"Okay, you go and arrange for me to go out to observe the enemy's situation, and now there is still more than an hour before it gets dark. Although the little devils were cut by us in two squadrons at a time, for each of their divisions, who can be insignificant. We can't afford not to be on guard," the third battalion commander nodded in agreement.

The commander of the third battalion drilled out of the tunnel where he was hiding, and the shelling of the little devils continued at this time. However, neither the position where the battle had just been fought nor the trenches on the ridges of the mountains were empty. Some were just corpses all over the place, some were enemies, and some of their own people were under the fierce shelling of the little devils, countless corpses were blown into pieces, and the bright red blood, and the floating soil that was blown up quickly mixed together, dyeing the entire position bright red.

On the other hand, the position of the little devil is quiet at this time. After the two squadrons were completely annihilated, the remaining two squadrons of the first army brigade that were in charge of the attack had all shrunk back to their starting positions. , more than 10,000 little devils are quietly staying in place and waiting quietly.

"Report to Your Excellency, Wing Commander, the attack of the First Brigade was shattered by the counter-charge of the Eighth Route Army, and nearly 400 Imperial Army soldiers were crushed, and more than half of the casualties of the First Brigade were crushed, and the captain of the First Brigade has committed suicide by caesarean section and apologized to His Majesty the Emperor." The chief of staff couldn't believe the shocking news to a wing commander who was watching the entire battlefield.

"Nani committed suicide by disembowelment, and the Emperor of the Baga Village [***] is not, he retreated when he encountered a little setback, and the Emperor [***] is not the person," the wing captain scolded loudly.

"Your Excellency, this is not the time to hold accountable. The task given to us by the division commander was to take the position of the Eighth Route Army before dark and completely occupy the entire Gongcun. However, it was now less than an hour and a half before it got dark. What should we do next? Is it to continue to send troops to attack? Seeing the frowning wing commander, the chief of staff reminded in a low voice.

"Attack, keep attacking me. The order of the division commander must be carried out, and the positions of the Eighth Route Army must be taken before dark. It's been almost two hours now, and we don't have enough time. The second brigade was sent up, and at the same time, the remaining two squadrons of the first brigade were all under the command of the captain of the second brigade. Also, pull up all the mortars of our wing for me, and we must suppress the mortar fire of the Eighth Route Army. The attack of the First Brigade just now, if there was no artillery fire from the Eighth Route Army, the position of the Eighth Route Army in front of us would be ours now," the wing commander ordered loudly.

"Hi, Your Excellency Wing Commander, I'll go and make arrangements" The Chief of Staff hurriedly fled from the Wing Commander, who could break out at any moment, and the various brigades that had already received the task were already assigned to the comrades.

In order to be able to occupy the position of the Eighth Route Army at one time this time, the captain of the second brigade who served as the offensive team had to work hard. After summing up the experience of the failed attack of the 1st Brigade just now, the commander of the 2nd Brigade decided to launch a rapid artillery bombardment of the position of the Eighth Route Army and the artillery positions behind the position.

In order to achieve the predetermined effect of the artillery bombardment, destroy the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army. In addition to a mountain artillery brigade that served as a cover for artillery fire, dozens of mortars and hundreds of grenadiers of the entire company were all concentrated on the front line. Mountain artillery, grenadiers mainly attacked the surface positions of the Eighth Route Army and destroyed various fortifications on the positions. Dozens of mortars of various kinds were fiercely attacking the positions of the Eighth Route Army not far away.

Dozens of mortars of various kinds, according to the firing elements measured by the mountain artillery brigade just now, quickly adjusted their firing angles, and faced the artillery company position that had just launched the artillery bombardment, and there was a burst of rapid-fire fierce and dense artillery fire, which at once smashed the artillery position of the reading regiment to pieces. By the time the little devil's mortars shifted their targets, the 12 mortars that had just been neatly built had now been blown up, and there were less than 4 mortars left to continue to use. However, the remaining four mortars will not play any role at all in the upcoming blocking battle.

"Boom boom" listened to the explosion of the shells overhead, felt the slightly trembling tunnel, and saw the soldiers behind him with a look of fear. The commander of the third battalion, who never gave up, suddenly became worried about whether he would be able to complete the task assigned to him by the regimental headquarters. Because after all, there are only more than 200 people left behind him, and the strength of the little devils is endless. More importantly, they had ample artillery support. Thinking of the more brutal battle that was about to take place, the third battalion commander couldn't help but shake his head. And just then, the phone rang.

"Battalion commander, it's the regiment commander's call" The correspondent took the phone and turned to shout to the battalion commander not far away. Hearing that it was the regiment commander, the third battalion commander immediately ran over and took the phone from the communicator.

"Report to the regiment commander, I am the commander of the third battalion, is there any task, please instruct"

"Well, the commander of the third battalion, I just received a report, and now the situation has changed. The artillery company behind you, just now, was suddenly attacked by enemy mortars, suffered heavy losses, and basically lost its combat effectiveness. So, in the rest of the battle, you will lose the long-range artillery support of the artillery battery. However, the situation has changed, and our plan has also changed, so I discussed it with the chief of staff and decided to let the little devil into the village in advance. Now I order that in the next attack of the little devils, the third battalion only needs to make appropriate resistance, retreat, let the little devils into the village, and prepare for street fighting. The voice of the head of the regiment, Xie Guohua, came from the microphone.

