Although Qing Shui, who was lying on the stretcher, was dizzy and had no strength in his body, he was still like a mirror in his heart, and the sound of chaos around him poured into his ears, and he understood that the retreat and breakthrough had begun.

At this time, he must wake up, grit his teeth and command a breakthrough, retreating is more difficult than attacking, and breaking through is much more difficult than attacking! In particular, if the troops are besieged by the enemy, the slightest mistake may lead the exhausted and incapacitated troops into a situation from which they will never recover.

Struggling to lift his upper body, he cheered up and looked at the surrounding situation, the troops were now crowded in the ravine heading to Linjian Village, and the formation and orderly team could no longer be seen, and everyone, stretchers, wounded soldiers, etc. were crowded in the narrow ravine.

Fortunately, the adjutant and the radio station were still by Shimizu Daisa's side, and Shimizu weakly ordered to carry him to the ditch first, and go and call the captain and the officers above the lieutenant to have a meeting!

Originally, the captain who stayed under the Dongshan Liang to organize the breakthrough work, arranged the brute haode, the one who opened the road, the one who responded, the one who took care of the wounded soldiers, and the one who broke off, all did the division of labor, and also assigned officers to be in charge of each unit, but who would have thought that he didn't know how the news of being surrounded by the Eighth Road leaked, and as a result, before the official breakthrough time came, many soldiers rushed to flee to Linjian Village.

The continuous battle with such a great physical and mental consumption has ground people's will to the weakest point, and once they heard that the back road has broken off the eighth road and is about to break through, many soldiers' desire to survive has overcome reason, and there is such a scene of defeat and retreat.

The newly airdropped officers had no prestige among the soldiers because they had little influence, and a large number of officers and non-commissioned officers were killed. Leads to new officers in the middle and lower ranks. There were no soldiers to help them maintain order. Among the senior officers, there was only one captain with the seriously wounded, and he was completely incapable of stopping the fleeing soldiers.

Several senior officers and most of the new officers were summoned, Qing Shui said a few words briefly, all of them were specific orders, this officer was different from the soldiers, the officers still respected the words of officers with higher ranks than themselves.

Shimizu's first order was to be led by two captains, each with a portion of the new officers. Form a picket squad, rush to the front of the rebels, and be sure to stop all the soldiers in Linjian Village.

The second order was to stop all the soldiers, disrupt the formation, organize every 20 people into a squad, and temporarily assign the oldest and oldest soldiers as non-commissioned officers, responsible for directing the actions of this group, and after the formation is completed, stay in Linjian Village to rest and recuperate.

The third order was to take charge of the troops in charge of the broken rear on Nanyakou and Dongshan Liang, before all the wounded soldiers were withdrawn to Linjian Village. Do not leave the position without permission, and there will be no forgiveness for those who escape! The adjutant led a few guards to act as the overseers.

The fourth order was to send an encrypted telegram to the 1st Separate Mixed Brigade. They were informed of an all-out attack from north to south, and requested the Air Force to assist in the military operations of the 1st Brigade.

The fifth order was given to the 4th Garrison Brigade remaining in Ishii Village, asking them to secretly go south after nightfall to meet the Suzuki detachment.

After saying these five orders and letting everyone carry them out, Qing Shui closed his eyes again.

Not to mention, Shimizu Daisa, as a standard soldier, has been trained by the Lianghaode Military Academy, and has been stumbling and crawling on the battlefield for so many years, it is really not for nothing, otherwise why is he the fastest promoted among the graduates of the military academy in the Kwantung Army in the same period, and he is also taken care of by General Gangmura, how can it be without two strokes?

With these five orders, the retreating Japanese troops, which were chaotic and full of sheep herding on the mountain, quickly regrouped in Linjian Village, and began to guard and carry the wounded soldiers in an orderly manner.

In particular, the order to temporarily appoint the soldiers with the longest military age and age as non-commissioned officers has played a role in stabilizing the morale of the army, and in this unit, if the officers are gone, they generally listen to the most popular veterans, and joke that the officers are their parents, and the veterans are their brothers, and they are easy to speak.

The veterans relied on their personal prestige to bring people together, so that the officers could carry out the orders, and the whole army was stabilized, and slowly the soldiers stopped panicking and gradually recovered their spirits.

