"I wish the devils would pull these carts with manpower!" Zhang Qing replied very confidently.

"The road here is so difficult, and with people pulling the car, you can indeed move on. But their march will be at least half as slow, and if the devil does, I'll thank him! ”

The devils have new countermeasures to counter the sneak attack of the Eighth Route Army, and Zhang Qing also has a new way to deal with the devils.

A fierce but very short assault battle was fought in anticipation on both sides of the enemy.

The three crooked handles shot together, and the devils were in a dense formation in order to hurry. In just two or three seconds, more than a dozen devils fell to the ground.

Eight mules and horses in a total of eight carts were targeted by dozens of riflemen at the same time because the target was too large, and the result can be imagined, all of them were killed.

Captain Akino, who was walking in front, didn't see the picture of the mules and horses being killed, and as soon as he saw more than a dozen imperial soldiers killed under the sneak attack of the Eighth Route Army, his face instantly became fanatical, and then he drew his command knife and ordered: "Counterattack, immediately counterattack according to the predetermined plan, there are many sneak attacks on our Eighth Route Army, and the Imperial Alliance Army of two companies is all dispatched!" ”

The crooked handle and Type 92 of the "Da ......" devil fired first, and the dense bullets swept towards the sneak attack troops of the Eighth Route Army as if they didn't want money.

The two companies of the Imperial Allied Army, also under the threat of the officers, held rifles and light machine guns, and went to the Eighth Route Army's sneak attack position in a daze.

"Puppet army, the little devil is so calculating, he even thought of using the puppet army to trench us!" Zhang Qing, who was commanding the troops to retreat, couldn't help but stop as soon as he saw the puppet army rushing here!

There were about 200 people in the two companies of the Imperial Army. Everyone was rushing here with rifles. In terms of momentum, it's very scary.

If it weren't for the fact that Zhang Qing knew a lot about these puppet soldiers, he would definitely be scared.

But he knows this puppet army very well, and on the surface it looks very scary, but in fact it has no combat effectiveness. As long as the real traitors among them are killed, the remaining puppet army will become a plate of scattered sand, and when the time comes, it is possible to revolt directly on the battlefield and surrender to themselves.

So, Zhang Qing, who stopped, immediately had a very bold idea to find a way to eat these puppet soldiers.

"Stop, retreat to the back while fighting, lead the puppet army to the back, and annihilate them all!" Zhang Qing, who had already made a decision, ordered loudly, and then raised the Mauser pistol in his hand and pulled the trigger, killing the fastest puppet soldier.

The other fighters were stunned for a moment, then immediately reacted and opened fire on the puppet army rushing over from a hundred meters away.

In the crackling gunfire, more than a dozen puppet soldiers fell to the ground.

"Keep retreating!" Zhang Qing ordered decisively, and then shot back without looking back.

The puppet army, which was about to lie down and fight back, saw that the Eighth Route Army had begun to retreat again. Although he didn't understand, he rushed forward amid the shouts and curses of the officers. When he rushed, he did not forget to pray in his heart that the bullets fired by the Eighth Route Army would not hit him.

On the official road, the Japanese lieutenant directly lured the enemy into Zhang Qing's counterattack as the Imperial Allied Army and attacked his Eighth Route Army, and then had to counterattack.

Captain Akino shouted: "Our counterattack has been effective, and I think that we will order the Imperial Alliance Army to stick to the Eighth Route Army and continue to pursue and kill them, even if the whole army is destroyed, we can't stop." We immediately retreated in the direction of the county seat, as long as the Imperial Alliance Army was not destroyed, the Eighth Route Army would have no time to attack us! ”

"Yo Xi, immediately give an order to the two company commanders of the Imperial Cooperative Army: they must hold back the Eighth Route Army for ten minutes before retreating, otherwise they will die!" Captain Akino was very satisfied with this result, and then ordered without thinking about it.

"Imperial troops, hurry up and retreat in the direction of the county seat!"

The mood was just less than half a minute, and when he was about to continue to retreat, a military cao rushed over panting and reported!

"Sir, something has happened! The mules and horses pulling the cart were all dead, and they were killed by the Eighth Route Army! ”

"Nani?" Captain Akino was stunned for a moment, and quickly had a very bad premonition.

Jun Cao continued: "Without mules and horses, the carts can only be pushed forward. Each cart was loaded with at least 2,000 catties of supplies, and when there were mules and horses, three imperial troops had to help push the cart. Now that there are no mules and horses and the Imperial Army, each cart needs at least five Imperial troops to move, and there is no guarantee that the speed of the cart can keep up with us! ”

"Eight Grid Tooth Road, this must be the conspiracy of the Eighth Route Army. Kill the mules and horses and slow us down with carts so they have more time to sneak up on us! Captain Akino, who reacted, directly turned into an angry lion and scolded loudly.

The lieutenant also reacted at this time, and replied with a calm face: "Sir, without mules and horses, even if we draw more warriors to push the cart, the speed of the cart will not be able to catch up with our marching speed." Now there is only one office, let the warriors carry the supplies and hurry, here is only more than a kilometer to the county seat, only take away weapons and ammunition, give up other materials, the physical strength of the warriors will definitely be able to hold on! ”

"Then do it, as long as these imperial soldiers are kept, the supplies will be gone, and when the brigade and regiment are reorganized, we will snatch them back from the Eighth Route Army!" Despite the heartache, Akino made a decisive decision.

At this time, the two companies of the Imperial Association had already chased Zhang Qing for more than a hundred meters, and the devils also hurried to the direction of Laiyuan City with weapons and ammunition.

In the blink of an eye, the distance between the two troops expanded to more than 200 meters, and they gradually lost sight of each other.

Zhang Qing, who was leading the puppet army away from the official road, immediately made a decision: "Comrades, prepare to fight back!" Two companies of puppet troops have been killed and wounded by us thirty or forty, as long as we are better at the traitors among them, the remaining puppet army will be leaderless and take the initiative to surrender to us! ”

"Zhou Zhengyang, you take a squad and continue to the front to lead the puppet army! The others hid in place and ambushed them! ”

"As soon as the puppet army arrived, the troops opened fire, staring at their officers and machine gunners. As for you, Zhou Zhengyang, as soon as the guns here go out, I will immediately turn around and launch a counterattack against the devils and destroy them! ”

The Imperial Allied Army led the team with a deputy battalion commander, because Captain Akino gave him a death order, although he was very unwilling, he could only accept the order head-on.

In the past five or six minutes of pursuit battle, in order to mobilize the enthusiasm of his brothers.

In addition to promising everyone a lot of benefits in empty words, the deputy battalion commander also sent many henchmen to rush to the front and force everyone to chase and kill the Eighth Route Army with guns.

Therefore, among the Imperial Cooperative Army who were killed and wounded, there were more than a dozen henchmen belonging to the deputy battalion commander.

You must know that there are more than 20 people in the two companies who are really willing to give their lives to the devils. Half of the losses will be lost at once, and if the losses continue at this rate, the deputy battalion commander's control over the two companies will definitely be reduced to a minimum. When the time comes, the subordinates of the two companies will directly revolt on the battlefield, and it is possible to confront themselves.