As soon as Li Hao directed the prisoners to set up the heavy machine guns and mortars, the reconnaissance platoon leader Chen Wei rushed over, breathing heavily.
"Batalion Commander, the Japanese are coming!"
"Why so fast?"
Li Hao's brows instantly wrinkled and he asked with a puzzled look on his face.
"This place is at least seven kilometers away from the mountain top by road. It would take an hour for the Japanese to march in a hurry. If I remember correctly, it only took us half an hour to walk on the small road!"
Chen Wei quickly replied: "The main force of the Japs didn't come, but the cavalry came. There were more than forty cavalry in total. They fired their guns when they encountered the high ground on the hilltops, and they even sent people to investigate!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a guerrilla captain also rushed over.
"Captain Wang, didn't I ask you to keep an eye on the remaining two dogs from the front? Why are you here!"
Li Hao asked with a frown, a bad feeling coming to his mind.
"Report to the battalion commander, there is a situation ahead!" the guerrilla leader quickly replied.
"The puppet troops have been coming towards us in the past two hundred days!"
"They discovered that the Japanese and puppet troops on the hill in front had been killed by us, and then they immediately separated a platoon and five or six Japanese soldiers to reoccupy the place. The remaining Japanese and puppet troops did not stop and continued to attack here!"
"It will be faster if I take the small road. According to their marching speed, I can get here in twenty minutes at most!"
Li Hao quickly reacted: "This old devil Watanabe must have guessed our fighting method and purpose. This battle can't be fought. We must retreat and relocate immediately!"
"Is there really no chance at all?" Chen Wei asked with a hint of unwillingness.
"We just killed a reinforced Japanese squad in the battle. If we kill so many more people here, Lingqiu City will lose one infantry squadron. When they attack and suppress us in the future, the troops will lose the pressure of one squadron!"
Li Hao sighed and replied: "I know what you said. This is why I traveled dozens of kilometers to come here to attack the Japanese reinforcements, but now the chance of a sneak attack is gone!"
"It is impossible for us to avoid enemy detection. Once the target is exposed, the raid will turn into an encounter. Even if we win in the end, it will be a loss for both sides and the gain will not be worth the loss!"
"You are the elite of our independent battalion. You are the troops who deliver a fatal blow to the Japs at the critical moment. You are not engaged in a war of attrition with the Japs!"
"Also, now that Watanabe has figured out the purpose and method of our combat, no one can guarantee whether he has other secret operations that we don't know about!"
"We can't afford to gamble. If we lose, the whole army may be destroyed, so we must retreat immediately!"
"However, don't be angry. Until now, we have overfulfilled our mission. Even if we retreat, we will not lose anything!"
"Moreover, I don't intend to leave empty-handed!"
Chen Wei was the first to react and asked with gleaming eyes: "Battalion Commander, do you want to give the little devil a hard blow before you leave?"
"The main force has no chance to make a sneak attack, so we will attack their forward cavalry force!" Li Hao did not hide anything.
"There are more than forty cavalrymen and more than forty war horses. They are all good things that we can't buy with money. Now that the little devil has been delivered to our mouths, we must eat them!"
"The district team will retreat immediately with the prisoners and heavy weapons. First move to the mountains behind, and we will return to the base after dark!"
"The reconnaissance platoon and the guard platoon will set off now to meet the Japanese cavalry team. I will go there with you. We will try to end the battle within twenty minutes, and then withdraw into the mountains with the capture!"
"The commandos attacked the advancing Imperial Army in the opposite direction, tried to hold them off for twenty minutes, and then quickly broke away from contact and retreated into the mountains. They could not stay for more than a minute!"
"Get started now!"
"Rumble..."
As soon as the troops separated, the sound of horse hoofbeats reached Li Hao's ears.
The battle was about to break out, and it was definitely impossible to choose the battlefield again. Li Hao made the decision with a frown.
"We'll kill them right here!"
"The guard platoon followed me down the mountain, and we stopped the frontal attack halfway up the mountain. The Japanese will definitely stop to investigate this hilltop to ensure safety. Our task is to drag them here to buy time for the reconnaissance platoon!"
"Chen Wei, you lead the reconnaissance platoon around the enemy's flanks and behind them, and launch a surprise attack at close range. We will attack them from the front and back to kill them!"
The Japanese cavalry came in force, and wherever the horses' hooves touched, dust flew up and covered the road.
When they were still nearly five hundred meters away from the road, the cavalry suddenly stopped, their movements uniform and well-trained.
When the dust that shrouded them cleared, the figures of more than forty cavalry were completely exposed in front of Li Hao.
"Battal Commander, why did the Japs stop so far away? We can't hit them with the guns in our hands!" the platoon leader of the guard complained with a puzzled look on his face.
Li Hao replied seriously: "The Japanese are very cautious. They are trying to prevent us from ambushing them!"
"At a distance of five hundred meters, even if we are equipped with heavy machine guns, it will be difficult to threaten them!"
"Don't worry, their mission is to ensure the safety of the entire highway. They will definitely send people over to investigate this hilltop!"
After waiting for less than a minute, the stopped cavalry moved.
But instead of charging directly, a dozen cavalrymen separated from their horses, rifles in hand, and rushed towards here on foot.
Everyone knows that cavalry is good at assault but not good at attacking. This is common sense in military affairs.
Abandoning war horses and using cavalry as infantry is undoubtedly the best way to solve the problem of cavalry's poor attack skills.
"The Japanese are more cautious than we thought!" Li Hao replied seriously.
But soon a sneer flashed across the corner of his mouth: "However, not only did their caution not help them today, but they also gave us a big advantage!"
"Just now I was worried that the little devil would urge the war horses to attack, and we would accidentally injure the war horses when we fought. Now there is no need to worry, we can fight as we want!"
Then he turned to the platoon leader next to him and ordered: "Let everyone be ready. Put the Japs closer and then fire!"
"There are a total of thirteen little Japs, one machine gun team, use one round of firepower to kill them all!"
"Go and make arrangements. Get rid of the machine gunners. The riflemen will be responsible for two Japs per squad. Make sure there are four or five people watching each Japs. Don't mess it up. Repeat the shooting. Try to hit them all with one hit.
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"Bang... da da da..."
As soon as a row of rifles with long ends in their hands fired, the familiar sound of firing with crooked handles rang in their ears.
In less than two seconds, a dozen or so Japanese soldiers scattered on the ground forty meters away.
"Baga, there is the main force of the Eighth Route Army on the mountain!" the Japanese cavalry squad leader shouted with his mouth open and a look of shock on his face.
"It must be the Eighth Route Army that attacked us just now, otherwise it would be impossible to have such strong firepower." A second lieutenant next to him affirmed.
"They definitely want to repeat their old tricks here and pretend to be the Imperial Army to attack us! Sir, what should we do?"
The team leader replied solemnly: "We have no heavy weapons and few troops, so we will definitely not be able to attack the mountain!"
"The troops are dispersed and on alert, and we will keep an eye on the mountain here. If they retreat, we will take the opportunity to occupy them. If they do not retreat, we will wait until the main force arrives to deal with them!"
"The main force has artillery, and planes will come to reinforce us soon. Even if they explode, they can blow up all the Eighth Route Army troops on the mountain!"
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