Chapter 2130 Finding an Ambush Location
A horse-drawn carriage was driving on the road, with a square object on it.
The square shape was the shape, and no one knew what was inside, because the object was fastened with a rag curtain.
The driver was a puppet soldier, and two puppet soldiers with rifles were sitting on the edge of the carriage behind him.
The situation was very much like the puppet soldiers returning from the village after robbing.
Because the Japanese army had started a sweep again in the past few days, there were ruts and footprints on the road, but there were few pedestrians, so at least this few hundred meters of open land was the only lonely carriage.
"Drive the carriage to the highest place in front!" said a puppet soldier on the carriage.
Although he was dressed as a puppet soldier, he was clearly Chu Tian.
"Okay!" Qin Chuan, who was in charge of driving the carriage in front, responded when he heard Chu Tian say that, and flicked the whip in his hand, and the carriage started to trot.
But as soon as the carriage started moving, a cry of "Oh my god" came from the square object covered with rags on the carriage behind them, and there was more than one cry.
"Why didn't you tell us when you were driving the carriage?" Wu Ziqi's complaint came from the object covered with rags.
"It's not like you can't hear the company commander saying to drive the carriage, are you deaf?" Qin Chuan replied, and then shouted "Go" again, making the horse pulling the carriage run faster.
According to Chu Tian's plan, the carriage in front of them was for scouting, while the people in their battalion were behind.
They didn't know whether the Japanese and puppet troops from Ma Ling Town would come to retaliate today, and they were afraid that they would collide with the enemy directly on the road. The carriage in front of them as the vanguard was very important.
After all, they didn't want to fight an encounter with the Japanese army. They wanted to fight an ambush, right?
They needed to conceal their identities. Fortunately, when they sent away the puppet army prisoners yesterday, they asked three puppet soldiers to take off their clothes. Chu Tian, Qin Chuan and a guide named Qin Zhu who was found in the village all changed into those clothes.
But how could only three people be enough as scouts? Wu Ziqi had an idea and directly moved a large chicken cage of a family to the carriage, and then covered it with rags and straw curtains. The remaining soldiers were all hidden in the cage!
Since these people from Shang Zhenying have met Xiao Fuzi, according to Xiao Fuzi, if your battalion wants to join the Eighth Route Army, then the Eighth Route Army will definitely welcome them with both hands!
Come to think of it, as for a team like Shang Zhenying that is so capable and has a similar style to the Eighth Route Army, Xiao Fuzi has only met a team like Shang Zhenying so far. Even the leader of the Eighth Route Army has no reason not to welcome it.
Chu Tian had two considerations for this battle. One was that since they were going to join the Eighth Route Army, they had to give the Eighth Route Army a "greeting gift", right? Another factor was, as Wang Laomao said, they had to save some ammunition!
Their old nests were razed by the Japanese devils. Although they were safe, the little stock in the old nests had not been pulled out, and they all became the spoils of the devils.
When they joined the Eighth Route Army, they had to live a hard life, but they couldn't suffer from ammunition!
If you asked them to really learn from the Eighth Route Army to charge up after firing three shots, they really couldn't do it!
So, Chu Tian set his target on the Japanese troops in Ma Ling Town.
Since the Japanese army would definitely come to retaliate, and they wanted to ambush, they would go forward and ambush when they found a suitable terrain.
Shang Zhenying and his men wanted to join the Eighth Route Army, but at least they were not the Eighth Route Army yet.
Due to the limitation of its own firepower, the Eighth Route Army generally would not launch an attack on the Japanese army with equal strength, and ambushes were rare. It would require several times the strength of the troops to ambush the Japanese army.
But the Shang Zhen Battalion often fought with fewer troops against more troops. There were indeed not many times when a round of firepower attacked and directly shot more than ten Japanese soldiers into sieves like yesterday!
The carriage quickly ran to the high point of the road. Qin Chuan stopped the horse. They looked forward in the carriage. It was still an empty road, but the snow on the road had melted away.
Seeing that there was nothing wrong, Qian Chuaner stood on the carriage and waved his arms behind. Soon, a few hundred meters behind their carriage, the people of their camp appeared and ran towards them one by one. Under Chu Tian's order, Qin Chuan drove the carriage forward again.
The Shang Zhen Battalion advanced like this. After the scouts in front confirmed that there were no Japanese and puppet troops within a distance, the brigade behind ran up. When the brigade came up, the scouts continued to advance.
They kept going back and forth like this, so naturally their speed couldn't be fast.
But they kept running from morning to afternoon, and they were still more than ten miles away from Ma Ling Town, but the Japanese puppet troops didn't show up.
The location they had reached now could barely be used as an ambush site, but the Japanese troops didn't show up.
"It looks like the little devils can't go there today." Chu Tian said.
"A squadron of little devils, like going to our village, they send a few to a village, and they won't have many people left. I guess they are not sure about fighting us." Qin Chuan guessed.
"Why don't we leave the big team here, and let's go forward to see if there is a good place. You say, if we block the exit of Ma Ling Town and ambush the little devils, will they not think of it?" Qian Chuan'er's voice came from the cage
"They definitely didn't expect us to ambush at their doorstep, but the problem is that once the battle starts, the Japanese in the town will reinforce quickly." Qin Chuan analyzed.
"Let our people stay here, and we will go to the front to see if there is any good terrain." Chu Tian said.
After Chu Tian finished speaking, the guide Qin Zhu said: "Are you afraid?"
A correct version in the 16-9 book bar!
"I am afraid." Qin Zhu answered honestly, "But when I think of my own wife and children, I have to go even if I am afraid!"
"That's right, this is what my family said." Qin Chuan smiled.
Qin Zhuzi is almost thirty years old this year, and there are three children in his family.
Once a man gets married and thinks about his wife and children, he will not be as brave as when he was young.
But the Eighth Route Army did a good job in ideological work. When the Japanese come, you have to fight them. It's better for you to protect your wife and children now than to avenge them later!
This is the Eighth Route Army base.
However, don't think of the Eighth Route Army base as a static iron wall, saying that if the Japanese devils come to sweep, we will keep the enemy out of the country.
That's wrong, wouldn't it be a positional war? How could the Eighth Route Army's strength be a match for the Japanese army in a positional war?
Once the Japanese army came to the Eighth Route Army base to sweep, the main force of the Eighth Route Army could not fight the Japanese army head-on, but could only use guerrilla warfare to take advantage of the time, place, and people to circle around the Japanese army, avoid their sharpness and attack their laziness, and wait for an opportunity to annihilate part of the enemy.
But it is precisely because the people in the base area and the Eighth Route Army are of one mind that the Japanese army will never be soft on the people in the base area. As for any people who have a connection with the anti-Japanese team, they would rather kill three thousand people by mistake than let one person go.
So the Japanese army also killed the people in the base area. Because of this, killing the enemy first to protect the home instead of waiting for the home to be destroyed by the invaders before taking revenge is logically established!
"Let's go a little further. It would be best if there is an ideal ambush location four or five miles away from Ma Ling Town, because the closer we are to the town, the less vigilant the Japanese devils will be. As long as we act quickly and ruthlessly, the Japanese devils in the town will not be able to catch up." Chu Tian said to Qin Zhu.
"Okay." Qin Zhu agreed, but he was still a little worried.
He had also heard about the Eighth Route Army's ambush, but he had never seen the Northeast people fighting like these people in front of him, looking like they wanted to put their guns under the noses of the Japanese devils.