But he said that the devil shot Yun Sheng's father and asked Liuwan to send food. This incident can be said to have contributed to the unanimity of ideas among the old and young in the village from the opposite side. So, under the convening of Fanwa and Yong'er, everyone picked up the earth guns and united with several nearby villages to prepare to sneak attack the Japanese devils in the countryside.

In fact, the humiliation of this grain delivery was just a fuse, and before that, the people of Zhuanghu had already heard the news of the great victory of Pingxingguan and the anti-Japanese war in Zhongtiao Mountain, and even the guerrilla attack in Jiwang Mountain, but no one stood up to take the lead.

However, the topography of this area is not very favorable, from Liuwan to the north of Beiwan, Qingping, Qingxi, Xiuzhuang and Yangcun to the west, and to the south of Yunling, almost all of them are plains, at most there are only some shallow moats.

Although the eastern line from Yunling to Liuwan, Beiwan, and Qingping is a deep ravine several miles wide and dozens of miles long that extends from the foothills of Jiwang Mountain to the south bank of the Fen River, the Japanese will not go to the ditch, and the Japanese devils in the villages east of the ditch generally do not go over the ditch to the west. So how can the people of Liuwan take revenge and how can they sneak attack the devils?

After a day of wandering around the village, Fanwa and Yong'er found three places with favorable terrain. One is outside the south gate of Qingxi, the main road is along the moat to go up, the east and west sides are more than one zhang high earth cliffs, and the earth cliffs are endless flat land.

One is from the bottom of the temple slope to the west, is the herringbone road leading to the west of Xiuzhuang and the south of Yunling, the road is also extended in the moat, both sides are one or two zhang high earth cliffs, the earth cliffs are also endless flat land.

There is also a place, that is, under the slope of Liuwan Temple, the north-south road from Qingxi and Beiwan, the east and west sides are also nearly two zhang high earth cliffs, the east side of the earth cliff is Laojun Temple, the east side of Laojun Temple Terrace is the temple ditch; the west side of the earth cliff is an endless flat land; and when you are about to reach the Laojun Temple Terrace, the road passes along the west side of the ditch of the temple ditch.

They thought about it and thought that there were only three places near the village that could be ambushed.

Fanwa and Yong'er discussed it, and it was better to start from the south gate of Qingxi first, because it was far away from Liuwan, and the devils didn't know which village did it; besides, the frequency of devils there must be much higher than the other two places, and the devils who went to Beiwan, Liuwan and Yunling had to start from the south gate of Qingxi.

What's even more advantageous is that the fields above this section of trench are planted with tall crops, sorghum to the west, and corn to the east.

Yong'er went to Jiwang Mountain a while ago and learned some fighting methods and skills from others, which just came in handy. He told everyone that when they got there, they were divided into two sides in order, and two people fought one by one, one shot at the upper body of the devil, and the other hit him in the leg, and he couldn't let the devil run away, so as not to report the news.

In the early morning of this day, before dawn, more than 30 middle-aged and young people in Liuwan left the village wearing Chinese-style clothes, carrying earthen guns, and carrying a small burden diagonally. In less than half an hour, we arrived at the mouth of the moat, which means that the road began to enter the moat from here, and the more you walked to the south gate of Qingxi, the higher the earth cliffs on both sides.

They divided into two groups, one group went to the east side of the main road, and the other group went to the west side, loaded the earth guns with medicine and iron seeds, and lay there waiting for the devils to come. But I gnawed on buns, drank cold boiled water and waited for a day, but I didn't see a single devil. Before dark, I had to come back. I went again the next morning, and it rained lightly in the second half of the morning, and I sneezed one by one, but I still didn't get anything.

On the third day, each person put on an extra shirt and went again early in the morning. Yesterday there was a light rain, and the ground was a little damp, and the young and middle-aged people of these 30 or so households were lying on the ground, condescending, and with corn and sorghum as cover, waiting here.

About three strokes in the morning, there was a strange movement at the south gate, and I saw from afar that the people there were all hiding on the side. After a while, a few Japanese devils with guns came out, and someone in front of them seemed to be leading the way. Here's your chance. The people lying on the northernmost end of the cliffs on both sides sent a message to get ready. The big guy gently put the fried piece on and slowly moved it to aim.

I saw a few devils getting closer and closer, only to hear the first gunshot, and the last devil fell to the ground, covering his face and rolling. It was too late, it was fast, and there was a burst of gunfire almost at the same time, and the devils on the road almost didn't react, and they all fell down one by one, some "whoosh" and rolled, and some did not move.

The people on the earth cliff on both sides rushed down from the gap together, and several hit one by one, and the earth spear smashed the head of the person on the ground, and the devil and the guide did not move.

The farmer picked up the devil's gun, took off the bullets and things on the devil's body, and immediately withdrew. I first ran to the sorghum field in the west and hid for a while, then rested and rested, and returned to Liuwan at noon.

The first time it went so smoothly, the people in the village were overjoyed. The patriarchs and chiefs of each alley invited the people who participated in the battle in the alley to have a meal. After eating, Yong'er still called everyone to the village and said, divided the guns and bullets of the captured devil to a few people who had good guns, and taught him how to use the devil's gun by the way, he had learned it in Jiwang Mountain a while ago.

