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Chapter 207: Bloody Battle at Tuer Ridge

"Alliance Leader Zhou, I think it would be better for us to go directly to the bandit's lair.

We are not familiar with this mountain. We cannot be led by the enemy. We just need to reach our destination directly.

Of course, it is also possible to let some logistics personnel and combat soldiers pretend to be bait and let the captured bandit spies lead the way to lure the bandits.

Then another part of the soldiers moved quickly to intercept the bandits' retreat, and after wiping out the large group of bandits, they attacked the bandits' lair.

But the second option is more dangerous, after all, our soldiers are new to the battlefield." Major Zhou analyzed.

"There are two options. The bandit's lair is easy to defend but difficult to attack, so luring the bandits out to fight is the best option.

Let's start a strategy of besieging Wei to save Zhao. I will bring all the logistics soldiers and a hundred combat soldiers as bait, and leave the heavy weapons such as cannons behind.

After we lure out the main force of bandits, you will quickly march around behind them, and then send some people to pretend to attack the bandits' lair.

The bandits who want to eat us will naturally go back to defend when they hear someone is attacking their lair. Then we can attack them from both sides and eat up most of the bandits' fighting power. "Hou Xiaoge decided to take a risk.

"Alliance leader, how about letting me take care of the bait?" Tieli looked worried.

"What a hypocritical bastard, aren't there a few captains from the Qin Army with me?

Besides, our logistics battalion also has more than a hundred guns, plus a hundred combat soldiers, two hundred guns, and artillery. Why should we be afraid of bandits?" Hou Xiaoge scolded with a smile.

A plan was made. No more pretense was made. The two sons of a bandit's spies were used as threats, and the father was asked to inform the bandits.

In fact, most of these spies are ordinary people who were just coerced and bribed by the bandits. Threatening with family members has the greatest deterrent effect on old men in their forties or fifties.

However, we still have to be on the safe side. The distance between the combat soldiers and the auxiliary soldiers will not be too far. After all, the two sides need to keep in touch at all times, at a maximum of two kilometers.

In order to make the security team more powerful, Hou Xiaoge bought eight walkie-talkies.

This wireless walkie-talkie is from America, and is similar to the mobile phones of later generations, but it is larger than the mobile phones and the signal transmission distance is very short.

The transmission distance in the plains is only one to five kilometers, and in the mountains it is only three or four hundred meters. Although it is useless, it is indeed a great help in spreading information in a small range.

Hou Xiaoge inquired about this phone when he bought it. It was not expensive, only a few dozen dollars.

It has been popularized in the classes of American soldiers, who often use this thing to call planes.

However, things that are cheap in the West become expensive in the East. Hou Xiaoge purchased one for US$300.

But Hou Xiaoge is rich, so he doesn't care about this amount of money.

The two teams were less than two kilometers apart in the mountains, with soldiers from the communications platoon moving between them to spread messages.

"Brother, the lackeys of the security team were fooled and led into the canyon by our spies. We can kill and bury them from our high ground." A leader of Tuerling reported after learning the news.

"Okay! Call the brothers to set off. Lao Liu, you stay at home." Wang Datou put on a military cap and a damn coat and set off with more than 400 people.

The wealth of Tuerling is not what Tieli said. Many weapons are sealed.

Now there are more than 400 people setting out, and everyone is carrying a gun, including three heavy machine guns, more than a dozen light machine guns, and a 60-mm mortar.

Although this firepower is slightly inferior to that of a national army battalion, a national army battalion would definitely be defeated if it confronted the bandits in Tuerling in the mountains.

"Alliance leader, commander, the bandits have taken a shortcut and ambushed on the cliff. There are more than 400 of them.

But the intelligence was wrong, this bandit's nest actually has three heavy machine guns and a mortar." The reconnaissance platoon reported to both teams via walkie-talkie.

"Received! Has the second team arrived at the designated location?" Hou Xiaoge asked coldly while standing in front of the walkie-talkie.

"Less than one kilometer to the destination!" A message came from the communications platoon after a while.

"When we reach 200 meters in the canyon, have the brothers retreat to both sides and lure the bandits to chase us."

Hou Xiaoge took advantage of the information gap to get the upper hand, so it was naturally impossible for him to enter the canyon.

But we have to fight. After all, the bait has to hold the bandits back for a while so that the second team can reach the bandit's lair smoothly.

"Roger that!"

The bandits on the cliff hid behind the rolling stones and waited for the bait to arrive, but they didn't know that they had already been exposed to the walkie-talkies.

The decoy troops arrived at the mouth of the canyon, but instead of going in, they chose to set up defensive positions and fire artillery at the cliffs.

The bandits knew they might have been exposed, so they raised their guns and started shooting, disrupting their plans.

The bait troops were well prepared. They hid on the slopes on both sides 200 meters away and started fighting.

As soon as the bandits' heavy weapons appeared, the mortars on the other side of the hillside, based on the location reported by the reconnaissance platoon, fired two rounds of artillery shells directly at the bandits' heavy weapons that had just been set up.

"Boom boom boom!"

"Ahhh!"

The bandits were in chaos for a moment, but their position was high and easy to defend but difficult to attack, so the two sides fought back and forth, and for a while it seemed that the security team was being suppressed by the bandits.

The team on the other side has also arrived at the bandit's nest. There are only more than a hundred old bandits in the bandit's nest now, and the rest are minions, so the defense is naturally strict.

When the bandits saw the security team coming, they panicked.

A soldier carried the only recoilless cannon and fired at the bandits' gate, scaring the bandits so much that they started firing indiscriminately.

"Hurry, hurry, ring the bell and call the commander back." The sixth in command who stayed behind walked towards a big bell that he had stolen from the top of Tuerling.

“Dangdangdang~!”

The sound of the bell ringing nine times in a row could be heard dozens of miles away in the mountains.

Wang Datou, who was suppressing the bait troops, was very happy! He was preparing to send people to encircle the security group with the advantage of being familiar with the geography.

"Boss, boss, something bad has happened. I just heard the bell ringing. Our house has been attacked." A man ran over, panting and shouting.

"What? Damn it! Let me hear it." Wang Datou quickly left the battlefield and went to the side to listen to the sound.

"Hurry, retreat quickly, we've been tricked, this is the enemy's bait." When Wang Datou heard the bell, he was so scared that cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

"No. 1, No. 1, the bandits have retreated, leaving only fifty people to provide cover." Shortly afterwards, the reconnaissance platoon reported via walkie-talkie.

"Hurry, go around and bite the bandits' butts, and let the second team turn around to intercept them." Although Hou Xiaoge's tone was urgent, he had a smile on his face.

Some auxiliary soldiers and blocking bandits were left to continue fighting, while the rest took a detour and followed the guide to the back of the bandits and hung from a distance.

The second team had already been waiting on the path behind the mountain where the bandits had retreated, and a war was a foregone conclusion.

"Clap clap clap!"

"Boom boom boom!"

When the bandits entered the ambush circle, the sound of gunfire and grenades from the second team was heard continuously.

"Boss, what should we do if we are ambushed?"

"What to do? Leave it alone! Retreat."

Wang Datou's panicked military cap was gone, and his big head was scratched by a stray bullet, with blood flowing.