Chapter 155: Ghost in the Mist
Tiegang had already led the cavalry battalion south to Hai'an, but Xu Rui and the others continued to go north. [Full text reading]
Tiegang gave Xu Rui six war horses, Leng Tiefeng, Xiao Yanyue, Da Bing, and Heipi one person and one horse, while Xu Rui was carried on a stretcher by two war horses.
In addition, Tiegang sent a correspondent to chase the independent battalion.
The devil who pursued the independent battalion had been severely injured by Xu Rui alone, so there was no need for the independent battalion to rush north, and there was no need to go to Dongtai City again, it was completely possible to cross the canal in the vicinity, and then go directly to Dameishan.
Although he has been on the road for a while, Heipi's mood is still not smooth.
"Camp, so many Japanese weapons and equipment, really give it away?" Heipi endured it for a long time and still couldn't hold back, looked back at Xu Rui from the horse, and said, "This is the equipment of a wing." β
"What can you do if you don't give it away?" The GI said, "We can't take it with us." β
Leng Tiefeng said: "What is the Japanese equipment of a mere wing? Lao Xu even wiped out the devils and gave the 180th Division the sky-beating exploits of an infantry wing. β
"The exploits of an infantry wing to annihilate the devils?" Blackskin was puzzled, "Where do you start with this?" β
Leng Tiefeng said: "Black skin, what do you think, the 180th Division has captured an entire infantry wing of Japanese weapons and equipment, isn't this just plain to say that they have completely annihilated an infantry wing of devils?" Otherwise, where did all this equipment come from? As long as a few of us don't break it, this battle feat will be the 180th Division's. β
"How does this work?" Heipi was anxious when he heard this, and said, "The devil was obviously killed by the camp." β
"Heipi, don't you think it's really scary to say this?" Leng Tiefeng glanced at Xu Rui and said, "Therefore, it is better to give this battle merit to the 180th Division." β
Heipi also glanced back at Xu Rui, who was lying on the stretcher, and was silent.
Indeed, Yingzuo killed most of the devil's wing alone, which is indeed too scary to say! There are many factors in between, such as the fact that the night gives the camp an excellent cover, such as the fog that seriously obstructs the devil's vision, and the fact that the camp speaks fluent Japanese...... But even so, it's still extremely scary!
This is not dozens or even hundreds of devils, but more than two thousand!
One person, one gun, and more than 2,000 devils were killed in just one night, which is also terrifying!
Seeing that Leng Tiefeng and the four of them were no longer silent, Xu Rui, who was originally squinting and dozing off, finally opened his eyes, and then said lightly: "I know what you guys are thinking, you must be thinking in your hearts, am I a monster?" I said, you actually think too much, I am a human being, just like you, I am also a human being. β
Seeing Xu Rui take the initiative to mention last night's incident, Heipi immediately turned around and asked, "Yingzuo, how did you kill so many devils?" β
This question, Heipi actually wanted to ask for a long time, but he didn't dare.
Leng Tiefeng and the others were also very curious, and they all pricked up their ears at the moment.
Xu Rui said: "The reason why I can kill so many devils is not because of how good my marksmanship is, not because of how strong my individual combat effectiveness is, and not because I am a monster that can't be killed, I rely on this." After speaking, Xu Rui pointed to his head again, meaning that he relied on his mind and wisdom.
After a pause, Xu Rui said again: "Let's put it this way, these devils are not so much killed by me, but by killing themselves." β
Heipi said: "Yingzuo, why didn't I understand?" β
"Okay, it seems that I won't tell you one, two, five, you don't plan to let me go, so let's just teach you a good lesson, what is called special operations." At that moment, Xu Rui restored the battlefield scenes that happened in the Seven Star Lake swamp last night, and presented them one by one in front of Leng Tiefeng and others.
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Just when Xu Rui was explaining the special operation last night, Tiegang had already rushed to Hai'an Town with the cavalry battalion.
As soon as they entered Hai'an Town, the more than 300 officers and soldiers of the Tiegang and Cavalry Battalions immediately noticed the abnormality, to put it simply, the entire town was shrouded in a thick dead air.
To be specific, it's dead silence!
The whole town is breathtakingly silent!
After passing through the town, a huge "corpse everywhere map" was presented in front of more than 300 officers and soldiers of the Tiegang and cavalry battalions one by one. I saw hundreds of devil corpses starting from the ancestral hall at the entrance of the town, extending towards the Qixing Lake swamp in the southwest direction until the end of the field of vision.
After seeing this scene, all the officers and men of the cavalry battalion held their breath.
"Hurry up and clean up the battlefield!" Tiegang quickly recovered from the shock and ordered the battlefield to be cleaned up, if Xu Rui and the independent battalion only gave a few machine guns, he Tiegang didn't even squint his eyes, but now the other party gave them a whole wing of Japanese equipment and equipment, such a heavy gift, he really couldn't refuse.
