Sangyu Town was once swept away by the Japanese and Li Fuhe's puppet troops. The people all knew what the consequences would be if the Japanese came. Under the urging of the Eighth Squadron's baggage squad and kitchen squad, the ordinary people in Sangyu Town basically evacuated, and only some merchants were still transferring their property.

With the rise of commerce in Sangyu Town, merchants have transported a large number of goods, especially now that it is almost the end of the year. Many merchants have a lot of inventory in their warehouses, and some large and heavy goods cannot be transported away in a short time.

Although the soldiers of the Eighth Squadron have blocked both ends of the street and constantly persuaded the merchants who transported their property to do not have their property. It is still important to save their lives, someone still handed a cigarette with a smile and pleaded: "Boss, boss, it's not easy for us to do small business. This is the last trip, definitely the last trip."

The Eighth Squadron has been stationed in Sangyu Town for so long and has a good relationship with the local people. Especially the kitchen and supplies squads often purchase supplies in the town, so they are very familiar with many merchants. The soldiers can't hide their face and have to let the merchants enter the town again and again to pull out the "last trip" of goods.

Huangnigang is very close to Sangyu Town, only five miles away. According to the speed of the Japanese marching, it can be reached in more than half an hour. However, the team at the Well took a while to bypass Huangnigang, and the country road was very rugged, which took him a while. When his team arrived at the periphery of Sangyu Town, it was already an hour and a half later.

Inoue is a brain-loving team leader. He believes that since someone is already blocking Huangnigang, Sangyu Town must be prepared. According to the general deployment, the opponent's defense focus should be on the east end of the town, because this may be the first place where the Japanese army came. So Inoue made a decision, and the team took a short walk, and the Japanese team would launch an attack from the west end of the town.

Inoue's judgment was indeed correct. The kitchen squad of the Eighth Squadron guarding the west end of the town was the chef.

The kitchen squad is nominally a class, but in fact there are only eight people in full battle. And because there are no combat tasks under normal circumstances, they are not equipped with machine guns, and the entire squad has only eight rifles.

When the team from Inoue searched from the west along the road, the first thing they encountered was a big truck. This was the largest grain and oil shop in the town that transported rice from Heji Grain and Oil Shop, which was full of rice.

The shopkeeper of He Ji Grain and Oil Shop was also sitting in a big cart. They had just come out of the town, but they didn't expect to meet the Japanese when they came towards him. The handlebar was panicked and was about to stop the car, but the shopkeeper was anxious and shouted, "What are you doing for parking? Why don't you run away?"

The handlebar raised the whip and was about to wave the whip, but a Japanese man picked up the 38th hood and fired a shot at him, "Eight Hooks"

The handlebar type was so scared that he threw the whip in his hand, jumped off the cart with his head and ran into the field. The cart was thrown on the road.

"Eight hooks, eight hooks,..." After a few gunshots, the handlebar that had runs not far was finally defeated by the Japanese. The shopkeeper of He Ji Grain and Oil Shop was so scared that he raised his hands high and sat on the cart and did not dare to move.

Inoue came to the cart and saw that the cart was filled with sacks filled with rice, which were more than a thousand kilograms. He pulled out his command knife and pointed it at Sangyu Town, laughing wildly: "The big Japanese samurai, Sangyu Town is right in front, inside, and there are golden tickets, and the flower girl has big attacks, attack, attack."

Of course, the gunshots at the west end also reached the ears of the officers and soldiers of the kitchen squad of the Eighth Squadron. The gunshots of the 38th Cloth were very special. When the squad leader heard the first gunshot, he shouted: "No, the Japanese are here."

After saying that, he immediately ordered a soldier to ask for help from the baggage squad, and rushed to the simple fortifications just built at the west end of the town with the remaining six people.

In fact, on the hillsides at both ends of the town, the Eighth Squadron had already dug some trenches, but at present there were only eight people in the kitchen squad. The kitchen squad leader knew that instead of throwing the eight people on his side into such a vast trenches, it would be better to gather all these people together and guard the simple fortifications that had just been built with sacks of soil on the main road of the town.

On the way to the town to return, they encountered a big cart that was abandoned on the road. The owner of the big cart had long been scared away by the gunshots of the Japanese, and the cart was loaded with peanuts.

Before they could enter the town, two large trucks of supplies were seized. The Japanese were very motivated. They took the truck and rushed to Sangyu Town at full speed.

Sangyu Town is not very big. The town forms a street along the main road. It takes about ten minutes to walk from the east end of the town to the west end of the town. From receiving the kitchen team for help and rushing to the west end of the town, the baggage team only took less than ten minutes.

The number of people in the baggage squad was relatively large, with only fifteen people. They were mainly responsible for transporting and custodying the eighth squadron and maintaining mules and horses that carried the supplies. Like the kitchen squad, they did not have any combat tasks and were not equipped with machine guns. Although they also participated in normal military training, because there were basically no veterans in the team, their combat effectiveness was not much higher than that of the kitchen squad.

