Chapter 65: The Maggot of the Tarsal Bone
"Report, Your Excellency, the scene has been cleared. The enemy planted a large number of * on the road, and the rear team was defenseless, so there were heavy casualties. Two mountain cannons were damaged, 24 Imperial warriors, including Captain Ono, were shattered, and nearly two and a half Imperial Allied troops were killed, and Sasaki Nakasa was shot and killed by enemy sharpshooters. Not long after Lu Yuan and the two escaped, the Japanese puppet army cleaned up the explosion site, and the final loss data made the Japanese puppet army worried.
The shadow of the enemy has not yet been seen, and his side has not only suffered heavy casualties, but also lost its biggest reliance---- two 75 mountain guns, which is something that Hatoyama Yong absolutely cannot accept. After simply cleaning the scene of the explosion and sending the wounded to the county seat where he had just passed, Isamu Hatoyama, who was stubborn in his bones, still ordered his troops to march in the direction of the valley. Hatoyama Isamu is the infantry commander, and he is also the commander of this Japanese puppet army, so no one dares to disobey his orders.
Lu Yuan, who fled quickly with Huzi on a motorcycle, didn't actually go far, and he had been paying attention to this Japanese puppet army with his full-view map. Finding that this Japanese puppet army only left the wounded and continued to march in the direction of the valley, Lu Yuanbian immediately launched a motorcycle and drove Huzi to the nearby county seat one step ahead of the other party and ambushed him.
The enemy army continued to move forward at this time, there were only two possibilities, one was that the other party eliminated the wounded and planned to go to the valley to fight a tough battle. The second is that the other side may have used the radio to contact reinforcements, in a vain attempt to use superior forces to recapture the valley in one fell swoop. It's just that for Lu Yuan, his task of destroying the enemy's heavy weapons has been successfully completed, and the rest of the things should be faced by Wang Dahe.
Not long after Hatoyama led his troops to continue marching, the rearguard troops sent news that there was a rush from the direction of the county town behind him. Hatoyama was shocked and immediately sent a small group of soldiers to reflexively go back to check, only to find that the wounded soldiers they had originally planned to send to the county seat had all been shot dead on the road outside the county seat. "Bage Yalu, what the hell is going on?" The loss of nearly 100 people before and after made Hatoyama feel painful, and he couldn't help but shout like a trapped beast, as if everything today was against him.
"Your Excellency, are we going to move on?" Hatoyama's officers were all silent, and only the adjutant who had been following him stepped forward and whispered after Hatoyama drew his command knife and cut down a small tree on the side of the road.
"Go ahead, since we've already paid so many losses, we might as well take a gamble." The adjutant's concerned eyes gradually calmed down the furious Hatoyama Isamu . Inserting the command knife in his hand into the scabbard, Isamu Hatoyama, who had regained his composure, gathered his officers together. "Ladies and gentlemen, although we have lost some of our troops and two 75 mountain guns, we are the army of His Majesty the Emperor. Please don't forget that the great military exploits we established on the battlefield in North China at the beginning, could it be that without mountain artillery, we would not be able to defeat the Chinese army? ”
Hatoyama was not a good orator, but his words still evoked the memories of the officers, who had pursued several times the Nationalist army in the North China Theater, and finally won all of them. Hatoyama's words succeeded in arousing the manic aura hidden in the officers' bodies, and under their encouragement, the Japanese soldiers also regained their fighting spirit, and the speed of the troops gradually increased.
At this moment, Lu Yuan, who ambushed the wounded Japanese soldiers with Huzi, didn't know this, and after ambushing the dozens of wounded Japanese puppet soldiers outside the county, Lu Yuan and the two drove away again. When Lu Yuan suddenly found that the Japanese puppet army had accelerated its march, it was already more than half an hour later, "Yo, this is a thief's heart that does not die!" Lu Yuan, who didn't see the other party's intentions, simply took the tiger and fell far behind the Japanese puppet army, using the ultra-long range of a sniper rifle to harass the other party from behind from time to time.
No one wants to be an unlucky guy who was shot and fell down without knowing it, so Lu Yuan and the others were constantly harassing like flies, making the Japanese puppet soldiers in the rear team miserable. These Japanese puppet troops were also under the command of the officer, trying to ambush Lu Yuan and the two, but their arrangement had already been clearly seen by Lu Yuan with a full-view map. Several ambushes failed, but their side lost more than a dozen people, and the Japanese puppet soldiers at the end of the line had to speed up and mix with the Chinese army.
The soldiers in the rear team were forced to speed up and blend into the Chinese army, which made the Japanese puppet army's originally neat formation become scattered and bloated, Lu Yuan couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw this, and immediately took out a mortar from the storage space. Lu Yuan is a good hand at fiddling with firearms, but when it comes to the ability to operate guns, I am afraid that even Xu Heizi can't compare. Fortunately, when building concrete fortifications, Lu Yuan consulted a few artillerymen brought by Wang Dahe, and it was not a pity that Lu Yuan missed the shell.
