The lieutenant of the advance team who arrived by car arranged for an elite squad to go into the mountain according to Shigennobu's plan, while the other Japanese soldiers stayed at the train station on standby.
Shortly after dark.
The elite squad of Japanese soldiers, who had only slept for about two hours, were personally led by a second lieutenant. Regardless of their fatigue, they put on their Eighth Route Army uniforms and set out following Shigenobu with special weapons and equipment.
A group of nearly twenty people quickly disappeared into the darkness.
The mountain road is rugged, the light is dim, and there is a thin layer of fog. The moving speed is very slow. The flashlight covered with black cloth illuminates a small area, so as not to reveal the whereabouts.
But we had to be careful every step forward, which was really uncomfortable. It was a dark and windy night, and Zhong Xin, who was used to seeing strong winds and waves, felt inexplicably panicked.
Apart from the sound of footsteps, almost no one in the team spoke.
An intelligence agent and a Japanese soldier acted as scouts in front, observing the marks on the mountain wall next to the mountain stream trail from time to time.
Soon, the mountain road ahead suddenly became steeper and upward.
The team stopped at the edge of the cliff.
Shigenobu, who followed, raised his head and looked at the darkness of the mountain. The soldier lowered his voice and said, "There are sentries set up by the enemy on the mountainside above..."
Shigenobu was silent for a while, and immediately ordered the Japanese behind him: "Be sure to clear the enemy sentries carefully, please."
Soon, the three Japanese soldiers, led by the sergeant, used their hands and feet to move up the mountainside in the dark.
The mountain wind whistled low, covering up the sound of footsteps.
The steep mountain road turns westward halfway up the mountain, and you can have a completely unobstructed view from the top down.
Maybe it was because it was uneventful for a long time, maybe it was because it felt easy to defend but difficult to attack, and the defense was a little lax.
The eyeliner placed at the bottom of the mountain had already lit a fire. However, the mountainside was shrouded in mist and the guard post did not notice it.
There was a small piece of flat land at the bend of the mountain road, and a low simple shack was built against the wall. In the shack, several soldiers were sleeping soundly around the fire, wearing clothes and holding guns, wrapped in dirty quilts.
Outside the shack, facing the mountain road below, in a simple fortification made of stones, the three soldiers looked at the occasional train passing by on the plain in the distance and said a few words from time to time, but they did not see the looming warning fire at the mountain pass.
"...I don't know when we can beat the little devil away. Let's go back to our hometown in Heishan and Baishui."
"I have been fighting with the little devil for more than ten years. This little devil has taken up more and more places. I think I won't necessarily wait until that day in my lifetime."
"You can't say that. Isn't the Young Marshal okay now? Maybe one day he will be able to take us back."
"Stop dreaming, the young commander can't protect himself now..."
"I'm so angry when I say this, let's not talk about it... Hey, those people transporting smoke and soil didn't come today. I think they will come tomorrow anyway."
"He can only take our road now, and he doesn't have to pay a penny to pay for the road..."
"Last time they promised to send us two baskets of roasted chicken. Maybe we can all have a toothpaste tomorrow."
"You just know how to eat."
"I always feel that something is not right. Just after the Eighth Route passed by, these guys followed and said they wanted to deliver goods to the west. Could it be..."
"Whatever, we should collect money and collect money. If anyone makes any trouble, I will tell him to come back and never come back..."
"I heard from the regimental commander that the Japs in the south have already taken action against the New Fifth Army defense area."
"Yes, the Japanese have made it clear that they are going to attack us this time, but we have been silent. This is unreasonable."
"Come on, wouldn't it be better if the Japs don't come? Besides, we are easy to defend and difficult to attack. The Japs are probably planning to pick the weak ones first and target Sun, and then they will finally get our turn."
"Last year, the Eighth Route Army headquarters hidden in the mountains was captured by the Japanese. How can the little Japanese like us?"
"I heard that the advance team of the little devils found the Eighth Route Headquarters in advance, and then cooked it in one pot."
"No matter what the advance team is, no one from us here can even think about going there tonight..."
"You two stare at it for now. I'll squint for a while. Call me later..."
These three people didn't pay attention at all. They were on the mountain road not far away from their eyes.
Two black figures were moving upward like geckos against the mountain road.
On the railway line in the distance, another train rumbled and roared southward in the hazy sky.
The two soldiers stared boredly into the distance, wondering whether they were homesick or thinking about something else.
In the darkness outside the simple fortification, two black figures suddenly appeared. They were still in a daze and even forgot to fire a warning shot.