Fanwa said: "Fighting devils is the same as fighting wolves, and you must prepare for it to fight back." "Yes, we attacked suddenly this time, and the devil didn't expect it at all," Yong'er also said, "We can't go to the south gate for the time being." In the past two days, everyone has a good rest. I want to tell my family and the people in the village that I must not tell this about today. ”

"You can't wait. "Fanwa, you are in charge of the village guard, and you will talk about the news tomorrow." Everyone took good care of their guns and put them away. ”

In this way, Yong'er and Fanwa explained, and everyone went back.

When Yongwa returned, she ran to the grave of her wife and mother and cried a lot, and told her relatives about today's event, so that they could rest in peace. Of course, Bin Wa also quietly told the village chief the good news. Yun Sheng's father said happily: "It's still right for you to think." It seems that these old ones are useless. He was going to discuss it with several patriarchs and Lu chiefs, and hand over the affairs of the village to the young people. ”

Bin Wa said: "How can it be done? "Haha, you baby is sincere. The Japanese are here, and the ones above are gone, so we take care of ourselves. "Hehe, I don't know that. ”

In this way, Liuwan spent a joyful and peaceful night. I heard that the Japanese devils conducted a large-scale search in Qingxi the next day, and many ordinary people were beaten, but no guns or bullets were found.

At the same time, Yong'er also got a message that the Japanese devils might go to Yunling, and that someone in Jiwang Mountain in the south asked him to contact someone in Yunling, and it was best to attack together. Of course, Yong'er didn't tell anyone else these insider stories.

At noon on the third day, Yong'er called a few people to Fanwa's house to discuss the next step. "Hey, I inquired about it, and the Japanese in Qingxi have been very active in the past few days. Yong'er said. "Oh, isn't that another chance?"

Fanwa said. "This time, let's choose a good nest. "Where?" "What do you say about Yunling?" "Hey, you still say, it's really a good nest." "Hey, what does it have to do with us?" "That's not it, if you kill one, you'll lose one, and it doesn't matter where it is." "Yes. ”

"I also touched it, and there are a lot of people in Yunling who know how to shoot dirt. "I also said that there are many people who hunt, and there are more people in the ditches and ridges than we do. "Hey, in that place, people say that the three don't care, the three counties are bordering miles, it's messy. ”

"Hehe, so, the Japanese suspect that Yunling made a sneak attack. "Oh, that's what happened. "Sensei said, hurry up and go back to prepare, Ming'er will leave early in the morning." "Early in the morning?" "Then you need to say, the rooster crows twice." And so they each informed the people that they had gone.

Early in the morning of the fourth day, it was still dark, and Fanwa and Yong'er got on the road to Yunling. Yunling is at the junction of the three counties, and it is in the transition zone from the northern foot of Jiwang Mountain to the plain. The west gate of the village (there is actually no gate, let's call this west entrance the village) The terrain here is quite special. Coming from Liuwan, when I was about to reach Yunling, there was a herringbone intersection.

The left side of the herringbone is the soil ridge, a road stretches out to the east along the bottom of the soil ridge, goes down the slope, when it reaches the middle ditch, there is a dam-like soil ridge stretching to the southeast, becomes a road, and goes up along the slope, it arrives at the west entrance of the village, there are deep ditches on both sides of the road, here it is referred to as the bridge slope of this road.

In the middle of the herringbone is a ridge again, but it is taller than the one on the left. On the right side of the herringbone is a high plateau, above which is a vast flat land, and between the middle ridge and the platform on the right, there is a road that extends along the edge of the ditch and under the cliff of the platform, which can go around the west gate of the village and the large platform in the south of the village, and here it is referred to as this road as a curve.

To put it simply, Yunling is like Liuwan is a village surrounded by ditches on the east, north and west, and is only connected to the fields on the plateau in the south. It's just that the village of Yunling is very large, more than twice as large as Liuwan.

Such a complex and interesting terrain near the west gate of Yunling is undoubtedly a good place for ambushes. About half in the morning, the Japanese devils really came, and they brought small steel cannons, and it seemed that they wanted to take revenge on Yunling by mistake. As soon as the devil came, the brigade marched from the herringbone intersection towards the curve, and only a dozen or so people pretended to go to the bridge slope.

But what it didn't expect was that the villagers of Yunling had made prior arrangements, and as soon as the devil took a step in the bend, he fell from the trap into the deep ditch, and at the same time, dozens of earthen guns on the high cliff on the west side of the bend fired a volley. For a while, shouting, falling, screaming, and gunfire were chaotic, dusty, and gunsmoke.

In the chaos, the devil hurriedly turned around and walked from the bridge slope, but just went downhill and walked to the dam-like section, on the high ground at the west entrance of the village, on the soil ridge and the platform on the west side of the bridge slope, there were earth guns again, and the two sides were attacked, and the devil jumped over the ditch, covering his face and rolling around.

The earthen guns on the west side of the bridge slope have blocked the way of retreat, and countless villagers with all kinds of guys rushed to the high slope on the east side of the bridge slope, and suddenly, shouts, gunshots, fights, and screams were mixed together.

As a result, the devils were all annihilated, more than a dozen people were killed in Yunling, and Xing Haiping and Liu Yibin in Liuwan were also killed. All the guns and bullets of the devil were captured, as well as two small steel cannons.

The battle of Yunling can be said to be a relatively big victory for the people of Persimmon Bay against the Japanese devils. It was also from then that the prelude to the people's spontaneous war of resistance began. As Yong'er said, it is all death to make a compromise, and it is also death to resist, so it is better to beat him vigorously.

It's just that after this battle in Yunling, the people in the village are even more worried that the Japanese will retaliate against Liuwan, isn't it? Sooner or later, the devils will figure out who the opponent who ambushed them several times is.