"What did you say? She died because she ran away?" Li Qinglin thought at first that Jiang Xiuzhi died when fighting with the Japanese, but now he heard that it was because of this reason, so Li Qinglin was shocked.

"Yes, Qinglin, you don't know. The Japanese have too strong firepower and are chasing too tightly. Our team is breaking through day and night. Sometimes we want to stop and take a break, but when we turn around, we see that the Japanese and the puppet troops either chased after them or emerged from both sides, and finally had to continue running. The last time was the wounded and sick who took the initiative to stay and try their best to cover them. We were finally out of danger." Zhou Yougen still felt scared when talking about the situation at that time.

When did the Japanese become so powerful? According to Li Qinglin's experience in fighting with the Japanese and puppet troops, they had at least twice the strength of their troops to achieve three sides. Li Qinglin pondered for a moment and asked: "How many troops do you have in total? How did the Japanese and puppet troops start at the beginning?"

Liu Zhenghong said: "When we set out, there were two companies, plus one of my command centers, a total of about 300 people. The Japanese and puppet troops were about two teams, plus a puppet army company. When we first met them, neither side expected it. Therefore, the beginning was an encounter. At that time, both sides had casualties. At that time, the enemy and us had suffered casualties. There were more casualties on our side, but there were also many casualties. When we broke through in the middle of the night, the enemies behind us chased each other and refused to let go. There were ghosts on both sides of the left and right attacks from time to time. We had to run forward one road, but we didn't know what was going on. It seemed that the Japanese and puppet troops were fighting more and more, and it seemed that they would appear anytime and anywhere. If the comrades who were covering paid the price of all sacrifice, we wouldn't have run out."

Li Qinglin estimated the comparison of the forces between the two sides and felt that the Japanese and puppet troops would not have so many troops to encircle the Eighth Route Army with about 300 people, otherwise they would not have broken through so easily that night. However, the Japanese and puppet troops finally launched repeated attacks against the Eighth Route Army that broke through three times, which was still a new situation.

Li Qinglin said to Xiao Liuzi: "Get a map, I want to see what new tricks the Japanese have played now."

Xiao Liuzi's guards quickly brought the map. Li Qinglin asked Liu Zhenghong to hold a pencil to mark the combat location and breakout route one by one on the map. While marking it, he also recalled the battle process here.

Li Qinglin lay on the map and studied the route map carefully. After he threw the pencil in his hand, he said, "You have been fooled. Their troops are not enough. It is impossible for them to really surround you from three sides. You are blinded by their illusion."

Liu Zhenghong was shocked and said, "How is this possible? There are ghosts at any time behind us and on both sides. Fierce battles will occur at any time in two days and two nights. They really want to surround them from three sides."

Li Qinglin picked up the pencil and pointed to the road map to Liu Zhenghong and Xiao Liuzi and others, "I will briefly describe your encounter, break through, be chased, and finally escaped. You will know what's going on."

Li Qinglin pointed to the location of the encounter and said, "Here you two armies met. Because neither side was prepared, both sides fought in a hurry. We have fought with the Japanese many times and have some understanding of the situation of their troops. The quality and weapons and equipment of their soldiers are much higher than that of you. You can almost tie them. This is enough to prove that your combat spirit is very strong, the officers and soldiers are very brave, and the troops are well-trained."

Liu Zhenghong said proudly: "We were sent by the military region to open up new foundations. The cadres and soldiers were carefully selected, so fighting the Japanese will naturally not be vague."

However, he said with some pain: "As the supreme leader of this operation, I did not bring these lovely soldiers to the predetermined position. This is my dereliction of duty. I will apply for punishment from my superiors."

Li Qinglin said: "This cannot be entirely blamed on you. There are no troops in front of you, no troops in support behind you, and your ammunition is not enough, right?"

Liu Zhenghong sighed and said, "Commander Li, you also know that our Eighth Route Army has never had enough ammunition. In order to achieve the success of this mission, the military region finally raised some ammunition for us to bring, but we..."

Li Qinglin turned to ask Zhou Yougen: "What is the number of basic ammunition one of you soldiers?"

"Forty bullets, two grenades." Zhou Yougen answered honestly.

"It's already a miracle that you can still get this kind of ammunition." Li Qinglin sighed.

After expressing his feelings, Li Qinglin continued: "It is precisely because of your insufficient firepower that the Japanese and puppet troops can surround you after a hasty firefight; and because of their insufficient troops, their encirclement that day was actually very loose, and you easily broke out that night."

