Predator Reborn

Chapter 243: The Japanese Army’s “Guerrilla Warfare”

In this way, the entire convoy kept driving all the way, and after paying the price of one car, it finally broke through the two checkpoints set up by the Japanese army. Just when Liu Xiaogang was congratulated for successfully breaking through the Japanese defense line,

Suddenly there was an exclamation from the car behind.

"Report to the captain, there is something going on behind the scenes..." Wang Hong, the captain of the first squadron, sounded very anxious.

"Ah...what's the matter?" Liu Xiaogang turned around and asked.

"The Japanese pursuers are coming, captain..." Hearing this, Liu Xiaogang quickly stuck his head out of the car window and looked behind the convoy. Fortunately, it was dark now, although the distance between the two armies was still at least two kilometers.

Although they were far away, the headlights of their car could be seen clearly.

Liu Xiaogang raised his binoculars and saw that there were ten cars in total. A squadron of Japs was approaching him quickly. Seeing this, Liu Xiaogang understood that his car contained a large amount of medicines and supplies. Compared with the Japs' car, it would be no matter how fast it was.

Nothing can compare to it. We must find a way to stop these pursuers...

Thinking of this, Liu Xiaogang began to make silent calculations in his heart.

"Order, Captain Meng, the leader of the Second Squadron, will get off the bus immediately with the Second Squadron. They must stop the little Japs for ten minutes and then retreat on their own... Order the convoy to stop, quickly..." Liu Xiaogang ordered quickly.

"Hey..." Immediately, 14 cars stopped one after another, and the moment the cars stopped, more than fifty heavily armed special forces members jumped out of the cars, and then,

The car started up again and rushed towards the connection point agreed with the First Military Division.

The remaining soldiers of the Second Squadron, without any orders, ignored the approaching Japanese cars and quickly deployed simple booby traps made of cluster grenades on the road as quickly as possible.

The soldiers below quickly hid in the woods on both sides of the road and began to check the firearms in their hands.

"Boom..." A huge explosion sounded, and the first car pursued by the Japanese suddenly overwhelmed the booby traps arranged by the soldiers. The huge explosive power of the grenade instantly destroyed the car and more than 20 people on it.

The Japanese overturned and fell to the ground, and the nine cars behind him were caught off guard and collided with each other in an instant.

"Baga... enemy attack..." Immediately, the commander of the Little Japanese squadron heard the bird's song from the car.

"Fight..." At the moment when the Japanese squad leader issued the order to defend, that is, when the little Japanese was about to get off the car, the squadron leader Meng Jie seized the opportunity and ordered loudly. At the same time, a 20-meter gun in his hand

Hibiya quickly calmed down and fired a bunch of bullets at a car in front of him.

"Da da da..." Immediately, the dense gunshots were heard in the woods where the soldiers were hiding. Deadly bullets were fired into the chaos of the Japs, and life-hungry tongues of fire swept towards the little Japs.

car.

"Boom, boom, boom..." Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen grenades, which were emitting white smoke, took advantage of the shooting gap to fly out from the dense woods and directly hit the remaining car compartment of the Japanese car. In the blink of an eye, it was

Two Japanese cars could not withstand the continuous explosion of grenades, and together with the remaining Japanese soldiers in the cars, they turned into two fireballs.

"Baga, get out of the car quickly, organize defense, the enemy is in the woods, grenade launcher, hurry up, shoot immediately, destroy the enemies in the woods, hurry up..." The Japanese squadron leader dodged the first round of shooting from the soldiers, and faced him.

He shouted loudly to the soldiers who were in panic for a moment.

Perhaps the words of the Japanese squadron leader had an effect. Immediately, there were several dull noises among the little Japanese who organized a counterattack on the road. In the blink of an eye, several violent grenade explosions were heard in the woods where the soldiers were hiding.

There was a loud noise, and several soldiers were unfortunately hit.

"Yo Xi, good fight. Keep firing. Shoot all the grenades. We must destroy these enemies who dare to attack Taiyuan. Quick, fire..." Seeing the effect of the grenade, the Japanese squadron leader forgot why for a moment.

