Chapter 8 Burnt out
Tsu, the headquarters of the 27th Wing of the Japanese Army.
"How could so many convoys suddenly be ambushed?"
The wing captain looked at the information he had just received, and his brows were furrowed.
As the wing responsible for the safety of transportation lines in the Pingjin area, he has always felt that this is a very easy job.
The frontal battlefield in front is like a bamboo, the main force of the Republic of China is only desperately retreating, there are almost no large-scale Republic of China troops in his jurisdiction, as for those Eighth Route Army and guerrillas who are aimed at harassing the rear, there are a few in his jurisdiction, and the scale is not yet, but they are poorly equipped and poorly trained, and the escort team of any team of size can beat this group of people in disgrace, so he has always enjoyed a peaceful life every time he drank.
But this peaceful day has been broken lately, and it has been completely shattered all at once.
His intelligence shows that in the past month, road transport convoys have been attacked more than 30 times on his territory.
This number itself is very normal, after all, this is the land of Berao, there are always hot-blooded and not afraid of death so-called patriots to stir up trouble, vainly trying to attack the convoy escorted by the elite soldiers of the Japanese Empire with flesh and blood and earthen guns and earthen explosives, and the frequency of the convoy in the previous months was also dozens of times a month, and the maximum number of times a month even exceeded fifty, but this kind of attack is meaningless, just to add some fun to the escort team.
But the difference in this month was that during the month, five convoys were routed, all supplies were looted or destroyed, and the escorting infantry team suffered heavy casualties.
A total of 17 trucks, 95 mules and horses were lost, and 143 soldiers of the Imperial Army were killed.
In the previous months, there had been one person killed in battle, no material damage, and even the only cause of death was due to wound infection after injury.
Please report it, and also indicate who did it.
The guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army, the establishment is unknown, the number is unknown.
Squinting his eyes, the co-captain's eyes became fierce.
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"Report, regiment commander, about a brigade of devils came out of the city, coming towards our base area"
In the base area of the 723 Independent Regiment, the regiment commander Su Yunzhi is concentrating on maintaining his new shell gun.
The German original barge gun is of excellent quality, its range is longer than that of the domestic arsenal homemade, the accuracy is also higher, and it is less prone to failure.
Recalling the several ambushes not long ago, he shot a devil puppet army from a distance of 100 meters, and Su Yunzhi was even more energetic in wiping his gun.
When he heard the panicked voice of the herald outside, he frowned, put down the shell gun parts in his hand, and scolded in a serious tone.
"What are you panicking, what are you panicking, the city is dozens of miles away from us, and the road is full of mountain roads, and the devil will have to wait four or five hours to get here at the earliest."
Hearing the scolding of the regiment commander, the herald also smiled bitterly, and then hurriedly reported the information.
"Commander, this news came an hour ago, and now the devil has been out of the city for more than two hours."
"Why did it take so long to get the message?"
Hearing the news, the regiment commander first asked the guards around him to inform the various company commanders in the regiment to hold a meeting, and then asked suspiciously.
In order to grasp the intelligence of the devils stationed in the city at any time, the 723 Independent Regiment has made great efforts in this regard, not only sending a large number of intelligence personnel to keep an eye on the movements of the devils at any time, but also raising dozens of carrier pigeons to ventilate and report the news.
The pigeon flies more than 70 kilometers per hour, and the area where the 723 Independent Regiment is stationed is 22 kilometers away from the nearest city where the devil is stationed.
Moreover, in order to prevent accidents, he set up three sets of intelligence transmission points to prevent one group from being destroyed by the Japanese army and the intelligence could not be transmitted in time.
But what's going on this time? It took more than two hours for the news of the devil leaving the city to reach the regiment headquarters.
If it's a little later, then you can't know until the devil knocks on the door?
"I don't know, this time it was the second company patrolling the highway that sent someone to inform me, and the regimental guard platoon did not receive the news," the herald explained.
Because of the shortage of manpower, the soldiers of the guard platoon of the regiment headquarters are also responsible for information transmission and communication on a part-time basis, and the people of the guard platoon are also responsible for collecting and releasing carrier pigeons.
"What's wrong?"
Looking up at the sky, the air at this time was clear and cloudless, although the winter sun was not powerful, but this air could not have any effect on the carrier pigeons.
"Strange"
After muttering to himself, Su Yunzhi didn't care too much, the current thing was to deal with the encirclement and suppression of devils, and as for the delay in intelligence, it would not be too late to wait for a few investigations. Although he was well prepared for the transmission of information, the accident itself is unpredictable, after all, pigeons are just animals, even if they are well-trained carrier pigeons, there are times when they are uncontrollable.
In just ten minutes, the company commanders quickly rushed to the regimental headquarters.
The 723 regiment has been established for half a year, and currently has a total of more than 600 people, divided into five companies.
"Organize a retreat, a brigade of devils, we can't beat it, we can't afford to provoke it, we don't even want to flirt"
"Move fast, the devil's army is only ten kilometers away from here"
"And tell the people to hide all the precious food in their homes"
The regimental commander gave orders in an orderly manner.
The essence of guerrilla warfare is mobility, to have immediate and immediate mobility, to be able to leave at any time, to be able to participate in the battle at any time, without logistics is often a huge disadvantage, but occasionally at some point, this is also an advantage.
There is no drag of a large number of materials, there is no miscellaneous baggage box transportation, the soldiers bring their own combat materials, food is self-sufficient, the enemy comes to lift his legs and leaves, the enemy turns around and returns when he leaves.
When encountering fighter planes, they can fight if they want to, and if they can't fight, they can withdraw if they want to, and if they eat rice and carry rifles, this is guerrilla warfare.
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"Bastard"
The sharp katana slashed at a pillar, and the decayed and dilapidated wooden beams could not stop the blades forged from stainless steel, and they were split in two in an instant.
However, the slash did not vent the anger of the Japanese commander, who still brandished his katana everywhere and roared wildly.
"Yaga! Yaga! Yaga! ”
"Damn the Eight Roads, there is always one that will kill you all"
The commander put the katana back in its sheath, looked at the devastated village in the distance, looked at the still burning house, and gritted his teeth and uttered harsh words.
"Report to the captain, the radio is ready, and I have contacted the city"
"The previous murmur was supposed to be the effect of a magnetic field from a distant thunderstorm"
At this time, a communications soldier walked to the Japanese commander with a radio on his back.
The "withdraw" captain gave the order to evacuate.