The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression Begins in Songhu

Chapter 223: Escape (Additional chapter 810 for the color shadow master)

Hu Biao and others' breakout operation in Teng County was relatively smooth, at least at the beginning; for this, we actually have to thank the Japanese Special High Section.

Yes! We should thank them.

To be more precise, when the senior officials of the Japanese Special High Section learned that Hu Biao was in Teng County, they immediately became excited.

As for the reason, it has been half a year since Hu Biao and his team found penicillin in Shanghai.

The more the Japanese researchers studied penicillin, the more they understood its importance and the huge benefits it contained.

It is a miracle drug that must be obtained at any cost.

The Special High Section quickly took action and dispatched an elite force from Nanjing, including an action team and a monitoring and decryption team.

First, we took a plane, then changed to a car and rushed to the outskirts of Teng County overnight.

Therefore, when Commander Wang's farewell telegram was sent, it was intercepted by the Special High Section monitoring personnel who were in the military camp outside the city as soon as it was sent.

Then the decoders took less than ten minutes to decipher the message; the normal translation time was one or two minutes faster than that of the National Army's Telecommunications Office in Xuzhou where the message was received.

Don’t doubt it, they are just that fast!
According to information disclosed later, the Japanese success rate in deciphering the National Army's telegrams reached 90% at its highest and 60% at its lowest.

Of course, the deciphering time will definitely not be that fast.

The key reason is that the Sichuan Army currently uses a code book that has not been replaced for some time. Given the Kuomintang government's strict confidentiality, the code book has long been obtained by the Japanese.

It was precisely this unexpected result that made the Japanese soldiers in Teng County believe that Hu Biao and his men had no intention of running away.

Just as the telegram says, we must fight to the last man standing.

Therefore, Colonel Yaezō Akashiba and others were currently thinking more about how their troops should fight after a rest, so that they could completely occupy Teng County in one fell swoop and capture the big fish, Hu Biao, alive.

The encirclement around Teng County, especially at the east gate, was quite lax.

Considering all the above, Hu Biao and his men really need to express their gratitude to the Japanese Special High Section. It's a pity that Hu Biao and his men knew nothing about this, otherwise they would have used bullets and grenades to express their gratitude...

With the cover of the ruins, Hu Biao and his team successfully reached a position about 100 meters away from the wide-open east gate.

After secretly observing for a while, I found that there were only 34 Japanese soldiers guarding here, and each of them looked quite listless and absent-minded.

It was obvious that he had participated in the street fighting last night and was the unlucky guy who was sent here to guard without even a rest.

Without any hesitation, everyone began to implement the breakout tactics that had been hastily decided upon earlier.

Hu Biao, Chen Tang, and Zanana, the three members with the best marksmanship in the time-traveling team, were the first to take action. After aiming with their rifles, they pulled the trigger almost at the same time.

In an instant, three important targets, a Japanese second lieutenant, the main shooter of a Type 92 heavy machine gun and a Type 96 light machine gun, were killed on the spot, causing them to lose their commander and their two strongest firepower.

The next second, two MG34 general-purpose machine guns and several Czech-style light machine guns began firing wildly.

Bullets flew everywhere on the city walls, making it impossible for the surviving Japanese soldiers to raise their heads.

Even Huang Yizi and Mo Shuiyan, each operating a captured grenade launcher, with the cooperation of a soldier under their command, fired several small melon grenades at the top of the city wall with a "bang bang".

Unfortunately, even though the Japanese veteran was operating this thing, it was as if he had eyes and could shoot wherever he pointed.

The two of them had no experience in using this thing, and the small melon grenades they fired out were either too far or too close, but none of them landed near the Japanese on the city wall.

Fortunately, even without their grenade launchers, the others were enough to kill these devils.

With the suppression of snipers and machine gunners, the other two hundred people rushed towards the city gate quickly. After the leading wizard and Lao Yu and more than twenty others rushed to the foot of the city, they pulled out a grenade and threw it at the top of the city.

After more than twenty grenades exploded in succession, no Japanese soldier could stand up on the city wall.

Seeing that girl Zanana rushing towards the city wall, some of them even wanted to rush to the top of the city wall and carry away the Type 92 heavy machine gun.

Hu Biao quickly shouted, "Don't bother cleaning up the battlefield, and forget about the heavy machine guns. They're too heavy a burden."

