After chasing for several hundred meters, they stopped chasing, stopped when they were ready, and began to clean up the battlefield.
"Company Commander, we eliminated more than 80 Japs and seized 5 crooked handles, 3 grenades, 52 38 caps, 15 bastard boxes, a large number of grenades and bullets, steel helmets, bayonets and Japs' Individual soldier equipment is piled up all over the place again, and we need to mobilize the masses to help."
Yu Yong excitedly told Yan Song that these two battles were so enjoyable, more than a hundred Japanese were killed, and he only suffered more than twenty casualties;
No wonder he was so happy. He had never fought such a rich battle before. If he had to fight such an ambush battle before, he would have to charge with the enemy's light and heavy machine guns to get rid of all the bullets. Victory was achieved with human lives!
Yan Song thought for a while and said to Yu Yong:
"Send people to notify the militiamen from several villages to come and collect equipment. Send them all first, and then join us in pretending to be the main force to surround and harass other turtle shells!
It would be too dangerous to mobilize the masses at night to move other loot and railway tracks during the day..."
In accordance with the tasks assigned by the battalion commander, Yan Song began to deploy to encircle and harass the intercepted "chains". There were too many bunkers and gun turrets in the blockade. No matter how much ammunition was knocked down one by one, it would not be enough to consume them. So he surrounded them first.
Tanuma's squadron stumbled all the way back to the county seat, and the squadron supporting Bakou was not much better, with nearly half of the casualties. The two squadrons combined only managed to escape 215 people.
Major Kazuo Yaguchi of the Gutao Guard Brigade couldn't help but curse:
"Bagayalu, your work is not that of warriors. A squadron was actually defeated by hundreds of Tubalu. It is a disgrace to the trust of His Majesty the Emperor!"
"On Bagaya Road, two squadrons went out and one squadron came back with more than half of the casualties. The strongholds of Makou and Zhangzhuang were captured by the Eighth Route Army. Tongpu Road was completely paralyzed. How do you want me to explain to the brigade commander?"
"Bagayalu, where has your warrior honor gone?"
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Captain Tanuma and Captain Tanaka lowered their heads and silently endured the captain's anger. It was okay to scold them, but it was impossible to make them feel so guilty that they committed seppuku!
Kazuo Yaguchi finally got tired of scolding, and now the entire Tongpu Road was at war, and he couldn't solve it with his own garrison brigade, so he could only report it to the brigade headquarters.
"Moxi Moxi, I am the Gutao garrison. The Gutao section of Tongpu Road was destroyed by a large number of Eighth Route Army troops. Zhangzhuang, Makou and other strongholds were breached. When my reinforcements arrived, they were outnumbered and suffered heavy losses. Tongpu Road has already It was cut off in many places, please give me tactical guidance!”
The telephone number of the Independent Ninth Brigade was almost exploded. Overnight, the entire blockade of hundreds of kilometers of Tongpu Road was attacked. The entire blockade was in emergency. Dozens of turrets and bunkers were blown up, causing heavy losses!
In the command room, the commander of the 9th Brigade, Major General Ishikawa, the chief of staff, Lieutenant Colonel Saeki, and a group of staff officers were studying the battle situation in front of the sand table. The sand table was densely filled with red, white, and blue flags;
After answering Gu Tao's call, Lieutenant Colonel Saeki removed the white flags at Zhangzhuang and Makou strongholds and replaced them with red flags. He couldn't even remember how many white flags were removed that day. Each white flag represented at least one team of Japanese soldiers. After being eliminated, Major General Ishikawa's face looked gloomy and terrifying.
He didn't speak, and others didn't dare to say anything. The atmosphere in the entire command headquarters was very depressing, giving people a feeling of suffocation. The white flags were like groups of broken Japanese!
After a long time, Major General Ishikawa finally spoke:
"Saeki-kun, did you find anything wrong?"
