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

After hearing the words of the Chief of Staff, Masao Maruyama's heart suddenly sank. In the Chinese battlefield, all troops wearing German helmets are the main elite troops of the Central Army directly under the Military Commission.

Now that elite Chinese troops have appeared in Ruichang and copied the retreat route of their 6th Brigade, their strategic intentions are self-evident.

Now their 6th Brigade is fighting with the Chinese 74th Army in Minshan, and they have run out of ammunition. At this moment, the rear route is copied. He can't imagine the consequences, and the entire army may be wiped out.

"Call back Zhuqisang, be sure to stick to the ammunition warehouse, and our brigade will return quickly to help."

"I request the aviation unit to dispatch a reconnaissance plane to quickly investigate the enemy's situation near Ruichang, and request the 106th Division to quickly move closer to me."

Now Masao Maruyama has no intention of continuing to fight in the Minshan area, and just wants to withdraw to Ruichang as soon as possible, otherwise they may be finished due to lack of ammunition.

"Pass me an order that all troops leave the battle as soon as possible and prepare for retreat."

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Text Chapter 5 Coercion

The Xu family compound was temporarily selected by the devils as a warehouse for storing ammunition. For the safety of ammunition, the nearby residents had already been evacuated and cleared, which saved Yang Ling and the others a lot of trouble.

Zhuqi Heigu led the surviving 30 or so devils and divided them into two groups, guarding the front yard and the back yard respectively. Facing Yang Ling and the others who lacked heavy weapons, the line of defense was solid.

But Yang Ling would not give the little devil a chance to survive. His purpose of coming to Ruichang this time was to take away the devil's arms warehouse and cut off the logistics supply of the devil at the frontier of Minshan.

Although Zhuqi Heigu relied on the fierce firepower of the courtyard to overwhelm the attacking troops, since Yang Ling had come, he had no intention of going back empty-handed.

Wang Huzi and the others were ordered to look for firelights. Although Ruichang is a county seat, the fuel used by residents for cooking is still traditional firewood, and there is a lot of it piled up in various courtyards.

So Wang Huzi and the others quickly brought back large bundles of firewood, and at the same time brought back gasoline from the fuel tank of the captured devil's three-wheeled motorcycle.

"Deputy regiment, where do you start burning?" Wang Huzi looked at the wall of Xu's courtyard that was riddled with holes, and asked Yang Ling for instructions.

Yang Ling pointed at the houses on both sides of the Xu family compound with his hand: "Start to light the houses on both sides. There is a little more firewood. We are going to burn the devils today."

Wang Huzi looked at the ghost soldiers who were shooting outside along the shooting holes from time to time, and said with a sneer, "Decree!"

The Xu Family Courtyard is not a single courtyard, but connected with many residential buildings. As long as the houses on both sides burn, the Xu Family Courtyard will also be affected and burned.

The ghost soldiers huddled in the yard seemed safe and sound now, but once the fire started, the small yard would become their nightmare, if not burnt to death, they would be suffocated to death.

Wang Huzi and the others moved bundles of firewood into the house adjacent to Xu's courtyard and piled them up, and the piles quickly became very tall.

The devil soldiers who were in charge of guarding the courtyard walls on both wings also heard the movement behind the wall, but they dared not climb up the ladder to take the lead. The machine guns on the high roof were staring at them. They looked at each other and grabbed a few grenades and put them on the helmets. Knock, raised his hand and threw it to the courtyard opposite the wall.

Several brothers were excitedly holding firewood and piled it under the courtyard wall, when they suddenly heard the sound of rolling and rolling behind them, and turned their heads to see that several black grenades were bouncing and landing on the rubble.

"Damn it, it's thunder over the wall, lie down!"

When a veteran squad leader saw the black grenade rolling to his feet, his ghosts froze, he picked up the grenade and threw it back.

The brothers who were holding the firewood reacted very quickly, and fell to the ground in opposite directions one after another.

"Boom!"

In the deafening tremors, the scorching air waves carried bricks, tiles and rubble covering the sky and buried these brothers in a cloud of floating dust.

The grenade that was picked up by the veteran squad leader and thrown back also exploded on the top of the wall. The two layers of bricks and stones on the top of the wall were cut off by the explosion, and the broken bricks and dust flew everywhere, causing the ghosts behind the wall to flee in panic. .

A platoon leader heard a sudden explosion in the courtyard, and led several brothers into the smoky courtyard with guns, shouting: "What's going on?!"

