Chapter 1205 Chief of Staff, the worst is possible.
A glimmer of hope flashed again on the chief of staff's desperate face.
After a little calculation in his mind, he felt that his subordinate's proposal was feasible, and immediately ordered: "We must seize this opportunity to severely injure or kill the guerrilla brigade, otherwise the one brigade we left behind in Fangshan will die in vain."
"The troops continue on their way. They will return to Fangshan first and follow the clues to pursue and kill the guerrilla brigade that captured Fangshan."
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On top of Fangshan City.
Zhang Xuan was observing the retreating troops on the street.
Each soldier carried at least two rifles on his back, and some carried a rifle on their back and a light machine gun in their hands.
More soldiers carried ammunition boxes filled with bullets and shells on their shoulders.
Everyone was beaming with joy, immersed in the joy after just winning the battle.
"team leader……"
A squad leader from the cavalry company galloped towards the city gate from outside the city.
When he reached the city gate, he jumped over, fell off his horse and stood on the ground. Then he rushed into the city gate, climbed to the top of the city, panted and reported.
"The main force of the Japanese and puppet troops can reach Fangshan in half an hour at most..."
Political Commissar Li Wen suddenly frowned: "It will take ten minutes for all the troops to evacuate Fangshan County."
"If the main force of the Japanese and puppet troops reaches Fangshan and directly sends troops to chase us, the enemy and we will be separated by at most twenty minutes."
"Our troops cannot move too fast with a large number of casualties and captured trophies."
"If the Japanese and puppet troops who are chasing us advance lightly, they will march all the way to chase us."
"You can catch up with us in an hour and a half at most."
"team leader……"
"I suggest that the troops give up part of their trophies and only carry the wounded and some trophies necessary for the troops, so as to speed up the march and get rid of the Japanese and puppet troops."
Zhang Xuan frowned and did not answer, but ordered to the correspondent on the side: "Map..."
"Open the map of Fangshan County immediately..."
The map was directly spread out on a bunker piled with sandbags. Zhang Xuan held the sandbag with one hand and pointed to Fangshan County on the map with one hand, and quickly found the south direction of the city where the troops were preparing to retreat.
Follow the road a little bit away from Fangshan, and finally stop at a fork in the road.
About six kilometers away from Fangshan County, it suddenly splits into three, leading to different directions.
Seeing this, Zhang Xuan quickly made a decision in his heart. He suddenly clenched his fist and hit the fork in the road and said, "This is it."
"political commissar……"
"I will hand over all the trophies and wounded we captured to the supply camp and the new army camp."
"You lead them on a quick march here, then divide them into three, and continue moving until they enter the mountains."
"The others are waiting with me at the fork in the road."
Chief of Staff Feng Jiashan was the first to react, staring at Zhang Xuan and asking: "Do you want to divide the troops compared to the Japanese and puppet troops..."
"Combat one of the Japanese and puppet troops..."
Zhang Xuan nodded: "With our current strength, it will be difficult to completely wipe out all the Japanese and puppet troops, but it will definitely be no problem to severely damage them."
"After all, after we captured Fangshan, we seized most of the ammunition left by the Japanese army in Fangshan City."
"There are more than a thousand cannonballs alone."
"It's a kid's thing anyway, so I don't feel bad about using it."
"As long as one cannonball can kill one kid, the total of more than a thousand cannonballs can kill more than a thousand kiddos."
Feng Jiashan frowned and asked: "Then what if the Japanese and puppet troops do not divide their troops and stare at one of our retreating troops to pursue and kill us."
"Then continue to divide the troops..." Zhang Xuan replied seriously.
"We seized a lot of loot in Fangshan, especially ammunition."
"But if you only carry one-third of the loot and run away from the Japanese and puppet troops, it shouldn't be difficult."
"At that time, we will be divided into three again. If the Japs still pursue us, we will only need to carry one-ninth of the loot and run away."
"We have so many troops, and the few weapons and ammunition allocated to each soldier can only carry dozens or hundreds of bullets or one artillery shell, which will not affect the marching speed at all."
"No matter how fast you run, you guys can't even catch us."
Feng Jiashan's face immediately flashed an expression of approval, and then ordered: "Then let's do this."
"Just killed a full Japanese infantry brigade in Fangshan City, with hundreds of casualties."
"If we can severely damage a Japanese brigade during the retreat, more than half of the more than 6,000 elite troops sent by Neji Okamura to encircle and suppress us will be killed or injured."
"There are three to four thousand people left, let alone encircling us. It will be difficult for us to even protect ourselves."
"Even if they want to evacuate Fangshan in the future, it depends on whether we agree."
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Qingshi Gang, the fork in the road where the guerrilla brigade split up.
The Japanese chief of staff personally led more than 4,000 elite troops to march all the way to here.
Just as he was riding his war horse and constantly urging the troops to speed up their march, the fast-moving troops stopped unexpectedly, which made him feel annoyed and very unhappy.
For the Japanese and puppet troops, the most important thing now is time.
The extra minute the troops travel, the more likely they are to kill the guerrilla brigade.
As a result, when I was in a hurry in the middle of the team, the vanguard troops stopped marching. Isn't this against me?
He opened his mouth and started to curse: "Bagheya Road..."
"What the hell are the forward troops doing? Why did they stop advancing? Don't you know that we need to make a quick march to chase down the guerrilla brigade now?"
"chief of staff……"
When the subordinates beside him frowned and didn't know how to answer, a lieutenant from the forward force suddenly rushed towards him on horseback and started reporting from a distance.
"There is a fork in the road ahead..."
"The road is divided into three..."
"Reconnaissance force report... There are traces of the Eighth Route Army's retreating troops in three directions, as well as some ammunition boxes and scrap equipment left behind by the Eighth Route Army..."
"The squadron leader asked the subordinate to come over and ask for instructions..."
"In which direction shall we pursue?"
"Should we divide our forces to pursue the Eighth Route Army guerrilla brigade, or should we concentrate our forces to pursue one of the Eighth Route Army's groups?"
The chief of staff frowned suddenly, looked at the captain beside him and asked, "What do you think?"
"As a humble position, I suggest you divide your forces to pursue the pursuit..." Major Chang Gu, the captain of the brigade, replied blurtly.
"We killed one thousand enemies and suffered eight hundred losses... After the second attack on Fangshan, no matter how strong the overall combat effectiveness of the guerrilla brigade is, there should not be many people left by now."
"Even if we divide our forces to chase them, there are still 1,500 troops in each direction, as well as mountain artillery and tanks to help us. We can attack when we advance, and we can defend when we retreat. Our combat effectiveness is very strong. Even if the guerrilla brigade wants to cut off one of our fingers
, concentrating all the troops to besiege us and reinforcing troops along the way will not gain any advantage."
"The worst case scenario is that we will sacrifice our troops chasing them all the way to fight with the guerrilla brigade, and we will lose everything."
"Even if we can't annihilate them all, we can still severely damage them."
"The remaining troops of the guerrilla brigade will then be nothing to worry about."
