Chapter 60: The Plan to Ambush and Surround Xuzhou for the Second Time
"The devils' communication soldier has already sent the situation here to the devils' headquarters through the radio, and I believe it won't be long before a large group of little devils will surround this mountain forest!" Chen Shaoqin said with concern when asked by Liu.
The demon in the village, Nomura, is an old opponent of the War Eagle Sniper Team, and Chen Shaoqin's consistent approach is quite familiar to him. Moreover, the terrain here is not conducive to the enemy's mechanized troops' attack and deployment. If a small team comes in, they will end up like Yamada's squad, completely annihilated. Therefore, Chen Shaoqin dares to conclude that Nomura will not let his troops easily enter the mountain to surround them, but instead will adopt a strategy of surrounding the mountain and gradually compressing the range, slowly shrinking the War Eagle Sniper Team's activity range. This situation is extremely unfavorable for Chen Shaoqin and his team, so he naturally can't help but look gloomy and unhappy.
"Are you saying that the devils are going to form another huge encirclement around us?" Lao Liu seemed to suddenly understand something after hearing Chen Shaoqin's words, but his eyes still couldn't reduce their surprise.
"Are you worrying too much? This mountain forest is at least a few hundred miles wide, and there are no major roads around. The little devil's mechanized troops can't easily advance, even if the devils get news that we're here, it's unlikely they can gather such a large force to surround us in a short time." Xue Yumei heard Gua Zi Liu and Chen Shaoqin's conversation, so she walked up to Chen Shaoqin and said.
"That's right, this mountainous area is hundreds of miles wide, with sparse villages and many uninhabited areas. But don't forget, this entire region is occupied territory. Wherever there are people, there are devils, and with their advanced communication systems, they can mobilize all surrounding troops to encircle the mountains in the shortest time possible. This way, the devils won't be coming from just one direction, but from all eight directions, closing in on our central position!" Chen Shaoqin understood that what Xue Yumei said was only surface-level, because he had previously seen the half-map seized from the enemy's hands, which clearly marked this area as within the devils' control. If the devils really implemented their encirclement plan, then they might already be surrounded at this very moment.
"What are we going to do? Can't just wait for the little devils to shrink their encirclement, and finally form a four-sided firepower attack on us?" By this time, Liu's back was starting to feel cool, if the little devils really followed Chen Shaoqin's method of surrounding the mountain, they would have no good way to deal with it, and in the end, they could only wait for death.
"We now have only one way to go!" Chen Shaoqin thought for a while before continuing, "It seems that he had already thought out all the plans and this plan was their only way out. Therefore, he appeared particularly cautious, not daring to be careless in the slightest. He tried his best to grasp every possibility and then thought out a series of countermeasures in his mind. After all, with so many people under his command, even slight misdirection could lead to casualties among his brothers, which was something he least wanted to see."
"Which road is it?" Liu and Xue Yuemei asked almost simultaneously, after all, this matter had reached the most critical point, so when they heard Chen Shaoqin say that there was a way to go, they were naturally eager to know where this road was, so they didn't even need to think about it, and hastily asked Chen Shaoqin.
"Let's go back and head to Xuzhou!" Chen Shaoqin seriously took out the half map, laid it on the ground, and pointed at a mountain road on it, continuing to say to Liu and Xue Yumei, "Then we'll head south from Xuzhou and enter Nanjing!"
"No, no way! This road is full of occupied areas everywhere. Let alone other things, even if it's the devils' sentry post, we can't get past it!" Liu Gan opposed on the spot. They had come down from the Xu State battlefield before, and now that area was already occupied by the little devils. If they went back again, it would be no different from looking for death, so he immediately expressed his opposing opinion.
"Yes, silly big guy, we just barely escaped from Xuzhou, and now we're going back? Isn't that a bit too reckless?" Xue Yumei also stood on the side of Crooked Liu this time, feeling that Chen Shaoqin's decision was completely unreliable. With their current military strength, even if they added Captain Han's men, they wouldn't have more than 200 people in total. If they went back to the Japanese devils' lair in Xuzhou, wouldn't that be like taking eggs to collide with rocks?
"Your idea is not bad, but you will think so, the little devil must also think so. I judge that the little devil will deploy heavy troops in other directions to wait for us to slowly shrink the encirclement, and only this road will not have too many troops. So now we break out from here, it's much easier than the other three directions!" Chen Shaoqin said his analysis and why he wanted to take his brothers through here, he wanted to give the little devil a counter-attack, a sword going against the wind.
"You're right, Chen Shaoqin, this road does look like the easiest place for us to pass through, but we have to walk on foot for such a long distance and face the devils' checkpoints along the way. With our current strength, isn't it a bit too difficult?" Xue Yumei knew that Chen Shaoqin's analysis made some sense, but she was worried that if they really took this route, the difficulties they would encounter might be more than they could currently anticipate. After all, this was the devils' territory, and if they weren't careful, they might suffer a crushing defeat.
"Don't worry, we've decided not to engage the little devils head-on, and we'll avoid fighting if possible!" Chen Shaoqin understood Xue Yumei's concerns, which were also shared by everyone else. He felt it necessary to clarify his plan, so he pointed at the bodies of the little devils on the ground and said, "The more troops the little devils have surrounding the mountain, the more it proves that there aren't many Japanese soldiers inside the mountain. We can give them a real 'Li Kui' - boldly and confidently walking out right in front of them!"
Xue Yumei and Liu the swindler seemed to have not understood Chen Shaogin's meaning, and were even more confused by his words. They couldn't figure out how Chen Shaogin wanted to play the true and false Li Kui plot, or how he planned to get to Xuzhou through Xiaoguizi's occupied territory.
"Don't worry if you don't understand, just tell the brothers to do as I say!" Chen Shaoqin didn't have time to waste explaining things at this point. After all, the devils wouldn't give them much time. The gunfire earlier probably meant that the little devils nearby had caught wind of something and were closing in. Being chased by those little devils would be a big problem, so he thought it was best to withdraw from here as quickly as possible.
