First Company Commander He Jun was very happy and walked with a smile on his face!
In the battle just now, although the troops sacrificed 28 soldiers, they gained huge gains!
In particular, the nearly 600 absentees looked very thin, pale, and lacked energy!
But He Jun could see a hint of unyielding look in their eyes!
As long as they are well fed for a few days, trained a little, and equipped with sophisticated equipment, these absentees will definitely transform into an elite force!
"Company Commander, we have made statistics. Most of the absentees are prisoners of war from the Jinsui Army. The rest include the Northwest Army, the Sichuan Army, and the Central Army! By the way, there are 18 prisoners of our Eighth Route Army inside, all of whom were captured on the battlefield.
The leader who was captured after being stunned by the shell was a deputy platoon leader!" The instructor was also very happy and reported with a smile on his face.
He Jun's eyes lit up and he asked: "Have their Eighth Route Army identities been confirmed?"
"Confirmed, there is no problem!" the instructor affirmed!
He Jun immediately ordered: "Great! With them, our problem of insufficient troops will be solved!"
"Instructor, immediately distribute the weapons we captured to them and ask them to help us look after all absentees!"
"Also, since they have stayed in the mine for so long, they must know many other absentees!"
"Ask each of them to bring a trustworthy camper, who will also be issued with weapons and ammunition, to form a guard platoon, to assist the artillery squad and the platoon to keep an eye on the camper and the materials we captured!"
"Free the second and third platoons to deal with possible emergencies!"
As soon as He Jun gave the order, a commando from behind rushed over!
"Captain He, there is a squadron of Japs chasing after them! Please speed up the transfer, our commando team will find a way to lure the Japs away!"
He Jun did not answer, but frowned and asked: "Confirm that there is only one squadron!"
"No follow-up troops have been found yet!" the commando thought for a moment and confirmed!
"Well done!" Not only was He Jun not nervous, he was actually excited!
"It happened that the second and third platoons were liberated. Just now I was thinking about how to find something for them, and the Japanese came directly to our door. It seems that God is helping us!"
"Instructor, lead the troops to retreat! Follow me in the second and third platoons to assist the commando team in leading the Japs to other places. If possible, kill these more than a hundred Japs!"
"We have gained almost two thousand recruits in the past two days, and the equipment captured on the way to the battle is definitely not enough!"
"An infantry squadron of the Japanese is equivalent to the equipment of an infantry company. If they are all captured, we will immediately have an additional fully armed infantry company!"
After finishing speaking, regardless of the instructor's reaction, he shouted to the troops: "The second and third platoons brought their equipment and ammunition and set off with me to fight the Japanese!"
“Boom, boom, boom… da da da…”
The explosion, accompanied by the sound of machine gun fire, reached the ears of the Japanese squadron leader. The squadron leader's face suddenly changed and he immediately ordered!
"Baga, the forward troops must be under attack. Kill them. Reinforce the forward troops!"
After rushing to the battlefield, a total of seventeen subordinates had fallen in the woods. All weapons and ammunition had been plundered. Apart from the corpses, even the bullet casings were hard to see!
"Bagh Ya Road, it must have been done by the Eighth Route Army again. When I find you, I will kill you all!" The squadron leader immediately turned into an angry lion and cursed!
This is already the third forward unit he has lost!
After the first forward force was killed, the squadron leader had an idea and directly shortened the distance between the forward force and the main force to two hundred meters!
It only takes more than a minute for the main force to reach the battlefield! As long as the Eighth Route Army dares to come over, the forward troops will be the bait to hold them back!
What’s disappointing is that I underestimated the strength of my opponent!
After rushing to the battlefield, the bait has been eaten!
This time the squadron leader directly shortened the distance to one hundred meters!
No matter how powerful the Eighth Route Army is, it is impossible for them to eat more than a dozen of their subordinates in half a minute and then retreat. This is a very firm idea in the squadron leader's mind!
But this time he miscalculated again!
In addition to the previous two losses, I even lost a full infantry squad, a full third of the force, without even seeing the Eighth Route Army's shadow.
Amid the angry scolding, a lot of anger dissipated!
This time the squadron leader did not dare to take any more risks. He decided not to send a forward. More than a hundred people huddled together and followed the Eighth Route Army in pursuit!
The squadron leader had a good idea, but he ignored a problem!
After losing an infantry squad, the Eighth Route Army he was chasing had the strength to swallow him whole!
More importantly, He Jun was taking him step by step away from the real retreat route of the sneak attack troops, and this fake route was exactly what Major General Noda had judged, and it happened to be facing the pocket formation prepared by the Nakata Brigade!
At the Japanese garrison headquarters in Datong, no news came back from the front line, and Major General Noda never rested!
Four coal mines were attacked in two nights, causing direct losses of more than 50,000 yuan to gold and ocean. The four coal mines were completely destroyed and lost the value of re-mining. Nearly 600 retired veterans of the escort team died in battle, and more than 2,000 absentees were rescued. Very soon
He might become a soldier again and fight against the imperial army...
This loss can definitely be called huge!
If I can't catch the culprit, get back the gold and oceans, and miss more than 2,000 people from work, I may not be able to secure my position as Major General Commander!
Major General Noda was so anxious that he couldn't sleep at all!
"Hasn't there been news from Major Nakata yet?" This is the fourth time Major General Noda has asked this question tonight!
The chief of staff glanced at the silent telecommunications room next to him, shook his head and replied: "No news has been received yet!"
"Baga!" Major General Noda scolded in dissatisfaction!
Then he frowned and analyzed: "It shouldn't be!"
"The Eighth Route Army should evacuate the coal mine in three hours at the earliest!"
