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Chapter 62: Old Li Arrives at Heshanggou

"Yun Chao...died! His grave is that..." Xing Weiguo, who ran all the way over, answered the question for Li Yuexuan.

"Yun Chao..." Zhao Danian didn't say anything, but Yang Gongxun yelled and rushed directly to Yun Chao's grave, his face wet with tears.

"Third brother, little junior brother..." Yang Gongxun burst into tears, but no sound was heard. Instead, he muttered to himself, talking about the three brothers' lives from childhood to adulthood.

"Let's go and take a look... Jiang Daquan, take the stretcher team and carry the wounded away!" Zhao Danian decided to give Yang Gongxun some time and let the young and strong stretcher team go first. He followed Xing Weiguo to the hill on the west side, which was the ambush point selected by Xing Weiguo.

"Well, this place is good. It's more than 200 meters away from the river valley at the foot of the mountain and more than 300 meters away from the big bend on the west side. It can also take advantage of the reverse slope. It's a good firepower point." Zhao Danian said with satisfaction.

"Yes, this place is good! The previous replenishment battalion was hiding on the hillside between this side and the hilltop on the east, so they could rush down unexpectedly and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese. But their position is further down, not as good as ours!" Xing Weiguo said.

"This place is more suitable for elite troops with good marksmanship, and not suitable for hand-to-hand combat and assault! Niu Youtian is also a good fighter, he sees this clearly!" Zhao Danian knows his old comrade-in-arms very well.

"Over there, it's the First Battalion that is blocking the Japanese, right? Why are there so few people in the First Battalion..." Zhao Danian stopped talking after he mentioned this. Then he lowered his head, took off his hat, and lit a cigarette and started smoking.

"Captain, the stretcher team is ready, you should go back quickly! After the fight, I will lead my men to retreat northward and find you!" After a few minutes of silence, Xing Weiguo said.

"Captain, I request to stay and fight!" Yang Gongxun ran over breathlessly and shouted.

"No, come with me! I know how you feel, but there is still Zhang Lu who needs your care! Remember, we will hold the Japanese responsible for Xun Chao's murder, no less!" Zhao Danian said.

"Well... well... I just heard the soldiers of the replenishment battalion say... the military doctor got angry at the time, and then he attacked the Japanese, killing more than a hundred of them..." Yang Gongxun was still sobbing.

"Well, it's like this..." Xing Weiguo briefly described the previous battle, and then urged: "Captain, the Japanese will attack soon, you guys hurry up!"

"Let's go!" Zhao Danian waved his hand, and the young and strong men he brought with him either carried or backed the 25 wounded soldiers away.

It must be said that these wounded were undoubtedly lucky compared to the wounded in other troops! At least after they were injured, there were military doctors to treat them, and there were stretcher teams to carry them to transfer. In other troops, especially when the logistics could not keep up, the situation of the wounded was really unspeakable. There were no doctors and no medicines, so they could only hold on.

Zhao Danian moved, and it was already around 1:40 in the afternoon when movement finally came from the blocking position in the west.

Chirp, chirp...Boom, boom...Several artillery shells flew over the low hill and exploded around the first battalion's position, but caused no casualties.

Then, subsequent shells flew over one after another, but they never caused any casualties. Seeing this, the soldiers were overjoyed, knowing that the Japanese mountain artillery was affected by the terrain.

The Japanese seemed to know that the mountain artillery was useless, so they gave up the bombing. Then, a small team of Japanese attacked from the mountain ridge and the river valley, heading towards the first battalion's position. In this regard, Zhang Dabiao, Si Yong and Li Jiankun all said that they had no pressure. Gaga... Gaga... There were still 4 Type heavy machine guns left, and they fired at the Japanese attack team. At the same time, the Type light machine guns were also firing non-stop.

Thanks to the weapons and ammunition supplied by the Inukai Battalion, even at this point in the battle, the First Battalion still has more than enough bullets!

"Oh... what a pity, we don't have grenade throwers, so we can only watch the Japanese hiding behind that rock, but we can't hit them!" On the battlefield, Si Yong wiped the dust off his chin and said.

"I must, I must learn how to use the grenade launcher from the military doctor! If I had seven or eight grenade launcher soldiers, I wouldn't have to fight so miserably!" Li Jiankun also said viciously.

"Grenade launchers... that's a really good thing!" Zhang Dabiao also witnessed Li Yuexuan bombing the enemy's heavy machine guns, and sighed. After sighing, he suddenly became alert: "Let the heavy machine guns retreat quickly, and the light machine guns will hold on! At this time, we don't have the height advantage, and the enemy has a lot of grenade launchers!"

"Retreat quickly!" The two company commanders also wanted to come over, and quickly ordered the heavy machine guns to retreat.

In fact, their worries were not excessive, but at this time, there were indeed two grenade throwers among the attacking devils. Of course, these were the only two grenade throwers of the devils, and the rest were taken care of by the guerrilla sharpshooters led by Li Yuexuan.

"One, two, three... lift..." Several soldiers worked together to lift a Type 92 heavy machine gun, and then quickly evacuated along the mountain road.

Chirp...Boom...Behind them, the sound of grenade launchers exploding came.

"Go quickly, don't look back, and don't stop!" With the squad leader giving orders, they took the Type 92 heavy machine gun away smoothly.

Of course, there were also unlucky ones. One of the four Type 4 heavy guns was hit by a grenade launcher before the soldiers could lift it up...

"This Zhang Dabiao is a pretty good fighter! Zhuzi, Zhuzi, come here and take a look. How about using this as your artillery position?" Li Yunlong's loud voice appeared behind Xing Weiguo and the others.

"Hello, Commander..." The guerrillas who were observing the battle turned around and greeted Li Yunlong. Well, they had seen Li Yunlong coming, but they were in the middle of a battle and didn't need to be polite.

"You guys continue... Zhuzi, choose a better position for me and I'll give you 10 artillery shells!" Li Yunlong said to a silly-looking soldier beside him.

"Yes, Captain!" Wang Chengzhu saluted, looked around the hill for a while, found a suitable place, and had someone set up an 82-mm rifle.

"Where is the messenger? Go and tell Zhang Dabiao to fight and retreat at the same time. These two hills will be his new positions!" As soon as Li Yunlong arrived, he naturally became the commander on the scene.

"Yes..." the messenger agreed and ran towards the first battalion.

(End of this chapter)