The light up of the fireworks on the horizon not only pointed out the direction for Matsuura Junrokuro and others to break out, but also pointed out the direction for the pursuing officers and soldiers of the First Guard Regiment.
"Go, chase in the direction where the flares are rising!" Liu Houming said fiercely.
"Yes! Sir!" The officers and soldiers nearby responded, then picked up their firearms and chased to that place.
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The officers and soldiers of the special agent company were in pursuit, but what was Zhang Tianhai doing?
The job Zhang Tianhai had to do was also very simple, which was to clean the battlefield.
Well, of course, Zhang Tianhai's "cleaning the battlefield" was very targeted. In addition to burying the fallen Nationalist soldiers, it was more about searching for loot.
When he saw the flare rising into the sky, Zhang Tianhai was stunned for a moment, and he said softly: "It seems that reinforcements from Little Japan have already arrived... Notify the troops that they must be completed before four o'clock mission, and then the army retreats!”
"Yes! Group seat!" Xu Xun next to him responded.
For these people, they have long been accustomed to obeying the orders of the leader as their bounden duty.
"Time is running out..." Zhang Tianhai murmured. This time, although there was a great victory, his troops also suffered heavy losses. This was the heaviest casualty since the establishment of the First Guard Regiment.
Finally, Zhang Tianhai suddenly remembered a unit, which was the Independent Brigade living in Lushan Mountain.
"Come over here and notify Deputy Commander Guo immediately and ask him to call the Independent Brigade and inform Captain Xu Feilong that the main force of our troops is preparing to evacuate from Jiangxi. Please get ready!" Zhang Tianhai pointed at an officer casually. Then the battle order was issued.
"Yes!" the officer responded.
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As time passed bit by bit, the officers and soldiers of the special agent company did not relax their pursuit of Junroku Matsuura. They received a death order from the company commander.
At the same time, Liu Houming, as the company commander, is also very aware of the significance of Matsuura Junrokuro himself to the entire battle. If Matsuura Junrokuro can be killed, it will be a perfect ending to the entire Wanjialing battle!
On the other hand, if Matsuura Junrokuro was allowed to escape, then the entire Wanjialing battle, after so many lives had been spent, would still have a flaw.
Therefore, Liu Houming could not let Matsuura Junrokuro escape so smoothly under any circumstances. Even if he could not kill him, he would still be injured. In short, he could not escape intact!
As for Liu Houming himself, he believed that he was in charge of the most elite company in the national army. He must make the reputation of the special agent company amplified and let the people across the country know that there is such an elite company. The troops are still fighting!
The Japanese army's flare did not last long before it went out. However, at this moment, the second flare shot up into the sky again, as if to illuminate everything in the dark night.
However, this time, Matsuura Junrokuro was not so lucky. The moment he and his assistant stepped out of the dense forest, several bullets flew towards them.
"boom!"
"boom!"
"boom!"
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There were about a dozen gunshots, and more than a dozen bullets traveled through the air, and then hit Matsuura Junrokuro and his assistant officers fiercely.
However, not all bullets hit.
Nearly half of the bullets lost their accuracy due to insufficient brightness, and most of the remaining bullets flew to the Japanese military officer. Only three bullets hit Matsuura Junrokuro.
One hit the leg, one hit the arm, and one hit the waist.
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After seeing that both men fell to the ground, and seeing that the goal had been achieved, in order to reduce troop casualties and avoid getting entangled with Japanese reinforcements, Liu Houming ordered the officers and soldiers of the special agent company to retreat immediately.
Looking at the Japanese army, they put in two flares. Isn't the purpose of welcoming Junrokuro Matsuura, the commander of the division? So when they saw the two running Japanese soldiers, they immediately chose to greet them.
However, what they never expected was that as soon as their men set out, gunfire rang out in the forest, knocking the person they were about to meet to the ground.
"Alert!! Alert!!! Counterattack immediately!!" Ito Aishaku shouted, and at the same time he looked very panicked. He had a hunch that one of the two people who was hit was the commander of the division, Junroku Matsuura. !
"Hai!!"
What responded to Ito Blue Ruler was the immediate counterattack by these men. At the same time, some soldiers with quick eyesight and quick hands had already rescued the two people.
"There is help here!" A Japanese soldier said to his comrade next to him, because he was holding Matsuura Junrokuro!
"There is no hope here, he was hit in the head!" another Japanese soldier responded.
"Help me, I am Matsuura Junrokuro! Help me now!" After being shot, Matsuura Junrokuro fell into a coma to a certain extent. He woke up at the most critical moment, which was considered a temporary rescue. Dead.
"Doctor!! Doctor!!" The Japanese soldiers in front began to shout crazily because they had rescued the target they wanted to rescue.
After hearing the shouts from the front, Ito Aishaku also hurried up. At this time, he no longer cared about the possibility of enemy troops ambushing in the dense forest. He had to go up immediately to check the situation - otherwise, if Lieutenant General Matsuura Junrokuro If he dies in battle, he will definitely be responsible.
After confirming his identity, Ito Aishaku also began to direct the personnel to rescue Junroku Matsuura.
At this time, Liu Houming led his troops and waved his sleeves, not taking away a single cloud.
Zhang Tianhai, who was far away at the top of Zhanggu Mountain, had also commanded the troops to recover a lot of Zhongzheng rifles. Of course, he did not refuse the intact 38-inch caps, and just shipped the firearms back basket by basket.
In addition to Zhang Tianhai's troops, other troops also participated in the equipment recovery operation, and their actions were not unusually fast.
Finally, before four o'clock in the morning, the First Guard Regiment completed its task of cleaning the battlefield and began to retreat to Yueyang in northern Hunan.
Because the order they received was to go to Yueyang City to make repairs!
Looking at the exhausted troops while riding on his horse, Zhang Tianhai took a deep breath: "This battle is finally over. Let's go back and have a good rest before fighting the next battle!"
"Old Zhang, I didn't expect you to be so sad? This is not the style you should have as a tough guy!" Guo Qiliang joked next to him.
He should have been happy after winning the battle, but Zhang Tianhai was not happy at all - because after this battle, in the Battle of Wuhan, the national army was about to go downhill, and even lost Wuhan!
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