Chapter 382: The 200,000 Wounded and Sick of the Japanese Army
After the left and right detachments of the Hubei army in Heilongjiang were eliminated, the remnants of the besieging Huaxia Army did not even have time to clean up the battlefield, so the militia team that came behind to clean up the battlefield hurriedly turned to the north to deal with the Third Group Army of the Far Eastern Front of the Hubei Army, which was about to move south.
This part of the Hubei army was annihilated, but the troops fighting the Japanese army in the south were unable to take off to help the battle because of the heavy rain for several days, and they were still facing tremendous pressure in the face of the huge numerical superiority of the Japanese army.
Xie Zixiang, Xu Tianbao, and Mou Yingcai commanded three platoons and more than 500 militiamen, and when they retreated along the way, several militia teams rushed to rendezvous, and the number reached more than 1,600 in less than two days.
Mu Yingcai selected more than 100 people in the militia ranks, and the number of troops in the third platoon swelled to more than 150 people.
However, the heavy rain for several days made it very difficult for the three platoons to move, and several times they were almost dumped by the Japanese army, but each time fortunately, the local militia was familiar with the terrain and rushed out of the area that the enemy did not expect.
The heavy rain brought inconvenience to the movements of the Huaxia army, as well as to the Japanese army, who had previously carried the goods they had looted from the Goryeo Peninsula, but could no longer carry them during the muddy operation, and threw away a lot of food, copper coins, silver, and even gold along the way.
For six days, the Japanese army pursued three platoons and advanced in the northwest direction.
But on the seventh day, Xie Zixiang found that the enemy's attack suddenly became a little strange: the bullets were still very dense, occasionally one or two shells would fly, and the crowd of charging was still so dense, but the momentum of the attack was far less rapid than the previous two days.
That night, with the assistance of more than a dozen militiamen who were familiar with the local area, Xie Zixiang personally led people to catch a few tongues and came back, and after the translation of soldiers who were familiar with the Goryeo language, it was learned that most of the Japanese army had disappeared at night, and what was attacking during the day today was an offensive battle in which a very small part of the Japanese army forced Goryeo cannon fodder to fight!
"Nima's, this Japanese army wants to run away!" Xie Zixiang subconsciously thought that the Japanese army just wanted to escape.
"Strange, where else can this Japanese army escape?" Mu Yingcai was a little confused.
Xu Tianbao took out a crumpled map, looked at it over and over for a while, and said, "I must want to run to Lao Maozi, and then take a boat back to my hometown in the East!" ”
"Don't guess, it's not our turn to worry about this strategic matter, let's report to our superiors quickly!" Since it was not something he was worried about, Xie Zixiang felt that there was no need for his few grassroots officers to waste time to discuss.
Not only did Wang Hubiao, who was on the Jilin front in eastern Liaodong, receive the report, but Liang Kunri, commander-in-chief of the Northeast Theater, was also informed of the situation, and even the General Staff Headquarters in the capital knew about it.
Emperor Hu Zhen immediately concluded: "This is the rhythm of the Japanese army to escape!" ”
Chief of the General Staff Su Wenzhen didn't know how many times he had thought about the whereabouts of the Japanese army: "Where else can the Japanese army flee?" There was really nowhere else to go except to flee to the Hubei army to get supplies and ships back to the Wa Kingdom! ”
Hu Zhen felt that there was a problem in this: "The Japanese army and the Hubei army are advancing east and west, the war zone is still raining heavily, airships and planes cannot take off, and the 200,000 troops and horses of Lin Zhichuang's troops placed in the direction of Xingkai Lake by our Huaxia Army will be in trouble if they are flanked by the two major enemies, and the original plan must be changed!" ”
"Your Majesty, if the Hubei army and the Japanese army are allowed to meet smoothly, according to the habits of the Hubei army, the two armies will meet, and they will inevitably ask the Japanese army to be their cannon fodder and continue to attack our land to the west, and the Japanese army can only send tens of thousands of people back to the Japanese country in the name of transporting the wounded and sick back to China!"
"Then, we can simply retreat Lin Zhichuang's department, make way for a few roads, and let the Japanese army and the Hubei army join forces to see what they can do! This buys us time! ”
"But this will make it extremely difficult for us to deal with the two major enemies!"
Hu Zhen had something else in his heart: "If the main force of the Hubei army is thus far away from Vladivostok and creates an opportunity for us to seize Vladivostok, it is still worth taking such a risk!" ”
When Hu Zhen was planning in the capital, new changes had taken place on the battlefield.
After the third platoon was replenished with weapons and ammunition, it immediately led more than 1,600 militiamen to launch a counterattack on the Japanese army, which was dominated by Goryeo cannon fodder.
The Japanese army retreated like an avalanche, and Xie Zixiang commanded the soldiers and militia to chase the Japanese army on the muddy road.
When the Japanese generals learned of the situation here, they immediately called in an elite wing to intercept the collapsed Goryeo cannon fodder team here.
When the superiors of the third platoon found out, they immediately transferred a battalion of troops to attack the Japanese army.
Although the strength of a wing of the Japanese army was about the same as that of a regiment of the Chinese army, the firepower of the Japanese army was obviously inferior to that of the Chinese army, and a battalion of the Chinese army could firmly block the attack of the Japanese army.
There is a more important reason for the ineffective attack of the Japanese army, that is, the Japanese army has no intention of attacking the Huaxia army at all.
However, the Japanese army did not want the Huaxia army to chase and fight, and stubbornly held the position to prevent the Huaxia army from advancing, and the Huaxia army was insufficient, so it had to fight against the Japanese army.
The two sides tugged at each other for two days.
The main force of the Japanese army finally realized the rendezvous with the Hubei army in the passage of the Huaxia army to open up the eastward advance.
As soon as you see Aleksayev, you will ask: "...... Our army has been besieged on the Goryeo Peninsula for more than half a year, and now there is a shortage of weapons and ammunition, please urgently support our army! ”
Aleksayev was tall, standing a head taller in front of Shan County Youpeng, which made Shan County Youpeng feel great psychological pressure, and after listening to the words of the translator, he immediately replied arrogantly: "Our army has weapons and ammunition, but they must be used against our common enemy!" ”
What he meant was that the Japanese army must launch an attack on the Huaxia army together with the Hubei army, otherwise the Hubei army would not give a single bullet to the Japanese army, and the implication was to let the Japanese army be cannon fodder for the Hubei army.
After listening to the meaning of the translation, you Peng in Shanxian County immediately became angry, but it was not easy to attack, after all, hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops are now under the fence, if they lose the support of the Hubei army, I am afraid that the whole army will be wiped out, so he had to pretend to say:
"In the face of our common enemy, we must sincerely cooperate to fight the enemy together, our army will fight with your army with all its might, but our army has more than 200,000 wounded and sick people, and we need to urgently return to China for treatment, and please also ask your navy to provide ships and naval fleet escort!"
"How can there be 200,000 wounded and sick people? How many troops do you still have in your army? Aleksayev was amazed, a Japanese army capable of fighting was what he needed, but a large group of wounded and sick was not what he wanted.
"Your Excellency Commander, rest assured, our army still has an army of nearly two million people, as long as there are enough weapons and ammunition, it is an invincible army!"
"Two million! O my God! "Aleksayev was taken aback again, where did he go to find so many weapons and ammunition to equip these damn yellow-skinned monkeys? (To be continued.) )