In a continuous burst of explosions, the grenades thrown by Tang Cheng and Lao Dongbei exploded, and the Japanese troops on the side of the mountain road in the middle of the place were taken by surprise. As the smoke of the explosion spread, "boom", "boom", "boom" and three more explosions sounded, Tang Cheng and Lao Dongbei made a desperate bet and threw all the grenades on their bodies at the Japanese army, but the landing point of the wave of grenades just now was the place where the Japanese army gathered, and this time the thrown grenade fell next to one of the light machine guns of the Japanese army.

The internal organs and limbs were mixed with the smoke and rained down from the sky, and the faces of the few Japanese soldiers who were lucky enough to escape the catastrophe were covered with falling flesh and blood, and a piece of arm that was pushed out by Qi Lang was actually thrown high, and then fell into the field only a few meters away from Tang City. Tang Cheng didn't have the whimsy to think that he could kill this Japanese squad by throwing grenades at close range, and at the same time as the last wave of grenades exploded, he and Lao Dongbei had already rushed back to Liu Shishi's hiding place according to the same route, and now they can't retreat anymore if they don't retreat.

"Don't be fucking stupid, run, if the little devil comes back to his senses and smashes the cannon, none of the three of us will be able to escape." Liu Shishi was dragged out of the pit by Tang Cheng and still looked at the Japanese army, but he was grabbed by the collar by the old northeast who came from behind and dragged towards Song Tieshan and them. Liu Shishi was a little dissatisfied with not firing a single shot, but he was also a long-time battle-hardened person, seeing that Tang Cheng in front of him was only running wildly, Liu Shishi's heart also somewhat understood the current situation.

I don't know if the Japanese light machine gun was blown up, Tang Cheng didn't dare to rush up the mountain road rashly, so he could only run along the wild land next to the mountain road. The field was flat from time to time, and the three of them stumbled, and as soon as they ran a short distance, the Japanese mortar shells fell with a screeching sound. The gray dust and smoke kept rising with the explosion, and a large amount of earth and stones flew on their sides in Tangcheng with the gas of the explosion, and there was no need for Lao Dongbei's urging at all, and Liu Shishi, who was left behind, hated to take out all the strength to eat milk and run with power.

"Is there anyone else who can breathe?" Tang Cheng gasped and finally ran to the position of Song Tieshan's guerrillas, Song Tieshan, whose head was covered with blood, turned pale and closed his eyes, and the fierce man who was the most incompatible with Tang Cheng was also gone, and there were less than 20 guerrillas left under Song Tieshan, but fortunately, the rest of them were all armed. Regardless of whether those guerrillas were happy or not, Tang Cheng first assigned the machine gun that had been suppressed by the Japanese army to the old northeast, and the Mauser rifle vacated by the old northeast naturally belonged to Tang Cheng.

Song Tieshan was injured and unconscious, the guerrillas are now leaderless, and none of the remaining guerrillas can come up with an accurate idea, and the appearance of the three people in Tang Cheng makes the remaining guerrillas at a loss. "If you don't want to die, follow us, take your captain and other wounded people and retreat, and if you don't want to leave, you can stay here and wait to be killed by the Japanese army." Tang Cheng, who was carrying a Mauser rifle, walked in the direction of Li's shop, Liu Shishi and Lao Dongbei followed closely behind, and the remaining guerrillas glanced at each other, and they all got up and chased after the wounded on their backs.

Song Tieshan's guerrillas had already broken away from the battle, and the remaining guerrillas who followed the Japanese army were unable to support themselves, and in the face of the strong firepower of the Japanese army, they had to take advantage of the terrain to retreat in a hurry. The morale of the Japanese troops who repelled the two guerrillas in front and behind was greatly boosted, and after a simple cleaning of the battlefield, they did not stop too much, but continued to move in the direction of Lijiapu. "Who said we were going to run away, you all saw the battle just now, if you continue to fight, all of you will die there, we are not running away, just changing the place for ambush."

Turning the foot of the mountain, Song Tieshan on the back of the guerrillas also woke up faintly, and learned that the guerrillas were now retreating, Song Tieshan struggled to get off the backs of the team members, and scolded the team members who looked like relatives one by one. In the face of Song Tieshan's reprimand, Tang Cheng had to inform him of his plan first, "The Japanese army was flanked by you just now, but their casualties are not large, the casualties of your two guerrillas have roughly exceeded 40 people, such a casualty rate." Do you think it's necessary to keep fighting? ”

Tang Cheng's question made Song Tieshan speechless, it is true that he was born in the Eighth Route Army, but before becoming this guerrilla leader, he had only participated in a few small-scale friction battles with the national army. The number of battles with Japanese soldiers can be counted with one hand, and they are all fighting with large troops, commanding the battle alone to meet the Japanese army, this is the first time, and Song Tieshan himself has no bottom in his heart. "We are the people's army, and we can't withdraw even if we are all dead." Song Tieshan was still stubborn, and he wanted to save some face.

