"Sir, the attacking forces have withdrawn!" The vice-captain next to him shouted.

In less than half a minute, the attacking force of more than 200 people withdrew only a little more than half.

This meant that nearly 100 attacking troops were either killed or wounded and left in the woods halfway up the hill by the independent battalion.

Watanabe was very heartbroken, but he did not lose his mind, and decisively ordered: "The artillery will open fire and counterattack immediately, the target remains the same, it is still the independent battalion blocking position just now, I will blow up those cunning Eighth Route Army!" ”

"Also, bring the captain of the squad that attacked just now, I want to know what happened in the forest just now?"

It didn't take long for an ensign to be brought over by the adjutant, his face pale and terrifying.

There was a bandage hidden on his arm, the snow-white bandage had been stained red with blood, and blood was constantly oozing out of the bandage.

Seeing the second lieutenant's sleeves, which had been stained red with blood, Watanabe immediately understood that the other party had lost too much blood after being shot in the arm.

He frowned and reminded: "I just need you to answer one question, what happened in the forest just now, and why did you return defeated." Answer this question and you can go down and rest and let the medic redress the wound! ”

"Hey!" A look of solemnity flashed across the lieutenant's face.

Then he reported with his increasingly weak body.

"The blocking position of the Eighth Route Army is on the edge of the forest, and they can clearly see us when they hide in the forest, but we can't see them!"

"When we rushed up, there was not a single Eighth Route Army on the position, and no one expected that they would push the position back more than ten meters."

"The forest is too dense, even if it is only a dozen meters apart, the lowly can't see them!"

Watanabe Shaosa had already understood at this time, and asked with a calm face: "Just when you thought that the Eighth Route Army, which had attacked us, had retreated, they suddenly counterattacked you!" ”

"No, even if the firepower of the Eighth Route Army that counterattacks you is fierce, you are on the edge of the forest, and you can immediately exit the forest and get covered by a heavy machine gun squadron, it is impossible to suffer so many casualties in such a short time!"

The second lieutenant's face became paler and paler, and he replied with his head down.

"It's too careless!"

"When the Eighth Route counterattacked us, he thought he could repel them, and he didn't order the troops to retreat in time!"

"By the time the lowly official found out that something was wrong and ordered the troops to quickly withdraw from the forest, more than half of the troops had already suffered casualties!"

Watanabe got it thoroughly.

The reason why the attacking troops suffered such a large loss was that in addition to the fact that the independent battalion was too cunning, there was also a reason why the subordinates underestimated the enemy.

The first reaction of the subconscious is to dispose of the second lieutenant in front of him, kill the chicken and make an example of the monkey, and set an example.

But when he saw the ensign's pale face and blood-stained bandages and sleeves, he hesitated.

The other party has already been injured, and it would be too impersonal to hold him accountable again.

After taking a deep breath, he replied: "Go down and rest, you are not to blame for this matter, it is our opponent who is too cunning." ”

After speaking, Watanabe ordered to the adjutant beside him: "Order the troops to continue the attack, this time the attacking troops must bring heavy machine guns, and then encounter the counterattack of the independent battalion, resolutely retreat, and cover the main force to pass this section of the road smoothly!" ”

In the mountainside forest, seeing the guard company shuttling through the forest to clean the battlefield, many soldiers already had two rifles on their backs, Li Hao couldn't help but smile on his face.

Soon, the guard company commander Sun Jiawu rushed over with an excited face: "Report to the battalion commander, the results have been counted!" ”

"Only 86 corpses can be found on the battlefield, 32 corpses are small devils, 75 rifles, three machine guns, and one grenadier were captured!"

"What about our own casualties?" Li Hao asked with a smile.

"Minimally!" Sun Jiawu hurriedly replied.

"We are hiding in the depths of the woods, and we have an absolute advantage in firepower, and we are pressing the Japanese puppet army for half a minute of firefighting, if the casualties are very large, then I don't want to be the company commander!"

"As for the two shellings before and after, it was the forest that provided us with natural cover, unless the shells hit the side and exploded at close range, they couldn't hurt everyone at all!"

