Nearly two hundred Japanese soldiers, armed to the teeth, were rushing southward in the cold morning mist. Their heavy footsteps were accompanied by rapid breathing, and everyone looked in a hurry.
The Japanese Captain waded through the mud puddles, and the muddy water wetted his leggings and seeped into his shoes. The cold feeling made him extremely uncomfortable. His brows were furrowed, and his mood was as bad as the hazy weather.
Following Major Shotaro Higashi's order, they tried to encircle the fleeing Chinese troops and annihilate them. However, unexpectedly, the Chinese troops faced the encirclement and did not break out of the encirclement. Instead, they turned around and ran back, and even attacked the Major.
Higashi Shotaro's campsite.
In order to surround Yang Ling and the others, Major Shotaro Higashi sent out most of his troops, leaving only one infantry squadron and two artillery units. Faced with Yang Ling's surprise attack, they suffered heavy losses immediately, and the remaining troops had to retreat to the landlord.
Courtyard.
When Higashikata Taro was defending the landlord's compound, he immediately telegraphed the squadrons that had been sent out to immediately return for reinforcements. After receiving the order, the Japanese captain cursed the cunning of the defeated Chinese troops and began to run back without stopping.
In the middle of the journey, the captain and his squadron actually lost contact with Major Higashi Shotaro. A dark cloud hung over the captain's head, and he felt something was not good.
"Quick! Speed up!"
The captain was huffing and puffing, and kept urging his subordinates who were trotting in formation. Now he wished he could grow a pair of wings and fly to the village where Major Shotaro Higashi was camping to see what happened.
Although the Japanese soldiers are well-trained, they are already exhausted after a long battle. Now it is a high-intensity forced march. Although their perseverance is amazing, there are still many people left behind.
The Japanese captain was really anxious. He only wanted to arrive as soon as possible. He had no time to wait for the stragglers to recover their strength. He left a second lieutenant behind to gather the stragglers, and he led the main force straight to the village where the brigade headquarters was camping.
After about two hours of rapid march, the Japanese captain finally saw the blurry outline of the village in the distance, with faint black smoke rising into the sky.
Captain Guizi soon led his team to the village. The panting team stopped at the entrance of the village. Looking at the ruined and charred village, Captain Guizi's heart sank to the bottom. What happened? Why was the village burned?
Burnt down? Where are the major and the troops?
One question after another appeared in the mind of the Japanese captain. Without taking any rest, he immediately ordered the soldiers to enter the village to investigate and investigate the surrounding situation.
A fire lit by Yang Ling and others swept through the entire village with the night wind. The entire village was burned down in the fire, and now only embers and ruins are left.
Two detachments of Japanese soldiers entered the village with 38 rifles. First, they found a destroyed Type 92 infantry gun under a charred broken wall, and then found countless burned-to-black rifles in a bare house.
The corpses looked like charcoal. As the investigation deepened, more and more corpses were discovered, which was shocking.
Countless steel helmets and charcoal-like corpses were dug out from the ashes. Looking at the neatly arranged corpses on the ground, the Japanese captain's face turned green and white, and veins popped out on his forehead, and he was on the verge of anger.
Although the corpses were burned like charcoal, the Japanese soldiers were able to determine from other objects that these corpses were their own, and nearly 300 people from Major Sado Shotaro on down were wiped out.
The captain's face was ugly, full of anger, hatred, and sadness.
"Sir, we found this sail in the tree over there."
A Japanese soldier respectfully handed a piece of cloth sail with writing on it to the captain.
The long and narrow canvas had blood written on it, and the blood had turned dark red, which was still shocking.
"Anyone who offends China will be punished no matter how far away he is! - Yang Ling."
"What does the word mean?" the captain turned to ask the translator.
The traitor translator looked at the blood-soaked words on the canvas. The words were like sharp edges, and they were so cold that he did not dare to look directly at them.
"Taijun, this is a blood letter written by a man named Yang Ling. He threatened to take revenge on the imperial army..."
"Yang...Ling..." The captain smiled, a ferocious smile, chewing the word "Yang Ling" over and over in his mouth, gritting his teeth with hatred.
One after another, more Japanese soldiers arrived at the village that was burned to ashes. They were other Japanese squadrons returning for reinforcements. Looking at the corpses on the ground and the blood letters left by Yang Ling, their faces were all distorted with anger.
With their superior strength, instead of annihilating Yang Ling and his group, they were led by Yang Ling to annihilate their large group headquarters. This was a shame. For them, who were arrogant and arrogant, they wished they could tear Yang Ling and others apart to vent their anger.
The anger in my heart.
"Revenge! Use Yang Ling's head to pay homage to Commander Dongzhuang's spirit in heaven!" A lieutenant squadron leader tore the blood letter into pieces and said viciously.
"Annihilate Yang Ling's tribe! Wash away the shame of our army!"
"If I don't kill this person, I swear I won't be a human being!"
"..."
Yang Ling led his people to destroy the Japanese brigade, and the plot to surround the Japanese soldiers was aborted. It was like poking a hornet's nest, causing several squadron leaders to scream angrily and threaten to pay Yang Ling's blood debt.
Major Shotaro Higashi and the brigade headquarters were taken over by Yang Ling, and a senior lieutenant squadron leader temporarily took over the command of the brigade.
Although the face of the captain who took over the command was full of anger, his heart was filled with secret joy. After all, Major Shotaro Higashi was killed, and he was the most promising candidate for promotion.
Compared to the young and energetic Major Shotaro Higashi, the captain is not only senior, he has been in the army for many years and has a calmer temperament.
The defeated troops led by Yang Ling were able to kill nearly 300 of them by themselves, making the captain realize that they had underestimated their opponents before.
Major Higashikata Shotaro had previously estimated that the strength of Yang Ling's defeated troops was at the battalion level and could be completely defeated by the strength of their brigade, but now the captain did not think so.
He felt that Yang Ling's troops had probably reached brigade level or even division level by gathering up the defeated troops along the way, otherwise it would not have been possible to defeat their group headquarters of nearly 300 people in such a short time.
Although the Chinese army is large in number, its weapons and equipment are poor and the quality of its soldiers is uneven. Often a small team of Japanese soldiers can defeat a Chinese battalion, which makes the Japanese soldiers become arrogant and unscrupulous.
Yang Ling and the others lost nearly 300 members of the Japs brigade in their surprise attack, causing the Jaap captain to make an error in his judgment. He thought that Yang Ling and the others had reached the brigade level. Thinking that there was a brigade-level China Army active behind the main force, he
I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and immediately reported the situation to the wing headquarters and asked for reinforcements.
The information was quickly sent to the commander of the regiment, Changcun, via radio waves. He was very angry when he learned that the Dongzhuang brigade headquarters and a squadron had been destroyed. However, the anger soon turned into shock. The rout of the Chinese army actually reached the brigade.
It was so large that if he hadn't been sending people to chase the defeated troops, he would have even thought that this was a counterattack by China.
Although they looked down on the Chinese army and thought they were a ragtag group, once the ragtag group grew in size, it would still be a certain threat to them. And now that the broken troops led by Yang Ling continued to attack, they had already threatened their rear supply line. He had to
Pay attention to it.
Captain Chang Cun could no longer sit still at this moment. The rout was growing too fast, beyond his expectation. Not only was it not eliminated by them, but it became more powerful. He felt a strong sense of crisis and decided to personally