"Punishment? You have not lost the battle, so what shall I do with you? Li Hao looked at the three company commanders and asked rhetorically.

"I saw all the battles just now, and you guys fought well."

"Relying on a piece of ruins and devils to fight hard, but also to ensure the casualties of the troops, the difficulty can be imagined, even if I am asked to command this battle, it may not be as good as you!"

Xiao Yuan's face was still very ugly: "But the battalion commander, it's a fact that only a few dozen little devils have been eliminated!" Now that the devils have run away, it will definitely be very difficult to destroy them again. If we can't kill the devil, we can't avenge the soldiers who died in the morning! ”

Li Hao replied confidently: "Don't worry, everyone, I have long expected this result in front of me." As for revenge, I can tell you for sure that we have a chance today! ”

"You guys come here, and now I'm giving orders. I promise we'll kill at least two hundred little devils before it gets dark today! ”

The troops successfully broke through the interception of the Eighth Route Army and crossed Dongtian Village.

Including Watanabe Nakasa, all the little devils breathed a long sigh of relief.

The adjutant was also in a very good mood, and when he found Watanabe, he excitedly reported: "Sir, the casualties that broke through the interception of the independent battalion just now have been counted~"

"A total of 42 imperial troops and six mules and horses have been lost, and they are still within our tolerance!"

"Yo Sai ......" Watanabe Nakasa's mouth also flashed a smile!

"From this battle, it can be seen that although the independent battalion is very powerful, it can only hit us through sneak attacks, night attacks, and street fighting. In the face-to-face battle, as long as the imperial army gives full play to its firepower advantage, they can't help us! ”

"Therefore, in order to kill them, we must try to avoid street battles and night battles with them, and try to take the road when marching, and the speed of the march should be fast, so as not to give them a chance to sneak up on us!"

The adjutant was very approving and complimented: "I completely agree with your analysis, sir, go and give orders now!" ”

Watanabe's brigade marched at a fast pace, rushing to a position nearly twelve kilometers away from Dongtian Village in two hours.

The adjutant complimented at the right time: "Sir, your analysis just now is too correct! ”

"As long as we march fast enough, the Eighth Route Army will not find a chance to sneak up on us."

"Since we left Dongtian Village, we haven't been attacked by the Eighth Route Army for two hours!"

"Yo Xi!" Watanabe Nakasa was obviously very satisfied with the result, and he spoke with a smile on his face.

Then he ordered: "The troops will stop advancing, rest for twenty minutes, and then we will continue to march in a hurry, so as not to give the Eighth Route Army a chance to sneak up on us!" ”

Nearly a thousand little devils, except for the guard post, all the others sat cross-legged, drinking water, eating dry food, and replenishing the volume just consumed.

The telegraph operator of the team was not idle, and seized the time to turn on the radio station and receive the message.

"Sir, the brigade headquarters is in an emergency!"

Soon, the telegraph operator received a telegram and rushed over, holding the telegram in his hand, and his face was very ugly.

After reading the telegram, the smile on Watanabe Nakasa's face disappeared, and then he was replaced by shock, and he exclaimed with an incredulous expression.

"Yaga, this is impossible?"

"Didn't you say that the First Division of the Eighth Route Army suffered heavy casualties and was desperately short of ammunition, how could it be possible to kill more than 1,000 of us in one battle, it must be fake?"

The operator replied stubbornly: "Sir, this is a telegram forwarded by the brigade headquarters, and it can be confirmed!" ”

"The brigade headquarters also ordered us to immediately retreat to Lingqiu County to prevent us from becoming the second target of the Eighth Route Army!"

Seeing Watanabe Nakasa's calm face and not speaking, he hadn't reacted from the shock caused by this bad news. The adjutant hurriedly stood up and reminded.

"Sir, I think the reminder from the brigade headquarters is not unreasonable!"

"Although I don't know how the Eighth Route Army managed to annihilate more than a thousand imperial troops in such a short time."

"But after they captured the equipment and ammunition supply of more than a thousand imperial troops, their strength is definitely not what it used to be!"

"If the Imperial Army had not destroyed the weapons and ammunition equipped with the army before it was wiped out, the Eighth Route Army would have received at least twelve mortars, two infantry guns, six mountain guns, twelve heavy machine guns and a large number of rifles, light machine guns, and countless bullets and shells!"

"Even if the Imperial Army destroys some, the Eighth Route Army only captures half of the above number, and then uses these weapons and ammunition to attack us, and the Watanabe Brigade will be killed!"

"Da Da Da ......"

A string of machine-gun fire suddenly rang out, and two screams followed to Watanabe's ears.

Watanabe was finally awakened and made a decision after reacting from the shock.

"Retreat now! Hurry up and retreat to Lingqiu County! ”

"The Independence Battalion has caught up, and the longer we delay here, the more chances they have of sneaking up on us."

"I wonder they already know that the imperial army has suffered a defeat on the front line, they know that we are going to retreat, and they have begun to set up positions to attack us on the way we must retreat!"

Nearly a thousand little devils, the front team changed to the back team, and they immediately moved.

On the high ground next to the highway, Zhang Yun, the commander of the second company, had been lying on it and staring at the devil for nearly twenty minutes.

Seeing that the devil began to turn around and retreat, a smile quickly flashed on his calm face.

The instructor lying next to him also smiled, forcibly suppressed his inner excitement and reminded: "Company commander, the little devil has begun to retreat, and the battalion commander judged the same, how should we fight next!" The instructor leaned next to him and reminded.

"How can we beat the little devil as badly!" Zhang Yun replied.

"The battalion commander said, the little devils must be in a hurry to retreat to Lingqiu City now, and we have to force them to further speed up their march through non-stop sneak attacks!"

The instructor immediately reacted: "The devil infantry can run as fast as they want, but the baggage soldiers and artillery can't, after the marching speed is fast, they will fall behind, and then our opportunity will come!" ”

"Not bad!" The company commander affirmed.

"This is the last big gift that the battalion commander prepared for the Watanabe Brigade, and we must not affect the entire plan of action because of us!"

"Instructor, you bring half of the fighters, give me the other half, let's split up and use guerrilla warfare to harass the Watanabe brigade and force them to continue to speed up the march!"

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Three explosions suddenly sounded in the middle of the team, and Watanabe Nakasa's face changed and he reacted.

"It's a grenade, the separate battalion is attacking us with grenadiers nearby!"

The adjutant comforted: "Sir, only one grenade fell on the road, and we only lost two warriors!" ”

"Don't take the enemy lightly!" Watanabe shook his head in reply.

"Even the grenadiers are used, which shows that the Eighth Route Army that caught up with us has a lot of troops, one round of shooting to kill two of our soldiers, ten rounds of shooting can kill at least twenty of our imperial troops, not counting the casualties caused to us by machine guns and rifles~"

"Don't forget, our opponent's independent battalion has always been short of ammunition, and once they stick to it, they will definitely bite off a piece of meat from us!"

"What then?" The adjutant was in a hurry.

"Keep up the march and get rid of them!" Watanabe replied that it was the only solution he could think of.

The casualties of the troops were too great, and the sortie was certainly impossible.

In order to bring the remaining imperial army back to Lingqiu County as much as possible, avoid fighting as much as possible without fighting!

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