Dongyang County is the nearest county to the north of the Guandong Mountains. Although it is still located at the foothills of the Guandong Mountains, the terrain is basically a plain. It is only about forty miles away that some undulating low mountains begin to appear, which are higher than the hills.
Not much.
The land here is fertile, the climate is suitable, and there are several rivers flowing outside the city. It is a unique place, so industry, agriculture and commerce are relatively prosperous.
In the Guandong Mountain area, Dongyang County can be said to be the largest county. The population here alone exceeds 100,000, and there are hundreds of large and small businesses. The three main streets are even more crowded and bustling every day.
There are so many people.
Zheng Xiao brought his people to Dongyang County and stayed in an inn on West Street. The location was relatively quiet and there were many guests staying there, so it was very suitable for them to stay hidden among so many people.
Pretending to be passing merchants, Zheng Xiao and the others rented out the entire backyard as a residence and then moved in.
There are a total of five main rooms in the backyard, and there are three wing rooms on each side. These many houses are enough for them to live in, and there is even room for the second batch of supporting special operations team members to live in.
After arriving in Dongyang County, Zheng Xiao was not in a hurry to rescue people because he felt that the Japanese had not been able to capture the village for so long. This meant that either the special forces had the ability to protect themselves, or that the Japanese were playing some trick.
Therefore, he sent some people to inquire about the news and take a look at the situation of the Japanese troops stationed here.
The three soldiers were sent out. Zheng Xiao ordered the remaining special forces members to wait inside the house. He also locked himself in the house and began to study the map.
It can be seen from the map that the Japanese have a large number of troops stationed near Dongyang County. There is a brigade and a cavalry stationed in the county, in addition to a regiment of puppet troops.
The puppet army is an army composed of the people of the occupied areas organized by the invading country. It mostly refers to assisting the Japanese army in military activities during the Anti-Japanese War. The occupied area army is composed of the people of the occupied countries.
The names of the puppet armies in different places varied in different periods. The more famous ones include "Imperial Association Army", "Security Force", "Guard Force" and other titles.
There are a lot of puppet troops in the Guandong Mountain area. A regiment of puppet troops is stationed in Dongyang County alone. In more than 30 villages near Dongyang County, large and small puppet troops are also stationed.
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The composition of these puppet troops varied, including surrendered troops of the former Northeastern Army, bandit forces, and even the caretakers of some local landlords and wealthy people. They were colluding and committed evil, and even did more bad things than the Japanese.
When the local people mentioned these puppet soldiers, they gnashed their teeth with hatred and wanted to eat their flesh and drink their blood. If the curse could kill people, they would probably die a thousand times.
This time Zheng Xiao brought a total of thirty special forces members, ten of whom were veterans of the special operations brigade, and the remaining twenty were Zhuge Hong and his hunters.
After a short period of special training, these hunters quickly mastered the basic knowledge of special tactics. What they lack now is actual combat, so Zheng Xiao brought them.
The special forces members of the special operations brigade are Zheng Xiao and Yue Xiazi's trump card. They are the last trump card. If the losses are too large now, it may be more difficult to sustain them in the future, so Zheng Xiao mainly leaves them to Yue Xiazi.
I only brought ten people with me.
Thirty people, against more than 2,000 Japs. If such a disparity in strength were to come into a head-on confrontation, the result could be imagined. Moreover, there were dozens of Japs troops stationed in the villages and towns around Dongyang County, with a combined strength of one.
The brigade is a threat that cannot be underestimated.
Therefore, Zheng Xiao should be more cautious, otherwise this small number of people will not be enough for the Japanese to fill their teeth.
"It looks like this rescue will be very difficult." Zheng Xiao frowned and stared at the map. There was a rice bowl on the table next to him, but he didn't eat a bite of the food in it.
Tuk-tuk-tuk, the door of the house was knocked, and then the special operations team member shouted, "Captain, they are back."
Zheng Xiao quickly stood up and opened the door to let them in.
What came in were three special operations team members dressed in mountain folk costumes. They were the people who went to investigate in disguise. The leader was Zhuge Hong, who was also dressed in mountain folk costumes.
"Captain, we are back!" Zhuge Hong shouted as soon as he entered the door and gave a military salute at the same time.
Zheng Xiao smiled and waved his hand, pointing to the kettle on the table, "You're welcome, have a drink of water."
"Don't tell me, I'm really thirsty." Zhuge Hong grinned, grabbed the teapot, poured a bowl, picked it up and drank it all.
Putting the bowl on the table, Zhuge Hong ignored the other companions who went to drink water, but wiped his mouth and said to Zheng Xiao, "Captain, I have learned the news clearly."
Zheng Xiao perked up and hurriedly pulled him to the map and asked, "Tell me how the situation is."
Zhuge Hong nodded, came to the map, took a breath and said, "We found a distant cousin of mine. He cooks for the Japanese in the Japanese brigade headquarters, so he can get some information."
"Really, that's great!" This news made Zheng Xiao happy.
It turned out that after Zhuge Hong and the other three left the shop, they went directly to find his cousin.
