under fire

Chapter 353 Bandits
The cottage is located on the north side of a road slanting from east to west into the mountain. The hill where it is located is not very high. In fact, it is a high point of a small mountain range that is basically parallel to the road, continuous and undulating.

The road to the west of the mountain winds along the foot of the mountain into the depths of the mountain. There are two roads to the north and south of the mountain village. The village is surrounded by almost disconnected first-level small cliffs. It is not high or steep, but it is surrounded by bushes and thorns. Overgrown and impassable.

It's not difficult to open a new path through the thorn bushes, but there must be a lot of noise, and people in the cottage will definitely find out, and a sneak attack is impossible.

A team of thirty or so people walked from east to west on the dark mountain ridge under the starlight, bypassing a village two miles southeast of the cottage, south of the main road.

It was not the first time for Yang Deshi to lead a team. He and Hao Ping once led a team to play in Xinglong Town. Although the results were not very good each time, he had actually seen many big scenes.

There were scouts leading the way, and when the troops were about to reach the stronghold, they divided up. Captain Liu led his men along the narrow path to the back mountain, outflanking the front and back.

It was agreed that the attack would be launched in one hour, but no one knew how long the hour would be.

Yang Deshi was a little nervous, carefully thinking according to his previous post-war conclusions in the Independence Regiment, but found that he didn't seem to need any of the experience of winning two consecutive battles and nine consecutive battles.

The Second Company and the Ninth Company have fought artillery towers and ambushes many times, but the summary of each battle experience in the regiment gives people the feeling that they are all blind cats and dead rats. Getting information about the ambush in advance has nothing to learn from the immediate action.

I always feel that there is something that has not been considered thoroughly, so I don’t worry. Sun Tzu went through the 36 tactics of the Art of War from the beginning, as if he couldn’t remember everything. After thinking about the battle from the beginning to the end, he suddenly realized that the pre-war reconnaissance seems to be not in place!
Seeing that the battle was about to start, the enemy's strength, firepower layout, terrain, etc. were not clear at all. More importantly, the battle was not reported to the superior.

As the head of a county, should I report it before taking action?But the security team just went out of the mountain for dozens of days today, and there must not be many people left. If they really report it, they will come and go again and again, and the chance will be gone.

Sudden hesitation, Captain Liu had already left with his people, and he must not change the order overnight, as that would reduce the prestige of the commander.

In the past, when the surnamed Hu and the surnamed Gao had a battle, did they report to the regiment?Is it different?

As soon as he gritted his teeth, the arrow is on the string now, and he can't allow him to hesitate any longer.

Right now, the troops had reached the entrance to the mountain not far from the cottage where the security regiment was stationed, and everyone was crawling on a small hill surrounded by bushes, waiting.

A further mile forward is where the scouts found the security regiment sentinel at the foot of the hill.

Yang Deshi didn't really have any special purpose in attacking this cottage, but because when he first arrived here, most of the villages were in the plains, and there wasn't even a decent resident.

If they were stationed on the plains, all the hard work of the devils would be over with one raid and encirclement.

Captain Liu is already familiar with this place. The afternoon's reconnaissance combined with the previous situation, the location here is very good, with the East Taihang Mountains at its back, and if something happens, the personnel can retreat directly into the mountains.

It is of course more practical and safer to place the garrison here, even if the devils make a large-scale invasion, they will have more than enough to advance and retreat.

Moreover, this location is dangerous, and it may be one of the entrances of the devil's advancing team into the mountain, but if it is firmly secured, it will also provide convenience for the head of the headquarters to enter and exit the plain eastward.

"The four of you go up first, and get rid of the light and dark posts of the two security groups. However, you must be careful not to make any noise." Yang Deshi no longer hesitated.

The two warriors were in front of the waist, followed by Yang Deshi and his men, followed by six or seven people towards the foot of the mountain.

The sentinel of the security regiment was on and off, and the scout of the district team was unambiguous. The man stabbed Anshao's abdomen with a bayonet, and the pain caused the sentry to groan in his nasal cavity, and his muscles contracted and struggled to resist.

The soldier drew out his bayonet and stabbed it in again. This knife pierced the chest from the upper abdomen and pierced the heart.

The movement made was not small.

A vigilant voice came from the roadside hut: "What are you doing there?"

A soldier lowered his voice: "Never mind your business!"