When Saeki heard Ishikawa-kun finally speaking, he breathed a sigh of relief and replied:
"Your Excellency General, this time the Eighth Route Army deployed at least 20,000 troops. Their purpose was to disrupt the traffic on Tongpu Road. We can call it breaking the engagement;
Your Excellency the Commander's cage tactics have played a huge role. It is said that a trapped beast still fights. The trapped beast of the Eighth Route Army has begun to struggle to its death!
It is not ruled out that more Eighth Route Army troops will join the fight in the future in an attempt to break the imperial army's cage. The reaction of the Eighth Route Army was also expected by the Commander.
Judging from the distribution of the strongholds attacked by the imperial army, the tactic they adopted was to intercept in sections and then eat them piece by piece!
The imperial army's blockade was built along the main railways and highways, like a long snake formation;
Sectional interception is indeed the best tactic to break the long snake formation, provided that the Eighth Route Army has enough ammunition!
The total length of Tongpu Road is more than 800 kilometers. There are two gun towers and three or four bunkers per kilometer. There are as many as four to five thousand large and small gun towers and bunkers. Even if it takes 500 rounds of ammunition to capture a bunker, at least It will consume more than 2 million bullets, and even if all the bullets of the Eighth Route Army are added together, there may not be that many.
The imperial army's guards in these bunkers and gun towers were mainly composed of the Imperial Association Army. The total number of imperial troops was only 5,000. The Eighth Route Army simply did not have that much ammunition to lay down so many bunkers!
At the beginning, they had enough ammunition, so they made rapid progress. As their ammunition continued to be consumed, they would have more and more difficulty later, and eventually they would be unable to attack. "
Major General Ishikawa was very satisfied with Saeki's answer and showed off:
"Yo Xi, Mr. Saeki is indeed a talented student who graduated from mainland China. He has a keen eye. This is the reason why the commander built the prison cage!
It means to use strong bunkers one after another to consume the Eighth Route Army's troops and weapons. When the Eighth Route Army can't move, it's time for the main force of the Imperial Army to be dispatched! "
Ishikawa decided to test his chief of staff again:
"Saeki-kun, what if after the Eighth Route Army captured some important strongholds, they no longer continued to pull out the strongholds, but instead the main force penetrated into the imperial army's security area through the blockade, just like Sun Wukong got into the belly of Princess Iron Fan and couldn't come out. ?”
Saeki continued without thinking:
"This is easy to handle. The Imperial Army will send out large forces to regain control along the railway line, isolate the main force of the Eighth Route Army in the security area, and then capture a large number of Chinese people and chain sections together as quickly as possible, so that the main force of the Imperial Army can start from The blockade was withdrawn, and in turn, the Eighth Route Army's base areas were raided!
Adopt the "Three Lights" policy, kill them all, burn them all, and rob them all, and turn the Eighth Route Army's base areas into no man's land!
The main force of the Eighth Route Army was separated from the outside. What could they do to resist the main force of the Imperial Army? "
Ishikawa couldn't help but applaud and praised without hesitation:
"Saeki-kun, you are really unqualified to stay in the 9th Brigade. You can completely trust your position as chief of staff!
The Eighth Route Army has always compared the common people in their base areas to water, and they are fish. The Imperial Army has drained their water, and the fish will have no way to survive!
Mr. Saeki, let me test you again. How do you eliminate the main force of the Eighth Route Army that sneaked into the security area? "
Saeki did not expect that the General would speak so highly of him, which gave him the urge to die for his confidant. He continued:
"In the security area, the Eighth Route Army has no support from the common people and no logistical supplies. Your Excellency, General, should have a hundred ways to eliminate them!"
Saeki reciprocated the favor very wisely, which made Ishikawa very satisfied. He nodded and said:
"Yoshi, sort out your thoughts and I will submit them to you, the Commander. If you are appreciated by the Commander, Saeki-kun's future will be limitless!"
Lieutenant Colonel Saeki was so excited that he could hardly speak...
"Thank you, General, for cultivating me!"
Ishikawa nodded with satisfaction and said:
"Yo Xi, then we won't send reinforcements for the time being and wait and see what happens!"