"Yes, regiment commander, you saved our third battalion, please rest assured, the third battalion will definitely complete the task" The third battalion commander smiled and said excitedly into the microphone. Because, with this order from the regiment commander, his three battalions would not be wiped out by the little devils, and these veterans who had gone through the war behind him could survive completely

"Okay, I know that your three battalions have suffered heavy casualties after the blocking battle just now. However, you are not without tasks. After withdrawing to the tunnel, immediately replenish ammunition and prepare for battle, if the street fighting in the village is too fierce, you three battalions will be ordered to join the battle at any time. Hearing the excited voice of the third battalion commander, regiment commander Xie Guohua reminded.

"Rest assured, the regiment commander will guarantee the completion of the task" After speaking, the commander of the third battalion put down the phone with a smile on his face, walked to the tunnel and began to continue to observe the enemy's situation. At the same time, the order that had just been received reached the ears of every warrior in the tunnel. Suddenly, the tunnel, which had been dead just now, was now full of smiles, and the fear on the faces of the soldiers had vanished because of the order just now.

"Comrades, the shelling of the little devils is over, immediately enter the position, quickly" Finally, twenty minutes later, the shelling of the little devils finally ended. Seeing the mountain beams and trenches that had been completely flattened outside, the commander of the third battalion commanded loudly. Soon, under the command of two company commanders, the fighters rushed out of the tunnels and came to the position that had become a ruin.

"Don't waste your energy, find a crater and get ready for battle. Listen to my orders, shoot a magazine of bullets each, and then withdraw from the position and enter the tunnel." Seeing that some of the fighters had already taken out their sapper shovels and began to dig trenches, the battalion commander immediately stopped this kind of work, which was both physically wasteful and ineffective, and ordered loudly.

The devil's shelling ended, and immediately, on the starting position of the little devils, nearly twenty heavy machine guns that had been strengthened rang out, and the dense rain of bullets almost hit the position on the edge of goodness.

Soon, under the cover of heavy machine guns, a half brigade and more than a thousand little devils appeared in the field of vision of the fighters. The little devil, who had just quadrupled his strength, was like yellow waves, slowly pressing towards the mountain beam. And the soldiers were all lying quietly in the craters on the mountain beam, holding the rifles in their hands tightly, and steadily aiming at the little devil infantry not far away, waiting for the battalion commander's order to fire.

"I'm aiming, one magazine for one person, retreat when I'm done fighting, shoot" Soon, the loud command of the commander of the third battalion came from the mountain beam. Immediately afterward, a dense volley of guns rang out. The little devil who was 200 meters away, under the dense platoon of guns, was suddenly reached to more than a dozen people. However, the dense heavy machine gun firepower of the little devils, because the soldiers did not use the heavy machine guns at all, looked like a cannon to fight mosquitoes, and basically did not pose any real threat to the soldiers scattered in the crater.

"Bang bang" With the sound of a series of rifles, the five rounds were quickly finished by the soldiers. And the little devil also lost a squad of troops in the continuous sound of rifles. Throughout the position, not a single fighter disobeyed the order, firing even one more bullet. After firing the bullets in their rifles, they bent over, crawled out of the craters where they were hiding, burrowed into the tunnel again, and walked towards the village. Soon, the ridge of the mountain, where there had just been a dense burst of gunfire, became an empty position.

"Yo Xi, the guns of the Eighth Route Army can no longer be heard on the mountain beam, they must have run out of ammunition, or the Eighth Route Army has fled, the heroic imperial warriors, the time has come to make contributions to the empire, kill and kill" After seeing a burst of gunfire, the entire mountain beam became quiet. The captain of the second brigade of the army was excited, shouted loudly at the more than 1,000 troops in front of him, waved the command knife in his hand, and ordered the troops to speed up the charge.

"Kill to give" Without the gunfire and bullets that blocked it, the morale of the little devil was suddenly raised to the highest. The distance of 200 meters took less than two minutes for the little devil who charged quickly. Two minutes later, the little devil's sun flag was planted in the empty position of the three battalions, and at this point, the resistance battle of the three battalions at the entrance of the village ended victoriously after paying a heavy price.

"Yo Xi, the Eighth Route Army must have been scared away by the warriors of this empire. Immediately send a report to His Excellency the Wing Commander and the Division Commander, saying that our army has successfully occupied the position of the Eighth Route Army. Countless Eighth Route Army was wiped out, and the remaining Eighth Route Army fled into Gong Village in a hurry, asking for instructions for the next operation" Seeing the position of the Eighth Route Army that had been bombed into a flat ground in front of him, the captain of the army ordered excitedly.

"Hi, Your Excellency Captain" followed the communications soldier beside the Captain. After a while, I saw the signal corps running over excitedly.

