Chapter Thirty-Six: The Next City

"Sir, do we really want to settle for the county seat?" Tang Lei, who led people to push the cannon back from the slope, asked in a low voice, they only had two Jewish companies in their hands now, and there were only more than 600 mercenaries. I heard from the guerrillas that the high walls of the county town of Ding'an were thick, and the Japanese troops stationed in the county town had set up horse rejection and machine gun nests at the city gate, and there were machine guns and mortars on the city gate building, as long as the guns rang out, the Japanese puppet troops stationed in the artillery towers around the county town would return to the county seat, and they had no heavy weapons in their hands, so this county town was not easy to fight.

Zhao Zhi glanced at Tang Lei with slanted eyes, this guy has been sent on a long trip last time, and he will learn to think about problems when he comes back, but his thinking mode is still a little stiff, and it is still a little worse than Yu Dazhi. "Then where do you think these Japanese puppet soldiers who fought with us just now came from? When you inquired about the news from the guerrillas, you didn't ask how many Japanese puppet troops were stationed in Ding'an County? How many Japanese puppet troops are still stationed in the turrets around the county seat? ”

Zhao Zhi's rhetorical question made Tang Leimao pause, wasn't the Japanese Shaozuo who was captured alive from Ding'an City, the scale of Ding'an County is not as large as Zhangwu County, and the number of Japanese puppet troops who want to come to garrison will not be too much, which has killed almost 300 of them alive in Dawangzhuang. The guy he captured alive was just a Shaozuo, according to the military system of the Japanese army, the officer with the rank of Shaozuo was at most a squadron leader, if this Shaozuo who was captured alive by himself was the highest-ranking Japanese officer in Ding'an City, then that means that the Japanese troops stationed in Ding'an City were at most a squadron.

The Japanese army in a squadron is at most about 200 people, and counting the Imperial Association Army in the county seat, even if there are 600 people in a battalion of the Imperial Cooperation Army, the Japanese puppet army stationed in Ding'an County will not exceed 1,000 people. Dawangzhuang wiped out 300 of them, and there were five artillery towers around Ding'an County, and each turret placed a squad of Japanese soldiers and a platoon of the Imperial Army, that is, a small group of Japanese troops and almost a company and a half of the Imperial Army, which was about 200 troops placed by the Japanese army in the artillery towers around the county.

Tang Lei pulled his fingers and counted carefully, hey, this is a pleasure, there will only be more than 100 people in this Ding'an County, and most of these 100 people are the Imperial Association Army with low combat effectiveness. "You can fight" Tang Lei understood, so he raised his head and stared at Zhao Zhi without blinking, and got rid of a cute puppy waiting for meat and bones. Zhao Zhi had already discovered the expectation in Tang Lei's eyes, but he pretended to be busy fiddling with the seized three-wheeled motorcycle, and Tang Lei was in a hurry, just to get the opportunity to play as a striker from Zhao Zhi, but Tang Lei was embarrassed to say it directly.

"The people who called Allen packed up the spoils of war, and by the way, stripped off the Japanese uniforms that looked intact, and asked our brothers to carefully interrogate the captured Japanese prisoners alive, and they must ask about the situation in the county town, especially their troop arrangements and defense facilities. If you don't have anything to do, take some bullets to the guerrillas, ask them about the county again, and come back to talk to the captives for a while, "The anxious Tang Lei was cold for a while, and Zhao Zhi gave a new order, and the words said a little bit about the meaning of Ding'an County."

"You're going to hit the county seat?" Tian Jiucheng couldn't wait to listen to Tang Lei's words and asked rhetorically, their guerrillas pondered that the county town was not a day or two, but the number of Japanese puppet troops stationed in the county seat was too large, and it was not something that their guerrillas could compete. Since the Japanese army in the county town began to build artillery towers and blockade ditches around the county seat, the guerrillas' range of activities has been squeezed to the extreme, and if it were not too far from the base area, the guerrilla force commanded by Tian Jiucheng would have been encircled and suppressed by the Japanese army in Ding'an County long ago. This will suddenly hear that Tang Lei is inquiring about things in the county, and the words reveal the meaning that they want to fight the county, Tian Jiucheng couldn't help but ask.

"That's right, we're going to fight the county seat, what's the problem?" Tang Lei blinked his eyes in puzzlement, and said in his heart that no wonder these guys were just guerrillas and couldn't enter the regular troops of the Eighth Route Army. In fact, this is Tang Lei's mistake to blame Tian Jiucheng, people are not making a fuss, but they were angry by their thunder and lost their square inch, first took away the Wang family's things in front of the guerrillas, and then robbed the Japanese patrol that the guerrillas had been staring at for many days, and now they have the idea of Ding'an County, is it possible that they thunder and treat the guerrillas as irrelevant people?

"Forget it, if you don't want to say it, forget it, then I won't bother you, this is the bullet sent by my husband, we will leave Dawangzhuang immediately, this place will leave you alone, let's go live in the county seat" Seeing Tian Jiucheng's unwillingness, Tang Lei was not verbose and threw down the more than 1,000 bullets sent by Zhao Zhirang and turned his head away, but before leaving, Tang Lei still used his words to stimulate Tian Jiucheng a little again.

