There was no rain in the mountains. On the seventh day of the fourth lunar month, the first quarter moon hung in the sky early. The light was dim. The soldiers lit torches and won the army overnight. Company Commander Chang Hongying's plan was to rest at the three-way intersection.
The marching team yawned, and in boredom, the half-immortal muttered nonsense to the familiar Wang Xiaosan.
"Half Immortal, since you ran away, why did you become a security guard again? If you work for the devil, you are a bad person!"
"Bad guy? If you can survive in this world, it's good if you can have food to eat!" After being a soldier for so long, the half-immortal has been in all the troops. Seven or eight people have already asked him the same question, and he is tired of it.
"That's not what I meant. I just think you have a connection with our Eighth Route Army. After all, we are all Chinese. If you abandon the secret, it will be glorious anyway!"
"I'm sorry to say that I'm not alone, but why don't I recruit a squad of troops to participate in the Eighth Route Army and submit certificates?" After endless questions, the half-immortal rolled his eyes and almost rolled into the ravine.
"Tell me, what's the background of the Japanese advance team?" Wang Xiaosan was so happy to see the half-immortal making a fool of himself that he finally changed the subject.
The half-immortal sighed: "Hey, advancing team? Aren't they just Japanese soldiers disguised as Eighth Route Army soldiers entering the mountain?"
"Huh? Are the little Japs so insidious?" Wang Xiaosan felt that the Japs were not good people.
"You have a long face when you wear security army clothes?" Banxian looked at most of the people in the team wearing all kinds of clothes.
"What are you talking about? Can the Japs compare to us?" He said with a lack of confidence. "That's right. The Japs also imitate us. No wonder Director Su always used to say enemy agents... enemy agents. Isn't this the enemy's agents?"
"By the way, people who perform special tasks are called spies!" The half-immortal yawned.
"Our division also has a special agent company. How can a platoon of Japanese soldiers stir up trouble?" As a cook, Wang Xiaosan didn't know much about this mission, but he didn't worry about the Japanese soldiers at all. The soldiers of the Ninth Company had no courage. The fearful master said, "Hey, I heard you say that the Japanese are not very tall. Can they really march and fight for a hundred miles in a day and night?"
"I'm lying to you! Didn't you brag that you could run a hundred and four miles in a day? I think the current speed is enough to run eighty miles!"
Wang Xiaosan couldn't help but laugh again: "It's not like we're marching in a hurry, why are we running so fast?"
"Company commander, can't we leave tomorrow?" Hao Yun blinked.
"Tomorrow? Is your brain all muddled? There is still tomorrow. Didn't the correspondent say that there may be an advance team ahead, and we are still waiting here? If the advance team is wiped out by other teams, what's the point? What's wrong with us?" The company commander sat on the stretcher and swayed.
The two soldiers who had the job of carrying the company commander were holding their breath and had not yet used their strength. When they heard Hao Yun persuade the company commander to stop, they immediately shouted.
"Let's take a walk at night to cool off. Why are you messing around? You new recruit!"
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Looking at the moon in the sky, Captain Lu and his team finally arrived at Niujia Village, where Wang Penglian was stationed. The correspondent had already gone to the station of the supplementary regiment to report the news. It was estimated that it would be late at night before they could assemble here again.
The soldiers who stayed behind to block the attack had not yet come up, so the order was to retreat while fighting. On the road in the mountains, any place that could be used to block the blockade would be a bunker. There were traps everywhere on the way the Japs were advancing. They could not bear the large number of people, and the Japs were not advancing at the same speed. slow.
Walking into Wang Penglian's yard, Captain Lu stood at the gate, accompanied by Wang Peng. The captain didn't even bring any guards.
Li Dashan, who stayed behind, had already seen that the company commander who came back had all the soldiers with guns, and all the wooden sticks in the bag were replaced with real bullets. It seemed that he had come back with a big fortune. He heard from the soldiers that he had brought independence. The whole regiment was brought over, and it was said that there was a large group of Japanese soldiers behind.
Immediately stepping forward to report, Wang Peng got straight to the point and asked: "How long has it been since the correspondent set out?"
"It's been three or four hours, company commander. Why, have all the people from the Independent Regiment arrived here?" In the dim light, Li Dashan could still clearly see the haggard face of the company commander. Although he had not gone out for a long time, Long, it actually felt like the company commander had lost a lot of weight, his beard was unkempt, and his whole body was tired.
"There are Japs chasing after us. We have arranged for the soldiers to disperse and evacuate the people. Hurry up and take the valuable guys in the company to the mountains!" Wang Peng made arrangements quickly.
"Uh, do we even have anything valuable?" Li Dashan asked in surprise.
Captain Lu was listening and couldn't help laughing.
Wang Peng was embarrassed: "If those pots and pans of ours are smashed by the Japanese, what will you eat with them?"
Wang Peng tried to keep a calm tone, but Captain Lu heard the helpless desolation in these words. The conditions on the Eighth Route were indeed difficult. Hu Yi and Gao Yidao of the Independent Regiment had robbed a lot of food, and even more It was the warehouse that held Jin Scara. There was no shortage of things in the regiment, and the life of the supplementary regiment was even worse.
"How long has the Ninth Company been gone?" Captain Lu asked Li Dashan directly.
Wang Peng quickly introduced: "This is Captain Lu of the Independent Regiment!"
"Uh, hello, Commander Lu, the Ninth Company went towards the division headquarters before dawn today. I heard they were going to fight an advance team? There are usually not many people in this mountain, so how can there be any advance? Team?" Li Dashan didn't believe it at all.
"Which way did you go? The main road or the small road?"
"Jiulian took the southerly road!"
At this time, a group of soldiers trotted towards the station. As the distance got closer, the regiment finally saw clearly that they were the soldiers who had been blocked from behind.
Under the dim moonlight, the soldiers of the third company who had blocked the attack were back. The soldiers trotted all the way to the gate of Wang Peng's company headquarters: "Report, the Japanese are less than five miles away from here, and a platoon under Captain Wang is retreating while fighting! "
Captain Lu turned around and entered the room. Li Dashan went in first and lit the oil lamp. The guard followed behind and hurriedly pulled out the map and spread it out on the table. Captain Lu pulled out the chair but did not sit down. Standing beside the table, he put his hands on the edge of the table: "Go and call Hao Ping, Meng Lao Qin and others. This devil is determined to press towards the division headquarters. We must not let them get their way."
Just one sentence and then stop.
Several people gathered around the table to look at the map. The regiment leader raised his face in the dim light, suppressed his emotions, then looked at the group of people around him and said, "Although there are many Japs, there are only two roads from here to the division headquarters. We There are still two regiments of combat troops, as long as we find a suitable location to set up an ambush, we can win!"
The tone of his voice became higher and higher, but it became hoarse, revealing excitement. The shadow of the regiment leader's oil lamp shining on the wall was reflected in a group of dumbfounded soldiers.
I feel like I can no longer see him clearly. His tall figure looks tall and mighty in the eyes of the soldiers who are a few meters or two away!
