The No. 3 supply point was only five or six kilometers away, and Junko and his party rushed back before dark.

Dong Ku gave Lao Gengtou all the biscuits, pickles, soy sauce, grain essence and vitality food carried by the Japanese army, and left two flashlights, but strictly ordered them to leave the cave to use them to avoid being seen by the Japanese army.

Shui Linglong hugged Xiaohua lovingly and was reluctant to put it down, Xiaohua also liked this beautiful big sister, snuggled up, pestering Shui Linglong to tell stories.

Dong Ku saw that it was getting dark, so he said, "Uncle Geng, you go up the mountain and enter the cave, we should also prepare." ”

"Well, sir, be careful."

Lao Geng led Xiaohua with a dozen young people, carrying simple buckets made of birch bark, carrying bags of grain to the cave, picking up the places he walked along the way with branches to clean up the traces.

Dong Ku looked at the messy people's residences that had been demolished, and he knew that once the Japanese army found it here, it was inevitable to search carefully. After thinking about it, he waved his hand and ordered to start laying traps here, so as to give the enemy the illusion that this camp had been abandoned.

After finishing his work, Dong Ku and his team disappeared into the gradually sinking night.

The fog in the mountains is heavy in mid-July, and the leaves are dripping with water until the sun rises. At this time, because the water vapor is too heavy, the insects hide under the dead leaves to avoid wetting their wings. The mountains and forests are therefore exceptionally peaceful.

In the early hours of the morning, when they were able to see the road clearly, the Japanese army began to search the mountain. Groups of heavily armed Japanese soldiers walked on the hills, in the canyons, and shuttled through the forests according to the established route.

At this time, they no longer worried about the attack of the Soviet Russian team, but wished they could shoot at them.

The team slowly entered the mountain forest, divided into several directions, and marched in unison.

An hour later, the sky was completely bright, and a thick fog had risen as a result.

One of the Japanese troops was on the march when a sudden explosion confused the quiet group, and when it was discovered that it was a trap, the team quickly resumed its advance, leaving only five Japanese soldiers to care for the two wounded and collect the remains of one of the dead.

The report of the trap reached the wing commander Maruyama Koichi Sasa, who was in command of the periphery, and he was very excited, and when he encountered the trap, the target was nearby, so he ordered the team to spread out slightly and advance in a straggler line.

The other two adjacent wings also received orders from the wing commander of the outer command, and the ranks also spread out into a straggler queue through the forest.

As they went, two loud explosions made the newly quiet mountain forest noisy again, and the birds that had just fallen back into the treetops flew again, screaming in panic and through the mist.

The location of the explosion was still the Maruyama Wing, which had reached the trap for the first time, and the distance between the front and back was no more than a kilometer.

According to the previous convention, it was speculated that at this time the front should be the direction in which the Russian team retreated, and they left traps along the way, just to hinder the speed of the advance.

Several wing commanders gathered in one place, escorted by more than 500 Japanese troops, to discuss all the possibilities of successive trips to the trap. They agreed that ahead was the direction in which the Russian squad was heading.

So, with the Maruyama Wing as the center, the four surrounding wings focused their search on him.

The mountains of Japanese troops advanced slowly, and in the fog, any suspicious position had to be investigated. As he was walking, suddenly, the head of a Japanese soldier exploded, and then with a pop, seven or eight Japanese soldiers fell in the grass in a row.

"They're ahead!!"

One of the lieutenants shouted for the operator to generate electricity, but did not give the order to pursue, still maintaining formation, and searched forward.

After a while, the wing next to it was also attacked, and seven or eight soldiers were shot in the head at a time, and the situation was the same as here.

After receiving the report, Maruyama Koichi said excitedly, "Biting so quickly? It seems that they wanted to break through last night, but they didn't dare. ”

"Hmm. It seems that this is the case, and it is time to report this situation to His Excellency Lieutenant General Sugihara. The other wing leader nodded in agreement.

After a few minutes, the layout of the entire search began to change as messages were exchanged. The Japanese troops in the center were in columns, and the four wings marched in unison, moving quickly in the direction in which the target was found, and rushing straight to the established position without stopping along the way. Ten wings were stationed in place, waiting for the Russian squads that could break through the encirclement again.

Just as they were moving in an orderly manner, a dense burst of bullets came from the front, exploding several clouds of blood mist in the Maruyama Wing, and in just one or two breaths, more than two dozen Japanese soldiers fell.

"Bite their main force!!"

Koichi Maruyama was excited, and while ordering the Maruyama Wing to speed up the pursuit, he reported the situation to 'Miyotaro Sugihara'.

As the Maruyama Wing charged, the other four wings quickly moved closer to him, blocking all the routes within a kilometer, and rushing forward in unison.

In the burst of the poof's head, the other party seemed to be fighting and retreating, obviously biting the main force.

And the Maruyama Wing did not flinch, the soldiers were strictly ordered not to shoot without seeing anyone, and even if their companions fell, they still accelerated forward and rushed forward.

Seeing that they had run thousands of meters away, suddenly, there was a clattering machine gun sound in front of them, and the bullets spread out and shuttled between the trees, causing the pursuing Maruyama Wing to stop at once, and while throwing down four or five corpses, they launched a counterattack to the faint fire in the fog.

