Masanan Kato was a private in the 4th Brigade of the Army.

After setting off from Liaocheng, Kato Zhengnan's team served as a top soldier search mission, wearing the military uniform of the former Han Fuqu troops, and walking at the front of the team.

This Kato Masan is a little different from many of the soldiers, and what he is thinking about now is not killing people and setting fires, but how to get justice from the squad leader.

Originally, there was a big gap between the salaries of the first and second class soldiers, 8.8 yuan per month, and the first class soldiers were only 10.24 yuan, while the second lieutenant was paid 133.83 yuan, and the difference between the salary of soldiers and second lieutenants was more than 14 times. It was difficult for this soldier to get his hands on it, because the army required every soldier to save 5 yuan a month. Feeling that his money was not enough to spend, Kato Masan wrote a letter to ask for 50 yuan from his family, but the money was taken away by His Excellency the squad leader when the mail arrived. Kato went to ask the squad leader for it, but he actually attracted a slap and a whip from the squad leader. That's not all, the squad leader even threatened to beat him once at a time if he dared to ask for money again, knowing that he didn't dare to ask for it.

Kato Massan's family was also considered a middle-class family, pampered since childhood, and if it weren't for his father's bent desire to let his son go to China to make military achievements, he would not have been drafted into the army. Therefore, seeing that the squad leader was so eight-square, Kato Zhengnan pondered when he would go to the battlefield, and the people behind him unknowingly gave the squad leader a black gun. However, this black gun is also particular, and it must be done when the battle is fierce or when retreating. It's a pity that there has never been a chance, and the [***] team encountered by the 4th Brigade of the Reading Force Mixed Brigade is too incompetent, and his squad has not had a fierce battle at all in the [***] team in the river.

Last night, when the troops were camping, the captain ordered everyone not to leave the camp for fear of being attacked by the squadron. Unfortunately, the village where their brigade camped was relatively small, and all the people had run out, and the team leader who had developed the habit of burning and killing silver could not find the flower girl, and actually killed a handsome soldier in the team. The more Kato Zhengnan thought about it, the more afraid he became, touching his face that was quite thoughtful, and he was afraid that when he fell asleep one night, the pig-headed squad leader would also give him such a beating, which would be a shame!

Kato felt that he had to make a move recently, and if he was too late, he might suffer a great humiliation. Therefore, today it was his team's turn to be the top search team, and Kato Masan secretly felt that the opportunity was coming.

Along the way, other soldiers were vigilantly looking around with their guns, but Kato Zhengnan was staring at the fat head of the squad leader with a gun, and kept shouting in his heart: "The Eighth Route Army and the guerrillas, come and fight, give me a chance to kill those eight grid tooth roads!" ”

But after thinking about it, Kato Masan felt that things were not easy to handle, although he was an imperial army, he disguised himself as a squadron [***], and if he didn't speak, no one would know that he was himself. If it goes on like this, even if they encounter the [***] team, they will not attack their own team. Isn't that a black gun that can't be used?

Thinking about it, Kato Zhengnan felt that there was no good way, so he could only shout in his heart to make the Eighth Route Army smarter.

Some things are very evil, just when Kato Zhengnan shouted for the Eighth Route Army in his heart, an officer of the Eighth Route Army was holding a telescope and carefully observing the search for the top soldier team of the Japanese army.

This officer's name is Zhou Chunlin, with a square face, thin lips, and a pair of slender and slender eyes, and he always looks flat. He was originally a cadre of the Red Fourth Front Army, when Liu Yimin supported the Quartet Army to form cavalry in Xi'an from the war horses compensated by Ma Hongkui, Zhou Chunlin went to the Red Seventh Army to study, but was left behind by Hu Laohu, and was later sent to Hong Chaoyuan's Duer Division as a cavalry battalion commander. Historically, he was the commander of the cavalry of the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army.

Zhou Chunlin led the cavalry battalion to march overnight, and arrived at Liu Gaozi Town when it was almost dawn. The troops immediately unfolded in the town of Liuyuanzi, and the soldiers ate steamed buns and drank cold water, and then they were busy evacuating the masses, building fortifications, and laying mines and explosives packs, preparing to give the devils a hard attack here.

