Chapter 26: "Old Yang! What are you waiting for, your grandma's...!"

  Huang Xintian let out a loud shout: "Fight!"

  In an instant, bullets from the Thompson submachine guns and machine guns in the hands of the warriors rained down on the Japanese soldiers in the truck.

  On the highway, a truck screeched to a halt, some soldiers were killed on the truck, other soldiers jumped off the truck, and Hei Tian, who was driving the truck, jumped out of the cab and directed the soldiers to counterattack.

  The driver of the car behind and the soldiers in the carriage also jumped off the train and fired at the mountain.

  In the dense forest outside the warehouse, the reconnaissance squad soldiers who were resting heard the sound of gunfire and all sat up.

  "A soldier: 'The Third Squad is exchanging fire with the devils!'"

  Qin Zhiyong gave a low command: "Get closer to the target."

  The warriors followed closely behind Qin Zhiyong and quietly approached the warehouse...

  Both sides were still exchanging fire on the highway.

  Kuroda hid behind a truck and fired at the mountain. Iwai ran up beside him and asked, "How many are there?"

  Kuroda: "Few people should have heard the gunshot."

  At this time, Old Yang and Old Cao, dressed as Japanese soldiers, ran down from the mountain on the other side of the highway with their waists bent.

  Huang Xintian saw the figures of Old Yang and Old Cao, and hastily gave a low-voiced order to the soldiers: "Cease fire!"

  Lao Yang and Lao Cao took advantage of the chaos to sneak into the Japanese army's ranks, pretending to shoot at the mountain.

  The soldiers all stopped firing, except for one soldier who hadn't heard Huang Xintian's order and was still sweeping with his submachine gun.

  On the highway, a row of bullets hit the ground in front of Old Yang and Old Cao, and the two were frightened and quickly lay down on the ground.

  Old Cao cursed: "That damned Old Huang!"

  Old Yang was so frightened that he whispered to Old Cao: "Shut up!"

  Huang Xintian kicked the soldier who was still shooting fiercely: "Are you deaf? Stop firing! Withdraw!"

  Huang Xintian led the soldiers in a swift retreat.

  On the highway, the Japanese army also stopped firing. Iwai looked at the corpses on and under the vehicle with indignation.

  Kuroda was furious: "Another harassment by a small guerrilla unit! Shall we pursue?"

  Iwai gritted his teeth: "No time left, let's go."

  Iwai finished speaking and hastily walked towards the last truck.

  Hei Tian directed the soldiers to lift the Japanese corpses on the ground onto the truck, Lao Yang and Lao Cao each carried a corpse, walked to the front of the first car's carriage, put the corpse on the carriage, and the two also climbed onto the carriage.

  Kuroda sat in the driver's cab, the truck closed its headlights and continued speeding down the highway...

  Liu Xiaoxi continued to skip and jump ahead, while Zhou Guangren panted and followed behind.

  Zhou Guangren panted heavily: "Where is your person, anyway?"

  Liu Xiaoxi mysteriously smiled and put his index finger and thumb into his mouth to whistle, soon after, a similar whistle came from not far away.

  A team member of the guerrilla squad, Little Wang, stood up from a nearby thicket and shouted excitedly: "It's Little Xi sister! Little Xi sister is back!"

  More guerrillas stood up from the bushes and walked towards Liu Xiaoxi and Zhou Guangren.

  Liu Xiaoxi warmly greeted them: "Xiao Wang, Lin Dage, you're all doing well!"

  Xiao Wang: "Xiao Xi jie, we've missed you so much!"

  Lao Lin: "Our swallow is back! What good news does it bring us?"

  Captain Guo of the detachment walked up to Liu Xiaohui, who hastily saluted: "Report to Captain Guo! Militia member Liu Xiaohui has important intelligence to report to you!"

  "Xiao Xi, we were all worried when we heard the gunshot earlier and thought you should have arrived by now," said Captain Guo as he returned Liu Xiaoxi's salute. Suddenly noticing Liu Xiaoxi's torn clothes, "Did you run into trouble?"

  Liu Xiaoxi: "Yes, I ran into two devils, luckily this Brother Zhou saved me."

  Liu Xiaoxi pulled Zhou Guangren along, introducing him to everyone as they walked.

