Lei Jian watched the soldiers smile one by one, this is the first time that the soldiers have laughed so much since the troops infiltrated the enemy-occupied area and fought with the enemy to the death.

He realized more clearly in his heart: the soldiers and villagers, how much they hope that the Eighth Route Army will win more battles, as long as they achieve victory, even if every time they defeat the enemy, they will greatly encourage the enthusiasm of the army and the people for the war of resistance, and they will swear to fight the enemy to the death and regain their homeland.

Lei Jian tries his best to give the fighters an occasion and opportunity to vent themselves, there are not many opportunities to get such opportunities in the enemy-occupied area, as long as the soldiers are correctly guided, they will find the determination to kill the enemy in victory, let the soldiers relax a little, the soldiers are too bitter.

Wang Xiaoliang saw that Lei Jian restrained his smile, his face became solemn, he leaned over and asked, "Battalion Commander Lei, are you thinking about how to act next?" ”

"You're really good, now you can look at your face and guess your thoughts, okay, what do you think we should do next?" Lei Jian looked at Wang Xiaoliang and asked.

Wang Xiaoliang said embarrassedly: "Battalion Commander Lei, you are the elder brother, I am the brother, the eldest brother is the father, you have the final say, I will fight wherever you point, I can't be wrong." ”

"Alright, give us five more minutes of joy and get ready to go."

Lei Jian said and leaped forward, sitting firmly on the horse's back, Wang Xiaoliang wanted to follow for such a moment, just jumped up and didn't hit the horse's back, the war horse dodged to the side, Wang Xiaoliang fell to the ground, he grinned and scolded: "This bastard, he actually called me to look foreign, I pumped, pumped you to death." ”

The soldiers saw that Wang Xiaolai had fallen lightly, laughed and ran over a few people to help Wang Xiaoliang up.

Li Gang hugged his stomach and laughed: "Deputy Battalion Commander Wang, do you really want to learn from Battalion Commander Lei to be a flyer?" Hahaha, just your bones, wait for the next life, hahaha. ”

Lei Jian sat on the saddle, looked at Wang Xiaoliang and asked, "How did Xiaoliang fall?" Didn't you break your ass into eight petals, did you? Can I ride a horse? If not, leave you behind, and lead the warriors behind you to lead the captured horses and follow. ”

When Wang Xiaoliang heard that Lei Jian was going to leave him behind to take care of the war horse, he was so frightened that he quickly let go of the warrior who was supporting him, grabbed the reins of the horse and stepped on the pedals and just sat on the saddle.

Lei Jian knew that there was nothing wrong with him, so he no longer paid attention to Wang Xiaoliang, and ordered urgently: "The cavalry team will immediately assemble in formation and prepare to start the next step." ”

A dozen cavalry teams rushed down the hillside and quickly rushed northeast.

In addition, Niu Dali led the Sixth Company as the rear guard of the retreat of the independent battalion, and while retreating, he was ready to exchange fire with the Kameda Wing that caught up at any time, blocking the enemy's pursuit pace, covering the wounded and sick escorted by the Ninth Company, and retreating in the direction of Aoshan as soon as possible.

Just when the sixth company led by Niu Dali turned around a mountain bay, he suddenly found a large group of devil troops catching up behind.

Niu Dali ordered a soldier to quickly notify Zhang Ting, the commander of the Ninth Company in front, to speed up the retreat, and the devil's army caught up.

According to the report of the vanguard troops, Captain Kameda found that a small force of the Eighth Route Army was fleeing in the northwest direction, and he immediately ordered Captain Noda: "Order your vanguard to pursue the fleeing Tsuchibachi Road as quickly as possible, and must destroy them all." ”

Niu vigorously watched the devil's vanguard catch up, if he blindly retreated and did not stop it, the wounded and sick guarded by the ninth company would be in danger, and he decisively ordered the sixth company to occupy favorable terrain and block the devil's pursuing force.

Squadron Leader Taro Iguchi, who was the vanguard of the Kameda Wing, received an order to quickly pursue Tsuchihachi, and he drew his command knife and pointed to the front and shouted: "Pursue Tsuchihachi in front and kill ——。 ”

The devil squadron held the gun like a pack of mad dogs, and howled while shooting: "Stop quickly, your surrender, the imperial army will not kill your head, do you hear?" Stop quickly. ”

Niu Dali ordered the soldiers: "We don't have many bullets, and strive to eliminate a devil every time we shoot a bullet, and prepare to fight me hard." ”

The devil who was chasing after him was suddenly blocked by fire, and the squadron leader Iguchi Shaosa sneered arrogantly: "It is simply whimsical and stupid to try to block the pursuit of a squadron of the Imperial Japanese Army with only a few dozen people. ”

He ordered the little devil to rush forward bravely, and he must destroy all the dirt and eight roads in front of him.

