This may be Zeng Shui's most anxious moment since he joined the army.
Especially when you see a puff of smoke rising ten miles away.
Looking at the scope of the thick smoke, it must not have been caused by burning one or two houses. It should be a village, and Zeng Shui knew that no one would do this except the Japanese. And he was in the process of appeasing the occupied areas.
The Japanese will not do this easily.
The faint rumble of horse hooves confirmed Zeng Shui's idea. There was a battle there.
And he finally dared to conclude that the cavalry brigade was deceived by the Japanese invaders.
The rugged mountain road covered with ice and snow made Zeng Shui jump off his horse the moment he noticed the thick smoke, and ran along the mountain with his Mosin Nagant in hand. There must be his brother there.
Zeng Shui, who lurked alone for two days 600 meters away to snipe the leader of the Japanese concentration camp of Lengjia stationed 100 miles outside the Great Wall, had just returned to the base of the Deng Wen Cavalry Brigade in Qinglong Mountain a day ago when he learned that a cavalry company had been out on a mission for five days.
, and has not returned yet.
Their mission was to conduct a sneak attack on a Japanese transport team coming from Chengde City as mentioned in the intelligence that came from the inside a few days ago. If everything went well, they should have returned to camp the day before yesterday.
However, they were two days late, and there was no trace of them within a fifty-mile radius.
Of course, this actually doesn't matter, because to avoid the subsequent revenge and pursuit of the Japanese army, it is common for the cavalry to go around in circles with the Japanese invaders for ten days and a half in the Jehol Mountains. But Zeng Shui couldn't help it.
I was a little anxious, and on the mission with the cavalry platoon was the new recruit of the special brigade, the second-rate male Eagle.
"The stupid Diao Ye didn't listen to my orders and went to war without permission." When Zeng Shui heard the news, he almost broke his molars.
Yes, the good-for-nothing male Diao Ye was once the boss in the village, but in the special forces brigade, he was an out-and-out recruit. Even though he is now a second lieutenant, in the special operations team composed of these two people, he is a new recruit.
In the human group, the superior soldier Zeng Shui was still his leader.
As Zeng Shui, who grew up with a good-for-nothing male Diao Ye, he knew his boss very well. His martial prowess was unparalleled in the entire village, and he was also good at making people fooled by his wisdom and stupidity. However, he was too kind-hearted and hot-blooded.
Impulsive but easily lured out by ruthless enemies through tactics.
To put it bluntly, in the opinion of Zeng Shui, who has made great progress after a year of actual combat with pirates, Diao Ye now and in the past can be a good brother, but now he is definitely not a good teammate. His character
It's not tough enough yet, it still needs to be tempered.
Therefore, in the past two months, Zeng Shui basically went on missions with him and never let him act alone. But I didn't expect that just a few days after he left, this guy ran out alone.
Judging from the sneak attack mission carried out by the cavalry platoon, there is almost nothing wrong with it. The insider is a groom stationed at the Japanese garrison headquarters in Chengde City, because his wife and son died in the Japanese attack on Jehol two years ago.
The Japanese invaders hated the Japanese invaders deeply. Last spring, they connected with Deng Wen's hidden line planted in Chengde City. There should be no problem with loyalty.
Moreover, he obtained the size of the transport team by adding feed to the mules and horses and calculating how many horses were sent out. The destination of the transport team was obtained from a few words revealed while drinking with the accompanying puppet army officers. Such information,
Deng Wen's cavalry brigade has received at least three attacks. The first two were successful sneak attacks. In one of them, a Japanese cavalry squad of more than 40 people plus a company of puppet escorts were all killed by a cavalry battalion sent by Deng Wen.
They killed them all and seized more than a dozen large vehicles, enough supplies for a Japanese infantry squadron to live for a month.
This time the intelligence showed that the Japanese invaders could only escort a cavalry squad and a platoon of puppet troops to Heilongji, 180 miles away from Chengde and 130 miles away from Qinglong Mountain. A Japanese infantry squad's living supplies and a cavalry company of 60
With so many troops to deal with them, they already have the advantage of strength, plus they are waiting for an opportunity to attack, so there won't be much of a problem.
The equipment of Deng Wen's cavalry brigade today is not the same as when it was driven around by the Japanese invaders in the Northeast. A cavalry company is not only equipped with heavy machine guns and mortars, it can deal with a Japanese cavalry detachment of no more than seven or eight people.
It really shouldn't be too simple. As for the puppet army with a platoon of more than 30 people, who cares about their little combat effectiveness?
