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Fighting had already begun on the north side, and the rumbling of artillery was mixed with the sound of dense rifles, although from a long distance it was clear that the fighting was fierce just from the sound of gunfire.

Liu Ming, deputy of the supplementary group, was very nervous, and his fingers holding half of the cigarette couldn't help but tremble slightly, and the shaken cigarette ash fell on his dirty pants, and then slid down on the dark ground.

He was originally just a battalion deputy, and the commander above was gone, so he was promoted to the regimental deputy in the firing line, and the upper side may have been too busy or completely forgotten, and they have never been sent to supplement the regiment commander.

Without the regiment commander, Liu Ming, the deputy of the regiment, is the supreme commander of the supplementary regiment, and at the beginning he hoped that the division headquarters would never send the regiment commander, after all, without the regiment commander, he could do whatever he wanted, and he was at ease, but all the credit was his.

But as the devil approached closer and closer, Liu Ming's heart was now empty and panicked, but he hoped that the division headquarters would quickly send a regiment commander to command the battle, desperately hoping to find a backbone, people are like this, a combination of contradictions.

Liu Ming raised his head from time to time to look at the rumbling east and north, and several hours passed, and the people he sent to the division headquarters never returned, not knowing whether they had encountered devils or lost their way, and the desire he had hoped for the division to send a regiment commander to command the battle was also disappointed.

The burning ashes of the cigarette caught in his fingers burned to his fingers, and it hurt like a pinprick, and he hurriedly let go, and the cigarette butt fell to the ground mixed with the ashes, and he stretched out his foot and stepped on it.

Taking a deep breath, he stretched out his hand and loosened the armed belt tied to his waist, allowing himself to relax as much as possible, his wish to ask the division headquarters to send a regiment commander was frustrated, and now he, the regimental deputy, had to shoulder the task of holding the river bridge, thinking of this, his shoulders felt heavy.

"Pass my order to the four company commanders, the devil is coming, you are not allowed to retreat without my order, if anyone dares to retreat, don't blame the gun in Lao Tzu's hand for not recognizing people-"

Although he knew that it would be difficult for them to hold the river bridge with only four companies that had been put together improvised in the absence of weapons and ammunition, Liu Ming was unwilling to withdraw in such a disgraceful manner and then be removed from his post or directly shot by the above, he was ready to fight once.

The signal soldier answered and ran out of the temporary regimental headquarters, and then disappeared into the dark night.

Liu Ming could only pray for the four improvised companies under his command to hold out for a little longer, even if it was dawn or the retreat order arrived.

"Company Commander Li, the regimental deputy order......" The communications soldier jumped into the trench of the third company out of breath and repeated the order of the regimental deputy Liu Ming.

Li Tiezhu, the commander of the third company, stretched out his hand and pushed the British steel helmet on his head: "Go back and tell the regimental deputy that our third company is a man who is not afraid of death, and even if he dies, he will not lose his position."

The communication soldier heard the resolute look from Li Tiezhu's tone, nodded and turned out of the trench again, and went straight to Yang Ling of the second company.

Yang Ling is not as brave and enthusiastic as Li Tiezhu, the commander of the third company, he just wants to get off the position alive, so he did not say big things such as people in the position, but asked the communication soldier to bring a message to the regiment deputy in a realistic manner: "The trenches outside the town may not be able to hold it, if it really can't hold it, our second company will retreat into the town to fight street battles, and it is recommended that the rest of the companies also be prepared for street battles."

"I'll tell the deputy as to the group." The Messenger left a sentence and hurriedly disappeared into the darkness.

Yang Ling does have his own considerations, outside the town is the black cotton field and criss-crossing water nets, unobstructed, the fortifications they built outside are the best live targets, the devil only needs a grenadier to shoot a few grenades, and then a charge can be taken, if you want to hold the river bridge, you can only put the devil into the town to fight.

Although the town has been bombed by the planes of the devil aviation, there are many houses, it is easy to hide and have room for maneuver, as long as the devils enter the town, then their firepower advantage will be limited, which is easier for the defenders to hold.

The battle first started on the north side of the town, which was the position of Qin Feng, the commander of a company, and the crackling gunshots suddenly rang out, mixed with the explosion of grenadiers, judging from the gunshots, the number of devils was not much, and it should be just the vanguard.

Gunshots rang out from the north, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense, and Yang Ling, who was guarding the South Street, even the soldiers pulled the bolts of their guns in an uproar, held their breath, and aimed their guns at the dark open area, and the soldiers could hear each other's heavy breathing.

After the gunfire rang out in the north, the gunfire in the east also rang out, and the devil soldiers had already begun to carry out tentative sporadic attacks on Jiangqiao Town, but it was too dark to see anything, and they could only judge the approximate strength of the devils from the gunshots.

The gunfire around Jiangqiao Town rang out sporadically with the czech-style clattery of the defenders, except for Yang Ling, who was still quiet to the south.

"Company commander, the devil shouldn't come from us, right?" The old king waited for a long time and didn't see the devil coming, but the surrounding was lively, and he muttered in his heart.

Yang Ling lay down in the trench and shook his head: "The devil is testing the firepower, maybe the attack on our side has already reached our noses."

He patted the old king's shoulder: "Go to the back and tell the machine gun squad not to fire when the first wave of devils attack, don't expose your firepower."

The old king groped his way out of the trench in response, and went straight to the machine-gun squad set up in the houses on both sides of the back.

Yang Ling took a deep breath, lay in the trench and gently pulled the bolt of the gun into the darkness, the bullet advanced into the chamber, and his calm gaze extended along the barrel of the rifle into the dark cotton field in front of him.

The explosions in the north rang out one after another, and the flash of the explosion made the night sky flicker, and with that flash of light, Yang Ling moved the muzzle of the gun to the left, aiming at the black shadow that was lying on the ground wriggling more than a hundred meters away.

The index finger bent and pulled the trigger, and the orange-yellow pointed bullet standing on the starting line spun out from the muzzle with a crisp impact, rotating at high speed along the chamber of the gun, and a tail flame appeared on the muzzle, and Yang Ling smelled a faint smell of gunsmoke.

Bang -

The gunfire was very dull in the night, and there was a scream in the darkness in the distance, it was too dark, it should have just injured the devil who was crawling closer, and the return fire followed, and the bullets continued to sweep over Yang Ling's head with the line of fire, and the smoke and dust splashed nearby.

However, when the gunshot rang out, Yang Ling's heart also calmed down, at least he knew that the devil had come, and he didn't have to suffer in the silence.

The sudden sound of gunfire made the soldiers lying in the trenches also startled, but they didn't expect that the devils had already touched under their noses and fired back.

The bullets whistled back and forth, and the projectiles turned into lines of fire flying in the dark night sky, bright and dazzling.

Yang Ling and they had trenches and bunkers, and the weeds and bamboos in front of the trenches were all cleaned up by Yang Ling in advance, and the devils had nowhere to hide, and from time to time there were screams, and the battle stopped in less than a few minutes.

"Stop!" Yang Ling shouted to stop the soldiers who were still pulling the bolt to shoot, he listened attentively to the devil's side, there was no movement, he should have retreated.

The old king felt into the trench from behind, and he wanted to shoot twice with his arm wrapped in gauze, but the devil suddenly retreated, and he was puzzled: "Company commander, what does the devil mean?" Why did you withdraw after two shots? ”

"This is the devil's fire test, and the next step is the real attack." Yang Ling's face was a little solemn, and he beckoned to the brothers of the two squads lying in the trenches, "Quickly retreat to the rear."