175. Liujia Estuary

As his health improved and the soldiers of Shina were gone, Motegi said to Umei: "What's wrong with us, watching the people of the 117th Brigade withdraw, can they go, and we can't go?" Umei said: "General, we have to admit that the 117th Brigade is a mourning army. The books of war say that the mourning soldiers will win, if the imperial army does it just now, it will endanger the headquarters, you see their faces are full of death words, they are not afraid of desperate death. Besides, the soldiers and horses of the Imperial Army were shocked by the bombs, and the cold wind froze, and they couldn't move if they wanted to, and their consciousness was restored little by little......

Motegi had to nod his head and admit that his analysis was correct, so he regretted it: "Whoosh......" After all the officers and soldiers woke up one after another, it was 8 o'clock in the morning of the 12th, Motegi convened a meeting of the commanders who were still alive, everyone was ignorant, and no one wanted to speak. Shintaro Umei had to start counting the soldiers and officers lost by the 13th, 25th, and 17th wings and their subordinate teams. After Motegi dismissed the meeting, he immediately ordered the commanders of each wing to reorganize and gather their troops, and began to assemble for another attack on the 117th Brigade. Since the artillery brigade of Oni Beta Taro Osa's was to the east of the Wolf Ditch Gate, he was less affected by the bombs, so he drove his troops up first. Motegi saw the arrival of Oni Beta Taro Osa, who was even more tired than menacing, and his confidence gradually increased.

Brigade Commander Ding ordered the 235th Regiment to take all its wounded to the west of Liujia, and went straight to Kara Street; After handing over some of the wounded to other units, the remnants of the 234th and 233rd regiments went south of Liujia, ran north of Lama Ditch, and made a feint towards the horse rack. The 236th Regiment and the Special Service Regiment were also responsible for taking away the wounded of other units from Liujia and the mouth of the Karajie River, directly into the elm forest south of Karajie. As soon as Brigade Commander Ding led the headquarters out of the estuary, Commander Mao sent scouts to report that Motegi had reorganized his troops and horses and was chasing him westward. The special mission asked for instructions, followed the path taken by the 235th regiment, and traveled westward lightly to transport the wounded. Brigade Commander Ding had no choice but to grant his request, but ordered them not to go too far from Kara Street, and to quickly cooperate with the other units to transport the wounded and baggage to the west, and also divided his troops to cover and cooperate with the brigade headquarters in its westward march.

Director Han, together with Brigade Commander Ding, commanded all units to coordinate and rush to transport the wounded. At this time, the wounded were carried on the road, and some of the personnel of the field hospital rescued the seriously wounded, and some treated the wounds of the lightly wounded. They were clearly understaffed, as half of the personnel had gone to the front to take care of the old wounded.

At this moment, the investigators came to report that in the area of the southwest ditch of Nantaizi, there were the wounded and logistics troops of the 233rd Regiment and the 234th Regiment who had woken up, including the Baiji Squad, all of which were blocked by one of the 13th Wing of the Devil's Gang to the east of Shengtugang......

When Brigade Commander Ding and the personnel of the headquarters heard this, their hearts became anxious, and everyone looked at Director Han. The main forces are being transferred, and at this time there are still troops intercepted by the enemy in the back, do you take the risk to save them, or do you leave them alone? Obviously, the main force will be bitten by the devils, and if they don't come back, those intercepted troops are their own brothers in life and death, crawling over with blood and fire, can they just watch them being besieged and killed by the devils?

Director Han waved his fist at Brigade Commander Ding and said, "If you don't save it, you can't say it, it will damage the overall image of our 117th Brigade and weaken our vitality...... Although he discussed with Brigade Commander Ding, his tone was unquestionable. As soon as these words came out, someone immediately responded, and the wounded who were squeezed crooked in the empty space of the trees stood up one after another, demanding to be killed in the southwest ditch. Two people in the crowd shouted the loudest, and each of them was surrounded by a circle of people. With a wave of his hand, Brigade Commander Ding stopped their commotion, and turned to look at the man who was closer to him.

