Rebirth of the National Marshal

Let’s go back to Master Mao’s patrol team.

A patrol team consisting of 15 jeeps and 20 three-wheeled sidecars set off.

There were four people in the jeep, including a driver. A soldier carrying a Suomi submachine gun was on guard on the passenger seat. An ammunition handler and a machine gunner were on the back seat, controlling the two heavy machine guns on the roof. The bullets for the two heavy machine guns were packed in iron boxes, with 2 rounds in each box. The vehicle was loaded with 2 rounds of ammunition.

In addition, the jeep is equipped with a grenade launcher and 10 shells.

The three-wheeled sidecar motorcycle is much simpler, with a driver, a soldier carrying a submachine gun on the back seat, and a Czech light machine gun on the sidecar. Although this thing was later proven to be unstable and unsuitable, it is still pretty good in this era. After all, you don't have anything better to replace it, right?

The patrol team set out in three directions. In this era, it would be great if there were unmanned reconnaissance aircraft. By releasing them, we could quickly find out where the enemy is. Unfortunately, there is nothing now, and we can only rely on people to go out and search bit by bit.

The Central Army and the Northwest Army had fought for half a month, but had not found the main force of the Japanese army. They knew clearly what they should do, which was not to confront the Central Army and the Northwest Army head-on, but to find an opportunity to escape and run back to Tianjin. The reason why the Japanese made this mistake was that they underestimated the combat effectiveness of the 29th Army. They still kept the 29th Army at the time a few years ago, believing that relying on two infantry regiments of 8000 people, it could be enough to destroy their tens of thousands of troops in the capital.

I didn't expect that the 29th Army has grown to this extent. The most important thing is that a variable has appeared in the capital, that is, Mao Yuanshan's security regiment is very powerful.

Although there were problems with the coordination between the Central Army and the Northwest Army, they had a large number of people after all, so it was not a problem for them to encircle the Japanese army. Moreover, the Military and Political Department had already made plans to sacrifice three divisions to eliminate these two infantry companies, and had given death orders to the front-line generals.

Wang Minghe is the leader of a patrol team, managing five jeeps and five three-wheeled motorcycles. Their mission is to move south from Chenjia Town. There is a small village about 5 kilometers ahead. When studying the map, Mao Yuanshan and Wang Bing thought that there might be a dark place under the light, and it is possible that the Japanese devils are hiding in this small village.

A jeep was driving 200 meters ahead of the entire team. According to their idea, the motorcycles should be in the front, but Mao Yuanshanye instructed all the patrol teams that the jeeps were thick-skinned and walked in front, so their chances of survival were higher. The motorcycles were made of iron, so the probability of death was higher.

The 5k distance would take a while to walk, but for these mechanized patrols, it would be reached very quickly.

"Captain, something is wrong. We have reached the edge of the village. The whole village is pitch black. Even if the people here go to bed early, they can't go out that early. It's not dark yet." The person in the leading car reported using a walkie-talkie. In that era, walkie-talkies were a very precious thing. In the Central Army, only regimental commanders had this thing. The Japanese devils only had one in a battalion.

But in the security team, the jeep we exchanged for was equipped with our own.

"Got it. You stay put and stay on guard." Wang Minghe wiped the dust off the glass. Although the jeep was a good thing, the roads in this era were too rubbish. He had to wipe the dust off the glass after driving for a while, otherwise he wouldn't be able to see the road ahead clearly.

This is really abnormal. In this era, ordinary people did not have much entertainment activities at night and most of them went to bed after dark. But not all of them. According to the information, there were at least three or four hundred people in the whole village. It was impossible for all of them to sleep. And it sounded very quiet. Just now when I passed by a village, it was very bright next to it.

"Use the grenade launcher to fire three flares." After Wang Minghe said this, three jeeps rushed forward. At the same time, at the place where the roof of their car was exposed, three soldiers with grenade launchers fired three flares.

Although the flares illuminated the entire village as if it were daytime, there was nothing wrong to see.

Just at this moment, a carriage came out from the direction of the village. It seemed to be a family. An old man was driving the carriage in front, and a middle-aged woman and a young boy were sitting in the back.

"Fellow villagers, why do people in our village go to bed so early? It's only a few o'clock, but there is no open fire in the whole village." Wang Minghe and several soldiers looked at the family that came out. They looked like an ordinary peasant family, except that the middle-aged woman in the car had relatively white skin. To be honest, women of that era generally had relatively rough skin. It seemed that this woman did not work in the fields very often.

"Commendants, it's not that there is no one in our village, but that everyone has fled. Didn't the Japanese devils attack us recently? The entire village has fled to the capital. Am I not taking my whole family to the capital to seek refuge with relatives at night?" The old man said with a smile, speaking the local dialect.

"So that's how it is. Then you just follow this road north." said a young soldier in the team, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the Japanese devils were not in this village. If they were in this village, the three members of this family would have died long ago.