Of course, Zhou Chunlin knew that the division commander's training was very clear that the advantage of cavalry was its strong mobility, and its disadvantage was that it had a large target and was prone to heavy casualties. When fighting, cavalry is generally used to attack and harass the enemy, and cannot fight to the death. Only under two circumstances are cavalry allowed to fight to the death with the enemy: one is that when our army is surrounded by the enemy and is at stake, it is necessary to give full play to the advantages of the cavalry's strong impact, conceal the enemy, and make a rapid assault, even if the battle is fought to the last man, it is necessary to tear a hole for the whole army. The second scenario is that the enemy is routed by our army, and when there is a large-scale rout, the cavalry must launch a group charge and completely defeat the enemy's will to fight. In particular, when fighting with the army on the plains, it is necessary to use the trenches to move covertly, and to leave with one blow, and never to be entangled by the enemy's large forces.

Zhou Chunlin has been teaching for a long time, and the cavalry tactics have already been learned deep into the bone marrow. However, in several battles, the cavalry battalion was basically used by Hong Chaoyuan as a reconnaissance and swimming outpost, and there was basically no major combat opportunity except for capturing prisoners. Zhou Chunlin, who had already been stimulated by the achievements of the cavalry brigade and the cavalry battalion of the Fourth Brigade, was determined to let his cavalry battalion show its face in the entire Eighth Route Army.

As for how to show your face. Zhou Chunlin had already thought about it, that is, to block the attack layer by layer, hit and run, and use explosive bags, mines, machine guns, mortars, rifles to talk to the devils, and never let the devils get involved. Anyway, Zhou Chunlin has already seen the road traffic clearly, the main roads have been transformed into trenches, the devil's cars and tanks can only go through the fields, and his cavalry can quickly maneuver in the trenches.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, the scouts who went out to investigate reported that the search unit of the army's top soldiers had arrived.

Zhou Chunlin couldn't understand what this little devil thought, Han Fuqu's 100,000 army had already disappeared without a trace, why did he still disguise his troops? I really don't know if the little devil's head was kicked by the donkey, don't you know that the instructor is the best at camouflage sneak attacks? It's a little too easy to play this hand in front of the instructor!

Zhou Chunlin suddenly had an idea, if this search team was put into the town and all of them were captured, would his cavalry battalion be the unit that had captured the most soldiers since the Eighth Route Army entered the war?

Thinking about it again, forget it, the division commander doesn't seem to be interested in capturing the Yue army at all, and under his influence, it seems that the instructor's brigades and regiments are not very interested in the capture of the Yue army. Not to mention this team, if you capture a brigade of him, the division commander will probably not be rewarded, and maybe you will quietly scold yourself for being stupid and wasting precious food in vain!

After thinking about it, if I could find so many people in this team and let them voluntarily surrender and go to stand guard for the division commander, maybe the division commander would laugh!

Whatever! As long as there are those who are willing to surrender, they will be captured, and the other stubborn ones will have to let them be overtaken long ago!

Zhou Chunlin didn't think about it anymore, because the search team of the army's top soldiers was almost in the town.

When the devil arrived at the entrance of Liu Yuanzi Town, he didn't find a single figure. The captain of the devil squad was a little suspicious, stopped and picked up the binoculars and carefully observed the town for a while, and with a wave of his hand, he let the three devils who were the first to enter the town to investigate.

The three devil soldiers with guns and cats on their waists slipped into the town through the wall. The town was indeed empty, and there was not a single person from one end of the street to the other.

The three devils stopped and signaled the devil squad leader to move on.

Seeing that the devil team had already driven to the gate of the town, the three devil soldiers found out about the situation at this time. For no other reason, a devilish spearhead spotted the hidden warriors.

The remaining two devils immediately opened fire, shouting and screaming as they fired, meaning that there was an ambush in the town.

Zhou Chunlin saw that the devils only sent sharp soldiers into the town to investigate, and he knew that the idea of trying to catch the devils alive and the entire squad would not work, because no matter how well the troops were hidden, if the three devils searched carefully after entering the town, they would inevitably find something abnormal, and they would not be able to shoot if they didn't think about it when the time came.

There was no way, Zhou Chunlin had no choice but to give the order to attack. The machine-gun shooters hiding on both sides of the town immediately pulled the trigger, and immediately enveloped the Devil Spear squad in a net of fire.

The captain of the devil squad didn't expect to encounter an attack here, so he lay down and shouted "Kill it!" ”

Kato Zhengnan was waiting for this opportunity, and at the moment when the devil squad leader lay down, Kato Zhengnan, who had been following him, pulled the trigger, and the bullet entered the back of the devil squad leader's head, nailing him directly to the ground.

After this shot, Kato Zhengnan turned around and ran, shouting "Captain Jade is broken" as he ran!

