The Japanese and puppet troops soon approached. Among the guerrillas, Wang Xiaohu's marksmanship ranked second. He aimed at a Japanese commander, Cao, who was running in front, and shot him in the chest.
A light machine gun and the rifles of the soldiers they brought also opened fire, knocking down seven or eight more Japanese and puppet soldiers.
Seeing this situation, the Japanese team leader immediately organized a counterattack.
The Japanese and puppet troops brought a total of three light machine guns and a mortar. Coupled with their large numbers, their firepower far exceeded Wang Xiaohu and others. Two soldiers soon died.
Despite the critical situation, in order to cover the retreat of Su Xiaoyan, Huang Wanqiu and others, Wang Xiaohu and others continued to block the attack. They kept firing and throwing grenades down the mountain, repelling the first attack of the Japanese and puppet troops and killing more than a dozen Japanese. puppet army.
The Japanese squad leader was very experienced in combat. While he organized a frontal attack, he sent people to climb mountains from both wings to outflank the enemy.
Seeing this situation, Wang Xiaohu had no choice but to lead his team members to fight and retreat.
The Japanese and puppet troops desperately pursued and fired at Wang Xiaohu and others. Another guerrilla was shot and fell.
Wang Xiaohu and others climbed seventy or eighty meters up the mountain. Seeing that the terrain was favorable, they turned back and continued to block the attack.
The Japanese and puppet troops caught up again. When they passed by the guerrilla who fell to the ground, a Japanese soldier raised his bayonet and wanted to stab him.
Unexpectedly, the guerrilla was only seriously injured and not sacrificed. He had already prepared four grenades. When he saw the Japanese soldiers chasing him, he pulled out the fuse.
"Boom, boom, boom." A violent explosion killed four or five more Japanese soldiers on the spot.
Seeing this situation, Wang Xiaohu couldn't help but burst into tears.
He raised his hand to wipe away the tears with his sleeve, took careful aim, and knocked down a Japanese machine gunner to the ground.
When the Japanese squad leader saw the guerrillas stopping to block the attack, he still adopted the old method of setting up mortars and machine guns to suppress the firepower of Wang Xiaohu and others, attacking frontally and making detours on both sides.
The terrain occupied by Wang Xiaohu and others at this time was very favorable. With this advantage, they were able to repulse the enemy's attack from a high position.
Suddenly, the Japanese fired a grenade from a grenade, which hit the guerrilla machine gunner. The machine gunner and his deputy were killed on the spot, and the machine gun was also damaged.
Without the cover of the machine gun, the firepower of Wang Xiaohu and others suddenly weakened a lot.
When the Japanese and puppet troops saw this situation, their morale was greatly boosted, and they rushed forward howling.
Wang Xiaohu and others had no choice but to retreat while fighting again.
Wang Xiaohu and others continued to run towards the top of the mountain along the narrow path.
Suddenly, they saw Su Xiaoyan and Huang Wanqiu not far away.
Wang Xiaohu and others tried their best to cover, just to make them retreat quickly. He didn't understand for a moment, why were they still waiting here?
Wang Xiaohu shouted loudly as he ran: "Leave us alone, run away."
But Su Xiaoyan and the others had no intention of moving at all.
Wang Xiaohu's heart skipped a beat and he felt very bad. When he arrived in front of Su Xiaoyan and others, he realized that because they were not familiar with the terrain, they only found that there was a cliff dozens of feet high behind them when they reached the top of the mountain. They were on a dead end. .
There were only seven soldiers left around Wang Xiaohu at this time, and there were no machine guns. The situation became increasingly dangerous.
Seeing the Japanese and puppet troops approaching, Wang Xiaohu asked Su Xiaoyan and Huang Wanqiu to hide behind a large rock. He led the remaining soldiers to block the enemy's attack.
Although Su Xiaoyan and Huang Wanqiu had been living in the Eighth Route Army for some time, they had only heard about how the Eighth Route Army won the war, and they all thought that fighting was a very simple matter.
This time, they truly realized the cruelty of war. Both of them were very scared now.
There are cliffs on both sides of the mountain top that Wang Xiaohu and others are holding on to. They only need to defend two directions, and the slope is steeper tens of meters away from the top of the mountain.
Relying on such favorable terrain, they were able to persevere.
After more than an hour of fighting, they repelled three consecutive attacks by the Japanese and puppet troops, but three more guerrillas sacrificed their young lives under enemy fire.
After Wang Xiaohu and others repelled another enemy attack, he came to Su Xiaoyan and Huang Wanqiu while the enemy was reorganizing their attack.
Seeing these two young and beautiful girls, I am afraid they will lose their beautiful lives forever.
Wang Xiaohu felt sad, and he didn't know what to say. He gritted his teeth, took out two grenades, helped them unscrew the caps on the grenades, handed them into their hands, and then turned and left.
Su Xiaoyan knew that the last moment was coming, so she silently took the grenade, and tears flowed from her beautiful big eyes. In the blur of tears, Wang Xinmin's kind face appeared in her mind.
Huang Wanqiu didn't have a lover yet. What came to her mind was her kind parents, and her eyes couldn't help but get moist.
The Japanese and puppet troops launched another attack and were defeated again by Wang Xiaohu and others.
However, in this battle, two more soldiers were shot and died. At this moment, only Wang Xiaohu and two soldiers were guarding the mountain, and they were also injured to varying degrees.
This battle lasted for so long, and the Japanese team leader felt a little strange. They had fought against the Eighth Route Army before, and they had very few bullets. They did not expect that the Eighth Route Army in front of them seemed to carry endless bullets, and their The marksmanship is very accurate, obviously different from the ordinary Eighth Route Army.
More than forty of the people brought by the Japanese team leader had died so far, which made him very annoyed.
However, with experience, he knew that there were not many Eighth Route Army soldiers left on the mountain. He believed that this time he would be able to rush up the mountain and completely eliminate them.
He first ordered the mortar crew to continue firing artillery shells into the mountain. After firing more than a dozen shells at once, he waved his command knife and let out a shrill howl: "Assault is here."
In the shelling just now, another guerrilla died.
The standard configuration of Xu Dalong's guerrillas is 150 rounds of ammunition per person. At this time, Wang Xiaohu and the only remaining guerrilla did not have many bullets in their hands, and only one grenade was left. They fired desperately and prepared After shooting the bullets, use the last grenade to end his young life.
Behind the rock, I heard the howling of the devil getting closer and closer.
Su Xiaoyan and Huang Wanqiu knew that the last moment was coming, and they hugged each other tightly.
Xu Dalong's friendly face suddenly appeared in front of Huang Wanqiu's eyes, and she murmured: "I wonder if Captain Xu knows we are here."
Huang Wanqiu's words made Su Xiaoyan's eyes light up.
