As a famous imperial general, Okamura Neiji always tried his best to command until the last moment to minimize losses even if he lost a battle.
But now, there is a situation of overwhelming defeat. The last three mechanized squadrons and a large group of infantry are surrounded. Even Endo Shino is surrounded and his whereabouts are unknown.
The reason why Endo Shino's whereabouts are unknown is because his armored vehicle ran out of fuel halfway through the journey, so he had no choice but to blow up the armored vehicle and travel lightly.
Originally, Endo Shino wanted to take the radio with him, so that he could at least contact the headquarters or meet with reinforcements on the way.
But Shino Endo looked at the map and felt that this hope was too slim: they had only gathered more than 30 remaining soldiers, and the nearest reinforcements were more than 70 kilometers away from his location. They had to carry the radio on their backs to cover such a long distance.
It is almost impossible to talk about the road without being blocked by the Eighth Route Army and guerrillas...
Therefore, Endo Shino ordered to abandon all equipment, including the radio, and dispersed, disguised as civilians, and fled.
Shino Endo made the right choice.
Because even if you can meet up with reinforcements at this time, you may not be able to escape. Even more reinforcements mean that the bigger the target is, the easier it is to be surrounded by the Eighth Route Army... This is the hinterland of the Eighth Route Army, and the imperial army is still in a state of being run away.
People are chasing and killing.
In this case, instead of being hunted down together after reuniting, it would be better to let those large troops attract the main force of the Eighth Route Army and sneak away secretly by disguised as a civilian.
But in fact, Endo had another little plan in his mind.
Along the way, Endo Shino was thinking about a question:
If you escape back, can you survive? With the style of the imperial army, someone must be responsible for this failure!
So who will be responsible?
Is it Neji Okamura? Or Shinta Kono, Hanslai’s advisor?
Not even possible!
The greater possibility is yourself.
In other words, even if he escapes with a narrow escape, he will eventually die.
Then why did you run away and die?
Therefore, Endo Shino came up with a seemingly perfect plan. He ordered his subordinates to disguise themselves as Chinese people and retreat in a scattered manner. He only brought one staff officer and one guard with him.
The reason why he only brought one staff officer and one guard was that Endo Shino's explanation was that too many people and too big a target would arouse the suspicion of the Eighth Route Army.
This is indeed understandable, but the route Endo Shino chose was the old forest of Moriyama. After walking in, when the staff and guards were unprepared, he drew his pistol and shot two of his subordinates to death at close range, and then pushed the bodies into the lake to destroy the traces.
After that, Endo Shino deliberately left his bloody notebook... If intelligence agents or other imperial soldiers arrived, they would naturally think that Endo Shino and others were ambushed by the Eighth Route Army or guerrillas.
In the end, Endo Shino threw away everything related to himself, including the pistol.
Endo Shino knew very well that at this time, the pistol could not protect him at all, and would instead harm his life.
In doing so, he can be regarded as "putting himself to death and reviving".
Then Shino Endo disappeared.
The Eighth Route Army thought he had escaped, but the Japanese thought he died on the way back.
It was not until a few years later that a mute man pulling a rickshaw on the streets of Yuncheng covered his face and cried after hearing the news of the Japanese surrender, and choked out a few words about Japanese soldiers, which aroused the suspicion of passers-by...
Other Japanese troops were not so lucky. Three mechanized squadrons were ambushed by the Eighth Route Army on their way back and suffered heavy casualties. In the end, only more than a hundred people survived and surrendered.
A large group of reinforcements fought desperately to break through, but were blocked by Li Yunlong's independent regiment. In the end, with the cooperation of the main force of the 21st Division on the other side, they managed to break through more than 200 people, and the rest were all left in the encirclement.
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After achieving such a great victory, the commander immediately called Wang Xuexin. He said: "Comrade Wang Xuexin, your organization is good! Especially the improved 'high fire' destroyed two Japanese airports and their aviation fleet.
Well done! This time the enemy was knocked unconscious, and he probably won't be able to recover for a long time!"
"Thank you, Chief!" Wang Xuexin replied: "Thanks to the Sanjiadian Arsenal, we were able to produce the pulse engine in such a short time!"
"Hey!" the chief said: "Without your idea, they wouldn't be able to do it! Very good! But... you can fight two hundred kilometers of 'high fire', you have to think of a way, I'm afraid you can't hide it.
It’s Eagle Sauce!”
Wang Xuexin felt a headache when he heard this.
The chief is right. "High fire" is different from other equipment, such as guns or rocket launchers. It can be used secretly to hide it from others.
But "Gao Huo" flies in the sky, and it flies at a low altitude of several hundred meters. Anyone with a telescope can observe it.
And there are hundreds of pieces in a dozen, flying from the original airport to the Japanese temporary airport... Many people can see this thing and there are witnesses, so they can't hide it even if they want to.
Wang Xuexin's guess was correct, Yingjiang got the news right away.
The latest person to get the news was Sun Erwei, who used funds to buy many intelligence agents, some of whom were focused on "Gao Huo"... Although these intelligence agents were Chinese, they were not considered traitors, because the Chinese
They are allies with Yingjiang itself, and these intelligence personnel were approved by the Eighth Route Army. Even the intelligence personnel themselves did not know that providing this information to Yingjiang would put Wang Xuexin in trouble.
After Sun Erwei learned about this situation, he immediately reported the information to his superiors, and then reported it level by level, and finally reached the hands of the Admiral and General Doolittle.
The admiral immediately denied it: "Isn't this impossible? A two-hundred-kilometer bomb...and it was developed by the Eighth Route Army!"
General Doolittle hesitated.
"General!" Doolittle said: "When the Eighth Route Army developed rockets that could travel dozens of kilometers, we also thought it was impossible, but that was a fact. If the Eighth Route Army's rockets could travel fifty kilometers, then
Wouldn't it be relatively easy for them to increase its range to two hundred kilometers?"
The admiral was silent for a while, then nodded and said: "The important thing is how they can maintain the accuracy of rockets at such a long distance. Range is indeed not a big issue!"
The admiral also understands this. If he wants to extend the range, the most he can do is equip this rocket with a more efficient engine.
This is indeed not the category of "impossible".
But to hit the target two hundred kilometers away... not even Eagle Sauce can do it.