"Baga, your conscience is very bad, it is your false information that has caused the imperial army to kill so many excellent soldiers, and now you are a deserter again, you are simply a disgrace to the empire, today I will personally kill you, with the correct military law..."As he spoke, the brigade commander drew his command knife, "Your Excellency the brigade commander, wait a minute, I have something to say..."

"Yours, what else to say. I'll let you die and die well..." The brigade commander looked at the Chinese in front of him, who was already frightened and delirious, and said contemptuously.

"Your Excellency the Brigade Commander, we are all in the hands of the Eighth Route Army, I did not escape from Zhouzhuang, I am here to report the news, Zhouzhuang has now been occupied by the Eighth Route Army, I took advantage of the Eighth Route Army's carelessness and secretly ran out..."

"Baga, it's impossible, how could Zhouzhuang be attacked by the Eighth Route Army, why didn't we receive a report from Zhouzhuang asking for help. Your lies are dying, and you dare to deceive the excellent imperial army. Yours, dead, dead...", as he spoke, he raised his command knife and slashed at the battalion commander in front of him.

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"Your Excellency Brigade Commander, do you see if you send a telegram to Zhou Zhuang, be sure..." The chief of staff next to him did not forget his duty because he had just been criticized, and immediately reminded.

"Well, you send a telegram to Zhou Zhuang immediately, and I'll wait for your news here." The brigade commander also knew that he was too impulsive, and nodded in agreement.

However, five minutes after the Chief of Staff left, he still did not see the Chief of Staff report to him. This made Sakai realize the seriousness of the matter. didn't care about his demeanor as a major general, and hurriedly came to the operator. I saw that the chief of staff was walking back and forth next to several telegraph operators, and several telegraph operators were sweating profusely, constantly sending signals.

At this moment, Sakai realized that everything the battalion commander said just now was true, and he was deceived by the Eighth Route Army. However, at this time, I can't allow myself to be angry.

"Chief of Staff, don't send it, Zhouzhuang must have been attacked by the Eighth Route Army, the radio station has been damaged, we must immediately return to Zhouzhuang. Quickly, gather troops and return to Zhouzhuang. Also, send a telegram to the 1st and 2nd Brigades that entered the mountains, and tell them to immediately abandon the pursuing squadron and report back to Zhouzhuang immediately..."The brigade commander quickly gave an order.

In this way, when Major General Sakai returned to Zhouzhuang with his troops, his eyes were filled with thousands of corpses and the wreckage of burning cars,... I didn't see anything....even my dozens of mountain artillery guns, except for a dozen or so cannons that had been blown up and deformed, I didn't see a single intact one.

"Baga... Cunning Chinese, I'm going to kill you all..." Sakai scolded loudly again.

It turned out that at the end of the Battle of Zhouzhuang, when the soldiers were worried about the piles of materials and ammunition and the heavy mountain artillery, Liu Hua, as the commander, thought of a good way to disassemble all the cannons, except for some important parts to be transported by the soldiers, and let the prisoners carry all the rest. As for those ammunition supplies. It would be simpler, each captive carried a box of bullets or shells, and it was easy to dispose of the piles of supplies in front of them.

Without the drag of bulky materials and cars, Liu Hua, who wanted to be convenient, directly gave up taking the main road, took the troops and captured materials, and quickly drilled into the mountains before the army returned to help. In this way, all that was left for the army was the messy battlefield and the camp that had been almost burned down....

Let's talk about the first and second brigades that were brought into the mountains by Murata Shaosa to pursue the [***] team. In the pursuit for two consecutive days. Murata has penetrated more than 100 kilometers into the mountains based on the little tracks left by the Naka[***] team and the exchange of fire with them.

At this time, Murata was sitting on the ground, thinking about where he should go. For two days, the squadron in front of him never made direct contact with him, and constantly attacked himself, although the casualties of a sneak attack were not large, but in total, it was an astonishing casualty figure......

After the statistics of the deputy captain just now, the two brigades have now been reduced to two squads. What's more, more than half of the soldiers in these two squads were completely incapacitated and needed to dedicate a squadron of troops to carry them on stretchers.

"No, if you let these wounded people keep marching with the troops, you won't be able to catch up with the middle [***] team that is close at hand..."Murata said to the two vice-captains beside him.

"Hey, Captain makes a lot of sense. I think we should dedicate a small squad to protect the wounded. The rest of the troops advanced lightly, quickly interspersed, and wiped out the [***] team in front of them in one fell swoop. The vice-captain, who had been following him, immediately understood what Murata meant, and continued.

"Yo Xi, the deputy captain's idea is very good, I think this is the way to do it, leaving all the wounded and a squad of soldiers." The captain of the group immediately gave the order.

In this way, the army without the drag of the wounded immediately accelerated the speed of the march.

"Battalion commander, the news just came from the platoon commander of the reconnaissance platoon, the devils left a squad of troops to protect their wounded, and the remaining main forces have accelerated their march and are rushing towards us." The battalion instructor ran to Wang Dezhi, the commander of the first battalion of the guard regiment, and said.

