Wanjiazhai, Juyi Hall.
At night, Dragon Boat Festival was in the Juyi Hall looking at the topographic map of Wanjialing given to him by White Snake.
This topographic map was surveyed and drawn by White Snake himself. Although it has a bit more ancient charm, it is much, much better than the map that Shimoyama Tiger gave to Doihara.
Duanwu was very happy, because with this thing, he could develop well in Wanjialing.
Of course, he also thought about fighting out, but he didn't have enough weapons and equipment. If he tried to fight out like this, the casualties would be huge.
However, at this moment, Lao Shou hurriedly walked in and said: "Commander, the Japs really moved. I sent people down the mountain to investigate and found that the Japs' sentries had secretly withdrawn. Moreover, the Japs' troops were also packing up. .Should we sneak attack them?"
Duan Wu raised his eyes and glanced at Lao Shou and said: "Then what happens next?"
"Then?"
Lao Snoring was surprised, but thought for a moment and said, "Let's kill as many little Japs as we want. Isn't that what you said? We will assassinate every Japs soldier until they are exhausted."
Duanwu smiled and said: "You are right, but nowadays, the enemy is strong and we are weak. We cannot lose the watermelon just because we picked up a sesame seed. The leader of the Japanese division of the 14th division is called Doihara . This old devil is very smart. Not only did he prepare to evacuate immediately after the baggage troops were attacked, but he also made sufficient preparations.
Logically speaking, after the Japanese baggage troops were attacked, the Japanese commanders would take necessary military actions in order to avoid being harassed by the enemy during the retreat, such as launching a fierce attack on the enemy's position to make the enemy fearful. Don't dare to pursue easily.
But Doihara didn't, he acted as if nothing happened, pretended to be in detail about his daily life, and then quietly evacuated. "
Lao Snoring said in confusion: "Tuan Zuo, do you mean that we just let the little devils surround us for more than ten days and then ran away like this?"
Duanwu said: "Don't worry, Tufeiyuan will not withdraw so easily. With his cleverness, he will definitely leave an ambush to trap him. Although he has not thought about how many troops he can trap us. . But even with a few scouts, he can disgust us."
Lao Shou said still puzzled: "That Tuanzuo, this Tufeiyuan is so cunning, then we don't do anything?"
Danwu said at this time: "Do it, of course. He Doihara wants to trick us, so why don't we want to trick him. Looking from a distance, if Doihara and Momotaro's large troops leave, it's time for us to trick the little Japs.
Our weapons and equipment are obviously insufficient now. If we don't win a few battles, our life will not be successful. "
"Hey, I'll do it right now!"
This time, Lao Shou understood. Tuanzuo still has to trick the Japanese.
So Lao Shou immediately sent people to arrange an investigation, and Duanwu also called over the first and second battalions of the supervision team.
Dragon Boat Festival releases tasks for Zhu Shengzhong and Sun Shiyu.
The first battalion, with the cooperation of the third battalion, carried out the main attack, while the second battalion was responsible for covering and cutting off the escape routes of the little Japanese. The remaining four and five battalions, as well as the special first battalion, the new battalion, etc., stayed behind to guard the fortifications in Wanjialing to guard against the little Japanese taking advantage of the chaos to attack the mountain.
And everything was ready, just waiting for Doihara and Momotaro's team to leave.
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At the same time, Doihara was ready to leave, and glanced in the direction of Wanjialing with some nostalgia.
How much he wanted to take Wanjialing, but unfortunately he couldn't do it. He fought the attack on Wanjialing for more than ten days, but made no progress at all except capturing part of the position at the foot of Wanjialing Mountain.
And at night, the supervision team took it back again.
And he calculated that in more than ten days of fighting, his battle loss ratio with his opponent was at least five to one.
He is the fifth one to supervise the general team.
So if he continues to attack, tens of thousands of people may be lost in Wanjialing.
This is very uneconomical. Moreover, this is still the position at the foot of the mountain, and the farther you go towards the mountains of Wanjialing, the more dangerous the terrain becomes. And by that time, the battle loss ratio would no longer be five to one, but ten to one.
And if this is the case, the few people he brought with him may not be enough to be buried with him during the Dragon Boat Festival.
So the old devil withdrew directly and arranged for a large group to stay and ambush.
And Doihara gave a time limit. Within two hours after the large army left, no matter how many people came down the mountain, they would evacuate immediately after the ambush.
In other words, Doihara was still worried about the safety of the ambush troops. And made two preparations.
The first step of preparation is to evacuate immediately no matter whether the ambush is successful. The second hand is the time limit.
At the marching speed of Doihara's troops, they could not go very far in two hours. Once the battle situation goes unfavorable, the ambush troops will quickly move closer to Doihara. Doihara will also quickly send reinforcements.
Even for this reason, Doihara planned to encircle and annihilate most of the Dragon Boat Festival, and even directly capture Wanjialing.
Because it is very possible that if Duanwu senses that an ambush is ambushing them, he will send more troops down the mountain. If this happens, Doihara's ambush troops will quickly break through and move closer to Doihara.
At this time, Doihara's troops quickly returned to defense, surrounded most of the Dragon Boat Festival troops outside Wanjialing, and annihilated them on the spot.
And if this is the case, even if half of the troops left to supervise the corps remain on Wanjialing, Doihara will be sure to win Wanjialing.
However, the risk factor of doing so is very high. One of his infantry brigade may be wiped out by Dragon Boat Festival without waiting for his reinforcements. After all, the Dragon Boat Festival battle is very fast, even Doihara is a little uncomfortable.
So in this regard, Doihara's bet has more elements.
Of course, he also thought about retreating directly with his troops, because this was the safest way.
But he was not willing to give in. Even if he just ambushed a few scouts supervising the corps, Doihara felt that it would still disgust the Dragon Boat Festival.
But little did he know that Duan Wu had already seen through his little trick.
Dragon Boat Festival indeed sent out scouts, but they only observed from a distance and did not get close at all.
Therefore, the little devil's scouts naturally did not see anyone coming down from Wanjialing.
So Doihara still retreated according to his original plan.
He and Momotaro set off in the direction of Jiazhuang with nearly 50,000 people, and then split into two groups with Momotaro.
His Fourteenth Division would go south to attack Xuzhou, while Momotaro would take a circuitous route and launch an attack on the Fifth Theater from the west of Xuzhou. The two armies respond to each other and are bound to achieve great results.
Of course, the reason why the two men did this was to find the Eighth Route Army that ambushed their baggage troops.
The two Japs were mad with hatred. If it hadn't been for this mysterious Eighth Route Army unit, although they might not have been able to get down to Wanjialing, they would have been able to trap them for at least a few more months.
But who would have thought that on the western front route into the mountains where it was least likely to be ambushed, and under the protection of so many imperial troops, the artillery brigade and the baggage troops would be completely wiped out. This caught the two Japanese soldiers off guard!
(End of chapter)
