Although Zhao Zhiguo had many doubts in his heart, his reason told him that now was not the time to figure these things out.

After Zhao Zhiguo and Zhao Ziming confirmed the existence of Gao Cang's troop numbers, they immediately ordered: "Dianhou, you bring a machine gun and follow three soldiers to the rear. Brother, protect the wounded. I will take two soldiers to explore the road!"

"Do you want to bring the machine gun?" Zhao Ziming asked.

"No, we are spies. The important thing is to be agile. It is more appropriate to carry a rifle."

"What should I do with this heavy machine gun?" Dianhou asked.

"It's too heavy. Carrying the wounded has slowed down our march. Try to bring some ammunition and grenades from the Japs' corpses as much as possible. We will use them," Zhao Zhiguo said.

"What a good heavy machine gun, it's a pity that it exploded." Dianhou felt a little regretful that the Northwest Army troops were so short of weapons that in some troops, only three people were assigned one rifle.

"We can't use it, and we can't leave it to the little devils!"

Gao Cang had been observing Zhao Zhiguo. He was convinced that apart from him, Zhao Ziming had the highest rank in this army, but now it was an ordinary soldier giving orders.

"Could it be that..." Gao Cang glanced at the still unconscious division commander. It was obvious that he had misunderstood Zhao Zhiguo.

After Zhao Zhiguo and the others set off, the remaining twenty-odd little Japs turned into scouts and followed the remnant soldiers. They did not take the initiative to provoke Zhao Zhiguo and the others, and never appeared in Zhao Zhiguo's sight. They followed Zhao Zhiguo and the others not far or near.

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Because there were seriously wounded soldiers, Zhao Zhiguo and the others were not marching very fast. They kept stopping and stopping, making it easy for the Japs' scouts to keep up. Once the Japanese reinforcements arrived, Zhao Zhiguo and the others would become the thorns in the Japs' turret.

However, Zhao Zhiguo was naturally very clear about the Jaap's tracking. He knew the Jaap's character and which unit the Jaap had suffered a loss in. He would either find it on the spot or write it down in a notebook so that he could retrieve it later when he encountered it.

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But Zhao Zhiguo has nothing to do with them now. First of all, if they don't have an absolute advantage with their thirty-odd troops, they will have to pay a huge price to kill the twenty-odd Japanese soldiers.

Individually, they had already been made dumplings by the little devils who came over.

The little Japs following them also caused a lot of uneasiness to the troops and put huge psychological pressure on the soldiers. It was like they were not afraid of thieves stealing, but they were afraid that thieves would care about them, and what they cared about was their lives.

"We can't go on like this. The little devil has a radio on his body. He must have called for reinforcements. Maybe there are Japanese troops ahead to intercept us!" Gao Cang had been accompanying Zhao Zhiguo, but the Japanese troops following him for a long time made him feel like there was a knife.

It hangs above their heads and can fall down at any time.

Gao Cang was naturally not worried about his own safety. If the teacher was not around, according to his temper, he would have turned around and fought with the little devil. He would not pay for killing one, but he would earn one by killing two!

"Do you have any good ideas?" Zhao Zhiguo didn't look at Gao Cang at all, but looked around.

Gao Cang doesn't have any good ideas. They only have about thirty people who can fight. If they fight head-on with more than twenty Japanese troops, it's really hard to say who will win and who will lose.

"Then..." Gao Cang was speechless for a moment, but he could not suppress his fiery temper. "If you are afraid of death, you can leave. I will take my people back and fight hard to buy you time."

Gao Cang also made a choice out of desperation. He could not put his teacher in such a dangerous situation.

Zhao Zhiguo didn't know that the sooner they solved the trouble behind them, the easier it would be for them. However, the surrounding terrain was clearly visible. If they dug a trench under their feet, the little devils would immediately discover it. The final result can be imagined...

"Can you lend me your telescope?"

Along the way, Zhao Zhiguo struggled to observe with his own eyes. No matter how good his eyesight was, the range he could see was limited.

Gao Cang suddenly held the telescope, and his violent temper instantly turned into caution and hesitation: "You... what are you going to do!"

"How about you come to explore the way? I see that the range is limited. If I have your telescope, maybe I can find a suitable place to concentrate our efforts and deal with the little Japs following us." Zhao Zhiguo

Confidently said, "I'm just borrowing it for a moment. I'll definitely return it to you when I'm done with it."

Gao Cang still held the telescope and had not yet taken it off.

"I didn't expect you to be so stingy. We even saved your life. We didn't even lend you the telescope. Forget it!" Zhao Zhiguo said deliberately.

When Gao Cang heard this, his temper suddenly rose again, and he quickly handed the binoculars to Zhao Zhiguo: "I am not stingy."

Zhao Zhiguo smiled and took the telescope: "The telescope is not bad. The telescope made in Germany is much easier to use than the one made by the Japanese. Isn't it valuable? The ones used by our regiment leader are not as good as this one. Thank you!"

Gao Cang looked at Zhao Zhiguo's half-smiling mouth and wondered if Zhao Zhiguo had already guessed the identity of the division commander. But then he thought about it, as a soldier, how could Zhao Zhiguo know that the telescope in his hand was made in Germany? How could he know?

The value? He had another layer of doubt about the identity of Zhao Zhiguo's soldiers.

"We need to be in the same boat!" Gao Cang concealed his thoughts well.

"Yes, we are in the same boat."

Zhao Zhiguo picked up the telescope and looked around. The wilderness was vast, and the mountains were looming in the distance. With the wounded, he could not hope to run into the mountains in a short time and then get rid of the little devil.

But soon he saw hope. The faint green smoke in the distance did not escape Zhao Zhiguo's eyes: "I hope it's not bad news!"

"What did you find?" Gao Cang asked.

"Smoke!" Zhao Zhiguo did not explain too much. In the war years, smoke did not necessarily represent the curling smoke of peace and tranquility.

"Smoke?" Gao Cang was confused.

"That's probably a village, and it could be the burial place for us or the little Japanese behind us," Zhao Zhiguo said.

In the open wilderness, there is no county town, so the best castle is naturally the village.

"Village? Do you want us to be surrounded by little devils in the village again?"

Gao Cang and the others have just escaped from the wolf's den, are they going to enter the tiger's den again? If they hide in an isolated village on the plain, the little devils will definitely surround them.

"Given two squads of troops, do you want to surround the village?" Zhao Zhiguo said, "What we want is to kill every one of them before their reinforcements arrive."

"We don't know when their reinforcements will arrive!" Gao Cang still doubted Zhao Zhiguo's plan.

"So we must seize the time to act and compete with the little devils. If they are fast, we will die. If we are fast, they will die. It's that simple." Zhao Zhiguo said.
Chapter completed!