"Then what are you waiting for? Order the troops to retreat immediately. The nearest imperial army is more than 80 kilometers away from us, so retreat to them. Our fourth mixed brigade has never suffered such a heavy loss, and the remaining imperial army cannot have any more
After a loss, I still need them to reorganize the fourth mixed brigade and come back for revenge!" Major General Yoshino was very aware of his current situation and made a very decisive decision.
Soon, nearly 8,000 puppet troops began to retreat.
In order to ensure the safety of the remaining troops of the 4th Brigade, even though Touichi Terauchi was very angry with their results and wished he could kill Major General Yoshino, the commander of the 4th Brigade with a knife. However, three companies of bombers were still dispatched to carry out non-stop operations above their heads.
Escort and cover their retreat.
Just when Major General Yoshino was getting more and more confident about the subsequent retreat due to the arrival of escort bombers, a cavalry lieutenant suddenly rushed in front.
"General, the road in front has been damaged by Tubal Road. It is very serious. Except for armored vehicles and tanks, large vehicles and cars cannot go on!" the cavalry lieutenant reported anxiously as soon as he stopped in front of Major General Yoshino.
"Nani? Is Tubal Road planning to annihilate us all here?" the chief of staff subconsciously shouted.
But he quickly rejected this idea: "That shouldn't be the case. Last night, the Tubal Road who attacked us also suffered heavy losses. There were no less than a thousand corpses left at our station alone. They simply don't have the strength to annihilate us!"
Major General Yoshino frowned and replied: "It's definitely not possible to annihilate them all, but just hold us back!"
"We not only lost all the ammunition last night, but also almost all the supplies. Now each soldier only has one day's worth of dry food in his hand, and we will be hungry in one day. As long as Tubal Road holds us back, we will be out of food in a few days.
It will force our troops to collapse!"
"We can go around to grab food. If that doesn't work, we can ask our superiors to airdrop food for us!" the chief of staff put forward his own idea.
"What about the ammunition? Airdrop it too! Don't forget, we are not hundreds or thousands of people, but nearly 8,000 soldiers. The airdrop of supplies can only save the emergency, but it is absolutely impossible to solve the fundamental problem!" Major General Yoshino
He frowned and analyzed.
"Delay us during the day and attack us at night. In addition, we are short of guns and ammunition. It won't take long for our nearly 8,000 people to be completely consumed by the Eighth Route Army coming from all directions!"
"Bageya Road, the Eighth Route Army is very scheming, and they caught our fatal weakness as soon as they took action!"
The chief of staff's expression immediately turned serious, and he asked after hesitating for a few seconds.
"General, then we are just a piece of meat on the chopping block of Tubal Road!"
"No!" Major General Yoshino said firmly.
"As long as we speed up our retreat and join the nearest imperial army as soon as possible, all problems will be non-issue~"
"But Tubal Road has destroyed the road, making it impossible for cars and trucks to pass. How can we speed up?" the chief of staff asked anxiously.
"We don't want it anymore, we don't want it, we don't want it, we don't want it, we don't want it, we don't want it, we don't want it, artillery, any extra weapons and ammunition. As long as the troops survive, we will be able to fight back in the future, no matter how hard we lose it, we will take it back from the Eighth Route Army!"
"Major General Yoshino gave an astonishing reply.
Then he changed the topic and continued: "However, such good equipment cannot be used at the expense of the Eighth Route Army, so that the Eighth Route Army can equip these weapons and attack us in turn!"
"Engineer squadron, take action immediately and blow up the extra weapons and equipment!"
"Others continue to retreat and march quickly to get out of here!"
The eyes of the chief of staff were full of reluctance. You must know that among the weapons and equipment behind him, there are 34 mountain artillery, field artillery, and infantry artillery. So many artillery pieces are also precious to the imperial army, not to mention those large guns.
The cars and cars also carried various equipment that could equip at least 3,000 people.
But what Major General Yoshino said is true. If these equipment are not thrown away, the remaining 4,000 people in the brigade will not be able to withdraw safely.
Compared with the lives of thousands of imperial troops, these equipments are obviously nothing!
In the end, I could only grit my teeth and reply: "Hi! I'll go make arrangements right away!"
"Boom, boom, boom..." Not long after, a violent explosion sounded among the retreating Japanese and puppet troops.
Watching mountain cannons being blown into scrap metal, and truckloads of weapons and ammunition being blown into parts, Commander Zhou of the security regiment a few hundred meters away had a gnashing expression on his face, wanting to rush onto the road and blow up the weapons that were being exploded.
The devil was chopped alive.
"Prodigal son, the Japanese are indeed prodigal sons. What a good weapon, but they blew it to pieces like this. Get out of here!" Commander Zhou yelled, venting his anger and dissatisfaction.
Then he stared at Wang Ping and asked: "Captain Wang, the Japanese are too cruel. I originally thought that I could capture some artillery, so I applied to the military region to establish a mountain artillery company. Now it seems that not even a single intact mortar can be captured!"
The expression on Wang Ping's face did not change because the Japanese bombed the equipment.
Looking at the anxious Commander Zhou in front of him, he replied confidently: "Our mountain artillery company has six mountain cannons! Commander Zhou, as long as the military region agrees, you can go to the arsenal to pick up the six mountain cannons at any time!"
"The arsenal can now produce mountain artillery!" Captain Zhou asked with his eyes lit up.
"Wang Ping shook his head and replied: "Not yet! Even if it can be produced, the output is very low! However, the arsenal can be repaired. As long as the Japanese don't blow up those artillery pieces into a pile of scrap metal, I can repair them! Therefore, those artillery pieces on the highway are repaired.
The weapons blown up by the Japanese are all treasures to me!"
After the Japanese army gave up the weapons and equipment that Wang Ping coveted, Wang Ping also let go of the remaining Japanese and puppet troops.
Moreover, Wang Ping did not have the strength to deal with them. The reason why he was able to force the Japanese into trouble was that he had grasped the weakness of the Japanese. If he really wanted to fight the remaining Japanese and puppet troops, even if they were short of guns and ammunition, he would not
Can't do it.
The Japanese independent Fourth Mixed Brigade returned with a disastrous defeat, which meant that one of Terauchi Juichi's goals in launching this large-scale encirclement and suppression campaign had failed.
The furious Terauchi Shouichi did not give up the siege because of this, he wanted revenge.
As a result, the Eighth Route Army's counter-encirclement and suppression campaign did not end with the withdrawal of the Japanese Fourth Independent Mixed Brigade.
However, all of this has nothing to do with Wang Ping.
The longer the counter-encirclement and suppression campaign lasts and becomes larger in scale, the more weapons and ammunition the Eighth Route Army needs in the trenches.
Back at the arsenal, before Wang Ping had time to rest, he received a telegram from the military region requesting that time be spent on producing ammunition.
"Director, there are not enough raw materials in the arsenal!" The political commissar of the arsenal in charge of production hurriedly walked into Wang Ping's room.
"After the beginning of the counter-encirclement and suppression campaign, the arsenal has never received any raw materials from the troops. During this period, production was carried out in two shifts every day, and no matter how much raw materials were used, they would be used up! If there are no more raw materials, it will last for up to three days.
Bullets will have no copper ingots to produce bullet heads!”
“Other raw materials won’t last too long!”
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