Another explosion reached the ears of the armored squadron leader.
Looking out through the shooting hole, the squadron leader's face turned pale.
Not far away, an armored vehicle was parked motionless next to a bomb crater. A raging fire was burning in the front of the vehicle, illuminating the surrounding area.
The squadron leader's dream was shattered, and he no longer had any idea of luck. He hurriedly ordered: "Stop all armored vehicles. There are mines in front of them. Keep moving forward. All our armored vehicles will be responsible for this."
"Contact the battalion leader immediately and request artillery support. I will use artillery shells to blast a passage out of the minefield, and then cover the troops to reinforce the battlefield."
When the Japanese and puppet troops were stationed, seeing the reinforcements stopped halfway, Watanabe couldn't hold back and began to curse on the spot.
"Bageya Road, are they all pigs? Don't they know that the reinforcements are in danger? Why don't they go over to reinforce them?"
"Immediately give orders to the reinforcements. I want them to reinforce the battlefield at all costs!"
Before the adjutant could move, a lieutenant rushed over and solved Watanabe's inner doubts and confusion.
"Sir, the Eighth Route Army has laid mines in front of us. The armored squadron covering the assault has lost two armored vehicles. If we advance further, the losses will definitely be greater!"
"Our captain requested artillery support and used artillery shells to blast a safe passage in front of the reinforcements!"
Watanabe thought something was going on. He raised his eyebrows and cursed loudly: "Your squadron leader was stopped by a few landmines. Is he a pig?"
"When the artillery blasts a safe passage in front of him with artillery shells, the battle on the battlefield is over. Why do I need him to come over with reinforcements?"
"Also, doesn't he have any brains? In such a short period of time, even if the Eighth Route Army lays a minefield in front of him, it won't be too large. The battlefield is so big, won't he find a way to get around it? Stupid pig!"
"Go back and tell your squadron leader that there are no artillery reinforcements, and ask him to immediately bypass the minefield and continue to reinforce the battlefield."
"I'm giving him five minutes. He must reach the battlefield on time at all costs, otherwise military law will be imposed!"
On the melee battlefield where the Japanese and puppet troops were eager for reinforcements, the balance of battlefield victory had been completely directed towards the first battalion and the reconnaissance platoon.
Especially as more and more Japanese were killed, the resistance on the battlefield became weaker and weaker, and some puppet troops even laid down their weapons and surrendered.
"It was so exciting to kill today. I haven't beaten the Japanese so neatly in a long time!" Peng Yunfeng shouted excitedly while changing bullets for the box cannon.
The reconnaissance platoon leader Chen Wei guarded the side and killed a puppet soldier who rushed over with three shots in a row. Then he said: "Captain Peng, there are not many Japanese soldiers left, and there are only two or three hundred puppet soldiers left. I suggest that the troops close the net immediately."
, force the remaining puppet troops to surrender, and then retreat!"
The red-eyed Peng Yunfeng reacted suddenly, and the words "quick battle and quick victory" quickly came to his mind, and then he began to shout: "The puppet army surrenders without killing, the troops are preparing to retreat, we don't have much time."
A few hundred meters away, Li Hao's eyes kept scanning back and forth between the two battlefields.
Seeing that the Japanese and puppet reinforcements were stopped by the guard company and the independent company, and two armored vehicles were destroyed, a smile appeared on my face involuntarily.
But the smile lasted less than two minutes before disappearing.
"Battal Commander, the Japanese and puppet reinforcements seem to be bypassing the guard company and independent company!" Hong Linfeng reminded with a frown.
Li Hao also frowned: "There are roads everywhere around the battlefield. It would be too easy for the Japanese and puppet troops to bypass them and reinforce the battlefield."
"Send a signal immediately and order all participating troops to retreat. Send it now!"
Hong Linfeng did not move. He hesitated and reminded: "Five minutes, battalion commander. Judging from the sound of gunfire, it only takes five minutes at most for the first battalion and the reconnaissance platoon to end the battle! Let the guard company and independent company block it immediately, and it will definitely be possible."
Hold on for five minutes!"
