Although Xiang Yuan suffered heavy casualties, the injured were mainly puppet troops. The imperial army only suffered a few casualties, which was not a big deal.

Generally speaking, when reporting, you just sugarcoat it and get over it. At most, you will be scolded a few times, but not to the point of being held accountable.

But the key thing now is that even the defense captain Yoshida Masanobu is finished. This matter is not so easy to fool, and the only thing to do is to report the situation truthfully to the original party.

After receiving the report from Mukahara, the highest officer stationed in the area, Colonel Mineki, was still shocked.

He was not shocked by the disastrous defeat of Mukahara, nor was he shocked by the death of Yoshida Masanobu. He deeply regretted Yoshida's death, but since the beginning of the war, the imperial army has lost many mid-level and senior generals, and one more major is nothing.

Shocking event.

What shocked him was the elusive penetration ability of the Eighth Route Army. It was not surprising that there were sporadic Eighth Route guerrilla activities in his defense zone.

However, in just a short time, it has grown to a large scale and can launch active attacks. It has also defeated the suppression troops sent by the imperial army. This cannot be left to chance.

The newly appointed commander repeatedly emphasized the destructiveness of the Eighth Route Army to the areas controlled by the Imperial Army, but they still did not take it seriously. Now he finally saw the dangers of the Eighth Route Army.

Xiang Yuan's battle destroyed one major and dozens of imperial troops. As for the casualties of the security forces, he didn't bother to care.

The scale of this kind of battle was not large, but it really disrupted the local security. If the Eighth Route Army fought so many times, how could the imperial army manage and rule the place?

Fengmu somewhat understood why the Commander of the Front Army attached so much importance to the Eighth Route Army. Although they did not have strong frontal combat capabilities, they posed a real threat to the Imperial Army's rule over the occupied areas.

Before, he really didn't understand why the Commander had to go to such great lengths to mobilize all the troops of the Northern Branch Army to encircle and suppress the Eighth Route Army. Now that this group of Eighth Route Army made such a fuss, he somewhat understood.

This cannot be blamed on him. There are historical reasons why the Maeda Division did not pay much attention to the Eighth Route Army. The defense area taken over by their division was not a key active area of ​​the Eighth Route Army.

The focus of their defense is still the Central Army of the Kuomintang. Although they will encounter harassment by small groups of Eighth Route Army guerrillas, there is not much threat and casualties are very small.

It can even be said that their Maeda Division is the unit that has the least contact with the Eighth Route Army in the entire North China Front. The harm of the Eighth Route Army is only limited to paper reports, and there is not much empathetic experience.

Now with the defeat of the Kuomintang, their defense area naturally overlaps with the activity area of ​​the Eighth Route Army, and they finally feel the threat of the Eighth Route guerrilla warfare.

Xiang Yuan's incident this time was not too serious, and the losses were still within an acceptable range, but it also sounded a warning to him, and he must pay attention to it. If he doesn't let the Eighth Route Army continue to develop like this, the situation will one day become difficult.

tidy.

If you want to clear out this group of Eight Route Army soldiers, you need the cooperation of surrounding friendly forces. Minegi encountered the same problem as Yoshida, and he was unable to mobilize the surrounding imperial forces.

However, as a colonel of the Imperial Army, his reputation was not comparable to that of Yoshida, so he called Colonel Katsume, hoping that the two forces would jointly take action to eliminate the Eighth Route Army unit operating at the junction of their regiments.

Colonel Katsume was quite surprised when he received Minegi's request for joint operations. Although their two regiment numbers were consecutive and their defense areas were close to each other, their relationship was not really close.

They do not belong to the same division. According to the imperial army's regional supply principle, the soldiers come from different geographical sources, so naturally there is not much sense of closeness.

However, he still attached great importance to the joint action proposed by Fengmu. His troops had always fought against the Eighth Route Army.

Therefore, he paid much more attention to the Eighth Route Army than Fengmu. After receiving Fengmu's request, Colonel Katsura immediately ordered the Japanese and puppet troops in Qing, Qing, Xin, Jian and other places to blockade and suppress this Eighth Route Army team.

Zhang Yunfei did not know about the joint operation reached by the Japs, but he could guess that the Japs would inevitably carry out crazy revenge.

Therefore, when he chose the direction of evacuation, he did not go west into the new city, but went directly north.

The Japanese are conducting a sweep in the west, where a large number of troops can be gathered. This time the Japanese sweep is different from the previous drag-net type, it is a blockade type, with three floors inside and three outside.

If you run over there, the Japanese will randomly select any troops to deal with you, and you will be able to drink a pot of it.

The situation is different in the north. That is the base area where the main force of the Eighth Route Army is located. With the help of local people and organizations, it is much easier to avoid the enemy's encirclement and suppression raids.

Maybe we can get help from our brother troops, and maybe we can in turn add someone to the Japanese's mopping up troops.

Zhang Yunfei withdrew more than ten kilometers to the north in one breath and had completely entered the mountainous area of ​​Jianyang before ordering everyone who was already sweating profusely to rest where they were.

At least for now, they have completely escaped the enemy's sight, and the Japanese and puppet troops will not be able to trace their traces for a while.

Although Zhang Yunfei planned to return to the base area where the main force of the Eighth Route Army was located if he could not defeat him, that was only his last resort.

As long as he still had a choice, he would not take that step. Besides, the Japanese raids made life in the base area equally difficult.

For someone like me, compared to those brother troops, my life was already very comfortable. Those brother troops were all good at pulling monsters, and the hatred of the little devils was firmly controlled by them.

The situation may not be as bad as you think, and the little devil may not be able to muster much power to deal with you.

"Captain, those rabbits are too cowardly. They run so fast that we can't drive them away at all." Not long after Zhang Yunfei and the others rested, Wang Zejun led the team back and said with an unhappy look, he didn't even shoot a single shot in this battle.

Didn't let it go.

"Well, I got it, you guys should rest too." Seeing him like this, Zhang Yunfei really didn't know what to say.

Wang Zejun's security platoon is different from ordinary security guards. Well, it's a world of difference.

The New Ninth Regiment is just a simplified regiment, it doesn't have many logistics personnel, and there are no big figures to protect.

The job of the guard platoon is to stand guard and help with various chores. It is naturally impossible for such a unit to waste its elite strength on such matters.

Therefore, the guard platoon of the New Ninth Regiment is just a platoon of new recruits. Some soldiers whose age is not suitable for joining the front-line troops are all incorporated into the guard platoon.

Wang Zejun felt that he had been deceived. The guard platoon sounded very high-end when he heard it, and the leader also paid great attention to this and that conversation.

But once he took office, it was nothing like that. He was just a babysitter. They had the worst weapons in the group and the youngest average age.

Naturally, they had nothing to do when they went to the battlefield. At the beginning of the operation, their guard platoon was transferred by Zhang Yunfei to monitor, er, deal with the puppet army reconnaissance team.

Wang Zejun was very happy to receive the combat mission, but when he was about to block the puppet army's reconnaissance team from returning for reinforcements.

Those guys had no intention at all. When they saw them from a distance, they had no intention of fighting them and just ran away.
Chapter completed!