"Boom" A mortar shell from the Japanese army exploded a few meters away from Tang Cheng, and Tang Cheng, who was shouting loudly, was knocked to the ground by the explosion of the air, and picked up the shell gun that fell to the ground in embarrassment, Tang Cheng subconsciously looked around him. The smoke after the explosion was rapidly dispersing, and Tang Cheng's vision could only see a few meters away from his side, and the soldiers of the second company who were also embarrassed made Tang Cheng feel better.

"Su Datong is a girl on the dog day, and there are still people in the village who have not withdrawn." The news brought by Liu Shishi made Tang Cheng fall into an ice cave. The second company desperately blocked the Japanese army's attack at the entrance of the village for more than half an hour, and Su Datong and the others had not yet withdrawn the people from the village. "I said that I wouldn't let those ordinary people carry luggage, but Su Datong just didn't listen, if it weren't for those ordinary people who were carrying luggage with big bags and small bags, they would have all left the village and entered the mountains a long time ago."

"I can't care so much, otherwise all of our people will have to fold here." Niu Laogui, who was bloodied, also dragged his rifle and ran over, and the soldiers of the second company who withdrew with him were much less than when they rushed out. "He, Su Datong, is a member of the 30th Army, he can afford to pay for it, but we can't afford to pay for it for the second time, and after the people are finished, who will replenish our troops?" Seeing that Tang Cheng was silent, Niu Laogui shouted with wide eyes.

Tang Cheng subconsciously looked up at the soldiers of the second company around him, everyone's face and body were covered with blood, and a few of them were wounded and couldn't straighten their waists. Niu Laogui's words seem to be right, the second company is just a guest army in the 30th Army, and he offended Song Xilian in Wanzi, if the second company is really fought out here, no one will definitely replenish the second company, so the second company will really be revoked.

"Let's go, get out of the village." Without having time to think about it, Tang Cheng thrust the shell gun into his belt, picked up a Mauser rifle on the ground, and ran along the narrow road in the village towards the back of the village controlled by Su Datong. Under Niu Laogui's greeting and drive, the soldiers of the second company supported the wounded robes and followed them to the back of the village. In the beginning, the old northeast would turn around and hit a shuttle after running a distance, and some of the back would be covered by the flower machine gunners who acted as defenders.

Tang Cheng lowered his head and bowed his waist, and ran closely behind Liu Shishi towards the back of the village, and when he turned back by chance, he could only vaguely see a few soldiers holding flower traps with their backs against the wall firing. Before Su Datong's infantry regiment withdrew from the village, the soldiers of the 30th Army, who had nothing to do, dug a rudimentary trench near the mountain forest behind the village, and at this time the simple trench was crowded with people with large bags and small bags.

"Hurry up, hurry up, the Japanese army has entered the village, and I have too few people to stop them at all." More than ten meters away from the trench, Tang Cheng pulled a platoon commander under Su Datong and shouted. Niu Laogui led the people of the second company to run past Su Datong and leave behind the broken soldiers, these guys who were already anxious suddenly panicked, and then followed the people of the second company to the trench behind the village.

The trenches built on the hills were so simple that they were only 1.5 meters deep, and the mountains and forests that they regarded as a way of life by Tangcheng were still more than 100 meters away from the trenches. At this time, it was full of people who had been forcibly evacuated from the village, crying children, helpless old people and women, men carrying large bags and small bags, and shoes and bags left on the ground, all of which made people feel the desolation and sorrow of losing the war.

At the moment when the battle began, Liu Shishi took some soldiers to escort the wounded and excess ammunition of the second company to retreat here according to Tang Cheng's order, but it was full of panicked people, and the wounded of the second company withdrew into the mountains and forests, but those extra ammunition were blocked here. "Stones, give everyone ammunition, leave the machine guns first, and the rest of the people will immediately go into the woods to find our wounded." The panting Tang Cheng didn't care about anything else, but smashed open one of the ammunition boxes with the butt of his gun and stuffed a grenade into his waist.

The men of the second company rushed up, took bullets and grenades in turn and loaded them on their bodies, and under the leadership of Niu Laogui, these soldiers who had already received ammunition rushed away from the crowded people and ran towards the woodland in the back mountain. According to Tang Cheng's idea, Niu Laogui, who evacuated first, needed to establish a defense line at the edge of the mountain forest, and when Tang Cheng and them evacuated, Niu Laogui and their temporary defense line would provide fire cover for Tang Cheng and them.

Tang Cheng looked around and didn't see Su Datong's shadow, so he had no choice but to do it himself, "Throw it away, throw away your things, the Japanese have already entered the village, my people can't stop it for long, if you still have to carry these things, then we have to leave you here, otherwise everyone will die here." Ignoring the cannibalistic eyes of those people, Tang Cheng snatched the wooden box carried by a man and threw it on the ground, and then snatched two bags from a woman and threw them away.

