Chapter 56: The Raid (4)

"Your Excellency Nakasa, it was the Eighth Route Army that attacked us, and when the rear guard was attacked and counterattacked, several of them were killed, and those people were wearing the uniforms of the Eighth Route Army, and most of the weapons used were Imperial 38 rifles" Takeoka Jiexiong's guards came running with a bloodstained Eighth Route Army uniform, and the guard team that Takeoka Jiexiong had placed on both sides of the troops and the rear guard were attacked, but only the rearguard unit shot a few attackers.

"Baga, when did the Eighth Route Army have American-made submachine guns? They also have American-made grenades, these people are not the Eighth Route Army at all" The gunfire from both sides of the road, Takeoka Jiexiong really heard it, and there was obviously the sound of American Thomson submachine gun firing in it. The reason why the Eighth Route Army is called the Eighth Route Army is because the weapons and ammunition distributed by the Eighth Route Army are quite messy, and most of the base areas controlled by the Eighth Route Army are surrounded by the Japanese puppet regiments, and they have very few channels to obtain weapons and resources from the national control area, and the Thomson submachine gun is a weapon with strong firepower, and the Eighth Route Army cannot afford to equip it with such a powerful firepower weapon.

"Order the troops to continue marching, the guard post retracts 200 meters, and arrange for light machine guns to walk on both flanks of the troops, once the guard post is attacked, the machine gunners walking on both flanks must immediately rush over to support" Takeoka Jiexiong threw the Eighth Route Army uniform in his hand on the ground and stepped on one foot. When Wuxiang's ghost ghost village arrived in Ding'an, he once sent a telegram to Wugang, who had just set off, saying that it was Thunder's troops who captured Ding'an City, and Takeoka Jiexiong never believed that Thunder, which was entrenched in Zhangwu County, would send troops to Ding'an, so Wugang also argued with Ghost Mingxiang in the telegram, but now he believes it.

After a short rest, the Wugang Wing continued to march on the road, and after walking a short distance, intermittent gunfire rang out from time to time on both sides of the troops. According to Takeoka Kaio's arrangement, the machine gunners walking on both sides of the unit rushed over to support the alert team 300 meters away when they heard the gunfire, but after the gunfire stopped, the machine gun team that went to reinforce found nothing except the corpses of many patrol team soldiers.

"Baga, cunning and despicable fellow" Looking at the corpse dragged back, Takeoka finally knew that Thunder's troops were trying to hold him back and make it impossible for his troops to march normally. In less than an hour, dozens of corpses appeared on the troop's car, but the soldiers were so tired that they were panting because of the continuous rescue, and even the marching speed slowed down.

"Order, strengthen the strength and firepower of the patrol squad, the remaining main force only marches, do not care about the gunfire around them, for the enemy who sneaks up, the patrol squad only needs to crush them, and is not allowed to pursue" Takeoka Kaio quickly issued a new order. Sure enough, after the order was issued, although there were still bursts of gunfire on both sides of the troops from time to time, the marching speed of the troops was significantly faster, but the only thing that made Wing Commander Takeoka Sutsuo unhappy was that whenever a burst of gunfire passed, the patrol team would always send a few corpses of soldiers.

For a whole morning, the Takeoka Wing, which had been invincible on the front line, marched in the constant sound of gunfire and continuous sneak attacks, and in this morning's difficult march, the only thing that Wing Commander Takeoka Sutsuo gained was a hundred and ten corpses and dozens of wounded soldiers in the car behind him, and the trophies were only a few bloodstained Eighth Route Army uniforms.

Listening to the wounded soldiers on the car who kept wailing, Okamoto had a headache. Marching with them, obviously not, these people will not only affect the combat effectiveness of the troops, but also drag themselves down, and throw them here directly, not to mention it, the ubiquitous Thunder troops will definitely eat them clean, the only way is to send them to a place where the Japanese puppet army is stationed, and Wugang, who made the decision, immediately issued a series of orders...

In a short time, the convoy of four cars left the normal route of the wing, accompanied by a small squad of cavalry to protect it. The reason why the cavalry was arranged for protection was because Takeoka believed that although Thunder's troops could attack or ambush convoys on the road, they must not be able to attack cavalry with fast mobility, and in addition, the speed of cavalry was very fast, and moving with the car did not affect the speed of the car, and in this kind of fast march, the Thunder men should not have the opportunity to ambush those wounded soldiers who were sent elsewhere.

"Yo ho, the Japanese have learned wisely, they know how to send the wounded soldiers away, and they have sent cavalry to escort them" Tang Lei, who was holding a telescope, looked at the trucks and cavalry that were gradually moving away with a smile, but there was a hint of coldness in his tone. At this time, if you break away from the Japanese army, there is only one end - that is, to be completely annihilated, more than 20 squads of 80 people are scattered around the Wugang Wing, just a cavalry squad wants to protect those wounded soldiers to escape, it is really a little too underestimated Thunder's means.

