Anti-Japanese War: I am the warlord of Ping'an County! The whole army is German!

When the brigade just arrived at the Wild Wolf Valley at the foot of the mountain.

The soldiers of the guard company reported to Zhou Weimin.

"Commander, the devils have appeared!"

Zhou Weimin’s command post is located on a higher ground, so some figures can be vaguely seen here.

Raise the telescope.

The sound of footsteps of a large group of people approaching slowly could be clearly heard.

Zhou Weimin gave the order.

"Prepare for battle, inform Zhang Yang to prepare for artillery fire."

The soldiers of the guard company saluted quickly.

"Yes!"

Five minutes after the guard company soldier left.

The Yamashita Battalion commanded by Yamashita Ichiro has quickly stepped into the ambush circle.

"It's so quiet!"

Yamashita Ichiro frowned and muttered to himself.

An order was then issued for the troops to stop advancing.

"Tanaka, do you feel that this Wild Wolf Valley is so quiet?"

Yamashita Ichiro became more and more uneasy, and then he said to Tanaka Kenichi with a serious expression.

"Oh no, Captain, there must be an ambush!"

When Tanaka Kenichi heard this, his expression changed, his eyes suddenly became serious, and he said.

"ambush?"

"you sure?"

Upon hearing this, Yamashita Ichiro's expression changed slightly and he asked Tanaka.

"Captain, there must be an ambush. It's so quiet here, not even a sound of any animal."

Tanaka Kenichi looked at Yamashita Ichiro with a firm expression and serious eyes and said.

Upon hearing this, Yamashita Ichiro looked around at the gentle slopes on both sides of the road and the surrounding forests. These places were very quiet.

There was only a slight cold night breeze blowing, and no animal sounds.

At this moment, Yamashita Ichiro was certain that there was indeed an ambush in the Wild Wolf Valley.

"Order the troops, the rear team will become the front team and slowly retreat."

"Also, order the machine gunners, grenade launchers, and mortar operators to prepare for artillery-covered evacuation."

Yamashita Ichiro was indeed an experienced Japanese soldier. He did not hesitate at all and was ready to cover the evacuation.

"Hi, Captain."

Tanaka Ken nodded and whispered.

Then he immediately walked to the back quietly and ordered the Japanese messenger to convey the retreat order.

Zhou Weimin could not hide Tanaka Kenichi's actions at all.

As early as when the group at the foot of the mountain entered the Wild Wolf Valley,

Zhou Weimin used a telescope to observe Yamashita Ichiro's every move.

"Captain Kong, these little devils are not simple. They have discovered that we are ambushing them."

Zhou Weimin did not put down the telescope, but spoke to Kong Jie beside him.

"I saw that these devils were preparing to retreat! Unfortunately, it's a little late now."

Kong Jie also used a telescope to observe Yamashita Ichiro's movements.

"Yes, it's too late."

"It's too late to realize something is wrong now."

Zhou Weimin nodded when he heard this, and then ordered the guards beside him, "Go, fire the signal flare."

"Yes, Danzao!"

The soldier of the guard company, who had already held a signal gun, nodded.

Then he raised the signal gun in his hand and fired a shot into the sky above the ambush circle in the night.

"boom!!!"

A gunshot was heard, and then a signal flare exploded under the watchful eyes of Japanese officers such as Yamashita Ichiro and Tanaka Kenichi.

The flare exploded, and the red flames almost illuminated the sky above the entire ambush circle.

"Bang Bang Bang!!!"

Three flares were launched into the air immediately afterwards, and instantly the white flames illuminated the sky above the entire ambush circle and the ground below it.

"Baga, there really is an ambush, retreat, retreat quickly!"

The moment he saw the flare shot into the sky from a hillside on the side of the road, Yamashita Ichiro immediately roared.

"Retreat, retreat quickly!"

Before Tanaka Kenichi could finish his words, Yamashita Ichiro heard a loud voice saying that the Japanese troops were retreating.

But it's too late now.

“Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!!!”

At this time, an ambush position had already been taken up on a gentle slope, and an artillery position had been built on a higher hilltop.

At the moment the flare exploded.

Eight Type 150 infantry guns and three Type mm heavy cannons.

More than two dozen 75mm mountain cannons and dozens of 60mm mortars.

There was a fierce artillery bombardment on the Japanese troops in the ambush circle.

The shells were fired out, leaving long tails of flame and sharp whistling sounds in the night sky.

In less than a few seconds, it crashed heavily into the queue of the large group at the foot of the mountain.

Because the brigade at the foot of the mountain had formed a long marching formation and was marching quickly towards Ping'an County.

In addition, Yamashita Ichiro just gave the order to change the front team to the rear team.

At this moment, the brigade at the foot of the mountain seemed very chaotic under the cover of night.

Many Japanese soldiers watched the shells whistling down, and were immediately frightened by the whistling sound of the shells and screamed continuously.

"Bombardment! It's bombardment!"

"Baga, hide! Hide!"

"Don't run around, get down! Get down now!"

"Heavy artillery, this is heavy artillery!"

"Retreat, retreat quickly!!!"

......

For a moment, the Yamashita Brigade, which had just been in complete formation, was immediately thrown into chaos by the artillery fire.

"BOOM, BOOM, BOOM! BOOM, BOOM!!"

Huge explosions continued to rise and fall, blowing the long marching Japanese army into several pieces, without caring about the front or the rear.

Especially when encountering artillery bombardment at night, any team will be forced to look for hiding places everywhere.

There is no way to fight back.

Looking at his subordinates who were under bombardment and screaming in pain, Yamashita Ichiro was stunned.

At this time, Yamashita Ichiro was well protected.

As soon as the shelling started, the Japanese soldiers surrounding Yamashita Ichiro, including Tanaka Kenichi, protected Yamashita Ichiro tightly.

He then found a nearby pit on the side of the road, jumped in and hid.

“BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM!!!”

"Da da da, da da! Da da da!!!"

Not only was there artillery bombardment, but there were also ambushing troops on the commanding heights of the hillsides on both sides of the road.

As soon as the shelling began, these troops used heavy machine guns and light machine guns to carry out cross-fire coverage of the Japanese in the ambush circle.

Countless bullets formed very clear trajectories in the night, and these trajectories continued to harvest the Japanese soldiers who were running around in panic.

"Baga, Baga, quickly hide, counterattack, counterattack, grenade launcher, mortar gunner, counterattack immediately, counterattack!!!"

After Yamashita Ichiro recovered, he immediately roared.

At this moment, Yamashita Ichiro was still unclear which unit was ambushing his brigade.

But it is simply unrealistic to think of counterattacking now. We can only bite the bullet and withstand this wave of bombardment first, and then do anything else.

But this wave of shelling lasted a full ten minutes.

Ten minutes later.

Of the 1100-man brigade at the foot of the mountain, only less than 600 were left.

"Signalman, signalman, where are you?"

After the shelling ended.

Yamashita Ichiro knew that his team was finished.

But he had to report the situation to Taiyuan, the First Army Headquarters.

So as soon as the shelling ended, Yamashita Ichiro was looking for the signalman.