Rise from the sword

Chapter 335 March in a hurry, speed is everything

the next day.

Clear sky.

The September sun is still hot.

Early morning hours.

About a few kilometers downstream of Banqiao Town, there were two groups of devils stationed, one was a large transport ship that was stranded, and the other was three small motorboats that were also stranded.

However, there is something puzzling about the two camps.

Both sides also hung plaster flags, proving that they were all devils.

but.

The camp was clearly divided into two piles, separated by stranded ships, and the tents on both sides were of different colors, shapes, and arrangements, as well as the colors of military uniforms, and even the guns were obviously different.

The only thing that is the same is the plaster flags standing upright.

Moreover, the two sides also set up sandbag bunkers and aimed their machine guns at each other, in a posture of high vigilance.

"What is this kid doing?"

On the top of a hidden hillside a few kilometers away from Banqiao Town, a government intelligence officer held up a binoculars and looked into the distance. His eyes widened when he came into view.

"It is said that the devil's navy and army are at odds, but this..."

Next to him, another companion holding a binoculars was a little hesitant to speak.

Before, there was intelligence that the devils were at odds with the sea and land, and the degree was very serious, but it is normal for a country's navy to be at odds. After all, there are fights where there are interests. Not right.

But...is this too exaggerated?
No matter how they disagree, they won't be able to draw their guns at each other.

Those who didn't know, thought that there were two hostile forces here, and they were preparing to go to war!

When the topic came to this point, the two were speechless for a while, obviously the scene in front of them was far from their imagination.

The topic quickly shifted from topic to topic:
"Who on earth snatched this batch of gold from the devil?"

The intelligence department of the national government quickly peeled off the cocoons from a pile of information, and figured out the ins and outs of the matter, and also knew that the transport ship on the Yangtze River was a smoke bomb, the actual transport route was the Huaihe River, and it was robbed by others.

But like the devil, it is not clear who did it.

"I don't know, I guess the devil is also investigating."

The other shook his head too.

Then, his tone was full of exclamation:
"This group of people is really amazing. They actually know the exact transportation route of the devil's gold."

For this batch of gold, the intelligence forces of the government and the devils secretly fought underground for nearly half a year, but in the end they couldn't accurately find the transportation route of the devils, and even the smoke bombs on the Yangtze River couldn't accurately determine it.

The little devil has penetrated too deeply into the Republic of China, and even many spies who have been lurking for more than ten years have infiltrated into the high-level. The intelligence force is very strong. As an intelligence officer, he has a deep understanding of this.

"The higher authorities are doing their best to investigate this matter."

"but···"

Speaking of this, the other person stopped.

To investigate a matter, at least there must be someone to suspect, but now, there is almost no target to be suspected, and they don't know how to investigate.

First of all, they didn't do it.

Then, seeing the devil's movement, the sea and land armies were dispatched together, more than a dozen reconnaissance planes were flying around in the sky, and the Saito United team was frantically searching. Today, they even mobilized other brigades to search around. In the center, the devils within a radius of [-] miles have completely blocked the intersection. It is not the devils who want to catch the thief by themselves.

As for the other group, certainly not.

For one thing, their so-called bases are far away, and that group of people doesn't have such intelligence and military power.

According to the current known situation and the number of devil corpses on the river bank, at least one team of devils was killed, and three escorting motorboats and a transport ship were stranded, but no attacker's boat was found, although it is not clear What is going on, but to cause such casualties, the strength of the person who did it is at least an elite group.

Not to mention them, even the national government is unable to gather such a force in Huaihe, an area where the devils are heavily stationed.

At this moment, a person ran up from behind and told the two of them a message:
Not long ago, a battle broke out at an intersection blocked by the devils [-] kilometers to the east. It seemed that a small group of people planned to sneak through the mountains, but they were discovered by the devils, and the two sides broke out in a fight. It was a big loss.

"It should be this group of people who robbed the devil's gold."

Several intelligence personnel speculated together.

"But, who are they?"

Immediately afterwards, doubts followed.

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Compared with the doubts of the intelligence personnel of the national government, the devils were not at all puzzled, especially the navy, and even more.

The grass-roots troops and officers of the sea and land were confronting each other, but the high-level officials of the two sides promoted the joint investigation amid mutual curses in their hearts, and various investigators were sent to the damaged motorboats and transport ships.

Of course, each check their own.

"Baga, those damned horse dung."

Inside the Naval Command, Lieutenant Admiral Tanimoto was furious.

He was angry with the situation.

This matter obviously has nothing to do with horse manure. The gold transported by the navy was robbed. They wanted to investigate who did it and where the information was leaked, but the horse manure intervened, disrupting or even blocking the investigation .

