Japanese troops attack position.

Masao Nishiyama, an old soldier, was still paying attention to this attack throughout the whole process. However, the smoke blocked his sight, so the old soldier did not know what was happening on the front line.

In his view, without the threat of artillery this time, the attacking imperial troops would be able to easily reach the independent battalion's forward position and then defeat it like a mighty force.

Therefore, the long-lost smile bloomed on the old devil's face again.

But soon, the smile on Nishiyama Masao's face froze, and was replaced by an expression as if he had seen a ghost.

Because through the thin smoke, he was shocked to find that many imperial soldiers seemed to be running back from the front battlefield in panic.

Nishiyama Masao thought he was seeing something wrong, so he raised his hand and rubbed his eyes vigorously, and then he saw more imperial soldiers running out of the smoke in a steady stream.

"Baga! What's going on? Could it be that the Independent Battalion withstood the imperial army's attack again?"

Speaking of this, Nishiyama Masao seemed to have thought of something, and said: "Tanks, where are the tanks of the Imperial Army? Where have they gone?"

Nishiyama Masao immediately thought of anti-tank mines, but he quickly shook his head and denied his guess, because the gap between the two attacks was very short, and the independent battalion did not have time to deploy anti-tank mines even if it wanted to.

What's more, he was monitoring the whole process.

If there is a chance, it is only during the time when smoke bombs are released, but this is only less than 10 minutes, and anti-tank mines are different from other mines. In theory, there is no time at all.

Even if the independent battalion deployed in advance, it would be impossible, because Masao Nishiyama knew very well how big the noise caused by the explosion of anti-tank mines.

There was no such violent explosion just now.

Unable to understand and unable to accept this failure, Nishiyama Masao simply walked out quickly with a gloomy face and a saber in his hand.

Upon seeing this, Chief of Staff Tada Ichiro on the side quickly followed with a small group of guards.

Soon, Nishiyama Masao came to the defeated army and reached out to intercept them.

"Who can tell me what happened just now? Why did you lose again?"

"Also, where are the tanks of the Imperial Army? Why haven't any of them come back? Did you abandon the tanks and escape on your own?"

No wonder Masao Nishiyama is so angry. In fact, tanks are extremely important to his 4th Brigade and even the entire First Army.

Every time one is destroyed, it is a huge loss for him.

The leading Japanese captain did not dare to hide anything, and quickly explained: "Your Excellency, the commander of the brigade, all the tanks of the imperial army were destroyed by the China-Tuba Road. In order to preserve our strength and reduce unnecessary casualties, we turned around.

Enter."

After hearing this, Masao Nishiyama suddenly showed an expression of disbelief: "What are you talking about? All the tanks of the Imperial Army were destroyed by the China-Tuba Road? Don't they have combat anti-aircraft guns?"

Without waiting for the captain to answer, he shook his head and denied his conjecture: "Impossible, not to mention the Chinese Tubal Road who are so poor that they can't even afford food. Even Yan Laoxi's Jinsui Army may not have combat anti-aircraft guns!

"

The Japanese captain lowered his head and replied weakly: "Your Excellency, the brigade commander, this is not a battle defense artillery..."

"It's not a combat artillery, what is it?"

The Japanese captain thought to himself, Your Excellency, brigade commander, you should listen to what I have to say.

Of course, although he thought so in his heart, he did not dare to say so, but answered truthfully: "It was a Molotov cocktail. China Tubal used Molotov cocktails to destroy the Imperial Army's tanks."

"Molotov cocktails? Are you saying that China Tobal Road used Molotov cocktails to destroy the Imperial Army's tanks? Impossible, this is absolutely impossible!" Masao Nishiyama said with a look of disbelief.

Captain Japanese: "Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, the situation is indeed as reported by my subordinates. The China Tubal Road did use incendiary bottles to destroy the Imperial Army's tanks.

I don’t know what they put in those glass bottles, but those fireworks actually ignited the tanks of the Imperial Army and turned them into a pile of wreckage in the end.”

Nishiyama Masao turned to look at the other Japs. The others nodded repeatedly and spoke to testify for the captain: "Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, China Tubal Road did use incendiary bottles to destroy the Imperial Army's tanks."

If one person said this, Nishiyama Masao might not believe it, but with so many people saying this, he couldn't help but not believe it.

At this time, the Chief of Staff Tada Ichiro next to him said: "Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, although there have been no examples of tanks being destroyed by Molotov cocktails before, the Imperial Army has not conducted similar confrontation experiments.

Therefore, it does not rule out the possibility that Molotov cocktails can be used against tanks.

Moreover, this matter is of great importance. If Molotov cocktails can really deal with tanks, we must report this matter to prevent other imperial troops from not knowing about this situation and suffering a disadvantage at the hands of the China Army!"

"Of course, we will know the specific situation when the smoke clears."

Nishiyama Masao nodded heavily, agreed with Tada Ichiro's proposal, and then led the defeated army in the direction of the attack position.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, violent explosions suddenly came from the direction of the rear attack position, mixed with fierce gunshots and shouts of killing.

"Baga! What's going on?"

Nishiyama Masao looked confused. He didn't understand why there was gunfire in the direction of the attack position, and the independent battalion took the initiative to attack?

This is obviously impossible.

First, the Independent Battalion did not have the strength to take the initiative, and the Second Company did not have the time and space to take the initiative.

Not long after, a Japs major officer hurried over and clarified Nishiyama Masao's confusion: "Your Excellency, the brigade commander, something bad has happened. A large number of Eighth Route Army troops have been killed from our rear. There are at least one brigade of troops. They are not only in number

There are many, well-equipped weapons and artillery, and we have been surrounded."

Hearing this, Masao Nishiyama suddenly looked in disbelief and said, "Nani? A main force of the Eighth Route Army came from behind the Imperial Army and surrounded us?"

"The nearest Xinyi Regiment is 80 kilometers away from Wangjiacun. The round trip is 180 kilometers. How could they come here in such a short time?"

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

Japanese Major: "I don't know why the main force of China's Eighth Route Army was able to kill them in such a short period of time, but this is indeed the case."

Nishiyama Masao had a gloomy face, thought for a while, and then asked: "How many troops do we have now?"

The Japanese Major glanced at the defeated troops following Masao Nishiyama, thought for a while and said: "There are no specific statistics yet, but there should be no more than 3,000 people, including the wounded."
Chapter completed!