More than twenty cavalrymen quickly dispersed. A dozen cavalrymen jumped off their horses, holding rifles in their hands. Their eyes widened and they looked around cautiously.
The remaining cavalry continued to ride on their horses, looking around vigilantly to prevent accidents.
"God is really helping me!" Li Hao shouted excitedly while hiding on the mountainside.
"If the Japs are gathered together, even if they are attacked at close range by the reconnaissance platoon, they may still be able to concentrate their forces and escape!"
"Now that the troops are so dispersed, the reconnaissance platoon can defeat them one by one and kill them before they can assemble without giving them a chance to escape!"
"boom……"
As soon as he finished speaking, gunfire rang out.
The cavalry captain on his horse fell to the ground in response, and was the first to be killed.
The other Japanese soldiers were shocked. Before they could react, gunshots like popping beans rang out around them.
The Japanese on horseback were the first to be attacked, and in the blink of an eye they were all down.
The vigilant Japanese around them wanted to fight back at first, but when they saw more and more people being beaten to death, their first subconscious reaction was to climb on their horses and run for their lives.
The speed is very fast, but no matter how fast it is, it is no match for bullets.
From the moment the first gunfire rang out, more than twenty Japanese were all dead in less than a minute.
"Collect the equipment on the war horses and the little devils immediately, and we will retreat!" Li Hao ordered decisively, with a smile on his face.
More than forty war horses, although today's independent battalion has become rich and powerful, it is still a big gain.
"Buzz buzz..."
As soon as I led the war horse into the forest, a faint roar came from the edge of the sky.
Li Hao's face suddenly turned pale, and he shouted with lingering fear: "It's a Japanese plane. This must be a secret move by Watanabe to deal with us. Fortunately, we retreated in time, otherwise all of us might be killed by the plane on the battlefield!"
After glancing at the increasingly dense forest around him, Li Hao was still uneasy and continued to order: "The troops will be divided into squads, and they will disperse and hide immediately!"
"Although we are in the woods, no one can guarantee whether there will be an accident!"
"After the troops are dispersed, even if bombs dropped from planes hit us, the losses to the troops will be minimized!"
The Japanese garrison headquarters of Lingqiu City, reinforcements and the Imperial Army protecting the city along the way have already entered the city in half an hour.
But Major Watanabe was not happy at all!
For these additional troops, my losses were too great. In terms of the number of casualties, it was even a bit outweighed by the gains.
The adjutant had been standing nearby for almost ten minutes, holding data on troop casualties and losses to report, but every time the words came to his lips, he swallowed them back.
On the surface, Watanabe just had a sullen face and said nothing.
But the adjutant knew that the captain at this moment was like a powder keg. Any spark could ignite the powder keg and then explode.
The adjutant did not want to be the spark that vented all the pent-up anger of the captain on himself.
Whatever it is afraid of, it will just come.
Watanabe suddenly broke the oppressive atmosphere of the headquarters, stared at the adjutant and asked.
"Tell me how many casualties the troops suffered!"
"Hi!"
The adjutant couldn't escape now even if he wanted to, so he could only answer bravely.
"Last night, the four-pronged attack force and the order troops lost a total of 338 people, all of whom were elites of the imperial army. The heavy weapons lost four heavy machine guns and four mortars!"
"Six Imperial Army companies along the highway were completely destroyed. A mobile company dispatched during the day was attacked by the Eighth Route Army and was severely damaged!"
"A total of 984 Imperial Army troops were lost, 118 Imperial Army troops were lost, six heavy machine guns and six mortars were lost in heavy weapons!"
"The reinforcements lost 114 members of the imperial army, including a full cavalry squad!"
"Although not much equipment was lost, all the horses of a cavalry squad were snatched away by the independent battalion!"
"The troops that just entered the county include 1,400 members of the Imperial Army, and more than 600 reinforcements!"
