Chapter 401: Tracking

Boom ......!

In the dull sound of grenade explosions, the devils who had just climbed the hillside were immediately blown up seven or eight. After a short encounter, after dropping more than two dozen corpses, the devil soldiers who were preparing to sneak attack the first company finally couldn't bear the casualties and hurriedly retreated.

And as the devil withdrew to a hundred meters away, Yang Chenghu also loudly issued an order for a ceasefire.

Due to the lack of ammunition, Yang Chenghu can not only save at this time.

A few minutes later, seeing the devil retreat to the mountain forest 200 meters away, Yang Chenghu tiredly leaned on a thigh-thick tree trunk beside him and wiped the sweat on his head.

The rapid march and the fierce battle just now made his physical energy extremely depleted.

In the midst of his breath, Yang Chenghu suddenly heard something, and then quickly got up and pulled up a few nearby soldiers who were also paralyzed on the ground and gasping.

"Hurry up and wait for the devil's hand to bomb it, right?! The first row left the surveillance devils, and the second row and the third row went down the hill to the other side. ”

Yang Chenghu knew that the main reason why the devils were easily beaten and retreated in embarrassment just now was that he was caught off guard by the devils, so that they could not give full play to their firepower advantage in the encounter. And if you wait until the devils are gathered up and attack again, then the unobstructed terrain on this hillside will be designated as the focus of the devils' grenadiers. Therefore, he has to hold on for a while and he can't just put all his troops here.

Soon, as most of the fighters went to the anticline of the hillside, Yang Chenghu breathed a sigh of relief.

Leaning on the trunk of the tree again, Yang Chenghu looked at the exhausted soldiers around him, and then thought back to the battles he had fought in the past two days, and couldn't help but have an urge to scold his mother.

……

Not long ago, a column on standby in the western part of Qinxian County suddenly received an order from the division headquarters to immediately lead the main force north to help the main force deal with the Japanese army's sweep in the southeastern area of Shanxi.

After receiving the order, the column that had been waiting for a long time immediately gathered its forces and quickly went north under the personal leadership of Lei Wancheng and Jiang Hongfei. However, what the first column did not expect was that not long after they went north with the strength of two regiments, the Japanese army suddenly gathered heavy troops to surround the division headquarters command organ.

At this time, the anti-sweeping plan originally planned by the division headquarters to lure the enemy deep into various areas and break through not only could not be implemented, but also put the main force that had come back to the rescue in danger of being surrounded and annihilated by the Japanese army.

In the face of the precise and ferocious siege of the Japanese army, the division headquarters decisively abandoned the original plan to lure the enemy into depth, and decided to let the main force disperse and break through, and choose the opportunity to jump into the outside line to fight.

However, just when the main forces began to disperse and break through, the command organs of the division headquarters were once again targeted by the Japanese army.

Moreover, because the command organs of the division headquarters that broke through not only had some combatants, but also a large number of non-combatants, their marching and breaking through were extremely slow.

After several bloody battles, the divisional organs failed to break through the encirclement, not to mention that the two main regiments that were involved in the cover also suffered heavy casualties, and they were almost defeated by the Japanese army, which had an absolute advantage, and lost its formation.

In the end, seeing that it was no longer possible to break through the entire structure, the division headquarters could only divide the organs and units into two.

Among them, the command organs and most of the guard units followed the main force to break through lightly in the northwest direction of Shanxi, while the logistics organs and the field hospital of the division headquarters broke through to the south with the support of friendly troops and entered the Zhongtiao Mountains to avoid the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese army.

And among them, the troops responsible for receiving the logistics organs of the division headquarters happened to be the main force of their column in Lei Wancheng.

After receiving this order, Lei Wancheng and Jiang Hongfei certainly did not dare to slack off in the slightest. Although there was a huge disparity in the strength of the enemy and us, they still commanded the new 1st Regiment and the 2nd Regiment to raid the Japanese puppet army on the outer encirclement, and successfully connected to the logistics organ of the division headquarters while defeating the enemy.

After the two sides converged, in order to cover the safe evacuation of the divisional headquarters logistics organs with a large number of non-combatants, Lei Wancheng personally led the new 2nd Regiment of the first column to break away from the main force, take the initiative to attack the main force of the pursuing Japanese puppet army, and then attract them to the northeast of Qinxian County.

While the main force of the Japanese puppet army was attracted away, Jiang Hongfei led the new regiment and the guard unit to march rapidly overnight, protecting the logistics organs of the division headquarters to continue to hide the south side, and disengaged from the pursuing Japanese army before dawn the next day.

……

After disengaging from the main force of the Japanese army, Jiang Hongfei wanted to take the team to Zhangjiawan for repair, but there was a way to be unsettled and wave after wave, just when everyone thought that the crisis had passed, a Japanese puppet army search team of more than 300 people suddenly entered the Zhangjiawan area, and fought an encounter with Jiang Hongfei who returned.

After a scuffle, although the Japanese puppet army was repulsed, Jiang Hongfei's whereabouts were also completely exposed.

Soon, the Japanese army, which smelled the smell of flesh, immediately reacted, and quickly mobilized thousands of troops to press towards Zhangjiawan.