The people in the hut heard that the voice was not quite right, so they went out and whistled upwards with their guns in their hands: "Why is your voice not right?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he was pulled by his legs and fell to the ground by several soldiers who rushed forward quickly. The sentry subconsciously pulled the trigger, but forgot that the bullet was not loaded.

The sentry was covered with his mouth, still struggling and moaning in pain on the ground. Finally, through the light from the hut, he saw five or six people coming to the intersection. A man with a bloody bayonet ran over from the sentry position. The soldiers of the security regiment wisely gave up struggling.

Yang Deshi looked at the soldiers around him, turned his eyes to the faces of the sentries, and saw endless fear.

This made him feel a sense of excitement in his heart. Ever since he left the independent regiment, he thought he would never have a chance to fight again. Unexpectedly, he encountered such a good thing just a few days after he came out.

The point is, all of this is under his control.

The soldiers behind all followed, none of them made a sound, they were all waiting for Yang Deshi to give them instructions on the next step.

The next task must be to go up the mountain. Don't think about the reason for stopping here, it is to find out the strength of the troops on the mountain from the sentinel.

The scout stepped forward and scratched the sentry's neck a few times with the bayonet: "You'd better be honest. If you want to shout, I have no problem. Of course, if you don't tell the truth, your mother will never see tomorrow Sun, you better think clearly! Tell me, who is the leader on your mountain?"

The way the Scout asked the question was clearly experienced, but he already knew the answer.

The hand covering the sentry's mouth was released, but the sentry didn't shout, his heart was beating violently: "It's Gou Commander Gou."

In fact, even if you shout, the mountain and the village are so far away, you may not be able to hear it.

"How many people were there before? How many people left today?" The scout's question was mixed with some information he knew, so he was not afraid that this guy would lie.

"There used to be a battalion on the mountain. Today, a reinforced platoon has left. There are more than 60 or 100 brothers in the mountain, and more than [-] brothers are stationed in the village to the east." The sentinel replied honestly.

"One battalion? Uh, how many sentries are there on the way up the mountain?" The scout was taken aback. He didn't ask if there were any sentries on the way up the mountain, but asked how many more.

"There is one at the place where you enter the stockade, but there is no one on the road."

"How is the firepower situation on the mountain? We already knew about it. We just want to check with you. Be honest, do you understand?"

"Small sentences are true."

Yang Deshi was a little confused, a battalion, isn't this nonsense, and a fart!There are only fifty or sixty troops on the mountain?Three machine guns? .
This made him feel a little nervous. The bandits in the cottage now have about the same strength as the small ones, but he is the main attacker and only has two machine guns. One of them was sent by the Ninth Company, and the other was used to ambush the devils. Yes, the key problem is that there are no professional machine gunners in the team.

There is still a company of bandits in the village over there. Such a situation makes the prospect of the battle not optimistic.

The information that the sentinel kept giving mentioned that there was a gate in the cottage. If the whereabouts were exposed, it would be difficult to attack from the bottom up.

Fortunately, the bandits' combat effectiveness is not very good, otherwise they would not dare to get close to fight, and they would have to go back home.

The scout missed a fatal question. He didn't think to ask the sentinel about the origins of this group of "bandits"!

A group of people dressed as guerrillas consciously circled more than half a circle ten meters away, watching the county magistrate in a daze.

Now, the county magistrate raised his head, which meant that he was about to give an order. Everyone at the scene was excited, and the audience at the foot of the mountain burst into an eager desire to fight.

"I order to leave the two soldiers here on guard, and they divide into two echelons and immediately head to the mountain!"

The magistrate's order was short and bold.

Not bad, dare to fight more with less!It's a man.

"Then should we find a way to get into the cottage first or start fighting directly?" the deputy captain of the district team asked quickly.

"Of course, we must first find a way to sneak into the cottage!" Yang Deshi was taken aback, and gave an order in embarrassment, with displeasure in his voice: "Does this need to be said?"

"Uh, well, if we can touch it in, should we do it first or wait until there is movement from the back mountain?" The vice-captain couldn't help asking again.

"Of course we send people in first. It would be best if we can take down the cottage without bloodshed. In that case, Captain Liu and the others don't have to do anything, understand?"

Facing the pressure from the county magistrate's gaze, the deputy captain swallowed back what he had to say, silently took two steps back, turned around and ordered: "Second class, everyone is there, follow me!"

Yang Deshi withdrew his gaze and touched the pistol on his waist. This time he did not advance with the first echelon because he had to command the larger rear team.

(End of this chapter)