Chapter seven hundred and forty-seven beat the grass and startle the snake
Xiao Yunshan, who had already had an idea in his mind, started giving orders without much hesitation.
"Reconnaissance squad, guard platoon, you are the best-equipped troops of our Second Battalion. From now on, you will follow Captain Li, listen to Captain Li's command, bring enough ammunition, and set off now. Captain Li will tell you what to do next.
Fight the Japs! I will arrange the others, and I will ensure a surprise for the Japs’ mopping up troops.”
Major Ida was the commander of the Japanese anti-Japanese force.
I have been staying here for a month or two, and my purpose is to eliminate the Eighth Route Army hiding in the north of Linfen.
After more than half a month without any news, I suddenly received intelligence two hours ago and found the Eighth Route Army station in Linfen North. Ida was so excited that I couldn't describe it in words. He ordered the troops to assemble on the spot and be ready to go at any time.
Then he began to think about how to encircle and eliminate the Eighth Route Army hiding in the mountains.
After staring at the map for a full ten minutes, Major Ida decided decisively to send troops now and attack the Eighth Route Army's garrison without giving the Eighth Route Army any time to react.
As for the problem of darkness, as Xiao Yunshan analyzed, he had already settled it.
When the troops fight their way to the vicinity of the Eighth Route Army, it will be dawn!
As for marching at night, Major Ida was not worried at all.
He not only has half an infantry brigade of field troops, but also half a squadron of special forces.
With them clearing the way for the troops and guarding them, Ida was not at all worried about sneak attacks or ambushes by the Eighth Route Army.
It had been more than two hours since the departure. Except for the sporadic gunshots on both sides of the road, the troops did not encounter any danger. This was Ida's confidence in choosing to march at night and his trust in the brigade commander's personal training of the special forces.
"Da da da..." At this moment, a series of different gunshots reached Major Ida's ears, and there were also many sounds of rifle shooting mixed in.
Soon, an officer rushed over.
"Sir, we discovered the Eighth Route Army's sneak attack troops and have repulsed them, but we also lost four special forces members!"
"Eighth Route Army sneak attack unit?" Major Ida frowned suddenly.
Then he analyzed: "Our encirclement and suppression operations must have been exposed!"
The adjutant next to him said: "There must be Eighth Route Army reconnaissance troops hidden around our station. As soon as we move, these reconnaissance troops will tell their main force of our movements!"
"That must be the case. The Eighth Route Army is too cunning and impossible to guard against!" Major Ida affirmed, his face immediately becoming heavy.
"Order the troops to strengthen their vigilance. If the Eighth Route Army knows that we are going to sneak attack their base, then there will definitely be more than one unit that attacks and harasses us. These troops have only one purpose, to buy time for their main force to move!"
"Also, order the troops to speed up their march. We finally found their location. We can't let them escape this time no matter what!"
On a high hilltop nearly two kilometers away from the Japanese, Li Wen held up a telescope and stared at them motionless.
Because the devils were holding torches and stretched for nearly 500 meters, they looked like a fire dragon when walking on the road, and they could be seen very clearly.
"Captain, the Japs are marching faster! I still don't understand why you asked the reconnaissance team to deliberately beat them without asking to kill many enemies. Isn't this just a warning?" The guard platoon leader standing next to Li Wen frowned.
asked.
"I just want to scare off the enemy. If I don't alert the enemy, how can the Japanese march faster?" Li Wen answered with certainty.
"The Japs are not marching very fast, how can they have their shortcomings and loopholes exposed in front of us, waiting for us to sneak attack on them!"
Seeing that the guard platoon leader looked like he didn't understand, Li Wen did not continue to explain and gave the order directly.
"The Japs are marching much faster now, and the vigilance of their special forces must be relaxed a lot. This is our opportunity. Take your people with me, and try to kill the special forces inside before the Japs enter our camp.
At the very least, we must inflict heavy damage on them!”
At the beginning, the more than 20 Japanese special forces walking at the front of the team were still able to carefully search the woods and hilltops on both sides of the road. After the march speed increased, they could no longer do it.
After all, the Japanese special forces also had to march on two roads. Abandoning the road and walking through the woods and mountains would have taken half the distance than taking the road. When the main force marched at the original speed, they were already marching in a hurry.
Now that the main force has turned into a forced march, they can only follow the troops and march all the way, and they also have to choose the best possible mountain road to advance.
In this case, they might still be able to conduct reconnaissance along the way. However, it would be impossible for them to climb up to the hilltop nearly a hundred meters away to confirm that there were no ambush troops on the highland.
And what Li Wen wants is this opportunity.
It had been almost half an hour since he had been lurking in the high ground beside the road with his guard platoon. Just now he could only see some shadows of the fire dragon, but now he could see it clearly.
"The Japanese special forces are here, get ready to fight!" Everyone's eyes were fixed on the fire dragon on the road. Without any clues, Li Wen reminded in a low voice.
Looking in the direction of Li Wen's finger, a group of seven Japanese special forces troops were approaching the foot of the mountain where everyone was standing with wary expressions on their faces.
"Da da da..." A series of gunshots suddenly rang out, and the Japanese fireman walking behind fired a hail of bullets at the top of the mountain.
"Hidden, this is the enemy's fire reconnaissance!" Li Wen reminded in a low voice.
"Da da da..." As soon as he finished speaking, another burst of gunfire rang out at the foot of the mountain. The Japs' shooting was very precise, and several bullets flew back close to everyone's scalps.
After intermittently shooting all the bullets in a magazine, and still no movement on the top of the mountain, the seven Japanese soldiers stopped at the foot of the mountain finally felt relieved, held their weapons, and continued to move forward.
"Follow my order and shoot again to kill the seven little devils at the foot of the mountain!" Li Wen ordered decisively.
Then he picked up his rifle and aimed at the Japanese sniper who was the greatest threat to everyone at the foot of the mountain.
"Pa..." When the trigger was pulled, a gunshot sounded quickly from the barrel, and then a ball of blood burst out of the Japanese soldier's chest about 70 to 80 meters away.
Although the surroundings were shrouded in darkness, Li Wen could still see clearly under the moonlight.
"Da da da……"
The three light machine guns mounted nearby fired quickly, and the flying bullets intertwined with each other, staring at the Japanese and flying past.
Three light machine guns, dozens of rifles, and many snipers like Li Wen were among them. The results can be imagined.
By the time Li Wen loaded the gun again and was about to shoot at the second target, there was no longer a Japs standing at the foot of the mountain.
"Retreat!" Li Wen ordered decisively!
With guard platoons and reconnaissance squads, sometimes sneak attacks, sometimes ambushes, sometimes directly blocking...
Li Wen combined guerrilla warfare, mobile warfare, and special operations with each other, like a dog-skin plaster, sticking to the enemy's side and weakening their strength as much as possible.
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