Chapter 34: The Astonishing Heart-Grabbing Battle (Part 2)

  At 10:20, the moon was already in the middle of the sky. The assault team, led by Gao Junping, bypassed Dongjia House and crossed a ridge, with Xiliang Village below the mountain ridge. It's called a mountain, but it's actually a hill, with a strange stream cutting off a piece of the hill, and Xiliang Village is at the foot of the cliff on flat ground. The Xiliang River winds westward north of the village and flows into a tributary of the Sanggan River. Along the trend of the Xiliang River, the village runs east-west, with a household of the Yin surname in the middle position, said to have a well that is a living god of wealth. Now it has declined, with few people in the family, and they had long since fled into the mountains with the common people. Xiliang Village was not a big village, with its main street being a single east-west street along the Xiliang River, and the narrow, winding alleys to the south and north were asymmetrical. The Yin household was in the middle of the main street, with its gate facing the street, and its three-courtyard compound almost reached the edge of the village. There were no alleys nearby, and the courtyards around it must have been occupied by devils, as Yang Ye's command post was set up in this Yin household.

  Xixi Village is located in the northeast direction of Dongjiafang, less than five miles away. Five miles behind is the garrison of Yano's two infantry brigades - Yehezhen on the left and Wangtunzi on the right, forming a triangle with Dongjiafang, and Yano's garrison is in the middle of this triangle.

  To the west of Xixi Village, there was a small forest where the devils had set up an outpost. At each entrance to Dongxi Village, there were two machine gun forts, with the Beixi River to the north and sentries patrolling at each alleyway entrance to the south. Through the night vision scope, Yang Jie also discovered that in three houses along their route, devils were stationed, and from time to time, devils would appear on a certain rooftop. Yang Jie handed the night vision scope to Li Baoguo and turned around to say something to Kang Nianshan.

  After everyone had taken a look, Yang Wei spoke out his own idea, "We enter from the alley in the southwest, here is slightly farther away from the devils' headquarters, and the devils' defense is relatively weak. Then to the third courtyard, and cross over horizontally until we reach the devils' headquarters. When retreating, exit through the main gate, along the big street towards the west. What do you think?"

  "There are three houses along this road with devils stationed inside, as well as open and hidden sentries, mobile sentries. In these places there are." Nan Erxin marked some sentry positions on the route map drawn by Yang Kuang, he was a sniper, for such simple sentry positions one glance could see through, some were his inferences. It seems that he is also thinking about how to attack better.

  "The key is to not let the devils detect us before attacking their headquarters. Old Kang, after we launch our attack on the small forest's devils, you go and annihilate them. If there are no other opinions, prepare and start the action."

  Under the cover of the grass and trees, these people began to slide down the cliff. The 100-meter cliff wasn't too high, but it took a full 30 minutes. Here was already very close to the Creek Village, and they had to be careful with what they were doing.

  The sentry at the entrance of the alley walked back and forth with his gun, completely unaware of the two moving bushes that had appeared not far from him. Nan Weiren had been keeping an eye on Yang Wei and Li Baoguo, and when he saw they were in position, he gently pulled the trigger of his sniper rifle. The sound was no louder than the occasional bird calls coming from the bushes, but it still made the person crouching next to him jump. The Japanese sentry suddenly went limp and fell to the ground, and almost simultaneously Yang Wei and Li Baoguo emerged from their hiding place, with Yang Wei quickly pulling the still-standing Japanese soldier into the shadows of the alley. They sat the soldier down in a sitting position, making it look like he was sleeping. The two men bent down and crept along the wall to the entrance of the left courtyard, where the gate was slightly ajar. Yang Wei carefully pushed the gate open and slipped inside. Listening carefully, they could only hear the clear singing of autumn insects, with no other sounds coming from within the courtyard. The shadow wall was very low, with several wooden bars laid across it, supporting dry vines and vegetables. Moonlight filtered through the uneven gaps in the wall, casting a black shadow on the ground that made Yang Wei grab Li Baoguo's arm to stop him from entering the courtyard. Yang Wei pointed at the shadow, which clearly belonged to someone crouching on the roof of the house in front of them.

