Chapter 67: Abnormalities Highlighted
"Your Excellency Dazuo, the troops outflanked from the left have withdrawn, and there is also a branch army in the forest on the left, and the combat effectiveness is very strong." Hatoyama soon received a report from his soldiers, and when he looked at the soldiers who had withdrawn from the forest on the left, they were less than half of what they had set out. "Nani?" Hatoyama's eyes suddenly widened, from the time he ordered to start the flank outflanking to now, it has only been a quarter of an hour, but in this quarter of an hour, his soldiers have suffered more than 30 casualties, which is something that Hatoyama Yong absolutely cannot accept.
Lu Yuan, who was hidden in the woods, didn't see Hatoyama Yong, he was still looking for where the Japanese mortars were, Lu Yuan, who was squatting in front of the big tree, slowly moved the muzzle of the gun, and not far from him, Huzi was rummaging through the corpses of those Japanese puppet soldiers. There were more than 30 corpses of the Japanese puppet army scattered in the forest, and Lu Yuan couldn't look down on their 38 rifles, but those Tomosaka rifle cartridges were what Lu Yuan needed.
Without waiting for Lu Yuan to find the Japanese mortars, the Japanese puppet army attacking the valley suddenly retreated, Lu Yuan froze slightly, and immediately realized that the situation had changed. The successive failures of the attack forced Hatoyama to order his troops to retreat, but Hatoyama did not directly withdraw to the county seat as Lu Yuan expected, but stopped 2 miles away from the mouth of the valley. Seeing that the Japanese army was not leaving, Lu Yuan couldn't help but chuckle, as long as the other party didn't leave, then he still had a chance.
The Japanese retreated, and Wang Dahe's side also began to readjust the deployment, the wounded and killed soldiers were quickly replaced, and the ammunition in the machine gun fortress was also replenished, and Wang Dahe was ready for the Japanese army to attack again. The Japanese army took the initiative to retreat, successfully attracting the attention of Lu Yuan and Wang Dahe, and a few minutes later, gunfire suddenly sounded in the mountains and forests on the right side of the valley mouth. Isamu Hatoyama was greatly excited when he heard the gunshots, and immediately sent a team of Japanese soldiers into the mountain forest on the right, and the gunfire in the forest gradually became denser.
"Huzi, let's go." Lu Yuan, who also heard the gunshots, suddenly realized at this moment that the retreat of the Japanese army was just an illusion, and they wanted to break through into the valley from the flank. Lu Yuan knew very well what the mountain warfare ability of the Xiaojia Village guerrillas was, but he didn't know what the mountain combat capability of the Eighth Route Army was, but listening to the gunfire getting closer and closer to the valley, Lu Yuan knew that it was time for him to appear. Putting all the things he didn't need into the storage space, Lu Yuan, who was carrying an assault rifle, walked quickly through the forest, followed by Huzi, who was a little out of breath.
The position of Lu Yuan and the two was originally on the left side of the valley mouth, and if they wanted to move to the mountain forest on the right side of the valley, Lu Yuan and the two had to detour out of a big arc, which also meant that Lu Yuan and the two had to go a lot more. The closer he got to the forest on the right side of the valley, the clearer the sound of gunfire and shouts became, and after quickly searching the surroundings with a full-view map, Lu Yuan suddenly turned and went straight to a mountain at the back of the valley.
The mountain that Lu Yuan and the two locked was actually not very high, but if they climbed over this mountain, Lu Yu and the two of them were only separated from the valley by a lush Mao'er Mountain, and as long as Lu Yuan went up to the mountainside of Mao'er Mountain, he could clearly see the entire right wing of the valley. Huzi didn't know what Lu Yuan wanted, he just felt that he was good to follow Lu Yuan closely, and he crossed several shrubs and dead tree trunks in a row, and Lu Yuan and the two had already appeared at the foot of Mao'er Mountain.
"Let's go, speed up." Calmed his breathing slightly, turned around and saw that beads of sweat had appeared on Huzi's face, and Lu Yuan reached out to put the bits and pieces on Huzi's body into the storage space. Suddenly, his body was much lighter, and Huzi's speed was obviously faster, Huzi couldn't help grinning at Lu Yuan, but he saw Lu Yuan running towards the halfway up the mountain at a faster speed. There was still some distance from the mountainside, Lu Yuan suddenly heard an explosion from the direction behind him, and when he looked back, he saw that fireworks had risen in the valley behind him.
In the next moment, Lu Yuan even clearly saw two small black dots falling from the curve in mid-air, and it was only with the sound of the explosion that Lu Yuan finally understood that the small black dots he had just seen were launched by the Japanese army*. No wonder he has not been able to find where the Japanese mortars are, dare to be that people have put the mortars into the forest early in the morning, and watching the fireworks rising from time to time in the valley from a distance, Lu Yuan took out the heavy sniper rifle from the storage space.
Seeing Lu Yuan take out the heavy sniper rifle, the originally panting Huzi immediately came to his senses, and Lu Yuan had to take out another heavy sniper rifle. The appearance of mortars made the Japanese puppet army, which had an advantage in the mountains and forests, attack more fiercely, and the Japanese soldiers that Hatoyama Isamu then sent into the mountains and forests also quickly appeared in the offensive formation. The sudden attack of the Japanese army from the right made the situation extremely dangerous, and Wang Dahe had to send his reserves up.
