The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression Begins in Songhu

Chapter 468 A Smooth Start (Two Chapters Combined)

At 10:03 a.m., Hu Biao squatted behind a section of half-collapsed wall.

He cautiously peeked out, holding a pair of binoculars, and surveyed the details of the Japanese stronghold at Mendun Mountain, about two miles away.

As he observed, a serious expression gradually appeared on his face.

On a flat plain, there was a dirt road and a railway running side by side, stretching across the land.

On either side of the highway and railway, there are two mountains.

Neither mountain is very high, only about a hundred meters high.

However, the Japanese had built a bunker and some machine gun bunkers on each of the two mountains, and with their superior vantage point, they could practically keep a close watch on the entire surrounding area.

With the searchlights on the top of the watchtower, anyone trying to pass through would be spotted, whether it was day or night.

The Japanese forces in this area were also more than originally expected.

Based on on-site observation and estimation, Hu Biao and others were able to determine that in addition to a small squad of Japanese soldiers, there were at least seventy or eighty puppet troops, and possibly as many as a hundred.

The sheer size of the Japanese and puppet troops at Mendun Mountain undoubtedly increased the difficulty of their subsequent operations.

But by this point, they were already in a state of readiness, ready to be launched at any moment.

Damn it! The meat soup made with beef jerky, dried vegetables, and wild greens in the morning was so bad that these old birds would get hungry again after just taking a quick pee.

My stomach is rumbling, which is really frustrating.

Therefore, we must destroy the Japanese stronghold and replenish our food supplies from it. Otherwise, if we go hungry for another day or two, everyone's legs might give way.

After putting down his binoculars, Hu Biao solemnly gave an order to Annie, Xiao Cui, and Sister Yi, who were standing beside him:

"Action! Phase One begins."

After saying that, he seemed to be quite worried.

Then he asked Annie, "Boss lady! Is everything alright? If you encounter any difficulties, please let us know; if all else fails, we'll think of another solution."

Upon hearing this, Annie first rolled her eyes at Hu Biao.

Then, in a very disdainful tone, he said, "What problem could there be? In the modern world, when I went to Japan to walk the runway, those well-informed Japanese elites were dumbfounded."

Moreover, in this day and age, these bumpkin-like Japanese devils; in the first stage of the operation, we have no problem at all.

Sisters! Let's go, it's time to prove our charm!

After saying that, she called over Xiao Cui and Yi Jie, who were dressed like village girls, with headscarves wrapped around their heads and worn-out floral cotton-padded jackets.

Each of the three carried or held a small bundle, and walked straight toward Mendun Mountain with their heads down.

Only a group of people remained, lurking in various parts of the village, watching their retreating figures with worried expressions.

Well, the reason for this scene is that they came up with an action plan this morning, which was a collective effort of all the time travelers:
First, Annie and two other girls, disguised as young women and wives fleeing from the Japanese, appeared in front of the Japanese soldiers at the stronghold.

The Japanese devils! What good could they be? These inhuman creatures have a high probability that they won't fire their guns, but will instead try to capture these three women to commit evil deeds.

So the three of them will pretend to be terrified and flee towards this village, which was deserted before the Japanese raid.

There's a high probability that some of the Japanese soldiers and puppet troops in the stronghold will chase after them.

Secondly, when the Japanese soldiers and puppet troops chased them into the village and the Japanese soldiers in the blockhouse had their view blocked, that would be the time for Hu Biao and his men to make their move.

Kill the Japanese soldiers, but leave some of the puppet troops in their uniforms.

The key is to use some swift and decisive measures to quickly persuade these puppet troops to cooperate with them.

They would then disguise themselves as Japanese soldiers and puppet troops, running back while shouting that the Eighth Route Army was coming, and that their main force was hiding in the village and about to attack the stronghold.

Create as much panic as possible, so that you can sneak into the two bunkers on the left and right sides of Mendun Mountain amidst the chaos.

Once they'd infiltrated the Japanese pillbox, what else was there to say?

