The big boss Tie Shou has already explained clearly to the two minions: after entering Lihuapu Village, he must move quickly, choose a few families that were damaged by artillery fire to loot the treasures and leave immediately, and go all out to chase the mixed team of the Black Stone Cliff Cottage and the Eighth Route Army, so as not to delay for too long and be noticed by the big boss and the master.

But people are not as good as heaven, and before the three ambitious bandits could rush in from the north end of the village, they collided head-on with five members of the Japanese Hirai Advance Team.

The two groups of people who met unexpectedly were both dressed as civilians, and they were both ghosts and thieves, so as soon as they met, they couldn't help but get nervous.

Among the five guys in the Hirai Advance Team, one of them was a veteran from the combat unit of the Sena Division, and he was finally experienced in the transition, and he first discovered the * in Iron Hand's hand at a glance - Iron Hand, as the leader of the Black Stone Cliff Bandits, was qualified to configure the "fast gun", but he was born in Orion, and the shotgun in hand was already used to it-This made the veteran of the Hirai Advance Team instantly determine that the other party's identity was a villager from Ewhapo, so he did not immediately make an attack posture.

But the same sharp-eyed gang leader also saw a motionless woman in the hands of two men for the first time!

The two groups of people who were a few steps away stopped and looked at each other for a moment, and the leading Japanese veteran waved his hand at his accomplices, signaling them to go first.

This action further touched the suspicion of the iron hand, not to mention that the other party was carrying an obviously young woman! The originally lustful iron hand, relying on the three of them all carrying weapons, immediately pointed to the * in his hand, pointed to the embarrassed people opposite, and shouted:

"What for? Where's the going?! ”

As soon as the words fell, the two minions of Iron Hand also held their guns in their hands. This time, the veterans of the Hirai Advance Team finally discovered that the other two people were vaguely holding military standard rifles!

The situation was no longer enough to think about, and the Japanese veteran, who was still fluent in Chinese, replied: My woman was injured by a shell, and I was about to send her to see Langzhong.

This convincing Chinese sentence somewhat dispelled the doubts and vigilance of the big gang leaders, and it was in this atmosphere that had just eased down that the Japanese veteran unexpectedly took out a pistol from his waist and raised his arm to shoot.

Syllable! Syllable!

The first shot hit the middle of Iron Hand's chest, and the man who was shot fell straight backwards; The second shot hit the shoulder of a bandit minion, and he howled, and the Gongxian rifle in his hand fell to the ground.

However, the Southern Type 14 pistol in the hands of the Japanese veteran jammed during the third shot, which eventually caused another bandit minion to escape death and turn around and run desperately; Before the other members of the Hirai Advance Team could fire, the little minions had already jumped into the shallow Qinglong River and ran to the opposite bank, and soon disappeared into the night.

The Japanese veteran took two steps forward and grabbed the Black Rock Cliff bandit who was shot and wounded, and still asked the prisoner in Chinese: Who are you? Where did you get the rifle in your hand?

The trembling bandit minion was extremely shocked and frightened, and his lips trembled and he couldn't say a word. As a result, the Japanese soldiers, who were anxious to get out, no longer hesitated, and used the southern 14-type pistols in their hands to completely kill the two enemies. Immediately they abandoned their bodies, carried the young woman they had just looted, and ran to the designated rendezvous point in the northwest corner of the village.

After the disaster, Ewhaura, who had survived the disaster, had become very silent, but the sudden sound of several gunshots not only disturbed Hiraiji Ichichusa, who was waiting to receive his subordinates in the northwest corner of the village, but also caused the other two groups of advance team members who had infiltrated the village to panic, and they gave up their search for prey one after another, and began to quickly return along the path they had come.

Captain Hirai of the advancing team had suffered losses in this village, when a fierce cavalry of the Eighth Route Army chased them to the death and almost wiped them out.

What's more, a few hours ago, a large group of the Eighth Route Army was entrenched here, relying on the terrain to fight with the imperial army of the Saijo Wing. Therefore, when he suddenly heard the sound of gunfire not far away, Hiraiji couldn't help but feel a wild beat in his heart.

Soon, the shooter was carrying a young woman in China. Hirai Nakasa grabbed the veteran in the lead and anxiously asked about the situation. However, these members of the advance team, including the veterans, were in a hurry to get out in the darkness of the night just now, and they did not have time to search the body of the killed, so they could not clearly determine their identity. Only one thing is certain: one of those killed and those who escaped was armed with a standard military rifle.

The back of the head of the advance team tingled - it was no coincidence that two of the three men were armed with army guns, and the other party was most likely a plainclothes scout sent by the Chinese army! And given that one of the individuals had already escaped, the possibility of reporting the matter to his own troops was not ruled out at all.

Due to the attack on the military blockade area far away in the Little Elm Mountain, in order to ensure the absolute safety of the comfort women's camp at the Songjiagou station, the deputy captain of the advance team, Captain Mizukawa, stayed there and was unable to participate in the night sortie—before Hirai Siichi wanted to stay in Songjiagou himself, and appointed Deputy Captain Mizukawa to command the dispatched detachment; Helplessly, the head of the damn island agency must personally lead the arrest by Captain Hirai.

"Stop the operation and withdraw immediately!"

