Chapter 76: Flower Girl Has
"What? The Japanese are really here."
"Let's go. General Wei said the Japanese are brutal."
Now, the people who were originally calm began to panic.
The center of the town immediately became chaotic. People pushed and shouted. Everyone just wanted to leave this troubled place as soon as possible. Some old people and children were knocked to the ground, but no one came forward to help them.
Seeing this situation, Wei Jichen couldn't help but sigh in his heart. It seems that the road to the rise of the Chinese nation is really long and who knows how long it will take.
Seeing everyone panicking.
With a bang, Wei Jichen pulled out his gun, fired a shot into the air, and roared: "Fellow villagers, look at what you are like now. If you continue like this, it will only increase casualties. I, Wei Jichen, swear here that as long as there is still a fellow villager in Mayang Town who has not escaped in time, I, Wei Jichen, will defend the town entrance and not let the Japanese step in. My Weizi Army will definitely leave Mayang Town in the end."
The rioting people gradually calmed down after hearing Wei Jichen's words. Although everyone still had panic on their faces and ran in a hurry, they were not as messy as before, rushing to run around.
"Master Ma, this is up to you." Wei Jichen squeezed the horse's back, looked at Ma Jinxu deeply, and said lightly.
"Don't worry, Ma will definitely live up to your trust." I don't know when it started, Ma Jinxu began to follow the lead of this young man.
He thought for a moment and continued, "If the Japanese are strong, Lord Wei can dispatch our Yi army at will."
Wei Jichen nodded, patted his horse's butt, and led Xiao Heshang and others to the town entrance quickly.
The Japanese were still one kilometer away, but they were fully prepared. Wei Jichen was just worried that the Japanese would not fall into his trap.
"How many Japanese are there?" Wei Jichen asked Xiao Heshang while galloping on his horse.
"To answer your question, there are about 500 people, and there are probably two squadrons of Japanese cavalry." Xiao Heshang replied honestly.
"Then we will eat it up in one bite." Wei Jichen sneered and sped up his pace.
On the way to Mayang Town, hundreds of cavalry were galloping towards Mayang Town, raising a piece of snow and mud on the ground.
Major Tamura, the captain of the 3rd Cavalry Battalion of the 5th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the Japanese, pulled the reins and asked the lieutenant staff officer beside him: "Ishida-kun, is there a town ahead?"
Ishida took out the march map from his pocket, adjusted his glasses, took a quick look, and said with a smile: "Yes, the town ahead is called Mayang Town."
The Japanese made sufficient preparations before invading Northeast China. Even some villages in the Northeast have appeared on their military maps.
"Mayang Town, we just chased for a night. Let's go and see if there are really herds of horses and sheep there, and the soldiers can have a good meal." Major Tamura showed his white teeth, his face full of sarcasm.
"I don't know if the Chinese defeated soldiers yesterday fled into Mayang Town. If they are still there, our military exploits will be added." Ishida talked about the Chinese army with a look of contempt on his face.
Major Tamura smiled and said, "Don't worry, these Chinese can't run away. Of the 5,000 Chinese defenders of Xiuyan City, only more than 2,000 escaped. The rest were either annihilated or surrendered to us. Your Excellency, the brigade commander, is really a brilliant man."
Ishida echoed, "The Chinese are too stupid. They don't even know how to keep such a big thing as retreat secret. But I heard that the Chinese reinforcements are on the way. Will we meet them?"
Major Tamura thought for a while and said, "Ishida, are you referring to the Chinese reinforcements coming from the direction of Dagaoling?"
"That's right. They are the Chinese Nie Shicheng's troops. I heard that they are led by the Chinese general Wei Jichen." Ishida, the staff officer, did his job very diligently and was familiar with all kinds of intelligence.
"Wei Jichen? Is he the one who defeated Tachimi-kun?" Major Tamura asked with a cold look.
Ishida nodded with a heavy face.
Tamura said contemptuously: "Tachimi-kun is old, but he was defeated by the Chinese, and he was an unknown person before. If Wei Jichen met me, he would have no choice but to run away."
The reason why Tachimi Naofumi was called the Japanese military god was that he won every battle in the Boshin War in Japan, and the older generation of Japanese generals such as Yamagata Aritomo had to obey him, but he was silent for many years afterwards, and the new generation of Japanese soldiers naturally had less fear of him.
Young and energetic young talents like Tamura, who are pretentious, think that Tachimi Naofumi's set is outdated.
Ishida, who is much older than Tamura, didn't know how to respond when he heard him say this, so he had to nod his head in a fake way.
"We are here in Mayang Town." Staff officer Ishida saw the vague outline of the town in the distance and couldn't help but change the subject.
"Gentlemen, it's time for carnival again." Tamura raised his hand behind him and laughed loudly.
Hahahaha…
The Japanese cavalrymen behind responded to Tamura’s words with wanton laughter, mixed with some obscene laughter.
Tamura raised his telescope and was able to see the people running around in the town and their panicked footsteps.
Run, Chinese, you will cry and groan under the iron hoofs of my great Japanese cavalry.