Of course, we should immediately launch an attack, wipe out all the Japanese soldiers and those die-hard puppet troops, seize their weapons and ammunition, and replenish our supplies with their stockpiled food.

The entire operation plan was divided into three phases, and Annie and her two friends were now carrying out the first phase of luring the enemy.

Originally, Hu Biao also planned to have Song Jie and two other female students join the first phase of luring the enemy.

However, considering that their mental fortitude had not yet been developed, the only option was to have them, along with Fang Youcai and the other two wounded soldiers, as well as a group of children, hide in the village and coordinate their efforts.

Oh, right! The floral cotton-padded jackets and headscarves worn by Annie and the other two were found in this deserted village.

Unfortunately, after searching thoroughly, Hu Biao and his men found absolutely no food.

This is also a key reason why Hu Biao and his team are currently "on the verge of action and have no choice but to take action"; when he was lying down in the modern world and going hungry for three days and nine meals a day, he didn't feel this hungry...

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After the words "Sir, the flower girl's work" reached his ears.

Wu Anguo, who was originally drowsy, was awakened by the fact that he was a squad leader in the puppet army unit established by the Japanese, namely the "North China Security Army".

He glanced around and, seeing that no one was paying attention to him, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Wu Anguo was quite helpless that he was so sleepy after only one morning.

The main reason is that recently, the Japanese have been carrying out a large-scale mopping-up operation against the Eighth Route Army's base area in Pingxi. In order to avoid being wiped out in one fell swoop, the Eighth Route Army has split into many small units, preparing to escape outside the encirclement.

Unfortunately, Mendun Mountain was a place they had to pass through on their westward escape route.

In order to pass through the strategic transportation hub of Mendun Mountain, they usually acted under the cover of night.

As a result, the puppet troops who used to be able to take a nap during their night shifts will have a tough time during this period.

Japanese soldiers, and even Japanese officers, would frequently come to check on the guards at night.

As soon as they were caught sleeping, the boss would slap them across the face, forcing them to keep their eyes wide open and on guard. Since they couldn't take a nap at night, they were naturally very sleepy during the day.

Shaking his head a few times to rouse himself, Wu Anguo looked in the direction of the sound he had just heard.

Their battalion commander, Sun Dakuaizi, was pointing to a dirt road at the foot of the mountain, where three girls wearing floral cotton-padded jackets were hurrying along, looking as if they were terrified and disoriented.

He excitedly called out "flower girl" to Lieutenant Kobayashi, the Japanese officer.

Because they were looking down, the three girls' faces couldn't be seen clearly, but they did appear to have quite good figures.

The short, stout Lieutenant Kobayashi stood on tiptoe, holding binoculars and looking in that direction, his eyes gleaming; the other Japanese soldiers around him were also laughing and joking.

Seeing this, Wu Anguo remained outwardly calm, but inwardly he sighed and muttered, "What a tragedy!"

Because Lieutenant Kobayashi, that Japanese officer, was simply a lecherous monster.

Unfortunately, their battalion commander, whom the common people called a "yellow-skinned dog," was a complete idiot when it came to warfare.
They were exceptionally good at currying favor with the Japanese and sucking up to them.

In the past month alone, he has arrested several young women and wives who were passing by and offered them to Lieutenant Kobayashi for abuse.

Lieutenant Kobayashi not only committed atrocities himself, but also, after he was tired of playing with them, he threw them to his Japanese subordinates. In the end, none of those poor women survived.

Even though Wu Anguo couldn't stand it, there was nothing else he could do.

Since the Japanese invaded Beiping three years ago, they have occupied one city after another across the vast North China Plain.

Many high-ranking officials, commanders, army commanders, and division commanders from the Republic of China government have now surrendered to the Japanese. Unable to leave his homeland, he had no choice but to join the North China Security Army to make a living.

People pointed and whispered about him from behind, calling him a "yellow-skinned dog."
So Wu Anguo knew perfectly well that these three young women and wives were probably in grave danger today, but he couldn't do anything about it and dared not do anything.