"Execute the order, send the retreat signal now, without delaying for more than a minute!" Li Hao gave the order with a firm look on his face without any explanation.
He hesitated and added: "You can keep your opinions, but the order must be carried out!"
After hearing these words, Hong Linfeng could only swallow back the words that had reached his mouth and then ordered.
"Three flares, shoot now!"
After speaking, Hong Linfeng looked at Li Hao again, hoping that Li Hao could give him an explanation.
Li Hao did not hide anything: "You are right. According to your method, one battalion can indeed wipe out the remaining Japanese and puppet troops on the battlefield."
"However, compared with the casualties caused by the troops blocking the Japanese and puppet reinforcements, the results were not worthwhile."
"The Japanese have armored vehicles. We just used mines to kill two of them and block their offensive. Once they start to detour, the mines laid by the two companies in advance will be ineffective."
"Even if two companies tried their best to hold them off for five minutes and there were three ounces of armored vehicles to cover the attack, they would suffer heavy casualties."
"Looking at the battlefield, there are only more than 200 enemies left, and they are all puppet troops. Even if we retreat now, the troops can kill and capture more than 100 people on the way back."
"For the remaining more than a hundred puppet troops to sacrifice the lives of nearly a hundred soldiers from our two companies, this is a huge loss. If they are all Japs, it would be a bit messy."
"Our Eighth Route Army has a weak foundation, and every battle we fight must be calculated clearly!"
"Unless there are some unavoidable accidents, we must not suffer losses in every battle. Otherwise, it will take at least several wins to make up for the loss caused by one defeat."
"Surrender without killing..."
"Put down your weapons and the Eighth Route Army will give preferential treatment to the prisoners..."
The roars of soldiers rang out everywhere on the battlefield. Many puppet troops surrounded by troops chose to surrender under the threat of death. Only a few die-hard elements were still resisting and wanted to hold on until reinforcements arrived.
"Bang bang bang..."
Three signal bombs flew into the sky with a scream, and three white lights burst out like illumination bombs, which caught the eyes of everyone on the battlefield.
"It's a retreat signal!" Peng Yunfeng shouted.
"Batalion Commander, give us another five minutes and we can kill all the remaining Japanese and puppet troops here." The deputy battalion commander of the first battalion standing next to him was anxious. He didn't want to spit out the fat that he had bitten into his mouth.
, please call for battle immediately.
Peng Yunfeng looked struggling and before he could speak, the investigation platoon leader Chen Wei refused without hesitation: "No, the order must be carried out!"
"The battalion commander is sending a retreat signal now. There must be something wrong!"
"Battle Commander Peng, don't let the small lose the big. Don't forget what our battalion commander repeatedly told us when we accepted the mission!"
"Retreat, the troops will withdraw from the battlefield immediately. Quick, leave here immediately and disperse into the woods!" Peng Yunfeng finally made a decision and chose to execute the order!
Where the Japanese and puppet troops were stationed, Watanabe Shao was gloomy and terrifying.
He could not see the battlefield situation very clearly due to the cover of night, but as an excellent commander, in addition to the most intuitive sight, he could also judge the battle situation by listening to the sound of gunfire with his ears and looking at the light of fire with his eyes.
The increasingly faint gunshots made him realize that there were not many Imperial Army and Imperial Alliance troops still resisting on the battlefield.
Looking at the reinforcements, due to the detour, they are still at least five minutes away from the battlefield.
This means that even if the reinforcements arrive on the battlefield in time, there will be very few Imperial Army and Imperial Alliance troops left there, and the Independence Army may have withdrawn from the battlefield, leaving corpses everywhere for the reinforcements.
Major Watanabe would never allow such a thing to happen.
Even if the Imperial Army and the Imperial Alliance Army are completely destroyed on the battlefield, the independence of the attackers cannot be completely eliminated. Something must be left behind!
Thinking of this, Watanabe made a decisive decision: "The artillery will immediately cover the battlefield with artillery fire. Fire now. It cannot stop without my order. It will be executed immediately. I want the independent battalion on the battlefield to pay for the lives of the Imperial Army who died in our battle."
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