The team was walking on a small road. Although the road was not very wide, the movement was sufficient. Even the cannon at the back was pulled by horses and the speed was not slow.
After all, it's just a 70mm field gun, weighing about three to four hundred pounds. If there weren't nearly a hundred shells behind it, it might be faster.
Marching is boring and hard at the same time.
But at this time, Zhang Tianhao did not relax. On the contrary, the speed was not allowed to slow down. Everyone also knew that in this barren mountain and wilderness, if you want to slow down, you are looking for death.
The snow in the sky didn't know when it got a little heavier. Even Zhang Tianhao, who was riding on a war horse, was covered with snow. If he walked like this all night, then the place he walked behind would probably be covered by snow.
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Looking at the snow like this, Zhang Tianhao was quite satisfied. At least, he would not be in any other danger of being discovered by the Japanese.
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"Report!"
"Come in!"
Captain Zuo Teng was sitting in his office, looking at documents, when he heard a report coming from outside, and he responded casually.
Then he raised his head and looked at the guards who came in.
"What's matter?"
"Reporting to the captain, it's like this. We haven't received any news from the squadron leader at the right gate for a long time. It stands to reason that they would have contacted us last night, and it would not be later than this morning at the latest."
The guard immediately explained the situation.
"But it's already noon on the third day. According to the rules, they have already called to report the situation. Or they have sent someone to report."
"It's been three days, damn it, you won't forget it again, right?"
When Zuo Teng heard this, he was also stunned. He immediately understood and said with some dissatisfaction: "Did you call me?"
"I called, but no one seemed to answer the call. It was probably disconnected!"
"Baga, this right door, wait for him to come back and see how I deal with him. It was like this when we were in North Korea, and it is like this now. Baga, Baga!"
Zuo Teng got angry for a while, then quickly calmed down. He looked at the guards and asked, "Should we be sending food to them today, right?"
"Yes!"
"When the time comes, I'll ask the food delivery team. If the right doorman continues to ignore his boss's orders, just transfer him back." He thought for a while and said directly.
"yes!"
But just as he finished his lecture, he heard the phone on the table ring.
He directly picked up the phone and answered it, and then said "Hi, this is..."
"Report to the captain, I am Ichiro Yamanaka, the captain of the grain escort team. Something happened at the Batailing Coal Mine. Everyone was killed. All the prisoners of war and laborers disappeared."
"What, when did it happen?"
"We found it there two hours ago. Please ask the captain to send someone to investigate immediately. We are waiting for you here at Yinma River. Now we really don't know what to do."
"You stay there, I'll arrange for someone to come over right away!"
As soon as Zuo Teng heard this, he immediately gave a few instructions and said loudly to the guards just now: "Assemble the first and second squadrons and prepare to set off."
"Hi!"
At the same time, Zuo Teng directly picked up the phone and called Zuoha Senbei and Oda Futuro, asking them to go with the army to check the situation. It was really a laborer in the coal mine, and the prisoners of war had escaped. That was a big deal. This
But it's a small mine with three thousand people.
If these prisoners of war or workers were organized, as long as they had guns, they would be a powerful army. After all, they are all veterans of the battlefield.
When he thought of this, Zuo Teng felt a little chill all over his body, and then he immediately picked up the phone and called his superior, Qiao Ben, the captain of Qiao Ben United.
At this time, Qiao Ben was not in China, but in the DPRK, and he was handing over some finishing work to his next successor.
As the message was sent, Zuo Teng's face was also full of depression. A lot of things have happened since last night.
These things made him a little helpless.
Similarly, the two people who are most distressed are Oda Futuro and Zuoha Senbei. After all, they caught the tail of Chutong's radio station last night, but after a night of searching, nothing came out.
Even after searching the entire Tangzi alley, I couldn't find any sign of a radio station.
Next came matters with the city government and the telegram they had just received from Peiping, which kept them busy.
Now that something like this happened again, they would immediately think of the Anti-League, but he was not sure yet that it was the Anti-League.
After all, the Anti-Japanese Alliance is the only army nearby, and as for Beard, he will never do such a thankless job.
"Hey, Oda-kun, who do you think could have done this? Could it be someone from the Anti-Union Alliance?"
"It's a bit like it, but it's also a bit unreasonable. After all, there are anti-Japanese rebels in this area, but they only number more than a hundred people. You and I both know that, but these hundreds of people want to take over our mine. Almost
It’s impossible.”
"Did Zhongtong do it? After all, they might also have such strength?"
"The Central Commander is also a possibility, but the Central Commander is just a spy. How can they have an army? If they had an army, they would have fought us tooth and nail. They would still hide in the east like this. With their character, they would have made it known."
"No, Mr. Xiaotian, this Zhang Tianhao seems to be different. He has been here for more than a year and has been in a state of forbearance. He almost never shows up in public, really."
"Zhang Tianhao of Zhongtong is an exception. This person seems to be different from others."
"Um!"
The two discussed directly for a while, but nothing came out. However, they still asked their men to prepare, and then took a car to wait for Captain Zuo Teng outside the East City Gate.
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"Report, there is an Anguo Army sentry in front, nine people in total, what should we do?"
A soldier ran directly in front of Chen Shijie and reported loudly.
"Go over there, take it down in one fell swoop, take the person away with you, and find a place to bury it!"
Now is the emergency stage. They have no time to deal with these Anguo troops. The only thing is to eliminate them all to prevent any information from leaking.
The Anguo Army sentries in front never expected that they would encounter troops in this wilderness, all wearing Japanese military uniforms.
The result can be imagined. The first regiment directly added nine weapons, as well as nine pieces of clothes and shoes. As for these Anguo troops, they were driven to walk directly. After walking for a while, their whole bodies turned purple from the cold.
The soldiers in front also quickly dealt with the nine soldiers of the Anguo Army, and even learned some information from their mouths.
Chen Shijie immediately arranged for his subordinates to report to Zhang Tianhao.
"It's actually like this!"
Zhang Tianhao only thought briefly and understood the situation, so he closed his eyes and rested his mind, letting the guards lead the horses forward.
He just looked at the time and immediately shook his head. This time was indeed a good time to find trouble with An Guojun, but he quickly gave up.
It was okay to kill a few people, but he really couldn't kill the entire company of An Guojun. The most important thing was that he was easily exposed here, which made the Japanese more vigilant.
"Commander, should we take a rest? We have been traveling for four hours."
At this time, Commander Meng ran over and asked in a low voice.
"No, we don't have time. If we are hungry, we will eat some dry food and some snow and continue marching. There is not much time left for us, and the Japanese have almost discovered that there is something wrong with the coal mine."
"You know now?"
"Absolutely. The Japanese have a habit of reporting regularly." Zhang Tianhao explained the situation calmly without raising his head.
"Thank you, Commander. I understand. Then I will continue to arrange for the brothers to march!" He immediately ran to the front and began to pass orders to the platoon leader below. He even said that if he didn't move quickly, the Japanese might catch up.
And immediately after hearing such words, the speed increased a bit.
