Chapter 107: Encounter
"Yaga, idiot, do you think it's the military station where these Tubalu guerrillas attacked?" The young and vigorous Hirakawa Ichiro was slapped several times by Osa Murata in a row, but Hirakawa Ichiro could only bear it silently, the system of superiors and subordinates in the imperial army is the fundamental that officers must abide by, even if the case of Ichiro was sent out to take the Osa Murata scolding in his heart is not worth it, but in the face of Murata's scolding, Hirakawa Ichiro can only bear it silently now, who makes him just a young man now.
The Meihongshan military station was attacked, although the imperial army repelled the Chinese resistance forces that attacked the military station in time, but the military station had been burned to the ground by a fire when the other party retreated. Osamurata was ordered to bring a large group of troops to encircle and suppress the resistance forces in this area, as a young Sa, Hirakawa Ichiro became the pioneer of the Murata brigade, I don't know if it was Hirakawa Ichiro's luck or his means were excellent, with the clues that had been learned, the Hirakawa team directly found Nanshan Village, and blocked Yan Hongjiao and others who did not have time to evacuate in Nanshan Village.
After a brief exchange of fire, excluding Yan Hongjiao, who committed suicide and those guerrillas who died in battle, Hirakawa Ichiro captured at least a dozen wounded guerrillas. Hirakawa Ichiro personally interrogated each of the captured guerrillas and confirmed that the guerrillas did not deceive him, and Hirakawa Ichiro informed the captain of the interrogation of the results of the interrogation, but he did not expect that the captain Murata did not care about the situation he had sent.
"Your Excellency Dazuo, according to the confessions of those prisoners, there was once a small unit of the government army in Nanshan Village, and they also participated in the sneak attack on the Meihongshan Military Station, led by a captain officer named Tang Cheng." Holding back his disgust for Captain Murata, Hirakawa Ichiro continued his statement, "Now that we know that this small unit of the Shina government army left Nanshan Village before we arrived here, I would like to ask for your approval to continue to pursue them. ”
Murata who seems to be full of fat is not a brainless person, Meihongshan Military Station was attacked by the Chinese resistance forces, and someone must take responsibility for this matter, but at the same time, it is not a good opportunity for himself. Murata who is tired of fighting on the battlefield only wants to live peacefully until the end of the war, and adjust from a combat unit to a second-line hand-backed unit, although there is less power, but the victory is in peace, at least there is no need to brave the rain of bullets and bullets to fight to the death with the Chinese army, maybe it will be a good choice to send the Pingchuan team south to chase the enemy, so that he can justifiably stay in Lingxiang Township to garrison.
"Departure" was ordered by Osa Murata, Hirakawa Ichiro did not hesitate to order his team to go south immediately, the Shina government army that fled from Nanshan Village was only a dozen people, Hirakawa Ichiro did not think that his team would return in vain. Hirakawa Ichiro, who was eager to go south to chase the enemy, didn't know that Tangcheng was shelled as soon as they left Nanshan Village, so Hirakawa Ichiro just thought that Tangcheng and they were still driving the cart south, so Hirakawa Ichiro took his team and chased all the way south along the official road.
As soon as Tang Cheng and the others left Nanshan Village, they were bombarded by the Japanese army, and then they lost their carts and strong firepower weapons, and finally they could only walk in the dark along the woods in concealment, and there was no direction and route at all to guide Tang Cheng and they happened to save Zhou Xian. And Pingchuan Ichiro's team went south along the official road, first of all, they had already defeated Tangcheng on the route, and it only took half a day for Pingchuan's team to rush to the small village where Zhou Xian and them were imprisoned.
"Shao Zuo, these corpses have been dead for a day, there are truck rut marks in the open space of the ancestral hall, and the attacker should have driven the truck away." Hirakawa Ichiro's subordinate Cao Chang and a few veterans carefully surveyed the entire village, and the final conclusion made Hirakawa Ichiro happy. In the few months that Hirakawa Ichiro had cleared the Shina resistance, he had not seen a single guerrilla unit of the Shina people drive a truck, and since there was one less truck in the village, Hirakawa Ichiro thought that the only possibility was that the small army of the Shina government army he was pursuing had driven the truck away.
Leaving the village and continuing south, the Hirakawa team found two more places along the way where the corpses of the imperial troops were buried, which further confirmed that Hirakawa Ichiro's pursuit direction was not a problem, and the small army of the Shina government army that fled from Nanshan Village was indeed heading south. Tang Cheng, who left the Mazhuang stronghold, did not know that a Japanese army team had been chased behind him, and they already had two trucks, not only were they faster, but they also carried a lot more weapons, ammunition and materials on the trucks, and Tang Cheng was silent in joy all the way.
"Boom" exploded, a cloud of smoke rose from the highway, and then from both sides of the highway there were continuous gunshots and shouts of killing, Tang Cheng, who was driving the lead car, stepped on the brakes to the end, stretched out his hand to push open the door of the cab, and rolled from the highway to under the roadbed. The sudden explosion and gunfire made Tang Cheng temporarily lose his ability to judge, and as they jumped off the truck one after another, Tang Cheng, who was lying under the roadbed, gradually regained his composure.
The attackers' gunfire was not very tight, at least when they jumped out of the truck, they were not covered by the strong fire of the ambushers. "It's not a little devil, I listen to the gunfire like the movement of a Czech light machine gun." After listening attentively for a while, the old northeast posture asserted that it was not the Japanese army that attacked them, because the Japanese army generally did not use the weapons of the national army.
"Shouting, identifying ourselves." Tang Cheng under the roadbed didn't dare to raise his head rashly, so he had to let the old Northeast who was hiding under the wheels shout, and among these people, the old Northeast had a loud voice. "Don't shoot, we are the national army, we are the people of the 88th Division of the national army, which part are you?" Lao Dongbei, who was hiding under the wheels, shouted at the top of his voice, but in any case, the attackers' gunfire and shouts of killing were much quieter.
Tang Cheng dared to peek out from under the roadbed and didn't see anyone appearing, but he saw a lot of guns on the slope next to him. "Who the hell are you? We are the troops of the 60th Division of the 184th Army, if you are a national army, first lay down your arms and come out to speak. A voice sounded on the slope in front, and it was very difficult for Tang Cheng to listen to the Yunnan accent, but fortunately, Zhou Xian's Jiujiang soldiers understood it, and relayed it to Tang Cheng under the roadbed word by word.
"Be prepared, and if the momentum isn't right, we'll push through." Some of Zhou Xian's Jiujiang soldiers had already been shot and wounded, so Tang Cheng had to grit his teeth and stand up from under the roadbed. "Don't shoot, I'm Tang Cheng, the commander of the 2nd Company of the 1st Battalion of the 524th Regiment of the 88th Division, here is my military ID card and the warrant for Shangfeng, you can come down and take a look for yourself." Tang Cheng, who was standing alone in front of the car, was a little weak-legged, but fortunately, after leaving the Mazhuang stronghold, they took off their Japanese uniforms, otherwise they might be regarded as Japanese soldiers by this group of soldiers of the 184th Division.
Tang Cheng shouted twice, and a bearded national soldier got down from the slope in front of him, and he knew that this guy was an officer by looking at the shell gun pinned to his waist, but Tang Cheng found that this guy's outfit was the same as that of an ordinary soldier. Xu is aware that Tang Cheng was looking at his outfit, and the bearded officer smiled, "The little devil's sharpshooter specializes in fighting officers, and after a battle, there are only a few officers left in our regiment, there is no way, only wearing a soldier's uniform can save his life." ”
The other party's self-deprecating words made Tang Cheng have a good impression of this bearded officer, but Tang Cheng also had a headache about this person's low vigilance, and he was so confident that he was not sure of his identity, and it was estimated that the other party's military rank would not be very high. Similar to Tang Cheng's speculation, after reading Tang Cheng's documents, Officer Hu Zi smiled and said his identity, "I am Huang Chengzhong, the commander of the 5th Battalion, 5th Company, 3rd Platoon, 2nd Battalion, 54rd Brigade, 84rd Brigade, 184th Division of the 60th Army, we were ordered to garrison Paishi, a month ago, the Japanese army attacked Paishi on a large scale, and some of my brothers in the 2nd Battalion were scattered and lost contact with the large army. ”
Hearing Huang Chengzhong say that Pai City was also lost, Tang Cheng immediately took out the map captured from the Japanese army and carefully calculated, Yangxin County and Pai City were on the way south of Tangcheng, Tang Cheng originally thought that he would meet the troops of the National Army on the way to ask about the situation of the 88th Division, but he didn't expect that not only Yangxin County was lost, but now even Pai City was broken by the Japanese army, and it seemed that his southward passage was difficult. "Platoon Commander Huang, since you have left contact with the large army, do you want to go south with us to the Guotong District, Yangxin County and Pai City are lost, and the Japanese army's speaking skills will form an encirclement with the Japanese army in the direction of Daye, and then you won't be able to leave even if you want to."
Huang Chengzhong was surprised by the map of the Japanese army that Tang Cheng took out, and even more surprised by Tang Cheng's analysis of the battle situation, he was just a small platoon commander, and his ability to arrange troops and march to fight was already weak. After determining the identity of the other party, Lao Dongbei and the others hurried to bandage the wounded and get back into the car, fortunately, the marksmanship and weapons of the Dian soldiers under Huang Chengzhong were not very good, otherwise Tang Cheng and the others would have at least a few dead and wounded.
"You guys are really enough, just a dozen people dare to ambush here and attack two military vehicles, you are not afraid that we are really Japanese soldiers and will make a sudden attack on all of you." Originally, Huang Chengzhong and his soldiers of the Dian Army didn't think how powerful Tang Cheng was, but after seeing the light and heavy machine guns in the carriage, Huang Chengzhong and a dozen of his soldiers changed their faces greatly.
"Forget it, only three of our brothers were slightly injured, and there was no loss of trucks and weapons, they are all our own people, so don't say these whining words." Seeing that Lao Northeast was reluctantly chasing Huang Chengzhong and sneering, Tang Cheng spoke out to stop him, and specially told Lao Northeast a few words before giving up.