"Okay, there's nothing to do, you guys go down, and I'll go to the logistics office to get two radios later, so that it will be convenient for you to communicate between the three battalions." Liu Hua ordered.

"Yes, the commander, the commissar, the cavalry regiment guaranteed to complete the task. Destroy all the little devils who break into the base area, and you will wait for our good news. After Wang Hu, the commander of the cavalry regiment, finished speaking, he turned around and left the headquarters with political commissar Wang Hao.

Seeing Wang Hu and Wang Hao's hurried steps, Liu Hua and Political Commissar Guan Xiangying shook their heads speechlessly.

"Political commissar, with these two people out of the horse, let's wait for their good news, little devil, don't you learn our guerrilla warfare, don't forget, guerrilla warfare is the housekeeping skill of our Eighth Route Army, this time let you have a good taste of real guerrilla warfare, hum" Liu Hua said confidently.

On this day, the weather was sunny, and the little devils stationed in Pingding County went through a week of continuous sneak attacks. Every soldier had gained a great deal from these sneak attacks, and the beautiful flower girl with silver dollar jewelry would have been unimaginable if she had not changed her commander a month ago.

Therefore, now every time it is time to go out of the city to fight in the field, the squadron leaders of each squadron are rushing to the captain to ask for battle, hoping that their squadron can receive this tempting task.

Before today, in order to train the training results of the entire brigade for half a month, the captain did not have any eccentricity when assigning tasks, and almost every squadron took turns. However, today is different, because now every squadron has been in battle, and this time, it depends on who has the ability to take on the task.

In the end, all the squadron leaders did not fight, and there was a reinforced squadron of Ono, that is, the Ono squadron that slaughtered the villagers of Xiaolizhuang. Seeing the other squadron leaders, as if they had lost a battle, leaving the headquarters with a disgraced face, Ono Jiro's heart was indeed extremely excited.

Because of his first sneak attack, with almost no casualties, he achieved very rich results, so he appreciated himself very much. And after the captain revealed to himself, if he can make a great contribution again, then the stars on his shoulders may not be more or less. However, there may be a missing bar on the epaulettes. Thinking that after this mission, he might be added to the rank of Shaozo and become the captain, Ono Jiro unconsciously raised his chest. Among several squadron leaders, the pride showed that they were strong and different.

Ono Jiro took his guards all the way back to the station of his reinforced squadron, and before he reached the door, his deputy captain greeted him.

"Your Excellency Squadron Leader, have you received the mission?" The vice-captain is obviously also very concerned about this mission, because he, like Jiro Ono, can be promoted to the rank of captain as long as he has one more military merit. And after Ono Jiro is gone, the squadron leader of this reinforced squadron, without thinking too much, will become his own bag.

Therefore, the deputy captain was very concerned about whether his squadron could receive this mission, and after receiving the report from the guards, he hurried out, wanting to know the answer quickly. When he saw his squadron leader full of spring breeze, his heart finally relaxed. Because, he has already seen the result in the expression of the squadron leader, and his squadron has received the task.

"Well, after my hard work in front of the captain, in the end, the task of going out to attack today was handed over to our squadron. Deputy Captain, immediately order the soldiers to gather, bring all the people, all the weapons with them, this time we will work together and make a great contribution again. Ono Jiro ordered with a smile, as if the rank of Shaosa was already dangling in front of his eyes and was within his reach.

"Hi, Your Excellency Squadron Leader, I'll be right away. Please go back and rest for a while, and leave all the things to the lowly officer, and when the troops are assembled, I will personally inform you. The vice-captain said with concern.

"Yo Xi, vice-captain, your heart is very good. Then I'll go and rest for a while, I'm too tired in the conference room of the headquarters just now, please deputy captain. Hearing that the vice captain cared so much about himself, Squadron Leader Ono Jiro was still excited.

"Hi, please rest assured, Your Excellency Squadron Leader."

