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Chapter 248 Chapter 247, Blocking the Door, the Battle is Coming

The sour jujube tree is a woody plant of the shrub family of the genus Sour Jujube. It is difficult to grow into a tree. When it grows to the thickness of a cup, it dries up naturally and regenerates new shoots from the roots. Sour jujubes have been growing in clusters on the Loess Plateau since ancient times, all over the sunny slopes. Sour jujubes are abundant in the Taihang Mountains. Moreover, the sour jujube tree is the natural rootstock of the jujube tree, and various red dates can be grafted on it.

Of course, these are not the key points at this time. The key point is that the branches of the sour jujube tree are many and the wooden branches are covered with thorns. Moreover, these thorns grow side by side with straight thorns and barbs. It is difficult to cut down such dead wood and burn it, so it is generally used for physical defense of walls. Therefore, using the dead branches of the sour jujube tree to block the entrance of the village is the most effective defense method.

Coincidentally, in the spring of this year, Li Yuexuan led his people to graft a large number of jujube trees and also cut down a large number of sour jujube trees and placed them all in the village.

At Li Yuexuan's call, the two brothers Xiong Da and Xiong Er finally had work to do. They led the soldiers of the artillery squad to the place where the jujube trees were piled, and then dragged a lot of jujube trees to the west gate.

"With the treetops facing outwards, pile up a layer, then cover them with two layers of sandbags, then pile up another layer, then cover them with two more layers of sandbags and you're done!" Li Yuexuan directed the soldiers to work, while he looked at the auxiliary panel to detect the enemy situation.

"Captain Peregrine, the captain asked everyone to block the entrance to the village..." Just as Li Yuexuan was detecting the enemy, a messenger came to inform him. However, the messenger looked at the entrance of the village where the second layer of sandbags had been laid, and knew that his trip was in vain. But, it seemed, it seemed... it was not a wasted trip, because he discovered something extraordinary.

"Jianping, stop looking. Tell Deputy Captain Xing and the captain what you have found out... Forget it, just go and inform the captain. I'll go to the south entrance of the village!" There was nothing happening in the west of the village for the time being, but a small Japanese squad was approaching in the south of the village, so Li Yuexuan simply moved to the south of the village.

Of course, he wouldn't go there alone, he also brought the soldiers from the mortar platoon, especially the two brothers Xiong Da and Xiong Er, who brought the soldiers from the artillery squad and followed along, dragging the sour jujube tree.

"Hahaha, I just saw you dragging the jujube tree and was wondering if you were going to put it on the wall. I didn't expect you were going to use it to block the door! Not bad, this is a good idea!" Xing Weiguo was in charge of matters in the south. He understood what Li Yuexuan was going to do with the jujube tree, so he laughed and asked everyone to block the door quickly.

With the addition of many people, the task of blocking the door was completed quickly. However, due to the delay in time, the Japanese puppet army was about to arrive! Li Yuexuan closed his eyes slightly and found that the red dot in the south had stopped more than 400 meters away from the village entrance.

There is also a small field to the south of the village. To be exact, it is a hillside extending downward from Liangjia Village, which has been reclaimed into a field. At the other end of the field is a hillside in the shade that extends upward, all the way to the top of Nanshan Mountain. The shaded area is not suitable for growing other crops, so only a few shade-tolerant soybeans are planted on the eastern slope, and some pumpkins and other crops are planted all over the mountain.

Of course, this is not the point. The point is that the Japanese were stationed on the top of Nanshan Mountain, and at this time two small teams quietly arrived at the edge of the fields in the south.

Li Yuexuan didn't know whether the two teams of Japanese soldiers came to attack or to conduct reconnaissance, but he knew that a lot of mines had been laid in the sweet potato field in the south.

So, after he reminded Xing Weiguo to be careful of the sneak attack by the Japanese squad, he led the artillery platoon to the east of the village! How could he be missing in the battle at night?

To the east of the village, the Japanese were gradually approaching from behind and the puppet troops were in front, and a group of puppet troops had already entered the woods where the grenade workshop was located.

The woods were not meant for the Japanese puppet army to enter and exit at will! Therefore, all kinds of mines began to work.

Li Ergou was a puppet soldier who had been in the army for half a year. He was holding his Hanyang rifle and taking small steps forward. In the moonlit night, the moonlight shone through the treetops, and some things could be seen in the woods, and occasionally fireflies could be seen flying. Li Ergou followed the brothers around him and planned to find a hidden place to slack off. Fight the Eighth Route Army? Aren’t there enough brothers who died fighting the Eighth Route Army during the day? Why do we have to work so hard? Li Ergou thought to himself.

Li Ergou was very tall, so he stood at the back of the team, which made him feel at ease. Landmines are buried in the ground under your feet. Just follow the footsteps of your brothers and you will be safe! So, while following them, he stood up and tried to straighten his back. Then, he felt that his rifle seemed to have hit a branch and was hit.

"Damn, being tall isn't good either. Those damned Japanese devils can just hide in the woods!" As Li Ergou was complaining, he suddenly heard a hissing sound above his head. When he looked up... Boom...

"Damn it, I shouldn't have been a traitor..." This was Li Ergou's last thought.

The puppet troops were destroyed by landmines in the woods east of the village, while another group of puppet troops led the devils to the guerrilla training ground. Of course, this group of puppet troops was no longer a squadron, because they had been blown up by various booby traps along the way, killing dozens of them. So when this group of puppet troops saw the flat training ground, they rushed forward with confidence.

The result is... Boom boom boom... Landmines, landmines again...

The training ground was right next to the village and was rebuilt from a former threshing ground. So when the puppet soldiers stepped on a mine on the training ground, Captain Guo finally gave the signal to open fire.

Bang... In the moonlight, Captain Guo fired a shot at a hazy figure, then pulled the bolt to load the bullet, ready to find another target to shoot.

After he fired the shot, a 1mm heavy machine gun combat squad from the st Company, which was guarding the machine gun position at the entrance of the village, opened fire on the cleared training ground.

Boom boom boom... Boom boom boom... Several heavy bullets with a tracer bullet left a very obvious bullet shooting belt on the training ground. On both sides of the heavy machine gun, there was a Czech-style and two crooked handle machine guns, firing outward from the firing holes on the wall. Amid the sound of gunfire, the bullets whizzed around, drawing a light red trajectory, and occasionally disappeared into the darkness.

"Ahh..." There were screams coming from the training ground, but they were covered by the gunshots and were not obvious.

Therefore, neither the soldiers of the first company nor the comrades of the guerrilla squad 3 paid attention to the enemy's screams and continued to fire at the hazy figures in the darkness.

"Yo, the Eighth Route Army has attracted fire from the Imperial Army. You can start shooting! Aim at the position where the muzzle flame is pointing upwards and fire!" Outside the parade ground, Captain Xia Yuan commanded the Japanese to open fire.

Just at this moment, Li Yuexuan rushed over from the south entrance of the village and just caught the start of the battle.

(End of this chapter)