A thunderclap resounded through the night sky.
Near a certain village where Li Youde's troops were responsible for the sweep, the ground was shaking, straight tiles on the houses fell down, a low wall among the ruins collapsed, and a cloud of gray dust rose up.
The sudden sound immediately shocked the team that had formed a skirmish line and prepared to encircle them. The torches in their hands were frightened away. After reacting, the infantry's most familiar tactics immediately began to play. The trenches on the ground, the ridges on the roadside, There is no place that the puppet soldiers are desperately trying to find.
After a long while, a voice trembled in the darkness: "What's going on?"
Under the moonlight, the security forces who lit a fire saw the explosion site and immediately shouted: "Don't be afraid, it was the Eighth Route Army that planted the mines. According to the training requirements, quickly treat the wounded, and the others continue to move forward!"
"Who stepped on the landmine?" A voice in the darkness whispered to the person next to him.
"Anyway, I didn't step on it. Generals will inevitably die in battle, and earthen pots will inevitably break at the well. If you eat this bowl of rice, you must obey orders! Don't do it to your mother-in-law!" Another voice said indifferently.
The fact that the security forces were so disciplined gave the platoon leader of the security forces next to him the confidence to injure three of them, which should not be serious.
As for whether it was heavy or not, the platoon leader mainly looked at how weak he was when he screamed in pain!
Fortunately, a stretcher was prepared in advance and a few people were arranged to carry it back first.
The team is currently marching near Xiaowang Village. Li Youde has long known that there is some kind of base area established by the 9th Company of the Independent Regiment. He is even a little envious of the 9th Company. In just a few years, it has come out of the mountains and entered the plains eastward, and also occupied the area. Steady feet.
At this time, Li Youde frowned. Didn't Jiulian Company already run away with its people? Shooting deliberately in the middle of the night, this is obviously a trap!
Fortunately, there were not many casualties among his men.
He didn't care about these little moves by the Ninth Company. This time he came out with a battalion of his men. The security forces from nearby counties deployed many people to raid their respective jurisdictions. His jurisdiction was a model of public security and was also regarded by Maeda. He asked to be brought out for support, saying that he wanted to test the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Association Army!
With the small arms and legs of the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment, they are no match for the security army!
Jiulian is a good neighbor, now we have to find out what Jiulian’s intentions are! There is no need to fight head-on with the Ninth Company. It is none of your business whether the friendly forces encircling you from the east will fight with the Ninth Company?
This mission must be carried out with all strength, because the imperial army is supervising the battle.
One of his company commanders returned to Li Youde: "Battalion Commander, the imperial army told us not to pay attention to the mines on Tubal Road. We must keep advancing at a normal speed!"
"Then go and deliver the order."
"Yes." The company commander did not leave: "Battalion Commander, Xiaowang Village is ahead. Do you think the den of the Ninth Company of the Independent Regiment is in the village?"
"Do you think there is any difference between being here and not?"
"That's right. There are so many of us. They must have run away. Most of the guerrillas left behind are deliberately harassing us so that we can't sleep well!"
Li Youde was a little unhappy: "I asked you to pass the order, why are you talking here?"
The company commander hurriedly ran out to deliver the order. As he ran, he thought, isn't there a messenger to deliver the order? Why should I run by myself? After not running far, he found a subordinate and ordered him to pass on the order. He himself took a group of confidants, changed direction, and slowly pressed towards the village.
Li Youde was supported by someone and walked slowly in the darkness. He had never personally directed a night battle. With the imperial army supervising the battle behind him, he, the battalion commander, had to continue to direct the troops to press forward unhurriedly.
There is no need to take it seriously. If we really want to fight against the Eighth Route Army, they might have to go to Luoye Village and set fire to it. Why bother? In addition, it’s time to clean up this Sixth Company, a bunch of ungrateful trash!
Chen Chong was lying in the deserted drainage ditch in front of him. Two bright black buttons were firmly attached to the front of his gray military cap. He followed the example of the company commander in bending the brim of his hat. He wore a gray military uniform, a crossed Japanese-style armed belt, and hung on the right side. He was holding a shell gun and a 38-meter cap placed in front of him, and he was nervously looking at the skirmisher line with torches in the distance.
Next to him, the machine gunner was holding a Czech position on his shoulders, and the two deputy shooters were muttering excitedly.
