The gunshots continued at the Beiwang Village stronghold, but they were no longer as dense as they were at the beginning.

In order to make the Japanese and puppet troops in the stronghold believe that the Independent Battalion really wanted to attack here, the battalion commander gritted his teeth and took out all the assets that the Independent Battalion had accumulated for more than half a year.

As a result, the Independent Camp had too few assets, and the limited ammunition began to emerge in a hurry within less than an hour of attack.

If you continue to fight like this, in more than half an hour, the independent battalion will run out of ammunition.

At this time, although the Independent Battalion had not reached the point where the ammunition and food were exhausted, the only heavy machine gun in the army had no bullets. Each light machine gun had less than half a base number of bullets left, and the ordinary soldier had less than three bullets in his hand!

In order to persist for a longer time and complete the upward attack mission assigned to them by Tan Fei, the light machine gun no longer dared to shoot continuously at the artillery tower like it did at the beginning.

The rifleman dared not waste bullets casually. He was sure that he was 50% sure and dared to shoot precious bullets in the gun chamber.

In the artillery tower, the Japanese squad leader clearly felt that the independent battalion's attack was weak, and the attack firepower was getting weaker and weaker, and it was almost gone!

If he hadn't jointly formulated a combat plan for internal and external attacks, he would have immediately led his troops out of the stronghold and fought a counterattack against the independent battalion.

Outside the base, the independent battalion commander frowned. He looked at the stronghold inside the encirclement and behind him, with a very anxious expression...

"Instructor, should we send someone to the ambush battlefield to take a look! If the National Salvation Army fails to operate, the bullets that our Independent Battalion just fired will be in vain!"

"This is what we saved in half a year. If we can't harvest some ammunition in this battle and replenish the losses, we will be in a dangerous situation where there is no ammunition available in the next few months!"

Instructor Tang was even more anxious than him. As the steward of the independent battalion, the battalion commander decided to show off all his family's assets to cooperate with the National Salvation Army to attack the Dongmafang stronghold, he was under much more pressure than the battalion leader.

If the operation fails and the Independent Battalion's ammunition is exhausted again, the Independent Battalion will fall into a dangerous situation where there is no ammunition available.

As the logistics manager of the independent battalion, it is his most important responsibility to ensure the ammunition supply of the soldiers. If everyone has no bullets, the pressure will definitely be concentrated on him!

Subconsciously, he had to agree to the battalion commander's proposal. When the words were spoken, instructor Tang suppressed this idea and shook his head: "Battery Commander, the task given to us by the superior is to unconditionally cooperate with the National Salvation Army. Since Captain Tan has decided to attack the Dongmafang stronghold, we must believe them!"

"Now sending someone to ask about the situation of the war will make them feel that we do not trust them and will not be conducive to our cooperation."

"You have also seen their equipment during the day. I think as long as the combat plan is fine, the Japanese army will send troops to reinforce the Beiwang Village stronghold, and Captain Tan will definitely be able to take down the Dongmafang stronghold!"

The battalion commander seemed to agree with the instructor's analysis, but he was worried inside, so the instructor struggled for a long time before making a decision: "Then wait a little longer..."

Instructor Tang immediately supported: "I agree to wait a little longer. The remaining ammunition from the troops can be used for another twenty minutes. If we have not received the retreat order in ten minutes, we will send someone over!"

The battalion commander nodded and turned his attention to the battlefield in front of him again.

"Where is the battalion commander? Where is the battalion commander? Captain Tan sent someone to notify us to retreat!" After watching less than a minute, the voice of the guard platoon leader came from behind the attacking position.

The battalion commander was happy when he heard this and quickly turned around: "I am here, and I will bring the people sent by Captain Tan here immediately. I want to ask about the situation!"

The correspondent obviously rushed over, and was still breathing heavily when he stood in front of the battalion commander, and his face was flushed red because he was too tired!

The anxious battalion commander couldn't take care of so much, so he quickly asked: "What did Captain Tan ask you to come here? Did the plan succeed?"

The correspondent gasped and reported: "Report to Battalion Commander Li, the Japanese and puppet troops stationed in Dongmafang dispatched nearly 300 people to reinforce the place, and they were all wiped out by us. Our Captain Tan has already led the troops to attack the Dongmafang stronghold and asked me to inform the Independent Battalion to evacuate the battle, and march to other surrounding strongholds to set up an ambush to attack the Japanese and puppet troops!"

"Also, our captain has prepared a batch of weapons and ammunition on the ambush battlefield, considering the lack of ammunition in the independent battalion. Please take over when passing by the ambush battlefield!"

"That's great!" The battalion commander's tense nerves completely relaxed and he shouted with excitement on his face.

