The remnants of the provisional 79th Division were advancing westward, in the direction of Taihu Lake, and more than 200 remnants of the army pulled out a long curved queue on the bleak winter wasteland, like a swimming dragon. [Full text reading]

"Why is it that not far from the west to the west is the canal, and after the canal is the 800-mile Taihu Lake." The veteran asked, "If there are no boats, it will only be a dead end to the shore of Taihu Lake." ”

"It's a dead end in other directions." Xu Rui said, "If I'm not mistaken, the little devil is only afraid that he has mobilized heavy troops at the moment, and pounced from the north, east, and south, and we broke through in these three directions, and just crashed into the arms of the little devil. ”

The veteran said: "Even so, going west is only a temporary delay, and the devils who pounce from the rest of the directions will still surround us on the edge of Taihu Lake." ”

Xu Rui smiled and said, "That's not necessarily. ”

As he spoke, there was a sudden buzzing roar in the air.

"Enemy aircraft, enemy aircraft, emergency evacuation, emergency evacuation"

Xu Rui gave an order, and the queue of actions that meandered forward dispersed.

"Don't run into the bamboo forest, don't go into the forest" Seeing more than a dozen remnants rushing towards a small bamboo forest on the right side of the wasteland, Xu Rui hurriedly stopped it loudly, hiding in the small bamboo forest when the enemy plane bombed, it was not a good idea, because the bomb thrown by the enemy plane in the bamboo forest would explode in the air, and the killing effect was even more considerable than that on the flat ground.

The dozen or so remnants of the soldiers quickly stopped, and hurriedly turned back and lay on the ground.

The next moment, two devil reconnaissance planes with plaster patterns under the wings pierced through the thick clouds and swooped down towards the ground.

With a piercing scream, a dense stream of machine-gun bullets rained down.

The four machine guns mounted under the wings opened fire suddenly, pulling out four smoke and dust belts in the wasteland, chasing the remnants of the provisional 79th Division and extending rapidly.

It wasn't until they were less than 50 meters above the ground that the two devil reconnaissance planes pulled up violently.

It must be admitted that after the air battle of Songhu and the air battle of Hangzhou Bay, the air force of the devils has been reborn and improved in terms of both flight technology and psychological quality, while the air force, on the other hand, only dares to shrink at the Amaranth Bridge airfield at this time, and no longer dares to come out to face to face with the devil air force.

After pulling it up, the two reconnaissance planes circled in the air and swooped down again.

However, because the remnants of the provisional 79th Division had already been evacuated, the second dive of the devil's reconnaissance plane was still a success, and after the two dives, the devil's reconnaissance plane did not make a third dive, and only circled in the air for about 10 minutes, and then flapped its wings and disappeared into the dark clouds, most of which were to return to the airport.

Because the speed of the devil's advance is too fast, the logistics are somewhat disjointed, and their fighters have to take off from the airport in Shanghai, and even from the aircraft carrier anchored in the sea off Wusong, which greatly limits their time in the air.

The crisis was resolved, and Xu Rui led people to bury the two brothers who had died in battle, and then continued to march forward.

After walking a short distance, snowflakes began to fall in the sky, and although they were not large, they were large enough to cover the ground.

"It's snowing haha, God helps" Xu Rui was suddenly overjoyed, turned his head and said to the veteran, "Now, even if the little devil is not provoked by us, he can only be blinded, hehe"

After finishing speaking, Xu Rui stretched out his hand again and said, "Veteran, map"

The veteran took out the map from his satchel and spread it out on the snow.

Xu Rui's gaze wandered on the map for a moment, then pointed to the map and said, "Hejiajiao Canal Wharf"

Although Xu Rui didn't say anything, the veteran immediately understood Xu Rui's intentions and said, "You are in the old formation."

Xu Rui raised his head and grinned at the veteran, and said, "Do you think that we can really break through from the surface of Taihu Lake, if I guess correctly, the little devil will definitely transfer naval ships to blockade Taihu Lake." ”

The veteran said: "It is not feasible to break through from Taihu Lake, so it may not be possible to set up a suspicious formation." ”

"Not necessarily." Xu Rui said hesitantly, "I said yes, then it must be done."

After finishing speaking, Xu Rui yelled at the remnants again: "Brothers, speed up the march"

"Yes, speed up" more than 200 remnants of the army agreed loudly, and then one by one as if their buttocks were on fire, they rushed forward desperately, at this time, the snow had accumulated a thin layer on the ground, and where more than 200 remnants passed, a series of footprints were left on the snow, which quickly extended forward.

About half an hour later, Xu Rui rushed to the Hejiajiao Canal Wharf with more than 200 remnants.

After the defeat of the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese army was like a bamboo, but it mainly advanced along the road, railway and river, and the Hejiajiao Canal Wharf was close to the canal, so the people here all ran away, and when the remnants of the provisional 79th Division came in, the entire Hejiajiao was empty, and there was not even a single figure.

