Chapter 13: The Japanese Army Strikes

After the ecstasy, Zhuo Fei had already slept peacefully, but he didn't know that the three political commissars Xu were discussing how to secretly talk to themselves, and they didn't know that because of this afternoon's battle, there was already a commotion in the county town dozens of miles away. "Yaga" Kurotto Shozo received two heavy slaps in the face, but he did not dare to show the slightest dissatisfaction and grievance, and he, the squadron leader who manages the logistics team, was fully responsible for the loss of the entire baggage squad.

"Fool, the Yamaguchi squad is just a logistics force, if you just send them out to collect food, it would be fine, but why did you send them to such a far place?" Captain Matsumoto Ichiro, who was extremely annoyed, paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, in wartime, it was normal to lose one or two squads, but now it was not a battle, and his task was only to lead this army full of wounded soldiers to garrison the county seat. "I will report the matter of the Yamaguchi team truthfully, and I hope you will not make the same mistake again in the future."

Sending off Matsumoto Ichiro, Kuroto Shozo didn't arrive much briskly, he did make a mistake, and it was normal to be slapped by Captain Matsumoto Ichiro. What Kuroto Shozo is really worried about is that Matsumoto Ichiro wants to report the matter of all the jade shatters of the Yamaguchi team to his superiors, so that the promotion he dreamed of in the military rank will come to naught. "Damn, don't let me catch you, or I'll cut off your heads with my own hands." Kuroto Shozo couldn't help but secretly curse and attacked the opponent of the Yamaguchi team.

"Report, Haneda team sent a message that they have found the Shina forces that attacked the Yamaguchi team." There was a knock on the door of Shozo Kuroto's office, and an officer on duty in the telecommunications room delivered a translated message. "Squadron Leader, Team Haneda is waiting for your orders, and they will avenge Tamaga's Yamaguchi Team." The officer on duty handed the telegram to Shozo Kuroto and waited for Shozo Kuroto's order.

"Damn, the attack on the Yamaguchi squad is actually a guerrilla force of the Dirt Eight Road?" After reading the contents of the telegram, Kuroto Shozo couldn't help but curse in his heart for the Yamaguchi squad's nest, a dignified imperial infantry squad would be successfully attacked by the guerrillas of the Shina people, and it was no wonder that the captain Matsumoto Ichiro was so annoyed just now. "Inform Haneda's squad and kill all the guerrillas they have targeted, along with all the people in that village, I don't want to hear any more news of the presence of guerrillas around the county seat."

The guerrillas were poorly equipped, they had no way to listen to the Japanese army's communication waves, and they did not know that a Japanese infantry squad was hiding in the bushes less than two miles from the village. Ma Changhe and the others only knew through Zhuo Fei's reminder that the Japanese army attacked by them was a group of Manchurian soldiers, but they did not expect that this group of Manchurian soldiers was just a group of logistics soldiers who dealt with the stove all day long, and the Japanese squad lurking outside the village at this moment was a real combat unit.

The village was a fortress village of the guerrillas, and Ma Changhe was very relieved of the people in the village, because they knew that there would be no traitors and traitors in this village. It was precisely because of this that the vigilance of the guerrillas was minimized, and the observation posts and mobile posts that Ma Changhe had placed at the entrance of the village and on the hills outside the village were not aware of the approaching danger, because they never realized that a Japanese squad would have quietly touched the periphery of the village.

The veteran soldiers were dispatched to cleanly clear the guerrillas' observation posts on the hill outside the village, and seeing the curling smoke in the village from a distance, the second lieutenant and squad leader Haneda Koichi, who commanded the Japanese army, immediately ordered an attack on the village. Knowing that his opponent was only a guerrilla force, Haneda Koichi did not even identify the machine gun position before the attack began, and the machine gunners in the squad had no intention of just staying in the rear to provide fire support, he was ready to rush into the village with the squad forward.

"Let's start, hurry up and finish, we'll have a hot meal." Haneda Koichi pointed the command knife in his hand forward, and a dozen forward soldiers wrapped in grass branches carefully moved towards the village hundreds of meters away with rifles. The two guerrillas in charge of guarding the village entrance did not seem to notice anything unusual outside the village, and at this time, the forward of Haneda's team had approached only a hundred meters away from the village entrance.

"Devil, devil is coming." What Ren Haneda Koichi and his soldiers didn't expect was that before their marksmanship soldiers rushed to the village, the big bell hanging from the big tree at the entrance of the village was rang hard, and Haneda Koichi's face couldn't help but harden, it seemed that his deeds had not escaped the eyes of the other party's guard sentry. Two gunshots rang out, the bell rang and the two guerrillas who were on guard at the entrance of the village were shot one after another and fell to the ground, and more than a dozen forward soldiers of Haneda's squad immediately jumped up and rushed towards the entrance of the village.

