Japanese and puppet troops surrounded Majiaao Village.

Gao Jiu once warned Li Guishan, the captain of the Public Security Army, that the Public Security Army should not harm the people and let them protect the safety of the people as much as possible.

Li Guishan said to the Japanese brigade leader Yamaguchi: "Yamaguchi Taijun, the life of Huang's soldiers is precious. Let the Beizhi send people to the village to investigate first. If there are ambushing bandits inside, it will also prevent the casualties of Huang's soldiers."

Li Shan took the initiative to ask people to go into the village to investigate and see if he could remind the people in the village, especially women, to hide before the Japanese entered the village, to avoid being harmed by the Japanese.

The Japanese captain of the Yamaguchi was satisfied with Li Guilin's initiative to send someone to take the risk of investigation. He said, "Yo Xi! Captain Li, you are loyal to Huang Jun."

Yamaguchi asked Li Guishan to send a squad to investigate, but he could not trust the security army and sent two Japanese soldiers to the village to investigate with the security army.

Li Guishan was helpless and could only pray for the people in the village silently.

After the Japanese and puppet troops in charge of the investigation entered the village, they saw that there was no one in the village, so they sent a signal to the Yamaguchi Captain outside. Yamaguchi and Li Guishan led the brigade into the village with a brigade.

The number of Japanese soldiers was too large, and every house and yard was filled with Japanese soldiers.

It was noon at this time, and the Japanese began to cook. In order to attract fire, a Japanese soldier saw a pile of corn stalks piled up in the corner of the yard, so he walked over and picked up a bundle.

At this time, he heard something inside and found the young woman holding the child.

The woman and the child were quickly taken to Yamaguchi, who interrogated the woman and asked where the others in the village were going. The woman really didn't know where the people in the village had gone, so Yamaguchi naturally couldn't ask any results.

At this time, Yamaguchi saw that the young woman was still a little pretty, so he became a bad intention. He signaled the Japanese soldiers to take away the child in the woman's arms. The woman struggled desperately and shouted, wanting to take back his child.

Yamaguchi was very angry and took out the turtle box and directly beat the child under three years old to death. Seeing this, the woman screamed and fainted.

When Li Guishan and the officers and soldiers of the Public Security Army saw this tragic scene, they were full of anger, but they did not dare to speak out, so they could only turn their heads to one side.

Yamaguchi picked up the woman and entered the room. After venting his animal desires, he pierced the woman's abdomen with a command knife, then walked out of the room as if nothing had happened, took the meal sent by the orderly soldiers, and started to enjoy it.

Suddenly, gunshots came from outside the village, and several bullets flew from somewhere, killing the three Japanese soldiers standing guard outside the village.

The Japanese came prepared this time. They had learned about the guerrilla tactics of the Taohuashan guerrillas from Hamada Yoshihiro and summarized the solutions to deal with them.

After entering the village, the Japanese army set up firepower groups, machine guns, grenade launchers and mortars in all directions of the village. After being attacked, they immediately fought back fiercely in the direction of the gunshots, suppressing and blocking the attackers, and then attacking the attackers with mortars and grenade launchers.

The attack on the Japanese army outside the village was a six-person special operations team from Zhang Quan's Special Operations Squadron. They all had sniper rifles. The attack on the Japanese army was carried out more than 200 meters away. Their own safety was usually not a big problem.

Unexpectedly, the Japanese army reacted so quickly. Bullets like rain came over and they could only hide on the spot.

At this time, the Japanese grenade launcher and mortar came over and a special forces member was killed on the spot. The other special forces members saw that this was not a solution, so they had to take the risk of escaping, and another special forces member was shot and died.

The special operations teams that attacked the Japanese army in other directions around the village also suffered casualties of varying degrees.

When Zhang Quan saw this situation, he felt a little guilty. He knew that he had underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army, but he quickly came up with the tactics to deal with the Japanese.

Yamaguchi was very satisfied to see the attacker repelled. Unfortunately, he quickly learned about the power of the Taohuashan guerrillas!

Not long after the last attack, mortar shells suddenly flew from all directions, causing great casualties to the Japanese army with a large number of people. When the Japanese firepower team began to counterattack, they could only see that the enemy in the distance had already fled on a war horse. At such a long distance, machine guns and rifles could not reach, and they could only use mortars to fight back.

Next, every once in a while, mortar shells would fly over from different places. These attackers were so abominable that they only fired two shells at a time. When the Japanese army found them, they had not had time to adjust the shooting of the various elements, and the enemy had already escaped from afar.

Seeing that this was not a solution, Yamaguchi ordered to use the village as the center and send half a team to attack forward in each direction to expand the defense circle.

