The Eighth Route Army was often surrounded by Japanese and puppet troops, but it always managed to break through the encirclement.
As a side that is surrounded, it is generally at a disadvantage. Either its troops are inferior to its opponents, or its weapons and equipment are inferior to those of its opponents.
Surrounded by the opponent but able to concentrate their strength, you have the right to choose where and when the breakout battle starts, as well as the scale of the battle.
The breakout party is on the offensive. It first loses the advantage of geographical location, and then faces the situation and can only resign itself to fate. No one knows whether the enemy commander has arranged in advance to ambush heavy troops on the breakout route.
As a strong encircling party, the advantages and disadvantages are equally complex. First of all, the number of troops must be large. If the distance between the two sides is far, there is still time to mobilize and concentrate troops or even ambush the breaking out party. However, it is impossible to predict the direction and timing of the opponent's breaking out. They can wait to death or seek opportunities during the movement to concentrate local forces for a decisive battle with the breakouts.
In either case, the attacking side will suffer more casualties than the defending side.
As a defensive side, it is natural to hope to take advantage of the strength and equipment to confront the opponent's main force.
The breakout party naturally hopes to avoid a head-on confrontation with its opponent.
However, troops are unpredictable, whether offensive or defensive, which will test the command capabilities of the grassroots commanders on both sides.
After the Japanese reinforcements from the north were severely damaged by large landmines, they had no intention of stopping and continued to press forward!
There were rifles and light machine guns in the green gauze tent, and grenades and bullets did not recognize anyone.
The bullets fired by the advancing Japanese soldiers were blocked by the green gauze tent and did little harm to the hesitating puppet troops in a short period of time.
The puppet troops who had been trained by the Japanese also arranged battlefield sentries, and soon found that the Japanese were getting closer and closer.
Regardless of whether he surrenders to Taijun again or not, now that bullets don’t recognize people, he must leave first before making any plans!
But as long as the puppet troops stop, they will immediately fall into the unfavorable situation of being attacked from both sides.
Although the puppet army is not very strong, Captain Wu is very clear about the situation he is facing.
It is very important whether these men can rush out alive and whether the commando can maintain a sustained attack speed.
The combat effectiveness and equipment of Wu Shu's puppet troops are naturally far inferior to those of the Japanese, but they are better in numbers.
Now they can survive and break through to the south. The local strength advantage formed far exceeds the ability of a small team to stop the Japanese.
The Japs who broke into the green gauze tent to the east and formed their troops mainly targeted the Eighth Route Army hiding in the green gauze tent to the east.
After the reinforcements arrived, the Japs had changed from arranging formations along the north-south road to spreading out in the east-west direction.
Suddenly encountering the puppet troops from the north breaking out and attacking to the south, it is equivalent to being attacked by the puppet troops on the flank.
Since Wu Shuneng is the pseudo-leader, he naturally has a few brushes and knows how to give someone a fist, which is not as harmful as asking for a steel needle to cause more damage to the opponent.
A hastily organized commando team crawled on the ground. The company commander was a man, and he kept shouting to cheer up the puppet soldiers: "Brothers, the blind muskets don't have eyesight, and the bullets may not be able to bite us." "
"Get down low. If you can see the flash, just throw a grenade and kill those bastards."
"A man dies and a bird flies into the sky, but eighteen years later he is a good man again!"
"The regiment leader has given an order. The brothers who rush out will be charged twenty yuan each!" the pseudo-adjutant yelled from behind.
"Fifty dollars for each person who fell on the road."
"If you're a man, hurry up and rush. If you're a coward, it's useless if you lie on the ground. The little devil won't give us a way to survive."
The puppet company commander's words were reasonable. The puppet soldiers also understood the current situation, not to mention they wanted to stay away from the sound of gunfire behind them.
Hearing that there is money in life and death, more and more bullets are whizzing from the weak side.
Some puppet soldiers began to shout at each other: "No, the Taijun from the north is coming."
"It's all about death anyway, let's fight."
