"Platoon leader..." A soldier rushed towards the platoon leader with excitement on his face.
"The little devil who attacked Lanjiashan escaped..."
"Leaving more than twenty corpses and retreating in disgrace...but..."
"The local troops and the Lanjiashan guerrillas who blocked the Japs head-on were also completely wiped out..."
"When the Japanese retreated, the attacking troops arrived at the entrance of the village."
"As long as we are one minute late, the Japs will enter the village!"
The platoon leader was very angry. He clenched his hands into fists and his eyes turned red, as if he wanted to kill someone.
The last circle hit the tree trunk next to him, and he gritted his teeth and cursed: "A gentleman's revenge is never too late in ten years... I will settle this debt first for these little devils..."
"That means we have too few troops..."
"If there was a reinforced company, I wouldn't be so aggrieved. I would only dare to follow the little devils and bluff them to scare them..."
"I will definitely go over there and fight with them, and kill these beasts who are worse than pigs and dogs."
"Ask the local troops behind to take a squad and bring dozens of civilians into the village to rescue people and see if anyone is still alive..."
"The others and I will continue to chase the little devil..."
"The louder the noise, the better. We must not let these beasts stop and attack the village again, setting fires and killing people everywhere..."
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On the road two kilometers away, the squadron leader was leading his men to quickly evacuate Lanjiashan and get rid of the pursuers.
When he divided his troops, he had more than 200 subordinates. At first, the operation went very smoothly, and he conquered three villages without suffering any attack.
Starting from the attack on the fourth village, the guerrillas and local armed forces operating in the Eighth Route Army base area began to sneak attack them everywhere and stop them...
The Eighth Route Army pursuers appeared out of nowhere and clung to him, like dog-skin plaster, lingering on him.
Before the troops were divided, the commander of the regiment gave them an order to do everything possible to preserve their strength. Only with the troops in hand could they continue to destroy the Eighth Route Army base areas.
The squadron leader did the same thing.
Never fight with the Eighth Route Army's pursuers unless absolutely necessary to avoid being dragged on the battlefield by the Eighth Route Army's main force.
I didn't expect that the Eighth Route Army's local troops and guerrillas would be so difficult to fight.
In order to protect the common people, he tried his best to stop him and caused more than 30 casualties to his troops.
Although this casualty would not affect the overall combat effectiveness of the unit, it was a very bad premonition in the eyes of the squadron leader.
When the troops were first divided, the Eighth Route Army did not know its true purpose and had no precautions.
Now that the purpose of dividing the reinforcements into setting fire and killing people is clear, the Eighth Route Army will definitely be prepared.
Even if their left-behind troops are severely under-strength and cannot threaten their own safety, the continuous gathering of local troops and guerrillas will cause huge losses to the troops.
more importantly.
Under the harassment and attacks of these local troops and guerrillas, I had nowhere to hide and was completely exposed to the Eighth Route Army pursuers.
The marching speed was also affected to some extent, making it increasingly difficult to escape the pursuit of the Eighth Route Army.
In this way, as long as he stops for a moment, he will be blocked by the Eighth Route Army pursuers.
There is no time to carry out the mission of setting fires, killing people and causing destruction.
"Sir..." A soldier caught up with the squadron leader from behind, breathing heavily. He had obviously run a long way.
He took a few deep breaths before reporting: "Eighth Route Army pursuers are coming towards us..."
"Half the company was left to rescue people in Lanjiashan, while the other troops marched quickly to pursue us..."
"The main company is still leading the way, and the main battalion is behind...the distance between the two troops is less than 300 meters..."
A Japanese squad leader has never felt so aggrieved as he has in the past two days.
In previous wars, they would chase the Eighth Route Army, chasing them slowly up the mountain like chasing rabbits.
In the blink of an eye, the former hunters turned into prey. The Eighth Route Army soldiers who had always been prey turned into hunters, chasing them all over the mountains.
More importantly, the switch between hunters and prey was not of their own free will, nor was it because they were inferior to the Eighth Route Army, but because their superiors asked them to do so in order to complete their missions.
Faced with this situation, many little devils cannot accept it.
The squad leader, who looked aggrieved, was no exception, but the military orders were overwhelming and he had to carry them out no matter how reluctant he was.
The soldier's report gave him an opportunity to vent his anger and dissatisfaction, and he immediately proposed to the squadron leader...
"Sir..."
"How about we find a place to kill the Eighth Route Army's pursuers and turn around... We have limited strength and cannot destroy the main force of the Eighth Route Army who are chasing us. We will definitely have no problem eating their forward company!"
The squadron leader didn't want to, but when he thought of the dangers he might encounter by doing so, he stopped the idea in an instant and stared at the squad leader and asked...
"The distance of three hundred meters means that the main force of the Eighth Route Army only needs two minutes of emergency march to reinforce the forward company and participate in the battle!"
"If we don't want to be held on the battlefield by the main force of the Eighth Route Army, we must retreat one minute in advance..."
"This means that God only has one minute left for us to fight!"
"Can you guarantee that the troops can end the battle within one minute?"
The team leader hesitated and replied: "It should be difficult to wipe out them all within one minute..."
"But we can fight and retreat..."
"Isn't that what the Eighth Route Army did in its guerrilla warfare..."
"Every time they sneak attack us, they move away after a cold shot. If we want to retaliate, we can't find them..."
The squadron leader was about to cry because of his subordinates, so he cursed angrily: "Do you think the situations faced by the two sneak attacks are the same?"
"The Eighth Route Army's sneak attack on us was to slow down our march, and they were familiar with the terrain, so we didn't dare to rashly divide our forces to chase them!"
"If our troops were several times theirs at that time and we dared to divide our troops to surround and kill their sneak attack troops, do you think the Eighth Route Army would still dare to attack us so unscrupulously?"
"The Eighth Route Army pursuers are worried about how to catch up with us and eliminate us. Even if we kill one of our soldiers in one battle, it would be good."
"Now that we are sending troops to sneak attack them and attack them, it will just do what they want, and they will hit the muzzle of the Eighth Route Army's guns..."
Facing the squadron leader's constant questioning, the squad leader could only close his mouth with an aggrieved face.
Faced with these problems raised by the squadron leader, he was helpless, which meant that the two plans he proposed were not feasible.
With a face full of reluctance, he asked: "Then we will continue to be a coward, being chased all over the mountains by the Eighth Route Army until we are wiped out by the Eighth Route Army in their base area?"
"What if that's not the case?" the squadron leader replied silently.
No matter whether we can let go of killing people in the next time, as long as the troops exist for one more day, we can mobilize a large number of left-behind troops of the Eighth Route Army to hunt us down, making their already insufficient troops even more scarce, and then complete the tasks assigned to us by the commander of the company.