Zhou Yougen said: "Qinglin, what you said is true. Because we lack ammunition, if it was not the most critical moment, our machine guns would not fire."

Liu Zhenghong also nodded and said, "The breakthrough did not encounter much resistance. We didn't even have the firepower preparations. These hundreds of people attacked from one point and all jumped out of the encirclement at once."

Li Qinglin continued: "You thought you would fly high if you jumped out of the encirclement, but you didn't expect that the Japanese and puppet troops would not disperse behind you. They were always hanging behind you, and they couldn't get rid of them even if they wanted to."

Zhou Yougen nodded and said, "It's true. We have concentrated our troops to fight them twice, but they can't fight back. When we just thought of launching a charge, we were either on the left or on the right. There was always a team of Japanese attackers launching an attack, so we had to give up the attack and start retreating. Later, the bullets were getting fewer and fewer, so we had to march continuously."

Li Qinglin said: "The situation afterwards is that they pursued continuously, and you ran away continuously until the officers and soldiers were exhausted."

Liu Zhenghong said: "This is the situation. I still haven't figured it out. We ran in front and they kept chasing behind. We didn't eat or drink or rest for two days and two nights. How could they do it without eating or drinking or resting?"

Li Qinglin smiled and said, "This is the misunderstanding of your understanding. It's not that they didn't have a rest, but that the rest time has been shorter."

Liu Zhenghong was shocked and said, "How is this possible?"

Li Qinglin said: "The Japanese are a tactic called 'parallel pursuit' or 'transcendent pursuit'."

Li Qinglin picked up the pencil thrown on the map and pointed to the road map expressed by Liu Zhenghong and said: "Behind you, there is actually only one squad of Japanese soldiers who are chasing you with puppet troops. They are just hanging behind you from a distance and near. Under normal circumstances, they will never take the initiative to attack you."

Liu Zhenghong recalled and said, "What's the matter?"

Li Qinglin continued: "Their focus is the two chasing Japanese soldiers on both sides of your left and right. They move along parallel routes to both sides of your side. When you turn back to attack the pursuers, these two chasing Japanese soldiers will attack you, making you feel that there is a possibility of being surrounded at any time. So you began to speed up the marching speed and try to escape from danger. In this situation, you have no food and drink and cannot rest, which eventually leads to the result of people with poor physical fitness vomiting blood and dying."

Liu Zhenghong thought carefully about Li Qinglin's words, and finally nodded: "The combat process is really like this. We are really fooled. This Japanese man is indeed cunning."

Li Qinglin said: "This kind of tactic is not something new, it has been available for a long time, but the Japanese are just more clever to use it."

Speaking of this, Li Qinglin put down his pencil and gestured to Liu Zhenghong and others and explained: "This tactic comes from the process of carnivorous animals in nature. Animals like wolves generally adopt group hunting. The wolf's running speed is not very fast, but they have good endurance. This is the method they take if they want to hunt animals such as elk that run fast."

Speaking of this, Li Qinglin paused for a moment, and then said to Liu Zhenghong: "You are in the open and are also the targets of being pursued. They always want to escape from danger as soon as possible, so they often run on the archway. The Japanese are in the dark, and they always pursue you as their target, so they basically go straight. Just from the distance of the march, they have saved a lot of energy than you."

While Li Qinglin was speaking, Liu Zhenghong was also looking at the road map he had drawn carefully. He couldn't help but nod and said yes frequently.

This is, Xiao Liuzi, who has not spoken, interrupted and asked, "Brother, have the Japanese also been chasing them behind the scenes? How did they rest?"

Li Qinglin said: "They have troops on all three sides. These three troops do not want to eat you once. When one of them exchanges fire with you, this time is the rest time for their other two troops."

"The Japanese don't want to eat it in one bite. Is it just that they want to exhaust us to death?" Zhou Yougen asked suddenly.

Li Qinglin picked up the pencil again and extended the road map Liu Zhenghong had just drawn for a while, saying, "Look at it again, where is the final place to arrive?"

Everyone's eyes focused on the point pointed by the pencil in Li Qinglin's hand. The map indicated that there was a wide river, and the name of the river was Daqing River.

Liu Zhenghong took a deep breath and said, "They are pursuing them to drive us here. It's so dangerous, so dangerous."

Seeing that Xiao Liuzi was a little confused, Li Qinglin explained: "The Japanese were not aimless in pursuit, they also carefully calculated. The Eighth Route Army on the border did not go in this direction, but their troops would come out to fight and force the Eighth Route Army to march towards the direction of this river. When the Eighth Route Army arrived at this river, it was when their general attack began."...
Chapter completed!