Liu Guodong threw down a sentence "Prepare for battle" and ran towards the village entrance with some people. As he ran, he asked Wang Laomao: "Were we not targeted on the way back?"
What could Wang Laomao, who wasn't even a platoon leader of their company, say? He could only reply, "It's hard to say."
This time they went to Jinzhou City to assassinate the Japanese army, and they had an insider.
After all, this was originally the territory of the Northeast Army.
The saying "a strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake" means that no matter how powerful the Japanese army is, they are not familiar with the local situation and have not had time to organize it. That is, there are insiders of the Northeast Army among the puppet troops who surrendered to the Japanese army.
So although Liu Guodong and his men disguised themselves and entered Jinzhou City, it seemed dangerous, but in fact it was safe. After attacking the Japanese army, they escaped directly with the support of an insider.
However, it is also conceivable that if the Japanese army investigates this matter, it is natural. Given the current situation where the enemy and we are mixed together, it is not impossible for the Japanese army to find out that they are hiding in Hejiatun.
It has to be said that Wang Laomao has a very useful brain and was very famous in their Second Company.
It is said that when the position of company commander of the second company was first proposed, Wang Laomao was the one that was originally chosen.
However, Battalion Commander Zhang Mingjie did not like Wang Laomao because he felt that Wang Laomao was too cunning. Which officer commanding a battle would not want his subordinates to be obedient and say, "Charge forward," and the subordinates would charge forward.
But Wang Laomao is not like that.
A person may appear rough and swear a lot, but it does not necessarily mean that he is not calculating.
When Wang Laomao fought, he always left himself a way out whenever possible.
It was for this reason that Battalion Commander Zhang Lianjie promoted Hu Biao to be the company commander.
The final result was that Battalion Commander Zhang Lianjie and Second Company Commander Hu Biao were all killed in that battle, but Wang Laomao survived.
As for how Wang Laomao survived at that time, no one knows. Even Hou Kanshan, who has always been proud of himself, can only guess. Yes, it is a guess. He guesses that Wang Laomao must have disguised himself as a corpse to escape.
But who can ask about such things?
When they heard that there were strangers coming to the village, Liu Guodong was originally running in the front, but Liu Guodong's men rushed to the front. They couldn't let the company commander run to the front.
Wang Laomao was originally following Liu Guodong, but when they were about to reach the village entrance, Wang Laomao had already shrank back to the middle of the team.
When they were about to reach the village entrance, Wang Laomao glanced at the soldiers following Liu Guodong and finally said in a negotiating tone, "It's better for those in uniform not to show up for now."
This time his voice was relatively low and Liu Guodong did not notice it. Their soldiers glanced at Wang Laomao and ignored him.
It makes sense. Wang Laomao and his men are now like living under someone else's roof. The company commander Liu Guodong is a very loyal man who will never let Wang Laomao and his men be cannon fodder. Therefore, none of Liu Guodong's subordinates will take Wang Laomao, the platoon leader of another company, seriously.
Wang Laomao was also aware that he was of little influence, so he spoke in a low voice. At this time, the people in front had already seen that there were indeed two people behind the big elm tree at the entrance of the village, and they were wearing the uniforms of the Northeast Army.
"Could it be that one of our people ran back?" Liu Guodong turned and asked Wang Laomao.
Wang Lao Mao stretched his neck to identify it carefully, then shook his head and said, "I can't see clearly, it doesn't look like someone from our company."
"Could it be possible that they are from another company?" Liu Guodong asked again.
Wang Laomao could only shake his head.
Although the Japanese army had occupied many places in the three northeastern provinces, the resistance had not stopped and many places had been disrupted. It was entirely possible that some people who were separated from the main force on the battlefield walked along the Liaoxi Corridor to the outside of the Great Wall.
"Could he be a spy of the Japanese army?" Wang Laomao finally said in a low voice.
Wang Laomao's analysis wasn't impossible, but Liu Guodong thought about it and shook his head, saying, "If they were spies, they wouldn't have to take the risk. Isn't there just an old elm tree over there?"
What Liu Guodong meant was that if they were enemy spies, there was no need for them to take risks.
There was an old elm tree at the entrance of the village, but the tree was not strong enough to block the figures of the two people.
"Yao Yuan, take your class up there to check and bring those two people back to me!" Liu Guodong ordered.
"Yes!" A soldier responded and waved his hand, and several soldiers behind him followed him out with guns in hand.
Wang Laomao frowned, looked at the terrain opposite and said nothing.
The mountains on the west side of the entire Liaoxi Corridor are similar.
That is the mountainous area, and every few meters there is a valley like a main trunk, and on both sides of the valley there are different small valleys. Hejiatun is located in a small valley.
To use a vivid metaphor, the valley system is like a tree, and Hejiatun is located on the branches of the main trunk.
Wang Laomao and his friends have been staying in Hejiatun for about a month. All the leaves have fallen, so he is certainly familiar with the terrain at the entrance of the village.
About seventy or eighty meters away is the big elm tree. Near the elm tree is an abandoned well. Two or three hundred meters further away are some small mounds.
There doesn't seem to be anything suspicious at the moment, but Wang Laomao still feels uneasy.
The squad leader named Yao Yuan led the soldiers out, and at this time the two men wearing the same gray uniforms as the Northeast Army were still standing by the big elm tree looking towards them. It was obvious that they had seen the people coming out from this side.
There was a shout from the other end: "Brothers finally found you!"
"Something seems wrong. Why don't they come over?" This was the voice of a platoon leader under Liu Guodong.
As he spoke, Liu Guodong gave the order to prepare for battle.
In front, Yao Yuan and the soldiers were still moving forward, but their speed had slowed down.
Those who can become squad leaders are all veterans, and it is obvious that Yao Yuan also feels that something is not right.
"Which company are you from?" Yao Yuan's shout was also heard back, and at the same time, Liu Guodong and Wang Laomao who were hiding behind saw that Yao Yuan's men were already pulling the bolt.
"Come back quickly! We've been fooled!" Wang Laomao suddenly shouted.
But when the battle broke out, shouts were never faster than bullets. Before Wang Laomao finished his words, the sound of "bang", "bang", and "bang" of volley gunfire rang out. Yao Yuan and his team had sent out a total of seven people, but in the midst of this volley of gunfire, five of them fell down!
The enemy really appeared! Many heads suddenly appeared from behind those mounds in the distance. This was also what Wang Laomao had just discovered, but no matter how fast he shouted, it was useless.
"It is unintentional and unpredictable that one may act unintentionally." "The first to strike is the strongest, the last to strike will suffer" is an eternal and irrefutable truth.
At this time, look at the two people hiding behind the big elm tree. One of them hid directly under the big elm tree, while the other one ran and jumped to the side and suddenly disappeared!
At this point, Liu Guodong and the others had of course opened fire, but they couldn't hit the person hiding behind the big elm tree, and it was even more impossible to hit the person who suddenly disappeared, because that person jumped directly into the abandoned well!
"Provide fire cover! Hurry up and rescue our people!" Liu Guodong shouted, because he saw that only Yao Yuan and another soldier were running back.
But since the other party was acting unintentionally, how could they possibly give them a chance to react?
At this time, all of them heard the sounds of "hissing" and "hissing", and then a mortar shell hit the house where they were hiding. In the loud explosion, grass and trees flew everywhere, and Liu Guodong and his friends could not even protect themselves!