Having stopped the rout, the most difficult questions now in front of Qing Shui are two, one is from which direction to break through? Second, what if there are still hundreds of wounded soldiers in this village?

The first question was actually before he gave those five orders, he had already thought about it, judging from the current situation, there were eight roads in the north that had already exchanged fire with the first brigade, and there were also eight roads outside the pass in the south, and he originally wanted to break through from the southeast, but because the troops of the eight roads were also found in that direction in the morning, he had to choose a breakthrough again.

From a common sense point of view, going north and joining the First Brigade is a relatively safe way out, but Qing Shui thought that since the Eighth Route was determined to eat his troops, he would not gather ordinary local forces, and the Communist Army was the best at encircling and sending reinforcements, so it was not good that they were staring at the First Brigade.

But don't forget, Lieutenant General Abe suffered this kind of loss, and personally led people to rescue the besieged subordinates, but the people were not saved, and he was also surrounded, and he was killed by shells, and now it looks like a story is about to repeat itself.

If the Eighth Route is really doing this campaign deployment, then going north is throwing itself into the net!

What kind of combat effectiveness is the Suzuki detachment he is carrying now, Qing Shui knows very well in his heart, half of the people have been lost in Guojiabao and turned into ashes, and nearly two-thirds of the remaining half of the people are either disabled or injured, as long as they don't choose the direction of the breakthrough, they will have to be wiped out when they meet the main team of the Eighth Road!

It is difficult to judge whether the Eighth Route Army, which appeared in Xiangshang, southeast of Linjian Village, when the officers were airdropped this morning, was it a small force of local armed forces, or the vanguard of a large army? If it is the former, it is still certain to break through the blockade of the small force of the Eighth Road, and if it is the large army of the Eighth Route ambush in that area, then it is absolutely impossible to bring the troops there!

Carrying so many wounded soldiers, I can't go out for a long way overnight, once Tianming is discovered by the Eighth Road, and I chase and intercept it, how can I get out? Judging from the map, even if the 4th Garrison Brigade moves south with all its might, it can reach the southeast direction at dawn, and according to the normal marching speed of carrying wounded soldiers, the two armies will have to be at least more than ten kilometers away!

Qing Shui has a headache, this time he didn't dare to use the way he used it in the previous high-intensity battles, so that the wounded soldiers who couldn't walk chose to commit suicide and not affect the march of the troops. There are too many wounded soldiers this time! Moreover, the entire military operation is no longer his Qing Shui personal matter so far, the North China Front directly intervened, and abandoned so many wounded at once, he Qing Shui has a few heads that are not enough to apologize.

After repeatedly weighing the pros and cons, Zuihou Shimizu came up with a breakthrough jihua and reported it to the front army headquarters, directly asking his teacher, His Excellency the Chief of Staff, to decide.

Back and forth for half a day of discussion and debate, Zuihou Chief of Staff approved Qing Shui's Jihua, but also Zuihou added, not a single wounded soldier is allowed to stay, this is a reminder to Qing Shui, it's all this time, don't add any more burden to yourself.

Jihua received approval, the wounded soldiers also withdrew to the village, and the rearguard troops of Dongshanliang and Nanyakou also fought and retreated, returned to Linjian Village, and established a defensive belt in the ditch area to the west and south.

The devils in the village are not idle, chopping branches, sawing wood, demolishing houses, these guys on the surface think that this is to build fortifications in the village and wait for rescue, but in fact, in the secret place, a group of devils are very busy!

What to do? Do the climbing plow! Where did the climbing plow come from without horses? Who said you can't use a climbing plow without a horse! Qing Shui checked the map and asked the captain of the squad who was on guard in Linjian Village, and learned that to the east and south, there were sandy land and low mounds, and there were no undulating mountains.

So he came up with the method used when marching in the snow of the northeast, using branches and wood and straw mats, tying them into climbing plows, letting the wounded soldiers lie on them, and pulling them away with manpower, two uninjured soldiers can drag three or four wounded soldiers to walk, and the marching speed is much faster than carrying it!

I found a piece of sandy land and experimented with it, it worked, as long as two people pulled up, the speed of the lying man's climbing plow sliding on the sand was quite fast, which could also save some physical strength for the soldiers who carried the wounded soldiers. (To be continued......)