Li Dagou hurriedly ran to Wang Husheng and reported with a wheez: "Political commissar, the little devil has caught up!" ”

Wang Husheng looked up and looked ahead, only to see that less than 10 meters in front of him was the turbulent and turbulent Meihe River, and then looked back, less than 200 meters away behind him were the pursuers of the little devils, and the county brigade and more than 1,200 militiamen from eight district squads had already crowded into a mess on the narrow wild horse beachhead.

Yes, you read that right, it's that the county brigade still has eight district squads!

Kawaguchi Heiji did not know that in the cornfield that he burned to ashes with sulfur bombs, there were actually more than a dozen tunnel entrances hidden, and the three infantry battalions of the Dameishan Independent Regiment quickly entered the tunnel through these dozen tunnel entrances after entering the cornfield, while more than 1,200 people from the county brigade and various district squads, who had been hiding in the cornfield in advance, fled from the west side of the cornfield towards Meihe in a hurry after the devil's shelling for 10 minutes.

Of course, in order to confuse the devils, the county brigade and the district squad have already changed into regular army uniforms.

Because of the opportunity to put on military uniforms, the militiamen of the county brigade and district squad were very happy.

Therefore, what the Kawaguchi detachment bit was actually only the county brigade and the eight district squads in the Dameishan base area, but the main force of Xu Rui's independent regiment had already passed through the tunnel and moved behind the Kawaguchi detachment.

In order to keep it secret, Li Dagou and the militia of the county brigade and the district squad did not know Xu Rui's plan, so seeing that there was no way to escape, the militia of the county brigade and the district squad were a little busy, after all, it was a militia, and it could not be compared with the regular army in terms of combat skills or willpower.

Like Li Dagou, he just participated in the selection assessment of the wolf tooth team once, and quickly stood out from the county team and became the captain.

Li Dagou said in a panic: "Political commissar, what now?" ”

Wang Husheng didn't panic, he knew Xu Rui's plan, so when he saw the little devil's brigade chasing into the Wild Horse Beach, he was not afraid, but felt extremely happy and even excited.

Seeing the excitement on Wang Husheng's face, Li Dagou was a little scared, and while reaching out to touch Wang Husheng's forehead, he asked in a panic: "Political commissar, are you okay?" ”

Li Dagou thought that Wang Husheng was overly frightened and his brain was broken.

"Go, you're fine, I'm fine." Wang Husheng slapped away Li Dagou's paws, and said, "Dog, you take a few people to light the fire for Lao Tzu." ”

"Ignition?" Li Dagou said blankly, "What kind of fire?" ”

"Look at my memory." Wang Husheng then remembered that Li Dagou didn't know Xu Rui's entire plan, and then slapped his forehead and said, "Do you see the sand piles in front of you?" Find the planks under the sand pile and turn them over, you will find a ditch underneath, the ditch is full of gasoline, turn all the planks on top of the ditch, and set it on fire. ”

Li Dagou still didn't understand much, but he didn't dare to ask more, and then took dozens of militiamen to the sand pile where Wang Husheng's finger was just now, and looked for it casually, and really found a wooden plank, and then turned the wooden board over, and there was really a small ditch more than half a meter wide hidden at the bottom, which was full of gasoline, and there was a very pungent smell of gasoline.

"Quick, look everywhere, turn all the planks open."

As soon as Li Dagou gave the order, dozens of militiamen quickly dispersed, and then they really found a lot of wooden planks, and then turned these planks over, and there was a small ditch that stretched for nearly a thousand meters at the bottom.

It's just that the ditch is filled with gasoline, not water.

This small oil ditch filled with gasoline extends almost from the north end to the south end of Mustang Beach, forming a horizontal line at the U-shaped end of Mustang Beach, cutting the entire Mustang Beach in half, and the county brigade pretending to be the main force of the independent regiment has eight district squads on the west side of this horizontal line, and the devil pursuers behind them are on the east side.

When Li Dagou was looking at the gasoline in the oil ditch and was stunned, suddenly there was a loud gunfire in front of him, and even two bullets with a screaming roar whistled past his ears, one of which even burned his hair, burning a cluster of hair around his ear into flying ashes, and also leaving a scorch mark on his cheek, but scared Li Dagou half to death.

Fortunately, this is at night, and the little devil can't beat it accurately, otherwise Li Dagou will be finished.

Li Dagou fell to the ground and roared: "Ignite the fire, quickly light the fire for Lao Tzu!" ”

As soon as the dozen or so torches fell into the oil ditch, the gasoline inside burned up, and the fire quickly spread along the oil ditch to the north and south ends, and in less than a moment, the oil ditch that ran through almost the entire Mustang Beach was already burning.

The raging fire blocked the Mustang Beach and blocked the devil's pursuers.

The devils who had already chased within fifty meters of the oil ditch stopped one after another, looking at the monstrous fire in front of them with blank eyes, and they didn't know what to do for a while, and then chased forward? No kidding, such a big fire will directly burn you to ashes, what the hell are you chasing? Can you chase it? But it's against the order!