With Huzi setting up the mortar, Lu Yuan followed the steps taught by the artillery professor of the Eighth Route Army, and first fired a shell for positioning. "Boom" The shell with a whistling sound landed and exploded, but the impact point was at least a dozen meters away from the position where Lu Yuan wanted to fall, and Lu Yuan immediately readjusted the mortar, and the second shell was much better, at least the shell fell on the road. Seeing that the second shell he shot was falling on the road, although he did not hurt the Japanese puppet army, Lu Yuan was very excited.
Lu Yuan took out the * from the storage space one by one, and one after another, the road in the distance was already full of rising dust and/or fire, and there were faint shouts and screams during the process. To tell the truth, Lu Yuan's accuracy was not high, but he couldn't stand Lu Yuan's shells quickly and urgently, and when the Japanese gunners set up their mortars and prepared to counterattack, Lu Yuan, who had already fired more than a dozen shells in a row, had already fled with the tiger.
Again, knowing from the returning spearhead that the attacker had already left, Hatoyama's face finally couldn't help it, and once again a look of rage appeared. The guts attacker was like a ghost, unable to shake off or defeat, and Hatoyama's mind was full of the wild laughter of the other party when he left. The Japanese puppet army, which had paid a certain amount of money to go online, only stayed for a short time, and then re-entered the road under the supervision of the officers and veterans, only this time, Hatoyama Yong arranged a lot of sharp soldiers on both sides of the road.
"Fool, that's not enough." Lu Yuan, who had already relied on the all-view map to understand Hatoyama's deployment, laughed secretly, and then took out two German-caliber sniper rifles from the storage space, and together with Huzi, he regarded the Japanese puppet army soldiers scattered on both sides of the road as targets in target shooting exercises. The sound of gunfire, which was slightly duller than that of the 38 rifle, came one after another, and Hatoyama did not know that the soldiers on both sides of the road had been shot and fell one after another before they had discovered the enemy's situation.
"Huzi, try not to kill them, and give them more wounded." When he changed the firing position for the first time, Lu Yuan yelled at Huzi, because Lu Yuan suddenly discovered that when he had created more than a dozen wounded for the other party, Huzi had created more than a dozen corpses for the other party that could be ignored and discarded. The purpose of Lu Yuan's attack on the opponent along the road is to add unnecessary burden to the opponent and slow down the opponent's marching speed, if it is only to shoot the opponent's soldiers, when the opponent retreats, he can also carry out an ambush again.
From time to time, one or two gunshots would be heard in the ears, and as the wounded soldiers in the team increased, the Japanese puppet soldiers under Hatoyama Isamu were already full of panic and anxiety. Finally, a Japanese officer couldn't help but take the initiative to suggest to Hatoyama that he should lead his troops to pursue the attacker, and after some thought, Hatoyama agreed to the other party's request, but the Japanese puppet army's two consecutive encirclements did not work, and Lu Yuan, who had a full-view map in hand, was simply the king of the field.
According to the speed of the troops, the Japanese puppet army troops under the command of Hatoyama Yong should have rushed to the valley before dark, but now it was sunset, and Hatoyama's troops were still at least three hours away from the valley. Seeing that the sun was about to set, Lu Yuan, who had been entangled with the Japanese puppet army, finally disappeared, and Hatoyama couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, if the other party continued to entangle, he had no choice but to order to withdraw to the county seat.
After sending a search team to search the surroundings many times, Hatoyama Isamu was really relieved, now it was dark, and the mountain artillery was damaged, so the original battle plan needed to be revised, Hatoyama Isamu immediately ordered to camp in place to rest, preparing to attack the valley directly the next day. Camping in the wilderness was a dangerous thing, so after setting up camp, Hatoyama made a lot of arrangements, and as a result, he had a good night's sleep, and the attacker who had been pestering them all day did not appear.
When the Japanese puppet soldiers were secretly worried, Lu Yuan and the others had already made a detour back to the valley, and learned that Lu Yuan and the others had successfully knocked out the Japanese army's mountain artillery, and caused more than 100 casualties to the Japanese puppet army, Wang Dahe and others couldn't believe their ears. Among the people present, only Xiao Haishan believed in Lu Yuan's words, because he believed that Lu Yuan had no ill will towards the guerrillas, and if Lu Yuan hadn't rescued him, the Xiaojia Village guerrillas would probably have become a piece of past history.
"The Japanese army has no heavy weapons and equipment, this battle is much easier to fight, just the concrete fortifications we built at the mouth of the valley, the Japanese army has no way to break through." After getting repeated assurances from Lu Yuan, Xu Heizi couldn't help but be overjoyed, if the Japanese army had no heavy weapons and equipment, it would be much easier to fight.
"Platoon Commander Xu, it's best not to take it lightly, the individual quality of the Japanese soldiers is also very strong. If I were you, I'd tell my soldiers that protecting themselves comes first, and don't try to capture them alive until the battle is over. Lu Yuan kindly reminded him, but it immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of a platoon commander of the Eighth Route Army beside Wang Dahe.