Tangcheng fled into the forest before the second round of low-altitude strafing by Japanese fighters, and compared with the second company of Tangcheng, Su Datong's company, which was a little slower, and those people who dragged their families and mouths were much more miserable. When the Japanese army fired at the first round of low-altitude strafing, it was only a Japanese fighter plane that attacked the second company, and when they fired at the second round of low-altitude strafing, it was two fighters that came, and the people who saw the second company being strafed by the Japanese fighters were torn into shreds of flesh and blood by the barrage falling from the sky before they could close their mouths, and the soldiers under Su Datong suffered heavy casualties.

When they swooped to attack the baggage troops of the 30th Army, the Japanese fighters not only used machine guns to strafe them, but also dropped bombs from time to time. Ignoring the people and stragglers who had stumbled into the woods, Tang Cheng, who had already reached the edge of the woodland, only used his binoculars to observe the situation on the road.

Looking at the reaction of the baggage troops on the road, I thought that the officer who commanded this baggage unit was a man who had fought in battle, and the soldiers scattered on both sides of the road did not flee the highway in a swarm, but temporarily organized several machine-gun combat groups to play the role of air defense units. Xu watched the height of the Japanese fighters when they dived, most of the machine gun crews used Czech light machine guns, one soldier carried the machine gun at an elevation angle with the two-legged bracket of the machine gun, another soldier was on his waist or half squatting to aim and shoot, and another soldier helped to feed ammunition or help change the barrel.

The sound of short firing of Czech light machine guns sounded like the hoarse crows of crows, and golden shells continued to pop out of the barrel like a miniature waterfall, but these "infantry killers" did not seem to pose much threat to Japanese fighters. Soon, a Japanese plane roared again, passing from a height of less than thirty meters above the ground. At such a close distance, every detail of the lower part of the plane can be clearly seen by people on the ground. The size of the national army on the road, the number of soldiers, the main equipment, and the state of the state of the state of the national army are probably already in the eyes of the Japanese pilots at this time.

"Don't stop, keep beating Lao Tzu, and there will be a reward for getting off the plane." The officers carrying pistols were still screaming on the road, and the soldiers of the machine gun crew also gritted their teeth, turned their guns to the direction of the enemy plane's dive, and pulled the trigger in unison, and the machine gunner's body also shook rhythmically with the roar of the machine gun. The machine guns of the 30th Army chased these two Japanese fighters and fired fiercely, the recoil of the continuous fire of the machine guns made the shooter and the soldiers on the shoulder bracket present a very strange and awkward posture, and many of the national soldiers who scattered to avoid the air attack also shot into the air with rifles in their hands, but the Japanese fighters still flew away as if nothing happened.

"Boom" "Boom" The Japanese fighters dropped bombs again, and this time they dropped bombs very accurately, and the bombs dropped from the fighters accurately hit the ammunition trucks that were regarded as the lives of the baggage troops, and in a series of earth-shattering explosions, huge fires and thick smoke rose into the air. On the road, the machine-gun sound of the 30th Army's baggage troops to counterattack the air stopped, and a series of explosions caused them to lose the ammunition that was stranded on the road, not counting the trucks, and the machine gun crews that still used machine guns to intercept the Japanese fighters were also injured by the ammunition that was splashed with the explosion.

The fire and a series of explosions on the road made the Japanese fighter pilots ecstatic, destroying the ammunition and supplies of the Chinese army, and their mission was completed. However, the sense of honor of the Imperial soldiers made them want to stay here for a while, although all the bombs had been dropped, but they still had ammunition for machine guns, and the Japanese fighters who had completely controlled the air supremacy were also very interested in using machine guns to kill the enemy.

The Japanese fighters, having finished their bombing mission, climbed to the dive altitude again, then gracefully circled sideways, adjusted their posture and dived down at a small angle until they were only 50 meters above the ground before firing. This time, the rain of bullets that fell to the ground seemed to be drawn in a straight line by an invisible hand, and the interval between the middle bullet points was more than twice as wide as the two on the side, and each bullet point exploded like a small grenade. The trajectory quickly extended in the direction of the plane's flight, and when it touched the area where the soldiers were scattered, the scene of mud debris turned into a mixture of mud and blood and rags.

The shrill sound of machine guns could not hide the wails of pain, and the soldiers of the Nationalist army on the ground desperately shot at the ground with their weapons, and the naked eye could even see that many flying bullet points hit the Japanese planes, but they once again flew away as if nothing happened. Several successive ultra-low-altitude "performances" did not seem to satisfy the pilots of those Japanese fighters, who flew the planes to climb without hurrying, and this time they circled for a little longer, basically turning most of the circle with the baggage units of the 30 th Army as the dot, and then launching a dive strafing from the south.

