"If there is a situation, please be on alert!" A Japanese veteran immediately called to the puppet troops around him to be on alert.
"Bang bang bang!" But as soon as he finished speaking, three gunshots rang out on the battlefield. In response, the three Japanese soldiers fell down and turned into corpses with expressions of disbelief on their faces.
Since not many Japanese came, Wang Ping did not take action himself.
Zhong Yusheng was ordered to lead a platoon of guards and three sharpshooters to ambush here to deal with the Japanese. The three gunshots just fired were the work of the three sharpshooters.
As soon as the three Japanese soldiers died, the remaining ten puppet troops panicked.
Just when they didn't know what to do, a dozen people from the security platoon rushed out.
"No one is allowed to move. We are the Eighth Route Army. Whoever moves will be killed!" Zhong Yusheng, holding a pistol, shouted as he rushed out.
With more than a dozen 38 flags facing them, the ten puppet soldiers who were already panicked subconsciously raised their weapons, knelt on the ground, and begged for mercy from the surrounding Eighth Route Army!
"Sir, we surrender. We are forced to be puppet soldiers. Please don't kill us!"
It has been six or seven hours since the search team left the stronghold of the Japanese and puppet troops in Shuiquan Village. They should have climbed back even if they crawled, but there is still no sign of them coming back.
The bad premonition in the captain's mind was getting stronger and stronger at this time.
But because there was no sign of the Eighth Route Army around the camp, the squad leader still couldn't believe that the entire puppet army had been wiped out in the past hundred days.
After spending another night in anxiety, the team leader still held on to the last glimmer of hope and believed that the mopping up troops were fine. He decisively pulled out the last combat unit under his command, added a squad of puppet troops, and headed in the direction of the mopping up troops as quickly as possible.
As the investigation proceeds, we must find out what happened to the mopping up troops and why they haven’t returned even after so long!
"Battal Commander, your fishing tactic has worked, the Japs have come out again, twenty Japs soldiers, ten puppet soldiers, a total of thirty people!" Deputy Battalion Commander Zeng Quan rushed over with excitement on his face, and his report was full of excitement.
Admiration for Wang Ping.
"Excluding these thirty Japanese and puppet troops, how many Japanese and puppet troops are left in the Shuiquan Village garrison?" Wang Ping asked immediately.
"Less than twenty Japanese and a dozen puppet soldiers! I estimate that after we eat these thirty Japanese and puppet soldiers, the remaining Japanese, even if they are fools, will not be fooled again!" Zeng Quan replied immediately.
Wang Ping shook his head and said: "I don't expect them to continue to be fooled. There are more than fifty people in the company now, equipped with three crooked handles and three grenades, which is enough to deal with the Japanese in Shuiquan Village and force them to attack Laiyuan City.
Ask for help!"
"Old Zeng, I'll leave this to you. First, annihilate all the Japs through a surprise attack. Then directly send troops to surround the Japs' stronghold in Shuiquan Village and launch an attack."
"This time, the crooked handle and the grenade can all be used to eat the enemy at the minimum cost!"
"The next attack must be steady, accurate, and ruthless, but you must also pay attention to the rhythm of the attack and the casualties of the troops. While putting pressure on the Japanese, you cannot capture them immediately. However, as soon as the Japanese reinforcements leave the city, you can cut off the water spring.
We established phone calls between the village and county devils, and then quickly captured Shuiquan Village."
"As for the Japanese reinforcements leaving the city, as long as they don't exceed two squadrons, I will give them a good beating. If it exceeds, the ambush will become a blockade. I will give you an hour to retreat and transfer, and then we will cover each other and evacuate here!"
The thirty Japanese and puppet troops became cautious as soon as they left Shuiquan Village.
Two troops disappeared mysteriously in a row, and all ten people knew that it was not safe outside the stronghold.
Almost a kilometer after leaving the village, a cornfield with cornstalks still growing suddenly appeared on the side of the pipeline.
Because this place is very close to Shuiquan Village and has never been attacked. The thirty Japanese and puppet troops did not conduct any reconnaissance and continued to advance along the official road with rifles, machine guns and grenade launchers in hand.
When all the Japanese and puppet troops reached the edge of the cornfield, Zhong Yusheng, who was hiding in the cornfield, opened fire.
The three crooked guns quickly fired three fan-shaped nets of bullets at the Japanese. Although many bullets did not fly out because they hit corn stalks, most of the bullets still flew into the Japanese formation.
With a burst of screams, the Japanese sergeants, machine gunners, and grenade launchers who were shot crookedly fell to the ground.
There were many Japanese and puppet troops nearby who were affected and fell to the ground after being shot.
The sound of machine gun fire had just started, and for more than fifty days, the Sanba Gai had also opened fire. Although the density of bullets was not as high as that of Waibaozi, it was better in number. After one round of bullets, five or six Japanese soldiers who were caught off guard still fell down.
Zeng Quan's surprise attack on the Japs came so fast that before the Japs could react, only five or six of the twenty men were left alive, and they were all riflemen, lying on the ground, holding up their rifles, without firing a single shot.
Bullets retaliate.
In normal times, even if these Japanese riflemen died, they would still cause considerable casualties to the independent battalion.
After all, they are all real veterans, and each of them can be considered a sharpshooter.
But at this time, they were in trouble. Under the pressure of three crooked handles, they didn't even have a chance to raise their heads.
The so-called counterattack is just to raise the rifle and shoot into the cornfield based on feeling. As for whether it hits the target, only God knows.
The few Japs who were still alive were beating up the cornfield, while the puppet soldiers lay motionless on the ground. Zeng Quan no longer hesitated and directly ordered the riflemen to rush out.
"Bang bang bang!" Several Japanese soldiers immediately realized the danger, holding rifles and shooting into the cornfield.
The flying bullets indeed killed and wounded several Eighth Route Army soldiers.
However, the Eighth Route Army troops who rushed out of the cornfield were not polite. Wherever gunfire rang out, they would fire a few or even a dozen bullets in retaliation at that place.
By the time a company of dozens of riflemen had completely rushed out of the cornfield, several Japanese soldiers had been beaten into a hornet's nest and died.
The eight puppet soldiers who were still alive threw away their guns and without thinking, they knelt on the ground and surrendered to the Eighth Route Army!
"The guard squad stayed behind to clean the battlefield and watch the prisoners. The others took the crooked handles and grenades brought by the Japanese and joined me in fighting into Shuiquan Village to wipe out the Japanese!" Zeng Quan made a decisive decision to divide his troops!
Because of the distrust of the puppet troops, a Japanese soldier was specially arranged at the entrance of the village where only the puppet troops were originally on duty.
When gunshots were fired in a cornfield one kilometer away, a Japanese soldier and two puppet soldiers were squatting behind a bunker, ready for battle.
When they actually appeared on the official road at the entrance of the village with several crooked rifles in their hands, and rushed towards them quickly, the two puppet soldiers immediately panicked, and their hands holding the rifles couldn't help but begin to tremble.
As for the Japanese, they scolded loudly with a calm face.
"Baga, there are indeed Eighth Route Army troops outside. The mopping up troops must have encountered something unexpected. You two stay here to block the Eighth Route Army. I will go back and report to the squad leader immediately."
After saying that, the Japanese soldier retreated to the village with his rifle in hand.