The Fifth Set: The Sixth Style - Ambush Behind the Enemy

  Sakura's eyes widened and her mouth was agape as she heard Jian Biao mention burying the T-26 tank. It took her a long time to ask, "What, buried? You buried the T-26 tank?! Earlier, she had also heard that there were tanks buried underground, but she never thought that the anti-Japanese troops back then would bury the T-26 tank along with its crew.

  At this time, Da Yu said excitedly and drew out the seven linked rings. Seeing Da Yu's slightly clumsy movements, everyone burst into a kind laugh.

  Zhan Dongdong saw that no one was paying attention to Sakura, so he leaned in close and whispered: "War is cruel, the brutality of the Japanese army has provoked the ruthless resistance of the Chinese people."

  That night, Dà Yīn practiced his skills in front of the formation, which also forced Zhān Biāo to come up with a set of powerful anti-Japanese seven-linked hands. What Zhān Biāo didn't expect was that Xiǎo Fēng, Qiáng Zǐ and Cáo Yǔ also developed a linked hand in the mountain cave, and it was also seven moves. That night, when Xiǎo Fēng and others returned to the cave, they didn't idle around either. He and Qiáng Zǐ and Cáo Yǔ admired each other's boxing skills, demonstrating and explaining for a long time. Later, Cáo Yǔ learned a few powerful Yue-style scattered hand moves, combined with his own poking footwork, and came up with a combination of punches.

  Xiao Feng saw it and immediately stopped drinking, letting Cao Yu repeat it again, then slightly modified and discussed a set of powerful and practical combination punches, the moves coincidentally also seven moves that matched perfectly with the Piao Fist Seven Linked Rings. However, Cao Yu put the poking foot in the first move, first poking the opponent's feet into disarray before coming six moves of Yue-style scattered hand to heavily beat the fallen dog. Xiao Feng immediately organized a dozen new soldiers to practice this route of Yue-style scattered hand and poking foot combined with the essential linked seven hands that night. Later, Peng Xuefei learned about this segment of the same compiled Seven Linked Rings story and was so impressed that he was speechless for a moment, shaking his head and saying: "With such tacit understanding between brothers, what can be difficult for them?"

  The next morning, the new fourth army machine gun regiment set out according to the battle plan discussed at night. 45 new recruits who were familiar with rifles carried three eight large covers on their backs. More than 40 new recruits without guns were divided into light and heavy machine gun groups as deputy shooters to learn from actual combat experience. In addition to the brothers of Zhang Biao's 7th division and Nie's 9th class, there were more than 130 people in the team, with dozens of horse-drawn carts. The first six large carts were equipped with six light machine guns - the other six light machine guns of the machine gun regiment had been left in Tianfu with trucks last time. The eight large carts behind were still those eight heavy machine guns. The ammunition for light and heavy machine guns was not very sufficient after the disassembly battle three days ago. In addition to weapons and ammunition, many iron shovels and pickaxes were also brought along.

  Zhan Biao and Peng Xuefei divided the troops into two teams, one to lure the enemy and the other to ambush. The light machine gun team, composed of the New Fourth Army and guerrilla forces, lured the enemy by driving six horse-drawn carts close to the Japanese army at the foot of Tianfu Mountain, firing and then retreating. The heavy machine gun team, composed of the Nationalist anti-Japanese guerrilla squad, set up a main position across the river to ambush. They suddenly attacked the pursuing Japanese army, achieving the goal of making the Japanese believe that the anti-Japanese squad and heavy weapons were not on Tianfu Mountain, then quickly withdrew.

  Zhang Biao set up the ambush site on the winding banks of the Xiao Liang River, which was five kilometers away from the foot of Tianfu Mountain. The highway came straight and crossed a wooden bridge over the river. After luring the Japanese troops to come, they would retreat and blow up the wooden bridge. The geology in this area was very good, and the heavy machine gun emplacements and rifle emplacements set up along the river were quickly dug out. Zhang Biao looked at the open fields on the opposite bank of the river, checking if the Japanese troops could detour from both sides again. But this time he was not afraid of the Japanese troops detouring, because the Xiao Liang River was much wider here, and behind Zhang Biao was a vast plain where they could retreat quickly. At this moment, Zhang Biao saw that on the opposite bank of the river, about 200 meters away from the front, there was an abandoned dry ditch parallel to the Xiao Liang River and intersecting with the highway, with a row of trees on top of it. Zhang Biao carefully studied it with binoculars for a while, then called Peng Xuefei over.

