Chapter 25: Raid and annihilate the enemy and get out of danger

The sun has shifted to the west. In the woods of the cemetery of Wanjiaquan. Zhou Qiwei's expression was solemn, and he walked to Fang Jiren's side worriedly, depressed, and sighed and said:

"Alas! Company Commander Fang, now there are only 24 of us in total, and we only have nine rifles, five shell guns, three pistols, six grenades, and more than 30 rounds of ammunition. And then there's the big knife in your hand, the short sword in your waist and the dagger on your leggings, which is really a bit pitiful. ”

"It's okay, take your time, there will be in the future." Fang Jiren nodded and walked in front of everyone and said: "Brothers, we are about to start acting, you must obey my command, we only fight devils, traitors and puppet soldiers, we are absolutely not allowed to bully the common people, we are not allowed to rob property, whoever dares to violate it, will be shot immediately......"

Suddenly, outside the woods, the gunfire of the 38 big cover and the crooked machine gun sounded, and everyone knew in their hearts that the Japanese army had come to the vicinity, and they immediately became nervous and panicked. You look at me, I look at you, I don't know how to deal with it at this time?

"Don't panic!" Francis looked calm and said calmly: "The devil doesn't know that we are here. Obey me, come with me, and prepare for battle. With a wave of his hand, he led everyone to rush to the edge of the woods, each looking for favorable terrain to lie down and hide, ready for battle.

The sun is about to set. Morikura Village. Changgui drove the carriage rented by the three oceans and walked out of the village. There was a stack of sacks, straw curtains and other miscellaneous items on the carriage, as well as a bicycle, and Ding Ruxuan sat on a thick sack with a cage of four pigeons next to it. Out of the street, Changgui raised his whip to urge the horse, shouted loudly, and the jujube red horse raised its four hooves and ran along the avenue towards the wilderness west of the village.

Changgui asked, "Young Master, is it okay to come out at this time?" After a while it was dark. ”

Ding Ruxuan said resolutely: "If you can't do it, you have to come out, the matter is urgent." I hope it does, maybe it's better when it's dark. Changgui, you have to be clever for me, no matter what the situation is, you must calm down and stabilize your mind first, you must not act rashly and recklessly, and don't show your guys until the last resort. ”

"Yes, I'll listen to you. Young master, when are we going back to the county seat? Isn't Mr. Li's order very urgent, so what should I do? Changgui asked while driving the car.

Ding Ruxuan thought for a while and said: "The things that Mr. Li ordered are all urgent matters, and I have already explained them, and the third master will do it when they return to the county seat, and there should be no delay." ”

"Young master, where are we going in a hurry? Why are you going? ”

"Go to Shuihe Village. You'll know what to do in a minute. ”

"Huh? Going to Shuihe Village? It's enough to hang at this time, maybe you'll meet a ghost. ”

"Humph! If you can't meet it, you won't go. Changgui, don't mumble nonsense, hurry up. ”

Shuihe Village. In a civilian house where the medical team of the Eighth Route Army Supplementary Regiment was stationed. The political commissar said solemnly: "Battalion Commander Du, don't tell anyone about our conversation today, and don't go to the regiment commander, Director Huang and I will talk to the two company commanders, and you can recuperate with peace of mind." ”

The sun is about to set. The woods of the cemetery of Wanjiaquaner. Fang Jiren, Fang Lusheng, Zhou Qiwei and others lay down and hidden, held guns to observe, and prepared for battle.

More than 100 meters away from the woods, dozens of ordinary people and eight or nine Kuomintang soldiers desperately ran towards the cemetery woods, followed by more than 30 Japanese soldiers in hot pursuit, and one militiaman and several Kuomintang soldiers turned around while running and shot at each other and threw grenades. Gunshots and explosions rang out.

Francis shouted: "Fellow countrymen! Come over here, run! Then he said to the people around him, "Brothers, be ready for battle, spare your fellow countrymen, and wait until the devil is near, and then fight, one at a time, to save bullets, and no one is allowed to shoot without my orders." ”

From time to time, some people in the running crowd were shot by Japanese soldiers and fell to the ground, most of them ran into the woods one after another to hide, and the Kuomintang soldiers who ran into the woods saw Zhou Qiwei shouting and the battalion commander lay down and hidden. The Japanese attacked and advanced, and there were still fifty or sixty meters from the woods.

Fang Jiren yelled: "Fight! The rifles and pistols opened fire together, and the devils suddenly fell down eight or nine, and the rest of the Japanese soldiers turned around and ran back fifty or sixty meters, and found that there were no pursuers behind, so they lay down on the ground to observe, and then deployed a formation to lie on the ground and shoot a counterattack. There was no response after a burst of shooting. The Japanese got up from the ground, hunched over, alternated cover, cautiously and slowly continued to advance towards the woods attack.

"Stop shooting, listen to my orders to prepare to drop bombs, put on bayonets." Fang Jiren said to Zhou Qiwei beside him: "Battalion Commander Zhou, you take ten people and three grenades and quickly detour back to the right side of the devil, and as soon as I fire here later, you will fire there, and you will also drop the bomb if we drop the bomb, and then you will charge and resolutely kill this little devil." ”

"Okay, I'll go right away." After speaking, Zhou Qiwei rushed away with ten people.

After a burst of heavy fire, there was no movement in the woods, and the Japanese soldiers stopped shooting, straightened up and scattered, forming a fan formation and cautiously searching and advancing.

