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Didn't Lieutenant General Uchiyama Eitaro know that in addition to the one squadron that served as the guard of the division and regimental headquarters, and the two baggage squadrons that remained in the rear, plus an engineer squadron, the 120th Division was now even pulled up by the grooms to fight?

If the 120th Division still had surplus troops, it would be able to stop the enemy's detour. As early as when the enemy army broke part of its own forces on the flank and forcibly passed through the territory of Guò Qingyun, it had already sent troops to block it. Why wait until the enemy forces are behind you before sending troops to stop it.

As for Uchiyama Eitaro's order, although he also knew that if he couldn't carry out this order, it would be equivalent to kicking down the stool under his feet after he had already put his head in the noose. This is also the only way to ensure the survival of the 120th Division. However, this Lieutenant General Yanagawa Shinichi and his 120th Division are neither capable nor have the strength to carry it out.

As for the order to wait for the 48th Division to arrive for cover, Lieutenant General Yanagawa Shinichi shook his head even more. The enemy's tank cluster had already hit close behind him, but he let the 48th Division, which was still pure infantry, far away in Jiaodong, rush to the rescue. It's a good idea, but can this distant water extinguish the near fire?

Lieutenant General Yanagawa Shinichi knew very well that, judging from the current situation, he simply could not wait for the arrival of the 48th Division. According to the current speed of the enemy's tank cluster, by the time the 48th Division arrived, the bones of the entire 120th Division would have been cold.

If you don't want to do anything, do you just sit here and wait for death? Withdrawing is also death, and not withdrawing and persevering is also a death. Faced with a dilemma, looking at the direction of the enemy's attack reported by the commander of the army on the map, Shinichi Yanagawa pondered for a long time with the chief of staff of the division, Nakasa Manchuria, and the senior operational staff officer of the division, Shibuya Michio Shaosa, and really asked them to come up with a solution.

The current situation already shows that the enemy forces are penetrating behind their backs. Although even if the route is far away from his 120th division, the battlefield can be said to be close at hand. However, it was only defeated, and part of the forces of his own division on its interspersed route did not directly attack his flank.

Obviously, the first target is not his own 120th division, but to outflank the entire Jilu border battlefield. The enemy's appetite is very great, that is, to take advantage of the opportunity of the entire Jilu border battlefield when all the participating divisions and regiments are tightly bitten by the enemy in front of them, outflank behind the Jilu border battlefield, and form a joint encirclement of all divisions and regiments in the entire Jilu border battlefield.

And judging from the information received from the army commander, the enemy's interspersed forces are indeed quite a threat. But in addition to the large number of tanks, there is also a relatively fatal weakness. That is, the number of infantry attached, which is not too much for any direction in the entire Jilu border battlefield. Its main containment is still placed on its frontal troops on the Jilu border battlefield.

That is to say, according to the current situation and the comparison of troops, it is basically impossible for them to leave too many troops behind them, that is to say, their spearhead is very sharp, but the troops behind them are very weak. Especially in the east, near the Bohai Bay, it is simply impossible for them to leave too many troops.

If you try your best to get rid of the entanglement of the frontal enemy and follow the old road of the Four Girls Temple River, you may be able to find a gap to protrude, as long as you cross the line of Dashan Street, it should be safe. When the time comes, there should be no big problem in crossing the Yellow River along the Bohai Bay to the south, through the line of Yongfeng and Fuguo, and to the line of Lijin.

But the current Guan Jiàn is how to get rid of the entanglement of the enemy army in front of him, and retreat quickly to the east before the enemy army completes the outflanking and turns behind him. Although the total strength of the enemy troops in front of him was not enough to kill them, the two sides were biting too tightly. If you want to get rid of the entanglement of the enemy army, this is another headache.

But he also understands that the current development of the war situation will not give himself too much time. Yanagawa Shinichi, who was almost on fire when he was forced to get into the house, made up his mind. The three wings of his 120th division can be withdrawn as much as they can. If they really can't retreat, let them drag the enemy troops on the front line and take on the heavy task of covering the retreat.

In order to keep secrets, the steady Yanagawa Shinichi did not give orders to the three wings of 259, 260, and 261 by radio. Instead, he and the chief of staff of the division and regiment personally sent out three wing commanders one by one, and even some of the team commanders, and explained the retreat route respectively.

Yanagawa Shinichi instructed the officers of his various wings that starting at 21 o'clock tonight, all units whose positions were 200 meters away from the enemy troops should be withdrawn at night. Care must be taken when the evacuation operation is carried out, and it must not be detected by the enemy. It is better to move slowly than to reveal your whereabouts.

By midnight all troops that were able to break away were to be disengaged from contact with the enemy in front of them. The front-line positions were too close to the enemy's positions, and the squadrons, which had no possibility of evacuation, held on the spot to cover the transfer of the main forces of the division. After the transfer of the main forces of the division, the squadrons that remained behind broke through on their own.

At the same time, in order to conceal the movement and speed up the retreat, all the evacuated troops carried only five days' dry rations and the necessary ammunition. All the excess supplies and the martial arts that cannot be taken away, including all the trucks and pack horses, should be thrown away. The evacuated troops should be as lightly armed as possible.

The order of retreat of each wing is at the discretion of each wing commander and does not need to be reported. The 259th Wing on the front line of Huangjia Town, east of Leling, was the last covering force. After breaking away from the front-line position, the wings did not need to assemble, and with the wings as the basic structure, they jumped the Qingyun-Wudi road to the east, and turned south after arriving at Dashan Street.

