The rout was like a stream, and with the strong inertia generated by the crowd, they surged in the direction of Beiping. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The big red gate is already in sight, and Beiping is near.

But just when he was not far from the big red gate, the pensive Huo Yuan heard a shout from behind him: "There are devils on the city tower!" ”

All the people who heard it looked up at the big red gate, but saw that many Japanese devils suddenly appeared on the castle towers on both sides!

"Spread out! Lie down! Fight back! When Huo Yuan shouted loudly, the machine gun of the devil on the city tower had already sounded, and the bullets poured down like raindrops, and suddenly a large part of the crowd was swept down.

"Don't mess around, shoot back!" Huo Yuan shouted, while lying down with the scar battalion commander and pulling out his pistol to shoot at the Japanese soldiers.

The soldiers of the few guard companies around Huo Yuan hurriedly stepped forward, protected Huo Yuan behind him, and all raised their guns to fight back, blocking the brigade commander behind them, which was their unshirkable responsibility.

Under their leadership, the 29th Army was, after all, a team with a tradition of anti-Japanese aggression that dared to fight tough battles, and the routers also lay down and raised their guns to shoot at the devils after getting rid of the initial panic.

At this time, Wu Hongyu, who was behind Huo Yuan, was also picking up the Czech rifle he picked up in his hand and shooting at the devil.

Wu Hongyu can still shoot with a gun, but not as accurately as the veterans.

Since he had been paying attention to Huo Yuan in front of him while walking, the upper line of sight made him the first to notice that there were devils on the city tower, and the warning just now was shouted by him.

How could there be devils here, how did they get there so quickly? This is a question for all.

Unbeknownst to the Chinese soldiers, it was one of the common tactics of the Japanese army to send small units of troops to ambush and attack the retreating enemy.

And what they didn't know was that the Japanese army was ambushing here for Huo Yuan.

On 17 July, ******, the supreme leader of the Nationalist Government, delivered a speech at Lushan, saying that there was no despair of peace and that the only way to resist the war was to the end, and at the same time ordered the Central Army to move northward, which made the Japanese army feel that if they did not stop it, it would further arouse the patriotic fervor and determination of the Chinese to resist the war, and they must be stifled.

The Japanese army had already fought with the Chinese army many times, and such a tough opponent as the 29th Army was very rare, and the Japanese army believed that it was necessary to strike hard at the 29th Army in order to achieve the goal of killing one and setting an example, so the Japanese commander was determined to take the 29th Army with a knife.

And the 29th Army must mention the broadsword team, and the bigsword team must mention Huo Yuan.

Huo Yuan didn't know that Xifengkou Luojiayu himself had become the object of the Japanese army's key "care", and his performance at the banquet a few days ago had become a thorn in the side of the Japanese garrison in North China!

In the eyes of the Japanese commander, Huo Yuan is a banner for the people to resist their aggression, as long as this banner does not fall, more and more people will gather under this banner, so the significance of killing Huo Yuan has been raised to a strategic level, and they want to kill the spirit of the people who dare to resist aggression by killing such a person.

The 29th officers and soldiers were active in the war of resistance, but there were always a few traitors, and the Japanese commander learned the retreat route of Huo Yuan's brigade in advance through traitors, so he sent a team of light soldiers to insert Huo Yuan's only way back to Beiping.

"Brigade commander, it's too dangerous here, let's cover, you quickly retreat to the back." The scar battalion commander shouted at Huo Yuan.

He knew that there was a forest on the side of the road not far behind them, which could be used for concealment.

"Retreat? Where to retreat? Don't talk nonsense, kill this gang of devils, and everyone can go back to Beiping! Huo Yuan didn't consider the Scar Battalion Commander's suggestion at all.

Although he knew that the Scar Battalion Commander was concerned about his own safety. However, if you don't defeat this group of devils, how can these brothers and those innocent villagers rush out from here, if they are all blocked here, then they will only be slaughtered!

If you can't save everyone, what's the point of escaping alone?!

Huo Yuan was one of the most resolute anti-Japanese elements in the 29th Army, and the reason why he was resolute in resisting Japan was because he knew the ferocity of the Japanese better than others.

