Commander Li never expected that he would be defeated so quickly. Fortunately, the road was wide and he turned around in time!
The guards under his command drove countless people who were escaping on the road into the fields. They stood on the roadside and listened to the shouts of death slowly getting closer. They hunted geese all day long. Today, they actually got one of their eyes pecked by geese. They said with a sullen face: " Brigadier Tang, are the soldiers you lead like this?"
Passing the reins to the deputy next to him, Brigadier Tang accidentally felt Commander Li's cold breath and quickly emphasized: "We were ambushed. I didn't expect that Tubal Road would dare to attack us!"
"The Eighth Route Army was able to capture Huaxian County. The reconnaissance force you sent out has disappeared. You did not pay attention to it. It is a serious dereliction of duty!" The Japanese adviser next to the commander looked ferocious.
"Sir, we are really careful. We sent people to scout this village. No abnormalities were found an hour ago. It is estimated that the Eighth Route Army occupied the village when our scouts came back to report!"
"The security regiment troops advancing on the east road were also harassed, but they attached great importance to it and sent out a large number of scouts to camp step by step. So far, they have not given the Eighth Route Army a chance, but our security forces have been beaten to a pulp. Such a disastrous defeat, Brigadier Tang , you haven’t even completely gathered your troops yet, do you believe I will kill you?”
Report to the military, I will immediately arrange for the gathered troops to counterattack. The Eighth Route Army is short of guns and ammunition. If they didn't fight with bayonets as soon as they came up, they would not be our opponents at all!
Well, I'll give you the back seat, and I'll see how you defeat the Eighth Route Army and avenge your shame.
With a bang, the commander and the Japanese adviser got into the car together and exchanged a few words with his staff officers.
The staff officer stayed behind, but Xiangzi also served as a supervisor for the brigade commander, but the commander himself fled northward.
Of course, what the commander said about the rear was just talk. Brigadier Tang knew the commander's temper. After all, the plain was so big that the area the troops had to defend was too wide. Neihuang only had a brigade of more than 3,000 troops.
The sky was not completely dark, it was even brighter than when we were running, because the moon as big as a millstone rose in the eastern sky.
Flashlight torches were shining everywhere. Brigadier Tang looked around at the chaotic queue of the security forces that were gathering.
Under his cold gaze, all departments gradually became quiet, and people continued to be led by the containment team to join the team.
He stretched out his hand to straighten his military cap, walked to the regrouped troops, and began to stare at everyone in front of him: "Today's battle, although we encountered an ambush, is a shame for us!"
None of his men dared to answer.
"The Army Commander and the Imperial Army Advisor are watching from behind. If we can't defeat Tubal Road with even three shots, we will have a hard time in the future. So, from now on, we will immediately organize a counterattack. I don't believe that our brothers can even fight with only three guns." Not even a bullet can do it!"
The troops were still silent, except for the approaching and approaching shouts of death from the south.
"The guard company has been changed to supervise the team. If one person escapes from your eyes, I will shoot the team closest to him. Don't blame me for being ruthless! Everyone should know Tang's methods!" He held the riding whip in his hand and looked around. He glanced around and issued an order that shocked all his subordinates.
The staff officer hurriedly came to the commander's side: "The first regiment will counterattack from the front, the second regiment will counterattack from the left, and the third regiment will counterattack from the right. Each battalion commander, company commander, and platoon commander will pay attention to the position of each department. No risks or delays. Otherwise, military law will be engaged. !”
Listening to the sound, the shouts of killing from the Eighth Route Army were approaching about 300 meters away. Brigadier Tang got on his horse and cracked his whip: "This brigade commander will live and die with all the troops to rescue the brothers who are being chased by Tubal Road. All the troops, Immediately deploy your formation and attack southward!"
Brigadier Tang watched one regiment and three regiments pull away, and felt a little calm. Visual inspection showed that the loss was not too great. Most of the people were still there, so it should not be a big problem to deal with the Eighth Route Army.
I have to say that what Brigadier Tang said was pretty good. The supervising team has been divided into three platoons to supervise the battle behind each regiment, and the morale of his men is not bad.
However, he underestimated the Eighth Route Army, and his tactical arrangements were ridiculously wrong. He always thought that the Eighth Route Army was not strong in combat effectiveness, and perhaps a single counterattack could defeat the Tubal Army, which was good at fighting guerrillas.
