In order to delay the Eighth Route Army's general attack on the enemy's bunkers, Ikeda immediately revised a letter and ordered the devil who had returned to deliver the letter to take his reply and deliver it to the front commander of the Eighth Route Army as quickly as possible.

Lei Jian, who had already launched a general attack on the Devil's Bunker and set up in the command post of the forward position, read Captain Ikeda's reply, he asked Li Gang: "Commander Li, Ikeda, this cunning fellow, requests that he be considered according to the time of the first letter of persuasion, what do you think of the disposition?" ”

Li Gang read Ikeda's reply, although the words were relatively gentle, but there was no sincerity between the lines, he said firmly: "Commander Lei, you are the commander-in-chief of the entire campaign, I only put forward my opinion, Ikeda, this cunning bastard received your second ultimatum letter, and seeing that the time was about to come, the cunning Ikeda immediately replied, asking for time to consider according to the first letter of persuasion.

I thought that he was planning to delay and wait for reinforcements from the Japanese army, and that he had no intention of surrendering, so I proposed that as soon as the time reached 19:17, a general attack on Ikeda's squadron trapped in the pillbox should be launched. ”

Lei Jian nodded with satisfaction and ordered: "Commander Li Gang, please issue the most fierce attack on the Ikeda squadron entrenched in the three pillboxes in the name of you and me. ”

"Yes, Captain Lei, there are still three minutes left, do you need to reply to this bastard Ikeda that I am the only one who swears to fight to the death?"

Lei Jian immediately briefly repaired the letter, handed it to the devil who delivered the letter, and warned in Japanese: "You go back immediately and hand over this letter to Captain Ikeda, as long as we see you enter the bunker, only give Ikeda ten minutes, and if you don't hang up the white flag of surrender within ten minutes, our Eighth Route Army will unceremoniously carry out the maximum force and firepower attack, do you understand?" ”

"Hay, Hay." The little devil who delivered the letter took the letter from Lei Jian's hand, was escorted to the forward position by several soldiers and then let go, the little devil was like a rabbit chased by a hunter, fleeing frantically, crossing a distance of more than forty meters in the blink of an eye, and rushing into the bunker.

Li Gang always stared at the black shadow of the fleeing devil, when the little devil got into the bunker and lost his figure, he looked at his watch, and said to Zhou Peng, the chief of staff beside him: "Order the first battalion and the third battalion of the only regiment to prepare for battle, and once the order is issued, immediately launch a general attack on the enemy's three pillboxes." ”

Time passed little by little, and Ikeda in the bunker received a reply from Lei Jian, and shouted frantically: "Lei Jian, the commander of the only regiment of the Tubalu Tribe, has seen through our plan and limited ten minutes to raise the white flag and surrender, hahaha, my Ikeda squadron would rather all the jade be shattered than surrender to the Thunder Sword of the Bunker, and order all the bunkers to prepare for a fire attack." ”

Li Gang saw that the time was up, and asked Lei Jian for instructions: "Report to Commander Lei, Li Gang asks you to give an order to launch a general attack on the enemy's bunker." ”

Thunder Sword slashed down fiercely, and shouted firmly: "Order all troops to launch a general attack." ”

Zhao Sicong, the commander of the artillery company, received the order, and he ordered each platoon of the artillery company: "Aim at the enemy pillbox and set the target in advance, and open fire——。 ”

Each platoon of the 'boom, .......boom, boom' artillery company aimed at the enemy's three pillboxes at the same time, and bombarded the enemy's watchtowers with the largest artillery shells, one shell after another, and for a time the enemy's watchtowers were shrouded in gunpowder smoke and flames.

Under the cover of artillery fire, the 1st and 3rd Battalions of the 1st Regiment and the 3rd Battalion, each responsible for attacking different enemy pillboxes, suddenly jumped out of their positions and quickly approached the enemy pillboxes in a curve.

The second company of the first battalion and the first company of the third battalion mainly attacked the auxiliary pillboxes on the enemy's right flank, and Liu Yun, deputy commander of the third battalion who led the territorial tank commandos to carry out the blasting, ordered the nine earthen tanks to divide into groups of three, each composed of three fighters, and successively spread a distance and pounced on the enemy pillboxes.

The devil commander, who was holding the Eighth Route Army in the bunker and only intimidated, did not dare to really launch an attack at all, relying on the few poison gas bombs, believing that the Eighth Route Army could completely block the attack, as long as it could be delayed until he had just contacted Captain Matsumoto, Captain Matsumoto ordered Captain Ikeda to hold the bunker for eight to twelve hours, and then he could get timely reinforcements from Matsumoto Wing, Ikeda stared at the position of the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side without any nervousness, thinking that the Eighth Route Army would not attack at night.

Ikeda's wishful thinking was wrong, he led his troops to fight against the Eighth Route Army many times, and he could have figured out the tactics of the Eighth Route Army's ability to fight at night and guerrilla warfare, but this arrogant guy made a mistake today.

