At dawn, the Japanese troops who had come by order had completely surrounded the area where the Chinese troops appeared. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After waiting for a while, the Japanese commander in charge of this encirclement and suppression operation did not receive any more reports of the attack on the outpost by the Arichina troops.

He thought there was no doubt that the gang might be a wood, or maybe a village, somewhere within the encirclement.

So after he gave the order, the Japanese troops in all directions began to close the net, and the Japanese troops in all parts carefully searched the central area under the cover of tanks.

They had to be careful, because according to reliable information, the powerful Chinese army actually robbed two armored vehicles of the Imperial Japanese Army!

Who knows when they'll pop out of the middle of the road, and put on a show of armored vehicles crushing infantry or something like tank Armageddon.

It always takes time to compress the troops of several thousand people, and the order given by the Japanese commander is to search in a dragnet style, not to be afraid of slowness, but not to be missed.

His considerations were undoubtedly reasonable, and if they were to slip out of the net, they were dressed in the clothes of the Imperial Japanese Army and could speak Japanese, which would undoubtedly bring new confusion to the various divisions of the Japanese army.

Even now, because the various units of the Japanese army are not familiar with each other, it is inevitable that they will come into contact in the process of encirclement.

No matter which one of them, once they find their own troops a few hundred meters away, they will slow down their march, and only dare to move closer to each other after repeatedly confirming each other's identities.

It was slow but effective, and at least until noon, the Japanese commanders did not receive reports of the discovery of the breakout of the Chinese army.

Hide in this net, I see how you can get out? The Japanese commander was secretly fighting in his heart with this branch of the army that he had never seen.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese troops who surrounded them on all sides finally closed and pinched together like a big net.

The Japanese commander was hopeful, but when he saw his own troops surrounded on all sides, he was shocked to find that there was no fish in the net that they were trying to catch!

Where is that branch of troops, will they evaporate from the earth? The shocked Japanese commander once again confirmed with the surrounding units that not even a single fly was released during the closing process.

So where did they go? It must be hidden somewhere!

Determine where they should be searching for me, based on the time they crossed the last hurdle yesterday and the speed at which they were marching!

If they disguised themselves as civilians, then even if they couldn't find anyone, they would always be able to find the two armored cars and trucks they robbed.

So the search was carried out as ordered, and when it was almost dark, the Japanese commander received the following report, saying that the cars had been found in a village.

Those cars were actually hidden in the houses of the village by the Chinese troops, yes, the houses and not the villages.

They actually knocked down the outer wall of the house with an armored car, and then drove the car in.

The armored car was shorter and shorter, and it was even more directly crashed into it and stopped.

Then they piled up wheat straw and other debris outside, and even the track marks of the armored car were covered up by them.

It turns out that this Chinese army did not grow wings and flew away, it was still in the encirclement, and they abandoned their cars and went on foot, so they must have been hiding in some nearby village or woods.

The Japanese commander was furious!

He felt that it was too undeserved, that army of only 100 people was already like a lame grasshopper standing on his outstretched palm, but when he clenched his fist, he didn't even grasp it, how could he not be annoyed?!

What's more, there is another reason that makes him angry at this time.

A Japanese officer, a rank below him, was watching from the sidelines, and behind the officer was an armored car and truck from Nanjing.

The officer with a thin face and eyes like a falcon had not said a word since he arrived, but not speaking represented an attitude, an attitude of contempt.

But the Japanese commander had nothing to do with him, neither daring to order people nor to look at them.

Just because this officer named Nagumo Shinobu is not subordinate to his troops and is from the Nagumo Gate of the Great Japanese Empire, he has a transcendent status both in the country and in the army, and he can't afford to mess with it!

"Search for me! Search overnight! ”

The Japanese commander roared angrily, although he felt that he was like a funny clown in front of that Nagumo Shinobi at this time, but how could he do it without yelling?!

So, on that night, countless torches were lit on the land of the Central Plains, illuminating an area as if it were daylight, as if they were digging three feet into the ground to find some treasure.

At this moment, beyond the circle of torches, five simple rafts and three small boats were quietly flowing down a river.

From time to time, the people on the board looked back at the bright light from the torches in the distance, and could see that the light was moving slowly, like ghost fires wandering in the Central Plains.

No one said anything in the dark, but everyone's hearts were full of admiration for Huo Xiaoshan.

They did find a river last night, a tributary of the Huai River, although they didn't know what the name of the river was.

Where there is a river, there are boats, and although they only found three small boats, they cut down poplars and made five rafts, which were enough to carry them out of the Japanese encirclement.

Baichuan to the East China Sea will never return to the west.

The terrain of the land of China is high in the west and low in the east, and they just go down the river without rowing hard to support the raft.

It was only the second half of the night when they boarded the boat yesterday, so they had not rowed too far and it was almost dawn, and they hastily hid the boat and the raft before dawn.

There was always a place to hide by the river, and then they hid in the woods near the river.

They didn't soak in the mud, for the forest was thick enough that they all climbed into the trees and hid in the dense foliage.

From there, they watched as a mixed convoy of Japanese armored vehicles and trucks drove a few hundred meters away on the road toward where they had been.

As long as the Japanese commanders could not think of this, they did not have to worry about being hit by the Japanese troops passing by, because the woods were knee-deep hundreds of meters away, and even the children in the countryside would not run here to touch the mud and fall into the mud bubbles.

Their hard work in the mud last night has finally been rewarded today.

They didn't know that the mixed force they saw was to catch them and come from Nanjing, just because they had wiped out a group of samurai from a large Japanese family at Raven Mountain and indirectly sent the spy flower of that family to the waves.