Zhang Quan has changed his tactics. Each combat team only assigned two team members to operate mortars, and the others chose their own sniper positions. The Japanese left the village to conduct field battles. The special forces team members were in their minds and knocked the advancing Japanese to the ground one by one. Each sniper fired only two shots and fled quickly, without giving the Japanese a chance to fight back. After these special forces team members escaped, they continued to lurk in another place, looking for opportunities to snipe the enemy.

Because the special forces members were large and scattered in different positions, cross firepower was formed, and the Japanese were unable to defend themselves. The Japanese commanders, machine gunners, and grenade launchers were the key targets of the special forces members. After the Japanese came out, they were basically beaten and suffered heavy losses.

The mission assigned by the captain of Yamaguchi to the two Japanese squads was to attack 300 meters forward with the village as the center. As a result, none of the team could complete the task. Less than 100 meters after they came out, they were killed 1/3. Except for a small number of Japanese squads who used terrain and land to hide in place, the rest of the Japanese who were still alive returned to the village.

As a result, the situation on the battlefield returned to its previous situation, and the mortars of the special forces kept changing places to bomb the Japanese.

Captain Yamaguchi turned out to be a squadron leader. He had been working as a squadron leader for four years. This time he finally had the opportunity to become the captain.

He was originally full of confidence. Although most of the recruits were recruits, these recruits had been trained in China for more than one year on average. Although they lacked practical experience, their own tactical and technical level was very high. When he reorganized this brigade, a group of combat backbones were drawn, and their combat effectiveness was still very strong.

He was confident that it was very easy to deal with a small guerrilla team. Hamada Yoshihiro introduced the characteristics of the Taohuashan guerrilla team's combat operations. The last time the brigade's predecessor encountered failure mainly because at night, the Huang army could not understand the enemy's situation and was not familiar with the terrain and landforms. He encountered explosives buried by the enemy and ambushed by the enemy, and then he encountered failure.

It is now broad daylight, and it is impossible to encounter ambush from the enemy. You can fight face to face with the enemy.

In the past, even if the Yellow Army had only half of the enemy's strength, it was usually able to quickly defeat the enemy.

Yamaguchi never expected that it would be such an embarrassing situation in front of him.

The captain of Yamaguchi decided to quickly get rid of this passive situation, and he ordered the two squadrons to launch a fierce attack on the west and south.

Under the cover of machine guns and mortars, the Japanese rushed out in a tide. This tactic indeed worked. In order to avoid being surrounded by the Japanese army, the special forces members in the direction of the Japanese army had to evacuate in a hurry.

Captain Yamaguchi was relieved to see this tactic work. After the attacks of these two squadrons, the defense circle was greatly expanded, which could reduce casualties caused by the attacker's mortars.

However, he soon couldn't be happy. He saw the charge of the Huang army soldiers in the telescope, and people were falling down. It turned out that it was the enemy snipers who were ambushing in other directions, constantly harvesting the lives of the Huang army soldiers.

But now, Yamaguchi has no choice but to sacrifice some of its soldiers to expand its defense range.

The attack of the two infantry squadrons finally played a role, pushing the defensive position forward for nearly 300 meters, and the battlefield temporarily stabilized.

When the captain of Yamaguchi received a report on the damage to the war, he almost cried. Just for the sake of these 300 meters, his officers and soldiers had lost more than 110 people. In addition, the losses caused by mortar attacks in front of him, the losses of the entire brigade had reached more than 2,700 people, basically close to 30% of all the troops.

According to the war loss standards of Western troops, the war loss reached 30%, and this unit had to retreat and repair it. The Japanese army was extremely strong and they could fight to the last one. Therefore, the losses of so many officers and soldiers did not affect the fighting will of Yamaguchi and his Japanese officers and soldiers.

In any case, the situation on the battlefield improved a lot. Yamaguchi breathed a little relieved and was thinking about the next combat operation. At this time, the annoying attackers appeared again. In the southwest direction, the Japanese army expanded the defense area, but in the north and east, the hateful mortars were still firing shells. The casualties continued to increase, and soon the total number exceeded 300.

The captain of Yamaguchi realized that he had basically no choice for these attackers who rode horses and came and went like the wind. If the battle continued like this, the infantry brigade would be consumed bit by bit.

The captain of Yamaguchi thought for a long time and finally came up with a solution. He called the third squadron leader and asked him to disperse the entire third squadron in groups, and crawled forward from the entrance of the village, looking for a safe hidden position, and slowly push forward without giving the enemy sniper a chance to get closer.

This tactic really worked. After all, there were not many snipers. Now there are sporadic Japanese outside the village, and snipers are attacked by Japanese from time to time. Some Japanese even pretend to be dead on the ground. When the snipers of the special forces approached, they suddenly launched an attack, causing casualties to the special forces.

