At nightfall.

With Meadow Ditch as the center, the Japanese army formed a huge encirclement in Liugou, Baiquan and Chayuangou, like a huge net, netting all the people who were the first to be frightened and flee.

The devils not only blocked the traffic arteries with the watchtower stronghold, but also sprinkled countless spies into the encirclement, secretly searching for the people who fled from the area closest to the meadow ditch!

At the same time, the team led by Kobayashi Kiyoshi, Miyahata and others is ready to fight, as long as they get the news that the spies have come back, they are ready to attack immediately and enter the encirclement to arrest people!

In the valley, a group of Japanese soldiers was setting up checkpoints at the intersection between the two mountains.

Although the number of Japanese troops is not large, the machine gun array built in the key position is not only easy to defend and difficult to attack, but also has a wide field of vision, directly covering a large area of the entire intersection, and it is not easy for the idle team to break through!

Under the coercion of the cold and shining bayonets and the muzzles of the black holes, several ordinary people took out their certificates of good citizenship and handed them over to the Japanese puppet soldiers who were inspecting......

The wild vegetables picked in the back basket were turned over by the devils, and even the firewood, which was obviously impossible to hide, was picked up by the Japanese army with bayonets to check, and even deliberately thrown far away, and several ordinary people could only swallow their anger and dare not speak out.

"China pig, hahaha......"

Seeing a few ordinary people leaving in embarrassment, the devils at the intersection laughed, as happy as if they had just teased a few stupid dogs......

At this moment, there was a piercing sound of breaking the sky!

When the devil who was originally laughing wildly heard this voice, his soul suddenly burst into a rage, and he screamed: "Eight grid tooth road, grenadier ......"

Before the devils could react, the piercing sound of breaking the sky immediately turned into a rumbling explosion!

The machine guns in the machine gun array were directly lifted into the air, and several devils were killed on the spot!

"Cavalry platoon, charge!"

In Jia Quantao's excited roar, twenty or thirty war horses suddenly accelerated, and rushed towards the stronghold like a tide!

The warriors crouched down on their horses, and with all their might, they controlled their rifles and fired at the little devils, and swept through the stronghold like a whirlwind, rushing towards the depths of the valley......

By the time the remaining devils came back to their senses, Jia Quantao and the others had already run away.

Looking at the corpses on the ground, looking at the backs of Zhang Ran, Jia Quantao and others, who had escaped far from the shooting world, the devils scolded angrily, unwillingly shot at the back to vent their anger, and at the same time immediately sent someone to report the situation to the nearest stronghold......

"Hahaha, happy, happy......"

The entire valley reverberated with Jia Quantao's excited laughter.

Although just now, except for the first few grenadier bombardments that killed a few devils, the cavalry platoon did not kill even one enemy in the way of cavalry, but Jia Quantao was still extremely excited.

After all, it was the first time in three or four years that his cavalry had been fought in cavalry again—the satisfaction of a child getting his favorite toy, even happier than killing a few enemies.

Li Qingtai and the other cavalrymen were also very happy, after all, they had been training for so long, after all, when they passed through the devil's stronghold, everyone didn't even wipe off a piece of oily skin!

If it weren't for the cavalry, they believed that even if it was a surprise attack, it would be absolutely impossible for the devils to pass through so easily when the devils occupied the advantageous terrain and built fortifications!

It's just that when their eyes fell on Zhang Ran, they couldn't laugh anymore......

Now Zhang Ran's face is pale, and he looks as uncomfortable as sitting on a pins and needles on horseback - it is obvious that the wave of charges just now is a disaster for Zhang Ran's current situation!

"Captain, why don't you rest for a while?" Jia Quantao couldn't bear to say.

"Leave me alone, I'm fine!"

Zhang Ran thought that the little devils had actually started to fortify in such remote valleys, thinking that those ordinary people were still picking wild vegetables and going into the mountains to collect firewood and were not too afraid to accept the inspection of the little devils, he was now anxious!

There are checkpoints for little devils here, which means that the encirclement of the little devils around the perimeter has gradually taken shape......

What should those ordinary people do, they are not like the ordinary people they met before, they were scared when they saw the devil puppet army, and it showed that after the appeasement of the little devils, or after the villagers themselves inquired, they finally figured out the truth of the facts, and the panic caused by the rumors is dissipating......

These are extremely detrimental to the rescue plan!

The formation of the encirclement of the devils will greatly reduce the possibility of the zero leader and them wanting to escape, the panic of the people will gradually disappear, and the number of fleeing people will also decrease, and the opportunity for the zero leader and their team to be exposed is gradually increasing......

Thinking of this, where is Zhang Ran still in the mood to think about resting now, he endured the pain and roared: "Immediately start a search inward, no matter what, we must find the zero leader before dawn - otherwise, those comrades who are holding back the devil on the periphery will really all die in vain......"