After several successive dive strafings, the Japanese fighters, having exhausted all their ammunition, finally pulled up their noses and flew away, leaving a mess around the road. Tossed to death by a few planes, the surviving soldiers of the national army were all disgraced, with endless sadness in their blank eyes. They silently rescued the wounded or searched the ground for possible surviving comatose people, while the whereabouts of the officers in command of the baggage force were unknown, and the situation seemed to be really bad.

The Japanese fighters left, and Tang Cheng finally had time to sort out the affairs of the second company itself, and the ground-to-air dive strafing of the Japanese fighters caused the second company to lose more than a dozen people, and now the second company is not enough to make up 60 people including the wounded. "The situation is not very good, the division headquarters gave us one dead and one wounded, and the radio station was also broken, I asked the people of the 30th Army, here is only 6 miles to the front line position of Xiaojieling, and it is still far from Macheng, we may be going in the wrong direction." Niu Laogui, who had a calm face, came over and whispered to Tang Cheng about the situation of the second company.

Tang Cheng finally let out a long sigh that had been pressed in his chest, whether it was compared with the baggage troops of the 30th Army or the Su Datong Company, in the Japanese fighter encounter just now, the Second Company suffered the smallest losses. But after listening to Niu Laogui's words, Tang Cheng realized that Erlian's current situation was not very good, and he might be regarded as having fallen into a dead situation. "Tell the brothers who can still move to cut down the branches and tie the stretcher with leggings, and let's take the wounded brothers back to Macheng." Tang Cheng designated his own order to send him to the military prison again, but he had no choice, the second company fought the Japanese army like this a few more times, and there would be no one left.

"I think, let's go with the people of the 30th Army first, and withdraw to Macheng like this, maybe we won't even be able to enter the county seat, and the people of the 30th Army said that Macheng has long been occupied by the troops under the 42nd Army." Niu Laogui does not have Tang Cheng's courage to make a desperate bet, but he is an old soldier, and his understanding of military regulations and laws is far more familiar than Tang Cheng. Tang Cheng retreated to Macheng in the second company, in a sense, this is a deserter afraid of war, if this is seen through by the people of the 42nd Army, everyone will lose their heads.

Tang Cheng designated Niu Laogui to say that he was right, and after a little silence, he nodded and agreed with Niu Laogui's suggestion. Lao Dongbei led people to cut down trees in the forest to make stretchers, and Su Datong also took his people to rummage in the field for his injured subordinates who had not yet died, only those people who followed Su Datong and rushed out of the woodland were left unattended. Tang Cheng, who was standing at the edge of the forest, couldn't bear to see the miserable situation of those people, he had the heart to help, but Erlian couldn't take care of himself this time, where was there any extra manpower to help the people who had sneered at Erlian, so Tang Cheng could only retreat into the woodland, out of sight and out of mind.

Make a stretcher with leggings and branches, Erlian did this when he was in Macheng, here is the forest, there are small trees as thick as duck eggs, and there are many dead corpses outside, and there are enough leggings, Lao Dongbei and his men are very busy. The 2nd Company, hidden in the woods, was ready to move early, but the baggage troops of the 30th Army on the road were moving slowly, but fortunately, the soldiers who rummaged through the pile of dead bodies for survivors found their commander, and under the command of the seriously wounded colonel, the soldiers of the 30th Army finally sped up.

Before the arrival of the next batch of Japanese fighters, the soldiers of the 30th Army, who had already been routed, hurriedly hit the road, and although the officers were not in a whole formation, the soldiers were not in a formation at all. The simple marching column seemed loose but still orderly, but without the roar of trucks and a considerable number of soldiers, and with the addition of many wounded men who had to be carried on stretchers or supported by their companions, the column had a dejected and oppressive atmosphere.

The team continued to march slowly along the road, and the people of the 30th Army did not express any surprise at the addition of the second company, as if this was simply the way it should be. Everyone just buried their heads in the road, stretching for hundreds of meters in the queue in addition to the sound of stepping on the ground, there were only some painful cries that were strongly suppressed, the second company cut the line in the middle and rear of the entire queue, Tang Cheng and Niu Laogui and several of their officers were cautiously walking while paying attention to the surrounding movements, as long as there were signs of something wrong, the people of the second company would immediately rush down the road with a stretcher and hide in the field.

Fortunately, Tang Cheng's worries were superfluous, and the queue that temporarily converged together walked for more than half an hour, and they never found anything abnormal, gradually, Niu Laogui and they also relaxed their vigilance, only Tang Cheng also used binoculars to observe the surrounding Tokyo from time to time, he didn't believe that the Japanese army would really only fight positional warfare with the national army. The experience of Shanghai and Nanjing told Tang Cheng that the Japanese army's best skill was not positional attack, but infiltration and sneak attack, and if a Japanese army appeared at this time, it would not take too many people, and only a small group of Japanese soldiers would be able to completely defeat this national army that had lost its will to fight.