He replied to Lei Yunfeng twice, but as soon as he thought about whether he could be the battalion commander and deputy regiment commander, he was completely in Lei Yunfeng's words, and immediately said with sincere fear: "Tuanzuo, I will arrange it immediately, please rest assured." ”

In the evening, the wind picked up, the clouds in the sky slowly gathered, and the hot weather began to cool down, and the commando fighters, who had been hiding in the woods, leaned against the trunks of the trees to cool down, and felt very comfortable.

Some obedient soldiers prepared some branches to protect from the wind and rain to build improvised small huts, and some soldiers who didn't care sneered: "If it rains on such a day, Lao Tzu will suffocate in this wood." ”

In the first half of the night, the weather was quite refreshing, but at midnight I suddenly felt unbearable heat, there was not a trace of wind in the woods, and some of the hot warriors took off their shirts and were bare-chested, and some even took off their long pants outside and put them aside, and lay in the weeds under the trees in their big pants without gear.

Just when everyone felt stuffy and breathless, just now it was still starry and suddenly dark clouds pressed to the top, and large clouds gathered and accumulated with each other under the strong wind, and the overhead was overhead by the low cloud backlog made it even more unbearable.

Suddenly, the thick clouds in the air seemed to be split by a fire sword with a dazzling light, and at the moment when the fire sword disappeared, a deafening thunder exploded from the split.

Then the thunder and lightning roared from far and near, and the black clouds overhead seemed to turn from thick to gray, and after several explosions of thunder sounded one after another, it began to drizzle in the sky.

The warriors who were lying on the ground to enjoy the shade were drenched in the rain, and at first they were shouting in a low voice, but as the raindrops became heavier and heavier, a rain curtain formed a continuous line fell on them, and the gusts of wind swept through the trees, and the warriors who were lying on the ground to enjoy the shade could no longer lie down.

The warriors who had built shelters in advance to protect themselves from the wind and rain went into the huts built with tree branches, and although the rain could still flow through the huts, it was much more comfortable than those unsheltered warriors in the open air.

Lei Yunfeng walked into the shack carefully built by Su Xiaoyan, and immediately felt like hiding at home, without the unhappiness of wind and rain, giving people a comfortable feeling.

Liao Yingqiang, who was standing outside, although he passed on according to Lei Yunfeng's order and told the soldiers to prepare for the wind and rain, he didn't believe that it could rain in such weather, and he was unprepared.

The stormy night drives away the heat of the day, and at this time it feels a little cool and breezy, and the showers are drenched, and the whole body is shivering with cold contraction.

Finally, it was dawn the next day, and the rain was still falling, but it was much smaller than after midnight, but the sky was still full of dark clouds, the light rain stopped and fell, the roads were muddy, and the river beach was waterlogged.

Lei Yunfeng stood under a big tree, watching the trucks leave the river beach one after another, and soon there were many fewer trucks parked on the river beach, and the trucks that did not drive away were parked at a relatively high place to avoid the river water rushing downstream, which was safe for the time being.

The truck stretched for three or four kilometers, and Second Lieutenant Okada, who was the vanguard guard, led the guard to drive the road in front of him in a medium-sized jeep, followed by two Japanese armored vehicles.

The commander of the second echelon, Yamashita Nakasa, received the report of Okada's return, and for a moment he couldn't decide whether to continue or stop advancing, and he hesitated and scratched his head.

He knew very well that in the Dongwuling mountainous area leading to Jicheng and Quwo, the mountain road was difficult and narrow, and there were many anti-Japanese armed forces attacking and harassing along the way.

The march on the mountain road would be very slow, and if it was suddenly attacked by the anti-Japanese forces, the consequences would be very disastrous, and he did not dare to give the order to continue to advance, and ordered to stop the advance.

More than 100 trucks of the second echelon regiment composed of four transport squadrons stopped on the narrow road three kilometers northwest of Qinshui City. Newcastle

It rained for three days in a row, and the Japanese convoy stopped on the road and came to a standstill.

Lei Yunfeng ordered Su Xiaoyan to immediately report the situation of the Japanese army here to Commander Wei of the Zhongtiao Mountain West Route Army in the form of a telegram.

Commander Wei also reported the information that the Japanese transport convoy had stopped moving to the commander of the Zhongtiao Mountain Theater Command, and the Theater Command ordered the 10th Division of the 39th Army to continue to set up an ambush at the pass near Dongwuling on the basis of the information obtained in the early stage.

Once such a large ambush force is discovered by Japanese fighters carrying out reconnaissance in the air, the consequences will be unimaginable.

The commander of the theater command ordered Lei Yunfeng, the new commander of the 30th Brigade of the 17th Division of the Western Route Army, to immediately leave the northwest highway of Qinshui with firepower to attack and harass the second echelon regiment of the Japanese army at the minimum cost, and expel the large Japanese transport convoy to the 10th Division of Dongwuling to set up an ambush circle.

Lei Yunfeng, who received the order, made a meticulous harassment and expulsion plan according to the deployment of the garrison troops in front and behind the second echelon of the Japanese army.

Liao Yingqiang, deputy commander of the 54th Regiment commando, was ordered to lead the second squad of 15 soldiers to launch an attack in the middle of the Japanese transport convoy, and as soon as the Japanese convoy began to advance in the direction of Dongwuling, the harassment would be terminated immediately.

If the Japanese convoy stops halfway and attacks and harasses again, the Japanese convoy must not be stopped.

Lei Yunfeng led the first squad to the ambush site of the 14th Battalion of the 54th Regiment of Majiawa more than ten kilometers away from Qinshui City at the fastest speed, preparing to launch the first halfway ambush against the large Japanese convoy in Majiawa.

Fang Shichao received an order from Lei Yunfeng and led the soldiers of the 14th Battalion to arrive at Majiawa in the afternoon of the next day, hiding in the woods adjacent to the eastern slope of the Qinshui Highway leading to Jicheng and Quwo.

The officers and men of the 14th Battalion, who were hidden in the woods, had eaten the two dry rations they had prepared during the two days of continuous rain and did not eat a single bite of food.

The company and platoon commanders couldn't reply and found the new battalion commander Fang Shichao, and Fang Shichao didn't expect that this ambush would be ambushed in the woods of Majiawa for so long, so he couldn't answer for a while, so he could only take out the map and look at the map to calculate the distance from Dongwuling.

Fang Shichao found Dongwuling on the map and calculated that Majiawa was at least thirty kilometers away from Dongwuling, and the only way to solve the rations of nearly two hundred soldiers was to borrow food.

He didn't know if the villagers of Dongwuling, who had been slaughtered by devils, would have provided support in the face of difficulties without the members of the 'Mantis' special operations group personally raising food.

However, the members of the 'Praying Mantis' special operation group were already scattered in various battalions of the 54th Regiment to hold important positions at this time, and at this time there was only one member of each unit, and there was no second person who could take people to Dongwuling to raise food.

He looked at the soldiers of the 14th Battalion who were hiding in the woods and setting up an ambush, one by one lying in the muddy water and having already become soup chickens, they had eaten the two dry food prepared on the first day of the ambush, and at this time they were like babies waiting to be fed, waiting for food and drink with their mouths open and thirsty.

Fang Shichao had no choice but to come up with a trick to quench his thirst, and told a big lie to the soldiers:

"Brothers of the 14th Battalion, our Commander Lei and the assault team set off ahead of schedule, and will soon join us with compressed biscuits and canned beef from the captured Japanese army, as long as you hold on, you can eat good things that you have never seen before."