Once Yuji Watanabe and Taro Kawamoto left, the little devils in the valley really fell into fighting on their own.
There are not many heavy weapons that these escaping little devils can bring here. Except for a few 81mm mortars, there are only a few heavy machine guns and light machine guns left, and they are basically deployed in the valley.
Gao Jianwu used a fire attack to defeat the Japs defending the valley. After capturing the surrounding valley entrances, the Japs inside no longer had much natural danger to stop the siege.
Although in such a valley, there is basically no suitable reference for accurate mortar shooting, Gao Jianwu did not intend to be reasonable at all.
He directly called up the coordinates of the map in his mind and started a covering incendiary bomb attack. One after another incendiary bombs flew into the valley and started to ignite one place after another. Soon, a prairie fire was formed, destroying the withered grass and bushes in the valley. Light them up one after another!
Amidst the fire and smoke in the sky, the little devils ran out one by one, howling miserably, trying to fight the soldiers of the Independent Regiment and Dagushan Guerrilla Brigade who were guarding the valley. However, by this time, light and heavy machine guns had already been set up at the entrance of the valley.
Faced with this kind of express delivered to the door, everyone was very happy to use machine guns to call the names. In less than an hour, there were no more living things rushing out of the valley.
But Gao Jianwu was not happy because he did not remember the reminder in his mind in real time, which meant that the little devil commander was still there!
And it has not left the search range of the Independent Regiment and Dagushan Guerrilla Brigade, otherwise it will prompt the end of the battle. But even if this doesn't lead to annihilation of the organization, the loss would be huge by comparison just relying on the annihilated heads to explode the equipment.
You must know that the Watanabe Task Force is a coalition level. According to the experience of the previous two upgrades of the system, if the Watanabe Task Force is annihilated into an organic system, Gao Jianwu's Anti-Japanese War Base System will be upgraded to another level!
"Spread out in small groups and search for the escaped Japs outside the valley!" Gao Jianwu ordered to the Dagushan guerrilla brigade.
"Lao Shen, please inform Battalion Commander Zhang that the enemy's counterattack was quite scattered and lacked command. I suspect that the little devil Yuuji Watanabe has fled from the mountain. It is best to spread out at the platoon level to expand the search area and strive for Capture Yuuji Watanabe alive!"
"Understood, Lao Gao, I'll go find Lao Zhang." Shen Quan knew why Gao Jianwu left this matter to him.
Now the Independent Regiment and the Dagushan Guerrilla Brigade are actually two different teams. The coordination between them would be a bit embarrassing if it were Gao Jianwu, a subordinate who had rarely seen Zhang Dabiao a few months ago.
But Shen Quan was different. He and Zhang Dabiao were equal commanders of the main battalion before.
As soon as Shen Quan left, Gao Jianwu led Song Tiecheng and others into a team and began to leave quickly towards the outside.
After opening the map in his mind, Gao Jianwu looked at the range of possible routes on the hills around the valley, and slowly determined a few suspicious routes, while sending several groups of Dagushan guerrilla brigade soldiers to block them.
On the other hand, he also chose an area where he could escape, and took a small road to pass over and prepare to intercept.
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Following the path opened by Taro Kawamoto, Yuji Watanabe panted heavily and tried his best to keep up.
The fire and smoke that filled the mountains and plains in the valley made Watanabe Yuji both frightened and a little scared. Tubalu was indeed ruthless and had no intention of leaving them alive.
Thinking that of the more than 3,000 people he had brought out, only the dozens around him could still be seen, Watanabe Yuuji couldn't help but his eyes darkened.
The originally stout figure was already overwhelmed by the high-intensity climbing. Now he was hanging with only one breath, and with a rope tied to his body, Watanabe Yuji kept climbing up the steep hillside.
When they climbed up the mountain, the valley was basically burned by raging fires, leaving almost no chance of survival.
Watanabe Yuuji sat on the ridge of the mountain for several minutes before letting the radio transmit the news that the Watanabe task force was almost completely wiped out through the radio waves.
The central flowering has come to naught. Yuji Watanabe no longer cares whether the 139th Regiment comes or not, but Yuji Watanabe still hopes that the other two reinforcements can return.
Unfortunately, the reinforcements from Ping'an and Heyuan, blocked by the New Regiment and the 358th Regiment respectively, have now fallen into fierce fighting, and it is no longer easy to withdraw.
What makes Yuji Watanabe even more worried is that the 139th Regiment Kurono Nakasei Daizuo rejected the suggestion to retreat, and asked the two reinforcements from Ping An and Heyuan not to retreat, and tightly restrained the New 1st Regiment and the 358th Regiment to give him a chance. Go eat the independent group!
Being able to defeat the enemy who destroyed the Watanabe Task Force was his ability and real record of Kurono Nakage.
Originally, Kurono Nakasari felt that it was not enough to take down the independent regiment's military exploits. He was quite disdainful of the independence regiment, which did not have an official designation. It would be boring to fight on the Tubal Road. If it were not for the purpose of punishing the Dagushan Guerrilla Brigade that robbed the army, Kurono Nonaka Cheng will not send troops.
Looking at it now, this battle achievement is not small, so I am even more motivated to fight.
Of course, Kurono Nakacheng is not stupid. The leading forces around Zhao Jiayu, the New First Regiment, the New Second Regiment and the 358th Regiment, have also marked their locations on his combat map. Now there are people from Ping An and Heyuan to contain the others. The two strongest groups among the several forces, the remaining Independent Group and the New Second Group, even if they were united together, would not be enough to fill his teeth in the black field.
He is the main force of the serious field division. Although Zhao Jiayu is still more than ten miles away from the road, for his artillery team, the mountain artillery can get in, but the field artillery cannot pull it in.
But it was only a few kilometers away, so he could just set up the artillery positions directly on the side of the road. The range of the Type 38 field artillery has exceeded 10 kilometers, and it has no problem covering Zhao Jiayu.
After a burst of shelling, it was enough to send a large group of soldiers to clean up the mess.
In Kurono Zhongcheng's mind, what worries him most is that Tubal has escaped!
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On the other side, commandos Gao Jianwu and Song Tiecheng, who took a shortcut to guard an escape path from the mountain, hid in the grass on the roadside.
"Team Gao, if we guard here, the Japs will automatically come to our door?" Song Tiecheng chewed grass roots, always feeling a little unreliable.
"It's just a possibility." Gao Jianwu was not sure. There were two or three mountains that the kid could climb, and there were as many as seven or eight trails down the mountain.
The probability of being able to squat is only about one in ten.
This does require luck.
However, the path I chose is almost the best path to take. As long as the kid is familiar with the mountains, he will choose this place.
After all, they are not professional mountain warfare special forces. The probability of accidents on difficult trails is too high, not to mention that they have a senior officer with them.
In the mountains, these fat-headed officers are simply a burden.
Gao Jianwu, who was empathetic and knew the terrain well, felt that if the other party had some ability, he would find this easiest path through simple observation.
However, even if the kid didn't pass through here, it would be very difficult to escape Gao Jianwu's ambush from all sides, so Gao Jianwu waited with great peace of mind.
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