Seeing that his subordinates were all staring at him, the captain scolded him with a tone of hatred: "Bageya Road, what are you doing here? Are you waiting to die? You can't even do something as simple as continuing to reinforce Wushan'ao.
Understand what I want you officers to do."
The chief of staff quickly comforted him: "Sir, calm down!"
"The incident happened suddenly and the time was short. We certainly didn't respond as quickly as you, sir."
"If you don't understand this issue, everyone will have many concerns when executing orders, which will not be conducive to the next battle."
"So I hope that the chief can explain it to everyone so that everyone can rest assured."
"Baga!" the captain cursed helplessly.
If in normal times, if he saw so many subordinates questioning his orders, the commander of the regiment would definitely scare the monkeys, teach these people a lesson, and at the same time establish his supremacy in the regiment.
Not today.
These subordinates in front of me are the future of the alliance. At the critical moment of the alliance's life and death, everyone is crucial. Losing one person will make me heartbroken for a long time.
The Chief of Staff is right. The next battle is too important. If everyone is worried about their orders, they will definitely not be so decisive in executing them. During the battle, a large number of fighter opportunities will be missed, and the gains will not be worth the losses.
Thinking of this, although the captain was very dissatisfied, he still patiently explained: "Who can tell me how many people are left in the entire mopping up force, and how many people can successfully break out according to our combat plan? I only need approximate data.
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The chief of staff was most familiar with the situation on the battlefield. He thought for a moment and replied: "After the attack just now, there should be more than 3,000 troops on the battlefield."
"We analyze based on the worst-case scenario. We only break out half of the encirclement, leaving about 1,600 to 1,700 people."
The captain nodded in agreement and continued to ask.
"Let's calculate based on 1,700 people, how many imperial troops and imperial alliance troops there are among these people."
The Chief of Staff did not hesitate much about this question and answered readily: "Under normal circumstances, the Imperial Army accounts for two-thirds and the Imperial Alliance Army accounts for one-third."
"This is a breakout battle after all. The Imperial Army's physical strength and fighting will are definitely inferior to the Imperial Army's. There must be many people who fell behind halfway through the breakout, or surrendered directly to the Eighth Route Army."
"The current troops are divided equally between the Imperial Army and the Imperial Association Army. There will definitely be more Imperial Army troops than the Imperial Association Army that can successfully break through."
"Let's calculate it based on 1,200 people, which is exactly the strength of a full infantry brigade." The commander of the regiment did not waste any nonsense on this issue and analyzed it readily.
"More than a thousand imperial troops and more than 400 imperial alliance troops will definitely return the same way after giving up reinforcing Wushan'ao, and then be ordered to withdraw from the garrison base."
"Judging from the frequency and scale of attacks we have received in the past few days, there are still many members of the Eighth Route Army operating around us."
"With our strength alone, can we safely withdraw from the garrison base? Who can give me a guarantee? This issue must not have been considered by anyone."
"It will be different if we continue to reinforce Wushan'ao."
"No matter whether we can severely damage the Eighth Route Army there, as long as we kill them, the Eighth Route Army will definitely withdraw."
"The remaining strength of the breakout force's Jiadong Road mopping up force must be three to four thousand people."
"It is definitely safer for two troops to join forces and evacuate the garrison base area than to evacuate alone with more than a thousand people."
"As for what you should do if you are worried that the reinforcements will be ambushed next?"
"I can make a very firm judgment: your worries are all unnecessary."
"In order to deal with us, the garrison regiment even dispatched heavy artillery, tanks, and cavalry."
"If there are still troops, they will definitely ambush here and attack us together with heavy artillery, tanks, and cavalry. The results of this battle will definitely be much greater than setting up another ambush battlefield."
"So I am sure: as long as the troops successfully break through and evacuate here, they will be safe."
"You can safely and boldly continue to reinforce Wushan'ao."
The chief of staff was the first to react. He glanced at his thoughtful subordinates and loudly ordered: "What are you waiting for here? Go and prepare for a breakout."
"The sooner we break out, the more soldiers we can survive, the greater our regiment's hope."
After the Japanese military headquarters in Taiyuan learned that the East Road mopping up troops were besieged by the garrison, the military commander stayed in the war room without rest.
Just when he could no longer hold on any longer, the deputy chief of staff hurried in, very anxious.
Even a fool can tell from his expression that something happened on the front line, and the commander of the unit was no exception. He quickly asked: "Did something happen to the reinforcements?"
"Hi!" The deputy chief of staff strode to the sand table, pointed at Pingshui Town and reported: "The reinforcements were raided by the Eighth Route Army in Pingshui Town, and the troops suffered heavy casualties."
"Pingshui Town, this is impossible!" the army commander shouted with disbelief.
Several staff officers also showed incredibly shocked expressions.
The military commander did not plan to speak to the deputy chief of staff at all, and continued: "I would believe you if you said they were attacked in other places, but it is impossible in Pingshui Town."
"The terrain there is flat and there is not even a place to hide people. How could the Eighth Route Army ambush them?"
The deputy chief of staff finally got a chance to speak and quickly replied: "The infantry really can't fight an ambush there, so the Eighth Route Army did not dispatch infantry, and they don't have that many infantry available."
"The reinforcements reported: They were attacked by long-range artillery fire from the heavy artillery battalion of the garrison in Pingshui Town, causing heavy losses to the troops."
"When the troops were avoiding artillery fire, the tank troops of the garrison suddenly appeared. More than a dozen armored vehicles and dozens of armed vehicles divided into four groups and attacked them under the cover of heavy artillery."
"During the raid, the cavalry troops also appeared and attacked their artillery positions from the flanks to reduce the offensive pressure on the chariot troops. The reinforcements suffered heavy losses."
"Neither frontal force nor normal retreat can stop the joint attack of the Eighth Route Army's tanks, heavy artillery and cavalry."
"In order to reduce casualties, they decided to divide their forces to break out and kill as many as they could."
"The surviving soldiers will gather outside the battlefield and then continue to reinforce Wushan'ao."
The commander's face changed drastically, and the scene of the reinforcements being attacked immediately appeared in his mind.
First there was a heavy artillery bombardment, which disrupted the troops and then the tanks attacked. If they encountered rapid-fire artillery, the cavalry flanked them and attacked the artillery positions.
The three armies cooperated with each other, covering each other, and gradually killed and eroded the strength of the reinforcements.
The reinforcements only have two legs and cannot outrun the chariots and cavalry.
If the troops retreat normally, the chariots and cavalry will chase the retreating troops like ducks. The retreat can easily turn into a huge rout, and by then even the gods will be unable to save it.
Splitting your forces to break out is definitely the best option.
Some soldiers were hunted down, holding back the garrison's limited chariots and cavalry units.
The remaining soldiers can take the opportunity to escape...
The more the commander thought about it, the paler his face became. He punched the sand table with his fist and cursed angrily: "Bagya Road, I didn't expect that an ambush battle could be fought like this. This garrison is really extraordinary."
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