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Zheng Chengkui's troops scattered in three different attack positions on the left, middle and right occupy favorable terrain on the hillsides on three sides, forming a font-shaped encirclement of the Japanese and puppet troops entering the village.

The third point that Koji Ikeda did not expect was that Zheng Chengkui had already set up a pocket array, and he trusted too much in the bombing of the Imperial Japanese aircraft, which directly led to him making a fatal mistake.

Zhao Yong could see from the telescope that the mortar shells fell into the Japanese and puppet army and exploded. Almost every time the shells fell, they would overturn several people. The Japanese and puppet army was in chaos and fled around to avoid the shells of the mortars that kept whistling down from the sky.

However, Koji Ikeda's mountain artillery team and mortars could not find the target for attack. There were no other attack points in the middle of the mountain except for the mortars firing downwards. So the Japanese mountain artillery and mortars began to fire at Pan Guangzu and his place. Because it was at night, it was fired from bottom to top, and the lethality was naturally greatly reduced. Moreover, Pan Guangzu's mortar team was scattered at the entrances of various caves on the hillside, and they were not concentrated together. The protruding rocks and trees somewhat blocked some of the shells fired from the bottom of the mountain, so it did not pose much threat to Pan Guangzu and his mortar team.

More than ten minutes later, after the mortar fired the last shell, Zheng Chengkui immediately fired a signal flare into the sky.

When Koji Ikeda saw the signal flare rising, he was shocked. He knew something was wrong. He had not had time to order the troops rushing into the mountain village to retreat. He saw three sides, shouts of killing sounded throughout the night sky. The roar of machine guns mixed with the shouts of killing. Countless red-glowing bullets flew down from three sides of the hillside like locusts. The trees and houses burned after being bombed illuminated the target of attack for Zheng Chengkui and the others. The Japanese and puppet troops turned to see where the specific location of the other party was.

After a violent strafing, the charge horn sounded. Although many of the newly formed troops did not have decent weapons, and most of them waved machetes with locals, they were once captured by the Japanese army and suffered inhuman torture. They had already been full of anger. At this moment, they all vented their anger and rushed down the hillside and rushed towards the Japanese and puppet troops. Those who did not have rifles slashed with machetes, and those who had rifles fought with the Japanese and puppet troops.

The Japanese and puppet troops who were stunned were frightened by the arrogance of killing, especially those puppet troops, who ran faster than rabbits. Most of them were shaking in their hearts. Most of them were greedy and afraid of death. Otherwise, they would not surrender to the Japanese devils. Although they were once the officers and soldiers, they had fought the Japanese devils side by side with those who rushed down the hillside at this moment, but after surrendering to the Japanese devils, they became even more timid than before, because they were guilty.

The puppet army retreated in all directions, which attracted the strafing of Japanese military commander guns. They worked hard for the Japanese devils. Some of them were shot dead by the Japanese devils, and eventually died at the guns of the Japanese devils. Those who were not dead knelt on the ground and surrendered with their guns. It seemed that surrender had become their best skill. If they had known today, why would they have been there?

Zhao Yong's main attack platoon was more well-equipped than the Japanese devils. They all fought against ten with one and were extremely brave. They rushed in the front, shooting guns and slashing, like wolves and flocks of sheep.

Such close combat was a tactic formulated by Dong Limao. There are two main reasons: one is that Zheng Chengkui's troops lacked guns and ammunition, and they could not confront the Japanese and puppet troops for a long time. If the battle drags on for too long, it will be unfavorable to Zheng Chengkui and the others; the other is that rushing into the enemy formation can prevent the Japanese artillery attack. If the enemy's artillery fire will lose its effect.

This is called quick battle and quick decision, overwhelming the enemy with momentum.

Those who held machetes and had no guns, Zheng Chengkui agreed to them in advance that as long as they were snatched from the enemy, they would belong to them. Therefore, these soldiers without guns were eager to seize a hand-to-hand gun in this battle. After chopping down the enemy, they immediately picked up the opponent's gun and shot at other Japanese soldiers. Only half of the soldiers had guns in their hands, but as the time of close combat went on, the Imperial Army surrendered the guns and was also snatched by the unsnatched soldiers. More and more people had guns on Zheng Chengkui, and hundreds of guns were added at one time, and one was rising and the other was getting worse, but the Japanese and puppet troops gradually decreased.

The so-called defeat was like a mountain of defeat, and the retreating Japanese army also affected the reserve team and the supervisors behind them, and fled to the mountain village.

Zheng Chengkui and Zhao Yong did not expect that they would defeat the Japanese and puppet troops so easily. They temporarily changed their plans and led more than 2,000 people from the parody, and rushed forward to chase the defeated soldiers.

Zheng Chengkui dared to change his plan because he obtained information about the changes in the enemy situation in advance.

The reconnaissance platoon led by Liu Yudong was scattered in the mountains along the Tenglong Highway. When Sakaguchi led a large army toward Longling City, he promptly told Zheng Chengkui and Dong Limao the news on a wireless walkie-talkie.

After receiving Liu Yudong's information, Zheng Chengkui discussed with Zhao Yong.

