"Captain, the Japanese pursuers are only two miles away from us!" the platoon leader at the rear hurriedly caught up with Kong Jie and reported.
"Captain, there are still 700 meters between the Japanese pursuers and us!" Twenty minutes later, the platoon leader's report sounded again, and his tone was more anxious than before.
The commander of the Fourth Company, whose arm was injured, suddenly stood up and asked for a fight: "Captain, I request to stay here to stop the Japs' pursuit!"
"Captain, I have to stay and cover. Continuing to retreat will only become a burden to everyone. It's better to stay here and fight with the Japanese to buy everyone a few more minutes to retreat!" A wounded soldier lying on a stretcher said.
Shout when you have enough strength.
"I'm not leaving either!" Another wounded man answered.
"Commander, give me two grenades. Even if you die, I will drag a few little devils to support you. I can't continue to drag everyone down!"
The commander of the fourth company asked for battle again: "Captain, we are soldiers of the independent regiment. We cannot become sinners of the independent regiment even if we die!"
"Continue to retreat with everyone. The remaining strength of the Second Battalion and the Guard Company will definitely be dragged down by us, and no one will be able to leave by then."
"For the sake of the Independence Regiment, please let us stay!"
"Shut up, everyone!" Kong Jie shouted with a stern face.
"I'm also injured. If I really want someone to stay behind, I'll lead the team. It's not your turn as a company commander to stand in front of me!"
"As long as I, Kong Jie, chase you alive, our independent regiment will not abandon the wounded."
"The troops continue to retreat, we are not at the end of our rope yet!"
"There is a fork in the road ahead. I decided not to go to Cangyun Ridge to meet with the brigade headquarters and retreat directly to the northeast!"
Xiao Yuanchang, the instructor of the Second Battalion, was the first to understand Kong Jie's purpose: "Captain, do you want to force the Japanese to divide their troops and reduce the pressure on the brigade headquarters to break out?"
Kong Jie frowned and analyzed: "Although the brigade headquarters has entered the mountains, there are no combat troops around it. We can only escape the Japanese pursuit by moving."
"The Bantian regiment is too strong. Once they reach Cangyun Ridge, they will have enough troops to conduct a dragnet sweep there, and the brigade headquarters will still be in danger."
"As long as we can separate half of the infantry brigade, the Bantian regiment will be unable to encircle Cangyun Ridge due to insufficient troops. The brigade headquarters will be able to find gaps in the Japanese defenses and continue to break through, completely getting rid of the pursuit."
Xiao Yuanchang continued to ask: "But we only have more than a hundred remnant soldiers, and we have several wounded soldiers with us. We are almost running out of ammunition. Will the Japanese send so many troops to hunt us down?"
"Definitely..." Huang Yu suddenly interrupted.
"The Sakata Regiment is invincible on the frontal battlefield and has never encountered an opponent."
"As a result, as soon as we encountered our Eighth Route Army, hundreds of people were killed by the independent regiment. That old devil Sakata must hate us to the core and wants to skin us and cramp us to vent his hatred!"
"Although we only have more than a hundred people, we fight tenaciously!"
"That old Japs Sakata must have realized this in the bloody battle just now. He had to send at least three times the force to chase us down in order to kill us all and preserve the invincible honor of Sakata United."
Kong Jie looked at Huang Yu with surprise again.
Not only is his marksmanship good and his skills powerful, but his ability to analyze battle situations and grasp people's hearts is far beyond his imagination. By recruiting such a person as a guard, he will definitely find a treasure.
He immediately made arrangements for Xiao Yuanchang: "Execute the order. When we reach the fork in the road, we will retreat to the northeast!"
"The Bantian Alliance is strong. No matter where we retreat, we are likely to be overtaken. Since it is difficult to escape the pursuit, let's provide another cover for the brigade headquarters before anything happens."
"Don't worry about the future of the Independent Regiment. The 1st and 3rd Battalions successfully broke through. Without us, we can still fight against the Japanese!"
After hearing these words, Huang Yu felt nothing but admiration.
This is Kong Jie’s overall view.
In order to protect the brigade headquarters and successfully break out of the encirclement, they gave up their petty profits at any time, even if they lost their own lives. This was the consciousness of the older generation of revolutionaries.
Seeing that the surrounding atmosphere suddenly became solemn, Kong Jie continued: "Why are everyone looking so sad?"
"What I just said was the worst-case scenario. I didn't say that if we retreat to the northeast, we will definitely be wiped out by the Japanese!"
"There are three to four thousand little Japs chasing behind us, and the guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare that the army is good at will have a hard time harassing them."
"If the number of Japs chasing us drops to five or six hundred, we can slowly use guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare to deal with them!"
"The Bantian Regiment has been in head-to-head confrontation with the Shanxi-Sui Army on the frontal battlefield, and has never tasted the taste of guerrilla warfare."
"As long as they dare to divide their troops, I, Kong Jie, must let them see our special skills!"
Huang Yu looked surprised. He didn't expect the group leader to retain such a hand.
Facing the pursuit of three to four thousand Japs, the casualties caused by guerrilla warfare were too small. It was like scratching an itch, with almost no impact. They continued to do whatever they should do.
It will be different when the Japanese divide their forces.
The total strength of the troops dropped sharply to five or six hundred men. A dozen soldiers were lost in one sneak attack. After more than a dozen sneak attacks, half of the army was wiped out.
In order to avoid such an accident, the Japanese must find a way to counterattack.
In this way, they followed the path of independent guerrilla warfare.
If not, the more than 100 remnant soldiers of the independent regiment might turn against them and end up with a tragic ending of losing troops and generals.
Xiao Yuanchang also thought of this, and an excited smile suddenly appeared on his solemn face, and he was looking forward to answering: "I will make arrangements now. As long as the little devils dare to divide their troops, I will definitely let them have a taste of guerrilla warfare."
Kong Jie then said: "I was beaten by their artillery fire for several hours just now, and finally we reached our main battlefield. I want to let the Japanese feel what it feels like to be beaten, and let them shed a layer of their skin even if they don't die!"
"By the way, I would like to tell the wounded in the team that I, Kong Jie, have a way to lead them out of pursuit of the Japanese army. Let them not think too much and recover from their injuries. When they regain their combat effectiveness in the future, they can go to the battlefield with me to kill the Japanese!"
"Xiao Huang..." Kong Jie suddenly turned to look at Huang Yu.
"I have a mission here, I wonder if you dare to take it!"
Huang Yu was analyzing in his mind what he could do in the guerrilla war. Unexpectedly, the regiment leader had arranged for him, and he quickly accepted the order: "Commander, please rest assured, as long as it is a task of killing Japanese soldiers, I dare to take it!"
"The political commissar died at the hands of the Bantian Regiment. I swore that I must personally kill fifty little Japs from the Sakata Regiment and bury them with the political commissar!"
Kong Jie nodded and analyzed: "You have been with the political commissar for so long, Lao Li must have taught you about guerrilla tactics, otherwise you wouldn't have kept changing positions when you shot the Japanese from a distance just now."
"I plan to transfer four veterans with the best marksmanship from the Second Battalion to give you. They will touch the flanks of the little Japs and shoot coldly. They will continuously attack the Japs and force them to divide their forces to hunt you down."
"It can not only reduce the pressure here, but also create various fighter planes to defeat the little devils. Kill two birds with one stone!"
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