under fire

"Can you please stop saying 'hmm'?"

"Oh my god, you bear, do you believe I can kick you to death?"

"Uh, bro, what's your name?"

"My name is Zhao Youtian, you..."

"Zhao Youtian, don't blame me, just blame yourself for talking too much." Li Laoliu put his right arm around the neck of Zhao Youtian, who was twitching in death convulsions. With his left hand, he pulled out the bayonet and stabbed Zhao Youtian upwards from his ribs. The tip of the bayonet directly pierced the puppet soldier's heart.

Instructor Liu said that killing the enemy this way would be three seconds faster than slitting his neck.

The biggest advantage is that the blood gushing out of the enemy's heart is buffered by the chest cavity, so the blood will not splash everywhere.
When Zhao Youtian stopped moving, he pulled the body into the shallow pit he had just dug.
The puppet soldiers nearby were some distance away and were busy completing the task of digging trenches. They were completely unaware of what was happening not far away.

"Hey, Zhao Youtian, why did you stop?" A puppet soldier not far away suddenly spoke.

"I'm tired, take a rest for a while." The voice that came back was muffled.

"Yeah, the lady is not here, why should we work so hard?" a puppet soldier next to him yelled and sat down on the ground.

"That's right. Anyway, we have to run away as soon as the Eighth Route Army attacks us. There's no point in doing this job." Another puppet soldier sat on the ground.

Hu Yi carefully distinguished the sporadic gunshots in the darkness.

Carefully recall the past battles with the devils, from Xifengkou to Zhongyuan and then to Songhu
I was suddenly startled.
Some people may think that the Japanese will go away after leaving the battlefield.

This is not actually the case.

Based on many years of experience fighting against the Japanese, the biggest difference between the Japanese and the puppet army is their fearlessness and ruthlessness.

After being beaten, the Japanese soldiers were like mad dogs that had been beaten. They would not run away, but would stay nearby and wait for an opportunity to bite back.

Those puppet soldiers are not scary because they have no bones, but we still have to be on guard against them following the Japanese and taking advantage of the opportunity to do something bad.

These previous continuous attacks caught the Japanese off guard, but they also exposed the actual situation that the 9th Battalion was short of manpower.

Given the nature of the Japanese, they are likely to organize a counterattack after easily leaving the battlefield.

After roughly figuring out the strength of the Japanese troops that had left the battlefield, Hu Yi believed that with the current capabilities of the 9th Battalion, it would be impossible to defeat this enemy.

Unless the devils are out of their minds and come back to kill us.
The scattered gunshots were widespread, and it was obvious that the Japanese vanguards were exchanging fire with Li Laosi's guard post.

The Japanese tactics were rigid. When attacking in the field, they usually used frontal probing and reconnaissance and flanking attacks from both wings.

Under the current circumstances, the Japanese are likely to use the battlefield infiltration tactics that they are very good at.

Then, their first target is most likely the location where the Japanese squadron attacked.
In the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese often used infiltration tactics to divide the national army, but in the occupied areas, this tactic was basically not used.

Because as soon as the Japanese attacked, the scattered Eighth Route Army troops were basically transferred.

At present, the difference in military strength between the two sides is not big.

If the enemy dares to attack us in the dark, I will ambush you on the battlefield.

Therefore, he decided to show weakness to the enemy first, and then give the Japs a fierce attack.

Sometimes, understanding the enemy's mentality can completely influence the direction of the battlefield.

A few minutes later, Hu Yi suddenly gave an order: "Order Li Laosi to lead the guard team to fight and retreat, and everyone else to assemble to the north."

After cleaning up the battlefield, the soldiers, evenly distributed in the darkness from north to south, began to move north.

Not many prisoners were captured in the darkness, most of them were injured and unable to run.

Seeing the soldiers gathered in groups, Liu Yuanqing didn't quite understand why Hu Yi wanted to do this, with such a high density of troops.
It made him feel confused.

"Let the baggage platoon light torches and retreat south." Hu Yi had no interest in explaining to him and kept breaking down the order to the soldiers of the communications squad surrounding him.

"Is this... another ambush?" Liu Yuanqing looked at the communicators who kept leaving, and guessed what Hu Yi would do based on the troop and firepower deployment in Hu Yi's orders.

"Ambush is a science, you should learn it well." Xiao Hongying, who was hurriedly dispatching people nearby, was not surprised. She had ambushed the Japanese many times before and could do this job herself.

Ambush usually takes advantage of the enemy's ignorance of one's own troop deployment, and most of the time it is done by taking advantage of terrain.
Unexpectedly, I could take advantage of the timing!
Take advantage of the darkness and the mad dog-like nature of the Japs.