Just when the squadron leader Ono Jiro returned to his office and just closed his eyes, a loud assembly call sounded outside the door, and immediately, a burst of chaotic footsteps was remembered on the training ground outside the door Ono Jiro ignored the chaotic footsteps outside, closed his eyes, and began to rest.

"Your Excellency Squadron Leader, Squadron Leader" Just as Jiro Ono was asleep in a daze, the voice of the deputy captain sounded in his ears. Ono Jiro slowly opened his tired eyes, only to see his deputy captain standing in front of him in full armor.

"Well, it's the deputy captain, how is it, have the troops been assembled?" Ono Jiro asked confusedly.

"Hi, Your Excellency Squadron Leader, the troops are ready to go, waiting for your orders, Your Excellency Squadron Leader." The vice-captain bent down and replied.

"Yo Xi, it's good, I'll come out now." With that, Ono Jiro stood up from the back chair, stretched out his arm, and straightened his military uniform and gun. The vice-captain just in time draped the military coat hanging on the wall over Ono Jiro's shoulders.

"Your Excellency Squadron Leader, the last time we sneaked attack, it was snowing, so we couldn't ride a horse, and today I have prepared a war horse for you."

"Yo Xi, vice captain, you are very thoughtful, thank you."

"Hi, it is a humble duty to serve His Excellency Squadron Leader, please don't be polite."

In this way, the deputy captain followed behind Ono Jiro and walked out of Ono Jiro's office, and at this time, hundreds of heavily armed soldiers outside were already standing neatly in the open space in the courtyard, not moving. Ono Jiro nodded with satisfaction, and the sleepiness just now was also swept away by the fighting spirit that erupted in the soldiers.

"Yo Xi, order the first squad to be the vanguard, and the troops will set off immediately." The vice-captain behind Captain Jiro Ono ordered.

"Hi, the first squad is the avant-garde, the troops will set off immediately, please get on the horse, Your Excellency the squadron leader" The deputy captain took a war horse and handed it to the squadron leader in front of him.

"Yo Si. Yours also mount the troops and depart. In this way, Ono Jiro and the deputy captain behind him rode their war horses at the same time, and led the troops out of Pingding County, aiming at Zhuangquan Village, which was fifteen kilometers away from the county seat.

Zhuangquan Village is located in the northern part of Pingding County, on a plain, and as far as the eye can see, there is not a single high ground around the village that can be defended. The reason why the village was established here is because of the large farmland here. Due to the large amount of fertile farmland, Zhuangquan Village also has a large number of people, with a total of almost 500 families and thousands of people, making it the village with the largest number of people in Pingding and the place that produces the most grain.

For such a place, not only the army in Pingding County, but also the First Army Sub-district in the base area also attaches great importance to it. At all times, in addition to a full militia company, there is also a company of main troops stationed in the whole village. Since there is no danger here at all. In order to prevent the little devils from sneaking up and creating a tragedy like Xiao Li Zhuang again, the main force stationed here, Zhou Cheng, the company commander, can be described as having a hard time.

In addition to building various relatively complete fortifications at the entrance of the village, at least one platoon of soldiers was specially dispatched to serve as a guard. The guard post in Bar Lianli released a place 5 miles away from Zhuangquan Village. That is to say, when the little devils are still five miles away, the company commander Zhou stationed in Zhuangquan Village can judge the number of little devils by serving as a vigilant soldier by the amount of smoke released, and then organize the transfer of the masses.

At this time, it was already ten o'clock in the morning, the sun was hanging high in the sky, and the warm sunlight made it easy for people to think of sleeping, and the two sentries who were arranged five miles away from Zhuangquan Village were looking at the road about five hundred meters away from them in a daze.

Just as the two were sleepy and their eyelids began to fight, a flash of light at the corner of the highway stabbed one of the sentries in the eye.

"Ah, little devil, hurry up, look, little devil" The sentry who was pierced by the flash opened his eyes, and was suddenly stunned by the scene at the corner of the highway, and quickly pushed his comrade next to him, who was already hazy.