Just as Wu Anguo, the puppet army squad leader, was having some complicated thoughts, the situation changed.

Upon hearing the Japanese soldiers' laughter, the three naive girls looked up, saw their surroundings, and finally realized they had gone to the wrong place. Their legs gave way, and they all collapsed to the ground.

Just as they fell, the headscarf wrapped around their heads fell off, revealing their faces more clearly to Lieutenant Kobayashi, who was holding binoculars. Each of them was exceptionally beautiful.

Especially the tall one in the lead, whose long, smooth, satin-like hair cascaded down as her headscarf fell off.

Her face had fair skin and beautiful features, and she possessed a unique feminine charm that surpassed even the most beautiful woman Lieutenant Kobayashi had ever seen.

That is to say, the daughters of some wealthy families in Beiping City are much stronger than them.

That's why, after the three girls got up, they staggered and fled towards the deserted village behind them.

Lieutenant Kobayashi, that Japanese soldier, started yelling like a pig being slaughtered in a language that was incomprehensible to the Japanese; his pig-kidney-shaped face turned bright red, showing an unprecedented level of excitement.

After he finished shouting, a fat translator also shouted:

"What are you all standing there for? Kobayashi-sama said you should hurry up and chase after them. You must capture those three women alive. Everyone will be rewarded."

If one gets away, you'll be in big trouble.

As soon as the fat translator finished speaking, Sun Da Kuaizi patted his chest and assured Lieutenant Kobayashi, "Don't worry, Kobayashi-sama, none of these three women will escape."

Then, turning his head to face Wu Anguo and the others, he instantly became furious and glared at them.

He cursed, "Idiot! Come with me and chase after them!"

Thus, even though Wu Anguo was unwilling, under the leadership of Sun Dakuaizi, a battalion commander with only eighty or ninety men under his command, he and his group of twenty-odd men had no choice but to rush out of the bunker and head down the mountain.

When they reached the foot of the mountain, six Japanese soldiers rushed down from the bunker on the other side of the mountain, each with a sinister grin on their face.

The two groups immediately joined together and continued chasing after the three girls...

The three girls, whose identities were unknown, had never had their feet bound, so after the initial panic, they actually ran faster and faster.

Even so, they still couldn't outrun a group of men.

As Sun Dakuaizi and his men chased after them with all their might, the distance between them soon became closer and closer.

When they reached the entrance of the deserted village to the east, the two sides were only a dozen or twenty steps apart, and it seemed that they could catch up if they just picked up a little faster.

Seemingly foreseeing the tragedy to come, Wu Anguo felt a pang of pity and instinctively fell a few steps behind.

It was this very action that allowed him to survive.

They chased for a short distance, reaching the middle of the village. Sun Da Kuaizi, who had been leading the charge with exceptional effort, was just a few steps away from grabbing a girl.

Suddenly, a series of crisp gunshots rang out.

The moment the gun went off, Sun Dakuai was shot in the forehead and was instantly killed.

Meanwhile, the six Japanese soldiers in the group, as well as some of Sun Da Kuaizi's trusted subordinates who were chasing ahead, were also shot and fell to the ground on the spot.

With a great jolt, Wu Anguo realized that he had been ambushed, and that the three girls were actually bait sent by the Eighth Route Army.

Instinctively, he and the dozen or so remaining brothers around him crept toward the man carrying a Hanyang rifle.

They planned to hold out for a while, waiting for friendly forces to come and rescue them.

This place is only two miles away from the stronghold. Once the Japanese soldiers hear the gunfire, they can come to their aid in no time and rescue them.

The premise is that those Japanese soldiers are really willing to send troops to rescue us.

However, Wu Anguo soon realized that he had been overthinking things, because the Eighth Route Army they had encountered today was actually quite unusual.

Not only the three girls they had been chasing, but also the girls who suddenly stopped and turned around, each of them had somehow pulled out a pair of pistols.

