Wandering the Heavens

Chapter 301: Sword 4

What is the worldly wisdom? In the competition, each of the three battalions gained something. Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang put a lot of effort into showing that they were fair in this matter. The winning company happily went back with the pork to enjoy a feast, while the losing company insisted that they would go back to train seriously to get back at their former glory.

Yu Xian finally got to eat the meat. Because of the performance of the third row, they each had two more slices than the first and second rows, and even the broth was a little thicker than theirs.

"Platoon leader, you are amazing!" Wang Dayong exclaimed while drinking the soup.

"It's all thanks to the comrades who fought well! But it won't be so easy later on, because our formation will be rolled out to the entire regiment soon, so it's hard to say whether we will be able to eat meat in the future." Yu Xian licked the bottom of the bowl and said slowly.

"What should we do then?" Wang Dayong didn't expect Yu Xian to say something discouraging.

"Dayong, we are soldiers, we should take victory and defeat on the training ground calmly. We can lose to our comrades on the training ground, but we cannot lose to the enemy on the battlefield!" Yu Xian patted Wang Dayong on the shoulder and said, "Hurry up and finish drinking. After we clean up, let's have a meeting and talk about what we did well during the day and what we didn't do well enough."

Wang Dayong secretly admired Yu Xian's calmness. No wonder he could become the deputy company commander. His brain just worked faster than that of a rough guy like himself.

The evening meeting summarized the experiences and shortcomings of this competition. Yu Xian also made some adjustments to the subsequent training based on the results of the meeting discussion in order to make up for the shortcomings.

The commanders of the other companies were naturally not fools. After returning, the winners had a meeting to summarize the situation, while the losers also held a meeting but the atmosphere was not as good.

The next day, everyone continued to train with the spirit of the meeting last night, striving to have a chance to win in the next big competition. However, this training craze was stopped by the order of the headquarters less than half a month after it began. The mopping-up operation arranged by Ningji Okamura arrived as scheduled, and all the troops returned to their bases and waited for preparations to rush to the battlefield at any time.

Yu Xian began to get nervous, but he could only worry at the base, praying every day that the arrangements made around the field hospital would work.

20 kilometers east of the field hospital, the Japanese Yamazaki Battalion was marching forward. The further Yamazaki walked, the more he felt that the atmosphere was wrong. According to the marching route given by Commander Xiao Zhuo, they should have already come into contact and engaged in battle with the Eighth Route Army, but they were still silent after walking so far. Could it be that the intelligence was wrong?

Yamazaki walked forward in confusion, looking at the surrounding terrain, but he didn't expect that something unexpected happened in front of him. More than a dozen Japanese soldiers were lying on the ground with bullets loaded. The reason was that one of the Japanese soldiers had obsessive-compulsive disorder or something, and kicked a protruding stone in the middle of the road. Then an arrow shot out from the ground and rushed into the sky with a sharp sound.

"what happened?"

Yamazaki and his adjutant trotted to the front and saw that some soldiers had picked up the arrows that had fallen on the ground, but they had been blown beyond recognition. Upon closer inspection, they found that there was no arrowhead on it, but only a finely carved bamboo tube with a few small holes dug in it.

Several Japanese soldiers drew their bayonets and began to dig the place where the arrow had just shot out of the ground. Sure enough, they found a pit there with a simple bow set up inside. It seemed that it was the bow that shot the arrow into the sky.

The frightened Japanese soldier got angry when he saw this thing and pulled out the bow. Yamazaki wanted to stop it but it was too late and he could only lie on the ground. Sure enough, the two ends that were closer flew into the sky with the explosion.

"idiot!"

Yamazaki was both angry and excited when he saw this situation. He was angry that the imperial soldiers were killed in such a despicable way, and he was excited that after walking for so long, he finally found the trace of the Eighth Route Army.

After cursing, he ordered his troops to advance carefully and be ready to fight at any time.

The movement was noticed by the nearby villagers, who immediately moved away and sent people to find the Eighth Route Army to report. The militia captain monitored the devils according to the plan, and then sent people to escort them through the sentry post to find the troops.

At the 386th Brigade Headquarters, the brigade commander looked at the simple-minded child in front of him and felt a little sad. He thought of the child who had deceived him on the grass a few years ago. He had been in the old army, attended military school, participated in a long series of wars, presided over special operations in Shanghai, and dealt with all kinds of monsters and demons. He didn't expect to fall for a child. When he met him again, the child had died.

"You said that some devils appeared near your village?"

"Yes, Chief! We counted and there are more than a hundred people in the front, and we can't see the end of them behind." The child was a little reserved, but he stood at attention and saluted before speaking.

"He looks quite decent. Someone must have taught him!" The brigade commander took a look at the kid and asked the guard to take him away.

"Tell me what happened?" When the brigade commander saw the child go out, he immediately asked the underground organization member who brought him here.

"Commander, a few months ago, a troop from the independent regiment came to our village to carry out work. They developed Xiao Shitou into a member of the organization and set up traps on major traffic routes. As long as someone touched them, they would make a sound or explode. He left after telling us the location, and they would come back to check and maintain it every half a month. But unexpectedly, a trap exploded half a day ago. Xiao Shitou was the first to discover it. After that, I arranged for the villagers to evacuate, and then I brought him to you to report." The middle-aged man took a puff of his pipe and said this.

"You go back and comfort the villagers first! Leave the other matters to us!" The brigade commander immediately instructed the courier after looking at the map.

"Okay, I'll be right back!" The middle-aged man didn't hesitate.

As soon as the others left, the brigade commander looked at the map on the wall and broke out in a cold sweat.

"Quick, organize the transfer of the field hospital. Report to the headquarters immediately! Notify the commanders of each regiment to come to the brigade for a meeting! At the same time, immediately dispatch troops to replace the militia that monitors the devils and find out the situation of this devil."

The brigade headquarters acted quickly following the brigade commander's orders.

"Damn it, after this is resolved, we must find out which unit of the independent regiment set up the trap. If we don't have this thing, the field hospital will be doomed."

The brigade commander quickly figured out the situation and reported it to the headquarters. At the same time, the headquarters also discovered changes in the deployment of the Japanese troops. The three brigades were maneuvering quickly towards one place, and the situation became tense for a while as the troops approached.

Based on the report provided by the brigade commander, the headquarters deduced Shino Takumi's intention. This old devil wanted to use the Yamazaki Battalion as bait to lure all the Eighth Route Army troops in northwestern Shanxi to the vicinity of the Yamazaki Battalion and force the Eighth Route Army to engage in direct combat with them.

Based on the current situation, the headquarters ordered the troops along the way to block the three brigades and slow down the Japanese march, buying time for the 386th Brigade to annihilate the Yamazaki Battalion. As long as the Yamazaki Battalion is destroyed, the three Japanese brigades will retreat without a fight as they lose their strategic significance.

While the headquarters was mobilizing troops, Yamazaki also learned of the report that he was lost. He checked the map to determine his location and reported to Shinozuka Yoshio. Then he continued to look for the combat target, stepping on many traps along the way. Finally, they came to the fateful cemetery of Lijiapo. They looked at the empty houses under the pass, disappointed and ordered artillery to destroy them to vent their anger.

Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang, who were on the training ground, heard the sound of artillery fire.

"To the direction of Lijiapo?"