"So the casualties caused by the shelling are also very small, adding up to a total of eight casualties, and six of them were seriously injured and lost their combat effectiveness!"

"I have already drawn people from the recruit platoon to make up for the losses, and the combat effectiveness of several main platoons has not been affected in any way!"

"Battalion commander, the devils are attacking again!" Before Li Hao could speak, the sound of the guard whistle came.

Li Hao immediately rushed to the edge of the forest and raised his binoculars.

Glancing at the attacking troops of the Japanese puppet army, he ordered with a serious face: "The troops will retreat immediately, and there will be no fight here!" ”

"Why!" Sun Jiawu was in a hurry!

"Battalion commander, you give the guard company another chance, and I promise to kill half of them again with the way I fought just now!"

Li Hao shook his head and refused very resolutely: "No, carry out the order and retreat immediately!" ”

"Didn't you see that the devil attack force even brought heavy machine guns this time? This is obviously to prevent us from fighting back from the woods! ”

"Heavy machine guns are not vegetarian, they are set up on the edge of the forest and fired inside, even if we dodge well, the bullets can hurt us!"

"Carry out the order, let's go directly to the reconnaissance company!"

On the highway, Watanabe Shaosa kept his eyes on the battlefield.

The expected firefight did not happen, and Watanabe did not scold the independent battalion for being cunning like an adjutant, and slipped away when he saw that the situation was not good, but was unusually calm.

He had expected this scene from the beginning.

If it was so easy to block them here and fight with the imperial army, then they would not be an independent battalion, and they wouldn't need to toss for so long and still find a way to force them out and fight a decisive battle with themselves.

After taking a deep breath, he ordered: "The troops continue to advance!" ”

"Our mission remains the same, sweep village by village, and then burn all the villages and towns we pass through to ashes, and force out the independent battalion to fight a decisive battle with us!"

"I can guess that the more villages we destroy next, the more often we will be attacked."

"But we can't mess with our plans because of that!"

"The more the independent battalion attacked us, it means that they are in a hurry, and it also proves that our actions are right on their lifeline."

"As long as we remain unmoved and continue to implement this plan, the independent battalion will be forced out by us sooner or later!"

"So from now on, after the troops are attacked again, it is best to be able to repel the enemy with artillery and light and heavy machine guns, and there is really no way to send out infantry."

"And even if the infantry is sent to counterattack, the purpose is to repel them and protect the main force to continue to advance, not to counterattack and kill them!"

"Also, contact the air force, I want us to have aircraft support above us all the time!"

"If we encounter the blocking position of the Eighth Route Army again, we can still blow it up with aerial bombs!"

"The bombs are even more powerful, even if they are hiding in the woods or trench bunkers, we can easily kill them, so that they don't dare to come and attack us casually!

"Hey!" The adjutant immediately took the order.

Dozens of kilometers away, in Tianjia Village, more than 200 days of puppet troops were going door-to-door in the village to loot finances and food, but they were very disappointed, and after two hours, everyone returned empty-handed.

The hungry Japanese puppet army had to cook on a fire at the threshing floor at the entrance of the village with the grain they had brought with them.

"Bang bang bang!"

Several gunshots rang out behind the dirt slope more than 200 meters away from the village, and the two puppet soldiers on guard around the threshing floor fell in response.

Because they didn't grab food and property, whether it was a devil or a puppet army on the threshing floor, they all held back their anger and had nowhere to vent.

The appearance of the sneak attacker was like a fuse, instantly detonating all their anger.

At first, only more than 40 Japanese puppet soldiers rushed out of the threshing floor with guns and rushed towards the dirt slope where the guns had just been fired.

At this moment, a puppet soldier suddenly shouted: "Sir, they must be the guerrillas of the village!" ”

"The people and food in the village must have been transferred by them, as long as they are caught, they will definitely be able to ask about the whereabouts of the food and the people!"

One of Watanabe's most important purposes in launching this sweep was to grab food.

When the devil lieutenant heard this, his eyes began to glow, and he immediately shouted: "Then what are you still doing, you must capture those guerrillas alive!" ”

"All of them attack, as long as they are captured alive, there is a lot of grain, ocean, pork, mutton!"

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