Xu is Tang Cheng's current appearance looks a little scary, or the old northeast standing behind Tang Cheng looks very strong, and the panicked crowd didn't dare to resist, but they just scattered birds and beasts, but they moved a lot faster, like a dog chasing behind them. "Let's go, let's go, let's go, follow the trench to the left, which is closest to the forest." Just a few glances into the village with a telescope, Tang Cheng pulled the old northeast who was looking for a machine-gun position, and they moved to the left side of the trench.

The earthy yellow figure of the Japanese army had already appeared in the middle of the village, and sporadic gunshots rang out from time to time, Tang Cheng didn't know whether the soldiers who exchanged fire with the Japanese army in the village were his people or Su Datong's people, and he couldn't take the second company to reflexively kill back to the village for a few soldiers who had fallen behind. However, Tang Cheng was a little grateful to these soldiers who had fallen behind, and it was precisely because of them that the Japanese soldiers who rushed into the village did not go straight here unscrupulously, as long as they took advantage of this hard-won opportunity, Tang Cheng and they could safely retreat into the mountains and forests.

The long trench twists and turns, and from time to time there are a few sections with a depth of only a few tens of centimeters, and Tang Cheng and they don't care about so much, they crawl over directly with their hands and feet, and they stumble and run for dozens of seconds, and the group finally arrived at the far left side of the entire trench. Can such a trench withstand the flood of Japanese attacks? Tang Cheng felt that unless there was strong firepower and artillery support, holding such a position was just an unrealistic luxury.

Seeing Tang Cheng stopped, the old northeast behind them also stopped their steps, the food they ate all day yesterday was almost the amount of a normal lunch, and the half-starved state and the long-distance running made the panting Tang Cheng feel even more exhausted. "This world of all evils! War of all evils! All evil Japanese! The resentment of the Japanese army swirled in Tang Cheng's mind like a marquee, and his already somewhat drowsy brain was even more embarrassed, and he even felt that he might faint at any time.

Wearing a thick German-style steel helmet and carrying firearms and equipment with a total weight of 10 to 10 kilograms, Tang Cheng regretted that he had not died at the entrance of the village just now. Tang Cheng was taken by Robert to run since he was a child, and he was taught to imagine his future while running, and his steps at that time had never been heavier than today. The amount of strength hidden in the body seems to have been exhausted, the lungs and throat are hot and uncomfortable, the abdomen is even more stuffy and painful because of the continuous squeezing, not to mention the soreness in the legs, Tang Cheng in the trenches is so tired that he doesn't even want to move his little fingers.

Looking back, they all slowed down and stopped, and Tang Cheng barely held on to the trench and retched uncontrollably. After a minute or two of blank brains, Tang Cheng finally regained consciousness, and looked at the people around him, it was none other than the weakness of the rest of his life. Some people can still carry weapons, and some simply "lie down" in the trenches. Retching only spit out a little bitterness, and his tired body could hardly support the violent movements, Tang Cheng could only point to the ground on one knee, hold the gun in one hand, and lean his head and shoulders against the earthen wall to close his eyes and recuperate.

The sound of gunfire and explosions in the village faded from fading to disappearing, and it seemed that the Japanese army had finished fighting and was clearing the battlefield. Tang Cheng, who had recovered a little strength, crouched in the simple trench and looked up, the earthy yellow figure of the Japanese army had appeared at the edge of the village, and the people who were forced by Tang Cheng to run wild had all withdrawn into the forest, but I don't know how many of them could continue to survive the pursuit of the Japanese army.

Tang Cheng ordered to move along the trenches to the left flank, firstly to get closer to the mountains and forests, and secondly, to take the initiative to expose himself to attract the attention of the Japanese army when those civilians had not yet withdrawn into the mountains and forests. Those people have now withdrawn into the mountains and forests, Tang Cheng needs to consider the safety of himself and the machine gunners in the old northeast, seeing that the Japanese soldiers who appeared on the edge of the village have not yet had the intention of attacking the mountains and forests, Tang Cheng put down his suspense.

Through the binoculars in his hand, Tang Cheng roughly estimated the number of Japanese troops, if nothing else, the Japanese troops attacking the village at night should be at least a squadron, perhaps more than a squadron. An infantry squadron of the Japanese army had 180 to 240 soldiers, and Tang Cheng's second company only had only a few dozen soldiers who could fight with guns, and they could resist the Japanese attack at the entrance of the village for more than half an hour.

"Let's go, let's go, the little devil is going to **." What Tang Cheng feared finally happened, the Japanese who appeared on the edge of the village obviously did not intend to storm the mountains and forests, but they brought in mortars. Tang Cheng, who was holding a telescope, realized that the Japanese army did not want to attack the mountains and forests, but that they suspected that there were national troops hiding in this simple trench, and they were about to use mortars to bombard the trenches, and they would become the targets of the Japanese artillery in the next moment.