Chapter 208 1.5 Kilometers Section 1 Good and evil in one thought
The whole stretch of several kilometers is so long that the retreating troops of the Japanese army, the only thing that still needs to use animal power is those heavy artillery, which Kuroda also wanted to discard, but after thinking about it, there are still dozens of kilometers of mountain roads to catch up, who knows where the Eighth Road will block him, and he has to carry these heavy artillery without food and drink!
It turns out that Kuroda, the Japanese army's leader, was still much more far-sighted than his subordinates who strongly advised to throw away all their supplies and flee for the road!
Although the Japanese army issued an order to throw away supplies and baggage, the devils were still different from the national army troops who retreated almost empty-handed, the troops retreated in an orderly manner, the infantry opened the way, the cavalry was broken, and the second-line troops and non-combatants were in the middle, braving the rain of bullets on the eight roads in the mountains, and retreated to the northeast.
Kuroda was evacuated from Zhuangzi Village with the cavalry team in the back, he felt very uncomfortable on horseback, this is the second time he has seen this kind of messy scene in the valley, the last time he saw the scene in the hellish valley when he was attacked by the night of the Eight Roads in Beitan Village, almost exactly the same appeared in front of his eyes again.
A commander faced this cruel scene twice in the space of a few days, and his heart was indeed not a taste, once he was defeated by the Eighth Road, and once he fled after a bloody battle at night, it was not a glorious thing, it can be said that it was a shame!
Regret or be annoyed, under the light of the fire, the shadows have come down from the high ground, and there seems to be a figure in the distance on the side of the Jiaochang Village, and the contact with the black kiln ditch has long been broken, and it is estimated that the broken infantry squadron has all been shattered, and Kuroda is sad. Turn the horse's head. A hard whip. Led the Horse Guards to chase after the large army.
Yang Bangzi stood at the entrance of Jiaochang Village, and with a telescope, through the firelight in the mountains, he saw the group of devil cavalry in the mountain pass in the distance turning their horses and leaving quickly, if there was a 60 small cannon at hand, he could give that guy a few shells to the devil cavalry!
Intuitively, I judged that there must be a big fish of devils in this guy's cavalry! Just now, when Yang Bangzi led the team to take the camp of the devils in the valley of the black kiln, he personally killed the lieutenant officer of the devil, and he was not uncommon with that saber, so he threw it to the soldiers around him.
The battle is on this. He was able to command three main battalions with radio stations, and hundreds of people such as the guard company and the communications company that followed him, and the other organized fighters were all temporarily organized into combat teams, and now they are scattered all over the mountains, and even Yang Stick has not yet figured out which unit is blocking the devils in Shangzhuangzi Village!
This squadron of devils guarding the Heiyaogou camp fought very admirably, and under the siege of the Eighth Route Army, which was ten times its size, it would have lasted for two hours, if it weren't for Yang Bangzi personally leading people to open a gap with mortars from Tuliangzi. Organize light and heavy machine guns to suppress the devils in the camp, and he takes the lead in rushing in and fighting the devils hand-to-hand. This devil can hold on any longer.
The devils did have a set of work to repair positions and fortifications, and they bullied the Eighth Route without heavy artillery, and did not choose the high ground and platform as the main position, but chose the hills as the central position, just because they wanted to use their own excellent weapons and equipment to effectively kill and injure the attackers who had no cover in the open space around the position.
However, Yang Stick is not stupid, after being suppressed by the devil's firepower once, he ordered civil engineering! Dig a trench to the closest place to the devil's forward position, and at the same time set up all four small cannons brought on the earthen beam, and hit one point to the death, so as to break through the devil's defensive circle.
The task of cleaning up the battlefield was handed over to the local comrades, and they rushed to Jiaochang Village non-stop, and saw the old blind man, only then did they know that the troops that blocked the devil's half-night were the third battalion and two guerrilla brigades, and Yang Bangzi was not interested in the materials dropped by the captured devils who piled up in the mountains, so he was interested in the more than 100 wounded prisoners of the devils carried to the Jiaochang Village.
The devil threw away useless materials that doesn't mean anything, after a cursory look, the most useful guns, ammunition and artillery have almost not been captured, which shows that the devil is not blindly messing with the army's discarded things, it is a selective light breakthrough behavior, and leaving the wounded soldiers shows that this devil is determined to break through!
