At this time, at least ten more hours had passed since the capture of Jinzhong City. Due to the large amount of military supplies hoarded in the county, several planes that came to reinforce saw that the panicked Eighth Route Army and militia in the city did not bomb, but only continued to strafe on the periphery to prevent the Eighth Route Army from carrying supplies outside the city.

"Commander, the strafing of the devil's plane is too violent, and the villagers can't get out at all" are now all trapped in the county seat."

"I see, how many supplies are still in the devil's warehouse that we haven't moved?" Liu Hua hid in a lookout inside the city wall, looked at the arrogant planes outside, and said.

"It took less than six hours to move last night, and even half of the supplies have not been moved." Counselor Wang replied.

"Ordered the troops to organize the villagers to hide, and continue to carry after dark, and in the time given tonight, it was really impossible to move all the bombs. I guess the devil reinforcements are coming, and we must hurry. Send a report to Commander Shen and ask if he has found any enemy information. Liu Hua ordered.

"Yes, Commander..."

In this way, more than an hour passed, and seeing the weather, after two hours, it was getting dark again, and the city began to slowly get busy. Soldiers, villagers began to carry supplies from the warehouse to the outside, divided into separate doors, to facilitate the transportation at night. As the commander, Liu Hua also sat leisurely in the original devil headquarters.

"Commander, commander, urgent telegram...."Suddenly, an exclamation interrupted Liu Hua's thoughts.

"Is it a telegram from Commander Shen?" Liu Hua immediately reacted and asked.

"Yes, Commander, the 1st Regiment and the 2nd Battalion have encountered the vanguard of the Sakai Brigade, and now the 2nd Battalion is blocking the attack, and Regiment Commander Shen is going to reinforce with the 3rd Battalion." Staff Officer Wang hurriedly finished the contents of the telegram.

"Damn, why is the little devil's speed so fast, it's the Sakai Brigade again, hasn't he been beaten yet? Send a report to Regiment Commander Shen that Sakai has lost all his heavy weapons, and now they have no air support, so now their combat effectiveness will be greatly weakened, order him to hold on, resolutely block the Sakai Brigade, I will personally take the three regiments to reinforce him, so that he must hold on. Liu Hua ordered.

"Yes, Commander, I'll send the report." After saying that, he hurriedly ran to the telegraph room.

"Staff Officer Zhou..."Liu Hua shouted loudly.

"Order the three regiments, the mortar battalion of the artillery regiment to assemble at once. Also, he ordered Luo Zhihui, the commander of the second regiment, to hurry up and move the materials, and he must withdraw from the county seat before dawn tomorrow. ”

"Yes, Commander."

In this way, half an hour passed, three regiments and the mortar battalion had all been assembled at the city gates. At this time, the military plane, which had been arrogant outside the city, also waved its wings and flew back stupidly. The sky was slowly darkening.

Liu Hua rode on the war horse, looking at the tired warrior in front of him, and felt a little unbearable. But he still resolutely ordered: "All of them, run forward, set off immediately, the artillery battalion can keep up as much as possible, quickly...."Liu Hua rode a war horse and ran at the front of the team, and was the first to run out of the county town from the city wall that had become a ruin.

Since there was no threat from airplanes, everyone had no scruples, and they ran fast on the rugged road with torches. followed closely behind Liu Hua.

Along the way, there were constantly soldiers who fell behind, but they were all helped by their comrades next to them to rest on the side of the road, while they continued to hurry. Finally, after everyone had been running wildly for about half an hour, a faint burst of gunfire reached everyone's ears.

"Comrades, it's almost here, everyone work hard... For the sake of victory, rush..."Liu Hua ran back and forth, cheering for the soldiers.

Just as the reinforcements were advancing rapidly under the leadership of Liu Hua, the blocking battle of a regiment had entered a life-and-death juncture.

Since everyone did not expect the Sakai Brigade to come so quickly, the 2nd Regiment that held out here did not dig particularly strong fortifications. Therefore, the battle with the avant-garde squadron of the Japanese army immediately turned into a scorching battle.

However, in less than a few minutes, when the main force of the Chinese army arrived, the entire battlefield changed dramatically. In order to be able to quickly break through the position, Major General Sakai almost concentrated a brigade of nearly 50 grenadiers and mortars to bombard a position less than 100 meters wide.

Less than half an hour after the battle began, the entire 2nd Battalion's pre-battle strength of 500 men was drastically reduced to 200 men.

The enemy hit another round of artillery fire, and the second battalion, which had already suffered heavy casualties, was like a handful of salt on its wounds, and once again lost the combat effectiveness of more than a dozen people. The artillery fire stopped, and the next thing was the rotation of the army's squad-based charge.