Turning his head and ordering the instructor and deputy battalion commander beside him: "The troops alternately cover and prepare to evacuate the battle!"

"Instructor, immediately concentrate all the remaining ammunition and light machine guns of the entire battalion in the first company and let them have their temple back. If the Japanese and puppet troops in the stronghold come out, be sure to use the most powerful firepower to give them a head-on strike!"

"Captain Tan must have prepared a lot of weapons and ammunition for us, so don't save bullets when the troops behind the palace fight. Put all the light machine guns on me and throw all the grenades out!"

In the Beiwang Village stronghold, facing the increasingly weak offensive of the independence battalion, the Japanese squad leader was most worried that they would suddenly retreat, and that his carefully planned internal and external attack plan would go bankrupt.

At the beginning of the battle, he stood on the roof of the artillery tower, staring at the every move of the independent battalion outside the stronghold.

"Captain, the Independent Battalion seems to be running!" A Chief Cao suddenly reminded.

"It's indeed retreating!" The captain's face suddenly sank. He didn't expect that what he was worried about would happen so soon.

He stood on the roof of the artillery tower, condescending to see the situation on the battlefield.

Outside the stronghold, except for a few Eighth Route Army did not move, staring at the stronghold with weapons in hand. Most of the Eighth Route Army had already put away their weapons and bent down to retreat to the rear.

"Captain, the reinforcements have not yet come to kill. They will definitely slip away from us when they retreat now! Otherwise, I will take people out and hold them back!" Chief Cao, who had just spoken, immediately asked for a fight.

"Captain, is this a conspiracy? The Independent Battalion wants to retreat to advance, deliberately lure us to attack, consume our troops outside the stronghold, and then attack the stronghold!" Another Chief Cao raised an objection.

But as soon as he finished his analysis, he was refuted by the Cao Chang just now: "Impossible!"

"Even if the independent camp wants to retreat to advance, it doesn't have that strength!"

"The independent battalion has poor equipment and very short of ammunition, otherwise their offensive will not become weaker and weaker."

"I guess they probably used up 80% of the ammunition they used up. They knew that they could not capture the Beiwang Village stronghold, and then they took the initiative to evacuate the battle."

"We are well equipped and ammunition, and now we will definitely catch them off guard when we fight. If they really prepare any conspiracy outside the stronghold, the attacking troops can escape unscathed!"

The team leader was also very confused about this issue at the beginning. After listening to the analysis of the two, he felt that the first Chief Cao said more reasonably, so he immediately decided to support him.

"I will give you two teams of Imperial Army and two platoons of Imperial Army. I will immediately break out of the stronghold and hold the independent battalion!"

"If you don't hold them back, you will defeat them and beat the dogs in the water!"

Cao Chang replied excitedly: "Sir, wise, I will lead my troops out of the stronghold now!"

The Japanese and puppet troops reacted very quickly. They all felt that they would win the next attack, and whoever fought out would agree to gain military achievements.

Less than two minutes after the attack order was issued, the gate of the stronghold was opened.

A platoon of puppet troops was the first to rush out of the stronghold as cannon fodder, with more than 20 Japanese following closely, leaving a platoon of puppet troops behind...

The moment the attacking troops broke out of the stronghold, the captain's eyes turned to them.

The offense was very smooth at the beginning, almost the same as the team leader's judgment.

Although there were many Eighth Route Army behind the site, their blocking firepower was very sparse, and bullets flew towards the attacking troops, which was almost negligible.

In the blink of an eye, more than 80 counterattack troops rushed to sixty or seventy meters away from the troops behind the Independence Battalion Hall.

At this time, there were already many subordinates in the counterattacking force, and they were preparing to rush forward for twenty or thirty meters before throwing grenades at the independent camp position...

The team leader was also ready to be defeated by the counterattacking troops in the rear of the Independence Battalion. The corners of his mouth raised slightly, and he couldn't help but smile with a victory.

"Dadada..." But at this moment, the firepower on the blocking position suddenly became dense.

Especially a few light machine guns, bullets were as expensive as they were, and they were desperately shooting at the counterattacking troops. There was no sign of their ammunition being in a hurry...

The shooting status of the rifleman has also changed. Like the machine gunner, he is desperately shooting at the counterattacking troops...

Because the shooting distance was too close, the counterattack troops did not expect that the troops behind the Independence Battalion had bullets to shoot at everyone. All the Japanese and puppet troops were caught off guard and more than 20 people fell down on the spot.

The remaining Japanese and puppet troops fell down one after another, but in order to defend the stronghold, the ground outside the stronghold had been cleaned up by them to prevent anyone from sneak attacking.

