Anti-Japanese War: Starting from Yaobai

Chapter 2197 Return of Dragon Boat Festival!

Duanwu brought his men back to the mountain village, where Tang Jiujiu, Wan Shanhong and others were waiting.

Duanwu, Long Qianyan, Ma Shangpao and others were the rear guards, but they had not returned for a long time, and the women were very worried.

At this time, Long Qianyan and Ma Sanpao were fine. Although there was a strong smell of gunpowder on their bodies, they were not injured.

But Duanwu was different. His face, arms, and legs were covered with wounds. There were several big holes in his Japanese military uniform. He looked like a little bloody man.

Seeing this, Tang Jiujiu stepped forward and asked distressedly: "Duanwu, what happened to you? Are you okay?"

Duanwu looked at Tang Jiujiu's nervous expression and couldn't help but smile and comforted her: "It's okay, these are just minor injuries, just scraped in the woods. Look, I'm fine."

As he said this, Duanwu turned around for Tang Jiujiu to see.

Seeing that Duanwu was indeed fine, Tang Jiujiu felt a little relieved. She hurried to fetch some clean water and carefully wiped Duanwu's wound.

But Duanwu had no time to enjoy this tenderness at this time. He just asked Tang Jiujiu to clean the wound hastily, and then went to have a meeting with Ma Pingan, Long Qianyan, Ma Sanpao and others.

After everyone gathered, Duanwu immediately got down to business. He asked in detail about the condition of the wounded, as well as the guerrillas' current strength and ammunition status.

Ma Ping'an's answer was not optimistic. In the battle of Dashanwan, the guerrillas suffered more than 50 casualties, plus the previous casualties, the total number was nearly 100.

As for weapons and ammunition, there were plenty of rifle bullets, less than 5,000 machine gun bullets, about 200 grenades, and only 10 mortar shells. The guerrillas had less than 200 men still able to fight.

Duanwu was silent for a while, then smiled warmly and said, "Not bad, much better than I thought."

Everyone laughed along, but their faces were somewhat bitter. Although they had killed ten times more Japanese soldiers in successive battles, the loss of troops still made every guerrilla cadre feel uneasy.

  Seeing this, Duanwu had to change the subject and said:

"The Japanese will catch up with us soon. We have two things to do now. First, transfer the wounded to a safer place. The rest of us will have to deal with the enemy in the Valley of Evil.

I guess the next battle may be very difficult.

Because the strategic depth within the Valley of Evil is less than one hundred square kilometers, if converted into a square, it would be ten kilometers by ten kilometers.

For guerrilla warfare, this strategic depth is indeed too little. So I ask everyone to be mentally prepared here. "

After hearing what Duanwu said, everyone's expressions became serious again.

  However, at this moment, Duanwu said:

"However, there is no need to worry too much. The number of the Japanese devils is not as large as imagined. We have also seen that there are only more than 2,000 of them. Do they dare to spread out after entering the Valley of Evil? If they dare to spread out, then I can eat them up one by one. So there is no need to worry too much!"

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Everyone was speechless at this moment, thinking: "Leader Ye, Leader Ye? You are the only one who can say everything, so which one should we listen to?"

Duanwu let out a long sigh. In fact, he was a little tired. But what he said was not contradictory.

First of all, we emphasize the fact that the Japanese troops are approaching, and tell everyone that the future battles may be difficult. This is a reminder to everyone so that everyone can be mentally prepared.

But we can't always let the people present feel depressed, we have to give them hope, so Duanwu said, although our strategic depth is small, the devils are few. They only have more than 2,000 people, if they dare to disperse their forces, we can eat them up one by one.

Of course, simply boosting morale is not enough, because the Japs still have to be fought. If they cannot eliminate or repel this group of Japs, it will be difficult for them to escape from the Valley of Evil.

The Valley of the Evil is a dead valley surrounded by cliffs.

Duanwu had asked Long Qianyan and Ma Sanpao, but the two were not very familiar with the Evil Valley. They only heard from nearby villagers that there was no other exit in the Evil Valley except for one.