  In the camp, Captain Guo and the soldiers sat around Liu Xiaohui in front of the bonfire.

  Liu Xiaoxi: "...... A convoy of enemy vehicles entered the mountain during the day, with more than a dozen vehicles, and the enemy escorting the vehicles had at least one company."

  Commander Guo thought for a moment: "It seems that the enemy's logistics supply in Changsha can't keep up, how about we give them a blow?"

  Captain Guo smiled at everyone.

  Everyone was in high spirits and expressed:

  "Alright!"

  "Hit! Hit!"

  "Captain Guo, give the order quickly!"

  Captain Guo glanced at Zhou Guangren and whispered to Liu Xiaohui: "Is this person reliable?"

  "If he hadn't killed a devil, I wouldn't be able to see you all today."

  Captain Guo nodded.

  At this time, a scout from the guerrilla detachment ran to report: "Captain, the gunfire just now was the devils' logistics convoy being ambushed!"

  "Which unit is attacking?"

  Scout: "It's dark, can't see clearly."

  Captain Guo ordered: "Assemble the team immediately!"

  Japanese military trucks were speeding down the highway.

  In the dimly lit carriage, Old Yang and Old Cao pulled their hat brims down low and squeezed in among the Japanese soldiers. Old Yang narrowed his eyes to observe the surrounding Japanese troops stealthily.

  Truck after truck stopped slowly outside the warehouse, Iwai got out of the cab and ran to the front of the warehouse, handing over documents and certificates to a military officer at the door for inspection.

  Lao Yang and Lao Cao jumped off the truck with other Japanese soldiers, all of whom left their guns outside the warehouse.

  Lao Cao was a bit nervous and flustered when he got off the bus, and a nail on the carriage board scratched his collar badge.

  Kuroda led the soldiers into the warehouse, and Lao Cao and Lao Yang saw that other Japanese soldiers had left their guns outside the warehouse, so they also left their own guns outside and followed behind the other Japanese soldiers into the warehouse.

  Qin Zhiyong saw Lao Yang and Lao Cao entering the warehouse through his binoculars. He put down the binoculars, drew out his pistol, and gave a low command to the soldiers: "Prepare for battle!"

  Inside the warehouse, Japanese soldiers were carrying ammunition boxes to load onto trucks parked outside the warehouse.

  Lao Yang and Lao Cao also pretended to load cargo, taking advantage of the Japanese soldiers' inattention, suddenly hiding behind the shelves.

  Kuroda walked back and forth in the warehouse, shouting from time to time: "Hey, cheer up! Do a good job! Come on!"

  Lao Yang and Lao Cao hid behind the shelves, rummaging through each cargo box one by one.

  Old Yang muttered in a low voice: "This road is almost suffocating me to death, the whole carriage is full of rotten fish smell!"

  Lao Cao shouted loudly: "How come I didn't smell it?"

  Old Yang was frightened and quickly covered his mouth: "Keep your voice down!"

  The two men finally found several boxes of explosives, so each carried two boxes of explosives, evading the sight of Kuroda and other Japanese soldiers, secretly placing the explosives in several corners of the warehouse, and then connecting the fuses together.

  Lao Cao was connecting the wires when he suddenly noticed a shelf with many boxes marked "Red Cross". He pointed at the boxes to Lao Yang, who was not far away. Lao Yang didn't understand and whispered: "What?"

  Lao Cao also whispered: "Medicine."

  Old Yang still didn't hear clearly and asked in a low voice: "What?"

  Lao Cao's voice rose again: "Medicine."

  Old Yang was so frightened that he gestured wildly at Old Cao.

  Kuroda, who was patrolling back and forth in the warehouse, seemed to have heard something. He stopped in his tracks, turned around, and looked towards the shelf where Old Yang and Old Cao were hiding.

  Lao Yang and Lao Cao crouched tensely behind a shelf, watching Hei Tian through the gaps in the shelves.

  Kuroda looked at the old Yang and Old Cao hiding on the shelves in confusion for a while, then walked away to another place.

  Old Yang and Old Cao both let out a sigh of relief behind the shelf. Old Yang wiped the sweat from his forehead, suddenly he saw a box of Japanese sake, happily took out a bottle and opened it, muttering to himself: "I'll calm down first."

