Chapter 18 Ambush
After eating the dry food, the Wolf Warrior Squad continued their march.
But then we will march at normal speed.
In order to conceal his whereabouts, Wang Ye chose a remote mountain road.
At around 1:00 p.m., we finally arrived near .
By pulling aside the grass, you can see the Tiger Pavilion stronghold in the valley from afar.
The Huting stronghold is located at the crossroads of the highway from Yangquan County to Lingyang County. Its geographical location is very important. In the future, if the Japanese army attacks the Taihang base (Note 1), they will have to pass through the Huting stronghold.
It is for this reason that the Japanese army in Shanxi stationed heavy troops in the Huting stronghold.
According to intelligence, in addition to a reinforced squadron of Japanese troops stationed at the Huting stronghold, there was also a reinforced battalion of puppet troops, with a total force of more than 700 people.
Compared to a stronghold with only a hundred or even dozens of people,
The garrison at the Huting stronghold was indeed a heavy force.
After observing for a while, Wang Ye said again: "Xiao Wang, telescope!"
Wei Dayong learned his lesson this time and quickly handed over the telescope.
Wang Ye reached out and took the telescope, which he borrowed from Kong Jie.
The independent regiment now has only two telescopes seized from the Japanese army, one in the hands of Kong Jie and the other in the hands of the first battalion commander Guan Dashan.
This is a 13th-year model 6×24 telescope, which is a six-fold telescope.
Military handheld telescopes generally have a magnification between six and ten times. If the magnification is higher, a tripod is required, otherwise the image will shake violently and it will be impossible to see clearly.
Through the telescope, the Huting stronghold can be seen clearly.
You can even see the expressions on the faces of the Japanese invaders in the stronghold.
After observing for a while, Wang Ye put down the telescope again, turned around and shouted in a low voice: "Ace of Clubs."
Liu Dongtang, who was scribbling on a small notebook with a pencil, was stunned for a moment. Then he realized that Wang Ye was calling him, and quickly put away the pencil and notebook and crawled over.
Wang Ye asked: "What were you doing just now?"
"I didn't do anything." Liu Dongtang said with an awkward smile.
Wang Ye said: "I have seen it all, what are you painting?"
"I didn't draw anything." Liu Dongtang said, "I just drew it for fun."
Wang Ye said: "Since you like painting so much, I will give you a task."
Pointing to the Huting stronghold in front of him, Wang Ye said, "Draw the Huting stronghold. Draw out the watchtowers, bunkers, and houses in the stronghold."
Liu Dongtang leaned forward to take a look and said with a bitter face, "I can't see clearly."
"Here you go." Wang Ye handed the telescope over and said, "Remember, there must not be any mistakes, not even the shape of the trenches around."
Liu Dongtang replied solemnly: "Yes, I will ensure that the task is completed."
Wang Ye then beckoned Liu Dazhu and Wu Ming to come over and said, "King of Clubs, Jack of Clubs, you two stay here and be on guard."
"yes."
Liu Dazhu and Wu Mingdao.
Wang Ye led other War Wolves to bypass the Huting stronghold.
Heading south from the Huting stronghold, electric poles begin to appear along the road.
A wooden telephone pole with two copper-core telephone wires on it.
Wang Ye chose a valley about five kilometers away from the Huting stronghold, and then asked Li Sigen, who was the best at climbing trees, to climb up the electric pole and cut the telephone line.
For the Eighth Route Army, copper-core telephone lines are also valuable supplies.
Li Sigen led two War Wolfs from the same group and harvested telephone lines along the way.
Wang Ye, Wei Dayong and six other War Wolves set up an ambush on the side of the road, quietly waiting for the Japanese telephone soldiers to come and inspect the lines.
The Japanese army has strict regulations.
Each base must call the county town once every hour.
Therefore, within an hour at most, the Japanese in the Huting stronghold will discover that there is a problem with the telephone line, and they will then definitely send a telephone soldier to inspect the line.
Sure enough, about half an hour later, the sound of horses neighing suddenly came from the front.
Wang Xikui, who was in charge of the alert, immediately turned around and growled, "My lord, the devils are coming."
Wang Ye, who was resting with his eyes closed, opened his eyes immediately, but saw two Japanese soldiers riding on Japanese horses, trotting along the road, with a squad of puppet soldiers following behind the horses.
Normally, there were only two Japanese telephone soldiers inspecting the lines.
However, because the Huting stronghold was too deep in the Eighth Route Army's Taihang base and was vulnerable to attack by the Eighth Route Army, an additional squad of puppet troops was dispatched.
But for the Wolf Warrior Team, this is a piece of meat at their fingertips.
"Get ready for battle!" Wang Ye shouted in a low voice, pulled out a strip of cloth from the muzzle of the gun, pulled the bolt and pushed the bullet into the chamber.
Wei Dayong and the other seven War Wolves also took out the cloth strips that were blocking the muzzles of their guns, pulled the bolts to load the bullets, and aimed their guns at the Japanese and puppet troops in front of them.
Wang Ye added: "Listen carefully, don't beat the horses. Keep them for carrying supplies."
"Carrying supplies?" Wang Xikui asked, "Your Majesty, it's just a few rifles, do you really need horses to carry them?"
