The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
"Bah, bah, bah..." rifle shooting sounds suddenly sounded in front of everyone, dense and short.
The vice-captain subconsciously lowered his body and lay on the horse.
It's still too late.
A bullet entered from the front and exited from the back, drilling a bloody hole in the chest.
His eyes quickly widened, showing a shocked expression full of despair.
He held on to the reins of his war horse, hoping not to fall.
But my physical strength passed too quickly, and my body began to lose control. I fell off the horse during the jolt, and then lost consciousness...
The gunfire here had just ended, and the gunfire coming from the battlefield began to weaken.
After ten minutes it was completely quiet.
When Commander Zhou rushed over, he happened to encounter troops cleaning the battlefield.
"Captain Zhou, the cavalry company of the Independent Regiment is here." Li Hao said happily when he saw him.
Captain Zhou's eyes were directly fixed on the war horse not far away. The more he looked at it, the more excited he became, and he immediately asked: "Captain Li, how many horses have been captured in total?"
Li Hao answered readily: "There are 98 intact horses, and 19 other horses are injured and can only be used as slave horses. The remaining eighty or ninety horses have all been killed."
"There are also 165 sets of intact cavalry equipment."
"I decided to leave all these horses and equipment to the independent regiment to form a cavalry company."
Captain Zhou almost jumped up with excitement and quickly replied: "Then I will accept it."
"But we, the Independent Regiment, cannot take all the advantages. In the following battles, no matter what loot is captured, as long as Captain Li likes it, feel free to pick it. We, the Independent Regiment, have no objection."
Overjoyed, Commander Zhou did not forget to reinforce the remaining three infantry squadrons.
Perhaps it was the shock of annihilating two cavalry squadrons that was too great for him, or perhaps the large amount of light and heavy weapons seized by the troops after annihilating Kato's brigade. Commander Zhou's confidence was obviously much stronger than before.
Looking at Li Hao, he took the initiative and suggested: "Captain Li, according to the marching speed of the Japanese infantry, we can reach here in another two and a half hours."
"We have captured Kato's brigade and two cavalry squadrons. If we don't continue our efforts, we will eat them too."
"I just made statistics. Including the seizures, we have 26 heavy machine guns, 29 mortars, one infantry gun and six mountain cannons."
"Using all these heavy weapons, we can definitely kill these three infantry squadrons within half an hour."
After saying that, Captain Zhou looked at Li Hao with an eager expression.
In his opinion, the two regiments would definitely agree to this battle, and Li Hao would definitely agree.
Surprisingly, Li Hao took a look at his watch and refused: "No more fighting!"
"Captain Zhou, I also want to fight this battle, but the little devil is not stupid. He has suffered two defeats in a row here. The infantry who will be reinforced later must be very vigilant. If we want to fight, it will be an encounter. It is impossible to fight them like now.
ambush."
"Besides, it's almost dawn. If we really start fighting, the battle will definitely continue until dawn."
"The Japanese have planes. If we are targeted by them, dropping a few bombs will cause huge losses to us. It is not cost-effective."
Seeing Captain Zhou nod his head in approval, Li Hao immediately gave the order.
"Enough is enough, we won't fight anymore."
"More than 1,700 Japs were killed tonight, and there are still two cavalry squadrons among them. The purpose of reducing the pressure of counter-mopping up has been achieved. Is there no need to continue taking risks here and fighting with the Japs?"
"The troops will retreat into the mountains in an hour and return to Laishui to challenge the Japanese counterattack troops."
At the Japanese army assembly area, the chief of staff was like an ant on a hot pot, walking around in the tent, very anxious.
The radio contact with Kato's brigade was cut off a few hours ago. Under normal circumstances, it would be a disaster.
This is the result he least wants to see.
My heart was hanging on, holding on to a glimmer of hope, hoping that Kato's team had not been killed, but that an accident had caused the radio station to lose contact.
If you want to let go and give up this idea completely, or if your wish comes true, there is only one way, reinforcements rush to the battlefield as soon as possible.
They brought a radio. As long as they reach their destination in time, everything will be revealed.
At six o'clock in the morning, the headquarters radio finally rang.
Everyone looked at each other at the same time, as if they had agreed.
The operator suddenly felt his pressure doubled. He put on his earphones as quickly as possible and received the message.
"Sir, urgent call for reinforcements..."
The operator reported nervously with the message he had just translated.
If you look carefully, you will find that there is cold sweat all over his forehead, which is densely covered with cold sweat.
If it was good news, it would never be so tense, so what the reinforcements sent back must be bad news, but not that bad.
The chief of staff clenched his fists and asked nervously: "Did something happen to Kato's brigade?"
"Hi!" the operator replied, lowering his head.
"The entire Kato brigade was destroyed, the brigade leader died in the battle, and the two cavalry squadrons that came to reinforce first were also killed."
"On the battlefield, nothing was left except the corpses of the imperial soldiers."
"Even the military uniforms were taken away."
"idiot!"
The chief of staff punched the table, anger surged up, his face was ferocious, and he looked particularly scary.
He thought about the total destruction of Kato's brigade, and that the two cavalry squadrons were killed together, but he did not think about them being beaten to death.
Staring at his subordinates, he ordered with murderous intent: "Order the reinforcements to send out scouts immediately, and we must find the hiding place of these Eighth Route Army troops."
"Contact the aviation force and dispatch all aircraft after dawn to find and kill this Eighth Route Army."
"To swallow up one of our reinforced brigade and two cavalry squadrons in one go is a strength that cannot be possessed by one or two regiments of the Eighth Route Army."
"I judge that there were at least three main regiments of the Eighth Route Army that attacked Kato's brigade last night."
"So many troops sneaked up behind us, it was so scary."
"We must find them and kill them, otherwise we will not be able to counterattack Laishui."
The captain on the side agreed: "The telegram sent to us by Kato Brigade showed that the Eighth Route Army attacking them was equipped with a large number of mortars, heavy machine guns, and flying thunder cannons."
"According to my humble understanding of the Eighth Route Army, one or two main force regiments simply cannot gather these heavy weapons."
"So I completely agree with your judgment. The opponent has at least three main groups, and they have also strengthened a large number of heavy weapons."
"If we don't kill them, our counterattack on Laishui will be flanked by the independent regiment and this force."
"It's too dangerous. He could be killed at any time, losing his wife and losing his troops."
"The humble position proposes to suspend the counterattack against Laishui and first eliminate this mysterious Eighth Route Army with the support of aviation."
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