Chapter 20: Drawing the Snake Out of the Hole
After the rope went down, Li Ziyuan was not in a hurry to go down. Instead, he led the people back to the east of Qiaokou, where he had hidden observations. After raising the binoculars and carefully observing the movement of the Japanese puppet army in Qiaokou again, let everyone raise the guns in their hands and aim at the checkpoint to get the Japanese puppet army. Wait for his order, shoot a row of guns.
There is no way to go down the cliff when it is dark, and even if it goes down at dusk, it is impossible not to be discovered by the Japanese puppet army on the turret. Right now, the whole mountainous area has just returned to green, and even if you want to do some camouflage, it is impossible to do some camouflage. If you want to avoid being discovered by the Japanese puppet army and go down to the bottom of the cliff, you can only take the grass to startle the snake and attract the attention of the Japanese puppet army in the turret to other directions.
As for the few people he carried, whether the Jinzao rifle in his hand could hit the target at a distance of seven or eight hundred meters, Li Ziyuan didn't think about it at all. Not to mention that this quality is just an ordinary Jin-made rifle, even a finely crafted 38 type, and it is impossible for a well-trained Japanese army to hit at this distance.
Of course, if one of the hapless ghosts accidentally gets hit by a stray bullet, it is his own bad luck. It is absolutely impossible to say that his subordinates have such good shooting skills. Regarding the performance of the Jinzao 38 rifle, Li Ziyuan is still clear. Although this thing is the same caliber and appearance as the 38 rifle, it is far from the 38 type in quality.
The original Japanese 38 rifle was quite accurate at a distance of 400 meters. The 38-type rifle that can be made can be made has an effective firing range of more than 200 meters. At present, the Japanese puppet army is at least about 700 meters away from the Kazi east of Qiaokou, and if he can be hit, it is estimated that that guy will be quite unlucky.
Although this kind of aimless shooting is somewhat of a waste of precious bullets. But for Li Ziyuan, he still has no choice. Unless he really wants to go down the cliff in the dark at night, it is also a necessary choice to attract the attention of the Japanese puppet army.
And Li Ziyuan did this, in addition to wanting to startle the snake, he also had an idea. That is to consciously expose their own strength, tell the Japanese army that they are a group of inexperienced dirt eight roads, and let the Japanese puppet army relax their vigilance. to create some opportunities for their own actions.
After making all the preparations, Li Ziyuan only ordered to be on guard and eat dry food to feed his stomach, but he did not rush to take action, he waited patiently for the time when the sky was dark enough to protect himself. He didn't have to wait for the sunset, but he had to pass a little bit. Because the dazzling sunset will make the Japanese puppet army focus their eyes on the east.
Li Ziyuan's idea is to wait until the sun sets, but the sky is not completely dark, the best time to act. Although the Japanese puppet army was heavily guarded in Qiaokou Town, its patrol to the east of Qiaokou was not large. Li Ziyuan led a small team and waited patiently in the east of Qiaokou.
It wasn't until even the sunset had gradually begun to fall and the sky was already slightly darkening that Li Ziyuan ordered to prepare for battle. When the Japanese puppet army in Qiaokou Town began to eat dinner, and the Japanese puppet army stationed at the outpost was also a little lax, Li Ziyuan did not take his pistol, but just shouted fiercely.
Liu Lianming and his small team had experienced the previous battle, and this time their movements were much faster. Li Ziyuan's shouting had not yet fallen, and a row of guns had already been fired. It's just that the level of this platoon's guns is really not high, and when I heard it, it was shot by a group of people who had no training.
After firing a row of guns, Li Ziyuan tied a few grenades to a tree in the southeast of the place where the shots were fired, pulled out the strings and made a few tripping thunderbolts together, and then quickly disappeared into the mountains northeast of Qiaokou with a small team, and ran quickly towards the cliff. There is not much time left, and there is not much time left for them.
And after his row of guns was fired, the entire Qiaokou Town was like a bomb. Just when Li Ziyuan was busy making tripping thunder, the machine gun on the turret over there had already fired in this direction. The searchlight on the turret also turned on in an instant, sweeping in this direction.
Although the Japanese puppet army on the sentry post said that there was nothing to do, they were also taken aback by this row of guns, but the next thing we saw was that the Japanese puppet army was different in tactical literacy. Under the command of Cao Chang, who led the team, the three Japanese soldiers immediately lay down and prepared for battle, and all the muzzles of their guns were aimed at the place where the guns were fired, and they carefully observed.
As for the puppet army, although the number of people has doubled, they are all lying on the ground and dare not raise their heads, for fear that the bullets will hit them next. And the Japanese puppet army in the town reacted quite quickly, and in just a few minutes, they rushed out of the town towards the place where Li Ziyuan shot.
But when the Japanese puppet army, who was worried about being ambushed again, cautiously rushed to the place, except for the unlucky ones in the two puppet soldiers who were forced to take the lead by the Japanese army with guns, they sounded the tripping mine made by Li Ziyuan with a grenade, and were killed on the spot and implicated the death and injury of several companions behind him, but they found nothing.