Watanabe asked with a murderous look on his face: "This means that the additional troops of the imperial army that just entered the city can just make up for our battle losses last night?"
The adjutant lowered his head and did not dare to look at Watanabe, and then comforted in a low voice: "We only lost more than 400 imperial troops last night, and more than 600 imperial troops entered the city. After making up for the losses, there are still more than 200 left.
people!"
"In addition, the reinforcements also brought us a large number of heavy weapons. With them, our mountain artillery squadron and mortar squadron can be formed again!"
"There is also a tank detachment, a total of six tanks. If they are allowed to join the mopping up operation against the Independent Battalion, we will not have to be afraid of them no matter how many heavy machine guns and mortars the Independent Battalion is equipped with!"
Watanabe's face did not become better, but became more and more solemn, and he cursed loudly.
"Do you think I'm a fool? Aren't the casualties of the Imperial Alliance Army a loss?"
"Don't forget, these Imperial Alliance troops were trained by us. We lost two battalions at a time. Without two months of replenishment and training, it is absolutely impossible to regain combat effectiveness!"
Seeing the adjutant lowering his head and saying nothing, and the dozen or so staff officers in the war room also tiptoeing around with fearful expressions, Watanabe calmed down!
After forcibly suppressing his anger, he shouted: "Don't worry, I haven't been blinded by anger yet, and I won't kill anyone to vent my anger!"
"We lost this time, and it was a disastrous defeat. But it is not your fault. If the special agent team had not provided us with wrong information, our losses would never have been so great."
"However, the defeat in this battle also gave me a new understanding of the Independence Battalion. It is definitely not as simple as we imagined!"
"If I'm not wrong, our understanding of the Independence Camp is still superficial!"
"Even some understandings and understandings are false. The independent camp deliberately released false information to confuse us!"
"Originally I thought that after the reinforcements arrived, we would only need half a month of integrated training to dispatch heavy troops to sweep the independent battalion base, kill them, and take revenge. Now it seems that before we really understand the independent battalion, this time of revenge
We have to push it back again!”
"At the same time, we ourselves must continue to hide our capabilities and bide our time and accumulate strength!"
"Order, the headquarters will immediately formulate a plan to replenish the troops as soon as possible to ensure that the imperial army in Lingqiu City has at least five infantry squadrons, one cavalry squadron, one mortar squadron, one heavy machine gun squadron, one mountain artillery squadron, and one
Gendarmerie, a tank detachment!"
"Order the Imperial Alliance Army to recruit troops immediately to replace all six lost companies. The command headquarters will redeploy the Imperial Army into the Imperial Alliance Army to train and control troops!"
"The secret service team will not be able to escape responsibility this time. All officers above the squad will be shot! I will contact the general as soon as possible and draw people directly from the special high school to help us replenish the secret service team!"
"From now on, all officers in the Lingqiu garrison below me must remember the shame brought to us by the Independent Battalion, train the troops well, and wait for our revenge in the future!"
At the Hongquan Village Independent Battalion Headquarters, Li Hao had more than 100 people when he set out, and more than 700 people when he came back, and he also brought back a large number of light and heavy weapons.
Before they even reached the entrance of the village, instructor Wang Hong and Hong Linfeng came out to greet them.
"Battal Commander, how did you do it? I didn't believe it when I first heard the report, but now I believe it. Why did you bring back so many prisoners and seizures!" Wang Hong shouted excitedly as soon as he saw Li Hao.
.
"This is what is left after a lot of seizures!" Li Hao replied with a smile.
"Several district squads and guerrillas who cooperated with our operations all contributed a lot. When we divided the troops, I provided them with all the weapons and ammunition they lacked, and almost 400 rifles were taken away!"
"Hiss... so much!"
Wang Hong took a breath and shouted.
"Our Eighth Route Army, that is, the battalion commander, you are so generous and equip the guerrillas with such good rifles! But I agree, they really contributed a lot to the fact that we were able to kill so many little Japs this time!"
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