Chapter 31: The Great Army Pressed the Frontier
Repelled the attack of the Japanese puppet army outside the valley again, Lu Yuan could breathe a sigh of relief, but what he never expected happened, the Japanese puppet army outside the valley actually retreated, and it was as much as 5 miles of land as soon as he retreated. Lu Yuan, who was originally waiting for the Japanese puppet army to attack again, was dumbfounded, what he had always wanted was to use the terrain here to consume the strength of the Japanese puppet army outside the valley little by little, and as soon as the other party retreated, Lu Yuan's plan fell through.
With a full-view map, it was confirmed that the Japanese puppet army outside the valley had really retreated, and the helpless Lu Yuan had to beckon Huzi to come down from the mountain wall, Lu Yuan personally replenished the guns for the corpses and wounded soldiers of the Japanese puppet army outside the valley, while Huzi was busy collecting the weapons and ammunition left by the Japanese puppet army. From the mouth of a seriously wounded member of the Imperial Cooperative Army, Lu Yuan learned that the Japanese puppet army that he had continuously repelled was just an encirclement and suppression force on a mission nearby, and between frowning slightly, Lu Yuan already had a new idea in his heart.
The trucks and * parked at the mouth of the valley had already been destroyed by the Japanese puppet army that was trying to attack, and Lu Yuan and Huzi swaggered into the valley from the valley mouth. Although Xiao Haishan and others said that most of the materials in the valley were transported, there were still a lot of things that Lu Yuan could use, such as those trucks, motorcycles and bulldozers, as well as the cement and wood that the Japanese puppet army had brought into the valley in advance.
"Huzi, you go back to the village now and bring me Captain Xiao." After personally testing whether the three bulldozers were in good condition, Lu Yuan gestured at Huzi for a while, the latter nodded and left, and Lu Yuan drove a motorcycle back to the mouth of the valley. Before Huzi brought people back, this place was only guarded by himself, but Lu Yuan did not return to the mountain wall, but climbed up to the mound outside the valley. The Japanese puppet army has retreated to a place at least 5 miles away from here, as long as Lu Yuan's full-view map is open, the opponent's movements will be known by Lu Yuan in advance, compared to the mountain wall that has been known by the Japanese puppet army, this mound seems to be very good.
When he was alone, Lu Yuan took things out of the storage space one after another without any scruples, first took out the small briquette stove and iron pot ordered in Shanghai, put the dried vegetables and dried meat into the iron pot to stew, and Lu Yuan began to load the empty magazine with bullets. Cleaning up the battlefield outside the valley just now, Huzi didn't find many bullets and *, but for Lu Yuan, these more than 100 rounds of Ariyama rifle bullets were enough for him to fight the Japanese army again.
The customized briquette stove is very powerful, the water in the iron pot is quickly boiled, and the ingredients begin to exude aroma, Lu Yuan directly guards the iron pot and eats it, and the hot broth goes down, and Lu Yuan's thinking seems to have become richer. A pot of broth was quickly eaten by Lu Yuan, and after putting away the stove and iron pot, Lu Yuan, who was sitting in front of the residual fire, began to draw some formulas, symbols, and graphics on the ground with a short knife that no one could understand.
After another hour, the sweaty Huzi rushed to the valley with Xiao Haishan, and behind the two of them, he was followed by all the members of the direct team. "Captain Xiao, this valley is the place that the Japanese army has taken a fancy to and selected, and after you carried the supplies and left, we repelled several attacks by the Japanese puppet army, which shows that they will not give up here easily." Seeing Xiao Haishan, Lu Yuan was not polite to the other party, and directly said the main point.
"I asked the wounded soldiers of the Imperial Alliance Army who I had wounded, and the Japanese puppet army outside the valley was not a standing soldier stationed here, they came from a second-line army that carried out encirclement and suppression missions nearby. They've retreated at least five miles now and stopped, and I guess they've already called for help from their superiors, and I want to continue fighting them here. So, I need people to set up this place, I need a lot of people. Lu Yuan bluntly put forward his request to Xiao Haishan, and Xiao Haishan didn't seem surprised.
In fact, when Huzi returned to Xiaojia Village to find Xiao Haishan, Xiao Haishan was talking about this valley in Xu Heizi. Xiao Haishan was just a guerrilla leader, but Xu Heizi came from the regular army, and after learning about the terrain of this valley with his own eyes, Xu Heizi felt that the terrain of the valley was more suitable for stationing guerrillas. was called to the valley by Huzi, Xiao Haishan didn't expect that Lu Yuan was also paying attention to this valley, but Lu Yuan did not regard this place as a station, but wanted to continue to fight with the Japanese army here.
Xiao Haishan's hesitation, Lu Yuan didn't care very much, but said everything he thought of according to what he had just thought. "Old Xiao, I need enough people to help, if possible, I hope your guerrillas can stop training for a while. Come here and follow my idea to take care of this valley, it will be an excellent battlefield. Lu Yuan didn't say it very carefully, but Xiao Haishan already understood Lu Yuan's intentions.
