The city gate shrouded in darkness suddenly opened, and more than twenty Japanese messengers poured out and gathered around a lieutenant.
"Sir's order: Find the four-pronged attack force at all costs and let them withdraw from the Independent Battalion base area unconditionally and return to the county seat!"
"You guys go to Laoshu Village...you guys go to the second team..."
"Let's set off now. If the horse dies, run with both legs and deliver the order at all costs!"
"Yes, captain!" More than twenty orderlies replied at the same time.
"Set off……"
"Rumble..." As soon as the order was given, the sound of horse hooves sounded at the city gate.
The Japanese messenger troops were divided into four and soon disappeared into the vast night.
Inside the headquarters, Major Watanabe's face became increasingly ugly. The messengers had been setting off for nearly an hour, and no one had returned yet.
You must know that they ride horses to give orders. Under normal circumstances, they can cover 30 kilometers in an hour. They can enter the independent camp to follow underground orders and then bring the news back.
But they seemed to have disappeared, disappearing completely.
"Report……"
The deputy captain of the special agent team suddenly rushed to the door of the war room, breathing heavily and looking nervous.
Tian Chengzhi was worried about whether his life could be saved. He was sweating profusely and didn't react for a long time.
Watanabe was worried that no news had come back from the messenger. He subconsciously thought that the secret service team had brought back news. Regardless of whether the other party could understand it, he shouted at the door: "Come in, has there been news from the Independence Camp base?"
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"Yes...yes...Taijun!" The vice-captain faced Watanabe directly for the first time. He was very nervous and stammered when he spoke!
"Tell me quickly, what happened in the Independence Battalion base? Why didn't any of the messengers sent by the imperial army come back? Why did the four-pronged attack force disappear without a trace? There is no news!"
The deputy captain quickly replied: "We had an intelligence officer in Laoshu Village who escaped. He met the main force of the Independent Battalion on the way to the county seat, and also found a large number of corpses of imperial soldiers on the road. After interrogation, it was found that he should be the emperor.
There are more than 40 troops in total who attacked the Independent Company’s headquarters!”
"The reinforcement team of the Imperial Army attacking the independent company's station was killed? And it was the main force of the independent battalion that did it?" Watanabe asked with a pair of big eyes and a look of disbelief on his face.
This news is really shocking!
The reason why he dared to send troops to attack the Independent Battalion base area was because their base area was empty of troops and the main troops had been transferred away.
If I remember correctly, I also received information about the main force of the independent battalion yesterday afternoon.
Aren't they not at the base area, preparing to sneak attack on the imperial reinforcements at dozens of attack positions from the base area? Why are they back at the base area?
"Did they give up the sneak attack on our reinforcements, return to the base within a few hours, and then ambush the attacking troops they sent out?" Watanabe thought for a long time before he came up with such a plausible reason.
"Impossible!" Major Watanabe rejected this reason himself.
"They are not gods, they do not have wings, and we have our people watching them. There is no way they can travel dozens of kilometers in a few hours to return to the base!"
Speaking of this, Watanabe suddenly thought of a terrible situation, and his face turned pale.
"In other words, the main force of the independent battalion never left their base area. The main force we followed were all fake. The independent battalion pretended to be local troops and guerrillas. The main force was always hiding in the base area, just waiting.
Follow our attack troops to rush in, and then gather together to rape them!"
"That must be the case!" The adjutant also reacted at this time.
"Sir, the Independent Battalion is too cunning. Not only were they vigilant during the entire march, they also marched day and night. Our people can only watch. If they try to change the prince's position with a civet cat, our people really won't notice.
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"It's over!" Watanabe's face turned paler and he shouted with a look of despair.
"If the main force of the independent battalion is really hiding in their base, our four-pronged attack force must have been killed by them!"
Having said this, Watanabe seemed to have thought of something and shouted with regret.
"No, the messenger we sent out an hour ago is also dead!"
"They have too few troops and are very scattered. Even if they encounter local troops of the Eighth Route Army, it will be difficult to escape, let alone the main force of the independent battalion!"
"Bageya Road, we have to give away more than 20 war horses from the Independent Battalion for free!"
After dawn, Watanabe was completely desperate.
Bad news kept coming back in the past hour.
Although the intelligence network of the Special High School in the Independence Camp base area has suffered a devastating blow, it is inevitable that some fish will slip through the net.
As they returned to the county town one after another, the scattered news they brought back allowed Watanabe to slowly figure out what happened in the Independence Camp base last night.
"Bagaya Road, this matter is a conspiracy from beginning to end!" Watanabe yelled.
"We have been fooled from the beginning, but not only do we not know, but we are also complacent, thinking that everything is in our calculation, which is really ridiculous!"
The adjutant said bravely: "Sir, our losses have been calculated!"
"The four reinforced teams were completely destroyed, with a total strength of 315, and all were killed in the battle."
"There are 26 messengers sent out later, and they are all dead. Everyone comes back!"
"In addition, we also lost four heavy machine guns, four mortars, 12 light machine guns, 12 grenade launchers, 213 rifles and more than 30,000 rounds of various bullets!"
"If the reinforcements cannot reach Lingqiu safely today, we will have no heavy weapons available!"
Watanabe's face was full of anger, but he did not lose his mind.
Suddenly shouted: "Reinforcements, the reinforcements given to us by our superiors must not cause any more problems!"
"Originally, we thought that after the reinforcements arrived, we would have enough troops and heavy weapons to sweep away the independent battalion base area. But now that the reinforcements have not arrived, we ourselves have lost more than 300 people, and they are all veterans!"
"The ebb and flow of one directly means that even if all the reinforcements arrive at Lingqiu, our strength will be greatly reduced!"
"If something happens to the reinforcements again, their arrival won't even be able to make up for our losses last night, let alone increase our strength!"
"Contact the reinforcements immediately and ask them to be on guard!"
"The remaining cavalry of the cavalry squadron will set off now and tell the Imperial Army troops deployed along the line to guard the road!"
"From now on, I will shoot anyone who has problems with the highway they are defending!"
"And the special agent team, haven't you trained a lot of action teams? Captain Tian, give me a chance to atone for my sins. You personally lead the team to attack, find those who pretend to be the main force of the independent battalion, and kill them!"
"They are the ones who caused us to lose more than 300 imperial troops in vain. I will cut their corpses into thousands of pieces and bury them with the imperial warriors who died in battle!"
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