Prior to this, the other resistance forces operating on Honshu had been dressed in a chaotic manner – wearing their own civilian clothes, wearing old uniforms, and wearing new uniforms.

Hideo Inoue's basic attempt to unify the resistance was to dress as uniformly as possible, so in this resistance base at Mt. Kannon, the entourage sewed a batch of crude uniforms, which were based on the uniforms used by the local army of the Anotsu domain, with the difference that the clothing material was worse and the color was yellow-green.

Several staff officers were shot dead on the spot by the Ming soldiers who burst into the house, and the two who were dying were still struggling in pain, but within a few seconds they were reinforced.

The movement of the gun was much louder indoors than outside, and the corporal, whose ears were buzzing, glared at the soldier who was reloading the gun, and then stepped forward quickly.

He cursorely looked at the documents on the table and made out that they were maps of Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures, as well as a stack of wire-bound plans and more than a dozen telegraphs.

"This is probably a telecommunications room or something, and the enemy general's lair must be near here!" The corporal shouted while changing the magazine of the submachine gun in his hand: "Hurry up to the people in the back, damn!" If they let them slip away, it will be in vain. ”

A dozen more soldiers followed, one of whom picked up the papers scattered on the table and stuffed them into his backpack.

The rest of the people rushed out of the brick house and continued to move forward.

"Boom!"

A four- or five-metre-high wooden watchtower was blown down by a grenade, and sawdust was scattered, and the sentry on it screamed and fell to the ground, staggering to his feet before being knocked down by a bullet.

The officers and men of the Yiluan Division, who were like a rainbow, quickly broke through this sparse defensive line, and the ignorant resistance army could not parry, so they had to retreat in panic, and the few stragglers were quickly killed by the fast and accurate fire.

And in the headquarters in the middle of the camp, Inoue Hideo only then figured out what happened - there was a surprise attack on the camp by a Ming army? And wait until it's close at hand to be discovered?

But less than half an hour had passed since the battle began, and the boiling water that had flowed from the broken thermos that had fallen off the table was still warm.

It all happened so quickly that the Resistance had never expected to be in such a strange situation, and they could not understand how the Ming army had quietly penetrated into the deep hinterland.

Looking at the figures that flashed from the houses seventy or eighty meters away, a cronie urged eagerly: "Your Excellency, retreat quickly!" It's too late, they're less than a town away! ”

"Bang! Bang! ”

A dozen or so guards nearby were firing desperately in that direction, despite the fact that a few friendly troops were fleeing in confusion along the way.

Running in the middle of the two sides is obviously equivalent to looking for death, but people can't think rationally in such a state of despair, and they just want to stay away from the devil behind them.

Suddenly, accompanied by about 20 people, Inoue Hideo and his party began to retreat to the north.

There is a cave that was used as a large shelter, and inside the cave there is a sheep intestine path leading to the northern foot of Guanyin Mountain.

The so-called three caves of the cunning rabbit, the Japanese are not stupid, they have long understood the surrounding terrain and environment, and used this natural cave path as a secret passage.

At this time, Cai Zhichen suddenly caught a glimpse of a white and a yellow flare rising from the mound on the flank.

According to the pre-agreement, this indicates the arrival of our aircraft.

Because the plane was coming from the east and happened to be in the direction of the rising sun, the officers and men squinted and watched for several seconds before they vaguely saw three small black dots.

"Bang!" They immediately used grenades to fire red smoke grenades in the direction of the enemy camp, while throwing a blue smoke canister next to their location.

The dive bomber fleet of the Tianshi Zuoyuan was codenamed "Yan," and the three Type 37 dive bombers of the Yan 6, Yan 7, and Yan 8 flew to Guanyin Mountain in a standard zigzag formation, and the pilots with excellent eyesight could see the smoke signal from the ground at a glance.

The three planes flew at low altitude after descending altitude, but did not attack, but only looked at the current battlefield environment.

After a recircle, the pilots began to bomb at a small depression angle.

Because they had been blocked and suppressed by the fire on the mounds behind the flank, a large number of Resistance soldiers were lying on their stomachs or kneeling, leaning on bunkers, sandbags, low walls, and other bunkers to shoot aimlessly, and this air raid directly gave this group of Japanese people who lacked air defense awareness a lesson that they will never forget.

The twelve 100kg aerial bombs that fell one after another seemed to rain a burst of thunder, and when the TNT explosives exploded, they burst out with dazzling fire and fierce air waves, setting off huge clouds of smoke and dust.