"The commander of this Japanese wing is a character, and he knows the truth of a strong man's broken wrist, but he is too ruthless to his soldiers" Zhao Zhi put down his binoculars and said lightly, with a smile on the corner of his mouth. The closest place where the Japanese puppet army is stationed here is Ding'an City, looking at the direction of the departure of those Japanese wounded soldiers, they should have gone to Wuxian County, more than 100 miles away, and there is only one intention to seek the near and far, which is nothing more than to use these wounded soldiers as bait to attract the attention of Thunder, and the Japanese commander wants to exchange those wounded soldiers for the rapid march of his main force.

"Order, the three squads arranged in the direction of Wuxian County will assemble into a company, use the terrain to intercept the wounded Japanese soldiers who are going to Wuxian, and tell them not to fight hard, to use the terrain advantage and strong firepower to intercept the Japanese army, and not to pursue, just bring them back again" The Japanese army wanted to use these wounded soldiers to lure Thunder's attention at this time, in a vain attempt to attract Thunder's attention to Wuxian while throwing away the burden, but Zhao Zhi did not annihilate this group of Japanese wounded soldiers, he wanted to drive the wounded soldiers back into the Japanese army. Continue to let these wounded soldiers slow down their march and weaken the Japanese army's fighting spirit.

The cavalry squad escorting the wounded soldiers away left the large army less than half an hour after they were besieged by more than 200 Jewish soldiers, just to intercept the mission, so the Jewish soldiers who received the order first planted explosives on the road to Wu County, and after the cavalry was bombarded by the explosives for half a day, the remaining Japanese cavalry resisted a little and escorted the truck transporting the wounded soldiers back the same way. The Japanese cavalry, armed with mounted rifles, could not withstand the firing of more than 200 Garands, and even if all four trucks were equipped with light machine guns, they had no choice but to return the way they came.

The return of the wounded soldiers made Takeoka Jiexiong even more annoyed, the other party's purpose was already obvious, they just wanted to drag themselves to death, just like a hunter hunting in the mountains and forests, in the face of fierce beasts, the patient hunters will use all means to consume the physical strength of the beasts, and when the beasts have no physical strength, the hunters will issue a fatal blow, and at this time the relationship between the Takeoka United and the thunder is the relationship between the beast and the hunter.

The Wugang Wing has mountain artillery, heavy machine guns, mortars, and more than 3,000 well-trained imperial warriors, but the thunder hidden in the shadows is a blow away, and it does not give the Wugang Wing a chance to shoot at all, and when it comes into contact with them, it is like an elephant and a mosquito, although the elephant is big, it is helpless to take the mosquito. Elephants with rough skin and thick flesh are not afraid of mosquitoes, but Thunder this mosquito is not just sucking blood, they are also meat-eating mosquitoes, each attack will always make Wugang arrange the guard team on both wings of the army to increase casualties, the guard soldiers sent by Wugang to the two wings have gradually resisted, and if this continues, the fighting spirit of the Wugang United will be reduced to the lowest point.

As the sky got dark, the gunfire that had been bothering Takeoka Jiexiong also stopped, and for a whole day, the Takeoka Wing only walked less than 40 miles, and the thunderous attack added no less than 200 wounded soldiers to the Takeoka United, and the total number of wounded soldiers in the Takeoka Wing now has exceeded 400, plus those who died in battle accounted for almost 2 percent of the total number of the Wing. The Japanese soldiers gathered around the bonfire were depressed, and they were overwhelmed by the continuous attack for two consecutive days, and now they were still one and a half days away from Ding'an City, and if this continued, they did not know whether they would reach Ding'an safely, and perhaps the next person to be shot would be themselves or their friends.

There was a smell of cowardice in the temporary camp, and every Japanese soldier in the camp showed a trace of fear on his face when facing the dark night, and the Japanese soldiers who were ordered to patrol the periphery of the camp were all in the form of squads, and the number of squads patrolling the periphery of the camp was less than 30 people, and those Japanese soldiers were reluctant to go out. "Ahem" Takeoka Jiexiong raised his head and drank the sake in the cup, with hatred on his face, those damn guys of Thunder, if they hadn't entangled themselves like dog skin plasters, my own team would have arrived in Ding'an a long time ago, and I don't know if the Ghost Brigade has been defeated by Thunder, or why would I have lost contact with them.

For the next march, Takeoka Jiexiong has no bottom in his heart, from the two days of Thunder's crazy attack and harassment, it is not difficult to see that the ghost brigade in the direction of Ding'an has probably been unexpected, Takeoka Jiexiong has the intention to turn the road to Wuxian, but he used the wounded soldiers to test in the afternoon, Thunder has blocked the road to Wuxian, and his Wugang United is now afraid that it has fallen into encirclement.

"Order the grenadiers and mortars to come over, bombard them a few times every half an hour, and definitely can't let them sleep well tonight, they must survive to death" When Takeoka Jiexiong was thinking hard about countermeasures in the camp, Zhao Zhi, who had been cruising outside the Japanese camp, was not idle, and the attack for two days and one night had made it difficult for the Japanese army to sleep and consumed a lot of their energy.