"Thank you, bosses. We'll leave first." The middle-aged man turned around and jumped into the car. Wang Minghe always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't put his finger on it. This family of three gave him a strange feeling.

Suddenly Wang Minghe understood. This man was too short, less than 1.5 meters tall. This guy must be Japanese. Looking at the middle-aged woman and the child in the car, both of them had very fair skin and tender flesh. They had never done any farm work. It was obvious that their car did not belong to the wealthy people in the countryside, but to the poor peasants.

"Everyone be on alert, capture them for me." All the patrol members became alert at the first moment, and several people around the old man pointed their guns directly at the old man's chest.

"Commander, what are we doing? Are we really going to the capital?" The old man looked panicked, which made Wang Minghe feel that his judgment was correct. When these people saw us just now, they were not curious about these weapons at all. How could ordinary people not be curious if they had never seen this?

"Send a telegram to the headquarters immediately, Japanese have been spotted here." Then Wang Minghe came back and pried open the old man's hands, revealing several calluses, which were obviously caused by holding a gun for a long time.

"We almost let you, old man, get away with it. If I'm not mistaken, your two infantry regiments are in this village. The reason we let you out is to confuse us and tell us not to move forward. Let's go back." Wang Minghe said with a sneer. At the same time, the boy in the car actually pulled out a Nambu-style pistol from the back.

Unfortunately, before the kid could load the bullet, the soldier next to him shot him with the butt of his rifle. After all, he was only a boy of fifteen or sixteen years old, and the butt of the rifle knocked him unconscious.

"Baga." The old man finally uttered the Japs' curses.

"You almost got away with it." The captain kicked the old guy and asked his subordinates to take him away. It was right not to open fire just now. In fact, the Japanese cavalry regiment had already seen this side.

If the old guy fired a shot, the other side would rush over after hearing the gunshot. This was a secret signal they had agreed upon in advance. If he didn't fire a shot, it meant they had gotten away with it.

"Everyone, retreat quickly. We can't afford to offend this person." Although Wang Ming and his men were well-armed, the problem was that there were more than 8000 Japanese devils in the village. It would be a pipe dream to fight them with a small patrol team like them. It would be better to go back and wait for the main force.

Just when everyone was turning the car over, the middle-aged woman unexpectedly rushed over, grabbed the gun of a soldier next to her, fired three shots into the air, and was then subdued.

"Damn it, Zhang Youcai, are you a man? Your own gun was snatched away by a woman. What do you care about? Hurry up and keep it for me. Retreat, the Japanese cavalry is rushing over." Wang Minghe cursed. The sound of horse hooves could be heard from behind. It sounded like there were definitely quite a lot of people, hundreds of them.

"Speed ​​up the motorcycles, the jeeps stay behind, and quickly retreat to Chenjia Town." This is definitely not the time to get entangled.

"Well done, Liangzi, you bunch of despicable Chinese, our cavalry regiment will catch up with you soon and kill you all." Although the old woman was tied up, her mouth was not blocked. When she saw the Japanese cavalry behind her, she shouted excitedly.

"Since the Japanese devils are giving us so much face, I originally wanted to go back directly. Brothers, let's turn our big guys around and teach these little devils a lesson. Don't think we are easy to bully just because we are a patrol team. Old man, you must look carefully. These hundreds of cavalrymen may not be enough for us to have a good time with. Remember, run after you fight, and don't chase them." Wang Minghe fell deeply in love with this heavy machine gun after he got it from her. Not to mention that he is now a captain, even if a higher-ranking official heard the sound of the machine gun, he would probably come over to try it.

"Shoot." After seeing the Japanese cavalry entering the firing range, all the machine guns opened fire at the same time. The bullets of 127mm and 9mm are completely different.

The first bullet whizzed out, and after flying hundreds of meters, it directly hit the head of a cavalryman in the front row. The horse's head exploded instantly. It is not surprising that the bullet exploded a person's head, but it is a bit amazing that it also exploded an animal's head. But don't rush to praise it, because after the bullet exploded the horse's head, it could still fly and penetrate the body of the cavalryman above.

The dozen or so cavalrymen running in the front didn't even have the chance to shout before they were directly shot down. If they were in a hilly area, there was no way a jeep could outrun a horse, but here it was relatively open and flat, and the performance of the off-road jeep was immediately revealed. They could run for a while and stop from time to time, anyway, they were within the range of the machine guns.

The Japanese cavalry carried a modified version of the Type 38 rifle, also known as a cavalry rifle. This thing is also a single-shot rifle. If you want to cause any damage to the jeep, don't even think about it.

The Japanese devils obviously understood the situation, and after losing hundreds of cavalrymen, they stopped and did not continue the pursuit. If they had followed the patrol's strategy, they would have been completely wiped out after chasing for a thousand meters or so.