Chapter Thirty-Eight: Night Attack

Under the deliberate impetus of the Nationalist Government, the thunder of Zhangwu County has long become a well-known thing in the land of China, especially in the Japanese dispatch army. The thunder of training troops and building an airfield in Zhangwu County has always been a major problem for the Japanese army, and the geographical location of Zhangwu County is not very important, but the thunder entrenched in Zhangwu County is like a fishbone stuck in the throat of the Japanese army, making it difficult for them to sleep and eat, and the Japanese army in Shanxi mobilized a large army to encircle the war zone, just to force back the war zone and then withdraw their hands to deal with the thunder entrenched in Zhangwu County.

The news that Thunder took Ding'an made the Shanxi Japanese army suddenly realize that Thunder has been entrenched in Zhangwu County, and will not come to Ding'an for no reason, and Ding'an is only 100 miles away from Xiangtangpu, and since then they know who should be responsible for the attack on Xiangtangpu's ammunition. "We must recapture Ding'an and capture Zhao Zhi alive" learned from the telegram that Zhao Zhi, the head of the thunder, was in Ding'an City at this time, and the Japanese army in Shanxi ignored the entanglement in the second war zone, and urgently dispatched troops to Ding'an County.

Ding'an and Zhangwu County, is a geographical location belongs to the chicken ribs of the small county, the Japanese army did not station a lot of troops here, in Shexian and Licheng after the Japanese puppet army was ambushed by the thunder in Xiangtangpu, after receiving the order to besiege Ding'an, the Japanese army in Shanxi only from Wuxiang to transfer troops to, a Japanese brigade and more than 1,300 Imperial Cooperative troops composed of mixed troops were urgently transferred to Ding'an, and in order to bite the Thunder troops that captured Ding'an, this mixed army also carried a large number of heavy weapons, Vainly trying to use strong firepower to annihilate the thunder troops that may have Zhao Zhi's existence in one fell swoop.

The commander of this force was Nakasa, who had served in the Kwantung Army for many years, and was sent to garrison Takego, which had served in the Kwantung Army for many years, because he offended his boss, and was stationed in Takego, which had relatively few resources. In the memory of the ghost and the village, the anti-union in the deep mountains and old forests in the northeast can be regarded as a soldier among the people, and it may also be the great military exploits and self-esteem in the northeast, he thinks that the so-called Eighth Route Army and guerrillas in North China, including Shanxi, are all local chickens and dogs, so after receiving the order, the ghost and the village gathered troops and set off immediately without hesitation, he regarded this operation as an opportunity for his own military promotion, but he did not realize the danger.

Almost all the heavy firepower weapons of Wuxiang were dispatched, and the ghost and the village of the ghost were full of confidence and went straight to Ding'an with the troops, and the straight-line distance was only 130 miles because of the detour of the mountain road, which became almost more than 200 miles, and the plan of the ghost and the near township of all the mules and horses around Wuxiang only took three days to arrive at the periphery of Ding'an. As the commander, it was not surprising that the ghost would think so, but the soldiers under his command couldn't stand such a high-intensity movement speed, especially those Imperial Cooperative Army.

"Damn, these little devils can really toss people, and let us stand guard at night after a day's journey, Lao Tzu's waist is almost straight" The mixed troops commanded by the ghost Ming rushed to a place called Shuixigou on the first day of departure and stopped to set up camp, which is almost more than 70 miles away from Wuxiang, and the Japanese soldiers who rushed for a day went to bed early, except for a few Japanese secret posts, the bright posts in their camps were arranged by the Imperial Army. The Imperial Allied Army, who also wanted to rest, was naturally full of complaints, but they didn't dare to complain to the Japanese in person, and only dared to mumble a few words in private.

The two Imperial Allied soldiers who smoked together complained quietly, their sentry was on the west side of the camp, it was a small dirt bag on slightly higher ground, and the secret outpost arranged by the Japanese army was far away from them, so they dared to complain and secretly smoke on the sentry post. It was already dark, and the wind was blowing in the mountains, and the two Imperial Allies on the sentry post were curled up behind the small dirt bags to avoid the wind, and there were no less than 8 light and dark sentinels around the camp.

"Poof" and "Poof" The two short knives cut their necks, and the soldiers of the Imperial Alliance Army who forced their eyes to open before losing consciousness only saw a few black faces, but they didn't know who the people who attacked them were. After killing these two imperial alliances, the black shadows who came up along the hillside took out a few iron pieces from the big bag behind them, and pieced together two 60 mortars with all hands and feet, and the camp of the mixed army of the Japanese puppet army was under this small hill bag, as early as before nightfall, the ghost gave an order to prohibit fireworks in the camp, but the camp of more than 2,000 people of the Japanese puppet army was too big, even if it was pitch black now, the black shadows on the small dirt bag still put the mortar shells into the barrel.