Over time, there were scattered Japanese soldiers everywhere in the area ahead. The special forces team members could no longer approach the village to ambush, so they could only retreat to the distance.

In this way, the Yamaguchi Brigade finally controlled the defense area centered on the village, about 500 meters. The Japanese army was scattered within such a large range, and the power of the enemy mortars was difficult to exert.

Zhang Quan saw that the Japanese used this tactic. Now that he used mortars, two shells might not be able to kill a Japanese. He was reluctant to waste the precious mortar shells, so he retreated the special forces to a further place, and was still looking for opportunities to kill the enemy on all sides.

After a period of time, the Japanese troops on the periphery either found favorable shelters or dug up their own shelters. The threat posed by the sniper team gradually decreased, but they did not dare to leave the position, so the two sides formed a confrontation.

But what is strange is that the current battlefield situation is that six or seven hundred Japanese troops were surrounded by special forces of dozens of Zhang Quan.

This is not too outrageous. During the Vietnam War, there was a very typical example. Two thousand US troops were suppressed on a hillside by a Vietnamese sniper for ten hours. The US troops fired hundreds of shells and sent planes to bomb. Even so, they waited until it got dark before getting rid of this embarrassing situation.

Captain Yamaguchi was not very worried about this situation, but was secretly happy. Because he had successfully completed the task assigned to him by Captain Kaya Kotaro.

It turned out that this operation of Yamaguchi Brigade was part of the entire Japanese army's campaign plan.

The main target of the combat plan proposed by Hamada Yoshihiro this time was the 187th Division of Wang Jindong, Zhiyuan County.

In order to achieve the suddenness of the campaign, the Japanese army sent the 115th Regiment, claiming to retaliate against the Taohuashan guerrillas to attract the attention of the Taohuashan guerrillas.

They deliberately stayed in Pingyue County for a few days, causing no trouble, which put a huge pressure on the Taohuashan guerrillas. At the same time, they gave the Taohuashan guerrillas time to strengthen their defense and mobilized Wang Jindong to send people to reinforce.

During this period, the 128th Japanese Brigade went to Tai'an, and at the same time deliberately revealed that the 114th Division was about to go south and join the Wuhan battle, which made Wang Jindong and others even more numb. The Yamaguchi Brigade went to the direction of Taohua Mountain, which completely attracted the attention of all the anti-Japanese armed forces in southwestern Shandong.

On that evening, the Japanese army actually launched an offensive battle against Wang Jindongliang's 187th Division.

At this time, Gao Jiu was waiting for the arrival of Wang Zhankui and others in Taoyuan Town, and the main force of the Taohua Mountain guerrillas was strengthening the fortifications near Taohua Cave.

Jiang Xiaomei's Independence Battalion stared at the rest of the Japanese army in Pingyue County, waiting for Gao Jiu to arrive to cooperate in the battle.

Wang Jindong and others continued to sing and dance in the county town to achieve peace.

At the same time, the 128th Japanese Brigade passed through Tai'an, but they did not go to Zaozhuang, but got off at a small station along the way, then passed through a county-level highway south of Pingtai Highway, and rushed to Zhiyuan County at night.

At the same time, the two main brigades of the 115th Regiment staying in Pingyue County, as well as the strengthened engineer squadron, also advanced towards Taohua Mountain.

The scouts of Jiang Xiaomei's Independent Battalion quietly followed the two brigades of the Japanese army. When they convicted the two brigades of the Japanese army heading to Taohua Mountain, they sent a cavalry correspondent back to Shangzhuangzi and reported to Jiang Xiaomei.

Another investigator continued to follow the Japanese army. The investigator was very careful and followed the Japanese army's large group of troops and marched slowly.

Suddenly, several Japanese soldiers flashed out from the roadside. They did not shoot and rushed forward to stab the independent battalion investigator with a bayonet to death.

After receiving the report, Chiba Kotaro immediately led the main Japanese army troops to turn around and quickly set foot on the road, and then began a rushing march towards Zhiyuan County.

After receiving the report, Jiang Xiaomei informed Gao Jiu of the main force of the 115th Japanese company to Taohua Mountain.

Gao Jiu used telegram to inform Guo Hengming and others who were staying in Taohua Mountain to prepare for defense against the Japanese siege. He joined Wang Zhankui's cavalry battalion and marched towards Majiaao Village.

Jiang Xiaomei's independent battalion received a notice from Gao Jiu, asking them to go to Majiaao Village and prepare for a night battle with the main force of the Japanese 115th Regiment.

This battle operation of the Japanese army successfully concealed the Jinan Station of the Military Control Commission, Gao Jiu, Jiang Xiaomei and Wang Jindong!
Chapter completed!