For a while, the flesh and blood flew sideways, and the power of the fragments of the aerial bomb should not be underestimated, and the large pieces of high-speed fragments could almost cut off people's arms!

The severed limbs and arms blown away by the shock wave flew dozens of meters in the air, and when several Ming soldiers stopped to enjoy this magnificent scene, a torn palm fell in front of them, and blood was still oozing from the fracture.

The earth-shattering movement made Inoue Hideo and his party look back, and they couldn't help but feel like a knife when they saw their hard work for more than a month being annihilated in the smoke and dust of the explosion.

More than 100 resistance troops were killed by air raids, and the pilots were not satisfied with this—it was not easy to come here, how could they just drop bombs?

After another spin, the nose points to the ground and the firing button is pressed!

"Dada-da-"

Two strings of 7.36mm incendiary and tracer bullets flew out from the muzzles of the left and right wings, and two rows of dust splashed on the ground in the blink of an eye.

The Resistance soldiers were screaming in a pool of blood, but in this chaotic situation, there was no one to care for the wounded.

By this time, more than 50 officers and men of the reconnaissance team and the second team had cleared the headquarters here, and the six or seven enemy soldiers who had resisted stubbornly were all killed neatly.

"Team Wang, they're slipping north!"

Seeing that the big fish was about to slip away, the captain who led the team suddenly became anxious.

"The hostility is in turmoil, and there is not much of a threat." He turned his head to look at the direction of the enemy camp filled with gunsmoke, and waved his hand: "Go, follow me!" ”

The soldiers followed, pursuing them all the way to the north.

These dozens of people broke away from the main force and pursued the fleeing Inoue Hideo and his party alone.

Captain Wang's quick decision disrupted the original deployment to a certain extent, but the actual combat situation is ever-changing, and it is certainly not feasible to rely on a fixed and dead plan to fight a war.

Cai Zhichen understood this well, he took a deep breath, and calmly analyzed the current situation between the two sides.

Although the enemy army is suffering heavy casualties due to surprise at the moment, there are still thousands of people, and it will become more and more unfavorable to their side as time drags on.

The primary goal of the trip was to deal with the command center of the resistance, and the secondary goal was to destroy supplies.

Because the Japanese stored all kinds of weapons, ammunition and medicines in caves, air raids could not destroy them, and the importance of these things is self-evident - without supplies, it is even more difficult to pull up a team and fight against the Ming army.

So Cai Zhichen quickly made a decision, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the north and ordered: "The original plan doesn't work, let's fight and retreat to the north, catch up with Lao Wang and them, and raise the treasury here by the way!" ”

"But we don't know which hole is hoarding supplies!"

"Try your luck! If you can't find it, it's not a big deal related to the fortunes of the country, so save yourself and go! ”

"Order!"

At the same time, dozens of members of the reconnaissance team and the second team had chased to the north of the camp.

Because it is located in a gentle valley in the middle of the mountains, the edge is naturally a continuous mountain cliff, and in front of the officers and soldiers is a dark hole, and the dense footprints on the ground are undoubtedly proof of the signs of escape.

Everyone glanced at each other, and then turned into a staggered two-way column and rushed into the cave.

"Horse deer!"

The relentless pursuit of the Ming army frightened and annoyed the Japanese in front, and in order to get rid of the kraft-like pursuers, they began to use grenades to make tricks.

Unplug the pull tab of the MkII grenade and press it with a wooden plank so that the grip does not bounce off and ignites the time-delay powder tube.

Hearing the footsteps and shouts coming closer, several Resistance soldiers hurriedly pressed the planks and ran away.

The narrow cave path can only be traversed by one person, and if two people say it, it is very reluctant, and it is dark.

The soldiers of the reconnaissance team who rushed to the front wrapped their flashlights around the underside of the Type 34 submachine gun or the side of the Type 20 automatic gun with strips of cloth, and walked through as dexterously as they could.

Suddenly, someone seemed to have stepped on something in a brisk step, and the "click" movement was quite obvious in the narrow passage, and five or six people in front and behind heard it.

The soldier in second place shook his gun to the ground, and the light of the flashlight shone just in time for the grenade that had bounced off the handle.

His eyes widened in horror, and he half-realized that he had kicked him forward with a forceful kick.

"There's a treacherous thunder!"

"Grass! Sleeping......"

The grenade brushed past the soldier at the top of the list, slammed into the side of the cave wall two meters away, and exploded.

