Chapter 184: Opportunity
Facing the vast mountains, there are only more than 100 people in the Eighth Road, in the face of the invasion of the imperial army, he has long disappeared, he is missing, he has limited troops in his hands, naturally he can't act hastily, this time he not only has to destroy the enemy, but also has to not have too many casualties.
Balu is very cunning, if he is not careful, he will fall into the other party's way, and he will be ambushed, once there are big casualties in this encirclement and suppression, even if he destroys this group of Balu, it will lose its meaning to him, and he can only be more convinced of his incompetence.
Ogawa Seiichi can only be said to have a general understanding of the tactics of the eight roads, and the only time he fought was broken down, and this time he was at someone's home court, so he was naturally more cautious.
This time, his arrogant subordinates did not stab, did not have arrogance, and bowed their heads to listen to his orders, and that battle also knocked out their pride.
Seeing them like this, Ogawa Seiichi was even more depressed, wouldn't it be nice to be like this earlier, and now he is so face-saving, part of the reason is that he helped them carry the blame.
No matter what the reason, the biggest responsibility for that war naturally has to be borne by him, as subordinates, they don't have to bear much responsibility, they need to go to the thunder themselves, and it is natural to give more face.
In this sweep, the distance between the various units of his forward search force was arranged to be as close as possible, so that if one side was attacked, the other troops could quickly reinforce it.
The first task of the people's sweep was to eliminate the anti-Japanese army and civilians and weaken the living forces in the anti-Japanese base areas, and he took ensuring his own safety as his first priority.
Seiichi Ogawa didn't believe the information provided by Ichiro Maeda, and only Yoshiyoshi Otsuka would believe that an ordinary group of guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army was stationed here.
If he hadn't proved himself for the desperate need for this opportunity, he would have really wanted to see that arrogant guy who dared to look at himself with his nostrils.
That idiot didn't want to think that if the eight roads here were really as Maeda Ichiro described, he would ask for foreign help.
Because they attached great importance to this sweep, they collected a lot of information, and this army attacked and wiped out an observation group, and Maeda Ichiro also suffered a loss at their hands.
If his loss is magnified in proportion, it is not smaller than his own loss, which is why this guy asks for help from others, this guy's loss is also not light, and it is estimated that he will be held accountable for two more times.
There is no free lunch in the world, and there is also a pit here, if you don't pay more attention to yourself, you will really fall into the pit if you are not careful, this pit may not hurt the muscles and bones for the kind of guy Otsuka Yoshi.
But now he can't, if he falls into the pit again, he can be buried directly, and there will never be a day to turn over.
For the information given by Maeda Ichiro, in Ogawa Seiichi's opinion, it was all a pile of useless blank paper, judging by his combat ability and habits of the Eighth Route Army, even if he immediately rushed to the Eighth Route Station now, I am afraid that when he arrives, he will only be left with an empty village station.
The Eighth Route Army was not the army of the Kuomintang, and it had never been in the habit of holding the defensive line, and they preferred to launch a sudden sneak attack in a campaign of movement.
Just look at him and know that he is the victim of this tactic, so now he must take advantage of the fact that the entire area is blockading and sweeping, compressing the space for the Eight Routes to escape, find out this Eight Roads, and completely eliminate them, so as to draw a perfect end to his military career.
Starting from the Tangdong Bridge, Seiichi Ogawa ordered the troops to search west and south, and this area should be the place where this group of eight roads frequented, in the words of the eight roads, called the base area.
However, after a big sweep, Ogawa Sei found nothing, and even the people in the villages in this area were gone, which means that the people here had long known that the imperial army was coming to sweep them.
This can make Xiaochuan Jingyi depressed, they used to fight with those central armies, the Jin Sui army, that is really a catch, and this gang of eight roads, no self-cultivation, can really vomit blood depressed, his people have turned the whole area upside down, not to mention the eight roads, especially not even ordinary people have caught one, too special can hide.
What Ogawa Seiichi didn't know was that they had turned the area south of the Tanggou River to the bottom of the eight roads they were looking for, and they had actually gone around their backs, and they were targeting a team of puppet troops like a wild wolf waiting for an opportunity.
Ogawa Seiichi is an officer of a permanent division, and they do not rely on puppet armies such as the Imperial Cooperative Army of the Public Security Army like the Division of Public Security, they are real front-line combat troops, and they rarely cooperate with puppet armies such as the Imperial Cooperative Army of the Public Security Army.
In the first battle of his own honor, Ogawa Seiichi naturally did not trust them, and at the same time he couldn't look down on the combat ability of the puppet army, so the puppet army assigned to him by Maeda Ichiro was sent by him to strengthen the blockade and other tasks, and did not let them participate in the front-line clearance mission.
Therefore, although the puppet army set up a checkpoint at the mountain pass, they subconsciously thought that they had not entered the combat zone, and their vigilance was not too high.
There are only about 100 people in this group of puppet troops, Zhang Yunfei wanted to attack several times, but in the end he held back, they are not good soldiers, and now they are also in a state of combat readiness, even if they are loose, they are much more vigilant than usual.
After all, there are many more of them than their own side, once the raid is a storm, and the battle cannot be quickly resolved, it will be miserable to be dragged down by this gang of puppet troops, and there will be no time to evacuate the battle, waiting to be surrounded by little devils.
Zhang Yunfei secretly reminded himself that if he was steady, he couldn't wave, as long as he waited patiently for the fighter plane to appear, the fat in front of him would come to his mouth sooner or later.
Wild wolves are very patient when hunting, and must carefully follow the side, waiting for a suitable thing to give the other party a fatal blow.
It was also his cautious behavior that gave him a real fighter, Ogawa Seiichi did not spread enough to spread the formation for safety first, so the loopholes in this kind of sweeping blockade line were bound to be big, and Zhang Yunfei's department was easily interspersed from the periphery and bypassed the blind spot in their rear.
Moreover, Ogawa Seiichi did not find them in the area south of the Tanggou River, so he would inevitably spread outward to search, and the puppet army blockade line behind him was naturally widening the distance with them all the time.
The puppet army was originally on guard duty on the periphery, so the devils searched and swept deep in the mountains, and in Ogawa Seiichi's opinion, they naturally didn't need to follow them forward, they just needed to block the exit arteries.
In other words, Ogawa Seiichi didn't regard the puppet army as a part of the sweeping force at all, naturally he didn't consider the cooperation between the two sides, and naturally he didn't notice that his troops swept in depth, and in fact, it was completely divided into two parts with the overall formation of the puppet army, which also made the fighter appear in front of Zhang Yunfei's eyes.