Two hours after nightfall, Hiroshi Nakagawa, who quickly returned from the front line, finally joined the main force of the 36th Regiment.
When the Baoshan Battalion broke out, although the headquarters of the 36th Regiment was attacked and the two squadrons stationed directly outside the headquarters were also severely damaged, the main force of the three infantry brigades stationed in the other directions suffered no losses.
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In the previous battle to attack the Sihang Warehouse, the 36th Regiment lost two squadrons in the first six days. Later, Yu Zhishan's Fengtian Guard Brigade was the main attacker. The 36th Regiment basically did not suffer any more damage.
Therefore, the entire 36th Regiment still had its main force. As soon as Hiroshi Nakagawa arrived, the entire Regiment immediately regained its combat effectiveness.
When Hiroshi Nakagawa stepped down from the armored car, three captains were already standing by the road.
"Nakamura-kun, Tatehara-kun, Otake-kun." Nakagawa Hiroshi and the three captains greeted each other one by one, and then went straight to the topic and said, "Has Baoshan Camp caught up?"
Shiro Nakamura, captain of the 1st Battalion, said: "Your Majesty Colonel, by the time we arrived at the location provided by the Special High School Course, the Chinese people had already disappeared."
"Baga!" Nakagawa Hiroshi immediately became furious when he heard this, and slapped Nakamura Shiro hard in the face with a wave of his hand.
"Hai!" Nakamura Shiro lowered his head suddenly, and Tachihara Shunzo and Otake Nobuo next to him also lowered their heads and stood up.
Nobuo Otake even explained: "Your Majesty Colonel, although we failed to catch up with the Chinese, the aviation force still pointed out to us the direction in which several Chinese troops could escape."
Nakagawa Guang suppressed his anger and asked in a deep voice: "Master Dazhu, please tell me where these Chinese people have gone?"
Otake Nobuo said: "Your Majesty Colonel, according to the aviation reconnaissance, the Chinese people have broken up and fled in separate groups. Some are going west, some are going south, some are going north, and some are even hurriedly fleeing eastward back to Shanghai. Therefore, we cannot
Accurately determine the true direction of the Chinese people's escape, but..."
"Baga Yalu, you idiot!" Nakagawa Hiro said angrily, "This is just a common trick of the Chinese people. They are breaking out in separate groups!"
"Your Majesty Colonel, please calm down." Shunzo Tatehara quickly explained, "We also suspected that this group of Chinese people were implementing a plan to break out separately, so with the help of aviation reconnaissance, we followed several small groups of broken Chinese troops all the way here.
And we also judged that the mountainous area ahead should be their temporary assembly area."
"Yo Xi." Nakagawa Guang nodded and said, "Immediately divide the troops to blockade the mountainous area."
Shunzo Tatehara hesitated for a moment, then reminded: "Your Excellency Colonel, according to the information provided by the Special High School Division, this group of China Army is not an ordinary China Army. They are very good at surprise attacks and even better at night attacks. If we divide our troops to blockade the mountainous areas,
It is very likely that we will be ambushed by the opponent."
"Baga, this group of Chinese troops have been demoralized and have completely lost their will to fight. How can they possibly launch a counterattack against the imperial army?" Nakagawa Hiroshi immediately became furious when he heard this. This is understandable. After all, he had just returned from the division headquarters.
The one who was transferred had not yet had a direct confrontation with the Baoshan Battalion, so he didn't know how powerful he was. The most important thing was that Colonel Nakagawa was eager to annihilate this group of broken Chinese troops in order to win the appreciation of Yoshikari Ryosuke and Matsui Iwane.
"Hai." The three captains agreed in a loud voice, and immediately led their troops to block the traffic arteries.
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The judgment of Tachihara Shunzo and these little devils was basically accurate. The mountainous area dozens of miles ahead was indeed the gathering place chosen by Yue Weihan. However, by the time they figured out their intentions, most of the Baoshan Battalion had already assembled.
When I thought about sealing off the assembly area, I was already half a beat behind schedule.
Cao Xinglong, Chi Chengfeng and Niu Dagen have led their troops back to Yue Weihan.
Yue Weihan asked: "Dalong Dagen, Lao Chi, how is the situation? Are all the brothers back?"
Chi Chengfeng said first: "Grandma, the brothers suffered a big loss this time. Although we were not overtaken by the Japs' infantry, the Japs' planes were hovering above us all day long.
Throwing bombs and shooting machine guns, many brothers have lost their jobs, two recruits ran away, and there are still six brothers who...can't come back."