"What a little devil, in broad daylight, what nonsense are you talking about! What are you talking about, little devils" The comrades-in-arms who suddenly reacted quickly opened their eyes, only to see a group of little devils with bright bayonets appeared at the corner of the highway, about fifty or sixty people, marching and guarding both sides of the road.

"What are you still doing in a daze, hurry up and send a signal to the company commander, hurry up and signal the smoke" The soldier who woke up later hurriedly said, and after speaking, he was about to pick up the fire fold on his body and prepare to light the fire.

"Alas, wait a minute, we don't know the enemy situation yet, how can we send a signal to the company commander casually, or wait a minute, I estimate that the little devil should have more than one squad of troops." Seeing that the comrade-in-arms next to him was about to hurriedly ignite the fire, another soldier hurriedly stopped him.

"Yes, or you're right, let's take a look first and figure out the details of the little devil." Listening to his comrade's words, the impulsive warrior smiled embarrassedly.

Sure enough, in less than five minutes, another team of soldiers appeared in the field of vision of the two. Needless to say, this is the main force of Ono's reinforced squadron.

"My mother, there are so many people, and there are heavy machine guns" Looking at the neat marching line of the army, which stretched for nearly 200 meters, the two people not only exclaimed. What made the two even more incredible was that rare heavy machine guns and mortars were found in this pair of soldiers

"Quick, count, how many little devils there are, I'll light a bonfire." After a soldier finished speaking, he began to light the bonfire behind him, and after a while, a thick smoke floated up from the place where the two were hiding, and the two soldiers quickly withdrew from the hiding place and retreated to Zhuangquan Village after putting out the signal and finding out the specific situation of the army.

In less than a minute, the soldiers of a squad who were on guard at the entrance of Zhuangquan Village received the news that the army had invaded Zhuangquan Village.

"Company commander, company commander, the little devil is here" The squad leader who saw the wolf smoke quickly ran to the company headquarters in the village and reported the situation to his company commander.

"Damn, little devil, it's really uncomfortable. You, immediately notify the militia company commander and ask him to organize the transfer of the people immediately, quickly, it is estimated that there will be half an hour before the devil will enter the village. Go now. Company Commander Zhou frowned and ordered dissatisfiedly.

"Yes, company commander." After saying that, he turned around and ran out of the company.

"Communicator." Company Commander Zhou shouted outside the door.

"Here, company commander." The communicator who had been guarding the door immediately flashed into the headquarters.

"You, ride the war horse in the company, immediately rush to the regiment headquarters ten miles away, report to the regiment commander, and say that the little devil has invaded Zhuangquan Village, the number is unknown, please send troops to reinforce immediately, quickly. Let's go. Company Commander Zhou immediately ordered.

"Yes, company commander." Watching the correspondent leave the company headquarters, Company Commander Zhou also quickly took out his weapon and walked out of the headquarters quickly.

"Trumpeter, blow the assembly trumpet, and the whole company will assemble immediately." Zhou Lian shouted loudly.

"Tick tock" Immediately, the company's training ground remembered the loud assembly horn. At this time, because the troops were training, in less than a minute, all squads and platoons were fully armed and stood neatly in front of Company Commander Zhou.

"Company commander, is it that the devil is going to invade Zhuangquan Village again." The instructor who rushed to the company asked when he saw the assembled troops coming to the company commander.

"Well, now the little devil has passed through the checkpoint we have arranged five miles away from the village, and we don't know the exact number of attackers, I have just asked the messenger to ride a horse to inform the regiment headquarters, and the militia company has also been notified, and now we are arranging for the villagers to be transferred." Company Commander Zhou briefly told the instructor who came to know the general situation.

"Damn, damn little devil, I really don't want people to stop for a while. Company commander, what are you going to do? The instructor scolded.

