Before dawn, the independent battalion had already left the village and advanced towards Qigezhuang in the dark, walking on the mountain road, one foot deep and one foot shallow, and the speed of the troops was getting slower and slower.

Lei Jian looked at his watch, he was afraid that he would not be able to catch up outside Qigezhuang Village before dawn, once the dawn alarmed the enemy in the village, it would be very difficult to attack the enemy's stronghold.

He frowned and ordered in a low voice: "Convey my order, order the troops to run forward, and behind Cao Shangui's third company, contain the stragglers." ”

Niu Dali, as the vanguard, led a company to run in the front, and soon left the large army far behind, and he ordered the company to stop advancing.

Lei Jian rushed up and said to Niu Dali: "You led the two recruit companies that had just been formed, and they were hidden in the mountains and forests a hundred meters away from Qigezhuang. ”

He ordered Wang Xiaoliang again: "You take Li Gang's company as an assault company, cross the village, and encircle it from the east. ”

Lei Jian deployed a battle plan for Zheng Tie and Zhang Ping's two companies, and he ordered in a low voice: "From now on, we are only about a mile away from Qigezhuang, if there is no mountain forest as a cover, walking in the open field, so many of our troops would have been discovered by the enemy a long time ago." ”

He paused, looked at his watch, and said: "There is still an hour and a half before dawn, and all the companies participating in the battle must be cautious and cautious to enter the village, and once they are engaged, they must destroy the enemy as quickly as possible. ”

Lei Jian was afraid that the battalion and company commanders would understand wrongly, so he gave the lives of the soldiers in vain, and finally said emphatically: "Although I ask to strive to capture the stronghold of the devils in Qigezhuang without spending a single shot, but you must remember that human life is more important than everything and more than everything, once the lives of our soldiers are threatened by the enemy, let alone shooting, even if you shoot and destroy the little devils, do you understand?" Let's go. ”

In accordance with the order, under the cover of night, each company of the independent battalion rushed to its respective positions, and Lei Jian led a company, as the main force to attack Qigezhuang, and quickly rushed to the village.

Approaching the entrance of Qigezhuang Village, I saw a simple position built by the enemy, and from a distance, there was an angry wind lantern hanging on the position, swaying in the wind, like a firefly, flickering and bright.

Lei Jian ordered a platoon to approach, and Li Gang led a platoon approaching the enemy's position for fifty meters, prostrate on the ground, and crawled forward tentatively.

Li Gang led the soldiers closer and closer to the position of the enemy puppet army, and they could see the enemy puppet army shrinking their heads and squatting on the position with their guns in their hands.

He ordered in a low voice: "The enemy puppet army is tired, there should only be a dozen enemies, wait for about ten meters to get closer, pounce on them and kill them." ”

When they got closer, suddenly an enemy stood up from his position, creaked out of his position with his gun in his hand, walked behind a tree, leaned against the trunk, and took out an object and threw out water.

Li Gang jumped up, pounced on it, grabbed the enemy's head with both hands, twisted it violently, and with a click, the enemy's neck tendon was twisted.

A devil who was hiding in the position to take shelter from the wind, heard a noise outside, vigilantly lay on the improvised position with a gun, pulled the bolt and asked: "What are you doing, come out quickly." ”

At this time, the thunder sword that was hiding and followed suddenly leaped towards the little devil who was about to shoot, and the little devil saw a black shadow pounce on him, his frightened hand trembled, and a gunshot sounded, breaking the tranquility of the mountain village before dawn.

A gunshot alarmed the enemy puppet army in Qigezhuang Village, and the enemy hurriedly got out of the bed, hurriedly put on his clothes, and rushed out of the house with a gun.

As soon as the enemy puppet army ran onto the street, they found a large number of black shadows approaching them from different directions.

The leader of the devil squad shouted: "Who are you, say it quickly." ”

Wang Xiaoliang heard that it was a little devil howling, he knew that it was impossible to act quietly, and he picked up a gun and shot at the shouting black shadow.

The enemy puppet army was suddenly attacked, and hurriedly lay on the ground and shot to resist, and for a while fierce gunfire rang out everywhere in the village of Qigezhuang.

Attacking the enemy in the dark, they could not find an accurate target, and by this time the companies of the independent battalion had already rushed into the village, and for a moment it was impossible to distinguish between the enemy and us, and the attack on the enemy was pinned.

