When Watanabe was studying the next move of Li Yan's two and a half regiments at his base, he suddenly heard a burst of intense gunfire from the northeast of Xishan. He hurriedly picked up the telescope on the table and walked out to a small hill to look.
Going there, he saw at a glance a large group of Eighth Route Army soldiers who were shooting into the sky. Listening to the gunshots, Watanabe judged that this Eighth Route Army troop must have at least 5,000 people. After a while, he discovered that this group of Eighth Route Army soldiers was at least 5,000 strong.
, the number of bullets fired by each soldier was different, some had more bullets, and some only fired one shot and then fell silent, so he judged that the unit in front of him must have run out of much ammunition.
At this time, Li Yan saw that there was not much time left, so he ended Lao Li's farewell ceremony early, and instead gathered his troops to start his own transfer plan. However, when he raised his sniper rifle to observe, he suddenly discovered a man standing in the distance.
On the hill, he was observing the Japanese officers on his side, and Watanabe's telescope was pointed at Li Yan. When he saw that Li Yan was holding a sniper rifle, Watanabe hurriedly put away the telescope and turned over to the hill.
Take shelter below.
Li Yan put the empty sniper rifle to one side and frowned tightly. He realized that the Japanese officer might notice that his brothers were running out of ammunition, so he stopped him in time.
The leading force then pulled the entire force to another relatively hidden position, and asked a few more people to go back and pick up a pile of branches and place them at the position where the troops had just stayed. Then they lit the branches with a match.
After a large number of branches were burned, a burst of thick smoke rose up between Li Yan's troops and the hill where the Japs were. This was just enough to block the Japs' observation, and Li Yan took advantage of this opportunity to lead his troops in quietly.
The woods, but he did not follow the original marching route, but took the brothers behind him to the woods on the other side of the Western Mountain, carefully observing while advancing.
When Watanabe saw that Li Yan had not made any move to snipe him, he resurfaced and raised his binoculars to check again to decide whether to send troops to search the mountain. However, as soon as he took a look, he turned away the binoculars angrily.
He fell to the ground, because at this time the concentration of smoke generated by the burning branches had completely blocked his sight. He thought that Li Yan's troops must have discovered his position, but due to insufficient ammunition, they did not attack him.
This stronghold launched an attack, but on the other hand, they were afraid that they would send troops to intercept them, so they used such a cover-up to confuse themselves and buy time for their retreat.
Thinking of this, Watanabe hurried back to the stronghold and took out a map. After careful analysis, he saw that there were only two Eighth Route Army strongholds in the entire Xishan Mountains, but the Xishan garrison had been bombed, so now Li Yan and the others must have
It can only be along the woods and another Eighth Route Army stronghold in the east of Xishan. Watanabe suddenly frowned when he saw this. He held the map in his hand and kicked the door open. He almost gave the order with all his strength.
: "Everyone gathers!"
The Japs in the entire stronghold moved quickly. In less than a minute, all the Japs soldiers gathered together, waiting for Watanabe's next order. Watanabe walked to the front of the Japs team, opened the map in his hand, and continued: "I just said
I found an Eighth Route Army unit staying near the Xishan garrison. It was roughly estimated that there were at least 5,000 people. I suspected that they were the remnants of the original Xishan garrison. However, due to lack of ammunition, I concluded that they would not attack us recklessly, but would instead attack us.
March along the woods to the south until you reach this place." Watanabe stabbed the small red flag on the map near the east of Xishan Mountain with his hand.
"But we must not let them rendezvous smoothly, because then we will become more passive in the future. Now everyone listen to my command, and the entire army will quickly advance to this position to set up an ambush. When these eight groups pass by here, we will launch an attack
, strive to eliminate them in one fell swoop! Act now, quickly!" After Watanabe said this, he moved his finger pointing at the small red flag to the middle point of the woods on the east side of the West Mountain, and at the same time drew out his saber and raised it hard into the sky.
"Let's go!" Following the order, thousands of Japanese soldiers walked out of the stronghold and headed towards the West Mountain.
When Li Yan led the troops to one-third of the way, he suddenly heard a rustling sound on the right. Looking behind him, he found that Liu Guangyao and several brothers with more sensitive ears had also discovered this.
Suddenly, Li Yan was straining his neck to look up. He felt that something was wrong, so he called the troops in time and ordered his brothers to use the shelter around them to hide. He himself held a sniper rifle and shot towards the sound.
He looked carefully in the direction he came from and saw nothing, so Li Yan magnified the sniper scope. This time he finally found a clue. He saw a large group of Japanese soldiers in the distance heading towards the middle of the woods.
The positions were close, and the number of people was about the same as his own troops, but they did not carry the heavy weapons that such a large army should carry. They only carried rifles and grenades. Li Yan felt that the Japanese must have known his next plan.
, such a big gesture must be directed at himself.
When Liu Guangyao saw Li Yanqian holding the sniper rifle and not moving, he wanted to raise his head to see what was going on. At this time, Li Yan just ended his observation. Seeing Liu Guangyao's stupid behavior of killing people without paying for it,
Li Yan quickly slapped Liu Guangyao's half-protruded head. Liu Guangyao was pressed down before he could dodge, but he accidentally knocked down an extremely slender tree. When he got up again, that
A small tree suddenly shot up, making a rattling sound when it hit several surrounding trees. When a Japanese squad leader heard the sound in the distance, he took out his telescope and took a few glances, but found nothing of interest, so he put it down again.
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Li Yan couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat. He turned around and cursed in a low voice: "Look at your mother's legs! Do you know how dangerous it was just now?" Seeing that Liu Guangyao remained silent, Li Yan turned around and ordered softly: "Everyone!"
Disperse and move to the east side of the woods, remember not to go out of the woods, otherwise we will be discovered by the Japanese. As long as we pass through the middle of the woods, we will be safe!"
After hearing Li Yan's order, the brothers of the two regiments immediately divided into dozens of groups, moved eastward, stopped near the edge of the forest on the east side, and then carefully followed this line to the north.
When Li Yan got rid of the Japanese who came to annihilate him, he reorganized his team, climbed to the east side of the Western Mountain and continued to move forward. After a long and extremely cautious march, a walker
The brother at the front suddenly pointed his finger to the east and cheered. Li Yan ran up and looked in the direction of his finger, and saw the Eighth Route Army base area with the red flag flying. Li Yan's troops were safe.
However, Li Yan did not rush to join the large army. Instead, he walked to the front of the team, turned around and looked at the Xishan Station in the distance. When the brothers behind him saw this, they all turned around with him and followed the Xishan Station.
A standard military salute was given in the direction.
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