Xie Changan cheered up the already exhausted soldiers: "Brothers, hold on, just cross the front."

Taiwan's recruits lack training, and the obvious difference between them and veterans can be seen from the part of the march. It's not that their physical strength is bad or anything, the most important thing is that they lack that kind of willpower, the kind of motivation to be able to grit their teeth and persevere to the end in order to complete the task, and forget that they are human beings.

Racing with the car, although the speed of this car is really not good, it is still much faster than the 11 bus. Many of the recruits were participating in such a difficult battle for the first time, and it was completely different from the previous experience of concentrating superior forces to encircle and annihilate a small Japanese stronghold and a police post. The sight of dense devil soldiers approaching in a straggler formation with bright bayonets was too shocking, and thinking that they might be stabbed by one of the spears, many soldiers were terrified in their hearts.

The exact steps of the ambush are classified, and only officers of a certain rank know about it. The soldiers didn't know when they would be chased and fled for their lives, and some even proposed: Instead of running away like this, it is better to go back and fight with the little devil!

Being closer to the "small sleeper" makes it unnecessary to keep this ambush point secret. When Xie Changan said this, the morale of the Fourth Regiment immediately improved. When the soldiers learned that there would be friendly troops in front of them to help them intercept the enemy, and they would even smack him hard, they were much more relaxed and their steps became brisk.

"Catch up, catch up!" From time to time, Matsushita Muxiu poked his head out of the window and shouted to the trucks in front and behind. Four wheels are faster than two legs, and the figure of the people in front of them is already clearly visible, as long as you push harder, you can catch them, and then there will be a massacre. "His Majesty the Emperor is still too friendly to the Taiwanese, so it will cause today's situation, today we have to teach them a lesson, let them have fear in their hearts, only in this way, can they return to the empire!" He said this to Koichiro Suki, and from the perspective of Kobayashi Tatsuzo, he linked this military operation with the governance of Taiwan, and said something that he thought was very politically far-sighted.

"Tuanza, do you want to fight?" The reconnaissance detachment that reconnoitred the position of the Japanese artillery had returned, and the infantry brigade of the little devil was already close at hand, and the company commanders below were in a hurry and asked their battalion commanders one after another.

"Let it go!" Ye Shun and the others resolutely carried out Lin Xiaoyu's order.

"Let it go? What about the brothers of the four regiments? They were visibly exhausted. ”

"Don't worry about this, the group will solve it."

Xie Changan took more than a dozen people over the "small sleeper", and was about to wait for the gunshots to sound and gather together, but Lin Xiaoyu personally came over.

"Commander Xie, I'm sorry, you still have to speed up the retreat!" Lin Xiaoyu said straight to the point.

Xie Changan was a little confused, he couldn't believe that Lin Xiaoyu would refuse to carry out the order of the master, so he asked, "What does this mean?" Do you want to cancel this ambush? ”

"No, we want to spare the infantry and engage in the artillery in the back. Head Xie, what do you think? ”

Xie Changan looked back at the men and horses of the headquarters who had already run sparsely, and found that in several other directions, in the barren mountains and mountains, there were also some people moving, and they were all scattered and fled, he said: "But in this way, the losses of our regiment will be great. The brothers could not run, and many companies had lost their command. ”

"We haven't made a final decision yet. However, as you know, what our Taiwan Corps lacks most is heavy weapons, especially artillery. If this batch of artillery is captured, then our combat effectiveness will increase exponentially......"

The situation was urgent, Xie Changan didn't dare to spend time on thinking, he thought about it for a while, and then made a decision: "Okay, I support your actions, but I have one request, our regiment will take two more cannons captured this time." ”

Lin Xiaoyu readily agreed, if the ambush of the Japanese artillery was to succeed this time, the most critical point was that the fourth regiment must continue to escape, in order to attract the Japanese infantry. And in this way, the losses of the four regiments will definitely increase exponentially, so it is also appropriate to take care of them when dividing the spoils of war - "No problem!" ”

Lin Xiaoyu and Xie Changan, as the head of the regiment, are actually not qualified to decide the distribution of the spoils. Of course, in the tradition of the Cadet Army, the captured units have priority, so if Lin Xiaoyu can really make this deal, then there is absolutely no problem for him to suggest that two more guns be distributed to the Fourth Regiment.

"Brothers, I have just received a notification from the division headquarters that the ambush location of the 2nd Regiment has been revised. It's not a 'small sleeper', but a wild fox ridge five kilometers away. Brothers, in order to complete the task of luring the enemy assigned by the upper peak, everyone keep running! After Xie Changan and Lin Xiaoyu broke up, they immediately changed their tunes and mobilized the soldiers to continue running.

Xie Changan usually spoke very little, so he established a good reputation in the minds of the soldiers of the Fourth Regiment. The soldiers categorically did not dare to think that their regiment commander would open his eyes and tell nonsense, believing it to be true, and while gritting his teeth in anger, they could only continue to bury their heads in the road.

