After the explosion, the searchlight from the northern turret shone directly in the direction of the guerrillas who fired the gun. Unfortunately, the distance was too far, and the dark wilderness did not change much.
The Japanese lieutenant sitting in the armored vehicle exposed his head from the roof of the vehicle and looked at the panicked crowd behind him. He drew his pistol and prepared to shoot the running ones, but wherever he looked, there were dark shadows of fleeing bandits everywhere.
What the hell is this? If a shot were fired, the scene would probably be even more chaotic!
The lieutenant on the armored car was so angry that he didn't expect that these guerrillas would dare to catch up and sneak attack as soon as they retreated to the gun tower. Do they really not take the imperial army seriously?
Those idiots from the Imperial Army can't defeat you in the attack, so why should I be afraid of you, a guerrilla that breaks the national army, even in defense? Immediately give the order to the Japanese in the wilderness: "Fight back!"
After saying that, he immediately retreated into the armored vehicle and turned to the east with the muzzle of the armored vehicle's machine gun creaking.
The relatively calm Japs received the lieutenant's order and immediately got up from the ground, crouching, lying down, or relying on the cover of armored vehicles, and began to establish defensive positions to the east. Following the lieutenant's order, the Japs immediately began to move towards the enemy's camp two hundred meters away. The attackers fired back indiscriminately.
The armored vehicle's heavy-duty machine gun immediately suppressed the attackers and fired!
He didn't even care that there were bandit soldiers running around in the middle of the wilderness!
The fleeing bandit soldiers were frightened by the gunshots of the Japanese. They hurriedly crawled to the north in a swarm on the ground, trying to avoid the bullets fired by the Japanese and puppet soldiers in the east.
Even so, there were still a few unlucky guys who were shot immediately and threw themselves to the ground, screaming...
The puppet company and platoon commanders kept shouting, but they could barely maintain a slightly chaotic formation, and occasionally fired back eastward.
"Don't fucking hide. There aren't many guerrillas in the east. Hurry up and fight back east!" A voice from the security forces kept yelling.
Someone was organized, bullets were whistling above their heads, and the bandit soldiers almost buried their heads in the ground, pulling their guns and shooting randomly to the east without even looking.
The bandit soldiers who were left behind did not enter the Japanese and puppet counterattack position. The souls of the dead immediately turned and ran westward regardless, just wanting to leave this unsafe ghost place.
How long has it been since the wounded were left on the ground and ignored?
Your life may not be saved, so how can you have the mood to care about your brother's life and death?
I thought that darkness would be the biggest cover in life, but I didn’t know that it was safer to crawl on the ground!
In the darkness to the east, at least dozens of rifles were firing continuously. Although the distance was a bit far, the rain of bullets still knocked over many running shadows.
The two puppet soldiers who were planning to cause chaos got together again. Both of them were a little confused. They lied behind the crowd, raised their muzzles and fired blanks eastward. After firing a few bullets, one of them asked: "There was an explosion just now. Did you?" The grenade was thrown forward?"
"Shit, I haven't had time to start the fire yet!"
"Then why did the front explode first?"
"You don't want to listen...the power of that explosion is definitely not something that a grenade can cause!"
"Oh...I understand, they were probably the reinforcements we invited. They saw that the enemy was about to withdraw to their stronghold, and they couldn't take action at that time, so they pulled the mines first!"
"Yes, that's how it should be!"
"What a pity. There are three puppet soldiers following the traitor platoon leader all the time. It's not easy to attack him!"
The man next to him comforted him: "Don't worry, we will kill him sooner or later!"
"We all have to be careful. We are blind, and guns don't have eyes. Don't die at the gunpoint of one of your own..."
"I am the captain. Can they find out that a company of puppet soldiers stayed in the village on the other side of the blockade ditch?"
"The last time the independent regiment came to support us, they only had three companies in total. I didn't expect their firepower to be so strong!"
"Half a battalion of friendly troops came this time, and their equipment is top-notch, with automatic weapons..."
"Someone is coming, shoot quickly..."
...
All attention is on the east side.
In the open field to the west, a team of more than fifty people hunched over and tiptoed eastward, spread out into one piece, and quickly flowed towards the turret that shined the searchlight on the battlefield.
About a mile away, Li Xiang waved his hand and murmured a few words to the people next to him. The machine gun team immediately began to move forward about a hundred meters to the two wings to set up machine gun positions.
