route Army in the village.

Lei Jian led the cavalry team to quickly retreat towards Shahe, catching up with Li Gang's assault team halfway, and he ordered the troops to run forward in the direction where fierce gunfire came from the front.

The troops advanced at great speed, and before they reached the spot where the sound of gunfire was heard, they saw bullets flying and shells swaying in the air with smoke.

Lei Jian said to Li Gang: "You lead the assault team, from the east of the village to the village to move closer to the village in a concealed way, once you come into contact with the enemy, lure the Japanese troops besieging the village with the greatest firepower, retreat to the west, you reach the east bank of the Shahe, don't care about anything else, immediately force the Shahe River, occupy the favorable terrain on the west bank, and cover the retreat of the large army." ”

He ordered Wang Xiaoliang: "You lead a dozen cavalry to attack the village from the left flank, and I will lead the rest of the cavalry to attack the enemy from the right flank and act." ”

(Tianjin)