"In my opinion, this is a scene directed and acted by Ma Dung."

Tanimoto seriously suspected that this was horse manure used to trap their navy.

After all, the three motorboats over there obviously belonged to the army, and the only one who could secretly transfer the three motorboats near the Huaihe River was the army. Other forces, even the national government, should not even try to get them.

But he has no proof.

These are just conjectures, and horse manure can easily deny it.

If you want to find trouble with horse manure, you must also find decisive evidence.

"Send a report to the investigation team, Admiral Tazawa, and ask him to investigate carefully. If you find that this is evidence of what the horse manure did, don't say anything, and bring the evidence back." Tanimoto urged.

"Hi."

The staff officer bowed his head and said yes.

"General."

Suddenly, a staff officer came in:
"According to intelligence, the army found a group of unknown armed forces at an intersection 60 kilometers east of Banqiao Town. Fighting broke out between the two sides. According to intelligence personnel's observations, the unknown armed forces were very powerful and even equipped with [-] mortars. They Successfully breached the blockade and continued east, while the Army squad blocking the junction appears to have suffered heavy losses."

"Saito United has sent a brigade to encircle and suppress."

"Nani?"

Hearing this news, Tanimoto felt complicated.

The troops of the horse dung suffered heavy losses, which made him a little happy, but now a group of unknown armed forces suddenly appeared, which showed that it was very possible that this batch of gold should not be done by the horse dung, but by this group of people.

"Quickly find out the identity of this group of people."

Tanimoto rubbed his forehead and ordered.

He hoped that this time it was the horse dung thief calling for a thief.

"Hi."

The staff officer bowed his head and said yes.

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at this time.

In the lower reaches of Banqiao Town, the sea and land camps are confronting each other, but the investigation teams of the two sides have already started investigations.

Soon some doubts came to his face.

"This is not our launch."

Looking at the three bombed motorboats in front of him, a lieutenant of the army said solemnly:
"Although the structure is basically the same, and there are even Japanese inscriptions on it, the factory label is obviously wrong."

After a pause, his tone became more and more strange:
"These motorboats have obviously been modified to increase the horsepower of the engine and make it faster. They also made a soundproof cover for the engine to reduce noise, and increased the rudder surface to make the operation easier."

"and."

"The manufacturing process is very good."

"Far more sophisticated than the manufacturing process of the empire, comparable to the top European and American factories."

Naturally, the navy red deer also discovered this discovery.

At the same time, a lot of things were found on the transport ship:

"From the analysis of the bullet marks, Koizumi and the guard soldiers seem to have been attacked while deterring the three motorboats approaching. From this point of view, the attackers should be army horse dung, or wearing horse dung uniforms, so that the Colonel Koizumi has lost his vigilance."

"and···"

"The other party also sent a group of people to sneak into the transport ship from the stern, killed the radio operator in the cabin, robbed the gold, and even took the radio station and code book."

The navy's investigating officer immediately reviewed the entire battle.

He continued:
"The opponent is using a Mauser pistol, which is commonly used by the Republic of China troops."

"but···"

Having said that, the Navy lieutenant took out several large warheads and shell casings:
"What type of weapon is this?"

"Could it be some kind of custom-made weapon?"

"Looking at the size, it seems to be pistol ammunition, but with a 0.5-inch caliber, the shell case is so long, and the bullet is so heavy, can the recoil hand hold it?"

Seeing a pistol of such a caliber for the first time made the lieutenant grit his teeth.

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The day.

A junction 35 kilometers away from Banqiao Town.

At this time, Zhang Dabiao and others were restorating in a dense forest.

After eating the white flour pancake with meat in his hand, Zhang Dabiao looked around at the soldiers.

In the battle of breaking through the intersection, they eliminated more than 30 devils with mental calculations but not intentional, while they only lost one person on their side, injured three people, and only one of the wounded was seriously injured, almost a complete victory.

After that, they spent a few more hours circling in circles, distracting the attention of the devil's pursuers.

'Put all the weapons, equipment and supplies on the back of the big mule. '

Zhang Dabiao ordered.

Because they did not carry gold, their team of big mules carried a very light load. Coupled with the consumption of previous battles, there was not much ammunition. The equipment and luggage of 40 people could easily be carried by ten big mules.

"The wounded also go to the big mule."

After directing the wounded to get on the big mule, Zhang Dabiao spoke solemnly:

"Next, let's go back to the regiment."

"March at full speed."

"It's one o'clock in the afternoon. From now until six o'clock tomorrow morning, we will be transferred here."

He points to a point on the map.

Hearing Zhang Dabiao's words and the point on the map, everyone fell into a brief silence.

