Rise from the sword

Chapter 280 Wait Another Day

Yangquan.

It was just after dawn.

In the barren hills outside the city, Wang Gensheng led a squad of special forces to hide in a barren haystack, looking at Yangquan in the distance.

Looking from here, about three miles away is the ancient city wall of Yangquan City. Under the rammed earth city wall several meters high, many ordinary people gathered outside the city gate, carrying carts with large and small bags, ready to enter the city to start a day's work.

However, the devils and puppet soldiers guarding the gate of the city blocked the way of the common people. They were carefully interrogating and searching the people who entered the city. From time to time, ordinary people were driven away and not allowed to enter the city.

"What the hell is going on?"

In the haystack, a soldier of the special team put down his binoculars and cursed: "Why are you so vigilant all of a sudden? I've been waiting for several days, and I haven't seen a single kid come out."

"This little devil from Yangquan, like the devil from Shou County, will become a turtle with a shrunken head at some point."

Everyone still remembers.

Not long ago, when they went to Shijiazhuang, Yangquan was still looking relaxed, the city gate was wide open, and people could come in and out at will, and there were only a few superficial second devils at the guard post outside the city gate, who only searched suspicious people occasionally.

Now that only a few days have passed, the little devil suddenly became vigilant. Everyone who entered the city had to be carefully inspected. The level of vigilance and caution is comparable to that of the devils in Shou County.

"I reckon..."

Wang Gensheng squinted his eyes, and speculated: "The thing we did in Shijiazhuang scared the little devils. The Yangquan little devils are afraid that we will infiltrate them, so they have stepped up their vigilance."

"However, this is a bit of a big deal, isn't it?"

Yangquan is not far from Shijiazhuang. For a kid with a car, it is only a day's journey.Moreover, the devil has a telephone and radio station, and the news is transmitted quickly. After knowing that the attack on the Shijiazhuang military station was from the independent regiment, it is normal for Yangquan to be more vigilant.

After all, Yangquan is the only way for the independent group to go to Shijiazhuang.

It was within Wang Gensheng's expectation that the little devils in Yangquan would be vigilant, but the level of vigilance was somewhat beyond his expectation.It takes such a big show to guard against their special team?
In the past few days, he has searched everywhere. Not only the city gate, but also the surrounding gun towers and military depots all look like they are facing a big enemy. They are on high alert 24 hours a day, as if a large army is about to attack.

He sent someone to crawl into the city at night to investigate, and the devils in the city searched more strictly, and even forbid anyone to go out at night.

"Hey····"

In the team, a team member sighed. He touched the 60 mortar in his arms, and then looked at the ammunition hand with the shells on his back. His tone was full of regret:
"Then let's go back empty-handed?"

Not reconciled!

It's been almost five days since they came out this time, and they haven't even killed a single devil, and the new guy in their hands hasn't seen the blood of the little devil yet!
The team member was full of dissatisfaction.

He was a mortar gunner in a special squad.

The lightweight 60mm mortar is suitable for special teams to carry, so Zhang Dabiao sent a team member to the artillery company to train for several months, and after several actual combats, he returned to the special team formation not long ago.

Everyone is a little bit lacking in interest.

After being out for five days, I didn't even touch a devil's hair, which made people very discouraged and very unwilling.

The scene froze for a while, and suddenly, a soldier wearing a 'straw hat' shouted excitedly, while speaking, he raised his binoculars to watch carefully: "Come out, the devil has come out."

"A second lieutenant, a warrant officer, two sergeants, and nine devil soldiers with them, riding a motorcycle."

He quickly reported the number of devil soldiers.

"Finally out?"

"..."

Everyone's spirits lifted, and there was a shake in the haystack, and nearly ten 'straw hats' rushed out in unison, and everyone looked at the gate of the city one after another.

I saw a dozen devil soldiers, riding three motorcycles, driving away along the dirt road. On the side of the motorcycle, there were machine guns and eight times the binoculars. Everyone could clearly see the sidecar Up, the devil's vigilant eyes.

"Get rid of them?"

The gunner licked his lips while raising the 60mm mortar in his hand.

"Don't do it first, wait."

