When the night faded again and the sunlight crossed the mountain and fell on the Wushimen defense line, the observation post at the front found an anomaly in the devil's position.

"Squad leader, why hasn't there been any movement over there?" The observation sentry immediately reported to the squad leader.

Although it was dawn, the devil's position was lifeless, and the atmosphere seemed a little weird.

A brother said disapprovingly with a pair of dark circles under his eyes. "What's the fuss, the devil must be sleeping."

The squad leader at the observation post, a veteran, pondered for a moment and then instructed the brothers in the machine-gun trench not far away: "Shoot a shuttle bullet and test the devil's reaction."

"Da Da Da ......"

The crisp sound of machine guns shook in the early morning, and bullets flew across the buffer zone of the trenches on both sides, splashing patches of smoke and dust.

If it were in the past, the devil's machine gunner would definitely be unwilling to return a shuttle bullet, but after the machine gunner transferred, the devil's bullet did not come as scheduled.

"Did the little devil run away?" One brother speculated.

The veteran squad leader frowned and asked the other brothers, "Did you hear anything last night?"

The brothers shook their heads, and one replied, "The guns are still going off in the middle of the night......

This is strange, why didn't the devil react, the veteran squad leader poked out half of his head and carefully observed the devil's position covered with barbed wire in the highland trenches, and was puzzled.

"You guys are watching here, don't be a little devil's trick, I'll go find the platoon commander."

The veteran squad leader gave an order, and the cat waist headed towards the position of the platoon commander, he couldn't make up his mind, and was ready to report this abnormal situation to the top.

The abnormal situation of the devil's position was quickly reported to Yang Ling's regimental headquarters layer by layer, and Yang Ling attached great importance to it, and took a group of officers to observe with binoculars, but he didn't find a single devil.

"Send a platoon over to take a look." Yang Ling thought about it and ordered.

The two sides have been fighting day and night in Wushimen for so many days, even if they don't fight, they will sound cold guns and cold guns, and now the devil's position is strangely quiet, but it seems a little abnormal.

He wasn't worried that the devil would withdraw, but that the devil would take an unknown path and go around their backs, which would be dangerous, and the devil didn't do such a thing.

"Wouldn't it be too risky, in case the devil deliberately lured us up." Zhang Qingyun, chief of staff of the regiment, heard that Yang Ling was going to send someone over to take a look, and reminded.

Yang Ling instructed: "Let the troops be prepared, and if the situation is not right, open fire to cover the retreat of the brothers who have gone to investigate."

It is not advisable to sit idly by in this situation now, although it is a bit of a risk, but figuring out the situation of the devil can at least give people peace of mind.

Captain Company Commander Su Er personally led a platoon of brothers out of the trench and groped towards the devil's position under the cover of more than 20 machine guns, many mortars, and grenadiers.

They are clear about the fierceness of the devils, but this mission is to go to the devil's nest, saying that they are not afraid is false, they are very careful, covering each other almost step by step, turning back, if the situation is not right, they are ready to run back at any time.

But until they got through the barbed wire fence and stood on the edge of the devil's trench, let alone the devil, they didn't even see a ghost.

"You go to the left, you go to the right, and the rest of me will follow me to scout!"

Su Er decided to investigate in depth with the devil to prevent this from being the devil's trick to invite the king into the urn.

The brothers of the reconnaissance platoon were divided into three, and from three directions they investigated the depth of the devils, until they found two miles forward, and there was no one except for the devils who discarded the debris.

"The devil has run away!"

When Su Er reported back the investigation, Yang Ling's tense faces relaxed in unison.

When Yang Ling and the others discovered the abnormality of the devil's position, the rest of the forward troops also discovered that something was wrong after dawn and sent troops to investigate.

The situation of the divisions is the same, the little devils in front of them have been completely withdrawn overnight.

"The devil has withdrawn! The devil withdrew! ”

The news of the devil's evacuation spread like a spring breeze throughout the defense line.

The unkempt brethren climbed out of the trenches, out of the dimly lit bunkers, exposed to the sun, shouting loudly, laughing and jumping.

Although it was not a victory, the withdrawal of the devils allowed them to finally put an end to their days of fear for a while, and they could sleep and have a hot meal.

The devil's silent evacuation did not make the Wushimen defense officers relax, but instead increased their vigilance.

"Quickly send out a reconnaissance force to find out the devil's movements!"

The brothers hugged and cheered outside, and the cheers were deafening, while inside the command post of the military headquarters, Commander Yu had a serious face.

Soon, the reconnaissance cavalry came out in all directions, and quickly reconnoitred in the direction of Mahuiling, and at ten o'clock in the afternoon, the reconnaissance troops reported that the devils had withdrawn to the Mahuiling area to build fortifications.

The devils took the initiative to evacuate to the Mahuiling area, and occupied the commanding heights and the previous fortifications, and whether to pursue became a question placed in front of the commanders.

Fortunately, Commander Xue of the First Corps soon had an order to send an order, asking all troops to pay close attention to the movements of the devils, rest in place and stand by, and prohibit unauthorized attacks.

In fact, the troops fought two consecutive battles with the devils in Mahuiling and Wushimen, and they were exhausted and had no ability to attack.

And the order to rest in place is so that the troops can finally take a breather.

The deafening sound of artillery was gone, and although the smell of gunpowder was still thick on the Wushimen line, the fighting had stopped, and many of the weary brothers had not yet withdrawn to the camp, so they lay down in the trenches and fell asleep.

The battle was temporarily suspended, and Yang Ling and the others sent a guard in the direction of Mahuiling on the one hand to prevent the little devil from killing the horse pistol, and on the other hand, they seized the time to rest.

The brethren relaxed and began to clean up the battlefield with their guns on their backs, carrying the fallen brethren down from the battlefield and burying them with a heavy heart.

And Yang Ling and his officers were also busy, the two battles almost exhausted the ammunition of the troops, they were busy replenishing ammunition and supplies, the wounded also needed to be evacuated, and the entire regiment headquarters was busy turning around.

The rear has added a group of nearly 1,000 recruits to Yangling's regiment, plus the original three battalions and the troops directly under the regiment, and the entire regiment has exceeded 3,000 soldiers, excluding the wounded who were evacuated.

Compared with those regiments with only about 2,000 people, Yang Ling's regiment has become a veritable strengthened regiment and has become stronger and stronger.

The last batch of recruits had been well tempered in the battles of Mahuiling and Wushimen, and had already formed combat effectiveness.

The brothers who were wounded in the battle in Minshan also returned to the unit one after another, and these veterans became the backbone of the unit, and although the unit was replenished with new soldiers, the overall combat effectiveness of the unit did not decline much.

The 74th Army has become a veritable main force, and the officers and men of the 51st Division alone have exceeded 10,000.

As the main force of the lineage, under the care of the Military Commission, the troops not only quickly replenished the loss of ammunition, but also extended the deployment of radio stations from the brigade level to the regiment level, which made many division-level troops have radio stations in the eyes of the miscellaneous troops, and Yang Ling and them have become rich and rich landlords.