Chapter 288: Encounter
In the Anti-Japanese War drama, anyone can play with the little devil in applause, but in fact, where do ordinary people have that ability.
The militia in the village has some training, and when they heard the gunshot, they reacted quickly enough to cover some of the villagers to escape, and most of them were blocked in the village by the devils.
With the help of the fire in the village that had not yet been extinguished, Zhang Yunfei found that the number of this group of devils was not only a small team, but also a lot of puppet troops, and the specific number was not clear when it was dark.
However, it is estimated that there are at least hundreds of devils, and the number of puppet troops is almost hundreds, of course, this can't be because their scouts are wrong, if they can't even tell the number of enemies, then it's really a fool.
Zhang Yunfei thought about it and understood that there was indeed only one squad of devils stationed in this village, but now there should be reinforcements transferred from nearby.
From the time he found out that there were devils in this village, Zhang Yunfei knew that this devil was definitely not isolated, after all, the strength of a squad was too small.
No matter how crazy the devil is, it is impossible for a squad to act alone, and it is not easy for the Eighth Route Army to kill the devils of a squadron, but if it is a squad, then it is a different matter.
Now all the units of the Eighth Route Army are very difficult, and the ammunition in their hands is seriously insufficient, if they encounter devils with fewer troops, they don't all pounce on them like hungry wolves, why do they have to work hard to find brother troops everywhere, and follow these guys to find brother troops steadily.
A squad of devils who act alone, it is definitely a piece of fat, and it is impossible for no one to target it.
The harsh living environment forced the Eighth Route Army not to let go of any fighter, and the Eighth Route Army was definitely a force with a sensitive sense of smell.
Like wolves roaming the wasteland, they are hungry and tenacious, and they must conserve every piece of energy to find the easiest target, and they must hit with one blow, because they do not have the stamina to attack a second time.
The devil's sweep has always been a ring after a ring, and the armies of all walks of life are quite meticulous, and although the devils discriminate against each other as seriously, they will never be able to do the kind of thing that friendly troops are in trouble and cannot be saved when they die.
When you encounter the enemy along the way, the other roads will definitely come to the rescue, and the overall discipline of the devil is very famous.
Coupled with the superiority of the devil's strength, firepower and means of communication, it is very difficult to seize the fighters, and the Eighth Route Army sometimes needs to mobilize thousands or even tens of thousands of people to block and reinforce in order to kill a squadron of devils.
Otherwise, it is very difficult to find a suitable fighter, especially in this large-scale sweep, if you want to catch the devil's loophole, it will be even more difficult to find the fighter.
If there really is only one squad of devils acting alone, it will definitely be regarded as fat by the Eighth Route Army, which is eager to replenish ammunition.
Not to mention that it can't be discovered, how can a hungry wolf not be able to find the enemy's weakness.
However, now there is no point in investigating the extra number of devils, and these Japanese puppet armies, whether in terms of firepower or number of troops, are far from being able to shake them.
Looking at the villagers who had been blocked, Zhang Yunfei was also helpless, the villagers of the blocked village, with the assistance of the puppet army, were all concentrated, and the Japanese puppet army tried to force the villagers to hand over the cadres and wounded of the Eighth Route Army who might be protected by the villagers, as well as the food and supplies hidden by the fortified wall.
However, no matter how the puppet army coerced and lured, no one answered the villagers who were blocked back into the village, and the villagers were not really all fearless of life and death, but in this era when the bark of the grass roots and trees were gnawed away, handing over food and materials was not much different from killing them directly.
No matter what, they could not escape death, and they could only carry it to the end, keeping food and supplies, at least the part of the militia and villagers that had already stood out could survive.
Seeing that the villagers refused to eat, the devil became angry and tied all the young and middle-aged villagers to the trees at the head of the village.
It was already very clear what the devil wanted to do, and seeing that he was about to be slaughtered by more than a dozen young adults who were tied up, a trace of cold sweat began to break out on Zhang Yunfei's forehead.
This kind of moment is the most test of a person's will, and Zhang Yunfei is constantly thinking about how to solve this dilemma now.
At this time, the devils in the village had already picked up their bayonet rifles, ready to use the young men in the village as targets for assassination, while the other devils also grabbed and tied up women and children from the crowd again, forcing the villagers to submit.
Dense gunfire suddenly rang out from the west of the village, and a dense burst of machine guns rang out, knocking down the puppet troops on the periphery.
When the gunshots rang out, Zhang Yunfei couldn't help but be stunned, this was not Sun Zhiqiang's troops, they should be in the south.
Just when Zhang Yunfei was wondering, in the end, the brother troops would appear here, and the Japanese puppet army that suffered a sudden blow was also a little chaotic, and Sun Zhiqiang's Eighth Company took this opportunity to launch an attack from the south.
Zhang Yunfei didn't care about where this brother force came from, and immediately put his seventh company, ninth company and fire platoon into battle, and defeated this group of Japanese puppet troops first.
This group of devils was attacked from the south and west at the same time, and it was a little difficult to deal with it, and now the main force of the third battalion attacked from the north, it was even more uncertain, seeing such a formation, this was to encircle and annihilate them, and the commander of the devils saw that the situation was not right, so he had to retreat to the east.
The battle is like this, and the victory and defeat have been divided, but it's a bit of a pity that when the devil is attacked, the defense conversion is still very fast, and it is not so easy to be defeated.
Although the battle was lively, in fact, it did not seriously damage the enemy, this group of Japanese puppet troops retreated on their own initiative, and they failed to leave each other at all.
The Eighth Route Army that came to the aid was only four or five hundred people, which should be the strength of a battalion, and with so many troops, it was not impossible to completely annihilate more than 100 devils and hundreds of puppet troops.
But with the tenacity of the devil, it will inevitably go through a hard battle, which is obviously not cost-effective, so this group of brother troops, seeing the devil retreating, immediately collected their troops and began to clean up the battlefield.
Seeing this, Zhang Yunfei also immediately ordered everyone to prepare to set off, and the sound of this battle would cause enemies from all directions to quickly surround them.
Although they came with reinforcements, they only had one battalion of troops, and in this situation where there were dangers and devils everywhere, they didn't do anything, and they didn't improve the situation of their troops at all, and at most they only added some more guards.
It was no longer safe here, and they had to move again and hurry up to run.
The next day, until noon, they had been running all night and one morning before they rested again, and now they were finally out of the core area of the devil's sweep, and they could finally make a fire to cook.
After so many days, I finally had a good rest and drank a good sip of hot soup, but most of the bowl of porridge that I finally boiled went into the stomach of the battalion commander of the brother unit, uh, acting battalion commander.
Looking at Qi Dajiu snoring and drinking rice porridge, the sweetness of the drink, even the rice grains in the lunch box were scraped clean by him, seeing his satisfied look, Zhang Yunfei suddenly lost his appetite.
The second battalion of the new 1st Regiment suddenly appeared last night, and they and their own 3rd Battalion were temporarily requisitioned into the division headquarters at the same time, and naturally they became the only mobile force that the division headquarters could use.
So they were also sent out to pick up the personnel of the various logistics agencies who broke through, but they didn't expect to meet here.