The soldiers of the fourth regiment continued to run, and Matsushita Muxiu in the back continued to ask the troops to speed up, and soon, the two troops with a huge difference in size disappeared into the vast night from under the noses of the soldiers of the second regiment.

The Japanese infantry brigade was only halfway away, and the people from the reconnaissance team finally came back, and after listening to their intelligence, Lin Xiaoyu was surprised and delighted, and he didn't dare to make a decision casually for a while.

That's right, the Japanese artillery brigade was indeed left behind by the main force, but there was an infantry brigade following. This infantry brigade alone was enough, and what annoyed Lin Xiaoyu was that the Japanese baggage troops, which were about 500 people, were actually walking with the artillery. The Japanese artillery brigade originally had a squadron of escort troops, so that this group of Japanese troops had a strength of about 2,000 people. The two regiments together were only about 1,200 people, and they managed to win twice as many enemies as themselves?

Ye Shun and the others were waiting for his final decision, and at this time, they were sitting in the camping tent that served as the headquarters, with a flashlight, looking at him but no one made a sound. Lin Xiaoyu habitually put his hand in his breast pocket to touch the cigarette, and when he took out the cigarette and took out the lighter, he remembered that it was night, and the troops were setting up an ambush, so he put the cigarette under his nose and smelled it. He suddenly whispered: "Do any of you remember how the commander-in-chief fought the first battle with the little devil when he raised his army? ”

This was the first battle commanded by Ouyang Yun, and it was also the most classic battle, because at that time, there were only more than 200 apprentices in the Cadet Army, and none of them had received rigorous training. That time, the opponent of the Cadet Army was the elite of the North China Tun garrison, and the result was that they completely annihilated the attacking devils with relatively small casualties, thus erhritizing the confidence of the Cadet Soldiers. After that battle, the cadet army moved to the north and south, and grew from a small cadet training class to a cadet group army.

"I remember," said Zhou Jicai, commander of the fifth battalion.

When Zhou Jicai was in Fujian, he participated in a short-term training course for officers at the night school, and according to the tradition of the night school of the cadet army, when the first class talked about the history of the development of the cadet army, this battle was the first to be told.

I don't know how many people this battle has inspired by Lu Dao, at this moment, Zhou Jicai remembered this story, and only felt that his blood was boiling - what the commander-in-chief can do, what can't we do for Lu? We have more people now than we did then, better weapons and equipment than then, and we have some veterans of a hundred battles—he continued: "Tuanza, I see what you mean, let's do it!" ”

Ye Shun hadn't heard this story, but he had a positive opinion from the beginning, and said at this time: "Tuanza, you can give an order!" ”

"Okay, then we'll him hard!"

If it was simply an ambush of the Japanese army, it could have been completed beautifully with the strength of the Second Regiment. Of the four regiments of the 101st Division, one regiment is undoubtedly the main force and is the most capable of fighting. And then the second regiment went down. Although Xie Changan was talented in military affairs, he was still a little immature in leading troops, so the overall quality of the officers and men of the Fourth Regiment was worse than that of the Second and Third Regiments, and it was even worse than that of the First Regiment.

Although the "Manual of Army Conduct for Cadet Corps" has written out in detail all the means and procedures for military training, there is no experience in actual operation, and the effect of implementation is much worse. Therefore, although the basic conditions of the Fourth Regiment and the Second and Third Regiments are similar, after this period of training, there are differences in the results of the training. This has nothing to do with the personal ability of the chief officer, it is really because Xie Changan is too lacking in this experience.

The little devil was very energetic, and the infantry brigade quickly crossed the "small sleeper". When the roar of the truck motor completely disappeared, Lin Xiaoyu gave an order, and the soldiers of the second regiment began to re-lay positions and traps, and at the same time, the combat sequence and the tasks of each company were also re-divided. An hour later, when Chen Gangzhe, the leader of the reconnaissance detachment, flew back, the ambush position was also laid.

Chen Gangzhe didn't know what method Lu Dao adopted, but he actually caught a tongue, and through this tongue, he obtained more detailed information.

Matsushita Muxiu did arrange a brigade of infantry escort artillery brigades, but it was an infantry brigade that was disabled by four regiments, and their actual number was only about 800, which means that only two-thirds of the combat strength was left.

This infantry brigade was what Lin Xiaoyu was most worried about, and now when he heard the news, he was overjoyed and had a little more confidence in the next battle.

Because the front was the main force of the wing, the captain of the artillery brigade, Inoue Lanji, did not care too much about the problem of defense. Because of the ambush of the four regiments, Inoue was severely reprimanded by Matsushita, and Inoue felt that he was wronged, so he still has emotions. When the troops drove to the "Xiaowokan", he and Zhong Hongyou rode in an armored car, drinking a little wine with peanuts and rice, and at the same time scolded Matsushita Muxiu, an airborne layman, without realizing that on the mountain in front of him, there were already people salivating at the mountain artillery in his hand.