When Li Yan saw this, he didn't think much about it. Instead, he walked quickly deep into the woods. He stopped on the west side of the woods and observed the Xishan Southwest Base Area. He saw that the fire did not burn to the southwest of Xishan.
At the base, Li Yan felt relieved. At this time, the Eighth Route Army troops in the southwest of Xishan had also left their base and came to Xishan.
Firefighting work was carried out on Southwest Road. Due to the large number of troops dispatched from the Xishan Southwest Base, the fire on Xishan Southwest Road was extinguished in less than three minutes. Seeing this, Li Yan turned around and prepared to leave Xishulin and return to Xishan County.
, but before he had even taken two steps, he suddenly felt a slight vibration under his feet.
After Li Yan felt the vibration, he did not go back. Instead, he stood there and observed quietly. After a while, Li Yan determined that the vibration came from his left rear and found that
After this situation, Li Yan turned back to look in the direction of the sound, but found nothing unusual. The vibration suddenly stopped, but after only three seconds, the vibration came again.
Li Yan's feet, and the shock was greater than before.
As the intensity of the vibrations increased, some abnormalities also appeared on the southwest side of the woods. Several helmets gradually emerged from the southwest side of the woods and appeared in front of Li Yan. Seeing that they were Japanese troops, Li Yan moved back.
He slowly took two steps back, found a relatively secluded corner and squatted down. He picked up a sniper rifle and carefully monitored the movements of the Japanese army, making plans for the next step in his heart.
But for some unknown reason, the Japs troops' marching speed this time was suddenly more than twice as fast as before. It originally took half an hour to complete Xishan Southwest Road, but it took the Japs troops less than five minutes to reach Xishan Southwest Road.
In the middle of Shanxi South Road, the Japanese troops
The team was also very close to Li Yan who was hiding in the woods in the west of Xishan County. Li Yan was worried that the Japanese soldiers would suddenly launch a search, so he quietly moved his body in the opposite direction of the Japanese troops, but the muzzle of the sniper rifle was still there.
It was aimed at these Japanese soldiers.
When Li Yan stopped, the Japanese soldiers also stopped and rested for a while. Then they regrouped into a team and moved towards the west woods. Li Yan saw that the Japanese soldiers had entered the woods.
, he released his right hand holding the sniper rifle and turned to touch his waist.
He used a signal gun to send a signal to Xishan County to prevent the Japanese troops from suddenly changing direction and attacking Xishan County. However, what Li Yan did not expect was that this group of Japanese soldiers did not continue to move to the east of the west woods, but just moved in the woods.
Scout the surrounding area and then gather together again.
Seeing that the troops had all assembled, the leading Japanese captain came to count the number of people in front of the troops. Li Yan also took advantage of the opportunity that the Japanese captain had no time to pay attention to the west forest, stood up and counted with the Japanese captain outside the woods, and waited until
When he found out the specific number of this group of Japanese soldiers, Li Yan squatted down again and leveled.
Holding a sniper rifle, he stared at the Japanese troops in front of him, motionless. However, when Li Yan was concentrating on reconnaissance, there was a sudden sound of subtle footsteps behind him. At this time, although Li Yan paid most of his attention
All his efforts were focused on the reconnaissance against the Japanese troops, but he also felt something strange behind him.
But Li Yan did not turn around to take a closer look. He just continued to maintain a half-crouched posture, holding up the sniper rifle to monitor the Japanese soldiers in front of him. However, unlike before, Li Yan did not hold the sniper rifle tightly this time.
Instead, he relaxed his hands slightly, and the footsteps behind Li Yan became clearer. Seeing this, Li Yan moved his hands slightly.
The hand holding the sniper rifle loosened a little, and he was mentally calculating the time it would take for the footsteps to completely approach behind him. After a while, Li Yan suddenly pulled back the hands holding the sniper rifle and turned his head sharply.
He raised his right leg and hit the opponent with his knee, pushing the person on the ground. He then pulled out the tactical dagger from his waist, grabbed the person's neck, and thrust the dagger forward.
But just when the dagger in Li Yan's hand was about to slide forward, the person suddenly roared: "Li Yan, you don't even look at who the hell it is!" Li Yan jerked his head when he heard this.
He lifted it up and looked forward carefully. When he saw that the person in front of him was Liu Guangyao, Li Yan immediately inserted the dagger he was holding flat back into his waist.
Suddenly, Liu Guangyao saw that he was no longer in any danger, so he raised his head and said: "Li Yan, I..." But before Liu Guangyao could finish the second half of his sentence, he was dragged by Li Yan to where he had just stopped.
In that small corner, Liu Guangyao felt strange and asked in a low voice: "Li Yan, what's going on?"
Li Yan stretched out his right index finger and pointed at the Japs troops staying at the west exit of the woods in the west of Xishan County, and replied in a low voice: "See for yourself." When Liu Guangyao saw this, he raised his head and looked outside the woods. When he saw it was the Japs troops, Liu Guangyao
He quickly lowered his head. Seeing that the Japanese troops did not notice him, Liu Guangyao slowly raised his head again, looked at Li Yan and asked: "
Li Yan, why don't you send a signal to Xishan County? This Japanese army is very close to Xishan County and there are a lot of them. If we are attacked by them without preparedness, it will be a troublesome matter."
After saying that, he turned around and prepared to return to Xishan County to organize defense, but before he could stand up, he was grabbed by Li Yan behind him.
"Guangyao, don't go back to Xishan County to set up defenses yet. Let's observe first..." Li Yan said slowly. Seeing that Liu Guangyao still wanted to leave, Li Yan tried to avoid being discovered by the Japanese troops.
He stood in front of Liu Guangyao and asked: "Guangyao, the Japs troops are currently parked in the middle of Xishan Southwest Road, so they are not necessarily attacking Xishan County. They may also continue to advance to the Xishan Southwest base area, or they may return the same way.
Anyway, let’s observe for a while before drawing any conclusions.”
When Liu Guangyao heard these words, he followed Li Yan and hid first. At this time, the Japanese troops also started to take action again. Upon seeing this, Li Yan quickly leaned forward and raised the sniper rifle on the ground to take aim.
The Japanese troops in front of him continued to observe. After a while, Li Yan discovered that the Japanese troops did not continue to observe.
He continued to enter the woods west of Xishan County, and did not advance towards the southwest base area of Xishan. Instead, he turned around and returned along the march route. Li Yan frowned when he saw this, while continuing to monitor the Japanese soldiers.
Dong Xiang, while pondering in his heart the true thoughts of these Japanese soldiers.