The Japanese and puppet troops leaving the county were still the same as before, with the Japanese troops walking in the middle and puppet troops on both ends. Tangcheng let go of the puppet troops walking at the front and the Japanese troops walking in the middle, but kept an eye on the puppet troops walking at the back. The puppet troops in charge of the rear, about two companies in strength, and the large group of Japanese troops walking in front of them were originally about 2 miles apart. But by the time they reached Huaishu Township, the two companies of puppet soldiers were already panting from exhaustion, and the distance between them and the Japanese army was already more than 2 kilometers.
The two team members who had been following the Japanese and puppet troops since the county seat also reported the situation to Tangcheng through the walkie-talkie. After confirming that the puppet troops seen now were all the troops at the back of the Japanese puppet army, Tangcheng immediately sent out a signal. Upon seeing the signal from Tangcheng, Captain Zhang, who was hiding more than thirty meters away, immediately led his guerrillas and prepared to fight at any time. Tangcheng did not plan to split up its forces this time, but when the actual operation began, Tangcheng asked the guerrillas to fire first.
The puppet troops on the road were getting closer and closer. Tangcheng, who had been silently estimating the distance, waited for most of the puppet troops to enter the range of the light machine gun, and then turned his hand on the puppet officer riding a tall horse. Sniper rifle trigger. "Da da da... da da da..." The two light machine guns in the guerrilla position opened fire first. The two machine gunners of the guerrillas were the strongest in the entire guerrilla group. Although they have only been trained for a short time, they have fired more than a thousand rounds of bullets using light machine guns in the past few days.
The training consumption of one thousand rounds of bullets is not enough to train an excellent machine gunner, but their mastery of light machine guns is almost the same. Accompanied by the rapid gunfire, the puppet troops on the highway were attacked. In just the blink of an eye, large clouds of blood mist burst out from among them, and finally they became one. When Tang Cheng shot down the puppet army officer on horseback, the puppet troops on the highway did not react immediately.
The ensuing machine gun fire made them only remember to shout and hide, but few of them raised their guns to fight back. Without a new order from Tang Cheng, only the guerrillas were fighting. Tang Cheng did not stop what he was doing. He continued to shoot the officers and machine gunners of the puppet army below. After continuously firing all the bullets in the magazine, Tang Cheng glanced at the team members hiding on his left side with the corner of his eye, and then finally gave the order for all members to fight.
Seeing Tang Cheng's gesture again, the impatient team members who had been waiting for a long time pulled the triggers one after another. For a while, the highway was filled with gunshots. The most anxious person at the moment was not the puppet troops who were attacked on the highway, but Huang Cheng, who was deployed 300 meters behind by Tangcheng. Tangcheng deployed the yellow car near the foot of the mountain. On the one hand, it was to protect Huang Cheng. On the other hand, it was necessary to use Huang Cheng's mortar to deter these puppet troops when necessary.
Huang Cheng, who was deployed here alone, originally thought that he was very important, almost an important role that could determine the outcome in one fell swoop on the battlefield. But he never expected that these puppet troops on the highway were so overwhelming. Even a newbie like himself could see that the puppet troops on the highway would definitely suffer this time. The puppet troops who were being attacked at the moment failed to organize an effective counterattack, so Huang Cheng, as the Dinghai Shenzhen, could only be a spectator, not a direct participant.
Amidst the loud gunfire, the casualties of the puppet troops on the highway were increasing. After losing almost all their officers, ordinary soldiers in these puppet troops who dared to fight back with guns became the targets of Tangcheng's precise shooting. "Captain, it's five minutes!" The team member closest to Tang Cheng reminded Tang Cheng aloud while Tang Cheng was loading bullets again. Five minutes was a time that Tang Cheng had calculated repeatedly, because a well-trained soldier, fully armed, could march at least one kilometer in five minutes.
What they ambushed in Tangcheng was the rear column of the Japanese and puppet troops in the county. They were only more than 2 kilometers away from the Japanese troops in the squadron. Therefore, before the ambush started, Tang Cheng arranged the team members closest to him, and he must pay attention to the time. Now, Tang Cheng's scheduled time has come. Taking a look at the situation of the puppet troops on the road, Tang Cheng immediately blew the whistle to retreat. The team members who heard the whistle immediately began to retreat with their weapons. The guerrillas were a bit delayed, but under the urging of Captain Zhang, they also immediately withdrew from their positions.
Everyone was retreating. Only Tang Cheng and the other two snipers remained in place. They wanted to buy time for everyone to retreat. The sound of gunfire suddenly weakened, and the remaining puppet troops on the road immediately sensed that something was wrong. But when someone among them looked up, a bullet fired from a distance accurately penetrated his body. A minute later, the three people from Tangcheng also began to retreat. However, the three of them did not retreat together as a group. Instead, they covered each other and retreated backwards.
