Chapter 177: The Great Net
Thick smoke covered the sky like dark clouds for a long time, and a team of exhausted devils followed the winding path into the ruined village, and soon bunkers were piled up at the entrance of the village, machine guns were erected, and sentries were also set up on the high posts outside the village entrance, and this group of devils was ready to spend the night in the village. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The mud and straw houses were low and shabby, and the people had long since escaped, leaving only some old baskets and broken bowls scattered on the blackened stoves, deserted.
The devil soldiers themselves carried dry food lunch boxes and couldn't look down on the belongings left by the people, they just wanted to find a sheltered place to spend the night in this cold weather, because it was really difficult to sleep in the wilderness.
The brick houses of the landlord's compound in the center of the village stood out like a crowd of low mud and straw houses, and naturally became the temporary residence of the devil commander Shotaro Higashi.
Shaozo Tojotaro's beard was haggard, his eyes were red and bloodshot, and even his army-yellow uniform was stained with sticky mud and bloodstains.
But fortunately, it is now time to close the net, and although the commander of the group of routs is as cunning as a fox, he still can't escape from the palm of his hand in the end, thinking of this, Higashijo Taro's face is full of anger.
The rout team led by Yang Ling retreated all the way to the west, but the pursuing troops under the command of Shaozo Higashijo Taro were biting to the death, and the two sides chased and fought all the way, although Higashijo Taro chased the yin frequently, but every time Yang Ling escaped without danger, which made Higashijo Taro crazy and excited to meet such a strong opponent.
Yang Ling led the routs to the left and right along the way, and also ambushed from time to time, and at night they were even more arrogant and arrogant to release cold guns near the camp of the devil soldiers, which made the devil pursuit troops very uncomfortable.
But it didn't matter, Shaozo Dong Shotaro was happy to entangle with Yang Ling, because he had sent a telegram to the 16th Division advancing from Changshu attack, and they had already sent an infantry brigade to set up an interception line in front of them to intercept Yang Ling's rout.
In order to prevent accidents, Shaozo Higashi Shotaro had secretly sent two infantry squadrons to quickly detour from both wings two days ago, and an invisible net had enveloped Yang Ling and them, and now Yang Ling They were getting closer and closer to the interception line of the infantry brigade in front, and this invisible net was shrinking inward, trying to compress Yang Ling's living space.
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In the bleak and damp wilderness, Yang Ling's defeated soldiers were marching with a long team, and after gathering along the way, the team grew stronger and stronger, and at this moment there were nearly a thousand people.
They are already very close to Jiangyin, as long as they arrive in Jiangyin, they will be able to get rid of the pursuit of the devils, and get supplies and rest, and the wounded can also be treated, although everyone is very tired, but the desire to survive is very strong, they are still gritting their teeth and persevering.
"Battalion commander, there are a large number of devils ten miles ahead." Jiao Chaoming, who was in charge of the reconnaissance, rode his horse back to the marching team and reported the enemy situation ahead to Yang Ling.
After the devil's 16th Division landed on the first line of Baimaokou, it quickly attacked Changshu, and their division commander was very cunning, and the troops advanced in a straight line while also sending dozens of infiltration troops to intersperse and detour at many points.
As a result, many of the defenders who withdrew from Shanghai wanted to organize a defensive line to resist, but found that some devils had seized the towns in the rear, so they were in chaos, and they could only continue to retreat in order to avoid being encircled.
Yang Ling was not surprised after hearing Jiao Chaoming's report, but was calm, after all, there were countless devil infiltration troops encountered along the way, as few as dozens of people, as many as hundreds, when encountering small shares to eat, encountering large stocks to bypass, he had already determined the principle of operation.
"How many devils are there?" Yang Ling raised his head and asked.
Jiao Chaoming replied: "There are at least a thousand people, and I have found the positions of the devil soldiers for several miles."
Yang Ling's brows furrowed, he didn't expect that there were so many devil soldiers in front of him, and the defense line of several miles across the line was not so easy to pass through, besides, now they had more than a thousand people, and the target was too big.
It's not feasible to sneak through the devil's defense line, if you break through, I'm afraid it's enough to choke, there are thousands of devils, that's an infantry brigade, just those light and heavy machine guns are enough for them to drink a pot, not to mention all kinds of other mortars and grenadiers equipped, maybe there are 92-type infantry guns, they can only be used as live targets when they rush over like this.
"Order the team to turn northwest, and we'll go around." Yang Ling immediately gave an order, since he couldn't break through, he would bypass it.
With the issuance of Yang Ling's order, the team of more than 1,000 people turned to the northwest, preparing to bypass the devil troops in front, but not long after walking in the northwest direction, the reconnaissance cavalry that came out came back and reported that the devil troops had also been found in front.
Due to Yang Ling's lack of useful information, he didn't know that Shaozo Higashi Shotaro had set up a large net in a relatively wide area, enveloping their rout team, and was now beginning to compress the net.
At this moment, there were chasing soldiers in the back, there were blockers in front, and there were ghost soldiers on the flanks, which made Yang Ling feel bad, and he immediately summoned Jiao Chaoming's order: "You immediately lead people to search east, and if you find the devil, come back immediately."
After Jiao Chaoming answered, he immediately beckoned the two brothers to turn over and get on their horses and go towards the east, where there was no movement.
"Why don't you leave?" Liu Ming, the deputy of the regiment, expressed his concern about the sudden stop of the team, after all, now that the devil is biting behind his buttocks, staying for one more minute means an extra risk.
"I'm afraid we're in trouble, the devils have blocked us." Although Jiao Chaoming has not yet returned, Yang Ling already has a bad premonition.
The speed of the chasing soldiers who had bitten behind their butts in the past few days had slowed down, and Yang Ling thought that they were tired from chasing for so long, but now it seems that it was a conspiracy on their part, and this was their deliberate slowing down of the pursuit.
Liu Ming asked with a solemn face, "What are you going to do?"
Yang Ling took a deep breath and replied, "Everything has to wait for the news from the east to come back before making a decision."
Soon, Jiao Chaoming, who was exploring to the east, hurriedly returned, bringing bad news, that is, there were also devil soldiers in the east pressing over, and it looked like it should be a part of the devil soldiers chasing them.
Summarizing the intelligence of all parties, the situation is already very clear, the pursuing devil soldiers deliberately slowed down to paralyze Yang Ling and them, but secretly compiled a big net, wanting to catch them all, and now is the time to close the net.
The situation has deteriorated dramatically, and they are now completely trapped, no matter which way they go, they will encounter devils, but once they can't get out of being entangled by devils, that is the moment of their destruction.
When several company commanders heard that they were now surrounded, they all panicked, some suggested breaking through to the north, others shouted to break through to the west, and Li Tiezhu even suggested that they should be broken into pieces and run out one by one.
"What's the panic, the sky hasn't fallen yet." Seeing the several company commanders arguing endlessly, Yang Ling opened his mouth and stopped their quarrel with a cold drink.