Chapter 47

  Seeing the attacking troops fail one after another, Itai was furious. The consequences were not severe, as Itai had not yet come up with a way to deal with the Eighth Route Army in the mountain cave. Although he is now raging like thunder, he has no lethal power against the Eighth Route Army.

  Outside the cave, there were devils who could speak Chinese, shouting and scolding towards the mountain cave.

  "Those of you inside the Liangshan Marsh, if you have any guts, come out and engage in a fair and square duel like warriors. What kind of heroes are you, hiding in the mountain caves?"

  "You outsiders listen up, if you dare to come in and capture us, we'll use chili water and a tiger bench on you. If I frown even once, I'm not the son of my parents."

  "The Eighth Route Army inside, as long as you return the cars robbed from the Imperial Army to the Imperial Army, the Imperial Army guarantees that they will not pursue past grievances and spare your lives."

  "Listen up, traitors outside! Immediately take down the devils next to you. We guarantee that we won't hold past grudges against you and can even give you credit for your service. That way, you will become heroes of the people, heroes of the revolution, and the people will forgive you."

  “……”

  “……”

  The devils can't get in, and the Eighth Route Army won't come out. In the end, they had no choice but to open their mouths and file a lawsuit here.

  A devil spoke two sentences to Itai, Itai was overjoyed and immediately set off.

  A group of devils immediately went to fetch a lot of hay and fresh grass, piling them up near the entrance of the cave.

  The fire was lit, the flames rose, and fresh grass was added on top, with many chili peppers piled on. A thick smoke billowed up and drifted towards the entrance of the cave. When it reached the entrance, it seemed to be sucked in by an invisible force, drawing most of the dense smoke inside.

  A coughing sound came from inside the cave, but it stopped after a short while.

  "Come out, we guarantee your personal safety and give each of you one hundred big oceans. As long as you are willing, each person can be at least a small team leader, and even the big team leader is also negotiable." The devils began to tempt them with money and official positions.

  There was no sound in the cave. There were no signs either.

  A small team of devils wearing gas masks quietly entered the cave. The cave was quiet, with only the bodies of devils and puppet soldiers everywhere, bloodstains all over the place, and sticky footprints that made people feel uncomfortable.

  After walking for tens of meters, nothing was found, not even a little. A ghost appeared with a question: all the smoke was floating at the top of the cave, and there was hardly any smoke at the bottom of the cave, not just a little, but none at all! All the smoke was on top of the cave, leaking out from the top of the cave. That is to say, the Eighth Route Army had not been harmed by the smoke at all! As for the consequences of entering oneself, it could be guessed with one's toes that it would absolutely not be a good wine and dish service, but must be a fierce battle, a fierce battle that was certainly bad for oneself, but whether it was bad for the Eighth Route Army or not was unknown.

  Just then, the machine gun of the Eighth Route Army fired, and his comrade fell down beside him. The bullet hole in his chest was gushing out dirty blood, and he had already gone to see the God of Heaven. He wanted to hurry down, but when he just bent down, a bullet went straight through his head into his body, and he fell like a broken sack.

  Itan stood outside the mountain cave, listening to the bursts of machine gun fire inside the cave, and the dying cries of the devils, anxiously pacing back and forth like ants on a hot pot.

  The machine gun fire in the cave stopped, it seems that the troops that went in are done for.

  "Tie hand grenades together, blow up the cave, and bury the Eighth Route Army in the cave."

  Itoda gritted his teeth and gave orders to the devils.

  A group of devils tied hand grenades together and stuffed them under the rocks at the entrance to a cave, then detonated the grenades.

  The explosion of hundreds of hand grenades echoed dozens of miles away. A small mushroom cloud rose and rushed into the sky.

  After the smoke cleared, the cave entrance was gone, leaving only a pile of rubble, and the nearby trees were also blown down by the blast.

  The Second Dog Company Commander was hiding in the trenches with his men, defending against the enemy's artillery fire. However, after a long time, the enemy did not launch any shells, and they secretly peeked out of the trenches to see that the enemy on the opposite mountain slope had already retreated.

  Because of suspicion that it was a trick by the devils, Er Gou did not dispatch troops to swiftly capture the mountain slope in front. Instead, he sent people to conduct reconnaissance first. When the scouts returned and reported that the devils had already withdrawn completely, Commander Er Gou still didn't quite believe it. How could the devils have retreated so quickly? They themselves were barely holding on, planning to repel the devils one more time before withdrawing to their mountain stronghold. Why did the devils retreat at this time? Was there some trick or other reason?

  As the second batch of scouts reported that the devils' artillery had also withdrawn, Er Gouzi became even more puzzled. His own artillery had been destroyed by the devils, how could they be so unprofessional?

  Then someone reported that the devils' artillery did not retreat, but was eliminated. The devils' artillery position was full of devils' corpses, and there were some useless shells, but the cannons were gone. It was obvious that they had been ambushed. The devils might have gone to chase after the cannons.

