After receiving the report, Captain Yoshida felt a little strange. The people who appeared on the other side of the river were not all Americans, but most of them were Asians. According to the saying, the ones who saved the Americans should be the haibao commando of the United States. He didn't understand where those Asians came from?

Although he couldn't figure it out, he didn't dare to be careless. If the Americans were the ones they were looking for and ran away under his nose, he would not be able to explain to his superiors.

While reporting the information to his superiors, he personally led the main force of the brigade to chase Gao Jiu and others.

It was getting darker and darker, and these people seemed to have not noticed that the Japanese were already secretly monitoring them. After walking at the foot of the mountain for a while, they began to move closer to the riverside and then along the river bank, as if they were looking for a place to cross the river.

The Japanese army on the other side of the river quietly followed them, constantly reporting the information to Yoshida, and indicating their location to the large group of people.

Among Gao Jiu's special skills, the most prominent one is his night vision ability. The heat energy emitted by the Japanese army on the other side of the river has long exposed their position. Gao Jiu pretended not to know, but still led the special forces and five haibao commandos who were disguised as hostages to walk downstream along the river.

The Japanese army continued to track Gao Jiu and others. As the sky became darker and darker, it became more and more difficult to track. Fortunately, Gao Jiu and others were traveling along the river, and the Japanese talents were not lost.

At this time, Yoshida had received a telegram from his superiors, who believed that the information provided by Yoshida was very important. The five American hostages were rescued in Manila. If it were rescued by the American Haibao Commando, so many Americans would appear in the city, it would be impossible that there would be no trace.

Therefore, it should be these Asians who rescued these American hostages, and they may be the Philippine anti-Japanese guerrillas.

Therefore, the superior ordered the Yoshida Brigade to intercept these Americans, especially to prevent them from approaching the coast and prevent them from being picked up by American submarines.

Now Yoshida also believes that the group of people they are following should be the target they are looking for. So he ordered his subordinates to divide into two groups. He led some people to continue chasing along the river bank, and the other people to look for roads, use the road to move quickly, and go to the front to intercept.

Even so, Yoshida thought it was still unsafe and was worried that if the people across the river left the river and hid in the deep mountains and dense forests on the other side, they would lose their traces of those people through the river.

So when they tracked a gentle area of ​​the river, he ordered the squadron leader of the Second Squadron to lead his troops to cross the river and then pursue the river along the bank.

As Gao Jiu walked, he turned his head and looked back. The Japanese's actions were under his surveillance. In order to attract the attention of the Japanese, he led his troops to continue along the river bank.

Chen Zhifeng is familiar with the situation in this area. Under his leadership, Gao Jiu and others marched more easily.

The Japanese were not familiar with this area, and they could not find a guide for the time being. They stumbled along the way, and from time to time, some people fell down, and some even suffered severe injuries, but they suffered a lot. However, the Japanese devils were very tenacious and still chased Gao Jiu and others.

Gao Jiu and others walked to a place where the river turned, and Chen Zhifeng said: "Mr. Gao, there is a bridge 12km downstream, and there is a road from Manila to Quezon City."

Gao Jiu knew that he could not move forward any further. The Japanese were likely to use the highway to move quickly and set up ambush on the road ahead, perhaps coming towards it.

Gao Jiu ordered two special forces members to stop quietly and lay landmines on the road they came. He planned to move forward another 1km, and then enter the forest area to get rid of the Japanese's pursuit.

There were about eighty people in the second squadron of Yoshida Brigade who could swim. Under the leadership of the squadron leader, they crossed the river. Regardless of the difficulties of the road, they quickly chased along the routes that Gao Jiu and others walked. They rushed to the distance of about 200 meters behind Gao Jiu and others, and then followed them quietly.

Suddenly, an explosion sounded by the river. Someone stepped on the landmine. The Japanese squadron leader and several soldiers who were leading the team to walk in front were killed on the spot. The other soldiers were in chaos, and some others stepped on the landmine, resulting in several soldiers being killed and injured.

After the explosion sounded, Gao Jiu and others immediately lay down to look for cover.

At this moment, the night was heavy and the visibility was extremely low. It was difficult for the Japanese army on the other side of the river to see the target on the other side. However, this did not affect Gao Jiu and the special forces members' attacks on the Japanese army. They shot accurately, which quickly caused great casualties to the Japanese army.

There is no need to say that Gao Jiu can do this. The special forces members are very experienced. They shoot one shot and change the place, using the fire generated by the muzzle when the Japanese army shoots to attack the enemy.

Before Gao Jiu's men opened fire, Gao Jiu reminded the Americans to hide and fire guns to attract Japanese attacks and provide targets for the special forces members to snipe the Japanese army.

