The war of resistance against mountains is heavy

Chapter 1987 Night Battle
"Boom" the Japanese army fired flares again, and this time they fired the flares onto the southern slope of Wujiaopo.

Then the gently sloping mountain road became clearly visible, and all the killed Japanese and puppet soldiers appeared in the sight of the Japanese soldiers at the foot of the mountain.

The Japanese captain, hiding in the darkness, examined the corpses through the slowly moving telescope. Only he knew how bad his expression looked.

He is also a veteran, of course, according to Chinese officers and soldiers he is an old devil.

As a veteran, he had also seen mountains of corpses and seas of blood. He was just shocked that such a small Chinese army could cause such heavy losses to their Imperial Japanese Army.

By now he has investigated clearly that the Chinese army of about thirty or forty people that they wiped out was actually just a group of Eighth Route Army soldiers, and there were only six Chinese veterans in it, led by Shang Zhen!

Six veterans of the Chinese army, along with dozens of local guerrillas, actually killed hundreds of soldiers from his squadron. He dared to guarantee that this was a unique event in his military career!
Therefore, his attention to Shang Zhen has now increased to an unprecedented level.

After all, the flare was not the sun. It moved slowly across the sky and gradually reached the top of the mountain from the sky above the southern slope.

At this moment, the Japanese captain put down the telescope in his hand and waved his hand. Twenty or so Japanese soldiers holding rifles went up the mountain along the mountain road.

The flares have reached the top of the mountain, and the light will become dimmer as you get closer to the foot of the mountain.

But even so, these twenty or so Japanese soldiers did not rush to attack, but moved forward slowly under the cover of rocks, leaving a large gap between them.

And when they reached the mountain road, they regarded the corpses on the road as natural cover. Those who quickly stepped over the corpses would always be covered by people with guns behind them.

The Japanese soldiers did not take the blood left by the dead bodies, which had already begun to coagulate, seriously at all, as if they were just fighting a battle in the mud and water. They were also veterans of the Japanese army.

"***" The Japanese captain gave the order again. With his order, gunfire like a storm rang out.

This included a heavy machine gun in the distance and six light machine guns not far from the foot of the mountain. And because combat machine guns in the dark used tracer bullets to indicate targets, the blazing white light and the red lines of flying bullets directly weaved a huge firepower network.

As the Japanese army's firepower unfolded, the south side of the top of Wujiaopo Mountain, which had originally looked very clear, became foggy.

Where did the fog come from when the sky was clear? It was just the dense bullets fired by the Japanese army that made the top of the mountain dusty!

But it was not over yet. Immediately following the gunfire, there were "boom" and "boom" sounds of artillery fire. This time, it was the Japanese soldiers at the foot of the mountain who used grenade launchers to directly fire grenades at the mountain.

Amid the "boom" and "boom" sounds of the explosions, the original "fog" became thicker, and a sandstorm arose!

At this time, the twenty or so Japanese soldiers who had attacked the mountain road accelerated their pace.

At the same time, at the foot of the mountain, dozens of Japanese soldiers rushed towards the mountain road with rifles, intending to take Wujiaopo in one fell swoop!

All principles are connected. Perhaps this Japanese captain was not well versed in Chinese studies, and he did not know the saying "Don't act rashly, but strike with thunder when you act", but this did not prevent him from understanding the same principle.

But if he thought that he could catch Shang Zhen or the few veterans on the mountain in this way, then he really underestimated Shang Zhen and the others.

The Japanese soldiers at the foot of the mountain had not yet seen where the counterattack fire from the Chinese officers and soldiers on the mountain came from, when suddenly fierce gunfire was heard behind them!

The Japanese captain couldn't help but frown and turned back to look.

When the two squadrons came over, they encountered the Chinese army. Based on their judgment of the enemy's combat style, the Japanese captain guessed that the enemy must have come to support Shang Zhen. However, the enemy was also very cunning. They only fought with them all the way. They wanted to chase but couldn't. They fought a battle halfway and another battle near Wujiapo.

In the battle on the way, the Japanese army suffered a loss because the enemy ambushed them.

In the battle near Wujiaopo, both sides won and lost, but both suffered dozens of casualties.

Now that he wants to capture Wujiaopo, how can he not be on guard against that group of Chinese soldiers attacking again?
He directly sent a squadron to set up a semicircular defense circle for his side at a distance of about 500 meters.

But now he didn't know how the defense circle had a loophole. When he turned around, he could see from his current position that there were flashes of gunfire from the bullet shooting about 500 to 600 meters to the south of him. And looking at the flight trajectory of those bullets, they were hitting the heavy machine gun position behind him!

However, the Japanese captain did not believe that even if the Chinese army was more capable at the moment, it could do anything to his squadron.

Sure enough, just as the gunshots of the Chinese army's attack on the heavy machine gun position were heard, other gunshots joined the battle. It was their squadron that began shooting at the Chinese army.

As expected, this wave of Chinese troops' attack came quickly and left quickly. In an instant, all the gunfire was silenced, and no more flashes of gunfire could be seen directed at them.

But soon after, the captain of the army noticed a flash of white light and an explosion at the heavy machine gun position, and then his heavy machine gun never sounded again. The heavy machine gun position was actually blown up!

"***" the Japanese captain could only shout again.

Before he could finish shouting, his men must have seen the battlefield situation clearly and figured out his intentions, because near the Japanese captain, there was another "bang" and a flare was sent into the air, and this time it was aimed directly to their south.

For the Japanese army, this kind of battle cannot be fought without flares!
The Japanese army can't just fill the sky with flares, right?

What's more, according to the deployment of the Japanese captain, in order to capture Wujiaopo in one go, they had to plan carefully where to place the flares.

Fire the flares at the southern slope of Wujiaopo. In this way, Shang Zhen's troops on the mountain would not dare to show their heads and shoot at the rock cliffs on the southern slope.

When the flares reach the top of the mountain, they can illuminate the top of the mountain very clearly, while the light on the hillside is relatively dark, which is conducive to the concealment of the attacking Japanese army.

But now, the Chinese troops on the periphery are attacking in large numbers, and they can no longer provide support to the Japanese troops attacking the mountain. So, won’t they have to fire flares towards the south?

Just when the flare rose into the sky and had not yet exploded, the Japanese captain heard a burst of explosions coming from the place where the enemy's gunfire had just flashed. The explosions were so dense that he ignored the sound of his own flare exploding.

He raised the telescope and looked carefully, but this time all he could see was the smoke and dust caused by the grenade explosion!

Those veterans of the Chinese army were really experienced soldiers. They actually threw out grenades or hand grenades the moment the Japanese army fired flares. Obviously, they took advantage of the smoke produced by the explosion to retreat.

"Baga!" The Japanese captain couldn't help but curse. He had never met such a tough opponent.

But when he withdrew his gaze and was about to look back towards the direction of Wujiaopo, his eyes happened to flash across a man who was being escorted by two Japanese soldiers beside him.

The man was shivering under the illumination of the flares. He was a prisoner captured by the Japanese captain, a prisoner who knew everything and would tell everything he knew - Xu Lang!
It was he who provided the Japanese captain with accurate information about Shang Zhen.

If Xu Lang hadn't provided the information about Shang Zhen, how could the Japanese army have attacked the mountain at night? They were afraid that Shang Zhen would escape from Wujiapo again in the dark!