, actually stood up straight and gave orders to the grenade soldiers behind him.

Soon, the woods where the soldiers were hiding were bombarded by Japanese grenade bombs continuously. If the special operations brigade had not been small in number and the ambush was spread out, the casualties would have been huge.

"Sniper, kill the Japanese squadron leader immediately, quickly..." Hearing the constant explosions around him, Meng Jie did not dodge. He carefully observed the distribution of enemies on the battlefield in front of him. When the Japanese squadron leader got carried away, he stood up straight.

At that moment, squadron leader Meng Jie gave orders to the snipers around him.

"Bang, bang," two dull gunshots rang out under the cover of the dense gunfire and artillery around them. The Japanese squadron leader looked at the two bloody holes in his chest in shock and fell to the ground.

"Baga, the squadron leader has been killed. Kill him...to avenge the squadron leader..." Seeing the dead squadron leader's body, there was immediately a jealous little devil who had been killed. The squad leader frantically raised the command knife in his hand.

, ordered his soldiers to charge towards the enemy in the woods, no longer caring about grenade cover.

"Kill them..." the Japanese soldiers shouted, and under the leadership of the red-eyed squad leader, they rushed out of the newly organized defense circle and launched a charge towards the enemies in the woods.

"Okay, good fight." Seeing that the Japanese army's formation was completely chaotic, squadron leader Meng Jie happily slapped his head and shouted. "Order the soldiers not to save bullets, but to fight for me..."

The soldiers who received the order did not need to aim. Facing the swarming Japs, they did not need to aim at all. They only needed to keep loading the bullets and pulling the trigger...

"Baga, hurry up, retreat..." Faced with huge casualties, the Japanese squad leader who led the charge finally calmed down and began to order the remaining soldiers to retreat. At this moment, Liu Xiaogang ordered the blockade to last ten minutes.

We have arrived. Captain Meng looked at the watch on his arm and decisively sent a signal to the troops to retreat. Taking advantage of the little devil's retreat, the soldiers carried the bodies of the wounded and comrades and quickly disappeared into the woods on both sides of the road.

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There was a rapid sound of braking, and Liu Xiaogang's convoy finally found the predetermined location within the limited ten minutes provided by the Second Squadron. As soon as it parked, several soldiers were seen nimbly emerging from the woods on both sides of the road. Directly towards

The first car Liu Xiaogang was in ran over.

"Are you Captain Liu of the Special Operations Brigade of the headquarters?" A cadre wearing a pistol from the opposite side came to Liu Xiaogang and asked.

"Yes, I am Liu Xiaogang, who are you?" Liu Xiaogang saw that in front of him should be the troops of the First Military Division who came to support him.

"Captain Liu, I am Li Changzheng, commander of the 1st Regiment of the First Military Division, and I have come to meet Captain Liu on the order of the commander." After receiving a positive answer, Captain Li in front of him quickly saluted with a military salute.

"Captain Li, thank you for your help. There are a total of fourteen cars here, all containing medicines and some medical equipment. Commander Li, please empty these supplies within twenty minutes. There are little devils chasing us behind us."

Soldiers..." Liu Xiaogang replied, the last words said in a lowered voice.

"Captain Liu, I understand. Xiao Wang, send the signal." Captain Li finished speaking and ordered to a bugler behind him.

"Yes, Commander...tick-tock-tock..." I saw the bugleman named Xiao Wang behind Captain Li quickly picked up his horn and started blowing. In less than a few seconds, I saw someone coming from the side of the road.

Nearly a thousand troops appeared in the woods. These troops seemed to have been prepared for a long time, and they rushed towards the car in company units in an orderly manner.

So, with the help of soldiers from a regiment, it took everyone less than ten minutes to transport all fourteen trucks of medicines. As the last special forces member to retreat, he was not polite at all and thought about every

After throwing two grenades into the cab of a car, they retreated safely, leaving only the wreckage of 14 cars, which made the Japanese soldiers who came to pursue them burst into tears. In the end, they could only return with nearly half of the soldiers killed or injured.