The veteran squad leader shook his head, and a large piece of floating soil fell down. He coughed and cursed in the smoke: "Damn it, the little devil threw a few thunders over, and almost went to see Lord Hades."

Seeing that the veteran squad leader was fine, the platoon leader hurriedly waved his hands and asked the brothers behind him to dig out the other brothers from the shattered rubble.

Fortunately, they reacted quickly. Except for one who was stunned and had a blood groove drawn by the exploding film, the others were all safe and sound although their faces were covered in dust.

"Don't dawdle, light the fire quickly, and burn the dog to death." The platoon leader saw that the brothers were fine, and ordered to light the fire.

The veteran squad leader took out a matchbox from his pocket, struck it down fiercely, a flame burst out, and then threw it viciously at the firewood.

In order to support the combustion, gasoline was poured on the firewood, and when it encountered a spark, it ignited, and the flames that were ten feet high burst into flames, and the blazing flames made the brothers retreat.

"Don't look, let him burn himself."

The platoon leader took the brothers out of the yard. The next door was the devil's ammunition, and they didn't want to be buried with the devil.

The flames quickly spread and burned along the firewood, and the sound of beep beep made the ghosts hiding behind the wall full of doubts, and they couldn't help throwing a few more grenades behind the wall.

The grenade exploded rumblingly, shaking the roof tiles and falling, and the dust was also stirred up like a waterfall, but the burning sound of beeping beeping did not diminish, but became clearer.

Until the flames spread and expanded, and jumped up to the top of the wall along the base of the wall, in the light of the fire, the tired faces of the devils became clear.

"The Chinese are lighting the fire!"

The situation was quickly reported to the squadron leader Takeki Kuroya, who was full of ambition with the call back from the brigade commander Maruyama Masao. As long as Ruichang and the arsenal were guarded, he would be a hero of the 6th Brigade.

"What fire?" Zhuqi Heiya didn't react for a while, raised his head and asked suspiciously.

Second Lieutenant Guizi was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, pointing anxiously outside and said: "The Chinese people set the houses on both sides on fire, and the fire is spreading towards us!"

"Nani?!" Hearing this, the smile on Zhuqi Heitani's face disappeared, and he ran out of the room in three steps at a time. thick smoke.

"Despicable Chinese people!" Looking at the burning fire, Zhuqi Heitani's eyes were full of anger, and he shouted at the ghost soldiers in the yard: "Hurry up and put out the fire!"

Zhuqi Kuroya knew very well that once the fire spread, the Chinese army would not need to attack, and the ammunition stored behind them would be enough to blow them into ashes.

The devils in the yard also realized the seriousness of the problem, and even the wounded soldiers took action, rushing to the water tank one after another, using wooden basins to scoop water to put out the fire, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.

However, their efforts did not extinguish the spreading fire. On the contrary, the fire grew bigger and bigger, covering the courtyard walls on both sides, and began to burn to the beams.

Yang Ling and the others spent their time hiding in the distance and watching the burning fire. The houses on both sides were constantly collapsing in the raging fire, and even the air was scalding hot.

"Now there are little devils who will suffer. If you want to be a turtle, there is no way." Wang Huzi wiped his sweat from baking, and laughed while looking at the yard with black smoke.

The heat wave against his face made the heart of the devil squadron leader Zhuqi Kuroya sink to the bottom, seeing the unstoppable flames, he really wanted to strangle the person who set the fire.

But now, for the sake of the ammunition depot behind them, and for them to survive until the arrival of reinforcements, he had no choice but to order someone to push the heavily tied security battalion commander Meng Fangang against the wall.

Zhang Heizi and others who survived the security camp were busy running back and forth to help Yang Ling and the others set fire to the devils, when they suddenly saw Meng Fangang being pushed against the wall, they were dumbfounded.

"yes, Sir!"

"The one on the wall is our battalion commander!"

Meng Fangang, a burly and resolute man, faced the devil's lure to surrender by going on a hunger strike. He looked haggard and tired after not eating or drinking for two days.

At this moment, the devil pushed his arm against the wall with a bayonet. The soldiers in the security camp stopped and continued to carry firewood, shouting towards the wall.

"Listen, people outside, surrender quickly and put out the fire, or your battalion commander Meng Fangang will die!" Zhou Fulu, the maintenance chairman, stuck out half of his head from behind the wall and shouted loudly towards the outside.