From the map, that point is more than 120 kilometers away from their current location.And their time is only fifteen hours, that is to say, they have to walk fifteen miles per hour on average.And during this period, it also includes the time for rest and eating.

Taking a deep breath, Zhang Dabiao spoke harshly:

"The task of attracting the devil's attention has been completed, and we have won at least one day for the gold transportation team."

"However, we are currently in the center of the devil's army. Within a radius of two hundred miles, there are tens of thousands of little devils. Every county has devils stationed, and there are almost no bases around us."

"Besides, we are running out of weapons and ammunition. Even if we risk our lives against the devils, we won't be able to kill many devils."

"The only chance of survival is to march quickly."

"At a marching speed beyond the little devil's imagination, quickly move to highlight the little devil's encirclement."

"Either get tired and get down and be chased by the devils and fight the devils desperately, or survive and go back to the regiment and continue to eat, drink, and beat the devils."

"I want to emphasize one point. We only have ten big mules, so we can't carry everyone. If anyone can't run and falls behind, then I don't need to say anything."

As he spoke, Zhang Dabiao opened up his shirt, revealing a large German-made tumor with a fragment cover on his chest.

"Now."

After putting away his clothes, Zhang Dabiao said sharply, "Now, let's go."

In the silence, the whole team marched towards the north without making a sound.

None of the fighters who can participate is afraid of death, and everyone has the consciousness to exchange one life with the devil.

But everyone has an abacus in mind.

Relying on a small amount of ammunition, fighting devils here, one life for one life, is far worse than returning to the regiment to kill as many devils as possible. This business is a blood loss no matter what.

Labor and management never do business at a loss.

Thinking of this, the leader's mantra seemed to ring in everyone's ears.

Therefore, in order to eliminate more devils, then risk your life and march.

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Eight o'clock at night.

The sky was grey.

"Set off."

Wang Gensheng also said sharply:
"Marching at full speed, we have to reach the next supply point before dawn."

Accompanied by his order, all the soldiers of the gold transportation team took a deep breath.

At this time, everyone's faces were deeply exhausted. Yesterday's battle, coupled with the rapid march overnight, even they couldn't bear it, but without any hesitation, this group of people still walked, led the mule, and quickly And firmly headed north.

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at the same time.

Independence Corps.

Zhao Gang looked at the starry sky in the south, his eyes were full of worry.

"Old Li, what do you say..."

The anxious political commissar Zhao couldn't help it, and Xiang Li Yunlong started nagging again.

"There is a chance, but there is only one chance."

Li Yunlong's voice is dignified, like the heavy interweaving of steel:
"According to the scheduled plan, or even surpassing the scheduled plan, after grabbing the gold, march as fast as possible, and leave Banqiao Town of Huaihe River quickly before the devils react, before the devils figure out the request for money."

"The faster they go, the safer they are."

With the information provided by brother Chen, this mission will definitely be successful, and the gold must have been obtained. Also because there is enough information, the retreat route has been arranged, and the supplies have also been prepared in advance.

Whether they can escape depends on whether Zhang Dabiao and Wang Gensheng are fast enough.

"Ah."

On the side, Zhao Gang just nodded slightly.

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south.

Late at night.

Inside a Japanese military headquarters.

The head of the division of the Devils garrison around the Huaihe River frowned as he looked at the information gathered in his hands.

Three tons of gold from the red deer were robbed on the Huaihe River, and a senior officer was shot dead, and the person who did it got three refitted army motorboats through unknown means, and then pretended to be the army to do it.

This is very troublesome, if the red deer use this time to make trouble, even if there is no actual evidence, it is really difficult to deal with.

A dereliction of duty can't run away.

Moreover, the incident has happened for more than a day, and they still haven't found out who did it. Even almost his entire division was mobilized to block the intersection with a radius of [-] kilometers. Nearly [-] troops frantically searched, but failed to find the gang Those who fled eastward.

Even the nearby national government troops knew about this situation and started to act one after another, which made him very dizzy and had to allocate part of his energy to deal with this group of people.

"General."

Suddenly, a staff officer came in:
"When the first brigade of Saito United was being searched along the direction of Banqiao Town, some fresh footprints were found. From the analysis of the traces of the footprints, this team was about 70 people, and there were many camels carrying heavy loads. Mule and horse."

The little devil still found the traces of Wang Gensheng. After all, in order to hurry, he didn't have time to clear the footprints and other traces.

"Oh?"

'It turned out to be a slap in the face? '

The head of the Guizi division's eyes lit up: "Order Saito, quickly send cavalry to pursue, and notify the garrisons of the counties in the north to strengthen the blockade and surveillance of all intersections, and no one is allowed to pass."

(End of this chapter)