Taiyuan returned to life.

In this way, after several days of manpower transportation, all the medicines and several doctors who had joined the Eighth Route Army were sent to Zhangjiazhuang, the capital of the base area. Each squadron of the special operations brigade also returned to the base area one after another, and the base area went smoothly

The problem of drug panic was solved.

However, the Japanese city of Taiyuan has experienced a stormy change. Due to the Taiyuan commander's consecutive unfavorable operations for a year, and more importantly, in the heavily defended Taiyuan City, the Eighth Route Army unknowingly robbed an entire city.

What made the superiors even more angry about the medicines in the hospital was that among the nearly a thousand seriously injured people being treated in the hospital, due to various factors such as the destruction of the Eighth Route Army and the lack of medical treatment and medicine, less than a hundred people survived in the end...

In the face of various evidences, the Japanese commander-in-chief in North China was forced to replace dozens of officials in Taiyuan, from the commander to the captains of various brigade. Therefore, for more than half a month, the entire Japanese army in Shanxi was in complete chaos.

There is no time to take care of the Jinyi base area which is slowly gathering strength.

In this way, half a month passed in a hurry. Without the harassment of the Japanese army, within half a month, the soldiers and civilians in the base area overcame the severe cold and completely replenished the vitality lost due to the Japanese army's winter encirclement and suppression. The entire base area is now thriving.

On this day, the base received its first heavy snowfall in 1939. It snowed all day and all night. Looking around, the entire headquarters and the surrounding mountain villages were completely covered by heavy snow.

In the entire base area, except for the main forces who are still insisting on training, basically no ordinary people or militiamen can be seen outside. It seems unusually deserted.

And in such weather, a reinforced Japanese squadron with almost doubled firepower, covered in white cloth, almost completely surrounded by white, was walking along a remote path, already covered with thick snow.

The trekkers in the base area seemed to have to put in a lot of effort every step they took.

If you don't observe closely, it would be difficult to find that there are hundreds of Japanese troops marching here. And looking at the marching direction of these Japanese troops, the target is pointed at Xiaoli Village, which is less than ten miles away from the edge of the base area.

And look at Xiaoli Village, which is less than 6 miles away from the Japanese army. Because of the snow and cold weather, the militiamen who were supposed to be out on guard were all huddled in their homes, except for a few in the village.

With the dogs constantly barking and the few wisps of smoke coming out of the village, it is difficult to imagine that there are actually a large number of ordinary people living in this village. It is obvious that the ordinary people of Xiaoli Village will die in the next few hours.

Pay a heavy price for their carelessness.

"Baga, it's really cold. My shoes seem to have water in them." Japanese captain Ono Jiro, who was walking in the middle of the team, looked at the vast white snow in front of him and listened to the cold wind in his ears.

, couldn’t help but complain.

"Your Excellency, squadron commander, why did the squadron commander order us to go out to perform missions in such cold weather? Doesn't he know that in such cold weather, we will freeze to death if we go out for a while?" The deputy captain next to him hurriedly

echoed.

"Hey, since we changed the captain, this captain is training us like crazy. I guess this is because he wants to try the results of his training!" Ono Jiro rubbed his hands and was about to freeze.

hands, and replied feebly.

"Squadron Captain, I heard that this time not only the captain of our brigade was replaced, but many captains of the entire Shanxi garrison, as well as the commander, were dismissed." After listening to Ono Jiro's words, the deputy captain told what he knew.

A little inside information was revealed.

"Well, there was such a big change in the officers, where did you get the news?" Ono Jiro immediately became interested.

"Hi, squadron leader, I heard this from one of my fellow countrymen. I have a fellow countryman who works in the staff department of the Taiyuan Command. Once he came down to perform a mission and told me while drinking with me." The deputy captain said.

He answered with pride, as if he was very proud of himself for knowing this.

"Well, that news should be very accurate. Do you know why?" Squadron Leader Ono Jiro's interest was finally aroused.

