The moonlight is like water, and on the winding mountain road, a huge team with torches crossed the deep mountains and dense forests, and ran to the small green mountains in the Lunan Mountains overnight.

It was not that Zhang Liechen and the others were in a hurry, but the officers and soldiers in charge of the reconnaissance reported that behind them, a team of puppet troops chased after them.

When the troops were first divided, Yang Ling led more than 700 fighters of the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps to walk from the main road to try to lure away the devils.

And they didn't go straight to the Lunan Mountains at the beginning, but led the devils to chase the soldiers in circles and circles.

When the three infantry brigades of the Watanabe detachment from Baoying to Huaiyin arrived in Huaiyin, Huaiyin had already been occupied by the Yamaguchi brigade first.

Anyway, they are also friendly troops, and they can't rob others of their military merits, so the three infantry brigades aimed at the remnants of the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps that were defeated and retreated from Huaiyin.

The devil had the reconnaissance plane of the army aviation unit in charge of providing intelligence, so it was naturally easy to capture Yang Ling's location.

Therefore, the three infantry brigades tried to encircle Yang Ling and them in three ways, but who was Yang Ling, although he didn't have eyes in the sky, but with the map in hand and the local people as support, the devils naturally couldn't block them, but they were led around.

When the three brigades under the Watanabe detachment leader were chasing Yang Ling and they were running all over the mountains and panting, the Yamaguchi brigade that occupied Huaiyin was idle.

The Yamaguchi Brigade suffered heavy losses in the process of capturing Huaiyin, so the troops were transferred to rest on the spot and waited for the replenishment of troops.

The Yamaguchi Infantry Brigade was transferred to rest, but Xie Zhengxiang, the commander of the fourth battalion of the former Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps, who had just joined the enemy as a traitor, could not be idle, and was anxious to behave in front of the new master.

Xie Zhengxiang, a middle-level officer of the Northern Jiangsu Corps, has now become the commander-in-chief of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui appeasements of the Wang puppet government, and is the colonel and commander of the first regiment of the first brigade of the puppet fifth division under the aid province.

Only one mutiny suddenly became the commander of the colonel from a small battalion commander, and three battalions were organized under his command, which made the traitor Xie Zhengxiang taste the sweetness.

The three battalions under Xie Zhengxiang's command now remain on paper, and there are only more than 200 people left from the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps, plus more than 300 puppet troops temporarily transferred to his command, and there are only 500 people in total, and there is only one battalion when the battle is full.

Although there are not many soldiers and horses under his command now, this does not affect Xie Zhengxiang's eagerness to make meritorious contributions and earn performance.

Due to the large losses of the Devil's Mountain Pass Infantry Brigade when it attacked Huaiyin, Xie Zhengxiang took the initiative to take over the task of searching for and suppressing the rout of the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps.

In the face of Xie Zhengxiang's courtesy, the devil wished that the Chinese would beat their own people and kill each other, so they naturally agreed.

And in order to strengthen the strength of Xie Zhengxiang's pseudo-legion, the Devil Pass Brigade specially transferred a batch of weapons and ammunition to supplement them.

Xie Zhengxiang was grateful in the face of the devil's approach, saying that he swore allegiance to the sword, mountain, fire, and sea, but what he didn't know was that the devil harbored evil intentions and replenished weapons and ammunition for them, so that they could hit the squadron and let China fight its own people.

Of course, the little devil is not a fool, and he doesn't trust Xie Zhengxiang who just threw himself into them, so he sent him a deputy, that is, Liu Heitan, a traitor who had taken refuge in them earlier.

The traitor Liu Heitan was originally a local bully, and when he saw that the devil was calling, he also collected money under the banner of anti-Japanese resistance.

During the armed conflict with another locality, he was attacked by the Northern Soviet Guerrilla Corps and almost died at the hands of the Northern Soviet Guerrilla Corps, but he also escaped by luck.

Since then, Liu Heitan has held a grudge against the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps, and has taken refuge in the little devils against the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps.

Although now the Wang puppet government has been established in Nanjing, and the so-called Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui appeasement headquarters has been set up.

