Chapter 41: Ambush Again

  "Dad, mom, I will avenge you." This was the news that Ma Jian had quietly inquired from those captives on the road. His parents were actually killed by his master, which he could not accept. Even when the two annihilated squads departed earlier, he had specially asked the two squad leaders to take care of his parents, but it turned out that the words of this little devil were like farting.

  So, what they said about the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere is just nonsense. Otherwise, how could they do such a thing? Also, I was just a bit slow to react, and those soldiers, including that little devil Matsumoto, started giving me attitude. Ma Jian really woke up at this moment, so he made up his mind to take revenge for his parents and the villagers.

  But he didn't expect that Chou wouldn't need him to take revenge, and these little devils wouldn't see tomorrow's sun.

  The words split into two paths. When Li Lu found out that the devils were heading towards Ma Jia Village, he was delighted. This is truly a case of "heaven has a road but you don't take it, hell has no door but you come knocking on your own".

  He rushed all the way back to the village, "Report, report Captain Dongjia," Li Lu was so excited that he didn't know what to say. Li Lu panted heavily as he arrived in front of Liu He, "Come on Li Lu, have a drink first before talking, look at how hot you are, you've run for so many miles, your clothes are all drenched." Liu He slowly placed a cup of plain boiled water in front of Li Lu.

  Li Lu couldn't be bothered with politeness anymore, and he picked up the water to gulp it down, "Slow down, slow down, have another cup." Fortunately, Liu He had a habit of drinking cooled boiled water, so he had prepared some cooled boiled water. Since he arrived in this era, although this era was described as having clear mountains and rivers, he still didn't quite trust the raw water. So, he specially went to the city to buy several thermoses, which were always filled with cooled boiled water every day. Even the people around him had developed a habit of boiling water, they would boil the water, put it in a container, and when they wanted to drink it, they would just pick it up and drink it.

  "Captain, I've found something," Li Lu finally caught his breath. "What is it? Don't tell me there are more little devils?" Liu He thought to himself that this time, many more Japanese soldiers would come, given how many had died already, and naturally they would strengthen their forces. But what Liu He didn't know was that at this moment, the Japanese were actually dividing their troops to launch a surprise attack from all sides, and as a result, there were very few defending soldiers left.

  "Captain, there are nearly four hundred of them. Although they're a bit more than the two companies we annihilated earlier, they've got some heavy weaponry and they're heading towards Majia Village. I think we should intercept them again."

  "Ah, what's this 'everybody' you're talking about?" Liu He was getting curious, but in fact he didn't know the organization of the Japanese army. This time, it just so happened that Matsumoto led two companies of soldiers, a battalion headquarters, and an artillery platoon to support these two companies. He had only received news that the two companies were heavily attacked and didn't know they were completely annihilated. He thought having two cannons supporting the two companies was enough, so he didn't bring out the machine gun company. Otherwise, Liu He really wouldn't have dared to ambush them, because there were still over 700 soldiers left in this battalion, which wasn't something Liu He's group could handle.

  "There are two cannons, pulled by two-headed horses, and a cavalry officer riding on horseback, looks like a big shot." "Alright, let's take him down, same old spot."

  "Captain, isn't it possible that the devils would have been on high alert in that place already? Fortunately, my hiding spot was far away from there. When the devils saw their corpses, they fired a row of shots at both sides of the slope."

  "We're betting that the devils will let their guard down in that area, precisely because we ambushed them there before. Even their patrol is just a gesture of anger, not because they still suspect something about that place. Come here, pass on my order: all team members, assemble with light gear, each person with ten rounds of ammunition, everything deploys according to the requirements of our last march."

  Now, Liu He's subordinates understood his remarks quite thoroughly. As soon as Liu He said "set out with light equipment", they knew that the devils had arrived again and needed to quickly reach the ambush point. Therefore, all team members quickly got their guns and ammunition ready, one after another, without even needing to assemble, and set off immediately. At first, they jogged, and when they saw everyone gathered outside the village, they quickly began a rapid march. The route of the march did not need to be arranged, just follow the scout forward. Even without scouts, there were bird calls in front to guide them.

  The timing is quite advantageous, it's deep autumn, just when the grass and trees are about to wither but haven't yet. In the wilderness, the grass is still very dense, not to mention if someone lies down in it, even squatting makes it impossible to see anyone from the outside. Moreover, each person has some camouflage made of grass and branches similar to their surroundings on their body, which further confuses people.

  It's not that Matsumoto didn't suspect that there might be an ambush here, but he had already ordered his men to fire a barrage in this direction earlier. He left for just a short while, and it was unlikely that the enemy would return so quickly to lay an ambush here. Naturally, Matsumoto let his guard down, thinking of quickly taking these Imperial Army corpses back. But then again, they didn't bring any vehicles, so they had no choice but to leave the bodies of these Imperial Army soldiers here for now and come back to retrieve them tomorrow. Matsumoto's orders were to advance swiftly and try to return to their base before nightfall; otherwise, who knows what would happen at night? In short, he believed that it was impossible to annihilate this Imperial Army unit with fewer than 3,000 men.

  This is where experience kills people, and it's true that Matsumoto's idea wasn't bad. With the military strength of Huaxia, there really isn't a strong one, and the Japanese army can deal with them. However, he didn't think that Liu He, a person from a later generation, although not very familiar with the Japanese army's organization, was still very familiar with their combat effectiveness. Moreover, he deeply understood the reaction speed of these trained people. This is why he went all out to buy ammunition with all the money they had obtained from the bandits and intensively train his team members. They even used wild animals in the wilderness to train their marksmanship and reaction ability. Under such conditions, being prepared to attack the unprepared, if one person with a gun can't take down around three Japanese soldiers, then who can justify the waste of ammunition? And what about those rabbits, pheasants, and wild boars that accompanied them in training?