The chief of staff took a deep breath and analyzed.
"General, I am not willing to give in. However, compared to the independent regiment, the equipment and supplies stored in Laiyuan City and Laiyuan City are more important to us, and they must not be taken away by the Eighth Route Army."
As the commander of the Japanese garrison in Laiyuan City, Ono knows better than anyone else how much reserves there are of various equipment and supplies in Laiyuan City.
As a transportation artery, a large amount of equipment and materials captured by the imperial army in frontline operations were transported by road to Laiyuan City for temporary storage when the railway was destroyed by the Eighth Route Army guerrillas, and then passed through Laiyuan City as a temporary transit
Station and then transported to the rear area.
The chief of staff was right just now, even if he insists on destroying the independent regiment.
But as long as the Eighth Route Army takes the opportunity to capture Laiyuan City, with the equipment of Laiyuan City, they will immediately be able to form at least three independent regiments to continue fighting against the imperial army, and the gains will not be worth the losses.
"Bagya Road!" the angry Ono cursed again.
Although he was very unwilling to do so, for the sake of the overall situation, Ono could only calm himself down and then gave a decisive order.
"Then retreat! Chief of Staff, is it possible to divide the troops and leave some people to continue the attack and engage in a decisive battle with the independent regiment? A part of the imperial army will return to support Laiyuan City at night and drive away the Eighth Route Army attacking Laiyuan City!"
"No!" the chief of staff shook his head in denial.
"General, our troops, especially the combat troops, are running low. If we divide our troops further, they will easily be defeated by the Eighth Route Army!"
"Then return to Laiyuan City to aid. Chief of Staff, immediately issue an order to return to Laiyuan City in the shortest possible time!" Ono no longer hesitated and ordered very decisively.
"Also, notify us of the troops operating outside the mountain to assemble immediately. Although they are close to Laiyuan City, they are too scattered and must gather their forces before they can leave!"
After taking away one infantry squadron, the Japanese still had three infantry squadrons, an artillery squadron, and a heavy machine gun squadron outside the mountain.
Attack each other at four or five intervals, with two infantry squads plus an artillery squad and a heavy machine gun squad as units, stationed dispersedly outside the mountain.
After receiving the assembly order, the captain immediately sent out messengers to ask the troops to assemble in the direction of the mountain pass. Then he led less than two hundred Japanese soldiers and fought towards the mountain pass in a mighty manner.
Ma Ronghe, commander of the cavalry company of the Independent Regiment, was born in the Northwest Army and was a veritable cavalryman.
After the Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, they joined the Red Army. Because the Red Army was short of guns and ammunition at that time, it was impossible to form a cavalry unit.
Mayonghe, who was born in the cavalry, could only leave the cavalry and switch to infantry.
Now he was discovered by Wang Ping and served as the commander of the cavalry company. Not only did Ma Ronghe regain his status as a cavalry, but his position was also like a rocket. He jumped directly from the ordinary infantry platoon leader to the commander of the cavalry company directly under the regiment headquarters.
Deputy battalion level cadre.
Because the Independent Regiment fought against the Japanese army and captured a lot in front, it not only wiped out a Japanese cavalry brigade, but also sporadically wiped out many Japanese cavalry.
Therefore, there are sufficient horses and equipment that can be used to form cavalry. If allowed, it is possible to form a cavalry battalion.
However, Wang Ping only gave Ma Ronghe the establishment of a cavalry company. In his view, any unit is more important than its strength, especially the cavalry.
As an old cavalryman, Ma Ronghe knows better than anyone else the characteristics of cavalry, which are difficult to train, brutal in combat, and heavy in casualties. And under normal circumstances, casualties basically mean sacrifice.
In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the cavalry company, although Wang Ping only gave himself a cavalry company with a strength of 100 men, Ma Ronghe recruited more than 150 cavalrymen.
In Ma Ronghe's words, since we need to train, we should recruit more people to train so that everyone can become combat effective, and then select the best-trained ones to join the cavalry company, and the rest will serve as substitutes. Once the cavalry company suffers losses in combat, they will immediately
Replenishment ensures the combat effectiveness of the cavalry company without having to spend a lot of time retraining the additional cavalry.
Both Wang Ping and political commissar Cheng Xiao agreed. In the end, in order to ensure the training of the cavalry company, almost all the horses that could be used by the independent regiment were drawn and handed over to Mayonghe.
As of today, the cavalry company has been established for nearly two months.
Although two months of high-intensity training cannot train infantry into elite cavalry, everyone in the cavalry company has become very skilled in the most basic cavalry tactical movements such as charging with horses, shooting from horseback, and chopping...
, wailing to the company commander Ma Ronghe for a fight, and pulled him out to try his hand at the Japanese.
After finally waiting for the regimental headquarters' order to go into battle, not only May Ronghe was very happy, but his more than 100 cavalrymen were also very happy.
The Japanese army closest to the mountain pass where the Japanese army assembled was directly selected by Mayonghe and became the first test stone since the formation of the cavalry company.
"Platoon Leader Yang, you bring the four machine guns in the company and rush in front of the Japanese. Use guerrilla warfare to kill the Japanese machine gunners from a long distance!" Staring at the eager subordinates in front of him, Ma Ronghe began to give orders directly.
"The cavalry is most afraid of machine guns. This group of devils is equipped with three heavy machine guns and four light machine guns. As long as they kill their heavy machine gunners and make the heavy machine guns useless, the remaining infantry and artillery will be in the eyes of our cavalry."
Lambs for the slaughter, we can eat them however we want!"
The soldiers of the cavalry company are all infantrymen, and the cadres are also the original backbone of the infantry.
Although they became cavalry, they have not forgotten the guerrilla warfare that they were best at as infantry.
In addition, now with the help of war horses, the platoon leader became more confident in fighting guerrilla warfare against the Japanese. He accepted the task without saying a word, and then a dozen cavalrymen left the temporary station of the cavalry company with a roar.
The troops led by the Japanese brigade leader were the closest to Luojiawan, Yamaguchi, and because everyone was woken up in their sleep to rush on their way, they were very tired. Therefore, the team of nearly 200 people did not have much vigilance.
After all, they had not been attacked in the two days they had been stationed outside the mountain. As time passed, everyone became lazy.
"Captain, we are still less than three kilometers away from Luojiawan!" the deputy captain reminded with a pair of dark circles under his eyes.
"Yo Xi, order the troops to speed up and try to rest for another hour when they reach the place. The troops are too exhausted. If they encounter the enemy, they will suffer a big loss!" the captain ordered with a frown.
"Da da da..." As soon as the order came out, a burst of gunfire came over.
The captain, who was a little confused just now, suddenly woke up.
First, he turned over and jumped off his horse, and then he lay down on the ground under the protection of the guards.
"Bagheya Road must be the Eighth Route Army guerrillas. Captain, they are attacking us from a long distance with machine guns again!" The deputy captain who was thrown to the side and was eaten by a dog shouted in dissatisfaction.
The captain didn't waste any words and gave orders directly with anger!
"The artillery will counterattack immediately and kill these cunning sneak attackers!"
Soon, the machine gun that attacked them misfired in the explosion, and the Japanese, who lost more than a dozen people, continued to advance.
After walking less than 500 meters, we were attacked again.
Although the sneak attack lasted shorter than before, because the one who attacked them was a machine gun, more than a dozen Japanese were killed and wounded in the end.
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