Chapter 309

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Protagonist:

Lv Muzhi

Isogaya's Tenth Division, surrounded on the North Side, was annihilated; Dizhou Libing's Thirteenth Division, surrounded on the South Side, was down to its last tremble.

The Guzhen region north of the Huai River.

The encirclement laid by the Xia Guo Army here had tightened to the limit; the remnants of the Thirteenth Division were compressed into a small area no more than a few kilometers across, with flags of the Youth Army Second Army and Gu System Forces everywhere on all sides.

This situation could only be described as being besieged on all sides.

A few months ago, Dizhou Libing and his subordinates were full of ambition, believing Amaterasu blessed them, believing they could achieve new glory in North China.

But now Division Commander Dizhou Libing was utterly dejected, riding only a skinny Dogu horse, with only a cavalry squadron and a few disheveled staff officers left by his side.

Reinforcements from the Ninth Division and the 101st Division were blocked dead on the opposite bank of the Huai River by Sun Liren and friendly troops from three other armies using geographical advantage.

"Division Commander! We've already scouted it out; the southeast direction is a gap in the Paynim army's defensive line where they link up. The enemy is busy encircling and annihilating our main force, no one will notice us!" a cavalryman shouted, pointing into the distance.

Dizhou Libing's breakout was paid for with the lives of his subordinates.

To increase the probability of a successful breakout, Dizhou Libing left his Chief of Staff behind, led the remaining two thousand-plus devils in charging left and right within the encirclement to draw Xia Guo Army fire, while he himself led a cavalry squadron's cavalrymen to break out.

Dizhou Libing nodded, no longer able to judge the situation: "Break out! Toward the southeast direction, charge out!"

He squeezed his horse's belly, waved his military sword, and charged out first. Behind him, the remaining hundred-plus devil cavalrymen let out desperate howls, brandishing cavalry lances as they surged forward.

At first, they indeed broke through a weak defensive line—a tired infantry company of Xia Guo troops resting on the outer perimeter.

After leaving over a dozen corpses behind, Dizhou Libing's cavalry squadron escaped by relying on their war horses' mobility.

But before they could run two li, the earth behind them transmitted a familiar tremor that made their souls fly and scatter.

"Tanks! Paynim tanks!" a devil cavalryman shrieked.

Smoke and dust billowed from the side-rear, and the silhouettes of over a dozen steel tanks emerged from within.

Leading were four armored vehicles; the heavy machine guns on their roofs spat tongues of fire, sweeping the scattered rear of the breakout Imperial Cavalry.

Behind them followed some T Light Tanks and Light Anti-Aircraft Tanks, turrets turning, black muzzles already pointed at them.

Mixed in the ranks were over a hundred Youth Army Reconnaissance Force cavalrymen closely pursuing them.

Zhou Weiguo sat inside an armored vehicle, leaning out to observe this escaped fish through binoculars.

A machine gunner inside the vehicle asked: "Commander, do we need so many tanks to chase them? Let the cavalry chase them; the enemy's main force is still in the encirclement, my machine gun has been thirsty for a long time!"

Wind howled in Zhou Weiguo's ears as he shouted loudly: "The devils inside the encirclement can't escape. Lu Commander said we absolutely cannot let their division commander Dizhou Libing get away. The Thirteenth Division is a division that entered Jinling City; division commander Dizhou Libing must be seen alive or dead!

Otherwise, everyone in our Second Army, from top to bottom, will be in trouble!

The Youth First Army already had a photo taken with Isogai Rensuke's corpse; Commanders Qiu Qingquan and Zhang Fei are anxious!

Now that a small unit has broken out of the encirclement, the commanders fear Dizhou Libing might muddy the waters and escape, so they want me to personally come intercept!"

The machine gunner pulled the bolt of the heavy machine gun on the armored vehicle and said: "That's simple. I'll finish off this whole group of devil cavalrymen; not one will escape!"

"Wait! The little devils can't escape. The terrain here is flat, and we're faster than them. Flank them from left and right. If the old devil Dizhou Libing is inside, it's best to capture him alive!"

"Quick! Scatter and run!" Dizhou Libing was scared out of his wits, desperately whipping his war horse.

All the dignity of a division commander, all the decorum of an Imperial soldier, were thrown to the clouds at this moment, and he kept looking back from time to time to see if the Youth Army was catching up.

By coincidence or misfortune, Dizhou Libing looked back once, and just then Zhou Weiguo saw his face clearly through binoculars.

That's right! I've seen Dizhou Libing's photograph.

Confirmed by eye contact—it's the old devil himself, and he hasn't escaped!