  Old Yang raised the wine bottle and took a big swig, smacking his lips, and furrowed his brow. Old Cao beside him also picked up a glass bottle from a nearby box filled with bottles, opened it, took a sip, and spat it out.

  Old Yang put two more bottles of clear wine in his pocket and asked Old Cao in a low voice, "What's wrong? Not good to drink?"

  "Damn it!"

  Lao Yang almost burst into tears, and Lao Cao was startled by his own voice. The two quickly crouched down.

  Kuroda stopped in his tracks and turned around cautiously, looking towards where the two were hiding.

  Lao Yang and Lao Cao hid behind the shelves, peering through the gaps to see Hei Tian walking towards them with big strides. The two of them hastily retreated step by step, but after retreating several steps, they discovered that there were explosives stored behind them, and they had no choice but to stop.

  Kuroda's "clattering" boot steps were getting closer and closer.

  Old Yang busily pointed to a box of ammunition, gesturing to Old Cao. Old Cao didn't understand what he meant, so Old Yang hastily picked up the box and put it on Old Cao's shoulder, then without saying another word, pushed him out. Old Cao carried the box of ammunition, gritting his teeth as he walked out.

  Hei Tian stopped in his tracks, staring suspiciously at Old Cao, who used an ammunition box to block Hei Tian's line of sight and walked towards him.

  Old Yang hid behind the shelf, watching intently through the gap in the shelf, his hand slowly reaching for the dagger at his waist.

  Lao Cao carried the ammunition box, swaggering past Kuroda's side. Kuroda's gaze slowly moved away from Lao Cao and looked elsewhere. Old Yang let out a sigh of relief and turned to adjust the fuse of the explosives.

  Lao Cao loaded the ammunition box onto the carriage, sneaking a glance at Hei Tian, and found that Hei Tian was checking the transportation of the goods and hadn't noticed him. Lao Cao let out a sigh of relief as he walked past Hei Tian again.

  Kuroda looked around casually and suddenly noticed the badge on Lao Cao's collar, he shouted at Lao Cao: "Hey! What's going on?"

  The unclear old Cao continued to walk forward, Hei Tian quickly took a few steps and blocked Old Cao. Old Cao had no choice but to stop and looked at Hei Tian in confusion.

  Lao Yang heard Hei Tian's shout and quickly put down the fishing line, lying on the cargo rack to observe the situation.

  Kuroda stood in front of Old Cao, his eyes gloomily staring at him: "Your badge has fallen off, don't you know? It's not like you!"

  Lao Cao stood at attention, not knowing what Kuroda was saying. His gaze passed over Kuroda and searched behind the shelves, finding Lao Yang hiding behind the shelves looking this way, his heart slightly more at ease.

  Seeing Old Cao not speaking, Hei Tian was somewhat annoyed: "Can't you speak?"

  Behind the shelf, Old Yang's forehead was sweating, he looked around and saw that on the shelf behind him were two "crooked-handled" light machine guns, and he couldn't help but feel secretly delighted.

  Lao Cao stood upright, looking at Hei Tian in a daze. Hei Tian: "What's your name?"

  Lao Cao was silent.

  "What's your name!"

  Old Cao loudly responded: "Hey! Dumplings are given!"

  Kuroda's face was filled with suspicion: "What?" He looked up and down at Old Cao in surprise, "I've never seen you before? Are you a new recruit?"

  Lao Cao's gaze swept over the black earth, searching behind the shelves. The figure of Lao Yang was nowhere to be seen behind the shelves. In his heart, Lao Cao cursed: "Damn that old bastard Lao Yang!"

  Kuroda saw Old Cao's eyes wandering aimlessly, and he cursed in a flustered tone: "Are they sending mentally unstable people to the troops domestically too? Hey, where are the non-commissioned officers? Come over, does anyone know him?"

  The soldiers who were carrying goods for Kuroda Yoshitaka shouted, and the soldiers stopped what they were doing and gathered around.

  Old Cao suddenly roared: "Old Yang! What are you waiting for, your grandma!"

  Hei Tian was shocked, hastily reaching for his gun. At this time, Old Yang suddenly appeared from behind the shelf, holding a "crooked handle" machine gun in his hand and another on his back, with bullet clips inserted into his belt. He shouted loudly: "Get down!"