"Report to Your Excellency the Captain, Your Excellency the Wing Commander has called back, this is a telegram," the communications soldier saluted, and at the same time, handed the Captain a telegram.

"Yo Xi, order, leave a squad of troops to hold the position. The rest of the troops, follow me into the village, destroy the remnants of the Eighth Route Army, occupy the entire Gong Village, and the main force will follow. After reading the telegram, the group leader smiled and ordered to the several squadron leaders waiting for the mission around him.

"Hi Your Excellency Captain, resolutely destroy the Eighth Route Army and occupy Gongcun," several squadron leaders replied in unison.

Soon, after leaving a squad of vigilant troops, there were more than a thousand little devils left. Under the command of the captain, he slaughtered Gong Village. However, the squadron leader of the little devil did not have any thoughts of underestimating the enemy because of the victory just now. When I came to the entrance of the village, I didn't take all the troops with me, and rushed in. Instead, a small team of troops was sent to the village to reconnoitre, and the rest of the troops were all on alert at the entrance of the village, ready to attack and support at any time.

"Regiment commander, the little devil has entered the village, but only one squad of troops has entered" A reconnaissance platoon commander who was on the lookout guard mission saw the devils of a squad and cautiously entered Gong Village, and immediately ran to the position of the regiment command post to report after leaving a certain number of troops to continue to monitor the army.

"There is only one squad, what about the main force of the little devils? Isn't there a large number of troops? What about them? Hearing that only one squad of troops had entered the village, the regiment commander Xie Guohua couldn't help frowning. You must know that you have been preparing for so long and have spent a lot of manpower and material resources, if you just eliminate a team of little devils, it will be too cost-effective.

"Commander, the little devil is here with more than a thousand people. However, except for a small group of little devils who entered the village, the remaining more than 1,000 people all stopped at the entrance of the village and were ready for battle, and I left a reconnaissance squad of fighters who were monitoring the entrance of the village," the reconnaissance platoon commander reported.

"Damn, little devils are cunning. Order the various units participating in the street fighting to let go of this squad of little devils. Hide it all for me, don't expose the target. After the main force of the little devil entered the village, we were firing, and the whole regiment was waiting for my order to shoot," Xie Guohua ordered with a frown.

"Yes, regimental commander" With the regimental commander's order, those wings who were ready to attack these Japanese army squads returned to their heads one after another. So, with the cooperation of the soldiers of the Reading Force, this army squad took less than 20 minutes to circle the entire village. However, due to the limitation of troops, it is impossible for the soldiers hiding in the courtyard and tunnels to find this little devil.

"Report to Your Excellency the Captain, after our squad's reconnaissance. The village is already empty, not even a single living thing can be seen, we can enter the village" After the squad leader walked out of the village with his troops, he was the first to run in front of the captain and replied with a salute.

"Yo Xi, your hard work, your squad will stay directly at the entrance of the village to rest order, each squadron will enter the village in turn, and then take the squadron as a unit and act separately. In the entire Gong Village, a detailed investigation must be carried out to ensure the safety of the entire Gong Village. The captain nodded in satisfaction and ordered to the few squadron leaders around him.

"Hi Captain," several squadron leaders took the order. Soon, the soldiers of the entire reinforced brigade, a total of six squadrons, lined up neatly at the entrance of the village, with the first squadron of the second brigade as the vanguard, and marched into the village in a mighty manner, and with the squadron as a unit, they divided into various areas of the village.

"Regiment commander, the little devil has entered the village, there are more than 1,000 people in total, the strength of six squadrons and the heavy machine guns and mortars?" The platoon commander of the reconnaissance platoon hurriedly ran to the regimental command post again and said to the regiment commander Xie Guohua and the chief of staff, who were anxiously waiting.

"I've finally entered the village, I've been waiting for this moment for days, and now it's finally here. The 1st and 2nd battalions were ordered to be ready for battle, and when they heard the order to fire, they hit me hard. The regimental headquarters guard company was also ready for battle, and with the sound of my gunfire as an order, it immediately penetrated to the entrance of the village, and used various fortifications such as tunnels to block the retreat of the little devils. Let's read the power group, and today we will eliminate the little devils who used to be many people little by little, and serve them in one pot. The regiment commander put down the telescope in his hand and ordered excitedly.

"Yes, regiment commander" Seeing the correspondent who went to call, regiment commander Xie Guohua smiled, pulled out a small pistol in the holster, loaded the bullet, and aimed at the little devil Jun Cao, who was getting closer and closer to him.

A crisp gunshot rang out with a "bang", breaking the quiet evening in Gong Village. As the entire squadron, the little devil Juncao, the leader of the top soldier squad, covered his chest that was bubbling with blood, and fell in a pool of blood with a surprised face.

"Baga Enemy Attack Looking for Cover" Just when Xie Guohua's gunfire rang out, a squadron of little devils who had penetrated into the first battalion, one or two companies, and street fortifications immediately began to look for concealment under an order. However, it was already too late at this time, and at the moment when the regiment commander's gun rang out, countless holes suddenly appeared in front of the courtyard, which was still intact just now.

(To be continued)