Although they were in the same mountain, Wakda's death did not cause any ripples among the Qing army.
In order to break out of the encirclement, the Qing troops had already dispersed, each focusing on their own business and in no mood to care what happened to others.
Ye Chen had already taken off all his armor, even throwing away the silk lining.
He was originally lying in a secret grass nest.
Not far in front of him, a battle had just occurred.
A group of National Defense Force soldiers encountered the Qing army unexpectedly and immediately fought together. In the end, the Qing army was defeated and fled north. The IDF soldiers pursued closely, leaving only bodies on the ground.
Ye Chen waited for a while and found that no one came from this area. He quickly ran over, dragged the body of a National Defense Force soldier back to the hiding place, and hurriedly put the clothes on himself.
Then he turned around and headed west.
Turning around the foot of a mountain, I saw a stretcher team approaching.
Seeing Ye Chen's figure, the health worker in charge of the stretcher team hurried over.
"Why are you here alone? Where is your team?"
Ye Chen exposed the wound on his left arm and grinned: "Captain and the others went to chase the Tatars. I was injured. The captain asked me to seek treatment from a doctor."
The hygienists are very conscientious.
"Thankfully you met us, otherwise you would have to walk down the mountain to reach the hospital. Come on, lie down on the stretcher."
While helping Ye Chen lie down on the stretcher, the health worker took over the musket and knife that Ye Chen was wearing.
Ye Chen was in pain on the surface but ecstatic on the inside.
If you really let him get through it, he might be able to escape.
But when he just lay down on the stretcher, a cold bayonet was already placed on his neck.
The health worker was obviously a little girl, but she had an evil spirit about her.
"Who are you? Tell me quickly. Otherwise, I will kill you."
Ye Chen was startled. He didn't know where his flaw was, and he just kept complaining.
"What are you doing? I'm injured, why don't you take me to the doctor?"
The little hygienist sneered, and with a slight stab of the bayonet, he cut Ye Chen's skin.
"The wound on your arm has been more than ten days old, but you said it was injured in the battle just now. Also, your wound was caused by the knife of a senior officer of our army, not a weapon of the Qing army at all."
Ye Chen took a breath, never expecting that an inconspicuous little girl could be so powerful.
Although he is a famous general on the battlefield, he does not understand the professionalism of medicine.
The injuries on his body were indistinguishable to ordinary people. But in the eyes of professional medical students, they are all flaws.
A stretcher bearer stepped forward and took off Ye Chen's hat, revealing his fresh bald head.
"Ouch, this pig's tail has just been shaved, and there is still stubble on it. It's also dizzy. When did our soldiers in the National Defense Force have such bald heads?"
Seeing that he was surrounded by people and could be stabbed with a bayonet at any time, Ye Chen wanted to cry but could only raise his hands obediently.
Wanyan Ye Chen, a battle-hardened and invincible man, unexpectedly became a prisoner of the stretcher team.
On a mountaintop to the east, Mandarhan also ushered in the end.
His men and horses were discovered by the National Defense Forces, and a full two thousand people surrounded him.
Mandarhan was fighting and running, but he panicked and ended up on a cliff.
Leaning down and looking down, the cliff is thousands of meters high. If you fall, you will definitely be shattered to pieces.
Mandarhan was filled with sadness. He turned his head and looked at the approaching National Defense Forces. He couldn't help but let out a wild beast-like roar.
An officer shouted: "Put down your arms and surrender, there is no way for you to survive."
After the previous battles, Mandar Khan knew very well that he had no hope of breaking out in front of this dense musketry.
"I was born as a member of the Qing Dynasty, and died as a ghost of the Qing Dynasty. Oboi, you wait in the underworld to see if I am a loyal minister?"
He turned around suddenly and jumped into the abyss.
All the soldiers exclaimed in surprise and rushed to the edge of the cliff, only to see misty white clouds and Mandar Khan's figure had disappeared.
The officer was not shocked at all. He just ordered: "Send a team of people to go down and search. If you want to see the person alive, you want to see the body if you are dead."
Caocun is located in the middle of the road from Shilou to Shikou, in the middle of a valley between two mountains, with the Quchan River passing through the village.
It was originally a quiet mountain village, but with the arrival of the National Defense Forces, it became very lively.
The people in the village have been properly resettled elsewhere by the National Defense Forces, and a battalion turned the place into a military fortress.
The task of the 26th Division was to set up defenses along the road from Shilou to Shikou to prevent Azig from breaking through and going north.
However, the long road diluted the strength of the 26th Division, so that only one battalion could be deployed to defend each key point.
"Success or failure depends on this. No matter who survives, they must find a way to go back."
As night fell, on the hilltop south of Cao Village, Azige made his final confession to Bohetuo.
At this point in the war, Azig has understood that failure is inevitable.
He was not sure how many of the tens of thousands of Qing troops would be able to get out of the mountains.
Besides, it's now a mess. Even if there are other Qing troops coming out, he can't contain them.
At this time, he and Bohetuo were accompanied by more than 3,000 people.
This was the strength that he had tried his best to maintain, and he had been careful so that he was not discovered by the National Defense Forces.
Azig decided to break out of Cao Village.
Although after passing through Cao Village, there are still mountains to the north. But at least he escaped from the encirclement of the National Defense Forces, and he might have a chance to survive.
Taking advantage of the darkness, the Qing army quietly came down from the mountain.
The shallow Quchan River did not act as a barrier, allowing them to quickly approach the outskirts of Cao Village.
The explosion of the mines alerted the defenders, and fighting quickly broke out.
However, it was dark at night, and a battalion of the defenders rushed to join the battle, completely unaware of how many enemies were coming.
Moreover, the performance of the musket was seriously affected at night.
Soon hand-to-hand fighting broke out all over the village.
By the time dawn came and support from the National Defense Forces from other places arrived, the entire village had been reduced to ashes.
Wehrmacht soldiers who had suffered heavy losses were searching for the enemy everywhere and asking for confessions.
"Captain, we are in disgrace for letting Azig run away."
The battalion commander stood in front of the regiment commander and cried bitterly, feeling that he had made a big mistake.
Because by questioning the prisoners, we learned that Azig and Bohetuo were among this Qing army. However, after counting the bodies, they were not found.
Then there is only one possibility.
Azig and Bohetuo took advantage of last night's melee and ran into the mountains to the north.
There was no deployment of the National Defense Force over there, which meant that these two people were allowed to jump out of the encirclement.
