Chapter 67: Ambush at Horseshoe Ridge
"Don't panic, we don't have malicious intentions, just ask casually, if you don't want to say it, forget it" The man in the rivers and lakes found the vigilance in Tang Cheng and Sun Guangtian's eyes, so he left with a smile, but the bullet and bayonet that fell on the ground were taken away by him, these people moved quickly, Sun Guangtian bandaged Tang Cheng's wounds, and those people also cleaned up the battle scene, more than a dozen puppet army corpses with mended knives were stripped of their essence, and military uniforms, weapons and equipment, and personal sundries were all stacked together.
"Do you follow us or do you go on your own?" The Jianghu man came over again and threw Sun Guangtian a small bag with the military uniform of the Imperial Association Army as a wrapper, which was a few compressed biscuits and two first-aid kits, "Here are a few compressed biscuits and first-aid kits, there is no water, I'm afraid you have to find it yourself" The Jianghu man thought about it, took out two rifle bridges from his pocket and threw them to Sun Guangtian, "10 bullets, you save some use, I guess according to the rules of your Eighth Route Army, 10 bullets should not be missing!" ”
Without waiting for Sun Guangtian and Tang Cheng to thank them, the men carrying ammunition and supplies disappeared over the hillside, Sun Guangtian and Tang Cheng were a little stunned, "Old Tang, what do you say they are, it's impossible, are they bandits." Sun Guangtian took out a compressed biscuit from the small bag and handed it to Tang Cheng, Sun Guangtian has always been very interested in this group of men who suddenly appeared, especially the kind of rifle that can shoot from a distance, he now knows that it is aimed at the target through the small mirror on it, if he has such a rifle in his hand, he will not be pursued by the puppet army just now.
After resting on the spot for a while, Sun Guangtian carried the injured Tang Cheng and began to march in the direction of Houjiaji, Houjiaji has a guerrilla force of the Eighth Route Army, Sun Guangtian is going to Houjiaji to send intelligence, now Tang Cheng is injured, only follow Sun Guangtian to Houjiaji to treat his injuries first, and then Sun Guangtian will send intelligence back to the army instead of him, Houjiaji is not very far from here, Sun Guangtian and Tang Cheng, who have been taking mountain roads and shortcuts, finally arrived at the village where the guerrillas were stationed before dark.
"Captain Ma, this is the order given to you by your superiors" Sun Guangtian saw the guerrillas, and finally put down the big stone in his heart, and after pouring a breath of cold water, he pulled out a note from the upper of his shoe, and it was because of this note that Sun Guangtian, who couldn't hold his breath, would break into the checkpoint of the puppet army, in fact, the note was hidden in the upper of the shoe, and the Imperial Association Army couldn't find it at all.
"Great" Captain Ma, who looked at the note, slapped his thigh and stood up, "The day after tomorrow, the army will transport a batch of supplies from the north to our Hou Jiaji, there may be our scarce medicines and ammunition, the superior means that we can set up an ambush, and it is best to take this batch of materials."
Lu Shan, the deputy captain who was squatting on the side and rolling the smoke of the earth, frowned, "It's a good thing, but with the manpower and equipment of our guerrillas, I'm afraid it won't work" Lu Shan's worry is also where Captain Ma has been reluctant to mention, the entire guerrilla team has only about 20 people, and there are only 5 38 rifles, and the rest of the people are all made in Hanyang that the rifling is almost smoothed, and the bullets are even less.
"Hou Jiaji, Hou Jiaji" snatched the freshly rolled soil smoke from Lu Shan's hand, Captain Ma pondered the terrain around Hou Jiaji, "No matter what, we still have to go and see, such a good thing can't be watched slip away, it's really not good, let's go to the Horseshoe Ridge to dig the road, block the transport team of the army in the Horseshoe Ridge and slowly consume them" Fiercely threw the half-smoked smoke on the ground, Captain Ma slapped his hand, and made the final decision.
Horseshoe Ridge, as the name suggests, is a U-shaped mountain ridge shaped like a horseshoe, due to the dangerous surrounding mountains, the vehicles, horses and pedestrians who pass from here can only honestly follow the roundabout mountain road, if you want to take a shortcut and detour, it is not possible, because there is no shortcut to Horseshoe Ridge at all, after receiving the order of the guerrillas to rest for a night, they temporarily mobilized more than a dozen young adults in the village and all the iron tools that can plow the ground, and roared on the Horseshoe Ridge, and Sun Guangtian, who passed the order, naturally followed, Tang Cheng's intelligence was that the guerrillas with quick legs and feet were sent to the troop station.
"Dig, dig the road for Lao Tzu, and dig according to the trap of the beast" Captain Ma commanded his men to dig the pit in shifts, and the deputy captain Lu Shan took people to cut branches from a distance and came back, ready to make a cover for the trap to cover up the traces, the fighters in the guerrillas are good at fiddling with farm work, picking up the hoe is a fierce planing, and a big pit was dug out on the mountain road without much effort, Lu Shan personally jumped into the big pit and measured it, and then commanded the guerrillas to build a cover with a branch, and then sprinkled a thin layer of dry soil, If it weren't for the people standing on it, I wouldn't have seen that this was a trap.
"Lu Shan, I take the team members to stay here and wait to snipe the enemy, you take the people in the village to walk back 200 meters and ambush it, wait for the devil's convoy to stop here, and take the opportunity to dig up the way back and block the devil on this mountain road, we can't beat them and we have to kill them here" The horse captain with a straw pole in his mouth gave Lu Shan a task, and Hou Jiaji had already arranged an observation post there, and there were people along the way to help pass the news, as long as the devil came, the news tree outside the horseshoe ridge would definitely be put down.
"Captain, there's a convoy over there" The bolt with a straw ring on his head panted and ran along the mountain road, he was sent to keep an eye on the reverse mountain road, according to the order of the superiors, the military transport team should have passed through Horseshoe Ridge this afternoon, so Ma Datong decided to block the pedestrians and convoys coming in the opposite direction in order to avoid accidentally injuring the ordinary caravans and pedestrians passing here.
"That's not right, didn't the intelligence say that the devil's transport vehicle should have crossed the Horseshoe Ridge in the afternoon, why is the devil coming, the convoy is coming over there, will it be the devil's response troops?" The guerrillas who had been squatting on the Horseshoe Ridge for a day and a half were a little overwhelmed and looked at their captain, and Ma Datong, who was the captain, was also confused, and had taken the team members to the Horseshoe Ridge yesterday morning, and it had been a day and a half.
"No matter, hide first, and then talk about it after a while, if it's a caravan, we'll stop them, if it's a little devil, we'll fight" Ma Datong waved his hand, and his team members hid according to the place they had already found, and the team members surnamed Zijian had already pulled the bolt and loaded the bullet into the chamber of the gun, and Ma Datong, who was lying in the dirt pit, also held his shell gun tightly, staring at the mountain road with his eyes, looking forward to the upcoming battle.
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