Jia Quantao, Li Qingtai and the others nodded tearfully, and then continued to move forward, and in the towering mountains, they searched forward.

There was no rest at all, and after forcibly breaking through the various checkpoints or strongholds of the devils and then breaking into the encirclement, they immediately launched a search, as well as the small team led by Yang Quanlin and Long Xin!

Of course, the search team also includes a large number of devils and puppet soldiers and spies who disguise themselves as villagers who have fled alone.

More than 100 devil soldiers and puppet soldiers are having dinner in the stronghold.

The meal was hearty, but the appearance of these devils and puppet soldiers eating was like a hard stuff in their stomachs.

It's not that the food is not delicious, but because of several days of fighting, plus the long-distance raid of the previous few hours, I came here, and almost all the physical strength of the devil puppet army has been drained......

What they need most now is a good night's sleep, not a meal.

It's a pity that there are tasks that need to be carried out at any time in the future, and there is no time for them to rest, and if they don't fill their stomachs as soon as possible, they will have to carry out the tasks empty when the time comes—this is by no means what these devils and puppet armies are willing to bear.

The ghost soldiers and puppet soldiers at least have time to eat, but the equally tired squad leader Kobayashi Qing doesn't even have time to eat a meal in peace!

At this moment, Kobayashi Kiyomasa was messing around, and at the same time, through the defenders of the stronghold, he was in contact with the spies who entered the encirclement to investigate, or the garrisons from all over the encirclement or the teams that came to participate in the search, and maintained communication at any time.

After suffering so much and suffering so many crimes, he even gave up the perfect opportunity to annihilate the Gaolin guerrillas, Yang Quanlin and others, if the opportunity to capture the senior generals of the Eighth Route alive in the end fell into the hands of others, he would work in vain......

Just thinking about this possibility, Kobayashi Qing had to vomit blood.

"Kobayashi-kun, I just got the news!"

A military officer trotted in and reported: "Ten miles on the left, there is a group of guerrillas who have just forcibly passed through the roadblock set up by our army and entered the encirclement......

"How many people? How is the equipment? Kobayashi asked.

"Thirty or forty, judging by the equipment, should be guerrillas......" Jun Cao said.

"It must be Yang Quanlin, their gang of pigs!"

As soon as he heard Jun Cao's description of those people, Xiao Lin Qing couldn't help but chatter and laughed: "Don't startle the snake first, keep an eye on them, even if you can't catch the eight-way general at that time, as long as you can cut off the head of the person surnamed Yang, I will wait this time, and it won't be a trip for nothing-of course, if you can get the best of both worlds, it will be even better......"

"Xiaolinjun, you have come hundreds of miles away, you are brave and loyal, and the world can learn from you...... I believe that the great achievement of capturing the senior generals of the Eight Roads alive must be you! ”

Jun Cao stammered for a while, and then said worriedly: "Although through our efforts all day, the signs of panic of the Zhina pigs have been controlled, and the number of Zhina pigs still fleeing has been greatly reduced, and it is much easier to find out the fugitive team where the Eighth Route General is hiding...... The situation here is getting more and more complicated......"

"Are you afraid?" Xiao Lin said coldly.

"Dying for the empire is the infinite glory of my generation of emperors!"

Jun Cao was taken aback, and hurriedly sang a high note before explaining: "Although I am not afraid, these Tubalu guerrillas are despicable and shameless, and they are really not easy to deal with......"

"Idiots - Tubalu, the reason why the guerrillas are difficult to deal with is because they can fight and run, or simply hide and put their guns and don't show their faces at all, if they keep doing this, it is indeed very difficult!"

Kobayashi Qing chattered and said, "But do you think that these guerrillas still dare to use this kind of scoundrel style this time?" Do they still want to save their chief?

As long as they want to save it, they have to fight us! ”

Speaking of this, Kobayashi Kiyoshi said proudly: "I, the Imperial Japanese Army, am invincible and invincible, who have I been afraid of in the case of a head-on encounter?" ”

"Hey!"

Jun Cao nodded and said ashamedly: "It's that I'm too worried, and I hope Xiaolinjun won't blame me!" ”

As soon as Kobayashi Kiyoshi was about to speak, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a spy dressed as a common man running back all the way, screaming and saying, "Near Qinggangliang, a team of people fleeing from the branch was found ......."

"At this time, as long as there are no ghosts in their hearts, the people of Zhina should have already returned to the village, and those who are still scurrying around in the mountains and forests, even if it is not the team of Gujia Village where the generals of the Eighth Route are hiding, it must be the team of the surrounding villages!"

Kobayashi Kiyoshi was overjoyed, and shouted directly at the devil puppet army who was stuffing something into his stomach: "Don't eat, set off immediately, target, Qinggangliang direction - quickly drop ......" 8)