After a brief struggle, the squadron leader gritted his teeth and ordered: "The second team stays behind and the other troops continue to retreat!"
"If the Eighth Route Cavalry continues to bypass the rear troops and chase us, then we will fight them!"
Ten minutes after dividing the troops, the squadron leader finally heard the long-lost firefight behind him.
The captain of the third team on the side immediately said: "Captain, the sound of the exchange of fire came from the blocking position of the rear troops. They must be fighting with the Eighth Route Cavalry!"
The squadron leader was very happy, but he didn't show it.
The participation of the rear troops in the battle means that they are not far away from destruction. As a commander, any time he shows any joy, it will give people a selfish and mean impression, which will severely damage his prestige in the team.
He glanced back at the battlefield and gave a serious order: "The rear troops gave us valuable retreat time with their lives. They are the most heroic warriors in the empire. We will never forget them!"
"Our retreat will be accelerated!"
"We cannot let the blood of the rear troops be shed in vain!"
The squadron leader spoke with indignation, and his subordinates looked heavy upon hearing this, and their steps became faster and faster, but they were already happy in their hearts.
The Eighth Route Cavalry was blocked by the rear troops, which meant that they could escape pursuit and survive smoothly.
Although this is a bit unfair to the rear troops, who made them so unlucky to be left behind by the squadron leader?
But after a while, these little devils stopped laughing!
The roaring sound of horse hooves reached their ears again, and the sound became louder and louder. The sound of firefights from the troops behind the palace did not stop. There was still fighting there.
The squadron leader was confused and immediately looked at the captain of the third team: "Didn't you say that the Eighth Route Cavalry was blocked by the rear troops? What's the matter with the sudden sound of horse hooves from behind? Why are there still cavalry chasing us!"
"I'm in a humble position... I don't know about my humble position..." The captain of the third team looked embarrassed and hesitantly replied: "Could it be other cavalry... There is more than one cavalry on the battlefield!"
"Nonsense!" the squadron leader scolded without hesitation!
"We are not an important target. Even if there is more than one cavalry on the battlefield, they should not be chasing us!"
After finishing speaking, he became murderous, drew out his command knife, and gave a firm command.
"The troops stopped advancing. We stopped running. We set up a defense line on the spot and fought against the Eighth Route Cavalry!"
The Japanese reacted very quickly to the battle. More than fifty infantrymen quickly deployed and established a defense line around several light machine guns.
The mortar team stood behind the infantry, squatting on the ground and setting up the artillery neatly.
The squadron leader crouched next to a crooked handle, holding a command knife and staring straight ahead, ready to issue a firing order at any time.
But the next scene confused him.
More than a hundred cavalry roared over and suddenly stopped two to three hundred meters in front of the formation.
The Japanese didn't move, and neither did the cavalry. They just stayed there and looked at each other...
"Captain, why don't the Eighth Route Cavalry attack... We only have four light machine guns. If they charge hard, they won't be able to stop them!" the captain of the third team asked with a puzzled look on his face.
The squadron leader shook his head: "I don't know..."
"Perhaps they don't understand the situation and are afraid that we have arranged an ambush around them, so they don't dare to attack rashly!"
"We will launch an assault after we have detected the enemy's situation!"
The captain of the third team thought this explanation was reasonable and nodded immediately: "We can just reinforce the machine gun position!"
"Machine guns are the nemesis of the cavalry. The longer they persist in the battle, the greater our chances of repelling the Eighth Route Cavalry!"
Five minutes later, a row of sandbags had been piled up in front of the four Japanese machine gun positions, and the cavalry company still had no intention of launching an attack.
Ten minutes later, two layers of sandbags were piled up at each machine gun position, but the cavalry company still did not move.
The squadron leader kept staring at them with his binoculars. The more he looked at them, the more something was wrong, and his brows furrowed deeper and deeper. He suddenly slapped his thigh and said, "Bagh Ya Road, we have been fooled!"
"The Eighth Route Cavalry is a new force with little combat effectiveness. They dare not attack..."
"I just want to drag us here and wait for the infantry to come and annihilate us..."
"The troops continue to retreat, hurry up..."