As soon as the team in Inoue approached Sangyu Town, a row of bullets fired from the fortifications at the entrance of the town. These were bullets blocked by the kitchen squad and the baggage squad.

Inoue is not surprised that there are defenses in the town. Sangyu Town is the garrison of the Eighth Squadron. It would be a very strange thing if there were no troops for defense here.

The team was temporarily blocked from outside the town, and Inoue did not launch an attack rashly. He observed carefully through the telescope, and judged based on the gunshot that the defenders in the town did not have any heavy weapons. From the level of the opponent's shooting, this was not a powerful force.

"Attack" Inoue pulled out his command knife and pointed it, and the crooked machine gun immediately fired.

The kitchen squad and the baggage squad had only about twenty people, and they all used rifles, and were suppressed by the Japanese in firepower. Inoue was different from Matsui. Even when facing such a weak opponent, he sent a squad to detour and attack the defenders hiding in simple fortifications.

Faced with the attacks of the Japanese on both sides, the defenders, who were already at a disadvantage, began to suffer casualties. The Japanese gradually surrounded them, and the entire defense line was in danger.

Seeing that he was about to be surrounded by the Japanese, the squad leader of the baggage squad quickly ordered: "retreat"

But even if it is retreating, it is not an easy task now. These Japanese soldiers are all veterans. They are staring at the back, and their guns are both accurate and accurate. After the defenders have suffered another death and injury, they barely retreated back to the town.

The defender originally wanted to retreat to the town and rely on the strong houses to fight the Japanese. Inoue immediately understood the other party's intention and ordered: "Follow up and bite them."

Facts have proved that Inoue's tactics are extremely correct. The Japanese in groups of two or three, and generally one person is ahead. The Japanese behind them use accurate shooting to cover their comrades, and they tightly bite the retreating defenders.

The enemy and us were only sixty or seventy meters apart, and the Japanese chasing were extremely accurate. The defenders stopped for a moment and suffered casualties. It was impossible to retreat to the house. Forced to helplessness, the baggage squad and the kitchen squad quickly withdrew from the town along the street. When they evacuated from the town, there were only twelve people left in the two squads, one of which was seriously injured and three were slightly injured.

After expelling General Inoue's defenders from the town, he did not allow anyone to pursue them. He believed that it was unnecessary to use precious troops to deal with such a small team with low combat power.

After sending out the necessary alert forces, Inoue began to ask the soldiers to "requisition materials" in the town.

In China, the Japanese have always adopted the strategy of "fighting to support war" and "using China to control China". In order to supplement supplies, it is common for Japanese soldiers to rob property in the occupied areas, and they are also called "requisition" by the military.

The merchants in Sangyu Town have basically escaped, but the bulky and bulky goods are still left in the shop. Although the merchants locked the doors, what is an iron lock for the Imperial Army?

The doors of shops were smashed open, and the shelves and warehouses were messed up by the Japanese. Various goods were held in their hands and carried on their shoulders by the Japanese. But what excited the Japanese the most was the opening of the Babaozhai Pastry Shop in the town.

Since the recent years have passed, Babaozhai Pastry Shop is actively storing various pastry ingredients such as flour, glutinous rice, sugar, red beans, etc., so the warehouse is full of these things. The Japanese love sweets, especially sugar, which is simply the Japanese favorite.

Sugar itself is military supplies distributed by the Japanese. Each soldier is distributed regularly every month, or only a little is distributed before going to fight a big battle. Now dozens of packets of red sugar are piled up, making these Japanese soldiers’ eyes full of green light.

A Japanese soldier picked up a bayonet and cut a candy bag, reached out to grab a handful of sugar and put it in his mouth, and then started chewing it with a big chew. Other soldiers also rushed forward, some people ate the candy when they grabbed it, and some people took the bags and put the sugar in the bags and prepared to keep it and eat it slowly.

"Does go, these have been requisitioned by the team." Inoue pushed everyone away and walked in.

Seeing the commander come in, the soldiers scattered and ran to the shelves in the store to grab other sweets - various finished pastries.

Dong Zhao, who was stationed in Zhujialou Village, received news from Zhang Ergou in time, and he immediately began to summon cavalry.

The cavalry and infantry units are different. In addition to the gathering of personnel immediately, the more important thing is to sort out the mules and horses. At this time, some cavalrymen who were responsible for reconnaissance missions were sent out and could not come back for a while. Most of the mules and horses were rode out by the cavalry to walk their horses.

After the commemoration army was urgently summoned, forty minutes later, there were only 30 mules, horses and soldiers ready to go, and other personnel and horses were returning to the team one after another.

These cavalry who had just returned to the team could not set off immediately. They had to organize their horses and get the ammunition they carried before they could go to war.

Dong Zhao knew the military situation was urgent, so he asked Yu Deshui to stay and summon the remaining personnel before setting off. He led more than 30 cavalrymen to the battlefield...
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