However, the Japanese puppet army, which found nothing, did not immediately return to Qiaokou. Instead, it quickly spread out along the place where the gun had been fired, and searched the flanks. Trying to find out the bold, immoral attackers who interrupted their dinner. And it is not only the Japanese squad leader who adheres to this idea, but also the captain of the pseudo-Qiaokou Town Garrison Squadron this time.
This newly transferred garrison captain is a distant cousin of Wang Tieshi, and he is also his hardcore confidant when he was the battalion commander in the Jin Sui Army. It was one of the few henchmen he brought with him when he lost his troops and fled back to Shanxi. I've been an adjutant for him before, and I've been dealing with some secret things for him.
This time, the squadron leader stationed in Qiaokou was shot by order of Kanshiro Rakuai. The location of Qiaokou Town is quite important, and once Qiaokou is lost, his hometown and base camp Pingchuan will also be exposed. It may not matter if the Tu Eighth Road is active in the mountainous area east of Qiaokou, but the mountainous area further east is the base camp of the Old Eighth Road.
Whether or not the Qiaokou stronghold can be defended or can be said to play a role in early warning is directly related to the safety of Pingchuan and even his own life. So this time, in the choice of the captain of the squadron stationed in Qiaokou, he sent his henchman out, that is, to guard the east gate of his base camp for him to ensure the safety of his lair.
Because he knew that whether it was the Eighth Route Army and the National Army in Taihang Mountain, or the Jin Sui Army in Jinxi, they were all eager to cut him with a thousand knives now. If Qiaokou, the gate to the east of Pingchuan, can't be prevented, then your own life will be in danger. Although he was very reluctant, he still sent his henchman out.
It's just that he doesn't know that his henchman and nephew are very deferential to him on the surface, but in fact his heart is still very high. I don't want to give him this distant cousin, to be a dog leg for a lifetime. I want to take advantage of this opportunity to stand up for myself.
In the eyes of his distant nephew, he is the king of grass with a gun in these years. Didn't his cousin just hook up with the Japanese, relying on the more than 100 guns in his hand when he was the head of the militia group to become this overlord? In these years, on the ground of Hubei, the Japanese were the hegemons.
As for what Balu, at most, it's just a few nonsense over there. The Jin Sui army, which was strong and strong back then, can only nest in the southwest of Jin and dare not move. As for the burning sticks in the hands of the Eighth Road, which didn't even have much ammunition, they were the opponents of the Japanese. As long as you can cage this squadron and perform well in front of the Japanese, you will surely make a world.
So this old man, who planned to usurp the throne after taking office, judged from the chaotic and sparse gunfire that it was nothing that attacked him, and without the slightest hesitation, he directly led the troops to kill. If you can catch this dirt road, you can deepen your impression in the hearts of Japanese people.
And the Japanese squad leader in Qiaokou stronghold, after the Japanese soldier Shaozuo died, was the one who suffered the most mouths among all the Japanese officers. The captain of the Japanese squad, who also had some obvious flaws and a retributional character, of course, also heard the abnormality in the gunshots.
One wants to go to the next level, and the other is eager to retaliate. The two, who hit it off, immediately chased them out with their troops. Li Ziyuan's two grenades did make these two suffer a little loss, but they also further stimulated the anger in their hearts.
And just when these two were searching for those bold people along the place where Li Ziyuan fired, Li Ziyuan had already led a small team to the cliff. At the insistence of Liu Lianming, who did not agree with him first, Li Ziyuan was ranked last.
After his team began to cautiously start to descend the cliff one after another, Li Ziyuan, who was worried about the Japanese puppet army chasing him, carried his barge gun with a large nose in one hand, and held a telescope in the other hand to carefully observe the Japanese puppet army pursuing over there, as well as the movement of the stronghold in Qiaokou Town.
Looking at the Japanese puppet army that was chasing extremely fast, Li Ziyuan was somewhat shocked into a cold sweat. If you're a little slower, you'll probably get stuck there. If the time to fire is chosen at this moment when the Japanese puppet army is somewhat lax, it will be self-defeating.
Li Ziyuan, who breathed a sigh of relief, watched the sky getting darker and darker, but he was a little worried about whether there would be any danger to the troops who were descending the cliff. After making sure that the Japanese puppet army was led to the southeast by his two grenades, he immediately turned his gaze back to the cliff.
In fact, Li Ziyuan was a little overly worried, although this path only had a few stepping stones from above. But under a raised stone beam more than 30 meters away, it is wider. And under the raised stone beam, there is not only a crack that can be used to grow a few small trees on the cliff, but also a little slope, not so steep. Although everyone took some risks, they basically went down the slope under the cliff safely.
After everyone went down safely, Li Ziyuan turned off the safety of the pistol, grabbed the leggings and stepped on the footholds little by little, and slowly moved towards the bottom of the cliff. However, everyone else is basically safe, but when it comes to Li Ziyuan, there are some problems.
For the sake of safety, Li Ziyuan asked his subordinates to go down the cliff only to one at the slope, and the other to go down again. In this way, it is safe, but the problem time is wasted a lot. By the time Li Ziyuan came down, it was basically dark. Li Ziyuan basically couldn't see the foothold, so he could only keep using his two feet to test, and the process of going down the mountain was full of dangers.