He pointed the gun at them and said menacingly, "Don't move, or I'll shoot you dead."

Then, from the left and right courtyards and houses, figures suddenly stood out, carrying either muskets or Czech-made light machine guns.

They were all carrying automatic weapons and pointing their guns at them.

There were only a dozen or so people, but once they opened fire, they could be riddled with bullets in an instant.

But the most frightening thing was a tall, fat man weighing about 200 pounds who darted out with amazing agility; in just a few leaps, he jumped from a courtyard to their side.

He pulled open his cotton-padded coat with both hands, revealing that it was covered with hand grenades with wooden handles.

He grabbed a fuse in one hand and yelled at them, "Damn it! Anyone who tries to move a finger, I'll send them flying to heaven today!"

Before joining this so-called North China Security Army, Wu Anguo had spent a few years wandering the streets of the capital and had seen quite a few ruthless people.

But the fat man in front of them was definitely even more ruthless than their most ruthless one.

He had a gut feeling that this fat guy wasn't just talking; if they didn't behave, the other side would really pull the pins on those grenades and go up to earth with them.

Being ruthless to others is nothing; being ruthless to oneself is truly ruthless.

Driven by his survival instinct, he shouted, "Brothers, don't move! It's not worth risking your lives for the Japanese!"

At Wu Anguo's shout, the remaining twenty or so brothers wisely stopped holding their guns, squatted down, and raised their hands high, quite skillfully.

They were mainly local Eighth Route Army soldiers—no, wait! They had long heard about the Eighth Route Army's rules for treating prisoners of war well.

Next, the other side will likely disarm them and lock them up; afterwards, even if they don't want to join them, they will be given some travel expenses and food to leave.

However, Wu Anguo soon realized that he had been too naive, or that these strange and powerful people in front of him were so audacious that they were capable of causing a major incident...

"Damn! The first phase of the operation has finally been successfully completed."

Looking at the puppet soldiers squatting on the ground with their hands raised high, Hu Biao breathed a slight sigh of relief.

However, he could only breathe a slight sigh of relief, because the completion of the first stage was just the beginning, and the second stage was the key.

Therefore, they needed to quickly persuade these puppet troops and get them to cooperate with their operation to infiltrate the pillbox.

Otherwise, if the Japanese soldiers hide inside and put up a stubborn resistance, not only will it be much more difficult for them to take the city; they will also call for reinforcements, and there may be even more unforeseen circumstances.

Then, Hu Biao couldn't help but glance at Huang Adi, his eyes clearly showing some worry.

Even Wu Anguo, a puppet soldier, could see that Huang Adi had the urge to self-destruct. As a partner who had fought alongside him many times, he could naturally see it too.

The reason for this is probably after this time travel.

They encountered situations where there was no time to recruit soldiers and develop their forces, they were being chased by the Japanese, they couldn't contact their own troops and allied forces, they weren't even getting enough to eat, and there were also tragic experiences of Cao'er and a group of ten-and-a-half-year-old children.

All these frustrating situations combined had already made everyone feel a burning anger inside.

I imagine that Huang Adi, the big fat guy, was the one who was holding in the most anger, and his reaction was particularly strong.

Based on his rich combat experience, Hu Biao naturally knew that being too excited was not a good thing for his combat effectiveness, but he didn't even have time to say a few words to Huang Adi right now.

Every second is crucial for them and cannot be wasted.

The main problem is that if they linger here too long, the Japanese will become suspicious, which would delay their important mission of infiltrating.

What to do? Hu Biao suddenly had an idea. He pulled out his pistol and fired a few shots into the air before shouting, "Fatty, convince them within two minutes!"

The so-called persuasion, of course, was to get these puppet soldiers to cooperate with them in infiltrating the pillbox.

To persuade more than a dozen people within two minutes, some special methods are certainly needed.

While employing these special methods, Hu Biao hoped that Huang Adi could vent his pent-up anger and recover his condition...

(End of this chapter)