The cavalry company has not yet formed combat effectiveness. Most of the soldiers have just learned to ride horses and cannot even chop on horseback. If they launch an attack rashly, the troops will definitely suffer heavy casualties.
Seeing the Japanese suddenly choose to retreat, the cavalry company commander knew without thinking that the Japanese had seen through their bluff.
"Company commander, should we continue the pursuit?" the instructor asked anxiously.
"This group of Japs doesn't have many people, but they are equipped with three mortars... If we can capture them, we will make a lot of money!"
The company commander shook his head: "The Japanese have seen through us... Unless there are infantry around to cooperate, we really can't do anything to them!"
"If we run too far and bump into the main force of the Japs and kill us, we will not only lose the advantage, but we will also get ourselves trapped!"
"Change the target and continue the bluff. Maybe we can force the Japanese to leave one or two teams behind..."
"We will also withdraw..."
At two o'clock in the morning, the battlefield centered on the Japanese camp was completely quiet.
Standing in the camp that the Japanese army hastily abandoned, Kong Jie was filled with emotions. He did not expect that the arrogant little Japanese would be repelled by him.
"Captain, the Japs retreated in a hurry and took away a lot of ammunition and supplies... I found dozens of boxes of light bullets!" Wang Lin, chief of staff of the garrison, ran over to report happily.
Kong Jie suddenly gave a serious order: "Don't rush to count the spoils yet..."
"They are all laid out here. Don't dare to kill them even if you dare to come back. All you have to do is move them away before dawn!"
"The top priority now is to count the results of the battle... to determine how many little devils we killed in the past hour. The more detailed the statistics, the better. Hurry up!"
"Only by knowing the losses of the Japanese troops can we judge whether they still have the courage to continue attacking us... and determine whether our large-scale attack should continue!"
On the road five kilometers away from the battlefield, Colonel Miyazawa felt very depressed.
At this moment, he was standing on a mound on the side of the road, looking up at the road behind him, hoping that the troops who had dispersed and broken through would come over soon.
"Sir, another troop is back..." As soon as several vague figures entered Colonel Miyazawa's field of vision, the excited report from the observation post rang in his ears.
"How many people are there? Call their commander to see me!" Colonel Miyazawa ordered urgently.
After a while, the Japanese squadron leader who slipped away from the cavalry company was brought to Colonel Miyazawa: "Reporting to the commander... I was tricked by the Eighth Route Army on the way back. I lost two infantry squads and a heavy machine gun squad... Request punishment!”
The second lieutenant who was leading the way hurriedly explained in Colonel Miyazawa's ear: "Sir... he took a reinforced squadron to evacuate the camp, but only brought back an infantry squad and an artillery squad!"
Colonel Miyazawa became furious when he heard this. The army of more than 200 people only brought back less than 100 people, and suffered a direct loss of more than 60%. This was too irritating.
But he still suppressed the anger that was rising in his heart and asked: "Let's be clear, if it is really your responsibility, you can't run away even if you want to!"
"Ha Yi!" The squadron leader quickly told him that he was being chased by the cavalry company.
Colonel Miyazawa was confused when he heard this. If this was not a battlefield, he would have suspected that his subordinates were making up stories to him.
Using a cavalry company that had just learned how to ride a horse and had almost no combat effectiveness to chase down the imperial army, relying on its strong intimidation force to force the subordinates to make decisions that would cut off the strength of a strong man...
Is this the Eighth Route Army that is crazy, or is it that its subordinates are too stupid...
He thought for a while before he regained his senses, waved his hand and said: "Go down, this is not your fault!"
"Anyone would make the decision to cut off a strong man's wrist under the circumstances just now. There is no problem with your order!"
After saying that, he turned his attention to the artillery staff officer aside: "Do you still remember the artillery fire coverage of the Eighth Route Army just now?"
"Hayi!" the artillery staff member replied with a puzzled look on his face.
"Did the enemy's artillery fire area move with our troops?" Colonel Miyazawa directly said the question that suddenly popped up in his mind.
"Under normal circumstances, the enemy will definitely use artillery to chase us and explode, in order to expand the results of the battle, consume our troops, and then achieve the purpose of severely damaging us!"
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