mtlumby2d Chapter 131: Ambush and first meeting with Yang Xiuchuan
Chapter 131: Ambush and first meeting with Yang Xiuchuan
Their cavalry team had just passed a mountain pass when they heard a burst of gunfire in the distance.
The team protecting Song Wenwan were all veterans of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and they could hear the gunshots very clearly.
Amid the sounds of gunfire from the Ma Sihuan cavalry rifles, there were occasionally one or two shots from old-style rifles.
A soldier from the guard company quickly got off his horse and ran to a higher place.
He looked into the distance at the situation over there, then turned back to report to Song Wenwan at the bottom of the slope.
"Commander, there are more than twenty Japanese cavalrymen chasing a comrade from the Eighth Route Army.
They are coming towards us, Commander, how should we fight them?"
Song Wenwan: ??? We are still the Gansu Army. You are so anxious that you even call on your comrades? You should at least pay attention to the impact.
You're asking me how to fight? You're more concerned about this than I, the commander.
Forget it. I am also an Eighth Route Army soldier anyway, so I won’t be petty with a small soldier like him.
Song Wenwan listened to the sound of horse hooves getting closer and closer, and said, "Everyone get off your horses and lie in ambush. Leave all the Japanese behind for me later."
The Eighth Route Army soldier and a group of Japanese devils were chasing each other.
They soon arrived at the place where Song Wenwan and the guards were hiding.
That Eighth Route Army soldier was truly a tough guy. He remained very calm on the bumpy horse's back.
He fought back with the old pistol in his hand, and surprisingly, every bullet hit the target.
But he was alone and weak after all. Although he killed three Japanese soldiers, they still caught up with him.
The Japanese were unable to bully the Eighth Route Army's horses, so they dispersed their formation.
They actually wanted to outflank him. It seemed that these Japanese devils wanted to capture this Eighth Route Army soldier alive.
But what the Japanese didn't expect was that this Eighth Route Army soldier was so powerful.
The Eighth Route Army soldier was not panicked at all, and waited for the Japanese devils to gradually approach him from both sides.
If it's another seventy or eighty meters away, he will be able to catch up and capture me alive.
The Eighth Route Army soldier suddenly turned over on his galloping horse and appeared like Zhang Guolao riding a horse upside down.
The old socket in his hand had already been inserted into the saddlebag on the side of the horse.
He pulled out two pistols from his waist with both hands and fired four shots in a row.
As the gunshots sounded, four Japanese soldiers immediately fell off their horses.
When the remaining Japanese soldiers saw that the situation was not good, they immediately pulled the reins of their horses.
He immediately opened up the distance between himself and the Eighth Route Army soldier.
It seemed that this Eighth Route Army soldier was about to go into the mountains.
The Japanese saw that he would run away if they didn't take action, so they decided to kill him.
They raised the Ma Sihuan lances in their hands and aimed at the Eighth Route Army soldiers on horseback.
"Bang bang bang..."
At this critical moment, a row of bullets suddenly fired from the hillside.
The only twenty or so remaining Japanese cavalrymen fell off their horses in an instant.
There were only one or two Japanese soldiers left, so they quickly turned their horses around and tried to escape.
After a few more "bang bang" shots, there was no one left alive on the Japanese war horses.
When the Eighth Route Army soldier looked up, he saw more than a dozen National Army soldiers coming down the hillside.
They pulled out the war horses from behind, climbed on them, and immediately rushed towards the direction of the Japanese.
They restocked the guns of the Japanese soldiers who fell off their horses and pulled their war horses back.
Looking at the national army coming down the mountain, the Eighth Route Army officer looked directly at Song Wenwan.
He clasped his hands together and said, "Thank you all, brothers in the national army, for your help. I would like to express my gratitude here."
Song Wenwan smiled and said, "We are all passionate Chinese men. It's just a matter of convenience to kill a few devils. It's nothing to worry about."
The Eighth Route Army soldier looked at Song Wenwan again and asked carefully, "Excuse my poor eyesight, are you Commander Song Wenwan of the Gansu Army?"
Song Wenwan was stunned and said to the Eighth Route Army soldier, "Why, do you know me?"
The Eighth Route Army soldier said, "Report to Commander Song... Commander Song, I am the company commander of the 120th Division Cavalry Battalion.
My name is Yang Xiuchuan, I met you at the division headquarters last year and this month..."
Song Wenwan raised her hand to stop Yang Xiuchuan from continuing.
As soon as Song Wenwan heard him calling her "chief" at the beginning, she already remembered who this person was.
He had indeed met Yang Xiuchuan at the headquarters of the 120th Division.
That was when the equipment was being delivered to the boss, and the cavalry battalion where Yang Xiuchuan was located was the main force in transporting supplies.
So it's not surprising that he has seen me and can guess my background.
The reason why Song Wenwan didn't let him continue was because she was afraid of other people's gossip.
It would be bad if the news of funding the Eighth Route Army got out.
After all, it is only 1938, and it is not the time to turn against the Kuomintang government.
Song Wenwan smiled and said, "So it's Captain Yang. It seems that our Shanxi territory is really too small.
I didn't expect to run into you here after just a few days of not seeing each other. Are you going on a mission?"
Yang Xiuchuan pointed to the mountain behind them and said, "Commander Song, I'm going home to visit my relatives. My home is in Zhaojiayu in this mountain."
In fact, he led the cavalry company this time to send the leaders to the Eighth Route Army headquarters for a meeting.
Because the meeting would last for several more days, the leader gave him two days off to go home and visit his family.
However, this matter involved the leader's itinerary, so he could not tell Song Wenwan about it.
Song Wenwan said, "Oh, so you are going back to Zhaojiayu to visit your relatives!
...Wait a minute, where are you going to visit your relatives?"
Captain Yang said: "I just said that I want to go back to Zhaojiayu to visit my relatives!"
Song Wenwan pointed to the mountain behind him and said, "Captain Yang, is Zhaojiayu inside this mountain?"
"That's right, Commander Song, this is my hometown, Zhaojiayu..."
Then Captain Yang spoke to Song Wenwan in a very polite (and rude) manner.
"Commander Song, if you are not busy, would you like to visit my hometown?"
Song Wenwan's eyes lit up, and she said to him, "Hahahaha, I'm not busy, no matter how busy I am, I can't offend you, Brother Yang!"
Captain Yang: Brother, I was just being polite to you, why did you take it so seriously?
Are you still Chinese? How come you can't even understand a polite word?
Comrade from the Guard Company: Commander Song, aren’t you eager to go home?
Didn’t you say that you love your wife dearly?
Don’t you miss your children?
Why aren't you in a hurry to travel today?
Song Wenwan: Go away, don’t bother me, go and see Li Yunlong’s young wife.
I am carrying all the expectations of the 1.4 billion Chinese people in this other world!
The sacrifice of Wang Xikui, the sacrifice of Sun Desheng, and the sacrifice of Wei Heshang.
The sacrifice of Comrade Yang Xiuqin will always be a pain in people's hearts.
If given the chance, Song Wenwan would like to save all her revolutionary comrades.
Song Wenwan secretly calculated in her heart that the unlucky child Yamamoto Ikki should come back in the autumn of 1939.
The special operations theory he peddled was scoffed at by various expeditionary forces.
In the end, it was Yoshio Shinozuka from Shanxi's First Army who took him in, and only then was he able to put his talents to use.
Yamamoto Ikki, we will settle our accounts sooner or later, just wait for you to come to Shanxi next year.
Here, under the guidance of Captain Yang, Song Wenwan and his guard company rushed to Zhaojiayu at full speed.