A string of machine gun fire suddenly sounded in the forest. A puppet soldier at the front fell down and was beaten into a sieve.
"Run to the left, we will break out from the left!" the platoon leader shouted, with a look of panic on his face.
"Bang bang bang~"
As soon as the people moved, several gunshots rang out in the woods on the left, and another puppet soldier fell to the ground screaming, dying.
"Retreat to the right!"
The platoon leader became even more panicked and continued to shout.
"Da da da……"
On the right, a machine gun fired, but only a few bullets were fired, and all the bullets hit the ground in front of the puppet troops, without hurting anyone.
Despite this, these puppet soldiers still stopped and lay on the ground with their heads in their hands.
They were so frightened that their expressions changed when they heard the sound of gunshots. They lay on the ground and looked at the dark forest around them with fear on their faces.
At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded deep in the forest and reached their ears.
"Brothers of the puppet army, you have been surrounded. There are at least three machine guns around you pointing at you. You can't run away!"
"We are all Chinese. We don't want to kill anyone. I'll give you half a minute to think about it, throw away your weapons, and raise your hands to surrender!"
"We in the Eighth Route Army treat prisoners preferentially and will never kill you. We keep our word!"
The puppet soldiers, whose faces were full of panic, were confused and believed the threat just made by the Eighth Route Army.
"I surrender!"
A puppet soldier dropped his rifle in a panic, raised his hands and shouted, his words slurred out of fear.
The other soldiers no longer hesitated, fearing that they would be targeted by the Eighth Route Army one step later, so they dropped their weapons one by one!
At the Japanese garrison headquarters in Lingqiu County, the adjutant of the headquarters sullenly woke up Major Noda just after dawn.
"Sir, something happened to our troops who went into the mountains to encircle and suppress the Eighth Route Army!"
"Something happened? How is it possible? Didn't I give an order to Commander Zhou that the troops must retreat if the casualties exceed two companies?" The sleepy-eyed Major Noda asked with a frown.
"And the troops entering the mountain are followed by the imperial army. Even if the puppet army does not carry out the order, they will definitely carry out the order and urge them to retreat. What could happen?"
The adjutant quickly replied: "The battle situation changed too quickly. They suffered heavy casualties in just one battle, and they were also attacked by the Eighth Route Army on the way back!"
"Captain Zhou exited the forest alive and has now reached the stronghold of Hongquan Village... However, almost all the Japanese troops who entered the mountain were destroyed! And they lost all their heavy weapons!"
"What? Say it again!" Major Noda couldn't find it anymore. He stood up and stared at the adjutant and asked.
The adjutant replied very carefully: "We entered the mountain with an artillery squad, a heavy machine gun squad, and a combat unit. Today, only 13 people came back alive. All other warriors died in the battle. All the heavy machine guns and mortars were abandoned in the woods, and they were not brought back.
It didn’t blow up even after it came out!”
"How could this happen? How could the losses of the troops be so great?" Major Noda continued to ask with anger rising, staring at him with a pair of red eyes.
"And those heavy equipment, don't they know that those heavy equipment are also very important to the imperial army?"
"Now it falls into the hands of the Eighth Route Army. Once the Eighth Route Army's equipment and troops come to deal with us, many soldiers will definitely die in the hands of these heavy weapons!"
The adjutant lowered his head and continued to report: "Sir, the puppet army's casualties are even greater!"
"Seven companies with more than 700 people went into the mountain, and only one company with more than 100 people came back. The other troops were all abandoned in the woods."
"One company of puppet troops rebelled directly on the battlefield and colluded with the Eighth Route Army in the mountains to attack our troops entering the mountains from both inside and outside!"
"The casualties of the Imperial Army were basically caused by this company!"
Noda became angry and turned into an angry lion.
He yelled: "Stupid pigs, they are all a bunch of stupid pigs!"
"I knew that these Chinese people were not trustworthy, and we still had to rely on the imperial army to fight!"
