Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

Chapter 231 Chapter 230, The Landlord's Foolish Son
Half an hour passed quickly. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese Sakata Regiment's 3rd Battalion as the main force of the vanguard, the direct artillery squadron and the direct baggage squadron as the central army, and the Imperial Army's 1st Battalion as the logistics and baggage troops, rumbled out of Ping'an County and headed straight for Jigongling.

Of course, since they were about to enter the base, the Imperial Army naturally had to send some troops to walk in front as guides (to walk through mines). So the puppet troops of the 1st Squadron of the 1st Battalion of the Imperial Army accepted this task and walked in front of the team.

That's right, they were walking, not marching in trucks like the devils behind them! Moreover, in order to avoid being blown up by the Eighth Route Army's mines again, the puppet soldiers of this squadron drove a horse-drawn carriage with a full load of sandbags. These were real sandbags, filled with river sand, which were good bulletproof shelters.

Sakata Nobutsu believed that with this carriage full of sandbags in front, even if it encountered a mine buried by the Eighth Route Army, it would be enough to trigger it! As for the life and death of the Imperial Army? He didn't care.

Snap... The long whip was swung in the air, making a crisp crackling sound, and the horse-drawn carriage pulling the sandbags rumbled forward.

More than thirty meters behind the carriage, more than one hundred Imperial Army soldiers were walking crookedly, not caring at all that the coachman in the carriage in front was cursing in his heart.

"Let me tell you, who am I? I am a god, a god on the battlefield! If you follow me, bullets will have to avoid you!" In the puppet army, an officer with the rank of captain and a box gun, riding on a donkey, spoke nonsense to the puppet soldiers next to him.

"Captain Hua, you are absolutely right, you are the god on the battlefield!" Captain Hua Chenyu was surrounded by a dozen puppet soldiers, who all echoed him.

"Ahahahaha, you are right, I am your God, and the Imperial Army has to give way to me! You see, when we march, you have to let me lead you in front!" Captain Hua laughed.

"The first month of the lunar year is the New Year, the first day of the lunar year is the first day of the lunar year..." After enjoying the compliments from his subordinates, Captain Hua actually sang a two-person opera that he had learned from somewhere. Not only did he sing, he also twisted and twitched his body, just like a country shaman.

"咹昂, 咹昂..." As if the donkey under Captain Hua's crotch heard the singing of its master, it also started to bray, which actually matched Captain Hua's singing very well!
"Oh, it's our captain's gone crazy again! He's just like Wu Dalang, a night owl, he plays with birds like people!" At the end of the team, an old puppet soldier said to the middle-aged puppet soldier next to him.

"Who says it's not true? He's just a stupid son of a landlord. He foolishly let his wife sleep with the team leader, and then he became a squadron leader, and he doesn't even know his own last name!" said the middle-aged puppet soldier contemptuously.

"If you want to live a decent life, you have to have some color on your head... Ahem, I won't say anymore, his cronies are here..." The old puppet soldier quickly stopped talking and looked around, as if looking for the most suitable place to escape. In fact, they were originally servants of the Hua family and became puppet soldiers with Captain Hua.

These people may be able to fight a favorable battle, but forget about asking them to risk their lives! As for the family, country and the world? They probably don't even understand what a country is!
The total number of the puppet army of the devils exceeded 2600, and they also had cars as means of transportation, carrying enough baggage and supplies! Therefore, Sakata Nobutsu did not urge the team to speed up the march, and let the puppet army advance at a normal walking speed.

In the enemy's convoy, trucks would occasionally deviate from the convoy and stop on the roadside. Then, several signalmen carrying radios would keep sending and receiving telegrams to get in touch with the 1st and 2nd Battalions.

"It's been several hours, and they haven't caught up yet?" In the truck, Sakata Nobutsu looked at the latest telegram and was very dissatisfied with his own brigade's pursuit ability. However, no matter how dissatisfied he was, Sakata Nobutsu had no better solution at this time! Because the telegram sent by the brigade said that the Eighth Route Army was walking on the mountain road, and there were relatively steep slopes, and the Eighth Route Army could easily climb up and continue to escape. However, the two brigades carried infantry artillery and Type 92 heavy machine guns. These weapons were too heavy and affected the speed of marching!
Especially on those hillsides, it is impossible to climb up with heavy machine guns, let alone infantry artillery, so they can only choose to take a detour.

Of course, the Japanese wouldn't tell Sakata Nobutsu that some hillsides were easily accessible to the Eighth Route Army soldiers, but they could only find a way to raise their feet to get up...

Don't believe it? Don't underestimate this 20-centimeter average height difference. Sometimes, if you are short of a little height, you can't get up and you have to ask your comrades to help you!

Marching is boring and long, especially in summer, it is even more exhausting! Although it is 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the sun is still blazing and the temperature is even hotter. So the puppet soldiers only walked from Ping'an County to the stronghold of Zhoujia Village, and they were soaked like fished out of the water!

What the puppet soldiers did not notice was that on Woniu Mountain to the east of the Zhoujia Village stronghold, an inconspicuous little tree had somehow fallen down, facing the direction from which the Japanese were coming.

Swish, swish, swish... one tree after another fell down, and they only stopped when they reached Jigong Ridge.

"The Japanese are coming, prepare for battle! Tell the directions of Tianjiazhai and Liangjia Village, evacuate the people, transfer the workshop personnel and supplies, quickly!" Battalion Commander Fan gave orders at the position of the 4th Battalion of Jigongling.

Soon, a call was made to the tunnel in Liangjia Village. After answering the call, the soldier on guard quickly knocked on a steel plate hanging in the tunnel, making a clanging rhythm. After hearing the sound, the soldier standing guard at the entrance of the tunnel notified Zhao Danian as quickly as possible.

"The Japanese are coming, evacuate the people, move the equipment, and ring the bell!" Zhao Danian immediately gave the order after receiving the report.

Soon, the big bronze bell in the village was rung, and the people put down what they were doing, carrying the elderly and children and hiding in the nearest tunnels.

The enemy situation was still unclear, so the people just hid in the tunnels instead of moving to the mountains. In fact, it was safer in the tunnels, while in the mountains they might be surrounded by the devils.

"When we have time, we need to build some shelters in the mountains!" Everyone who had gathered in the Liang family compound for a meeting heard Li Yuexuan's words.

"Comrade Peregrine has a point. We should find a secluded place in the mountains and dig some tunnels so that the people can hide and run! But we have to find a dirt mountain. A mountain with too many rocks won't do!"

(End of this chapter)