"As long as we block this bridge, even if the guerrillas attack us, we will hit our heads and bleed."
The puppet platoon leader followed the Japanese soldiers like a lapdog and looked down upon the guerrillas.
"The defensive ones... need to be strengthened. The guerrillas are very powerful." Although the Japanese soldier spoke stammering Chinese, the puppet platoon leader still understood the meaning.
The puppet platoon leader vowed: "Taijun, don't worry, they are just a few guerrillas. As long as they dare to come, I guarantee that they will never come back!"
Now the Japanese captain Kasai Sadao suffered a big loss at the hands of the guerrillas and lost an entire squad.
This made him realize that the guerrillas might have been reinforced by guerrillas from other areas, so he hurriedly reduced his defenses and called the captain stationed in the county to request reinforcements.
Although Sadao Kasai is the captain of the security squadron of Qinghe Town, he only has more than a hundred Japanese soldiers and one battalion of puppet troops under his command.
However, the strength of these puppet troops is worrisome. After all, their composition is complex. Many of them were ruffians before. Although they now wear military uniforms and can bully the people, they will be vulnerable in a war.
Yang Ling and the others previously ambushed Zhang Lezi's puppet army and defeated more than a thousand puppet troops, which is enough to show that the puppet army's combat effectiveness is low.
However, now the Japanese have also realized that the puppet army's combat effectiveness is not good, and have specially selected a group of Japanese soldiers with rich combat experience to serve as consultants to the puppet army and train them, but this takes time after all.
Although he still has more than a hundred Japs under his command, such a small number of troops is only enough to guard Qinghe Town, and he has no ability to go out and wipe out the guerrillas. Now he can only wait for reinforcements from the county town.
Before the reinforcements from the county town arrive, all they need to do is to guard the various gun towers and Qinghe Town.
This artillery building by the river has a puppet platoon and three Japanese soldier advisers assigned to the puppet platoon, although the puppet platoon leader is nominally the commander.
But in fact, these three Japanese soldier advisors are actually in charge of the command of the artillery tower. They are not only responsible for the command and operations of the puppet troops in the artillery building, but also their training.
These puppet troops are all good and bad, and their combat effectiveness is not strong. Therefore, according to the orders of the 13th Mixed Brigade, in order to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the puppet troops, we can better assist them in attacking the guerrillas.
The Japanese specially selected some people to serve as advisers to the puppet army in order to train these puppet troops according to the methods of training their own army.
Now the situation in Qinghe Town suddenly became tense, so their training also stopped. The Japanese adviser immediately took over the command and began to patrol the gun towers to prevent guerrilla attacks.
The artillery tower is so high that you can see the surroundings clearly, and the Japanese soldiers' advisor is also very satisfied. They are stuck at the end of the bridge. One man can guard the bridge and no one can open it. One machine gun can hold it.
"Send a few people to establish an outpost position on the other side of the bridge." After looking at it, the Japanese adviser ordered the puppet platoon leader behind him.
The puppet platoon leader was stunned when he heard the instructions from the Japanese adviser. If he was attacked by the guerrillas, the outpost on the other side of the bridge might not be able to be evacuated. It would really be cannon fodder.
But the Japanese adviser doesn't think so much. He just wants to establish an outpost. Once the guerrillas attack, their artillery towers will be warned in advance, and the life and death of the outpost will have to be left to fate.
"Yes! I'll do it right away!"
Although the puppet platoon leader felt that doing so was unfair to his brothers, he still had to bite the bullet and agreed. After all, people now had to bow their heads under the eaves.
Seeing the puppet platoon leader agreeing so simply and neatly, the Japanese soldier adviser was also very satisfied. He was just an ordinary soldier with rich combat experience in the Japanese soldiers.
But now he was assigned to this gun tower and became the actual commander. He had a platoon of puppet troops under his command, which made the Japanese feel a little proud.
Just as the smug Japanese soldier was overlooking the beautiful scenery near the gun tower and checking for loopholes in the defense, he suddenly spotted the lush aquatic plants on the other side of the river from the corner of his eye.
"Huh?"
Seeing the lush aquatic plants, the Japanese consultant frowned. He felt something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.
After all, this little devil was experienced in combat and very vigilant. He decided to send someone to the other side of the river to check.
When the Japanese soldiers turned their attention to the lurking position of the lurking guerrilla brothers, the two brothers immediately felt their hearts in their throats. However, they still managed to stay calm and did not dare to move. This is the basic quality of lurking.
When the little Japanese turned around and said something to the puppet soldiers behind them, they took a deep breath, calmed down, and took aim at the Japanese again.
"Bang! Bang!"
Two dull gunshots suddenly rang out in succession, breaking the calm near the turret.
"puff!"
The two bullets went straight to the little Japs on the gun tower with a roar of death. One bullet penetrated the chest of the Japs soldier adviser. The other bullet hit high and took off the large brim of the puppet platoon leader's hat.
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"withdraw!"
The two lurking brothers didn't bother to check the results of the battle. After firing a shot, they immediately jumped up from the ground, turned around and hid in the reeds more than a hundred meters away.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
The sound of gunfire alerted the puppet troops in the artillery building. They all rushed behind the bunkers and sandbags with a roar, and fired with crackling fire toward the other side of the river, causing the soil to splash and withered grass to fly everywhere.
The Japanese soldier adviser was shot in the chest and fell straight to the ground. The puppet platoon leader, who had taken off his big-brimmed hat, was lying on the ground still in shock.
"Da da da da da da-"
A machine gun was protruded from the second floor of the turret, and it fired wildly at the other side of the river. The momentum went forward, and for a while, the entire turret was filled with smoke, and there was a lot of shouting and panic.
"Pursue! Chase!"
The other two Japanese soldier advisers who were sleeping in the artillery tower were also awakened. When they saw the guerrillas digging into the reeds on the other side of the river, their faces were livid with anger.
Soon, more than a dozen gun-wielding puppet troops clambered out of their bunkers, rushed onto the stone bridge, and chased after the successfully hunted guerrilla officers and soldiers.
"Da da da--"
However, as soon as the puppet soldiers chased across the stone bridge in a fierce manner, the trembling machine gun rang out, and a shuttle of scarlet bullets hit the puppet army head-on. It was another brother who was responsible for covering the machine gun who opened fire.
"Puff!"
"ah!"
The bodies of the puppet soldiers trembled, and clouds of blood mist formed, dissipated, and then formed again. The puppet soldiers wailed and fell into a pool of blood, twitching.
Facing this windy machine gun fire, the puppet soldiers who chased out were immediately beaten to a pulp, and the remaining few were so frightened that they ran back.
The machine gunner responsible for covering fired all the bullets and did not replace them with new ones. He turned around and ran away with the machine gun, leaving only the corpses of the puppet soldiers on the ground.
The battle took place in a flash of lightning. In just a few minutes, not only one Japanese soldier was killed, but also several puppet troops were eliminated. However, the guerrillas escaped unscathed.