A smooth attack for a few days would have been a good thing.

However, every day everywhere the troops went, there was no one around, and they could only advance five kilometers a day, and the devils were holding back their anger and had nowhere to vent.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the 5th Brigade of the Japanese Army rushed to the village where the destination was located.

More than a hundred devils and the Imperial Association Army, like hungry wolves, rushed into the village, intending to ransack it.

The captain Miyamoto Shaoza also had some expectations on his face, for several days, the troops have been on the march and fighting, every day is a marching meal, and his mouth is about to eat something wrong. Now, what Miyamoto wants to see most is that his subordinates can find a few chickens in the village to come out and give themselves a tooth sacrifice!

"Sir, the village is still empty, we haven't found anything, even the well has been blocked by the cunning Eighth Route Army......," soon a lieutenant came running over with a disappointed face.

"Eight Grid Tooth Road, these Eighth Route Army are so ruthless that they don't leave anything for the Imperial Army!" Miyamoto Shaozo scolded.

Then he ordered: "The troops stop, and they will rest here tonight...... Deputy Captain, you will arrange to transfer an action team and a platoon of the Imperial Allied Army, occupy a place in the village now, and when those Chinese come back, they will arrest them and repair the artillery tower for us, and completely occupy this village! ”

"Hey!" The adjutant replied immediately.

He hesitated for a moment and asked, "Is the main force staying inside the village or outside the village tonight!" ”

"In the village, of course!" Miyamoto replied without hesitation.

"Now that it's getting colder, it's definitely warmer to stay in a room than in a tent. However, be sure to arrange patrols and guard posts! ”

"Your Excellency, the division commander, has repeatedly explained that the Eighth Route Army likes to act at night, and we can't give them any opportunity to take advantage of. And our opponent's new regiment is indeed very formidable, I remember clearly, a year ago, an infantry brigade under my command was directly killed or wounded in a night attack of the Eighth Route Army. If it weren't for the quick reaction and timely retreat, it is likely that he would not have survived now! ”

The best room in the village in the middle of the village is undoubtedly Miyamoto's. Because the well in the village was sealed, the troops did not find a clean source of water until eight o'clock in the evening, and at nine o'clock, a dinner consisting of a meal of rice and a canned beef was delivered to Miyamoto.

Although canned food is also meat, it has no taste other than saltiness.

Miyamoto Shaosa simply ate a few bites and lost his appetite, and then prepared to rest.

At twelve o'clock in the evening, the whole village was plunged into darkness, except for the bonfires around the perimeter that had been lit by patrols and guard posts.

"Bang Bang ......"

Suddenly, a guard outside the village fired a gunshot.

"Da Da Da ~" A series of dense machine gun fire rang out outside the village, and the guard post that only emitted two gunshots fell silent at once.

"The guard post is under attack, quickly enter the position and prepare to counterattack!"

The devil patrol, the machine gun team, quickly pounced behind the earthen wall around the village and prepared for battle.

"Woooooooooo......oo Boom Boom Boom~"

It was pitch black outside the village, and the devil couldn't see anything.

Just as they were holding their guns and glaring at their targets, shells with a slight screeching sound slammed in.

"Shelling...... Concealment~" Before the devil officer's words were finished, a violent explosion sounded around them.

When the adjutant knocked on the door of Miyamoto's room, Miyamoto had already been awakened by the sound of gunfire outside the village.

"Sir, we are under attack, the enemy is armed with mortars, and their strength is not known for the time being!" Seeing that Miyamoto Shaozo was already fully dressed, the adjutant hurriedly reported.

"Go directly to the entrance of the village~Let all the troops get up and prepare for battle~" Miyamoto Shaosa ordered as he walked towards the door.

When we arrived at the entrance of the village, a squadron of devils had already been assembled here, alternately arranged behind the earthen wall.

Mortar shells in groups of three kept falling down, but the attacking troops of the Eighth Route Army were never seen outside the village.

"Woo...... Boom ......"

At this moment, two even more piercing screams reached Miyamoto's ears, and then two explosions sounded not far away.

Two fireballs that rose into the air blew up a section of the earthen wall on the spot, and five or six imperial troops hiding behind the earthen wall were blown away, and their lives and deaths were unknown.

"Eight grid tooth road, it's an infantry cannon! It must be the main force of the Eighth Route Army that will attack us! Miyamoto was startled at first, then quickly made a judgment.

"Order: Infantry artillery squad, mortar squadron, immediately counterattack, give me the artillery exposed by the Eighth Route Army!"

"The rest of the troops, all on standby, ready for battle!"

The adjutant hesitated for a moment and reminded: "Captain, do you want to report to the wing captain and ask them to send reinforcements!" ”

Miyamoto shook his head and replied: "Not for the time being, I wonder if this is just a bluff of the Eighth Route Army, so it deliberately mobilized us, and then killed and injured a large number of our troops in the movement!" ”

"There is also a possibility that one of the favorite methods of combat of the Eighth Route Army is to encircle the point and send reinforcements, ostensibly to attack us, but in fact to attack other imperial army units that reinforce us. After all, for the Eighth Route Army, it would be much easier to fight a field battle at night than to fight a storm! ”

"Woo...... Boom Boom Boom ......"

Soon, the devil artillery, which had a numerical advantage, began to counterattack.

The artillery shells that the Eighth Route Army smashed at the entrance of the village suddenly became fewer.

"Eighth Route Army...... The Eighth Route Army has begun to attack~ Da Da Da ......"

Under the cover of night, some vague figures finally entered the devil's field of vision, light machine guns, heavy machine guns, rifles, and quickly fired back to counterattack.

On a small plateau one kilometer away from the village, Xiong Changhe, the commander of the first battalion, Jiang Chao, the commander of the newly formed first battalion, and Zhou Tao, the commander of the first independent battalion, all held binoculars, motionless, startling the battlefield not far away with the constant sound of gunfire.

At this moment, it was the independent battalion and company that were attacking.

Under the cover of six heavy machine guns, a company of more than 100 people lined up in a skirmish line and quickly advanced towards the entrance of the village.

The "Boom Boom ......" attack went very smoothly at the beginning, but when it was still seventy or eighty meters away from the entrance of the village, the attack was suddenly blocked.

More than a dozen mortar shells and grenade grenades smashed into the stragglers, killing and wounding more than a dozen people in one fell swoop.

At this time, the devil also saw the figure of the attacking force clearly, and the bullets fired were as if they had eyes, constantly harvesting the lives of the soldiers of the attacking troops!

Xiong Changhe frowned and ordered: "The artillery fire is not as good as the devil, and the light and heavy machine gun fire is not as good as the light and heavy machine gun firepower, and if you rush hard, you will be sent to death, and you will order the troops to withdraw immediately!" ”

"Mountain artillery company, 1st battalion artillery company, heavy machine gun company, all go up, suppress the devil's firepower for me, and then attack!"

The village is so big, relying on the advantage of the number of artillery pieces, the leader of the devil artillery squadron is very arrogant.

Twelve mortars, two infantry guns, have been erected in the open space in the middle of the village, and have not been transferred!

The commander of the mountain artillery company found the commander of the artillery company of the independent first battalion who had already fought with the devils, and after deciding to shoot Zhu Yuan, he directly commanded six mountain guns, four infantry guns, and six mortars, all aimed at the Japanese artillery positions, ready to give them a salvo, kill them, and at least hit them hard!

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