"Hey, Captain Lei, don't be sloppy in front of me, you personally ventured to the enemy's camp to investigate, and you came here with the devil's baggage, right?"

"Xiaoliang, who knows me, since you have guessed my mind, tomorrow at dawn, you will lead the cavalry battalion to launch repeated harassment from behind the enemy in three ways, luring the little devil to pursue, and the devil will definitely mobilize troops to counterattack. Once the devil is hooked, it is necessary to adopt the tactic of retreating step by step, without letting the devil decouple, and drag the devil in a circle in the green gauze tent, so as to disperse the enemy's forces and reduce the battlefield pressure of the battalion that is blocking the enemy's attack head-on. ”

Lei Jian was constantly observing the enemy camp, and he was constantly discussing with Wang Xiaoliang how to fight this battle well.

The summer morning breeze, swept on the face, already felt the heat pressing, as the sun rose, a round of hot sun hung in the east, from the cloudless blue sky, radiating the whole earth, and it was a hot weather with a bright sun.

The 372nd Wing of the Japanese Army, which was camped in the field, began to reorganize its troops, and it seemed that it was about to set off.

A devil officer rode on a high-headed warhorse, drew his command knife and pointed forward, and shouted imposingly: "Forward——。 ”

The Japanese troops in the three-way column took a step forward, stepping on the dry land that had not rained for more than a month, and marched forward with their legs raised ...... 'click, click, click'. A large army of devils marched on the country road, and the dust that exploded flew over the marching procession, and from a distance, it looked like an earth dragon, floating on the green gauze tent, swimming slowly in the middle of the crops.

Lei Jian, who was hidden in the green gauze tent, looked at this huge marching team, and had already concluded that it was the 372nd Wing of the Japanese Army that had been ambushed by the Fifth Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army on the east and west banks of the Yellow River, and had just crossed the Yellow River to reinforce the Dezhou battlefield.

Lei Jian whispered to Wang Xiaoliang beside him, "Have you seen it?" This cunning devil commander sandwiched the wagon carrying the heavy wagons of the troops in the middle of the marching troops, which caused great difficulties for us to sneak attack the enemy's military supplies. ”

"Yes, I can see it too, can we just let the little devil swagger over and have a direct exchange of fire with a battalion hidden in front? If this is the case, the first battalion will not be able to stop the attack of one wing of the devil at all, and without two back and forth, it will break through the position of our army, drive straight in, and directly threaten the second and third battalions, as well as the new 7th Brigade and the new 9th Brigade of the Deshi Railway sabotage battle, we must think of a way to hurt the enemy, slow down the advance of the Japanese army, leave time for the battlefield behind, and completely destroy the Deshi Railway that the devil has just built a section. ”

Wang Xiaoliang said that the Deshi Railway had just been repaired, referring to the fact that the North China Front of the Japanese Army ordered the construction of several new railways and highways in order to build the Pinghan, Tongpu, and Zhengtai railway lines into a transportation network, to supply the military supplies of the Japanese troops fighting on the frontal battlefield in a timely manner, and to continuously transport out the rich mineral resources in North China.

From the day the construction of the Deshi Road began, the entire section of the road was in full swing, spanning several large cities, and the laborers captured along the way, under the supervision of the guns and whips of the enemy puppet army, rushed to repair the railway day and night.

In order to meet the urgent needs of the Japanese army's front, as well as to quickly transport the plundered important resources out, the various units that built the railroad were rewarded and punished.

The captain of the devil brigade who was responsible for the construction of the Dezhou section of the Deshi Railway, like a mad dog, personally supervised the construction at the construction site, and from time to time rode a motorcycle or war horse, inspected the construction site of this section of the railway he was in charge of, and found that there were passive slacking off, or the old, weak, sick and disabled laborers who could not work, and they actually murdered them brutally in front of the laborers.

Under the strict surveillance and obscenity of the devils, the laborers were worried that the elderly and children at home could survive well, and they could only swallow their anger and work hard under the supervision of the devil's bayonets and leather whips.

In order to catch up with the schedule, the devil brutally persecuted the laborers, and died tragically on the construction of the railway line.

The completed section of the railway was less than 100 miles, but in order to improve the transportation capacity, the little devils actually began to load and haul military supplies in this section of Deshi, which had not yet been fully connected, and mobilized to change guards and reinforce the Japanese army to fight on the front line.

