Chapter Forty-Nine: Back to the Highway
Ito Osa led his 18th Wing down the road and began the arduous march from the wilderness on the right side of the avenue.
The planes of the Japanese army came and went. And did not cause much trouble for the troops of the five hundred divisions. The Japanese planes dropped all the bombs they carried in the middle of the Chinese and Japanese armies, causing considerable damage to the vanguard of the 201 Brigade in pursuit, and at the same time, a number of Japanese lagging personnel were accidentally bombed. After allowing the two armies to distance themselves a little, the valiant air forces completed their mission, shook their wings, greeted His Excellency Daisaku Ito, who was full of anticipation, and turned around and flew north.
Gao Quan also came down from the high ground on the left side of the road with his division headquarters and his direct troops, but instead of joining the pursuing army on the right side of the road, he began to advance on the left side of the road. On this one road, the devils must have sworn to die and were unwilling to stay away from the highway, so what difference did it make to pursue from which side of the road?
The area where the traps and mines were set up on the road was about sixty or seventy meters, and after this death zone, the rest of the road was still a good road. The devils cautiously went on the road at the age of fifty, and a mine blew up the team that was exploring the road to the ground! This frightened Nobuyoshi Ito, and led his troops to run forward along the right side of the road again, not daring to go on the road easily.
Wang Jiantang and Liu Xing were in hot pursuit, chasing and shooting guns, this kind of wretched battle used to be done by the Japanese in pursuit of the ** team, Ito Osa had done it many times, who knew that he would encounter it himself today? It's a bad taste!
The road is not easy to walk, not only the infantry is difficult, but even Ito Daisa, who is sitting in an armored car, is uncomfortable, this road is too bumpy! Fortunately, Dazuo did not suffer from motion sickness, and even though he was dizzy, there were no other adverse reactions.
The 201 Brigade was in hot pursuit behind the 18th Wing, and Gao Quan advanced in the same direction on the other side of the road. Zhang Erxiao also went down to the left side of the highway with the independent brigade, and followed Gao Quan along the left side, anyway, Wang Dazhu was in front, even if he chased from the right, he followed Wang Dazhu, how could it not be his turn to shoot at the devil, it was better to go to the division's side, Gao Quan would not steal the merit with him, the independent brigade ran faster, and he could shoot at the devil across the road.
The devil thinks that he can't run fast with artillery, and our army can't run fast with artillery either. Wang Dazhu and Zhang Erxiao all left their artillery at the back of the line, and there was a 500 brigade behind them! Qian Sixi has shown enough face today, he didn't plan to participate in this kind of pursuit work at all, followed behind, gathered the artillery of the two brigades in front, plus Fan Bolin's artillery battalion, with all the artillery and baggage of the 500 division, and hurried slowly behind, there was radio contact between the troops, and he was not afraid of getting lost.
Zhang Erxiao is eager to kill the enemy, and he is the head of a division, so of course he has to make way for his generals. The team directly under the division headquarters moved to the side and let the independent brigade rush to the front. Gao Quan took the division headquarters and all the directly subordinate teams to hang far behind the independent brigade. On the way, there is a burden that the devil has given up, and he also carries it by the way. We are not as rich as the devils, the cannons dare not explode, the baggage cannot be lost, the devils have lost it, we have to pick it up.
After walking for more than ten miles, Ito finally couldn't stand the pain of this bump! After that, a team was sent to the highway to explore the road, and it was found that there were no traps and no mines! The relieved devils ran happily onto the road, and the young ones sang happily. No matter what, when it's time to be happy, you still have to be happy!
The devils went on the road, and of course our soldiers followed. The 201 Brigade started at the front, and it is still at the front. After getting on the highway, the Independent Brigade just didn't want to follow the 201 Brigade, and they couldn't run faster than them!
From Wushengguan to Xinyang, although it is not too far, if you walk with two feet, you may not be able to walk for a day. Fortunately, this large group of people who are now running wildly on the highway are not ordinary people, they are all well-trained soldiers, regardless of nationality or age, and they are naturally much faster than ordinary people when they run, and they have much more confidence.
Pursuit is not a chase in a long-distance run, and pursuit is also called a pursuit battle, which is a deadly game. Especially when the party chasing behind has enough reason to take the life of the person in front, this kind of pursuit often represents extreme cruelty and blood.
After the 201 Brigade was rebuilt, it had an inextricable mortal enmity with the Japanese invaders. All the fighters of the original 201 Brigade, the predecessor of this unit, from the brigade commander to the soldiers, died under the guns of the Japanese. His successor, now every officer and soldier of the 201 Brigade, naturally also takes killing Japanese criminals as his life creed.
Wang Dazhu led such a force to pursue behind the devil, what would be the scene? The 201 Brigade chased the fighters to the front and shot forward while running! The devils who are left behind keep people falling. The fighters in front couldn't run, so naturally new fighters ran up to take their place, and then shot, and then a new devil was shot and fell. The devils couldn't bear it anymore, so they sent small troops to fight with the pursuing force behind. The 201 Brigade would immediately split up a unit to meet them, and after a short but fierce exchange of fire, they would send the dazed devils back to their shrine.
Of course, these Japanese troops who came to take the initiative to break off were definitely not sent by His Excellency Dazuo! If it weren't for the fact that he felt that he couldn't explain himself to the city alone, His Excellency Osa would definitely take this armored car and return to Xinyang in two hours.
In fact, the Eighteenth Wing still has a mobile force, and the dozens of elite cavalry of the empire left in the cavalry brigade are the last card in the hand of His Excellency Dazuo. Don't get me wrong, Ito Daisa will never let these dozens of elite cavalrymen fight with the tens of thousands of ** people behind, that is suicide, and these noble cavalry men will never obey such unreasonable orders.
As the last mobile force at hand, Ito Nobuyoshi certainly wants them to play a more important role. If the troops ran all the way back to Xinyang like this, Dazuo believed that when he arrived at Xinyang City, he would definitely not have more than one squadron of troops at hand. These cavalrymen have to take on a very important task at this time, that is: hurry up their horses, rush back to Xinyang one step in advance, ask General Yekan for reinforcements, and ask General Yekan to send someone to meet them! You don't have to go too far out of the city, even if it's just to Liulin Town, it's enough!
Liulin, there is now a squadron of the Japanese army stationed in that town, and Ito Daisa's intention is to ask His Excellency the brigade commander to increase troops in Liulin Town, so that when his troops run to Liulin, there will be someone to pick them up. This request was not excessive, and Ito Nobuyoshi believed that General Nokan would definitely grant him this request.
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