Wang Xiaoliang, who was in charge of the reconnaissance of the front team, quickly ran back and reported to Lei Jian: "Report to Battalion Commander Lei, there is a village in front of you, where more than a dozen devils and more than 30 puppet soldiers live, can you fight or not?" ”

Lei Jian ordered the troops to hide, followed Wang Xiaoliang to the village in front of him quickly, hidden on the hillside to the west of the village, he hid behind a tree and raised his binoculars, and scanned the village under the hillside little by little.

This village is not large, only sixty or seventy households, and at the west exit of the village, there is a checkpoint set up by the enemy puppet army to check passers-by, and it is impossible to see how many enemy and puppet troops and enemy defenses are in the village.

Lei Jian asked Wang Xiaoliang: "How do you know how many garrisons the enemy puppet army has in this village?" ”

"I met a fellow from this village on the mountain road, and he shouldn't be wrong."

Lei Jian reprimanded dissatisfiedly: "Nima's everything is boring, if you want to get rid of the little devils in the village, you must find out the enemy's garrison strength and weapons and equipment, as well as military deployment, so that you can have a target and ensure the victory of the battle." ”

"Yes, yes, I, Wang Xiaoliang, didn't study as well as you in the Military and Political Cadre School, and I don't know what it means to be targeted, what do you say?"

Lei Jian slapped Wang Xiaoliang's head fiercely and scolded: "Nima's egg, complain, right? Don't be humble at all, so when will you be able to improve? I order you to immediately bring people into the village in disguise to reconnoitre, find out the enemy's situation and act immediately, but you kid must ensure safety, and withdraw immediately after finding out the enemy's situation. ”

Wang Xiaoliang took three soldiers and quickly approached the village entrance from the dirt road at the bottom of the mountain, and after a period of interrogation by the village sentry, he finally mixed into the village.

In less than an hour, Wang Xiaoliang lay beside Lei Jian and made the most detailed report on the situation in the village where he was investigating.

Lei Jian nodded appreciatively to Wang Xiaoliang, and ordered the battalion and company commanders beside him: "I took a look, the south of this village is close to the hillside, Niu Dali led a company to approach in concealment, once the village entrance is successful, you climb over the courtyard wall and touch into the village, advance from the south to the east, west, and north, and try not to alarm the enemy when you find it, and kill them." ”

"Order Wang Xiaoliang to lead the disguised sharp knife squad to approach the entrance of the village, take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness, and occupy the machine gun position of the enemy's puppet army."

"Order Zheng Tie to lead a company, see Wang Xiaoliang's sharp knife squad move, and immediately kill out of the woods and eliminate the enemy puppet army at the checkpoint at the entrance of the village."

"Order Zhang Ping, Li Gang, and Cao Shangui to each take a company to surround the village on the east, west, and north sides of the village in concealment, advance to the center of the village, raid the enemy's puppet army barracks, and seize the enemy's weapons."

Lei Jian finally ordered: "Our sneak attack this time is the first battle to set up an ambush to reinforce our own enemy, try not to shoot and alarm the nearby enemy puppet army, and immediately carry out the action." ”

Lei Jian and the other companies arrived at the designated ambush location, and he personally led the disguised sharp knife squad, carrying people to chop wood on their shoulders, and walked towards the entrance of the village.

When the enemy puppet army saw more than a dozen young men walking down the mountain, they vigilantly pulled the bolt of their guns and shouted: "Which village are you from?" Stand still and shoot any further. ”

Lei Jian walked in front and suddenly waved his hand behind him, and said in a low voice: "Stop, I'll go over alone, you guys will watch the situation from behind, once I fight with the enemy puppet army, I will immediately pounce on it and kill this group of mongrels." ”

He walked forward while giving an order in a low voice, and shouted to the shouting puppet army as he walked: "Boss, we are from a neighboring village to collect firewood, and the vermicelli shop in this village asked us to send firewood, isn't this just here?" Please raise your hand and let us into the village. ”

The puppet soldier scolded with a gun: "Bastard, are you a liar? The old Liu Tou, who made vermicelli, was just killed by the imperial army the day before yesterday, isn't it nonsense that you send him firewood? I don't think you're a good kid. ”

Lei Jian saw that he couldn't get mixed up, so he approached the puppet army who came over, and the pig-killing knife was hidden on the puppet army's waist, and shouted in a low voice: "We are the Eighth Route Army, if you kid don't cooperate, I will kill you with one sword." ”

The puppet army was also clever, and immediately changed his tone and scolded: "Why didn't you say it earlier, you fart kid? Let's get inside. ”

Lei Jian waved to the soldiers who followed behind, Wang Xiaoliang quickly approached the checkpoint with the soldiers, and before the enemy puppet army at the checkpoint could react, the soldiers of the sharp knife squad had already occupied the machine gun position of the devil, killed the little devil, seized a few puppet guns, and the entrance of the village was taken.

