Among the three Japs, the one who was hit the hardest vomited blood.
Although the person is not dead yet, breathing is very difficult.
Seeing this, the Jaap team leader did not dare to kill anyone anymore, otherwise everyone would be killed, and other Japs would surely realize that he, the commander, was deliberately killing wounded soldiers.
And four people were injured at one time. Such losses forced him to report the matter to his commander.
But this was not an accident. More than one of the Japs' search troops was attacked by traps, and at least five infantry teams were in the same situation.
The opponent's trap was actually not very lethal. Only five or six Japanese were killed, but there were too many wounded, about a dozen.
Such casualties immediately made it impossible for the little devil's search operation to continue. Because it's obvious that there are other traps in the woods.
Although these traps are not very lethal, they are very concealed. Even if the little devils are careful one by one, they still keep falling into traps.
So there was no other way. An infantry brigade of the Japanese 15th Regiment had no choice but to stop and report the incident to its commander.
The captain of the 15th Wing was very angry. He did not expect that such a big accident would happen just after the search started.
But it was impossible to stop, because the three infantry regiments were searching forward from the west, northwest, north, northeast, south, southeast, etc. directions of Black Tiger Mountain. Therefore, if other troops are searching and advancing and his troops do not continue to advance, there will be huge loopholes in the entire encirclement.
Everyone knows the significance of this action. If someone makes an oversight and causes Dano to escape, then Doihara-dono will have to kill him.
So the old Japanese could only order the troops to move forward, and sent the matter to the other two infantry regiments via telegram.
But the other two infantry regiments did not encounter such a situation at all.
Of course, this is because the Dragon Boat Festival enters Yehu Mountain from the west side of Yehu Mountain, so there are the most traps on the west side.
As for the east, south, and north sides of Yehu Mountain, the trap area will be close to the center of Yehu Mountain.
Because those traps were set up later, and it was only a matter of time before the other troops of the Little Devil were blocked.
At this time, Dragon Boat Festival was hiding in the woods with the soldiers of the Special 1st Battalion to rest, eating compressed biscuits and canned beef from Little Devil, and drinking sweet mountain spring water.
This is the first meal of the day for the Special First Battalion, and it will also be the last meal of the next day.
The next battle may be brutal. Dragon Boat Festival not only had to fight against an enemy thirty or forty times taller than himself, but also had to avoid bombings from Japanese aircraft.
So no one knows where or when to eat the next meal after eating this meal.
But they couldn't eat too much because their rest time was only half an hour in total.
They still have to fight to stop the little devil's actions. Otherwise, the little devil can definitely walk around a thirty-kilometer area in one afternoon.
Everything is to gain more space for activities, and to break away from the battle at night and retreat to a safe area.
As long as he leaves Yehu Mountain and gets rid of the Japanese here, Duanwu will have absolute confidence to enter the Wuhu area and then return to Mount Tai from there.
Duanwu looked at his watch, there was still some time, and he was going to lie down for a while, because he hadn't slept in two days.
However, just as he was about to rest, the communications troops came to report: "Report to the regiment, a call from Wanjialing. Battalion Commander Chen said that the Japs had broken through the mountain stronghold, and they were blocking the Japs in the central village. However, there were many casualties. The weapons and ammunition were almost exhausted, so he asked when the reinforcements would arrive. If the reinforcements could not arrive immediately, in order to ensure the safety of his wife, he decided to withdraw his troops into the back mountains and continue to deal with the Japs."
Duanwu looked at Ma Pingan at this time. Ma Pingan was also resting, but he had not slept well. He immediately sat up after hearing the report from the communications troops, and then quickly sent a message to the 115th Division to inquire about the location of the reinforcements.
However, the 115th Division responded that the reinforcements had lost contact for unknown reasons, possibly because the radio they carried was broken.
The reason why the division leaders thought the radio station was broken was because many of the front-line troops at the regiment level did not have radio stations. The radio station of the 686th Regiment of the reinforcements was a radio station eliminated by the division headquarters, and was given to the regiment leader Li Tianyou as a reward.
Therefore, the division headquarters believed that this radio station was on strike.
But the radio station is on strike, so it is impossible to accurately determine the location of the 686th Group at this time.
Duanwu fell into deep thought, because according to time calculation, the 686th regiment should arrive at Wanjialing before three o'clock in the afternoon.
But now that we can't contact the 686th group, we don't know how far away they are from Wanjialing and how long it will take.
So Duanwu made a decisive decision and quickly ordered Chen Shusheng to fight according to his own plan, and to retreat to the mountains behind Wanjialing if necessary.
Although the back mountain of Wanjialing is a death valley, the terrain is complicated. If you want to hide someone, even if the entire supervision team of Dragon Boat Festival can hide in it, the little devil may not be able to find it.
Therefore, it is precisely because of this that Wanjialing is particularly important. It can be attacked when advancing and defended when retreating. Even if several Japanese divisions surround it, it will have no effect.
So when Chen Shusheng received the Dragon Boat Festival order, he felt confident.
He ordered the troops to alternately block the enemy, constantly consuming the opponent's effective strength, and then ordered the troops to move into the back mountains of Wanjialing in batches.
At this time, the villagers, wounded, and food from Wanjialing had all moved into the back mountains. Chen Shusheng no longer has any worries. He can let go to fight, let go to retreat,
At the same time, Momotaro also realized that their enemies were trying to escape, but he was not worried because he knew that the back mountain of Wanjialing was a death valley. After the supervision team and the people from Wanjialing entered the back mountain, it could be said that they were facing a dead end.
Remember Doihara’s plan? Once their enemies entered the back mountains of Wanjialing, he would order the imperial planes to drop a large number of incendiary bombs, burning the entire back mountains of Wanjialing.
With a cruel smile on his face, Momotaro was already preparing to order the communications troops to send a telegram to Lord Doihara.
I just didn't expect that at this moment, a Japanese soldier hurriedly came to report: "Your Excellency, a large number of Eighth Route Army troops were found at the foot of Wanjialing Mountain, and they will reach Wanjialing in less than two kilometers."
"Nani?"
Momotaro was shocked, and he was very glad that he had made arrangements in advance and left a dozen little devils to post sentries near Wanjialing. Otherwise, their enemies would stab them in the butt with bayonets, and they might not even know! .
(End of chapter)