The enemy puppet army was surrounded by the Eighth Route Army, the enemy was familiar with the village, with the help of different concealments, launched a counterattack on the independent battalion, and when the soldiers were impacting, they were blocked by the fire of the enemy puppet army, and they were constantly shot and fell.

Lei Jian angrily ordered: "Each company retreats ten meters back, stands at the height of the house, isolates the enemy, condescendingly strikes at the rebellious enemy puppet army, and moves quickly." ”

The enemy puppet army found that the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who were sneaking into them were like ink shadows, running up the ridge of the courtyard wall, and suddenly shot at the enemy puppet army lying on the ground, and the enemy who hit them dropped their corpses, retreated into several courtyards, borrowed the cover of the courtyard wall, and saw the opportunity to increase their firepower to attack the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army on the wall and ridge.

Lei Jian gave an order to each company: "Grenade greet, blow up this group of bastards." ”

Boom, boom, boom, more than a dozen in a row, grenades exploded in several yards, the enemy puppet army ghosts cried wolf, and there were less than a dozen enemy puppet soldiers left, desperately escaping out of the yard and fleeing out of the village at night.

The two recruit companies led by Niu Dali, who was guarding outside the village, saw more than a dozen black shadows rushing out of the village, and by the morning light that had just been revealed, they recognized that it was more than a dozen enemy puppet soldiers desperately escaping from the village, and Niu Dali ordered the soldiers to shoot and kill.

Some of the new soldiers had never touched a gun, could not pull the bolt for a long time with the gun in hand, and those who could shoot did not have an accurate head, and released several empty guns without hitting a single enemy puppet army.

When the enemy puppet army saw that this group of dirt and eight roads had guns that could not be used, a devil Cao Chang shouted: "Kill it, rush out of the village quickly." ”

The enemy puppet army pulled the trigger to fire the bullets, and the bullets shot the new soldiers who were on guard around the village with a whistling sound.

The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, who chased them out of the village, saw more than a dozen enemy puppet soldiers shooting their brothers, and rushed towards the enemy one by one with red eyes.

Lei Jian watched his warrior fall under the guns of the enemy puppet army, he frantically rushed past the soldiers who pursued the enemy, and when he was about to approach the enemy, he suddenly jumped on the ground, stretched out his arms, just like Dapeng spread his wings, before this crossing, the young was a student of the Shaolin Martial Arts School, erecting the greatest physical strength, holding a pig-killing knife, as long as the enemy he flew to, the neck spurted blood and fell to the ground.

Crazy, Lei Jian was really driven crazy by the enemy puppet army, he rotated his body from time to time, the pig-killing knife in his hand, under the reflection of the brighter and brighter morning light, turned from the original cold light to blood, Lei Jian only rotated like the wind, killing more than a dozen little devils.

The soldiers of the independent battalion surrounding the enemy puppet army were stunned one by one, many of them were the first time to witness it, the thunder sword was like a blood eagle, killing more than a dozen enemies who did all kinds of evil and owed the villagers blood debts in a short instant.

The villagers of Qigezhuang, at the moment when the dawn of the dawn in the east, woke up from the gunshots, they walked out of the house and saw the killed enemy puppet army, and their faces unfolded a smile that they had never had, these villagers lived a life that was worse than death under the obscenity of the enemy puppet army, and now it was the Eighth Route Army that rescued them from the hands of the enemy, can they not be happy?

Lei Jian stood on a horse tether stone in the village, and said to the villagers who had gathered: "Folks, we are the Eighth Route Army, and before dawn we will destroy all the enemy and puppet troops entrenched in the village. ”

"This kid helped the village eliminate the enemy puppet army, why is he so polite?"

"I said that you, the commander of the Eighth Route Army Battalion of a half-grown child, have you rescued us from suffering, and if you talk like this, aren't you slapping the people in the face?"

"In the past, it was the grass people who asked the emperor and the big men who were in charge to say goodbye, but now you are asking for peace to the people who are suffering, what do you say?"

Lei Jian said with a smile: "Folks, no matter what, we, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, all came out of our fellow villagers, you sent your relatives to join the army to fight the little devils, and your own children asked their parents to say goodbye, shouldn't you?" ”

At this moment, Zhang Ping rushed to Lei Jian, handed the urgent telegram in his hand to Lei Jian, and said quickly: "Commander Wu of the detachment is in an emergency." ”

(Tianjin)