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Chapter 160 Chapter 159, Some are immobile, some are anxious
Therefore, let the Japanese soldiers guarding the Baicun stronghold go to the Zhoucun stronghold, let the Japanese soldiers in the Zhoucun stronghold make amends for their crimes, confront the Eighth Route Army in the east, and stabilize the existing situation.

As for why they didn't let the Fukawa squadron go back to the base? Of course they wanted to force Fukawa, just in case Fukawa could still achieve victory.
East of Weijia Village, Buchuan Akidai held the telegram in his hand and knew that he was to establish a garrison there, so he gave up the plan to continue attacking eastward. In fact, it was getting late now, and attacking eastward would have to be a night battle. Buchuan did not dare to fight the Eighth Route Army at night in an unfamiliar terrain environment. Well, they suffered so much during the day, not to mention at night.

Buchuan led his men back to Weijia Village, and then the Japanese soldiers fully utilized their earthwork capabilities and began to build fortifications using local materials. They even built blocking fortifications in the middle of the mountain road, established heavy machine gun firing points on the hills on both sides, and moved the heavy machine guns on the trucks in the west and mounted them on high places to control the overall situation.

As for the hill in the east? The devils didn't dare to go over and take a look. The puppet soldiers also escaped and followed the devils to work in shame.

In the east, Li Yuexuan and his team had been waiting at the selected ambush point for almost two hours, but they had not seen any trace of the Japanese and had not heard any explosions. They were all becoming anxious.

"Captain, are the Japanese not coming?" Zou Ming asked carefully.

"I'm not a Japanese, so how would I know? Hu Lanzhou, take the vanguard squad and go around the mountains in the south to see what the Japanese are doing!" Zhou Weiguo gave Hu Lanzhou the task.

"The vanguard squad, follow me!" Hu Lanzhou did not hesitate, and took eight soldiers, carrying guns and machetes, and went into the forest in the south. They needed to open a path in the woods, and then approach the devils secretly in order to grasp their situation.

"Captain, when will our guerrillas be equipped with telegraph and telephones? It will be very difficult to fight without intelligence support!" Li Yuexuan looked at the red dots that had gathered in Weijia Village on the auxiliary panel and took the initiative to ask about communications.

"Ha... there will be a telephone, there will be a telegraph machine! Well... there will be a bugle too!" What could Xing Weiguo say but to comfort her.

Li Yuexuan stopped talking. Today's march and fighting to blast the Japanese had consumed a lot of physical energy. He simply took out his lunch box and water bottle, poured some fried noodles mixed with ginseng powder into the lunch box, then poured in some cold boiled water, and rolled up the fried noodles.

Fried noodles, of course, were what he proposed to let the people help make! Well, during the founding war, the comrades fought with fried noodles. Li Yuexuan thought that the guerrillas could also eat this as rations for marching and fighting, so he proposed it.

As for fried noodles, the main ingredient is flour, and the ingredients are bean flour, millet flour, sorghum rice, sesame, peanuts, corn flour and other grains. Just fry them. Of course, at Li Yuexuan's suggestion, some salt, some homemade maltose and sweet potato syrup blocks, and the medicinal powder prepared by Chen Laodao for replenishing qi and nourishing blood were added to the fried noodles. The main ingredient was the ginseng seized from the bandit village.

Although it’s a bit of a waste of resources to eat the best ginseng like this, this stuff is really useful!

Li Yuexuan ate one of the fried dough balls, which were salty, sweet and a little strange. It was about 3 taels of water. However, after eating this small piece of dough, he didn't feel hungry anymore. After digesting it for a while, he felt heat rising from his stomach, and he didn't feel cold at all.

Seeing Li Yuexuan eating fried noodles here, everyone followed suit and started eating. The ambush site became a picnic. When they finished eating, a row of soldiers from the first squad came back from the east. They were responsible for sending the wounded from the previous battle back to Liangjia Village. Now they came back here again, bringing with them the team's signalman.

"Captain, our captain has already made arrangements. The entire one kilometer west of Liangjia Village is a minefield. All positions are ready, and food and other things have been moved to the caves in Black Rock Cliff. The captain asked us to tell our comrades to continue to hold out here. We must gradually resist the Japanese step by step. The final battle will be in Liangjia Village. If we can't win there, we can just turn around and run."

"Well, you go back and tell the captain that we will be waiting for the Japanese to arrive here at Jigongling! Go, we have no shortage of ammunition, enough food, and everything. Let him continue to prepare. It would be better to dig some traps. Anyway, we are free anyway..." After Xing Weiguo gave some instructions, he continued to lie in wait with his men.

Well, the Japanese didn't know about the Eighth Route Army's situation, so they were stationed in Weijia Village. The Eighth Route Army didn't know what the Japanese were thinking, so they set up an ambush on the hilltop called Jigongling. At this time, it all depends on who has more patience, more accurate intelligence, and more elite soldiers.

But in reality? The guerrillas were not that elite, at least for now, the guerrillas were not elite enough; the Japanese? The garrison troops, which were withdrawn from the Beiyue area after suffering losses, were not elite enough. A squad with a dozen veteran Japanese soldiers was good enough, and the rest were newly recruited recruits.

Although the Japanese have shifted their strategic focus from attacking the major cities in the southwest to the security battle in the northern security zone, no matter how much they value it, they will not put their elite troops into the independent mixed brigade. With so many good soldiers, the first thing to replenish is the regular divisions.

The Japanese soldiers and the guerrillas stopped moving, but there was still a group of people who were taking anxious actions. Yes, it was Captain Guo and his men!

In fact, Captain Guo and his men came from the south of Huangcun, not from Baicun. That's right, the damage to the 10-kilometer road was due to Captain Guo and his men. As for mobilizing the masses, this kind of work is very familiar to Lao Guo and his men. The three companies are responsible for guarding and destroying the Japanese patrols, and the people can work under the leadership of the grassroots cadres and militia...

"Company commander... we went to the Zhoucun stronghold and saw that the Japanese were bringing back dead bodies in truckloads, but we don't know how many were killed! Also, there are still Japanese active in the stronghold, but we can't tell how many people there are!" From a forest south of Zhoucun, a company of scouts returned to report.

"No matter how many people there are, we can't take the stronghold! By the way, are you sure the guerrillas are planning to fight the Japanese in Yin Jiulang Village?" Captain Guo was asking the signalman who was going to report the guerrillas.

"Yes... But Yinjiulang Village has been burned down by the Japanese. There are also traces of fighting at the foot of the mountain. The Japanese have also set up sentries on the mountains on both sides... I really don't know what the guerrillas are doing."

"Forget it, let's take the original path and go to Liangjia Village first to see what the situation is." Captain Guo was confused about the situation and did not dare to provoke the Japanese, so he could only say this.

(End of this chapter)