Xiaoluyuan Junsi said: "It is precisely these remaining footprints that prove that my judgment is correct, and the remnants of the provisional 79th Division are hiding in Baoxing Town." [Reading Network]"

General Akita Shaosa was suspicious: "Is it?"

Kokahara Toshisi squatted down, gently brushed away the small amount of snow covering the footprints with his hands, and then pointed to two of the footprints and asked Akita, "Akita-san, please take a closer look, what is the difference between these two footprints?"

Akita Shaosa also squatted down and looked carefully at the two footprints, but he didn't see the difference.

Toshimi Oshihara explained, "Akita-san, don't you think that these two footprints, one of them has a deep heel and shallow toes, and the other has a deep toe and shallow heels."

Akita Shaoza took a closer look, and it was really, one was deep in the front and shallow in the back, and the other was shallow in the front and deep in the back.

However, Akita Shaosa still didn't understand the key to it, and asked, "What does this mean?"

Okahara Toshisi had no choice but to use his foot to make a footprint on the snow, and said, "Akita-san, please see, the footprints left when walking normally should be shallow toes and deep heels." ”

Akita Shaosa also stepped on a footprint in the snow, and after observing it, he nodded in agreement.

"There is only one case where the footprints are toe deep and heel shallow." Kokahara Toshisi said as he took a step backwards, and sure enough, he left a toe-deep heel footprint on the snow.

At this time, the farmer Akita finally reacted and shouted: "Xiaoluhara-san, you mean that the remnants of the provisional 79th Division first marched normally to Hejiajiao Village, and then marched backwards back to Baoxing Town."

Xiaoluhara Junsi smiled: "Except for this, I'm afraid it's difficult to have any other explanation." ”

"Yaga, Yagalu" Akita Shaosa shouted angrily, "it turns out that we let the Chinese cheat, it turns out that we all let the Chinese play tricks, these cunning Chinese are too cunning"

At this moment, Akita Shaozo was really angry and biting, he tossed in Hejiajiao for most of the day, only to find that the remnants of the provisional 79th Division were actually hiding in Baoxing Town, less than a thousand meters away from the battlefield where they first attacked the prince's special train, what the hell is this called

Akita Shaozo stood there and yelled, but Okahara Toshisi ignored it, and then said: "Akita-san, let's quickly order the pursuit, this fire just now, since it has attracted your troops, presumably the Chinese will not be unaware of this, if nothing else, this will definitely have been transferred." ”

"Oh yes" Akita Shaosa woke up like a dream, turned around and shouted, "Order, open the way"

At that moment, Akita Shaozo took a whole brigade of troops to Baoxing Town, and Akita Shaosa also made the remnants of the provisional 79th Division afraid, and only dared to divide the 6th Infantry Wing into three divisions and search for them in large groups, otherwise they would act in squadrons or squads, and then let the other side fight an ambush.

Half an hour later, the Japanese army arrived at the western outskirts of Baoxing Town.

Akita immediately ordered the troops to deploy, first surrounding the entire town, and then sending two infantry teams into the town to spy on the truth.

Xiaoluhara Junsi came to the derailed special train for the first time.

Toshimi Okahara fantasized that he could find clues left by his sister on the special train, but unfortunately, he found nothing in the end.

The two vanguard teams that entered the town to search soon returned, and the vanguard team reported that the town had indeed found traces of the squadron stationed, and they even found a large pot of half-eaten white rice in the yard of a farmhouse, and the white rice was even hot, and it seemed that the squadron had left not long ago.

"Yaga." Akita Shaozo gritted his teeth and said, "Damn, let the Chinese run away again." ”

"They can't run." Xiaoluyuan Junsi walked over and said coldly, "Even if they run to the ends of the earth, I will definitely find them out."

After finishing speaking, Xiaoluyuan Junsi took out a small flashlight from his backpack.

Squatting down and carefully observing the footprints on the snow by the light of a flashlight, Kokahara Toshisi stood up again and said to Akita Shaosa: "Akita-san, they went east, and they walked for less than forty minutes. ”

"To the east" Akita Shaoza also squatted down and looked at the footprints on the snow, and said, "This is not logical, if the Chinese want to flee for their lives, they should go north or south, crossing the Yangtze River to the north is the territory of the Chinese, to the south you can meet their main forces, to the east is Yangcheng Lake, will this be the Chinese playing tricks again"

In the final analysis, Yangcheng Lake is now the territory of the Japanese army, and the Chinese are not throwing themselves into the net when they go east

Therefore, Akita Shaozo has reason to believe that this is another trick of the Chinese trying to deceive them.

