There was no emotion on Yang Ling's bronze face. He was as cold and calm as ever, as if the Japanese troops that were about to encircle him didn't exist. His calmness without changing color despite the overwhelming weight made several company commanders feel ashamed.
Faced with the rapidly deteriorating situation, Yang Ling's calmness made several company commanders feel a little calmer. They were no longer as panicked as before, but they still looked solemn and worried.
Yang Dashu believed and supported Yang Ling as always. He looked at Yang Ling and said: "Batalion Commander, what do you say, we will listen to you."
Liu Yidao also spoke fiercely: "Batalion Commander, just give me the order. No matter which way you break out, I, Liu Yidao, am willing to lead my men to fight a bloody path for my brothers!"
Now that the Japanese were surrounded on all sides, their defeated army of more than a thousand people had become a turtle in the urn. It seemed that they had no other choice but to break out of the encirclement, but Yang Ling didn't think so.
Yang Ling looked around and said: "The devils who bite our backs have slowed down their pursuit in the past few days, probably just to paralyze us and make us think that our tactics of weakening the enemy are working, and they have secretly arranged
We accidentally sneaked into this encirclement. This Japanese commander is a difficult guy. If we rashly choose a direction to break out, I'm afraid we will suffer a lot."
"But if we don't break out, our entire army will be wiped out when the Japs come over. I suggest that we immediately choose a direction to break out before the Japs encircle us. We, the more than a thousand brothers, can fight our way out no matter what.
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Li Tiezhu was fearless, but Yang Ling frowned. If he really wanted to fight his way out as Li Tiezhu said, he might be playing into the hands of the Japanese. The Japanese would only want them to do this, even if they succeeded in breaking through.
There are only a few people left, which just achieves the goal of annihilating them.
"The Japanese are well prepared this time. We can't be reckless." Yang Ling declined Li Tiezhu's suggestion.
"Then what do you think we should do? We can't just stay here and wait to die, right?" Li Tiezhu crossed his arms and looked at Yang Ling angrily to see what good ideas he could come up with.
"What I mean is not to break out of the encirclement, but to take the initiative to attack and seize the initiative. As long as we turn around and go back to kill the Japanese soldiers following us, then the Japanese soldiers' carefully arranged encirclement will have no effect on us."
Before Yang Ling could finish his words, company commander Li Tiezhu jumped out: "Commander Yang, don't be joking. With our strength, if we turn back, wouldn't we be throwing ourselves into a trap? It's better if the Japanese destroy us."
"You're yelling, wait for the battalion commander to finish what he said." Yang Dashu pushed Li Tiezhu away dissatisfied, looked at Yang Ling and said, "battalion commander, go ahead and ignore him."
Yang Ling paused and analyzed and said: "Since the Japanese soldiers can set up this encirclement, they will definitely prevent us from breaking through. We have been retreating towards Nanjing. The Japanese will not fail to guard against it. I estimate that the Japanese soldiers have arrangements in front and on the left and right."
With heavy troops, once we break through in these three directions, we will definitely be beaten to death."
Hearing Yang Ling's analysis, several company commanders took a breath. If it is true as Yang Ling said, then once they break out in these directions, they will definitely be in trouble.
"If we turn around and go back, we will definitely catch the Japanese by surprise."
"But there are quite a lot of Japs following us. I'm afraid our more than a thousand defeated troops are no match." Company Commander Qin Shou looked worried.
Yang Ling smiled and said: "Jiao Chaoming has just discovered that the group of Japanese soldiers in the east is part of the group following us..."
Company Commander Wu Jiang suddenly realized: "Battalion Commander, do you mean that the Japs behind us have divided their forces?"
"In the past few days, the Japs have been slowly landing behind us without making a move. Given the Japs' character of being surrounded by two wings, the Japs spotted on our left and right wings may have come from the rear. I guess they will stay behind us now.
There won’t be many Japanese soldiers.”
After hearing Yang Ling's analysis, most of the worries in everyone's minds disappeared. Yang Dashu chuckled and said, "If that's the case, then it's not difficult for us to turn around and go back and kill them."
Now their broken regiment has gathered more than a thousand broken troops, and there is no shortage of weapons and ammunition. If they really decide to fight the Japanese, they will have enough to give the Japanese a drink.
"Okay, pass my order, the rear team will become the front team, let's turn around and go back to do the damn thing!" Yang Ling gave the decisive order.
"Yes!" Several company commanders smiled happily. After Yang Ling's analysis, their panic faded away.
Yang Ling watched the team hurriedly turn around and return along the same path. Looking at the gray sky, he took a deep breath, pulled the rifle on his shoulder, and strode to follow the team.
Although Yang Ling's analysis was sound and sound, he was not completely sure. However, he was in a dangerous situation now. Even if he was only 10% sure, he had to give it a try. If the Japanese behind him were not as weak as he expected, he would think of other solutions then.
Breakout.
Japanese Major Higashikata Shotaro carefully prepared an encirclement with the purpose of catching Yang Ling and the others in one fell swoop. However, unexpectedly, Yang Ling did not lead his men to break out in the direction he had judged, but instead killed one of them.
He turned around and headed straight for the village where he was camping.
Major Shotaro Higashi was very cunning and deliberately slowed down the pursuit. He secretly sent a machine gun squadron to cooperate with two infantry squadrons to outflank Yang Ling and the others from both sides. There were not many troops left with him, only an infantry squadron and an artillery squad.
The Japanese soldiers were exhausted from chasing Yang Ling and the others and sleeping in the open air. From time to time, Yang Ling would lead his men to turn around and shoot cold shots at them at night, which made them angry and itchy but they had no choice but to do anything, because the night was the best cover for Yang Ling and the others.
Now Higashishotaro can finally sleep peacefully. After so many days of tactical deception, the defeated Chinese troops have penetrated into their encirclement, and the closing of the net is imminent. He is very excited.
He couldn't wait to see who the Chinese commander was, who could survive under his command for so long.
Higashikata Taro fell into a deep sleep after being excited, but what he didn't know was that Yang Ling had already led more than a thousand defeated troops to fight back.
The Japanese soldiers camped in the village, and the guards were very tight at night. According to Taro Azuma's order, the number of sentry posts was doubled to prevent Yang Ling and the others from coming back to launch cold shots, because he had had enough these days, but this time he miscalculated.
, what came back was no longer a squad with cold guns, but more than a thousand rout troops with murderous intent.