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom" three explosions, the black shadows on the small dirt bag used the three grenades shot by the grenadier canister to raise three fireballs in the ghost camp, although the lethality of the grenade grenade is not as good as the mortar shell, but these three grenade grenades are only used by the black shadows on the dirt bag for positioning. The fleeting light of fire in the camp pointed the position of the mortars on the earthen bag, and when the Japanese puppet army awakened by the explosion panicked to find weapons, the two mortars on the earthen bag had already fired three rounds of rapid fire.

The explosion sound of "boom" and "boom" resounded throughout Shuixigou, and the mortar shells falling from the earthen bags were somewhat disorganized, and they stopped after only three rounds of rapid fire, and the shells that simply fell from the sky did not hit the ammunition supply brought by the Japanese puppet army, and the six mortar shells were nothing to the camp of more than 2,000 people. "Baga, you must find Tubalu, I want to cut off their heads with my own hands" The ghost who was surrounded by the guards pulled out his command knife angrily and shouted, before he saw the city wall of Ding'an, he received this great gift from Tubalu, and the ghost who was troubled by his self-esteem couldn't swallow this breath.

The news of "found" quickly came back, and the soldiers sent to search had found traces of the attacker, but unfortunately, when these search soldiers followed the traces left by the attacker to find the small earthen bag that fired the shell, they did not find a single hair except for the two corpses of the Imperial Cooperative Army. "Taijun, bring the corpses back, you can't let them stay in the wilderness like this" The soldiers of the Imperial Association who accompanied the search repeatedly searched and could not find the existence of the attacker, so they begged the Japanese army commander Cao Cao who commanded the search to bring the two corpses of the Imperial Association back to the camp.

"Yes" The Japanese army is not unreasonable, and the military Cao who led the team to search for the dirt bag nodded and agreed that the Imperial Association Army would bring back the two corpses, and there was no trace of the attacker, so it was possible to bring the corpses back. With the consent of the Japanese army, the accompanying Imperial Cooperative Army went to move the corpses on the ground, and the two corpses were face down and bent on the ground, if you want to remove the corpses, you must first turn the corpses over, and then one person drags his shoulders and raises his feet to remove the corpses. But just when the Imperial Association Army was flipping the corpse with all hands and feet, "boom" and "boom" sounded with two explosions, and two fireballs suddenly burst out in the crowd.

The hurricane-like shrapnel and gas swept across the Japanese puppet troops gathered around the corpses, and the Imperial Allied troops who took the initiative to move the corpses were directly torn into pieces by shrapnel and thrown into the air, and the Japanese soldiers who stood a little farther away could not escape their fate, including the four Japanese soldiers including Na Jun Cao, were affected by shrapnel and qi Lang, and one of them was directly pushed upside down the hillside, and when the rolling stopped, the four people had already become bloody corpses.

The sudden explosion and casualties made the Japanese puppet soldiers in the camp no longer sleepy, and some timid Imperial Allies gathered together with bullets, and the whole camp was panicked by a few mortar shells. The Imperial Allied Army is unreliable, and the Japanese soldiers under the ghost village are carefully guarded around the camp, and the sporadic bonfires drive away the sluggish mood in the camp, but everyone who is trembling around the campfire still holds their weapons tightly and carefully guards against the surrounding night.

The bonfire in the camp was not extinguished all night, and when the first rays of sunlight shone into the Shuixi ditch, the Japanese puppet soldiers, who had been worried all night like quails, finally secretly breathed a sigh of relief, rubbing their swollen eyes in the shouts of the officers and preparing to set off. It is a helpless move to choose such a terrain as Shuixigou to camp, the basin-like terrain is extremely unfavorable to the ghosts, fortunately, the attackers last night were also affected by the line of sight, otherwise the Japanese puppet army under the ghosts would not only have suffered dozens of casualties and could not sleep all night.

After hastily burying the corpse and going on the road again, the ghost ghost village was still the same as the day before, arranging avant-garde scouts in front of the team, last night's attack was only disturbed by him as an attack on the dirt eight roads, and a few small guerrillas were simply mantis arms as a car, and the ghost didn't think about those attackers at all, his mind was on how to rush to Ding'an as soon as possible to bite the thunder. The officers under the Ghost Shadow Countryside all wanted to persuade them to slow down their march, they all thought that yesterday's sneak attackers would never be as simple as firing a few shells, and the people of the Ghost Shadow were all scheming, and they thought that the most important thing to do at present was to slow down the speed of the march and focus on defense.

Some of the stubborn ghost villagers think the opposite, he thinks that this is the manifestation of the low strength of the thunder troops in Ding'an City, the ghost and the ghost villagers have also heard of the unparalleled combat effectiveness of the thunder, but he has not seen the so-called thunder troops with his own eyes, and the ghost and the ghost villagers who have been fighting in the northeast snow field for many years want to fight with the thunder in the bottom of his heart. In last night's attack, the ghost knew that it was a small force of Thunder, and the guerrillas of the Eighth Road did not have the ability to operate grenadiers and mortars and arrange tricky mines, but the ghost only thought that it was Thunder who wanted to delay his arrival in Ding'an, and the number of thunder in Ding'an was by no means very large.