"Pa... da da da…"
The sudden encounter soon started in the northeast of the Xigang stronghold.
More than thirty puppet troops and more than a dozen Eighth Route Army troops occupied favorable terrain and fired at each other. The bullets fired from both sides came back and forth, and it was very lively.
"I took aim and fired. There are only about ten people in the Eighth Route Army... We have more than thirty people. We can kill them all even if we trade our lives!" Chen Wei ordered while firing.
Careful people will find...
Although Chen Wei kept firing and quickly emptied all the bullets in the magazine, he did not hit any Eighth Route Army soldiers. Either the bullets were fired too high or they hit the ground...
The deputy company commander was so frightened that his face turned pale. He hid behind a rock and did not dare to raise his head while bullets were flying above his head.
Chen Wei glanced at him and said with disdain: "I'll shoot you all...I'll shoot whoever thinks you're a coward!"
"Our current masters are Japanese, and they don't raise trash... If they know that someone dares not even raise their head on the battlefield, they will definitely kill the chicken to scare the monkeys!"
The last sentence was said by Chen Wei to the deputy company commander, and the effect was very good.
As a hard-core traitor, no one knows the Japanese mind better than him.
They looked down on the Chinese from the bottom of their hearts. If the Chinese could not make up for their lack of military strength and farm and do things for them, they would not have formed the Imperial Association Army at all.
In order to leave a good impression on the Japanese and prepare to take over as the commander of the security company in the future, he stuck his head out from behind the stone, raised the box cannon, and pulled the trigger in the direction of the Eighth Route Army.
As for whether it hit the target, only God knows.
After a few shots, the deputy company commander seemed to have found the feeling of shooting. The more he fired, the more energetic he became, and his vigilance became lower and lower. Soon, half of his head was stuck out of the stone...
"boom……"
A gunshot that did not attract anyone's attention suddenly rang out from the Eighth Route Army. The bullet seemed to have eyes, and it went right into the eyebrows of the deputy company commander!
His eyes widened quickly, and he fell behind the stone with a look of despair without even letting out a scream.
"Stop shooting...it seems that the Eighth Route Army has been beaten away by us!" Chen Wei ordered decisively after emptying a bullet magazine again.
"Squad 7 is on alert...Other brothers are cleaning the battlefield and counting casualties, so hurry up!"
After a while, the third platoon leader ran over with a solemn expression: "Company commander, the deputy company commander was killed by the Eighth Route Army!"
"Eleven brothers were killed and three brothers were injured..."
"Six of the Eighth Route Army were killed, and two mules and horses were killed... The horses were full of grain and salt, and one light machine gun and five rifles were seized!"
Chen Wei's expression was calm, but he was actually happy.
But he did not show it, and ordered with a calm expression: "Bring all the captured loot back to the stronghold...especially those "Eighth Route Army" corpses. That is our credit, not a single corpse can be missed!"
On the high ground more than 400 meters away, Huang Yu was watching the puppet troops cleaning the battlefield, with a smile on his face. There was no sign of any casualties among the troops.
Seeing the puppet troops carrying the corpses on the battlefield, as if they were carrying them back to their stronghold, Wang Minghua quickly flashed a worried look on his face and couldn't help but remind him.
"Battal Commander, are there really no problems with those corpses?"
Huang Yu shook his head: "It's been verified. All six of them are spies and spies planted by the Japanese in our base area. There are still lives in their hands. It's easy to shoot them!"
"I asked them to wear the uniforms of the Eighth Route Army and die on the battlefield as Eighth Route Army soldiers to help us act. It is equivalent to atonement for their original evil deeds. It must be no problem!"
As he spoke, he ordered Duan Peng on the side: "Immediately select ten soldiers from the second reconnaissance platoon. Including you, there will be a total of eleven people. Put on ordinary people's clothes and prepare to enter the Xigang stronghold to work as assistants to Battalion Commander Chen... …”
"Whether we can secretly control the Xigang stronghold and transfer supplies from here to the base depends on you!"
Five days later, Duan Peng followed Chen Wei and successfully entered the Xigang stronghold.
Compared with a few days ago, the Japanese Lieutenant's attitude towards Chen Wei was much better.
Killed six "Eighth Route Army" in one battle, successfully destroyed the newly opened transportation route of the Eighth Route Army, and seized a large amount of supplies and equipment...
Those are all real military exploits, and no one can deny them.
If Chen Wei had second thoughts before, he might betray the imperial army at any time.
After he killed the "Eighth Route Army", his path to betraying the Imperial Army and joining the Eighth Route Army was cut off.
There were no other anti-Japanese armed forces around, so the probability of Chen Wei betraying the imperial army was directly reduced to a minimum.
The Japanese lieutenant was very satisfied with the result.
Chen Wei can fight and train troops. If he can sincerely join the imperial army and help him defend his stronghold, his pressure will definitely be much less.
After a few days of contact, he not only trusted Chen Wei more, but also gave Chen Wei a lot of rights.
Hearing that the guard company had recruited a few new soldiers nearby to supplement the troops, the Japanese Lieutenant didn't even look at it and just let Chen Wei handle it by himself.
It happened that the squad leader of squad nine died in the last battle. Chen Wei directly appointed Duan Peng as the squad leader, and the other soldiers who entered the stronghold together became soldiers...
All the original soldiers of the ninth squadron were added to the seventh and eighth squadrons.
