Chapter 28: Fighting again in Pengjia Village (Leave a seed)

When Liu Guowei led the soldiers to respond to the soldiers who blocked the Japanese on the north side of Lizhuang Village. He retreated to Pengjia Village while fighting. When he retreated to a slope 500 meters away on the north side of Lizhuang Village, Liu Guowei ordered the soldiers to lie on the slope behind, put the Japanese closer, and then took them all the remaining grenades and threw them out.

The violent grenade explosion completely hindered the Japanese's offensive pace. During the explosion, Liu Guowei had already led the soldiers to successfully withdraw from the Japanese's pursuit.

Duan Houzhong, on the south side of Lizhuang Village, finally escaped from the Japanese encirclement and broke out of Lizhuang Village. The battle of sneaking into the village again brought them great losses. Not only did they fail to successfully raid the Japanese command center, but nearly 20 soldiers were also sacrificed. Such losses were unbearable for Duan Houzhong, who was already weak.

It would be too difficult for them to retreat smoothly. If Liu Guowei and the others were not able to launch an attack on the village again in time to attract the attention of the Japanese, then they would not have the possibility of withdrawing at all.

Although Duan Houzhong didn't know what happened to Liu Guowei. However, according to Liu Guowei's failure to provide them with effective support in time, this means that there was a problem with him. Thinking of this, Duan Houzhong's heart was very heavy. If there was a problem with Liu Guowei, it meant that they also suffered a significant loss.

The sky began to gradually appear as dawn, and it was about to light up in an hour. Duan Houzhong knew that there was no chance, and he knew that Liu Guowei would withdraw in time. He gathered all the soldiers who could withdraw and counted the number of people, and ordered Wang Zhi to take a few people as the vanguard to retreat to Pengjia Village. He led the remaining soldiers and minor and seriously injured people to stay behind the team and cut off the rear.

Duan Houzhong and Liu Guowei were both on the way, but fortunately, they did not encounter any more trouble on the way back, and they retreated safely to the Pengjia Village position.

Liu Guowei and the others were nearly an hour earlier than Duan Hou. They had placed the wounded in Pengjia Village and arranged all combat-capable soldiers on the positions to strictly prevent the Japanese from raiding and attacking.

At this time, Liu Guowei was sitting in the command center, regretting the mistakes in his operation, and was worried about whether Duan Houzhong and the others could withdraw safely. It was when he was looking forward to it that the correspondent soldier suddenly came in and said to him: "As the seat, the team will be back."

Liu Guowei stood up very quickly and grabbed his military cap and put it on his head. He asked the correspondents: "Where are you here? How many people are coming back? Are the regiment injured?" As he asked, he rushed out of the command center. The correspondents followed and replied: "I'm about to reach the frontier. I just received a report from the frontier sentry. I don't know the specific situation."

When Liu Guowei hurried to the front of the first line of defense, Duan Houzhong and the others had arrived. Seeing the soldiers following Duan Houzhong, even if they were injured, they had decreased a lot. Liu Guowei felt a "knock" in his heart.

Looking at Duan Houzhong walking over, Liu Guowei rushed to him, looked up and down, and touched his dirty clothes up and down, and asked nervously: "Team! You are not injured!" Duan Hou patted Liu Guowei and said: "It's okay, don't worry." Then, he turned around and ordered Wang Zhi: "Arranging the wounded into the village, everyone else, and take a rest. It's already dawn, and the Japanese will attack at any time." After Wang Zhi received the order, he took the people into the village.

Duan Houzhong stood at the forefront of the trench, looked at the deployment situation, and then signaled to Liu Guowei to the command center. The two of them walked towards the command center together.

After arriving at the command center, Duan Houzhong sat down, Liu Guowei poured him a glass of water and placed it on the ammunition box in front of him. Then Liu Guowei also sat down opposite Duan Houzhong and said to Duan Houzhong guiltily: "Roun, due to my improper command, it has caused us a lot of losses. Please punish theRoun!" As he said that, he stood up again.

Duan Houzhong then stood up, pressed Liu Guowei to the ammunition box and sat down, picked up the water that Liu Guowei poured for him, took a sip and said, "Guowei, stop talking about anything. Now is not the time to summarize. It is already dawn, and the Japanese may attack us at any time. Let's discuss the next step first."

Liu Guowei still nodded with shame and said, "Yes, once the Japanese confirmed that there was no threat in Lizhuang Village, they would attack us at any time. But, look at the soldiers outside, they were exhausted from fighting for a night. I'm afraid the next battle will be even more difficult."

Duan Houzhong drank another sip of water, placed the cup on the ammunition box, walked to the map and looked at it, "Not only these, we lost nearly fifty soldiers in the battle last night. In addition, not counting the minor wounded, there are more than a dozen seriously injured people who have lost their combat ability. By this calculation, our combat effectiveness has dropped by nearly half. Now it is impossible for the remaining people to spread across the three lines of defense to defend."