"Chase after them! The one wearing the fur greatcoat is Dizhou Libing. Chase after them, don't let Dizhou Libing escape!"

Zhou Weiguo shouted through the vehicle's megaphone. The Youth Army cavalry behind also heard, spurred their horses forward, and flanked from left and right.

Dizhou Libing didn't understand Chinese and didn't know he had been exposed; he only knew to leave the battlefield at the fastest speed.

He then threw his military cap and pistol off the horse, felt it wasn't enough, and threw his command sword too.

Zhou Weiguo watched from behind as the unarmed Dizhou Libing rode, and laughed too. This characteristic was too obvious.

"Chase fast! The one without a gun on his body is Dizhou Libing. Don't let Dizhou Libing escape!"

The armored vehicle driver accelerated desperately, while Zhou Weiguo just kept shouting notifications to his subordinates inside the vehicle.

The characteristic was too obvious. The devil cavalrymen were all equipped with cavalry lances and horse sabres, but only Dizhou Libing himself had no equipment at all.

The Youth Army cavalry were behind the devils' backs, constantly shooting the devil cavalrymen with cavalry lances.

The armored vehicles and tanks also fired at the outer edge of the devil cavalry formation while moving along, first shooting down the straggling devil cavalrymen.

The devil cavalrymen had run for over an hour without rest from the very beginning until now, their strength gradually failing. They had been in a state of encirclement the whole time, with logistics and supplies cut off, and their war horses were fed little grass. Soon the Youth Army caught up with them.

The tanks and armored vehicles charged left and right within the devil cavalry formation, knocking down and trampling to death the cavalrymen around Dizhou Libing one by one, or shooting them off their horses directly with machine guns.

After a round of charging and killing, only over a dozen cavalrymen were left around Dizhou Libing.

"Chase after them! Toy with them!" Zhou Weiguo shouted at the driver.

The armored vehicle suddenly accelerated, kicking up dust, and hung behind Dizhou Libing's side-rear at a leisurely pace.

Dizhou Libing heard the engine sound behind him getting closer and closer, scared out of his wits. He lay on the horse's back, not daring to look back, just desperately whipping the horses.

The guards by his side were constantly knocked down by bullets fired from behind, screaming as they fell from their horses.

"Division Commander Dizhou Libing, where does Your Excellency want to go?" Zhou Weiguo stuck half his body out of the hatch on top of the armored vehicle and shouted loudly in Japanese.

Dizhou Libing turned back and saw Zhou Weiguo holding a loudspeaker, shouting at him in Japanese with a Kyoto accent. He was so scared his soul flew away.

"Ah~ war horse! My fine horse, run fast, the enemy has caught up!" Dizhou Libing beat the horse's buttocks until they were covered in blood, but it was of no use.

"Division Commander, come to Xuzhou and sit for a while. You've always wanted to go, haven't you? Commander Lu has been waiting for a long time." Zhou Weiguo continued shouting, propping his chin with one hand, watching Dizhou Libing whip the horses nonstop.

"Get lost! Damnable Paynim..."

Dizhou Libing touched his waist, wanting to use his pistol for self-defense, only to discover that all his weapons had already been discarded; he didn't even have a knife on him.

Zhou Weiguo's armored vehicle was already driving side by side with Dizhou Libing's war horse; Zhou Weiguo raised a submachine gun, pointed it at Dizhou Libing from the side, and scolded him in Japanese:

"Hey hey hey! Ride faster for me, you old bastard! Is that all you've got?!"

Dizhou Libing stopped whipping his horse's butt and instead swung his whip at Zhou Weiguo, who was riding alongside him, but the latter dodged by turning sideways.

The sight of the old devil being helpless made Zhou Weiguo laugh heartily.

Centered on Dizhou Libing and Zhou Weiguo, the Youth Army's tanks and the Xunzhao Ying's cavalry had already surrounded the two of them, forming an encirclement, though this encirclement was a moving one.

No one bothered Zhou Weiguo's amusement, nor worried that Dizhou Libing would escape; Zhou Weiguo and his subordinates now had absolute control over Dizhou Libing!

"Alright alright, stop this old devil for me!"

At Zhou Weiguo's order, the armored vehicle accelerated forward with the pedal to the floor, giving Dizhou Libing's war horse an American-style stop.

Dizhou Libing's horse was frightened into screaming, its front hooves rearing high and throwing Dizhou Libing off its back.

By the time the old devil came to his senses, he was already surrounded on all sides by the hooves and cavalry lances of the Youth Army's cavalry.

【Two chapters today, it's so cold... typing slowly, relying entirely on a full set of righteousness to hold on, New Year's Day I'm sitting here slacking off haha OVO】

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