The blood of the Anti-Japanese War stained the mountains and rivers

"Call Zongzhi, and he said that about [-] devils have appeared in Ximen." Liu Zhi shouted to the back with a sullen face.

"Yes!"

The communications soldier immediately bowed and went straight to the back to make a phone call to report the situation.

"Boom!"

As soon as Liu Zhi's words fell, a high-explosive bomb flew over, landed more than ten meters away from them and exploded. The scorching air wave mixed with fragments flew towards the surroundings. ,

Liu Zhi and the others subconsciously lowered their heads and got down on the ground, and the sand from the explosion splashed all over their bodies.

"The devil is shooting, let the brothers retreat to the back to defend the artillery, the machine gun company is ready to fight back!"

Fifth Battalion Commander Liu Zhi didn't care about why the East of the city was fighting at this moment, he was only thinking about these devils in front of him now.

The brothers defending the first-line trenches all bowed their bodies and rushed to the bunker behind the frontier defense guns. The high-explosive shells of the devils exploded right behind them.

Under the fierce bombardment of the devils, the positions built by the brothers were continuously blasted into the sky. After the devils fired high-explosive bombs, incendiary bombs followed, and many flammable door panels burst into flames. , Hulala burning up, black smoke lingering.

"Quick, enter the position!"

As soon as the devil's bombardment stopped, Battalion Commander Liu Zhi called the brothers to enter the position.

When the brothers ran to their respective positions with their guns in hand and put the guns out, they poked their heads out and saw that the skirmish line that the devils attacked was less than 150 meters away from them.

"Whoosh whoosh—"

The devil's bullets flew over the heads of the brothers, making holes in the sandbags behind them.

"beat!"

Following the order of the battalion commander Liu Zhi, the brothers of the company defending at the forefront aimed at the devil who was doing evasive movements and pressed the trigger.

The bullets whizzed out of the muzzle of the gun, and blue smoke came out of the muzzle. When Liu Zhi saw the little devils rushing ahead, more than a dozen of them fell to the ground in convulsions.

The devil at the back also squatted down immediately to fight back. The light and heavy machine guns on the side of the devil fired one after another, and the bullets enveloped the position like raindrops.

"Pfft!"

"what!"

Facing the bullets from the devils like the wind, many brothers who were leaning out to shoot fell over on their backs, and blood filled the trenches.

When the devils took advantage of the defenders being suppressed, the devil stragglers of the second echelon quickly jumped over the squatting devil soldiers and rushed towards the defenders.

"Machine cannon company, what are you still doing in a daze, say hello!"

Seeing the little devil rushing over arrogantly, Liu Zhi, the commander of the Fifth Battalion, cursed angrily at the back, and an orderly rolled and dodged the bullets and rushed towards the position of the machine gun company.

"Tom tom tom!"

Soon there was a dull growl from the direction of the machine gun company, and two infantry guns and two mortars fired three rapid shots at the charging group of devils.

"Boom!"

The scorching air waves swept towards the surroundings, the smoke billowed, and the devils were continuously blasted by the shells and screamed pitifully.

The charging devils were instantly bombarded as if they had hit a wall, and there were also unlucky devils who were directly hit by shells, and half of their bodies disappeared in an instant.

"Retreat, retreat!"

The devil didn't expect the defenders to have such strong artillery fire, and they immediately retreated in the face of fierce blows.

"beat!"

Under the cover of artillery fire, the brothers in the trenches were able to raise their heads again, and shot at the retreating devils one after another. The bullets that flew out almost gnawed at the flesh, knocking down more than 20 devils.

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Huaiyin has been shrouded in gunpowder smoke, and fights have been fought in all directions. The General Director has also figured out the situation at the East Gate, that is, Battalion Commander Xie Zhengxiang wanted to surrender to the enemy, but the matter was brought to light, and he fought with the people led by Deputy Battalion Commander Daozi stand up.

"Damn it, Xie Zhengxiang is a bastard, I'm going to skin him!"

When he learned that Xie Zhengxiang had defected to the enemy, Yuan Guangtao, the deputy commander in chief, stomped his feet angrily.

He, Xie Zhengxiang and others were all parachuted from the theater headquarters to the North Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps. They were on the same front and had been fighting openly and secretly with the local officers of the North Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps.

Now Xie Zhengxiang's defection to the enemy has pushed him to the cusp of the storm all at once, and now he is so angry that he curses again and again, and is also eager to get rid of Xie Zhengxiang and the others.

No one thought that at this juncture, someone turned to the enemy. Such a commotion made the panic-stricken people even more panicked.

"Mr. Yuan, Xie Zhengxiang and his three companies have already occupied the east gate. If they can't take it back as soon as possible, once the devils enter the city through the east gate, our Huaiyin defenders will be attacked by the enemy."

Now that the situation has taken a turn for the worse, the combat staff officer Lei Xiong and the others also understand that it is not a question of who is to be held accountable, but to defend Huaiyin.

"Yes, yes, immediately send someone to the east gate and take it back for me!" After such a reminder, Yuan Guangtao also came to his senses and gave the order hastily.

If the east gate is lost, there will be a huge gap in Huaiyin's defense line. Once a chain reaction is triggered, the defense line is likely to collapse. Everyone is aware of the seriousness of the problem.

"Officer Zhang has already brought brothers from two companies up, but Xie Zhengxiang and the others have a cannon company with strong firepower..." the communications staff officer added.

Xie Zhengxiang coerced the brothers from the three companies to join the enemy. The brothers from the three companies were originally unwilling to join the enemy.

But they were fooled by Xie Zhengxiang and led them to fight with the people led by the deputy battalion commander Dao Zi on the street for a while.

It was too late when these brothers realized that they were being used as a gun. After all, some brothers had already died under their hands. After seeing the blood, it would not be easy to think about it anyway.

When Xie Zhengxiang stepped forward again, it was a promise of rich salary and money from high-ranking officials, so that these coerced brothers had to join the enemy with Xie Zhengxiang, which can be said to be very helpless.

"Drop two companies from the Fifth Battalion in Ximen to go up, and the guard company will also press up!"

Yuan Guangtao, the deputy captain, knew the importance of the east gate, and after a moment of contemplation, he gave the order.

"Yes!"

Soon some brothers called the Fifth Battalion of Ximen and asked them to transfer two companies to fight at the East Gate.

At this moment, the devils were also attacking the west gate, and the defense was already very difficult. Now that they had to send two companies away, Liu Zhi, the commander of the fifth battalion, was also very helpless.

When the officers and soldiers of the Subei Guerrilla Corps were actively mobilizing in the city to deal with the complicated situation.

Xie Zhengxiang, who had seized the east gate, was also very clear that although they had captured three companies, once the Subei Guerrilla Corps mobilized troops to counterattack, he might not be able to defeat them.

So after repelling a wave of attacks, he immediately sent someone to contact the devils, hoping that the devils would come for reinforcements immediately.

The devil's captain, Yamaguchi Chisong, led the attack at the south gate, but faced with the strong resistance of the first battalion led by the blacksmith and Wu Changqing's second battalion, the devil's several attacks failed, so they sent people to the west gate in an attempt to attack. Also look for breakthrough points.

When Xie Zhengxiang sent someone to the devil's camp to explain the situation, Yamaguchi Akamatsu, the captain of the devil's team, immediately laughed.