"If they can betray their own country, they can definitely betray the imperial army."
"And Zhou Yunian, what does he do for a living? Doesn't he have any idea that his subordinates are colluding with the Eighth Route Army?"
"He must be responsible for this defeat!"
The adjutant stood aside, lowering his head and saying nothing, allowing Major Noda to vent his anger.
It wasn't until Noda stopped scolding that he reminded: "Sir, the responsibility will definitely be investigated... But I think that our urgent delay now is to implement our secret plan!"
"Not bad!" Major Noda reacted suddenly, and then forced himself to calm down.
"The forest is the territory of the Eighth Route Army. They are haunted in it. We have no way to deal with them for the time being. In this case, we will lure them out to fight, kill them, and avenge the imperial army who died in the battle!"
"Start executing our secret plan now!"
"Those warriors who were killed by the Eighth Route Army cannot die in vain. I will make those Eighth Route Army soldiers pay with their blood and chop off their heads!"
The adjutant quickly replied: "Sir, don't worry, our secret plan is perfect, and the Eighth Route Army in the mountains will definitely be fooled!"
"As long as they are fooled, they will definitely not be able to escape our hands."
The guerrilla secret camp could only accommodate about a hundred people, but about five hundred people were squeezed in. More than 400 of them were prisoners of this battle. There were more than 60 puppet troops brought by Huang Sheng anyway.
, there were more than 300 puppet troops forced to surrender and captured on the battlefield.
As for the seizures, let alone the rifles and armed belts with ammunition boxes, they were piled like a hill in the open space in the middle of the camp.
The most attractive thing is the heavy machine guns, mortars, and light machine guns placed next to the ammunition pile.
Under the sun, it reflects the cold light, which looks very powerful!
All the guerrillas had smiles on their faces, but the instructor Liu Wenshan was just the opposite. Not only did he not smile, he frowned instead.
As a former Red Army soldier, becoming a guerrilla instructor was very stressful.
The equipment of the Eighth Route Army is poor, and the equipment of the guerrillas must be even worse. As the general manager of the guerrillas, he must spend a lot of energy to collect the equipment, ammunition and supplies needed by the guerrillas.
After he actually took office, he realized that he had too many worries. With the acting captain Li Hao here, he didn't need to worry about these things at all.
Li Haotai is very capable of acquiring equipment and ammunition. When the main force is short of guns, the guerrillas have managed to achieve the goal of having more guns but fewer guns.
It was originally a good thing, but today Liu Wenshan felt worried, and then he frowned just now.
There were so many pieces of equipment and ammunition seized that the guerrillas had no place to hide them.
There were too many puppet soldiers captured, so much so that the guerrillas would run out of food if they couldn't even eat the little food they had hoarded for five days!
When he found Li Hao, he started to complain: "Captain, too many have been seized. There are nearly 500 rifles of all kinds. There are 39 38-type caps. The rest are old sleeves, Mauser, Chinese and formal."
,79-caliber rifle!”
"I checked, and except for a few old sleeves that are too old to be used, the remaining nearly 400 are all good guns!"
"In addition, there are 5 Czech-made light machine guns and 8 box guns..."
"There are also a lot of seventy-nine bullets, totaling more than 12,000 rounds. This is a lot used by the puppet army on the battlefield. If it is useless, 20,000 rounds will definitely be needed!"
"Not counting the grenades we used, there are still more than 800! There are also more than 500 bullets for the box cannon!"
"I asked Huang Sheng. In order to guard against them, the Japs usually only have ten rounds of bullets for each person. The extra bullets are temporarily replenished by the Japs. Now they all give us an advantage!"
"There are so many weapons and ammunition that the cave where we originally hid them can't even accommodate them!"
"This does not include the three mortars and four heavy machine guns captured!"
"The only regret is that two heavy machine guns were damaged, but a lot of ammunition was seized. There are still eleven boxes of 110 rounds of artillery shells, and six boxes of heavy machine gun bullets with 12,000 rounds..."
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