The thumping gunfire made the forest noisy for a moment, and also excited the Japanese soldiers who were chasing. Machine guns, this is the first time in a few days that they have been encountered, which means that the main force that has bitten the opponent. The excitement of the imminent encounter with the enemy made the Japanese soldiers howl, dodge behind the trees, and charge forward as they fired.

At the same time, a wing of the 16th Division went upriver along a river called the Taohua River and ran straight to the coordinates where the enemy's main force had been found.

As he was walking, he suddenly saw traces of buildings in front of him, which were simple thatched huts that are common in the mountains and forests.

With the gesture of the commander and the officer, the team immediately dispersed, and the waist felt there.

It wasn't until he got closer that the captain realized that it was a camp that had just been abandoned. The traces of the trampled path by the river, the ditches and ponds scattered in the distance, and the traces of the hillside all show that there were many people who lived here, and the time they lived was not short.

After carefully observing the camp, several soldiers walked towards the camp with guns in hand.

Suddenly, one of the soldiers' feet was empty, and his body sank straight down, and before he could fall, he seemed to step on something under his feet, paused, and then fell to the ground.

Just when he felt the fallen feet on the ground, and the surrounding Japanese troops bowed down, a loud bang sounded one after another, and fires erupted everywhere in the camp, and shrapnel and pebbles flew all over the sky, and the shock wave rolled up the hay and rose into the air.

In the violent shaking of the ground, the surrounding area of the camp was cleared, and hundreds of Japanese soldiers around it fell one after another, and few were injured.

Although the soldiers in the distance did not die directly, they were full of colors, especially the cannonball-like pebbles, whining and screaming, and the bones and tendons must be broken when they hit the body. In just one moment, most of this standard infantry wing of more than 3,000 people collapsed, and it was destroyed in one fell swoop.

When the loud noise rumbled away in the valley, the miserable screams around the camp rang out, and the Japanese soldiers struggled in pain and cried for help.

The uninjured Japanese soldier was stunned for a moment, and after getting up from the ground, he hurriedly began to treat his companions, and the scene was chaotic.

In the cave two or three thousand meters away, the loud noise made the people inside tremble, and in the darkness, they stared at the entrance of the cave that showed a glimmer of light, ignoring the sand falling overhead.

Half an hour later, the results of the injury came in. Two lieutenants and one lieutenant were killed, 412 were killed, 680 were wounded and incapacitated, and 5 or 600 were slightly wounded.

The wing captain who was hiding from the decapitation on the periphery was furious after receiving the report, and he lost two squadrons and three squadrons of combat effectiveness without seeing a figure, which made the Japanese army, who had always been arrogant, acceptable?

In a fit of rage, the wing commander ordered the lightly wounded plus two squadrons to escort the seriously wounded out of there, join up with the logistics force, and send them out for treatment, while the rest of the men searched the surroundings to find the direction in which the other party had left.

As the order was given, the remaining less than a thousand Japanese troops spread out and searched the surroundings for traces. The team that sent the seriously wounded was also either supported or carried, and slowly moved in the direction of the logistics station.

Before they could all leave the scene of the explosion, a bang was heard from a hundred meters away, and two Japanese soldiers were blown away by grenades, and then traces of the evacuation of the brigade were found, the bushes were broken, and the weeds were lodging, in the direction of the ambush in the early morning.

"Whoosh!"

A lieutenant who took over the command excitedly drew his command knife and pointed to the direction where the traces disappeared and gave the order to pursue.

Sure enough, they chased correctly, and they could clearly distinguish the traces of travel along the way, intermittently, obviously the other party was in a hurry to withdraw, and they didn't care about cleaning the traces carefully.

Before they could get out of the way, a grenade again confirmed the pursuing Japanese that they had found the direction in which the enemy had fled. As a result, all the Japanese soldiers involved in the pursuit followed the traces all the way down, and soon, the dilapidated camp was quiet, except for the thick bloody smell and the corpses of some stumps and broken arms, there was no trace of life.

Just as the Japanese army followed the trail and crossed the mountain bag, Dong Ku led the members of the Flying Tigers to retreat and block the attack on an upper mountain beam. The machine guns never rang out again, the silent sniping continued, and after the Maruyama Wing threw down three or four hundred corpses, they finally saw the figure disappearing in the woods.

But when they caught up with the mountain beam, the other party did not move. The Japanese troops who surrounded the area from all sides also completed the encirclement of this area half an hour later, but they found no trace of the enemy, and it seemed that the team just disappeared.

"Search it carefully, and the troops are gathering to the encircled position!"

All the wing commanders gave almost the same order, and that was to be the place where the Russian squad would be buried.

At this time, Dong Ku led the team to successfully jump out of the encirclement, and before the encirclement, he went straight to the position agreed with Shunzi and Yu Lei in advance.

And Shunzi and Yu Lei confirmed that the Japanese troops around the people's camp were running to Dong Ku, and after seeing the Japanese army disappear, they sent a telegram to Dong Ku to tell Yu to hook and get rid of the pursuit, and then rushed to the hidden place more than ten kilometers away.