Chapter 73

From the telescope, he saw the puppet troops stop at the village entrance and take cover on the spot. The Fat Man was somewhat puzzled and raised the telescope to look at Commander Wu. He saw this bastard take off his military cap and fan himself, cursing all the while, clearly in a bad mood.

This makes sense. It seems that the bandits from Black Wind Mountain haven't come, not because Li Liù's intelligence was wrong, but because Commander Wu, this bastard, didn't expect it himself.

The Fat Man's lips curled up, and he secretly chuckled. He had a good guess as to why the bandits from Black Wind Mountain hadn't shown up yet.

Monkey's shot that cut off the lineage, Zhou Xióng, seeing his son become a eunuch, couldn't sleep at night. Arriving late was to be expected.

What he feared most was that Commander Wu, while waiting for Zhou Xióng, would get bored and send the puppet troops into the village to scout, which could lead to the discovery of Colonel Ma and his men, forcing them to open fire and alert the cunning old fox, Commander Wu, and also make the four heavy machine gun positions guarding the village's entrances and exits reveal themselves prematurely.

Sometimes, what you fear most is exactly what happens. After a while, Commander Wu indeed couldn't hold back and sent two soldiers to start searching the village. The puppet troops had already blocked the village entrance, so there was no fear of the Eighth Route Army inside escaping. Even if they tried to run, they couldn't escape with the door and the Type 92 infantry gun.

"Go, call Big Lei for Fat Man, and bring two boxes of the Eighth Route Army's grenades over," the Fat Man whispered to Monkey.

In this era, there were no individual communication devices, so everything depended on the commander's ability to adapt to unexpected situations.

Monkey nodded and went. Soon, he returned with Lei Dàbiāo, each carrying a box of grenades and moving stealthily.

The Fat Man nodded, and the two placed the two boxes of grenades on the cart, opened the boxes to expose the grenades, making them ready for use at any time, then raised the telescope again to observe the movements of the puppet troops.

The worst-case scenario didn't happen, but the situation wasn't much better. The battlefield was always full of unknowns, and all battle plans became useless once the enemy was engaged.

After Commander Wu sent two scouts into the village, the Fat Man's telescope finally revealed a group of bandits carrying guns, about three hundred in number. The leader was a short middle-aged man. No need to guess, this must be Zhou Xióng, and these were the bandits from Black Wind Mountain.

After Zhou Xióng and Commander Wu met, they discussed for a while and decided to send over a hundred bandits to the back of the village, while another hundred charged directly at the village entrance.

These bandits didn't seem to be cautious at all. It was impossible for three hundred bandits to deal with just twenty or thirty Eighth Route Army soldiers.

"Old fox!" The Fat Man cursed under his breath. He had been observing, but didn't expect Commander Wu to be so cunning, keeping his own troops on the outside to protect himself and preserve his strength, while letting the bandits from Black Wind Mountain do the fighting.

The scenario of both groups charging into the village together didn't happen. The main players were all there, but before he could decide whether to start the attack, gunshots rang out in the village. Clearly, the puppet troops who had entered the village to scout had encountered Colonel Ma and his men.

This was the agreed-upon signal to start the attack, but only half of the bandits from Black Wind Mountain had entered the village, the other half were still outside.

The four Maxim machine guns assigned to the village entrance and exit, all from Tiger Mouth Mountain, lifted their camouflage and opened fire, regardless of whether all the bandits from Black Wind Mountain had entered the village. They fired into the crowd, causing chaos.

The puppet troops and the bandits from Black Wind Mountain immediately organized a counterattack. The two machine gun positions at the village entrance and exit were relatively easy to handle, as there were only a hundred bandits. One machine gun swept into the village, the other swept outside, and due to the close distance and the bandits crowding together, the machine guns mowed them down like cutting wheat.

