Chapter 16: The Capture of the Prisoners
Zhao Qiuhang ran away, and the Fourth Infantry Brigade of the Third Military Region was routed by the troops commanded by Ren Laifeng! The puppet army, which had lost its unified command, was running all over the mountains, and there was no longer a single organized unit still engaged in organized resistance, and the name of the Fourth Infantry Brigade of the Manchurian Defense Army completely lost its meaning from this moment on. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the vast wasteland, our soldiers pursued the fleeing enemy to their heart's content. The puppet soldiers of the 4th Brigade have completely lost the will to fight, they just want to run, run quickly, and leave this ominous place as soon as possible! In order to run faster, some puppet soldiers simply threw away their guns.
The puppet army thinks this thing is too heavy. The three-eight big cover plus the bullet weighs eight pounds, nearly one meter and three long, and it will definitely not be able to run fast with such a long guy on his back. How easy is it to throw away the gun, the bullets, the water bottle, and run without anything on you? The speed can be at least 20% higher!
Ren Laifeng also participated in the pursuit on the battlefield. Anyway, the battle has come to this point, and it won't be interesting for him to go back, so just chase after the soldiers! Chasing and chasing, Ren Laifeng saw a puppet army running happily fifty or sixty meters ahead, he stopped and raised his gun and was about to pull the trigger, when suddenly the puppet army threw away the rifle he was holding!
Hey, what did you say you threw the gun away? It's not like I can't shoot now. Ren Lai put down the gun stupidly. If the enemy throws away the weapon and you shoot again, it is not called fighting, it is called intentional killing! Ren Laifeng is a brave warrior, but he never considers himself a deliberate murderer!
I ran over and picked up the rifle and saw that it was a new Type 38 rifle, and the five bullets in the magazine were full. What a waste! Ren Laifeng shook his head and handed the rifle to Huang Guojin behind him, you can carry it. Huang Guojin grinned, the gun given by the commander-in-chief, he had to take it if he didn't want to.
Ran less than a hundred meters forward and picked up two more guns. Ren Laifeng looked around, and there were guns everywhere in the field, and everywhere were the figures of our soldiers chasing and shouting to kill and ordering the enemy to surrender.
Ren Laifeng called the herald to him and asked him to give the order: All our officers and soldiers must not kill the enemy who has laid down his arms! If there is a violator, it will be dealt with as a violation of the military order!
The puppet army is also Chinese, and since they have laid down their weapons, it would be a crime for us to kill people again. No sensible commander would condone the indiscriminate killing of innocents by his troops. Indiscriminate killing, that is just a manifestation of incompetence, is by no means the choice of the wise.
Running and running, the puppet soldiers soon discovered a life-saving trick: those who don't hold guns won't be shot! Those pursuers only shoot at those with guns, and for those who do not carry guns, they just chase, and if they can catch up, they will catch up, and if they can't catch up, they will at most shout two voices and scold a few words to pull down. The puppet soldiers took a look, this is good, let's throw the gun and run for a race. Run fast to get free, run slow and get captured, but your life can be saved anyway.
Don't look at the puppet soldiers are scattering and fleeing, but the news is still like wings, and it spreads to all the puppet troops almost instantly. Almost immediately after the first puppet army purposefully threw away the rifle, throwing away the rifle became one thing that the puppet soldiers had to do on the way to escape. Standing in the wilderness and looking around, you can see that as far as the eye can see, there is one in the east and one in the west, and all over the mountains and fields are rifles discarded by the puppet army.
Some fighters gave up the pursuit in order to pick up a few more guns, some soldiers picked up one to see if it was in good condition and threw it away and picked up the next one, and he was picking up newer and more convenient rifles.
The puppet soldiers ran faster because of the lack of the burden of guns, and countless puppet soldiers distanced themselves from the pursuers while the pursuers were picking up rifles.
Let the wind take a look, is this still worth it? Isn't it a small loss to give up capturing prisoners for the sake of a few rifles? The second order in the pursuit was passed down again: the pursuing troops were not allowed to pick up the guns and items discarded by the rout, and the prisoners were captured first!
What would happen if this military order was not violated, but who of our officers and soldiers would violate Ren Laifeng's order? The pursuit began again, this time no matter what the puppet army threw away, no one picked it up, and the officers and soldiers all knew that the commander-in-chief was going to capture prisoners, and picking up things would only violate military orders, and only when the prisoners were captured would they be considered military merits. Then let's catch it!
The puppet army ran desperately for freedom, and our soldiers chased after it for military merit! There are countless exciting races in this wilderness.
You see how fast this warrior runs, he is like a leopard hunting a yellow sheep, and he runs with a cloud of dust behind him. The puppet army who was being chased ran desperately, but the two of them were much worse in terms of speed, and the distance between the two of them was shortened to less than two meters even a hundred meters after running out.
The pursuing warrior suddenly exerted his strength, and his body rushed forward, and the running puppet army was thrown to the ground, and the two of them rolled together. The puppet army couldn't get up when he thought about it again, he was dragged by our soldiers, and the two fought together. Soon, the comrades-in-arms who came nearby to help, and the puppet army was obediently tied and made prisoners.
It's fast, and it's slow. The pursuers run slowly and the deserters run fast, and this is when the importance of cooperation is revealed. The pursuers behind them called out to their comrades while running, and when the deserter passed a big tree, one of them suddenly jumped out from behind the tree, stretched out his foot and tripped the puppet army, and then the two of them started to tie up the prisoner together to repay the merit.
Of course, Ren Laifeng didn't need this credit, he ran happily behind, and by the way, he looked at the wonderful pictures of the soldiers capturing the prisoners. This kind of scene is not something that can be seen often, and it is not easy to come across it, so you have to appreciate it.
The capture of the captives lasted for more than half an hour, and it was not until there was not a single running enemy as far as the eye could see.
According to post-war statistics, a total of 649 prisoners of the Puppet Fourth Brigade were captured in this battle, of which 29 were seriously wounded and 47 were killed. One hundred and thirty-four Japanese soldiers were killed, and there were no wounded or prisoners. Our army suffered about 300 casualties. Coupled with the 7th Division of the puppet army that came from the uprising, after the end of this battle, our army was basically 2,000 more people.
After cleaning up the battlefield, Ren Laifeng ordered Huang Tian's provisional first division, Li Yunlong's flying tiger battalion, and the first cavalry detachment to attack the Japanese troops stationed in Qiqihar together! The Fourth Brigade of the puppet army in the Qiqihar Third Military Region has been wiped out, and the new defeat of the Japanese army is the time when the morale of the lost troops is low.
Sichinbari brought 30,000 Mongol cavalry from the steppe, but Ren Laifeng did not merge these 30,000 cavalry with Bayan's cavalry brigade. He organized 30,000 Mongol cavalry into ten detachments of 3,000 men each.