Zheng Tie, who was hidden on the hillside, saw the enemy puppet army at the entrance of the village, and solved it without them using their hands, and immediately led the troops to rush down the mountain and kill into the village.

At this time, the independent battalion companies that surrounded the village fought bravely into the village, and killed the little devils when they saw them resisting, and the puppet army spared their lives as long as they surrendered their guns, and in less than half an hour, more than a dozen devils and more than 20 puppet soldiers in the village were all wiped out and disarmed.

The independent battalion was temporarily hidden in the village, and Lei Jian ordered Li Gang to lead soldiers disguised as ordinary people to guard around the village, and immediately arrest and interrogate them if they found anything suspicious.

He ordered Wang Xiaoliang to lead Li Gang's company to the east, south, and north directions, to touch the nearest village to alert, not to expose the target, and to report back immediately after finding out the enemy's situation.

Lei Jian sat on the kang, looked at the stretched map carefully several times, and said to Instructor Dong who was sitting on the side: "Old Dong, you see that these villages are too small, there should be no enemy garrison, you." ”

Instructor Dong immediately comprehended and said: "Battalion Commander Lei, I know if you don't say it, you mean that I will lead the soldiers to visit these small villages separately, one is to find out the enemy situation around here, and the other is to mobilize the armed villagers, is that what you mean?" ”

"Hahaha, it's really not a political instructor who does ideological work, and he will never forget his responsibility wherever he goes, you are right, we are carrying out the task of setting up ambushes to block the enemy this time, and one of them is in the villages we are passing through, and we will do a good job in these two tasks."

Lei Jian paused as he spoke, took Dong Dayong's hand and said, "Old man, you have to come back alive, don't ask me to worry about it for you." ”

Dong Dayong didn't expect such a half-haired child, his heart was still so fine, he was not at ease with the instructor who was several years older than him, and he asked for it, he was a little excited to hold Lei Jian's hands tightly, and simply said: "Don't worry, Camp Commander Lei." ”

Wang Xiaoliang led Li Gang's company to reconnoiter in three directions in the village where the troops were stationed, and after more than an hour, he returned to the three waves of soldiers and reported to Lei Jian what they had touched.

Lei Jian combed it out, except for Qigezhuang, a large point in the southeast, the village was garrisoned by an enemy puppet army of fifty or sixty people, and no enemy was found within five or six miles.

After resting in the village for two days, under the propaganda and mobilization of Instructor Dong in the nearby villages, many young and middle-aged people actively asked to join the Eighth Route Army, and now the independent battalion already has seven companies of troops, but the weapons and ammunition have not been replenished in time.

Lei Jian held a battalion and company military meeting, and said simply and clearly: "Seven miles away in Qigezhuang, there are fifty or sixty enemy puppet troops stationed, and our fighting method is to try to quietly enter the village, suddenly launch an attack on the enemy puppet army, and annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop when the enemy is defenseless. ”

He looked at the battalion and company commanders who were holding the meeting and frowned, and Lei Jian smiled and scolded with his hands a little exaggerated: ", do you all think I'm bragging?" Asking not to let go of a single shot to destroy the enemy puppet army in Qi Gezhuang is a bit of a fool's dream, right? ”

Lei Jian shook his head and continued: "I just have this idea, that is, if you can not alarm the nearby enemy, try not to attract the enemy's attention, once the enemy finds that the Eighth Route Army is approaching Ao Mountain, it will strengthen its defenses, and it will bring great military pressure to us to set up an ambush in Fengwang Mountain to block the enemy." ”

Instructor Dong added: "Battalion Commander Lei means not to shoot unless it is absolutely necessary, that is, to sneak attack Qigezhuang, act quickly, and strive to achieve victory without firing a single shot." ”

Lei Jian said with a smile: "You see, people with knowledge understand that it is fast, and the uneducated army is a stupid army, we are commanders with mud legs, we must strengthen the study of military knowledge, and we have to ask Instructor Dong, this high-achieving student who graduated from the Eighth Route Army Resistance University, give us a few more lessons, you won't be unwelcome, right?" ”

Dong Dayong stood up and said: "Battalion Commander Lei said that I was also a mud leg before I joined the Eighth Route Army, as long as we study hard, we will learn war in the war, and each of our battalion and company commanders will improve greatly." ”

"That's a good point." Lei Jian ordered: "Order the troops to secretly set off at three o'clock in the morning and capture the enemy's puppet army stronghold in Qigezhuang before dawn." ”

(Tianjin)