"No, I can't stand it, the little devil brought the mortar, and both of our machine guns were destroyed by shells." A partisan under Xiao Haishan ran over covered in blood, more than a dozen of them were originally arranged on the right side of the valley, but they didn't want to be scattered by the Japanese puppet army, if it wasn't for the Eighth Route Army troops to make up in time, they probably wouldn't be able to escape, and all of them would die in the forest on the right side of the valley.
"Get out of the way, spineless thing." Xiao Haishan couldn't help but be furious when he saw this, and after scolding the other party, he took the remaining members of the guerrilla team and rushed towards the right side of the valley where the gunfire was loud. The Japanese shells hit very accurately, and almost every shell fell, a bloody color rose in the valley. Before Xiao Haishan and his guerrillas ran to the battle area on the right flank of the valley, there were already many casualties among the guerrillas under his command, and even the platoon of soldiers of the Eighth Route Army also suffered casualties.
"Kill to..."The Japanese puppet army on the mountain beam shouted, taking advantage of the terrain to kill from top to bottom into the valley. Seeing this, Xiao Haishan and others had no choice but to intercept it, but with the addition of the Japanese machine gun, Xiao Haishan and they could only support it. "Bang" finally moved to Lu Yuan, who was halfway up the Mao'er Mountain, and opened fire, firing a large-caliber bullet with a sharp barrel, and after flying over the large open space between Mao'er Mountain and the right flank of the valley, it directly splattered a cloud of blood mist among those Japanese soldiers.
The movement of the heavy sniper rifle when it was fired was so loud that Xiao Haishan and the others in the valley could hear it, and suddenly heard the familiar sound of gunshots, and then saw the dust rising in the distance, Xiao Haishan couldn't help but feel sad and happy in his heart. "Brothers, hold on, Mr. Lu has come to help us." Xiao Haishan's shouts immediately echoed in the valley, as if he was deliberately responding to Xiao Haishan, but in the next second, two gunshots rang out again in the distance.
"Hidden, hidden, there are sharpshooters on the other side." Among the Japanese soldiers who rushed down from the hillside, two clouds of blood mist rose again, and the two Japanese soldiers who rushed to the front were suddenly cut in two from their waists. The sudden tragic situation of the companion shocked the other Japanese puppet soldiers, and immediately some Japanese veterans shouted, and the attack that had been looking smooth was immediately interrupted. "Bang" Lu Yuan fired another shot, killing the Japanese officer who was looking at this side with a telescope, and Huzi also fired a shot after him, and one of the Japanese veterans fell to the ground screaming.
Large strands of plasma erupted from the severed arm of the wounded, and even the most pain-tolerant person could not help but scream after losing an arm. The wounded and undead Japanese veterans rolled back and forth on the hillside and screamed, which put great pressure on other Japanese puppet soldiers, but gave great encouragement to Xiao Haishan and others in the valley. Knowing that Lu Yuan came to help, Xu Heizi, who rushed to hear the news, immediately mobilized his troops and simply built a defensive line in the valley.
"Boom" "Boom" Fireworks continued to rise in the middle of Mao'er Mountain, and the Japanese mortars had already locked on the positions of Lu Yuan and the others, and the two shells just now were only test firings by the Japanese gunners. The landing point of the shell was still more than ten meters away from Lu Yuan, and Lu Yuan naturally knew that this was a test fire by a Japanese gunner, but until now, he had not found out where the Japanese mortars were. "Follow me and change places." There was no room for luck on the battlefield, and without waiting for the next wave of Japanese artillery shells to come, Lu Yuan put two heavy sniper rifles into the storage space and beckoned Huzi to move higher.
The halfway point of Mao'er Mountain was continuously bombarded by the Japanese army, and the dust raised high was seen by Xiao Haishan and others in the valley. "Alright, let's move on." The place Lu Yuan chose again was on the side of a big rock, and if this place was locked by Japanese mortars again, Lu Yuan and the two could retreat into the gap under the big stone.
"Bang" A large cloud of dust rose again in front of Lu Yuan, and among the Japanese soldiers on the hillside in the distance, another person was shot and fell. Faintly hearing the cheers from the valley, Lu Yuan's face showed a slight smile, but the speed at which he pulled the trigger did not slow down. The two heavy sniper rifles of Lu Yuan and Huzi fired alternately one after the other, and with an overwhelming momentum, they stubbornly blocked the Japanese puppet army on the slope on the right side of the valley.
The gunfire on the right flank of the valley was different, and Isamu Hatoyama, who was advancing forward outside the valley, had already heard it, but he didn't know that the battle on the right flank of the valley had changed, and his brave subordinates were in a disadvantageous situation. Lu Yuanhui, who was in Maoer Mountain, would open the full-view map from time to time, paying close attention to the situation of the enemy forces on the right flank of the valley and the changes in the battle at the mouth of the valley. After discovering that the Japanese army had once again increased the strength of the right flank of the valley, Lu Yuan had to speed up the speed of shooting, so as to give Xiao Haishan in the valley more time to respond.