Qimutai is two villages, the north Qimutai and the south Qimutai, the north Qimutai is the village, and the south Qimutai is the crop land, and the distance between the two is less than a mile. These two terraces overlook the valley of the West River, which flows from the South Stone Pond.

The West River, which flows from west to east, turns to the north under the seven acres of platform in the north and south, and the river channel narrows all of a sudden, and after traveling more than ten miles to the north, it flows eastward again at the pine mound and joins the Tang River in the south of the Zoumayi.

After starting from Nanmazhuang, the Qingshui Special Operations Wing walked for more than two hours along the path next to the river beach before arriving at Nanshitang, thinking that the eight roads and the people here must have fled from the wind, but they didn't expect to turn around the foot of the mountain, but what they saw was a brightly lit village!

Nanshitang, like many small mountain villages on the river in the mountainous area, is also a house and yard built on the platform by the river beach, with a hillside behind and a river in front, generally this kind of village is not big, there are dozens of households, and there are only a few households in the few, mainly there is less cultivated land in the valley, and there is more land on the slope of Mazhuang to the south, so the population is more.

There are only a dozen or so houses here, and every house is lit with bright lights, and there are bonfires in the open space outside the village, and lanterns and torches are hung on the trees.

As soon as the captain of the search team came back to report, Shimizu Daisa was also very surprised, and went to the front to take a look, except for these bonfires, torches, etc., he didn't see anyone, so he ordered the search team to disperse, surround the village from three sides along the river beach, and attack to have a look.

Seeing that the soldiers dispersed and approached the platform little by little, there was nothing unusual, and gradually, the Japanese troops on three sides boarded the platform and were about to rush into the village! A flash of light! It's not just one flash, it's several flashes! At least he flashed four or five times on Shimizu Daisa's side!

In an instant, the sound of an explosion came! "It's a landmine!" Qing Shui's heart sank, knowing that the soldier had been hit by a mine planted by the Eighth Road! He had a premonition that there was going to be a tough battle here, so he turned his head and gave an order to the captain of the front team who was following him. Only one squadron was left on standby, and the other two squadrons, supported by the heavy weapons of the brigade, immediately went into battle!

Heavy machine guns are clattering on the hillside south of the village! Mortars also threw shells into the village one by one, and the bombed houses collapsed and the walls collapsed. The small mountain village on the south side of the river was torn apart by a flurry of shrapnel and locust-like bullets!

As soon as the shelling stopped, the soldiers of the search party who had just fallen down on the hillside and on the river beach after their comrades had stepped on the mines, immediately got up and rushed to the terrace and into the shattered village!

Not a single one! Don't talk about people! Not a single one can breathe! Chickens, geese, cows, sheep, pigs, even the magpie nest on the old plane tree in the village has no magpies! All gone!

It was a waste of so much ammunition, and more than a dozen soldiers were killed and wounded, and after a delay of half a day, I saw the wounded soldiers who were carried down. Qing Shui had a headache, and there were already more than two hundred wounded soldiers in the team behind!

reorganized the team, walked less than ten miles, and encountered such a scene again in Xiangyanghui Village! This time the search team has learned well. Get the deminers to the front, clear the mines along the path into the village, probe for a while, and the machine gun grenadiers and other things are ready in the back, and greet as soon as there is movement on the slope and in the village.

Not to mention, there were really no mines this time, so I rushed into the village with confidence and boldness. Search from house to house, kick the door, "Boom! "It's ringing! Jumping off the courtyard wall, "Boom! "It's ringing again! Dare to love that this time the mines were not buried on the road, and they were all under the courtyard gate and courtyard wall! They were all tripwired mines, and there were four or five in one yard. Ring one, all explode!

Qing Shui looked at the smoke rising in the village and the explosions he heard, and he was so angry! The heart said that the search team can grow some brains! Don't go into this kind of village that is clearly pretended! Anyway, the brigade didn't pass through the village, and they didn't camp here! Stupidity! Another dozen wounded soldiers and seven or eight dead bodies were brought down!

