Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Empty City Plan
After Hu Fei caught up with and killed the leader of the devil squad, he planned to take the horse back, but the horse's head had just turned halfway, and he suddenly felt that something was not right.
As soon as he looked up, Hu Fei was startled by what he saw! In the dusty area ahead, an army was moving rapidly in this direction. The slight vibration of the ground was the sound of the engine of a high-powered vehicle, and the large wriggling earthy yellow was the color of the ghost soldiers.
A Devil army of more than a thousand people and at least three ironclad chariots is rapidly advancing this way! It's bad, this is at least a devil brigade!
During the Battle of Pingxingguan, Hu Fei once ambushed and annihilated the Japanese Yamashita Brigade at Mantou Ridge. In that battle, Hu Fei first occupied the favorable terrain, and he occupied Mantou Ridge in advance and held it in a condescending manner; However, the Yamashita Brigade was in a hurry to go to Pingxingguan to reinforce, and they had no intention of fighting from the beginning; Coupled with the full cooperation of the Eighth Route Army's martial arts team next to him, these factors come together, and it is not too unusual for Hu Fei to win that battle.
What's going on now? Hu Fei's troops have shrunk by nearly half compared to the heyday of Pingxingguan, and the terrain here is by no means comparable to the lofty mountains and mountains of Pingxingguan and Mantouling. Fighting in the field with the Japanese army with armored vehicles on the plains, Hu Fei was not arrogant enough to think that he could win in this way!
The battle was decided before it was fought! If there are unarmed civilians behind him, or if there are any important military facilities, such as the theater headquarters or the like, that must be defended, Hu Feipa can also lead the troops to defend desperately! What's behind him now? Nothing! There are no villages, towns, cities, no important facilities, only dry fields and a road, so what is he guarding here? Remove! The wind is howling!
Hu Fei put his finger in his mouth, "Woo-yo-" After a sharp whistle, he turned around and ran away with the troops!
The cavalry ran as fast as they could, and in the blink of an eye they were engaged in the starting point and ran back to his fortifications. So much so that the devils from the opposite side still wondered, they were all ready to fight, why did the Chinese army on the other side flee without a fight? What kind of machinations are they playing? The Japanese soldier who led the team immediately ordered the troops to stop their advance and sent several scout teams until they confirmed that the front was safe, and then led the team on the road again.
As soon as Hu Fei returned, he issued an urgent order: order the medical team and the baggage team, which were slow to move directly under the team, to move now; Liu crooked his neck and his small artillery team drove the cart to the side, only to wait for a round of shelling and immediately ran away; Yang Jinsheng's 3rd Company and Li San's Supplementary Company immediately began to make preparations for the transfer, and the two companies each went one platoon first. In addition to the machine-gun platoon, the other units were transferred in order!
The medical team and the baggage team are gone, the small artillery unit is ready for firing, and even the heavy machine guns are ready for transporting equipment such as carts and pack horses, waiting to be transferred in good condition.
The devil is coming, and the earth is yellow and rolling the ground! Seeing that the distance was about the same, Hu Fei ordered all the grenadiers and mortars of the small artillery team to fire together. Three rapid shots, go after the fight!
"Boom! Boom! Boom! There was a roar, and a few plumes of smoke suddenly rose from the group of devils who were walking, and the devil soldiers fell down one after another. By the time the devil's artillery set up the cannon and fired it again, Liu Crooked Neck had already run away with his students and the cannon for a while.
The devil's artillery retaliated and was followed by an infantry charge. Hordes of devil soldiers hunched their waists and rushed towards the front of our army's position.
The machine guns rang out, and the intertwined flames of several Makqin heavy machine guns and a dozen Czech light machine guns forced the devil who was running away to the ground again.
Remove! As soon as the devil was lying down, the heavy machine-gun platoon immediately retreated. The fighters raised their machine guns to the cart that had been prepared long ago, and the coachman raised his whip "Bang!" Syllable! Two whips rang out, and the cart retreated.
At the front of the position, the leader of the devil spear squad found that the strength of our army's machine gun seemed to have weakened. This guy put the sword and the sword in danger
"Cavalry company, attack!" What is a cascade retreat? It's called a cascade retreat! Before the devils launched the next charge, three cavalry companies of our army launched a surprise attack! The speed of the cavalry was fast and the firepower was fierce, and hundreds of cavalry rushed up like a sandstorm, and the momentum was amazing! The devil who had just stood up was immediately knocked down in a large piece, and the rest quickly fell down again.
After these three times, he got up and lay down twice, and he got up again, even a devil with a lack of brains couldn't help but be suspicious. The cavalry retreated, the artillery stopped firing, even the machine guns stopped roaring, and the devils, who had been frightened several times, no longer dared to charge casually.
The large army of devils lay on their stomachs in the ground and did not dare to move the place. After waiting for a while and seeing that there was still no movement, the devil sent a small force to the front to test. Until several pathfinding teams sent back a message, saying that the Chinese army had withdrawn, and there was really no one in the front position! Only then did the devils rush forward and quickly occupy the empty positions of our army.
The ghost soldiers were cheering, but the ghost commander didn't feel quite right, he seemed to have fallen into the Chinese's empty city plan!
Captain Shaozuo, who found out that he had been tricked, was annoyed, and ordered on the spot to let the devil soldiers who were cheering and celebrating the victory gather immediately! He must catch the guy who dares to play tricks on the imperial army, and he must let all Chinese understand that the imperial army cannot be played casually!
The devil is catching up from behind! Hu Fei tried all his means, but he still didn't scare the devil away! Well, devils are not so easy to scare away. In response to this situation, Hu Fei can only come to such a conclusion. However, after so many tosses, the Independent Cavalry Brigade did have a certain distance from the devils, and the devils behind wanted to catch up, and they didn't want to do it for half a day.
The baggage team and the medical team were indeed slowing down, and Hu Fei couldn't do without these two troops, so he had to order the troops to speed up the march as much as possible.
Fortunately, the 27th Army in front did not run too far, and the cavalry brigade caught up with Gui Yongqing's large army in less than a day under the full pursuit. However, the devil brigade that was chasing after him also caught up at the same time.
Seeing the 27th Army, of course Hu Fei didn't care about the thousand devils. Gui Yongqing is afraid of the devils of the entire division, like this kind of devil brigade of thousands of people in front of the 27th Army, it is a snack!
Hu Fei deliberately let himself pant to see Gui Yongqing. "The military seat, humble and incompetent, didn't stop the devil for too long. Now that a brigade of the Japanese army is in pursuit of our army's rear, please lead the military headquarters to do their best, and as long as there are ten more Makqin heavy machine guns, I promise not to let the Japanese invaders move forward! ”