Wang Gensheng squinted his eyes, stared at the Devil's motorcycle leaving the city for a while, and then turned to the gate of Yangquan City.

Everyone didn't speak, they all lowered their heads, and the haystack fell into silence again.

About ten minutes later, there was movement at the gate of Yangquan city again. This time, two trucks came out first, followed by a large number of devils, quite a few, driving along the road and heading for a distance.

During this period, the devil team stopped from time to time, and sent people to climb the mountain to search.

"One lieutenant, two second lieutenants, followed by sixty little devils, this is a small team..."

Observers reported the situation immediately.

Before he finished speaking, the observer suddenly raised his voice: "No, no, this is not a squad. There is a major officer in the second truck, and I almost missed it."

"team leader?"

Hearing the Shaozuo officer, everyone looked at Wang Gensheng with burning eyes.

The purpose of their trip was to use beheading tactics, but this Yangquan devil commander Shinji Kozuo didn’t know what happened recently. The patrol team, there is no way to lurk in with weapons.

Seeing that this mission is fruitless, instead of continuing to waste time here, it is better to kill this devil, Shao Zuo, and then retreat.

When you go out for a trip, you can't return empty-handed!

Seeing that Wang Gensheng was still holding up the binoculars and did not speak, everyone thought it was because he was worried about the loss in the battle. One of the team members continued:
"Look at the direction of this little devil's car. It's heading towards the gun tower of Xiaomo Village. Let's go to the small road and lay an ambush on the road ahead in advance, prepare a mine to blow up this devil, and then run away after beating him up. It's a mountain road, if you drill into it, the little devil will definitely not be able to catch up with us."

"That's right, Captain, let's make fun of this devil, Shao Zuo."

"According to the regiment's order, it's almost time for us to go back, or just this group of devils! If these devils go back again, I'm afraid we will return empty-handed."

"..."

While persuading Wang Gensheng with a few words, another small group of devils rushed out of the city and drove along the road, stopping from time to time to climb up the surrounding hillsides and ridges to search.

"Let's wait another day."

Hearing the voices of the team members begging for battle, Wang Gensheng took a deep breath and decided to wait.

The situation in front of him, the motorcycle alert, the devils in the brigade followed the alert and spread the alert, very much like the alert devil soldiers in the observation group at that time. Combined with the abnormal alert level of the Yangquan devils recently, he had a vague guess in his mind——

It is very likely that a big fish will come to Yangquan.

"Yes."

The team members felt a little regretful, but they all obeyed the order and no longer objected.

"Gaozi..."

Seeing that the devil's convoy was out of sight, Wang Gensheng took out the map and looked at it, and said to one of the team members, "Tie up all the big tumors made in Germany tonight and make a few big landmines."

"Then, bury it here..."

Wang Gensheng pointed to a point on the map in his hand.

There is only one road leading to Yangquan City. Regardless of whether there are devils or big fish coming, if you plant landmines here, you can get something.And buried at night, can avoid the devil's search.

"all?"

The soldier named Gao Zi raised his eyebrows in a puzzled tone.

Because there were enough big mules to transport them, this time, they carried a lot of German-made big tumors, and they buried them all at once. The scene was very violent.

"Yes, all."

Wang Gensheng accentuated his tone.

If there are really big fish coming, there must be a lot of escort troops, at least the size of a small team, and the road around Yangquan is flat, so the dozen or so of them who ambushed suddenly by the road might be entangled by little devils.

"Go and inform Cao Mantang to come back."

Finally, Wang Gensheng called another soldier and said.

In this operation, Wang Xikui did not follow, only Cao Mantang followed.

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Yangquan.

Inside the Japanese Army Headquarters.

Koza Shinji told his three captains solemnly:
"Tomorrow, there will be three senior officers sent from the base camp, as well as a lieutenant officer from the Fifth Division, who will come to Yangquan. We must do a good job in security, and we must not make any mistakes."

"Hi."

The three captains all bowed their heads in agreement.

"Go and supervise yourself."

Koza Shinji patted the table, raised his tone and continued:

"According to the post-war on-site investigation report issued by Taiyuan, it was because the security forces did not search carefully and did not find the Eighth Route Army lurking on the hillside, which resulted in the death of more than 100 imperial officers from the observation group."

