The positive statement of the female bandit leader surprised the head of the Eighth Route Military Battalion - of course Wang Shuanglong could not know the true intentions of the other party at the moment, but since the people of Black Stone Cliff were willing to follow the Eighth Route Army, it was undoubtedly a solution to their urgent needs.

"Big boss, the military situation is urgent, so I won't be polite to you;" It was Xia Lianshan who spoke: "I will lead the cavalry to quickly intersperse with the front of the devils, and then turn around to block them." You and your brothers walked upstream along the banks of the Qinglong River, firing across the river as you went, and you couldn't let the little devils retreat too quickly. ”

Although Liu Wumei was full of promises, Wang Shuanglong felt worried: "Lianshan, you are interspersed in front of this Japanese army, but you must not block them from the front!" He was afraid that Xia Lianshan would make a desperate gamble and use these dozens of cavalry to forcibly block the retreat of the Japanese army.

Xia Lianshan informed the commander of the first battalion that he was going to jump to the other side of the Japanese army and form a flank attack with the men and horses of the Black Rock Cliff on the left and right.

Wang Shuanglong was relieved when he heard this: "You can drag the devil from both sides, don't engage the enemy too much!" I immediately sent someone to discuss with the Jin army in the central position, if the 12th Brigade refused to launch a pursuit, we would say goodbye to them, and the first battalion would catch up with the Japanese army from the rear flank alone. When the time comes, let's besiege the devil on three sides again! ”

"Okay, that's it, the cavalry company is one step ahead!"

Seeing Xia Lianshan lead people to ride away on horseback, Wang Shuanglong opened his mouth to the female bandit leader, and he half asked the other party to immediately move and track and attack the Japanese army across the river. In fact, what he feared most at this time was that this lawless bandit did not contribute to his work, and he only scratched his boots for the pursuit of the Japanese army.

But Liu Wumei's words were categorical: "Chief Wang, all the brothers in Black Stone Cliff are not bad seeds, this time I promise to let the little devils know that they are powerful!" ”

"The big boss, don't underestimate the enemy, this Japanese army is well-equipped and has strong combat effectiveness. If you and the cavalry of Company Commander Xia can hold them back, it will be a victory! ”

"Okay, let's take advantage of the darkness to start, and if we have the opportunity, we will cross the river to fight, and if we don't have the opportunity, we will fight on this side of the river, and we will not suffer losses."

There was even a hint of joy in the tone of the female bandit leader, which made the battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army quite puzzled - he really didn't want to believe that this gang of bandits who robbed homes and houses would really beat the Japanese.

Liu Wumei didn't repeat it anymore, and soon left with more than 50 people under her command. They trotted along the river, their eyes fixed on the Japanese troops marching parallel to them on the other side of the river: the Japanese trucks all had their headlights on, which gave them a clear direction.

"Big boss, do we really want to listen to the words of Balu and fight with the devil?" The master tried his best to keep up with Liu Wumei's footsteps, and asked breathlessly.

"Why don't you fight? Little devils bully Chinese, and it is natural to beat them! ”

When the master heard this, he became more and more anxious: "With our dozens of guns, isn't that hitting a stone with an egg?" ”

The female bandit leader simply stopped, and said to the face of the master: "I have my own measure, of course it is impossible to compensate the old capital of the cottage - let the machine gun fire across the river first, and see if the Japanese still fight back!" ”

The machine gun of course refers to the Lewis light machine gun, which was ambushed when the master told the Eighth Route Army before, in fact, the machine gun brought three sets of drums (two of which were brought by Liu Wumei this time down the mountain, in order to prevent an emergency when the 12th Brigade of the Jin Army turned face). So, under the personal instruction of the big boss, more than a dozen bandits from Black Rock Cliff guarded Lewis's machine guns, began to speed forward, and after surpassing the Japanese troops, they set up a relatively open dirt slope on the shore and suddenly opened fire.

This is not the first time that the Blackstone Cliff bandits have fought against the regular army, but before today, they had only had a few encounters with the local Jin army, which was not only small in scale but also in a short time. And now they are facing Japanese soldiers armed to the teeth, numbering more than a few hundred, with cars and artillery. Liu Wumei strictly ordered that after the machine gun fired half a set of bullets, everyone immediately went to the shore to find cover, and they were not allowed to shoot at will.

At that time, the Japanese retreating team, including trucks and infantry artillery, was about 200 meters away from the Qinglong River. Completely within the range of the Lewis machine gun, a rain of bullets flew towards the nearest truck as the muzzle of a small cannon barrel spewed out tongues of fire, and the bandits even heard the sharp sound of machine gun bullets hitting the metal parts of the truck.

At that moment, all the bandits obeyed the orders of the big boss, hid their bodies and even their heads behind tree trunks, dirt slopes, and stones, and waited for the Japanese to return fire.

As a result, only a not-so-dense number of rifle bullets came at the place, and it didn't last long. And the scene that Liu Wumei and the master were most worried about might be from the Japanese soldiers did not appear.

"See, master? This gang of devils should be cowardly, and they are so focused on running back that they can't care about fighting back at all! The female bandit leader said excitedly to the master beside her.

