On the eighth day of the lunar calendar, when the sun just sets, half a month has already hung on the sky.

The Japanese military police led their miscellaneous troops to confront the Eighth Route Army by the river until dark and the moonlight was bright, the Eighth Route Army did not attack from the bridge.

However, the gunshots in the west are getting closer and closer to the stone bridge.

This shows that the pursuing troops are squeezing the living space of the Eighth Route Army.

The sergeant once suggested blowing up the bridge first!

Of course, the Japanese lieutenant knew that after blowing up the bridge, the Eighth Route Army completely gave up and either crossed the river directly or could only turn south and north.

Since I saw that the Eighth Route Army on the other side could drive northward, it seemed that I was probably looking for a place to cross the river. The second lieutenant had no more troops in his hands, so I could not do it to block the Eighth Route Army across the river.

Therefore, he had no idea of ​​going to arrange a troops to go to the Eighth Route Crossing River to block the attack!

According to the news from the headquarters, there are thousands of Eighth Route Army members opposite!

The reconnaissance teams who would turn around and run when they heard the gunshots were useless in the past.

The warrior responsible for the north guard ran back panting: "Report, about five miles north, the vanguard of the Eighth Route Army has crossed the Wei River and is currently coming south! Three miles away..."

The second lieutenant had no choice but to fight with only a dozen imperial warriors, and the other Imperial Army and the reconnaissance team were simply unreliable.

There were only a few light machine guns on the position, and even if the Eighth Route Army was just a small army coming, it could not be defended here!

When the opponent does not attack from the bridge, what else is there in the position?

With the strength of the eighth route, if nothing unexpected happens, the eighth route will rush here in less than ten minutes!

The gunshots in the west are closer.

The second lieutenant began to estimate whether the blasting of the bridge was useful.

Seeing that the lieutenant was silent, the sergeant also understood what the lieutenant was thinking, so he quickly suggested: "We only have one team, which has blocked the Eighth Route Army for about an hour. If we persist, we will be attacked from three sides!"

"What do you mean by saying this?"

"It's not much point to stay here again!"

"You mean retreat?" The second lieutenant looked at the sergeant with a pale face.

"We have only a dozen warriors. I just think there is no need for us to fight against the Eighth Route Army. Besides, most of them are elite civil servants of the Empire. They ask them to fight with the Eighth Route Army with guns. This is to use jade to hit the stones!"

"Don't you see that you are so afraid of death? Have you forgotten how you swore to the Bird Emperor before going abroad?" the second lieutenant sarcastically.

"Even their corps can't wipe out this group of 8th Route Army, and this consequence should not be borne by our civilian personnel!"

"It is said that Osaka merchants are good at calculating, you are really embarrassing the face of the Imperial soldiers." The lieutenant suddenly smiled.

"Please punish me!"

"Retreat!" The second lieutenant suddenly ordered again.

"Then, will the bridge still explode?"

"Blast? How can you complete the pursuit mission if you let the Fourth Mixed Cavalry Regiment?"

After saying this, the explosives have to be disposed of.

The sergeant patted the Japanese on the shoulders, and the two jumped out of the trench and ran towards the bridge hole. Since they didn't blow up, of course they couldn't let the Eighth Route Generals blow up the bridge!

"Hey? They seem to be running back?" The observation post opposite the bridge was staring at the Japanese in the night opposite. Taking advantage of the moonlight, they immediately discovered that the two Japanese jumped into the bridge hole, put the explosive bag directly into the river, and then ran to the city to the east.

More than a hundred eighth routes in the north were covered in mud, and they detoured from the upper reaches and finally went down the river.

The legendary position war did not appear, because the enemy guarding the bridge ran back to the city without a single shot.

When did the Japanese learn to escape?

Didn’t it mean that you would fight to the last person on the battlefield?

The cavalry crossed the river, but the horses could not be sent for a short time.

The mission he received was to occupy the Japanese positions on the east bank, and he had to bluff, making the Japanese think that the Eighth Route Army did not value the bridge at all. The purpose was to allow the wounded and the logistics troops to cross the river smoothly from the bridge, then control the stone bridge, and then block the Japanese on the other side of the river.

Since you can take down the bridge head without a single shot or bullet, why don’t you walk directly from the bridge?

Half an hour later.

The Eighth Route Army was on the east bank, and the Japanese were on the west bank, and there were packs of explosives in the bridge hole under the bridge.