Unfortunately, these Americans did not listen to the advice, thinking that Gao Jiu and others looked down on them. After all, they were members of the dignified haibao commando team, so they did not listen to Gao Jiu's advice and kept shooting at the Japanese army.

There were also many sharpshooters in the Japanese army, who also shot at the muzzle on the other side. As a result, a member of the haibao commando was shot in the head and died on the spot, and another person was also hit on the shoulder.

After a painful lesson, they listened to Gao Jiu's opinion and fired guns in the sky behind the solid cover.

Captain Yoshida was very experienced. At the beginning, both sides fired at each other, and could not judge the casualties. The Japanese soldiers suffered a lot of casualties, and then he realized that the other party seemed to have few casualties. Because he roughly judged the number of people based on the firelight flashing at the guns on the opposite side.

After a period of battle, the number of opponents did not decrease at all. Only then did he realize that the people on the other side were not ordinary guerrillas, and their combat effectiveness was much stronger than that of the haibao commando in the United States.

He also adopted corresponding tactics, ordering soldiers to shoot one shot and change places, which effectively reduces casualties. At the same time, he ordered mortars and grenade launchers to bomb the other side.

The Japanese artillery fire came, and the members of the Taohuashan Special Forces fired and changed the place. The Japanese army could not determine their exact location and could only shoot at this area randomly. Therefore, the special forces members basically suffered no casualties.

The unlucky ones were the Americans who hid behind the shelter without moving positions. As a result, they were bombed by Japanese mortars and killed another one on the spot.

Seeing that he had successfully attracted the attention of the Japanese army, Gao Jiu no longer had a fight and immediately ordered the team members to take the bodies of the wounded and the American haibao commandos to move them into the mountains.

After this battle, Yoshida's brigade suffered nearly a hundred casualties. He had never suffered such a big loss before and was very angry. He immediately organized troops to cross the river and must catch up with this enemy and annihilate them.

The actions of Gao Jiu and others successfully attracted the attention of the Japanese army. The original plan of the Japanese army dispatching two regiments to conduct large-scale encirclement was changed. According to the direction of Gao Jiu and others' shift, they gave up their original plan, readjusted their troops, and wanted to build a new encirclement.

Taylor and Columb led the Haibao Commando and the Marines to escort five important American figures and marched across mountains and rivers toward the north. Along the way, they were not blocked and their actions went very smoothly.

At around 9 o'clock in the evening, they climbed to the top of a mountain and found a highway ahead, with many Japanese people moving on the highway.

Taylor and others were very depressed. They rushed to the scene and fell into the Japanese encirclement. It seemed that Gao Jiu and others' plans were not very useful and did not attract the Japanese.

Taylor was an experienced commander after all. He called a team leader of the haibao commando and asked him to lead 20 haibao commando members to march eastward, attack the Japanese troops on the road, and transfer the Japanese troops blocking the road ahead to cover them to escort important figures across the road.

At this moment, the Japanese troops on the highway suddenly started to complete the squad, and then got in the car and left.

Taylor and others were wondering, and Gao Jiu sent a telegram telling them that they had exchanged fire with the Japanese army, which attracted the attention of the Japanese army.

Then he instructed Taylor and others to hurry up and continue north.

Taylor and others waited for half an hour and confirmed that there were no Japanese troops on the highway, so they marched quickly, crossed the highway, and continued northward.

Taylor and others marched continuously despite their fatigue. The members of his haibao commando team were strong and could hold on.

Five important American figures are usually pampered and they can't bear such a strong marches. They can't walk for long before they have to stop and rest. Later, blood bubbles on their feet and their movements are even slower.

Taylor had no choice but to instruct his special forces and commandos to march with their backs or with them.

They kept walking until dawn, traveling about fifty kilometers, and finally jumped out of the Japanese encirclement and entered the Madre Mountains.

It was dawn, and Taylor and others hid in a valley to rest. Only then did they start to worry about the situation of Gao Jiu and others.

Columbia said worriedly: "We are temporarily out of danger. I don't know how Mr. Gao and the others are doing? I hope they can also break through the Japanese encirclement."

The worries of Taylor, Columbia and others are not redundant, and the situation of Gao Jiu and others is really difficult.

Although Gao Jiu and others were active in the mountainous areas, this place was not the main mountain range on Luzon Island. The mountainous areas were not too large, and most of them were plains around them, making it very convenient to mobilize the Japanese army.

Gao Jiu and others exposed their targets, and the Japanese army quickly mobilized their troops and built a blockade line. Gao Jiu and others would be surrounded in the mountains sooner or later. As the Japanese army continued to narrow the encirclement, Gao Jiu and others would be exposed sooner or later, and they would be likely to suffer a catastrophe.

