Chapter 19: Imperfect Victory
The veteran was drunk and lying on the ground, with a cigarette in the corner of his mouth. Before pushing the wine vat over, he tasted a few large sips of the aged wine of Guozhuang Distillery, and his heart was full of beauty. Striking a match, he lit the cigarette and took a hard puff, looked at the wet ground half a meter in front of him, and threw the small flame over casually.
The flames arced and did not go out after they landed. The originally red flame suddenly turned into a light blue, and the light blue flame spread forward rapidly as if it were alive. With the crackling sound of burning, in the blink of an eye, the blue flames of Kung Fu had rushed out dozens of meters, and they were still extending forward!
"Fire, fire! Evacuate! The rapidly approaching blue line of fire quickly caught the attention of the devil. The devil Shaozuo saw the flames, and then saw the huge wine vat, and his pupils dilated instantly! This guy shouted a warning and turned around and ran.
The flames caught up with the vat in a matter of seconds, and a large blue flame enveloped the vat at once. It seemed to be brewing for a while, and the next moment I heard a "boom", and the huge wine vat exploded like a bombshell! Countless pieces of broken porcelain with blue flames are flying all over the sky, beautiful, beautiful and wonderful.
This large vat with a vat of fine wine completed the best scene of its life on this night. Ren Laifeng and all the soldiers of the Flying Tiger Battalion were fascinated by the beautiful scenery in front of them, "It's so beautiful! This is the exclamation of many soldiers when they see this scene.
However, the Japanese army apparently did not see it that way. The liquor that flowed into the ground, and the liquor that was sprayed after the explosion of the vat was splashed everywhere, and the devil soldiers and bean chariots caught fire wherever they came. With the devil covered in flames, he ran and shouted, and rolled on the spot.
A few rolls in the ground can extinguish the fire on the body, how can the chariot roll? Don't look at the outside of the bean chariot is a layer of iron armor, and the iron armor can still burn when the liquor is splashed on it. The driver and commander of the chariot didn't want to be treated like a roast pig, so they opened the hatch and climbed out desperately in flames. The shortcomings of the three bean chariots being too close to each other were finally revealed. The flames caused by the explosion of a wine vat set all three chariots on fire!
The chariot is all over! The devil Shaozuo was so angry that he stomped his feet, and was about to order people to go up to rescue the three unlucky chariots, when gunshots rang out again in all directions. Seeing that the Japanese soldiers who were struggling in the flames were shot and killed, Shao Zuo knew that he had to make a decision!
A strong man breaks his wrist, this is a famous idiom in ancient China, and now the devil is using this trick. In order to get out of trouble as soon as possible, the Japanese army Shaozo asked the troops to abandon all heavy equipment and advance lightly. Wasn't the road blocked by the burning Bean Chariot? Then take a detour! Walk through the bushes and woods next to you, walk through the farmland for a while, and then return to the road!
Although it is a little difficult to detour, in order to survive, they are not tired of taking more detours. At this moment, it reflects the hardships and hard work of devils, the woods are okay, and the bushes are not so good. Especially in the farmland, if you are alone, you can walk on the ridge, how slow is it if there are many people?
The gunfire continued to sound from the front and back, and the firelight from several bean chariots illuminated a large space, and when the devils fled for their lives, this firelight allowed them to see the ground under their feet.
The devil can see his feet clearly by the light of the fire, and our warriors can also see the devil by the light of the fire. Ren Laifeng took the soldiers of the Flying Tiger Battalion to fight that very happily. The machine gun can be fought vigorously, and the rifle is aimed at whichever it wants. Anyway, the devil is only concerned about escaping for his life at this time, and the formation is out of order, so why not take advantage of this once-in-a-century opportunity to practice his accuracy?
"Smack!" Another shot knocked down a devil, and Ren Laifeng was quite satisfied. He feels that the accuracy seems to have risen again recently, and the next time he competes again, he may not lose so much to Fu Erchong, right?
Since Fu Erchong was transferred to Ren Laifeng's troops, the two have competed. The result is that Ren Laifeng loses every time. As long as it is related to guns, whether it is all kinds of shooting or disassembling guns, Ren Laifeng has never won once. Sometimes he also thinks, why doesn't this Fu Erchong know to save some face for him? You can let me win even once.
"Battalion commander, are we rushing up and stopping the devil?" Li Lishan's words pulled Ren Laifeng back from the conjecture of the shooting competition.
"What are you chasing? Don't chase! There are so many people chasing behind, do you need us to follow and join in the fun? Ren Laifeng lifted his chin. Li Lishan looked in the direction, okay, behind this group of devils, there seemed to be an endless fire dragon moving forward quickly.
While the fire dragon was moving, sparks were constantly shooting forward. This is the pursuing army of the Twelfth Army! If it weren't for such a large army following behind, maybe that group of devils would have rushed over and fought a decisive battle with the Flying Tiger Battalion. Since there was a large force in pursuit, was it necessary for the Flying Tiger Battalion to join in the fun? Anyway, Ren Laifeng didn't plan to do this.
The battle went on all night. Pursue, clean up the battlefield, and count personnel and equipment. By the time everything was done, it was already dawn. It was another night of fighting.
In this battle, the Flying Tiger Battalion lost eighty-seven soldiers. On the battlefield, there were 112 corpses of Japanese soldiers. According to the previous casualty ratio, the Japanese army is expected to suffer about 500 casualties in this Xuchang encounter! The devil's thousand** team is equivalent to more than half of the casualties! It was a big win. Unfortunately, this victory was not so perfect.
First of all, it wasn't a pre-planned battle, it was an encounter. In other words, even if you win, it will be a blind cat hitting a dead mouse, and it is pure luck. On the other hand, the enemy was annihilated by 500 but did not kill the enemy's middle and senior commanders, and did not even kill a single junior officer. The highest-ranking Japanese officer killed was only one second lieutenant.
In fact, this also has Ren Laifeng's responsibility, if he would falsely report his exploits, such as reporting the killing of one commander of the Japanese army and the killing of 2,000 enemies, then the nature of the battle would have completely changed. Everyone may be reprimanded for falsely reporting their exploits, but it is more likely that they will take benefits from their superiors!
Ren Laifeng's mind is not here at all, he is busy with military recruitment now. Guozhuang is a large village, with thousands of men, women and children in the village. It can be seen from those strong men who carry wine that there are still some good laborers in Guozhuang who are idle at home.
If the owner of the winery can give him two jars of wine, that is, he has a good impression of the national army. Take advantage of this goodwill and don't hurry up to make some benefits and recruit some people, after this village, he won't have this store! Ren Laifeng asked people to post a conscription notice at the entrance of the village, so that the old and young masters in the village knew that the Flying Tiger Battalion had begun to recruit soldiers!