"We must not make mistakes like this."

"This time, if anyone has a problem, cut their stomachs to respect the emperor!"

Speaking of the observation group, Shinji Kozuo's tone was full of rejoicing.

Fortunately he didn't go then.Otherwise, he might be killed by Li Yunlong too.

"Hi."

The three team captains continued to bow their heads and put their legs together.

"Also, the security around the hotel prepared for them must be strengthened. The guards must keep patrolling day and night to prevent any suspicious people from approaching. The Shijiazhuang military depot incident must not be repeated in Yangquan."

Shinji Kozuo continued to remind solemnly.

Although among the four main officers who came here this time, the highest one photographed by the base camp was the Colonel, and there were also two Lieutenants and a Major. He is low.

But these two groups of people, three are senior intelligence officers sent by the base camp, and one is the elite captain of the fifth division. Their influence is much greater than that of the small second-line division commander who can hardly keep his position. many.

If this group of people had an accident on his territory, then he would either apologize by harakiri or go to the front line to die.

Anyway, it's dead.

Even if this group encounters an attack, even if there is no problem, he will lose his position as the captain of the alliance.

Before, because Shijiazhuang was attacked by Li Yunlong's troops, he had already been scolded by his superiors. If General Shinozuka hadn't blocked him, his position as the captain of the 33rd Regiment would have been gone long ago.

If there is another problem, no one can report him.

"Hi."

The three captains bowed their heads together and moved in unison.

He waved his hand and signaled the three captains to leave. Looking at the map on the table and the information compiled by the staff, Director Kosashi breathed a sigh of relief, and the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up slightly.

A truly excellent imperial officer must be able to learn from previous mistakes and correct them.

During the incident of the observation group, Li Yunlong led his troops to lurk beside the road. Because of the carelessness of the guard troops, they failed to search for the enemy, which caused the observation group to be attacked and all members were destroyed.So he ordered the troops to conduct a blanket search. Within one kilometer of the road, any place where guerrillas might be ambushed must be searched in multiple batches, and no cave or ditch should be spared.

In order to ensure nothing goes wrong, he also sent troops to check in batches, and required that every searched location must be marked.

Shijiazhuang pilot station incident, the enemy small group of troops attacked at night, so he set up the residence of the newly arrived officers in the headquarters, and maintained a high alert patrol day and night, and also stationed a brigade around the headquarters. If you want to get close, you can only attack .

In this way, the safety of the new officers is absolutely infallible.

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"team leader."

Cao Mantang, who was dressed in a gray military uniform and covered with dead branches and leaves, came to Wang Gensheng quietly.

"it is good."

Wang Gensheng nodded to Cao Mantang: "Take a rest first, I will give you a task later."

"Yes."

Cao Mantang cherished his words like gold. After speaking, he held his sniper rifle and ran to the back to rest.

"These little devils inspected very carefully, even opened the haystack to have a look, and even dug a few times with a hoe."

In the haystack, the observer holding a telescope spoke in amazement.

"Hey, the third batch of devils actually double-checked, you kid is serious."

Everyone looked at this scene and those little devils who were extremely cautious, and they also felt weird.

The little devil's situation, even the outside of the city wall, has been turned over and over again. Obviously, there is something wrong.

"We withdraw."

Seeing that the devils were about to search them, Wang Gensheng ordered to retreat: "Pay attention to cleaning up the traces."

Following Wang Gensheng's order, the special team quietly left the haystack, bent over, and ran towards the mountainous area behind. When they left, they even cleaned up all the traces, and even the grass returned to its original state.

"Baga, what's the point of this?"

"Could it be that the guerrillas still dare to ambush at the gate of the city?"

Half an hour after they left, a group of devils came here. These devils lifted the haystacks and checked the ditches. The enemy didn't find it, but was splashed with dust and mud. In the high temperature of May, they were itchy and unbearable, so they cursed vented their dissatisfaction.

"Keep your voice down, the gendarmes are watching!"

A ghost reminded.

After the inspection, the team of devils continued to search along the highway.

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　　Next chapter Tomorrow morning or midnight?Anyway, finish this paragraph.

　　
　
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