"We need to see Chief Liu, right away." Ma Hua and Zhao Jiayong, who were panting like cows, finally met the outpost regiment sent by Liu Yangyang before they collapsed completely. Although these regiment members who served as outpost scouts were not very skilled, it was a bit awkward to watch.
It felt nondescript, but Ma Hua and Zhao Jiayong still followed their request and lay face down on the road with their arms and legs spread.
When the exhausted Ma Hua and Zhao Jiayong were carried by the outpost to see Liu Yangyang, the latter was standing in front of a forked road near the main road with a frown, looking down at the ground. The forked road under Liu Yangyang's feet was not a main road that ordinary people were accustomed to walking.
Judging from the direction of this fork in the road, it should be from the direction of Bengbu. Although Gekunshan has not received news of the fall of Bengbu, Liu Yangyang secretly guessed that the Japanese forward troops must be not far from Bengbu, or they have already sent
Infiltration troops entered Bengbu.
Perhaps due to the nervousness and inexplicable sense of urgency in his heart, Liu Yangyang paid great attention to all the abnormal things that happened in Mengcheng. It was like the fork in the road under his feet at the moment was the one that attracted him the most among the many anomalies.
When Liu Yangyang discovered this forked road, he had already asked his regiment members. After learning that not many people used to take this forked road, Liu Yangang ordered the militia to stop advancing.
"A lot of horse hoofprints suddenly appeared on a side road that not many people used. What does this mean? There are only a few large households that keep many horses in Mengcheng County, and we didn't encounter anyone riding a horse all the way from the county seat.
Man, where did these people on horseback come from? And where are they going?" Looking carefully at the horse hoof prints on the ground, Liu Yangyang's heart was full of questions. Unfortunately, not only could he not find the answer, but also here
No one appeared who could help him solve his doubts.
"Sir Liu, Ma Hua and the others are back." The pale-faced Ma Hua and Zhao Jiayong were carried by the outpost. It could be seen that their current condition was not very good. Their pale and bloodless faces showed symptoms of exhaustion.
Liu Yangyang did not ask the two of them immediately, but called Tian Kui and others to diagnose and treat them first. In Liu Yangyang's memory, many of the recruits of the 88th Division were trained because of excessive intensity.
, resulting in sudden death at the training ground due to overwork.
"We found where the bandit's nest is. He Guang and Sun Yang stayed there to guard. We came back to report the news." After half a bottle of water, Ma Hua spoke first. Compared with Zhao Jiayong, Ma Hua's physical strength was obviously
A little stronger. "Qinglong Ridge, we found traces of bandits in Qinglong Ridge. There is a trail leading to the back mountain. Those bandits on Qinglong Ridge should be guarding that trail." He recovered a little.
Ma Hua looked at Liu Yangyang eagerly, but he didn't know that the latter was cursing the four of them in his heart.
After listening to the vague information from MCA, Liu Yangyang's first reaction was to drive these two inexperienced guys back to the county town. How could he be so rash when conducting enemy reconnaissance? He only discovered a few bandits who were deployed on the periphery.
He thought he had found traces of bandits. If this happened during a war, his team would probably be destroyed. Looking at MCA who was lying on the ground but still holding himself up and looking at him, Liu Yangyang had no choice but to put his foot down first.
The anger was suppressed. To be honest, the four of them couldn't be blamed for this, but they were only members of the regiment who had only been trained for 2 months. It was already very good to be able to spot the bandits.
"We also met a cavalry team on the road, but we didn't see their appearance clearly. Judging from the direction they were going, they should be going to Beishan. I don't know if they are the bandits we are looking for." Ma Hua was ashamed to mention that he and
Zhao Jiayong was hiding in the depression, but Zhao Jiayong didn't care about it and directly told everything about their encounter with the cavalry, which indeed attracted Liu Yangyang's attention.
According to Zhao Jiayong, they met the cavalry team an hour ago. Now Liu Yangyang was very sure that the horse hoof prints on the fork in the road were left by the horse team heading to Beishan, because of the horse dung on the fork in the road.
You can't deceive people. Liu Yangyang has checked the horse dung on the side road. The temperature and freshness of the horse dung are enough to prove that the horses that left the dung have not left here for more than 2 hours, and the information provided by Zhao Jiayong can confirm Liu Yangyang's
speculation, but now I don’t know if that cavalry team is the bandits from Beishan.
"What should I do?" Liu Yangyang, who was thinking secretly, turned his attention to Tang Cheng, who was sitting safely on the big green horse. He didn't expect Tang Cheng to help him think of a solution. Looking around when thinking has already become Liu Yangyang's habit.
Liu Yangyang's incomprehensible sight made Tang Cheng a little surprised on the horse. He raised his eyebrows. Tang Cheng asked Liu Yangyang with his eyes, but the latter had already looked away.
"Qinglong Ridge, let's go." After weighing things up, Liu Yangyang decided to go to Qinglong Ridge to see what was going on first. Although He Guang and the others did not find the real lair of the bandits, they at least found bandits on Qinglong Ridge. When they found bandits, they
Well, Liu Yangyang never doubted his method of extracting confessions. As long as he could catch the victims alive, Liu Yangyang would have a way to learn the location of the bandit's lair from their mouths.
The six-man outpost group was re-sent by Liu Yangyang, and they marched about a mile in front of the brigade. Once the outpost discovered anomalies or the whereabouts of bandits, two of them would immediately return to join the brigade, and the remaining
The four men would follow and pursue them all the way until the group behind them caught up. Tang Cheng also imitated Liu Yangyang and saw those horse hoof prints, but he didn't see any clues from those horse hoof prints. It was Tian Kui who brought them.
Xu Yang, a traveling doctor, expressed the same opinion as Liu Yangyang.
"This Xu Yang has been to Inner Mongolia and stayed there for several years. If it hadn't been for the war, he would have even married Mongolian women and returned home." Tian Kui's carriage was next to Tangcheng, which was extremely boring.
The two of them happened to be able to chat together. Like Tang Cheng, Xu Yang is also a person who doesn't like to talk much, but he has a very good relationship with Tian Kui. Among these doctors, Tian Kui is probably the only one who knows Xu Yang best.
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Knowing Xu Yang was just out of Tang Cheng's curiosity, maybe because of his personality. After his body fully recovered, Tang Cheng became wary and defensive about people and things around him. Xu Yang was just a wandering doctor, but he was very cautious about those horses.
Shi's words were so logical that Tang Cheng couldn't help but be wary of him. Tian Kui's introduction made Tang Cheng relax his guard, but that was just a relaxation. The guard in Tang Cheng's heart had not completely dissipated.
Guang still glanced at Xu Yang, who was silent on the carriage.
"Tang Cheng, come to the front." Tang Cheng and Tian Kui chatted wordlessly, but Liu Yangyang didn't want Tang Cheng to feel too comfortable, so he directly shouted to Tang Cheng to go to the front. The 300-member Mengcheng militia was transferred away by Ge Kunshan
One person was found trafficking in smuggled goods, and among the remaining 180 people, less than 100 were equipped with weapons. However, the intelligence provided by Ge Kunshan showed that there were only more than 40 bandits in Beishan. Liu Yangyang was confident in destroying this group of bandits, so
He planned to let Tang Cheng command the 60 members of the first team.
"We are the only three of us who have fought in the war. Jiu Jin has been assigned by me to protect the doctors. I will take command, and the first team will be left to you to command." In Liu Yangyang's plan.
, the first team does not mean that it is a vanguard death squad, and Tang Cheng had the experience of commanding the team when he was in Qiandeng Town. Although the number of people at that time was not as large as it is now, with Tang Cheng's strength in Nanjing City
It shows that Liu Yangyang will never treat Tang Cheng as an ordinary soldier.
This is not Tang Cheng’s first time commanding a regiment, but it is definitely his first time leading troops in combat. Fortunately, he has Xie Bo’s diary, otherwise Tang Cheng’s first reaction would be to refuse. “You are from the Second Company.
There are no cowards or cowards in the second company. You are the sergeant squad leader of the **, and you are fully qualified to command those regiments. You must believe in your own abilities and my vision." I am afraid that Tang Cheng will be timid and a little uncomfortable.
Reassured, Liu Yangyang finally whispered a few words to Tang Cheng, but Tang Cheng's expression didn't seem to care much.
"Leading troops in war is not only about your own life and death, but also the life and death of your soldiers. Being bold and careful is the right way." Tang Cheng silently recited the passage in Xie Bo's diary in his heart. Although he didn't quite understand it yet.
The true meaning of the sentence, but Tang Cheng knew what it meant to be bold and careful. After experiencing the Battle of Nanjing, Tang Cheng no longer resisted fighting. On the contrary, he still looked forward to the smell of gunpowder during battle, because only in that kind of
Only then can he forget many things that he doesn't want to remember.
"First team, speed up." Putting the rifle in his hand into the saddle bag, Tang Cheng lightly knocked on the horse's belly and speeded up to the front of the entire team. The 69 regiment members who were assigned to the first team followed Tang Cheng's orders.
They began to accelerate and soon distanced themselves from the Chinese army commanded by Liu Yangyang. The Mengcheng militia led by Liu Yangyang was not very large in number, and only half of the regiment was equipped with guns. It was a taboo to divide the troops and march, but Liu Yangyang
But it did not stop Tang Cheng from commanding the first team.
"If you haven't experienced failure, how can you know the difficulty of success? Besides, there are only a few 40 bandits going north, so we don't need to be so careful." Regarding the questions raised by Tian Kui next to him, Liu Yangyang looked indifferent. He actually hoped that
The bandits on Beishan Mountain will take the initiative to attack the first team commanded by Tang Cheng, so that he does not have to worry about the bandits fleeing along the mountain, thus achieving the goal of killing all the bandits.
Liu Yangyang was not very concerned about whether the first team commanded by Tangcheng would be defeated when they encountered bandits. He believed that the word failure did not exist in Tangcheng's dictionary. He also did not think that the 60 assembly members would be defeated.
A regiment member who has a rifle will be beaten to a pulp by a group of 40 bandits who only have short rifles. He knows what kind of combat effectiveness the regiment members he has trained have. Although they are not the best, they are not vulnerable.