After a new defeat, the best way to deal with it is not to counterattack, but to launch a defense on the spot!
Riding on the war horse, watching his men marching southward with torches, I was thinking: I have been fighting with the Eighth Route Army for several years, and the Eighth Route Army's tactics have always been hit and run.
After several years of raiding, I also saw the officers of the Eighth Route Army who surrendered, so I naturally knew the tactics of the Eighth Route Army very well. Isn't it the following: when the enemy advances, we retreat, when the enemy is stationed, we harass, when the enemy is tired, we attack, when the enemy retreats, we pursue?
On the other hand, if the security forces attack now, the Eighth Route Army will definitely retreat, so the next step we should consider is how to pursue the Eighth Route Army!
He took the water bottle handed over by the adjutant next to him, took a big sip, then pulled a chicken leg and stuffed it into his mouth. He held up the telescope with one hand and watched the skirmisher line grow in the field.
Because his men set fire to piles of dry grass in the field as they walked.
For a moment, the fire shot into the sky, turning half of the sky red.
He suddenly felt a sense of pride in his heart and threw away the chicken bones: "Guard platoon, come forward with me immediately, and we will personally suppress the formation!"
The light and heavy firepower will naturally be arranged by the regimental commander, battalion commander, and company commander, and it is not his turn to worry about it.
He didn't realize that there were no levels in the organized attack this time. In other words, if we were to fight a positional battle with Tubal Road, did we still need to have levels?
The North China Security Army is not a ragtag group. Even more than half of the company-level officers went to the North China Army Officer School to study and serve after graduation.
Not to mention the battalion commanders.
Faced with the defeated soldiers who escaped from time to time, the officers at all levels did not punish them, but just asked the reception team to gather them together.
No one blamed them. They are still able to run back. At least those who ran away from the beginning. These defeated soldiers were even given preferential treatment. They briefly inquired about the situation of the eight routes behind them, and then asked about the original unit number. They gathered together in a group and He was taken back to the original army.
It was just a big area, and Brigadier Tang didn't even bother to take out the map. It would be useless to take a look at it.
You have to dismount and mount again, which is very troublesome. The troops in front are advancing, so you have to watch them in person before you feel relieved.
I didn't get the key deployment information of the Eighth Route Army from the men who escaped. They said the same thing thousands of times: There are Eighth Route Army everywhere, machetes, bayonets, and shuttlecocks. As for the heavy firepower of the Eighth Route Army, there is no such thing!
Perhaps, the bullets from the previous machine gun shots fired by Eighth Route Army should have been exhausted long ago.
The commander of the army who had traveled far behind sent someone on horseback to deliver a message: We must repel the Eighth Route Army's attack. We cannot afford to lose face like this in front of the imperial army's advisors.
The brigade commander was distracted by this and began to wonder what would happen if he were defeated. Since the imperial army raided the Eighth Route Army headquarters in May, the Eighth Route Army's activities had weakened.
The biggest operation was the attack on Huaxian a few days ago. The news he received was that the imperial army and the imperial association army defending the city were not there, and it was almost an empty city. Therefore, until now, he has not figured out what the Eighth Route Army is doing. How many people came.
However, will it be useful if we come to Tubal Road again?
In addition to being able to engage in guerrilla warfare, ambushes and sneak attacks, when did the Eighth Route Army ever engage in regular warfare?
there has never been!
Well, the thinking is clear!
He still forgot that he was ambushed by eight forces this time, and his men lost an unknown number of guns and ammunition on the battlefield.
The biggest hobby of the Eighth Route Army, the old rival of the Emperor's Alliance Army, is to capture.
According to reports from the imperial army, among the Eighth Route guerrillas on the plains, only half of the people in a company of some units had guns, and most of them had old sleeves with almost worn rifling. Some even used guns from the mountains. Those single-shot pistols made by Tubal Road, made of a few pieces of broken iron, can only fire one bullet at a time, and they don't even have a front sight or a rear sight.
It's worse than a folk hunting gun that dares to attack him and won't stop until he drags ten or eight of him to death from behind his horse!
Do you think our North China security forces are vegetarians?
