Relying on the excellent weapons and the military combat quality of the soldiers, the little devils launched a frantic attack on the first battalion.

The first battalion was bitten by the devils from three sides, and every time they retreated, they were cut off by the devils' firepower, and they had to rely on the cover of the mountain position to continue to carry out unequal firepower confrontation with the enemy.

In order to preserve the blocking force, the commander of the first battalion ordered all companies to quickly retreat to the top of Lao Ye Mountain with a tenacious will to fight, cover each other, and wait for reinforcements from Lei Jian's 'One Regiment'.

The first battalion paid a terrible price, and after several fierce battles with the enemy's life and death, withdrew to a battalion on the top of the hill, which at this time was less than a company of soldiers, and they were brave soldiers who survived the fierce battle with the enemy.

Watching the little devils at the bottom of the mountain desperately launch an attack on the top of the mountain, the commander of the first battalion shouted: "Comrades, even if there is only one person left, you must hold your position and wait for reinforcements to arrive in time." ”

Lei Jian's 'only regiment' cavalry battalion, since leaving into the Taihang Mountain into the mountain pass, the fast horse whip did not dare to delay for a moment, whipping the war horse four hooves to rise, more than 300 war horses burst up the earth dust, soaring into the air, covering the afternoon sun, galloping quickly towards Lao Ye Mountain.

Wang Xiaoliang led the four main infantry battalions of the 'One Regiment', and at first they kept running in formation, but when the troops ran out for less than ten miles, it was obvious that some of the soldiers were physically exhausted and their pace slowed down, and the strong soldiers had to take care of those who were physically weaker for the sake of the overall action of the troops, and the speed of the troops' movements began to slow down.

Zhang Ting, the commander of the first battalion, ran to Wang Xiaoliang's side, panting and shouting: "Deputy Commander Wang, the soldiers of the troops are physically different, and they act fast and slowly.

During the march, according to the physical fitness, speed and speed of the soldiers, order a battalion commander to be sent at each stage of the way, temporarily organize a new combat unit, and then return to the formation when they arrive at Lao Ye Mountain, so that the troops that rush to the front can rush to Lao Ye Mountain in time or ahead of schedule, occupy favorable terrain, and block the enemy under the top of the mountain. ”

Wang Xiaoliang listened to what the battalion commander Zhang Ting said was reasonable, and he also saw that once the long-distance and rapid march was formed, he would have to take care of the slow soldiers on the way, and the speed of the march would definitely be delayed.

Once we fail to occupy Laoye Mountain in time, the enemy will take advantage of the favorable terrain on the top of the mountain to carry out the most brutal fire blockade against our troops, and at that time, if we want to recapture the Laoye Mountain position, we will have to pay a very painful price, and we will not necessarily occupy Laoye Mountain.

He immediately conveyed the order to the battalions: "Order all the soldiers of each battalion to give full play to their abilities, break the battalion and company structure, and move closer to Lao Ye Mountain as quickly as possible." ”

The soldiers of the four main battalions received a new marching order, and one by one they cheered up their spirits, exerted their greatest physical strength, overtook the soldiers around them, and rushed towards Lao Ye Mountain at an unprecedented marching speed.

Lei Jian led the reconnaissance platoon and the guard squad, rushed to the bottom of a mountain with a fast horse, and looking at the mountain that was not too steep, he reined in his horse and ordered the troops to suspend their advance. He took the map of the march from his briefcase, examined it carefully, and finally gave a decisive order: "All the warriors dismount, follow me, climb over this mountain, and pass quickly." ”

Qu Jiaming followed closely behind Lei Jian, stretched the reins of the horse and ran to Lei Jian's side and asked, "Commander Lei, let's lead the horse to climb the mountain, and when we encounter a steep place, people can continue to climb high, but the war horse can't." ”

"Don't worry, rush up the mountainside, slow down along the cliff slope, you can lead the horse down the cliff, there is a road leading to Quyang under the mountain, you can take a shortcut to Hengshi Highway, if you have time, maybe you can also hit an ambush of the enemy's large army, and win time for seizing Lao Ye Mountain."

Qu Jiaming didn't expect that Lei Jian would be able to find a feasible route in time every time before the march, and he had to say with admiration: "Commander Lei, where did you get these hard-to-find local maps, and they are so easy to use?" ”

"Jia Ming, you have to remember that every time you engage the enemy and clean up the battlefield, not only weapons and ammunition are very important to us, but also the enemy's written and related information, once captured, is also a guarantee for defeating the enemy.