"Deputy Company Commander Zhao, since the large Japanese and puppet troops have evacuated, we might as well concentrate our forces and beat the Japanese up." Zheng Chengkui told Zhao Yong.

Zhao Yong thought about it and thought it was feasible: "Do you need to say something to the company commander? In this case, we will arrive in Songshan later."

"What if Jiacheng doesn't understand the situation here and doesn't agree? I think it's better not to tell him." Zheng Chengkui said unhappily.

Zhao Yong was silent for a while and said, "Let's do it this way. Let's look at the counterattack. After the battle begins, if you can gain an absolute advantage, you will do it according to Captain Zheng's idea. If the fight is difficult, then we will implement it according to the scheduled plan."

"Okay! That's it!" Zheng Chengkui nodded and replied.

As Zheng Chengkui expected, the Japanese and puppet troops seemed to be very bad at night battles. As soon as they fought, they fled down the mountain. Therefore, this battle completely changed Dong Limao's pre-plan. Zheng Chengkui and Zhao Yong led their troops to chase them relentlessly and chased them all the way. Until the second midnight, they almost drove the Japanese and puppet troops into Tengchong City, they retreated and temporarily changed the marching route, not from the north to Songshan, but from the west to the east, of course they walked in the mountains.

After Dong Limao rescued the machine gun platoon, he took two platoons to the pre-planned assembly site. In a valley north of Songshan, the broken corpses of the bald horse were buried before dawn.

Dong Limao and Zheng Chengkui contacted each other on the radio and knew that they had won a great victory in the counterattack in the village, and told all the soldiers about the news. Everyone was inspired when they heard the news. It seemed that the fatigue had disappeared overnight, and they talked about the victory of this anti-sweeping campaign with relish.

Only Dong Limao felt worried. Although he won the victory by chance this time, the days ahead would not be so easy, and the Japanese devils would never make a second mistake.

According to the original plan, after Zheng Chengkui and his troops arrived in the Songshan area, they would attack the Japanese and puppet troops stationed on the riverside.

Li Dequan asked Dong Limao: "Company Commander Dong, is it time for us to attack the enemy by the river next?"

"No!" Dong Limao shook his head.

"Why?" Li Dequan asked in confusion: "We should strike while the iron is hot and fight again in one go."

"The Japanese have sent more defenders to the riverside. If we attack the Japanese army by the river at this time, the Japanese and puppet troops who retreated from the direction of the mountain village will surround us at the foot of the river in the east of Songshan. They are mechanized troops and have quick defense adjustments. If we run by just two legs, we will eventually be dragged down by the Japanese army." Dong Limao said.

"Then what should we do next?" Li Dequan asked.

"Wait." Dong Limao replied: "We need to find a safe place to rest and wait for the next opportunity."

"But Captain Zheng and the others have already led the large army here." Li Dequan opened his eyes wide, not understanding why Dong Limao stopped attacking the Japanese and puppet troops when the situation was in great shape.

Songshan is originally part of the Gaoligong Mountain Range. The continuous Gaoligong Mountain has high mountains and vast areas, sparsely populated areas and canyons. It is not difficult to find a temporary habitat in such mountains, but it is a big problem to find a place that can accommodate two or three thousand people.

Dong Limao told Li Dequan: "We are almost exhausted at present. If we continue to fight with the enemy, without support and supplies, we will only have a dead end. Moreover, the brothers cannot fight in a long and busy day and night. We can only disperse and save our strength, and wait until we find a suitable opportunity."

After hearing Dong Limao's words, Li Dequan felt something was right and stopped talking about anything.

But Zheng Chengkui didn't think so. After winning the victory of the counterfeiting of the village, he was full of energy and had long forgotten the lesson of the failure to rob grain. After meeting with Dong Limao and the others the next day, he listened to Dong Limao's opinions, which made Zheng Chengkui feel that Dong Limao was timid and first raised an objection.

"Jiacheng, now our morale is high, why don't we take the opportunity to destroy some more Japanese and hide?" Zheng Chengkui questioned Dong Limao in front of the officer attending the meeting. Although his tone was quite restrained, the words obviously made people hear that Dong Limao was hiding from the Japanese army.

Dong Limao smiled and replied: "We are not hiding, but resting and looking for fighter jets. Think about it, we are dealing with the Japanese and puppet troops behind enemy lines. They have sufficient ammunition and food supplies, but we are fighting alone, not to mention that the Japanese and puppet troops are dozens of times stronger than us. If we fight hard with them, we will suffer the loss. The Japanese army would rather we fight head-on."

"But at least, it's not too late for us to rest after fighting the Japanese on the riverside. Why give up our original plan? Now we just need to approach the riverside quietly and eat up a large group of Japanese and puppet troops guarding there..." Zheng Chengkui said naively.

Dong Limao interrupted him: "Captain Zheng, how do you know that there is only one brigade of Japanese and puppet troops by the river? As far as I know, last night, a brigade of Japanese and puppet troops from Longling City came out to rescue Songshan Fortress and a brigade of Japanese and puppet troops from the riverside have arrived, which shows that the Japanese army has realized that the riverside may become our next target of attack."
Chapter completed!