HLnovel Chapter 190: Retreat Tactics
Chapter 190: Retreat Tactics
The Black Wolf Army's marching speed was not very fast. After all, they were carrying a lot of weapons and ammunition, as well as wounded soldiers.
But the speed can reach about eight kilometers per hour.
Running wildly in the jungle, fully armed, and even carrying so many heavy weapons and wounded soldiers, being able to run eight kilometers per hour is already quite fast.
After a few hours, they had run more than 20 kilometers.
However, in order for the Black Wolf Army to know at any time the distance between the Japanese and themselves, Yuan Shuai lagged behind the team and buried several booby traps or land mines every two or three kilometers.
The Japanese scouts were fast, but because of their speed, they didn't pay attention to their feet and either tripped over the booby trap line or stepped on a landmine.
The angry Japanese scout cursed angrily.
But in order to pursue the enemy, they had to ignore their hand injuries and continue the pursuit.
With the help of the explosion sounds coming from behind, Yuan Shuai could always hear how far the Japanese were from him.
After running for four hours straight, it was already past two o'clock in the afternoon.
In order to allow his brothers to recover their strength, Yuan Shuai had to let the team rest for half an hour and eat canned food at the same time.
At this time, he couldn't care less. If he didn't eat, he would be hungry and would not have the strength to run.
After the meal, Yuan Shuai asked the team to leave behind more than a hundred empty cans.
All the remaining empty boxes and cookie wrappers were kept.
This made everyone look at him with confusion.
Lu Hua couldn't help but ask.
"Boss, what do you mean?"
Yuan Shuai said with a smile.
"We have more than 1,100 people here. Although each of us just ate a can of food from the Japanese, if we leave all of them behind, the Japanese will definitely think we have enough food! If we only leave more than a hundred cans, the Japanese will think we have nothing to eat. Without food, we will have no strength to fight, and the Japanese will become more rampant and relax their guard!"
"Hey, there's something to be said about eating up all the Japanese canned food!"
"Boss is worthy of being the boss. He can even make something out of this can box!"
The brothers couldn't help but exclaim in amazement.
After running wildly for a while, Yuan Shuai spoke to the wounded.
"Don't carry the guns, leave the bullets behind. Leave one or two bullets in each gun, and about ten bullets in the ammunition box. Throw the Type 38 rifle and the Japanese single-box away and throw them aside. The people behind you will step on them!"
"What does this mean?"
Jiang Zhengwu couldn't help but ask.
"If you want to retreat, you have to look like you're retreating. We're retreating now, so we have to let the Japanese think that we have lost our will to fight and even our guns! It means that we are no longer in the mood to fight and are only concerned with retreating and escaping!"
Yuan Shuai explained as he ran.
"Then there's no need to keep the bullets! Bullets are precious!"
"Boss, found a box of bullets!"
At this time, a cheer came from the front.
Yuan Shuai said cheerfully.
"You see, there are plenty of bullets. There must be weapons and ammunition left by the Nationalist Army along the way. It's tiring enough for us to just pick up our own people, so what's the big deal about losing a few Japanese weapons and ammunition!"
"I……"
Of course Jiang Zhengwu felt distressed.
After all, these were the spoils that they brothers had fought hard for, and it would be a shame to just leave them behind.
However, they did pick up some weapons and ammunition along the way. In addition to their previous collective search, they also got a few Czech machine guns and a Maxim machine gun, as well as some ammunition boxes.
The team was carrying more and more weight, so it was not a bad idea to leave some of the Japanese weapons and ammunition behind.
Besides, they only have so many people, and the extra weapons and ammunition are for future development of the team.
Now in order to get rid of the Japanese, just throw it away!
He could only let the wounded men fire a few grenades from their Type 38 rifles and then throw the ammunition boxes, which contained a dozen bullets, onto the ground.
The people behind deliberately stepped on it a few times.
Along the way, Yuan Shuai either had people throwing cans, biscuit wrappers, or Type 38 rifles, and sometimes even Type 99 rifles.
Jiang Zhengwu and Lu Huahua felt painful when they saw this.
But Yuan Shuai said that this was a tactical approach and he was the leader of the Black Wolf Army.
Everyone here is a soldier, and soldiers must obey orders!
They can only obey orders.
Zhang Wei and the others could only shake their heads helplessly, muttering to themselves that these guys were all losers...
The Japanese scouts behind them came to the place where they had rested before and saw only more than a hundred cans. They quickly reported the situation to the brigade commander and the regiment commander behind them.
The brigade commander and the regiment commander couldn't help but laugh wildly.
"Yoshi, there are so many people, but there are only a hundred or so cans. It seems they don't have much food left!"
"Keep chasing them. See how far they can run without food! When they run too much, we will attack them. Then, we will fight with them with bayonets and chop off their heads one by one! Let them know how powerful we, the warriors of the Great Japanese Empire, are!"
The Japanese scouts received the news through the radio and hurriedly continued to run forward.
I saw Type 38 rifles and ammunition boxes thrown on the road.
The Japanese scouts quickly checked carefully and notified the rear again.
The Japanese regiment and brigade commanders laughed wildly again.
"Yoshi, you don't even need weapons anymore."
"There are only so many bullets in their guns and ammunition boxes. It seems they don't have many bullets left!"
"And I have no intention of fighting anymore!"...
"What? Even the crooked handle is lost!"
"Yoshi! It seems that the Black Wolf Army is just so-so. Just like other national armies, they only know how to retreat when fighting! Keep chasing them, keep chasing them. They have no food, and they will be killed if they run!"
In this way, the Japanese soldiers became more and more rampant and their vigilance became more and more relaxed.
Soon, at night, Yuan Shuai stopped the team and started a fire.
Zhang Wei rushed over and shouted loudly.
"Yuan Shuai, you are courting death. Lighting a fire at night will soon attract the Japanese!"
"Put out the fire quickly! Didn't you teach us to use a smokeless stove before? Even if we need to burn a fire, we can dig a smokeless stove! What the hell are you doing!"
Lu Huahua and Jiang Zhengwu also had complaints on their faces.
Yuan Shuai smiled cheerfully.
"If we don't light a fire, how can we keep the Japanese from coming?"
Hearing this, everyone couldn't understand what Yuan Shuai meant, and they all looked at him as if he were a monster.
Yuan Shuai explained with a smile.
"The Japs must have relaxed their guard now, so as long as we light fires everywhere on these two hills, the Japs will definitely surround this hill first, and then slowly move up to kill us by surprise. And we will ambush around them and launch a counter-encirclement! Being chased by the Japs all day long, you are not tired, but I am tired!"
"Counter encirclement?"
"Boss, your idea is great!"
"We will definitely be able to kill a lot of devils this time!"
"What do you mean by killing a lot of devils? We can definitely kill all the pursuers behind us!"...
"But what if there are too many devils coming and we can't surround them?"
When everyone was excited, Zhang Wei's words were like a bucket of cold water poured on their heads.