Although Xiang Yuan suffered heavy casualties this time, the main injuries were some puppet soldiers, and the casualties of the imperial army were so small, which was not a big deal.

According to the general situation, it will be over, and at most a few words of scolding will be given, but it has not yet reached the point of being held accountable.

But the key thing is that now that even the captain of the garrison, Yoshida Masanobu, is finished, and this matter is not so easy to fool, and he can only report the situation truthfully to the original side.

After receiving the report to the original side, the highest governor stationed in the area, Minegi Daisa, was still shocked.

He was not shocked by the fiasco of the original side, nor was he shocked by the death of Yoshida Masanobu, for Yoshida's death, he deeply regretted it, but since the beginning of the war, the imperial army has killed more middle and senior generals, and it is not a shocking event to have one more and less than one less.

He was shocked by the elusive infiltration ability of the Eight Routes, and it was not surprising that there were sporadic Eight Route guerrilla activities in his defense area.

But it's only been a long time, the scale has been formed, and it can launch an active attack, and it has also defeated the clearing troops sent by the imperial army, so it can't be left alone.

His Excellency, the newly appointed commander, repeatedly emphasized the destructive nature of the Eighth Route Army to the areas controlled by the Imperial Army, but they still did not take it seriously, and now he finally saw the danger of the Eighth Route Army.

In the battle of Xiang Yuan, Yu shattered a Shaozuo dozens of imperial troops, and as for the casualties of the security army, he didn't bother to pay attention to it.

The scale of such a battle is not large, but it really disrupts the local law and order, and let the Eighth Route do so many times, how can the imperial army manage and rule the place.

Feng Mu somewhat understood why His Excellency the Commander of the Front Army attached so much importance to the Eighth Route Army, although they were not strong in frontal combat, but the threat to the imperial army's domination of the occupied areas was real.

Before, he really didn't understand why His Excellency the Commander had to go to great lengths to mobilize all the troops of the entire Northern Front Army to encircle and suppress the Eighth Route Army, but now that he was so troubled by this group of Eighth Routes, he understood a little.

This can't be blamed on him, there are also historical reasons why their Maeda division does not attach much importance to the Eighth Route Army, and the defense area that their division took over is not the key active area of the Eighth Route Army.

The focus of their defense was still the Kuomintang Central Army, and although they would also encounter harassment from small groups of guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army, they did not pose much threat and suffered few casualties.

It can even be said that their Maeda Division is the unit that the entire North China Front Army has the least deal with with the Eighth Route Army, and the harm of the Eighth Route Army only stays on paper reports, and there is not much experience of empathy.

Now, with the defeat of the Kuomintang, their defense area naturally coincided with the activity area of the Eighth Route Army, and they finally felt the threat of the Eighth Route guerrilla warfare.

Xiang Yuan's this time is not too serious, and the loss is still within an acceptable range, but it also sounded the alarm for him, and he must pay attention to it, or let the Eighth Road develop like this, one day the situation will become difficult to manage.

And if you want to clear this gang of eight roads, you need the cooperation of the surrounding friendly forces, and Mineki and Yoshida have the same problem, and he can't mobilize the surrounding imperial army.

However, as an imperial army commander, his face was not comparable to Yoshida's, so he sent a telegram to Katsume, hoping that the two troops would act together to eliminate the Eighth Route Army unit operating at the junction of their wings.

Katsumu Osa was still quite surprised when he received Minemu's request for joint action, although the number of their two wings was even numbered, and the defense area was also close to each other, but the relationship was really not close.

They do not belong to the same division, and according to the principle of regional supply of the imperial army, the soldiers come from different geographical sources, so naturally they do not have much closeness.

However, he still attaches great importance to the joint action proposed by Feng Mu, and his troops have always fought against the Eighth Route Army.

Therefore, he attaches much more importance to the Eighth Route than Fengmu, and after receiving Fengmu's request, Katsumu Daizo immediately sent a telegram to the Japanese puppet army in Qing, Qing, Xin, Jian, and other places to blockade and encircle this Eighth Route Army team.

Zhang Yunfei didn't know about the joint action reached by the devils, but he could guess that the devils would inevitably take crazy revenge next.

Therefore, when he chose the direction of evacuation, he did not enter the new city to the west, but went directly to the north.

The devils in the west are sweeping, there can be a large number of troops gathered there, this devil sweep is different from the previous dragnet type, it is a blockade type, it is three layers inside and three layers outside.

Running over there, the devil randomly drew a troop out to deal with himself, which was enough for himself to drink a pot.

In the north, it was different, it was the base area where the main force of the Eighth Route Army was located, and with the help of local people and organizations, it was much more convenient to avoid the enemy's encirclement and sweep.

Maybe you can get help from the brother troops, and maybe you can turn around and give the devil's sweeping troops a guy.

Zhang Yunfei retreated more than ten kilometers north in one breath, and had completely entered the mountainous area of Jianyang, before ordering everyone who was already sweating profusely to rest in place.

At least for now, they are completely out of the enemy's sight, and the Japanese puppet army will not want to track down their traces for a while.

Although Zhang Yunfei had the intention of returning to the base area where the main force of the Eighth Route Army was located if he could not fight, it was only the final retreat.

As long as there is a choice, he will not take that step, besides, the devil's sweep will also have a hard time in the base area.

Like this, compared to those brother troops, the small life is already very comfortable, those brother troops are all good at pulling monsters, and the hatred of the little devils is firmly pulled by them.

The situation may not be as bad as he thinks, and the little devil may not really have much strength to deal with himself.

"Leader, those rabbits are too timid, they run fast, we can't get rid of them at all." Not long after Zhang Yunfei and the others rested, Wang Zejun led the team to rush back, and said with an unhappy face, he didn't fire a single shot in this battle.

"Well, I see, you guys should rest too." Zhang Yunfei saw him like this, and he really didn't know what to say.

Wang Zejun's guard platoon is still different from ordinary guards, well, it's a world of difference.

The New Ninth Regiment is a compendium regiment, and it does not have many logistics personnel in itself, and there are no big people to protect.

The work of the guard platoon is to stand guard and help with all kinds of chores, and it is naturally impossible for such a unit to waste its elite strength on such affairs.

Therefore, the guard platoon of the new Ninth Regiment is just a recruit platoon, like some soldiers who are not old enough to be placed in the front-line troops, they are all incorporated into the guard platoon.

Wang Zejun felt that he had been fooled, the guard platoon, as soon as he heard it, it was very high-end, and the leader was this talk, that talk, and he attached great importance to it.

But as soon as he took office, it was not like that at all, it was a child's job, and they had the worst weapons in the whole regiment, and the average age was the youngest.

Naturally, they had nothing to do with the battlefield, and at the beginning of the launch, their guard platoon was transferred by Zhang Yunfei to monitor, uh, to deal with the puppet army reconnaissance team.

Wang Zejun was very happy to receive the combat mission, but when he was ready to block the puppet army reconnaissance team to come back.

Those guys didn't mean that at all, and when they saw them from afar, they didn't mean to fight at all, so they just ran away.

For him to complain that the puppet army is not strong, and he has no chance to show his skills, Zhang Yunfei just didn't hear it, and this guy doesn't want to think about it, he was still a puppet army not long ago, and he has no points in his heart about the virtue of the puppet army.