Chapter 213 The main force of the regiment is back?
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Before launching the attack on Yamaguchi, the Japanese and puppet troops marched continuously for five or six hours and were very tired. Only then did they withdraw from the battlefield and rest.
The guerrillas are much better, staying in position and waiting for work.
The physical exertion will definitely be much less.
In addition, the morale of the Japanese and puppet troops was low after the defeat, and the guerrillas had high morale and were familiar with the terrain in the mountains.
It was destined to be very difficult for the Japanese and puppet troops to escape the pursuit of the guerrillas.
"Captain, the Japanese and puppet troops have begun to retreat again, leaving behind a company!" Hong Linfeng, who was rushing to the front, reported excitedly.
"What a plan!" Li Hao replied with a smile on his face.
"The enemy is going to lose their vehicles to save their troops. Let this infantry company hold us back and buy time for their main force!"
After saying that, he stared at Hong Linfeng and asked: "What is the infantry company behind you doing now?"
"Deploy positions, organize defenses on the spot, and build ring fortifications!" Hong Linfeng replied.
Li Hao's eyes lit up and he replied: "It seems that this puppet army already knows that they have become an abandoned son, and they don't want to die here!"
"The forest is so big, they have only one way to hold us back: come over immediately and strangle us together. But they didn't do that. Instead, they put on a defensive posture, obviously not wanting to give up the main force of their Japanese and puppet troops.
And fight us tooth and nail!"
"Since we don't want to die, let's keep them!"
"Hong Linfeng, I will give you a machine gun squad and a platoon, plus the troops brought by Company Commander Huang, to surround these puppet troops and ask Company Commander Huang to take action and force them to surrender!"
"The others followed me to bypass them and continue to chase the retreating Japanese and puppet troops."
"boom……"
Violent grenade explosions resounded in the darkened forest, and then a burst of screams came from the forward troops of the Japanese and puppet troops.
One of the three puppet soldiers was dead and two were injured. They were lying on the ground, covering their wounds and screaming in pain.
"Stop advancing, be on alert..." The platoon leader of the Sixth Company felt nervous and shouted subconsciously.
The surrounding area was pitch black, and he didn't know if the Eighth Route Army's pursuing troops were coming to kill him.
Half a minute later, he didn't wait for gunshots to be fired around him, but he did wait for the scolding of group leader Zhou Yunian.
"Why did the troops stop advancing? Don't you know that if we stay in the woods for one more minute, we will be in more danger?" Zhou Yunian rushed over and asked the platoon leader.
"But, sir, there are booby traps ahead, and I'm worried that the Eighth Route Army is ambushing me around!" the platoon leader hesitated and argued.
"A booby trap scared you like this. I think you are a stupid pig. The Eighth Route Army is clearly chasing behind us, how could it run in front of us and ambush us! The booby traps must have been placed by some stragglers of the Eighth Route Army. Don't worry about them.
Let's move on and rush out of the forest as quickly as possible!" Zhou Yunian first cursed and then ordered.
After stopping, the Japanese and puppet troops moved again.
But because of the explosion just now, the tired team was obviously a little more nervous.
"boom……"
After marching less than 500 meters, the explosion sounded again, and the booby trap was detonated in the forward troops.
The platoon leader did not order the troops to stop this time, but directed the troops to continue moving around the explosion point.
"Boom boom..."
After taking a few steps, two booby traps were detonated in succession.
The violent explosion suddenly caused four more casualties to the forward platoon.
In addition to the previous losses, one-third of the strength of an infantry squad has been lost.
The platoon leader hesitated again. The troops suffered too many casualties. Looking at the dark forest in front of him, he didn't know whether to continue moving forward.
"Da da da……"
This time he did not wait for the scolding from the regiment leader Zhou Yunian. The sound of machine gun fire suddenly sounded from deep in the forest interrupted his thoughts.
"If you don't kill me if you turn down your gun, you are already surrounded!"
"Comrades, come with me~"
Cries of death and gunshots suddenly rang out in front of the team, and then they saw their subordinates being killed by bullets flying from the surrounding woods.
"Retreat, there is an ambush from the Eighth Route Army ahead! The firepower is so fierce, and it appears in front of us again, it must not be the Eighth Route Army pursuers in the mountains, but their main force coming back!" the platoon leader subconsciously shouted.