Don't say that this change is unthinkable to the army, even Zhou Chunlin, who has been observing the battlefield, can't think of it. However, he saw that Kato Zhengnan was about to escape, but he refused to let him escape anymore, grabbed his Bayi automatic rifle, aimed a little, and shot Kato Zhengnan in the calf. Seeing that Kato Zhengnan fell to the ground, and the search team of the army's top soldiers was basically wiped out, Zhou Chunlin shouted loudly in the Chinese language, "Surrender the gun and don't kill!" ”

As a result, the first soldier captured on the battlefield appeared in the battle of the cavalry battalion of the Fifth Brigade, which was also a record that Zhou Chunlin was proud of all his life.

After solving the search team of the devil's spearheads, Zhou Chunlin ordered the troops to clean up the battlefield immediately, quickly put up the mines, and prepare to meet the devil's army.

The gunfire in Liu Gaozi Town alarmed the follow-up troops of the devils. It didn't take long for a squadron of devils to come up with reinforcements. As soon as he saw the corpses of dozens of imperial soldiers who were as smooth as white sheep that had been skinned, the leader of the devil squadron did not dare to be reckless, and immediately ordered machine guns and grenadiers to establish positions, and sent people back to report.

Zhou Chunlin was a little disappointed when he saw that there was only one squadron of devils. If we had known this, we should not have planted so many mines and explosive packages, and it would be too late to regret it now. Hesitate for a while, and when the main force of the devil comes up, he won't be able to leave.

So, Zhou Chunlin decisively ordered the explosive pack, sent a squadron of devils into the sky, and was lucky enough to be ravaged by bullet grenades again, and when he saw that there was no one to breathe, he cleaned up the battlefield and transferred with Kato Zhengnan and the loot.

When Major General Kawamura Dong arrived at Liujiazi Town, he saw that the stumps of the imperial army were all over the ground, and he vomited with a wow.

This old devil, since he left Liaocheng yesterday afternoon, has been wondering all the way whether to send a telegram to the base camp after the sweep, and vaguely tell Prince Zairen of Xianyuan Palace that Reading Power can be mixed into the Fourth Brigade and can be upgraded to a division. At the worst of all, the combat mission had to be adjusted, so that the Fourth Brigade could go to the front line to fight, and could not always be used as a local garrison. If that's the case, when will his major general's epaulettes be promoted to lieutenant general and general?

Therefore, when camping at night, the Kawamura Dong was always in high spirits, called several captains together, drank sake, and picked out the aunt of the landlord's family who did not run away, Dunlun, and no longer pursued discipline for the captain who burned two villages, and slept happily all night.

Unexpectedly, this kind of thing happened after a short time of dispatch this morning, and the soldiers of a squadron and a squad were shattered in such a blur, and only the crotch cloth they wore was left. Thinking about it like this, and looking at the body that was blown up in a mess, Kawamura Dong couldn't help but start throwing up.

After spitting up, Major General Kawamura Dong thought about it carefully, and felt that the troops he encountered during the sneak attack on Liaocheng were by no means the same thing as the troops of the ambush search squad and the infantry squadron, and the troops in Liaocheng did not have such a high level of technical warfare! If this is really the case, it means that there is an elite army in this area that dares to compete with the imperial army. Then where did this unit come from, how many numbers, how many people, and what the name of the commander was, it must be figured out!

In fact, Kawamura Dong was very conflicted, he wanted to figure out this problem, but he was afraid that he would not be able to accept it if he figured it out. Because Liu Yimin, the most capable general in China, has been unclear since he left Tianjin, if it is really Liu Yimin's troops, I am afraid that he will have to reconsider his deployment. Maybe we have to withdraw our troops and return to the railway line!

Thinking about the establishment and firepower of his troops, Kawamura Dong is not a big deal, although Liu Yimin's troops can fight, but they all attack the imperial army at night, relying on the cover of night to succeed, but now in the daytime, the aviation will blow them up rabbit fur flying around.

Kawamura Dong immediately called on the air force and asked them to intensify aerial reconnaissance and provide air cover for the safe and secure operation on the journey. Then he ordered the cavalry brigade to serve as the vanguard of the brigade, catch up with the sneak attack of the Chinese troops, and resolutely destroy them.

Soon after the departure of the cavalry brigade, the bad news came again, the cavalry brigade was hit by the fire of the squadron [***], lost a squad, and did not catch up with the squadron.

Kawamura Dong is now obedient and no longer sends the vanguard, and the whole brigade is huddled together, and under the cover of tanks and armored vehicles, slowly pressed towards Linqing City.

(To be continued)