After hearing this, although Zanana really didn't think a heavy machine gun was that heavy, she still gave up her original plan.

Just as they ran out of the east gate, they heard a burst of fierce gunfire from behind. It seemed that the Japanese had discovered their plan to break out. After hurriedly catching up, they exchanged fire with Commander Wang and others who were left behind.

Just like that, a group of 305 people rushed out of the east gate, regardless of the fact that everyone of them was injured and the wounds hurt a lot while they were running.

He started running wildly towards the southeast, which was the direction of Taierzhuang.

During this period, the fierce gunfire and explosions in the city made everyone look back.

Thinking of Commander Wang and other wounded soldiers who were still fighting hard to buy time for them despite their serious injuries, he felt a mixture of anger and guilt in his heart, and almost bit his lips.

After everyone ran three miles in one breath, the gunshots behind them finally subsided.

By this time, most of the wounded soldiers including Commander Wang had died in battle, and Teng County was about to be completely occupied by the Japanese.

What Hu Biao and his men didn't know was that in Teng County behind them, Commander Wang soon died a martyr for his country.

However, none of the wounded soldiers in various parts of the city surrendered. Without the Japanese putting in their full efforts, they kept fighting until midnight the next day. The last wounded soldier detonated a grenade to avoid falling into the hands of the Japanese.

At this time, Teng County fell into the hands of the Japanese.

Up to this point, except for a few German missionaries hiding in the church and a dozen or so orphans they sheltered, the Japanese had not seen a single living person who surrendered to them, and all they got was a county town in ruins.

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"It's not good to die here! The Japs are chasing us. How about I take some brothers to cover our retreat? We can't all die here, right?"

After running four or five miles in one breath, Chen Tang's words suddenly rang in his ears, and Hu Biao immediately turned his head to look behind him.

I saw a large cloud of dust rising up at a distance of about two or three miles behind me on the left.

They actually caught up with a number of trucks, led by several light tanks.

Hu Biao and his men naturally knew that there was a tank squadron among the Japanese troops outside the city, and that the heavy artillery unit had a number of towed artillery and trucks transporting ammunition.

However, according to those who were originally native to Teng County, there is a stone bridge in the southeast direction outside the city.

Hu Biao was ready to take a gamble, thinking that if he could cross the bridge in advance, he could just blow up the stone bridge to prevent the Japanese tanks and trucks from crossing the bridge.

The current situation is that the Japanese are obviously reacting too quickly and will probably catch up with them before they even cross the bridge.

Moreover, it was impossible to build fortifications in a hurry, and there was no decent anti-armor firepower at hand; even if Chen Tang brought his men to stay behind to block the enemy, they would not be able to hold out for long.

The rest of the people couldn't run far.

"What do you mean I'm not feeling well? I'm fine now." While cursing with a look of humor, Hu Biao also quickly took a look at the situation ahead and had already made a decision in his mind.

Then he hurriedly issued an order: "How can human legs outrun wheels? We can't continue on the main road. We have to run through the fields."

After saying that, he took the lead and rushed into a large sorghum field on the side of the road.

In this way, the Japanese cars will not be able to drive on the relatively soft ground, and their tanks with limited off-road capabilities will also have their speed greatly reduced due to the impact of the ditches and bumps.

Unfortunately, the sorghum has just been planted and cannot hide their tracks at all.

Moreover, the Japanese infantry pursuit was not affected, and these pursuers were not injured. They also saved a lot of energy by riding in the car.

Compared with Hu Biao and others who were almost all injured, it can be said that they had a huge advantage.

While fighting and retreating, Hu Biao's side suffered fifty or sixty casualties.

Fortunately, when they were in a panic, they saw a big river in front of them. The river was more than a hundred meters wide. It turned out that they had reached the Xue River in Teng County.

There were seven or eight boats of various sizes on the shore. The boatman not only did not run away, but also loudly called on everyone to get on board.

Another twenty or thirty people were injured or killed, and all the talents got on the boat, urging the boatman to leave the river bank and start going downstream along the other side.

Even so, the Japanese pursuers were unwilling to give up despite the strict order. They trotted for a long distance and only stopped after crossing a large river bend, allowing Hu Biao and his men to escape...

(End of this chapter)