The captains such as Takahashi, Tanichuan and Anton were as full of arrogance as all the Japanese officers in the room.
Although they saw that the Yamasaki Infantry Brigade, which served as the vanguard, was in a miserable state, they only offered a few words of comfort and did not take it seriously at all, because they looked down on those poorly equipped guerrilla troops from the bottom of their hearts.
Some people even felt that the Yamazaki Battalion was too useless and could not even defeat some ragtag guerrillas. They had lost the face of the Imperial Japanese Army.
But after all, they are all colleagues who look up but never look down. They only slander them in their hearts, but they won't really say it out loud.
Captain Yamazaki could naturally feel the contempt of his colleagues from their tone and eyes. He had just suffered a defeat at this moment, and he felt like a mirror. Any explanation now was a cover-up and was in vain, so he simply closed his eyes.
Relax and don't participate in the discussion.
It is not that Captain Yamazaki has fought against guerrillas before, but this is his first time fighting against the North Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps, but the strength of the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps really makes him still fearful.
Whether it was the blockade along the way or the deadly battle at the head of the border, plus the two raids last night, these battles were fought between their infantry brigade and the Northern Jiangsu Corps, which all showed that the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps was not a bunch of ragtag groups.
On the contrary, it is an elite division that has experienced hundreds of battles. Although their fighting will, their weapons and equipment, and military literacy are not as good as those of the Imperial Japanese Army, they are almost the same.
If the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps cannot be eliminated as soon as possible and given them more time to grow and strengthen, Captain Yamazaki will not know what will happen in the future, but it is certain that their situation will become more and more passive.
Captain Yamazaki and the others did not wait long when sonorous and powerful footsteps came from outside the door. Everyone turned around and saw the captain of the detachment, Senior Colonel Hisashi Watanabe, walking past surrounded by a group of staff officers.
Seeing the arrival of the detachment leader Hisashi Watanabe, all the Japanese officers in the room stood up to greet him.
The leader of the Japanese detachment, Shouichi Watanabe, had a gloomy face. He walked to the main seat and stood still. After scanning everyone with his cold eyes, he pressed his hands down, and everyone sat down again in unison.
"Yamazaki-san, how many Shinas were annihilated last night?"
After the detachment leader Hisashi Watanabe sat down, he first turned his attention to Major Yamazaki who was sitting on the left-hand bench.
Captain Yamazaki hurriedly stood up and reported with a look of shame on his face: "Your Excellency, the detachment leader, your incompetence allowed the Chinese people to escape."
"Um?!"
Hearing that the guerrillas had escaped, Japanese detachment leader Watanabe Shouichi raised his eyebrows, and his cold gaze made Captain Yamazaki feel heavy pressure.
Captain Yamazaki endured the pressure and hurriedly explained: "Your Excellency, detachment leader, this was a planned attack by the Chinese. They attacked while we were sleeping. After they succeeded, they immediately fled north without fighting, and they were fleeing in advance."
Mines were laid on the road and an ambush was set up. In addition, it was dark, but my pursuing troops were able to escape..."
"Why didn't your sentries and patrols give advance warning? Are they all sleeping?" Detachment leader Touichi Watanabe asked coldly: "Or are you underestimating the enemy and being careless and not deploying sentries?"
"Our sentries and patrols were quietly assassinated. I am certain that the Chinese army must have an elite combat unit, otherwise our sentries would not have been quietly eliminated."
Captain Yamazaki said categorically.
Captain Yamazaki's explanation did not satisfy detachment leader Shouichi Watanabe. He immediately asked: "Have you figured out the number of the Chinese troops that attacked you?"
"It...it was too dark and I couldn't see clearly, but judging from the military uniforms of the corpses left behind, they should be people affiliated with the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps."
Because Yang Ling and his Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps were behind enemy lines, their uniforms were re-dyed and sewn from captured Japanese and puppet army uniforms, but they still had armbands to prove their identity.