"Captain, Thunder is going to Ding'an County?" After Tian Jiucheng's team members waited for Tang Lei to leave, they all gathered around and talked about it. This thunder is quite capable of fighting, but these guys occupy a territory that is not covered, just like that Zhangwu County, the thunder will not let go when he stands, let alone Yan Xishan, even the people of the national government can't get in, and the people of the thunder stand in Ding'an City, so there can still be a good one.

Regardless of whether Tian Jiucheng and them were willing or not, an hour later, Zhao Zhi, who had packed up and stopped, left Dawangzhuang, Tian Jiucheng left half of the people to guard the weapons and ammunition that Zhao Zhi gave them, and he personally took the remaining half of the people to follow quietly. The thunder people said that they were going to fight Ding'an County, but Tian Jiucheng didn't believe it, he wanted to follow to see what this group of thunder people was going to do.

The county seat of Ding'an is not very far from Dawangzhuang, and it is only a dozen miles away, and it is estimated that when Tang Lei and them practiced with the ninety-two step cannon, the county had already heard the sound of the cannon. Wang Ergou was dozing off in the machine gun nest outside the city gate with a military hat crookedly, and the people who were exposed to the sun in the middle of the afternoon were very comfortable, Wang Ergou played mahjong for a night last night, and just took advantage of the opportunity for the Japanese soldiers in the city to go out to encircle and suppress the guerrillas, and hid here to make up for sleep.

"Squad leader, someone is coming in front, I look like the Japanese who went to clean up the guerrillas have returned" When Wang Ergou, who was sleeping in a daze, was woken up by his brothers, the three-wheeled motorcycles driving from a distance were already driving to the city gate. Wang Ergou is a crab - hard on the outside and soft on the inside, usually she talks bad about the Japanese behind her back, but when the Japanese stand in front of her, this kid's waist is lower than anyone else's, and he is alive and well off the face of the big teapot in the kiln.

"Barricades, quickly move the barricades" Wang Ergou was very discerning and ordered his Imperial Association to move the barricades at the city gate, Wang Ergou didn't have any great skills, but his eyes were very good, the Japanese soldiers on the two motorcycles were covered with blood, and everyone was wearing a face, which looked like a loss in the hands of the guerrillas. These Japanese are all dogs, and if they touch the brows of the Japanese at this time, they may be in a hurry to find death.

Wang Ergou moved away from the barricade early, and several people lined up in two energetic hands to salute, but the whistling three-wheeled motorcycle had no intention of stopping at all, and drove directly from Wang Ergou into the county, and the dust from the back of the motorcycle swept Wang Ergou all over his body, but this kid didn't dare to cough up. "I said brothers, today can be a few more eyes, look at the Japanese posture I am afraid that it is a loss, the old rules, personal care, whoever has something to do with it will take it on their own, don't pull other brothers to eat melons together" Wang Ergou dusted off the dust on his body, and warned his own imperial army in his mouth.

Wang Ergou was still chatting with the Imperial Association Army under his command, and a few carriages creaked on the road outside the city, followed by dozens of Japanese soldiers with rifles on their backs. "Stand upright, salute" Wang Ergou commanded, several imperial army guarding the city gate stood straight and straight, no one was a fool, what Wang Ergou said just now was also for their good, and no one would think that it was a burden for their head to stay on their neck. The carriage was getting closer and closer to the city gate, followed by a strong smell of blood, Wang Ergou rolled his eyes, and saw that the carriage was full of corpses dressed as ordinary people, and the blood was still low on the ground along the car.

"Obediently, these are the guerrillas who are making trouble outside the city, and there must be more than 20 of them" The speed of the Japanese soldiers returning to the city was not very fast, especially when they passed by Wang Ergou and a few of them, they were almost moving on the ground step by step. "Oops, something is wrong" Wang Ergou, who was thinking alone at the corpses on the carriage, suddenly shivered, the Japanese soldier who passed by him just now was a little wrong, and the posture he walked did not look like an injured one, but why did the Japanese soldier have several bullet holes in the back of his military uniform, and the bullet holes were full of blood?

Wang Ergou noticed something unusual, but he woke up a little too late, "poof" a short knife stabbed into his abdominal cavity from the bottom up, and the sharp blade was like a burning red and hot strip, which made Wang Ergou hot and jumped up in place. "Oh" The extremely uncomfortable Tong of the hot Wang Ergou retreated from his abdominal cavity, but Wang Ergou, who was still tense just now, collapsed to the ground like a deflated tire.

"They just entered the city, it's a little too simple" Looking at the Jewish soldiers pouring into the county like a tide, Tian Jiucheng, who followed all the way from Dawangzhuang, lay on the small dirt bag outside the city, a little incredulous The county town with a wide open city gate. When the thundering people stripped their military uniforms from the corpses of the Japanese soldiers, Tian Jiucheng guessed that the thunderous people might pretend to be Japanese soldiers and open the city gate, but now they swaggered and killed the imperial alliance army guarding the gate, and opened the city gate openly.