Chapter Sixty: Enticing the Tiger to Leave Its Mountain

  Yao Shiran managed to save his life, but now his entire family of nearly twenty people is being guarded by a squad of soldiers on Hei Hu Mountain, where they are forced to open up and cultivate the land. Yao Shiran is so resentful that he could die. As the head of the Yao clan, this old man still wanted to take advantage of his privileges and slack off secretly, but as a result, he didn't escape being beaten by the soldiers' rifle butts. Gradually, he too began to work diligently.

  Lin Yuru arranged the daily farm work and watched from afar as these people, who were not diligent in their four limbs and did not distinguish between the five grains, clumsily worked. She found considerable pleasure in this. With her on the reclaimed land, these people's lives could be preserved. You Fei was not so ungrateful to Lin Yuru. Moreover, she could make these former parasites who only knew how to eat create food, and Lin Yuru became more and more convinced that she had found the right position for herself.

  It's just the right time for spring plowing, and Lin Yurui is calculating how much rice to plant to feed the 259 travelers, a big family of good men. Just as she was lamenting that there were not enough people to work on the land, You Fei brought her another batch of stout fellows with full bellies. Lin Yurui "praised" them for a few sentences: "These fat guys look like they can't be tired out, and they don't look like good people either. I'll definitely make them work harder."

  You Fei secretly returned to the brigade and began discussing a new plan with everyone. The main points of the plan were to seize the enemy's supplies, seize the enemy's guns, and also seize the enemy's personnel.

  You Fei finished expressing his own views on fighting for a while, and now he is waiting to hear everyone's opinions.

  Gao Yongtai knocked the dry tobacco pipe against the back of the chair: "Cough, cough! I think it's just a matter of robbing those Japanese devils! Divide into small teams and act separately. If you can rob, then rob everything. If you can't win, then scatter and run back. I reckon those little devils won't dare to chase us all the way into the mountains."

  Wang Lie: "Huh! I think Old Gao is right. We, the Storm Troop, are most skilled at doing these kinds of small-scale guerrilla warfare against the devils. Now it's just a matter of changing what we're snatching. Doing it this way actually suits my temperament."

  Jiang stood up: "Great... Traveler! I think we'd better not discuss it anymore! Let's just do it! I'll go gather the troops now."

  "Sit down! What's the big trip, long or short?" Yu Fei shouted, and Jiang Zhuang obediently sat down. Yu Fei said: "This thing is not wrong. But I just feel that something is not quite right. There's something that hasn't been thought of. Everyone think again."

  Everyone lowered their heads in contemplation, except for Jiang who was still looking around.

  Suddenly Jiang's condition jumped up, stretched out his hand pointing at the door "Heh...... heh...... heh......" and shouted.

  A man wearing a linen suit and a brand new round hat walked into the house, taking off his hat and hanging it on the wall. Who is this?

  As soon as that person turned around, You Fei suddenly jumped up and rushed over to hug him: "Tian Hao! You're back!"

  He Tianhao blinked his eyes, and quietly shook off two tears. Suppressing his excitement, he said: "I brought back 200 guns for us! Big brother! I'm back!"

  "Brother!"

  Jiang Zhuang, Wang Lie and Gao Yongtai also stepped forward and grabbed He Tianhao. For a moment, several people fell silent.

  "You're back just in time! I'll fill you in on the situation later!" said You Fei.

  He Tianhao looked around and suddenly asked: "Where's Xu Zhiwei? Where's Lao Sun? Lao Dong... are they all busy with other things?"

  "They're all gone!" You Fei said in a low voice.

  "What?" He Tianhao was stunned, and then burst into loud sobs. The people around him just looked on silently, while Jiang Zhuang accompanied He Tianhao in tears!

  He Tianhao burst into tears, and after crying for a while, he sat down on the edge of the old kang in the house: "Speak! Tell me about the current situation! Don't forget, I am the chief of staff of the 259th Brigade! At the most critical moment of the 259th Brigade, I was not there! Now I want to make up for what I should have done!"

  "Tianhao! You..." You Fei wanted Tianhao to go rest first, but couldn't say it out loud.

  "Everyone sit down! Let's talk business!" He Tianhao said calmly.

  Then everyone sat down, and Wang Lie began to introduce the situation: "It's like this! After we broke out..."

  The light in the house gradually dimmed, and the patrolling guards quietly lit the oil lamps inside. The people in the house talked until very late at night.

  After careful discussion, according to plan, the three detachments of Lie Feng coordinated with an ordinary infantry company and set out for the enemy's controlled area. The troops left behind were also making tense preparations...

  Gao Yongtai led a company and a small team of Li Feng, who first launched a fierce attack on the enemy's stronghold in the mountainous area. More than a dozen devils saw that Gao Yongtai's attack was not small, and they quickly asked for support from nearby strongholds and the main Japanese army in the rear.

  However, the usually stubborn little devils did not hold on until reinforcements arrived. The sharpshooter of the Storm even shot bullets into the loopholes of the fortifications, and when two squads of Japanese soldiers and a company of reinforcements arrived, Gao Yongtai's unit had just finished clearing the battlefield.

  Right under the enemy's nose, there was a fort, an underground fort, equipped with two light machine guns, a standard stronghold, which was blown up to the sky by a large amount of explosives at once.

  The arriving devils had a complete infantry company and two infantry squads. It's said to be an infantry company, but the firepower is not bad at all. The infantry company has three infantry squads, each squad has a machine gun group with two light machine guns, a grenade launcher group with two grenade launchers, and two rifle groups. Even if you just count the number of people, Gao Yongtai's company plus the twelve-man Liefeng squad wouldn't have an advantage. The devil company commander admired the entire strongpoint's fireworks, didn't say a word, and led his men to chase after Gao Yongtai.

