"Retreat ... Fall back... ”

In less than an hour, Koji Takeda's two squadrons lost more than half, which made him a little frightened.

In particular, the way of attacking that day made it impossible for his troops to respond in time, which was okay at first, but soon the losses began to grow.

At hand, his snipers are more than half of the snipers of the Chinese army in front of him.

Koji Takeda knew that if he didn't retreat, his people would be handed over here.

Although his troops have undergone rich training, their actual combat experience is much weaker because of the heavy responsibility of protecting the headquarters.

Hearing Koji Takeda's order, the Japanese soldiers who were fighting were very puzzled, but when they saw that their comrades around them were retreating, they also retreated.

Although there were a lot of losses, the retreat of the Japanese army was still orderly and not too panicked, which made Leng Jie's idea of pursuing also shattered.

Just when Koji Takeda's side failed to attack, the battle on the frontal battlefield ushered in the most intense time.

Just when the Japanese army was attacking several high grounds, Liao Yaoxiang led more than 1,000 people under his command to kill them from the north and went straight to Ushijima's headquarters.

The sudden appearance of this Chinese army also made Ushijima a little confused.

"Your Excellency Brigade Commander, it's the unit we pursued before!"

Soon, Okamoto inquired about the situation of the Chinese army that suddenly came out.

"Nani?" Ushijima's brows furrowed.

"Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, and according to the pilot's reconnaissance, I have found a branch of the Zhina Army, about a division, thirty miles south of Xuancheng, coming towards us.

Let's retreat, as we can't afford to continue the offensive now. If we continue to fight, when the troops of the third theater of operations in China arrive, our situation will be even more passive. Okamoto suggested.

Just when Ushijima was a little unwilling, a telegram came from the headquarters of the 10th Army, and it was Yanagawa Heisuke who sent it.

It means that he should withdraw to Nanjing with his army, and ignore these Chinese troops who broke through.

It turned out that the current situation in Nanjing was not optimistic, in addition to the death of the two commanders, there were also problems with the control of Nanjing City.

So far, there are still many rebels in Nanjing, mainly in the southern part of the city.

In addition, the 16th Division began to come to Nanjing to make the situation in Nanjing even more chaotic.

At present, the new division commander of the 6th Division has not yet been in place, and Yanagawa Heisuke needs Ushijima Mitsuru to stabilize the situation of the 6th Division, and wait for the new division commander to take office before making plans.

If it weren't for the sudden killing of Liao Yaoxiang's department, maybe Ushijima could still ignore this order from the headquarters.

However, this Chinese army suddenly attacked, he was forced to send a brigade back to the brigade headquarters, and most of the tanks were blown up by the Chinese army, and Takeda Nakasa's attack also failed, and it was really unnecessary to continue fighting.

It seems that God did not let him give shame to the division.

"Your Excellency the brigade commander, there are many opportunities for the division to be ashamed, and there is no need to disobey the commander's order at this time."

Under the persuasion of Okamoto Zhenchen, Ushijima Mitsuru finally gave up and continued to fight, and said in a deep voice, "Order a retreat and retreat to Xuancheng." ”

With Ushijima Mitsuru ordering a retreat, although the attacking Japanese army was puzzled, they still chose to carry it out, quickly evacuated the battlefield, and retreated to Xuancheng.

"Why did the Japanese retreat?"

"How does Lao Tzu know? It can't be that the little devils are afraid, right? ”

"It's possible, our head is the famous Leng Yama, and it's normal for little devils to be afraid."

The people below didn't know the situation, but Leng Jie knew that the Japanese army was not afraid of him, but that something was wrong.

It may be that Liao Yaoxiang appeared suddenly, or it may be other reasons.

As the Japanese army retreated, Liao Yaoxiang's troops also joined up with Leng Jie's troops.

"Director Liao, thank you, if it weren't for your reinforcements, it is estimated that Leng would have suffered a greater loss." Leng Jie said politely.

"Don't talk about this, although Liao is proud, this Japanese army is not good at stubble, and the retreat is orderly. Liao's people can't make this Japanese army retreat, right? Liao Yaoxiang was also a little puzzled.

"Who knows? Anyway, the Japanese army retreated, didn't they? Leng Jie patted the other party's shoulder and said with a smile.

But soon he couldn't laugh anymore, because the loss was too great.

In this battle, his three battalions lost more than 600 people, and more than 100 others were seriously wounded, and many more were slightly wounded.

Moreover, the wounded battalion and the baggage battalion were also attacked by the Japanese from Wuhu, and there were also some losses.

As for the Japanese army, only more than 800 corpses were cleaned up on the battlefield.

Although the casualties of the Japanese army were larger, Leng Jie still felt that it was not cost-effective.

These three battalions of his are his core troops, and they could have successfully broken through, but they died here.

It was not until the evening of the same day, after encountering the troops of the 1st Division of the Sichuan Army on the way to the west, that Leng Jie and others knew another reason for the Japanese army's retreat.

In fact, even Liao Yaoxiang didn't expect that it was not the Central Army that came to meet him and others, but the Sichuan Army with the worst equipment.

Although he was a little cold, Liao Yaoxiang also showed due gratitude to the 148th Division that came to respond.

On the same day, Leng Jie and Liao Yaoxiang led the remnants to Tongling to rest.

On the next day, that day, under the response of the 70th Army of the 10th Group Army, Qiu Qingquan's division broke through to Jinhua, Zhejiang, and then withdrew to Quzhou to rest.

On the 23rd, Qiu Qingquan and Liao Yaoxiang were both ordered to go to Wuhan, but Leng Jie was not ordered, and no one even took care of him, as if he had been forgotten.

As for the reason, Leng Jie soon knew, because the news that Qiu Qingquan was awarded the Order of the Blue Sky and the White Sun came soon (of course, Leng Jie also heard about the feat of Le Yiqin and Han Bin and others), although Liao Yaoxiang was not awarded the Order of the Sunny Day and the White Sun, but he was also awarded the Order of Baoding.

Although it was deliberately forgotten, Leng Jie didn't make a big fuss, because it was useless.

On the contrary, he took the opportunity to annex the troops that followed Liao Yaoxiang to break through, and the establishment was still a regiment, but the number was more than 3,000.

The regiment consisted of three infantry battalions, a baggage battalion and a regimental detachment.

The regiment directly subordinate to the regiment includes a 6-gun 92 infantry artillery company, a millimeter mortar company, an engineer company, a communications company, a health team, as well as a reconnaissance company and a special service company.

There are more than 3,200 people in the whole regiment, and half of the national armament and half of the Japanese armament, although there is no 75mm mountain artillery, but the two artillery companies composed of 6 92 infantry guns and 12 mortars make the soldiers of the Sichuan army greedy.

As for equipping these, Leng Jie naturally has no shortage of them, and he also captured a lot of Japanese-style weapons along the way.

In this era, soldiers are the bosses, and he doesn't believe that he has more than 3,000 elite veterans who broke through from Nanjing, and no one can look down on them!

So it didn't take long for someone to take a fancy to Leng Jie's army and come to the door.