At this time, the artillery bombardment of the Japanese army had ended, and through the lookout, one could see a figure flashing from time to time in the village that had been bombed into ruins. Needless to say, they were 100 veterans carefully selected by Company Commander Wang Da. However, it was not long before the village fell into dead silence again.

Suddenly, a devil's sun flag appeared at the entrance of the village, and slowly, some devils appeared behind the broken wall. Seeing the ruined village, they seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and slowly walked into the village with their rifles in hand. Due to the failure of two consecutive attacks, this time the captain used almost half of his forces in an attempt to break through Zhouzhuang in one fell swoop.

The devil trampled on the ground that had been blown into ruins, and kept moving forward and searching. Slowly approaching the center of the village, however, still nothing was found. At the same time, the search formation of the devils is also scattered a lot due to the limitations of the terrain.

"Boom" a grenade exploded. A light machine gun swept towards the devil's search team, and the fighters began to attack. A few light machine guns, a shuttle in the east and a shuttle in the west, made these self-proclaimed elite imperial troops scorched. I wanted to fight back, but I couldn't do anything, because the people on the opposite side were like air, and they often disappeared completely when their own troops rushed up

Although, the casualties inflicted by the fighters on the devils were not very large. However, it greatly dealt a blow to the military morale of the devils. Under such sporadic blows, the devils began to shrink their forces and change their tactics. As a unit, as long as it is attacked, all the fire is aimed at the enemy, and then outflank and surround it, destroying the fighters everywhere.

Soon, under the blow of the devil's concentrated forces, the selected veterans began to suffer casualties. Several explosions had already sounded in the village. With the sound of an explosion, it heralded the death of a warrior. Because these soldiers all came out with a mortal attitude, unless they were surrounded by devils and had no way to escape, they would detonate the grenades on their bodies and die with the devils.

"Trumpeter, blow the assembly trumpet." At this time, before the start of the battle, Wang Da stipulated that when he heard the trumpet, all the soldiers must immediately retreat to the tunnel. As the trumpets sounded, the gunfire in the village slowly stopped. The devil looked at the ruins around him suspiciously, thinking about where the fierce Zhina man had just run away.

Finally, I still didn't wait for the gunfire of the Eighth Route Army. As a result, the assembled squads split up again and scattered throughout the village. Looking at the Yue army that had dispersed again, Wang Da, who was sad for the loss of more than a dozen veterans, relaxed. At the same time, he replaced the barge gun in his hand with a rifle, and slowly aimed at a devil squad leader holding a command knife through the lookout.

As the gunshots rang out, the squad leader fell under Wang Da's gun. Wang Da quickly put away the gun, blocked the firing port, and turned to the next target. In this way, the devil can only be beaten passively, but he cannot find the attacker. Finally, as the battle progresses, the devil finally discovers the tunnels in the village.

"Captain, the imperial army in the village reported that the people of China have a tunnel." At this time, the captain, who was anxious about not completing the task, heard the report and, like grasping a life-saving straw, rushed to the wing headquarters. In the distance, the captain saw His Excellency the Wing Commander walking up and down the position.

"Baga, why haven't we taken Zhouzhuang yet, now we have been delayed here for almost two hours." The Wing Captain asked, looking at the captain of the First Brigade who came running.

"Report to Your Excellency Dazuo, we have captured the surface position of Zhouzhuang, the Eighth Route Army has dug a large number of tunnels in Zhouzhuang, and now they are fighting us with the tunnels, we have no heavy artillery, and we cannot destroy the Eighth Route Army in the tunnels...... I beg your pardon. The captain bowed his head.

"Authentic, authentic, timid China. The man did not dare to come out. We will ignore them and order the troops to set off at once, passing through Zhouzhuang," the wing commander ordered to the chief of staff behind him.

"But, Wing Commander, what about the Eighth Route Army in the Zhouzhuang tunnel. If we don't destroy them, we will pass by Zhouzhuang, and they will definitely cause us great casualties. Your Excellency, Wing Commander, please think again. After hearing this, the chief of staff behind him immediately persuaded.

"Baga, we have been delayed for two hours, the 117th Wing will be wiped out by the people of China at any time, the North China headquarters has asked us to rush over for reinforcements, we have no time to delay, and the casualties are large and we have to rush over. Execute it now. The wing commander said dissatisfiedly with the chief of staff's admonition.

"Hey." The chief of staff bowed his head and replied.

After receiving the order, the army immediately sorted out the formation and marched quickly to Zhouzhuang.

"Company commander, is the devil crazy, the whole wing has rushed over." The instructor shouted to Wang Da behind him.

Wang Da turned around and passed through the lookout, only to see the main force of the army rushing towards the village quickly in a two-way formation.