But this was convenient for the provisional 79th Division, Xu Rui immediately took the veterans to do some camouflage on the dock, and then returned with more than 200 remnants of the same route, on the way back, Xu Rui gave a strange order, so that all the remnants of the soldiers marched backwards, although the remnants were very puzzled, but still strictly carried out the order.

This retreat, but directly retreated to the bamboo forest near Baoxing Town, and then passed through the bamboo forest that had not yet been covered by snow into the town to hide, of course, before entering the town, Xu Rui and the veterans erased all the traces of this section, unless the devil sent an expert with rich tracking experience to come, it was impossible to find the flaw.

"Old Xu, you are playing with fire" The veteran lay on the roof of a private house and said to Xu Rui, who was also lying on the roof of a private house, "Baoxing Town is only a stone's throw away from the ambush point where we killed Fumimiya Toshihiko, how can the little devil not send troops to search for the little devil As soon as we enter the town, we will immediately have nothing to hide." ”

"Little devils won't come into town." Xu Rui held up the binoculars and said confidently, "We tossed back and forth for a long time, and ran dozens of miles in the snow, how can we be blind in vain?"

The veteran said: "If I were the commander of the devils, I would definitely search the town closely." ”

"Not necessarily." Xu Rui sneered, "Don't forget, the little devils have been completely angered by us now, they are now eager to find us and eliminate us, after discovering our whereabouts, how can they bother to search Baoxing Town, as the old saying goes, the most dangerous place is the safest, right?"

The veteran wanted to refute again, but Xu Rui said: "Okay, don't say it, the devil is coming"

The veteran hurriedly swallowed the words that came out of his mouth back into his stomach, and when he looked up again, he saw that about a squad of devil soldiers was coming along the road, and while moving forward, he would stop from time to time to conduct fire reconnaissance around.

After a while, a large number of devils came along the road.

Xu Rui counted roughly, there were thousands of devils in the field of vision, and it must be all the devils in Wuxi, which was enough for an infantry wing.

Dividing line

Akita Shaosa looked at the prince's special train lying on the snow, and the corpses of the guards on both sides of the special train, and his face instantly became extremely ugly.

On the way here, Akita Shozo and the entire officers and men of the 6th Infantry Wing had already suffered a psychological devastation, because they found the bodies of Wing Commander Koji Tachibana and more than 200 robes on the way, and the Chinese arranged their bodies into seventy-nine characters, which was simply a provocation by Chiguoguo.

This was clearly a demonstration to them by the Provisional 79th Division

But now, Akita Shaozo and they have to accept another psychological torture.

The death of Koji Tachibana can only be regarded as a shame for the 6th Infantry Wing at best, but the jade fragmentation of His Royal Highness Prince is a shame for the entire Imperial Japanese Army and even the entire empire

Akita Shosa called the head of the spearhead to the front and asked, "Has His Royal Highness found the body?"

"Hello." The leader of the spearhead paused heavily, and then turned around and waved, and two soldiers carried a corpse on a stretcher, and walked down from the third carriage, the stretcher was also covered with a military flag, covering the face of the corpse, Akita Shaosa stepped forward and lifted the military flag, and a miserable white face was immediately revealed underneath, and it was Fushimi Palace Toshihiko.

Akita Shaozo returned to the military flag and asked, "Have you ever found a survivor?"

The leader of the spearhead shook his head and said, "All the accompanying staff officers and guards were shattered, and none of them survived."

Akita Shaosa frowned and said, "His Royal Highness the Prince also has a health doctor, it is said to be Miss Junko of the Okabara family in Kyoto, has her body been found?"

"Miss Junko," the head of the spearhead shook his head and said, "No." ”

"Yaga." Akita Shaozo gritted his teeth and said, "It must have been taken away by the Chinese." ”

At this time, a sharp soldier ran over and reported: "Captain, a large number of footprints have been found on the edge of the bamboo forest ahead."

"Nani, a lot of footprints" Akita Shaoza suddenly perked up when he heard this, this time the attack, the front army headquarters crossed the division headquarters and directly gave him a death order, limiting him to find the remnants of the provisional 79th Division before dark, and eliminate it, Akita Shaoza was worried that he didn't know where to look for it, and he immediately found out.

At that moment, Akita Shaozo left a squadron to escort the body of Fushimi Palace Toshihiko to Suzhou, and then led a large group of people and horses to go straight to the bamboo forest, at the western edge of the bamboo forest, sure enough, the footprints left by the team after the passage of the horses were found, which were very eye-catching on the snow, and then looked at the direction of the footprints, but they went towards Taihu Lake.

"Yo Si." Akita Shaozo nodded happily and ordered, "Chase"