There were several soldiers hiding in the darkness far ahead.
A soldier asked Mancang: "Squad leader, now the puppet troops are relatively separated and don't take the main road at all. Aren't our landmines buried in vain?"
Mancang withdrew his gaze and replied in a childish voice with some impatience: "What are you worried about? Didn't you see that everyone in the first class has gone up? This time, I used thunder. If it doesn't kill them, it will scare him to death!"
When Lao Qin set out from Chen Chong, he directly stuffed his full warehouse into Chen Chong's platoon, saying that he wanted to strengthen his firepower!
There was no company commander present in this battle. Chen Chong had fought with Hu Yi so many times. Now that the puppet soldiers were so powerful, he would definitely not engage in positional warfare.
Chen Chong had long memorized the guerrilla tactics that the company commander often talked about, and he had already thought of the basic battlefield layout and battle plan!
The whole process of harassing the enemy, ambushing, engaging the enemy, suppressing fire, attacking, blocking, and finally evacuation has been thought out.
The opponent we are facing now is the puppet army, not the Japanese, so we are not afraid of him at all! If you dare to fight the puppet army head-on, the most important thing is to detect and make sure that the puppet army has no artillery early!
Another aspect is to strive to allow those new recruits to gradually develop combat effectiveness in actual combat!
The torch line in the distance keeps getting closer.
A sharp whistle sounded somewhere in the dark night suddenly resounded through the night sky!
The warrior ambushing in the darkness pulled the rope in his hand!
After a delay of two seconds.
There were several flashes of light in the distance, and then boom, boom, boom, and violent explosions continued to sound in the moonlit night.
The sound spread to the sky, and even the sky rumbled and echoed.
This time, not only in the north, but also in all directions around the village, the sound was almost simultaneous. It was impossible to tell how many mines exploded.
Ten sounds are absolutely indispensable!
The puppet army team in the west, which was narrowing the encirclement, immediately lay down again to find cover!
The Japanese soldiers behind the puppet army were stunned to see it. Fortunately, the Imperial Army was in front. From this direction to the west, it was estimated that this wave would injure about ten more people!
But if you look at the tactics and concealment of the Imperial Alliance Army's tactical movements, they can definitely be considered excellent!
Until now, even the shadow of the Eighth Route Army has not been seen, and it has been hit by two waves of bombings in succession. The miserable howls of injury are rumbling in the night sky, spreading in all directions.
The torches were still burning, but the puppet troops suddenly stopped moving.
Chen Chong no longer paid attention to the situation to the west. He immediately got up and walked around to the north of the village in the dark night. At this time, more than a hundred soldiers were hiding in the wilderness one mile away from the village: "Why haven't the puppet troops in the village made any movement?"
The squad leader who led the team quickly replied: "These are just fooling around, how dare they come out!"
After hearing this, Chen Chong looked at the village under the hazy moonlight and said to himself: "This enemy is hiding in the village and cannot come out. This matter is not easy to handle! Our comrades who stayed in the tunnels of the village dare not move."
"Platoon leader, how about we concentrate our forces and rush in from the west of the village? If our people are inside, we can stab the puppet army in the butt, and we will definitely defeat the puppet army!" the squad leader suggested.
Chen Chong looked back at the squad leader, frowned and asked, "Have you found out the details of the puppet soldiers in the village?"
"The public security team just sent us intelligence, and we found out that it is the team of Wang Ziquan, commander of the puppet army in An County! Now the puppet army has begun to surround our place. He can't leave now. He is in the team. I will call him."
"No, let's wait until the encirclement of the puppet troops outside shrinks before we take action!"
The squad leader was shocked: "Then we will be attacked from both sides?"
"Behind and behind? Hey, to the west is the pseudo-Li Youde tribe, and to the east are all the Wang Zi troops. Do you really think that each of us brought a mine this time, and the one or two hundred mines are just decorations?" Chen Chong curled his lips when he said this, and he was immediately full of confidence: "The instructor said that we must give the puppet soldiers a painful beating in this first battle, so that the puppet soldiers will remember. From now on, they have to be careful even if they walk on the plains!"
The squad leader's eyes lit up: "Then can I take people to the entrance of the village and bury a few of them? If the puppet army comes out in the village, there will be no return even if I call him!"