"Instructor, I didn't expect the captain of the Devil Wing to be quite smart and know that we were delaying their time. Only in this way, gather the strength of the entire wing, rush over, and ignore our cold guns in the tunnel, can we pass through Zhouzhuang in the shortest possible time and reinforce Changle Village. Wang Da said coldly.

"But, company commander, what about our mission? Also, don't the devils care about their own casualties? The instructor asked rhetorically.

"Don't worry, so far, we have dragged the devil for two hours in Zhouzhuang, and the task has been completed. As for the casualties of the devils you mentioned, hehe, think about it, is it a big loss of a squadron killed and injured here, or a large loss of the main wing of the army in Changle Village? After listening to Wang Da's words, the instructor nodded.

"Instructor, since the devils want to pass through our position quickly, we can't cheap them, order, all machine guns are used, when the main wing of the devils passes, give me the right opportunity to fight hard, I want him to take off a layer of skin in Zhouzhuang." The company commander then ordered.

So, a crazy scene appeared in Zhouzhuang. On the highway are fast-running devil soldiers, and from time to time on both sides of the highway from the walls and corners of the house, spewing out tongues of fire, sweeping to pieces of soldiers. And those who were alive simply threw the bodies of their companions to the side of the road and continued on their way.

The main force in front of the troops was a little better, after all, the mobile surname was very strong, although it ran all the way, the losses of the troops were very serious, almost reaching a squadron, but after all, there were no injuries. However, the artillery baggage behind the main force was not so good, and since most of the areas swept by the devils this time were mountainous, they basically abandoned motor vehicles and equipped them with a large number of mules and horses. And the marching speed of these mules and horses and the main force are simply incomparable. As the main force of the troops marched faster and faster, the artillery baggage behind them also accelerated the marching speed, so the accompanying mules and horses were disordered. The entire artillery baggage squad huddled into a mess and hurried forward.

This provided the best targets for the soldiers hiding in the tunnels, and as the machine guns and rifles continued to fire, the mules and horses were huddled together, and the soldiers fell one after another. The carcasses of mules and horses, the cannons blocking the road, seriously blocked the march route of the troops.

The road ahead was blocked, the walls on both sides of the team, and the ground continued to shoot deadly bullets, and the wing commander kept asking the troops to continue to speed up the march. In the end, the artillerymen, the baggage soldiers seemed to have made a decision, and the mules and horses that had been hit, and their weapons were thrown on both sides of the road, so that the passage of advance was finally opened. After the chaotic devil artillery baggage was lightened, the soldiers slowly passed through Zhouzhuang with the joy of bullets.

Looking at the devils who had disappeared, the soldiers walked out of the tunnel one by one. At this time, the entire Zhouzhuang was completely blown into ruins by shells. And the road that crossed from Zhouzhuang was even more bloody, many places were stained red with blood, the corpses of devils, mules and horses were thrown on the side of the road with blood, and several of the militiamen who had not been through the war were already vomiting.

"Instructor, are we doing well? Ordered the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, concentrate all the weapons and ammunition left by the devils in the tunnels, and also gather the mules and horses, and all the corpses of the devils were gathered in this open space and burned together. Don't be stunned, get to work. The company commander said to a soldier with a white face beside him.

Immediately, the soldiers were busy, collecting ammunition for the devils, carrying corpses, and the cadres walked back and forth to count the results of the battle

"Company commander, the results and casualties have been counted." The instructor said excitedly, "The four companies lost a total of 82 soldiers, 45 were seriously wounded, nearly 100 were lightly wounded, and almost two companies were lost, but the casualty rate of veterans was very small. The main casualties were recruits and soldiers of militia companies. In more than two hours, we eliminated a total of 316 soldiers, killed 28 mules and horses, captured 4 mortars, 1 mountain artillery, 2 heavy machine guns, a batch of ammunition, and a total of 158 rifles, 4 light machine guns, and 2 grenadiers in light weapons. ”

"Okay, send a report to the headquarters, and send the results of the battle and the casualties as they are." After listening to the instructor's statistics, the company commander Wang Da was very excited, he didn't expect his results to be so big, this is really thanks to the commander for digging the tunnel!

The blocking battle of Zhouzhuang was over, but the army could not march smoothly, because there were at least two villages like Zhouzhuang in front of them. Similarly, the remaining two reinforcements of the army also encountered resolute resistance, and often a single step forward would have to pay a great price. Although the fighters have to pay the same price, however, thanks to the help of tunnels, mines, the fighters are much less stressed.

In this way, the three reinforced main wings of the Yue army were completely blocked by the soldiers on the periphery of the battlefield of Changle Village, and they were not allowed to move forward until the successful end of the siege and annihilation of Changle Village

(To be continued)