The man in the middle was carrying a mortar, lying in the deserted field and watching the gun tower. The artillerymen next to him began to dig holes and build artillery positions based on the sound of gunfire.
The area outside the blockhouse was filled with civilians and bandit soldiers who had stayed behind. The fast-running bandit soldiers returned to the blockhouse one after another, confirmed their identities with the guard posts, and were taken aside by the puppet soldiers in the blockhouse.
After escaping from death, these bandit soldiers immediately began to act as spectators, stretching their necks to look at the battlefield to the south.
Armored vehicles and cars were parked on the road, and hundreds of guns fired fiercely eastward, finally suppressing the sneak attackers to the point where they didn't even dare to fire.
The sentry on the top of the turret kept looking at the battlefield to the south. At some point, the searchlight began to swing to the left and right in the open space, trying to provide some convenience to the Japanese who were attacked.
To be on the safe side, Li Xiang did not intend to let the artillery troops get too close. He just ordered the machine gun team to advance to about 200 meters to the west of the gun tower and wait for the Japanese brigade to return before taking action.
The sound of gunfire in the plain wilderness gradually became sparse. The machine gun crew had dug a shallow pit and quietly set up the machine gun.
According to Li Xiang's instructions, the two machine guns were spread horizontally about a hundred meters away to hide. When the Japanese came back, they would specifically attack Japanese cars. The machine gunner secretly swore! We must turn that car into scrap metal!
Without a car, the Japs can only rely on two legs. He will never be able to return to the city tonight.
As for the armored vehicles, friendly artillery was unwilling to attack the Japanese armored vehicles in the dark. Therefore, with the current weapons of the Ninth Battalion, the enemy was more numerous and powerful, and there was really nothing they could do against him!
Time passed by minute by minute.
The Japanese lieutenant popped his head half out of the roof of the armored vehicle and looked at the empty wilderness to the east. There were no more muzzle flashes of guerrillas firing back.
The despicable sneak attacker retreated under the intensive attack of the Imperial Army and the Imperial Alliance Army.
Finally "getting back" the game, I felt a little better and immediately ordered: "Stop shooting!"
The Japanese and puppet troops slowly stopped shooting, but some colorless bandits were still pouring bullets eastward indiscriminately.
After being yelled at by the translator, he slowly stopped shooting.
A search team of more than ten Japanese soldiers and nearly a hundred puppet troops dispersed and searched eastward.
The smoke filling the air was a little choked, and the wails of the shot finally stood out.
In addition to the wounded who had been left behind earlier, there were groans everywhere on the ground.
The number of torches gradually increased, and the Japanese army doctors started from the imperial army and examined and treated the wounded one by one.
...
Even if they are captured, the ammunition of the Eighth Route Army is still incomparable to that of the Japanese and puppet troops.
There was no way to aim and fire in the dark. Even a hundred rounds of bullets might not be able to hit an enemy. Even if the sneak attack was successful, they did not dare to waste bullets. Even the machine gun Tian Sanqi carried did not scream.
Seeing that the damage to the enemies already lying on the ground was limited, Tian Sanqi directly retreated with No. 100.
Next, it's Li Xiang's business to fight against Japanese cars.
The enemy's search team is destined to find nothing, not even a few bullet casings on the ground.
Tian San's mission is to harass the retreating enemy, that is, to beat up the drowned dog.
In this wave of sneak attacks, it was a pity that the people from the armed work team who had sneaked into the puppet army failed to drop grenades in time to create chaos, otherwise the enemy's losses would have been even greater.
The Japs and puppet soldiers received such a beating. With the Japs' temper, he would definitely not be able to bear it, and he would definitely find a way to retaliate!
The Japanese commander was so smart that he dared to leave a team in the village south of the blockade ditch!
In Tian Sanqi's opinion, it was definitely sending bullets to the Ninth Battalion... Uh... I almost forgot, it was also sending bullets to the Second Battalion...
The battle in the afternoon had gained momentum, and the Ninth Battalion now dared to launch a sneak attack against thousands of enemies with one company of troops.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that the enemy was newly defeated and retreated in the dark, and most of the enemies were ragtag bandit soldiers.
If the Japanese Lieutenant did not order a retreat and directly chose to garrison in Zhaozhuang Village, then it would definitely be the Ninth Battalion and the rest who escaped!
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