Chapter 186: Shocked!
Nearly two hundred devil soldiers, armed to the teeth, were hurrying south in the cold morning mist, their heavy footsteps accompanied by a wheering and rapid wheezing, and everyone looked in a hurry. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Captain Devil waded through the puddles of mud, the shaking muddy water soaked his leggings and seeped into his shoes, the cold feeling made him extremely uncomfortable, his brow furrowed, and his mood was as bad as the gloomy weather.
They tried to encircle the fleeing Shina rout and annihilate it according to the order of Shaosa Higashi Shotaro, but unexpectedly, this branch of the Shina rout did not break through head-on in the face of the encirclement, so they turned around and ran back, and also raided the camp of Shaosa Higashi Shotaro.
In order to surround Yang Ling and them, Shaozo Dong Shotaro scattered most of the troops in his hands, leaving only one infantry squadron and two artillery detachments around him, and in the face of Yang Ling's surprise attack, they immediately suffered heavy losses, and the remnants had to retreat to the landlord's compound.
When Higashijo Taro was guarding the landlord's compound, he immediately telegraphed the various squadrons that had been scattered to return to reinforcement immediately, and after receiving the order, the devil captain cursed the cunning of the defeated soldiers of Shina, and began to run back non-stop.
Halfway through, the squadron they were in lost contact with Shotaro Higashi, and a dark cloud hung over the captain's head, and he felt a little bad.
"Quick! Speed up! ”
The captain snorted and gasped, constantly urging his trotting men, who were now eager to grow a pair of wings and fly to the camping village of Shotaro Higashi, to see what was going on.
Although the devil soldiers are well-trained, they have long been exhausted from the long battle, and now it is a high-intensity forced march, and their perseverance is amazing, but there are still many people left behind.
The devil captain was really anxious, and he only wanted to arrive early, and he didn't have time to wait for the soldiers who had fallen behind to recover their strength, leaving a second lieutenant behind the palace to collect the stragglers, and he himself took the main force straight to the village where the brigade headquarters was camping.
After about two hours of rapid marching, Captain Devil finally saw the vague outline of the village in the distance, and there was faint black smoke rising into the air.
The devil captain soon led the team to the village, and the panting team stopped at the entrance of the village, looking at the broken and blackened village, the devil captain's heart sank to the bottom, what happened? Why was the village destroyed by fire? What about Shaozo and the troops?
One question after another appeared in the mind of the devil captain, and he didn't care about resting, so he immediately ordered the soldiers to enter the village to investigate and reconnoiter the situation around.
A fire that Yang Ling and the others had started swept through the entire village by the night wind, and the entire village was burned in the fire, and now only embers and ruins remained.
The devil soldiers of the two detachments entered the village with 38 rifles, first found the destroyed Type 92 infantry cannon under a charred black broken wall, and then found countless burned corpses like black charcoal in a bare house.
Countless steel helmets and charcoal-like corpses were dug out of the ashes, looking at the neatly arranged corpses on the ground, the devil captain's face was blue and white, and the blue tendons on his forehead burst out, and he was on the verge of anger.
Although the corpses were burned like coke, the devil soldiers still judged that these corpses were their own people through other objects, and nearly 300 people from Shaosa Higashi Shotaro were all wiped out.
The captain's face was ugly, angry, hateful, sad, and so on.
"Sir, we found this sail in the tree over there."
A ghost soldier respectfully handed a cloth sail with writing on it to the captain.
The narrow cloth sail was marked with blood, and the blood had turned dark red, which was still shocking.
"Offend me Chinese! Even if it is far away, it will be punished! -- Yang Ling. ”
"The word... What the... Meaning? The lieutenant turned to the interpreter.
The traitor translator looked at the blood-drenched blood words on the cloth sail, the words were like a sharp edge, and the cold light was exposed, so that he didn't dare to look at it directly.
"Taijun, this is a blood letter written by Yang Ling, who threatens to take revenge on the imperial army......"
"Yang... Ling..."The captain laughed, laughing fiercely, chewing the word Yang Ling repeatedly in his mouth, gritting his teeth with hatred.
One after another, another devil soldier arrived in the burned village, which was the other devil squadron that came to help, looking at the corpses all over the ground and the blood book left by Yang Ling, and their faces were distorted in anger.
Instead of annihilating Yang Ling and their rout with superior forces, they were led by Yang Ling to destroy their brigade headquarters, which was a shame, and for them who were arrogant, they couldn't wait to tear Yang Ling apart to vent the anger in their hearts.
"Revenge! With Yang Ling's head, the spirit of the chief of Dongzhuang is in the sky! A lieutenant squadron leader tore the blood book to shreds and said viciously.
"Annihilate the Yang Ling Division! Wash away the shame of our army! ”
"If you don't kill this person, you swear not to be a person!"
“……”
Yang Ling led people to destroy the devil's brigade headquarters, and let the conspiracy surrounded by the devil soldiers abort, like stabbing a hornet's nest, making several squadron leaders scream angrily and threaten to pay for Yang Ling's blood debt.
Shaozo Higashi Shotaro and the brigade headquarters were taken over by Yang Ling, and an older lieutenant squadron leader temporarily took over the command of the brigade.
Although the captain who took over the command was full of anger on his face, his heart was full of joy, after all, Shaosa Higashi Shotaro was killed, and he was the most promising for promotion.
Compared with the young and vigorous Shaozo Higashi Shotaro, the captain is not only old, but also has been in the army for many years, and his temperament is more calm.
The rout led by Yang Ling was able to destroy nearly three hundred of them on their own, making the captain realize that they had underestimated their opponent before.
Shaozo Dong Shotaro estimated the strength of Yang Ling's rout army to be the scale of the battalion before, and they could eat it with the strength of their brigade, but now the captain doesn't think so.
He felt that Yang Ling's forces of the rout had reached the brigade level, or even the division level, by gathering the rout all the way, otherwise it would be impossible to defeat their nearly 300-strong brigade headquarters in such a short time.
Although the Chinese army is numerous, its weapons and equipment are poor, and the quality of its soldiers is uneven, and often a small squad of devils can defeat a battalion on the Chinese side, which makes the devils arrogant and unscrupulous.
Yang Ling's raid killed nearly 300 people in the devil brigade, which made the judgment of the devil captain wrong, thinking that Yang Ling and they had reached the brigade scale, thinking that there was a brigade-sized branch army active behind the main force of the party, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and immediately reported the situation to the wing headquarters and asked for reinforcements.
The information was quickly sent to the hands of the wing commander Nagamura through the radio waves, and he was very angry when he learned that the Dongzhuang Brigade Headquarters and a squadron were all destroyed, but soon the anger turned into shock, and the rout of the branch army had reached the brigade level, if he hadn't been sending people to pursue this rout force, he even thought that this was a counterattack on the side of the branch.
Although they looked down on the Zhi Na army and thought that they were a rabble, once the rabble reached a scale, there was still a certain threat to them, and now the rout troops led by Yang Ling were constantly attacking, which had already threatened their rear supply lines, and he had to pay attention to it.
The captain of the Nagamura Wing couldn't sit still at the moment, the speed of this rout was too fast, beyond his expectations, not only was it not eliminated by them, but it became more and more powerful, he felt a strong sense of crisis, and he decided to personally lead people to attack.