Yue Weihan's face suddenly darkened, and he asked Cao Xinglong and Niu Dagen: "Dalong Dagen, where are the first company and the machine gun company?"
"It's almost the same." Cao Xinglong and Niu Dagen also said, holding back their anger, "Yingzuo, we are really useless this time. We let the little devil chase us away like rabbits, but we took the little devil's plane.
There is nothing we can do, since our Baoshan Battalion broke through Baoshan, when have we ever suffered such a loss!"
Yue Weihan looked on coldly at the officers and soldiers who came back. Except for the thirty or so veterans of the 3rd Battalion brought out from Baoshan, the rest, whether they were the original Sichuan Army or the Gui Army, were already a little downcast at this time.
, not to mention those new recruits, all of them looked like dead people with numb expressions and empty eyes.
What is a rabble? This is a rabble! When fighting against the wind, they can fight more and more bravely, and have the momentum to break through the sky. But once they fight against the wind, they immediately slack off, unlike the real elites who have fought in a hundred battles.
For example, they do not lack courage, skills, and physical fitness, but they lack the most important will!
A true elite of hundreds of battles must have a strong will like steel. No matter the difficulties or obstacles, no matter the hardships, they can face it calmly and deal with it calmly. The group of defeated soldiers in front of them is obviously still far from the real elite of hundreds of battles.
far away.
However, there is an excellent opportunity in front of us, which can not only temper the will and quality of this group of defeated soldiers and regain their confidence in defeating the Japanese army, but also create opportunities for a safe breakout.
Yue Weihan has to admit that the seventeen permanent divisions of the Japanese army can be regarded as elite divisions even if they look at the world!
These seventeen permanent divisions are far superior to the national army in the same period in terms of training and equipment. What is even more frightening is that the Japanese soldiers in these seventeen permanent divisions extremely advocate the Bushido spirit and have unimaginable abilities.
Fighting will, an iron fact is that in the first two years after the full-scale war of aggression against China broke out, almost no Japanese soldiers surrendered!
However, elite standing divisions such as the Japanese army are not invulnerable. They also have weaknesses.
The biggest weakness of the Japanese army is that its tactics are relatively rigid. Especially in the first few years of the war of aggression against China, it was very unsuited to unconventional tactics such as night fighting, mobile warfare, and guerrilla warfare. At the end of 1938, the Japanese army ended its frontal battlefield offensive against the Chinese army and turned to concentrated
Although they tried their best to encircle and suppress the Eighth Route Army's armed forces in the occupied areas, the Eighth Route Army was still able to thrive behind enemy lines in North China. This was because the Japanese army was extremely unadapted to the Eighth Route Army's unconventional tactics.
This situation was not changed until 1941, when Neji Okamura became the commander of the North China Front.
Even though Baoshan Battalion now has less than a hundred men left, and its weapons and equipment are not as good as before, as long as they choose the right terrain and concentrate all their efforts on a night ambush, they can definitely catch the arrogant Japanese army by surprise, or even annihilate them all.
One or two infantry squads are also entirely possible.
These words sounded long, but in Yue Weihan's mind, they only took a moment.
At that moment, Yue Weihan took a deep breath of cold air and shouted sternly: "That's right. Since our Baoshan camp broke out, we have only been able to beat up the little devils. When have we ever suffered such a loss? Brothers, today's
If we don't take revenge, will we still be Baoshan Camp? Can we still be considered soldiers?"
"Revenge! Revenge! Revenge!" The veterans of the 3rd Battalion suddenly roared at the top of their lungs.
Yue Weihan waved his hand and said in a ferocious voice: "Others are gentlemen and it is never too late to take revenge in ten years, but we in Baoshan Camp are not. We in Baoshan Camp will avenge our enemies immediately, and we will do so immediately! Brothers, if you don't take revenge today,
Once the place is found, everyone will kill everyone and then go into the palace and become eunuchs, let’s go!”
"Let's go, fuck those stupid little devils to death!"
"His grandma, this matter can't be settled!"
"Donkey Day, if you don't kill a few little devils tonight, I will take his surname!"
The veterans of the old 3rd Battalion immediately started shouting and shouting. The dejected defeated soldiers and the numb-looking recruits finally recovered a little bit of energy, and started to roll up their sleeves and curse, as if they couldn't express themselves without a few curses.
He is a man, and he cannot show that he is a leader without scolding him a few times.
Only Liu Xin lowered his face and spat softly: Bah, what kind of officers and soldiers are these? How vulgar.