The Spy

Chapter 407 Great Victory
At this time, Niu Yuanxiang was waiting at the second line of defense. He set up his position on the top of a cliff.

The view here is excellent, and as long as they lie down they will not be discovered by the Japanese, and they are in a high place.

Attacking from a high position has always been an advantage. They are in a dominant position and the Japanese are their targets. However, due to the angle, the Japanese cannot see them. Even if the Japanese are very accurate in shooting, the threat to them will be reduced.

The cliff is their best cover.

The biggest advantage here is that it restrains the Japanese artillery. If they want to fire, they can only get very close, otherwise they will be exposed to the sight of the Xiaohuangshan sniper and be accurately sniped.

Niu Yuanxiang had already arranged ten people with good marksmanship to serve as snipers, specifically targeting the Japanese artillery.

The rest of them were scattered across the cliff to control the points.

With this arrangement, the invading Japanese will have a hard time.

Niu Yuanxiang was not afraid of Japanese retaliation, but was afraid that they would not come. By waiting for the Japanese to tire themselves out on their own territory, they could achieve greater results.

There are few Japanese people, just look at how many of them are willing to come and die.

The people in Xiaohuangshan were waiting quietly. They had already seen the puppet troops charging ahead to explore the way, but they would not open fire until all the Japanese were within range.

The wind was roaring, and the Japanese following behind did not notice the people from Xiaohuangshan who were ambushing on the top of the cliff.

Niu Yuanxiang was actually quite good at shooting. He held a rifle, aimed at Teng Chuan behind him and fired the first shot. Teng Chuan's officer uniform was very conspicuous.

Unfortunately, the distance was too far and the bullet missed the head and hit the shoulder instead.

The people in Xiaohuangshan also followed suit and kept throwing grenades at the areas where the Japanese were most concentrated.

Tengchuan was so frightened that he fell to the ground again.

"Beat them. Beat them to death."

Teng Chuan yelled in helplessness and rage, covering his wound with his hands and calling for medical soldiers to treat him. At this time, half of Teng Chuan's body was numb.

He didn't expect that he would be injured. It was a shame, an absolute shame.

The Japanese counterattack was very powerful, but the threat to Xiaohuangshan was small, as most of the bullets were blocked by the cliffs.

The artillery behind was quickly deployed. Mortars are a powerful weapon in mountain warfare. The positions on Xiaohuangshan Mountain can block bullets but not mortar shells.

As soon as they moved, a burst of gunfire rang out.

The snipers had been paying attention to them for a long time. Several Japanese soldiers who were manning mortars fell to the ground instantly. The rest of the Japanese artillerymen just ran up and were hit again.

Whether dead or wounded, they were unable to set up artillery at this time.

They are already at the corner of the mountain road. If they retreat, they will not be able to reach the front.

The Japanese artillerymen were so frustrated that they wanted to vomit blood. They had never fought a battle like this before.

They would rather face the Kuomintang army head-on than face this small group of bandits.

There are nearly four hundred people on Xiaohuangshan's side. Half of the remaining people are in the third line of defense, and the other half are waiting in the back, ready to support the people in the second line of defense at any time.

The Japanese were beaten so badly that they couldn't raise their heads. There was no point in looking for cover because the road was so wide that they had to jump off a cliff.

The people from Xiaohuangshan are up there, it's very easy to hit them.

The puppet soldiers, who had long lost their will to fight, dropped their guns and fled for their lives when they saw an opportunity, hiding aside. The people of Xiaohuangshan would not attack them, and no one would be foolish enough to stay with the Japanese.

"Retreat, Captain. This battle is impossible to win."

A Japanese officer next to Tengchuan hid behind a tree and dared not show his head, and shouted at Tengchuan.

Tengchuan was so angry that he wanted to kick him, but unfortunately he didn't dare to leave the tree that helped him block the bullets.

Once you leave, it's over.

"Baga baga, damn Chinese."

He couldn't understand why, although they were both Chinese, there was such a big gap between the puppet army and the bandits in Xiaohuangshan.

It was not until he saw the tree he was hiding under was shot through that Tengchuan finally compromised and gave the order to retreat.

He and his infantrymen crawled all the way back down the mountain. The artillerymen were the farthest away and ran the fastest. In order to take away all the mortars, several of them were killed.

The puppet soldiers received the order to run faster. It was too scary here and they might lose their lives if they ran slowly.

"Military Advisor, the little Jap has escaped. Should we chase him?"

The people from Xiaohuangshan asked quickly, and Niu Yuanxiang smiled and shook his head: "No need to chase, let's go down and collect the spoils. We have won a great victory this time."

They defeated these devils by relying on the terrain advantage. The Japanese were quite strong in combat. Without the terrain advantage, once they were locked by Japanese artillery, their casualties would definitely be greater than those of the Japanese.

