"Then wait a little longer, the correspondent soldier sends a telegram to the 689th Regiment to speed up their pace. They must arrive near Wuxiang before 9 am tomorrow!" said Brigade Commander L.

"Yes!" The correspondent soldier went to send a telegram.

Time passed while everyone was anxiously waiting. Although Hu Changyi knew that the Japanese devils were heading east and never returned, he could not tell everyone directly at this moment. After all, what if his wings flapped change?

Besides, what he knows is the information on paper, but it is unclear what the details are.

Sometimes, details determine success or failure! So Hu Changyi did not think about anything else except looking at Captain Ye’s face carefully.

"Brig Commander, I've confirmed that most of the Japanese have left the city. The front-line troops are marching in the Zhuozhang River Valley. The subsequent troops and baggage troops are also gradually leaving the city. The Japanese want to evacuate!" The communications soldier who had just left came in to report

road.

"It seems that the Japanese are experiencing danger! We are moving along the Zhuozhang River, and we are going to Xiangyuan! If you didn't say anything, beat them!" The brigade commander looked at the map and decided not to wait, so he started directly.

"Now, I order the 772nd Regiment to set out from your base and pursue eastward along the north bank of Zhuozhang River; the 771st Regiment to pursue eastward along the south bank! As for the Independent Regiment and the Guerrillas... you follow the 772nd Regiment to carry out the Changyi

Come here and continue to be a guard for me! And Commander Ye, you are also with the brigade headquarters and let Li Yunlong lead the team!" said the brigade commander.

"Brig Commander, I refuse this order! I just cough and don't have a fever anymore, it will not affect command and combat! Brigade Commander, I am a party member and a regiment commander. You can't leave the command post because of illness!" Commander Ye stood up!"

Said.

"Okay... you lead the team! The north slope you are on is low and not as steep as the south slope, so your pressure will be great this time when facing the enemy. I will ask Captain Xu to cooperate with your regiment to fight!

Is this okay?" asked the brigade commander.

"No problem, guarantee to complete the task!" said the two team leaders.

"Okay, without further ado, you will return to the army immediately, catch up with the Japanese devils, catch up with them, bite them, and eat them!" said the brigade commander.

"Yes! Chase them, bite them, and be late!" The cadres present answered in unison.

"Brig Commander, I..." Hu Changyi finished shouting, raised his hand and asked, wanting to fight with him.

"Stay honestly and follow me!" The brigade commander was worried that Hu Changyi would go to the battlefield. He heard from Minister Zhang yesterday about the shotgun. While he was happy for Hu Changyi, he also felt that

Protect this little guy.

Wouldn't it be nice to do a good job in military industry? How many Japanese can they fight to the battlefield alone? Is it possible to build an extra shotgun? The brigade commander is very good at settle accounts.

The brigade commander detained the person, and Changyi had no choice but to carry the wooden document box he found for the brigade commander, and followed the brigade team to travel overnight. Today is March 15th of the lunar calendar, and the moonlight is bright, so I don’t worry about rushing to the road

Can't see the road conditions clearly.

I'm afraid this is also the reason why the Japanese chose to escape overnight? In short, the Japanese don't like walking at night.

Well, looking at the world today, there are probably no one who can catch up with the Eighth Route Army in the night marching. If it were considered a pedestrian marching, the Red Army that year created a miracle!

In the river valley, the Japanese marched slowly. This is because the roads in the river valley are not so easy to walk on. On the other hand, the lighting conditions limit the speed of the march. The most important thing is that the Japanese lack supplies these days.

The overall physical fitness declines severely, so walking will naturally slow down.

For the Japanese who have never been hungry, it is indeed difficult to bear to suddenly get hungry. On the contrary, it is not as good as the Eighth Route Army, who often starve, can persevere.

So, the current situation is that the Japanese were in their early 3,000s, riding horses, riding horses, and riding buses, and marching slowly towards the east along with some hungry and exhausted big beasts.

Someone asked why big animals also go hungry? It's April, and the Japanese brought about almost all the food and grass. They also consumed a lot of black beans to detoxify the poisoned Japanese, so the animals didn't eat them.

Well, there are grass on the mountain, which are also freshly grown buds. Where did the Japanese get the kung fu to grazle? And they also need to ensure the consumption of war horses, so the pack horses naturally have to be left behind.

In short, in the Japanese marching ranks, except for those officers riding horses who could march flexibly, they were slow overall.

"Himoye Jun, do you have any food? Hungry..." A little Japanese machine gunner walked in a swaying step by step and asked the deputy machine gunner beside him.

"Then go and eat, respect Zejun!" The Japanese devils from his arms took out a ball of things and handed them to the machine gunner Shinze Goro.

"What is this? How can you have meat?" Gorou Jizawa asked quickly when he smelled the aroma of meat.

"It was the gopher I caught last night, and then roasted it, and that's all left!" said Mikai Higashino.

"Rat...you, how can I, Jingzegoro, eat rats? Even if I starve to death, I was shot to death by the Tujiao Route Army, I would not eat a bite!" Jingzegoro shouted, but his hands were polite.

Consciously put the mouse at his mouth...

Well, the Japanese are really hungry and don’t even let go of mice. But they live a pretty good life, how could they know that the Chinese people would dig up field mice from the ground in the famine year.

In the cave, where do you grab the food accumulated by the goblins from the mouth of the goblins?

Of course, this is not the point. The point is that the Japanese are marching slowly, but the Eighth Route Army was galloping east along the rugged and winding mountain roads on the mountain roads on both sides of the Zhuozhang River Valley, preparing to catch up with the Japanese, bite them, and destroy them.

...

This pursuit took almost a night. Finally, in the early morning, the 772nd Regiment caught up with the Japanese team in the direction of Changle Village, leaving the Japanese logistics and baggage team, engineers, artillery team and two brigades of troops behind.

After that.

In other words, except for the more than 1,000 Japanese troops who went east earlier, the rest were stopped by the 772nd Regiment.

That's right, the more than a thousand Japanese soldiers walking ahead are the most elite, so they walk fast and can be regarded as the pioneering force that opens the way. When the subsequent troops come out late and walk slowly, they will gradually become disconnected.

At the same time, the 771st Regiment also reached the corresponding position to the 772nd Regiment, but received the order to turn back and march halfway to Daijiadian, and the 689th Regiment, which was not in place.

So the current situation is that the two main groups 771 and 772 have to launch a strong attack against the Japanese team.

Of course, there is also a newly established independent regiment and dozens of people from the guerrillas, which are considered to be combat-effective.

In terms of military strength, the Eighth Route Army did not have the advantage, but it only had an advantage in a surprise attack.
Chapter completed!