The soldiers shouted loudly, but Qiu Ming had already lost consciousness.
A battalion commander replaced Qiu Ming in command, but they had fallen into great passivity.
The last battalion commander had no choice but to lead his troops to retreat.
At the same time, Duanwu also received news that Qiu Ming was injured. He asked Zhou Weiguo to take over his command, while he ran to see the injured Qiu Ming.
At this time, Chen Yi and the doctor were examining Qiu Ming.
Dragon Boat Festival did not disturb the two of them, but a moment later, the military doctor breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Except for the shrapnel scratch on his head, Captain Qiu is not seriously injured. His fainting should have been caused by the shell.
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Dragon Boat Festival also breathed a long sigh of relief at this time. After all, Qiu Ming was unimpeded and it was a blessing in misfortune.
"Carry Lao Qiu down to rest, and leave the rest to me."
Duanwu ordered Chen Yi to carry Qiu Ming down to rest. But at this moment, more than a dozen officers from the Hutoushan Independent Regiment came forward to ask for orders: Comrade Duanwu, our regiment leader has gone down the line of fire, but we can't do it.
Please command us, we will avenge our dead brothers!
In the battle just now, the Hutoushan Independent Regiment suffered more than 70 casualties. The cruel Japanese also tortured and killed several seriously injured Eighth Route Army soldiers, which made every one of them very angry.
Duanwu looked at the Eighth Route Army officers whose morale was still high and nodded, because next, he would really have to teach the Japanese a lesson and let them know what kind of people they were fighting.
The South City Gate has been punched with hundreds of holes, and the century-old city will also come to an end today.
But there is no way, because the Japanese are hiding in the city and lingering. If they don't blow up the city wall, they can't get into the city.
The Japanese position outside the south city was quickly captured, and no less than 400 Japanese soldiers on the city wall were killed.
However, Dragon Boat Festival did not give the order to enter the city immediately because the 105mm howitzer of the Little Japanese was already in sight.
Duanwu ordered the artillery fire. Just as the Japs were preparing to bombard the tanks entering the city, two 120mm howitzers opened fire first.
Boom!
A shell hit the Little Japanese's artillery position, and two 105mm howitzers were blown away.
Along with the Japanese artillery flying out, the Japanese artillery position was destroyed by just one shell.
Immediately afterwards, another artillery shell also exploded. Although it did not hit the Japanese artillery position, it did collapse a corner of a two-story inn, and the Japanese lying on the roof fell directly from a height of four meters.
Fell down.
The streets after the explosion were full of broken wood, which was definitely as sharp as a spear.
When the Japanese fell down, they were skewered into candied haws, and their miserable screams made the scalps of the nearby Japanese numb.
They mustered up the courage to send their colleagues off for the last time, but what happened next shocked them.
The imperial tanks they were once most proud of now fell into the hands of the enemy, and the roaring machine guns harvested their lives like a sickle harvesting crops.
None of the Japanese hiding in the corners or on the rooftops were spared. In front of the chariot, they had no power to fight back.
Even if they hide behind the wall, they will be taken away by the rapid-fire cannon on the tank.
Tanks have become the most murderous force in street fighting. In the absence of anti-tank weapons, five tanks are enough to overwhelm everything.
The Japanese were certainly not stupid. After discovering that the tanks had entered the city, they hurriedly mobilized two other 105mm howitzers towards the center of the town.
But at this time, the Eighth Route Army had already stormed the city wall and discovered the Japanese dragging a howitzer.
All the Japs on the city wall had been killed, and the Eighth Route Army soldiers armed with machine guns fired at the Japs below the city.
On the unobstructed street, the little Japanese artillerymen were shot dead on the spot in an instant. Even if the Japanese guards resisted and fought back, they could not stop the angry bullets of the Eighth Route Army soldiers.
Endo, who had originally planned to send Chinese troops into the city to fight street battles, was frustrated at this time. Perhaps he had expected such a scene, but he definitely did not expect it to happen so quickly.
And for some reason, his tactics had no effect on the enemy in front of him, and the entire brigade suffered very heavy losses. At this time, he could mobilize less than 300 Japs around him, and there were still more than 50 Japs in the north of the city.
The north gate was Endo's escape route. In other words, the little devil never thought that he would die in Lai'an County.
He pretended to be calm and waved his hand, and his Japanese soldiers escorted more than 300 Chinese people who had been captured by him in Lai'an County.
Originally, more than 800 people were captured in the city, but most of them were killed by Endo.
Some people did it because they were unwilling to build fortifications for the Japs, while others did it because the Japs looked displeased.
Yes, the Japanese will shoot people to death just because they don't like you. In their eyes, the lives of Chinese people are as insignificant.
At this time, too, in order to prevent the Chinese army from attacking, a Japanese squad leader brought more than thirty Chinese civilians to the streets and fired machine guns at them.
More than thirty innocent people died tragically, which angered Lao Shou and others who had just arrived.
Lao Snoring's spy battalion killed the most fiercely. Although there were heavy casualties, they still rushed to the front.
The angry Lao Shou was about to lead his men up and kill all the butchers, but at this moment, the Japanese translator shouted in Chinese: "Listen to the Chinese people on the other side, you must stop sabotaging the *** immediately.
All actions of **, otherwise the rebels who are resisting the Imperial Japanese Army like you will be shot immediately. You don’t want to watch your compatriots being killed, right? I advise you to surrender as soon as possible, otherwise they will all die.
Ladi!"
The Japanese translator referred to a deer as a horse, and what he said was extremely righteous.
Although Lao Shou was angry, he was helpless when he saw hundreds of ordinary people being captured by the Japanese.
At this moment, Duanwu and Zhou Weiguo arrived.
Lao Snoring quickly reported the situation to Duanwu. Duanwu looked with a telescope and saw that nearly three hundred Chinese people were being escorted by the Japanese in an open field outside the gate of the county government.
There were about a hundred Japanese guards in charge. They formed a fan shape and surrounded the Chinese people in the middle.
Zhou Weiguo also saw this scene and cursed: "These little devils are really hateful. If we can't defeat them, then we will take innocent people as hostages."
Duanwu smiled and said: "The little devil has done this kind of thing not once or twice."
Recalling the battle at Shama Shop, even Dragon Boat Festival felt that it was so dangerous. He almost died in the little devil's shameless behavior.
But the Japanese are shameless, what can you do to him?
But Duanwu felt that he could give it a try, at least to see what kind of person the opponent's commander was when he fell to the ground.
Thinking of this, Duanwu shouted to the Japanese in the distance: "I am Duanwu, go and call your commander, and I will talk to him!"
The other party seemed to have expected this, and the translator replied: "I'm sorry, our Lord Endo said that he has nothing to talk to you. If you are sensible, you should put down your guns and surrender, otherwise we will kill you every five minutes."