Just when Chairman Chiang Kai-shek and Yan Xishan received news of the great victory in Wuyuan, the pursuit of the remaining Japanese troops stationed in Mongolia by the 35th Army and the Chahar Independent Regiment was still going on, and the battle was far from over.
The army stationed in Mongolia was already defeated like a mountain. The more than 5,000 remnant soldiers who were defeated from Baijia Gedan, plus the defeated troops from Wuyuan, fled across the mountains and plains towards Baotou after crossing Wuliang Suhai. The cavalry of the 35th Army and the Chahar Independent Regiment were chasing forward across the mountains and plains.
With this pursuit, the formations of both sides were completely disrupted.
The little devils ran away without any organization, and ran eastward in small groups. The 35th Army and the Chahar Cavalry Regiment also chased them and disrupted the organization. It would be good if they could maintain the organization of a platoon. During the pursuit, there were always The Japanese will run away separately. At this time, the Thirty-fifth Army and the Chahar Independent Regiment, which are the pursuers, will also inevitably pursue separately.
In the end, the situation evolved into a pursuit battle on a platoon or below scale.
"Company Commander, there is a herdsman settlement ahead!" Under the dark night, a cavalryman suddenly shouted.
Xiang Dahu looked in the direction of the cavalryman's finger. Sure enough, he saw a few faint lights, and could also hear the faint sound of barking dogs. There was no doubt that this was a herdsman settlement. When he waved his right hand, he was followed by The dozen or so cavalrymen immediately dispersed and surrounded the herdsmen's settlement in a fan shape.
During the pursuit, Xiang Dahu's cavalry company had dispersed.
So far, there are only about ten cavalry left with Xiang Dahu.
However, the results of the pursuit are also very significant. You can know this by looking at the bundle of Japanese military uniforms tied behind Xiang Dahu and on the horse's buttocks. These military uniforms were all peeled off from the bodies of the killed Japanese soldiers. Yes, this is also a fine tradition of the Eighth Route Army, never wasting a single bit of material.
After a while, we arrived near the settlement.
This is just a small settlement. There are three or five yurts scattered beside a small river. Next to the yurts, there are cattle pens, sheep pens and stables surrounded by wooden fences, which contain livestock. Of course, these livestock are still here. The pastures are not owned by these herdsmen. These herdsmen only help with grazing.
In fact, the lives of herders on the grasslands are even more miserable than those of farmers in the Central Plains.
A dozen cavalrymen visited Yin Ye, and several native dogs in the settlement began to bark fiercely.
The barking of dogs alarmed the herdsmen in the settlement. Soon, several herdsmen got out of the yurt with torches. Seeing the soldiers of the independent regiment with loaded weapons, several herdsmen were obviously taken aback, and their hands subconsciously clenched their waists. With the scimitar on his side, the army was in chaos. Who knew whether it was the Jinsui army or the horse bandits
If it is the Jinsui Army, it will be fine, but if it is the horse bandits, it will be terrible.
If their cattle, sheep and horses were robbed, the flag owner would never spare them.
"Don't be afraid, fellow villagers." Xiang Dahu quickly said in Mongolian, "We are the Eighth Route Army of the Communist Party of China."
"Is it the Eighth Route Army?" Several herdsmen immediately breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this. They really knew about the Eighth Route Army, because the anti-Japanese war deeds of Commander Li's troops in Suinan and Suizhong had long been spread here. They may not really expect the Eighth Route Army to come. , but also knew that the Eighth Route Army was a force that made decisions for the poor, at least it could not harm them.
Xiang Dahu got off his horse and asked, "Fellow, have you seen any Japanese?"
"Japanese, I haven't seen you." One of the old herdsmen shook his head and then said, "It's just that half an hour before you came, the hounds in the village barked for a long time, but when I got up to look, But I didn’t see anyone there, so I didn’t take it to heart. You see…”
Xiang Dahu immediately became alert when he heard this.
With a wave of his hand, more than a dozen soldiers dismounted one after another, picked up the 38 caps, then pulled the bolts of their guns and loaded them.
Immediately afterwards, a dozen soldiers spread out in a fighting formation and surrounded the first nearby cattle pen.
There are more than a dozen cows crowded in the cattle pen, and there are pasture piles in front of the cattle pen. Xiang Dahu is also a herdsman. He can tell at a glance that there is something abnormal about the pile of pasture. Why? Because herdsmen generally cherish the forage very much, they usually pile it neatly after harvesting it, but the pile of forage in front of them looks very messy.
It's like being disrupted by someone, which is very abnormal.
Xiang Dahu pointed his gun at the haystack and shouted: "Baga, get out of here, I found you!"
The next moment, the haystack really dispersed with a crash, and a short and sturdy figure stood up from inside. Through the light of the torch in the herdsman's hand, we could clearly see that it was a Japanese soldier with a bayonet in one hand. The other hand was still holding a grenade, and the grenade was still smoking.
"No!" Xiang Dahu immediately cursed, turned around and fell to the ground. Before falling to the ground, he knocked down the herdsman holding a torch. Then, the grenade in the Japs hand exploded with a bang. , the fire suddenly bloomed and then extinguished, the whole world seemed extremely dark, and Xiang Dahu could not see anything in front of his eyes for an instant.
