Chapter 120: Choices and Reactions
With the surrender of Major General Shose, the Japanese army's mission to pursue the Northeast Army this time failed, and the 70,000 troops were gone, only Lieutenant General Fukuda broke through with less than 10,000 Japanese troops, but they had no food and ammunition, and could only follow the map of the Japanese army to frantically avoid the shooting of the Northeast Army in the mountains and forests. The surrendered Japanese troops made Zhang Zuoxiang very embarrassed, their own remaining troops were only a little more than 50,000, and the materials were not very sufficient, in order to confuse the Japanese army, they really left a large amount of supplies in the position of the mountain pass, and brought out not much of you, and it was a bit unbearable to feed the 20,000 Japanese prisoners. Moreover, it is not easy for them to hurry with these Japanese prisoners, and the speed of the march will definitely be hindered.
Zhang Zuoxiang did not think about recapturing the position of the mountain pass, which had been occupied by the Japanese army, and it was estimated that the Japanese army had also built its own position there, and their troops were not very sufficient at this time, so they sent 10,000 troops to pursue the Japanese army that broke through, and the strength of the Northeast Army with only 40,000 troops was about the same as that of the Japanese army in Yamaguchi, but the material was lacking compared to the Japanese army, so the mountain pass position could not be recaptured.
There was an officer Jian YƬ Zhang Zuoxiang who used the surrendered Japanese army to outwit Yamaguchi, which was simply a fraudulent surrender, but the risk inside was too great, and it was unanimously opposed by all the officers.
"Use the surrendered Japanese army, especially the senior officers who are afraid of death to confuse the Japanese army, implement a fraudulent surrender, and wait for us to enter the Japanese army's position to annihilate the Japanese army in the mountain pass in one fell swoop, of course, the risk inside is also very large, even greater than our ambush this time, but high risk means high gain!" While discussing how to walk next, an officer said confidently.
"This method doesn't work, the risk inside is not ordinarily big, everyone knows the temperament of the Japanese army, maybe we will be exposed to death when the time comes, who knows if the surrendered Japanese army has been mixed with those emperor's diehard elements, at that time we were annihilated instead of the Japanese army was annihilated. What's more, now our supplies are not sufficient, the soldiers have been fighting for several days, they are already very tired, and they are completely out of shape, how can they fight? As soon as the officer finished speaking, he was refuted.
"No, quite a few Japanese soldiers have already retreated when we blocked the back road, and many have taken the opportunity to escape into the mountains and forests on both sides, and it is very likely that the Japanese troops in the mountain pass have already known the news here, and they will be prepared even if they don't send troops over." As Hu Lin, who intercepted the rear route of the Japanese army, he knew that there were Japanese soldiers who ran away when they surrounded them, and the Japanese troops in the mountain pass should have known about their ambush.
"No, we can't gamble on our strength anymore, the Northeast Army is left with us, if there are some accidents, the Northeast Army will be gone, how can you be right!"
"I don't agree!"
"I don't agree with that either!"
Zhang Zuoxiang pretended to have a headache and rubbed his temples and said: "Don't fight, the current situation is really not suitable to gamble anymore, the Japanese army may already know the news here." What's more, we don't have much supplies, and the Japanese army has just obtained our supplies, and even if we have the advantage, we will not be able to recapture our positions. There is a Japanese army that broke through and ran in front of us, if we don't get rid of them, the people will suffer, the 20,000 prisoners can't be killed, so we still continue to retreat, the Japanese army that has lost so much vitality can't afford to make big waves before their reinforcements are brought, let's go to the front and wait for the arrival of the Wehrmacht! ā
"The commander is right, this time the Japanese army did not send out the whole army to pursue us, this is an unexpected thing, I didn't think that this result was my fault!" Xu Qiang stood up and hacked himself.
Zhang Zuoxiang looked at Xu Qiang and was very satisfied, Xu Qiang has been in the limelight in the Northeast Army recently, although the high-level of the Northeast Army has no intention of suppressing him, but it does not mean that he can continue like this, and occasionally he has nothing to do to hack himself and reduce his burden.
"Well, no one thought of this, retreated with the army and waited for the arrival of the Wehrmacht. At present, the most important task is to annihilate the Japanese troops who broke through in front, and besides, they must not be allowed to escape! ā
Zhang Zuoxiang's order was supported by the officers, and soon the Northeast Army rushed with 20,000 Japanese prisoners in the direction of Jilin, and their destination was the Huangsongdian area, which was the only way for the Wehrmacht.
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When the Japanese army in the northeast army ambushed the late battle, a group of less than 100 Japanese soldiers rushed towards the mountain pass, the military uniform on the body was tattered, the military hat was gone, the hair was messy like a chicken coop, and some soldiers were empty-handed, and the guns were gone. In addition, there are many people who are supporting each other in twos and threes, and there are also many who are covered in blood, which is very miserable!
