Chapter 277: Waiting for an Opportunity
Captain Takeo Yagi was ambushed on the hills in a depressed mood, he was the leader of this advancing team, and entering the enemy's controlled area was not an easy job.
Although the imperial warriors he led were all elites in the imperial army, they were in a situation where the enemy was watching, and once their identities were exposed and they were surrounded by enemies, it was difficult to escape.
Yes, when they join the standing team, they are ready to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor at any time, but if they can not die, who is really willing to die.
This time, their troops went deep into the hinterland of the Eighth Route, avoiding the large force of the Eighth Route and destroying the enemy when they encountered a small group, and capturing and forcing the other side to divide the information.
According to the intelligence of the First Army of the Northern Front, it is likely that the organs of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army are somewhere around the Taihang Mountains, and the intelligence department of the empire has also demarcated some suspicious places.
And their advance team is to further investigate and delineate the location of the headquarters of the Eighth Road, which is very difficult and difficult to eliminate, and now almost all the troops of the three divisions and four mixed brigades of their First Army have been trapped by the Eighth Road.
In other words, most of the entire Northern Front Army was bound by the Eighth Route Army, and in order to maintain local law and order and eliminate the chaos caused by the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army, they were busy and dizzy.
And the task of their advance team is to find out these eight routes that drill into the ravine, of course, they sometimes create trouble and ruin the reputation of the Eighth Route Army.
Of course, Captain Hachimon didn't feel like an executioner, although he wouldn't be like some of the Imperial Army's guys who took pleasure in killing people, which would be contrary to the glory of the samurai.
But the massacre for the sake of His Majesty the Emperor, this is the way of bushido, they kill people are killing, and they are not mixed with actual emotions, that is the real samurai.
Anyway, he doesn't mind killing, but he doesn't like that kind of purposeless killing, a samurai must be disciplined at all times.
He still prefers the feeling of fighting the enemy to the death, but he is the captain of this advancing team, and they do the dirty work in obscurity.
Therefore, Captain Yagi does not like his current job, and he really wants to enter some real troops, and he does not want to engage in this kind of sneak attack and stuffy work.
Although he didn't like it, it didn't mean that he didn't do well, but he performed very well, and only in this way could he be appreciated and promoted by his superiors, and finally transferred out of the advance team.
This time, he led his team into the core of the Eighth Road, while clearing up the small groups of Eight Roads and the people who were fighting against the Imperial Army.
It was an easy job, and many people saw them wearing the Eighth Route Army uniform, and eliminated each other without any defense.
After dealing with the Eighth Route Army for a long time, he also summed up some experience, although these Eight Roads have no military rank, and the clothes they wear are the same shabby, but if you look closely, you can still find that the people who hang the short guns are all middle and lower-level officers or local leaders of the Eighth Route Army, and the level with guards is generally higher.
He summed up a lot of these experiences, otherwise, if they shot an important target in the battle, it would be a big loss, although they also engaged in sabotage, but their most important thing was to reconnoiter and obtain information on the eight routes.
They encountered a small group of three people, one of whom was the leader, and the other two were just followers, and the three were very vigilant, and when they came into contact with them, they discovered their flaws and immediately counterattacked.
In order to capture them, they treated one Imperial Warrior as if they had died, and another Imperial Warrior was seriously injured and unable to move, and had to commit suicide.
And they also killed the other party's two henchmen, wounded the leader, and captured the other party, the eight roads were also very tough at first, and after their torture, they finally recruited.
He is an officer of the division headquarters, and he is ordered to contact and receive a battalion-level unit transferred to the division headquarters, which is not important, what matters is his identity, the officer of the headquarters troops, which also means that he is from the division headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.
However, after explaining the location and joint location of the division headquarters, the division officer died because he was too seriously injured and because of torture.
Takeo Yagi, who had already obtained important information, did not care about the life or death of the prisoners, and when he rushed to the location of the division headquarters of the Eighth Route Army with the advance team, there was still a shadow of the Eighth Route Army.
He knew that he had been tricked, although the other party's explanation of the situation was true, but he did not fully explain, according to his arrest of the local Eight Roads torture, there is indeed a Eight Roads stationed here, but it has been open and left for a few days.
That is to say, the prisoner still left a hand, and did not explain the final whereabouts of the Eighth Route Division, and these mutineers generally left a hand to save their lives.
And in order to be anxious to know the big fish of the Eighth Route Division, he was in a hurry, and directly sentenced the other party severely, and directly died.
This also made him lose the important information that directly captured the location of the Eighth Route Division, but the only consolation was that the Eighth Route Division Headquarters had not been evacuated for a long time, which means that the Eighth Route Division Headquarters was still within a certain range.
Although this range is a little larger, it is much easier than finding a needle in a haystack before, so although he lost the opportunity to catch this big fish directly, it can be regarded as a great achievement.
Next, the imperial army will mobilize the surrounding garrisons to control and search, and his role as a team of 100 people is insignificant, and they still play the role of eight roads, in case they face the imperial army, maybe there will be accidental injuries, and his boss ordered them to withdraw.
And as they were leaving, Takeo Yagi remembered another thing that the Eighth Route Officer had mentioned, that he was going to connect with a battalion-sized Eighth Route officer.
Of course, his mind is full of the division headquarters of the Eighth Road, and this kind of thing is naturally ignored by him directly, and now that his task has been completed, there is nothing to do, and it seems that he can still ambush the group of Eight Roads after calculating the time.
Since it was the eighth road sent to the door, it happened that he could easily eliminate the opponent, as an officer, he did spy work all day long, and there was rarely a chance to fight.
Although the strength of a battalion on the Eighth Route is a bit large, it is still a bit threatening, but the opponent's equipment is poor, he is engaged in ambush warfare, and he still has a firepower advantage, so it is still not a big problem to eliminate the opponent.
Otherwise, the military theories learned in the military academy are all in vain, and after being in the army for so long, he and the other side are all pretending to be friendly colleagues of the other side and slaughtering the other party when they are unprepared, and there are not many opportunities for real military warfare.
After comprehensive consideration, Takeo Yagi decided to ambush this Eighth Route Army, which can be regarded as a temporary skill itch and a target for himself to practice.
He only regarded Zhang Yunfei's troops as his prey, but he didn't think about it, but his prey was a fierce beast, waiting for an opportunity to lurk, ready to launch a fatal blow against him.