Chapter 471: Rest
This battle, from a tactical point of view, can only be said to be a narrow victory, the casualties of the troops are not small, and the consumption of their own ammunition is also huge. But strategically speaking, it can be regarded as a big victory, they completely defeated the puppet army that surrounded them, and broke the encirclement built by the devils.
The most important thing is that when this puppet army retreated, most of the baggage and ammunition fell into Zhang Yunfei's hands.
Despite the huge consumption of ammunition in this battle, most of the consumption was compensated by captured materials.
This is very critical, once the consumption of the Eighth Route Army is far greater than the capture, it will reduce the continuous combat capability of the troops, which is the most fatal.
In this battle, Zhang Yunfei not only achieved the intended goal, but also solved a puppet army, if it was an ordinary puppet army, with the combat effectiveness of these guys, there was still a great threat to the activities of their troops.
Being able to defeat them can be regarded as a surprise, in addition to the killed and captured of this puppet legion, the remaining less than 300 puppet troops who lost all their heavy weapons were able to escape, and it was impossible for them to bring trouble to the transfer of their new ninth regiment.
Most importantly, they also captured two heavy machine guns, two mortars, and more than 700 rifles.
There is also a military map drawn by the devil and distributed to the puppet army, which is more accurate than the map used by his own military district.
To put it mildly, modern development is like that, and there is naturally nothing to look forward to in surveying and mapping, and if the map can be accurate, it will really be a hell of a life, and the map of one's own country still depends on the capture of the enemy, which can be regarded as a kind of sadness.
With this batch of loot, Zhang Yunfei was ecstatic, and it was a temporary solution to his urgent need for materials, and he had more confidence to deal with the devil.
The most important thing now is to take advantage of this gap before rushing to get out of the enemy's encirclement, during this time their troops have been marching and fighting continuously, they are already very tired, they are about to reach the limit, they can no longer carry out high-intensity operations, and they urgently need to rest and recuperate.
But now their situation is not complete, the Japanese puppet army on both wings may arrive at any time, Zhang Yunfei did not dare to stay here for long, cleaned up the battlefield, packed up the spoils, tied up all the prisoners of war of the puppet army and threw them in place, and began to urgently evacuate to the south.
Zhang Yunfei is still a pity for these puppet soldiers with a tenacious will to fight, but unfortunately, he has no possibility of subduing them.
Most of these guys were captured by exhaustion, and the casualties caused by their own New Ninth Regiment were not small, which was a blood feud, and it was impossible for the soldiers to accept them.
Besides, even if his side is willing to accept them, people will not be happy, if it weren't for the Eighth Route Army's policy not allowing it, Zhang Yunfei would have wanted to kill these guys.
When Kenjiro Miyake led people to the commander of the puppet army camp outside the Black Rock Ridge Pass, he saw a messy camp and puppet officers and soldiers who were tied up like pigs and sheep to be slaughtered during the New Year.
Many of his comrades-in-arms died at the hands of these guys, so the soldiers are very resentful, and they are not polite to this gang of puppet soldiers at all, that is, they can be tied as tightly as they can.
Seeing this situation, Kenjiro Miyake's face was as black as the bottom of the pot, and he tried hard to catch this eight-way, but in the end he fell short.
The Eighth Route Army is the best at fighting in such mountainous and hilly areas, and this time it is even more difficult to catch the opponent by letting these Eight Route Army escape.
The Eighth Route can always wander around in this kind of place, and its own large army can't afford to do this, even if people can afford it, logistics supply and consumption can't stand it.
Moreover, the imperial army was originally not enough to garrison troops, and he was not allowed to stay in the mountains all the time.
Kenjiro Miyake knew that with the escape of Hachiro, his battle was doomed to fail, and Hachiro was bent on hiding, and his chance to seize the other party was already very slim.
Eight roads are too good to run, and you dodge fast, you punch with confidence, but you always hit the air, very uncomfortable, too uncomfortable.
Fighting with the Eighth Road, the feeling of having nowhere to use the strength is too embarrassing, as a soldier, how can it be pleasant to fight the enemy head-on.
Fortunately, in this battle, the imperial army did not suffer any losses, but it was just a trip in vain that made people breathless, as for the encirclement and suppression of this cunning Eighth Road, it was not his business, and then it should be a headache for the local garrison.
Thinking about it like this, his mood was much better, it was not an easy thing to deal with the Eighth Road, and Kenjiro Miyake wanted to laugh when he thought that the local garrison might be disgraced by the guerrilla tactics of the Eighth Road.
felt that his grievances were nothing, but he gloated, and wanted to see them out of trouble.
It didn't take long for the joy to arrive, and he was escaped by the Eighth Road, and was reprimanded as a proper duty, but what made him dumbfounded was that the new appointment to him came down at the same time.
In view of the lack of garrison strength in Xiangyuan, his unit will be stationed in the Xiangyuan area, that is, he is now the new garrison captain of Xiangyuan.
Moreover, as a garrison, the most important job is to prevent the development and infiltration of this Eighth Route Army to the south, that is to say, for a long time to come, its main task is to deal with this Eighth Route Army.
Schadenfreude didn't expect retribution to come so quickly, it's too sad, Kenjiro Miyake greeted Yoshida Masanobu in his heart, it's not that guy died incompetently early, and this kind of errand can't fall on his head.
To deal with the Eighth Route Army, the large army swept and encircled and suppressed, which was time-consuming, laborious, money-saving, and food-consuming, and had little effect, and the only way was to passively guard against the destruction of the other party, and what he had to do was such a tiring work.
The thought of dealing with such bullshit as the attack of the Eight Roads all day long in the future, Kenjiro Miyake feels a headache when he thinks about it.
Zhang Yunfei naturally didn't know about Kenjiro Miyake's distress, and now his new ninth regiment was stationed in the Otsukigou area.
As I said before, the ditch represents the canal in the plain area, and the mountainous area naturally refers to a small canyon.
Dayuegou is easy to understand, in fact, it is a small col with a slight curve and a little arc, which is very desolate, and there is no artistic conception in its name at all.
They chose to camp here because of the surrounding mountains, which are easy to hide, and secondly, there is only a small village of more than 10 families here.
Whether their Eighth Route Army relied on the mountainous terrain to fight guerrillas, rather than living in seclusion in the mountains and cultivating immortals, they still needed to contact the outside world at any time.
There is no doubt that there are villages and mountain roads to the outside, and one of the core elements of the guerrilla warfare of the Eighth Route Army is the need for the cooperation and support of the local people.
Zhang Yunfei immediately dispatched reconnaissance personnel to find out the local organization to understand the current situation, hoping that they would give him help and intelligence support.
You must know that their new Ninth Regiment has now completely lost contact with the outside world.