As if to confirm Yang Zhen's worries, just as Yang Zhen's words fell, behind him, a dense gunfire suddenly sounded in Ma Ming's position. Hearing the gunshot, Yang Zhen glanced at several people around him, and they all knew that it was a devil catching up. The gunshot, it was Ma Ming who was cut off and was blocking the devils who were chasing him.

Regarding the drastic change in shape, Yang Zhen did not hesitate at all: "Lao Guo, order the troops to set off immediately and attack and advance towards the Ash River." Now that most of the banks of the Ash River are puppet Manchu troops and puppet police, we can only bet that their combat effectiveness is not strong. ”

"No matter how late it is, when the main force of the devil turns its head, we really don't have a chance. As long as we can cross the Ash River before the main force of the devils arrives, we will still have a chance to live. ”

Hearing Yang Zhen's order, Guo Bingxun, who also knew that he was in danger, did not delay, and immediately took the brothers who had been assembled to advance at full speed towards the line of the Ash River.

It's just that Yang Zhen reacted quickly, blockaded the banks of the Ash River, and the puppet Manchu army under the command of the Japanese army was not slow to react. After receiving a report from an unknown person with an accent in the surrounding area, he immediately chased down in the direction that the whistleblower pointed out that Huang Dali had left.

Yang Zhen was right, Huang Dali had already revealed his identity when he bought clothes. It's just that because of the correspondence, the time has been delayed. After all, this era is not the future of everyone with a mobile phone, even if you want to report the news, you can get a place with a phone. Now the Japanese puppet army, which is fighting fiercely with Ma Ming behind Yang Zhen, pursued after receiving the report.

As for the person he questioned, after he left, he reported to the puppet Manchurian police who blocked the riverbank. After receiving the report, Captain Inuyang Koji, the captain of the puppet Manchu army and the puppet police Japanese military police stationed in Acheng, who commanded the blockade of the riverbank, immediately felt that this person was probably one of the group of people who had been designated by his boss to be captured.

Sensing that his meritorious service opportunity had come, this Japanese captain who was privately called a son of a bitch by the local people because he did all kinds of evil, concentrated all the forces he could concentrate and pursued in the direction pointed out by that person.

When the puppet Manchu army commanded by Inuyang Koji came to intercept it, it encountered the vanguard troops commanded by Guo Bingxun on the front line of the first four families west of the Ash River. As soon as the shots rang out, he knew he had a hunch right.

Although the people on the opposite side were all wearing the standard military uniforms of the Imperial Army, they were also holding the standard weapons of the Imperial Army. However, he has been in the army for many years, as one of the very few soldiers in the Japanese army who has been promoted from a soldier to an officer, and has served as a gendarme in Manchuria for many years, specializing in eliminating those anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements.

Although he was only the son of an ordinary fisherman in Kitakyushu, Inukai Koji, who has always been very particular about his appearance, looked at the puppet Manchu army who were attacking the thugs who dared to make trouble in the imperial army uniforms under the supervision of the military police, and touched the neatly trimmed snot mustache under the nose, and smiled proudly.

Inukai Koji pondered in his heart that judging from the importance that the Kwantung Army attached to this incident, as long as he dealt with these thugs before the large army caught up, it should be time for the rank above his shoulders to be promoted to another level.

Judging from his many years of combat experience in the confrontation alliance, although he has an inferior position in terms of troops, there is absolutely no problem in crushing these more than 300 thugs with the Manchukuo army, police, and dozens of gendarmes trained by the more than 100 empires under his command. For these well-trained dogs in his eyes, Inukai Koji is still quite confident.

"Martial arts for a long time" is just that. In the territory of China, as long as there is a strong force and a ticket in hand, there are loyal people. The lives of the soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army were precious, and they should have died to conquer the whole world, not to fight the thugs in the desolate Manchuria. Although this was an order from the military police headquarters of the Kwantung Army, it was enough to eliminate these thugs in his eyes with the puppet Manchu army under his command.

As a military captain of the military police, Koji Inukai received a telegram directly from the military police headquarters of the Kwantung Army for the first time in the early hours of this morning. Although the telegram only said that a group of bandits wearing imperial army uniforms had fled to the Harbin area, asking all localities to cooperate with the Harbin garrison to clean up and suppress them. But Inukai Koji still relied on the sensitive sense of smell that he had cultivated over many years of military career and smelled something wrong.