But on the battlefield, if a brother was killed and his body could not be taken away, the surviving brothers would tear off their armbands and take them back.
The result of this is that although many brothers from the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps were killed in last night's battle, there were also many corpses left on the battlefield.
Because the armbands were torn off by their companions and taken away, the little Japs couldn't tell which troop attacked them and could only make a rough estimate.
Captain Yamazaki's answer made detachment leader Shouichi Watanabe extremely dissatisfied. After playing for a long time, he couldn't even figure out the other party's serial number. What a confusing account.
"Bagaya road!"
Watanabe Shouichi was so angry that he slapped his hand on the table, which frightened the officers sitting around him.
"Hi!"
Captain Yamazaki bowed his head heavily, his waist almost bent ninety degrees, but his heart was also full of bitterness. It was hard to express the bitterness. Who said the guerrillas were too powerful?
Looking at Captain Yamazaki who was bending down and bowing his head, he was silent for a while. Then Captain Watanabe Juichi took a deep breath, calmed down the anger in his heart, and regained the composure that only a commander should have.
"How much damage was done in the battle?!"
After a long silence, detachment leader Shouichi Watanabe, who had calmed down, stared at Major Yamazaki and spoke slowly.
Hearing detachment leader Shouichi Watanabe ask about battle losses, Captain Yamazaki was even more distressed. After being stunned for a few seconds, he spoke hesitantly.
"The Chinese attacked twice, and our soldiers fought bravely and annihilated more than a hundred Chinese..."
"What I'm asking is how much damage did your brigade have in battle?" Seeing Captain Yamazaki looking at him, the gloomy detachment leader Watanabe Juichi interrupted him coldly.
"Our unit lost 410 people killed, more than 300 injured, six light machine guns, eight grenade launchers, and countless ammunition..."
Captain Yamazaki also knew that stretching out one's head was the same as shrinking one's head, so he had to tell the truth.
While reporting, he cautiously glanced at the detachment leader Shouichi Watanabe, whose face became increasingly gloomy. He already hated the guerrillas who attacked them. If they hadn't attacked him, how could he have become so passive?
When they heard that the Yamazaki Infantry Brigade had suffered such heavy losses, which was equivalent to the losses in a medium-sized battle in the early stages of the war, the Japanese officers all took a deep breath.
"Bagaya road!"
Before the Japanese Captain Yamazaki finished speaking, the detachment leader Touichi Watanabe, who had been holding back his anger just now, could no longer hold back the anger in his heart. He grabbed the cup on the table and threw it at Captain Yamazaki.
The thrown cup happened to hit Captain Yamazaki in the face, and the tea immediately spilled all over Captain Yamazaki.
"Hi!"
Captain Yamazaki now dared to wipe the tea. Facing the angry lion-like Watanabe Shouichi, he could only secretly pray to the emperor for protection.
"You have disgraced the Japanese soldiers. You should break your belly and apologize!"
At this moment, the detachment leader Shouichi Watanabe turned into a shrew and cursed at Captain Yamazaki.
A full infantry brigade actually lost half of its men in a guerrilla attack. How could this not make the detachment leader Shouichi Watanabe angry? He now wanted to kill the brigade leader Yamazaki to vent his hatred.
Facing the roaring and cursing detachment leader Watanabe Shouichi, the Japanese officers in the room were as silent as ice. They were worried that the fire at the city gate would harm the fish in the pond. They all felt sorry for Captain Yamazaki. This time, Captain Yamazaki's boat capsized in the gutter.
"Dismissal and investigation!"
Soon, the detachment leader Juichi Watanabe, who had had enough scolding, announced with a cold face that Major Yamazaki was relieved of his position as captain.
"Hi!"
Hearing that the detachment leader had dismissed him from his post, Captain Yamazaki felt very unwilling, but he was now a mute eating Coptis chinensis and could not express his suffering, so he could only swallow the bitter pill by himself.