The third platoon leader was very dissatisfied with this decision. He knew that the company commander would place his own men in the third platoon, but he did not dare to show any resistance.
His deputy company commander in the background is dead. Chen Wei is the dominant one in the security company. He speaks for himself and has Japanese support behind him!
Opposing him now and going against him is tantamount to asking for trouble, and he may not even be able to keep his position as the third platoon leader.
Longshan Town is a town in the enemy-occupied area next to the ring-shaped no-man's land. In order to facilitate the transportation of supplies to various strongholds on the blockade, the Japanese built a large warehouse here and specially arranged a reinforced team to protect it.
Perhaps because the Eighth Route Army was surrounded by the base area, or perhaps because the circular no-man's land around the base area was really useful, the warehouse had not been attacked since its construction.
Of course, even if the warehouse was taken down by the Eighth Route Army underground party and guerrillas, they would not have the strength to move away the mountains of food and materials in the warehouse... and there would be no way to send the food and materials in the warehouse to the Eighth Route Army base area...
With this idea, the vigilance of the Japanese troops defending the warehouse is becoming worse and worse.
Huang Yu led a reinforced company over mountains and ridges, and walked for two nights within a distance of less than 50 kilometers before crossing the blockade, walking out of no man's land, and lurking near Longshan Town.
This place is 40 to 50 kilometers away from the Xigang stronghold. After the food stored by the Japanese was robbed here, no matter how much the Japanese analyzed it, they would never think that this matter was related to Baipo Valley, let alone that the Eighth Route Army would make dozens more detours. Kilometers of mountain road, entering the base area from the Xigang stronghold.
At one o'clock in the morning, Huang Yu launched the attack on time...
It only took twenty minutes to take down the stronghold. Zhong Chengjun was the first to rush into the warehouse. When he ran out, he was overjoyed and said: "Batalion Commander, the little devil is too polite to us...knowing that we are short of food, we are short of food." Salt...the warehouse is full of grain and salt!"
"The piles are like hills. With our small strength and transportation capabilities, it will take at least two days to deliver all the captured weapons to the vicinity of the Xigang stronghold!"
Huang Yu shook his head: "There's no need to go to such trouble!"
"All the people in the no-man's land have been moved away, but their houses are still there."
"First transport the food into the uninhabited land, and then find a few villages to store it separately. When the storm is over, we will move like ants and transfer the loot bit by bit to the vicinity of the Xigang stronghold!"
"Leave some grain and burn it together with the warehouse!"
"Let the Japanese mistakenly believe that our troops are limited and cannot take away so much food, so we have to burn it..."
"Arrange another food transport team to enter the no-man's land and go south. They can go as far as they can before dawn. They will hide during the day and withdraw tomorrow night through a detour to paralyze the little devils so that they cannot judge our intention to attack Longshan Town. The real purpose, or making a wrong judgment!”
A warehouse was destroyed by the Eighth Route Army. This trivial matter could not reach Yoshio Shinozuka until the assault battalion captured three warehouses in succession. Four big landowners took refuge in the Japs and lost more than 500,000 kilograms of grain and salt. Tsuka Yoshio just received the news.
"This must have been done by the independent group!" Yoshio Shinozuka made a judgment after reading the battle report compiled by the chief of staff.
“The offensive firepower far exceeds that of the defensive forces, the powerful assault capability, sufficient ammunition, and well-equipped equipment. Except for the independent regiment, no other Eighth Route Army in northwestern Shanxi can achieve this.
"The food in their hands must have been almost exhausted. The independent regiment felt the pressure and had to take risks to cross the blockade and no-man's land and enter the area occupied by the imperial army to grab food!" The chief of staff immediately expressed his analysis.
"Your Excellency, Commander, do you think we should deploy some troops from the blockade to encircle and annihilate the Eighth Route Army who are robbing food? Completely cut off the Eighth Route Army's idea of obtaining food from the areas occupied by the imperial army!"
Yoshio Shinozuka shook his head: "No..."
"Based on the analysis of these battle reports, these Eighth Route Army troops who crossed the blockade are all elites drawn from the independent regiment. They are not only very powerful in combat, but also very cunning..."
Come and try it quickly. 】
"The area occupied by the imperial army is much larger than their base area, and they don't have many troops. They can fight when they want and run away when they want. Even if we gather five times the force to surround and annihilate them, it will be difficult to achieve the effect!"
"Instead of being led by them in circles in the occupied area, it is better to concentrate our forces to defend the blockade!"
"As long as we keep the blockade, no matter how much food the independent regiment seizes in the area occupied by the imperial army, they will not be able to transport it back, and it will eventually return to our hands."
"When the Independent Regiment is completely out of food and chaos breaks out in their base area, we can take the opportunity to rush into their base area and eliminate the Independent Regiment!"
"Without the support of the main force of the regiment, the Eighth Route Army that penetrates deep into our occupied area will not be able to hold on for long, no matter how powerful it is!"
"Tell the troops participating in the battle on the front line... This is the Eighth Route Army's plan to attack the east and attack the west. If we deploy troops to encircle and suppress their food-grabbing troops, we will be fooled!"
"From now on, the Eighth Route Army will fight the Eighth Route Army, and we will fight ours..."
"As long as we hold on to the blockade and don't let a grain of food flow into the independent regiment's base area, the Eighth Route Army will not be able to make big waves. Not only will we not lose the little food we lose, but we will make a lot of money!"
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