The mountain wind howled over the hills. Except for the top soldiers on duty, most of the Ninth Company lay on the ground, wrapped in marching blankets and clothes and slept.
Xiao Hongying poked her head out of the marching blanket and tugged on the collar of Hu Yi next to her: "Fox, why don't you go and see the guerrilla captain?"
"What time is it? Can you stop messing around? Have a good sleep, we have to go on the road in the middle of the night!"
"Bah, when could it be! We have been fighting the Japanese for such a long time, haven't we been like this for nine consecutive days? Hey... are you still thinking about the vixen?"
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"Report, Captain Hu, reinforcements are coming from behind to pursue the Japanese! Holding torches, the old man's team!" Wang Liujin brought two soldiers and hurried over to report, diverting the attention of the two chatting people and the audience. It was embarrassing. disappear.
Hu Yi sat up: "How many people are there? How far away are they? What's the situation like in other directions?"
"It's estimated that a squadron, considering the distance, will soon meet up with the Japs behind. As for other directions, we haven't found anything yet!"
"Well, the mountain road is rugged. We are in a good position now. There are no forks along the way. It is useless for the Japanese to take a detour. Even if reinforcements come, it will be useless. It is late at night and they cannot get close or outflank. Let's rest first!"
The Japs are right behind, why aren't you in a hurry?
"What are you afraid of? No matter how many these Japs are, they won't be able to get up. Just ask Li Xiang and the others to pay attention. Don't worry about it for the time being. There are no enemies in the east or north, but you must be careful and vigilant, because even if the Japs get the news, they won't be able to surround you. It’s so fast, so be careful!”
"That Captain Hu, if there are no Japs in the east or north, can we change the direction?" Captain Chen was not far away. When he heard Zhi Zhi's words, he came over and expressed his opinion.
"Let's talk about it then. There's no point in changing the direction now. There is a supplementary group in the north. Even if they are combined together, the target will be more eye-catching."
"I think we should send someone to contact the supplementary group in the north? If that doesn't work, there will only be a squadron of Japanese soldiers behind us. We can join forces with them and eat up this group of Japanese soldiers behind!"
"Once the battle starts, even if you retreat, it is basically impossible to escape. Most of the roads in the mountains are just a straight line. If you go ten miles or eight miles without even a fork in the road, you will definitely get into a tug-of-war with the Japanese. Sooner or later, the Japanese in the north will It’s not cost-effective to steal the chicken without losing the rice, so I don’t think it’s necessary.”
"Then wouldn't your plan be ruined?"
"No, the fact that the group of devils from behind came up with reinforcements so quickly shows that they have attracted the attention of the devils."
Hu Yi was also a little unsure about his thoughts at first. The Japanese who were chasing behind him came with reinforcements. Although the plan could not mobilize most of the Japanese, it would always let some of the Japanese troops come out. As expected, the small Japanese army also had no radio. , leading the Japs in circles in the mountains, and then trying to find a way to rush eastward into the plains. The Japs reinforcements came too quickly, and I always felt that something was wrong.
In other words, if there were Japanese besiegers ahead, it would be difficult to rush eastward to the plains.
Fortunately, I am used to wandering around in the mountains, so I am not afraid of being surrounded by Japanese soldiers, because the Nine Company has a rope, so I can find a cliff and slide down to the bottom of the mountain to get rid of the Japanese soldiers.
The two company commanders gathered around the map again. Hao Yun turned on the flashlight. Hu Yi didn't say anything and quickly marked on the map. He calculated the distances and directions of the groups of Japs he encountered based on his feelings. From time to time, he asked squad leader Wang and the other leading soldiers who were there. Orientation terrain⋯
A few minutes later, squad leader Wang left the team with his soldiers and headed east.
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Before each sweep, Lieutenant Inoue would be armed to the teeth. His team came carrying large and small bags. At the end of each sweep, his men had more luggage before setting off.
After entering the mountain this time, they were assigned to guard the mountain pass at the foot of the east mountain. Except for the Eighth Route Army outside the mountain, which attacked several times and left some corpses, the other gains were not much. They didn't even have the chance to carry some worthless mountain goods back. Get it.
Finally, in the middle of the night last night, I got the chance to go into the mountains.
I happily led a squadron of Japanese soldiers and marched continuously for nearly twenty hours. I was exhausted physically and mentally and headed towards the place where the Eighth Route Army finally disappeared on the map. I estimated the distance and found that it should still be thirty or forty miles away!
The roads in the mountains are clearly marked on the map, but the location of the Eighth Route Army group is not marked on the map! You can only approach that direction based on your feeling.
The intelligence said that the Eighth Route Army was escaping in the southeast direction, but it was in the same direction as our own. There were only a few roads in the mountains. If the Eighth Route Army really fled towards us, and now we went head on, it would be just in time for the Eighth Route Army to fight to the death. Maybe , the Eighth Route will be delivered to your door. In this way, you can save a lot of mountain roads.
The vanguard team was in the front, occasionally flashing their flashlights to the back.
The large army carried torches and followed the leading soldiers, and finally climbed up another ridge. Inoue looked at the continuous ridges in front of him, panting and a little discouraged. Along the way, the several villages he passed were in ruins. There was no one there, and all he ate was the rice balls he brought with him. There was no chicken or food. Therefore, he felt extremely disappointed. He had good strength but no opponent.
Since the Eighth Route Army escaped from the encirclement, they probably didn't have much to gain. There were still dozens of miles of mountain roads to go, up mountains and down ditches. It was already late at night, and the men couldn't afford to go any further. And this operation started in a hurry, and the target was far away. It was so far away that I couldn’t even find a guide. If the Eight Route Route had turned around in the mountains, it might have been a wasted trip.
Marching in the middle of the night was definitely a thankless job, so we sent people westward to notify the leading soldiers to be alert on the spot, and ordered most of them to stop and rest on the spot.
To the north, in the hazy moonlight, there is also a team marching, direction, south.
A large group of Japanese soldiers was divided into three groups and was heading south. The groups were pulling apart and moving very fast. As the torches swayed, the flow of people continued to move south.
In each team, there were a dozen Japanese soldiers from a class carrying rifles on their backs, walking in front of the group, without even lighting torches, wandering forward on the mountain road.
In the easternmost team, the leading soldiers had just left a valley and climbed up the mountain col in front of them tiredly. The Japanese walking in the front suddenly discovered that there seemed to be a glimmer of light flashing on the mountainside in the distance. It was so faint. .
The sergeant stepped forward, pulled out his telescope and looked in the direction pointed by the Japanese, but found nothing.
After watching it for a while, the light flashed out a few more times, and I slowly adjusted the focus. Finally, under the moonlight, I found something different. There seemed to be several rooms on the mountainside, scattered among the bushes. If it weren't for that The flash is impossible to spot.
In the empty mountains, the mountain wind blows, with endless depression, it should be a small village, as if it has blended into the mountains.
The sergeant made a signal, and the team immediately stopped in the col. The Japanese had unloaded their rifles and were ready to move forward.
Visual inspection showed that the target should be about two miles away. In fact, the mountain road was half further away. Three Japanese soldiers were separated from the team. Two moved forward and one ran back to report the news. In a stream, it began to flow in the shadow of the valley under the moonlight.
Some unlucky guy managed to get some light out in the middle of the night.