The loaded rifle was nearby, but unfortunately, they never had the chance to put their finger in the trigger hole.
With the sound of bayonets entering flesh, their bodies shook violently, and their bodies soon turned into convulsions.
"Be careful..." The black shadow moved skillfully, covering his mouth and stabbing the knife in one go. Even so, the noise he made was not small.
The man lying in the ditch naturally heard the noise, and while half asleep and half awake, he subconsciously muttered: "Can you all be quiet..."
As soon as he finished speaking, a dark figure rushed forward and strangled his neck with both hands.
With a crunching sound of bones, the sleeping person stopped moving.
Another black shadow emerged from below, a warning, and two shadows clung to the mountain wall, moving quickly and cautiously towards the shack.
A scream finally sounded in the shack, and soon, the screams stopped abruptly.
The weak flashlight light swayed downward on the mountainside, and three night owl calls supplemented the mountain wind.
A large group of black shadows began to climb upwards.
Most of the defenders live in the mountain village, and there is usually only one guard station at the mountain pass. Perhaps, it is not a strategic location, and the patrol density is not high.
The movement on the mountainside was not small, but no one noticed that someone had come up in the dark.
Chongxin had no interest in copycats. After leaving behind the people who were on guard, the team quickly left.
The two leading Japs soldiers suddenly stopped: "I seem to smell blood..."
"I smell it too, it shouldn't be far away, be careful..."
One groped forward cautiously, while the other stood guard behind with a gun.
Soon, I saw the naked body on the mountain road.
"It seems to have been bitten by an animal... No, it's Takahashi-kun..." The man from the extra-high school class who was squatting on the ground put away his flashlight and said with a pale face: "The time of death should be two hours ago."
Soon, Shigenobu followed, and the man on the ground stood up and bowed: "Shigenobu-kun, Takahashi-kun Yusha."
"See if there are any traps."
"Yes..." The one who just got up immediately checked carefully and carefully. After a while, he got up and reported: "There is a grenade hidden under the body..."
"Don't touch the body yet, notify the engineers to come and deal with it." Chongxin forced himself to calm down. It seems that this gang of eight is not simple!
However, in the eyes of the experts in the Intelligence Department, these are all small tricks that cannot be put on the table.
If he could kill his own warriors, there would definitely be people with good martial arts among the Eighth Route Army, so he had to be careful.
Shigenobu was thinking rapidly in his mind. He believed that his subordinates would not reveal his plans even if they died.
Chongxin didn't care whether the Chinese who went into the mountains with his men lived or died, because the Chinese probably didn't know much.
But now, there are no footprints of his on the ground!
Therefore, there is a high probability that he has turned into a corpse and been pushed to the cliff beside the mountain road by the Eight Route Army.
After thinking for a while, he finally concluded that Tubalu probably knew that the imperial army had discovered that some of them were being targeted.
However, it is normal for the imperial army to clear out the Eighth Route Army.
He suggested that the headquarters deliberately let the group of eight soldiers leave, but he did not expect that Tubal Road would dare to attack the Imperial Army Railway Station, which he could not bear.
Now, he had no retreat at all. No matter whether he found someone following him on Tubal Road, he had to pursue him now, otherwise he would not be able to give an explanation to the headquarters.
If we only catch a few peripheral soldiers and shrimps, we probably won't be able to get any valuable information from the interrogation, but we are really unwilling to do so.
It didn't take long before the second lieutenant who led the team arrived from behind: "The radio was turned on just now, and the latest report from the headquarters is that this afternoon, the enemy's New Fifth Army Headquarters has surrendered to the imperial army, but some grassroots officers and soldiers of the army have mutinied, and they are suppressing it!"
Shigenobu's eyes lit up: "Map!"
The second lieutenant pulled out the map, and the men next to him quickly turned on their flashlights.
The second lieutenant pointed at the map: "This is where we are now. There is a hilly area to the north in front. There should be imperial troops. We can ask them to send a force to block this group of eight."
Shigenobu shook his head: "Please don't make your own decisions. The plan this time is not to destroy them, but to track down the elite Eighth Route Army through this group of Eighth Route Army."
The second lieutenant quickly bowed: "This subordinate is stupid."
"Put the body into a body bag and hide it. Notify the people at the bottom of the mountain to go up the mountain...encircle and suppress the group stationed on the mountain stronghold and occupy the mountain stronghold." Shigenobu, who was used to seeing life and death, did not hesitate anymore and ordered the sergeant who was acting as a scout next to him. :"keep going."
The moon appeared out of nowhere.
More than ten shadows continued westward.
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