The Japanese advanced rapidly, and at this time they had reached the vicinity of the Nine Villages and Eighteen Villages.
Only when you really see this kind of scene can you understand a poem, dark clouds are threatening to destroy the city!
The second brigade, 15,000 mechanized troops, was accompanied by hundreds of military trucks transporting supplies. Dozens of armored vehicles moved forward, followed by infantry. The artillery regiment followed behind. There were children from the village who stood on the rice piles and barely glanced at each other. There's no end in sight.
Nangong sat on the military truck and looked at the map, and then looked at the scene in front of him. He looked around and saw a village, and the road passed through a large village.
"Xinxi, if the inference is correct, this should be the village at the foot of Heiyunzhai Mountain. If the prediction is correct, if you pass through this village, you should be at the foot of Heiyunzhai Mountain!"
"Xiao Zhijun, I order you to lead the first infantry regiment to capture this place within an hour!"
"Hai!" Xiao Zhi nodded fiercely, already feeling happy. The infantry reinforcements of the Second Brigade consisted of four to five thousand people. How did it take an hour to capture such a village?
Half an hour at most!
"Colonel, give me half an hour!"
Nangong smiled, "Xingxi, you are an elite of the empire! Go!"
"Hai!"
...
Among the nine villages and eighteen villages, Dagang Village is at the front. It is also the village with the largest number of people and obstacles.
There are many earthen walls and boulders in the village that can be used as shelters. Other villages have nothing but a few adobe houses. They are very poor.
Currently stationed in Dagang Village are the New 1st Brigade, 1st Regiment and 1st Battalion, with the battalion commander, Wu Baili!
After receiving the order, Wu Baili was covering the retreat of the people.
At that time, thousands of people in the village started running with their bags on their backs.
"Folks, if you can't afford it, don't take it with you. It's important to escape!"
"Take care of the children! Watch the children and women!"
Wu Baili stood on a dirt wall and shouted.
Deputy Battalion Commander Ma ran over in a hurry, "Battal Commander, at least one Japanese regiment is advancing this way. I think they are going to eat the entire nine villages and eighteen villages at once!"
Wu Baili looked from a high place and saw that there was indeed a regiment of Japanese soldiers, at least four to five thousand. On the other hand, his battalion here only had more than 800 people.
"Battal Commander, what should we do? This is too much. Can we...can withstand it?" Deputy Battalion Commander Ma let out a sigh of relief.
Wu Baili gritted his teeth and looked sharply, "If you can't stand it, why don't you?"
"Do you know how many people are still behind you who haven't retreated?"
"If we withdraw, it will be equivalent to ruining thousands of people!"
Wu Baili walked to the front line, "Brothers!"
"There are tens of thousands of ordinary people behind us. It will be over if we evacuate them!"
"The task I received is to defend the position and cover the retreat of the people. Anyone present who has retreated can leave now. I will never stop him!"
The soldiers gritted their teeth.
Ask yourself, are you afraid? The answer is fear, withdraw? Absolutely impossible!
Some soldiers began to shout to Wu Baili behind him.
"Don't talk about it, battalion commander. Our village is behind us. If I withdraw, my father, mother, and sister will have to deal with these little devils! I won't withdraw until I die!"
"I'm not going to retreat. I've had enough of these little devils a long time ago. My mother is in the village behind. Even if she dies here today, she won't take a step back!"
"Yes, that's it. I'm an orphan and grew up eating the food of hundreds of families. If it weren't for the villagers, I would have starved to death. If the villagers didn't withdraw before I took one step, I'd be the son of a bastard!"
"Do it! Hold your position!"
...
The crowd's voice was deafening.
Most of the soldiers here come from the Nine Villages and Eighteen Villages. Behind them is their home. Even if they die today, they will never retreat!
Wu Baili said with some relief, "Okay! There isn't a damn coward in my battalion!"
"Today, my battalion's bloody position will definitely cover the retreat of the villagers!"
Wu Baili then set up a position and went straight to the rocky hill at the entrance of the village to fight guerrillas without digging trenches!
In less than ten minutes, Xiaozhi had already rushed forward with the infantry regiment. Looking at the rocky hill in front of him, he knew that there would definitely be an ambush, but so what? Under the overwhelming numbers, all tactics are nonsense.
"IELTS here! Attack!"
Thousands of Japanese soldiers rushed directly through the farmland!
Wu Baili gritted his teeth and said, "Brothers, let's do it!"
"beat!"
boom!
Bang bang!
dadadadada...
A fierce battle breaks out! When the Japanese saw the Eight Route Army soldiers showing up, they also started to fight back!
Eight hundred versus five thousand, a gap of six times. Faced with such a huge disparity in military strength, Xiaozhi even thought that half an hour was too much.
But just as Xiaozhi ordered the troops to rush forward with great momentum, he discovered that all eight groups suddenly revealed hundreds of machine guns mounted on rocks!
Wu Baili: "Hit me!"
dadadadada...
For a moment, it was like a sudden rain.
"I will turn this pile of rocks into a mass grave today!"
...
Zhang Dabiao was ordered to cover the retreat of the people, and at the same time he was also rushing towards Dagang Village.
It is said that there are nine villages and eighteen villages under Heiyun Mountain. In fact, the distance is not close and the road is not easy to walk. Even if you try your best to rush there with light equipment, it will take nearly an hour, not to mention that now you have to cover the retreat of the villagers.
This is why Lin Zhong did not let the heavy artillery regiment pass. If the artillery regiment passed, the day lilies would be cold.
It would be fine if they were cavalry, but the marching speed of military trucks in those nine villages and eighteen villages was about the same as that of infantry.
Zhang Dabiao gritted his teeth. Just as he was about to throw his hat off, he found that the hat was no longer on his head. He angrily threw the hat of deputy captain He Shiba on the ground.
He Shiba was stunned, "Okay, okay, you don't have a hat to hit me, right..."
I don’t dare to say anything more, who calls you the fucking leader.
Zhang Dabiao roared, "Hurry up, there are brothers ahead waiting for support!"
"Today, even if I risk my life, I have to rush over for you!"
"yes!"
"yes!"
...
An hour passed...
Goodbye, the rocky hill is full of corpses, most of them belonging to the Japanese, but there are only a few scattered ones left in the battalion at this moment.
Xiaozhi couldn't believe what kind of army this was...
On flat ground, only a few hundred meters away, a team of several hundred people could withstand the crushing force of thousands of people for a full hour!
Seeing that there were only a few gunshots fired in the rocky hill, he knew that the Eighth Route Army was completely exhausted.
Xiaozhi originally thought that the Eighth Route Army would retreat. If they took advantage of the terrain and got into the village, their troops would never be able to catch them.
"They are heroes..." Xiaozhi said quietly.
Wu Baili had been hit by two bullets in the shoulder and his shirt was wet with blood. Looking around, it seemed that he was the only one left...