  Gao Yongtai didn't hesitate either, and led the team to scatter and run. In fact, he thought that as long as they retreated in the direction of the mountains according to plan, everything would be fine.

  The devils chased for over 20 miles, and when they faced the mountain range in front of them, the devil's company commander was thinking about whether to continue chasing. The battalion led by You Fei and Wang Lie, who had been waiting halfway, surrounded them. Gao Yongtai stopped running too, turned around and fought back fiercely! The three detachments of the 259th Brigade attacked the devils' reinforced company from three directions, seemingly intent on surrounding and annihilating this group of devils.

  The Japanese army, which had been pursuing all the way, immediately formed a defensive formation. In terms of firepower, the devils still had the upper hand. So after they leisurely defended the roadside position, they began to send telegrams for help. You Fei only brought three companies of troops, and it was impossible to surround the entire Japanese battalion, let alone that he didn't even think about surrounding them.

  Three companies faced the devils, using all available light and heavy weapons, a fierce battle, looking very lively. However, the devil's officer saw that these Chinese soldiers were not their opponents at all, because they fought fiercely but few people dared to charge forward. The devils suddenly gained confidence and organized two small teams to counterattack.

  This counterattack, You Fei's troops were indeed pushed back several hundred meters. However, before the devils could get excited for long, Lie Feng's godly sniper spoke up, shouting and charging forward, one by one the devils in front were "named" and picked off, the company that had just retreated several hundred meters again surrounded them. The devilish squad was about to be separated from the middle company, they could only retreat backwards.

  The fierce wind did not mean that they would let them off easily, and the "roll call" was even more frequent. The positive company took advantage of the momentum to launch a charge, beating back all the attacking devils who were still alive.

  Seeing that the breakout was hopeless, the devils defended themselves honestly. According to the time calculated from the received distress call, the large Japanese army would arrive in two hours. And persisting for two hours, these devils could absolutely do it.

  The scattered Chinese troops regrouped, and the Japanese battalion immediately shifted its defensive focus to the direction where You Fei's troops were gathering. The Japanese anxiously waited for a massive charge from the Chinese army, but it never came.

  You Fei and Wang Lie each led a contingent of troops, having already bid farewell to Gao Yongtai.

  "Old Gao! Take them for a stroll! The two battalions at home are at your disposal. Just don't be too aggressive. When the devils of the big regiment come, you retreat. The devils have suffered such a great loss, they will definitely follow you."

  "Hey, Lao Gao! Just like training a dog, hit them when you should, but don't get too worked up. If you beat them to death, be careful they might jump over the wall in desperation!"

  "Hehe! You two can rest assured and go! According to the plan, I won't be back for at least ten days or half a month. Making a fortune still depends on you guys. My task is just to take care of the dog."

  Three people chatted and laughed for a while, then You Fei and Wang Lie led their men to quietly slip away. They circled around in a big arc, making sure the Japanese devils who were fighting wouldn't discover them, before turning back towards the area occupied by the Japanese army.

  In the command post of the 9th Brigade of the Japanese army, a series of bad news made this proud "Imperial" soldier feel extremely suffocated. First, an outpost was quickly taken down by the Chinese army after a strong attack. Then, a squadron that went to support was surrounded. Moreover, under the superior firepower, the squadron had already lost the combat effectiveness of two squads. Shohei Ozawa couldn't understand when the Chinese army became so bold, taking the initiative to attack, ambushing reinforcements, and persisting in the siege without retreating. This was a move that pulled out the whiskers on a tiger's head. The necessary lesson must be taught to this stupid army.

  Kozawa Takehiro suddenly thought, isn't the direction where this Chinese army appeared the same as Hongyun Ridge Town where bandits are rampant? Those idiots from Tokko said they had already bought off the largest group of bandits, so why did these Chinese troops appear from there? Kozawa Takehiro thought and thought, and then he remembered the name You Fei. "You Fei! It was you after all! I should have thought of it earlier! Pass down the order! Instruct the Fujiwara Detachment to dispatch a battalion-sized force to assist the besieged unit. Tell them their opponent is You Fei's 259th Brigade."

  Fujiwara received the order and immediately assembled a large battalion of troops. Thinking that he would meet his old enemy, the 259th Brigade again, Fujiwara said fiercely: "I'll lead the team myself, let's go!" He was going to wipe out the so-called remnants of the Flying Tigers, which only had three companies, and vent the anger from their previous heavy losses.

  The large detachment of Japanese troops led by Fujiwara successfully joined forces with the besieged battalion, and immediately afterwards, Fujiwara noticed that the flying column in front of him had begun to retreat into the mountains.

  Gao Yongtai's retreat was not very fast, and it was strange that the devils were not pursuing very actively. Gao Yongtai had no choice but to let his troops walk at a steady pace, trying to drag the devils behind them as much as possible.

  "Haha! I knew it, You Fei is so cunning! He's clearly trying to lure us into the mountains, definitely setting up an ambush for us! But, I'll give him a big surprise. Haha haha!"

  Fujiwara was slowly and steadily pursuing Gao Yongtai, as he was waiting for the follow-up troops to bring up a whole regiment of mountain artillery and a large number of shells. He wanted to use these shells to blast every suspicious hill that they had to pass through. Without traps, how could the flying bandits be his match?

  Fujiwara burst into loud laughter at this thought.