Chapter 50: The End of Hashimoto

The sound of machine guns from behind the cemetery stopped, and the rain of bullets disappeared, but the puppet soldiers who had just been fatally ambushed still curled up behind their respective cover and did not dare to show their heads, but shot at the cemetery in a panic, as for where the bullets fired from their rifles went, no one could say, "You go over and see what is going on" A captain of the Imperial Allied Army pointed by the angry Hashimoto shrank his head and led a few Imperial Allied soldiers towards the cemetery.

It's really a great ancestor, this kid and his people actually touched the machine gun position abandoned by Kessler unharmed, that is, because of his caution, he escaped again, "Don't fucking flip, give me a good look at these machine guns, and wait for the imperial army to deal with them" The team leader grabbed the boy who was fiddling with the machine gun with his foot, and turned around and ran back to the road, "Report to Taijun, we found a few machine guns over there, but no one was found, I guess they ran away, It could be that the small force of the Eighth Road "panted and ran back to the road The squad leader raised his hand in salute, and then reported his search results to Hashimoto.

"Nani, when did the Eighth Route Army have such good equipment, they used so many machine guns just to fight their own ambushes, it is difficult for them not only to fight their own ambushes, but also for other purposes." Hashimoto Mayama, who was sitting in the armored car, was a little puzzled, in Hashimoto Mayama's previous experience with the Eighth Route Army, he had never met a unit with such firepower, and Hashimoto, who had always been suspicious, couldn't help muttering in his heart.

"Shaozuo, look at it" The smoke warning in the direction of the deserted village was finally discovered by one of Hashimoto's subordinates, the thick smoke has been carried by the wind, Hashimoto looked at it with a telescope, due to the terrain, the situation on the side of the deserted village is not visible at all, he can only see the smoke floating in mid-air, "Retreat, we withdraw to the county seat, there is a large army of eight roads in front" Hashimoto didn't care about those vanguards, just ordered the armored vehicles to turn around immediately and retreat back to the county seat at full speed.

"Boom" There was a loud noise behind the cemetery, and when the army sent by Hashimoto to collect the machine gun was moving the ammunition box, it touched the trick set by Kessler, and the fireball that rose into the air was mixed with the crackling sound of bullets, just like the fireworks put in the New Year, "Retreat, hurry" Hashimoto scolded secretly, commanding the puppet army that could still walk began to turn around and retreat back to the county seat, he had a bad premonition in his heart, the goal of the Eighth Route Army this time was probably not just to ambush himself, It is possible that it was to seize the county seat of Zhangwu.

Leaving corpses all over the ground, Hashimoto ran away with the puppet army that could still move, and those seriously wounded were each issued a grenade by Hashimoto before retreating, since they had lost their ability to act, they simply did their last bit for the empire before they died, pretending to be dead corpses to delay the pursuit of the eight roads, Hashimoto's arrangement of the guards was not wrong, but he met Zhao Zhi, a person who did not play cards according to common sense, and Zhao Zhi had no extra people in his hands to clean up the battlefield, everything had to wait until Hashimoto was completely defeated, Zhao Zhicai had extra manpower to do these things, so the seriously wounded man arranged by Hashimoto had to wait in convulsions for himself to die of bleeding, but he didn't see half of the people who came to clean the battlefield.

"Boom" There was a puff of smoke on the road, and in the wailing sound, there were a few Imperial Cooperative troops who explored the road, "Shaozuo, the mine was found again in front" Hashimoto was annoyed and smashed the inner wall of the armored car with a command knife, this is already the third mine encountered, from the time they began to retreat, there were constantly out of the situation, either there were big stones blocking the road on the road, or they stepped on the mines while walking, more than an hour, they only walked out but a few miles, at this speed, when they returned to the county seat, it was going to be dark.

The rear team led by Hashimoto himself has more than 300 people, and the battle has reached this point, Hashimoto has not seen an opponent who has exchanged fire with him, but his troops have lost almost a third, and the imperial soldiers he relies on the most have dropped from 150 people at the time of departure to less than a squad, at this time he led most of the soldiers of the Imperial Alliance Army who are greedy for life and afraid of death, and there are still a lot of weapons and ammunition, but his machine gunners, grenadiers, and gunners have suffered heavy casualties, and the mortars brought by him are almost no one to fight.

"Shaozuo, the front is Qingshiyu, after Qingshiyu there are 10 miles to the county seat" trembling after the road again, there are no big stones blocking the way and no mines, the imperial army that is eager to flee for their lives has also accelerated its speed and no longer lags behind, Hashimoto Mayama's mood is slightly better, it seems that he has seen the dawn in front of him, and people will die in battle, as long as he does not lose Zhangwu County, no matter how big the casualties of his men are, the above will not take his life, not to mention that Hashimoto has learned to fabricate war reports, As long as he caught some civilians and killed them and then lied that they were killed, Hashimoto could get out.