Just when Ikeda saw that the allotted time had arrived, and the Eighth Route Army, which was surrounded by the bunkers on all sides, had not yet moved, he just burst out with a 'ha' laugh, and suddenly dozens of shells flew out from the position of the Eighth Route Army, dragging orange flames to explode in and around the bunkers, instantly enveloping the bunkers in the smoke and flames.

Some of them flew into the pillboxes from the lookout holes, and Ikeda and the two squad leaders, who were lying on the lookout holes to check the positions of the Eighth Route Army, were hit by the sudden explosion of mud and stone shrapnel and air currents, and fell on their backs, narrowly avoiding the attack of explosives.

Ikeda climbed to the bottom of the lookout and slowly stood up, looking out from one side, and found that several large black shadows of the three bunkers appeared almost simultaneously, and he shouted to the two squad leaders: "Fujiwara-kun, Kondo-kun, you two quickly take a look, what are these big black shadows rushing towards my bunker?" Why did you get so close to my bunker so quickly? ”

Fujiwara and Kondo, the two devil squad leaders, risked that the shells and explosives that came in from the lookout hole might be hit, and cautiously approached the lookout hole, and when they found dozens of large black shadows rushing towards the three pillboxes, Kondo, the bastard, immediately shouted: "Captain Ikeda, this is the latest dirt tank of the Tsuchibachi, I have seen it in the 576th Wing." ”

"What dirt tank? How do I not know? ”

"Report to Squadron Leader Ikeda, this kind of earthen tank on the Tsuchihachi Road is mainly to attack the pillboxes, bridges, culverts and other important firepower blocking positions of our Imperial Japanese Army, and the warriors of the Imperial Japanese Army who have seen it say that this kind of earthen tank bullets strafing on it can't help this damn thing at all, and if you want to destroy the earthen tanks of the Tsuchibalu, you can only destroy them with mortars, grenadiers, and grenades."

Ikeda heard Kondo's explanation of the Eighth Route Army's earthen tanks so clearly that he shouted to the grenadiers and little devils in the bunkers: "The grenadiers are aimed at the earthen tanks of the Eighth Route Army, and the warriors of the Imperial Japanese Army throw their grenades at the rushing Turkish tanks, completely destroying and destroying ——。 ”

The first batch of three earthen tanks were about to rush to the pillbox, and there were still more than ten meters to place the explosive bags they carried in the key places of the pillboxes, but they were suddenly bombarded by the devils' dense grenades, and the three earthen tanks fell to the ground almost at the same time and never got up again.

Liu Yun, deputy commander of the third battalion, saw that the three earthen tanks in front of him had fallen to the ground in the grenade shrapnel machine exploded by the enemy, and he shouted loudly to the other six earthen tanks that followed closely: "Pay attention to concealment, quickly approach the enemy pillbox, and once the explosive package is placed, immediately fall on the spot and roll out of the explosion zone, do you hear it?" ”

Under the guidance of Liu Yun, the deputy battalion commander, the six earthen tanks jumped closer to the enemy pillbox with the help of the night and the concealment on the way forward. ”

Liu Yun said that he was about to rush out when he lifted the door panel on his head, but was held tightly by a soldier, and another soldier snatched the explosive bag that Liu Yun was holding and rushed out.

The soldier who rushed out finally dodged the grenade thrown by the devil in the bunker after a few jumps, and fell down about two meters away from the bunker and quickly crawled forward, seeing that it was less than a meter away from the bunker, and suddenly threw a grenade from the shooting hole of the bunker, which exploded next to the warrior, directly detonating the explosive bag that the soldier was holding. With a strong explosion, the soldier of the Eighth Route Army was blown up by the explosive bag that exploded, and when he fell to the ground, he was already a martyr with incomplete limbs.

The five earthen tanks that followed behind did not know who the soldiers who were killed by the bombardment were, and quickly gathered together and shouted: "Who are the sacrificed soldiers?" Isn't it our deputy battalion commander Liu Yun? ”

Liu Yun showed half of his head from the earthen tank and scolded: "Bastard, don't care if I'm dead or alive, our task is to blast the devil's bunker, even if there is one dirt tank left, we must blow up the devil's bunker and rush up quickly." ”

Under Liu Yun's loud roar, the remaining six earthen tanks immediately separated and took different ways to pounce on the enemy's pillbox, one by one grenades exploded around them, and the heroic soldiers of the Eighth Route Army carried forward the spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice, braved the explosion of grenades thrown by the enemy, and rushed forward bravely without sparing their lives.

Two earthen tanks fell in the sound of enemy grenade explosions, and the soldiers who were still alive in the earthen tanks did not have time to take care of their seriously injured comrades, picked up explosives and rushed out of the tanks, rolling and rushing to the enemy pillboxes.

(End of chapter)