At the gathering place of the Japanese and puppet troops, the chief of staff ran into the wing commander's room with excitement on his face, holding a call back from the logistics base.
It was exactly the same as the two people had judged before, and there was not a single word of reprimand in the telegram.
There is no doubt that the Chief of Staff no longer intends to pursue the matter of the baggage train being killed by the Eighth Route Army.
After reading the telegram, the commander was relieved.
After staring at the map and thinking for two minutes, he replied: "The baggage team sent to us by the base will leave tonight. They will rest in the uninhabited land for a few hours tomorrow night. They will still enter the base area at six o'clock in the morning the day after tomorrow."
"Chief of Staff, please make arrangements. At dawn tomorrow, an infantry brigade of the Imperial Army and a regiment of the Imperial Association Army will be mobilized to rush to the connection point to join the baggage train. They will enter the garrison base area at six o'clock the day after tomorrow and secure the baggage train.
Escort to the front line."
"Don't worry, captain, I guarantee there will be no accidents this time."
The captain nodded and continued with longing: "When the baggage supplies are in place and the attacking troops capture the hostages, we can continue to attack the garrison and kill them."
Having said this, the commander of the regiment unconsciously glanced at his watch, and then asked: "According to the battle plan, the two-pronged attack force should be back in another hour."
"Have they sent any telegrams back in the past few hours? How many hostages have been captured in the mountains?"
The chief of staff shook his head and replied: "No telegram was sent, but everything is normal for the troops on both sides of the attack. They are marching to the station under the escort of aircraft."
"The Eighth Route Army must have been too tight-lipped and had no time to send a telegram!" the commander comforted himself.
Today's attack was planned by him, and he is very confident and confident.
An hour passed quickly, and the sky gradually darkened. The escorting plane returned half an hour ago.
The commander of the regiment stood eagerly at the gate of the station, personally waiting for the troops to return victoriously.
"Back..." one of his subordinates shouted.
Raising the binoculars, some figures vaguely appeared at the end of the road, rifles in hand, trotting towards the station in a hurry.
Five minutes later, densely packed troops began to appear.
They all carried their guns on their backs or carried them on their shoulders, and they marched over with neat steps.
The captain was very excited when he saw them for the first time.
The neat military appearance seemed to tell him that the attacking troops had fought a victorious battle outside and had returned victorious.
As he watched, the captain's smile disappeared and his face gradually became serious.
After the last row of imperial troops came into view, their expressions had been replaced by solemnity.
Compared with before departure, the returning team was at least one-third shorter, and there were more than a hundred stretchers carried in the middle of the team.
More importantly, he searched the entire attacking force but failed to find any hostages.
At this time, Major Saburo Nakata, who was leading the attack, hurried over, followed by several subordinates and the commander of the Imperial Association Army.
After seeing the captain, he lowered his head and reported: "Captain, you have failed to complete your mission despite your humble duty. Do you want to be punished?"
The captain's eyes looked like they were about to spit fire, and they were all red.
He stared at his subordinates and asked several questions in a row before stopping: "Tell me, what is going on? What happened to the troops in the mountains? Where are the Imperial Alliance Army who are cooperating with your actions? Why are there only so many people left!"
Saburo Nakata mustered up the courage to answer: "I humbly carry out my superior's orders strictly. After the attack, I will go straight to the Chinese hiding spots, regardless of the Eighth Route Army's harassment and obstruction along the way."
"When we got there, the Chinese had already moved. Along the way we lost a battalion of the Imperial Army and more than 60 Imperial troops."
"After the defeat, I didn't stay there much longer. I immediately led my troops to pursue along the traces left by the movement of the Chinese."
"We almost caught up several times, but the Eighth Route Army suddenly came out to block the way of the imperial army and bought the hostages a lot of time to move."
"By three o'clock in the afternoon, we had chased for at least 20 kilometers in the mountains, and fought with the Eighth Route Army no less than five times. The Eighth Route Army sneak attacked us no less than 40 times during the pursuit."
"A total of one company of the Imperial Army and more than 200 Imperial Army troops were lost, and one-third of them were seriously injured by landmines."
"The troops began to retreat after three o'clock, but the Eighth Route Army's sneak attacks and harassment did not stop. In order to minimize the losses of the Imperial Army, I took the initiative and ordered the Imperial Army to counterattack the Eighth Route Army's sneak attacks in platoon units to hold them back."
"Abandon all the seriously wounded members of the Imperial Army, take only the wounded members of the Imperial Army, and make a hasty march out of the mountains and back to the base."
"In this process, the Imperial Army lost one battalion and one company, and the Imperial Army lost more than fifty people."
"So, Captain, you only saw one company of the Imperial Army and more than a hundred seriously wounded Imperial Army members in the team."
The captain suppressed his anger and asked: "In other words, you went out to fight for a day. Not only did you fail to complete the mission and capture the hostages, you also lost more than 300 imperial troops and nearly a regiment of the imperial alliance army."
Faced with the facts, Nakata Saburo couldn't utter a word of rebuttal. He could only lower his head and let the captain's spit spray spray onto him.
The captain became even more angry and cursed loudly: "Bagh Yalu, you guys should say something!"
"If you lose the battle, why don't you give me an explanation? You just want to end it like this!"
Saburo Nakata's head dropped lower.
Throughout the whole day's operation, he strictly followed the regimental commander's orders and never imagined that this would be the result.
If he had known this, he would not have fought as planned.
But there is no regret medicine in the world.
Facing the commander's anger, he could only endure it. He could not block the commander's face and tell him that there was something wrong with the battle plan he had made. In that case, the commander would definitely be even more angry.
The chief of staff came to the rescue in time and said: "Captain, the matter has come to this, there is no point in scolding."
"Although they did not complete the mission, most of the imperial army was saved."
"I suggest you let them go down to rest first, and then make plans after the other attacking force comes back."
The captain waved his hands and said nothing.
Saburo Nakata disappointed him so much that he didn't want to say a single unnecessary word to him.
Saburo Nakata was relieved and grateful to see the chief of staff. He took a long breath and left here quickly with his subordinates.
But he didn't go too far. He looked at the gate of the station from a distance and waited for another attacking force to come back.
If they complete their mission, comparing the two, it must be that there is a problem with their commanding ability. With the character of the captain, he will be punished lightly.
So now he was anxious to know the situation of the other unit, and even half expected that they would not complete the mission.
In that case, the captain would probably give up on pursuing the case. After all, wouldn't the law hold everyone accountable?
Half an hour later, it was completely dark, and when everyone was getting a little impatient, a fire finally appeared at the end of the road.
The captain who was resting in the tent rushed out quickly, raised his binoculars, and looked expectantly towards the end of the road.
Saburo Nakata was even more nervous than when he faced the commander just now, and he also raised his binoculars to look at the road.
"Captain, they also carried a lot of stretchers, several times more than ours." The subordinate next to Saburo Nakata whispered.
"They must have brought back the wounded from the Imperial Alliance Army." Saburo Nakata judged.
The tense nerves were obviously relieved than before.
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