Chapter 1094 The captain is slapped in the face again
The Japanese troops withdrew very quickly.
The firepower level of the Jinzhong Independent Regiment is no longer what it used to be. Although it cannot compare with the Little Japanese reinforcements, it can still cause them huge casualties on the battlefield.
If the troops retreated one minute earlier, the troops would suffer one less casualty.
After being besieged by the Eighth Route Army on the road to reinforce Shijiazhuang, the troops will have a better chance of winning.
Despite this, the Japanese attacking troops still left nearly 300 corpses on the battlefield.
The team of more than 1,500 people also dropped sharply to more than 1,200 people at this moment.
The commander of the company had no time to grieve. The moment the troops left the battlefield, he looked at the map and chose the direction of retreat.
"A reinforcement force from a company of the Eighth Route Army has just arrived from the south. Although the force is not large, they have brought with them a large number of local troops and guerrillas. Retreating from there will be too troublesome."
"If we encounter any dangerous terrain again and don't attack immediately, but are blocked for more than ten or twenty minutes, the Jinzhong Independent Regiment will catch up with us again, entangle us, and tear off a big piece of fat from our bodies."
"We are walking from the southeast, continuing to reinforce the time equipment, and the troops are marching forward in a hurry, making it difficult for the Eighth Route Army to figure out our marching direction and route..."
"The troops will set off immediately..."
The commander of the regiment gave an order, and the reinforcements, 1,200 men, were like a war machine running at full speed. They lined up in two lines, carrying weapons and ammunition and headed straight for the mountain road they were going to take to retreat.
As a result, less than ten minutes into the journey, there was a burst of success from the front of the team.
The gunshots were very sparse, and it sounded like there was only one light machine gun, but the fast-moving team around them still stopped.
After waiting for less than two minutes, he saw a messenger rushing toward him. After seeing him, he gasped and reported before he could stand still.
"Sir, there is an Eighth Route Army blocking position ahead..."
"There was about a platoon of Eighth Route Army soldiers blocking us just now, equipped with a light machine gun..."
"Our captain is worried that this is a conspiracy and dare not attack rashly."
The commander cursed angrily: "Bagh Ya Road, where did so many conspiracies come from? Let your squadron commander attack immediately and use all mortars and heavy machine guns. Even if there are conspiracy troops, they can still attack with heavy machine guns and mortars."
He escaped under the cover of artillery."
"If there is no conspiracy, the troops must quickly pass through the Eighth Route Army blocking position and continue on their way to Shijiazhuang."
"If we delay here for one more minute, the main force of the independent regiment will have one more chance to entangle us, allowing them to attack faster."
"Da da da... boom boom boom..."
The captain only waited for two minutes before violent explosions and gunshots rang out on the battlefield.
After another two minutes, the fierce exchange of fire stopped, and the reinforcements started moving again.
The commander of the regiment breathed a sigh of relief and sighed: "I just said that the Eighth Route Army cannot have so many conspiracies."
"The only people from the Eighth Route Army who might come to surround us are the company from behind for reinforcements."
"But they just divided their forces to raid our attacking troops. With their limited troops scattered like this, they could at most assemble a platoon of troops to stop us head-on."
"We still have more than a thousand people, equipped with a large number of light and heavy machine guns and mortars."
"Even if one person spits out nothing, he can wipe out the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop. I don't know what the forward squadron leader has to fear."
"Maybe after the successive defeats before, he has been frightened by the Eighth Route Army who sneaked up on us along the way..."
No one answered the captain's question.
But the subordinates around him were slandering him in their hearts.
Not only the captain of the forward squadron, but also the chief of staff and the two captains were frightened by the unexpected attack method of the Jinzhong Independent Regiment.
I was afraid that another group of Eighth Route Army troops would suddenly appear in front and trap everyone here.
"Da da da……"
As a result, whatever they were afraid of, the battlefield came to them, and there was another fierce exchange of fire right in front of the team.
This time the commander did not wait for his subordinates to report.
As soon as the fast-moving team came to a stop, several explosions of artillery shells sounded on the battlefield. As soon as the rounds of artillery fire ended, the sound of heavy machine gun fire reached his ears.
"Yo Xi..." The co-captain was obviously very satisfied with the way the forward squadron was handled, with a smile on his face and a feeling of satisfaction.
"That's what we should do..."
"End the battle quickly, break through all the defense lines of the Eighth Route Army, and leave here quickly. Otherwise, when the main force of the independent regiment catches up, everyone will be surrounded here."
"Boom boom boom..."
Just as the captain of the wing was getting more and more excited as he talked, and it seemed that the attack being launched by the forward squadron was already guaranteed to win, and there would be no accidents, a series of very dense explosions suddenly sounded.
The sound was not as violent as that of artillery shells, but it was more dense than the explosions of artillery shells. At least thirty or forty explosions sounded simultaneously in just two or three seconds.
"It's a grenade... The Eighth Route Army is using grenades to attack the attacking troops at close range." The regiment has been on the battlefield for a long time and can judge the battle situation immediately, but it is still full of confidence in the attack being launched by the forward squadron.
Although dozens of grenades exploding at the same time can cause heavy damage to the attacking troops in a short period of time, there are more than a hundred people in the forward squadron. As long as they quickly break through the grenade interception and throw grenades backhand at the Eighth Route Army's blocking position, the Eighth Route Army will be bombed.
It will lead to chaos and loss of space.
The result was a huge disappointment to him.
Two minutes later, the exchange of fire from the battlefield slowly stopped, but the troops did not continue to advance and remained stationary.
"What's going on? Didn't the forward squadron defeat even one platoon of the Eighth Route Army?" The commander's mind was filled with questions.
The chief of staff didn't know what happened to the forward squadron, so he quickly replied: "I will arrange someone to understand the situation now."
Before anyone could move, the messenger from the forward squadron rushed towards them: "Sir..."
"We were fooled..."
"The Eighth Route Army that just blocked us not only had a platoon of regular troops, but also more than a hundred guerrillas and local troops..."
"After we approached, we used grenades to attack us at close range. We also deployed a large number of mines and booby traps in the blocking position. The forward squadron suffered heavy casualties and failed to capture the Eighth Route Army blocking position. Please send reinforcements immediately, sir..."
The captain's anger suddenly surged up, and he stared at a pair of red eyes and cursed: "Bagheya Road, it's the Eighth Route Army's local troops and guerrillas again..."
"We can't even have a rifle, and yet they are causing us so much trouble. I want to kill them all..."
"The artillery squadron immediately covered the Eighth Route Army's blocking position with artillery fire, and blew up all the booby traps and mines they buried in the position..."
"Gather the troops of the two squadrons together to launch an attack. I don't believe we can't kill them. Hurry..."
Ten minutes later, the two infantry squadrons rushed toward the blocking position under the cover of artillery fire. They were unstoppable. Except for a few booby traps and mines that had not been blown up by the artillery shells, they did not encounter any other attacks.