The Acheng gendarmerie has always been under the command of the Harbin gendarmerie, and there has never been a time when the Kwantung Army headquarters gave a direct order. And this order was actually issued directly by the military police headquarters of the Kwantung Army, which made Inukai Koji feel sensitively that the meaning of this would definitely not be as simple as what the telegram said.

Because he clearly knew that even if he overstepped the command, the dignified Kwantung Army Military Police Command would never overstep his rank to a small captain. In a hierarchical Japanese army, this was almost unthinkable. This unprecedented exception must have been something that was quite important and must not be revealed.

Didn't it mean that Inukai Koji really had the ability to cross dozens of kilometers, and he knew what happened in Harbin in Acheng. He had this hunch because the telegram clearly stated that the thugs, once captured, would be summarily executed without interrogation.

This was the first time such a telegram had been sent to the gendarmerie that had always attached the most importance to confessions in order to obtain more information. The high level of the telegram and the unusual content of the telegram made Inukai Koji feel that as long as he could excel in this crackdown, he would be able to enter the eyes of those high-level leaders of the military police headquarters, and his official fortune would come.

Originally, I thought that I was at most a supporting role in this needle-in-a-haystack operation, but I didn't expect that Inukai Koji, who won the jackpot, still had any scruples, so he put all the troops at hand into the attack. And he personally led the gendarmes to supervise the formation behind him. And he has no scruples that he is also within the range of the opponent's rifle.

When he received the report that a large number of puppet Manchu troops had been found in front of him, Yang Zhen couldn't help but chuckle in his heart. Flanked back and forth, I don't know how many Japanese troops are coming? The worst I had expected was the worst.

Yang Zhen, who rushed to the front, briefly learned about the situation from Guo Bingxun, who was commanding the troops to build simple fortifications and preparing to resist the attack of the puppet Manchurian army in front, and then raised one of the three pairs of German binoculars that he had searched from Shiro Ishii's office to carefully observe the situation, and said directly to Guo Bingxun: "The Japanese puppet army here is very arrogant, and when they come up, they will concentrate their forces and press on the whole line." It seems that they want to annihilate us all here. ”

Guo Bingxun, who was also holding a telescope to observe the enemy's situation, shook his head when he heard this: "Lao Yang, except for a small number of pseudo-police, most of them are mainly puppet soldiers, and there are very few devils, only about thirty. However, the combat effectiveness of these puppet armies is very strong, even in the national army, it is considered medium. You see, they all used standard Japanese battle formations. Although it was only a brief exchange of fire just now, in terms of shooting skills, it was even better than that of the Central Army. ”

"Damn, why can't I figure it out, why are these puppet soldiers so desperate to serve the devil? You see them charge, almost dying. I heard that during the Battle of Songhu last year, many puppet Manchu troops participated in the war, but I didn't believe it. But looking at the posture of these puppet armies now, I fucking believe it. They are all Chinese, do they really forget who their ancestors were? ”

"However, they concentrated their main forces on the front, and their suppressive fire was limited to two machine guns. It gives us a chance, and if we take a detour from the flank, and when their main force comes over, we should have another chance. ”

Regarding Guo Bingxun's thoughts, Yang Zhen, who put down the binoculars, shook his head and said: "No, old Guo, here are all plains, almost at a glance, we can't do a small-scale roundabout battle, detour his flank, can only weaken our already scarce capital." ”

"But if you take a wide range of detours. But you have also seen the combat ability of our brothers, and the establishment is improvised. Once a large-scale roundabout operation is adopted, if you don't get it right, you will have to run away. The most critical time is running out. It's too close to Ah Cheng and Wuchang, and the main force of the devils can pounce at any time. ”

"Once the devils form a siege, we don't even have the capital to disperse and break through. We are not familiar with the place here, and scattering and breaking through can only kill ourselves. The only way to do this is to concentrate all our forces and firepower to open the gap from the front and rush through. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Zhen pointed to the standard Japanese-style skirmisher line, and the puppet Manchu army who was pressing towards his side said: "You see, these puppet Manchu troops are very arrogant, and they don't take us seriously at all. ”

"They charged in a skirmish line, but the distance was narrow. We have a dozen light and heavy machine guns, concentrate our fire on him all at once. At the same time, some veterans with good marksmanship were selected to specifically suppress his two machine guns. I think there should be some certainty. ”

Guo Bingxun pondered for a moment, and then briefly analyzed the shape of the enemy and us, and did not argue: "Okay, Lao Yang will do as you say." We focused all our fire on the front, suppressed them, and then charged. I don't believe it, we can't fight the devil with bayonets, and we can't fight these dogs? ”