Xiao Haishan wanted to tell Xu Heizi's thoughts, but he couldn't refuse Lu Yuan's request, because without Lu Yuan, the guerrillas in Xiaojia Village would not have obtained so many weapons, ammunition and materials, and the combat effectiveness of the team members would not have increased so quickly. Xiao Haishan had no choice but to nod and agree, and assured Lu Yuan that the manpower that Lu Yuan needed would soon come here to help. Xiao Haishan left, but the direct team stayed, and did not catch up with the continuous battle with the Japanese puppet army outside the valley, and the members of the direct team were somewhat disappointed.
Lu Yuan didn't let them go easily, after the Japanese puppet soldiers outside the valley should not move, Lu Yuan immediately asked Huzi to guard the valley mouth, but he took the members of the team directly under him. Begin to carry the remaining supplies in the valley. The cement in iron drums was moved out of the warehouse one by one, and Lu Yuan started a truck to carry the cement left by the Japanese puppet army, and drove slowly towards the mouth of the valley. After a lot of excitement until it got dark, Lu Yuan and others used the materials left by the Japanese puppet army to build some cement works on both sides of the valley mouth.
The passage on the mountain wall was also simply reinforced by Lu Yuan, and Huzi was happy that he no longer had to move those gravels. The men of Xiaojia Village arrived in the valley under the leadership of Xiao Haishan after dark, and Lu Yuan blocked Xiao Haishan's proposal to work with torches, and he was a little worried that the Japanese puppet army 5 miles away would attack the valley at night. Lu Yuan immediately took his direct team and arranged a lot of * outside the valley, and also arranged manpower on the mountain wall, but unfortunately the night passed, and the Japanese puppet army outside the valley never moved, and it seemed that the valley had been completely forgotten.
"What does this little devil want to do?" With doubts, Lu Yuan, who had been tossing and turning all night, rushed to the Japanese puppet army camp 5 miles away alone when the sky was white. The Takahashi squadron, which was temporarily camped five miles outside the valley, did not leave, and when Lu Yuan found them, the soldiers of the Takahashi squadron had already gotten up, but Lu Yuan looked at their state and reaction, and it didn't look like they were going to march or rush back to the valley.
Lu Yuan was completely confused by the reaction of the Takahashi squadron, and he didn't go and didn't fight, what did this Japanese puppet army stop here to do? It wasn't until the sun hung high in the sky that Lu Yuan finally understood why the Takahashi squadron stopped here, and dared to feel that this Japanese puppet army was here waiting for reinforcements to arrive. Finding that another Japanese puppet army was moving quickly, Lu Yuan didn't care about continuing to investigate the situation of the Japanese puppet army, so he turned around and ran back to the valley.
"Lao Xiao, don't worry about that, immediately beckon your people to withdraw to the village, the little devil has come to reinforce, and there are quite a few of them." After the panting Lu Yuan waited for his breathing to stabilize and immediately gave Xiao Haishan bad news. Turning his head to look at the hot work scene on his side, Xiao Haishan's heart was full of anger, the villagers came here yesterday, and they got up early in the morning today. Wouldn't the damn little devil show up later? At least let the villagers do more.
Xu saw what Xiao Haishan was thinking, and Lu Yuan, who poured a bowl of water into his mouth, said eagerly, "Old Xiao, now is not the time to think about that, take everyone to evacuate immediately." It can't run away from this place, as long as we beat the little devils, everyone can still come back to help with the work. Lu Yuan's words woke up Xiao Haishan, that's right, the Japanese puppet army that was originally stationed here can be driven away, and the Japanese puppet army that is coming here can also be driven away.
Xiao Haishan left with the complaining villagers over the hill, but the direct team was left behind by Xiao Haishan, and Lu Yuan had no choice but to divide them into several groups and deploy them on the hills around the valley. "Don't underestimate your own role, if the Japanese puppet army outside the valley divides up and tries to carry out a roundabout attack from the surrounding mountains, I can only rely on you." Lu Yuan's words made the hearts of the members of the direct team warm, and naturally they no longer blocked Lu Yuan's arrangement.
Lu Yuan still took Huzi up to the mountain wall fortifications to wait for the Japanese army to appear, unlike yesterday, after cement reinforcement and leveling, the mountain wall fortifications have improved a lot in terms of defensive ability and movement speed. Lu Yuan, who was sitting cross-legged in the fortifications, smoked silently, and Huzi beside him was still wiping the heavy sniper rifle, and after using the heavy sniper rifle, it was difficult for Huzi to be interested in other weapons. Time passed little by little, and after Lu Yuan saw the red cloth bands floating on the surrounding hills one after another, the Japanese puppet army outside the valley slowly appeared on the full-view map.
Counting the reinforcements that arrived this morning, the size of the Japanese puppet army outside the valley has reached nearly 500 people, Lu Yuan doesn't know how long he and Huzi can hold out, but he promises that he will hold out until the last moment. When the Japanese puppet army was less than 2 miles away from the valley, Lu Yuan suddenly remembered a big negligence of his own, but now that it was too late, Lu Yuan could only sigh with regret.
Lu Yuan's storage space also carries an American Browning large-caliber heavy machine gun, which Hans got from the United States through connections, if Lu Yuan can build a heavy machine gun position in the mountain wall fortifications in advance, this large-caliber heavy machine gun can definitely block the mouth of the valley, Lu Yuan does not think that the Japanese army has the ability to deal with large-caliber bullets.