Chapter 35: Escape
A squad leader asked, "Captain, shall we chase them?"
"Chase, of course we have to chase." Sato Kentaro gritted his teeth and said, "Since our Kuroshima Brigade set foot on the Chinese battlefield, when has it ever suffered such a big loss?"
"So, even if I chase you to the ends of the earth,"
"We must also capture this group of Eighth Route Army soldiers."
"I will chop off their heads with my own hands to pay tribute to the spirits of the fallen soldiers."
After a pause, he raised his saber and shouted, "All in, full speed ahead!"
At the command, nearly a hundred Japanese cavalrymen rumbled into the narrow valley.
After rushing out of the narrow valley from the other side, there were two forks in the road. After a brief moment of deliberation, Kentaro Sato immediately chased towards the right fork.
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Wang Ye pulled the reins hard.
The warhorse under him then slowed down until it stopped.
Wang Xikui and others also stopped.
Wei Dayong scratched his head and asked, "My king, why don't you leave?"
"This won't work." Wang Ye said, "Your riding skills are not as good as the Japanese, and these horses are not easy to control, so you can't run fast at all. If you keep going like this, the Japanese will catch up with you sooner or later."
Wei Dayong, Wang Xikui and others remained silent.
They originally thought that riding a horse was a simple thing.
Isn’t it just riding on a horse and then shouting “go” or “whoosh”?
If you think the horse is running too slowly, just whip it on the butt.
But when they actually got on horseback, they found that things were not that simple.
When you shout "go", these Japanese horses will not respond at all. You have to whip them. They will not stop even if you shout. You have to tighten the reins before they will stop.
Another thing is that their riding skills are really bad.
At least it is far inferior to the Japanese cavalry.
So if I keep running like this, I will definitely be caught up.
"My lord, how about we just fight the devils?"
Wang Xikui said with a fierce face: "If you kill one, you will break even. If you kill two, you will make a profit."
"Bullshit!" Wang Ye said angrily, "The members of our Wolf Warrior team are not so cheap. Let alone one Japanese soldier, we wouldn't trade them even for a hundred!"
"what is it now?"
Wei Dayong said: "You can't run away."
Wang Ye looked around and saw several bundles of firewood placed on the roadside, and his idea immediately came to his mind.
Wang Ye immediately dismounted, took out a hemp rope from his backpack, tied one end of the rope to the dry firewood, held the other end tightly in his hand, and then got back on the horse.
Wei Dayong and others were all confused.
What is the king going to do? Do you want to take this bundle of firewood back to the regiment?
Even if the regiment is short of firewood, you have to find a time, right?
Right now, there is a Japanese cavalry squadron chasing after us!
The situation is so dire, and you, you bastard, still have the mood to do this?
Wang Ye did not explain too much and directly gave orders to the entire team.
"You guys go hide in the valley over there." Wang Ye pointed to the valley on the left and said, "I'll go lead the Japanese cavalry away."
"Bridle the warhorse."
"Be quiet when you move."
"Also, don't run around."
"I will come back to join you after I get rid of the Japanese cavalry."
"What?" Wei Dayong and the others' faces changed drastically, and they asked anxiously, "My lord, how can this be possible?"
"This is an order, execute it." Wang Ye did not give Wei Dayong and the others time to react. After he finished speaking, he squeezed the horse's belly with his legs, and the warhorse under him started to gallop forward again.
Wang Ye also dragged the bundle of firewood forward quickly.
At this time, the land in northwestern Shanxi had been dry for most of the winter and the ground was extremely dry.
Therefore, Wang Ye's dragging immediately stirred up a cloud of dust on the mountain path, which lasted for a long time.
Wei Dayong and the others didn't come to their senses until Wang Ye ran a long way away. They could only dismount and lead their horses to tiptoe into the valley to hide.
Wei Dayong and his men had not been hiding for long.
A large group of Japanese cavalry rumbled along the mountain road and chased after them.
When the Japanese cavalry chased after them, the dust raised by Wang Yeting's bundle of dry firewood had not yet completely dissipated, and the earthy smell of the dust could still be smelled in the air.
So the Japanese cavalry did not stop for a moment.
He just chased him down the mountain path.
The chase was about ten miles.
I finally saw the Eighth Route Army in the distance, but there was only one!
I saw this Eighth Route Army soldier dragging a bundle of dry firewood with a rope in his hand.
Kentaro Sato's donkey face suddenly became even longer.
I've been fooled, I've fallen into the trap of the Eighth Route Army!
This damn cunning Eighth Route Army soldier used only one man and two horses to create the illusion of a large group of people and deceived them all.
