The night is dark and windy.
The canal water flows silently.
Juanzi Village is completely deserted inside and outside.
Deputy Zhao and Captain Pei had sad faces.
No one feels bad when their comrades die, but they are quite critical of their own way of organizing funerals.
Su Qing stood in front of the new grave outside the village and walked back to the village after a while.
Standing on the three-meter high and two-meter wide wall outside the village, looking up at the dark starry sky.
Somewhere in the eastern sky began to light up, and the crescent moon that only appeared in the second half of the night could vaguely see the outline of a halo.
He returned to the supplementary regiment from the division and followed into the plains, knowing that the struggle situation on the plains was far more complicated than in the mountains.
The enemies, puppets and bandits are stubborn, and there are countless armed forces of all kinds that are both bandits and anti-Japanese.
The traffic officer sent news to comrades from the headquarters that at noon yesterday, enemy aircraft took off and landed at the enemy airport north of An County again.
The intelligence system of the newly established task force is far inferior to the independent intelligence system of the headquarters that has been in operation for many years.
There was a vague feeling that these planes might be heading towards the guard camp.
The development of the base area should be gradual, and the guard battalion's capture of Cheng'an County broke the balance.
It was not uncommon for the Eighth Route Army to capture Pingyuan County.
It is impossible to defend in enemy-occupied areas, and instead exposes its strength for no reason.
The village bonfires went out.
The darkness shrouded the village of Juanzi and it was eerily quiet. The Japanese raided the village many times and even the firewood in the village was tense.
The village gradually returned to calm.
When foreign enemies invade, we have to forget our pain and cheer up.
The sacrificed soldiers seem to have left only a string of names.
From time to time, mutterings and small choking sounds could be heard from the old wooden houses in the village, and some soldiers were still chanting sutras.
Naturally, there are also soldiers bragging to the guerrilla brigade soldiers.
...
North of the village.
In the dark night under the stars, it is difficult to see the environment clearly from more than ten meters away.
The first company commander who went out of the village to check sentry posts had been active in enemy-occupied areas for a long time and was very experienced.
Disperse the platoon you are carrying completely.
He personally arranged the sentry, but the sentry did not return to the village on time. He felt a little uneasy, and his intuition told him.
The sentry was probably in an accident.
Although from the bottom of his heart, he did not want to believe that the vigilance soldiers had been poisoned by the enemy.
Suddenly, I regretted that I should not have taken over the security mission that the guerrilla detachment was supposed to perform by relying on my status as the main force.
The struggle between the enemy and ourselves is very cruel, and the enemy often disguises himself as ordinary people and moves around.
Hard to guard against.
They even set up a special night raid team, taking advantage of the dark night to pretend to be businessmen and ordinary people, and go around arresting anti-Japanese elements under the banner of anti-Japanese armed forces.
Unlike mountains, plains have almost no place to hide except for villages and water canals.
The soldiers of a vanguard squad dispersed and quickly searched around the location where the guard post should have been.
There was no sign of the guard sentry at all.
The platoon leader, who was acting as the vanguard, hurriedly came back and reported: "Company Commander, this is weird. I clearly arranged for them to be on guard around here, but now I don't see anyone, and there are no traces of fighting on the ground nearby..."
The company commander pondered for a while: "Leave two soldiers on guard while the others retreat..."
"Ah, are there still people left?"
"They must have been poisoned by the Japanese."
"The people responsible for guarding are all veterans..."
"If the Japanese disguised themselves as villagers, or the Eighth Route Army, do you think the soldiers on guard would be their opponents?"
"ah?"
"Now, everyone, keep quiet and go back to the village."
"Company Commander, how about I stay?"
"The top priority is to return to the village to report the situation." The company commander said in a low voice, "When we are one mile away, you will retreat immediately!"
"Ah, are you not alert anymore?"
"The north is full of Japanese. I can smell the Japanese."
"What? Company commander, you are really good at it."
"Don't you think the sound of insects is much quieter in the darkness to the north?"
...
The platoon leader and a soldier stayed on guard to prevent the enemy from attacking.
Hearing what the company commander said just now, the platoon leader suddenly realized that maybe it was exactly as the company commander said, that a large number of Japanese were hiding in the darkness to the north.