Although there are not as many Japanese as the Japanese, there are two who are so stupid.

"Why not blow up the bridge?" The staff officer asked the commander in confusion.

"I was chased by the Japanese for a day and didn't charge any interest?" The commander's dark face, no expression, and his tone was filled with hatred.

"If the Japanese cross the river, it would be a big deal if we couldn't blow it up!"

"It's not a gray bridge built, it can be blown up at any time."

"I think we'd better leave overnight?"

"We have too many people. If we retreat together, the wounded will not be able to leave, so we have to arrange for the wounded to leave first!"

"Our plan is to capture Qi County and then occupy Hua County. Should we take advantage of the darkness now?"

"When I made a plan, I didn't know that it was the Japanese who were trapped. There were so many Japanese who were chasing them? I was still just shaking my hands now." The commander sat down into the ditch, pulled off his hat and fanned the air.

The staff officer thought about it: "Hua County is almost an empty city, and it is not difficult to defeat it."

The commander was stunned for a moment: "Empty City? What's going on? Uh... Captain Yu and the others contacted?"

"Captain Yu is still in the city. There was a squadron of Japanese soldiers stationed in the city. Yesterday, most of them went out of the city to go west and prepared to cooperate with the cavalry to surround us. However, they were directly defeated by the cavalry regiment and the independent regiment. Now there is only one company of security regiments and some miscellaneous Japanese puppet army reconnaissance teams and policemen in the city. The number of people is less than three hundred!"

"Can you contact Captain Yu now?"

"You can contact us at any time. There were originally our people among the puppet troops guarding the city, but yesterday they all followed the Japanese to the west. I guess among the Japanese cavalry they encountered when they came over. Now the main troops guarding the city are a group of security groups transferred from the north. They said that they guard the city, and there were not even many guards on the city walls, and they basically did not check whether they entered or left the city!"

"In this way, in addition to the troops deploying defense along the river, I will immediately send a battalion to find a way to take down the county town and send the wounded to the city for treatment. With this river blocking the Japanese, I will not leave today!" The commander stood up from the ditch.

Seeing that most of the Eighth Route Army had crossed the river, the Japanese immediately rushed towards the stone bridge, but were covered by a rain of bullets at the bridge. Those who charged could not even lie on the ground and fired, and then they had become corpses.

Several grenades of the firepower group rushed to the other side of the river, and a large area of ​​mud and stone were raised.

Countless Eighth Route Army lies in ready-made trenches on the east coast, and shoots violently at the charges of the Japanese behind the sandbags.

The vanguard was blocked by the Eighth Route Army again for more than half an hour, and the main force of the Japanese finally arrived at the West Coast!

Before we could rest, we went into battle and unfolded. There were more and more Japanese on the open ground, becoming more and more dense, because they were not worried about the artillery attacks of the Eighth Route Route. The Eighth Route only had two mortars. How effective can it play in the dark?

The team ran all day long and scattered on the west bank of the river, grenade launchers replenished grenades, heavy machine guns were selected, mortars were set up, and tanks were roaring.

We were preparing to fight for a tentative attack. For a moment, fires appeared in the open ground, and the sound of ghosts was noisy.

The district commander arranged for people to go to the county town, and then looked back at the dense Japanese on the other side, and his scalp was still a little numb. If the cavalry vanguard had not been allowed to cross the river directly and take down the stone bridge, the troops would have not crossed the river so quickly. I wonder how many soldiers would have died on the way across the river!

"Do you want to blow up the stone bridge now?" The staff officer watched nervously as more and more Japanese appeared on the other side.

"Hehe, the Japanese want to use this bridge to blow me up. This time, let the Japanese go up and ignite another fuse! If you don't blow up dozens of him to death, you will waste explosive packs!"

The soldiers scattered along the river are crawling on the ground and trying to dig trenches. Since it is not easy to cross the river in the Eighth Route Road, can you be easy for the Japanese to cross the river?

The cavalry had long arranged observation posts along the river, and they were not afraid of the Japanese crossing the river.

The division did not want to retreat, but was chased by the devils and ran away in the scorching sun for a day. He was exhausted. Nearly a thousand wounded soldiers in the division were killed, and hundreds of them were still in the wilderness.

Some of the wounded soldiers must be carried on stretchers before they can continue to march. Those who can walk by themselves cannot be faster.
Chapter completed!