Ding Ning also felt that it was not a way to fight like this at this time, although they had an advantage in numbers, but since they evacuated Gaoyou Lake to the side of the New Fourth Army, a large number of new soldiers have been replenished, the training time is not enough, and the combat skills are not as good as those independent brigade veterans in Gaoyou Lake, plus some soldiers have a hand-to-hand fight bayonet with the little devil for the first time, so although they are here three to one hand-to-hand combat with the little devil, but for a while, they can't take much advantage, and these little devils who are forced to be in a desperate situation are dead anyway, So desperately resisted for a while, the brothers reluctantly made a draw with the devils, plus the large army of those devils on the south bank of the river was about to cross the river, and if they didn't withdraw, I am afraid it would be difficult to do.
Zhou Wu and Ding Ning ordered to get rid of the entangled little devils, and all of them withdrew to that village, and the gunner brothers who were firing at the height over there saw that Zhou Wu and they were retreating backwards, and hurriedly turned around the muzzle of the cannon that was bombarding the pontoon bridge on the river, and bombarded the devil soldiers chasing over the shore with the few remaining shells.
The last few shells landed impartially in the formation of the little devils who were catching up, and blasted a dozen or so running devil soldiers with guns into the air, and after a few backflips in the air, they fell to the place in twos and threes, and went to Japan to meet their Emperor Majesty.
Zhou Wu and they took this opportunity to hurriedly lead the brothers to retreat to the back, and the little devils behind them couldn't figure out why Zhou Wu, who was superior in numbers, suddenly retreated, for fear of being ambushed by them, so they didn't dare to desperately chase this side, plus there were many casualties in the hand-to-hand combat just now, and there were only about 100 people left of more than 300 little devils, so the devil officer hurriedly ordered to stop the pursuit, and wait for the large army that crossed the river on the south bank to arrive.
When he saw that more than 1,000 armies on the north bank of the river were entangled with the 300 devils under his command, he thought that the Xiaolin squadron that came ashore this time would be completely eaten by the New Fourth Army, so he hurriedly ordered the devils on the south bank to repair the two pontoon bridges that were blown up by Zhou Wu's artillery at all costs, and at the same time urgently rescued the superiors in Yangzhou, asking the devil aviation to quickly send bombers to bomb and cover.
After receiving an urgent call for help from the commander of the devil's wing, the leader of the devils in Nanjing immediately ordered the four devil bombers stationed at the Nanjing airport to take off urgently and rush to both sides of the Hengtang River to cover these devils who were forcibly crossing the Hengtang River, and to wipe out all the New Fourth Army that came to attack on the bank of the river.
Zhou Wu and the others ran wildly in the direction of that village for about two or three miles, and suddenly a sharp-eyed brother pointed to the sky and shouted to Zhou Wu and them: "Look at the little devil's plane coming, it is going back and forth on it."
Zhou Wu hurriedly looked up at the sky and looked, sure enough, there were four big-bellied bombers hovering in the sky, and the sun logo painted with red paint on the fuselage looked particularly dazzling in the sun.
Zhou Wu immediately ordered his brothers who were running: "Stop moving forward and find shelter on the spot, the devil plane is looking for a bombing target" When Ding Ning and Niu heard this, they hurriedly beckoned their brothers to hurry up and find a hidden place on the side of the road, but where is there a hidden place to cover on this boundless plain Zhou Wu remembered at this time that there was a big rice field not far from here, just now in order to hurry, under the guidance of a local fellow found by the scout brothers, he rushed to the riverside by a small road, and now there are devils who have landed from the south bank to chase after him again, and there are devil planes in the sky circling and reconnoitring, bombing and bombing the following at any time, causing heavy casualties to the brothers of the second regiment.
Zhou Wu said to Ding Ning who was hiding on the side of the road: "Ding Ning, I think we have to go to that rice field to get rid of the little devil who is chasing after us, the devil relies on their cars and armored vehicles, if we lead them to that rice field, then their mobility advantage will not be able to give full play, so that we can take the opportunity to get rid of the devil's entanglement."
I will immediately send a signal to Xiao Li and the others who are holding on to the village, asking them to abandon their positions in the village, turn to retreat in the direction of Shen Jiabang, meet with Zhang Ercheng and Commander Wang, and prepare to resist the invading little devils as soon as possible.
Ding Ning thought about it for a while, and felt that this method was feasible, but he couldn't move now, the plane of the little devil in the sky was still circling, and he stood up and ran forward at this moment, isn't that asking for hardship The devil bomber in the sky hovered above for a while, probably not finding the situation below, at this time Zhou Wu and they had all dispersed, lying on the ground motionless, the devil bomber may have flown high, and for a while he couldn't see the team below, twisted his buttocks, and returned in the direction of Nanjing.