The bluestone valley between the two mountains and the slope has produced a large piece of bluestone famous, the rich families in Zhangwu County have built houses with the big bluestone produced by the bluestone valley to lay the foundation, so there are pits and pits dug everywhere, when they passed here before, Hashimoto's soldiers have already reconnoitred here, except for finding a few stonemasons who are busy working on the mountain, there is nothing unusual at all, but now Hashimoto has already become a frightened bird, if you don't send sharp soldiers to reconnoitre, He didn't dare to pass through a terrain like Qingshiyu at all.

"Shaozuo, the spearhead who went up the mountain waved the flag, and no abnormality was found, should we continue to move forward." The adjutant who had been watching the sharp soldiers go up the mountain to reconnoiter with a telescope ran over, and Hashimoto, who had been sitting in an armored car, took the binoculars and looked at the mountain in front of him.

"Departure" Hashimoto signaled to the driver of the armored car to start, in fact, the terrain of Qingshiyu is not so complicated, there is only a section of a steep slope that is only a few tens of meters against the mountain, and the others are all slopes that are not leaning on the plain, as long as you can quickly pass through the steep slope of dozens of meters, Hashimoto is really to a safe place, knowing that the terrain is dangerous, the puppet soldiers have spread their legs and run desperately, seeing that they are about to get out of that steep slope, all the people's hearts are happy, as long as they pass through Qingshiyu, and then walk 10 miles to return to the county seat, Good wine, good meat, and the women in the hall are waiting in the county.

But sometimes, fate just likes to joke, just when the puppet army is happy in their hearts, there are suddenly a few explosions from the stone walls at both ends of the team, and then a large piece of stone rolls down the mountain, just blocking Hashimoto's way and retreat, this is good, Hashimoto has been sitting in the iron turtle shell in the mountain is really a turtle in the urn and has no place to run, unless he is willing to throw the armored car and follow the soldiers to climb the big stone out of the bluestone valley, otherwise stay in it honestly.

"Baga" Hashimoto jumped out of the armored car with his command knife, there is no way out and no way back, the Eighth Route Army is going to trap itself in the Qingshiyu, "Huh" Hashimoto Mayama pulled his command knife out of the scabbard, pointed directly at the pile of big stones blocking the road ahead, and shouted, "Rush over, rush over, we can live, stay and only die" In the shouts of Hashimoto Mayama's broken cauldron and sinking boat, the panicked puppet soldiers howled and began to climb those big stones in the direction of the county town with their rifles.

"There is a dirt eight road" a soldier who had just climbed up the stone pile shouted out, and was shot through the neck by a bullet fired from the head-on, and fell down on his back, "throw a grenade to cover, press the machine gun up, and bombard the grenadier 30 meters ahead" At the critical juncture, Hashimoto Mayama was like a god of war possessed by the god of war suddenly came to the spirit, commanding his subordinates to get out of the puppet army leaning on the stone pile and began a crazy counterattack, in the explosion of the grenade canister, the puppet army stood firm in the stone pile mountain, and the machine gun erected began to extend the firepower, The barrage of bullets swept all the suspicious places in front of the pile.

I don't know if it was Hashimoto's command and the crazy counterattack of the puppet army that played a role, or those attackers gave up the blockade, except for the shouts and shooting of the puppet army in the bluestone valley, there was no other sound, except for the large stones on the mountain road, it seemed that only Hashimoto was left, "stop shooting" Hashimoto, whose face was full of ash, raised his hand and signaled the puppet soldiers to stop firing, and they could not see where the attackers were hiding and fired, which could only be a waste of bullets.

In addition to the smell of gunpowder smoke in the bluestone valley now, it is a breeze that blows slowly, Hashimoto is a little suspicious and hides behind the stone pile, using a telescope to check the surrounding situation, this road has been ambushed continuously, has made Hashimoto's nerves fragile to the extreme, his knife face is full of vigilance, the dry grass on the hillside is blown by the wind, he feels that there is an attacker hidden behind it, the muzzle of the black hole seems to be aimed at himself, he doesn't dare to go, and he doesn't have to retreat, and now Hashimoto Mayama seems to be a serious constipation patient, It's on the verge of collapse.

"Shaozuo, I'd better take some people to explore the road first." Hashimoto's adjutant Takeda took off his shirt, and walked over wearing a shirt and carrying a rifle, it's not a thing to stay here like this, and he always has to go back to the county, and the best way at the moment is to continue to send sharp soldiers to explore the way, as soon as Takeda's words fell, Hashimoto Mayama felt that his face was hot, and Takeda's head was still shattered by a bullet, and the splattered blood and brains just sprinkled Hashimoto's face.

"Boom" "Boom" "Boom" I don't know where it came from, the grenadier grenade exploded around the stone pile continuously, the splashed shrapnel was mixed with scattered gravel chips, and the surname of the puppet army was harvested to the fullest, as long as the mountain stones in the bluestone valley were forced, they would become a piece of knife and stone, once such a broken stone piece swirled and splashed up, the lethality was not much weaker than the shrapnel, there was no way to survive and there was no way to retreat, Hashimoto They really entered a dead end, and it was only a matter of time before they were annihilated in the bluestone valley.

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