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Liujia Village is a little-known mountain village on the outskirts of the Lunan Mountains, but it is one of the main routes in and out of the mountains.
After the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps retreated from Huaiyin to the mountains of Lunan, the pursuing Japanese troops followed closely and arrived at Liujiacun.
The terrain in the mountainous area of southern Shandong is complex and the jungle is tight. A puppet regiment that chased into the mountain that day was beaten to a pulp and was almost wiped out.
In view of the heavy losses suffered by the puppet troops who entered the mountains, and the harsh environment of the barren mountains and rivers, it is very difficult to pursue and suppress the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps in the mountainous areas.
Therefore, the Japanese also changed their strategy, that is, the pursuit should be turned into a siege, trying to seal the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps in the mountains.
The little devil learned from some traitors that the mountainous area in Southern Shandong was barren and there were many bandits. With so many people from the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps in the mountains, not to mention the problem of food and drink, even the bandits were a headache for them.
What the Japanese paid attention to was to send small elite troops to take down the headquarters of the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps, and then let the bandits slowly consume the remaining guerrilla troops in Northern Jiangsu, and slowly wear them out.
Moreover, they sent troops to blockade the mountains and strictly prohibited any food, salt, weapons and ammunition from flowing into the mountains.
The Japanese believe that as time goes by, the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps will be finished without them going into the mountains to encircle and suppress them.
It was precisely based on the new strategic considerations that the Japanese gave up the idea of entering the mountains with large forces, and instead withdrew the main force to the counties and districts in northern Jiangsu to deal with other Chinese troops.
The Japanese only had two squadrons of infantry and four puppet military camps left outside the mountain to perform the blockade mission.
The person responsible for commanding these blockade missions was Major Tanigawa of the brigade, who was unsuccessful in the battle to pursue the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps.
Major Tanichuan was originally transferred to Jiangsu from the frontline combat troops and was responsible for commanding a group of supplementary troops and heavy supplies to fight against the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps.
Unfortunately, Tanichuan, who had won many battles on the frontal battlefield, suffered several setbacks in the battle with the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps.
Their detachment had two consecutive detachment captains. One detachment captain committed suicide because of the defeat, and the other was directly killed by Yang Ling and the others.
Now, as the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps retreated into the mountains, the detachment was disbanded, and Major Tanigawa, who had suffered repeated defeats on the battlefield, could not return to the frontal battlefield. He was directly benched and assigned to the outskirts of the mountainous area to perform blockade and garrison tasks.
The young and powerful Major Tanigawa was very unwilling. After all, only by fighting in wars could he gain military merit and have the chance to be promoted.
But now the daily task is to organize the troops to supervise the civilians to build gun towers and pull barbed wire fences. If things continue like this, I am afraid that I will be in the position of major until retirement, and there will be no further possibility.
Although Major Tanichuan was unwilling to do so, he had no other way to transfer away from here. He was very depressed and spent most of his time drinking at the station in Liujiacun.
However, the house leaked and it rained all night, so I was sitting on the bench and in a bad mood. Now there has been no news about the skeleton special team that entered the mountain for more than two months.
Faced with the urging telegrams from the commander of the headquarters every day, Tanichuan was like an ant on a hot pot, constantly sending people into the mountains to search for information.
However, all the plainclothes and traitorous spies sent into the mountains disappeared, and there was no news about them.
Now Major Tanigawa doesn't know whether all the Skeleton Special Forces were shattered in the mountains or lost in the mountains, but the lack of news for two months still makes him restless.
Although the Skeleton Special Forces are the elite among the elite, and their combat effectiveness is particularly strong, Major Tanigawa is not sure of their current situation.
If all the Skeleton Special Forces were really destroyed, he, the military commander responsible for the response outside the mountain, would not be able to evade responsibility.
Now, in addition to drinking heavily and carrying out the blockade mission, Major Tanigawa now has one more thing to do every day, which is to pray for the safe return of the Skeleton Special Forces.
At dawn, Major Tanichuan sent more than fifty traitors disguised as mountain people and fleeing people into the mountain to find out about the Skeleton Special Forces.
This was already the fifth wave of people sent out. The previous waves of people were all lost and there was no news, but the Skeleton Special Forces did not come out of the mountain. He wanted to see people in life and corpses in death, so he had to send people into the mountain to find them.
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After all, the Skeleton Special Forces is an elite special operations force that spent a lot of money to set up. If they were to disappear like this, it would not only be a waste of money, but also a face issue.
But what Tanichuan didn't expect was that the current Skeleton Special Forces had been wiped out in the mountains by Yang Ling and the others. If they could come back, they would be in trouble.
After sending the fifth wave of spies into the mountain, Major Tanigawa, escorted by several tricycles, walked along the blockade they had set up.
Currently, the two squadrons of troops under his command are stationed in groups in several villages near the main roads into the mountains.
Four battalions of puppet troops guarded various gun towers and checkpoints, performing daily patrols to prevent anyone from entering or exiting the mountain.
In addition to their blockade in the south, large numbers of puppet troops and traitor armed forces are stationed in all directions entering the mountains.
Now they are implementing similar cage policies in the Sulu Theater and North China. They rely on artillery towers, roads, etc. in an attempt to surround and trap the Chinese troops to death.
There are artillery towers built one mile apart along the blockade, puppet troops are stationed there, and a large number of barbed wire fences are built. Not to mention people, even a rabbit would have difficulty crossing such a tight blockade.
After Major Tanichuan inspected several important strongholds and checkpoints, he returned to the command post in Liujiacun, ready to take a good rest.
But as soon as he returned to the command post in Liujiacun, someone called him, saying that the No. 19 Blockhouse had been attacked.
"Nani?"
When he heard that a gun tower had been attacked by guerrillas, Major Tanigawa was also stunned, his face full of disbelief.
It has been several months since he was transferred here, and he hasn't even seen a single guerrilla. Now there are actually guerrillas appearing in his defense area. How is this amazing?
"Order first, the third infantry team will quickly reinforce with me!"
After hanging up the phone, Major Tanichuan went out again with a dark face.
Soon, more than a hundred Japanese soldiers followed the major in trucks and headed straight for the 19th turret. After nearly an hour of turbulence, they arrived at the 19th turret.
The No. 19 Battery is located in the eastern part of their long blockade and is garrisoned by the third battalion of the puppet army.
The third battalion of the puppet army was responsible for more than fifty gun towers, and the No. 19 gun tower was just one of them.
A four-man combat team of the puppet army was stationed in the No. 19 gun building, responsible for monitoring a river outside the barbed wire fence to prevent people from infiltrating into the mountains with private goods, and to prevent guerrillas from the mountains from coming out.
The two nearest turrets in the 19th turret are just a mile away, visible to the naked eye, and are also stationed with four-man combat teams.
But when a puppet patrol squad on routine patrol in the morning passed by No. 19 Blockhouse, they found that all four people inside had been quietly killed.
They hurriedly reported to the police, and soon the commander of the third battalion of the puppet army rushed over, followed closely by Liu Heitan, the commander of the puppet army.
They inquired about the surrounding blockhouses, and carefully checked the nearby blockades. They found that the barbed wire fences were damaged, and concluded that it was the guerrillas who came out of the mountains. They did not dare to neglect, and hurriedly reported to Major Tanigawa.