Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

Chapter 369 Chapter 368, Go outside the county town
Both company commanders were veterans who had gone through the Long March, so it was natural that they felt unsatisfied with today's battle. After all, it was so easy to capture more than 260 Japanese devils without much effort.

However, for the new recruits, especially those who have not experienced combat, today's battle is a good practical training action! Just as the two company commanders were looking for a place to smoke, the new recruits of the two companies were led by their squad leaders to salute an important lesson in their military career - carrying corpses.

As the veterans watched the fun, the new recruits, in groups of two, carried out the Japanese corpses with blood holes on their bodies, intestines hanging out, and half of their legs or arms hanging from their bodies, and placed them by the river.

If the recruits could still tolerate the corpses at the Dongyetou stronghold, the corpses on the battlefield today were not as bloody as those caused by rifles, assault rifles, and grenade launchers. After all, the wounds caused by pistols were not as bloody as those caused by rifles, assault rifles, and grenade launchers.

So, while the veterans were looking at each other with nostalgia and teasing, some new recruits couldn't help but start vomiting.

Fortunately, there were not many new recruits on the scene, and with the help of the veterans, they quickly adapted to the environment. Because this time the elite backbone troops were mobilized, the number of veterans accounted for the majority. There were only 30 new recruits in the first company, all of whom were from the special training team. There were about 50 new recruits in the sole company, and it seemed that the training situation was not bad.

They carried the bodies, took off the guns and ammunition carried by the devils and put them aside, looted the bodies for valuables, opened their mouths to see if there were any gold teeth, and searched the trucks for usable resources... This busy work took nearly an hour, and it took even longer to clean up the battlefield than to fight a war.

Of course, the spoils of war were quite good! The Japanese had less than two squadrons, and even though they were lightly armed, they still captured 12 Type 182 light machine guns, 9 Type 3 rifles, grenade launchers, and a lot of grenades and bullets. Not to mention the spare ammunition in the ammunition boxes on the vehicles, the Japanese alone had more than rounds of bullets.

After the battlefield was cleaned up, no reinforcements from Xiyang City were seen, which made the two company commanders who were still thinking about fighting again a little depressed. But no matter what, we were lucky in this battle, and we also seized a large amount of combat supplies, enough to equip two more main companies.

As time passed, the sun went from just rising to hanging scorchingly in the east sky. It was already past 10 o'clock.

"Ha..." On the mountain, the soldiers in charge of monitoring the intersection opened their mouths and yawned.

Zizi... There was an old soldier who was smoking, hiding in a dark place, smoking the cigarettes that had just been confiscated, to satisfy his craving.

At this time, a convoy consisting of two trucks and three horse-drawn carriages came slowly from the eastern highway. In front of the convoy, there were about 20 special forces soldiers running in small steps to clear the way. Looking at their billowing dust and dripping sweat, it was clear that the journey was very hard.

"Captain, Captain, we are here..." On the eastern hilltop, the soldiers of the First Company waved a small red flag and contacted the special operations team.

"Haha, hello comrades... Look, I have seized a lot of good stuff!" Xing Weiguo stood in the bed of a truck and greeted the soldiers excitedly.

"Captain, we also seized a lot of good stuff! We killed more than 260 devils and seized a lot of weapons and ammunition. We don't know how to take them away!" Second Platoon Leader Tian E rushed over and said. "Wow, I didn't expect to mobilize so many devils at once? So, we won a big victory!" Xing Weiguo was even happier.

"Captain, what should we do next? We have found Shimizu Riichi's body and the documents he carried with him. Should we end this operation now?" Zheng Changfeng asked.

"We'll discuss the details later! But what we need to do now is to send all the seized materials back to the base!" Xing Weiguo looked at the convoy and continued, "On the vehicles, there are heavy machine guns, light machine guns, rifles, ammunition, food... so many things from the Japanese stronghold. We must take them back."

"Captain, regarding the supplies issue, I think we need to ask our comrades in Xiyang for help!" Gao Deyi also ran over and continued.

"Then let the comrades in Xiyang help mobilize the surrounding people and help us deliver the supplies to the safe base in the north! Well, how about this, you guys go back with the people and supplies, and we stay and continue fighting?" Xing Weiguo looked at Gao Deyi, asking for his opinion.

"That won't work!" Gao De shook his head like a rattle and said quickly, "Send the things and let one platoon take the people back to the base! You see, we came all the way here and just fought a battle. This is not satisfying! Otherwise... I will send our third platoon and the transport platoon back, and I will stay with the first platoon, the second platoon and the heavy machine gun platoon to fight?"

"Well... let's do this! Ask the comrades in Xiyang to help contact the people around here! Send these supplies to Tianjiazhai first, and we'll talk about their distribution after we get back! By the way, replenish the ammunition lost in the battle!" Xing Weiguo didn't want to go back just like that. Since Gao Deyi said that, he agreed.

With the help of local comrades, dozens of strong young men were soon found in the surrounding villages, pushing wheelbarrows and driving their own livestock to help the Eighth Route Army carry the spoils. Of course, when these strong young men arrived, it was already past 1 p.m. After all, in the era of walking on two legs, communication depended entirely on shouting, so don't even think about this efficiency.

When the transport team formed by the people left, the Special Forces, the First Company, and the Most of the First Company had been waiting here for several hours at the river mouth 4 kilometers west of Majiayu. Looking at the sun in the west and the constant flow of people in and out of the Xiyang City Gate, everyone was a little anxious. Why didn't the Japanese send troops out of the city anymore?

"It has been translated. The original plan of the Japanese devils was to carry out a large-scale cleanup of the three surrounding villages tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, and to capture all the households in our strongholds and take them to the county town for slaughter! Our action today happened to be one day in advance, interrupting the devil's action!" Li Yuexuan said at this time.

"So, what should we do next?" Gao Deyi asked.

"If you have no objection, my plan is to take a look around the county town, surround the county town, investigate the checkpoints and small strongholds around it, and then attack them all!" Li Yuexuan said.

(End of this chapter)