Chapter 20: The Story of the Cannon, VIII
The north gate of Wanping City.
"Departure"
Yoji Matsuno, one or two adjutants in Ono rode side by side, and a whole brigade of devils followed behind them with neat steps.
And in this complete brigade, two Type 41 mountain guns and two Type 92 infantry guns of an artillery squadron were pulled by several horses, and behind the artillery column, dozens of wagons carrying shells followed.
Stomp Pedal ·
In the sound of neat leather shoes, more than 1,300 devils from a full-line first-line brigade rushed out.
At the end of the devil brigade, there were more than 200 puppet soldiers.
These puppet troops are the recently formed security teams around Wanping City.
In the puppet army team, a man wearing a captain's costume and combing his shiny hair walked in the front row of the team in high spirits, and he was pinned to a Wang Ba box around his waist.
"Wang Shan, come here"
A loud cry made him stop looking.
"Hey, Commander, I'm here"
Bending down and lowering his head, this man named Wang Shan said respectfully to the only person riding a horse in the front row of the puppet army like a pug, and his face towards the ground was with a hint of fear.
The person riding the horse can be called a strong horse, and the fat flesh swished with the horse's steps, and the fat on the face was piled up layer by layer, burying the facial features alive in the skin wrinkles, and the whole human temperament revealed a word.
Ferocious.
The face is born from the heart, and the vicious face also represents the murderous character.
Looking at the famous head of the three evils in Wanping City in front of him, Wang Shan even felt his legs and stomach tremble.
He wasn't afraid.
The murderous shadow in front of him that has shrouded Wanping City for seven years, the hob meat king slaughter.
Hob meat king slaughter.
Male, age unknown, real name unknown, birth unknown, he was originally a bandit roaming the surrounding areas of Wanping County, but what really made him famous was the Wanping City robbery seven years ago.
That year, the eldest son of the three-hundred-year-old landlord squire of the Shi family in Wanping City was kidnapped, the kidnappers asked for 10,000 taels of gold, and the kidnapper was Wang Tu, the specific process of this matter is rarely clear, only that the head of the Shi family seems to have asked the army to deal with the matter, but the result is that more than 300 people up and down the Shi family were all beheaded, and these heads were placed in the handwriting of Wang Tu directly in the center of the Shi family compound.
Since then, the entire Wanping City has been shrouded in the shadow of Wang Tu, and in the past seven years, more than 1,000 people have died at the hands of Wang Tu.
After the devil occupied Wanping City, he recruited Wang Tu and gave the other party the title of the captain of the Imperial Association, and Wang Tu followed the devil's support to burn and loot in the surrounding area, and did all kinds of evil in the name of collecting materials.
And because its collection of materials is very powerful, and his subordinates have gathered a group of outlaws, they are very valued by the devils, so Wang Tu sat on the first position of the puppet army in Wanping City.
It even got a new title.
Commander.
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More than 1,300 devils in a brigade, and more than 200 people in the puppet army are going straight to our garrison from Wanping City.
Looking at the information in their hands, Zhang Lianshun and Zhang Promise frowned at the same time, because of the distance and the devil's martial law, when they received the information, the devil had been out of the city for nearly four hours.
And the second wave of intelligence also told the two regiment commanders that the devil still did not divide his troops after ten hours of marching, but walked directly towards the road of Baishi Township.
"Strange, what are you trying to do?"
"Do they think we're going to fight them head-on?"
Grand Master Zhang said very suspiciously.
This group of devils did not take a car, that is to say, they did not plan to leave Wanping City, but only planned to move around the area, and carried mountain artillery and infantry artillery, as well as a large number of shells and various materials, which showed that the devils were ready for a long-term march and battle.
If he hadn't known that there was no second army stationed around Wanping City, he would have thought that the devil was planning to attack the well-fortified position.
"The garrison of Wanping City has not moved, all the people who came out are the new devil brigade, and the new group of the Imperial Cooperative Army" Zhang Nuoyan was also puzzled.
"Coming out with such a swagger, what does the commander of the devil want to do? Could there be some conspiracy? They don't really think we're going to be stupid enough to fight them in a positional war."
The two regiment commanders knew very well in their hearts that even if they had mortars and good gunners in their hands now, and had sufficient weapons and ammunition, they would definitely not have a large-scale frontal conflict with the devils, any defensive warfare, any movement annihilation warfare, or any ambush warfare, they did not intend to use it.
Because it can't be beaten at all, and it's not cost-effective.
Now the regiment has just received a large amount of weapons and ammunition, and the training of soldiers is on the right track, as long as in a few months, the troops are familiar with weapons, training infantry tactics for a period of time, and then on this basis, several actual battles are carried out.
Then, an iron-clad main regiment was born.
But now, the soldiers are all recruits, the so-called recruits are not just inaccurate guns, their position on the battlefield, awareness and tactical actions are extremely lacking, this kind of recruits, on the battlefield is a moving target, with this kind of recruits and the devil who is not dragged down by the burden can only be the devil divided and surrounded or even completely annihilated.
And these things should naturally be able to be investigated and understood, and the devils must also understand that their side will never fight them head-on, it stands to reason that if the devils want to encircle and suppress them, they should disperse their forces and encircle them in many ways, compress their activity space, and then surround and annihilate.
But at this time, the devils rushed out in a swarm, and this attitude of fighting to the death made the two regiment leaders a little confused.
Wanping County is surrounded by dense forests, as long as they lead the team into the mountains, the devils don't want to catch up.
"Strange..." Muttering in his mouth, Head Zhang could only order to continue to closely observe the movements of the devil.
At this time, the six companies of the 733rd Independent Regiment had already entered the hidden garrison in the mountainous area, and only a small number of elite troops remained in the garrison.
In the mountains, the terrain is narrow and complicated, the road is difficult to walk, as long as the devil commander is not a bad brain, it is impossible to enter the mountains to chase them, of course, if the devils really dare to enter the mountains to encircle and suppress, then Grand Master Zhang will be happy to have an ambush battle with the devils in the complex mountainous areas.
"Hmph, that Raushzi hob meat king slaughtering the second devil commander? Dare to be a traitor! ”
Stuffing the information in his hand into his pocket, Zhang Lianshun sneered, with a strong killing intent in his tone.
Zhang Lianshun had obviously heard of this guy who claimed to be able to stop children from crying, and he was very unhappy with this hob meat king, so he was planning to find an opportunity to kill this piece of meat.
Although you can't fight the devil head-on, it is necessary to harass a small force.