Devil's Army

Chapter 1162: Ambush the Japanese Army at the Nanzhang Village Crossroad

Finally, the exhausted Japanese and puppet troops stopped pursuing the guerrillas and continued to move towards Nanzhang Village.

Nanzhang Village is a relatively large village with more than 500 villagers.

This time they not only wanted to collect food, but also wanted to vent their anger.

Who knew that just as they gave up chasing the guerrillas, the guerrillas chased them instead, kept shooting at them, and killed several imperial soldiers.

The captain immediately sent a telegram to his superiors, requesting reinforcements to encircle and suppress the guerrillas.

After receiving the squad leader's telegram for help, the Japanese commander in Qinglong County immediately arranged a squadron with more than 100 puppet troops to come for reinforcement.

Captain Gao and his men were still walking their dogs, and the squad leader and his men had been attacking them, so they immediately retreated. When this squad of Japanese and puppet troops stopped attacking, they also stopped retreating.

This time the team leader was not in a hurry to retreat. He would wait for their reinforcements to arrive from all sides, and it would be just a matter of time before this guerrilla team was wiped out.

The reinforcements of the Japanese and puppet troops arrived at the intersection with two small mountain cannons. They left a small team of Japanese soldiers to guard the cannons, while the others got off the car and quietly entered the woods, trying to surround the guerrillas from the side.

Upon seeing this, a battalion commander arranged for a squad leader to take his men to eliminate the Japanese squad at the intersection, while the others prepared to take action.

When the reinforcements of the Japanese and puppet troops quietly entered the ambush circle of the battalion commander, the battalion commander fired his gun, followed by fierce gunfire all around.

The squadron leader did not expect them to attack him, but was attacked instead. He hurriedly organized a counterattack. However, the soldiers who attacked them were well-trained and well-armed, and were obviously not simple guerrillas. He quickly asked the commander in Qinglong County for help.

The Japanese captain in the county town was overwhelmed when he received the telegram for help.

They had just sent a squadron and more than 100 puppet troops, and now they were surrounded again? And from the description of the squadron leader, the troops that surrounded them this time were most likely the devil troops from Kuancheng County next door.

They had always been on guard against the devil troops from Tangshan, but they didn't expect that they would come from Kuancheng County this time.

The captain left a small team of Japanese troops and more than 100 puppet troops to guard Qinglong County, and personally led the other troops to attack at full speed with artillery.

While the battalion commander began to annihilate this group of Japanese and puppet troops, the squad leader also launched an attack on the Japanese troops guarding the cannon.

Because the incident happened suddenly, the Japanese squad guarding the cannon was caught off guard.

Although the Japanese soldiers of the squad fought desperately under the leadership of the sergeant, they were still eliminated one after another under the accurate shooting of the squad leader and his men.

After destroying the Japanese squad that was guarding the two small mountain guns, a squad leader pulled the small mountain guns into the woods, leaving a few soldiers who knew a little about guns to point the guns in the direction of the reinforcements coming from Qinglong County. The other soldiers stood guard in front.

At this time, the battle in the woods had turned into a fierce battle.

There were constant sounds of gunfire and grenade explosions in the woods.

The mortars brought by the battalion commander kept bombarding the Japanese troops in the encirclement.

The Japanese squad leader who requested reinforcements also heard the fierce gunfire in the woods and hurriedly led his team to reinforce, but was counterattacked by the soldiers of the first battalion.

Captain Gao also led more than 80 guerrillas to continuously attack this small group of Japanese and puppet troops from the side.

After an hour of fierce fighting, the gunfire in the woods gradually became sparse.

The battalion commander freed up his hands and arranged a company to outflank the Japanese reinforcement team. But at this time, the sound of a small mountain artillery explosion was heard at the intersection.

The battalion commander learned that the Japanese troops in Qinglong County had sent reinforcements.

In order to avoid fighting on three fronts, he ordered the company to attack at full speed and quickly eliminate the Japanese reinforcement squad.

After more than ten minutes of fierce fighting, the Japanese reinforcement squad and the puppet troops were completely wiped out by the First Company of the First Battalion and Captain Gao's guerrillas who surrounded them.

The battalion commander did not ask the first company to participate in the encirclement and annihilation of the squadron of Japanese and puppet troops in the encirclement, but ordered them to quickly reinforce the squad of soldiers at the intersection.

When a group of soldiers lying in ambush in the woods at the intersection saw Huang Chengcheng coming to support the Japanese and puppet troops, the first thing they did was to aim their small mountain cannons at the cannons of the Japanese reinforcements.

The Japanese artillery posed the greatest threat to them. If they destroyed his artillery, the rest would be easy.

The captain, who had reached the intersection, heard gunshots and grenade explosions in the woods and hurriedly urged his troops to move forward faster. Unexpectedly, they were suddenly bombarded.

The squad leader did not expect that his mediocre soldiers could hit the Japanese artillery with one firing.

The captain didn't know how many soldiers from the devil's army were hiding in the woods, so he called a platoon of puppet soldiers to attack the grove.

When this platoon of puppet soldiers entered the grove, they were fired upon fiercely by the squad leader and his men.

The captain knew at this time that there were only more than a dozen soldiers from the Devil's Army in the woods, and he immediately ordered a small team of Japanese troops to press forward.

The squad leader relied on trees, hills and other terrain to stubbornly block the attack of more than 100 Japanese and puppet troops. But the pressure was so great that he even thought of blowing up the small mountain artillery.