Immediately afterwards, horses neighed from the nearby stables, followed by the rapid sound of horse hooves.
"Oh shit, there are still Japs in the stable!" Xiang Dahu shouted loudly, suddenly raised the 38 cover, and fired a shot in the direction of the sound of horse hooves. He only heard a blast, and then a scream. The torch was lit again, and another Japanese man was seen lying down not far away, while a bareback horse stood quietly aside.
Xiang Dahu's casual shot just now actually hit a vital point!
"Company commander, you can do it!" More than a dozen cavalrymen immediately gathered around and shouted, "You can hit me this way."
"Shut up and be careful!" Xiang Dahu grunted and said, "There might be some Japanese hiding out."
The dozen or so Japs looked stern when they heard this, and immediately dispersed again and began to search one by one. However, this time, no more Japs were found. It was confirmed that there were no more Japs hiding in the settlement. Xiang Dahu He immediately led more than ten riders and continued to pursue forward. Not far after the pursuit, the white fish belly appeared on the eastern sky.
And in the distance, the outline of a city can already be seen.
"Company commander, isn't that Baotou City?" a cavalryman pointed to the front and shouted.
Xiang Dahu raised his head and took a look, and found that it was really Baotou. He immediately shouted: "Oh shit, we've all caught up to Baotou."
"Company commander, what should we do now?" Another cavalryman asked breathlessly, "Should we continue to pursue? If we continue to pursue, we will enter the city."
Xiang Dahu calmed down. At this time, the eastern sky had just revealed a hint of fish belly white, so the surrounding areas were still a little dark, and the situation at the top of Baotou City could not be seen clearly. The same was true for the Japanese and the Puppet Mongolian Army at the top of Baotou City. The situation outside the city cannot be seen clearly, which means that the Japanese and the puppet Mongolian army may not know that they have arrived outside Baotou City.
As a result, a bold idea emerged from the bottom of Xiang Dahu's heart, and once it emerged, it could no longer be suppressed.
After thinking "solemnly" for two seconds, Xiang Dahu slapped his thigh fiercely and shouted: "Brothers, change into Japanese military uniforms, let's go and open the city gate in a false way! Clear the obstacles for the large army to capture Baotou!"
"Company Commander, do we have this mission?" A cavalryman asked, "How do I remember that the mission given to us by the battalion commander was just to hunt down the Japanese, and he did not tell us to deceive the city."
"Shut up." Xiang Dahu snorted, "Are you the company commander, or am I the company commander?"
After a pause, Xiang Dahu shouted in a low voice: "Everyone is here, put on the Japanese military uniforms!"
There was no way, a dozen cavalrymen quickly took out the captured Japanese military uniforms from their horses' buttocks and put them on. The captured Japanese military uniforms were almost not intact, and some even had blood stains on them, but it didn't matter. Wearing this bloody military uniform, it looked like a soldier. They are more like the remnants of the Mongolian army that were defeated in Wuyuan. They don't even need to put on makeup.
Xiang Dahu is really brave. He can't even speak a word of Japanese, yet he dares to pretend to be a Japanese to deceive the city gate.
After a while, Xiang Dahu led more than ten cavalrymen disguised as Japs to the west gate of Baotou. They saw silence outside the west gate of Baotou. No Japs soldiers were seen. Only two sentries of the Puppet Mongolian Army were standing guard. Xiang Dahu and others approached, and the two Puppet Mongolian Army sentries immediately raised their guns and shouted sharply: "Stop, who are you?"
"Baga!" Xiang Dahu immediately cursed, "The imperial army is back, why don't you hurry up and open the city gate!"
Although Xiang Dahu doesn't speak Japanese, he also knows that Baga is a curse word used by little devils.
The two Puppet Mongolian Army sentries standing guard didn't think much. When they saw clearly that there was a group of Japanese outside the city gate, they immediately ran down and opened the door. Until Xiang Dahu led the people into the city, one of them The puppet Mongolian army even said flatteringly: "Taijun, your Chinese is really good, this is it." After saying that, he gave a thumbs up.
Xiang Dahu hummed twice, waved his hands and said, "It's just average."
However, just as he finished speaking, a Japanese soldier came out of the barracks and was about to go to the corner to urinate. Suddenly, he saw Xiang Dahu and the others standing outside the door, and they were all covered in blood. His face changed and he asked: "Are you twenty?" Are the people from the Sixth Division, or are they independently mixed into the Second Brigade? Looking like this?"
Xiang Dahu, the dozen or so cavalrymen behind him, and the two Puppet Mongolian sentries who came down to open the door, were immediately stunned because the little devil spoke in Japanese and could not understand them at all! In the end, the two puppet Mongolian soldiers who came down to open the door reacted first, and immediately shouted: "Oh, you are not Taijun!"
Xiang Dahu knew that this scene could not go on.
Fortunately, the city gate had been opened, so it didn't matter whether he sang or not. At that moment, Xiang Dahu took out the cannon and fired two shots at the confused Japanese, and then shouted: "Brothers, shoot me!"
A dozen cavalrymen immediately raised their 38 big caps and started firing ping-pong-pong-pong.
In an instant, the crisp sound of gunfire alarmed Baotou City in the morning light. Mobile phone users please browse and read.