Chapter 372: The goal is achieved Withdraw troops on all fronts

South of Lin'an County, western Hebei region. The main road to the town of Lin'an.

The second half of the night. The bright moon is in the sky, as bright as day.

The Japanese puppet army, which sent reinforcements from Lin'an County to relieve the siege, marched in four columns to Lin'an Town, with a large interval between the ranks and more than 500 meters from north to south. The soldiers of the Imperial Allied Army in the front two companies deliberately slowed down the pace of their march and lazily delayed the time, but the Japanese officers and soldiers of the second squad knew it and were not in a hurry, let alone urging. This team didn't look like they were rushing for reinforcements to rescue the Japanese puppet army that was being attacked by the Eighth Route Army at night in Lin'an Town, which was in danger and in danger, but it was like taking a leisurely walk under the quiet moonlit night.

Six heavy trucks loaded with two squads of Japanese troops in front were suddenly attacked by the 1st Battalion of the Eighth Route Army Supplementary Regiment when they were about to reach Lin'an Town, and the trucks were blown up and the Japanese suffered heavy casualties. But there was still nearly half of the devil soldiers who stubbornly resisted, broke out of the encirclement and fled north.

The Eighth Route Army did not launch a pursuit operation. The commander of the first battalion ordered the soldiers to go out of the cornfield to clean up the battlefield, collect the weapons and ammunition discarded by the Japanese army, check the casualties, and stand by in place.

The remnants of the Japanese army who escaped by luck were defeated, and the team was unformed, scattered and mixed all the way to the north, and retreated in disarray. Unexpectedly, they gradually walked into the ambush position of a company of the special column that had been waiting for a long time, and the ghost soldiers who fled in panic and fear gradually approached the grave.

The soldiers of the special column, hidden in the cornfields on both sides of the road, waited anxiously. Hearing the fierce gunfire in the south, someone whispered and complained: Why didn't the little devil fight just now? What are we going to do when we come here in the middle of the night? Even a group of people are lying here listening to the noise and watching the excitement?

A scout ran to Meng Dakui's side with a hand* and reported that a group of little devils had retreated from south to north, and they were still more than a hundred meters away. Meng Dakui immediately ordered the soldiers to hide themselves, two per person, and prepare to drop bombs. Hearing the order, the soldiers immediately came to their senses, staring at the road more than thirty or forty meters away with wide eyes.

When all the Japanese troops who had retreated and fled north in confusion entered the ambush position of the special column, Meng Dakui ordered the bomb to be dropped. More than 100 soldiers of the whole company threw * together at the scattered and mixed ranks of Japanese troops on the main road, and the unsuspecting Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded again. The ghost soldiers who were lucky enough not to die were killed by a burst of shooting on both sides.

"Stop shooting!" Meng Dakui shouted. Then* out of the dense cornfield and onto the main road with shell guns, the warriors rushed up from the east and west in search of the remnants of the enemy. Soon, the warriors were disappointed that they did not find a single devil alive.

"Clean up the battlefield and throw the corpses of devils into the ditch." Meng Dakui ordered.

At this point, all the Japanese officers and soldiers of the two squads that reinforced Lin'an Town by truck were annihilated.

Suddenly, three green signal flares rose in the sky over Lin An Town, and the Imperial Alliance Army walking in front immediately stopped, watching and hesitating in confusion.

On the first day, the Japanese army Cao ran over and brutally ordered the Imperial Association army to speed up the march and rush to Lin'an Town as soon as possible to participate in the battle. The officers and men of the Imperial Allied Army reluctantly quickened their pace.

Seeing the retreating signal flares, the soldiers of the reinforced battalion covered each other, fought and retreated, and gradually withdrew from Lin'an Town from the three town gates in the north, south, and west in an orderly manner.

Seeing the signal flare rising in Lin'an Town, the commander of the first battalion immediately ordered the whole battalion to assemble, and the whole team marched and withdrew to Shuihe Village along the main road in the middle of the cornfield to the south and west.