But there is not much point in searching again now.
Firstly, all traces along the way were almost disappearing, making it difficult to find them. Secondly, such a long time had passed that the other Eighth Route Army soldiers must have already gone far away with their horses, making it too late to go back and chase them.
So now the only thing they can do is
Just kill this Tubalu in front of you!
"Taoci deserves it! Taoci deserves it!"
Kentaro Sato howled while holding his sword.
The Japanese cavalry began to speed up.
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Wang Ye also discovered the Japanese cavalry.
"Damn it, your riding skills are really good."
Wang Ye originally thought that the Japanese cavalry would have to chase him for at least fifteen miles before they could catch up with him, but in fact they caught up with him after only ten miles.
Wang Ye immediately threw away the hemp rope in his hand.
It's time to show some real skills!
The Japs' riding skills are good, and Wang Ye's riding skills are not bad either.
A few days ago, he almost became a cavalry company commander!
At that moment, Wang Ye jumped onto the back of another warhorse, then squeezed the horse's belly with his legs. The warhorse, which had been running in vain, immediately neighed loudly, and galloped forward with all four hooves.
The warhorse that had been carrying Wang Ye for half a day suddenly lightened its load and its speed increased.
In a blink of an eye, the distance between Wang Ye and the Japanese cavalry was widened again, and it became larger and larger.
"Baka!" Kentaro Sato's teeth were almost broken, but there was nothing he could do.
An expert can tell whether someone is good or not with just one move. Sato Kentaro could see at a glance that the riding skills of the Eighth Route Army soldier in front of them were no worse than theirs, and that he had two horses each and could ride them in turns.
This is an unfair game, the Eighth Route Army is bullying others!
The final result was no surprise. Before they had traveled five miles, Kentaro Sato and the nearly 100 cavalrymen who accompanied him were left far behind.
Look at the mountain road ahead.
There are only hills upon hills,
The Tubalu troops were never seen again.
Although he could still locate the whereabouts of the Eighth Route Army from the dust in the air, Kentaro Sato knew that it was pointless to continue chasing them because it was impossible to catch up.
The key point is that there is a bandit area ahead.
Although Kentaro Sato was arrogant and domineering, he was not so arrogant as to think that he could run rampant in the Eighth Route Army's Taihang base with most of his cavalry squadron.
"Damn it!" Kentaro Sato took one last look at the mountain road ahead, then led the cavalry squadron back along the same route full of hatred, and returned to the Huting stronghold in shame.
Due to his preconceived notions, Kentaro Sato thought that the other Eighth Route Army soldiers had already gone far away, so he did not search again on the way back.
Kentaro Sato didn't know.
This group of Eighth Route Army soldiers didn't actually go far.
At the closest point, it was only about 500 meters away from them.
When passing through the narrow valley battlefield, the Japanese cavalry collected the bodies of their fallen comrades.
There were also seriously injured war horses, but the Japanese did not take them back. Instead, they simply killed them and then found a hidden place to bury them together with the seriously injured and dead horses.
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Wang Ye didn't actually go far.
He discovered it as soon as the Japanese cavalry gave up the pursuit.
However, he did not chase after the Japanese cavalry. This would have shown that he did not take the Japanese seriously. He would be doomed if the Japanese ambushed them.
Wang Ye took another path.
At dusk, Wang Ye met up with Wei Dayong and others.
Wei Dayong and the others breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Wang Ye return unharmed.
"Why, you don't think I can't come back?" Wang Ye said.
"How can that be possible?" The dozen or so War Wolves were stunned for a few seconds. Wei Dayong was the first to react and said with a smile , "With your skills, only you can kill the devils. How can the devils kill you?"
"Bullshit, you can't even tell a lie." Wang Ye cursed and said, "Follow me."
"Hey." More than a dozen war wolves responded and got on their horses. No one asked Wang Ye where he was going.
At this moment, even if Wang Ye took them to attack Taiyuan, they would dare to go, because there was nothing they dared not do.
Wang Ye didn't say much. He took a dozen War Wolves back to the narrow valley, and followed the traces left by the Japanese cavalry to find the place where the war horse corpses were buried.
"Dig it for me!" Wang Ye ordered.
More than a dozen war wolves waved their bayonets.
In just a moment, the horse corpses were dug out.
The Japanese cavalry would not eat their own war horses, but the Eighth Route Army could.
These six horses weigh at least two thousand kilograms of meat and offal, which are enough for the Wolf Warrior team to eat for several months. How could they let them rot in vain?