Take advantage of the Japanese's human weakness that they will definitely return to the squadron headquarters to check the situation.
Liu Yuanqing felt that he had learned something new.

However, he couldn't figure out how Hu Yi could predict that the Japanese would still go into the ambush circle even though they knew they might be ambushed.
In the darkness, a reconnaissance squad was divided into four groups and the Japanese vanguards were advancing like a hot knife through butter. They finally stopped when they suddenly saw torches appearing in the south.

The lieutenant turned the camera to the south, stared and judged based on his experience that the torch that suddenly appeared was three miles away from him.

It’s more than three miles away. The grenade launcher can’t reach that far.

"The Eighth Route Army is going to run away?" The second lieutenant finally came to his senses. Did he really think that the Imperial Army was a soft persimmon that he could squeeze at will?
The squadron had suffered heavy casualties in an ambush by the Eighth Route Army, but they forgot about it in their heat of the moment.

According to the drill manual, you must first understand the enemy situation before launching an attack.
However, countless seniors who returned home with honor said in their reports that against the Tubalu, there was no need for any tactics at all, only to crush them, and crush them hard.
Before pursuing, he thought he should go check on the squadron leader who was attacked.
The puppet army’s eastern guard post is about five miles away.

The team of more than a hundred people hurriedly marching westward suddenly stopped.

"Report to the battalion commander, the scouts have captured two puppet army guard posts about three miles ahead!" The communicator came up to Battalion Commander Li breathlessly and reported excitedly.

"Have you figured out which groups are involved in the exchange of fire?" Captain Li stopped and sat down on the ground, gasping for breath.

The communicator quickly squatted next to Captain Li and said, "The Japanese squadron is from the Liaocheng Division, and the puppet army battalion is the Liaocheng Guard Battalion 3. As for which divisional team they fought against, the two puppet soldiers said they didn't know. The scouts have already made a detour to contact them, and there will be results soon."

"Having wiped out more than half of a squadron of Japanese soldiers and more than half of a battalion of puppet troops, they must be the main force of our division." The company commander under Captain Li made his own judgment.

"According to the puppet troops, they chased north all night yesterday, and at daybreak they ran west for 30 to 40 miles, and when it was almost dark they ran south for another 20 to 30 miles."

"Bring the prisoners here!" Captain Li was confused. The gunfire was not frequent, indicating that the battle was coming to an end. He planned to personally interrogate the captured puppet soldiers: "Order, the team stops advancing and takes a temporary rest for ten minutes!"

After seeing the battalion commander give the order, he quickly pulled out the map, and the instructor of the first company next to him hurriedly shouted to several soldiers to form a circle to block the light.

Then he turned on the flashlight and muttered, "We successfully covered the villagers' mission of crossing the river, and lured away the Japanese to relieve the pressure on Wang Shun's friendly army. This time we have to teach these puppet troops a lesson!"

Captain Li nodded: "That's right, as long as we can capture this group of puppet troops, the spoils alone can arm half of the battalion!"

After settling down to rest, the company commander entered the crowd and said, "Battalion Commander, just give the order. I promise to defeat this group of puppet troops."

"There are nearly a hundred Japanese soldiers and nearly two hundred puppet troops. Do you think we can defeat them?"

in the dark.

Time keeps passing.

The three black shadows kept moving forward alternately.

Not far ahead was where the squadron headquarters had been attacked.

In the dark night, the strong smell of blood mixed with gunpowder smoke is nauseating.

"The left wing is safe within a hundred meters." The three Japanese vanguards who were conducting roundabout reconnaissance from the north gathered together.

"Right. Safe"

"The enemy has left, set up alert, Private Ikeda. Go back immediately and report the situation to the second lieutenant," the leading sergeant ordered his men.

A few minutes later, the brave second lieutenant brought a full team of his men to the location where the squadron leader was attacked.

The ground was filled with corpses of the Imperial Army and the Imperial Affiliate Army.

boom.
Suddenly there was a loud noise from the ground.

The lieutenant felt the entire ground beneath his feet tremble.

He felt as if his heart was about to burst out.

Before his elite men who were squatting on the ground on guard could lie down, the flying fragments, stones and dirt hit their bodies and caused pain.

Ta da da. Ta da da.
In the darkness on three sides of the northwest, there were flashes of gunfire everywhere.

The lieutenant felt as if his chest was hit by a heavy object, and the severe pain in his chest made his eyes go black.

He opened his mouth full of blood foam and howled like a wolf: "Fight back..."

Endless regret, why was I so careless?
He had clearly led the team out of the encirclement of the Eighth Route Army, but how could he fall back into the trap like a pig?

Is it a problem with the training manual, or is there a problem with the reports made by those predecessors?
Then, the lieutenant's conflicted mind lost consciousness... (End of this chapter)