In fact, the leaders had predicted that the 97th Army would eventually flee, otherwise they would not have arranged an ambush team in advance.

However, there is a gap between the actual situation and the predictions of the chiefs! The chiefs estimated the combat effectiveness of the 97th Army in advance and felt that Zhu Huaibing had two brushes after all, and he would have to persist for three or four days before he would

After most of the troops were wiped out, the rout began, right?

But... an army of tens of thousands of people managed to hold on for less than a day. It was not dark yet, so they ran away! What the hell...

"Pursue, pursue immediately! Order the 771st Regiment to follow the 1st Regiment, immediately defeat the defense forces in Houyan Village, and then pursue the enemy. We must bite them!"

Commander Xu didn't care about anything else, and gave a direct order to the 771st Regiment and the 1st Regiment that were at the forefront. The current situation was still in time, the main force of the 97th Army was running, but there was a lot of baggage and supplies.

Escape quickly is not easy.

The order soon arrived at the front. Li Yunlong laughed loudly when he saw it: "Lao Gao, at this critical moment, we have to come, Lao Li. You stand back and let my two brigades annihilate these stubborn troops head-on!" Li Yunlong

Standing next to Commander Gao, one feels high-spirited.

"No need! Li Yunlong, you look down on people, don't you? Our 771 regiment's old foundation is still there, why are you anxious? If you can't stand it, how about giving us your big cannonball?" Captain Gao looked at it

He said while looking at the long artillery grenade carried all the way by his comrades.

"That won't work... Being prepared is not what this place is for. Lei Dapeng, I'm giving you an order now: organize artillery immediately, conduct a bombardment on the opposite position, and ask to knock out all the heavy firepower points of the defenders! Lai Dongxing,

Don't just watch, immediately organize three brigades of grenadier soldiers to approach the enemy's position, and cooperate with the 771st Regiment to launch an attack with my artillery. Hurry up!" Li Yunlong said.

"Yes, yes..." Several people agreed and immediately went to prepare.

"Okay, Lao Gao, I'll give you a wave of support and a chance to attack. If you can't defeat the stubborn troops on the opposite side, I will lead the temporary group to attack immediately! Tian'e, this time your three groups will be the ones to attack.

Main team, get ready!" Li Yunlong said.

"Yes! All the three brigades are here. Each company immediately hands over the baggage to the baggage team's transportation company, checks the weapons and equipment, and is ready to attack at any time!" Tian'e shouted.

The Eight Route Army soldiers all moved very quickly. After all, if they were delayed even one minute, many stubborn troops might escape, and we couldn’t afford to wait. So, after 5 minutes, all the 18 82-door troops on Lei Dapeng’s side were in place.

Above are five rounds of 82 mortar shells with good fuzes.

16 mortars, each with 5 rounds of shells, are enough to destroy the defenders' positions and fortifications, and also enough to kill and injure the defending troops. And at a distance of 380 meters from the enemy position, belonging to the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Regiment, 3

The grenadier soldiers of the brigade and militia brigade also took their respective positions.

Although the main infantry brigade of the Ninth Detachment was promoted to a brigade, there were only three infantry companies, with the extra artillery platoon, reconnaissance platoon, and transportation team.

The establishment of the militia brigade is a temporary establishment of 6 infantry companies, including a standard 12-person infantry squad, a 10-person civilian 2-4 heavy machine gun squad, a shotgun combat group, and a cooking squad and other units.

But now, after gathering all the grenade combat groups, a total of 108 grenade launchers are leaning against the enemy's position.

"The attack is ready, it's time to start!" At this time, Lao Gao stood on a small high ground nearby and said while looking at the well-prepared team.

"Swish..." The flag carrier next to Captain Gao immediately waved his flag to signal.

"Let..." Lei Dapeng personally commanded the artillery position, and the commander next to him also waved his flag.

"Boom, boom, boom..." The command flag fell, and 16 mortar shells flew out.

"Boom, boom..." Directly in front of the position, more than 200 grenade grenades flew out. Well, here, Commander Gao also sent the grenades of the 771st Regiment onto the battlefield. Now is the critical moment of the attack.

, must be topped.

Soon enough, in the eyes of the stubborn soldiers with doubts and despair, they heard a series of explosions on their positions.

The span of the stubborn army's position was only about 500 meters, and the main position was a small highland in the east. So many artillery shells exploded on the position, and immediately the defenders' position was littered with corpses and wailing. There was no way, this position

It was a temporary construction, the trenches were not deep, and there were no anti-cannon holes.

And this is not the point. The point is that only three seconds after one round of bombing, another round of bombing fell, and then another round, and another round, and finally another round... In this way, after the five rounds of bombardment, the mountain road

The shouts of killing came from the Eighth Route Army.

"Tick tock...Comrades, charge..." The Charge resounded through the mountains and fields with the cry of killing. Taking advantage of the shelling, the Eighth Route Army soldiers who were already more than 100 meters closer to the position rushed into the defender's position as quickly as possible.

, launched the final clean-up work.

Yes, it was the end of the clearing, because the previous shelling had wiped out most of the defenders, leaving only a few wounded on the mountain.

"Tuanzuo, stay here and leave..." On the small road outside Houyan Village, two to three hundred stubborn soldiers, supporting their own regiment leader, fled quickly.

Although this regiment leader's defensive performance was very poor, he can be regarded as a man for holding on until now and not escaping. Just during the first round of shelling, the reserve team, feeling that the situation was lost, ran away with their regiment commander.

He didn't care about the life or death of the brothers on the battlefield.

"You guys are so mad, go back, go back and hold on, hurry up and hold on..." The group leader was surrounded by people and was still thinking of resisting.

"Commander, the Eighth Route Army is too powerful. You are not afraid of death if you fight. Brothers, if you fight again, you will be dead! Commander, we were fighting against Japan at the beginning, but now we are fighting against our own people. It is not worth it.

!" someone shouted.

"Damn you, when did Tubalu become so powerful? If you don't try your best, I'm going to kill you!" The leader took out his pistol.

"Pa..." After a gunshot, the regiment leader fell into a pool of blood.

"Brothers..." A company commander raised the box cannon in his hand: "Brothers, I'm sorry, the gun went off... Well, do you want to go off too? Brothers, we all discussed it at the beginning.

We came to resist Japan, what was the result? What have we been doing in the past two years? What have we been doing?"

"Remember our school motto, right? We should be fighting for our nation, but what have we done? So, I decided not to run away, but to wait here. I've had enough! I'm

You see, to fight the Japanese, you still have to follow the Eighth Route Army!"
Chapter completed!