"What are you waiting for? Come on"
Naturally, there were casualties on the way to the charge. Puppet soldiers were constantly hit by the whizzing bullets and fell on the way to break through and charge.
There are hundreds of puppet soldiers herding sheep. Once the leading sheep starts running, the puppet soldiers behind do not need to greet them at all and will naturally follow.
Even after crossing the ditch on the east side guarded by the Eighth Route Army, no one ran to the side!
The advantage of the numerous puppet soldiers began to appear.
The so-called "killing the master with random gunshots" means that a squad of Japanese soldiers who blocked the front of the puppet army, after killing an unknown number of Imperial Army soldiers, were finally killed by hand bombs of the prostrate puppet soldiers and were shot to death indiscriminately.
Hundreds of puppet troops faced more than a dozen Japs in front of them. Even if they didn't fire a single shot, they could break through the Japs' defense line with a fire stick!
The assault company crawled all the way, and no one knew what the casualties were. It wasn't until no more Japanese appeared in front that they discovered... Oh, how smoothly did they break out of the Japanese "siege"?
No one knew that the puppet troops charging south had passed the first line of defense on the Japanese flank and were about to face the second line of defense of the second Japanese team.
However, the formation of the puppet troops who wanted to escape was in chaos. The original sagittal formation could not be maintained. The two wings were squeezed by their own people and spread out.
The pseudo-regiment leader saw so many people crowded together and the formation of the team began to become chaotic, so he had to distract himself and loudly shouted to his battalion company commander to pay attention to gathering all the units.
If the team is really in disarray, something will happen!
The Japanese who were attacked felt even more aggrieved.
The elite of a small team was unexpectedly broken through from the front by the Imperial Alliance Army, which had never taken a serious look at them.
The second lieutenant commander was a little panicked.
In the flash of the grenade explosion, the second lieutenant saw clearly that it was the Imperial Alliance Army that attacked him.
There are more than fifty people in his team, and one of the warriors in front of him is already dead.
Although countless Imperial Army soldiers were killed on the flanks and the attacks from the Imperial Army were relatively light, they still had to retreat under the constant attack of the Imperial Army.
There must be some Japanese who are fighting to the death, but they are just legends. If you insist on holding on knowing that you can't stop them, you are irresponsible for your own life!
Should he stay and fight the Imperial Army, or should he retreat? Faced with death, the second lieutenant quickly made a wise decision: he had not yet sent home the few gold bars he had hidden in the county barracks.
The Japanese who made their fortune by robbery would naturally not object to the second lieutenant's order and immediately retreated south.
The Japs' idea is very simple. They retreat to the south and meet up with the previous flanking team, which should now be called the second team line team, and then make plans.
The Japs in the police force maintain law and order on weekdays and have always chased the anti-Japanese elements to fight. They have never tasted the taste of failure. They have long forgotten that there was a saying in the military academy that defeat is like a mountain.
The puppet troops who were following the Japanese suddenly discovered that they were escaping in the green gauze tent and had not been counterattacked by Taijun. Slowly, the ranks of the puppet troops who broke through and escaped became wider and wider.
Hearing that the friendly second lieutenant in the north was under attack, the Japanese second lieutenant who was on the second line of defense had gathered his troops to the north for defense and quickly dug in to prepare for the attack.
After hearing what the second lieutenant said when he returned, the second lieutenant felt that he could not see the target in the dark and relied on luck. Although the imperial army was invincible, it could not defeat ten with one.
Moreover, this time the captain ordered to mainly defend the Eighth Route Army to the east. It is unknown whether the Imperial Alliance Army that came this time was driven over by the Eighth Route Army or for some other reason.
Therefore, the smart second lieutenant began to think wildly. What if the Imperial Alliance Army was allowed to pass through his own defense line and enter the gap between himself and the third line of defense?
At that time, we will reorganize these Imperial Association troops who disrupted the order of the battlefield. It would not be bad to use them as cannon fodder to attack the Eighth Route Army.
Therefore, the second lieutenant directly ordered the defense line to be released, and asked people to notify the friendly forces on the third line of defense to stop these cowardly Imperial Army troops.
(End of chapter)
