Matsumoto suppressed the anger in his heart, stared at the sergeant and asked: "Tell me again, how long it will take you to clear the road!"
The sergeant lowered his head and did not dare to look at Matsumoto.
After struggling for a long time, he answered: "Twenty minutes..."
Then he quickly explained: "The Eighth Road is too cunning. There are probably booby traps placed among the gravel on the road. We must be careful when cleaning up, otherwise we will definitely suffer big losses!"
"Shut up..." Captain Matsumoto did not agree with his subordinate's explanation.
He frowned and cursed: "Do you know what twenty minutes means to us? What it means to the Hongquan Village stronghold that is being attacked!"
"The Hongquan Village stronghold is likely to be captured by the Eighth Route Army in these twenty minutes. In this case, you bear unshirkable responsibility for this defeat."
Seeing that the sergeant lowered his head and said nothing, Matsumoto continued to scold: "Also, for us, it took you twenty minutes to clear the road, and in the end the convoy only moved forward for three to five minutes. This kind of marching speed is worse than walking.
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Having said this, Matsumoto's angry face suddenly showed an expression of sudden realization, he slapped his head hard and shouted.
"Bageya Road, I am a stupid pig myself, how could I forget about the emergency march on foot!"
"We can completely abandon the car and rely on two-legged rapid march to reinforce the Hongquan Village stronghold. Such a march may be faster than a car!"
"More importantly, marching on two legs does not have such high requirements on roads!"
"We can go anywhere, so the Eighth Route Army can't lay booby traps on the roads we must pass!"
"That's it!"
After finishing talking to himself, Captain Matsumoto began to give orders.
"Everyone get out of the car immediately... The first team is forward, the second team, the heavy machine gun team, the artillery team, the squadron headquarters is in the middle, and the third team is in the rear. We are marching on foot to reinforce Hongquan Village. Let's set off now!"
A few hundred meters away, Hong Linfeng's brows suddenly wrinkled.
"Vice Captain, if the Japanese abandon the car, the roadblocks we set up along the way will be useless!" Xiao Yuan, the guard platoon leader, reminded.
"Even the booby traps are useless!" Dong Xulin, the reconnaissance platoon leader, also frowned and said.
"Booby traps can only be placed in places with complex terrain and a lot of weeds and shrubs. The Japanese must know that. The road is so wide, they will definitely avoid those places when marching!"
Hong Linfeng's mind was very confused.
Before becoming the deputy captain of the guerrilla force, he had been the highest-ranking cadre, the squad leader, and had almost no experience in independently commanding troops in combat.
At this moment, he had only one way to solve the difficulty at hand.
Frowning, he recalled whether he had encountered the same situation before, and learned from the tactics used at that time.
The Japanese marching on foot on the road were walking faster and faster, and were about to disappear at the end of the road. Both Xiao Yuan and Dong Xulin looked anxious, and when they couldn't help but speak again, Hong Linfeng's frown suddenly relaxed.
"There is a way!"
"If setting up booby traps and roadblocks doesn't work, we'll just attack them!"
"The predecessor of our Eighth Route Army was the Red Army. We cannot adapt the Eighth Route Army and then forget about the Red Army's special skill of guerrilla warfare!"
"Let's set off now, take a shortcut to get in front of the Japanese, and use guerrilla warfare to hold them back!"
Captain Matsumoto's mood improved again.
Although marching on foot with the troops was tiring, the troops were never attacked again and no warriors were injured or killed.
What excites him most is that the speed of marching on foot is not only no slower than that of a car, but is actually much faster.
"Boom...ta-da-da..."
Suddenly, a faint sound of gunfire came over.
The smile on Captain Matsumoto's face grew wider, and he shouted excitedly: "The Hongquan Village stronghold has not been lost yet, and the main force of the Eighth Route Army is still launching an attack!"
"The troops continue to fight through, directly blocking the Eighth Route Army's rear path, launching an assault from behind them, and killing them from both front and rear!"
The squadron leader's order made the troops march much faster. Everyone worked hard to follow the pace of the soldiers in front and hurried forward as hard as they could.
Captain Matsumoto was walking in the middle of the team, as if victory was already waving to him. Not only was he walking with wind, but he also had a smile on his face.
"Da da da……"
At this moment, a series of gunshots suddenly rang out in the woods on the left wing, like a thunder strike, which made the smile on his face freeze on the spot.
"Enemy attack, get down, machine gun counterattack!"
Captain Matsumoto's heart tightened, and he lay on the ground subconsciously, shouting a series of orders.
The elite men's reaction speed was very fast. The three crooked handles beside them quickly opened fire, and the four heavy machine guns were also set up immediately.
Before shooting, I heard Matsumoto yelling: "Stop shooting, didn't you hear that the gunfire from the Eighth Route Army has stopped!"
As soon as he got up from the ground, a second lieutenant came over with a sullen face.
"Sir, the Eighth Route Army just focused on raiding our heavy machine gun team and mortar team. They have two machine guns and dozens of rifles, and the shooting time is less than three seconds!"
Captain Matsumoto felt a very bad premonition from his subordinate's face, and scolded him directly: "I don't want to listen to this nonsense, you just need to tell me how many casualties the troops have suffered!"
"Hi!"
The second lieutenant lowered his head and replied: "The heavy machine gun team lost four warriors and injured three...the mortar team lost three warriors and injured two."
The good mood on Matsumoto's face disappeared and he continued to curse.
"What happened? We lost an artillery team and a heavy machine gun team without even seeing the shadow of the Eighth Route Army. What kind of hell is this fighting!"
The lieutenant and deputy captain comforted him: "Sir, please calm down. The Eighth Route Army is really too cunning, otherwise we wouldn't have been defeated by them again and again!"
"I would like to suggest that if they encounter a sneak attack on the troops again, in addition to counterattack with firepower, the troops should also mobilize troops to take the initiative to attack and kill them first!"
"No……"
Matsumoto shook his head and refused.
"If I do as you say, we will really be fooled!"
I saw the deputy frowning and looking puzzled.
Matsumoto immediately explained: "This Eighth Route Army blocked our convoy all the way to Hongquan Village, forcing us to abandon the car. Now it sneak attacks on our heavy machine gunners and gunners. You shouldn't know what its purpose is."
The lieutenant and deputy captain got it right, and then answered with a look of enlightenment.
"Prevent us from reinforcing Hongquan Village and hold us back!"
"I understand, they are giving their attacking troops time to take over the Hongquan Village stronghold!"
"The same goes for machine gunners and gunners. They carry heavy equipment. After casualties, we will definitely send infantry to help them carry the equipment. This will slow down the march of the troops!"
"What a cunning Eighth Route Army, they have clearly planned this!"
What the Japanese didn't expect was that this was just Hong Linfeng's purpose.
After getting rid of their professional machine gunners and gunners, they can only use unprofessional machine gunners and gunners to support them on the next battlefield, allowing heavy weapons to play their role on the battlefield.
In this way, the power of these heavy weapons will definitely be greatly reduced, which will reduce the pressure on the blocking troops in the next battle!
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