"You know nothing, kid." Wang Ye said, "The Japanese want to get rid of our Wolf Squad with just a few rifles? How can such a good thing happen?"
Wang Xikui remained silent.
Soon, the Japanese puppet troops came within the firing range.
However, Wang Ye did not rush to shoot, but waited until the Japanese and puppet troops entered within fifty meters.
"Shoot!" Wang Ye shouted in a low voice and pulled the trigger first. With a "bang", the Japanese soldier riding in front was shot in the middle of his eyebrows and fell off his horse.
Wei Dayong, Wang Xikui and seven other team members opened fire.
Eight Japanese soldiers and puppet troops fell down on the road in an instant.
A distance of fifty meters is simply a gift for these war wolves.
The remaining seven puppet soldiers were stunned in an instant and just stood there stupidly, not daring to run away.
It was not until Wang Ye and other war wolves rushed out from the roadside shouting "Surrender your guns and you will not be killed" that the seven puppet soldiers simply knelt on the ground and raised their rifles above their heads.
"We surrender!"
"Master Ba, we didn't do anything evil."
"Brothers, you just want to make a living, you can't do evil."
The seven puppet soldiers were so frightened that they trembled like a sieve and begged for mercy repeatedly.
Wang Ye walked up to a puppet soldier with the rank of sergeant and asked, "Are you the squad leader?"
"Yes, I am the squad leader." The squad leader of the puppet army kowtowed and begged for mercy, "But Master Ba, I really just want to make a living. I really have never fought against the Eighth Route Army, really not."
"Really not?" Wang Ye's eyes were as cold as a knife.
"Really not." The puppet army squad leader swore, "Absolutely not."
Wang Ye didn't say whether he believed it or not, and asked again: "What's your name?"
"My last name is Zhao Youcai," said the puppet army squad leader. "I used to work in the security corps."
"Zhao Youcai, right?" Wang Ye nodded, and then said, "Listen to me, if you don't want to be a traitor to the devil, you should shoot into the air when you see our Eighth Route Army in the future."
"Yes, yes, we will definitely shoot into the air."
Zhao Youcai said repeatedly: "We must fire into the sky."
While the two were talking, the battlefield had already been cleaned up.
A total of two Nambu-style pistols and fifteen Liao-XIII pistols were seized.
The Liao-13 rifle is the flagship product produced by the Shenyang Arsenal.
If Zhang Zuolin knew in his afterlife that the Shenyang Arsenal, which he had spent so much money to build, had ended up being taken advantage of by the Japanese, he would probably be so angry that he would come back to life and die again.
In addition, there are 14 rounds of 8mm caliber pistol bullets and more than 300 rounds of 7.92mm caliber Mauser rifle bullets.
Seeing that Zhao Youcai and other puppet soldiers were wearing cotton clothes, Wang Ye said again: "Take off your cotton clothes and trousers. Damn it, we Eighth Route Army soldiers are still wearing single clothes."
"Yes, yes, I'll take it off right away."
Several puppet soldiers quickly took off their cotton coats and trousers.
At this time, Wei Dayong also chased the two horses back.
Wang Ye asked Wei Dayong and his men to tie the guns, ammunition, and cotton-padded clothes and trousers stripped from the Japanese puppet soldiers to the horses' backs, and then he said to Zhao Youcai, "Go back and tell the Japanese at Huting that I thank them for their hospitality this time. I will come to see them again in a few days and ask them to prepare more weapons, ammunition, and cotton-padded clothes."
"Yes, yes, yes." Zhao Youcai said repeatedly, "I will definitely bring it to you."
"Brothers, let's go." Wang Ye waved his hand, turned around and left.
After Wang Ye and his men disappeared on the mountain road, several puppet soldiers turned around and ran.
Wang Ye and his men didn't actually go far. They stopped when they reached a place where they could no longer be seen by the puppet troops.
The puppet soldiers couldn't see them, but they could see the puppet soldiers through the gaps between the branches.
Seeing Zhao Youcai fleeing in panic with several puppet soldiers, Wei Dayong asked, "My lord, why don't you kill them?"
Wang Ye made up a story: "Chairman Mao said that if we want to win the Anti-Japanese War, we must make our friendly forces more numerous and our enemies less numerous, so we can't just kill the puppet army with one blow."
"We should do our best to win over the puppet troops who are worth winning over."
"In this way, our strength will gradually grow, and the enemy's strength will weaken."
A few war wolves didn't understand, but that didn't stop them from looking at Wang Ye with admiration.
Wang Ye said again: "Alright, why am I telling you all this? Hurry up and check your equipment and prepare for battle."
"Fighting?" Wei Dayong asked in astonishment, "My lord, didn't the battle just end?"
"It's over?" Wang Ye said, "Fool, the battle has just begun."
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Note 1: The division of base areas in the TV series "Drawing Sword" is inconsistent with historical facts. The historical Taihang base was south of the Zhengtai Road and east of the Baijin Line, but the Taihang base in the TV series is north of the Zhengtai Road. This book refers not to historical facts but to the division in the TV series, so the independent regiment's defense area is also north of the Zhengtai Road and is part of northwest Shanxi.