After running down the mountain, Teng Chuan finally had time to get his men to reorganize the team. He lay in the car, panting. His wound was still bleeding, and the medical soldiers were helping him.

According to statistics, more than 100 Japanese soldiers were killed or wounded, and more than 50 puppet soldiers were killed or wounded. They were unable to bring back many bodies.

It was a great defeat, or rather a crushing defeat. Tengchuan had never suffered such a frustrating defeat before.

Xiaohuangshan is also counting the injuries. Due to the terrain, only a dozen of them were injured, and most of them were just scratches or non-fatal injuries. They will recover if they go back for timely treatment.

But one person was shot in the head and is now dead.

Niu Yuanxiang sighed and helped him close his eyes.

There will definitely be casualties in war. Niu Yuanxiang has tried his best to protect the people of Xiaohuangshan and use the most favorable conditions to inflict heavy damage on the Japanese.

However, the Japanese shooting skills were indeed accurate. Even with such good conditions, they still suffered more than a dozen casualties. If they had faced each other head-on, their losses would definitely not have been less than that of the Japanese.

The injured will be treated as soon as possible, and the dead will be buried in a good cemetery.

Most of the people on Xiaohuang Mountain have lost their families, and Niu Yuanxiang will organize the funeral for them.

Those who have passed away, the living are still here, people will miss them but will not sink into despair.

Now is the time to harvest.

The people in Xiaohuangshan have already sorted out the munitions left behind by the Japanese and are transporting them up the mountain. Once they are all delivered to the village, Niu Yuanxiang and others will gather together to count them.

The arms harvest this time was far less than the last time when the transport truck was robbed. The transport truck was specially used to transport supplies in large quantities, and the number of people guarding and protecting it was definitely not more than the number of people fighting, making it easier to capture it.

But such a good opportunity only comes once. After being robbed once, the Japanese will definitely increase protection measures during future transportation, and will send more manpower and firepower.

However, this is also a disguised way to reduce the pressure on the front battlefield. After all, the Japanese have limited manpower. If there are more people protecting the transport vehicles, there will definitely be fewer people in other places.

There is another reason why the harvest was not great this time.

If we had not captured the Japanese mortars and the machine guns, the gains we would have gotten would have been comparable to those from the transport vehicles.

The strategic significance of the mortar was too great for the Japanese to give it to the people from Xiaohuangshan easily. They tried their best to protect the mortar and escape. Even though the snipers from Xiaohuangshan shot and killed many of the escorting Japanese, it was of no avail.

After a while, Niu Yuanxiang and others had finished counting the guns.

There were more than 200 rifles of various types, seven pistols, thousands of bullets, bullet bags, etc.

People should not be too greedy. Niu Yuanxiang was already very satisfied. Not only did he win a great victory, but he also gained a lot of money.

But the most urgent task is to rearrange the defense. After Japan suffered two consecutive defeats at their hands, it will definitely find a way to encircle and annihilate them again.

If it was just the army, they would not be afraid. What Niu Yuanxiang was worried about was that the Japanese would send planes to launch an air strike.

Xiaohuangshan had no weapons to fight against airplanes, so Niu Yuanxiang could only ask everyone to dig air-raid shelters and cover the roofs with khaki and leaf-green cloth to reduce the risk of being discovered by the Japanese. Fortunately, Niu Yuanxiang had foresight and asked everyone to make modifications when he first came to Xiaohuangshan, increasing the distance between houses and breaking up the originally densely packed buildings.

In this way, even if planes drop bombs, they have many ways to deal with it.

First, we set up sentries. Planes make a lot of noise and are obvious targets in the air. They are bandits, not regular troops, so the enemy will not send too many planes.

They were in the mountains, and it was difficult for planes to dive and shoot, so they could only use aerial bombs.

But aerial bombs are expensive, and Japan does not have such abundant resources that it will not waste so many aerial bombs on them.

Then they hid in the caves. Those who didn't have time to return to the caves hid on the spot. As long as the enemy's air strikes did not have a great effect, they would not send planes over again.

Of course, if it was a vacuum attack, there might be casualties, and Niu Yuanxiang could only try his best to reduce them.

His biggest worry was Japan's coordinated land and air operations. The second line of defense had good terrain, but it could not defend against the air.

Fortunately, he had a third line of defense. If this situation really happened, he would immediately retreat to the third line of defense. Although the terrain there was not as good as the second line of defense, there was a huge cave that could defend against air attacks.

Niu Yuanxiang is very steady in his work. It took him a year to rescue his colleague who was captured by the spies from the Party Affairs Investigation Office from prison. Now, he has been in Xiaohuangshan for two years and has already arranged the place very well.

Even if the Japanese army changed its tactics in the future, Niu Yuanxiang would be able to counter them.

In addition to Niu Yuanxiang, many people were very happy about Xiaohuangshan's great victory.

