The Japanese army was indeed coming, and two Japanese soldiers, holding rifles and crouching, appeared from the ruins at the corner of the alley.
The flare was just coming, and Shang Zhen and the others were only more than six meters away from the two Japanese soldiers, so they could see clearly.
"It seems like there are only two of them! Let's just kill them." Hu Zhuzhu muttered in a very low voice.
Hu Zhuzi muttered in a low voice, but he still got a "Shut up" from Shang Zhen, which scared Hu Zhuzi and quickly shut his mouth.
"Qian Chuan'er, Brother Huzi, you two go around and see if there are any Japs anywhere else." Shang Zhen ordered in a low voice.
Qian Chuan'er and Ma Erhuzi responded with almost silent voices, and then used the cover of the ruins to go around to the side and front.
Shang Zhen and the others finally took action.
Seeing other Northeastern troops fighting bloody battles with the Japanese army, and being despised by Captain Gu's company, the soldier's dignity finally defeated their plan to hide in the rear.
Shang Zhen began to plan how to fight the Japanese army again.
Shang Zhen, a businessman who lost money, would never do it, and they would never fight a positional battle with the Japanese army. Shang Zhen racked his brains and was inspired by Gao Yuyan's escape. He decided to use the opportunity of the Northeast Army to recapture Xiaobengbu to sell his People hide, yes, hide! Hiding in the cellar where Gao Yuyan was hiding at that time!
Xiaobengbu is the strategic point of this Huaihe River blockade. Shang Zhen has every reason to believe that the Northeast Army can take back Xiaobengbu, and then the Japanese army will definitely be able to take it back again.
So he took his people and hid in the ruins near the cellar.
Combat is a dangerous thing and should never be taken for granted. However, Shang Zhen and his veterans have calculated all possibilities.
If the Japanese army occupied Xiaobengbu during the day, they would never be able to hide in that cellar again. They would have no choice but to withdraw and think of other options.
If they dared to hide in a cellar in broad daylight, although the entrance of the cellar was already among the ruins, the Japanese army would not be able to find it if they did not search carefully. But what if the Japanese army searched carefully? Once discovered by the Japanese army, they would not be able to find it. It has really become a so-and-so in a big jar, allowing others to catch that so-and-so in that so-and-so.
Ma Di lost his street pavilion. Isn't it because Ma Di put his people on a lonely mountain?
Just like Shang Zhen, the vast majority of them are uneducated, but that doesn't mean they don't understand strategy.
Looking through the Chinese idiom dictionary, which idiom has no allusion behind it?
Shang Zhen has not read Sun Tzu's Art of War, but he has read the idiom dictionary. They are all ready-made strategies. What is this called? This is called the cultural heritage of a nation!
The so-called complex international relations are nothing more than alliances between countries for their own benefit. The ancestors of the Chinese people have played with this kind of thing a long time ago.
China was just a closed country and blindly arrogant during the industrial revolution. As a little man with a broken wheel said, China is just a sleeping lion. But what happens once the lion wakes up?
The crisis of national subjugation and annihilation is the external cause that prompts this lion to wake up. The external cause touches the internal cause, and the historical heritage of the past is stimulated. The ancients said, "Be born in sorrow and die in peace and happiness." It is true that I am not deceiving.
Well, of course Shang Zhen and the others hope to hide in that cellar when it gets dark, or when it's about to get dark.
And the situation they expected really happened. At that time, there were not many defenders left in the Northeast Army.
Most of them hid in the cellar. Although the cellar was a bit small, the few extra people were sent out by Shang Zhen to conduct reconnaissance.
Shang Zhen would never let his own people help the remaining Northeastern Army defend their positions. If they did this, then after a battle, their number of people would never be more than five fingers!
If you want to maximize the results of the war, but don't want to fight the Japanese army, how can you do it without taking some risks?
However, Shang Zhen estimated that it was impossible for the Japanese army to search every ruin. Not to mention how much credit they could make, at least now they hid in the cellar and found it safely. So what was his plan? That's already half the battle.
Besides, when he came out, Shang Zhen also told his gang that we don’t have to take the town, and we don’t have enough people, but we set a small target. We are a sneak attack. Who can Wouldn't it be profitable to kill two Japanese devils?
To take a step back, even if one of us kills a Japanese soldier, wouldn't we suffer a loss?
Shang Zhen was very open-minded, but in order to persuade Mr. Wang to come out and fight the Japanese, it wouldn't work if he didn't do so.
It can't be said that this is Shang Zhen's usual style, but it is almost the same.
And what they are talking about is the Japanese devils!
The target of this group led by Shang Zhen was the Japanese mortar position.
The reason why Shang Zhen wanted to destroy the Japanese mortars was not only because the Japanese mortars posed a great threat to the Northeast Army, but also because the mortars could fire illumination bombs.
Both times, the Northeastern Army launched an attack on the Japanese army before dawn. They took advantage of the darkness and directly entered the formation to engage in a melee with the Japanese army. In this kind of battle, the Japanese army's firepower advantage could not be brought into play, and the more intense competition was between the enemy and ourselves. Whoever is less afraid of death will use stronger explosives.
And the Northeastern Army, which was determined to take back the position at all costs, were all suicide squads, and they were all covered with grenades. Some even came up with cluster grenades. They always used one attack to kill many. In this way, the Northeastern Army's dead officers and soldiers Although it was tragic, the damage caused to the Japanese army was even greater.
Shang Zhen speculated that if the Japanese army launched another attack at dawn today, the Japanese army would use flares to prevent the Northeast Army's death squads from easily approaching.
So, being able to destroy the Japanese mortar position means that the Japanese army cannot use flares. Isn't this battle of little significance?
Shang Zhen was good at calculations. In his opinion, since he had a small group, killing the Japanese was second best compared to occupying the position, and compared to protecting the Northeastern Army, killing the Japanese was second best.
Because of this, Shang Zhen certainly would not lose a big deal just because of the appearance of two Japanese soldiers.
Under the secret gaze of Shang Zhen and others, the two Japanese soldiers walked forward for more than ten meters and then ducked into the ruins on this side of the alley.
Shang Zhen lowered his head and pondered. He was not worried that the dozen or so of him would be discovered by the Japanese army. However, if the Japanese army placed more guard posts along the way, it would be easy for them to reach the Japanese mortar positions. The Japanese army was disturbed.
About ten minutes later, Qian Chuan'er and Ma Erhuzi came back in the dark, and by this time the Japanese army's flare had already been extinguished.
"When it was bright, we saw that the Japs had placed three more pairs of sentries in the broken house in front. After the three pairs of sentries, more than 200 meters away was the Japs' mortar position, and the flares were fired from there. Get up." Qian Chuan'er reported in a low voice.
It seems that the previous flare was shot by the Japs to illuminate his warning post. Shang Zhen was thinking about it, but at this moment, he felt that Qian Chuan'er, who was next to him, suddenly felt something in his heart and asked: "You Did you kill someone with Brother Huzi?"
"Oh, how did you know that?" Ma Erhuzi asked in surprise, and then explained, "The two of us made the two little devils closest to us!"