  Lao Cao hastily lay down on the ground, Hei Tian turned his head and took a look, was shocked, and immediately ran away.

  Lao Yang's machine gun fired, and the bullets shot out instantly swept away a large area of Japanese soldiers who were gathering together and trying to escape.

  Kuroda hid behind a cargo box and fired at Old Yang, whose machine gun bullets made it impossible for him to lift his head.

  Lao Cao crawled up from the ground and ran behind a cargo box.

  The Japanese soldiers guarding outside the warehouse heard the gunfire and rushed towards the warehouse under Iwai's leadership.

  Qin Zhiyong: "Not good, situation has changed, fight!"

  Several shots rang out, and several Japanese sentries around the warehouse were shot dead.

  The scouts of the reconnaissance platoon, who were ambushing on the hillside, threw hand grenades at the Japanese soldiers outside the warehouse and fired their submachine guns at the enemy in unison. The Japanese soldiers rushing towards the warehouse were knocked down, and they quickly turned around to shoot back at the hillside.

  The Japanese military driver in the truck cab was also beaten to death in his seat.

  In the warehouse, Old Cao hid behind a cargo box, across an aisle, shouting at Old Yang who was loading bullets into his machine gun: "Old Yang!"

  Lao Yang threw the machine gun in his hand to Lao Cao, who caught it with his hands. Lao Yang then threw over a dozen magazines and took off the machine gun on his back.

  At this time, Japanese soldiers rushed into the warehouse.

  Lao Yang and Lao Cao each held a machine gun, hiding behind crates, looking at each other across the aisle. Lao Yang stretched out one finger, then another, and Lao Cao nodded in understanding. When Lao Yang stretched out his third finger, both men stood up from behind the crates, holding their "crooked handles" to sweep fire at the enemy, and the Japanese soldiers rushing in fell to the ground one after another.

  Outside the warehouse, Huang Xintian led three shifts of soldiers to arrive and opened fire on the enemy outside the warehouse together with the soldiers on the hillside.

  Qin Zhiyong was getting anxious in his heart, why hadn't Old Yang and Old Cao come out yet?

  At this time, the warehouse was filled with the bodies of Japanese soldiers.

  Lao Cao charged out of the warehouse with a machine gun, firing at the approaching enemy. Lao Yang loaded a dozen or so boxes of medicine onto the truck outside the warehouse.

  Lao Yang handed the detonator to Lao Cao, then went around to the front of the driver's cabin, pulled down the dead driver, and climbed into the driver's cabin.

  Lao Cao climbed onto the carriage, clutching the detonator cord for the explosives in his hand.

  Old Yang started the car and sped forward.

  Lao Cao pulled out a match and lit the fuse of the explosive, which burned at an extremely fast speed.

  Japanese soldiers shooting from the mountain slope rushed towards the truck, Old Cao held up his machine gun and swept, "Boom" a loud explosion, the warehouse exploded, in an instant, thick smoke rolled, flames soared into the sky, and the air wave knocked Old Cao over in the carriage.

  Explosions continued to erupt inside the warehouse, and many Japanese soldiers outside the warehouse were blown into the air.

  Lao Yang drove his truck out of the thick smoke from the explosion.

  Iwai, whose face had been blackened by the flames, desperately shouted at a truck: "Stop it!"

  The truck drove head-on towards the car driven by Old Yang, who turned the steering wheel sharply to avoid the collision. Old Cao was thrown around in the carriage.

  Lao Yang dodged to the left and right, avoiding the impact of several Japanese military trucks. Lao Yang stepped on the gas pedal, and the truck drove onto the highway. Iwai climbed into the cab of a truck and shouted "Pursue!"

  The members of the guerrilla unit on a forced march heard the explosion and saw thick smoke rising in the distance.

  Captain Guo looked at the rising thick smoke and said: "It must be that the devils' warehouse has been bombed! Quick!"

  Zhou Guangren, who was following behind, whispered to Liu Xiaoxi: "It must be Qin Pai and his men who did it."

  Liu Xiaoxi: "Who is Qin Pai Zhang?"

  Old Yang was driving the truck along the highway, Qin Zhiyong led the scouts down from the mountain, Old Yang saw Qin Zhiyong and hastily stepped on the brakes, the truck came to a stop, Huang Xintian and the soldiers climbed onto the back of the truck, Qin Zhiyong got into the cab.