Under the rapid turn of the situation, the logistics organs of the division headquarters were inevitably surrounded by the Japanese puppet army that rushed to hear the news and surrounded the base of a column, and Jiang Hongfei had no choice but to let Han Weimin lead most of the main force of the new regiment to break through in the northeast direction, once again attracting the attention of the Japanese puppet army to other places.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Jiang Hongfei used the few remaining troops at hand to cover the logistics organs of the division headquarters to set off again and withdraw from Zhangjiawan.

This time, it was not only the logistics organs of the division headquarters that lost their base areas, but also everyone in the headquarters of the first column. And because the new 1st Regiment and the 2nd Regiment were divided to attract the enemy, the combat unit at the disposal of Political Commissar Jiang Hongfei was only a guard company and more than 200 people from the security section. And what they had to cover was the logistics personnel of the two armies, plus a machine gun battalion that had almost run out of ammunition, totaling more than 800 people.

In the face of this personnel composition, Jiang Hongfei, a political commissar who was anxious, ordered the troops to continue to move toward the densely forested Jianshan area, and on the other hand, ordered the special service battalion that was fighting guerrilla warfare at the junction of Qin County and Heng County to immediately go north to meet the ...... of this huge contingent.

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Southeast of Qin County, north of Jiuhegou Village.

Woo...... Woo......

As the piercing roar faded away, the slopes covered with vegetation shook for a while, and three young soldiers of the Eighth Route Army slowly emerged.

Looking at the Japanese planes that gradually disappeared into the sky, an elderly Eighth Route Army whistled and shouted loudly:

"Everyone, hurry up and keep going, the devil's plane has already left!"

Hearing the shouts of the warriors, gray figures rose from the grass one after another, and then supported each other and walked towards the path down the mountain.

"Everyone keep up with the team, don't fall behind!"

After leading the team to the path, the platoon commander of the Eighth Route Army who spoke commanded everyone to continue to move forward, while counting the number of people, for fear that someone would still hide in the woods stupidly and not come out.

A moment later, after confirming that the number was correct, the young platoon commander hurriedly ran to the front of the team and led everyone to continue the pursuit of the large army in front.

They were a group of stragglers, a column of logisticians who were scattered by the Japanese army to be exact.

A few hours ago, when they were marching towards Jiuhegou on the official road between the valleys, they were unexpectedly discovered by several Japanese planes.

After a round of bombing and strafing, the men lost contact with the main force, were scattered in the mountains and forests, and got lost.

In this way, they wandered around the woods for several hours before they found the right direction again and continued in the direction of Jiuhegou.

……

Ten minutes later, after everyone had walked another mile in the mountains, more than a dozen heavily armed soldiers of the Eighth Route Army suddenly appeared in front of them.

Seeing that it was not easy to run into comrades, these scattered logistics personnel of the first column immediately chased after them excitedly.

"Hello comrade, I am Wang Fu, the platoon commander of the logistics department of the first column, and you are the commander of the division headquarters. Hehe...... It's so nice to see you, we thought we were going in the wrong direction.

By the way, are you with the big army? ”

Seeing the strange soldier in front of him carrying a short gun and a telescope, the platoon commander estimated that the other party was likely to be a member of the logistics agency of the division headquarters, so he hurriedly stood up and saluted and asked.

"A column...... Oh...... We are indeed members of the division, have you also been scattered? ”。

"No, this little devil's plane is too bastard, and after the bombing, he chased you desperately, if we hadn't gotten into the woods with our legs and feet, we would have gone to see Lord Yama a long time ago."

Hearing this, the tall Eighth Route Army officer subconsciously looked in the direction behind him.

"Platoon Commander Wang, this generation is full of dense forests, can you find any traces of the large army?"

Hearing this, Wanfu quickly shook his head.

"This mountain is high and densely forested, and it must not be found now. But before being dispersed, I remember that our company commander said that the next foothold would be Jiuhegou, so let's go there first and have a look. ”

"Jiuhegou ......."

Hearing the name of the place, the tall Eighth Route Army officer immediately asked one of the guards to take out the map, and then took a brief look.

After a moment, he put away the map and turned his head to look at Wang Fu beside him.

"Okay, you lead the way in front, and we'll follow behind the back hall."

"Okay!"

……

Dozens of seconds later, looking at Wang Fu and his entourage, who had all walked in front of him, the tall Eighth Route Army suddenly stopped and raised his right hand, and then waved a few times towards the slopes on both sides of the valley.

Da Da Da ...... Da Da Da ......!

In an instant, dense gunfire suddenly came from both sides of the valley, and at least three light machine guns spewed out deadly tongues of fire in unison, instantly enveloping Wang Fu and his party.

At the same time, the sound of dense rifle fire became one.

In less than three minutes, Wang Fu and the others all fell in a pool of blood.

After the gunfire stopped, Nie Yunshan, who had retreated to watch the battle not far away, looked at the corpse not far away, and the corner of his eyes twitched.

"Nie Sang, have you gathered any valuable information?"

As Kuramoto's stiff Chinese voice came, a sturdy Eighth Route Army walked down the hillside quickly and came to Nie Yunshan.

…… To be continued, I've been too busy lately, so I ask for your forgiveness.