Although they also lost people, it was only one. Compared with the Japanese and the puppet army, this was a great victory. The number of Japanese they killed would probably be difficult for the Guo army of the same size to achieve.

Let’s see who dares to look down on their Little Huangshan in the future.

The result of the Battle of Xiaohuangshan soon spread.

The puppet soldiers were very talkative, so even if the Japanese gave orders, they would tell others secretly.

It was impossible for the Japanese to really punish so many people, not to mention that the puppet army had suffered considerable losses.

Not to mention, Niu Yuanxiang himself reported the results of the battle via the radio.

He must report such a big thing.

Chongqing, Military Control Commission Headquarters.

Secretary Qi delivered the latest telegrams from various places to Boss Dai.

Right now, all places are fighting against the Japanese. Although there are no major battles now, small-scale battles occur almost every day.

Boss Dai is serious about his work. All information reported by the branch stations, no matter how big or small, must be delivered to him as soon as possible.

After a while, he found the telegram sent from Wuhan Station.

"A great victory at Xiaohuangshan. Bandits? More than a hundred devils were killed, and more than fifty puppet soldiers were also killed?"

After reading the content, Boss Dai was a little surprised.

"How could more than 800 bandits, facing more than 1,000 enemies, kill so many Japanese?"

The Wuhan station reported in great detail that they did not obtain the intelligence from the puppet army, but from the Red Party.

After Niu Yuanxiang's report, the organization comrades publicized the matter. This was a great victory, which could greatly inspire the people and let them understand that there were still many anti-Japanese elements in China who were fighting the Japanese.

The Japanese do not have an easy life in China.

Their propaganda also informed the Guo army.

Now it’s a collaboration between Guohong.

Wuhan Station immediately reported this information to the headquarters.

The intelligence was indeed detailed, including the number of people in Xiaohuangshan, how many enemies they faced, and how many they killed.

But that was all we had. We didn’t have any key information about the situation at Xiaohuangshan, how many guns there were, what their equipment was like, or how their combat effectiveness was.

The comrades in the organization are not stupid. Some of them can speak well, but some cannot.

The number of people in Xiaohuangshan is no secret, and anyone can be sent out to find out, but Niu Yuanxiang will not tell.

The Guo Party has never reduced its vigilance against them to prevent them from causing harm to Niu Yuanxiang.

However, if necessary, Niu Yuanxiang can reveal his identity.

"Boss, the Red Party generally doesn't lie."

Secretary Qi lowered his head and replied in a low voice, "Boss Dai frowned. He had the Loyal and Patriotic Army and was very clear about the Japanese's combat effectiveness."

According to the intelligence, there were more than 600 Japanese soldiers who went this time, but only more than 500 puppet troops.

As a result, the Japanese casualties were more than twice as many as those of the puppet troops.

It is obvious that Xiaohuangshan’s main target is the Japanese devils, not the puppet army.

They must have fought the Japanese head-on. Even though they had more than 800 people, Boss Dai still found it a little hard to believe that they could defeat 600 Japanese.

"Let He Rongtang find out the specific battle situation."

Boss Dai gave the order. He felt something was wrong with the information. How could ordinary bandits have such combat power?

Even if the Japanese underestimated the enemy and were ambushed, it would not be easy to kill so many Japanese devils.

He was well aware of the Japanese's fighting power.

On the front battlefield, the elite ace troops of the Guo army were no match for them. How could the bandits, armed with only homemade cannons and muskets, actually defeat them?
Still a big win, a complete win.

The intelligence said that more than a dozen people were injured in Xiaohuangshan and only one was killed in the battle.

Such a casualty ratio is rarely seen among regular troops, let alone bandits.

"Yes."

Secretary Qi lowered his head and accepted the order. At the same time, in Shanghai, Yuanda Casino.

Wang Wu just came out of Zheng Yujie's office.

Ever since he helped kill Li Baoquan last time, the boss has valued him more and more.

Wang Wu is very efficient, meticulous, and skilled, and is much more useful than Zheng Yujie's original subordinates.

This time, Wang Wu came here just to complete the task assigned by Zheng Yujie.

The gangsters who have worked with Wang Wu also admire him very much. Following Wang Wu, things are always done quickly and can reduce a lot of danger.

Wang Wu has saved many people in these days, some of them were to prevent his younger brothers from getting hurt, and the lives of two people were also saved by Wang Wu.

They were all willing to follow Wang Wu.

Wang Wu had actually created a small force of his own and gathered more than twenty thugs. When the time was ripe, he reported to his team leader and prepared to replace Scarface as soon as possible and absorb Scarface's power.

It's not that no one has advised Scarface these days. His confidants have analyzed the issue with him several times, but Scarface always disagrees.

He always thought that Wang Wu had saved his life twice, so how could he harm him?
Scarface doesn't have that much brains, so he's willing to believe Wang Wu because Wang Wu respects him very much.

(End of this chapter)