"Fuck your mother, all of them are dead, if you want to die, go by yourself, don't drag the others to follow you to death." Lao Dongbei, who was holding the machine gun, happened to come over, and immediately scolded after listening to Song Tieshan's words. "You're fucking all the people under your hands, who's going to fight the little devils? You're all fucking dead, what should those villagers do in Lijiapu? Do you want them to fight hard with sticks, kitchen knives and little devils? ”

Lao Northeast's accusation made Song Tieshan's already pale face even more bloodless, and he would never retreat in the face of the enemy, this was what Song Tieshan said to him on the first day he joined the army. But now that I think about what Lao Dongbei said just now, it seems that it is not unreasonable, all of them with guns are dead, and those villagers in Lijiapu have no one to protect them. Song Tieshan's heart was already loose, but he still stiffened his neck and said, "Our soldiers of the Eighth Route Army are not afraid of death, we want to go, and we guerrillas will stay to fight devils." ”

Seeing that this Song Tieshan was not entering, the extremely annoyed old Northeast raised the machine gun in his hand and was about to smash it, but Tang Cheng stretched out his hand to stop him. "Captain Song, as I said just now, I don't want to take you to escape, the place you just chose is not suitable for ambushes, I want to take you to another place to ambush the Japanese army." Tang Cheng's words caused Song Tieshan and his guerrillas to focus their attention on Tang Cheng.

Seeing that Song Tieshan didn't believe what he said just now, Tang Cheng didn't get angry, but just explained with a smile, "I can help you continue to ambush this group of Japanese soldiers, but you and your people will be temporarily under my command, and I will give priority to the loot captured from the Japanese army, but don't worry, I am not interested in the Japanese army's guns and mortars." Tang Cheng didn't tell Song Tieshan what he wanted, and Song Tieshan, who had been forced to go to Liangshan, had no other choice but to agree to Tang Cheng's conditions.

Leaving two uninjured guerrillas as secret posts, Tang Cheng's group continued to speed in the direction of Lijiapu, and on the way here, Tang Cheng had already found no less than three places suitable for ambushing the Japanese army. "This is our first ambush position" The first ambush position Tang Cheng found was an open field, almost a flat field, divided into two halves by the dirt road that the people walked out, but there was a forest on the right field, and the field on the left was only two or three hundred meters to the south, and there was a stream, which flowed from north to west after a turn, and then it would be diverted to the south and flow through Lijiapu.

"I'll put the machine gun on the edge of the stream in a while, it's only 200 meters away from the dirt road, and the range of the machine gun is enough to hit the Japanese soldiers on the dirt road, and besides, there isn't even a tree here, so the Japanese won't think that there are our machine guns in ambush." Song Tieshan wanted to interrupt Tang Cheng's words, but Tang Cheng signaled him to wait for him to finish his words. "Machine guns are not used to shoot those ordinary Japanese soldiers, if they want to hit, they will hit important targets, and what targets are the most important, of course, are the Japanese gunners."

"It's not a good place to hold out, though, so the machine guns only have one or two chances to fire." Tang Cheng shifted his gaze to Lao Dongbei, and said in a deep voice, "I'll give you an ammunition man, remember to arrange a trick mine, no matter whether you shoot the target or not, you only have a chance of 50 bullets, and immediately retreat south along the stream after the fight, and I will arrange someone to pick you up." "Forced Lao Northeast to make a guarantee, Tang Cheng only left 100 rounds of Arisaka rifle cartridges for Lao Northeast, 50 rounds for sneak attack on the Japanese army, and the remaining 50 rounds for emergencies and retreat cover.

After arranging the position of Lao Northeast and the machine gun, Tang Cheng randomly named three people from the guerrillas under Song Tieshan, "I will give each of you 20 bullets, your position is in that forest, and the task is to shoot and attack the Japanese army." At this point, Song Tieshan roughly understood the layout of Tang City, generally encountering this kind of terrain, the party that was attacked would regard that forest as the main defense target, and would not have thought that the real attack would come from behind Yima Pingchuan.

"After the machine guns sneak up on the Japanese here, they will either chase south along the stream, or go south along the dirt road, this will be our second ambush point." The earthen hill a few hundred meters away from the old northeast was the second ambush point chosen by Tang Cheng. Standing on the mound, no matter whether the Japanese troops took the dirt road or the stream, they were within the range of the Tugang guerrillas.

"But Li's shop is behind us, if we can't stop the little devil, what should the villagers of Li's shop do?" Song Tieshan and the guerrillas have been active in the area of Lijiapu for more than half a month, although he is not very familiar with the general environment, but he knows that beyond this earthen hill is Lijiapu.

Tang Cheng raised his eyes and glanced at Song Tieshan, "Do you still have a choice now?" Once we can't stop the Japanese attack, Lijiapu will be our third line of defense, and those fields, trees, and houses are our positions, so you and your people had better cheer up, otherwise we will be defeated. "Tang Cheng's idea was very simple, that is, to resist step by step, to attack the Japanese army in a place and time that the Japanese army could not think of, and to consume the Japanese army's strength and combat effectiveness.