Chapter 016: Casting Out Bait

  The sky gradually brightened, but Commander Yang was still fast asleep.

  In fact, except for some necessary guards, the entire second team had already fallen asleep.

  He rubbed his blurry eyes and let out a yawn, slowly getting up.

  If in his original world, Yang Jun Ruo would still be sleeping, but now it's not possible, here there is always a fatal danger at any time.

  As the highest official, Yang Junran also had to be vigilant at all times.

  A few women from afar had already walked over, which made Yang Junran secretly relieved that he had woken up in time, otherwise his sleeping posture would have been exposed.

  "Commander Yang." Zhou Yulan walked over and said to Yang Junran.

  He glanced at Zhou Yulan's lieutenant general uniform, which was very stylish, but there was still a veil on her face, which made Yang Junran feel sorry.

  Chen Qiao stood by with an air of nonchalance, her eyes scanning the surroundings as if searching for Yang Junran's troops.

  "Hey, you didn't come with just these few people, did you? If so, I think you should go back." Chen Qiaoru said to Yang Junran after searching for half a day, staring at him.

  Mei glared at Chen Qiao and pointed to a patch of weeds not far away, saying: "Take a closer look yourself, and take another look at your left side."

  Chen Qiaoru looked puzzled, but still didn't find anything.

  Yang Junran smiled and said: "Commander Zhou, I have a plan, hope you can cooperate with me."

  Seeing Yang Junran's confident appearance, Zhou Yulan said in confusion: "How can we cooperate with you?"

  Yang Junran sat on the ground, roughly drawing a simple map and said: "You are holding back the main force of the Japanese army in the mountainous area. We will send a small team to attract the Japanese army, lure them here, and then concentrate our forces to eliminate them. Some simple fortifications have been built here, which can completely annihilate hundreds of Japanese soldiers."

  Zhou Yulan looked at Yang Junran with confidence and couldn't help but ask, "What if the Japanese army doesn't come to attack you? Won't this plan fall through?"

  Yang Junran glanced at the Japanese corpses not far away and smiled: "They will definitely come."

  Meng Yumei frowned and said to Yang Junran, "You're setting up an ambush here, but it's better to move forward a bit. There's a small path there with high mountains on both sides. You can occupy the advantageous terrain and attack the Japanese army from above, but there are Japanese troops stationed there."

  Yang Junran heard that there were Japanese troops stationed, and he began to think. Now it was not necessary to expose his own strength, otherwise the Japanese army would not be easily deceived. Only by secretly resolving this group of Japanese troops could he complete his plan.

  "Yu Mei, take your men and help Commander Yang deal with this Japanese troop." Just then, Zhou Yulan gave the order.

  "Impossible, we can deal with these Japanese troops. Jin Mingcheng, gather the scouts and also select some veteran soldiers to follow me into action." Yang Junran was a man who cared about his reputation, if he let a woman help him fight, he would probably have no way to lead his troops again.

  Jin Mingcheng, who was standing beside Zhou Yulan, was very displeased when he heard her words. After hearing Yang Junran's order, Jin Mingcheng quickly walked towards the weeds on one side.

  After a while, Jin Mingcheng led more than 50 people over.

  "Commander Zhou, as long as you pin down the main force of the Japanese army, I am confident that we can annihilate a part of it. Now with this advantageous terrain, we can completely annihilate an entire battalion of the Japanese army." Yang Junran seemed to be trying to save face for himself, claiming earlier that he could annihilate several hundred Japanese soldiers, but now he had changed his claim to annihilating an entire battalion.

  Looking at the man in front of her, Zhou Yulan couldn't help but smile and led her people to walk towards the mountain.

  Although they took different roads, Zhou Yulan still let Meng Yumei bring a few people to follow Yang Junran from behind.

  There were not many Japanese troops on both sides of the high mountains. There were only more than ten Japanese soldiers on each high mountain, and two heavy machine guns blocked the road below the mountain.

  Not far from here is where Yang Junran is preparing to launch an ambush, the Japanese army has added two light machine guns, aimed at the outside, preventing anyone from approaching this place.

  Yang Junran was in a dilemma, this terrain is very complex, wanting to easily solve them is a difficult problem.

  Especially need to quickly solve them, can't disturb the Japanese army in the mountain area, it's even more difficult.

  The entire unit stopped and hid, Yang Junran carefully aimed at the Japanese army with a formal rifle, but due to the distance, he was not sure if he could hit them accurately.

  "Commander Yang, I know how to get past them. Just let your men follow me and we'll be fine." Meng Yumei said with a smile as she walked over to Yang Junran.

  Yang Junran looked at Meng Yumei and nodded, then randomly ordered a few soldiers to follow Meng Yumei as they walked forward.

  As for Meng Yumei, Yang Junran had previously felt that this woman seemed very cold, but now it seems that's not the case.