"Kill and give...", the leader of the Yue army squad who served as the first round of the charge gave the order. Immediately after, a squad of soldiers stepped out of formation, holding bright bayonets. rushed towards the already dilapidated position of the second battalion. Do not give the fighters of the second battalion a little time to breathe.

"Instructor, how many of us are left, and how many times have we repelled the attacks of the devils..."The battalion commander wiped the blood on his face that had just been left by the bayonet with his hand.

"There are still 183 people who can move, and this is the eighth charge of the devils. Alas, if we continue to fight, our second battalion is really..."The instructor couldn't bear to continue.

"Comrades, hold on, the regiment commander's reinforcements are coming soon, hold on, and when the devils get close, we are firing, pay attention to concealment." As he spoke, more than a dozen heavy machine guns covered by the devils opened fire, and the dense bullets hit the position where there was no cover, and several fighters fell to the ground again.

"Damn, the little devil's guns are really accurate. Comrades, pay attention to concealment...", the battalion commander scolded loudly.

Under the cover of their heavy machine guns, the speed of the devil's attack was very fast, and a squad of devils quickly entered the range of the fighters. The devils who entered the firing range immediately began to disperse their formation, trotting towards the position of the second battalion.

"Comrades. Just as the army was about to enter the range of the grenade, the battalion commander gave the order to attack. Immediately, several fighters with light machine guns quickly squatted up, directly picked up the light machine guns and began to shoot at the devils not far away, without any regard for their own safety.

"Bang bang bang..."Several gunshots rang out, and the two machine gunners fell in pools of blood. Soon, however, the riflemen around him noticed that the machine guns around him had ceased fire. Throw down the rifle in your hand, pick up the light machine gun and continue shooting. In this way, one after another, several light machine guns never stopped, relying on the only heavy firepower, and finally repelled the attack of the devils, but their own losses were also very huge, and more than a dozen soldiers fell on the battlefield again.

However, the devil's attack did not stop, and as the first squad retreated, the second offensive squad immediately stepped out of formation and attacked again. In turn, under the cover of heavy machine guns, an attack was launched.

At this time, the soldiers no longer have the grief of losing their comrades at the beginning, and there is only one belief in everyone's psychology that no matter how much it costs, they must repel the attack of the devils. The battalion commander tightly held the shell gun in his hand, staring at the devils who were getting closer and closer, although the bullets of the army were impenetrable, but the soldiers were not afraid at all.

"Hit...," the battalion commander commanded in a loud voice. In the blink of an eye, countless soldiers appeared again on the silent position, countless muzzles, spitting tongues of fire, harvesting the lives of the soldiers in front of the position.

Just when the battle was in full swing, a loud charge horn sounded, and it turned out that the regiment commander had come to reinforce with three battalions. Under the cover of several heavy machine guns and mortars brought by the 3rd Battalion, the fighters crossed the positions of the 2nd Battalion and launched a counter-charge against the devils.

"Rush," the fighters shouted and rushed into the formation that served as the attacking squad. With the absolute superiority in numbers, they soon completely annihilated the Yue army squad that was responsible for the attack and retreated to the position. The arrival of reinforcements injected a powerful force into the 2nd Battalion in the position, and at the same time shocked Major General Sakai, who was in the rear.

"Baga, it's a shame for the Empire, the imperial army of a brigade and regiment was blocked by the middle [***] team of less than a regiment, and it has been attacking for half an hour, and it has not even broken through the position. Baga... He ordered the captain of the squad who had just taken charge of the attack to commit suicide by disembowelment to apologize for the emperor's crimes. Sakai ordered to the chief of staff beside him.

"Hi"

"The order, after adding a brigade of grenadiers, to shoot at the opposite position for five minutes, I don't believe it, is it their soldiers who are powerful, or the artillery shells of the imperial army. After the artillery bombardment was completed, the squadron was taken as a unit to launch a charge on the position of the Eighth Route Army in turn, and it was necessary to break through the position within half an hour. Brigade commander Sakai ordered.

"Hi, Your Excellency, Brigade Commander."

Another artillery bombardment began. This time, he concentrated almost a hundred grenadiers, mortars. Heavy artillery fire once again covered the positions just now. However, at this time, the reinforcements of the third battalion had already withdrawn from the position just now with the remaining fighters of the second battalion.

It turned out that before launching a counter-charge, the 3rd Battalion had left a company of troops to build fortifications in the rear of this position, and now the troops had entered the fortifications that had just been built, and were rapidly reinforcing the fortifications and admiring the fierce artillery fire of the Japanese army.

"Order, three battalions and one company, all light machine guns are left to hold their positions, and the rest of the men are 500 meters behind the position to rebuild a new fortification, we must block the attack step by step, and hold on until the commander's reinforcements arrive." The head of the first regiment, Shen Qinghua, ordered.

"Yes, Captain..."

(To be continued)