Zhou Wu saw that the devil's plane was gone, and hurriedly ordered everyone to get up and rush towards the rice field over there, and soon came here, and saw the knee-deep water in the rice field, the brothers in front did not dare to go into the water, for fear of the grasshoppers and other things in the water biting, Zhou Wu said to everyone: "Brothers, the little devil is going to come up, do you want to eat the devil's bullet, or would you rather be bitten by the locusts in the water?"
The brothers in front heard that the devil behind them was about to chase after them, hurriedly rolled up their trouser legs and jumped into the water like dumplings, supporting each other and marching hard in the rice field.
The brothers of the large army behind also jumped out of the rice fields one after another, and marched in the direction of the village.
At this time, Zhou Wu's signal flare has been issued, it is estimated that the village is resisting the devil's striker Xiao Li, they can see it if there are still people, after Zhou Wu sent the signal flare, he immediately rolled up his trouser legs with Ding Ning and jumped into the still somewhat cold water, Niu Political Commissar Political Commissar is an old revolutionary who came from the war, I think that when I crossed the grassland, the environment was much worse than this rice field, and they also followed Zhou Wu and they went into the water, only the young Director Xia, who had fine skin and tender meat, I stared at the water in the rice field for a while, and finally I couldn't roll up my trouser legs and wade in.
Just when Zhou Wu launched a joint attack on the little devils on the side of the Hengtang River, the forty or so broken brothers led by Xiao Li's company commander had already retreated to the second fortification in the village, and the original forty or so brothers were now only more than twenty left, and there were seven or eight seriously injured, Xiao Li wanted to send two brothers to carry these seriously injured down, but they sternly refused: "Company commander, now in this situation, we only have about 20 comrades left, and then divide the comrades to cover our withdrawal, There are almost no people on the position, there is still more than an hour of time, and the little devil on the opposite side was also beaten by us, we can't withdraw at this time, rest assured, although we won't move, we will help you press the bullet and twist the grenade cover, even if we can't do this, we can still see it, and it's good to show you the direction of the devil. ” Xiao Li sent these seriously wounded brothers to take their lives if they did not withdraw in time, and did not agree to the demands of these comrades, insisting on sending someone to send them down, even if they were sent to Zhou Wu's large army, it would be better to stay here.
Seeing that Xiao Li was so stubborn, an older comrade among the seriously injured became angry: "I said Xiao Li, Company Commander, you are older than my officer, but you still have to listen to my old brother for this kind of thing, most of us can't move now, and the number of comrades guarding the position here is small, how can we let us withdraw when the little devil on the opposite side is about to attack, there are dozens of kilometers from here to Shenjiabang, and it is difficult to say what kind of situation you encounter, and it is even more outrageous to go to the south of the Ma regiment commander, The little devils who are coming over there are stumbling to death, you let our injured comrades evacuate to them, isn't this causing trouble for them I know that you are afraid that we will die here, but Xiao Li, I tell you, today we all stayed here and broke off, and we didn't think about going back alive, so you don't have to think about us, when the devils come up, we can take care of ourselves, and by the way, help the comrades who can still fight to suppress the bullets or something, in case the devils pour in, Our brothers still had a few grenades left on them, and when the time came, we saved a little devil who rushed in and blew things up together. ” Hearing the words of this seriously injured old comrade, Company Commander Xiao Li became emotional, his throat was suddenly blocked by something, he choked, walked up, and held the old brother's hand: "Old brother, in this case, let's stay here today, there is another one behind our fortifications, we will let those devils who come to attack fight here with us to fight to the death, those devils can only step through this village if they kill all our brothers."
Company Commander Xiao Li took advantage of the fact that the little devils on the opposite side had not yet launched an attack, rearranged the fire position of the second fortification, and sent four brothers to carry explosives bags and grenades to the third fortification behind, where all the explosives and grenades were planted, in case this fortification was broken through by the devils who had a superior number of people on the opposite side, they all retreated to the third fortification, it is estimated that the bullets in the hands of the brothers at that time were almost hit, rather than staying here and being killed by the little devils who rushed over, It's better to retreat to the fortifications full of explosives and grenades and wait for the little devils to rush in, and then the matter is very simple, as soon as the fuse is pulled, a loud bang sounds, and everything is solved.
At this moment, a wounded young soldier leaned against the ammunition box of the fortification with a rifle that was longer than him, and gently hummed the Yangzhou tune, the soft and brisk voice quickly infected everyone on the position, most of the people living here were locals around Jiangbei, and they couldn't help but follow the little soldier and sing when they heard the familiar hometown tune sounding gently. t1706231537: