But in any case, there were nearly 100 Japanese soldiers who rushed to this side with Hirata Cheng, although Lu Yuan had successfully shot and killed Hirata Cheng, who commanded them, but Hirata Cheng still had lieutenants and military cao, even if there was only one captain left among these Japanese soldiers, that army commander would continue to fight in place of his superiors to command the remaining soldiers. Therefore, after Lu Yuan changed to a new magazine, his first reaction was to retreat, so as to distance himself from the remaining Japanese troops.

Lu Yuan fought and retreated, several magazines were continuously discharged, and there were less than 40 Japanese troops left in the approaching Japanese army. In the end, the remaining 40 Japanese soldiers returned to the place where the truck was parked, and when Lu Yuan secretly guarded against these Japanese soldiers attacking him with mortars, who Cheng thought that the remaining Japanese soldiers would just load the body of Hirata Cheng with the mortar onto the truck, and then drove away directly. Lu Yuan, who was confused, was puzzled, but since the Japanese army had left, the weapons and ammunition scattered in the field would be cheaper for themselves.

After searching the surroundings with a full-view map and no one else, Lu Yuan's speed of cleaning up the battlefield was much faster, and he directly stripped the weapons, ammunition and usable equipment from the corpses of the Japanese soldiers, and directly put them into the storage space. After cleaning the battlefield, more than an hour had passed since Lu Yuan and Zhou Zhengwu were separated, but Lu Yuan was not in a hurry, returned to the riverbed to retrieve the horse, and rode his horse in the direction he left.

Lu Yuan shot at them on this side, Zhou Zhengwu had already heard the gunshots, according to Lu Yuan's instructions when he left, Zhou Zhengwu and they immediately got up and continued to hurry, and Zhou Zhengwu also left a five-person team as a guard guard. Half an hour later, the five-person team that stayed where Lu Yuan did not wait for Lu Yuan to retreat according to the plan, and only after they caught up with Zhou Zhengwu and the others who left first did Lu Yuan's side start cleaning the battlefield.

Mistakenly thinking that Lu Yuan was already fierce and unlucky, Zhou Zhengwu's face began to be gloomy, and the number of troops serving as guards also increased from five people at the beginning to a squad. The Japanese army was in hot pursuit, and the guerrillas did their best to speed up, but with the passage of time and the consumption of physical strength, their marching speed slowed down uncontrollably. "Lao Zhou, it's no good, tell everyone to rest for a while, I'm afraid that if it goes on like this, I'll really be tired to death." The captains of the other two guerrillas finally begged to stop and rest, and some of their partisans were already suffering from severe physical exhaustion.

Although Zhou Zhengwu was anxious at the moment, he also knew the need to stop and rest, and after the three of them discussed, the guerrillas, who were seriously physically exhausted, stopped to rest again. Zhou Zhengwu originally scheduled a quarter of an hour to rest, but when the quarter of an hour came, no one among the nearly 300 guerrillas got up to continue on their way, and Zhou Zhengwu and the others had no choice but to extend the rest time to half an hour. "Lao Zhou, we are not far from the mountain pass now, and when everyone is rested, we can go directly over the mountain pass in one go, and after the mountain pass, the road will be easy to walk."

Seeing that Zhou Zhengwu seemed to have a bad complexion, the captains of the other two guerrillas persuaded him, and he mistakenly thought that Zhou Zhengwu was in a hurry for the speed of his march, but he didn't know that when he was chattering, Zhou Zhengwu's eyes had been on their way. Zhou Zhengwu himself couldn't say clearly, but in the dark, there seemed to be a voice in his head, telling him that Lu Yuan would definitely catch up. When the second break came, under the urging of Zhou Zhengwu's winning streak, the reluctant guerrillas had to get up and continue on their way.

The mountain pass is already close at hand, and as long as you climb over this mountain pass, the road behind will be much smoother and easier for everyone. Zhou Zhengwu, who was also exhausted, kept cheering up his teammates, and everyone was silently persevering, moving step by step towards the mountain pass that was not far away. "Captain, look." One of the guerrillas, who was on guard guard, quickly chased after him and handed Zhou Zhengwu the binoculars hanging on his chest.

Zhou Zhengwu took the telescope handed by the other party and looked in the direction of the guerrilla's finger, and after a few seconds, Zhou Zhengwu, who had been cold-faced, suddenly burst out laughing. "He's not dead, he's not dead." Zhou Zhengwu, who was crying with joy, immediately handed the binoculars to the other two guerrillas who heard the news, and pointed to a black spot on the road and shouted at the two. "Look, isn't it him? Isn't he? ”

The two guerrilla leaders took the telescope and looked at the black spot suspiciously, and in Zhou Zhengwu's smiling gaze, the two people who put down the telescope nodded at Zhou Zhengwu again and again. That's right, what Zhou Zhengwu and the three of them saw in the telescope was Lu Yuan who was chasing after him, and Lu Yuan's appearance was none other than Zhou Zhengwu. "I knew he could do it, and I knew he could do it." Zhou Zhengwu couldn't help but muttered to himself, and his originally gloomy face was filled with a thick smile.

After only resting for nearly an hour, it was impossible for Zhou Zhengwu and the three of them to stop and rest again, so the troops continued to march, and Lu Yuan, who led the horse to the mountain, only fell far at the end of the team. "Brother, tell me, how did you come back? Why are you still carrying these old rifles and bullets on horseback? After finally crossing the mountain pass and descending the mountain into the flat terrain, Zhou Zhengwu, who had been impatient, finally waited for Lu Yuan, but the first thing he saw was the rifles and bullets on the back of the horse.

Zhou Zhengwu's inquiry made Lu Yuan grin, "It's nothing, it's just to kill some Japanese soldiers and blow up one of their trucks." The little devil was scared, so he drove away, and I picked up some rifles and bullets and came back, and that's it. Lu Yuan's answer was very simple and simple, but it obviously couldn't satisfy Zhou Zhengwu, after all, Lu Yuan was just one person, how could one person force back the Japanese army chasing after him in a truck? Really, that's it, if you don't believe me, you can send someone back to check on the bodies of those Japanese soldiers who are still in place. ”

Zhou Zhengwu still wanted to continue to ask, but Lu Yuan didn't give him a chance to ask, the troops had already crossed the mountain pass with a lot of loot, and Lu Yuan knew that Zhou Zhengwu couldn't send someone back to check. Zhou Zhengwu had no choice but to put aside this question for the time being, and Lu Yuan scattered the weapons and ammunition on the horseback to other carts, and moved to the front of the team leisurely on his horse, resuming the role of a spearhead.

Getting rid of the pursuers behind them, the guerrillas' life was much better, coupled with the return of Lu Yuan, a magical spearhead, before dark, Zhou Zhengwu and the others finally moved to a position less than 10 off the ground from Tang County. According to the original plan, a unit of the Eighth Route Army from Shanxi would take the initiative to attack Tang County and establish a base here in Tang County.

"Brother, your skills are so good, it's better to stay with us." After camping in the field at night, Zhou Zhengwu found Lu Yuan in Dudu, but this time, Zhou Zhengwu came to persuade Lu Yuan to join the guerrillas. Lu Yuan's true identity is still a mystery to Zhou Zhengwu and them. Zhou Zhengwu only knew that Lu Yuan was related to the Baoding underground party, and these tasks of intercepting the Japanese train would only succeed because of Lu Yuan's assistance, but in fact he did not know that Lu Yuan was from Shanghai, if it were not for the report of the Shanghai underground party, the Baoding underground party would never have contacted Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan glanced at Zhou Zhengwu but didn't speak, just took out a cigarette and handed it to Zhou Zhengwu, waiting for Zhou Zhengwu to light the cigarette, Lu Yuan smiled and said. "Captain Zhou, as the old saying goes, everyone has their own ambitions, I am used to freedom, and joining the guerrillas or the Eighth Route Army can only be a constraint for me. The war zone is so big, there are so many Japanese soldiers, I can kill Japanese soldiers everywhere, right? ”

Lu Yuan's answer was obviously a rejection of his solicitation and lobbying, and Zhou Zhengwu naturally didn't want to say anything more, no matter how he inquired about Lu Yuan's details, Lu Yuan continuously changed the topic, and Zhou Zhengwu had to return in vain. Early the next morning, Zhou Zhengwu and the liaison officers they had sent overnight returned to the camp, and together with him came back a small detachment sent by the Eighth Route Army, and when they saw that there were so many weapons, ammunition, and materials and equipment in the guerrillas' temporary camp, the 10 or so fighters of the Eighth Route Army detachment could not help but be overjoyed.

"Great, with these weapons and equipment, we will be able to completely drive the troops of the little devil and the yellow dog out of Tang County." The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army were very excited, and Zhou Zhengwu and the others were also very happy, because of the efforts of themselves and others, the Eighth Route Army that entered Tang County finally had a chance to gain a firm foothold. Lu Yuan did not participate in Zhou Zhengwu's discussions and expectations, he just silently fed the horse bean feed, once the guerrillas began to hand over the spoils with the Eighth Route Army, it was time for him to leave.

Zhou Zhengwu also wanted to introduce Lu Yuan to the Eighth Route Army squad, but when he turned around, he didn't find Lu Yuan, and asked his guerrillas before he was told that Lu Yuan had gone out on horseback. Lu Yuan didn't go too far, just followed the prompts of the full-view map and went to a village a few miles away, he wanted to change to a better horse here in Tang County, compared to riding a cart that could turn his butt into eight petals, Lu Yuan now likes the feeling of riding a horse more.

After spending 20 oceans, plus the horse that Lu Yuan rode on, Lu Yuan successfully exchanged for a tall horse suitable for riding and fighting from this village. The joy of changing shotguns made Lu Yuan on the way back to the camp very excited, and unconsciously let go of the horse's speed, and the feeling of galloping like the wind fascinated Lu Yuan, he had never felt that riding a horse would be a pleasure like now.