The squadron leader led by the Japs did not enter the village with his subordinates to kill people and set fire to them.
From the moment the troops were divided, he knew that he would not be able to exit the Yizhong Eighth Route Army base alive.
Since you can't escape death, you might as well fight with the Eighth Route Army, do more damage before dying, kill more people, and attract more Eighth Route Army to besiege you.
To achieve this, the most important factor is that you cannot be blocked by the Eighth Route Army.
To this end, he deployed a full infantry squad to patrol and guard around the village.
If the Eighth Route Army comes to encircle and suppress us, the troops will have enough time to evacuate Jinjiawan and get rid of the pursuit...
At this moment, he was guarding the entrance of the village, watching all directions and paying attention to the surrounding situation and the progress of the troops in the village.
"Dong dong dong..."
The sound of heavy machine gun fire from two kilometers away clearly reached his ears. The squadron leader's face instantly became nervous, and he gave orders directly to his subordinates regardless of whether the troops in the village had massacred the people.
"Blow the emergency assembly call..."
"No matter what the troops in the village are doing, they must arrive at the entrance of the village within five minutes to assemble and retreat...quickly..."
After saying that, he turned his attention to the map and searched for the next attack target.
Three minutes later, he ordered the adjutant who was gathering troops: "Let's move toward the northeast first, so that the Eighth Route Army pursuers will mistakenly think we are going here..."
"After marching for three hours, we suddenly turned around and headed straight to Zhouzhuang from this path..."
"After defeating this village, we will quickly disperse as a small team, get rid of the pursuers, and find a place to repair!"
The adjutant immediately expressed admiration and complimented: "In this way, even if the eight-way pursuers are beaten to death, they will not be able to catch up with us. They will only be led by our noses in circles around their base."
"Unless they send five or six times their troops from all directions to surround us, they will never have a chance to block us."
"Once they do this, the Eighth Route Army in Yinzhong will be in a dangerous situation with no available troops."
"If you want to eliminate us, prevent us from continuing to destroy their base areas, and end our massacre of their base areas, you can only send troops back from Shijiazhuang to support you. Your mission will be completed."
The squadron leader was confident in his strategy and replied with a smile: "Don't flatter me, our top priority now is to quickly evacuate here and get rid of the eight-pronged pursuers. Don't be blocked here by them..."
"The troops haven't been assembled yet, okay?"
"Retreat after completing the assembly..."
"The outer security posts and reconnaissance troops will follow up on their own, don't worry about them..."
The adjutant immediately reported: "The assembly has been completed..."
"The second and third teams that entered the village did not suffer any casualties and basically slaughtered all the Chinese in the village..."
"The heavy machine gun team and mortar team providing fire cover at the entrance of the village are ready to move and can set off at any time!"
The squadron leader didn't waste any words and directly ordered: "Act as planned... set off..."
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"Boom boom boom..."
Violent shell explosions rang out at the Japanese heavy machine gun positions at the same time. Black smoke billowed and gunpowder smoke filled the air. Countless pieces of soil, stones, branches... were blown away in the explosion, including many corpses of little Japanese...
The regiment leader was very decisive. As soon as the explosion went off, he rushed towards the Japanese interception position and ordered loudly: "Charge..."
"Break through the Japanese interception position as quickly as possible and continue to attack in the direction of Jinjiawan... kill..."
The attacking troops did not encounter any resistance and reentered the smoke-filled blocking position with a single assault.
As a result, there was nothing there except the corpses of three little Japs and a damaged heavy machine gun.
There was no trace of the imaginary Japanese blocking force.
The leader's face suddenly turned pale, and he cried out: "Not good..."
"We were fooled..."
"The purpose of the Japanese army placing a heavy machine gun here is to slow down our march, consume some of our troops and buy time for their main force to move."
"The kid who raided Jinjiawan must have escaped. Hurry up and catch up. Hurry..."
The group leader only reacted now, it was obviously too late.
When he led his troops to Jinjiawan, most of the village was covered in fire, and the corpses of the people lay on the ground at the entrance of the village, which was tragic and bloody.
"You little son of a bitch, you are worse than a beast. You won't even spare the elderly and children..." the leader clenched his fists and cursed through gritted teeth.
The scolding continued, but he did not lose his mind. He turned around and ordered to the third company commander beside him: "Leave a platoon to help put out the fire and search for and rescue the surviving civilians."
"The little devils evacuated Jinjiawan in a hurry. They definitely didn't have time to check whether the people in the village were slaughtered by them. There should be some people alive. We must find them all."
"Others continue to chase me..."
"Kill these little devils who are worse than animals at all costs and avenge the tragic death of the villagers."
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Yizhong Sixth Army Division Headquarters
Kong Jie was very anxious and paced back and forth in the war room with his hands behind his back.
If there was no telegram from the front for one minute, he would not sit down for one minute.
However, the identities of the Japanese and puppet troops sent by Baoding have been confirmed, and the fifth regiment also rushed to the battlefield in time to block their way forward.
But since then, the headquarters has not received the latest battle reports from the front line.
It stands to reason that there won't be any accidents on the front lines.
There were less than 2,000 Japanese troops left in the attack force. The artillery unit was also severely damaged in the encounter after the fifth regiment arrived on the battlefield, and almost lost its combat effectiveness.
Although the only regiment suffered heavy losses in the battle, with the addition of the five newly reinforced regiments, the total strength exceeded 2,500, and it was able to overwhelm the Japanese army in both strength and firepower.
Even if the two sides engage in a decisive battle immediately, the odds of victory are still on the side of the Eighth Route Army.
But Kong Jie felt vaguely that this matter was not as simple as he thought.
When Neiji Okamura planned such a big game to relieve Shijiazhuang, he must have done more than simply making an attack in the east and attacking in the west. Otherwise, it would have been too easy to deal with, which was completely inconsistent with his previous combat style.
"Chief... something happened on the front line..." A cry from the operator directly brought Kong Jie back to reality.
He stared at the telegraph operator running over and asked anxiously: "What's going on..."
"Is it possible that the little devils who are confronting the One and Five Regiments have some new conspiracy that we don't know about?"
The radio operator immediately nodded: "After the fifth regiment reached the battlefield, the Japanese army suddenly stopped attacking. They quickly dispersed in squadron units and attacked villages of all sizes around the battlefield. They killed everyone they saw and set fire everywhere."
"The people in several villages have been slaughtered by the devils, and the villages have been burned..."
"Captain Liu of the Fifth Regiment believed that the Japanese army wanted to use this behavior to force us to send out heavy troops to encircle and suppress them. Since the base area was short of troops, we had to mobilize an independent brigade to return to the base area to support them."
"They are hunting down four Japanese and puppet troops in battalion units."
"But the Japanese are very cunning. They don't bother with us at all. They retreat when they see us. It's very difficult to encircle and suppress us."
"I implore the headquarters to immediately mobilize troops to reinforce them."
"There must be more than two main battalions launching an attack at the same time to be able to kill one of the Japanese troops in a short time..."
