Chapter 171: Li Hao's Confidence (First Update!) )
After no longer conducting dragnet searches in the woods, the speed of the Japanese army's march was significantly accelerated.
The secret camp, which was supposed to be found the next day, was found by them at five o'clock in the afternoon.
"Captain, we have found the secret camp of the Eighth Route Army for the wounded, just ahead, and there are quite a few used bandages in it. But there was no one in the camp, and the wounded must have been evacuated! The squad leader rushed to the captain and reported, his face both excited and disappointed!
"No one!" The captain subconsciously quickened the pace of his feet.
In less than ten minutes, a camp of more than a dozen shacks appeared in front of him.
"Baga, they have just moved out of here for two days at most, and they retreated in a hurry, otherwise this place would not be so chaotic!" The captain scolded after touching the ashes left behind by the burning bonfire.
"It must be that after the Eighth Route Army's plan to bring us to the south failed, in order to prevent those seriously wounded from falling into our hands, they temporarily transferred the seriously wounded here!"
"Look for it immediately, dozens of seriously injured people were temporarily transferred out, it is impossible that there is no trace left!"
"Determine which direction they are moving, and we'll kill them at dawn tomorrow!"
The deputy captain hurriedly replied: "Don't worry, captain, I'll arrange it now!" ”
Then he asked, "Are we going to rest here tonight?" ”
"Right here, continue to set off at dawn tomorrow morning, and be sure to find the seriously wounded who have just been transferred."
On the slope a kilometer away from the secret camp, more than a dozen soldiers dug trenches and repaired individual bunkers under the command of Li Hao.
"Comrades, work harder, this is the place where we will have a tough battle with the little devils tomorrow. Only by building the position strong enough can we protect ourselves and kill more little devils! ”
"We kill a hundred little devils here, and the remaining devils will take the initiative to retreat because of heavy casualties, and we will win this battle!"
"Platoon commander, are you sure that the little devil will definitely come, and he will go to this mountain pass under our feet!" Hong Linfeng asked the question he had been holding back for an afternoon.
"It's best if the devils don't come, so that they can't find our seriously wounded hiding behind the mountain pass, and there is no need to fight this battle, after all, our most important task is to protect the wounded." Li Hao replied.
After a change of words, he continued: "But I believe that the devils will definitely kill them, they are all elites, and they will definitely be able to find some clues around the camp we gave up, and then kill them all the way!" ”
"All we need to do is stay here!"
"Let the little devils make sure that the seriously wounded they are looking for is behind the mountain pass, as long as they take this mountain pass, they will win, and force them to storm the mountain pass!
Hong Linfeng hesitated for a moment and replied: "I know the terrain here!" ”
"It is very difficult for the devils to bypass this mountain pass and kill us directly, and the best way is to storm it."
Li Hao is much more confident: "Don't worry about this, even if you can bypass it, the little devil will choose to attack us here!" ”
"Compared with our hard-fought annihilation here, and bypassing here and continuing to fight guerrilla warfare with us in the future, the little devil will definitely choose the former. Because in the eyes of devils, fighting a tough battle can bring out their firepower superiority, military superiority, and strong combat effectiveness to the fullest! ”
"The devils must want to see us fight a tough battle with them now, we do what they want, it's too late for them to be happy, how can they take a detour and give up this tough battle?"
Hong Linfeng thought for a while and continued to ask: "Then if the devil can't attack the mountain pass for a long time, and suffers a loss, will he stop attacking?" ”
Li Hao is still as confident as ever: "Then it's up to us!" ”
"We want to give the devils hope that they will take us, and we have to kill and injure them in large numbers. By the time they really reacted, they had already suffered more than 100 casualties, and it was too late to retreat and detour. ”
After speaking, Li Hao climbed to the top of the hillside on the side of the mountain pass.
A squad of fighters was building fortifications halfway up the mountain.
When Li Hao climbed up, a trench one meter wide, four meters long, and one meter five deep had already been dug out.
"Cover it with logs, then spread a layer of soil half a meter back, press some large stones, and finally camouflage it with thatch and leaves!" Li Hao ordered.
"I'm going to set up this place as a hidden firing point, open three shooting holes, hide three crooked handles, aim at the mountain pass, and prepare a surprise for the little devils who attack us!"
Hong Linfeng, who regarded this place as an ordinary trench fortification at the beginning, was stunned, he finally understood why the platoon commander was so confident and dared to fight the devil here.
In addition to the easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack terrain here, there is such a secret weapon.
The trench was topped and then the firing holes were opened, which was a semi-permanent point of fire, a machine-gun bunker.
Although such pure civil fortifications could not withstand artillery shelling, the devils who entered the mountains were not equipped.
At this moment, Hong Linfeng seemed to see this machine gun bunker wantonly slaughtering the little devil on the battlefield, and the little devil gritted his teeth with hatred, but he had no choice but to fill in the picture with human life.
"Hong Linfeng, the two of us will act separately, you will continue to supervise the soldiers on the mountain to repair their positions, and I will go below to prepare some small surprises for the devils!"
"Although the grenade can't be arranged as a trick mine, the grenade for the grenadier can, and it's even more powerful!"
The captain of the Japanese army slept very well last night.
He was confident that the wounded of the Eighth Route Army he was looking for was nearby.
Sure enough, as soon as he got up, the deputy captain walked in with a smile.
"Captain, we found a trail of people walking near the camp, and it was only left by many people who walked through it. The mountains here are high and dense, ordinary people will definitely not come in, and those traces must have been left by the Eighth Route Army to transfer the wounded! ”
"They are too cunning, the traces near the secret camp have been erased, and if it weren't for the lowly duty to expand the scope of investigation, it would have been impossible to find it."
"It's good to have found it!" As soon as I got up, I received the good news, and the smile on the captain's face became even stronger.
"Pass my order, the troops will leave in an hour, all the troops will be concentrated, and there is no need to disperse the search anymore. We followed the trail left by the Eighth Route Army to transfer the wounded, and we will definitely find them! ”
The devils marched in two formations, with rifles on their backs, crooked handles and grenadiers on their shoulders, and marched fast.
In the blink of an eye, the forward troops crashed into the pocket formation that Li Hao had prepared for them at the mountain pass.
"Hit ...... Bang bang...... Dadada......"
Four crooked handles and several rifles fired at the same time on the mountainside, and the bullets rained down on the devils at the foot of the mountain, covering them in an instant.
A less than 40 devils in the infantry squad died seven or eight people on the spot.
"Throw a grenade!"
Li Hao, who personally manipulated a crooked handle, shouted while continuing to hold the fire.
"Boom...... Retreat ......"
The sound of a grenade explosion and the retreat order of the devil squad leader sounded at the foot of the mountain at the same time.
More than 20 devils retreated in embarrassment, and when the smoke at the foot of the mountain cleared, more than a dozen devil corpses were lying there scattered, motionless.
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