Liu Guowei followed him to the map, looked at the situation map of Pengjia Village they were defending and said, "Yes! We probably won't last long! If the Japanese attack again, the troops and firepower will definitely be more fierce than the previous few times." He said that, and raised his head and looked at the trenches outside the command center, where the soldiers who were working hard to renovate the fortifications inside.

Duan Houzhong raised his head, followed Liu Guowei's gaze and looked outside, and said meaningfully: "Yes! We don't know if we can last until tonight. So, there are some things that should be considered." After hearing his words, Liu Guowei turned his head and asked in confusion: "Group, is there anything else to arrange?"

Duan Houzhong looked at Liu Guowei's eyes seriously, and after a while, he said: "For the future, for the affairs of our Fourth Regiment in the future. Do we really have to die here in battle?"

Liu Guowei didn't expect Duan Houzhong to say this. Did he mean to retreat now? He continued to ask nervously: "Group, don't you want everyone to retreat now?"

Duan Houzhong shook his head, turned around and walked to the empty ammunition box he had just made, and from a messy bag that was made in battle, took out half a pack of cigarettes and took one to light it, and took a hard mouthful and said, "It's not exactly. But it can also be said to be a retreat..."

Duan Houzhong said as he walked back and forth, raising his hand to signal to Liu Guowei, who wanted to interrupt him, listened to him: "It is to retreat, but not all. The next battle will definitely be very cruel. No one can tell whether he can survive in the end. Therefore, we have to leave one or two seeds for our regiment, and we cannot die all over this battle! In the end, there was no one who reported the death to his family. In addition, the people from Pengjia Village and Xiaolizhuang also asked them to withdraw. Although they are also in our regiment for the time being, but in general, they are still ordinary people and cannot let them die with us in vain."

After hearing this, Liu Guowei felt very heavy. He understood that since Duan Houzhong had already thought of these, the next battle would be a cruel battle they had never experienced before.

Sure enough, the tragic level of the subsequent battle was really as Duan Houzhong expected. At the beginning of the battle, the Japanese invested most of the troops.

When it was almost noon, the Japanese attacking troops appeared in the eyes of observing the sentry. The sentry promptly reported the Japanese attack to Duan Houzhong. When Duan Houzhong and Liu Guowei received the report, they were urging Peng Dezhu to those who survived Pengjia Village and Xiao Lizhuang who were unwilling to leave, hoping that they could retreat with some wounded people.

Peng Dezhu and others didn't understand what it meant at first, and thought they were asking them to perform a task. However, when Peng Dezhu accidentally saw Liu Guowei's expression, he saw something was wrong. He directly asked Duan Houzhong whether he wanted them to escape first.

Although Peng Dezhu was still an ordinary farmer a few days ago, the experience of coming to the battlefield of life and death in the past few days made him seem to have found his true home. Seeing that people fell down in the war in front of him, they were also full of dangers, blood, killing, helplessness, fear, etc., all the things that can be seen on the battlefield.

For him, an ordinary farmer, he had never seriously thought about these things before. Why did there be war? Why did so many people die? In the past few days of battle, he understood what war came to him and how should he face this war.

After having these ideas, Peng Dezhu's entire state changed. Facing the battlefield of gunfire, there was no fear of the first time on the battlefield. His innate accurate shooting skills were fully demonstrated, and he was praised by Liu Guowei as a natural gunman. In addition, when he felt that every soldier around him felt like his own brother, and he was not as good as the bandits he had seen before. Therefore, when he found that Duan Houzhong and Liu Guowei had the intention to retreat first, he dared to question Duan Houzhong so directly.

Duan Houzhong did not expect that Peng Dezhu could think of their plans. Therefore, under Peng Dezhu's questioning, he had to kindly deceive them and said that he hoped that they could protect the wounded and let them protect the wounded and find a place to be treated. With Peng Dezhu's questioning, everyone guessed Duan Houzhong and Liu Guowei's plans. Therefore, he did not completely believe what Duan Houzhong said.

Just when they were arguing about staying or leaving for these people, the sentry's report arrived and the Japanese began to attack. After receiving the sentry's report, Duan Houzhong had no time to argue with them anymore. He ordered Liu Guowei with a tough attitude: "If you stay, no matter what method you use, let them retreat immediately! I'll go up first." After that, he put his cap on his head, picked up his wreck gun from the side and turned out of the command center.

Liu Guowei was also anxious to go to the front line, and in an equally tough tone, ordered Peng Dezhu and the others to retreat immediately. And if they did not retreat, they would be disobedient. They would not be soldiers from the Fourth Regiment and would lose their qualifications to be a soldier.

Such orders made Peng Dezhu and others dare not continue to argue and disobey. Following Liu Guowei out of the command center, they could only watch Liu Guowei running to the front line, but they could only turn back to the village and go to pick up the wounded to retreat.
Chapter completed!