The location where the soldiers of the 7th Company launched the bomb was actually less than two feet away from the Japanese car, but because it was lurking in the chaotic woods and throwing it out*, coupled with hitting the moving target in the dark, the bomb dropping effect was not ideal, two of the three trucks were shot, and one of them was only smashed to the edge of the car and exploded, and only one was accurately thrown into the center of the truck compartment to bloom.

Wu Zijian ordered the timing of the fire, grasping the moment when the two trucks in front of the Japanese convoy had already driven out of the ambush area, with the aim of concentrating on the three trucks behind. The deputy commander of the second battalion deduced that it was dark and the path was unfamiliar, and it was very likely that the Japanese troops who were ambushed would choose to quickly leave the battlefield rather than love the battle. This was also to his taste, after all, the information that had been sent back from the cavalry platoon throughout the afternoon showed that the total number of Japanese troops was more than a hundred, and they carried several light machine guns, which was a force to be reckoned with. If you fire at the entire convoy, it will be difficult for your side to take advantage.

In actual combat, his inference was confirmed: the two trucks protruding from the front only hesitated for a moment, then increased their horsepower and galloped forward, but more than a dozen devils jumped out of the two cars, and rushed back to the rear of the attack, and the rear of the two cars also had machine guns and began to fire fiercely in the direction of the riverside jungle.

What annoyed Wu Zijian the most was that after a round of bomb dropping, he didn't destroy and stop a truck! The battered Japanese convoy was like a drunken man who had drunk too much, staggering but stubbornly moving forward. Ideally, one or two of his preconceived plans would be to destroy one or two vehicles at the back of the convoy, and then concentrate his fire on the lone after the enemy had fled the battlefield.

The plan did not change quickly, and the deputy battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army saw that the enemy convoy was about to escape from the ambush circle as a whole, so he immediately ordered the soldiers who were lying in ambush in the southernmost woods on the riverbank to rush out and jump onto the dirt road to chase and shoot.

At this moment, Lieutenant Ushijima, the leader of the Japanese squadron sitting in the cab of the second truck, felt both panic and anger, he poked out half of his head from the rolled open window and cautiously looked behind, the jungle under the night was faintly shining with tongues of fire from the muzzle of the machine gun, which was undoubtedly the machine gun of the Chinese army! Moreover, Lieutenant Ushijima had already heard clearly that there was a machine gun that was undoubtedly the Taisho 11 type: at present, the entire Sena division had basically replaced the Taisho 11 with a more advanced Type 96 light machine gun, but the machine gun in the hands of the Shina army was obviously captured by the Imperial Army.

Ushijima is also a veteran who came up from the grassroots level, and participated in the brutal Niangziguan series of battles last year, which can be called nine deaths. In the deafening sound of gunfire and explosions, he judged that the ambushers were numerous, and the Japanese squadron leader swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, unwillingly looked at the fierce firefighting scene at the rear of the convoy, and finally put away the urge to stop and fight to the death:

"Full speed ahead, return to Wencheng!"

Ushijima, who was in the walkie-talkie, gave the order and finally saved the Japanese convoy at a critical moment. However, his order made the rear team jump out of the truck to meet the 20 officers and men dumbfounded, the convoy accelerated away, and before these officers and soldiers could make a response of battle or retreat, the enemy troops who swarmed out of the dark bushes greeted the dense rain of bullets. Breaking away from the cover of the trucks and exposed to the unsheltered wilderness, they fought and retreated and barely resisted for a few minutes, and finally suffered total annihilation.

The same unwillingness as the Japanese commander was Wu Zijian, the deputy battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army.

The results of the battle were much smaller than he expected, but the battle damage was beyond his imagination, and the casualty figures reported by the 7 companies made Wu Zijian heartbroken: eleven soldiers were sacrificed, and seven were wounded! Most of the casualties occurred when the soldiers were charged out of the riverside woods and were fired at by machine guns in the back of Japanese trucks.

Wu Zijian's heart was gloomy, and he regretted the order he had just given to charge; Obviously, if it weren't for leaving the bunkers in the woods and rushing onto dirt roads, the Japanese machine guns would not have inflicted such a lot of damage on their own fighters!

At the same time, the Xia Lianshan cavalry platoon, which was chasing after them, also reported that five people were wounded to varying degrees.

After counting the battlefield, 19 Japanese corpses were examined, and four wounded soldiers were captured. One of the corpses was wearing the rank of second lieutenant, and was supposed to be a squad leader. Xiao Junping, the only one who knew Japanese in the second battalion of the Xu Brigade of the entire Lin Division, was far away in Wencheng, and the four captured Japanese soldiers had a fierce attitude and no fear.

This ambush battle on the banks of the Qinglong River ended hastily.