The instinct to save his life reminded him of the main force of the regiment. There were many people in the main force of the regiment, and the chance of survival with them was definitely higher than with a lone army.
"Comrades, attack and annihilate all the Japanese and puppet troops who enter the mountain. Kill them!"
At this moment, an Eighth Route Army army also appeared in the woods on their flank.
The forest was pitch dark, and the platoon leader couldn't see how many Eighth Route Army soldiers were coming towards him, but the bullets fired were very dense, and at least three machine guns fired at them.
The platoon leader was more certain of his judgment just now and shouted anxiously.
"It must be the main force of the Eighth Route Army. Their main force has come back from outside the mountain... Retreat immediately. If we don't run away, we will be surrounded~"
The Eighth Route Army troops coming from the flanks and directly in front seemed not to let him go, chasing after him and beating him.
Soldiers were constantly being killed by the bullets that were chasing after them, and they fell screaming in the woods.
Zhou Yunian's face turned pale with shock. He also didn't know how many Eighth Route Army soldiers were attacking him, but the intensive gunfire made him feel that the crisis was approaching him step by step.
As a veteran, he was certain that at least six light machine guns were firing around the forward troops.
I only had one light machine gun for a company that worked for the Japanese. The Eighth Route Army was notoriously poor in equipment, so the number of light machine guns was definitely even smaller.
But now as many as six troops suddenly appeared, Zhou Yunian's first subconscious reaction was that the main force of the Eighth Route Army had returned.
"Team leader, there are a lot of Eighth Route Army troops coming out in front, which is their main force, and they are charging towards us. The forward line has been finished, and we are stuck here!" the platoon leader shouted as he rushed over.
"Are you sure this is the main force of the Eighth Route Army!" Zhou Yunian asked with the last glimmer of hope.
"Sure!" the platoon leader confirmed.
"Directly in front and on the flanks are all Eighth Route Army troops. Although they cannot be seen, the machine gun bullets fired are all real, otherwise the forward platoon would not have been wiped out by them!"
Hearing the sound of gunshots getting closer and closer, the chief of staff next to him became anxious and quickly reminded him.
"Commander, we must make a decision immediately. If the main force of the Eighth Route Army really comes back, we will be surrounded by them soon!"
"You can't see your fingers in the forest. The Eighth Route Army is good at night fighting and mountain fighting. If it comes to that, we will definitely be wiped out here!"
Zhou Yunian had a solemn look on his face, and after a brief hesitation he made a decision: "Break through, disperse and break out!"
"While the Eighth Route Army had not yet surrounded us, the troops immediately dispersed to break out of the encirclement, and then divided their forces to withdraw from the mountains and meet at the Hongquan Village stronghold."
"The woods are so big that you can't even see your fingers. Even if the main force of the Eighth Route Army comes back, they can only stare at a few of our breakout troops, but they can't catch all of our breakout troops!"
"Just do it like this, use platoon as a unit, disperse and break out!"
In the woods more than a hundred meters away, except for the machine gunners who kept shooting at the Japanese and puppet troops, the remaining riflemen were running around, shouting slogans at the top of their lungs, as if the main force was coming back.
"Captain, the Japanese and puppet troops have really dispersed and broken through!" Zhao Wen, the third platoon leader, rushed over and reported with excitement.
Fire Platoon Chen Bing's eyes lit up and he added: "Captain, our bluff has been achieved!"
Li Hao also had a smile on his face: "More than 200 Japanese and puppet troops marched in a group. They were too strong and we couldn't even attack them. A normal sneak attack would only kill a few of them, which is not cost-effective. The only way is to force them."
By dividing our troops, we have the opportunity to defeat them one by one and maximize the results!"
"You haven't forgotten the plan just now, right? Zhao Wen, you bring two machine guns, a rifle group, and a grenade group to keep an eye on the Japanese and puppet troops. Chen Bing, you also bring two machine guns, a rifle group, and a grenade group.
Keep an eye on the puppet troops, and the others will follow me!"
"We won't kill people if we can. By killing these three puppet troops, we are equivalent to killing a company, and the enemy will only have one more company left."
"We will fight if we still have a chance. If we don't have a chance, we won't lose."
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