But in fact, the Pacification Command is an empty shell, and all the troops under its command exist as auxiliary combat units of devils.

There are not only instructors and military advisers appointed by the devils in these puppet army units, but even the operational command is subordinate to the devils.

Now Xie Zhengxiang and the others are clearly regarded as the first regiment of the first brigade of the fifth division of the appeasement puppet army, but the actual personnel appointments are all in charge of the devils.

Now Xie Zhengxiang is appointed as the head of the pseudo-colonel, while Liu Heitan is the deputy head of the lieutenant colonel, and also serves as the liaison officer with the devil troops.

Although Liu Heitan has been in the devil for a little longer, he has always commanded plainclothes teams, and he has no military rank or anything.

Now he is directly appointed as the deputy head of the lieutenant colonel, and he is also grateful to the devil.

Now the chief and deputy commanders of the puppet first regiment have just taken office, and the so-called new officers have taken office three times, and both of them want to make new contributions, so they took the hastily established first regiment to search and suppress the officers and soldiers scattered by the guerrilla corps in northern Jiangsu.

In the course of the search and suppression operation, through severe torture of the officers and soldiers of the stragglers of the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps who were captured, they learned that Yang Ling had divided their troops.

Now the three infantry brigades of the devils are just pursuing under a pretense, and a large number of people and some supplies evacuated from Huaiyin are being taken by Zhang Liechen to retreat to Lunan from the path.

When they learned of this information, the excited Xie Zhengxiang and Liu Heitan reported to the Shankou Infantry Brigade in Huaiyin, and chased after them with more than 500 people under their command.

Although Zhang Liechen and the others had been withdrawn for several days, their team was bloated and huge, and they had to avoid the reconnaissance planes in the devil's sky during the day, so they walked very slowly.

When they eliminated the bandits in the Black Wolf Village, the reconnaissance officers and soldiers of the rear guard found that a puppet army was catching up behind them.

Zhang Liechen and the others now have very few troops to fight, and they can't contact Yang Ling and them for a while, and they are very afraid of the pursuers behind them.

Therefore, they did not dare to stay, and hurriedly withdrew with their men into the mountains, but when they reached the mountains, which were full of dense forests and thorns, and the mountain roads were rugged, their troops could not move faster.

"It's not going to work like this, notify it and let everyone speed up."

Looking at the team moving slowly in the mountains, Zhang Liechen, the deputy captain standing on a rock on the side of the road, was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.

If they follow this speed, I am afraid that it will not be long before the puppet army behind them will catch up with them.

And they are now only able to fight about 300 officers and soldiers, and if they want to protect such tens of thousands of people, it can be said that they are powerless.

The only thing he can hope for now is that everyone can enter Xiaoqingshan earlier and hide a little.

Even if the puppet army chased into the mountains, they who were not familiar with the terrain probably did not dare to go deeper, because there were many bandits on the mountain roads, and once they were targeted by bandits, even if the puppet soldiers were overwhelming, they had to weigh them.

However, their old and weak women and children and some withdrawn machinery and equipment walked extremely slowly on the mountain road, which gave Zhang Liechen, the deputy captain, a headache.

When Zhang Liechen commanded the team to drill into the mountains overnight, Xie Zhengxiang, the head of the first regiment of the puppet army, and Liu Heitan, the deputy commander of the regiment, also led more than 500 puppet soldiers into the mountain with their butts.

The puppet soldiers chased all the way, but their feet were also tired, and now they have to chase all night, and they are complaining bitterly.

"Quick, cheer me up, catch up with the guerrillas, and everyone will be rewarded with five pieces of the ocean!"

Looking at the puppet army team that was getting slower and slower, the regiment commander Xie Zhengxiang was anxious to make meritorious contributions, but he was also generous, and directly took out half of the bonus he received when he surrendered to the enemy, hoping that they could speed up.

On the rugged mountain road in the Lunan Mountains, the two teams rushed one after the other overnight, and the torches were like fire dragons swimming in the mountains, which was also magnificent.

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