At the Taiyuan Japanese Army Military Headquarters, the head of the intelligence section was reporting the information that his subordinates had just put together, and his face was full of smiles.

"Sir, some intelligence officers have seen the Eighth Route Army transport the damaged barrels to the outside of the forest, and after statistics: the heavy artillery battalion of the garrison regiment lost at least six heavy guns in the morning bombardment."

"They also brought out a large number of corpses, two or three hundred of them, there must have been."

"That's almost half of the heavy artillery battalion blown up!" The chief of staff on the side said, and his face was also happy.

The commander's expression was calm.

As long as the heavy artillery battalion was not completely wiped out, he could not be happy.

Seeing that the commander of the intelligence section ordered very seriously: "Let your people keep an eye on the remaining artillery of the heavy artillery battalion for me, and tomorrow morning, the aviation will send another squadron to bombard the heavy artillery battalion, and strive to completely solve this serious problem." ”

"Sir, don't worry!" The head of the intelligence section swore an oath.

"The lowly has ordered all the nearby intelligence personnel to concentrate on Gangziling, this heavy artillery battalion has been exposed, and it is absolutely impossible for it to slip out from under the noses of so many of us again."

At eight o'clock in the evening, a heavy artillery piece, led by a total of four horses, slowly left the woods, and finally returned to the road with the combined efforts of a dozen gunners.

Soon, the second gate appeared, and then the third......

After a total of ten artillery pieces were in place, the heavy artillery battalion began to set off.

More than 200 soldiers guarded the area around the heavy artillery battalion, rifles in their hands, light machine guns in their arms, heavy machine guns on their shoulders, and vigilant eyes on the surroundings to ensure that there were no enemies near the road.

"The heavy artillery battalion appeared, and we followed." Five hundred meters away, in a bush, a voice suddenly sounded.

Then I saw several black shadows coming out of it, ghostly following behind the heavy artillery battalion, at least five hundred meters apart.

In the bushes and woods on both sides of the road, dozens of black shadows emerged one after another, working in groups of two, forming a large encirclement around the heavy artillery battalion, monitoring every move of the heavy artillery battalion at all times.

On both sides of the road leading to Guanshan Town, the blockade ditch that was destroyed last night has been dug again, and the blockade wall has taken shape, and it should not be far from completion.

The Eighth Route Army, which had destroyed the blockade ditch last night, came again.

Company Commander Huang was still the same as last night, leading his troops to the front.

Then there were the local troops, and the villagers who cooperated with the operation hid at the end.

After half an hour of anxious waiting, the squad leader of the reconnaissance squad appeared, rushed all the way to the company commander and reported: "Company commander, the Japanese puppet army is the same as last night, there is no change. ”

"The troops and villagers are all concentrated in the two assembly areas, and no people have been sent out to patrol and guard!"

"How is that possible?" Huang Lianchang's first reaction was not to believe it.

"Have you found out that we destroyed so many blockade ditches last night, how can we be indifferent with the character of a little devil who will repay you, aren't they worried that we are destroying the two-kilometer blockade ditch tonight?"

The reconnaissance squad leader thought for a moment and affirmed: "The reconnaissance squad has reconnoitred all the way from the two assembly areas, and indeed did not find the Japanese puppet army on the road. ”

"And there are people watching from both assembly areas, and if the Japanese puppet army comes out, they will definitely fire warning shots to remind us to retreat."

The reconnaissance squad leader is a veteran of the company, and he will definitely not lie to himself, so Company Commander Huang chooses to believe his report.

"Since the little devil is not prepared, then we will destroy another two kilometers of blockade ditch tonight."

"It's still the same as last night, one row of left flank cover, two rows of right flank cover, and the rest of the people are on guard and start moving."

Local troops, guerrillas, villagers, carrying sapper shovels, rushed to the highway.

The first, second and second platoons quickly broke away from the troops, formed a battle formation, and constantly approached the assembly areas of the Japanese puppet army on the left and right flanks.

If the Japanese puppet army comes out, they can give early warning, stop them, and buy more time for the villagers to retreat.

As soon as the "Da ......" set off a few dozen meters, a series of gunfire rang out on the road, at least two machine guns fired together, bullets whizzed over, and the quiet night was instantly broken.

A platoon was caught off guard, and five fighters were killed and wounded at once.

The remaining fighters quickly lay down and raised their guns to fight back.

Two machine guns were mounted on the blockade wall less than a hundred meters, and bullets were sprayed at a row without money.

At least 30 Japanese puppet soldiers hid in the blockade ditch, holding rifles, showing their heads, and shooting at everyone.

"Horn ......"

Two gunshots rang out in the direction of the Japanese puppet army's assembly area, which was the gunfire of the reconnaissance squad for early warning.

A devil of an infantry squad, with more than a hundred puppet troops, rushed out of the assembly area like a hungry wolf, and rushed along the road towards the battlefield.

"Bang bang...... Horn Horn Horn ...... Dadada......"

At this time, a burst of gunfire also came from the direction of the second row of guards, which was as dense as the first row here.

The sudden change frightened Huang Lian Chang, and he opened his mouth and covered him for several seconds before he reacted.

"Not good, we are in ambush, the enemy is hiding in the blockade ditch, one row and two platoons are covering, and the others will retreat immediately."

"Boom, boom, boom......" Several explosions interrupted the company commander's unfinished order.

A few puffs of black smoke suddenly rose from the blockade ditch not far away, and more than a dozen people fell around, including local troops and blind dates who participated in the operation.

Others were injured and fell to the ground, screaming in pain.

"Retreat, the main force covers, the local troops take the wounded and the villagers to retreat together, leave the blockade ditch, there must be mines sold by devils inside."

"Boom ......"

An even more violent explosion sounded in Huang Lian Chang's ears, and the rising fireballs and black smoke were less than twenty meters away from him.

At least ten people around him fell to the ground, killed or wounded.

"The little devil still has mortars, everyone retreat quickly, the guard squad will go over to help, cover everyone to leave the road and return the same way!" Huang Lian Chang faintly felt that the villagers were starting to panic, and shouted in a hurry.

They are all ordinary people who have not undergone any training.

If there were more shells smashed by the little devils, and the casualties of the villagers were a little bigger, everyone would definitely be in a mess, and it would be difficult to retreat when the time came.

On the position of the Japanese puppet army facing a platoon, the little devil Jun Cao, who led the team, shouted while shooting: "The Chinese who destroyed the blockade ditch must run, and they can't let them slip away so easily." ”

"The machine gunners continued to suppress the fire and fired at the Eighth Route Army in front."

"The rifleman shifts the shooting target, shoots at the retreating Chinese, shoots immediately!"

"Taijun, most of them are ordinary people." The platoon commander of the puppet army reminded.

"Shoot, if you don't kill them, the imperial army will kill you!" Jun Cao was unmoved, and threatened with murderous anger.

"The chief said that as long as you go against the imperial army, it doesn't matter if they are the Eighth Route Army or ordinary people. All are enemies of the Imperial Army. All the Imperial Army needs to do is kill all these rebels and make them afraid of the Imperial Army. Don't dare to go against the imperial army again. ”

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