This time, the Deshi Road sabotage battle was carried out, mainly by the Independent Regiment of the Fifth Detachment of the Mountain Column of the Eighth Route Army, which was responsible for attacking the railway in the eastern section of the Deshi Road, and the New Seventh Brigade and the New Ninth Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, as well as other brigades of the East Column, carried out the attack from the Fengzhuang Railway Station to the west.

In order to ensure the success of this sabotage battle, the Lei Jian Independent Regiment undertook the task of blocking the enemy, attacking the railway, capturing the railway stations along the way, and destroying the artillery towers of the Japanese strongholds.

Now the Leijian Independent Regiment is faced with how to block the westward advance of the Japanese 372nd Wing, so as to buy time for the troops to attack the Deshi Road.

Lei Jian observed for a while, the devil's large army had not yet walked in front of him, he saw that this long march, the large army of the Japanese army that crossed the Yellow River, did not have very powerful heavy equipment, equipped with mortars, light and heavy machine guns, through the Japanese squadrons that walked over, at least three mortars, four heavy machine guns, no less than ten light machine guns, and the devil resisted a lot of bullet boxes.

With so many weapons and equipment, the long-distance march relies on manpower to carry it, so you can imagine how slow the march speed will be.

The weapons, ammunition, and military supplies carried by the war horses of this devil wing were fifty or sixty horses in total, and the supplies urgently needed by the troops on the road alone were enough for these war horses.

Lei Jian had a general understanding of the weapons and equipment of this Japanese army wing, as well as the allocation of troops, and he analyzed that the top priority at the moment was to destroy the transport team of war horses and carrying heavy loads, and as long as the supply of weapons, ammunition and munitions for the devil troops was cut off, this huge devil wing would be cautious and cautious, and would not dare to act arrogantly and wantonly.

He ordered Wang Xiaoliang: "You immediately return to the hidden green gauze tent of the cavalry company, convey my order, do a good job of concealment, hear me fire the first shot, the enemy's vanguard will inevitably return to the head to encircle, then the cavalry will kill out in a company, impact the devil formation, kill and injure the little devils in the chaos, and cooperate with me to defeat the devil's war horse transport team."

After you finished conveying the order, you quickly whipped up your horse and whipped Li Gang, who was a mile away, and led the second and third companies of the cavalry to rush to the enemy's rear line at the fastest speed, bite the enemy and kill me to death, and the cavalry battalion that rushed to kill me in front and back, heard my whistle, immediately withdrew from the battle, and rushed to the village called Qujiatan in the southwest, hiding in the depression, waiting for a new order. ”

Sending Wang Xiaoliang away, Lei Jian held a machine gun and ordered to the more than 20 soldiers who followed him: "After a while, the devil's war horse pack team will come over, listen to my order and shoot again, we have to disperse, each capture the war horse target, we must concentrate on the horse's legs, it is best to kill the war horse, once the devil's war horse is close to us, we must find a way to capture, no matter which soldier captures the war horse carrying military supplies, immediately take the captured war horse away from the battlefield and retreat to the depression in Qujiatan in the southwest, do you understand?" ”

"Understood."

Time passed little by little, Lei Jian made an appointment with Wang Xiaoliang to inform the two troops, should be in place soon, for the sake of insurance, he delayed it for another ten minutes, seeing that the devil's war horse transport team was about to walk past him, Lei Jian ordered the soldiers around him to disperse and prepare for battle.

Suddenly, from the green gauze tent, a fierce machine gun burst out, and the machine gun spat out tongues of fire, sweeping towards the marching war horse convoy.

Lei Jian held the machine gun and focused on hitting the war horse's belly, as long as the war horse that was shot either bounced forward and fell, or fell on the spot with the sound of the gun.

The ghost soldiers guarding the war horse convoy were shocked by the sudden gunshots, and before they could react, they were shot and fell to the ground.

In less than a bag of cigarettes, the Japanese army's heavy horse team fell apart, some fell to the ground and did not move, some survived, and some were frightened by the fierce gunfire and rushed into the green yarn tent.

The devils who were marching before and after, forcibly marched with heavy loads for more than ten days in a row, although they camped in the field at night, and their physical consumption was replenished and alleviated, and today they just hit the road, but the devil soldiers who were already exhausted couldn't walk, and suddenly heard the sound of gunshots, and their brains looked around with slow reactions, until the Japanese commander around him scolded the fire and counterattacked, and then quickly lay on the ground and shot back aimlessly.