Two squads of the 7th Company, which remained at the south end of Ewhapo Village, witnessed the rushing Japanese convoy fleeing along the dirt road outside the village in the direction of the Tongpu Railway. They did not open fire, and the deputy commander of the second battalion gave them the task of blocking the south end of the village to prevent the Japanese troops fleeing from the ambush from entering the village.

However, no stragglers appeared, and the Japanese convoy fled as a whole. This made Wu Zijian more or less relieved: he was afraid that tonight's war would spread and affect the innocent Ewhapo again.

"Deputy battalion commander, don't leave the corpses of Japanese soldiers on the road," Before evacuating the battlefield, Xia Lianshan, the commander of the cavalry company, made a suggestion: "In the future, it will affect the travel of the people who take this road, and in addition, it is easy to attract the Japanese army's retaliation against nearby Ewhapo." ”

Xia Lianshan is a local, so he is more thoughtful; Wu Zijian immediately agreed, and ordered the organization of more than 20 corpses of Japanese officers and soldiers to be transported to the wasteland hundreds of zhang away from the dirt road; Of course, all useful items on the corpses of Japanese soldiers must be collected. Including dozens of rifles, hundreds* and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition. This is the whole spoils after paying the price of dozens of casualties.

Except for a small number of infantry and cavalry who continued to stay in several villages on the banks of the Qinglong River (mainly used to command and lead the village protection team), the rest of the men and horses withdrew to Xiping Village overnight. A big question had already risen in Wu Zijian's mind: At a time when the main force of the Japanese Sena Division was anxious to fight a decisive battle in southern Jinnan, and the garrisons of the important counties and towns along the Tongpu Railway were already overstretched, why did a team of capable troops of a considerable size come by car to sweep away the unarmed and little-known folk villages in this afternoon? Is this enemy army from Lingshi County or Wencheng? What is the motive for using troops in a hurry and back?!

He decided to immediately send members of the enemy workers to Wencheng to inform the resourceful captain of the enemy workers, Xiao Junping, about the incident. See if the underground intelligence station in the heart of the Japanese army can find the relevant answers.

Lieutenant Ushijima's sweeping squadron was harassed and ambushed along the Qinglong River, and Hirai Terarichi Nakasa was unaware of it. On the same afternoon, he and the arrest team led by Lieutenant Mizukawa did not encounter any trouble.

The route chosen by the arrest team this time is closer to the Nantongpu railway line. Since the opening of the Tongpu Railway led by Yan Xishan before the Shanxi War, less than two years ago, more and more scattered families have appeared on both sides of the railway line. The houses built by these families are not connected into villages like other rural areas in Shanxi, but often live alone, and at most only three or five households are connected into a small area.

This peculiar residential landscape along the railway line has long been insightful and figured out by the military police captain of Songjiagou, and these scattered families have been included in his arrest plan. What made Hirai Temple feel a little troubled was that the families with young women in the above-mentioned scattered houses were not concentrated, and sometimes it was necessary to search for several households along a mile-long route to find a suitable target, which was quite time-consuming and laborious to arrest.

In addition, the geographical location along the railway line is more conspicuous and eye-catching, and the spread of unfavorable news is much faster than that of the wilderness villages. Once the news leaks, the possibility of the top-secret "wind plan" leaking will be seriously expanded. The captain of the gendarmerie, who had weighed and compared this point in advance, had reported it to the brigade commander and major general and the head of the secret service in Wencheng, and expressed his concerns. However, as the fighting of the entire front army in the Xuzhou battlefield intensified, the accelerated implementation of the "wind plan" could not be delayed. He could see that both Major General Hagiwara and Ojima Osa had lost their patience and caution in their operational intentions for the capture of the women in China.

Of course, Hirai Teraichi had no choice.

After passing by several families in succession, the arrest teams that divided into two roads were captured one after another.

A detachment led by Hirai Tera-ichi himself attacked a lonely house, and after killing all the men who resisted, he took the only woman in the family; Out of an abundance of caution, the gendarmerie captain ordered the entire house to be set on fire, and faked it as a fire scene to cover up the killing.

Less than three miles away from the scene of the killing, another capture detachment led by Lieutenant Mizukawa unexpectedly encountered two young women, neighbors living nearby, who were carrying baskets and baskets along the railway line to pick up waste.

At first, Lieutenant Mizukawa tried to talk to and trick the two young girls into being fooled in Chinese, but one of the girls quickly saw that something was wrong, and she pulled her female companion to flee as she looked at the men who were driving the ox cart and carriage and behaved without embarrassment. Seeing that his trick had been corrupted, Lieutenant Mizukawa revealed his fierce appearance, and at the sound of an order, the arresting team members rushed up, easily tied up the two young girls who were powerless, stuffed rags in their mouths, and loaded them into the carriages of the two large carts, with disguised firewood and other things on the outside.

Mizukawa used a walkie-talkie to get in touch with Captain Hirai, who was not far away. The latter was also escorting a woman away at this time, and behind him, an innocent mansion had just been ignited.