  At this time, more than a dozen motorcycles and trucks loaded with Japanese soldiers chased from behind. Iwai sat in the driver's cab of the first truck, Kuroda stood on the carriage, put the machine gun on the top of the driver's cab, and shot at the truck where the reconnaissance team was riding.

  Lao Cao, Huang Xintian and the soldiers fired at the motorcycles that were chasing closely behind, two of which burst into flames.

  The motorcycle behind rushed up again, and the Japanese machine gunner in the sidecar shot at the truck where the reconnaissance squad soldiers were riding.

  In the driver's cab, Qin Zhiyong stared at the rearview mirror and shouted to Old Yang: "Faster! Faster!"

  Old Yang gripped the steering wheel tightly: "Shift gears, if you go any faster, we'll overturn."

  Another motorcycle following close behind bursts into flames, and the fighters erupt in cheers.

  Kuroda stood on the swaying truck bed, gripping the "crooked handle" machine gun, taking aim and firing in short bursts, hitting the truck's wheels, the tires screeching loudly as they scraped against the road surface.

  "What's wrong?" Qin Zhiyong asked urgently in the driver's cabin.

  Old Yang shouted: "The tire has been blown out!"

  The truck crashed into the cliff on one side of the highway.

  Old Yang gripped the steering wheel tightly, sweating profusely, and slammed on the brakes. The truck stopped at the edge of the cliff, with its front wheels already hanging over the edge.

  In the carriage, Old Cao, Huang Xintian and the soldiers fired at the enemy in the back, and soldiers were constantly falling down after being shot.

  Qin Zhiyong and Old Yang jumped out of the driver's compartment. Qin Zhiyong shouted loudly to the soldiers in the carriage: "Get off the mountain!"

  Lao Cao, Huang Xintian and the soldiers carried ammunition boxes and medicine boxes, jumped off the car and climbed up the mountain.

  Pursuing motorcycles and trucks also stopped, Japanese soldiers jumped off the car, under the command of Iwai and Kuroda, charging and shooting up the mountain.

  On the halfway up the mountain, Qin Zhiyong, Old Cao, Huang Xintian and the soldiers were fighting while retreating, some of the soldiers were shot and rolled down the mountain.

  The guerrillas were running along the mountain path, with dense gunfire constantly coming from a distance.

  "Quick! Quick!" Captain Guo shouted to his teammates behind him.

  Liu Xiaoxi occasionally turned his head and shouted at Zhou Guangren who was running behind: "Brother Zhou, hurry up!"

  "Coming!" replied Zhou Guangren, panting heavily.

  The gunfire suddenly subsided and everyone stopped in their tracks.

  Zhou Guangren gazed into the distance with a worried heart, thinking to himself: "Qin Pai Chang, how are you all doing? I really miss you!"

  Under the moonlight, Iwai and Kuroda commanded the soldiers to search forward.

  Suddenly, Kuroda pointed ahead and whispered to Iwai, "Captain, look! The enemy is right in front of us!"

  Iwai Mika looked back and saw a group of people wearing National Army uniforms quietly advancing on the mountain path.

  Iwai gritted his teeth and said: "Surround them! We must annihilate them!"

  Under the moonlight, Qin Zhiyong led the reconnaissance team soldiers rushing along the mountain path...

  Kuroda led a squad of Japanese soldiers stealthily forward, their bayonets and steel helmets glinting white in the moonlight...

  Iwai led another group of Japanese soldiers to quietly approach the National Army troops, Iwai drew his sword and swung it forward, the Japanese soldiers rushed forward silently...

  Kuroda drew his sword and waved it forward, commanding the soldiers to charge forward...

  Under the moonlight, the scouts were running along the mountain path when suddenly a fully armed troop appeared vaguely on the nearby high ground, surrounding the scout team. Muzzles of guns protruded from the bushes.

  Qin Zhiyong and the soldiers were shocked and stood still. Old Yang: "It's over, platoon leader, we've been surrounded by devils!"

  Lao Cao: "What to do? Line up! Let's go all out!"

  "Come on! Line up!"

  Qin Zhiyong gave a low command: "Disperse formation, prepare for battle!"

  The warriors quickly dispersed and aimed their guns in all directions...