  The two dog captains slightly understood, it seems that the reinforcements have arrived, but these reinforcements came a bit too quickly, Flying Legs, even if they took a car, they wouldn't arrive so quickly, whose troops are these, so powerful?

  With less than two hundred people who could still fight, Er Gouzi led his troops in pursuit of the devils.

  The more I walk, the more frightened I become; the more I walk, the cooler my heart becomes — this is the direction towards the mountain cave base.

  Could it be that Little Li led a surprise attack on the enemy's artillery position? Did he steal the enemy's big gun? The more I think about it, the more possible it seems. This group of young men, under Little Li's training, can all drive cars and last time they replaced their weapons with new-style what's-it-called Thompson submachine guns, which are said to be very effective. If it was an independent company that attacked the enemy artillery, then they might have been surrounded by the enemy, and then... I don't know what would happen next, anyway one side will suffer a defeat, either Little Li or the enemy. Let's go take a look and see.

  Sure, here is the translation:

  As expected, after not a long time, the scout warriors returned to report that all the devils were concentrated on several mountain peaks ahead, seemingly surrounding something.

  Nonsense, of course it's surrounded by something, surrounded by independent regiments, surrounded by munitions factories.

  Due to confidentiality reasons, the location of the arsenal has always been a secret. Even most soldiers did not know where it was; they only knew that their unit had an arsenal. Only at least platoon leaders and above knew the approximate location of the arsenal, but the specific location was known by only a few people from the independent company and battalion headquarters.

  It is now heard that the devils have surrounded the arsenal, immediately causing a public outcry, unanimously demanding to fight the devils and definitely protect the arsenal.

  But Er Gou's words made them stop: "The devils have two to three thousand men, we only have less than two hundred people, how can we fight, how can we protect the munitions factory?"

  "What's to be done? Are we just going to watch as the Arsenal and Independent Regiment are surrounded by the devils?"

  Fight, can't win, withdraw, can't withdraw. The two dogs' heads are almost familiar with each other's touch.

  Suddenly, an idea was born! The second dog couldn't help but admire his own brain, rubbing it and finding a solution, what a great thing!

  "Chen Hai, take the first company to the right side, and when the charge signal sounds, shoot towards the top of the mountain. Wang Fei, take the second company to the left side, and similarly, when the charge signal sounds, launch a feint attack on the top of the mountain. Everyone else, wait for the first and second companies to be in position before launching a feint attack."

  Very soon, one after another took their positions.

  First came a burst of machine gun fire, followed by two rows of rifle shots, and then the charge bugle sounded - standard Eighth Route Army tactics.

  As the devils have mostly entered near the mountain valley cave entrance, most of those on the mountaintop are puppet troops.

  The sound of gunfire rang out, and the familiar sound of the submachine gun made the puppet soldiers panic. Normally, after two rounds of submachine gun fire, the Eighth Route Army would charge forward, especially when the charge bugle sounded, indicating that this was a regular unit of the Eighth Route Army, not just an ordinary guerrilla force. This group of old Eighth Route Army veterans were ruthless killers! If they were caught, it was best to surrender quickly, otherwise, a bayonet thrust into the belly would put their lives in danger. Or else, they could try to run away, and if they ran fast enough, there was a good chance of escaping the "clutches" of the Eighth Route Army.

  There is only one road, behind are the Eighth Route Army, in front are the devils, anyway now our own devils are on the same side, temporarily won't do anything to ourselves, but the Eighth Route Army wants our lives.

  The fake soldiers didn't even see how many Eighth Route Army came, as soon as they heard the bugle call for charging, they panicked and fled towards the devils in the mountain below, wherever was closer they ran there, completely forgetting that this was a minefield.

  As soon as they fled into the minefield, they triggered a landmine explosion, and the puppet soldiers were blown up in twos and threes. However, the puppet soldiers thought it was the artillery of the Eighth Route Army.

  "Run quickly, the Eighth Route Army has big cannons, if you don't run, your life will be gone." As a result, more landmines were detonated, and thick smoke rose from the top of the mountain, with bodies of fake soldiers appearing on the slope.

  The board at the foot of the mountain stared blankly at the pseudo-army being scared down by some kind of fierce beast, rushing down the mountain without regard for anything, ignoring the landmines all around, and charging forward towards death. Board was also frightened - what thing made the pseudo-army so afraid?

  The slope was not big, and soon the surviving puppet troops rushed to the side of the devils at the foot of the mountain. These puppet troops shouted while rushing "The Eighth Route Army has arrived, run quickly, or you will lose your life." "The main force of the Eighth Route Army has arrived." "The main force of the Eighth Route Army has come back." Such words directly caused more chaos, and the devils began to panic a bit. Listening to the fierce machine gun fire and bugle calls behind them, they believed the puppet troops' words even more.

  The devils were in a panic and no longer considered whether the Eighth Route Army had really arrived. The devils began to flee with the puppet army.

  Itanagar reluctantly gave the order to retreat after seeing the general trend going away.