The platoon commander who came to report the news suddenly shouted: "The two company commanders don't fight anymore, it's too late to withdraw from the battle now, you look back, the assault company has been surrounded by devils on three sides, and we only have a bloody battle to the end." ”

Wang Xiaoliang had no second way to go at this time, and the road left for the assault company was to counterattack with the greatest firepower, push the battlefield into the city, and immediately withdraw from the attack range of the enemy's heavy firepower in the city tower, and strive to contain the enemy who surrounded the assault company, forcing the enemy not to reinforce the east city gate, so as to alleviate the main force of the only regiment outside the city to conquer the city tower and eliminate the enemy defending the city to advance in depth to the city.

The assault company is now facing enemies on all sides, and the situation on the battlefield is very grim, if there are no reinforcements, I am afraid that it will not be able to hold out for half an hour, and this only heroic company that is particularly capable of fighting will be completely annihilated.

Deputy Company Commander Duan Zhiquan shouted angrily: "Company Commander Fang, are you satisfied now?" You put the assault company to death and can't survive it, is this your means of command? To hell with it. ”

"Bastard, the enemy is at present, you Duan Zhiquan dare to withdraw from the battle without a fight and shout, you are disturbing the morale of the army, if Commander Lei knows that he will enforce battlefield discipline and shoot you. Pass on my order, order each platoon of the assault company to fight separately, cross and cover each other, must hold the position, contain the place of attack, cover the siege troops outside the city to break through the east gate with the most fierce assault, and reinforce our assault company, this is the only way for the assault company to survive. ”

Wang Xiaoliang brandished a pistol and shouted: "Occupy the favorable terrain, counterattack the devils who surround you with the greatest firepower, advance the battlefield to the city, and start street battles with the enemy, all of which give me the courage to kill the devils." ”

Deputy Company Commander Duan Zhiquan had already seen at this time that the assault company was engaged in a bloody battle with the enemy without victory, and this kind of battle was undoubtedly using the assault company as bait to contain the enemy inside the city and cover the troops outside the city to take the opportunity to attack the city, but the price was too great.

He shouted to Wang Xiaoliang: "Deputy Commander Wang, in this battle, the soldiers of the assault company will all be heroic, you and my brothers, the feelings on the battlefield of killing the enemy are condensed with blood and life, and I really arrived at the Nai He Bridge, and I also asked my brothers and other brothers to go on the road together, take care." ”

Duan Zhiquan braved the enemy's dense bullets, kept bouncing on his waist, and finally rushed to a platoon of positions, he ordered the platoon commander: "Order a platoon of soldiers to increase their firepower to destroy the enemy's living forces, and resolutely block the attacking enemy who surrounds them. ”

The commander of the assault company, the instructor, and the deputy company commander each led a platoon to attack the encircled enemy in different positions and with the help of different concealed objects.

At this time, the commanders of the only regiment at all levels who held an emergency military meeting outside the city heard the fierce gunfire in the east city gate, Li Ganghuo stood up and said: "The assault company is holding back the enemy's firepower in the east city gate, listening to the gunfire has already engaged a large number of enemies, we have no time to delay time here, according to the new siege deployment just formed, Deputy Regiment Commander Zhang led the first battalion to feint the east city gate, and the third battalion commander Huang led the newly formed assault team, set up a ladder to climb the city wall and quickly approach the east city tower, and raided the enemy's firepower point. Eliminate the enemy blocked by the city tower, cover the first battalion's feint attack turned into a strong attack, and take the east city gate in one fell swoop, and act. ”

Fierce siege gunfire suddenly erupted outside the east city gate, and the devil light and heavy machine gunners guarding the city tower concentrated all their firepower to attack the siege troops, and at the same time reduced the firepower of the enemy in the city tower to condescendingly attack the assault company in the city.

The assault company suddenly lost the fire of the city tower, Fang Wang Xiaoliang heard the fierce gunfire outside the city, he knew that the main force began to storm the east city gate again, this is a favorable opportunity for the assault company to contain the enemy to push the battlefield into the city, Wang Xiaoliang ordered each platoon to expand the scope of the battlefield, and forced the encircled enemy into the city.

Led by Ikeda, the supreme commander of the Japanese forces defending the city, found that the towers were pressed out of the castle with all their light and heavy firepower, creating a respite for the assault companies that were being attacked on all sides, and the assault companies were pushing the battlefield into the castle with maximum firepower.

Ikeda knew that if the Japanese forces inside the city were unable to reinforce the defending forces in time, the Eighth Route Army outside the city would break through the East Gate with the most powerful firepower, and once the main force of the Eighth Route Army advanced deep into the city, the entire garrison of Fuping Castle would soon collapse.

The cunning Ikeda ordered the two Japanese squads surrounding the assault company to swear to the death to consolidate their positions, gradually shrink the encirclement, and kill those who retreated.