Zhuge Hong's cousin was called He Jiu. He was a cook. He was as fat as a fat pig. He loved drinking and often got drunk.
As he liked it, Zhuge Hong invited him to drink. Naturally, he went there happily and drank very happily. Naturally, he was speechless and shook out everything Zhuge Hong and the others wanted to know.
According to him, there were not more than 300 special forces members surrounded, only about 40. They were purely smoke bombs released by the Japanese to lure people into taking the bait.
I heard from a translator at the Japanese brigade who had a good relationship with He Jiu that these people seemed to appear out of thin air and suddenly appeared outside Dongyang City, just in time to catch up with a Japanese food requisition team passing by, and the two sides exchanged fire instantly.
There were more than a dozen people in the Japs' food collection team, but they didn't expect that half of them were killed as soon as they fought. The rest hurriedly retreated. Fortunately, the team did not chase them down, but retreated to a village.
Zheng Xiao listened to Zhuge Hong's narration. He knew that the special forces members must be like him. They were a little confused by the sudden change. In addition, they were not mentally prepared for the crossing, so they missed the opportunity to completely annihilate the Japanese food requisition team and prevent Xiaoxi.
This was a great opportunity for leakage, which led to the siege of the Japanese army.
He Jiu said that after the grain requisition team escaped back to Dongyang County, the Japanese immediately sent a squadron to the village after hearing the news. At the same time, they notified the Japanese and puppet troops in surrounding villages and towns, and surrounded the village.
At this time, those people seemed to have woken up and wanted to break out, but it was already too late. After rushing several times, they failed to break out. Instead, several people died, and then they stopped rushing out.
At the beginning, the Japanese attacked fiercely several times, killing and wounding many people. However, after some Japanese girls came from the Kwantung Army headquarters a few days ago, the attack suddenly stopped. Now they are only besieging but not attacking.
It's a bit strange to be surrounded but not attacked!
Zheng Xiao raised his eyebrows. He felt that his guess was correct. The Japs were fishing.
These dozens of special forces members are bait, so they can survive until now. Otherwise, they could all be wiped out with shelling alone.
But who would set this bait, and who is he fishing for? Aren't you afraid of being discovered with such an obvious intention? Zheng Xiao couldn't understand the reason behind this.
The fog was coming one after another, and it had never stopped since he came to this world. This made him very depressed, and the feeling of being kept in the dark made him very unhappy.
Zhuge Hong and the others also asked He Jiu about the number of Japanese troops outside the village, which was probably a squadron and a battalion of puppet troops.
Zheng Xiao did some research based on the intelligence they brought back. He found that if such a force was to besiege the village, it seemed that it was a bit small. There must be some weaknesses.
These places are the focus of their attack, tearing apart their encirclement from here, and then cooperating with the troops inside to break out.
After breaking out of the encirclement, he would lead the special operations team members all the way south to the foothills of the Guandong Mountains, more than 40 miles away. Once there, Yue Xiazi would bring people to help him.
The problem now is how to contact the besieged special operations team members!
Zheng Xiao tried to contact the other party using a walkie-talkie, but because he did not have the other party's unique frequency, several attempts failed. In the end, he had to decide to send someone in to notify the other party.
After thinking about it, Zheng Xiao decided to ask the old soldier of the special operations brigade to go for a trip, because the other party was also a member of the special operations brigade. He was a comrade in the same special operations brigade and could communicate with each other easily, and it was easy for them to trust each other.
After setting these, Zheng Xiao sent a special operations team member and asked him to remember his communication frequency and give it to those who were surrounded.
The special operations team members went to perform their mission, and Zheng Xiao began to formulate a breakout plan in the house. At the same time, he needed to figure out how to deal with the opponent's pursuers.
It is conceivable that once they establish contact with the besieged special forces members, the Japanese will definitely know the news, and they will definitely send a large force to chase them.
In addition to the Japanese motorcycle troops, it was the Japanese cavalry that gave Zheng Xiao a headache.
The cavalry is fast and flexible. Once Zheng Xiao and others are bitten by the Japanese cavalry, they will definitely be in big trouble. As long as they slow down when they are entangled, the Japanese army will chase them.
When the time comes that they are caught in a tight siege, not to mention saving others, they themselves will be in danger.
Therefore, Zheng Xiao must hold back the Japanese cavalry before the breakout operation begins to prevent them from causing trouble to him.
Thinking of this problem, Zheng Xiao thought of He Jiu, Zhuge Hong's distant cousin, and he immediately called Zhuge Hong.
After hearing what Zheng Xiao meant, Zhuge Hong was a little dazed, and then shook his head, "Captain, although my cousin is not a bad person, he is naturally timid and fearful. If you let him do such a thing, I guess he won't go at all.
Do."
Zheng Xiao laughed and patted Zhuge Hong on the shoulder, "Don't worry, I will make him agree."
Zhuge Hong shivered. At this moment, he felt that the captain seemed to be possessed by the political commissar Yue Xiazi.
Turning around and walking out the door, Zhuge Hong could only silently mourn for his cousin.