When they were more than 30 meters apart, Fang Jiren and Zhou Qiwei attacked almost simultaneously from the front and the right side, and after the bullets were gone, they threw only six grenades into the enemy group. With the sound of the explosion, Fang Jiren led the crowd out of the woods and into the enemy group to fight hand-to-hand. With Francis' "Baga! With a roar, a devil was about to fall beside him. There was a burst of swords and spears, and not a single Japanese soldier was wiped out. "Phew!" Fang Jiren looked at the dozens of Japanese corpses and gritted his teeth and said with hatred: "The son of Sayo Nalagu is white. ”

Fang Lusheng walked up to Fang Jiren with a freshly seized 38 big cover rifle with a bayonet and said happily: "Hey! This battle was a terrible battle! Ay? Uncle, why do you have to shout 'Baga' every time before the big knife is slashed? ”

Fang Jiren looked at Fang Lusheng, blinked his eyes and said, "Oh, if I send the little devils back to their hometown, shouldn't I send them a parting message?" We Chinese pay attention to etiquette. Hey, you don't understand this, huh? Fang Jiren took off the hat of the Eighth Route Army from the heads of the sacrificed militiamen and put it on his head, turned around and ordered loudly: "Brothers, if there are wounded, simply bandage them first, and the rest of the people quickly clean up the battlefield, bury our sacrifices, collect the weapons and ammunition on the dead devils, count the number of people, and prepare to evacuate." After saying that, Fang Jiren went into the woods and said to the frightened people: "Fellow villagers, it's okay, the little devils have been killed by us, you can rest here for a while, hurry up and go home or go to Shuihe Village to find the Eighth Route Army." ”

A young and beautiful girl dressed as a villager walked up to Fang Jiren, who was wearing civilian clothes with a belt around her waist and leggings, looked him up and down, and begged: "Are you the Eighth Route Army?" You take me with you, I'm very scared when I'm alone, I'm going to the county seat of Lin'an County. ”

Puzzled, Francis asked, "Huh?" What are you going to do in the county seat at this time? Girl, it's very dangerous to go to the county seat now, is your home in the county seat? . ”

The girl said sadly, "I went to buy medicine, and someone in my family had tuberculosis, which was very serious. ”

Fang Jiren dissuaded: "No, girl, we won't go to the county seat." What village are you from? How dare you run out of the house alone? How did you meet a Japanese devil? ”

The girl replied: "My name is Lu Yun, my family is not in the county, I am from Linzhou, Hebei, I have been out for more than ten days, I didn't expect that there were still wars everywhere, I knew that I would not come out in this way." Now most of the devils have withdrawn, and only a small group of devils are still searching and sweeping in this area, so we have encountered it, but fortunately you came to the rescue. ”

Fang Jiren said worriedly: "Girl, it's too dangerous for you to run around alone, what if you meet a devil again?" Hey, if that's the case, you can follow us first, and I'll help you find a way to buy medicine. ”

Lu Yunhu asked suspiciously: "Big brother, aren't you the Eighth Route Army?" Which unit are you from? How can you get involved with a group of Kuomintang soldiers? I really don't get it. ”

"I'm from the Eighth Route Army Replenishment Regiment, and we're on a special secret mission." Francis explained.

Zhou Qiwei walked over: "Company Commander Fang, none of the 36 devils can breathe, 35 rifles, a Wang Ba box, more than 700 rounds of ammunition, and 6 sapper shovels have been captured, this Wang Ba box is for you to use." A few more of us were slightly wounded, but they were all out of the way, and eight of my soldiers came back, and they were all willing to stay, and now there are 32 of us. Company Commander Fang, the fellow villagers are gone, let's withdraw too. ”

"Someone is hurt? Let me take a look and give them a simple bandage. It's easy to get infected in such a hot weather. Lu Yun looked at Fang Jiren and said to him on his own initiative.

"No! You have to get out of here right away, maybe a large army of devils will follow. Fang Jiren took the Wang Ba box from Zhou Qiwei's hand and straddled it diagonally and said, "Okay, give me another rifle, gather the team, and set off immediately!" Fang Jiren led everyone to walk briskly in the direction of Lin An Town.

It's silent. Japanese garrison in the field. Nakagawa sat in the tent and wrote: Guilan, are you okay? Your body has always been very weak, and I can't take care of you, so take care of yourself. There is no war today, and tomorrow I will return to the county seat to rest. I'm tired, when will this war end? The Communists and the Eighth Route Army are too cunning and stubborn to submit to the Imperial Japanese Army, and only by destroying them all can we completely solve the problem of China, and then I can go home and reunite with you.

Shuihe Village. Village office. The Eighth Route Army supplemented the regimental headquarters. Yu Genshan held a pipe in his mouth, stood in front of the map with a lantern in his right hand, looked at the map and pondered for a long time, as if he was facing the wall and meditating.

The tired chief of staff walked into the regiment headquarters and walked to Yu Genshan's side:

"Regiment commander, almost all the troops who broke through have returned, but Secretary Wang of the county party committee, President Zhu, a small number of people, and the wounded have not returned, and their whereabouts are unknown, will they be captured by the devils on the way to transfer? That's going to be a problem. According to reconnaissance, a small group of devils are still searching for the vicinity of Shengcang Village, and I have already sent a vigilance force and sent several plainclothes teams out to look for them. ”

The political commissar walked in: "Regiment commander, the soldiers are resting, you should also go to bed early, there is still a lot of important work to be done tomorrow, I can't support it anymore." ”

"Alas!" Yu Genshan turned around and walked to the square table, put the lantern on the table, took two puffs of pipe, sat on the chair and said sadly: "I can't find Secretary Wang and Principal Zhu, I'm really anxious to die, if they are captured by the devil, it will be our serious dereliction of duty!" No matter what, you have to find them. ”

"What?! Secretary Wang and Principal Zhu haven't been found yet? Missing? Captured by devils? The commissar asked in surprise.