Qiu Maniac and Zhang Wei set the order of the march and the route of the troops, and then returned to the camp where the tents were empty, and the officers and men of the whole battalion were gathered together with all their weapons and equipment.

The first, second, third, and heavy machine-gun companies lined up in unison, and the soldiers who had been issued additional ammunition and rations and ammunition were distributed to each of them in turn, and the army quilts behind the soldiers had been folded into blocks, tied tightly behind their backs, and tied to their bodies together with the armed belts.

Zhang Wei first informed the three company commanders of the details of the retreat.

"Our assault column is going to march in the direction of Xinyang, and the whole battalion will march south along the main road that goes out, no need to detour, the main road will go straight to Xinyang, this retreat is to turn its back to the Japanese army, the heavy equipment of the column is behind us, the large army of devils will not be able to beat for a while and a half, don't worry about the tail of the team, we have to be the vanguard of the team, open a good road."

"The whole battalion marches in combat readiness to do normal combat search, and the team can be pulled apart."

"Battalion commander, what if you run into the Japanese and don't care about the heavy equipment behind? The infantry of the entire assault column can be prepared by us as a battalion. Mu Chao asked

"You don't have to worry too much, I also said, we are marching with our backs to the Japanese army, the devils will not be able to fight at all for a while and a half, the possibility of us encountering them on a large scale is almost zero, but now the situation is chaotic, in order to be careful, let us open the way, the infantry to heavy equipment, tanks to open the way, it is also natural."

Hearing it, Mu Chao and Zhang Wei were the same as before, because they were not familiar with the terrain and situation in eastern Henan, they had an overly dangerous estimate of the upcoming march, in fact, the danger of this retreat was not great, no matter how fast the Japanese army advanced, it was impossible to be so fast that they had just captured Shangqiu, and they would crush the main Chinese army that had retreated through several retreats all the way.

"This retreat should not be taken lightly, but don't scare yourself either." Zhang Wei said in a deep voice.

"Yes!"

"By the way, how are the brethren?" Zhang Wei glanced at the soldiers standing in line and said.

Qiu Wei replied: "Battalion commander, you are too worried, are you still afraid of how they will react to the retreat, their mood is quite stable, even those recruits who were arrested in Hunan and enlisted in the army, there is no big reaction, and those who have not been caught deserting and fleeing are quite honest, that kind of battle was fought a few days ago, this idea is nothing." ”

Zhang Wei nodded: "That's good, let's get ready to pull it out." ”

After Zhang Wei and the three company commanders counted all the numbers and equipment again, the whole battalion opened the barracks as before, and the big tent and field marching bed in the camp were left intact.

The size of the military headquarters of the friendly 27th Army naturally took a long time to prepare for retreat, and the assault column was the first to retreat.

As soon as Zhang Wei left the barracks, he saw soldiers and various equipment all around, soldiers carrying weapons and carrying things, horse-drawn carts loaded with supplies, and a small number of cars, wireless generators and various military carrying boxes piled together.

All sorts of things were mixed together, the sounds of horses, human voices, and the engines of cars mingled together to make it look like a big retreat, and there seemed to be troops in it that also included the assault column, and the rest of the assault column took longer to prepare than the battalion commander.

According to Qiu Maniac's orders, the preparation battalion is the vanguard force, the first to set off, as the vanguard, the rest of the tank battalion, the battle defense artillery battalion, anti-aircraft machine gun platoon and other departments to form the main echelon of the column, commanded by Qiu Maniac to follow up the march, the 27th Army military headquarters of the station is well chosen, not far outside the village can go on the main road, what the preparation battalion has to do now is to penetrate from the chaotic crowd around here.

Zhang Wei walked in front, and the company with the strongest combat effectiveness opened the road, all kinds of vehicles and equipment, and the crowd was blocked outside the village, and the personnel of the 27th Army in the village also went out to the village.

"Ahead, hurry up and get out of the way, let the whole battalion pass!" After being blocked for a while, Zhang Wei shouted impatiently, urging the soldiers of the company in front of him to open the road.

"It's a mess of the retreat." Qiu Wei sighed beside Zhang Wei.

"Let the brethren stay in good formation, keep their guns in their hands, and don't let the ranks be scattered.

Zhang Wei asked the soldiers behind him to put the guns in their hands horizontally, forming a blocking line composed of rifles, and the heavy machine gun company and pack horses were surrounded by the second and third companies in the middle, and the whole battalion was shrunk together as much as possible to prevent them from being scattered.

About to leave the village, open the road, the front is a chaos, the soldiers who open the road are mixed in the soldiers of the friendly troops, the only thing that can distinguish is the color of the military uniforms of the two sides, the shape of the military uniform of the national army has not been completely unified, whether it is the color of the military uniform, the layout, or the form of the collar badge epaulettes, almost all of them are varied, and now the whole country is at war, the military uniform is mainly based on quantity, and the form of unity is more impossible.

Zhang Wei frowned, watching the soldiers of the company in front of him and the friendly soldiers pushing and shoving each other, mixed and mixed, and felt anxious in his heart, he had not yet started the formal retreat, when he encountered this kind of thing, the noise and pushing in the crowd in front of him became more and more intense.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way!"

"Holy shit, don't fucking rush the road!"

"Who the fuck bullshit!"

"What part are you?"

The noise was getting louder and louder, and the situation was very bad, Zhang Wei thought, maybe it was his own people who fought with friendly troops.

"Bang!" The ensuing burst of gunfire verified Zhang Wei's idea, and the soldiers of the company that opened the road and the groups of friendly soldiers pushed together, and the first company wanted to open the way, and the friendly 27th Army also had to go out, and at this time, the contradiction arose.

A group of people mixed together and walked out, naturally fighting, at first pushing and scolding each other, and then gradually evolving into hands and feet.

The crowd was divided into two groups according to the color of the uniform, and the few people were the first company of the preparation battalion, and the rest were the soldiers of the friendly 27th Army.

The contradiction continued to intensify, and in the end it could not be adjusted, the two sides copied the guns and compared them, and the people of the 27th Army copied the Czech style, and although the soldiers who opened the road in a company took 79 Zhongzheng rifles, they were not scared!

Both sides raised their guns, shoved each other, and scolded each other until finally someone fired.

Zhang Wei didn't know the specific situation of the matter, but the gunshot was a big deal, and now the troops were shifting, and they were not in a combat state, and if they didn't shoot indiscriminately, it would cause chaos among the troops or even blow up the camp and disperse.

Zhang Wei, who heard the gunshot, felt that something was wrong, and immediately trotted over, Qiu Wei saw that there were too many friendly soldiers, and he was afraid that Zhang Wei and the soldiers of the first company would suffer losses, so he rushed forward with a platoon of a company.

Mu Chao and Zheng Yiqun were left behind to control the rest of the preparatory battalion to prevent chaos from happening.