In a daze, the devil even forgot to shoot, just in a daze.

The captain of the 1st Infantry Brigade was also a little stunned, and some of them couldn't figure out the situation.

It took two minutes for the captain of the 1st Devil Infantry Brigade to react and quickly ordered the communications corps to report to Kawaguchi Heiji, but at this time it didn't matter if the report was reported or not, because of such a big fire, the little devils of the 2nd Infantry Brigade and the 3rd Infantry Brigade who followed behind all saw it.

Heiji Kawaguchi was also alarmed and hurriedly got out of the command car.

Looking at the fire two kilometers ahead, Heiji Kawaguchi's brows tightened.

This sudden change was definitely beyond Kawaguchi Heiji's expectations, he never thought that the independent regiment had already been driven into Mustang Beach, and they were already in a desperate situation, and there could still be such a change! What makes Heiji Kawaguchi even more puzzling is that such a fire is definitely not a temporary initiative that can be created.

That is to say, this fire, the independent regiment was premeditated!

Premeditated? Thinking of this, Kawaguchi's heart sank slightly.

Could it be that this is really Xu Rui's conspiracy? Xu Rui did not hesitate to use the entire independent regiment as bait, and he also lured the Kawaguchi detachment to Mustang Beach, just for this fire? However, although this fire was fierce, although it almost completely blocked the entire Mustang Beach from south to north, it did no harm to the Japanese troops on the east side of the burning zone!

What is Xu Rui's intention in burning such a fire? Just to stop the pursuers?

But what if you temporarily block the pursuers? Judging from the intensity of the fire and the speed of its spread, Heiji Kawaguchi was able to determine that this must have been caused by igniting gasoline, which must have been the materials obtained by the Independent Regiment from Huilonggou last time, but there was a lot of gasoline needed to maintain such a burning zone, and the gasoline reserves of the Independent Regiment could last for half an hour at most.

In other words, after half an hour, the fire would be extinguished, and the Japanese would be able to cross the fire belt and continue the pursuit, could it be said that the rout of the Independent Regiment would be able to cross the raging Mei River within half an hour? As soon as this idea came to mind, it was immediately overthrown by Heiji Kawaguchi, and it was impossible for the rout of the independent regiment to cross the river in half an hour.

Heiji Kawaguchi stood there, looking at the raging fire directly in front of him, puzzled.

Until this time, Kawaguchi Heiji didn't realize that his entire detachment had fallen into danger, if he could realize the danger at this time, and really ordered a retreat, he would not be able to recover the defeat, at least he could keep part of his troops, at least he would not lose all his money, but unfortunately, Kawaguchi Heiji was ignorant at this time.

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Farther away, Xu Rui also saw the monstrous fire.

Looking at this monstrous fire, Xu Rui was so distressed that he was about to drip blood.

In order to create this fire, he used up a full thousand barrels of 160 liters of gasoline, of which 500 barrels were dumped into the shallow ditch to block the pursuit of the devils, and the other 500 barrels of gasoline were mixed with sawdust powder and sprinkled on the Mustang Beach, for this plan, the gasoline obtained from Huilonggou last time had been exhausted.

However, even if a full 500 barrels of gasoline were used up and a large amount of sawdust powder was stirred, these sawdust powder was not enough to sprinkle the entire Mustang Beach, because the area around the Mustang Beach and the river beach was too large, with an area of nearly four square kilometers, so it could only be thrown at fixed points in the Mustang Beach and its periphery, and more than 100 small pieces were sprinkled.

However, as long as you can burn down the Kawaguchi detachment with one fire, no matter how big the price is, it will be worth it!

"Old Xu, the burning belt can't last too long, let's set it on fire." Leng Ranfeng said in a deep voice.

"No, the devil's artillery hasn't entered the ambush circle yet." He Guangming stopped.

"Don't wait for the devil's artillery." Leng Tiefeng said, "Otherwise, once the old devil in Kawaguchi reacts and orders to retreat, I'm afraid it will be troublesome." ”

Leng Tiefeng's worries are justified, even if there is sawdust powder mixed with gasoline as an accelerant, even if anthracite is flammable, it will take time for the coalfield to completely spread from ignition to fire, and it is conservatively estimated that it will take ten minutes.

This is also something Xu Rui absolutely does not want to see, and Xu Rui said at the moment: "The veteran is right, set it on fire!" ”

Xu Rui gave an order, Mo Zichen immediately squatted down, swept away the sand pile at his feet, and then dug out a wooden box with a square foot from the sand, and there was a wire connected to the ground under the wooden box, and then opened the wooden box, but it was filled with an electric detonator, Mo Zichen did not hesitate for a moment, and pressed the detonator at once.

The next moment, more than 100 mines converted from artillery shells that had been planted in advance on the Mustang Beach exploded one after another, and the Mustang Beach, which had just been silent, was plunged into flames in an instant.