After crossing the Tuxiao River on the line of Fujia, Daliu and Yongfeng, at the line of Shaojia and Fuguo, the whole division of the first line of Liguo in Lijin assembled and crossed the Yellow River between the salt kilns. Although in the opinion of Yanagawa Shinichi and Nakanishi Manchuria, in fact, as long as the Tuxiao River is crossed, the main force of the division will be safe. However, considering the enemy's extremely strong mobile combat capability, he still decided to withdraw directly across the Yellow River in one go.

It's just that looking at the troops that can be withdrawn reported by each wing, as the division commander and chief of staff of the 120th Division, after glancing at each other, they all feel a burst of sadness in their hearts. At present, the 120th Division has lost more than one-third of its strength in nearly a month of fierce fighting. If we add in the large number of wounded who have lost their combat effectiveness, in fact, the entire division suffered almost half of the casualties.

Excluding the troops that were too entangled with the enemy forces in front of them to evacuate, the remaining forces that could be withdrawn were less than half of the remaining forces. This result means that even if it can be safely withdrawn, the entire 120th Division will only have less than one-third of its strength left.

What made Lieutenant General Yanagawa Shinichi and Nakanishi Manchuria-Jiro even more speechless was that not only were a large number of troops unable to withdraw because they were too tightly glued to the face-to-face anti-coalition forces, but at the same time, because of the lack of transportation capacity, all the wounded had to be thrown away because they could not be carried. Not to mention that this is a matter that affects morale considerably, as the two decision-makers of the 120th Division, they will also be severely criticized after they get out of danger.

But the two men who were the division commander and the division chief of staff knew very well that with so many wounded, it was impossible to retreat. In order to break through as covertly as possible, in order to achieve the most tactical suddenness, the already small number of trucks can only be put on qì. Retreat with these trucks, the ghost knows what he is going to do, so what else is there to retreat?

Relying on manpower to carry and evacuate, at present, there are only three or four hundred people in all the major brigades of the whole division and regiment, and two or three hundred people at the fewer. With more than 100 people in each squadron and only 30 or 40 people in the fetty, it was impossible to find enough manpower to transfer the wounded. At present, it is basically impossible to recruit migrant workers and coolies to transport the wounded.

Without trucks and enough manpower, the wounded could not be taken away at all, and all of them could only be released. After only hesitating for a moment, Lieutenant General Yanagawa Shinichi still ordered to take away as many of the wounded officers above the rank of captain as possible. As for the wounded officers below the rank of captain, they could only be left with ordinary wounded soldiers.

Despite feeling a burst of sorrow for the embarrassing situation of their division, both Yanagawa Shinichi and Nakanishi Manchukuo Jiro did not hesitate to give the order to leave a grenade for every five wounded, so that they could be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor if needed.

Fortunately, the 120th Division, although the combat troops suffered too many casualties. However, in order to achieve the strategic goal, the Japanese army mobilized a large amount of ammunition to meet the needs of the combat troops during the preparation stage of the battle. The ammunition of the 120th Division is still very sufficient, and there is no need to worry about running out of grenades for the wounded to commit suicide.

After the deployment was completed, he was transferred to the 115th Division and his left flank, and everyone was a comrade of the Imperial Army. If you retreat without saying hello, some are not very authentic. Besides, if he withdraws, the right flank of the entire 115th Division will also be exposed. So before leaving, it's best to say hello to them.

&nbsbsbsbsbs, if you can say that the commander of the 115th Division, Lieutenant General Hideyoshi Sugiura, retreats with him. The two divisions are close together, although the movement is a little bigger, but it is safer than in their own hands, and the remnants of the defeated generals together do not have many troops. In the event of an emergency, the two divisions and regiments can have more means of contingency when they are close together.

However, Lieutenant General Yanagawa Shinichi's telegram was not answered by Hideyoshi Sugiura, commander of the 115th Division on the Ningjin Line. No matter how the radio station of the 120th Division urged, the radio station of the 115th Division over there did not know what reason, but it remained silent.

Seeing that the time was passing minute by minute, the 115th Division did not give an answer for a long time, but Yanagawa Shinichi could not wait. By twenty-one o'clock in the evening, it was time for the forward troops to begin their secret withdrawal one after another. After making one last effort, Shinichi Yanagawa, who still hadn't received an answer, didn't dare to delay. Ordered his division and regimental headquarters to immediately pack up their burdens and prepare to retreat.

With the exception of a radio station that was carried to keep in touch with the various wings, all communications equipment, along with redundant codebooks and cipher machines, were destroyed. All the confidential documents and maps, except for a map that marked the direction of the retreat, were all burned in one fell swoop, and the division headquarters had to keep no piece of paper.

The high-ranking officers' cars at the divisional headquarters, along with several trucks and horses, were also lost. All the personnel of the division and regiment headquarters walked closer to the nearest 260th Wing. What Lieutenant General Yanagawa Shinichi meant was that the division headquarters still followed the current 120th Division's 120th Division's 3 wings, which maintained the most complete troops, and it was better in terms of security.

It's just that Yanagawa Shinichi and Nakanishi Manchuria, who are leading the 120th Division Headquarters and moving closer to the 260th Wing, are still unclear at this time. Whatever the purpose, the telegram they sent to the 115th Division, wanting to drag the 115th Division to retreat together, was sending their 120th Division, with such a small remaining force, to hell.

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