However, the machine gun positions at the village entrance were under joint attack from the puppet troops and over a hundred bandits. The puppet troops, having received military training, knew to spread out. When the two machine guns opened fire, the bandits from Black Wind Mountain were the ones who fell, while the puppet troops remained unharmed and organized a counterattack. The five-man Maxim machine gun teams were hit by the puppet troops' Czech ZB-26 machine guns, reducing their numbers by half.

The puppet troops set up their grenade launchers, ready to knock out the two machine gun positions.

Fortunately, the Fat Man had given instructions beforehand. The two Maxim machine guns, seeing the grenade launchers, panicked. If they were hit, they would be finished. So the two Maxims fired at the grenade launchers, preventing them from setting up and firing, much to the frustration of Commander Wu, who was supervising from behind.

Commander Wu finally realized he had been tricked. Four Maxim machine guns meant this must be a battalion of the Eighth Route Army.

The battle was in complete chaos. The bait that was supposed to be attacked wasn't, and the Maxim machine guns responsible for the slaughter were being slaughtered instead.

The Fat Man was stunned. What ambush?

This ambush was getting more and more chaotic, and everything was going off-script. Since it was already a mess, he decided to make it even more chaotic. He said to Lei Dàbiāo, "Get in the cart, throw grenades for Fat Man!"

He then shouted to the hidden Eighth Route Army and bandits, "Charge for Fat Man, let's do it!"

The impatient Eighth Route Army and the Tiger Mouth Mountain brothers charged like a pack of tigers, firing as they went, but their commanders were even faster.

"Rat-a-tat-tat..." The Fat Man's heavy machine gun didn't hold back. Lei Dàbiāo kept throwing grenades at the puppet troops, and Monkey, driving the cart, moved left and right, always keeping the Maxim gun aimed at the puppet troops and the bandits from Black Wind Mountain.

"Bang-bang-bang..." A burst of gunfire, and a row of puppet troops at the back fell instantly. A bullet even knocked off Commander Wu's military cap, scaring him into hiding in the grass.

Looking closely, a cart charged out from the woods on the small hill outside the village, followed by a large group of people, including Eighth Route Army soldiers and farmers. Wait, no, they were the people from Tiger Mouth Mountain, and leading the charge was none other than Tiger Race.

Before the Japanese arrived, he had drunk with Tiger Race and planned to incorporate Tiger Mouth Mountain. He never expected this guy to join the Eighth Route Army?

Commander Wu painfully realized he had been ambushed and tricked. Looking around, he didn't see the traitor Li Liù, but suddenly felt a chill at the back of his head, like a gun was pointing at him, making him shiver.

"Don't move, or I might accidentally fire and put a hole in your head!" Li Liù, holding a Mauser pistol, pressed the barrel against the back of Commander Wu's head.

"Li Liù, brother, Commander, I've always treated you well!" Commander Wu stammered, trying to build rapport with Li Liù while reaching for his own gun, but Li Liù had already taken it.

No problem, I still have one, Commander Wu thought, reaching for his leg, but before he could, the gun was taken by Li Liù. "Commander Wu, I've been with you for four years. Do you think I don't know your habit of always having a backup?" Li Liù said coldly.

"Don't push your luck, or I might accidentally fire!" Li Liù snorted.

Commander Wu, hearing this, wilted. A man had been plotting against him for four years, and he hadn't noticed. He deserved this.

With the highest commander captured, the surrounding puppet troops didn't know, as the situation was too chaotic. They could only focus on their own survival, especially with the machine gun on the cart, which was their nightmare, impossible to hit.

The cart was very agile, moving left and right, and the Maxim gun on it fired at the puppet troops, who couldn't escape. There was also a man on the cart throwing grenades, both far and accurately.

"Rat-a-tat-tat..."

A burst of fire took down three puppet troops. The Fat Man, holding the Maxim, felt his stomach churn from the cart's jolts and cursed in his heart, "Damn, bring the Jeeps for Chiang Kai-shek!"

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