The explosion in the small space shook everyone's eardrums and their heads buzzed.

Both soldiers were wounded by fragments, bleeding from their arms, abdomen, and thighs, and the injuries were not light, but at first glance they did not seem to be life-threatening?

The scolding captain assigned two men to stay behind for ambulance, and then led the rest of the men to continue the pursuit.

The officers and soldiers who were aroused by the anger were ruthless, vowing to skin and cramp these guys.

After a long time, there was light ahead.

In an instant, it suddenly dawned on them, and at this moment they had come to the halfway point of the northern foot of Guanyin Mountain, and the grass and shrubs in front of them could clearly see the traces of being trampled out.

After nearly ten minutes of pursuit, dozens of officers and men who had been in desperate pursuit succeeded in catching up with the exhausted Inoue Hideo and his party.

Except for the guards, who had better physical strength, the rest of them were already out of breath and had no strength to run away.

The momentum of the officers and soldiers of the Yiluan Division of "chasing to the ends of the earth and killing them all" made this group fall into deep despair.

"They didn't move!"

"Spread out left and right, up!"

After a cup of tea.

There was no suspense in the short exchange of fire, and the price of one dead and five wounded was the complete destruction of the center of the resistance.

More than two dozen guards and several officers were all shot; Inoue killed himself with a gun, one of his three cronies followed him to suicide, and the other two were shot dead while fleeing.

A seriously wounded and dying Resistance officer tried his best to ask vaguely in Chinese: "You... Which troops are ......"

"We, Yiluanji. Well, it's the honor guard. ”

"Click! Click! ”

A sergeant took out his camera and took several pictures of Hideo Inoue's body in succession.

"Old fox!" Captain Wang, whose shoulder was grazed by a bullet, took a spit, kicked the corpse of the red and white flowing on the ground, and then found two small notebooks, pens, photographs, and other things from his pocket.

But others made an unexpected discovery when examining the bodies of others, and in a briefcase, they found some documents in English, both handwritten and typewriter-printed.

At this point, after several hardships and dangers, the primary goal of the operation was finally achieved.

At this moment, the main force of more than 100 people in Yiluan Division also found a cave to hoard supplies on the way to fight and retreat, but it was impossible to determine whether it was the only one.

"Tsk! What the hell, the airship hasn't come yet...... So be it, lay out the explosives. ”

In view of the fact that the situation did not allow for a closer search, Cai Zhichen directly ordered the placement of explosives, and then quickly evacuated the place.

For the sake of safety, there are a total of four fuses in the three explosion points that are burning in the "zizizi", and Cai Zhichen, who looks as usual, looks at the slowly moving spark and shows a satisfied smile.

At this time, in the sky, the belated 32 seaplane finally flew over Guanyin Mountain.

There are a total of four engines in the middle of the slender and wide wing, and the left side of the huge fuselage is neatly cut out of two openings, one large and one small.

The pilot and navigator were looking left and right to observe the situation on the ground, and suddenly, the earth seemed to be hammered by a hammer!

"Boom—boom—"

A short, continuous roar swept through the heavens and the earth, a huge explosion resounded through the sky, and a gray-black smoke emerged from the mountains and rose into the sky.

The crew members were taken aback, and the pilot subconsciously pulled the lever, and the whole plane immediately climbed up.

After circling around and seeing that there were no more accidents, they lowered their altitude again to prepare for fire support.

For more than a quarter of an hour, the resistance army finally regrouped and was about to pursue the Ming army, which was fighting and retreating, but the huge explosion attracted their attention to a large extent.

The lone seaplane made the Resistance wonder, how could the Ming army send this thing over? Large, bulky, slow-moving seaplanes don't seem like a threat?

However, because there were so many things that went against common sense in just half an hour, some clever Japanese people thought that there must be a demon when something went wrong, and began to run away in a panic.

At this moment, the gunboat numbered "Zuoshan Eagle No. 4" stabilized its flight attitude and began to circle over this valley.

Looking at the tiny bugs on the ground, the gunners with windproof glasses were excited.

"Boom!"

"Knock knock—"

Under their control, the 12-type 80mm mountain gun with a truncated barrel and the 12.8mm aviation machine gun of the 32-type roared in unison.

Anti-explosive bombs exploded in the crowd, and the flipped corpses tumbled and fell to the ground like rag dolls; Large-caliber machine gun bullets swing back and forth like the scythe of death, and you can die at the touch!

(End of chapter)