He never forgot the small mountain village that had lived for more than ten years and was originally like a paradise, but it was erased by the Japanese in the mountains in an instant, and there were no chickens and dogs left.

The condescending Japanese now had an absolute advantage in firepower, and they were shooting while looking for the target of their trip.

Although they didn't know Huo Yuan, it was easy to find a Chinese officer who was armed with a short gun to fight.

They soon discovered Huo Yuan's location, so the bullets splashed like water.

The position of the Japanese army was too high, even though everyone was lying on their stomachs and shooting upwards, but the Japanese army could hit whichever they wanted, because in their eyes, it was clear which Chinese soldier had no cover.

"Protect the Brigadier Commander!" Without waiting for the scar battalion commander to give an order, a soldier from the guard company in front of Huo Yuan shouted.

He actually stood up and pointed his rifle at the Japanese soldier on the big red gate, but the Japanese firepower was too strong, and before the soldier could make a shooting action, his body trembled, and he was knocked down by the Japanese machine-gun bullets.

And almost at the same time, the soldiers of the second, third and even more guard companies also stood up without hesitation, but the tragic thing is that the use of rifles to hold on to the condescending Japanese soldiers is not so much a pair of shots as a block!

Not bad!

is to block the gun's eye, they are all veterans, they are all veterans who accompanied Huo Yuan to death in the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War.

Because they are veterans, they know that the terrain here is too peaceful, there is no concealment, and the Japanese army has an unobstructed view from the tower of the city, and they must have discovered their brigade commander.

They had to use their bodies to block the bullets of the Japanese army, create shelter for their brigade commanders, and create opportunities for their brigade commanders to transfer safely.

If you don't raise this human shield, you can't do it, and if you don't raise it, the brigade commander behind you is hit by bullets, and it is only a matter of minutes, but more and more soldiers stand up, but they attract more bullets from the Japanese army.

Finally, when the last soldier in front of Huo Yuan who took the initiative to serve as a human shield also fell, several bullets finally shot into Huo Yuan's body mercilessly.

Huo Yuan ignored the bullet that entered his body, as if it were just a few mosquitoes that pierced into his skin in the summer to suck blood.

He was still lying there, elbowing the ground, looking up and shooting.

He clearly saw the feat that his brother had done to protect him, and he felt more pain in his heart than the current gunshot wound.

These are all brothers who were born and died with him, most of them can be named by their own names, and they followed them in the night attack on the enemy camp in the Battle of the Great Wall, and with the broadswords in their hands, they cut off the heads of the Japanese soldiers one after another.

But now that they have fallen, how can I, Huo Yuan, live alone?

Blood flowed from the wounds, and soon, soaking the uniform, and then flowing from the uniform to the ground, the ground was red.

Huo Yuan couldn't feel the pain now, and all he could see was the flash of the muzzle of the devil's machine gun on the city tower.

"Machine guns, where are our machine guns?!" Camp Scar Captain shouted.

A soldier spotted a Czech light machine gun, and it turned out that the gunner had unfortunately been shot and fell to the ground during the initial Japanese raid.

The soldier managed to climb to the side of his fallen comrade, put the gun up, and the long-lost Chinese light machine gun finally rang out, and the Japanese fire was finally suppressed.

"Charge!" The commander of the scar battalion shouted, holding a twenty-ring fast and slow machine in one hand and a big knife in the other, and jumped up first, followed by Wu Hongyu, and then the soldiers behind jumped up and rushed forward.

Huo Yuan felt in a trance that a gust of wind and a knife light swept past him, and when he instinctively pulled the trigger again, the gun had no bullets.

In a trance, he felt that the backs of the charging soldiers in front of him were so kind and so distant, and he felt as if he had dreamed of returning to the Great Wall, waving a big knife in his hand, and swearing to fight to the death.

Then, his powerful man's hand, which had once wielded a broadsword and slashed at the head of a would-be would, finally fell, and the spear fell to the ground already red with blood.

His head drooped, and his face pressed against the land for which he had fought and bled heavily, and from a distance, he looked like a child sleeping in the arms of Mother Earth. (To be continued.) )