  As he exited the gate, Yang Jie pointed to the rooftop of the gatehouse, indicating that he was going up and wanted Li Baoguo to cover him. He gently put down his submachine gun and grenade, and pulled out a specially modified pistol from Li Kewe. The original 20-round magazine had been replaced with a 50-round one, and a silencer had been installed. The trigger had become smoother. Setting the selector switch to single shot, Yang Jie didn't wait for Li Baoguo's reaction and sprang up onto the rooftop of the gatehouse in one swift motion. Although the gate was not high, Li Baoguo would have needed someone to give him a boost to climb up, but Yang Jie had done it with ease. Next, he heard the muffled sound of the silencer-equipped pistol, and Li Baoguo tensely held his gun, looking around cautiously as he crouched in one corner of the gatehouse. As soon as Yang Jie reached the rooftop, he realized how dangerous their situation was - there were enemy sentries on all the surrounding rooftops, but they were all lying down and wouldn't show themselves unless something unusual happened. Yang Jie was extremely satisfied with Li Kewe's craftsmanship - the 50-round magazine would be enough to support him in a killing spree across the rooftops. Before his body even landed on the rooftop, the pistol in his hand had already fired, and two enemy sentries were killed instantly without having time to react. After a brief pause, Yang Jie sprang towards the rooftop of the courtyard to the right, and his pistol almost simultaneously opened fire again. There were no enemy troops stationed in the four courtyards. When Yang Jie finished clearing out the sentries on the rooftops and searched the houses with Li Baoguo, they found that the enemy had only set up sentry posts at a few key locations.

  Li Xue Rong and Li Xue Hu came up, according to plan, Yang Jie and Li Bao Guo were below, Nan Wei Ren was on the roof, starting to move horizontally towards the enemy's command center. Nan Wei Ren only indicated the direction and the enemy's sentry post, and Yang Jie and Li Bao Guo killed the devils. When Yang Jie saw Nan Wei Ren shaking his head, he pulled Li Bao Guo, and the two of them almost simultaneously climbed over the wall between the two courtyards, flipping into the courtyard. Suddenly, the sound of a gun bolt being pulled came from inside the house, Yang Jie raised his hand and fired one shot, his body followed and floated over, there were actually three devils in the house, another two were digging something on the ground, the light gunfire did not disturb their work, it was worth Li Bao Guo's foot stepping forward, the two of them looked up and said, "Consider yourselves lucky, we'll give you a share, don't make any noise."

  Yang Jie's gun fired without hesitation, and two devils fell head-first into the pit. Under the mud that had been turned up, a yellow object was exposed. Li Baoguo bent down to pick it up, and it was a small golden Buddha, about the size of a fist. He looked at Yang Jie and asked what to do.

  "Take it away!" Yang Jiong said softly.

  Further east was the alley, Yang Jie lightly opened the large gate and saw that there were no devils in the alley. He flashed to the opposite side of the gate and went past another alley to the wall of the Shōgun's headquarters. Nan Wei Ren indicated that he hadn't found any sentry posts on the rooftops, probably because they were in a central location in the village, and the sentry posts became fewer and farther between. Just as he was about to push open the gate, Yang Jie suddenly heard a faint snoring sound coming from behind the gate. A devilish sentinel was leaning against the gate resting, the snore wasn't loud but it was very even. Yang Jie signaled Li Bao Guo to wait for a moment and turned around to go outside the courtyard wall. Nan Wei Ren suddenly sent out an alarm signal that there was a dog in the yard. Yang Jie didn't dare use his gun and lightly drew out his own tiger tooth, flew over the wall and entered. Indeed, a wolf-like dog let out a low growl and pounced over. Before Yang Jie's body even landed on the ground, his tiger tooth had already turned outward, the wolf dog was like a deflated ball, falling towards the ground, being caught by Yang Jie with one foot and placed gently on the ground. In the gate tunnel there was a sentinel who was hugging his gun with his eyes closed, suddenly feeling that it was dark in front of him, opening his eyes to see that a shining cold knife had already appeared in front of him. Just as he was about to shout loudly, he felt a chill in his throat, like a cold wind blowing past, silently opening and closing his mouth, the pain began to spread out, a feeling of weakness spreading everywhere. Yang Jie lightly moved him away, opened the gate, and Li Bao Guo flashed inside.