Company Commander Xiao Li clearly saw this magnificent scene in the back, he didn't have time to grieve, and immediately ordered the dozen or so brothers who were still left under his subordinates: "Brothers, hurry up and get ready, wait for us, let the little devil step over our corpses."
The dozen or so brothers who retreated to the third fortification also had the determination to live and die with the position, and tied a grenade to themselves for emergency use.
After the devil officer who attacked the second fortification on the opposite side walked into the fortification with his subordinates, he looked at the devastated and bloody scene inside, and was greatly amazed, he did not expect that these backward weapons and equipment of the Chinese army had such a stubborn resistance, the position was full of stumps and broken bones of soldiers on both sides after the explosion, and after searching all around, the devils could not find a complete companion corpse, and the violent and continuous explosions had already mixed the flesh and blood on the position together, and the explosion was tattered, and it was impossible to distinguish whether it was the devil or the brothers of the New Fourth Army, There is no way, I can only roughly pick up the severed limbs of my companions and bring them back.
For the remains of the brothers of the New Fourth Army scattered around, this devil officer admired it very much, and instructed his subordinates: These are also warriors, although they are our enemies, but we should respect their unyielding will to fight, collect their bodies, dig a pit and bury them.
After attacking the two fortifications, the losses of the attacking devils were really not small, and there were less than 200 left in the forward team of more than 300 people, and more than 100 devil soldiers died in the hands of more than 40 brothers of the New Fourth Army who were sticking to the village, which made the devil officers who led the team have to rearrange the offensive plan.
While the little devil was resting at the second fortification, Company Commander Xiao Li and the others were ready to fight with the little devil on the rear position, and everyone should get the suicide note and the last words and everything right, and ask the youngest communication brother named Xiao Jiang to bring it back.
This Xiao Jiang, a native of Tianchang, is less than twenty years old, and has just joined the New Fourth Army a few years ago, and at the beginning Xiao Li Company Commander ordered him to withdraw first with the brothers' suicide notes and last words, and walked in the direction of the Hengtang River behind, found Zhou Wu and them, handed over these things to Zhou Wu and them, and told Zhou Wu: Our brothers who stayed behind to snipe after the break did not live up to the expectations of the regiment commander, and all of them died honorably on the battlefield, let him transfer these relics to our parents, wives and children, and our brothers were also blind under Jiuquan.
Xiao Jiang's temper is very strong, he refuses to retreat with his brothers' suicide notes, Xiao Li Company Commander is angry: "Xiao Jiang, why are you so disobedient, go quickly, you are the youngest here, we are all your big brother, although we have almost fought together, then we have to leave a seed, you are the seed of our company, quickly withdraw, bring back these things of our brothers, and we will go at ease, is it possible that you still want us to die blindly, keep worrying" Xiao Jiang cried, from the beginning of the fine sobbing to the later loud crying, Xiao Li Company Commander walked over and hugged his shoulder: "Xiao Jiang, don't cry, you are a man, you should bleed, this time we big brothers will cover your retreat, next time you will cover your younger brothers, remember, be stronger, the little devil can only be shot away with bullets, not crying can be driven away, remember to come to our brothers' graves in the future." ” Xiao Li's parting words made Xiao Jiang's emotions even more irrepressible, and he cried even more, Xiao Li grabbed his shoulders, stared at his blood-red eyes, and yelled at him: "You fucking don't go, go quickly, this is an order not to go, Lao Tzu will shoot you with one shot."
Seeing that the company commander was so fierce and vicious, Xiao Jiang hurriedly wiped away his tears, and hurriedly went in the direction of the Hengtang River without looking back, and Xiao Li finally said to him: "Don't take the big road, go around that rice field, be smart on the road, be careful" Xiao Jiang listened to the company commander's advice, the tears could not hold back any longer, and the sparse uproar flowed straight down, and quickly gritted his teeth and pulled his legs to the direction of the Hengtang River behind, along the way he didn't know how many crosses, his knees broke, he got up and continued to limp forward, just when Xiao Jiang ran for about an hour, exhausted, dry mouth, and starry eyes, he couldn't bear it, and when he wanted to stop and rest, suddenly a large group of soldiers with muddy faces and bodies appeared in the opposite rice field, Xiao Jiang was nervous in his heart, It's the little devils who touched it from here, if that's the case, I won't be able to bring my brothers' things, so I can only fight those devils here.
Xiao Jiang hurriedly hid in the grass on the side of the road and carefully observed the team coming over there, only to see that those soldiers were all as if they had been fished out of the muddy water, their faces were full of muddy water, it was estimated that they were in a hurry to get it in that rice field, and then take a closer look, Xiao Jiang felt a burst of ecstasy in his heart, he suddenly saw Ge Sanmin who was running to the front, Ge Regiment Commander, haha, God bless, it turned out that it was his own people who came over, great, at this time, if the regiment commander they can rush to the village, maybe they can save the company commander.