  "Go and tell Commander Jin of the rear camp to lead his troops over quickly." Yang Junran walked forward, saying this to a soldier behind him.

  The warrior heard and quickly ran towards the back.

  Meng Yumei was very familiar with the terrain here and quickly led the soldiers to circle behind the Japanese army.

  Yang Junran was leading a dozen soldiers, following behind a female guide.

  It wasn't long before Yang Junran circled around to the rear of the Japanese army.

  Seeing Meng Yumei across from him making preparations, Yang Junran signaled for the female soldier in front of him to come down and have his troops make preparations.

  The female soldier knew her mission was accomplished and walked down randomly.

  Yang Junran raised his arm and swung it quickly downwards.

  After getting the information, people on both sides took swift action. More than a dozen Japanese soldiers didn't even know what was happening before they died under the dagger.

  After occupying the position, Yang Junran hastily ordered his troops to build fortifications.

  Jin Mingcheng from afar had brought people over and joined the sequence of repairing the array.

  The machine gun battalion combined with the lessons of last time, quickly found a piece of open shooting ground on high land and built its own machine gun position.

  The mortar battalion was on one side of the machine gun battalion, and chose a safe highland to build an artillery position.

  "I'll take a company of soldiers from the Sixth Regiment and lead them to lure the Japanese troops. You wait here, and when the Japanese troops come after us, give me a good beating. We must annihilate the Japanese troops, not let them return alive." Yang Junran carefully checked his own Type 99 rifle and said to Jin Mingcheng beside him.

  "Commander, I think I should go instead. It's just too dangerous."

  Yang Junran smiled and pointed to the village in the distance, saying: "If it's about acting, you guys don't have my talent. It's just that I don't have time, otherwise I would definitely be more famous than Hu Die. You can rest assured, there won't be any problems."

  Seeing the worried eyes of the warriors around him, Yang Junran made a strong effort to appear relaxed.

  It's not that the warriors have any feelings for Yang Junran, it's just that they know if this commander is sacrificed, their own future days will be even more difficult.

  A team of over a hundred people has gathered, all equipped with Japanese-style weapons. If not for the consideration of their height, Yang Junran would have directly issued them Japanese military uniforms and had them infiltrate the Japanese command center to take out the highest-ranking Japanese officer. However, looking at the unevenly-sized troops in front of him, Yang Junran abandoned this idea - the Japanese were no fools.

  "Let's go!" Yang Junran waved his arm and shouted loudly.

  The troops quickly walked into the mountain village, and Meng Yumei was by Yang Junran's side, serving as a guide.

  The peaceful scenery along the way was gone, replaced by rice fields messed up by the Japanese army.

  The village in the distance has stopped burning, emitting a lot of smoke.

  Yang Junran knew that the village was set on fire by the female soldier's handwriting, but he still felt somewhat displeased.

  "Commander Yang, why are you leading the troops to charge forward personally? Aren't you afraid of death?" Meng Yumei blinked her eyes and asked Yang Junran with a puzzled expression.

  Looking at Meng Yumei's beautiful face, Yang Junran didn't dare to express his true thoughts.

  Yang Junran is afraid of death, extremely afraid of death.

  If he had a choice, Yang Junyan would rather stay in the county seat directing battles than lead troops himself.

  However, Yang Junran had no choice. The troops he commanded were a motley crew of various irregular military organizations. He had to quickly establish his authority in order to command such a force; otherwise, it was likely that the force would split into factions after becoming powerful.

  Watching Yang Junran thinking, Meng Yumei couldn't help but admire this commander who looked a few years younger than herself.

  Of course, Meng Yumei didn't know Yang Junran's thoughts. If she knew that Yang Junran was very afraid of death, it would probably be another story.

  The forward scouts had already made a gesture of halting their advance, and the entire unit went into random concealment.

  The carts pushed by several soldiers behind were still on the road.

  Yang Junran revealed a ruthless smile as he glanced at the Japanese military officers and men on the big truck.

  He is not an evil man, but he knows what kind of troops he's up against.

  If he doesn't even know about the Nanjing Massacre, then Yang Junran is not Chinese.

  What I did was probably just a drop in the ocean for the Japanese army.

  "Fire!" Yang Junran shouted to the soldier beside him.

  A warrior quickly fired an anti-aircraft gun, attracting the attention of the Japanese army.

  The vanguard in front quickly returned and merged with the main force behind.

  Each row of crooked handle light machine guns has made shooting preparations, as long as the number of Japanese troops is not large, they will immediately open fire.

  The Japanese troops in the distance heard the sound of gunfire and immediately dispatched a Japanese squad to come and investigate.

  When the thirteen Japanese soldiers advanced in search formation, they saw their comrades on the big truck and were extremely angry.