The intelligence is normal, the troops are superior, everything seems normal, but they haven't returned yet. The alert in Zeng Shuixin can't help but rise straight up. The more normal it seems, the more abnormal it is. The Japanese invaders are not stupid.
, in less than three months, they were ambushed twice in a row and suffered heavy losses. How dare they send only this few troops to a stronghold 180 miles away?
Zeng Shui immediately found Deng Wen and told him his thoughts. After thinking for a long time with a frown, Deng Wen decided to send out two cavalry battalions with nearly 400 cavalrymen to search for the cavalry company along the route. However, in order to prevent the Japanese invaders from encircling the point for reinforcements, they must send out enough
Scout the cavalry and most of the cavalry cannot rush in easily.
Because he was worried about Diao Ye's safety, Zeng Shui could not bear to follow most of the cavalry, so he simply acted as a vanguard and set off in advance. Most of the cavalry were still at least ten miles away.
Once upon a time, water was running wildly towards the battlefield of its own imagination.
However, the cheap man he was worried about was not on the battlefield as he imagined.
Mr. Diao was held down by two sturdy Northeastern men wearing big fur coats and dog-skin hats. He was held down in the snow. Even though his eyes were filled with tears and his eyes were about to burst, his two pairs of big hands remained tight.
and held him down.
However, while the two sturdy men desperately held down Diao Ye, they also had two lines of tears hanging on their faces. Because of the cold weather, the teardrops were frozen into two ice edges and hung on their wind-covered faces.
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"You two bastards, let me go! Let me fight with those bastard little devils." Diao Ye growled, trying to break free from the hold of the two big men.
But the strength of the two big men who had the upper hand was obviously not in vain. They suppressed him tightly and prevented him from getting up.
"Master Diao, Boss Zhou said that even if I die, I have to send you back to Qinglong Mountain, otherwise I will be sorry for you, Chief Liu." One of the burly men looked at the battlefield at the bottom of the mountain, breathing heavily with pain on his face.
said.
"It was me who harmed the brothers, please let me die with them!" Diao Ye struggled with all his strength as the veins on his neck burst out.
"Master Diao, if I die, I will die, but those little brothers don't deserve to die!" Another big man closed his eyes in pain as well.
Behind them, there were several teenagers who were no more than sixteen or seventeen years old, hiding in a grass nest covered with snow, their faces full of panic.
"Ah~~~~~" The idiot man's body froze suddenly, and after a sound, he suddenly buried his head in the snow that was no deeper than a person's calf and let out a muffled roar.
The idiot man may never have thought that he would be so regretful, angry and helpless in his life.
The battlefield was just over 300 meters away from him at the foot of the mountain, covering an area of less than 1,000 square meters. A group of cavalry wearing sheepskin coats were attacking a group of cavalry wearing yellow army cotton coats. But obviously, the yellow army cotton coats
The number of cavalry is much greater than that of sheepskin coats.
The number of people is at least four times theirs.
Like the charging cavalry, the idiot men were not afraid of death, even if the number of Japanese cavalry was as high as two squadrons.
Diao Ye regretted it very much. As a scout, he had expanded his scope of investigation to ten miles away from Chengde during the sneak attack two days ago. Everything was normal. Except for a Japanese cavalry detachment that was escorting Japanese supplies according to the intelligence.
With a platoon of puppet infantry, he found nothing unusual.
However, when they wiped out the infantry platoon and began to hunt down the Japanese cavalry detachment, a large group of Japanese cavalry appeared in the impossible opposite direction, and in the direction of Qinglong Mountain.
Obviously, they fell into the Japanese invaders' trap.
As a scout, he failed to detect the ambush of a large group of Japanese troops, which was obviously dereliction of duty. But what Diao Ye regretted the most was far more than just this.
The most powerful ability of the cavalry is mobility. Even if the Japanese aggressors have two squadrons of troops, the cavalry company is not free. They can't escape if they can't defeat them! However, these Japanese aggressors obviously received the death order and kept pursuing them.
He kept holding on to them, and kept going in circles with the Japanese invaders in the mountains for three days, until the heavy machine guns and mortars ran out of shells and bullets and were forced to throw them into the valley, without completely getting rid of the Japanese invaders.
With great difficulty, we managed to escape the Japanese invaders by a distance of more than ten miles, and arrived at this mountain col called Kaoshantun, where we got a chance to breathe.
However, he would rather die fighting the Japanese invaders in Shanlan than regret coming here.