I didn't see a shadow of eight roads, and dozens of people were lost! Can you not hold your breath and nest the fire! So Qing Shui scolded the captain of the search team and the front team! Ordered to reach the front of the Black Stone Ditch. If there is such a roadside village, you don't need to enter, just stay vigilant!

More than an hour later, the forward arrived at Qimutai, from the map, the river bends from here, and then walks to the northwest for more than ten miles is the black stone ditch, according to the itinerary calculation, it can be reached before dawn, and then Qing Shui is ready to let the brigade rest for a while, and immediately attack all the way along the flat and wide river to the horse post!

The search team learned to be obedient this time, and did not go to the village on the terrace again, anyway, it looked that the lights were still bright and silent, so they didn't go to the mine bombing, and just stood guard on the river beach, preparing to let the team go north along the river beach.

As for Qing Shui, he didn't follow the front team first this time, he heard the report that the baggage and artillery units behind him fell a little far, just at the foot of the mountain leading to Qimutai, and took a short rest, wanting to wait for the rear team to come over and then go together.

This time, the search team didn't go into the village to take a look, so they were fooled, there are really people in this North Qimutai village!

On the river beach under the platform, the forward brigade of the devils lined up in two columns, marching north at the foot of the mountain, and the captain on the horse arrived at the position of the search team's guard, stopped and prepared to say a few words to the search team, and let them open the way, but the mouth was not opened yet! "Bang Di Hook! After a crisp gunshot, the captain fell from his horse with an upside-down onion!

The sound of gunfire like bursting beans filled the entire valley in an instant! On the side of the more than 200-meter-long queue of Japanese soldiers marching at the foot of the mountain, bullets flew like a storm!

And the search party, crouching and half-kneeling on the hillside, was stupid, these bullets were fired from the mesa above their heads, crossed them and flew to the marching brigade on the river beach! The people on the mesa didn't even want to hit them!

The devil is not bad, he didn't get a full night's sleep, and he marched dozens of miles in the dark, and as soon as he heard the gunshots, he immediately scattered and threw himself on the river beach and at the foot of the mountain, looking for concealment! And the search team also came to their senses, turned around and attacked the mesa!

At this time, the rifles and machine guns on the platform began to pack up the search team one by one, and these dozens of devil soldiers who had just lined up in a skirmish line to escort the brigade's march route had actually been targeted by the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army on the platform, but Fan boldly gave an order, saying that after disrupting the devils on the river beach, he would clean up these pioneers who opened the way.

This is not an invisible mine! It's going to blow up, it's a dumb loss, such a dense firepower, and such accurate shooting, where is the dirt road! The search team only climbed more than ten paces away, and was crushed on the hillside and couldn't move, with the help of some ridges and slopes, so they could hide, and they could fight back with a few shots from the cold, but if they want to attack, don't dream!

The troops who were pressed on the river beach and at the foot of the mountain could not spread their formation, and the distance from the platform to the foot of the mountain was only two or three hundred meters, and the captain was hit in the shoulder and fell off his horse, and was snatched under the river bank by his subordinates.

At that time, the devil judged whether the eight roads were the main force, in fact, it was very simple, and when he heard the sound of the rifle, it was not that the bullets were fired unevenly, but whether the gunshots were basically the movement of a type of rifle, and the devil thought that the main force of the eight roads could basically do a rifle per person, and the main force could basically ensure that the company level used almost those two or three rifles.

There is another standard, that is, to listen to whether there is a machine gun, whether it is a Czech light machine gun or a Maxim heavy machine gun, the devil's crooked light machine gun 92 heavy machine gun, as long as the machine gun is there, it can generally be determined that it is the main force!

As soon as the captain of this devil's brigade heard that there was at least one heavy machine gun on the platform, and three to five light machine guns, which constituted crossfire to suppress his troops, he immediately judged that this was the main force of the Eighth Road, and because it was suddenly attacked, the heavy weapons carried by his brigade could not be deployed on the uncovered river beach, so he could only ask the rear wing for help.