  Zhang Biao pointed to the water ditch and discussed with Peng Xuefei: "The enemy's tank will definitely rush forward along the road. When they get here, they will think we are still setting up an ambush on this side of the river, and they will disperse their formation after getting off the highway. The best location is in front of the water ditch. This abandoned water ditch and that row of trees cannot block the tank. But look, there is a 5-6 meter wide gap on both sides of the road, if the tank doesn't encounter any threats, it will choose to take the good road and won't need to come over and crush the trees in the ditch, so it's likely that they'll come from the gap. I think we should dig a pit at the gap to make the tank fall in and can't get out, then set up our heavy machine gun ambush on the other side of the river, set up an ambush right under the enemy's nose, and catch them off guard. Otherwise, if we attack from this side of the river, the distance is a bit far and we can't reach them, and we won't be able to achieve the same effect as last time when we destroyed the vehicle."

  Peng Xuefei took the binoculars and said cautiously, "This is a good idea, the devils will definitely think we are setting an ambush on this side of the river, and suddenly running to the other side to fight will have an unexpected effect, but it's too dangerous, this is fighting with our backs to the water."

  "Since you think it's a good idea, then let's do it. You take two of the Maxim guns and stay here, I'll take six of the 92-style guns over there. When the light machine gun squad returns, they'll immediately enter the defensive position on this side of the river to cover us. If not, we'll quickly retreat back across the bridge."

  Da Yu set off first with the light machine gun squad wearing steel helmets, as he was familiar with the terrain. Peng Xuefei refused Zhan Biao's request to stay on this side of the river and command, instead crossing the river and taking charge of a 92-style machine gun, saying that as the head of the machine gun company, he must be familiar with the machine guns. In this way, six heavy machine guns were operated by Peng Xuefei and San De, Liu Yang, Er Zhuzi, Zheng Wen, and Cheng Yi, who ambushed on the opposite bank of the river. Cheng Yi also brought a flamethrower, saying that he would look for an opportunity to practice with it. Nie Squad Leader and his nine disabled brothers operated two Maxim guns on this side of the river, but they were not very familiar with the Japanese 92-style machine gun. Nie Squad Leader was also in charge of commanding more than 40 rifle soldiers.

  After the division of labor was determined, Peng Xuefei commanded six machine gun groups to start repairing new heavy machine gun bunkers 100 meters in front of the water ditch. Zhan Biao led more than 100 people to dig three pits at two water ditches with a sea of people tactics, and within an hour, three pits were dug, each 3 meters deep, 4 meters long, and 2 meters wide. Two wider openings were dug in the wider opening, and one narrower opening was dug in the narrower opening. The bean war car, which is more than 3 meters long and 1 meter 6 centimeters high and wide, is no problem. Then, a dozen trees were cut down beside the ditch and placed on top of the pits, with some carriage boards removed and covered with soil. The camouflage was very good, and it was hard to tell if there was anything different from the surrounding area without looking closely. The excavated soil was piled up in the nearby water ditch. San De understood Zhan Biao's intention and also placed several boxes of hand grenades filled with soil on the highway to scare away the Japanese army from taking the main road.

  Songshan returned to Kao Shan town the night before and immediately ordered Yuan Bo to be brought before him, intending to interrogate Yuan Bo. Because when Songshan had Zhuo Biao arrested and put into the labor camp, Yuan Bo had said: "Mr. Songshan, their homes...", Songshan thought that Yuan Bo must know them and wanted to intercede on their behalf. The clever Yuan Bo had already thought of a countermeasure, and with one sentence he easily defused the situation. Yuan Bo explained that at the time he was just about to tell Songshan: Their two families are not from this village, I don't know where they came from. One sentence left Songshan speechless and helpless, waving his hand to dismiss the Japanese soldiers who were escorting Yuan Bo.

  Muto heard the report that at night, a group of people who knew Chinese martial arts on the mountain had clashed with them. Matsumura strengthened the blockade on the mountain, but he was also suspicious and wondered if Zhang Biao and his troops had all rushed out at night. After dawn, several cavalry teams were sent to scout around.

  So after the light machine gun cart team of Taiyuan fired a long-range shot, he immediately dispatched six bean war cars to cover up and arranged for a squadron to chase after them. In less than a moment, Songshan heard the roar of seven or eight heavy machine guns in the distance, which was very familiar, and it was the sound of Zhang Biao's anti-Japanese class. Songshan this time thoroughly determined that Zhang Biao had moved from the mountain, and ordered the two Japanese military teams that had just searched the mountain and the other six bean war cars at the foot of the mountain to withdraw, and quickly surrounded the direction of the heavy machine gun sound.