"Squadron Captain, I heard from my fellow countrymen, it's because in last year's battles, our Shanxi garrison failed to deploy troops against the Eighth Route Army's independent division. In addition, the Eighth Route Army once quietly broke through the Taiyuan city defenses and destroyed the Taiyuan Hospital.

All the medicines were snatched away and shipped out of Taiyuan City. Because of these few things, General Juichi Terauchi of the North China Headquarters was very angry, and then a series of dismissals took place..." The deputy captain said to the man in front of him without hesitation.

Squadron leader Ono Jiro showed off the gossip he knew.

"Well, in fact, this is not the fault of the captain and the commander. This can only be blamed on the Eighth Route Army being too cunning, and the Chinese people being too hateful." Squadron leader Ono Jiro glanced at the man next to him who was boasting with contempt.

The deputy captain said.

However, the deputy captain next to him didn't seem to see the contemptuous eyes of his captain. After listening to the squadron leader's words, he continued to show off.

"Your Excellency, squadron leader, I heard from my fellow countrymen that we are not the only reinforcement squadron that came out today." The deputy captain once again threw out a tempting bait. "Sure enough, I heard that the bait thrown by the deputy captain was related to this operation.

Squadron leader Ono Jiro was once again attracted by the deputy captain's words.

"Uh? Vice-captain, are there other troops? Is this a large-scale battle or battle plan arranged by the commanders?" the squadron leader asked.

"Yes, your Excellency, squadron leader, my fellow countryman, tell me, this is an action plan carefully planned by the newly appointed commander of the Taiyuan Command and the staff. I heard that this plan is for the guerrilla warfare of the Eighth Route Army. After some actual combat exercises,

This is a summary of our imperial army's own guerrilla warfare." The vice-captain replied proudly.

"Guerrilla warfare?" Although the squadron leader hated the deputy captain in front of him, he still couldn't restrain his curiosity and looked at the deputy captain with doubts.

"Yes, it is guerrilla warfare, according to my fellow villager. It means using the imperial army squadron with strengthened firepower as a unit to attack various villages in the Eighth Route Army base area, and then run away after the fight, destroying the construction of the Eighth Route Army base area. Moreover, I also heard that the above

The purpose is to kill all the strong men in the villages where the Eighth Route Army base area was attacked by us to prevent them from joining the Eighth Route Army and eventually becoming enemies of our imperial army." said the deputy captain.

"Well, kill all the strong men. The captain personally explained this to me. I understand. Guerrilla warfare is really a good method of warfare against the Eighth Route Army. This can not only eliminate the power of the Eighth Route Army and weaken their hidden strength, but also

It can also reduce the casualties of our imperial army. It is really a very good tactic!" Squadron Leader Ono Jiro sincerely praised.

"What the squadron leader said is very correct, but I can't figure out why the superiors want us to come out in such cold weather. Isn't it better to wait until the weather clears up?" the deputy captain still complained with a depressed face.

"Haha... This is also the focus of this tactic..." After learning that today's tactic was called guerrilla warfare, Ono Jiro couldn't help but feel relieved, and many doubts were solved.

"Does it mean that the squadron leader knows the reason? Can you please explain it to me..." Hearing that the deputy captain finally lowered his head, the squadron leader couldn't help but feel happy.

"Vice Captain, the tactics of guerrilla warfare are all about hit and run. If we encounter the Eighth Route Army's cavalry, can we run away? Don't forget that the Eighth Route Army has a very powerful cavalry unit." Squadron Leader Ono Jiro laughed.

He explained.

"I understand, Your Excellency, Squadron Leader, there is thick snow on the ground now. Even if the cavalry troops of the Eighth Route Army are dispatched, it will not have any effect. Moreover, if the cavalry troops of the Eighth Route Army are dispatched, their slow running speed will become

A living target of our excellent imperial army." The vice-captain showed a look of sudden realization.

"Yoshi, very good. This is one reason, and there is another important reason." Squadron leader Ono Jiro understood his thoughts instantly when he saw the deputy captain, and nodded approvingly.