"Bang, bang...", "Eight hooks, eight hooks...", bullets shot at the Japanese cavalry.

When dealing with cavalry, the best firepower is artillery fire or machine guns. The firepower of a single-shot rifle like the ones that are bolted and single shot is too weak. Moreover, in order to minimize accidental injury to their own people, the officers and soldiers of the fifth company all choose to shoot cavalry on horseback.

The war horses are constantly moving, and the cavalry on the horse are constantly making chopping and killing. It is difficult to hit the target of this kind of activity, even if it hits, it will be more of luck.

After the fifth company fired, it seemed that it did not hit the Japanese, but the Japanese cavalry did not come back after completing this rush. Because the veterans of the fifth company were equipped with Type 38 rifles, the "eight hooks" sound made by the 38 gun fire was very special. Many people shouted "The large Japanese troops are here." Instead, the soldiers on the Kuomintang side ran faster, and some officers were also swept away everywhere.

It is now dusk, and the Japanese army is by their side, and the night is coming, which makes people feel even more panic. The messy crowd flees in all directions. In a moment, there is only a whole army left in the middle of the road, that is, the Fifth Company.

However, there were some other company roaming soldiers from other companies in the wilderness. Li Qinglin ordered all these people to be contained. There were 55 roaming soldiers. Li Qinglin formed a platoon and appointed Li Gousheng as the platoon leader to command them.

The soldiers fled in panic and abandoned a lot of supplies on the road, including two large trucks filled with them, as well as an 82-mm caliber mortar and eight boxes of shells.

Li Qinglin carefully checked the cart, and the cart was filled with military supplies such as guns, ammunition and food. Li Qinglin asked the soldiers to collect the remaining supplies and take all the ones they could take away.

After gathering the troops and bringing supplies, Li Qinglin ordered Xiao Liuzi to lead a squad to explore the way ahead, everyone else got bayonets and loaded bullets. The fifth company continued to go on the road towards Guide.

Seeing that Li Qinglin was still going to go towards Guide, Xiao Liuzi asked him: "Boss, why are we still going to Guide? Are we going to chase the Twenty-Fifth Division?"

Li Qinglin said: "We only have more than 150 people now. If we meet the Japanese again, we will find it difficult to get out. Guide is now full of troops, and the closer we get, the safer it will be. As for the 25th Division, I think that after so long, they should have left by train long ago."

Zhang Ergou asked: "What should we do next?"

Li Qinglin said: "After Guide, make arrangements."

At around 8 o'clock in the evening, the fifth company finally arrived in Guide. As Li Qinglin expected, there were troops inside and outside Guide City, and there were messy everywhere.

Before the fifth company could progress, it was stopped by a checkpoint. Judging from the symbols on the chests of these soldiers, this was a checkpoint set up by the Sixty-Fourth Army.

The Sixty-Fourth Army was originally the Guangdong Army, and the commander was Li Hanhun. Because the Japanese 14th Division rushed south urgently and was in danger of being cut off by Longhai Road, the Supreme Command urgently dispatched the 64th Army stationed in Guangdong and other troops stationed in Guangdong to block the 14th Division in Guide to Zheng County.

Fortunately, Li Qinglin brought the battalion commander to cover the retreat of the 25th Division. The 5th Company was released after a brief explanation. Li Qinglin asked about the whereabouts of the 25th Division, and a captain at the checkpoint said: "The 25th Division had already taken the train west in the afternoon."

"We are going west by train soon." The captain added.

"Brother, can we take a ride?" Li Qinglin quickly handed over a cigarette and asked.

"Well, I can't make the decision. I have to ask for instructions to go up the top." The captain replied gently.

The captain quickly asked for instructions on the peak, and the peak agreed to take the troop transport train west.

The Sixty-Fourth Army set up checkpoints everywhere near Guide to intercept the defeated troops and forcibly annex. If they do not follow the military law, they will be engaged in the crime of escaping the battlefield. This is also a regular practice for most national military troops.

The 52nd Army's heroic performance in the Great Wall War and the Battle of Xuzhou has long been spread throughout the army. Companies like the Fifth Company that came down from the main force of the Central Army have experienced wars and are well-trained veterans, and the Sixty-Fourth Army is not without the idea of ​​annexing them.

However, the captain of the 64th Army at the checkpoint was not without a glance. Although the small army led by Li Qinglin was small, they carried the official blocking order from their superiors. The captain knew that they could not be detained by the excuse of escaping on the battlefield. He also saw that all the officers and soldiers of the fifth company had bayonets on their rifles and bullets were loaded, and knew that if a forced merger was forced, it would inevitably lead to a bloody battle, so he reported Li Qinglin's request to take the train.

In fact, at this time, the 155th Division of the 64th Army had only one battalion of troops left in Guide, and its main forces had been transferred to the Lanfeng area to block the Japanese army. In another hour, the remaining troops of the 155th Division of the 64th Army were about to take the next train to the west. Considering the relationship with friendly forces and the number of people in the 5th Company was not large, he agreed to the request of the 5th Company.

An hour later, the fifth company boarded the train; a few hours later, the train stopped moving forward, and Li Qinglin's fifth company got off the train with the 64th Army, and the place where he got off was Zhuzhuangzhai. It turned out that a small group of troops of the 14th Division had infiltrated, and the railway on the Longhai Line was destroyed by them, and the train could no longer move forward.

At this time, there were still a few hours before dawn. After getting off the bus, the fifth company immediately camped on the spot. In order to avoid the recurrence of the last time that they were forced to annex by others, or were attacked by the Japanese troops who sneaked in during camping, Li Qinglin specially ordered that two posts and double posts were arranged on all sides and machine guns were arranged on duty all night.

At six o'clock in the morning, Li Qinglin asked the good soldiers to blew up the bed trumpet, and the soldiers of the fifth company got up quickly to wash. At half past six o'clock, the trumpet soldiers blew up the assembly trumpet, and the fifth company assembled on an open space.

In addition to using the command troops of the National Army, the company-level troops convey messages and issue orders to soldiers, the regular methods are nothing more than military horns, military whistles, (lanterns) flag language, commonly known as flags, horns, lamps, and whistles.

Lantern language and flag language require specially trained personnel to issue and receive and understand, so it is generally used for communication between troops.

Because of its loud sound, long transmission distance, and fixed tunes for information transmission, it is most easily understood by soldiers and is also used most in daily life.

The whistle sounds sharp and the transmission distance is not far away, and is a tool often used by the squad leader. A well-trained infantry squad leader often designs the instructions given by the whistle himself. On the battlefield, soldiers can know what the squad leader needs to do based on the number of times the squad leader makes whistles and the length of the sound.

After the entire company gathered, Li Qinglin further integrated the scattered soldiers who were contained yesterday. Li Qinglin first added all three platoons of the 5th Company's shortage; then he added the kitchen squad that Bao Jia gave to him. The kitchen squad was responsible for the food and daily life of the entire company, and guarded and transported the supplies to the kitchen squad. Therefore, the two big trucks were managed by the kitchen squad. In the end, the remaining ten people were woven into a platoon, which was a machine gun squad. The 82mm mortar and several light machine guns were the main equipment of the platoon. The agent platoon leader of the machine gun squad was Li Gouyuan.
Chapter completed!