Under the leadership of Chen Zhifeng, Gao Jiu and others entered the deep mountains and dense forests.

It was completely dark, and the Japanese army crossing the river was not familiar with the terrain. In addition, they were attacked by Gao Jiu and others just now. Seeing that the terrain in front was becoming more and more complex, they were worried about being ambushed, so the tracking speed slowed down. Soon after, they lost the traces of Gao Jiu and others.

Yoshida had no choice but to order the troops to stop advancing, and at the same time reported to his superiors the direction of Gao Jiu and his disappearance and the area where he was located, and prepared to cooperate with the large army to surround Gao Jiu and his others.

Gao Jiu saw that there was no trace of Japanese troops behind him, so he ordered the special forces to stop and rest on the spot.

Gao Jiu asked Jia Liu to send a telegram to Taylor and others, and soon after, he received their call back.

He called Jia Liu, Ning Wen, Ning Wu and the three members of the haibao commando who were still alive, and said: "Taylor and Columbia have broken through the Japanese blockade line and have continued to go north. Their mission of cover has been completed.

Nowadays, the large Japanese army is surrounding us from all directions. The mountainous area we are in is relatively small. After dawn, the Japanese army will search for mountains. Our situation will be extremely dangerous. We must break out of the Japanese army's encirclement as soon as possible."

Everyone trusted Gao Jiu and waited for him to make a decision.

Gao Jiu said to the members of the haibao commando: "The situation is now critical. We can only bury the bodies of your two team members on the spot. When the war is over, they will send their remains back to the United States."

The three members of the Haibao Commando agreed with Gao Jiu's opinion. With the help of the special forces, the bodies of the two Haibao Commando were buried. After praying, they set out under the leadership of Gao Jiu.

At this time, the roads in Manila Bay were very busy, and a large number of Japanese troops surrounded the mountainous areas where Gao Jiu and others appeared.

According to the information provided by Yoshida and others, Gao Jiu and others walked through the deep mountains, and their marching speed was not too late to jump out of this mountainous area.

A large number of Japanese troops took cars to intercept Gao Jiu and others' way, and blockade lines began to be laid on other roads in various directions.

They were moving very fast, and I believe Gao Jiu and others had no time to break out of the encirclement.

At 4 a.m., tens of thousands of Japanese troops surrounded the mountainous areas where Gao Jiu and others appeared from all directions. They lit bonfires on the road and sealed the mountain areas tightly. If you look down from the sky, countless bonfires formed a huge circle, which looked very spectacular.

The Japanese officers and soldiers, including Yoshida, dared not slacken at all. They looked at the vast mountains and forests in the encirclement with vigilance to prevent Gao Jiu and others from suddenly attacking and breaking out of the encirclement.

It was finally dawn, and Captain Yoshida breathed a sigh of relief. He believed that Gao Jiu and others were surrounded in the mountains.

The top leaders of the Japanese army did not receive a report of Gao Jiu and others breaking through. They were relieved and ordered the large army to enter the mountains to search at 9 a.m. to prevent Gao Jiu and others from escaping, two reconnaissance planes were specially sent to patrol the air and instruct the Japanese army at any time to break through.

Although the forest hidden by Gao Jiu and others is smaller than the three major mountains on Luzon, the range is dozens of square kilometers, so it is not easy to search.

Fortunately, the Japanese army was large in number, and they advanced in all directions in a dense formation and gradually narrowed the encirclement. However, they had never found any traces of Gao Jiu and others.

At 4 pm, there was only a mountain less than a square kilometer left in front of him. The Japanese officers and soldiers believed that Gao Jiu and others must be in this mountain, so they all became alert and searched forward carefully to guard against the attacks of Gao Jiu and others.

As time went by, since there was no trace of Gao Jiu and others, Captain Yoshida felt very bad. He looked at the last mountain in front and felt a sense of emptiness in his heart. He felt that Gao Jiu and others were not in the mountain in front and might have jumped out of the encirclement.

Facts prove that Captain Yoshida's premonition was accurate. Thousands of Japanese troops walked through every tree and grass on the last mountain, but found no trace.

The highest commander responsible for the search and suppression of Gao Jiu and others was a brigade commander. When he learned that Gao Jiu and others were not in the encirclement, he was very angry and called Captain Yoshida who provided the information, gave him a few big mouths in public, accusing him of lying about military information and wasting a lot of manpower and material resources.

Captain Yoshida has always been smooth sailing and can be said to be very arrogant. This time he was humiliated in public and hated Gao Jiu and others to the core. He vowed to catch Gao Jiu and others.
Chapter completed!