The Japanese finally couldn't bear the huge casualties and retreated. Both sides paid a huge price in this battle:
The Japanese suffered more than 100 casualties, and due to the hasty retreat, many of the wounded were not rescued and could only be left to bleed to death on the battlefield;
The coalition forces of the guerrilla brigade and the 338th Regiment also suffered more than 60 casualties, and the exchange ratio between the two sides was about two to one.
Yan Haoyu also feels distressed, but this battle must be fought. Only by pushing back the Japanese's craziest attacks will the rest of the battle be easy to fight!
With one burst of strength, it weakened again, and three times it was exhausted. It withstood the enemy's all-out attack, and the subsequent attacks would only become weaker and weaker.
"Send a small team up, rescue the wounded, and send them to the village to take good care of them, and add another small team to reinforce them!"
"Tell Hu Shuangquan that we are here!"
"Battle Commander Yan, let me lead a platoon up, my hands are itching just looking at it!"
Li Yuanzheng really didn't want to stay behind and just watched, so he suggested to Yan Haoyu that he lead the 338th Regiment up in a row.
"Okay, you can go up, but you must obey Hu Shuangquan's command uniformly. You should understand that there can only be one commander on the battlefield!"
"Don't worry, no one will compete with you for the command. I'm here to kill the Japanese!"
After Li Yuanzheng finished speaking, he directly ordered a platoon to send reinforcements without waiting for Yan Haoyu's reply;
Li Yuanzheng was actually quite annoyed. He was the commander of the seventh battalion of Huangpu, and it was really difficult for him to obey the command of a little bandit.
But what Yan Haoyu said is right. There must not be two commanders on the battlefield. He just passed by and didn't understand the situation at all. Changing generals on the spot is a taboo for military strategists!
Either he doesn't go up, or he just obeys the orders. His hands are itchy, and he doesn't care who orders them.
Yan Haoyu could only let him go...
Before dark, the Japanese organized two more squadron-sized attacks, both of which were repelled by the defenders. Each time was easier than the last. The exchange ratio between the two sides also expanded to 2.5 to 1, and the Japanese's momentum also weakened.
After two days of fighting, even if the Japanese are made of iron, they should be tired.
After two days of fighting, the Japs had suffered more than 400 casualties, many of them even repeated casualties. For an infantry brigade outside, this number of casualties was approaching a critical point.
The coalition also suffered more than 180 casualties, of which more than 110 were killed. The guerrillas accounted for more. In terms of the quality of individual soldiers, the guerrillas were still not as good as the more than 300 veterans of the remaining soldiers of the 338th Regiment.
This is easy to understand. Li Yuanzheng's battalion of more than 800 people was attacked by the Japanese. The only ones who escaped were veterans. These people were indeed much better at saving their lives.
Li Yuanzheng also had enough fun, but unfortunately he didn't seize the opportunity to play with the Japanese with knives, which made him disappointed.
After dark, the Japanese retreated, leaving a safe distance of several hundred meters between the two sides.
The Japanese did not want to fight at night, and the coalition forces did not want it either. Both sides tacitly agreed to a truce.
"Battal Commander, do you really think Chu will arrive at night? The reinforcements from our Jinsui Army said they would arrive at night, so it would be great if they arrived during the day the next day!"
Ge Dan, the platoon leader of the third company, whispered to Li Yuanzheng.
"We should be able to get there. Although the person named Chu is a little cunning, his reputation is not bad. He is basically a nail in the mouth. It is not easy for him to win over these hundreds of people, and he is reluctant to throw them away."
After Li Yuanzheng finished speaking, he suspected that these words actually came from his own mouth. He had not had a good impression of these Eighth Route Army before, so it would be polite not to directly encircle and suppress them.
"I am avenging my brothers who died!"
Li Yuanzheng suddenly said something that left Monk Ge Danzhang Er puzzled.
Ge Dan is a scumbag, he doesn't have that much thought. This time his platoon also suffered more than a dozen casualties. He thinks the battalion commander's words about seeking revenge against the Japanese are totally fine.
The battle on the mountain did not go smoothly, which surprised the old devil Shangen, and he couldn't help but cursed again:
"Bagaya Road, a group of bandits can't take it down, this bastard in the south is getting more and more useless!"
After Yamane finished scolding him, he arranged for night defense and asked him to set up a camp bed in the headquarters and sleep in his clothes.
Captains like the Japanese have all worked their way up from the grassroots level, and the difficulty of camping in the wild is nothing to him.
Chu Xiong and others had already rushed to the surrounding woods before dark. They first sent out the "Siberian Tiger" team to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and then sent a telegram to Yan Haoyu, agreeing to launch an attack on time at five o'clock in the morning;
The task of the guerrilla brigade is to withstand the desperate attacks of the Japanese and cooperate with the main force to cripple the Japanese.
At around one o'clock in the morning, the Siberian Tiger team found out the information about the Japanese. Chen Yan reported to Chu Xiong:
"Captain, the Japs are now divided into two parts. The main force is on the mountain. At the foot of the mountain are their brigade headquarters, baggage squadron and some wounded. There is only a small group of escorts."
When Chu Xiong heard this, he couldn't help but shook his head. The Japanese were too courageous. They only had a small team of guards around them. Of course, the baggage squadron also had a certain combat effectiveness;
The Japanese baggage squadron can be used as a supplementary force, so we should not underestimate the baggage squadron. In other words, there are about 200 Japanese soldiers around the Japanese brigade headquarters.
"Chen Yan, take a break and get up at four o'clock in the morning, and then spend an hour clearing out all the security personnel outside the Japanese army, clearing the way for the main attack!"
"The other personnel rest on the spot, and the second and third platoons of the company take turns to be on guard!"
Everyone followed the order and left. Chu Xiong fell asleep. After marching for nearly two days, everyone was very tired and in urgent need of rest.
Other personnel also began to rest, and snoring sounded one after another in the forest. Fortunately, they were nearly a kilometer away from the Japs, otherwise they would wake them up.
Soon it was four o'clock, and the "Siberian Tiger" was dispatched!
The vigilance of the Japanese security team was quite high. Mobile sentries were placed 500 meters away, and hidden sentries were placed in more than a dozen places. The night patrol team patrolled the surrounding area non-stop. Unfortunately, they encountered special forces. It is not a military branch of the same era...
It took Chen Yan and the "Siberian Tiger" team 40 minutes to clear out all the warning forces outside the Japanese. In the jungle, the two sides were not opponents of the same level at all.
Those secret whistles thought they were very hidden, but in fact they were just like the people in the story of Blind Eye, whose throats were cut one by one by the tiger without making a sound.
At 4:45 in the morning, Chen Yan came to the place where Chu Xiong was resting. Chu Xiong and others had already prepared for battle and were waiting for him.
"Captain, it's all done. A total of 38 people have been eliminated, and the rest are on duty at the Japs Brigade headquarters!"
Chen Yan reported to Chu Xiong in a low voice.
Chu Xiong nodded and gave the order to each platoon to attack with hand gestures;
Each platoon moved into place according to the advance deployment, and launched the attack on time at five o'clock in the morning, giving the Japanese a big surprise...
