Duan Peng is the first battalion commander in the Yizhong base to receive special training from Huang Yu, and has very strong detection and counter-detection capabilities.
The Japanese dispatched seventy or eighty scouts to quietly leave the station, in groups of two or three, and conduct scattered reconnaissance along the direction of the Eighth Route Army's retreat...
Such a big movement would never be hidden from Duan Peng's eyes.
He snorted and mocked: "These Kwantung Army underestimate our Eighth Route Army..."
"They actually want the scouts to target us in advance and carry out precise attacks on our investment troops to prevent us from moving after the attack. They don't even have a chance to counterattack!"
Several company commanders knew that Duan Peng had something on his mind as soon as they heard Duan Peng's tone of voice, and they directly challenged him with expressions of eagerness to try: "Batalion Commander..."
"How are we going to fight today? Is it the same as yesterday? We all listen to you!"
"When the enemy changes, I change..." Duan Peng replied with a cold face.
"Since the little Japs have high hopes for the reconnaissance troops they sent and want to use them to retaliate against our sneak attack troops... then let's retaliate in kind and eat the scout troops who are the vanguard of the little Japs first..."
"The first company commander will lead the team... equip the troops participating in the battle with more light machine guns, take the initiative as a squad, and take the initiative to kill these scouts for me..."
"Others are on standby, ready to take a detour to outflank the little devils to prevent them from retreating and escaping..."
"Yesterday during the day we killed seven or eight hundred Japanese puppet troops... Last night we killed another one or two hundred people. In total, a full infantry brigade was gone..."
"The total number of Kwantung Army troops who entered the mountain was only over 2,000. This is equivalent to the fact that we killed nearly half of the troops before the two sides had formal contact..."
"If we kill the Kwantung Army's forward scouts soon..."
"They might give up the attack because they are helpless and retreat to the mountains..."
"Based on yesterday's daytime battle losses..."
"As long as they don't change their tactics against us and continue to attack us..."
"By nightfall tonight, another six to seven hundred people will be lost..."
"Then there will be no one left in this regiment that entered the mountain..."
"It's possible for us to destroy you in the mountain..."
"As long as the Kwantung Army captain has a little sense, he will choose to retreat..."
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Two Kwantung Army scouts walking together.
They are the elite of the Kwantung Army, with very high combat effectiveness and vigilance.
The flat end of the rifle was in his hand, and he was bent over, ready to lie down at any moment.
A pair of eyes are staring at the front of the team, one person is responsible for the left front, and the other is responsible for the front...
Behind a bush more than 200 meters away, more than a dozen Eighth Route Army soldiers gathered around a light machine gun.
Some soldiers were lying on the ground, some were squatting, and the black muzzles of their guns were pointing straight ahead.
The machine gunner, in particular, was slowly escaping the two scouts who were walking together into the crosshairs.
When the two sides were still sixty or seventy meters apart, the light machine gun suddenly opened fire, and ten rifles standing aside fired at the same time.
In an instant, ten or twenty bullets flew towards the two Kwantung Army scouts.
Bullets flew toward the scouts' chests, and bullets flew toward their stomachs and thighs, blocking all their escape routes.
The two attacking scouts were very alert and threw themselves on the ground as soon as the gunshots were fired to avoid the hail of bullets flying in their direction.
But he was still shot...
One scout was shot in the chest, another scout was shot in the shoulder and head, and died instantly...
"retreat……"
Before the machine gunner fired a round of bullets, the squad leader's orders rang in his ears.
The machine gunner immediately stopped shooting, got up from the ground, and moved back with the light machine gun in hand...
More than a dozen riflemen around him moved together...
In just five seconds, a dozen Eighth Route Army soldiers disappeared into the woods.
The same battles took place in many places on both sides of the mountain road. Soon the Kwantung Army commander received the news...
"Your Excellency, Captain... The scouts we sent were attacked by the Eighth Route Army and suffered heavy casualties. We request to retreat..."
Looking at the captain of the reconnaissance team directly under the alliance who hurriedly arrived, the captain immediately showed an expression of dumbfounded shock.
He completely didn't expect that his ultimate move against the Eighth Route Army's sneak attack force would be defeated by the enemy before it had any effect, and he would lose the general's elite scouts in vain.
Quickly asked: "How did the Eighth Route Army do it?"
"They divided their forces and ambush around the mountain road... They waited for our scouts to approach and suddenly launched an attack. After the attack, they retreated..."
"The scouts were scattered in the woods looking for the Eighth Route Army, in groups of two or three, with a distance of twenty or thirty meters between groups..."
"It seems very close, but the woods where the Eighth Route Army attacked us were too dense and the terrain was too complicated..."
"By the time the nearest scouts passed by, the Eighth Route Army that attacked us had already disappeared into the woods..."
"At present, we have lost thirty-six scouts... If we do not change the pursuit plan and continue to pursue forward, the scouts we sent will probably be wiped out within an hour..."
"Your Majesty, Captain, please think again..."
The chief of staff was not optimistic about this pursuit method, but he could not think of any other way to break the situation, and could not find a reason to refute the commander's pursuit plan, so he could only nod and let the commander give it a try.
As a result, more than thirty elite scouts were lost in this trial...
You must know that the total number of elite scouts in the entire regiment is less than 100, which is equivalent to losing one-third of the scouts before anyone can see the shadow of the opponent.
I became anxious on the spot and immediately suggested it to the captain.
"Sir... we can't continue chasing like this..."
"All the scouts sent out must be withdrawn as soon as possible... If they are all lost in the woods, we will be blind in the next battle because there are no scouts to detect the enemy's situation..."
After the initial shock, the captain's face turned serious without realizing it.
The chief of staff sharply pointed out the huge threat currently facing the regiment. He was frightened and quickly ordered: "Whether we continue to pursue the Eighth Route Army or not...we must first withdraw the reconnaissance troops..."
"The troops immediately stopped advancing... strengthened their alert... all the captains came to my place for a meeting..."
"The method of using reconnaissance troops to defeat the Eighth Route Army's sneak attack troops will not work... If we cannot think of other ways to break the situation, we will definitely not be able to pursue it any longer..."
"Otherwise, it will be good if our combat troops can hold on until dark."
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The Kwantung Army suddenly stopped advancing. Several company commanders from the first battalion looked at Duan Peng as if they were discussing it, with nothing but admiration in their eyes.
In their opinion, the Kwantung Army's pursuit today had just started and then stopped advancing. It was probably guessed by the battalion commander...
The Kwantung Army was afraid of losing another five to six hundred men today. With the reconnaissance force useless, there was no other way to break the situation except retreat.