Lei Jian glanced at Qu Jiaming as he spoke, regardless of whether Qu Jiaming could understand it for the time being, or whether he would understand it in the future, he ordered to the back: "Be careful to hold the war horse under your feet, be a hundred times more vigilant, and don't roll the war horse down the mountain." ”

Soon, dozens of horsemen led by Lei Jian walked down the mountain step by step, when dozens of war horses returned to the highway leading to Quyang, the soldiers flew over the horses, shouting 'drive, drive ......', the war horses galloped bravely, raised dust behind them, and went straight to the Hengshi Highway.

After an hour of galloping, Lei Jian's dozens of war horses finally saw the intersection of Hengshi Highway, he reined in his war horse, looked at both ends of Hengshi Highway, and found no trace of the movement of the devil's army.

In order to avoid arousing the panic and suspicion of vehicles and pedestrians on the highway, he ordered the horse team to hide into the green gauze tent and led the guard squad to walk towards the Hengwu Highway on foot.

Lei Jian asked some passers-by, some said that they seemed to see a long Japanese army truck, passing by here half an hour ago, and some said that they didn't see it, which made Lei Jian wonder through, did the devil's army pass?

He walked on the Hengshi Highway, looked carefully at his feet, and found that there were very messy car tire prints on the road, and some places were still very clear, he decisively ordered: "Qu Jiaming, you lead the reconnaissance platoon along the Hengshi Highway, quickly forward to reconnoitre, on this bumpy highway, the speed of the devil will not exceed 30 kilometers per hour, if you chase in time, you will definitely catch up." ”

Lei Jian's analysis is reasonable, during World War II, the Japanese army trucks, there were four-wheeled and six-wheeled, originally backward industry, Japan, imported automobile production technology and key equipment from Germany, and produced Isuzu and Nissan trucks, because they were painted by cats and tigers, the quality of the cars produced was very unsatisfactory, the speed was the fastest and the road surface was good, and it could only reach 60 kilometers.

The Hengshi Highway is narrow and in poor condition, and the Eighth Route Army conducts sabotage attacks from time to time, so it is not bad to be able to drive at a speed of 30 kilometers per hour.

Qu Jiaming's reconnaissance platoon, if the war horses galloped, would reach a speed of 40 kilometers per hour in a short time, or even faster, and if the enemy truck unit had just passed for a short time, it should have caught up with the rear line of Japanese trucks.

Lei Jian led the guard squad through Hengshi Road and went straight to Lao Ye Mountain, if he did not encounter the enemy on the road, his cavalry team would enter the position in advance before the devil army reached Lao Ye Mountain.

More than a dozen war horses, speeding along the road to Quyang, all the way crazy impact, about to rush through the front of Kongjiazhuang, suddenly from the village out of a small group of enemy puppet army, blocking the road to Quyang.

When Lei Jian found that an enemy puppet army rushed out from Kongjiazhuang, about thirty people, he decisively ordered the soldiers of the guard squad: "Don't scruple, kill it." ”

Just as Lei Jian was about to rush over with the guard squad, the road in front of him had been occupied by the enemy puppet army, blocking the middle of the road with guns.

The leader of the devil squad who led the team, holding the captain's command knife, pointed at the thunder sword who was riding on the war horse and rushing to the front, and shouted: "What are you doing? Why is it here? ”

Lei Jian was dressed in the military uniform of the devil Shaozuo, and angrily scolded the captain of the devil squad: "Bastard, we are the 581 Wing and the cavalry reconnaissance unit that reinforce Lao Ye Mountain, and the large army has passed through the Hengshi Highway by car, and I led the small army to reconnoiter in front, do you understand?" ”

The leader of the devil squad was not scolded by Lei Jian, and was so frightened that he didn't dare to speak, not only did he not restrain himself, but he continued to dance the command knife and ordered: "I was ordered to check all suspicious troops and personnel here, and your suspicious ones should quickly dismount and be inspected." ”

Lei Jian saw that the tiger couldn't stop this devil squad leader, and wanted to rush over, but the enemy's puppet army had an advantage, and it was blocked in the middle of the road, once the impact was unfavorable, he would be surrounded by devils, but before he fought with the enemy in Lao Ye Mountain, he and these dozen guard squad soldiers hung up first.

He whispered an order to the soldiers beside him: "You all listen well, I will deal with the devil's squad leader alone, you listen to my command, once I send out to break through the devil's blockade, I must kill it with the most ferocious combat power." ”

Song Tiedan, the leader of the guard squad, said uneasily: "Commander Lei, it is too dangerous for you to deal with the little devil in front of you alone, I will ...... with you." ”

(End of chapter)