The war of resistance against mountains is heavy

Chapter 2130 Finding an Ambush Location

A horse-drawn carriage was driving on the road, with a square object loaded on it.

The square shape is what it is, but as for what is inside, no one knows, because it is held up with a rag curtain.

The driver of the carriage was a puppet soldier, and two puppet soldiers holding rifles were sitting on the edge of the carriage behind him.

The situation was just like the puppet army returning from looting in the village.

Because the Japanese army had started another mopping-up operation in the past few days, there were tire tracks and footprints on the road but few pedestrians, so at least in this few hundred meters of open land, there was only this lonely carriage.

"Drive the carriage to the highest ground in front!" said a puppet soldier on the carriage.

Although he was dressed as a puppet soldier, he was clearly Chu Tian.

"Okay!" Qin Chuan, who was driving the carriage in front, responded when Chu Tian said this. He flicked the whip in his hand and the carriage started to trot.

As soon as the carriage started moving, a cry of "Oh my God!" came from the square object covered with rags on the carriage behind them, and it happened more than once.

"Why didn't you tell us when you were driving the carriage?" Wu Ziqi's complaining voice came from the thing covered by the cloth.

"It's not like you can't hear the company commander saying drive the cart. Are you deaf?" Qin Chuan replied, and then shouted "Go", making the horse pulling the cart run faster.

According to Chu Tian's plan, the carriage in front of them was for reconnaissance, while the people in their camp were following behind.

They didn't know whether the Japanese and puppet troops from Ma Ling Town would come to retaliate today, and they were also afraid of colliding with the enemy directly on the road. The carriage in front of them acting as the vanguard was very important.

After all, they don't want to engage in a battle of encounter with the Japanese army. What they want to fight is an ambush, right?

They needed to conceal their identities. Fortunately, when they sent away the puppet soldiers captives yesterday, they asked three puppet soldiers to take off their clothes. Chu Tian, ​​Qin Chuan and a guide they found in the village named Qin Zhu all changed into those clothes.

But how could only three people be enough to serve as scouts? Wu Ziqi suddenly had an idea and moved a family's large chicken cage directly onto the carriage, and covered the outside with rags and straw curtains. The remaining soldiers were hidden in the cage!

Since these people from Shang Zhen’s camp have already met Xiao Axe, according to Xiao Axe, if your camp wants to join the Eighth Route Army, then the Eighth Route Army will definitely welcome you with open arms!

Come to think of it, there is no team like Shang Zhenying that is so capable and has a similar style to the Eighth Route Army. So far, Xiao Axe has only encountered a team like Shang Zhenying. Even the leaders of the Eighth Route Army have no reason not to welcome them.

Chu Tian had two considerations for fighting this battle. One was that since they wanted to join the Eighth Route Army, they had to give the Eighth Route Army a "greeting gift", right? The other factor was, as Wang Laomao said, they had to save some ammunition!

Their lair was razed by the Japanese devils. Although they were safe, the little supplies in the lair could not be taken out and became the spoils of the Japanese devils.

Once they join the Eighth Route Army, they will have to live a hard life, but no matter how hard the life is, they cannot suffer from lack of ammunition!

If you ask them to really learn from the Eighth Route Army and charge forward by firing three shots, they really can't do it!

So, Chu Tian set his target on the Japanese troops in Ma Ling Town.

Since the Japanese army will definitely retaliate and they want to ambush us, then just go forward and ambush them when you find a suitable terrain.

Shang Zhenying and his men want to join the Eighth Route Army, but at least they are not part of it yet.

Due to the limitation of its own firepower, the Eighth Route Army generally would not launch attacks on Japanese troops of equal strength, and ambushes were rare. It would require several times the number of troops to ambush the Japanese army.

But Shang Zhen's battalion often used a small force to fight a larger one. It was rare for a dozen Japanese soldiers to be turned into sieves by a sudden round of fire like yesterday!

The carriage quickly reached the high point on the road. Qin Chuan stopped the horse. They looked forward in the carriage. The road was still empty, but the snow on the road had melted away.

Seeing that there was nothing wrong, Qian Chuaner stood on the carriage and waved his arms. Soon, a few hundred meters behind their carriage, the people from their camp appeared and ran towards them one by one. Under Chu Tian's order, Qin Chuan drove the carriage forward again. Shang Zhen's camp moved forward like this. After the scouts in front confirmed that there were no Japanese and puppet troops within a certain distance, the large group behind ran up. When the large group came up, the scouts continued to move forward.

As they kept moving back and forth like this, their speed naturally couldn't be fast.

But they ran from morning to afternoon, and were still more than ten miles away from Malin Town, but the Japanese and puppet troops did not appear.

The location they had reached could barely serve as an ambush point, but unfortunately the Japanese army did not show up.

"It looks like the Japanese can't go today." Chu Tian said.

"A squadron of Japanese soldiers, just like they did when they went to our village, sent some to each village. There won't be many of them left. I guess they are not sure about defeating us." Qin Chuan guessed.

"Why don't we leave the team here and let's go forward to see if there's a good place. Tell me, if we block the exit of Ma Ling Town and set an ambush for the Japanese, they won't realize it." Qian Chuan'er's voice came from the cage.

"They certainly didn't expect that we would ambush them at their doorstep, but the problem is that once the battle starts, the Japanese reinforcements in the town will come quickly," Qin Chuan analyzed.

"Let our people stay here, and we'll go to the front to see if there is any good terrain." Chu Tian said.

After Chu Tian finished speaking, he asked the guide Qin Zhu: "Are you afraid?"

"I am afraid too." Qin Zhu answered honestly, "But when I think about my daughter-in-law, I have to do it even if I am afraid!"

"That's right, this is what my family said." Qin Chuan said with a smile.

Qin Zhuzi is almost thirty years old this year and has three children at home.

Once a man gets married and starts to worry about his wife and children, he will not be as brave as he was when he was young.

But the Eighth Route Army has done a good job in ideological work. When the Japanese come, you have to fight them. It is better to protect your wives and children now than to avenge them later!

This is the Eighth Route Army base.

However, we must not understand the Eighth Route Army base as a static iron wall, saying that if the Japanese devils come to raid, we will keep the enemy out of the country.

That's not right. Wouldn't that be a positional war? How could the Eighth Route Army be a match for the Japanese army in a positional war?

As soon as the Japanese army arrived at the Eighth Route Army base to sweep it, the main force of the Eighth Route Army could not fight the Japanese army head-on, but could only use guerrilla warfare to take advantage of the time, place and people to circle around the Japanese army, avoid their strength and strike them when they were tired, waiting for an opportunity to annihilate part of the enemy.

But precisely because the common people in the base area and the Eighth Route Army were of one mind, the Japanese army would never show mercy to the people in the base area. As for the people who had any connection with the anti-Japanese forces, they would rather kill three thousand people by mistake than let any one go.

Therefore, the Japanese army also killed civilians indiscriminately in the base areas. It is also because of this that it is logically perfect to kill the enemy first to protect the home rather than wait for the home to be destroyed by the invaders before taking revenge!

"Let's move forward. It would be best if we find an ideal ambush location four or five miles away from Maling Town. The closer we are to the town, the less vigilant the Japanese devils will be. As long as we act quickly and ruthlessly enough, the Japanese devils in the town will not have time." Chu Tian said to Qin Zhu.

"Okay." Qin Zhu agreed, but he was still a little worried.

He had also heard of the Eighth Route Army fighting ambushes, but he had never seen people from the Northeast fight like these people in front of him, who looked as if they couldn't wait to put their guns right under the noses of the Japanese devils.