"No, Lao Guo must not fight to the death with them. Here, each of our brothers is the essence, and life is precious, and we can't all be lost here. Even if we were half-wounded, even if we could rush out, it wouldn't be fun. ”

"You tell the Sù brothers that these puppet Manchu soldiers are less than 50 meters away and are only allowed to return fire with rifles. All machine guns waited until within fifty meters to fire in unison. Lao Guo, you personally arrange all the machine guns into crossfire. ”

"I just took a look, and this group of Japanese puppet troops does not carry heavy weapons. The terrain here is so open, I don't believe that these Japanese puppet troops can escape our fire network with a dozen machine guns? ”

"And to the brethren, don't be stingy with ammunition. Even if all the ammunition is gone, as long as there are people, we have a way. If the weapon is gone, it can still be captured, but if the brothers' lives are gone, they will never be recovered. ”

After Guo Bingxun went down to make arrangements, Huang Dali, who had been following Yang Zhen since he encountered these puppet Manchu troops, pointed to a man wearing ordinary people's clothes who was nodding and nodding and didn't know what to say with an officer of the devil standing behind the puppet Manchu army, and gritted his teeth and said: "Company Commander Yang, the person who was talking to the devil officer was the one I asked about him in the morning." ”

"I didn't fucking expect this bastard to fucking snitch and betray his fellow man to the devil. Why are there so many traitors here? You give me a few men, and I'll go and kill that whistleblower. ”

Seeing that he was so angry because he was betrayed by his compatriots, Yang Zhen's tone was a little cold: "You didn't expect it? If others don't think that this is normal, but you are a veteran scout, or a veteran who has experienced the Long March, you haven't thought of it, should this be? Don't tell me that you didn't encounter this situation during the Long March? ”

"Commander Xu, although I haven't seen him, I can be regarded as a long-time admirer of his name, and I can be called a brave general of our army. I really didn't expect his subordinates to produce soldiers like you, or scouts. Don't you know how to use your brain when you fight? You're still a veteran. ”

"Your Xu army commander, if you are as reckless as you, can you still lead a lone army from Hubei, Henan and Anhui to break through the blockade and interception of more than 100,000 heavy troops, and arrive in northern Shaanxi after a long march of thousands of miles? Can you still keep a main Red Army for our army in such a dangerous situation? Your behavior today is really a disgrace to your Captain Xu. Yang Zhen's words were very heavy.

As a veteran, Huang Dali, who values collective honor more than his own life, heard Yang Zhen's words, and his face couldn't help but turn red and said: "Company Commander Yang, what I did today was wrong, and the decision was too hasty." You can criticize me and look down on me, and I can accept that. But you can't look down on our Red 25th Army, and you can't look down on our Commander Xu. ”

"Although we are outnumbered and poorly equipped with the Big Brother Front, we have never been afraid of any enemy. During the anti-encirclement and suppression and the Long March, the Kuomintang Central Army, the Northwest Army, and the Shaanxi Army were never afraid, and now they have never been afraid of dealing with the Japanese. Every soldier of our Red 25th Army is a good example. I will bear my responsibility, but Company Commander Yang, you can't involve our Red 25th Army. ”

"Company Commander Yang, I know that I didn't do a good job, and I was ashamed of the old troops, the old chief. But I'm begging you to give me another chance, and if I can't get it right, you'll shoot me. ”

Looking at Huang Dali, who looked indignant when he heard him say their old chief, Yang Zhen smiled secretly in his heart. In later generations, he admired those battle-hardened founding generals, and he dared to look down on a founding general who had made many military exploits for the establishment of the republic.

His words were just to stimulate this kid, he was always a fool of himself, and he took the task as a child's play. If it weren't for this kid's carelessness, although he would have paid some price, after all, the Japanese puppet army had blocked the Ash River, the road where they withdrew into the mountain, but they would not have been so passive.

Yang Zhen, who believed in sending generals as well as agitating generals, was waiting for his words, and nodded without thinking about his request: "Okay, since you say so, I'm giving you one last chance." You see that almost all the main forces of the Japanese puppet army are concentrated here, and there are not necessarily many people left along the Ash River. And they pressed all the main forces to the front, and there should be gaps in the flanks for you to rush through. ”

"You take your men and get rid of the people they left on the riverbank, and look for the ferry. As soon as we rush over, we can cross the river immediately. Remember, this is the last chance given to you. If you make a mistake, you can do it yourself. ”