“Haha, the Chinese are killing each other.” Through the telescope, Tamura suddenly saw a group of Chinese defeated soldiers looting everywhere, and some of them were even chasing after Chinese women.
It was not until they heard the shouts of the imperial cavalry and the sound of horses treading on the ground that they seemed to react and fled in panic.
"Tamura-kun, should we send out cavalry to investigate first?" Staff officer Ishida asked Major Tamura as usual.
"Reconnaissance? No, Ishida-kun, look at what the Chinese are doing. These people are just a group of sheep. Before the imperial cavalry arrived, they actually killed each other." Tamura shook his head and sneered.
He had seen this kind of situation many times on the road. Those defeated Chinese soldiers were sometimes even more cruel to their own people than the imperial soldiers.
After a period of frantic running, the Japanese cavalry was not far from Mayang Town. Even without telescopes, the cavalry could see some of the situations in the town with their eyes.
"Miss Hua, there are big ones."
A Japanese cavalryman drooled at the women who seemed to have just been humiliated. The women's clothes were torn to shreds, and some even exposed their "white" thighs.
The Chinese fleeing soldiers who seemed to be the culprits saw the arrival of their own cavalry, and were hurriedly holding their rifles and fleeing to the other side of Mayang Town.
"These Chinese women are ours." Tamura laughed obscenely and licked his lower lip. He took a fancy to a woman in red with disheveled hair.
"Charge!" Tamura led the way, squeezed the horse's back, drew out his command knife, and shouted loudly.
"Kill." The Japanese were all desperate and rushed to the town entrance.
At the town entrance, the red-dressed "woman" Li Yunfei looked at the house where Wei Jichen was staying with a face full of resentment.
Ten minutes ago, it was Wei Jichen who came up with a bad idea to let him lead a group of fake women to fight for the great cause of victory.
"Li Shao, you really look like a woman." A soldier under Li Yunfei saw his resentful expression and couldn't help but said stupidly.
"Be serious, we are luring the enemy deep into our territory." Li Yunfei was so depressed, he really wanted to shoot the sergeant.
Fortunately, he secretly looked back and saw that the Japanese cavalry had indeed been fooled by their evil thoughts, and they were running towards the town entrance at the risk of their lives.
"What a fool." Li Yunfei raised a sneer at the corner of his mouth. As long as he heard the sound of attacking gunfire, he would turn around and kill the Japanese without hesitation. Now he should temporarily bear the humiliation.
In a civilian house, Wei Jichen also saw the Japanese cavalry rushing towards the land of death through the gun holes dug in the wall.
Hu Zi was holding the Maxim heavy machine gun, looking outside with excitement, waiting for Wei Jichen's order.
This Maxim heavy machine gun was purchased by Wei Jichen from the system when he sniped Naofumi Tachibana last time. Although the barrel exploded at that time, it was repaired after the war and can be used again.
What made Wei Jichen even happier was that he found that the machine gun bullets in the camp could match this heavy machine gun.
However, there were not many heavy machine gun bullets in the Qing army, and he only got more than 10,000 rounds, which was what Wei Jichen got after looting all the camps of generals he was familiar with.
"Rongcai, I asked you to pretend to be a woman, why don't you agree?" Wei Jichen had a faint smile on his lips, as if this war was nothing to him.
"Why should I pretend to be a woman? If you don't pretend, I certainly won't pretend." Nie Cairong saw Wei Jichen's meaningful eyes and said in a panic.
"I don't look like a woman at all, I can't pretend, but you are different. Look at your skin, how tender it is, look at your figure, how slim it is." Wei Jichen stretched out his hand, gently pinched Nie Cairong's little face, and continued to say with a smile.
"What are you doing? I said I hate men touching me. I don't have a Longyang fetish." Nie Cairong said with disgust again.
"Really? But I found that I seem to have a bit of a Longyang fetish, Rongcai, just follow me." Wei Jichen said jokingly.
Nie Cairong stamped her feet lightly, turned around, and said with a puffed mouth: "I won't talk to you anymore, the Japanese are about to enter the ambush circle."
Wei Jichen glanced outside and said lightly: "The victory on the battlefield is achieved outside the war. We have made so many preparations. If we still can't win, it can only mean one thing."
Nie Cairong raised her little head when she heard it, completely forgetting that she was still angry with Wei Jichen, and asked curiously: "What's the problem?"
Wei Jichen spread his hands and said helplessly: "I don't know, I just said it casually, why are you like a girl, like to break the casserole to ask the bottom of it!"
Nie Cairong was so angry that she made up her mind not to pay attention to her elder brother anymore.
However, when she raised her head and looked at Wei Jichen, she found that her elder brother no longer had the playful smile just now, but stared at the outside with a serious face.
Deep eyes, resolute face, upright posture, as if he had become a different person in the blink of an eye. How could two different temperaments appear in one person at the same time?
Nie Cairong rubbed his temples and thought angrily: Which one is the real Brother Wei?
"The Japanese are coming, get ready to shoot." Wei Jichen said softly as he positioned his rifle.