After pondering for a moment, he whispered an order to the soldier next to him: "Immediately crawl ten meters to the side and continue to be on guard. I will go to the north to have a look..."
"No, you have to go and I'll go. You stay and be on guard." After the soldier said that, he jumped up from the ground and ran north.
This guy doesn't listen to orders? The platoon leader was about to curse...
But he was worried that what the company commander said was true, so he had to lie down and crawl some distance to the side.
Load the rifle bullet smoothly.
boom...
Suddenly there was a gunshot from ahead.
The gunshot sounded suddenly.
Tearing apart the tranquility of the night.
The soldiers who were scouting north were very nervous, and their loaded rifles suddenly went off.
The soldier held his rifle, and the sudden flash of light in front of him was so dazzling that he did not notice the presence of a large number of Japanese soldiers not far to the north.
The security platoon leader at the back kept looking north with wide eyes.
The muzzle flash flashed briefly and was clearly visible, with several faint reflections flashing out.
A large group of black figures!
I couldn't help but be a little stunned, if it weren't for my preconceived predictions.
Moreover, with the reflection of the bayonet, he would not even think that there was anything strange about the black shadow two hundred meters to the north.
Having been active on the plains for many years, he knows exactly what can grow in the soil.
Many Japanese soldiers like to hang sharp bayonets under their guns, which becomes the key to their exposure.
Definitely a devil!
A large area of darkness.
Before receiving the order, the Japanese hiding in the darkness did not rush to shoot at the approaching shadow.
No one knows what went wrong.
The Japanese hiding in the dark did not alert the anti-Japanese elements who came out to check the posts.
Now it takes time to arrange troops and surround the Juanzi Village in the south.
The anti-Japanese elements thought they could detect the situation by placing two sentries five miles away.
How wide is the five-mile radius? In the dark night, it is not a problem to hide a team of more than a thousand people.
The Japanese captain did not take this battle seriously, he just felt that he really couldn't swallow that breath.
Is it true that the imperial army is number one in the world?
If they hadn't wanted to kill all the anti-Japanese elements in the village, the twenty or thirty anti-Japanese elements in front of them would have long been the dead souls under the bayonets of the warriors.
Many Eighth Route Army soldiers like to put bayonets on their guns before the battle begins.
Mainly because of the lack of ammunition, you may have to charge after destroying a bridge. Three guns and eight bullets will naturally complete the charge.
Although the Twenty-Three were the main force, when they actually went to the battlefield, they did not necessarily have to use up all the bullets in their bodies before charging forward to fight the enemy with bayonets.
Always keep a few bullets for emergencies.
For example, if the battle situation is unfavorable for retreat, if everyone has no bullets in their guns, how can they block the attack?
The platoon leader hurriedly raised his gun and fired suddenly into the darkness where the enemy was hiding in the north based on his feeling.
The soldier in front whose rifle misfired felt bitter and was thinking about how to explain to the platoon leader when he went back later.
The old slide trigger was badly worn and had only shaken a few times. He was sure that he had never put his finger into the trigger hole.
This damn rifle actually went off at the critical moment!
Suddenly I heard a series of gunshots behind me.
The platoon leader seemed to keep firing.
He knew very well that the platoon leader only had twenty rounds of ammunition. With the platoon leader's stingy habit, it was impossible for him to engage in such a wasteful act of rapid shooting.
Could it be that...the platoon leader discovered something? Thinking of this, he jumped forward suddenly.
Suddenly a flash of light appeared in the open field to the north.
Then there was a brief chug.
Then there was another flash, and a searchlight suddenly lit up in the dark night, like a sun suddenly appearing in the night.
The dazzling light is blinding.
Then, the sound of the gasoline generator began to echo in the night sky.
A large number of Japanese figures appeared under the searchlights.
The soldier lying on the ground quickly picked up the old sleeve and ran back without any hesitation.
The dispersing Japanese soldiers did not fire, and seemed not to bother shooting at all.
Army boots trampled openly in the fields where corn had been harvested.
The sound of rustling footsteps sounded like death.
...
Some people died, but not completely...