If you don't look at it, you were startled, although this person had a layer of gunpowder smoke on his body and face, but Brigade Commander Ding had already seen it, and said in surprise: "Ao, Ma Mingchuan, why are you here?" Ma Mingchuan was a little embarrassed, raised his right hand and saluted, and said: "The last general, Ma Mingchuan, I am willing to take a team of men and horses to kill back, if I don't save those brothers, I will die there......" Director Han also waved his hand at him and said: "Heroes are full of courage, and they should be brave and strategic." ”

Ma Mingchuan wiped the soot on his face with his sleeve, raised his hand and pulled up a devil's crooked machine gun from the ground, and said: "Brothers, if you are willing to sweat and blood with me......" Brigade Commander Ding pointed to the group of people behind him with his hand and said: "Which part of you, if the injury is not serious, hurry up and find your own troops to ......" A person stood out from the crowd, he was also wearing the clothes of the Northeast Army, wiped the soot on his face, and said: "The battalion commander can go back to save people, why can't I even say a word?" ”

Chief of Staff Zhang looked at it and said: "Which part are you, the military situation is urgent, who allows you to be in a hurry and compete here?" The man looked unconvinced, and said: "Ask me which part, the old third battalion of the 236th regiment is a word company, my name is Chen Dahei...... A person behind him also said indignantly: "This is our company commander Chen Dahei, last night we and the battalion commander Ma both touched the periphery of Motegi's headquarters, who knew that a bomb blew us up......"

Director Han beckoned to Ma Mingchuan and Chen Dahei, and called them to Brigade Commander Ding, who held a pile of sand to make a terrain, and in just a few words, he talked about several people suddenly, and Brigade Commander Ding couldn't stop nodding. I saw Ma Mingchuan and Chen Dahei each wave their hands, take up a group of their own people, and kill half of the arrow river flowing with soup soup to the southwest ditch in the southeast direction. Chief of Staff Zhang waved his hand and constantly picked out the wounded among them and replaced them with new ones.

As soon as these two groups of them left, the devil forward horse team who had been killed from Liujiacun Avenue showed up. Brigade Commander Ding took out his talisman gun and said, "To this day, I don't want to leave. Director Han and Section Chief Li, I'm really sorry, I can't complete the task assigned by Commander Sun, and I really can't protect you. You two go after the 235th Regiment with the soldiers who are protecting you in the guard battalion, and bring out as many troops as you can. Jia Congliang will bear with you again, after all, he is the representative of Nanjing......" After saying this, he waved his small pistol and said: "All the personnel of the headquarters, the guys, and the devil fought ......"

The commander of the guard battalion, Mi Weide, drew his pistol and said: "The first company is responsible for concealing the wounded, and the second and third companies are responsible for resisting the ...... for me" Teaching the regiment commander Guang Liuhe also led the troops to come, Mi Weide said to him: "We are a guard unit, and we have the responsibility of guarding, so we have to resist here, and the commander of the regiment is responsible for protecting the headquarters...... Guang Liuhe said: "Battalion commander Mi, you are responsible for protecting the headquarters, and the job of resisting the devils will be handed over to us......"

Director Han smiled shyly and said a few words to Brigade Commander Ding, who put the talisman gun into the gun bag and said with a solemn expression: "I had to take a risk...... Everyone, listen to my orders, and only one platoon of the guard battalion will be left here to wipe the guns for the devils...... Battalion Commander Mi and Regiment Commander Guang took your troops and immediately took all the wounded away. Otherwise, Lao Tzu will engage in military law ......"

Although the Dasong Squadron of the 13th Wing of the Devil was a little difficult to march, it still hesitated to the mouth of the Liujia River, and the squadron leader Dasong Shaozo looked west across the Taotao River, and on the sand on the other side of the river, several commanders of the 117th Brigade were pulling the map and looking at them unhurriedly, and no one looked at them on the east bank. The guards not far away all unloaded their guns, and they were wiping their guns as if no one was around...... Several times Omatsu Shaoza wanted to order the striker to shoot, but he didn't dare to ......

Ono Taro Osa soon arrived, and he parked his horse behind Omatsu and looked west. Damatsu hurriedly led his subordinates to retreat to Dazuo and waited for instructions. Ono Taro looked at the leisurely actions of the defenders on the west bank and said, "Omatsu-kun, don't act rashly. The 117th Brigade has always been wise, and the Imperial Army can no longer suffer their losses......"