Chapter Seventy-Nine: Desperate Situation

"The guerrillas recklessly went out to fight, were ambushed by the Japanese army, and it has been three days since Captain Yu rescued and disappeared" This is the original text of the telegram sent by Yangquan, and it is also the reason why Zhao Zhi immediately changed his face. Yu Dazhi was the first person to follow Zhao Zhi, and he has been performing well since he was subdued by Zhao Zhi, and he has long become Zhao Zhi's indispensable right and left hand, and he was sent to Yangquan to prepare for the future thunder division of troops, who would have thought that after only 2 months of separation, Yu Dazhi would have an accident.

"Tang Lei, you and Hanks take the troops to Luliang and Willis to make peace, when the reinforcements of the Japanese army in Jinzhong and the people of the Eighth Route Army start fighting in Ding'an, you must seize the time to expand the territory in Luliang and stabilize the front, and wait until the follow-up troops enter Luliang to make plans, your task is to connect the territory of Luliang and the Eighth Route Army together, and not let the Japanese army appear from behind the outside" Zhao Zhi has decided to go to Yangquan for a trip, and before leaving, he called a meeting between Tang Lei and the Jewish officers to arrange the next task.

Leaving Tang Lei is the trend of the situation, the Jewish army is full of big-nosed foreigners, they may be good at fighting, but this is in China, without the help of Chinese mercenaries, they may not even find the way to ask. Moreover, once the situation of the war changes, Hanks and they are going to withdraw into the area controlled by the Eighth Route Army, the language barrier will be a big problem, and Zhao Zhi left Tang Lei to prevent the Eighth Route Army from taking the opportunity to win over those Jewish officers and soldiers under him.

The current situation on Yu Dazhi's side is not very clear, Tang Lei and Hanks naturally disagree with Zhao Zhi to go to Yangquan, but since Zhao Zhi has made up his mind to go, he will let Tang Lei and a few of them persuade each other and not change their minds, Tang Lei, who has no idea, has no choice but to hand over half of the mercenaries with the strongest combat power under his command to Zhao Zhi, if it were not for Zhao Zhi's strong order to leave half of the mercenaries, Tang Lei may only have Luo Ying left as a helper.

When Zhao Zhi was busy rushing to the temporary airport of Laiyuan Base, Yu Dazhi, who had lost contact with the temporary base in Yangquan, was walking through a woodland in embarrassment. Although Shanxi is not located in the tropics, the summer forest can still make any adult who spends hours in the woods without rehydration collapse from heavy sweating. In the depths of the dense forest, beside a bush, there were hundreds of people, young and old, who were holding their mother's body in their arms, staring at their mother's face with tears of hunger.

A few strong men with camouflage nets cruising around the people with weapons, and a few were riding on tree branches to look into the distance, and suddenly a rapid and short birdsong sounded in the woods, and the strong men with the same tired faces immediately scattered behind the trees as birds and beasts, "Find concealment, find concealment, disperse, don't huddle together" Miao Jinhua, who was wrapped in gauze on her arm, shouted loudly, and was withdrawn into the bushes by Yu Dazhi next to him before shouting a few times.

"Shut up, you don't think the Japanese can find us, do you?" Yu Dazhi pushed Miao Jinhua aside with a look of disgust, I really don't know how this woman commanded the guerrillas, but she is also a guerrilla operating in the enemy-occupied area, why don't you have any tactical literacy at all, don't be impatient when facing the enemy, I don't know, I knew that it would be like this, I shouldn't have cooperated with them in the first place, it was better for Wang Mantang and their bandits.

With the sound of gunfire, the Japanese began to appear in the forest, and a group of Japanese soldiers in khaki uniforms and rifles appeared in the woods on the south side of Yu Dazhi, aiming at these panicked people. "To the south, about a small group of Japanese troops, I didn't see any mortars, two light machine guns" The sentry on the tree jumped down quickly despite the scraping of the spikes on the branches, and the people who heard the gunshots were like fryers, and the men nervously shouted loudly for their women and children, carrying the few belongings of their own house and fleeing in the direction indicated by Miao Jinhua's men.

The panic of the people provided the best target guidance for the approaching Japanese troops, and the military Cao who led the team in the forest on the south side half raised his arm, and the Japanese soldiers behind him felt out of his waist and held it in his hand, and with the gesture of the military Cao, more than a dozen grenades were thrown out. The shrapnel and shock wave of the explosion caused several women who had almost fled the horror zone to fall to the ground with terrifying screams, blood instantly smeared the fallen leaves on the ground, and the children who lost their mothers burst into tears, pulling their parents' arms and crying.

The machine guns rang out, and several old men who were running towards the guerrilla lurking place in a panic were hit and fell to the ground with low cries of pain. The young man in the back began to adjust the direction of his escape, and fled west with the remaining dozens of survivors, where there was a small river at the edge of the forest that was about to dry up, and along the small river could lead to a denser forest.