In the past, the devils that Yang Bangzi encountered, even if he was defeated and wanted to retreat, he had to carry the wounded soldiers and burn the corpses of the dead and take away the ashes, if he really couldn't take away the wounded soldiers, he generally let the wounded soldiers solve them by themselves or help them commit suicide, which was considered to be loyal to the emperor.
And the devils who just retreated, took away all the artillery, but left the wounded soldiers all over the mountains, Yang Bangzi thinks that there are only two reasons, this group of devils has already wanted to save their lives and withdraw, or they can't take care of these wounded soldiers at all! Because they can not even care about that squadron in Heiyaogou, what are hundreds of wounded soldiers?
In fact, Yang Bangzi didn't guess right, whether to save the broken squadron and these wounded soldiers, it was a thought difference, that is, a decision between a few seconds of good and evil, Kuroda Osa didn't think about taking the broken squadron to Jiaochang Village when the Eighth Road was not surrounded, nor did he not think about asking the cavalry to let the horses out and take away these wounded soldiers, when faced with a choice twice, it was a few seconds, Kuroda finally chose not to save in the conversion of saving or not saving!
Saving is a good deed, not discarding one's subordinates and wounded soldiers, is the duty of a soldier, but also a manifestation of good thoughts, not saving is an extreme selfish performance, discarding subordinates to protect themselves, using the lives of soldiers to delay the footsteps of the opponent, this is a manifestation of evil in human nature!
Kuroda is the commander of the cavalry wing, a noble cavalry with noble blood and titles, and he has always looked down on the infantry in his bones, and there are still those remnants of the old Japanese bushido in his heart, and there is a strict distinction between the cavalry of the nobility and the infantry composed mainly of peasants.
What's more, this time Kuroda felt that he was being tricked by these infantry officers in the army, letting his cavalry fall into the mountains where he could not exert his mobility to act as cannon fodder, and acting as a stepping stone for the farmer's son Shimizu Daisa's meritorious service, Kuroda's extremely unbalanced psychology had been twisted to the extreme at this time, and he couldn't wait for these infantry teams to block bullets and open the way for his cavalry!
It is this evil psychological condition that drives Kuroda to let the infantry be the pioneers and the guards after the break, and his cavalry unit is in the center of the whole formation, so he doesn't care about the life or death of the broken infantry squadron, and the infantry soldiers who lie in the mountains and wail in the mountains, he turns a deaf ear indifferently! It is better to let the cavalry on foot and leave the horses to pull the cannons than to take a wounded soldier with them!
Good and evil in an instant, from good as flow, from evil will be rewarded! Kuroda's distorted revenge mentality, he himself didn't know that the Dao Dao would soon be retribution on him!
Yang Bangzi ordered to treat these devil wounded soldiers and prisoners well, and hurriedly bandaged and rescued them and sent them to the first aid station in the rear, and then ordered to gather all the troops between Shangzhuangzi and Jiaochang Village!
Good boy! Yang Bangzi thought that he brought a thousand people and a thousand people from the three battalions! Taken together, the entire valley filled a small half of the basin with black pressure! Five or six thousand!
In addition to the troops directly under the regiment and the 2,000 people of the third battalion, Lao Feng and Gao Political Commissar mobilized more than 1,000 combatants, led by the divisional combat section, and Gao Yufeng, section chief, served as the temporary team leader.
In addition, more than 1,000 people are organized by the Lingman Administration and the armed brigades organized by counties, townships, and villages.
Yang Bangzi looked at the soldiers all over the mountain, looked at the piles of materials, groaned slightly, and gave an order, the old blind man led the third battalion and Gao Yufeng's divisional combat brigade to pursue the retreating devils in parallel along the mountains on the east side of the road, and it was necessary to establish a blocking position in the mountains near the road south of Xingshutai to block the route of the devils from the south to detour the Xingshutai position.
Yang Bangzi personally led the troops directly under the regiment and the armed brigade of the Lingman Administration to advance and pursue along the west side of the road, and went to the pimple ridge northwest of Xingshutai to defend! (To be continued......)