The closer you get to the village, the quieter it becomes. I don't know if Dianhou is a crow's mouth or a broomstick. He really got it right.

When Zhao Zhiguo and Dianhou arrived at the outskirts of the village, they could still vaguely hear sporadic gunshots.

"Company Commander, the battle seems to be over. The little devil is cleaning the battlefield."

Zhao Zhiguo took out his binoculars and scanned the entire village. The little Japs were poking at the wounded Chinese soldiers. The battle was basically over.

"It looks like there are only fifty or sixty of the little devils."

"Fifty or sixty people?"

Dian Hou couldn't believe it. Fifty or sixty Japs had wiped out a battalion of the Central Army?

Zhao Zhiguo thought it was nothing. The Japanese army's combat effectiveness was obvious to all, and when they entered the village, they also saw that most of the soldiers of the Central Army had lost the courage to fight.

"Company commander, we'd better leave, it seems we can't count on them anymore," Norihou continued.

"Wait! There's something going on!"

Zhao Zhiguo looked at the haystacks near the village with a telescope. He remembered that he did not find these haystacks when he first came to the village.

Moreover, these haystacks look very much like newly cut grass. Although they are arranged to blend in with the whole village, Zhao Zhiguo can clearly see through the telescope that the grass stubble is new.

"Look at those haystacks!" Zhao Zhiguo handed the binoculars to Dianhou.

Dianhou observed it carefully: "It's nothing special, right? I don't remember if there were these haystacks when we came here."

Zhao Zhiguo recalled carefully when he came to the village, and he could clearly remember that there were no haystacks around the village, so he would not be mistaken.

"But... it's really special to have so many haystacks around a village." Norihou also raised his own question.

"Get ready to fight!" Zhao Zhiguo quietly ordered.

Just when Zhao Zhiguo ordered to go down, suddenly countless grenades fell from the air like locusts.

"Boom boom boom"

Grenades came from all directions, and the number of them made Zhao Zhiguo stunned. The equipment of the Central Army was very good, and each soldier was equipped with at least four grenades.

The explosion was deafening, followed by a cloud of dust, and nothing could be seen in the entire village, like a violent sandstorm.

The explosion sounded for a while before it stopped. Then Zhao Zhiguo heard the whistling wind. He kept observing the situation in the village with a telescope, but he couldn't see anything clearly.

"Company commander, what happened?"

Dianhou was almost stunned. Zhao Zhiguo gave him the order to prepare for battle. He just took aim at a little Jaap, but the explosion that followed made him unable to hear anything. His eyes became dim and he could not see anything.

At this time, the one who was more confused than Dianhou was the little devil.

The Japanese troops in the village were stunned by the bombing and suffered many casualties. Corpses and wounded soldiers were scattered all over the ground.

The little Japs who were still alive couldn't tell where their companions were. They were very alert with their guns in hand, fearing that some Chinese soldiers would rush in under the cover of the thick dust and catch them off guard.

But after the explosion, Tao Xueyi did not order the troops to attack, but just waited for the dust to slowly dissipate.

It took more than ten minutes for Zhao Zhiguo to see clearly what the village looked like again. The remaining walls were now riddled with holes.

A single grenade killed more than half of the Japs, but the Japs were rich in combat experience and did not rush out of the village after being attacked like this.

The remaining Japanese soldiers quickly gathered together again, and a Japanese second lieutenant immediately assigned the task.

In the blink of an eye, the little devil had established a position in the ruins.

"Let's see how high the little devil's combat literacy is!" Zhao Zhiguo handed the binoculars to Dianhou again.

Twenty or so little Japs, as well as two light machine guns, formed a group of more than ten people, and each relied on the remaining walls to form positions.

"The two machine guns have formed a cross cover. Even if some infantrymen are lucky enough to break through this fire net, the remaining Japs can be called out one by one with their rifles. The Japs are really a formidable enemy."

Zhao Zhiguo said: "The officers of the Little Devils are all highly educated, and even the soldiers of the Little Devils have at least three years of training before going to the battlefield."

Even Zhao Zhiguo envied the little Japanese veteran's combat qualities. It's a pity that China today simply doesn't have so much energy to do this.

Many ordinary soldiers don't even have three months of training. They are just given a gun and go to the battlefield.

If you are lucky and survive, you will become a veteran.

If your fate is bad, if you die, a group of new soldiers will be recruited again.

The cycle goes back and forth, over and over again!

"It seems that Battalion Commander Tao is going to suffer a loss," Dianhou said.

Zhao Zhiguo didn't know what Tao Xueyi's plan was, and he didn't dare to issue warnings at will. If Tao Xueyi's plan was disrupted, something big would happen.

According to Tao Xueyi's plan, he thought that the Japanese army, which was under intensive bombardment with grenades, should retreat and withdraw from the village at this time.

Then they laid an ambush outside the village and captured the remaining Japanese troops in one fell swoop with their overwhelming superiority.

But the little Japs were not fooled at all. Instead, they set up a defense line in the village and faced off against Tao Xueyi's Central Army.

After waiting for a long time, Tao Xueyi did not wait for the Japanese army to take the bait, and he knew that his plan was ruined.

If they continue to wait like this and waste time with the Japanese army, the situation will be very unfavorable for them.

Tao Xueyi finally made up his mind and took the initiative to attack.

The soldiers of the Central Army did not know the location of the Japanese troops in the village. As soon as a dozen soldiers entered the village, the Japanese machine guns rang out in the village.

"Da da da"

The Japanese machine guns spit out tongues of fire.

A dozen soldiers had no ability to fight back and were instantly killed by the Japs' guns, falling into a pool of blood.

When Zhao Zhiguo saw the soldiers rushing into the village, it was too late to issue a warning.

"Dian Hou, shoot to cover!" Zhao Zhiguo ordered.

"Company Commander, it's too far. The Japanese army is six hundred meters away from us!"

Although Zhao Zhiguo and Dianhou could clearly see the situation in the village, at this distance, bullets would float when fired. Dianhou had never seen anyone hit the target at such a long distance.

Zhao Zhiguo didn't hear Dianhou's words at all. He immediately stood up and moved to a stone, pulled the bolt of the gun and loaded the bullet.

He closed his eyes and mentally calculated the distance of the Japanese army. At such a long distance, the kid's brain was smaller than a coin.

"The smaller the goal, the smaller the mistake!"

Zhao Zhiguo took a deep breath, stood up suddenly, took aim for five seconds, and pulled the trigger with great confidence.

The bullet flew in the air for nearly a second and made a crisp sound on the helmet on the little devil's head.

Dianhou saw the blood pouring out of the Japs' machine gunner's head through the telescope, and was extremely shocked. Zhao Zhiguo refreshed his knowledge again.

"Company commander, you are so amazing." Dianhou exclaimed.
Chapter completed!