Hirai Teriichi, who was full of foreboding, finally gave the order to retreat without Captain Mizukawa by his side to give advice. When the other two teams also rushed out, the group immediately took the two prey in their hands and hurried to the place where the trucks were parked: not only the trucks they had arrived in, but also a heavily armed infantry detachment not far away.

In fact, the foreboding of the captain of the Japanese advance team came too early - the member of the Black Stone Cliff gang who escaped stumbled and began to desperately chase the team ahead, and he succeeded in a few miles away from Xiping Village.

In the rapid march of the night, no one noticed the disappearance of the big boss Iron Hand and two henchmen, and no one noticed that one of them had quietly returned. And this minion who ran back was afraid that the big boss would accuse him of leaving the team without authorization, so he pretended to be deaf and dumb after returning to the team, and did not dare to truthfully report the whereabouts of the big boss's uncertain life.

And as this mixed team continued to advance, the sound of gunfire from the direction of Xiping Village also reached their ears more and more clearly.

In fact, it was already the roar of guns at the end of the battle, and the first detachment of the Xu Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, which was guarding Xiping Village, and the first part of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army, which came to reinforce it, could not resist the fierce attack of the five infantry squadrons of the Japanese army from three sides, and were forced to abandon the defense line on the east bank of the Qinglong River in the village, and successively withdrew into the Guanmen Mountain Pass behind the village.

The gunfire during this period of time was that after the Eighth Route Army was broken, the troops were stubbornly defending the area of the mountain pass, blocking the Japanese troops who were chasing and killing, so as to cover the main force to move towards the Guanmen Mountain.

Of course, there was a small force that did not have time to withdraw into the Guanmen Mountain Pass, which was the strength of almost a platoon commanded by Wei Xin, the commander of the second battalion of the Xu Brigade Detachment. At that time, they were responsible for guarding the area around the end of Nantou Village, and a squadron of Japanese soldiers who suddenly rushed in from that direction was fierce, Wei Xin was in a hurry to lead his troops to meet him, but under the cover of night and terrain, this small force actually penetrated out head-on from the formation of the Japanese charge!

After realizing this, Wei Xin, the commander of the second battalion, immediately organized the team to turn around and bite the Japanese troops who rushed into the village, and carried out a non-stop attack on its rear flank. The commander of the second battalion knew very well that the position in the village was about to be lost, and the detachment commander Wu Zijian had already arranged the retreat sequence in advance, as long as they were not dragged by the Japanese army, they would eventually successfully retreat to the Guanmen Mountain Pass.

"It seems that we can't enter the mountain," Wei Xin organized the firing and ordered the platoon commander beside him: "Staring at the Japanese ass first, but be careful not to be surrounded by the enemy." Ears listened closely to the movement of the Guanmen Mountain Pass, and as soon as the sound of gunfire over there was weak, we immediately withdrew and retreated to the lower reaches of the Qinglong River! ”

As a result, the officers and men of the Eighth Route of this platoon relied on several houses at the end of the village to launch firepower. The Japanese, who stormed the village, sent about twenty or thirty men to turn their guns and shoot at them.

The situation of being counter-surrounded that the second battalion commander feared never happened, but to his great surprise, a support army rushed from the direction behind him! During this period, there was not only a platoon sent by the battalion commander Wang Shuanglong, but also dozens of bandits from the Black Rock Cliff Cottage, and the leader was none other than his sworn sister: Liu Wumei, the big boss!

Wei Xin, who was surprised, couldn't believe that this was true for a while, until the lively Liu Wumei stood in front of him in person and eagerly called "big brother", which woke up like a dream.

He still listened to the brief report of the platoon commander of the first battalion first, and thus learned roughly about the battle that had just taken place in several villages in the lower reaches of the Qinglong River - Dalong and Lianshan, who jumped to the outside line to fight, actually took a battalion of infantry and a company of cavalry to drive back the Japanese who had been pursuing them before! It's really good.

"How did you get to Zhaojia Village? And there are so many people at once? After listening to the report of the platoon commander of the first battalion, Wei Xin faced his bandit sister and asked what was going on.

The female bandit leader, who had experienced the terror of most of the night, finally saw the sworn brother who could be relied on, and was quite emotional, and began to tell the truth in some incoherent words.

It was not easy for Wei Xin to understand the approximation. At this time, the sound of gunfire in the direction of the Guanmen Mountain Pass in Xiping Village really weakened - that should be a sign that the main force of the detachment had retreated into Guanmen Mountain. The commander of the second battalion stopped his sister's words, and quickly calculated the strength at hand: the two platoons of the second battalion and the first battalion, plus more than fifty people in the Black Rock Cliff Cottage, together exceeded the size of an infantry company. Go?

It is obviously not a wise choice to re-enter Xiping Village: the main force of the detachment and the reinforcements of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army should be withdrawn to Guanmen Mountain, and it is no longer meaningful to entangle Xiping Village at the moment. Moreover, the enemy army attacking the village was almost a thousand people, and they could not touch the stones with eggs.

Wei Xin's eyes were cast to the south - the first battalion and the cavalry company of the Xu Brigade detachment were chasing a Japanese army that rushed to the lower reaches of the Qinglong River, although he did not know the specific strength of the Japanese army, but he thought that it was much less than the Japanese army occupying Xiping Village at this moment.

Ahh Simply turn around and head south, join forces with Dalong and Lianshan, and encircle the Japanese army!