More than a dozen members of the special team sat on the ridge at the east end of the cornfield on the west side of the main road, and Fang Jiren stood on the ridge with his neck tilted and stared wide-eyed to observe the movement on the north side of the main road. When he heard footsteps from far and near in the north, he crouched down and whispered:

"The enemy is coming, and we have few people, so we must not fall in love with war. Each person is spaced one meter apart, and they spread out parallel to the north in turn, lying down and hiding. Prepare two* for each person, throw them out as soon as they hear my order, and then immediately retreat into the cornfield to the west. Let's go. ”

The Japanese puppet army, which had been reinforcing Lin'an Town, was panting and trotting towards Lin'an Town. Suddenly, more than 20 * flew out of the cornfield on the west side of the main road and exploded in the queue of the puppet army, killing and wounding the puppet army in the explosion. The Japanese puppet army, who was walking behind, immediately lay down and fired into the cornfield. Rifles and machine guns fought "ping-pong" for a while, but there was no movement in sight, and there was no figure in sight.

Takagi Hiroshi shouted to stop shooting, and comforted the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Association who had lost their souls and were terrified, saying that there was no need to worry about a few harassment and sneak attacks from the dirt eight roads. Then he ordered the team to assemble, leaving behind the dead and wounded soldiers and continuing to march towards Lin'an Town.

Before four o'clock in the morning, Yu Genshan and Ma Fucai led the soldiers of the second battalion and the sixth company to quietly come to the north of Shuihe Village, and waited in the ditches around the intersection of the main road. Yu Genshan stood alone in the middle of the intersection of the main road, anxiously waiting.

From the north, the sound of horses' hooves and the wheeling of cars could be heard. Yu Genshan took out his pocket watch and glanced at it through the bright moonlight, two minutes and four o'clock. He nodded and smiled in satisfaction.

A moment later, seven or eight four-wheeled and two-wheeled wagons loaded with rice and white flour came over, each with a young handlebar and two young men escorting the carriages, both of whom were soldiers of a special column dressed in civilian clothes.

"Stop. Who are you? What are you here for? Yu Genshan asked in a low voice.

"Prepare for battle, listen to my orders." Ma Fucai whispered.

"Phew, phew—don't shoot, don't get me wrong. We are the people of the nearby villages. The head car grabbed the reins and jumped out of the carriage, walked quickly in front of Yu Genshan, took out a flashlight and turned it on, shone Yu Genshan from top to bottom, turned off the flashlight and asked in a low voice:

"May I ask if you are Brother Nanling Mountain?"

"Nope. I'm not Brother Nanlingshan, I'm Uncle Beiyue Gen. Yu Genshan replied in a low voice.

"Y-Do you have anything else?" Handlebar asked again.

Yu Genshan took out the Fang Jiahu head plate from the upper left pocket of his military uniform and handed it to the handlebar.

The handlebar reached out and took the tiger head card, held it in his hand, touched it carefully twice and returned it to Yu Genshan. He walked up to Yu Genshan's side and whispered:

"Commander Yu, I was sent by Young Master Fang Jiren Fang to deliver food to the officers and soldiers of the supplementary regiment, and I will send it over one after another in the future, and a bicycle vendor will inform you in the west of the village the day before, and the handover method will remain unchanged." After speaking, the handlebar style learned to cricket twice.

Two young men ran over with four cloth bags in their hands and handed them to Yu Genshan.

The handlebars of the seven or eight carriages and the young men escorting the carriages all worked together to untie the ropes on the carriages and unload the food as if they had been ordered to do so.

"Captain Yu, these four pockets contain cigarettes, tea, silver dollars, and gold bars. It's all you need to replenish your team. ”

"Well, thank you, thank you very much. Fellow, you are also having a hard time, how can you have these things? Why did you send it to us? Yu Genshan asked.

"Oh, yes... Well? I don't know. You have to ask the young master of my family about this. Commander Yu, don't delay any longer, quickly call out all the brothers who are cats in the ditches around you to come out and carry food. We had to leave Shuihe Village before dawn. The handlebar urged.

"Huh? Little fellow, how do you know that there are people hiding in the ditch? Yu Genshan was puzzled.

"It's not well hidden. I can see it under the big moon, there should be a company. Hey, water scorpions - not much stinging, still lacking practice. The handlebar scoffed disdainfully.

"Huh? This? Alas. Company Commander Ma, don't cat, you've already been exposed, come out and carry food. Yu Genshan greeted loudly.

Ma Fucai ordered all the soldiers to put away their weapons and walk to the intersection.

"Commander Yu, after the food is moved back, pour it out, put away the pockets, and return it to us when we come back next time, so that we can use it back and forth later."

As soon as the handlebar-style words were finished, two trucks with bright lights "rumbled" from the north.

"All of them! Hide and get ready to fight! Ma Fucai pulled out his shell gun and ordered loudly.