"Hehe, instructor, you're swearing, okay, stop laughing. I heard from the regiment commander that a battalion of the cavalry regiment of the headquarters was around us, and I wanted to use the strength of one of our companies, plus the militia company that would be freed up later, to drag down the little devils, and wait for the arrival of the cavalry battalion to eliminate this group of invading little devils. The company commander replied.

"However, company commander, we don't know the specific number of people who have invaded the little devils, and I am afraid that the little devils will attack too many troops, and not only will we not be able to destroy them, but in the end, they will give them," the instructor replied with a worried face.

"Well, this is a problem, but judging from the actions of the devils for more than a week, this time it is at most a squadron, let's arrange it like this first, if the little devil's troops are too much, let's retreat." After listening to the instructor's words, the company commander replied.

"Well, in that case, company commander, I agree, you give the order!" The instructor nodded and agreed with the company commander's plan.

"The whole company has it, I just got the news that the little devil will invade Zhuangquan Village in half an hour, I won't say more. Now it is ordered that the first platoon, after all the fighters have returned, will serve as the reserve of the whole company, the second platoon will immediately enter the fortifications at the entrance of the village, and the third platoon, the company guard squad will be led by the instructor to assist the militia company in the evacuation of the people in the village. Did you hear me clearly? The company commander shouted an order to more than a hundred people in front of him.

"Hear me clearly"

"Okay, the whole company will start acting immediately according to the predetermined plan," the company commander ordered loudly, turned around and ran towards the fortifications at the entrance of the village, and the soldiers of the second platoon saw this and hurriedly chased after him.

Entering the trenches of the fortifications, the fighters immediately dispersed, followed the usual drills, came to their combat positions, began to check their weapons and ammunition, and the machine gunners were busy loading the empty magazines in their hands. As the company commander, Zhou Cheng was not idle, walking back and forth in front of the position to observe, looking for loopholes that would appear on the position.

In this way, slowly, ten minutes have passed. After many inspections, Zhou Cheng finally nodded with satisfaction with the position in front of him and prepared to return to his command position. And at this time, a platoon leader with two soldiers hurried towards him.

"Company commander, they're here to report on the enemy." Finding the company commander Zhou Cheng, the platoon commander breathed a sigh of relief, pointed to the two tired and panting soldiers behind him and said.

"Come, sit down and rest for a while, and speak slowly." Seeing the soldiers who were already tired and red-faced, Zhou Cheng pulled them to sit directly on the ground, and at the same time, took out his military kettle from behind and handed it to the two soldiers.

"Thank you, company commander." After drinking the water, the two of them gasped at the same time and said.

"It's okay, who of you two said that there are a total of how many little devils have invaded our Zhuangquan Village."

"Company commander, he said it, he observed it more clearly, and I was making additions after he finished speaking." The warrior who lit the wolf smoke said.

"Company commander, there are about 300 little devils in total, two of them are still riding war horses, and in addition, in the ranks of the little devils, there are three heavy machine guns." Another fighter hastened to answer.

"Well, this is a little devil who strengthens the squadron. By the way, comrade, do you have anything else to add. "The company commander, who is quite familiar with the establishment of little devils, immediately judged the establishment of little devils.

"Company commander, besides, I seem to have found two mortars in the team of the little devils." Another fighter added.

"Well, very good, you are doing a very good job, so go down and have a good rest. Platoon leader, after you return to the village, inform the instructor that the little devil is a reinforced squadron and let him act according to the predetermined plan. Zhou Cheng nodded and ordered to the three people in front of him.

"Yes, Company Commander"

After knowing the strength of the attacking army, Zhou Cheng was full of confidence in the upcoming battle, walked to his command position, and began to think about the specific battle plan to be met.

"Company commander, company commander, the devil has appeared" Just when Zhou Cheng was deep in thought, the voice of the second platoon commander was remembered outside the bunker of the headquarters.

Hearing that the little devil had appeared, Zhou Cheng hurriedly threw down the pencil in his hand, picked up the telescope placed next to him, got out of the bunker, lay on the edge of the trench, and looked at the road in front of the position.

(To be continued)