"Sir, I think we should withdraw our troops immediately, the faster the better!" a squadron leader stood up and suggested.

Akiyama Nakasa didn't say anything, but his face was obviously a little gloomy than before.

After all his subordinates arrived at the command center, Akiyama Nakasa did not hide it and directly told the news that the baggage team was attacked, and then organized everyone to discuss what the troops should do next, whether to fight or withdraw.

Most officers support retreating, which is the safest and safest choice. They are almost all the original officers of the garrison, wanting to see Akiyama's jokes.

A small number of officers wanted to continue fighting. These people were subordinates brought by Akiyama Nakasa from the old army, and they knew Zhou Cheng's little thoughts very well.

But war requires food and ammunition, and the troops are short of these two things.

The officers who wanted to continue fighting had no way to solve this problem. The two sides had been struggling and quarreling on this issue. Almost half an hour passed, but there was still no result to be discussed.

Akiyama Nakasa's inner thoughts continued to work.

The superiors transferred themselves to pacification in order to deal with the National Salvation Army. This battle was also the first actual battle after taking office as the captain of the garrison. If they were defeated like this, it would not only disappoint the superiors, but also let themselves lose face in front of their subordinates.

But he couldn't solve the problem of shortage of food and ammunition in the army.

"Sir, why don't we send telegrams to the county town now and ask them to send troops to deliver us food and ammunition!" A squadron leader who supported the continued battle proposed.

"No..." The squadron leader who supported the retreating army did not hesitate to object.

"The baggage team that had an accident today had more than 300 people escorted us, almost half of the troops left behind in the county. Now they want to send troops to deliver supplies to us but have no troops to send."

"Where are we sending troops back to the county town to transport grain and ammunition supplies?" The squadron leader who just proposed to send troops was very unwilling to give up and continued to propose!

The squadron leader who supported the retreat once again raised objections: "It sounds like this can be done, but it is difficult to actually implement it, and there are still a lot of trouble."

"It will take five hours for the troops to return to the county town, and it will take five hours to transport the supplies here. If the troops send troops now and everything goes well, they will receive food and ammunition tomorrow morning."

"But if the troops marched all the way at night, it was too dangerous."

"The National Salvation Army will definitely attack us at any cost under the cover of night and prevent a piece of food from reaching Zhangzhuang Town."

"Even if we finally get food and ammunition, the escort troops will suffer heavy casualties, which is not worth the loss!"

"If you send back to the county town after dawn, you have to wait at least to dark before you can transport food and ammunition back, it means that the troops will have to be hungry for a day. Although the losses of escorting the troops are not as high as at night, they will definitely not be too little."

"The National Salvation Army ate more than 300 people sent from the county town in one bite this afternoon. Although it is not clear about the entire battle process, their strength must not be underestimated, and we have to guard against it."

Akiyama Nakasa was silent.

In that moment, his thoughts also emerged in his mind about sending troops back to the county town to transport food and ammunition.

Now that I have heard this analysis, I immediately rejected this idea.

The Beizhuang National Salvation Army will not be eliminated for a day. Even if it sends heavy troops to transport the food back, the troops will suffer heavy casualties. The remaining troops in Zhangzhuang Town are likely to be insufficient to continue attacking the National Salvation Army. It is useless to have food, and the gain is not worth the loss.

"Send troops to kill Beizhuang's national rescue army immediately..." This was another thought that suddenly popped up in Akiyama Nakasa's mind.

But he quickly shook his head and rejected it.

The opponent is too cunning and comes without a trace. When they lead their troops to Beizhuang, they must have escaped one step ahead, hid in a new place and stared at them, and seized the opportunity to come out and attacked them.

At this point, the few confidants who originally supported the continued battle were not as firm as before. They began to support the withdrawal of the troops inside and out, but because of their own ideas and face, it was difficult to say it bluntly.

Akiyama Nakasa's face looked even worse than before.

If he couldn't think of a solution, he had to choose to withdraw!

"Sir, I have an idea!" The cavalry squadron leader suddenly spoke!

"Speak quickly!" Akiyama Nakasa seemed to suddenly grab a life-saving straw in despair and asked anxiously.

"Before you took office, the county town's baggage team that transported ammunition supplies to surrounding strongholds was also attacked and the entire army was destroyed."

"In order to break the deadlock, the former deputy captain asked the cavalry squadron to give them supplies."

"Each cavalry carried fifty kilograms of supplies, marched to the stronghold and then retreated."

"The cavalry speed is fast, and one hour is enough to make a comeback and return. No matter how fast the enemy ambush the baggage team reacts, it is impossible to arrange a battlefield to ambush us in such a short time."

"And we are cavalry and we do not have high requirements for road surfaces. If the rescue army uses the method of dealing with infantry to deal with us, the effect will be very limited."

"I just checked it out. The cavalry squadron is moving forward with light equipment and can not return to the county town in an hour."

"We still have dozens of reserved horses in the county. If we use them all, without affecting the speed of the march, we can send 10,000 kilograms of supplies at a time. We can transport all the troops' combat supplies for the next five days in four rounds."