When the Japanese soldiers on guard saw them, they hurriedly stepped forward to ask them what was going on, and the panting Japanese soldiers couldn't even speak clearly, they just sat on the ground and panted frantically, and some soldiers even fell to the ground after seeing the soldiers on duty.
The Japanese soldiers at Yamaguchi quickly called in the military doctor, and those who fell on the ground were carried to be treated, and Ueda Yuzawa and other senior officers also rushed here, and as soon as they saw these wolf soldiers, they knew that something was wrong.
"Division...... Commander, failed, and we were ...... near the Yellow Ni River Arrived in China...... The ambush of the army, Fukuda...... The lieutenant general is surrounded, I don't know if there is a breakthrough? A soldier said intermittently with his head down.
"Failed? Ambushed? General Ueda Arisawa heard the words of the soldiers, he didn't dare to think that the Shinshina army would ambush his army, it is estimated that Lieutenant General Fukuda is more than lucky, thinking of this, Ueda Arisawa felt a burst of dizziness in his brain, and his body was shaky. The confused Ueda Arisawa forgot to go to support at the first time, and his mind went blank.
Lieutenant General Nakamura Satoru hurriedly went to hold Ueda Yuzawa and prevent him from falling to the ground, and the officers who followed next to him collectively took a deep breath after hearing this, and they would not have thought that those retreating Chinese troops would actually set up a huge ambush in front, but fortunately they did not lead the army to pursue.
At this time, an officer also ran over in a panic, and as soon as the officers who didn't see the officers with blue faces arrived, they broke the bad news again, making General Ueda Arisawa directly spurt out a mouthful of blood and fell unconscious.
The officer's words were like this: "Report, the annihilated Chinese army has been counted, a total of 107,000 people, there is no new cemetery nearby, that is to say, the Chinese army we eliminated is about 110,000, and we captured about 3,000 Chinese soldiers, those who were seriously injured and did not take away in time The soldiers in the northeast basically committed suicide, and those who did not commit suicide were also killed!" ā
The casualties of the Shina army were only about 110,000, which did not match the casualties they saw of the Shina army, combined with the ambush of the army sent out, they finally knew why the casualties of the Shina army were so large and defeated so quickly, it turned out that they were all pretended, and they were fooled!
"Commander! Are you alright, Commander? Medic, Medic, come here! "Nakamura Satoru summoned a military doctor to come over for treatment as soon as Ueda Arisawa fainted, Ueda Arisawa can't be fine, otherwise they will be in trouble.
Seeing the commander shouting for their military doctor, he left the soldiers and ran to Nakamura Satoru's side to carry out a series of first aid and diagnosis on Ueda Arisawa, tossing for half an hour before stopping, and Ueda Arisawa also woke up listlessly.
Just as Ueda woke up, several more Japanese soldiers came running back in a wolf and bringing them the latest news about being ambushed by enemy troops, all of whom were the last to escape from the woods on the mountain.
"Lieutenant General Fukuda broke through with his soldiers from the weak place of the front branch army, about 10,000 soldiers broke through, Major General Shose and others took the army to break through from behind, the breakthrough was unsuccessful, we just saw Major General Shose surrender when we escaped, and we don't know the number of soldiers who surrendered." The soldiers who came back later knew a little more about it.
"Fukuda has broken through, good! Shase actually made an assertion and surrendered, coward, unforgivable! Quick, prepare for defense, the Chinese army is likely to come back to attack, we can't let them take back here, otherwise we will all fall here! After knowing the latest news, Ueda Arisawa didn't plan to send troops to support, his first reaction was to defend, he felt that the Shina army would come back to fight back, and hurriedly asked people to arrange defenses.
A group of officers immediately went to make arrangements, leaving only Nakamura Satoru and Ueda Arisawa and a military doctor, Ueda Arisawa looked at Nakamura Satoru and asked very seriously: "Have you already guessed that the Northeast Army will ambush our army, why don't you come to stop us from sending troops to pursue?" ā
"No, I just thought it was a bit weird for the Shina army to retreat, and I'm not sure, I also advised you at the time, but you didn't listen to my ......" Nakamura Satoru didn't continue, he believed that Ueda Arisawa would understand.
Ueda Arizawa was silent after hearing this, Nakamura Satoru persuaded him at that time, but he didn't care, and Nakamura Satoru was not sure, so he couldn't blame Nakamura Satoru, he could only blame himself for being too eager for quick success. The troops sent out this time stayed there except for Futian who broke through, and even if Futian broke through, he probably wouldn't be able to hold out for long, and without food, ammunition, and gun supplies, he would sooner or later be surrounded and annihilated by the Northeast army.
Only these troops in Yamaguchi remained, and Ueda Yuzawa did not dare to advance lightly, if he was ambushed again, he would be completely finished, and he could only dare to continue to advance after the reinforcements arrived, and his military career was estimated to be coming to an end.
waited until the evening when the Northeast Army did not come, but the Japanese army did not relax, but defended more nervously, the night attack was the most terrible, but unfortunately they still could not wait for the arrival of the Northeast Army, at this time they also knew that the Northeast Army would not come to attack.