This doubt did not last long. The performance of the Japanese and puppet troops outside the city gave Xu Hu a very reasonable explanation.
For more than a hundred days, the puppet troops continued to charge forward as if they were not facing death.
After leaving the city, they went straight to the village not far from the city gate. When they left the village, either chickens or ducks were hung on the bayonets of their rifles. A dozen puppet soldiers worked in pairs carrying the pigs and sheep they had just snatched.
There were more than a dozen Japs who showed off their power and drove more than a dozen women out of the village.
"You stupid little devils, it turns out they got tired of staying in the city and came out to burn, kill, rape, and rob women. They are indeed a bunch of beasts!" Xu Hu gritted his teeth and cursed angrily.
"Platoon leader, we must not let these women be brought into the city by the Japs, otherwise they will definitely be raped by the Japs. We must rescue them!" Liu Pingquan, the leader of the First Investigation Squadron, said with a worried look.
The dozen or so subordinates around him seemed to have agreed upon it, and they all asked Xu Hu to fight with indignant expressions!
"Okay, kill these beasts!" Xu Hu quickly made a decision.
"However, we must hurry up. This place is only two kilometers away from Laiyuan City. As long as a gun is fired here, the Japanese in the city can kill them in ten minutes. This means that we only have five minutes to fight, and then bring
Those women who were snatched away by the Japanese retreat!"
Liu Pingquan immediately replied: "Platoon commander, there must be no problem!"
"Although there are many Japanese and puppet soldiers, there are only more than fifty real Japs, and there are no more than seventy officers among the puppet troops. After the regiment leader added some veterans to us, there were sixteen people in each squad.
As long as one of us kills the four Japs and the Imperial Army officers, the remaining Imperial Army soldiers will definitely not dare to resist!"
Soon, a simple ambush position appeared on a slope more than 300 meters in front of the Japanese and puppet troops.
Including platoon leader Xu Hu, all seventeen people were lying in ambush on the slope on the side of the road, only more than 100 meters away from the road.
But because this place is only three miles away from Laiyuan City, it means that the reconnaissance platoon must resolve the battle in three minutes and then retreat quickly, and it cannot retreat along the road.
After more than a hundred days when the puppet troops completely entered the ambush circle, Xu Hu was the first to shoot, followed by Liu Pingquan and a dozen sharpshooters.
"Bah bang bang..." A burst of short gunshots quickly broke the tranquility of the battlefield.
The Japanese squad leader, sergeant, machine gunner, Imperial Alliance Army company commander, platoon commander...all fell to the ground in unison, with expressions of death-defying expressions.
The Japanese and puppet troops, who were suddenly attacked, were already in panic. Seeing that all the officers were dead at once, the panic intensified.
Regardless of what they just grabbed, they threw it on the road and ran away. The Japanese and puppet soldiers who were quicker to react and still had some sense lay on the ground.
At this time, the difference between the Japanese army and the Imperial Army was directly reflected on the battlefield.
The first reaction of the puppet soldiers lying on the ground was to save their lives. They held their heads and remained motionless to avoid attracting the attention of the Eighth Route Army.
But the Japs were different. Regardless of whether they were new soldiers or veterans, after a brief period of confusion, they all lay down on the ground and fought back.
Their reaction speed is fast, and the reaction speed of the investigation platoon is even faster.
In the blink of an eye, the second round of gunfire rang out on the battlefield.
Any Japanese and puppet soldiers on the highway who held rifles in their hands and wanted to fight back were all attacked by bullets.
In less than a minute, no Japanese and puppet troops could be seen on the road fighting back.
Xu Hu didn't waste much time. After leaving a few sharpshooters to continue staring at the road, the others rushed towards the road with pistols raised.
The entire raid went without incident. All Japanese and Imperial Army officers were killed, and 86 Imperial Army soldiers were made prisoners of the reconnaissance platoon.
With the help of these prisoners, Xu Hu successfully retreated five minutes before Japanese reinforcements arrived.
One day later, all the prisoners and captures were returned to their base.
He Wen, the deputy political commissar in charge of prisoners and troop training, immediately dealt with them according to the old rules of the independent regiment.
The Independent Regiment had just experienced a major war, and the troops had lost a lot of troops and were in urgent need of reinforcements. Compared with the newly trained recruits, the prisoners who had been successfully transformed were obviously more popular with the troops and would least affect the combat effectiveness of the troops.
Therefore, as soon as these dozens of prisoners arrived at the independent regiment's station, they were targeted by several battalion and company commanders.
Faced with the constant urging calls from them, Deputy Political Commissar He Wen could only seize the time to transform these prisoners and then separate them as quickly as possible.
After the speed increased, He Wen's scrutiny of the prisoners became much lighter.
Of course, even if the censorship is as strict as usual, the several intelligence officers Nakamura Nakasaga inserted among the prisoners can easily pass.
Because these intelligence agents are all locals, but they were captured by the Japanese a few months ago and then added to the Imperial Army.
What is different from other Imperial Army troops is that they are singled out for intelligence training for various reasons during the training process.
Those who pass these trainings and have no problem with loyalty will be developed into intelligence agents by Nakamura.
In order to obtain real information about the Independent Regiment as soon as possible, Nakamura, who was racking his brains, decided to carry out a very risky operation: directly placing intelligence agents in the Independent Regiment!
But he also knew that the Eighth Route Army's counterintelligence and anti-infiltration capabilities were not comparable to those of other Chinese forces.
A bad intelligence agent who has worked so hard to train will not only be unable to break into the Eighth Route Army, but will also be taken advantage of by the Eighth Route Army.
In order to ensure nothing goes wrong, after learning that many Eighth Route Army battles were carried out by prisoners, Nakamura and the chief of staff came up with this method. At the expense of an infantry squad and a company of the Imperial Army, a total of six intelligence agents were
He was sent to the Eighth Route Army as a prisoner and then joined the Eighth Route Army.
Nakamura did it.
Because the Independent Regiment was in urgent need of such veterans captured by the Imperial Alliance Army, after a simple screening, all six intelligence officers were recruited into the three main battalions.
Although these six intelligence officers were all soldiers at the lowest level, they could only have contact with the company commander at most. However, they were still able to figure out the strength of their infantry company in a very short period of time.
As for the troops directly under the three battalions of the independent regiment, each intelligence officer knows a little bit, and all six of them can put together a rough idea!
After reading the continuous intelligence sent back by intelligence personnel, Nakamura's first reaction was that he didn't believe his eyes.
Because the equipment of the Independent Regiment was so good that it completely exceeded my understanding of the Eighth Route Army.
Each infantry company is equipped with three grenadiers, four crooked light machine guns, and more than a hundred 38 guns. In terms of firepower alone, it can already fight against two infantry squads of the imperial army.
With such powerful firepower, even if the unit's individual capabilities are somewhat poor, it will still have no problem at all against an infantry squadron of the Imperial Army. No wonder this independent regiment can easily kill an infantry squadron of the Imperial Army!