The two squadron leaders who supported the withdrawal from the army at the beginning of the meeting also thought of this.

The cavalry was used as the baggage team. When the deputy captain proposed this idea, they were shocked and thought that the deputy captain was joking with everyone.

But this method proved to be correct.

Facing the rushing cavalry, even if an enemy hiding on the roadside to attack, it is difficult for the bullets fired to hit the target.

The entire operation took only more than an hour, and the cavalry squadron that completed the mission did not suffer any losses, which surprised all officers who questioned this method.

The same method was useful at that time, but it will definitely be useful now.

An instant squadron leader stood up: "Sir, this method is feasible!"

It was the first time Akiyama Nakasa heard about this mode of transportation and was very suspicious. When he saw a squadron leader standing up to support him, he became moved.

After reconsidering the cavalry squadron leader’s proposal just now, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this thing could work.

Hope rekindled on his gloomy face, and his face was full of anticipation and orders: "Then try it."

"If the cavalry squadron can really bring us the food and ammunition supplies that the troops urgently need, I will definitely ask you for me."

The cavalry squadron leader was very confident: "Please rest assured, the cavalry squadron will definitely not disappoint you."

"Boom..."

An hour later, the sound of horse hooves sounded at the entrance of Zhangzhuang Town, and more than 60 cavalrymen rushed out of the town with torches.

Zhou Cheng received the news almost an hour later that the cavalry squadron had entered Pingding City from the east gate.

The supplies and ammunition urgently needed on the front line had been prepared long ago. As the cavalry got off the horse, the baggage soldiers next to them rushed up and fixed the divided grain and ammunition to the horse's back.

Someone also sent good horse materials to replenish the energy of the war horses.

Ten minutes later, he left the city and sent the first batch of supplies to Zhangzhuang Town.

In a small hill less than five kilometers away from Beizhuang, when Tang Shengbo heard that the Japanese sent more than 60 cavalry back to pacify, Zhou Cheng immediately thought of what Chen Zhengyu had encountered before when he attacked to pacify the northwest direction.

After the Japanese baggage team was attacked, they used cavalry to transport supplies.

Because the cavalry is fast, Chen Zhengyu has too little reaction time, so it is not enough to arrange a battlefield. He can only watch the cavalry rushing past his eyes...

The Japanese and puppet troops in Zhangzhuang Town have run out of food. If they want to withdraw, the whole army will definitely take action together.

Now only cavalry is dispatched, and the infantry is still holding troops in Zhangzhuang Town. It is probably because the Japanese were unwilling to be defeated, and they plan to use cavalry to transport ammunition and supplies to themselves and fight again.

Since that's the case, I will also destroy the last hope of the Japanese, cut off all their retreats, and force them to retreat.

The order immediately: "The guard platoon, the investigation platoon, the heavy machine gun platoon of the firepower company, and the 7th Company firepower squad will come with me immediately, and there will be an emergency task. Other troops will continue to stay here and stand by, but they must send more guard posts and report any situation immediately."

"The heavy machine gun platoon and the 7th Company firepower squad will bring all the light and heavy machine guns we seized in Beizhuang, which will be of great use!"

The last time the cavalry squadron transported supplies, it only took an hour to go back and forth, and Chen Zhengyu had no time to arrange the battlefield.

This time, the cavalry squadron ran back and forth between Donghui Town and the county town for two hours, and the Third Battalion hid next to the road. As long as the troops reacted quickly enough, they could be stopped.

In addition, there is another confidence in outer Zhoucheng.

Chen Zhengyu did not dare to attack the cavalry squadron. In addition to not having time, he was also because the army was too weak at the time, otherwise he could have attacked the return cavalry instead of watching the other party return to the county town.

I don’t have this problem, and there are more than twenty light and heavy machine guns that have just been seized in Beizhuang.

There are only more than 60 Japanese cavalrymen, and one machine gun can wipe out the opponent by killing three cavalry.

With the firing rate of light and heavy machine guns, it can be done easily, and there is no need to choose a terrain and you can fight anywhere.

In the pacification of the city, the cavalry squadron was ready to leave the city.

More than 60 cavalrymen and more than 30 unowned war horses were all covered with supplies, weapons and ammunition.

The squadron leader rode on the war horse, glanced at his subordinates behind him, and decisively ordered: "Get out of the city and rush back to Zhangzhuang Town as fast as possible."

On the road less than ten kilometers away from the county town, dozens of soldiers were setting up heavy machine guns on the road.

Two heavy-duty machine guns, four 92 styles, one tweaked next to the other, fixed in the middle of the official road.

The light machine gunner lies ambushed on both sides of the official road, under the cover of night, and integrates with the surrounding environment.

They were less than fifty meters away from the road. If it was daytime, the Japanese and puppet troops could see them at a glance on the official road.

But it was night now, and the Japanese were rushing back to Zhangzhuang Town again, galloping all the way, without even the vanguard troops, so they would definitely not pay attention to the surroundings.
Chapter completed!