Relying on the favorable terrain they occupied, the two squads of devils increased their firepower to counter the assault company's intention to advance the battlefield into the city. At this time, the assault company fought fiercely with the enemy, and under the enemy's powerful firepower, it suffered heavy casualties, and it was not easy to push the pinned enemy into the city.

Squadron Leader Ikeda noticed that the firepower of the assault company that had been surrounded was gradually weakening, and he laughed and said, "It is simply self-defeating for a small group of Tubalu to sneak into the county town and attempt to raid the east gate in vain to cover the large forces of the Eighth Route Army outside the city to storm the city gate. ”

He brandished his command knife and shouted: "The warriors of the Imperial Japanese Army, with the spirit of bushido, destroy this small force of Tsuchihachi that has been surrounded, reinforce the castle tower to counterattack the main force of the siege of the city, and kill ——。 ”

Under the supervision of Squadron Leader Ikeda and under the cover of powerful light and heavy machine gun fire, the little devils lying on the ground and behind the concealment quickly narrowed the encirclement and compressed the assault company into two courtyards to carry out the encirclement.

Wang Xiaoliang ordered the soldiers of the assault company: "Each platoon occupies a strong terrain and destroys the enemy who has surrounded it, and we must use our lives to cover the main force to break through the east city gate and kill devils and devils——。 ”

Squadron Leader Ikeda saw that the Eighth Route Army Assault Company was surrounded by two Japanese squads in two courtyards, and he ordered to approach in concealment, and suddenly threw grenades at the two families surrounded in the courtyard, and he must destroy all the Eighth Route Army hiding inside.

The two platoons of the assault company that retreated into the courtyard, with the help of the powerful terrain, stared at their eyes, and as soon as they found the figure of the devil approaching, they immediately pulled the trigger and shot them.

Suddenly dozens of grenades were thrown in from all sides of the hidden yard, one by one the grenades could not be seen at first in the night, when they heard the sound of breaking the air, they found that one by one small flying objects fell into the yard and detonated instantly, the explosion of dozens of grenades was very powerful, and the grenade fragments exploded, flying towards the soldiers who were hidden in the courtyard wall of the ridge to block the enemy, causing a casualty, and the firepower of the assault company was even weaker.

Fang Liqiang was hit in the waist by a single piece, he couldn't bear the pain in his heart, he didn't have time to touch the wound that was bleeding out, he gritted his teeth and shouted: "The heroic soldiers of the assault company are strong tough guys who can never be defeated, for my only regiment to successfully break through the East City Gate, and die here at the risk of his life, and I can't leave this devil army, do you have confidence?" ”

"Yes, yes, yes——。"

There were less than two platoons of soldiers in the assault company who could continue to fight at this time, and they saw that their comrades-in-arms and brothers around them were suddenly hit by shrapnel from the explosion of the enemy's grenades, fell on the ridge and wall, rolled down the slope and fell to the ground, and the soldiers who were still alive roared: "Kill the devil, kill the devil to avenge the sacrificed comrades, kill, kill, kill——。 ”

The valiant warrior had put life and death on the line, and risked everything to engage in a fierce gun battle with the enemy, one soldier fell, and another soldier pounced on the blocking position, pulling the trigger and shooting the attacking devil.

The only regiment and the third battalion outside the city, under the cover of the first battalion's feint, the commander of the third battalion, Huang Yong, personally led the assault team, set up a cloud ladder to successfully climb the city wall with the help of the night, carefully along the wall, and quickly approached the city tower that was erupting into fierce gunfire, some soldiers did not step on the foot, their bodies shook inside and outside the city wall, lost their center of gravity and fell off the city wall, in order not to be discovered by the enemy, the soldiers who fell down the city wall gritted their teeth even if they fell to the ground and died, they bravely did not make a sound to expose the target.

Battalion Commander Huang led the assault team on the top of the wall, and when he approached the city tower, he lay on the city wall and said to the back: "Every soldier must do a good job of concealment, carefully crawl forward, stop when fifteen meters away from the city tower, and the bombing pacesetter should throw the grenades and grenades in his hands into the light and heavy machine gun positions of the devils, and bomb them continuously, and they must destroy the positions of the devils' city towers, and cover the fire of the first battalion to break through the east city gate." ”

The assault team lay on the city wall and moved forward quickly, still more than ten meters away from the Japanese position in the city tower, and the battalion commander Huang Yong ordered to stop advancing and wait for a favorable opportunity to suddenly throw out grenades and grenades to destroy the enemy tower.

According to the captain of the Fujiwara squad guarding the position of the castle tower, he commanded light and heavy machine guns and grenadiers, aimed at the black shadows gathered outside the city, and exerted his maximum firepower to shoot.

The devil Cao Chang couldn't see the large troops of the Eighth Route Army attacking the city gate outside the city, and asked incomprehensibly: "Fujiwara-kun, why don't you turn on the searchlight of the castle tower?" If the two searchlights shine outside the city, you can see the Tuba Road of the siege city clearly, and you can destroy all the Tuba Road of the siege gate by concentrating firepower. ”

(End of chapter)