"So what? Big boss, are you going to chase these devils all the way? ”

"Ah," Hearing the anxiety and worry in the master's words, Liu Wumei became more and more lively: "Let's drive all the way down across the Qinglong River until we reach Xiping Village-go to meet my eldest brother!" ”

It wasn't until he heard the last words of the female bandit leader that the little old man suddenly woke up, and his tense heart suddenly relaxed: it turned out that the big boss played this move! The master also knew that the Eighth Route Army Xu Brigade Guanmen Mountain Detachment was based in Xiping Village (but he didn't know that Xiping Village had become a battlefield now), and the Eighth Route Army Commander Wei, who was called the eldest brother by the big boss, although he was no longer as good as before to see this righteous sister, was always much stronger than the Jin Army Commander in Longwan Village who coveted women!

Thinking of this, the master's confidence has become a little stronger, but he still cautiously reminded Liu Wumei: chasing the Japanese across the river, just put a cold gun from time to time, and don't waste too many bullets.

The female bandit leader has her own ideas - in the matter of wanting to incorporate the cottage armed forces against the Eighth Route Army, she has offended the commanders, including Brother Wei Xin and even Wu Zijian; And tonight, she played in Longwan Village, and the golden cicada shelling plan, which led to the formation of Tian Mingda, the commander of the Jin Army. If you don't take the initiative to lean on the side of the Eighth Route Army, I'm afraid the next days will be even more sad.

"Tell the brothers that as long as they don't hurt their own lives, they can fight with more strength!" Liu Wumei gave an order. She had to show her willingness to resist Japan in front of the Eighth Route Army, and then use this to lobby the righteous brother to stand up for the cottage.

The master naturally understood the good intentions of the big boss, and even brandished a small revolver and shouted at the minions to continue to pursue and fire.

When the bank of the Qinglong River was mixed with the fire of Lewis's machine guns and fired at the Japanese troops, the cavalry company of the Eighth Route Army, which had set off in advance, had already galloped forward two or three miles away, and with the order of the company commander Xia Lianshan, more than 50 war horses suddenly descended the riverbed, stepped on pebbles, mud and sand, and shallow water, crackled and waded to the opposite bank, and then galloped wildly in the direction of the Tongpu Railway.

This was a plan that had been made in advance, the cavalry company was to jump to the wasteland to the west to lay in ambush, and when the Japanese retreated, they would form an east-west flank attack with the Black Rock Cliff bandits pursuing parallel across the river, and attack and delay the retreat of the Japanese soldiers, and pick up the first battalion of Wang Shuanglong from the rear flank.

The performance of the actual battle should be said to have achieved this plan relatively perfectly: the Xialianshan cavalry company that had completed the ambush saw the Japanese army troops rolling in from the wasteland with trucks opening the way, and the gunfire on the other side of the Qinglong River came and went, showing the loyalty of the Black Rock Cliff bandits to assist in the battle. When the front flank of the Japanese team came into the range of a frontal ambush, Xia Lianshan gave the order to open fire.

This east-west flank battle lasted for about a quarter of an hour, and from a distance from the south rang out more and more clear and dense gunfire - it was Wang Shuanglong who led his troops to catch up and make contact with the broken Japanese army in a fierce battle. At this point, under the new situation of completely losing the assistance of the 12th Brigade of the Jin Army, a main battalion of the Eighth Route Army attached a cavalry company and more than 50 bandit armies launched a three-sided joint attack on the retreating Japanese army.

The angry and frustrated Japanese Wing Commander Shigehei Saijo really did not expect that the battle that had gone out to the lower reaches of the Qinglong River would lead to such an embarrassing situation.

Out of caution, the brigade headquarters in Bunjo ordered Saijo's troops to immediately break away from the front of the defense area, which clearly belonged to the Jin army, and withdraw to the area around Ewhapo to build a defensive line. Wing Commander Osamu thought that as soon as the headquarters withdrew, he could easily get out of the battle - after all, this night was his own initiative to pursue the enemy dozens of miles away.

However, to his annoyance, not long after the retreat began, there was a continuous fire attack from the side of the Qinglong River, and it was clear that there was a detachment of troops chasing him across the river; The captain of a squad in charge of the march on the right flank reported that the fire on the other side of the river was neither light nor heavy, but it was always entangled.

Just when Shigehei Saijo was hesitating whether to divide his forces to rush to the bank of the river and strike a hard blow at the harassing enemy, the left flank was also ambushed! It was soon reported that the ambush fire on the left flank was equally weak, but equally stubborn (you know, the Xialianshan cavalry company used all pony pistols and no automatic firearms).

The commander of the Japanese wing was eager to draw his command knife and slash this gloomy night alive - two infantry squadrons, an artillery squadron and a truck squadron fought for most of the night, but barely caught any enemy troops willing to fight against him! These insidious and despicable opponents are all hiding in the night and firing cold guns, even if they suddenly flew out just now, they are sparse and unimposing. Baga!

So, when the battle report suddenly came from his rear team: a large number of enemy troops were chasing after him from the rear flank, Saijo Shigehei was ecstatic:

"The troops stopped marching, the rear team changed to the front team, and the artillery fire carried out the strike!"

In this way, a whole squadron of Japanese soldiers, under the cover of several 92-infantry guns, suddenly turned around and rushed to the path from which they came. They collided with the first battalion of the Guanmenshan detachment of the Xu Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, which was rushing to chase after them.