"Even if we march normally, we have reached the ambush circle set up by the Nakata Brigade in three hours! It's not over yet. There is only one possibility. We have miscalculated again!"
I just turned my attention to the sand table and wanted to confirm if there were any loopholes in the entire plan that I hadn't thought of!
There was sudden movement in the telecommunications room!
The crisp sound of sending and receiving telegrams kept ringing. Major General Noda waited for five minutes before the communications staff rushed over with a telegram in hand!
"Is this a telegram from Nakata Brigade?" the chief of staff asked anxiously!
The communications staff officer had a serious look on his face. He handed the telegram to the chief of staff and shook his head as he reported: "It's a telegram from the deputy captain of Yin Teng Brigade. They are responsible for supporting Yuwen Squadron!"
"Keep following the gunshots to pursue the Yuwen Squadron and confirm that the Eighth Route Army is retreating towards our planned pocket formation!"
"But the gunfire suddenly stopped an hour ago, and by the time we rushed to the battlefield, Yuwen's squadron had been completely wiped out!"
"All the weapons and ammunition equipped by the troops were seized by the Eighth Route Army!"
"There was nothing left on the battlefield except corpses, and they couldn't find any trace of the Eighth Route Army's retreat!"
"Pah... Baga!"
Major General Noda slammed his angry fist on the sand table in front of him and asked in disbelief!
"This is impossible. Yuwen Squadron is a fully-equipped infantry squadron. Even if the Eighth Route Army is engaged in street fighting, it cannot be wiped out in such a short time!"
"Also, there are so many people in the Eighth Route Army, and they brought with them hundreds of deserters and a large amount of seized materials. How could they just disappear without leaving any trace?"
"It must be that Yin Teng's team didn't search carefully!"
There is no way the contents of the telegram are false!
Compared with the communications staff report, the telegram is more detailed!
The chief of staff doesn’t want to admit it, but the fact is the fact!
After taking a deep breath, he reported: "General, this is a telegram personally sent by the deputy captain of the Yin Teng Brigade. It can't be wrong! The Yuwen Squadron was really wiped out by the Eighth Route Army!"
"Bageya Road! I must find these Eighth Route Army troops, kill them all, and avenge the warriors who died in the battle!"
"Reply the telegram to Yin Teng Brigade immediately and continue to investigate for me. We must find this Eighth Route Army!"
"Also, since the Eighth Route Army has indeed moved towards our pocket formation, it proves that our previous inferences are correct!"
"Immediately contact all our troops in the mountains. The Eighth Route Army is in the target area. The reinforcements will immediately encircle the target area, and then search there with a net, and continue to narrow the encirclement. I don't believe that the Eighth Route Army and thousands of people can fly
Got it!"
"Specially warn Major Nakata to be on guard. If he finds out that the Eighth Route Army is encircling him first, don't rush to attack!"
"When the reinforcements arrive on the battlefield, concentrate our superior forces to catch them all. I want to annihilate them all!"
Nearly two thousand little devils searched over and over again around the mountain with a radius of nearly ten kilometers!
We searched from dusk to dawn, and then from dawn to dusk again, until we met up with the Nakata brigade who had deployed the pocket array, but still found nothing!
When the news reached the headquarters, Major General Noda was immediately confused!
"Could the Eighth Route Army attacking the coal mine really be able to escape to the ground or fly into the sky? Otherwise, how could so many people suddenly disappear without a trace!" Major General Noda muttered to himself before he could react from the shock!
The chief of staff hesitated and reminded: "General, the Eighth Route Army must not be so capable?"
"I know!" Major General Noda cursed angrily!
"If they really had such powerful abilities, they wouldn't be chased and beaten by us on the battlefield!"
"We must have made a mistake, or missed some link, and then let the Eighth Route Army sneak away from our encirclement with the absentees!"
"I just think, if we can't find these Eighth Route Army troops and catch those absentees, all of us will not be able to escape the punishment of going to the peak!"
"Order the search troops in the mountains to continue searching and search outside the encirclement. Don't stop!"
Before the chief of staff could take the order, the phone rang!
The staff officer picked up the phone and listened for less than a minute before his expression changed and became more and more solemn!
Putting down the phone, he hurriedly reported: "Sir, report from the front!"
"The Eighth Route Army of Northwestern Shanxi has noticed that our blockade is missing an infantry brigade and is gathering troops to attack the blockade!"
"Two gun towers have been occupied by the Eighth Route Army because there were no reinforcements!"
"They hope that the Zhongtian Brigade will immediately return to support the blockade, otherwise more strongholds will definitely be occupied by the Eighth Route Army!"
"This must be a conspiracy of the Eighth Route Army!"
The continuous blows made Major General Noda put down his arrogance, and he suddenly became surprisingly calm. It was hard to tell whether he was happy or angry, but he made a decisive decision!
"In order to cover their troops hiding in the woods, they send troops to block the line and force our reinforcements to return. Then those troops can return to their base, that's for sure!"
"Then what should we do?" the chief of staff immediately asked!
"Nothing can happen to the blockade. We have hoarded a large amount of supplies and ammunition at each stronghold, just to ensure that if the stronghold is attacked, there will be enough supplies and ammunition to stand by for help! If these supplies and ammunition fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army, the number of supplies and ammunition will definitely increase greatly.
Their strength!”
"The Eighth Route Army hiding in the mountains must also continue to search. We cannot let them take the opportunity to escape!"
"Once they are allowed back to the base area, the Northwestern Shanxi Eighth Route Army can use those absentees to form two more main regiments, which will cause us even greater trouble!"
"The Zhongtian Brigade is divided into two, half of the troops return to support the blockade, and the other half continue to search for the Eighth Route Army in the mountains!"