Niu Dali and the soldiers of the Sixth Company used the greatest firepower to block the attacking little devils, but the difference in strength and weapons was too great, and they were not the opponents of the devils at all.

The Squadron Leader of the Devil's Wellhead saw that the Tubalu blocked in front of him could not stop the fire attack of the imperial army at all, and he once again ordered the troops to move forward and destroy this Tubalu within fifteen minutes.

Niu vigorously led the soldiers to block the enemy's attack for about half an hour, and the troops suffered casualties, which was also considered to be the best effort, if they did not withdraw from the position quickly, they would be surrounded by the attacking devils, and the final result was the annihilation of the whole army.

In order for the warriors to stay alive, Niu vigorously and firmly shouted: "Hold on for another five minutes, and immediately retreat." ”

Five minutes, in the blink of an eye in peacetime, but on the battlefield with a huge disparity in troops, if you want to block the attack of a large army of devils several times larger than me, even if it is a minute and a second, you are gambling with your life and blood.

A minute passed, the soldiers around Niu Dali were constantly suffering casualties, and there were still two minutes, the devil's attacking troops were less than fifty meters away from the position, and they were about to form an encirclement of the sixth company, at this moment, the last minute could no longer hold on, Niu Dali decisively ordered: "Retreat as quickly as possible." ”

Squadron Leader Taro Iguchi stood on the occupied position, holding a telescope and saw the sixth company of the Eighth Route Army, fleeing in the northwest direction, and he arrogantly ordered: "Quickly pursue the dirt eight roads in front of you, and you must destroy them." ”

Niu Dali saw that the devil was catching up again, and in order to cover the ninth company and the wounded and sick who were retreating to Aoshan, he ordered the sixth company to stagger the retreat route and lead the devil's pursuit force to the west.

At this time, Niu Dali, really hoped that Lei Jian would command, he really felt a little powerless, blindly engaged the enemy at close range, and if he didn't make trouble, he would be surrounded, and the more he fought, the harder he became, and every time he fought with the enemy on the line of life and death.

Niu Dali not only complained about the actions of the Fifth Detachment of the Eighth Route Army, but the battalion commander Lei had sent a telegram asking for reinforcements, but so far he has not seen any reinforcements from the Eighth Route Army.

In fact, the headquarters of the Fifth Detachment of the Eighth Route Army's Mountain Column, after receiving Lei Jian's telegram asking for help, immediately adjusted the troops on all fronts, and Commander Wu led the 13th Regiment to engage the Tokugawa United Army in the Songzhuang area.

The battle was very fierce, in the battle of Jiming Mountain, the devil's army encircled the 13th Regiment of Jiming Mountain, Commander Wu decisively took the initiative to abandon the position, transferred to Daze Mountain, intending to maneuver with the enemy in the deep mountains, forcing the enemy to divide his troops, and then concentrate superior forces to attack the enemy.

The large force of the Tokugawa Wing followed up the deep mountains, and tracked the 13th Regiment without any scruples, holding on tightly, as long as the villages passed by the devil troops, they savagely implemented the 'three lights' policy, and the people in the villages in the mountains were miserable and their lives were ruined.

The 13th Regiment, under the leadership of Commander Wu, raided the devil's station, and adopted the strategy of harassing at night, retreating during the day, chasing and running after the enemy, and fighting when the enemy was tired.

Just as the enemy and us were maneuvering in the mountains, suddenly the devil's army withdrew from the mountains overnight.

The 13th Regiment followed the follow-up troops of the devils, waited for an opportunity to strike at the enemy, and pursued the Tokugawa Wing until it retreated to the east of the Sand River before the 13th Regiment returned to the Dazeshan base area.

Returning to the base area, Political Commissar Gao led the 14th and 15th regiments, which were in the area of Fengwang Mountain, and had a fierce exchange of fire with the Fujiwara Brigade of the Kameda Wing, and the two regiments of the Eighth Route Army fought with the enemy many times in Fengwang Mountain, and the devils of the Fujiwara Brigade never broke through the position of the Eighth Route Army on Fengwang Mountain.

Fengwang Mountain is the last barrier to the base area of the Eighth Route Army, once the devil brigade breaks through the position of the Eighth Route Army in Fengwang Mountain, it will drive straight into the base area, and the villagers will be brutally strangled by the devils.

Political Commissar Gao ordered the soldiers of the 14th and 15th regiments to block the devil brigade in the area of Fengwang Mountain in order to preserve the fruits of victory in the base area.

After several days and nights of fierce fighting, the two regiments of the Eighth Route Army, which were sticking to Fengwang Mountain, desperately repelled the devil's repeated attacks with inferior weapons and a lack of bullets.