On the periphery of this jungle, the Japanese army with a squadron of troops has formed a large encirclement, and there are more than 300 Imperial Cooperative troops with the Japanese army surrounding this forest, and the Japanese puppet army with a total of 500 people wants to surround and kill this group of people who snatched the people from the Japanese army.

"Don't move, let's open fire when the Japanese army is near" Yu Dazhi stretched out his hand and pressed Miao Jinhua, who wanted to shoot, and commanded more than a dozen mercenaries under his command and the guerrillas to establish a simple blocking position, everyone held captured rifles, and quietly waited for the opponent to appear. Yesterday afternoon, Yu Dazhi and his mercenaries used up all the bullets on their bodies, and Garland and Thomson had already been buried deep in the mountains and forests, and at this moment they were holding 38 rifles captured from the Japanese army.

A sparse noise sounded in the distant woods, and slowly, the sound of miscellaneous footsteps got closer and closer, and dozens of Japanese soldiers appeared in Yu Dazhi's sight. "Open fire" Yu Dazhi gave the order, and a dense platoon of guns appeared, and more than a dozen soldiers in the front row of the Japanese army took a few steps back and fell to the ground with bullet holes on their bodies and died. The woman's cry exclaimed. The man's angry roar suddenly appeared in the crowd at the same time, and the people holding stones and sticks had no way to retreat, and they all hoarsely raised their voices, summoning the last courage to charge at the foreign invaders.

"Damn, damn" Yu Dazhi pulled the bolt of the gun to push the bullet to load, and looked at the people who rushed up and cursed, "Miao Jinhua, take your people to protect these obstructive guys and leave quickly, this is simply going to die in vain" Yu Dazhi's muzzle pressed slightly, aiming at a thin Japanese soldier, his fingers were buttoned, his shoulders were slightly scolded, and a blood mist erupted from the chest of the Japanese soldier in the crosshairs. At the same time, Miao Jinhua, who was beside Yu Shan, also put down another Japanese soldier who was about to shoot at the people, and after the gunshot, the two of them took out a grenade from their waists at the same time.

"Attention! Grenade, grenade" Yu Dazhi and Miao Jinhua shouted at their comrades at the same time, and then suddenly pulled the lead and threw out their grenades. Pushing Miao Jinhua to those panicked and helpless people, Yu Dazhi led his mercenaries to rush up against the Japanese army with the smoke rising after the explosion, bayonets, military boots, gun butts, short knives, the mercenaries used all the tools at their hands to deal with the Japanese army, after all the bullets were used, Yu Dazhi and his fierce mercenaries have been reduced to the point of hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.

"Damn,, what kind of battle is this?" With the help of the guerrillas and the common people, a small group of Japanese soldiers were drowned in bayonets and stones, so the mercenaries used up the last pistol bullets on their bodies, looking at the people on the ground who were killed and wounded, and the mercenaries with empty guns scolded the guerrillas who were responsible for protecting the people. Trembling, the old and weak women and children huddled at the edge of the woods, looking around in horror, and a few women were crying quietly with their babies in their arms.

The surrounding mercenaries and guerrillas secretly looked at each other, and none of them knew what to do next, so they frequently looked at Yu Dazhi and Miao Jinhua behind them. Yu Dazhi squatted in front of a young mother, looked at the hungry and dying baby in the other party's arms, silently took out a piece of chocolate from his pocket, and slowly handed it to the woman with dull eyes. Looking blankly at the tall and strong man in front of her, the woman opened her mouth violently and bit Yu Dazhi's wrist in one bite. It let out a hoarse cry like a beast.

"Don't come here, let her bite, it'll be fine in a while" Yu Dazhi didn't even frown, just quietly maintained the posture of stretching out his arm, and even ignored the blood oozing from the wrist bitten by the other party. "Okay, it's okay, it's okay" Yu Dazhi stopped his subordinates who were going to come over to relieve the siege with his eyes, just patted the woman's back gently, and the woman finally cried out, but the tooth marks on Yu Dazhi's wrist made Miao Jinhua want to stop talking.

"Captain Miao, it's not a way for us to blindly escape, the Japanese army has obviously surrounded this forest, once the Japanese army sets fire to the mountain, all of us will die here, and our food and ammunition are insufficient, and then we are bitten by the Japanese army, it will be our doom" Yu Dazhi commanded his men to collect the misunderstood ammunition and supplies on the corpses of the Japanese soldiers, but he discussed the next countermeasures with Miao Jinhua.

"So, I don't plan to go all the way with you" Yu Dazhi's words shocked Miao Jinhua's heart, but before she could ask, Yu Dazhi continued, "The telegram for help has been sent, but unfortunately our radio station was scrapped by the rain, after collecting supplies for a while, you take your people to protect those people to the west, and I take my people to the south to divert these Japanese troops, remember, if you still want to protect these people, don't turn back and keep going west no matter what movement you hear, otherwise my little thoughts will be in vain." Not allowing Miao Jinhua to refute, Yu Dazhi went to collect ammunition to replenish the grenade, leaving Miao Jinhua in place.