"Hehe, instructor, I didn't expect when Yue Jun became smart. However, they left us such a big piece of fat, do you say we should eat it or not? Battalion Commander Wang Dezhi asked with a smile.

"Battalion commander, why don't you eat it, it's all fat in your mouth, why don't we eat it." The instructor immediately understood what his partner meant, and quickly agreed.

"Since the instructor agrees, let's eat this piece of fat tonight. Later, you take a company and lead the main force of the devils to continue to circle in the forest, and I will take two or three companies to quietly touch back, and strive to kill these hundreds of devils quietly, and in the early morning, we will still meet here." The battalion commander proposed, "Okay, I agree, let's split up now..."

In this way, Wang Dezhi took two companies of troops, bypassed the enemy's marching brigade, and went straight to the camp of the devil's wounded. Finally, at eight o'clock in the evening, by the faint light of a bonfire lit by the devils in the woods, they found their campsite. Wang Deli took the two company commanders and slowly touched the side of the military camp.

Throughout the camp, dozens of wounded people lay on the ground. Some of the soldiers couldn't bear the pain in their bodies and were still rolling and wailing. Except for a few soldiers who stood on the perimeter of the camp with guns, the remaining dozens of soldiers gathered around three campfires to keep warm.

"Battalion commander, the devils are not resting, it should be very difficult to kill them quietly, it seems that the only way to attack is to carry out a strong attack." A company commander next to him suggested.

"Well, I also agree with Company Commander Luo's opinion, let's attack..."The other company commander also agreed.

"Okay, since you've all agreed to attack, let's attack. Let's go, go back, and discuss the specific method of attacking. Wang Deli said.

Back at the camp, Wang Deli found a piece of flat land. The specific deployment of the military camp was drawn with stones.

"Comrades, the main obstacle to our assault is the three bonfires in the three directions of the camp camp, where all the troops are surrounded to keep warm. So we have to deal with these dozens of people as soon as possible. However, fortunately, the three fires of the Japanese army were scattered in three squares, which facilitated our attack. Wang Dezhi pointed to the simple topographic map on the ground and said.

"We have a total of 6 light machine guns and 6 platoons of troops. Later, when attacking, two machine guns were fired in a fan against a fire. In this way, the six light machine guns together have completely no shooting blind spots. Then there will be nowhere to hide. Do you hear that? ”

"Yes," the platoon commanders around him replied neatly.

"Okay, let's get started now, and in a moment, with the sound of my guns. As soon as my guns rang out, all the light machine guns had to fire together, and we must eliminate these dozens of devils in the shortest possible time. Finally, I want to emphasize that if we can solve it with a gun, we will try to solve it with a gun, and we have limited time. Zhou Dezhi finally said.

Twenty minutes later, the two soldiers went around behind the army, and saw that the machine gunners and soldiers were ready to attack, Zhou Dezhi did not say anything, and fired the first shot of the battle at the fire not far away, and when Wang Dezhi's gun rang out, the six light machine guns in the three corners of the camp opened fire one after another. Since the army was all gathered around the campfire to keep warm, they had nowhere to hide in the face of the dense bullets. One by one, they were shot and fell to the ground....

This is a night raid battle without suspense. The guards of a squad of the Yue Army, under the frantic strafing of six light machine guns, were wiped out by most of them before they could react, and as for the remaining dozen or so Yue Jun lying in the corpses of their comrades to fight back, Zhou Dezhi did not let them continue to be arrogant for long.

As the shouts of grenades rang out, nearly 100 grenades exploded into the three fires of the army. The explosion of the grenade, the wailing of the devil immediately rang out.

"Comrades, rush... With the help of the light of the fire, Zhou Dezhi shouted loudly, and was the first to rush towards the camp of the army. The soldiers behind him, with the encouragement of the battalion commander, also rushed over quickly. The last bit of resistance of the army was also broken by the charge of the soldiers. The entire battle lasted less than 15 minutes.

"Quick, don't leave a single living mouth, clean up the battlefield, prepare to retreat..."Looking at the messy battlefield, Wang Dezhi knew that his gunfire must have alarmed the main force of the army, so he quickly gave the order to retreat.

Just when the soldiers disappeared into the night with the captured guns and ammunition on their backs, the captain of the army returned to the camp with the main force, and at this time, there were less than 100 corpses left in the camp...

"The captain, the brigade commander sent a telegram asking us to withdraw our troops immediately, and our military camp Zhouzhuang was attacked by the Eighth Route Army and suffered heavy losses..."

Hearing the brigade commander's request for reinforcements, his originally depressed heart seemed to be injected with a little rain, and he immediately became excited. Because he didn't want to take even a minute in the woods. You must know that in this forest, the Eighth Route Army is like a fish entering the sea, you can't see it, you can't catch it. And the Imperial Army, like a stripped beauty, is at the disposal of the Eighth Route Army.

"Yo Xi, deputy captain, order the troops to set off immediately and return to Zhouzhuang..."The captain replied excitedly.

(To be continued)