But Duanwu believes that no matter how steep the cliff is, it is possible to climb it.

What's more, the area in the Evil Valley is nearly 100 square kilometers. So there is no other way to go except for one exit in the Evil Valley, and Duanwu doesn't quite believe it.

But he didn't have time to investigate one by one. After all, if you want to walk around the Valley of Evil, it is a hundred kilometers. You will never reach the end without walking for several days.

But Duanwu still wanted to give it a try, so he asked Ma Sanpao to find four local people, two people in each group, and search along the cliff to both sides from the exit of the Valley of Evil, looking for other exits.

If the battle goes against their will, they can evacuate urgently from this exit.

And especially the wounded, they must be evacuated first.

And this time the Japanese attack also gave Duanwu an opportunity, which was to take the Chunjianghao guerrillas to leave the Liaoning Peninsula and go further north to find a place with sufficient strategic depth to fight the Japanese.

Otherwise, the Chunjiang guerrillas could be wiped out in a matter of seconds as long as the Japanese could react.

Just imagine, if Duanwu had not arrived at Lushunkou in time, the Chunjiang Guerrillas would probably have ceased to exist by now.

Therefore, the next step for Duanwu is to take the Chunjianghao guerrillas away.

But there was also a problem here, that is, many guerrillas lived near Lushunkou, and they might not be willing to follow Duanwu.

Although they moved to Jilin and even Heilongjiang to fight the Japanese invaders, some people were stubborn and wanted to stay in their hometown to fight the Japanese invaders, and no one could do anything about it.

But this time, the Japanese gave Duanwu a good reason. The Japanese troops were approaching and they had to leave, just like the Fourth Army.

So when Duanwu sent people to explore the way, no one objected, and everyone expressed their agreement.

This matter came to an end. After Ma Sanpao found his men and came back, Duanwu and others continued to study tactics and how to inflict a heavy blow to the Japanese in the Valley of Evil.

Of course, it would be great if we could eliminate the Japanese.

But this is not realistic. Even if the Japanese soldiers are all pigs, it will take you a certain amount of time to kill them one by one.

What's more, the Japanese are not pigs and they are well-trained.

But the most important thing is that the firepower of the Chunjianghao guerrillas is limited, and they cannot cause huge casualties to the Japanese in a short period of time like before the Dragon Boat Festival.

Of course, wars at that time really wasted bullets. A normal small battle would often consume thousands or even tens of thousands of pistol bullets.

So in this battle, Duanwu put survival first, and annihilating the Japanese invaders second.

Long Qianyan unfolded the map of Evil Valley, which was a very old map.

This map was originally used by bandits and was drawn very simply, but it shows the topography of the Valley of Evil at a glance.

Long Qianyan pointed to a mountain at the entrance of the Valley of Evil and said, "We have already planted some mines for the Japanese here, and then used a small force to harass the Japanese on the mountain. But I don't think this will hold the Japanese back for long. The Japanese have artillery and plenty of ammunition. As soon as their artillery fires, our people will have to withdraw."

Duanwu nodded, because he was the one who formulated this harassment tactic, in order to delay the attack of the Japanese and give the wounded in the village enough time to evacuate.

At this time, Long Qianyan continued, "The next thing is our current mountain stronghold. This mountain stronghold cannot be defended. First, the Japanese have artillery, and the mountain stronghold cannot withstand the Japanese artillery fire. And second, the Japanese have snipers. Ma Sanpao and I have been attacked by Japanese snipers in the mountain stronghold before.

"As long as the Japanese snipers lie on the mountain, we can't even get out of the village. So I suggest giving up the village. Leader Ye, do you think this is okay?"

As he said that, Long Qianyan looked at Duanwu. Duanwu nodded and said, "Well, let's give this village to the Japanese first, but we have to leave something for them. We can't let them live here so comfortably."

"Hahaha!"

  Everyone laughed because they all understood the meaning of Dragon Boat Festival!

(End of this chapter)