Bright Sword: I am an undercover agent in the puppet army

Chapter 23 Chu Yunfei arrived a step too late. The Eighth Route Army had just left when the Shanxi Suiyuan Army arrived. The sky fell on the bandits of Heiyun Village.

The battalion commander next to him, Qian Bojun, asked in confusion, "Commander, what's going on?"

Chu Yunfei said: "Logically speaking, since Black Cloud Village robbed our supplies, we should have stepped up our guard, but you see, we came here in a swagger, but the bandits in Black Cloud Village didn't react at all.

Not only that, the mountain gate of Heiyun Village seemed to have been blown up, and the village on the mountain also seemed to have signs of being burned.

This is really abnormal.”

Hearing this, Qian Bojun raised the telescope and started observing again.

At the beginning, due to the obstruction of vision, it was impossible to see the specific situation of the mountain stronghold. Qian Bojun focused his observation on the road up the mountain, mainly investigating the positions of the sentry posts and firepower points of the Black Cloud Stronghold.
Now after hearing what Chu Yunfei said, he focused his observation on the mountain village, and sure enough, he found the same situation.

"Commander, it seems that Black Cloud Village was indeed burned down, and the mountain gate has become a ruin."

"What's going on? Could it be that Xie Baoqing was afraid of our retaliation, so he blew up the mountain gate and burned down the mountain stronghold overnight and ran away?"

Chu Yunfei shook his head: "This shouldn't be the case. Before this, our Jinsui Army has sent troops to wipe out the Black Cloud Village, and more than once.

If Xie Baoqing was really afraid of us, he wouldn't have robbed our supplies yesterday."

"Yeah, that's right." Qian Bojun nodded in agreement, then frowned and said, "Commander, could this be a trap set by Xie Baoqing for us? He deliberately showed weakness to the enemy, let us relax our vigilance, and then give us a fatal blow."

Chu Yunfei: "This possibility cannot be ruled out."

Liang Guoping, the commander of the artillery battalion who had been silent the whole time, interrupted and said, "Commander, the artillery position has been built. How about we fire a few shots at them first to see if the Black Cloud Village bandits are really doing anything?"

Using artillery fire right away without detecting the enemy is the Japanese's fighting style, not Chu Yunfei's way of using troops.

However, the bandits in Heiyun Village were cunning and the terrain of Heiyun Mountain was very complicated. Before Chu Yunfei had a clear understanding of the terrain and the enemy situation, it was impossible for him to let his troops launch a direct attack and suffer unnecessary losses.

Otherwise, if the casualties were too great, even if the Black Cloud Village was finally destroyed, it would be a huge shame for Chu Yunfei.

Chu Yunfei thought for a moment, and finally adopted Liang Guoping's suggestion: "Okay, let's do some firepower reconnaissance!"

"Three rapid shots!"

Liang Guoping turned around and passed the order down. The messenger next to him immediately raised the command flag and issued the order to open fire through flag signals.

"Boom!"

“Boom boom boom!——”

The next moment, a large number of shells streaked across the sky and heavily landed on the ruins of Heiyun Village. In an instant, flames shot up into the sky and the earth shook.

The bandits from Heiyun Village came out of a cave in the back mountain and were about to go down the mountain when they were hit by a shell that fell from the sky.

Some were killed on the spot, while others had their limbs broken and lay on the ground screaming in pain.

"Ah! My hand is broken."

"My leg is broken, help me, help me!"

“It hurts, ugh, it hurts!——”

I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die…

"What's going on? Where did the shells come from?"

"Didn't the Eighth Route Army leave overnight? Why are they bombing us?"

The bandits who were not affected by the artillery fire also looked terrified and aggrieved, almost crying.

Suddenly, a sharp-eyed bandit saw the soldiers of the 358th Regiment of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army at the foot of the mountain, recognized their identities by their uniforms, and said, "It's not the Eighth Route Army, it's the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army. The Shanxi-Suiyuan Army is here again!"

"It must be the 358th Regiment that is attacking us. We are finished! We are finished!"

All the bandits looked desperate, as if their parents had died. "Raise the white flag, raise the white flag quickly!"

Soon, an experienced bandit thought of something. He immediately took off his white thermal pants, placed them on top of a bamboo pole more than four meters long, and began to shake it vigorously.

Down the mountain.

Chu Yunfei, Qian Bojun, Liang Guoping and others have been paying attention to the situation on the mountain.

Qian Bojun was the first to notice the pair of thermal pants swaying in the cold wind and said, "Commander, there are people on the mountain, and they seem to have raised the white flag!"

Chu Yunfei looked in the direction of Qian Bojun's finger and saw the thermal pants. He immediately said, "Stop firing!"

"Company One, go up the mountain and check the situation. Remember to stay alert! Beware of fraud!
If you are attacked, don't fight back, retreat immediately!"

Chu Yunfei remained vigilant and did not give the Black Cloud Village any chance to cheat.

But obviously, Chu Yunfei's worries were unnecessary.

The officers and soldiers of the first company climbed smoothly to the Black Cloud Village halfway up the mountain without encountering any obstacles.

Then they saw a scene that shocked them extremely. Looking around, the entire Black Cloud Village had turned into ruins and was charred black.

At the edge of the ruins, there were several corpses and some wounded people lying, and the uninjured people were squatting on the ground with their heads in their hands.

These people were all barefoot, shivering in thin underwear, looking extremely miserable, like a group of refugees.

The captain of the first company asked, "Who are you? Where are the bandits from Black Cloud Village?"

"We are the bandits from Black Cloud Village."

A bandit spoke subconsciously, but quickly changed his words: "No, we are all ordinary people who were captured by the bandits from Heiyun Village and taken to the mountains."

The captain of the first company obviously didn't believe his nonsense. His face darkened and he asked, "Who are you? Where did the bandits from Black Cloud Village go?"

"Master Jun, we...we don't know where they went."

The company commander did not ask any more questions. He quickly sent someone to report the situation on the mountain to the regiment commander Chu Yunfei...

"Commander, these guys first said they were bandits from Black Cloud Village, but soon they denied it and said they were civilians who were captured by the bandits from Black Cloud Village and taken to the mountains."

After Chu Yunfei went up the mountain, the company commander reported the situation again truthfully.

Chu Yunfei was meticulous and quickly found various loopholes of the bandits in Heiyun Village.

After scanning the area with his sharp eyes, he said in a deep voice: "You said that you were civilians who were captured by the bandits from Black Cloud Village and taken to the mountain. What did the bandits from Black Cloud Village capture you for?
Do you want to join us, or do you think we have too much food to eat?"

The bandits were asked questions so many times that they stammered and couldn't say a word for a long time.

Chu Yunfei asked again: "Do the common people know how to raise the white flag and surrender?"

"So, you are not ordinary people at all, but bandits from Black Cloud Village!"

"Tell me the truth, where did Xie Baoqing go?"

The bandits looked at each other, and finally all turned their eyes to the newly elected backbone.

Chu Yunfei also said this and stared at him.

The bandit thought for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and confessed: "Our first boss, our second in command, and all the bosses were chopped to death by the Eighth Route Army..."

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(End of this chapter)