Yang Ling and the others stopped retreating at Lijiachong, just like hunters who had some time to spare, they set up a trap and waited for their prey to take the bait.
The wait was long and torturous. From sunrise to sunset, from day to night, a whole day passed, but there was not even a single sign of the Japanese who were expected to arrive in Lijiachong.
At night, Yang Ling and several company commanders met again. Everyone frowned, and the atmosphere in the room was solemn.
"Battal Commander, we've been waiting all day and haven't even seen a ghost, let alone a Japanese. I wonder if that little bastard Li Wenquan deceived us." Qin Shou looked impatient and impatient.
"Why are you in a hurry? Since Lijiachong is the supply point chosen by the Japanese, they will definitely come sooner or later! Just wait." Although Liu Yidao comforted Qin Shou, he was not sure. Who knew how long he would have to wait.
"But the longer we wait, the more dangerous our situation will be. Maybe a large group of Japanese pursuers are heading here. If we are bitten, none of us will survive."
Yang Ling naturally understood Qin Shou's worries, but he was unwilling to give in. According to his judgment, the traitor Li Wenquan was probably not lying. However, they waited and waited, but the enemy who was supposed to come did not come, which put them in a dilemma.
If they are not willing to withdraw the ambush now, but if they continue to set up an ambush here, who knows when the Japanese army will come. Yang Ling and the others cannot afford to waste time.
The old smoker squatted on a long bench, puffing away at the cigarette. The choking smoke gradually enveloped his wrinkled face. The death of the fat man had a great impact on the old smoker, and he became
Have to be silent.
"Company Commander Zhou, what's your opinion?" Yang Ling cast his eyes on Lao Smoking and asked for his opinion.
The old smoker slowly put down his cigarette pole, raised his head and replied: "We can wait for one more night at most. If the Japanese haven't come yet, we have to withdraw."
Jiangyin Fortress has fallen, and the Japanese are sweeping towards Nanjing under the cover of tanks, aircraft and artillery. If they stay in the tiny land of Lijiachong, they will sooner or later be devoured to the dregs.
Yang Ling tapped his fingers on the table, making regular intermittent click sounds, and his brain was spinning rapidly. Being able to kill an infiltrating Japanese army would undoubtedly boost the morale of the current brothers, but if the original morale was consumed while waiting,
It felt like the gains outweighed the losses, and he was thinking about the pros and cons.
"Then wait one more night, and we will evacuate at dawn tomorrow." Yang Ling finally decided to wait one more night, because he was really unwilling to evacuate with nothing to gain.
The big net has been opened, and now they are waiting for the Japs to get into the net. While Yang Ling and others are waiting in agony, the Japs task force carrying out the secret mission has actually arrived at the outskirts of Li Jiachong.
Marching in the cold winter is indeed not a comfortable thing. When they take off their fine and warm military uniforms and put on the tattered and leaky military uniforms of Chinese soldiers, these Japanese task force soldiers are mixed with refugees and broken troops.
It was really freezing.
Infiltration, detour, and outflanking were all tactics used by the Japanese with great proficiency. They pursued them all the way from Shanghai. Countless bridges and towns were captured by their infiltration troops and plainclothes teams.
When many Chinese troops were about to stop and build positions to resist, they learned that the town bridges in the rear had been occupied by the Japs, and thought that the main force of the Japs had crossed them. The troops immediately panicked.
In order to avoid being surrounded, they could only give up building positions and continue to flee. Therefore, the Chinese army was defeated for hundreds of miles. These Japanese infiltration troops played a great role. Although they were small in number, their effect was great.
Although the main force of the Japanese was swept towards Nanjing under the cover of aircraft and tanks, in the Danzhen Plain area outside Nanjing, the blocking troops under the Third War Zone were still fighting bloody battles, and the offensive of the Japanese troops was quite unsatisfactory.
The commander of the 13th Division, Ogisu Ribei, spent a lot of time in Jiangyin. The entire division wanted to make a contribution in Nanjing, but it was probably too late because the rest of the troops had already gone ahead of them and hit the Zhenjiang area.
However, Ogisu Rihei was not willing to give up this credit, so he sent an elite task force disguised as defeated soldiers and refugees, hoping to bypass the battle zone on the Danzhen Plain and sneak into Nanjing along the north of the Yangtze River with the defeated soldiers and refugees.
city, find the headquarters of the Chinese garrison, and then destroy it.
Ogisu Rihei's beheading plan was approved by the dispatched army headquarters, because once the Chinese garrison command center is successfully beheaded, the garrison that has lost its command will fall into a state of great chaos, and they can just defeat it one by one.
, thereby capturing Nanjing.
In order to implement this plan, Ogisu Rihei specially mobilized elite soldiers and generals and formed a task force of about one hundred people to implement this beheading plan. If it succeeds, then regardless of the military exploits of the remaining divisions, they will become
Their Thirteenth Division's foil was the wishful thinking of Ogisu Ripei.
Major Takataka is the commander of the task force. He is a typical militarist, a member of the young "Sakura Club" and a loyal believer in "Imperial Doctrine". He is a combination of cruelty, cunning, ferocity and arrogance.
He was determined to win this action.
They pretended to be defeated Chinese soldiers and refugees. In order to better integrate into the refugees, they pretended to be more similar. Major Takako ordered not to bring any food supplies. They were all provided by traitors along the way at night.
Point for supplies.
After walking with the refugees for a day, the soldiers of the task force were already sleepy, tired, and dizzy with hunger. When they arrived at Lijiachong, they were already exhausted.
"Tengtian-kun, take people into the village to investigate the situation."
Major Yingxiao was very cautious. Although they were now wearing the clothes of National Revolutionary Army soldiers and had agreed to replenish food at Li Youde's house in the village, he did not lead the team in hastily. Instead, he sent people into the village in advance to investigate.
Captain Tengtian waved his hand, and more than a dozen "broken soldiers" dressed in tatters distanced themselves and walked towards the village, looking around from time to time to detect any movement.
"Someone is coming!" A guerrilla camp sentry hidden in the darkness spotted more than a dozen people walking towards the village entrance, and hurriedly pushed another sentry beside him.
The other sentry also looked anxious and pressed his finger on the trigger, looking outward. When he saw the clothes on the other person clearly, he breathed a sigh of relief: "I was scared to death. I thought it was a Japanese soldier."
Two sentries stood up from the grass and shouted to the more than ten defeated soldiers who were walking over: "Hey, the brothers on the opposite side are from that unit?"
The sentry's voice frightened the dozen or so Japanese soldiers so much that they hurriedly pulled the gun bolt, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.
"Don't act rashly!" Team leader Tengtian hurriedly whispered to stop the nervous subordinates. He saw clearly the two Chinese soldiers who suddenly appeared not far away, and spoke fluent Chinese: "The 122nd Division has been dispersed.