The sound of the bell had already made the whole village boil, and from time to time guerrillas with weapons rushed towards the entrance of the village, and the sudden sound of gunfire frightened the people of the village, who could not have imagined that there were already Japanese troops about to rush into the village. "Fight, don't let them rush into the village." A large group of guerrillas who had hurried to the entrance of the village collided with a dozen Japanese advance soldiers who were about to storm the village, and the two sides had only time to fire the first bullet in the chamber of their guns before they had already fallen into a scuffle.

The weapons of the guerrillas were not as sophisticated as those used by the Japanese army, and their skills in hand-to-hand combat were not as superb as those of the Japanese soldiers, but they had the advantage in numbers, and the guerrillas who hurried to the entrance of the village forced more than a dozen Japanese forward soldiers out of the village by relying on hand-to-hand combat without fear of life and death, and killed more than half of these dozen Japanese soldiers. The forward soldiers of Haneda's squad withdrew from the village in disarray, but the guerrillas who intercepted them did not take advantage, and the Japanese only paid a few casualties, bringing more than a dozen dead and serious wounded to the guerrillas.

The joy of the successful attack on the Japanese squad in the afternoon had long since disappeared, and the guerrillas suddenly discovered the difference in strength between themselves and the Japanese soldiers, and if it had not been for the large number of people and the scuffle just now, these dozen Japanese soldiers would have rushed into the village. Zhuo Fei, who was lying asleep on the earthen kang, was also awakened by the sound of gunfire and shouting in the village, and Zhuo Fei, who turned over from the earthen kang and got off the kang, did not immediately rush out of the small courtyard, but stepped on the large vat under the courtyard wall and climbed onto the roof.

As the so-called standing high and seeing far away, Zhuo Fei, who climbed on the roof, looked into the distance at the entrance of the village, and saw the dotted earthy yellow figure in the field outside the village, Zhuo Fei suddenly flashed a spirit in his heart, good guy, full of eyes, there were at least dozens of Japanese soldiers. Zhuo Fei is a person from the later generations, so naturally he will not think that the Japanese army will be easy to deal with like the guerrillas, and besides, he will be unarmed, so he should find a way out first.

Zhuo Fei, who didn't intend to wait for death here, came down from the roof, and the two guerrillas who were standing outside the door to watch over him had long since disappeared. Anyway, it can be regarded as a weapon, Zhuo Fei weighed the weight of the axe, and waved it casually a few times, feeling quite satisfied, after all, this thing can also kill people. Walking out of the courtyard, Zhuo Fei found that the village was already in chaos, several guerrillas were organizing the people in the village to move to the back mountain, and there were also guerrillas carrying weapons running in the direction of the village entrance.

Zhuo Fei didn't plan to stay here and wait for death, so he naturally wanted to follow the people who had been transferred to the back mountain, but before he could turn the corner, he heard the sound of light machine gun fire coming from the direction of the village entrance, and then explosions sounded in the village one after another. There are machine guns and grenadiers, and the Japanese army who came will be at the squad level, Zhuo Fei knows that this is troublesome, and it is impossible to please only rely on the strength of the guerrillas and the whole Japanese squad to fight offensive and defensive battles.

"Let's go, move to the back mountain." The guerrillas who commanded the evacuation of the people shouted loudly, trying to persuade the people who had been transferred to the back mountains not to carry the bulky household belongings, but some of the people did not listen to them, not only carrying large burdens, but also bringing their own piglets, chickens and ducks. The roads in the village were not very rich, everyone was huddled together with their burdens and belongings, and the speed of retreat to the back mountain seemed to Zhuo Fei to be slow to the speed of a turtle.

Finally bypassed the corner, Zhuo Fei, who was carrying an axe, immediately ran in the other direction, once the Japanese army rushed into the village, he would only become a prisoner and an object of fun for the Japanese army if he continued to grind here. Life and death have their own destiny, and Zhuo Fei didn't feel that he should bear any responsibility to those people who were reluctant to pay for their homes, not to mention that the weapon he could rely on was only an axe for chopping wood. Running quickly through the two courtyards, a gunshot suddenly sounded in front of him, according to the clarity of the gunshot, Zhuo Fei, who stopped, secretly shouted that it was not good, the Japanese soldiers should have rushed into the village.

Dodging behind a pile of firewood and grass, two Japanese soldiers with rifles ran along a courtyard wall with kicks and tramples, and Zhuo Fei, who was standing sideways behind the firewood and grass stack, couldn't help but secretly clench the axe in his hand, thinking about whether he should make a move, at least get a rifle for self-defense. Seeing that there was no one in front of him, the two Japanese soldiers ran past the firewood and straw stacks one after the other, although Zhuo Fei wanted to sneak attack the two, he still controlled the rush in his heart. He only has an axe that is not very sharp, and if he makes a rash move, he may not kill the other party, but will become the prey of the other party.

"Hurry up, it's a devil, the little devil has entered the village." There were also villagers who also didn't want to waste time and wanted to take a detour to the back mountain, but they happened to collide with the two Japanese soldiers, and they couldn't help screaming in fright. "Poof" tried to use himself to protect his family, and the man was pierced by the bayonet in the hands of the Japanese soldiers, but a few ordinary people, the Japanese soldiers did not waste bullets and directly used the bayonet as a result.