"Da da da... bang bang..." Another series of gunshots sounded in the forest.
"Ah... Baga..." The screams of the Japanese spread.
The two Japanese soldiers who carried a stretcher with weapons fell to the ground with faces of pain. Each of them had several bloody holes in their body, and the blood poured out like a fountain. In the blink of an eye, they were silent.
This was the fourth stretcher attacked by the Japanese army within an hour after dark, and without exception, these stretchers were all carrying weapons and ammunition.
No one of the Japanese soldiers protecting them paid attention to the weapons and ammunition scattered on the ground. Everyone gritted their teeth and continued to move forward with all their strength.
But the soldiers who were still carrying the stretcher in front and behind panicked.
Nearly an hour passed, and they had already seen some clues from several sneak attacks.
The elusive Eighth Route Army must have taken a fancy to the extra weapons and ammunition provided by the troops, otherwise they would not have stared at the stretchers specially designed to carry weapons and ammunition.
Dozens of Japs carrying weapons and ammunition saw that they were intact after the gunfire rang out. Their first thought was to be grateful that they were still alive, and at the same time pray that the Eighth Route Army would not target them during the subsequent march.
The huge psychological pressure is definitely not something that ordinary people can bear.
"Da da da……"
The Eighth Route Army's sneak attack began again, and the two soldiers carrying weapons screamed and fell to the ground.
At this time, a soldier finally couldn't bear the pressure in his heart, and he exploded.
He threw the stretcher on the ground and ran forward.
"Stop carrying them. The Eighth Route Army must have taken a fancy to these weapons and ammunition. If we continue to carry them, all of us will be killed by the Eighth Route Army!"
"The captain just said that our lives are more important than weapons, and we cannot lose our lives here for these weapons.
The team leader did not speak, using silence to express his acquiescence in this statement.
The soldiers who were killed just now were all his subordinates. According to this casualty rate, when the troops come out of the mountains, my team will definitely suffer heavy casualties.
In his eyes, even if his subordinates were to die, they should die vigorously on the battlefield, instead of being shot to death for these weapons without even knowing what their opponents looked like.
Therefore, he is more anxious and under greater psychological pressure than his subordinates. He wants to break the situation and change the situation before him more than anyone else.
What this soldier said was undoubtedly an order that he wanted to say but could not.
The captain of the brigade has ordered that the extra weapons and ammunition from the troops must be taken out.
If you give an order to give up weapons and ammunition, you will be disobeying military orders, and you will not be able to explain it to the captain regardless of emotion or reason.
But in the middle of chaos, I gave up those weapons and ammunition, and the Eighth Route Army sneak attack troops were chasing closely, and I couldn't stop them, so it made sense.
The other little Japs carrying the stretcher were not stupid. Their eyes lit up and they threw away the stretcher, then ran forward with their rifles on their backs.
"We've made a fortune... Platoon leader, we've made a fortune. The Japs actually threw all the extra weapons and ammunition to us. We definitely got a big deal~" Hong Linfeng looked at the bundles of weapons thrown away by the Japs on the mountain road.
A pair of eyes became hot at that moment.
"The Japanese are very smart. Between the lives of soldiers and weapons and ammunition, they chose the lives of soldiers!" Li Hao replied.
"According to the speed of our sneak attack, these equipment and ammunition will fall into our hands sooner or later. Rather than being snatched by us bit by bit and killing dozens of their soldiers piecemeal, it is better to give up on our own initiative, so that they can save at least dozens of them.
Soldiers’ lives!”
"Then should we continue to stick to them and fight?" Hong Linfeng asked immediately.
"Fight...of course we have to fight...didn't you see that the little devil gave up only rifles and bullets, not even a crooked weapon?"
"Let's continue chasing and see if we can get back two crooked things~"
At the Japanese garrison in Hongquan Village, the regimental commander was stunned when he saw the brigade captain carrying the seriously wounded back in a state of embarrassment. The team was more than half short.
In his opinion, the third group's attack should be a must-win battle.
But the result was exactly the opposite. Not only did he lose the battle, he also lost his troops and suffered heavy casualties.
Looking at the captain with his head lowered in front of him, the co-captain had the idea of chopping him up alive and was very dissatisfied.
After a long time, he asked: "Is this the reason for your failure?"
"The Eighth Route Army is too cunning and elusive. We don't understand their fighting methods~"
"I think you are a stupid pig. Your whole command is completely stupid and you don't know how to be flexible. The reason why the troops suffered so many casualties is that your command errors and underestimation of the enemy account for a large part!"
"Hi!" the captain replied, lowering his head.
He didn't dare to make any excuses or explain himself when he was at the top of the official hierarchy.
Whether you can keep your position as captain depends on how your co-captain handles you next.
He is already very angry, and explaining sophistry might only anger him further and increase the punishment on himself, which is not worth the gain.
So the wisest thing to do is to treat yourself as a child who has made a mistake. No matter what the co-leader says, he will accept it with his head down.
The captain was lucky, his position was finally saved, but he became the acting captain.
As long as he can achieve two military exploits in the future, there will be no problem in being reinstated.
Seeing that the captain's anger had subsided a lot, the captain who had suppressed his anger immediately asked for help.
"Sir, I can't swallow this sigh of relief. This encirclement and suppression cannot be abandoned like this!"
"On the way back from Beizi, I have been thinking about why I failed. In addition to the reasons you just mentioned, sir, I think there is another factor!"
"We went into the mountains without carrying heavy weapons!"
"If we had brought mountain artillery and mortars with us and faced the civil bunkers built by the Eighth Route Army, we would not have been able to fight back and suffered heavy casualties, losing more than a hundred imperial troops in a row!"
"Captain, please give me another chance. I will take a heavy machine gun platoon, a mortar team, and a mountain artillery team to re-enter the mountains. I will definitely be able to kill the remaining Eighth Route Army in the forest in one battle and save the lives of the Imperial Army who died in the battle."
revenge!"
"There's no time!" The commander was moved, but after hesitating for a few seconds, he still took out a telegram to express his refusal.
"This is a telegram just sent from Shangfeng!"
"The main force of the Eighth Route Army we are looking for went south and did not escape."
"In just a few days, they killed two of our infantry squadrons through ambushes and surprise attacks!"
"Compared with the Eighth Route Army in the mountains, the main force of the Eighth Route Army going south is the real thorn in the side."
"Shangfeng requires us to go south immediately to encircle and suppress the main force of the Eighth Route Army there!"
The captain asked with a look of reluctance: "What about the Eighth Route Army here?"
"Leave it to the local garrison for encirclement and suppression!" the commander of the regiment replied.
"I have contacted Shangfeng and assigned a garrison squadron to be stationed here to block the mountain pass and prevent the Eighth Route Army from coming out of the mountain. I will trap them inside the mountain. When there is no food supply, they will naturally come out and then kill them.
them!"
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