Chapter 5 Mountain Pursuit
Li San can't control the thoughts of the recruits, he just wants to organize the troops quickly! Speaking of which, it was really thanks to the four devil planes, if they hadn't driven the recruits running around together, these three hundred recruits would have all run away just now! In that case, Li San would now have only one way to shoot himself.
Of course, while the devil plane helped Li San, it also caused even more damage to the supplementary company! More than 60 recruits of the supplementary company were directly killed by Japanese bombing and machine gun fire, and more than 100 were wounded! Subtracting the dozens of people who escaped by taking advantage of the chaos, after Li San checked the number of people, he was surprised to find that there were only more than eighty people left in his supplementary company! Well, a plane bombing and strafing will replenish the company by three-quarters of its personnel!
At the sound of horses' hooves, Ji Jinbiao came over with a cavalry company.
In order to supplement the current situation, there is no way to stop the devil at all. Li San could no longer give the battle order to fight stubbornly and live and die with the position. Based on the appearance of the recruits just now, if he dared to give this order, the more than eighty people in front of him would immediately disperse in a hurry!
The cavalry company came at the right time! As soon as Li San and Ji Jinbiao discussed, they simply let the cavalry carry these 80 or so people to withdraw!
By the time the Japanese squadrons Suzuki and Yamada squadrons rushed to the mountain pass, the Chinese troops who had fought with them half an hour earlier had all withdrawn.
Looking at the corpses and bullet casings everywhere, Captain Suzuki felt quite uncomfortable. His squadron suffered so many casualties and did not defeat the Chinese army on the mountain, and as soon as the Yamada squadron came, not a single battle was fought, no one was injured, and the Chinese actually took the initiative to run! They are all elite field troops in the Japanese army, why is the gap so big?
Having won the victory without injuring a single soldier, Captain Yamada was naturally complacent and ambitious. However, seeing that the look on Captain Suzuki's face was quite ugly, Captain Yamada, who was an ally, was not too flamboyant.
"The order of the brigade headquarters was only to defeat the Chinese and capture Wangjiashan. Now that we have achieved these two goals, the next military operation has not yet been instructed by the brigade headquarters. Suzuki-kun, do you have any further orders from the Brigade Headquarters here? ”
Before Yamada's squadron came up, Captain Suzuki was still thinking about how to rush to the mountain pass, so how could he have time to ask the brigade headquarters for the next battle plan? Now that Wangjiashan has been occupied, it seems that it is time to report, right?
However, it seemed that this report was not so easy, and just when Captain Suzuki was in his heart, gunshots rang out on the mountain again, and it was the cavalry company that was harassing and attacking the devils.
After Ji Jinbiao's cavalry and more than 80 soldiers from the supplementary company were added, he felt that he was not happy before leaving, and before leaving, Ji Jinbiao took his cavalry and put another round of guns in the direction where the devil was. "Drive!" Ji Jinbiao, who let go of the farewell gun, was in a happy mood and took his soldiers to the mountains.
Ji Jinbiao was very happy, but the round of guns before he left completely offended Captain Suzuki! The two armies lost their troops in battle, invited reinforcements, the enemy turned around and ran, and when they were about to report the results of the battle, they encountered the cold guns of the Chinese! These several events in a row made Captain Suzuki feel as if he had been deliberately humiliated by someone! It seems that these Chinese are deliberately trying to embarrass him!
"Yamada-kun, I'm going to lead the troops to pursue the Shina army. Would Yamada-kun be willing to cooperate? "Captain Suzuki, who has entered a state of rage, is no longer ready to let go of the Chinese troops who fled in battle.
"It's an honor to fight alongside Suzuki-kun! The order given to me by His Excellency the General is also to cooperate with Suzuki-kun to occupy Wangjiashan! Please give the order to Suzuki-kun! ”
The two devils exchanged a few polite words, and the two infantry squadrons joined together and chased down in the direction of the cavalry.
Although this was in the mountains, the infantry chasing the cavalry was still not an easy task. For Japanese troops who are not familiar with the terrain, the difficulty is even greater!
Half an hour later, the pursuing Japanese troops stopped. The march in the mountains is really too difficult! In particular, the enemy who could be vaguely seen just now is now completely invisible, which makes the next pursuit of the Japanese army completely lose its goal!
"Rest in place for ten minutes!" Captain Suzuki and Captain Yamada have to discuss the next plan of action.
Half an hour of running down a mountain road is more tiring than running on flat ground for an hour! The devils sat on the ground, panting and wiping their sweat, cursing in a low voice for the cunning of their opponents.
"Suzuki-kun, what are we going to do next?" Captain Yamada took off his military hat and took out a small white towel to wipe the sweat on his head, this weather is too hot!
Captain Suzuki actually had no idea in his heart. However, this pursuit was initiated by him, and it seemed that he had to make up his mind what to do next.
After looking around and thinking for a moment, Captain Suzuki said to Captain Yamada in a firm tone: "Our army is searching and advancing, and we will strive to find and destroy the Shina cavalry!" ”
"What if you can't find it?" Captain Yamada was not optimistic about the current situation of the Imperial Army. This is a completely unfamiliar mountainous area, with huge trees and strange rocks, and if you get lost in the mountains, it's not fun!
"Can't find it?" Captain Suzuki obviously hadn't thought about this before, "Then we'll set a one-hour deadline, and if we still don't find the Shina army after an hour of advance, we'll immediately lead the troops back the way they came!" When we set off again, we have to leave markers along the way, and we won't get lost on the return trip! ”
"Suzuki-kun is smart!" Captain Yamada gave a thumbs up, but he didn't think so. He was able to mark this practice when he was ten years old!
When the time of departure came, Captain Suzuki and Captain Yamada each sent an orderly to mark the road they had walked. In fact, it is just a matter of carving two words with a knife on a big tree or stone you are walking by, and then drawing an arrow to indicate the direction.
In the woods, the devil had just walked over and slid down from a big locust tree, and this person was wearing a blue national army uniform. The man stopped against the tree for two minutes, and after confirming that the devil was far away, he followed the direction of the devil.
After only a dozen steps, the man stopped. On a tree next to him, there are two characters Suzuki engraved with a knife, and there is a forward-facing arrow under Suzuki.
The man grinned, pulled the dagger from his waist, and walked to another big tree a dozen paces away and carved the same two words and an arrow, but the arrow pointed in the opposite direction to another arrow a dozen paces away.
On the mountain road, a Japanese unit walked over, and there were two more words on the rock wall, Yamada, and an arrow indicating the direction. A few minutes later, two soldiers of the Nationalist Army jumped out from behind the big rock, and when they saw the mark left by the devil, they immediately took out their bayonets and scraped off the words and marks engraved on the stone.