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Chapter 405
A figure beside him nodded.
"We're almost done retreating."
Hearing this, Li Chishui nodded immediately.
"We will stop the Japanese in Shangzhuang, pretend to be defeated, and then evacuate through the tunnel.
The first battalion, led by Suanpan and I, is waiting for your evacuation. We will pretend to be fleeing towards Zhaodian.
Magnet, tell the brothers in the first battalion about this later."
At this time, the man called Magnet nodded.
"Don't worry, Brother Li, I promise to make these devils evacuate along our road."
Li Chishui nodded when he heard this.
Afterwards, after making the division of labor, Li Chishui led his troops to harass the Japanese regiment along the way.
Then he pretended to be defeated and fled in a hurry.
2 pm.
At this time, the 27th Brigade of the 14th Division, which was heading to Handan, was blocked in the Yongfeng Mountain area by troops from two regiments of the Third Division.
The Japanese planes from Handan Airport were originally flying to Yongfeng Mountain to support the 27th Brigade.
However, they did not expect that two air defense companies would seize the opportunity and shoot down three fighter planes. The remaining planes fled back to Handan Airport in a hurry.
Only the commander of the 27th Brigade, Guan Yu, was left, cursing at the sky, saying that the air force was as cowardly as mice.
Guan Yu had no choice but to personally command the troops to attack Yongfeng Mountain.
Until now, it is still blocked under Yongfeng Mountain.
On the other side, the 61st Infantry Regiment continued to break through the defense line of the Wuan Independent Regiment after fighting with the Independent Regiment.
Finally, the brigade was led to the vicinity of Shangzhuang.
After a while of fighting with the 61st Regiment, Magnet led the 1st Battalion and began to evacuate towards Zhaodian in a pretended panic.
Except for Li Chishui and Suanpan who followed the magnet, everyone else evacuated from the tunnel.
On the way, Li Chishui watched everyone pretending to evacuate in a panic, and suddenly thought of what to do if the Japanese army did not take the bait. His eyes rolled, and he immediately thought of a solution.
So, the troops were immediately stopped, and a trick of making a feint to the east and attacking in the west, reducing the number of cooking fires and retreating troops was played, and they evacuated towards Zhaodian.
On the way, Li Chishui kept urging.
"Brothers, hurry up!
Don’t let yourself get caught up by the Japanese.
Don’t forget to throw away useless things after a few hundred steps.”
Li Chishui and others ran from 10 am to 3 pm and were finally about to arrive at Zhaodian.
At this point, everyone had nothing left to throw away.
When he saw that Ding Dasuanpan was carrying a big pot on his back, his eyes suddenly lit up and he asked Ding Dasuanpan to throw it away immediately.
Upon hearing this, Ding Dasuanpan immediately quit.
“Throw it away?
You can't throw away this guy who's eating.
What will we eat if we throw it away?"
Hearing this, Li Chishui suddenly became anxious.
“What to eat?
After we complete the mission, I will personally find the commander and ask the kitchen staff to make dumplings for us.
Pork stewed with vermicelli!
Throw!"
After hearing this, Ding Dasuanpan reluctantly threw the pot on his back to the side of the road.
Then continue to evacuate towards Zhaodian.
When the 61st Regiment also chased here and found no trace of the Eighth Route Army, the regiment commander Terauchi Isamu on the roadside suddenly became so angry that he screamed.
Suddenly, when Terauchi Isamu saw an object similar to a marching pot discarded on the roadside by Li Chishui and others, he thought it was a secret weapon left by the Eighth Route Army.
Suddenly he shouted.
"Alert~"
Upon hearing this, the surrounding Japanese soldiers were immediately frightened and quickly lay on the ground, looking around defensively.
Terauchi Isamu watched for a long time and found that the object that looked like a marching pot did not react at all.
So he slowly stepped forward, squatted down gently, and knocked tentatively with his pistol.
When he turned it over and found that it was indeed a camp pot, he immediately grinned.
Terauchi Isamu was very sure that the Eighth Route Army he was chasing must be the main force of the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei.
Moreover, the fleeing Eighth Route Army soldiers were so desperate that they even threw away their cooking pots.
After arriving at Zhaodian and the entire regiment settled down, Terauchi Isamu immediately sent a telegram to the division commander Yamashita Tomoyuki to report the matter.
In Shahe, after the commander of the 4th Division, Yamashita Tomoyuki, received a telegram from Terauchi Isamu, he saw that Terauchi Isamu had discovered the main force of the Eighth Route Army and was pursuing them, and had seized a marching pot.
Yamashita Tomoyuki almost exploded because he couldn't catch his breath.
Said to the people around him.
"A marching pot. Doesn't this fellow Terauchi have anything else to report?"
At this time, the chief of staff, Colonel Okada Shige, thought about it, but had a different opinion.
"Sir, is it possible that this information is so important that you're using codewords to prevent it from being intercepted?"
When Yamashita Tomoyuki heard this, he felt that what the chief of staff said made some sense.
Then immediately ask the telegraph operator to decipher the code.
It turned out that there was no code for "march pot" in the code book at all.
Just when everyone was feeling confused, a staff officer suddenly spoke.
"Gentlemen, could it be that Terauchi-kun used an expired code book?"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone suddenly realized what was going on, and immediately asked the telegraph operator to find the previous code book to decipher it.
Sure enough, everyone found the code name for the marching pot in the previous code book.
The marching pot represents officers above the division level in the Eighth Route Army.
Seeing this news, Yamashita Tomoyuki was immediately very confused.
The Eighth Route Army's division-level officers have recently been in Changzhi, so how could they appear in Wuan?
In order to find out the truth of the matter, Yamashita Tomoyuki immediately sent another telegram to Terauchi Isamu.
Did they really seize a marching pot?
When Terauchi Isamu received the message from the division commander, he immediately smiled at the people around him.
"Do I need to confirm anything when there's only a camping pot in front of me?"
So he sent a telegram to Yamashita Tomoyuki to confirm that a marching pot had been seized.
Yamashita Tomoyuki, who received the telegram from Terauchi Isamu, was really confused.
So he ordered someone to send a telegram to Terauchi Isamu to confirm again.
Ask him to verify whether it is the Eighth Route Army's marching pot.
When Terauchi Isamu received the telegram again, he was furious.
He kicked over the marching pot under his feet.
"Is it necessary to check repeatedly for a camping pot?"
But this was the order of the division commander, so Terauchi Isamu squatted down again to observe the marching pot to verify.
Then, Terauchi Isamu found a wooden sign on the marching pot with the words "389th Division of the Eighth Route Army" written on it.
So Terauchi Isamu quickly reported to Yamashita Tomoyuki, confirming that it was the marching pot of the 389th Division of the Eighth Route Army.
After receiving the report from Terauchi Isamu, Yamashita Tomoyuki saw the words "389th Division Marching Pot" on the telegram.
Suddenly, a huge surprise surrounded him.