Akita Shaozo also frightened Xu Rui's unpredictable command, first in Wuxi Golden Cicada shelled, and then unexpectedly attacked their wing headquarters, and then Shi Potian ambushed the special train of King Toshihiko Fushimi Palace, and then the bold 6th Infantry Wing went to the aftermath in almost the same place, and the wing captain Tachibana Koji was also broken on the spot.

Then, another retrogressive march deceived all the sweeping troops to Hejiajiao.

Facing such a cunning opponent, Akita felt the need to be more careful.

"No, it won't." Xiaoluhara Junsi said very firmly, "Just rest assured to go east." ”

Akita hesitated for a moment, but finally decided to trust Okahara Toshisi's judgment.

At that moment, Akita Shaosa led an infantry brigade to chase east along the footprints left by the remnants of the provisional 79th Division.

In order to ensure the annihilation of the remnants of the Provisional 79th Division, and also to ensure his own safety, Akita Shaosa sent a telegram to the other two infantry brigades to move closer to him, and at the same time sent a telegram to the 20th Infantry Wing and the 101st Infantry Wing, which were coordinating the sweep, asking the two infantry wings to make a detour from the flank and form an encirclement of the remnants of the Provisional 79th Division.

Not only the 6th Infantry Wing, but also the 20th and 101st Infantry Wings are also on fire, according to the original plan, they should appear on the front line in Zhenjiang, maybe they have already defeated several ** main divisions, and their wing's merits will also be recorded in the book.

But now it is good, but it is hiding behind enemy lines to sweep a small force of no more than two or three hundred men

Such a small force was completely wiped out by their three wings, what can it be counted

It's nothing more than avenging His Royal Highness the Jade Shattered Prince, but this is really not any glory.

Therefore, after receiving the telegram from Akita Shaoza, the 20th Infantry Wing and the 101st Infantry Wing immediately turned around from the vicinity of Hejiajiao and headed eastward, and rushed towards Yangcheng Lake in unison.

Dividing line

In winter, it gets dark early, and after chasing east for less than ten miles, the sky gradually darkens, but the snow is getting heavier and heavier.

He chased ten miles forward, and when he reached a small river, he suddenly lost the whereabouts of the remnants of the provisional 79th Division.

"Baga" found that he had once again lost the whereabouts of the remnants of the provisional 79th Division, Akita Shaosa was so angry that he cursed, and hurriedly sent two infantry groups to sweep along the river and sweep the upstream and downstream directions.

Because hiking and wading in the water can avoid leaving traces in the snow.

But on foot and wading through the water, it is impossible to go all the way down the river to the Yangtze River, and the squadron will definitely have to march ashore in the end, so Akita Shaozo sent sharp soldiers to find it upstream and downstream.

After carefully surveying the traces by the river, Oshihara Toshisi smiled again.

Although the camouflage of the provisional 79th Division has been done well, it still failed to hide from the eyes of Okahara Toshisi, and this little devil easily restored the scene that was staged by the river before.

The remnants of the provisional 79th Division suddenly stopped when they were still about a kilometer or so away from the river, and then the brigade deviated from the original route and turned to another path, leaving only a small group of men and horses to continue to march forward along the original road, and to step on as many footprints as possible on the snow to create the illusion that the brigade continued to move forward.

After that, this small squadron repeated its old tricks and retreated back to the place where it was separated from the larger force.

Compared with the previous backward march, the squadron's backward march was more impeccable, and even the footprints left on the snow were the same as normal marches.

Apparently, the commander of the squadron was aware of the anomaly in the footprints of the backward march and made improvements when the second backward march was carried out.

After retreating to the place where it was separated from the large army, the small unit responsible for camouflage used a branch to smooth out the footprints left by the large force after passing by, and after that, the snow continued to fall, and soon, even the small force swept the tail of the small force, the imperceptible traces were also covered by the snow, at this time, ordinary people basically had no way to find the trace of the squadron.

I have to admit that the commander of this squadron is really a master of stealth.

But unfortunately, this time the squadron met him, a tracking master.

At that moment, Kokahara Toshisi got up and said to Akita Shaosa: "Akita-san, search along the river in the direction of the upstream and downstream, I'm afraid it will be difficult to find anything, if you believe me, just go back." ”

"Go back" Akita Shaosa was dumbfounded, "the Chinese are actually still in Baoxing Town"

"No, no, no, Akita-san, you misunderstood me." Xiaoluhara Junsi waved his hand and said, "I mean, go back a kilometer or two, and then search carefully, you should be able to find traces of the ** squadron." ”

"Sodesnay." Akita Shaosa nodded, and immediately ordered the spearhead group to return the same way.

After walking back about a kilometer along the original road, the group found a fork in the road, and searched further along the fork in the road for less than 500 meters, and after passing through a bamboo forest, they found a large number of footprints again