More than 300 officers and men of the cavalry battalion turned over and dismounted one after another and began to clean up the battlefield.
Tiegang went all the way along the "corpse road" paved by the devils with corpses under the support of the guards, and went straight to Qixing Lake, this way south, there were more and more devil corpses in front of Tiegang, and the deaths were also different, some were twisted off their necks, some were wiped throats, some were killed, but more were blown up.
"Oh my God, how did the independent battalion of the provisional 79th Division fight?"
"That is, they only have one battalion in total, and I heard that there is only one company left to block the attack, but now the corpses of the devils we have seen alone have exceeded five hundred, I can't believe it's true."
"Damn, the soldiers of this independent battalion, could it be that all of them are heavenly soldiers and generals? Or are these devils all papier-mΓ’chΓ©? β
Seeing the corpses of devils all over the ground, more than a dozen guards gathered around Tie Gang shouted one after another, and their words were full of shock.
"These devils aren't papier-mΓ’chΓ©." Tiegang shook his head and said in a deep voice, "Look at their hands, the palms of their hands are full of thick calluses, only veterans who have been holding guns for many years will have calluses, if I guess correctly, this should be the men and horses of the seventeen permanent divisions in Little Japan." β
As he spoke, Tie Gang and his party went deep into the Seven Star Lake swamp.
There are more and more devil corpses in front of Tie Gang and his party.
At this time, the fog that permeated the swamp of Qixing Lake had already dissipated, and the blazing sun hanging in the sky illuminated the entire swamp and forest transparently, even in the dense forest that covered the sky and the sun, the vision was also excellent, and it was precisely because of the good sight that they were even more shocked, because there were too many devils who were killed.
In the end, when a large group of devil corpses and twelve 75mm caliber mountain guns were presented in front of them, Tiegang and more than a dozen guards were completely dumbfounded, and the devils who dared to be killed by the independent battalion were not only infantry, but also artillery, and even a large number of cavalry, because they encountered more than 100 corpses of Oriental war horses along the way.
Even though Tiegang has seen countless winds and waves, he can't find words to describe the shock in his heart at this moment.
The devil has at least one infantry wing, as well as formed cavalry and artillery, and goes head-to-head, such a devil unit is enough to smash three to five divisions of the national * army, and it has to be the most elite central army, if it is a miscellaneous division in a place with poor equipment and insufficient training, a dozen divisions may not be their opponents.
But now, such a well-equipped and well-trained elite army of devils, but the bizarre corpse is on the way from the Qixing Lake swamp to the ancestral hall of Hai'an Town, and reason tells Tiegang that this is likely to be done by Xu Rui and his independent battalion, but emotionally, Tiegang is more willing to believe that the devil is probably killed by the ghost in the fog.
According to the legend in the countryside, in the fog, there are hidden souls who died because they got lost, every time there is a heavy fog, they will run out to hurt people, the bigger the fog, the more souls are lost in it, and the greater the lethality, from the situation on the road, the fog in the swamp of Qixing Lake last night is probably unprecedented, and the ghosts in the fog must be very many.
Thinking of this, Tiegang couldn't be calm anymore, when he turned over and dismounted, facing the direction of the Qixing Lake swamp, he kowtowed respectfully, and there were words in his mouth: Soul, return, soul, return...... In the end, the Chinese at this time were still very superstitious and believed in ghosts and gods.
Seeing Tie Gang like this, more than a dozen riders also turned over and dismounted, and followed with a knock.
(Dividing Line)
On the way north, Xu Rui had already explained the whole process last night.
After listening to this, Heipi finally breathed a long sigh of relief, and said hesitantly: "I see, these devils were not so much killed by you as by their own people. β
"Otherwise, do you really think that I am a god descending from the heavens?" Xu Rui was stunned.
Heipi said again: "Camp, why didn't you tell the truth to the commander of the Iron and Steel Battalion just now?" β
"There's no need." Without waiting for Xu Rui to speak, Leng Tiefeng hurriedly replied, "If you say the same thing, Xiao Hei, you believe it, but the battalion commander of the iron battalion may not believe it, and maybe he will suspect Lao Xu Mao's exploits." β
"Risking the merits of war, who is risking to receive the merits?" Blackskin said angrily.
"Ghosts!" Leng Tiefeng said, "People will say that Lao Xu took the lead of the ghost's exploits. β
"Ghosts?" Heipi said in surprise, "Deputy camp, where did you start with this?" β
Leng Tiefeng said: "Didn't you see fog when you were a child?" β
"Of course I've seen fog. β
Leng Tiefeng said: "Then your parents and elders haven't told you not to easily enter the fog on foggy days?" Because the fog hides the souls who have lost their way and died, they often come out to hurt people when the fog is full. β
"This ......" Heipi suddenly remembered that his aunt had really told him about it when he was a child.