Xiao Jiang hurriedly rushed out of the roadside, shaking a piece of red cloth in his hand, which was given to him by his mother when he sent him to join the army, according to local customs, red things to ward off evil spirits, and jumped with all his strength to shout to the brothers who were still running desperately on the opposite side: "Wait for me to see the head of the horse" Ge Sanmin first heard Xiao Jiang's shout, and when he saw that it was a little soldier shouting desperately, he hurriedly ran over with his two brothers and asked, "Little comrade, what's the urgency in that part of yours?"
Xiao Jiang stammered and said to Ge Sanmin: "Hurry up and save our company commander, there are only a dozen or so comrades left, and they are fighting to the death with the devil on the last position in the village." ” Ge Sanmin understood as soon as he heard it, it must be the company commander Xiao Li who stayed behind and broke them, it seems that the fighting in the village in front of them is very fierce, it has been so long, it is not easy for their forty brothers to hold on to the present, they have to send someone to rescue them quickly.
Ge Sanmin was so anxious that he didn't have time to go to the back to report to Zhou Wu and them, so he hurriedly said to Xiao Jiang: "You hurry up and report to the brigade seat in the back, just say that I will take a company of brothers to go over to save Xiao Li and them first."
It's too late to report to him. ” Xiao Jiang and two brothers rushed to the back to report the situation to Zhou Wu, and Ge Sanmin immediately ordered a company of more than 100 brothers, and quickly rushed to the position that Xiao Li Company Commander was holding onto.
Ge Sanmin knew that time was running out now, it was not easy for their forty or so brothers to withstand more than three hundred little devils for such a long time, and besides, there might not be much ammunition, so they had to speed up their march and get there in the shortest possible time, otherwise they might not be able to save them.
These can make these brothers who have just crawled out of the rice field, still covered in mud, and have not yet wrung clean water on their bodies, and have to rush to the village tiredly, but as soon as they heard that they were going to rescue those broken brothers, everyone immediately came up, gritted their teeth and ran desperately forward.
Besides, Company Commander Xiao Li and the only dozen or so brothers left, as soon as they set up the firepower point in the last fortification, one of the brothers pointed to a signal flare rising in the sky behind him and said to Xiao Li: "Company commander, look, the signal flare is in the direction of the brigade."
Xiao Li hurriedly looked over there, and sure enough, a red signal flare rose in the sky above Zhou Wu's direction, and he was overjoyed, and immediately shouted to his brothers: "Comrades, our regimental commander Ma has already rushed over, now should we continue to hold on here, or abandon our positions and evacuate backwards, and join the regiment commander."
The comrades in the fortifications were overjoyed when they heard that it was Zhou Wu and them who had returned, and according to the original task assigned to them by Zhou Wu, once they saw the signal flare rising, they immediately abandoned their positions here and evacuated in the direction of Shen Jiabang, or according to the actual situation, they moved closer to Zhou Wu and their large forces.
Now that Xiao Li and the others have seen the signal sent by Zhou Wu, it is no longer meaningful to continue to stay in this village.
But Xiao Li considered that the little devils on the opposite side were less than five or six hundred meters in front of the fortifications, and in case of retreating here, those little devils would catch up with them, which might cause harm to Zhou Wu and their flanks, so he wanted to ask for the opinions of his comrades before making plans.
Everyone said that they should evacuate immediately now, and there is no practical point in continuing to stay in the fortifications, and it is just a big deal to kill a few more devils, but their losses in this regard may be very large, because in this kind of trench warfare, our New Fourth Army is not a strong point after all, and planting enough grenades and explosives in the third trench can also play a role in preventing the devils from chasing after them, so why stay here and make unnecessary sacrifices Company Commander Xiao Li listened to the words of the brothers and felt that it was reasonable, and immediately ordered the brothers to leave immediately, bury all those explosives, grenades and other things in the fortifications, unscrew the lids, pull out the strings, and stir up the fuse.
At the sound of the order, a dozen or so brothers were busy on the position, and at this moment, the little devils on the opposite side also launched an attack on this side, and under the cover of their machine gun and mortar fire, more than a hundred little devils attacked in a straggler attack formation and launched an attack on the last position.
After the company commander Xiao Li waited for the other brothers to evacuate, he was the last to leave the position, he jumped back and forth in the direction of the Hengtang River and ran a distance of two or three hundred meters, took off a 38 big cover on his shoulder, pulled out a bullet, pried open the shell, poured out the gunpowder inside, and so pounded three or four such bullets, filled a shell with these poured gunpowder, squeezed it into a bullet head, put it on another empty shell, and rubbed a few marks on the stone next to it.
Loading the special bullet into the chamber of the 38 lid, he raised his rifle and aimed it at the explosive bag that he had placed high in the fortifications when he left. t1706231537: