"On Bageya Road, the conscience of the Chinese people is dead." Takeda Nobuyoshi rounded the command knife in his hand and struck hard. With a click, a section of the tree trunk as thick as a tea cup was broken. Takeda Nobuyoshi only received the intelligence.
When Tangcheng and the others rushed to Huidiqiao Town to attack the Japanese army, they never expected that this Japanese team was equipped with a radio. None of the wounded Japanese soldiers after the two ambushes mentioned this.
When Tangcheng and others launched an attack on Huandiqiao Town, the Japanese radio soldiers in the town had already sent out a distress signal.
Laodongbei was extremely glad that the fire he escaped was a cover-up by the Japanese radio soldiers to destroy the radio station. Laodongbei who subsequently searched the fire scene did not find any radio components in the ashes. After receiving the news, Takeda Nobuyoshi personally commanded a
The Japanese rescue team of the squadron returned to Diqiao Town, but unfortunately he arrived a step too late. When Takeda Nobuyoshi arrived to return to Diqiao Town, Tangcheng and the others had already left for more than ten hours.
"Chase them, catch up with them, and then kill them all." The furious Takeda Nobuyoshi gave the order. The leading team took a truck and three motorcycles and immediately set off to pursue them. Takeda Nobuyoshi led the rest of the troops after the vanguard discovered the enemy's traces.
After all, trucks and motorcycles are much faster than Tangcheng's large vehicles. Before lunch time, after experiencing the initial mistake, the Japanese front team driving south had already discovered Tangcheng.
Get Zhang Tong off the carriage.
"They diverted from here. The top soldiers have been chasing them for a long time." A large number of Japanese soldiers gathered beside the mountain road. Wuyuan Xiangcheng, known as the tracking expert, personally came to the mountain road to supervise the pursuit of those Chinese stragglers. What now?
Tracking or killing the Chinese stragglers who left Huandiqiao Town has become the most important task of the Japanese troops in Huangshi, especially some of the Japanese second-line garrison units that have no combat missions. This is their only military mission at present.
The forward soldiers pursued along the traces left by the cart. After discovering two dug areas in the ground, one of them had been dug up by these Japanese soldiers. "They should have stopped here. Look.
You can tell by looking at what's in the ashes." Commander Cao, who was leading the elite soldiers, found a coke-like lump from the ashes with great experience, put it in his mouth and bit it open. The conclusion he got confirmed his guess.
This is a piece of dry biscuit that accidentally fell into the campfire.
The two pits dug in succession were filled with ashes from the burning bonfires. The ashes buried under the turf had already cooled down, so the leading soldiers responsible for the pursuit could only judge that someone had stayed here, but they could not
Deduced the time when the stayers left. "Leave a mark for the captain and the others, we will continue to pursue." Captain Cao, who led the team, stood up and looked around at the terrain, and ordered the top soldiers to drive motorcycles to continue the pursuit.
According to the information obtained from the town, the Chinese skirmishers who left the town were driving in large vehicles, and they also had a large number of wounded soldiers, so that they would not move too fast. The 9 vehicles that left the town
Only 4 of the carts are horse-drawn carriages, and the rest are ox-carts. The more than 30 Chinese skirmishers and the trophies can make the carts reach half the normal speed at most, so as long as they find the right direction and path,
It's only a matter of time before we catch up with those Chinese stragglers.
The leading soldiers in charge of the pursuit were lucky. After only a few miles of pursuit along the rutted road, the pursuers unexpectedly discovered a grave. Surrounded by bare fields, no homes or villages could be seen at all.
, such a grave suddenly appeared, and Captain Cao, who was leading the team, had to order his soldiers to dig up this lonely grave. There was no tombstone, no coffin, and there was only one corpse in the lonely grave dug by the Japanese soldiers.
A corpse wearing a national army uniform.
He used a bayonet to lift off the uniform on the corpse. Captain Cao, who was commanding the leading soldiers, found a bandaged wound on the corpse. He stabbed the bayonet into the arm of the corpse with force. Captain Cao quietly observed the blood flowing from the knife edge. According to
From the speed of the blood seeping out from the knife wound, he judged that the body had not been dead for more than 3 hours. After all, the body's blood had not completely coagulated.
"Laichuan, you go back and tell the captain right away, ask them to speed up, and say that we have discovered the whereabouts of the Chinese stragglers." Captain Cao, who put down his bayonet, could already conclude that the body belonged to the group of Chinese stragglers.
The Japanese soldier who led the leader Cao's roll call didn't say anything. He drove a motorcycle and hurried towards the road. The body of the Chinese soldier was found, which meant that the group of Chinese stragglers they were chasing had stopped here.
, it takes a lot of time to dig a grave.
"It seems they haven't gone far, let's continue chasing." After putting away the bayonet, Chang Cao looked at the surrounding environment and immediately gave the order. According to his own inference of the time of death of the body, the group of Chinese skirmishers who stayed here to bury the body
It takes up to 3 hours to leave here, and the cart can travel up to a dozen miles in 3 hours. The three-wheeled motorcycle they drive can catch up with those Chinese stragglers in just 1 hour.
After receiving the news from the leading team, Takeda Nobuyoshi was overjoyed and immediately ordered a team to stay in Huandiqiao Town. The remaining soldiers immediately took trucks south to pursue and support the leading team. After learning that the rear team had also set off, he commanded the leading team.
Gohara Aijo, the leader of the team, immediately adjusted the deployment of the team. The troops of one squad followed Laichuan who came back to report the news to support the forward vanguard. He personally commanded the remaining soldiers who fell within a mile behind the forward vanguard.
Inside.
Tang Cheng, who left Huandiqiao Town at night, did not know that the Japanese army had sent pursuers from Huangshi. The body of a national soldier discovered by the Japanese vanguard was that of a defeated soldier under Wu Chuang who was seriously injured and died. Although Tang Cheng was in
A doctor was recruited in Diqiao Town and the Western medicines in Yao Ji's drug store were emptied. However, the soldier who died from the serious injury was too seriously injured, and the wound on his abdomen festered due to inflammation.
The juice had even infected the internal organs. In order to prevent the wounded soldier from suffering any more pain, Wu Chuang, who had no choice but to do anything, stabbed the wounded soldier's heart with a knife. The only thing they could do in Tangcheng was to stop.
Build a grave for him.
According to Old Northeast’s thinking and Tangcheng’s usual style, there is absolutely no need to stop and spend more than half an hour building a grave. There are so many people who died on the battlefield, and they don’t even have a grave to bury their bones. But face it.
To the red-eyed Wu Chuang and Qian Erxi, Tang Cheng could only nod in agreement. Could it be that he had a falling out with Wu Chuang and the others over this matter, and in the end everyone had to go their separate ways and be defeated by the Japanese army one by one. Tang Cheng had no choice.
He refused, so he had to speed up the march after getting back on the road. However, there were still more than a dozen wounded people on the cart. The bumps caused by the faster speed made the wounded soldiers miserable.
After walking and stopping, we finally reached a place called Dachong'ao. Everyone who had been traveling overnight, including Tang Cheng, couldn't hold on any longer. "Let's rest for two hours. Shitou and the monk are in the same group, and the glasses are the same as mine."
The remaining people are sleeping, and the lightly injured should pay attention to the surrounding movements." The branches cut down along the road were enough to provide cover for Tang Cheng and the others, and they used those branches to simply disguise the large vehicle. Tang Cheng and the others were on guard in two groups.
The sentries separated one after another and hid themselves 300 meters away from the convoy.
"You go to bed first, and I'll switch to you in an hour." Tang Cheng put on what he called Tan Fei's glasses and found a mound with a wide field of view. On this mound, Tang Cheng could see very far with a telescope. Tan Fei
Fei was not a veteran like Lao Dongbei. He could not fall asleep without turning his head, so he could only endure the cold wind on the mound and sleep with his eyes closed. The Tangcheng on the mound did not care about where it came from. He also used
The telescope observed the movement in the direction of Chengui Town, because Chengui Town is at most about 10 miles south of Dachong Au.
Tang Cheng has never been to Chengui Town. He only knew about Chengui Town from the map captured by the Japanese army. According to the scale on the map, Chengui Town is only 10 miles away from Dachong Au. Chengui Town is the same town as Huandiqiao Town.
Although its population is not as good as that of Diqiao Town, Tangcheng knows that the Japanese army will not abandon such a place. There may be Japanese troops guarding Chengui Town or the Imperial Alliance Army stationed there. It is precisely because of this that Tangcheng came down to Dachong Au.
Stay for two hours to let everyone regain their energy. If there are Japanese and puppet troops in Chengui Town, it will be another fierce battle.
A real night of fear made Tang Cheng extremely exhausted at this time. He turned to look at Tan Fei who was already asleep. Tang Cheng could only steel himself and continue to observe the movements around him. Little did he know that it was his courage that saved the life.
The lives of himself and Wu Chuang and others. When the faint sound of the motor reached his ears, Tang Cheng was already drowsy on the mound. The sound of the motor in the distance immediately made Tang Cheng lose his sleep. Dachong Ao
There is actually the sound of a motor coming from a place like this, which is not a good sign.
Tang Cheng, who picked up the binoculars, only glanced in the direction of the road, and his hair stood up in shock. Three three-wheeled motorcycles dragging Huang Chen behind appeared in Tang Cheng's sight. For the three-wheeled motorcycles, Huang Chen was dragged behind them.
Tangcheng is no stranger to three-wheeled motorcycles. When he was in Shanghai, Tangcheng saw this kind of thing more than once in the Japanese Concession. Based on the calculation of three people on a three-wheeled motorcycle, these three people appeared in the telescope.
There were at least nine Japanese soldiers on a three-wheeled motorcycle.
"Glasses, go and call Lao Dongbei over, and ask him to bring two light machine guns and grenade launchers, and then notify Wu Chuang to arrange for the vanguard to find a suitable place to hide the convoy so that they can be ready at any time.
Leave." Tangcheng is not naive enough to think that these Japanese soldiers on motorcycles are here for an outing. There are no big villages on the way from Dachong'ao to Diqiao Town. The only explanation is that these Japanese soldiers
The soldiers may have been pursued from Huandiqiao Town.