"I hope the Japanese will use manpower to pull these big cars away!" Zhang Qing answered very confidently.

"The road here is so difficult to walk, and you can indeed continue to move forward with people pulling a cart. But their march will slow down at least half. If the Japanese really do this, I will thank him!"

Some of the Japanese countermeasures counterattacked the Eighth Route Army, and Zhang Qing also had new ways to deal with the Japanese.

A fierce but very short raid started in the expectation of both the enemy and us.

Three crooked men shot together, and the Japanese were in a dense formation in order to rush forward. In just two or three seconds, more than a dozen Japanese fell to the ground.

There were eight mules and horses in total with eight large trucks. Because they were too big, they were targeted by dozens of riflemen at the same time. The result was imagined that they were all killed.

Captain Akino, who was walking in front, did not see the scene of mules and horses being shot dead. When he saw more than a dozen imperial troops being killed under the Eighth Route Army's sneak attack, his face instantly became furious. Then he pulled out his command knife and ordered: "Counterattack, counterattack immediately according to the scheduled plan. There are many Eighth Route Army attacking us, and all the Imperial Army of the two companies were dispatched!"

"Dadada..." The Japanese equipment's crooked handles and Type 92 fired first, and the dense bullets swept towards the Eighth Route Army's sneak attack troops as if they were not worth the money.

The Imperial Army of the two companies, under the threat of the officers, also carried a rifle and a light machine gun, and turned to the Eighth Route Army's sneak attack position.

"Puppet army, the Japanese are so calculating. They actually thought of using the puppet army to the trenches!" Zhang Qing, who was commanding the troops to retreat, couldn't help but stop when he saw the puppet army rushing towards here!

There were about two hundred people in the two companies of the Imperial Army. Each of them rushed over here with rifles. In terms of momentum, it was very scary.

If it weren't for Zhang Qing's understanding of these puppet troops, he would have been scared.

But he knew these puppet troops very well. On the surface, it looked very frightening, but in fact it had no combat power. As long as the real traitor among them was killed, the remaining puppet troops would become a mess, and it would be possible to revolt directly on the battlefield and surrender to him.

So, Zhang Qing, who stopped, immediately had a very bold idea and found a way to eat these puppet troops.

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

The other soldiers were stunned at first, and then immediately reacted and fired at the puppet army rushing over a hundred meters away.

Amid the crackling sound of gunfire, more than a dozen puppet soldiers fell to the ground.

"Continue to retreat!" Zhang Qing ordered decisively, and then he shot back without looking back.

The puppet army, who was about to lie down to fight back, saw the Eighth Route Army starting to retreat again. Although they were not understanding, they still rushed forward amid the officers' scolding. When they rushed, they did not forget to pray in their hearts that the next bullets fired by the Eighth Route Army should not hit themselves.

On the official road, the Japanese lieutenant directly treated Zhang Qing's counterattack as the Imperial Army and stuck with him to attack his Eighth Route Army, and then had to fight back.

He shouted to Captain Akino: "Our counterattack has taken effect. I thought that I ordered the Imperial Army to stick to the Eighth Route Army and continue to chase them. Even if the entire army is destroyed, we cannot stop. We immediately retreat to the county town. As long as the Imperial Army is not eliminated, the Eighth Route Army will have no time to attack us!"

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

"Imperial Army troops, hurry up and march quickly to retreat towards the county town!"

In less than half a minute, when he was about to continue to retreat, a sergeant rushed over panting and reported!

"Sir, something happened! All the mules and horses that pulled the cart were killed and were beaten to death by the Eighth Route Army!"

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

The sergeant continued to report: "Without mules and horses, the cart can only push forward. Each cart is loaded with at least two thousand kilograms of supplies. When there are mules and horses, three Imperial Army soldiers will help push the cart. Now without mules and horses and the Imperial Army, each cart needs at least five Imperial Army to move, and it is not guaranteed that the cart will keep up with us!"

"Bageya Road, this must be the conspiracy of the Eighth Route Army. Kill mules and horses, use a cart to drag our march, so that they can have more time to attack us!" Captain Akino, who reacted, turned into an angry lion and cursed loudly.

The lieutenant also reacted at this time and replied calmly: "Sir, there are no mules and horses. Even if we draw more warriors to push carts, the carts will not be able to catch up with our marching. Now there is only one task to let the warriors carry supplies and rush to the county town. It is only more than one kilometer away from the county town, and only takes away weapons and ammunition, and give up other supplies. The warriors will definitely be able to hold on!"

"Then do it like this. As long as these Imperial Army soldiers are saved, the materials will be gone. When the brigade is reorganized, we will snatch them back from the Eighth Route Army!" Although Akio was heartbroken, he still made a decisive decision.

At this time, the Imperial Army of the two companies had already chased Zhang Qing for more than a hundred meters, and the Japanese hurried towards 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 disappeared from each other.

Zhang Qing, who led the puppet army away from the official road, immediately made a decision: "Comrades, prepare to fight back! The two puppet troops in the two companies have been killed and injured thirty or forty. As long as we are better than the traitors among them, the remaining puppet troops will be in vain and surrender to us on their own initiative!"

"Zhou Zhengyang, you take a squad to continue to lead the puppet army in front! The others hide on the spot and ambush them!"

"As soon as the puppet army arrives, the troops will shoot, staring at their officers and machine gunners. As for you, Zhou Zhengyang, as soon as the gunshots sound, I will turn around and fight back against the Japanese and destroy them!"

The Imperial Army led a deputy battalion commander because Captain Akino gave him a death order. Although he was reluctant, he could only accept the order with a tough bullet.

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 of empty talk, the deputy battalion commander also sent many confidants to the front and forced everyone to chase the Eighth Route Army with guns.

Therefore, among the Imperial Army who were beaten to death and injured, there were about a dozen confidants who were deputy battalion commanders.
Chapter completed!