This was originally prepared by the Japanese and puppet troops to guard against the Eighth Route Army, but it turned out to be their own bad luck!

Even if the Japanese and puppet troops were lying on the ground, the flying rain of bullets still reaped their lives...

In the blink of an eye, several Japanese and puppet troops were killed!

In the stronghold, the Japanese squad leader was shocked and subconsciously shouted: "Bageyalu, we have been fooled!"

"The Independent Battalion has bullets. They are retreating and advancing, luring us out of the stronghold and consuming our troops outside the stronghold!"

"Send the counterattack troops a retreat signal immediately and ask them to withdraw their strongholds immediately!"

"Heavy machine guns cover and suppress the Eighth Route Army outside the city!"

Finally, the Japanese and puppet troops returned to the stronghold at the cost of more than 30 people. Seeing the troops behind the Independence Battalion evacuated from the battlefield, the captain was angry, but had no choice but to watch the troops behind the Independence Battalion disappear from his eyes.

The Independent Battalion's counterattack just now was too sudden, and no one knew if they had any other conspiracy!

If the garrison at the base fails to counterattack again, there will be no one under his command!

On the way to the ambush site, the battalion commander turned around while rushing to the road, with a very nervous expression, especially after a gunshot from the stronghold behind him, his inner tension became even more intense!

"Battalion Commander, we are back! The Japanese and puppet troops sent seventy or eighty people to fight back, and were hit by us head-on, leaving at least thirty bodies behind and retreating back to the stronghold!" The company commander of the first company caught up with the battalion commander and reported while gasping.

The nervous expression on the battalion commander's face disappeared completely, but before he could have time to be happy, he heard a company commander frowning and continuing to report: "But we have exhausted all the remaining ammunition in the independent battalion."

The battalion commander became nervous again.

Without ammunition, the army is like a hungry wolf without fangs, with almost zero combat power.

If you encounter Japanese and puppet troops, you will not even have a chance to counterattack and you can only run for your life.

At this moment, the correspondent who was responsible for leading the way suddenly interrupted: "It doesn't matter, walk one kilometer further and arrive at the ambush battlefield. The independent battalion needs all the weapons and ammunition, and it will definitely be able to replenish all the ammunition you just shot out!"

At this time, the battalion commander could only place his hope of replenishing ammunition on the National Rescue Army.

He raised his eyebrows and ordered: "The troops should speed up and arrive at the ambush battlefield as soon as possible to replenish ammunition, otherwise we will only be passively beaten after encountering the Japanese and puppet troops!"

When the Independence Battalion arrived at the ambush battlefield, the guard platoon left here had already cleaned the battlefield.

More than 80 caliber rifles, two Czech-made, two Type 92 heavy machine guns, nearly 5,000 caliber rifle bullets and machine gun bullets, four,000 heavy machine gun bullets, and more than two hundred grenades were piled up. These were weapons and ammunition to be handed over to the independent battalion in a while.

Considering that the independent battalion was equipped with a lot of 38 caps, the guard platoon specially prepared 5,000 65-caliber rifle bullets to support the independent battalion.

"Party Leader Li, these weapons and ammunition are all for us!" Looking at the weapons and ammunition in front of us, the battalion commander shouted with disbelief, but his hot eyes betrayed his thoughts and mood at this moment.

Although he was very humble in his mouth, he was very jealous of these weapons and ammunition, and he wanted to take them as his own immediately.

"Report to Battalion Commander Li, our captain has an explanation. If the independent battalion has other requirements, as long as we can meet them, we will definitely be satisfied!" The guard platoon leader shouted.

"Considering that the Independent Battalion has no artillery for the time being, we won't give you the mortars we seized this time. But our captain has prepared two mortars and one hundred shells for you!"

After hearing the answer he wanted, especially the good news about the two mortars, the battalion commander was so excited that he almost jumped up from the ground.

I quickly answered: "When the battle ends, I must thank you Captain Tan!"

"Please tell you again Captain Tan, although our independent battalion does not have a special artillery unit or is equipped with mortars, there are gunners, and there are two more!"

"Just equip us with the mortars, the independent battalion will immediately make them combat power!"

Platoon Commander Li made a decision as soon as he heard this: "Since the Independent Battalion has gunners, I will hand over two mortars and one hundred shells to you now!"

"I'll report to Captain Tan!"

"Before the captain divided the troops, I asked me to tell Battalion Commander Li that they would attack the Dongmafang stronghold in an hour. I hope that after replenishing weapons and ammunition, you will immediately rush to the battlefield to ambush the Japanese and puppet troops' reinforcements!"

The battalion commander immediately replied: "We will set out in ten minutes!"
Chapter completed!