Captain Zhang and the others, who had retreated to the foot of the mountain at this moment, were hiding the two light machine guns in the pits they had dug long ago. Seeing that Tang Cheng and the others had also withdrawn, they scrambled to cover the ground. Cover the pit with turf branches to hide it. According to the battle plan formulated by Tangcheng, they were going to carry out mobile warfare and assault warfare this time. In order not to slow down their march, they had to take the two light machine guns they had just used together with ammunition as they rushed to Xiaoli Village via the mountain road. Stay here for now.
The next reaction of the Japanese army was indeed as Tangcheng had expected. Not long after they entered Yangshan in Tangcheng, a small group of Japanese soldiers turned around and came back at a rapid pace. The Japanese army's response was not slow, but unfortunately, they were still a step too late. They only saw the corpses and wounded on the road, as well as the scattered remnants of the puppet army, but they did not see the shadow of the attackers. The puppet troops who were attacked knew that if they wanted to survive, they had to exaggerate the situation of the attackers. After their exaggeration, their number in Tangcheng had grown to more than 200 people.
It's a pity that not only the guerrillas know what the puppet soldiers are like, but also the Japanese army. The Japanese captain who was ordered to turn around and come back to support the puppet army could not easily listen to the puppet army's rhetoric. He immediately led his people to search and pursue the direction pointed by the puppet army. As a result, they only found three attack positions. Based on the size of the positions, the Japanese team leader judged that the one who attacked the puppet troops just now should be a small force, and the specific number would not exceed fifty people.
His judgment, when he led the team to the foot of Yangshan Mountain, the traces left here were enough to prove his just conclusion. The Japanese army followed these traces and chased into the mountains for a while, but still found no trace of the attackers. Worried about a trap, the Japanese squad leader immediately withdrew from the mountain with his soldiers. But he didn't know that as long as he led the people to pursue for a while, he would have a chance to see Tang Cheng and the others climbing over the mountain.
The mountain road is difficult to travel, but the guerrillas are burning in their hearts at this moment. Someone among them had just noticed the casualties of the puppet troops on the highway. According to his rough estimate, the casualties of this puppet army should exceed a hundred people. A five-minute ambush wiped out one-third or even nearly half of the opponent's troops. Before today, Captain Zhang and his guerrillas would not have dared to think of such an outcome. "Speed up and get to Xiaoli Village. Let's beat them again."
Tangcheng's voice interrupted the reverie and joy of Captain Zhang and the guerrillas, but they immediately became ecstatic again, because there was an ambush waiting for them in Xiaoli Village. Tangcheng, who was still walking quickly after crossing the mountain, did not know that the puppet troops they attacked did not return to the county seat. Instead, under the command of the Japanese squad leader, only the lightly wounded were left to clean up the bodies, take care of the seriously wounded, and send people to the county for help.
The remaining unscathed puppet troops followed the Japanese team and accelerated to catch up with the Japanese troops in front. Later, when he learned that the puppet troops in the rear group had been ambushed and suffered heavy casualties, the Japanese commander was furious. However, after he calmed down, he judged that the ambush against the puppet troops just now was probably a deliberate move by the local anti-Japanese armed forces. To induce them to change the direction of their march, or even terminate this clearing operation.
The self-righteous Japanese commander thought he had guessed his opponent's intentions, but he did not know that there was nothing in Tang Cheng's plan to lure them back. The vanguard of the puppet army marching three miles away from the Japanese army did not know at this moment that their companions who were placed at the end had been ambushed. They were marching smoothly, and now they were only five or six miles away from Xiaoli Village. Many puppet soldiers thought that as long as they got to Xiaoli Village, they could stop and rest.
Tangcheng and the others, who took a shortcut from Yangshan, could already see the smoke from Xiaoli Village. According to their position, they were already ahead of the vanguard of the puppet army. The two team members, who had not experienced any load-bearing rotations along the way, still had some physical strength, so when they saw Tang Cheng in Xiaoli Village, they arranged for them to go out with walkie-talkies to conduct investigation. As for the remaining people, including Tang Cheng himself, they used the terrain to build an ambush position while slowly recovering their strength.
Almost forty minutes later, the walkie-talkie rang, and the team members who went out to conduct reconnaissance reported back that they had seen the vanguard of the puppet army. According to the reports of these two team members, the leading force of the puppet army was about a hundred people, with two light machine guns, no mortars and no grenade launchers. The firepower configuration was much worse than that of the Japanese army. The news sent back by his team members made Tang Cheng think about it for a while and then began to deploy manpower.
