Now that he has the most basic judgment of the enemy, Aso Shaozo has nothing to fear.

With a frown, he ordered: "Pursuit, catch up with the Eighth Route Army, and destroy them!" ”

"There are not many of them, as long as we catch up with them, we win, and we win!"

For more than a thousand days, the puppet army had just rushed forward less than 500 meters, and a burst of gunfire broke Aso's dream.

Nine heavy machine guns, more than a dozen light machine guns, plus more than two hundred rifles, were fired together. In the blink of an eye, forty or fifty people fell from the devil who rushed to the front.

The remaining Japanese puppet troops immediately fell to the ground, trying to counterattack.

However, the firepower of the independent regiment was so fierce that even when they were lying on the ground, the bullets continued to kill them.

As for the counterattack, it is simply impossible.

Aso, who was walking in the middle of the line, was startled at first, and then reacted quickly.

"Artillery squads, heavy machine gun squads, immediately counterattack and suppress enemy fire!"

The Japanese reacted quickly, mortars, heavy machine guns, were immediately erected. But just as they were about to counterattack, the dense machine-gun fire on the opposite side stopped at once.

"What's going on?" Aso asked rhetorically with a look of incomprehension.

"It seems that the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side has retreated!" A small captain next to him was skeptical!

"Retreat? How can it be? Aso asked with a disbelieving expression.

But in order to catch up with the Eighth Route Army as soon as possible, Aso Shaozo still chose to believe, and then quickly ordered: "A company of the Imperial Cooperative Army, attack immediately, rush up to see if the Eighth Route Army has really retreated, attack immediately!" ”

Within a few minutes, the company commander of the Imperial Association Army rushed over with excitement on his face: "Sir, the Eighth Route Army blocking the front has been repelled by us!" ”

Seeing that Aso Shaozuo's brows suddenly furrowed, and then stared at him in disbelief, the company commander quickly changed his words!

"It wasn't us who repelled it, it was the Eighth Route Army who took the initiative to retreat, and there wasn't even a single corpse left, should we continue to hunt them down!"

Aso Shaozo scolded with an expression of hatred that iron is not steel: "Then it goes without saying, your troops are at the front, and the others are following, you must catch up with the retreating Eighth Route Army just now and eliminate them!" ”

Everyone who understands knows that the Eighth Route Army, which everyone is chasing, does not want to fight with them.

Instead, he took advantage of his familiarity with the terrain, killed himself as much as possible with firepower, and then retreated after fighting. In this case, whoever is at the forefront may become the target of the next round of massacres by the Eighth Route Army.

The company commander didn't expect that he would bring himself such an ending by lying about the military situation.

I was very reluctant to accept this task, but in the face of Aso Shaozuo's eyes that could almost kill, the refusal that was just about to be said could only be swallowed back by himself, and then he was reluctant to answer: "Please rest assured, sir, I will lead the troops to open the way for the main force and chase and kill the Eighth Route Army that attacked us!" ”

"Yo Xi!" Aso's tense facial expression finally relaxed, and he began to give orders.

"The troops continued to pursue the Eighth Route Army, and the first company of the Imperial Alliance Army went to the front to open the way, and the other troops followed!"

For a whole night, more than 1,000 people led by Aso Shaozo were in a state of exhaustion.

Zeng Quan and Zhang Qing cooperated with each other, constantly beating the pursuing devils behind them with firepower, or hitting them with a counterattack, eliminating them as much as possible.

As for the two mortar batteries, no matter how the Japanese counterattacked with artillery, the shelling of the two companies was not interrupted for more than half an hour.

When there was still an hour before dawn, Zeng Quan directly led his troops to withdraw from the battlefield to avoid causing losses to the troops after the arrival of Japanese planes.

There was no rest all night, and it was a nervous Kato Daisa, with the arrival of the two planes, the whole person relaxed and collapsed in his seat.

However, this relaxation did not last long.

As soon as Aso Shaosa entered the command headquarters with a gunshot wound, he lowered his head and reported.

"Sir, I have failed your high expectations and failed to complete the task, please punish the sir!"

Kato Daisa's face suddenly became heavy: "Baga, I originally planned to let you lead the troops to destroy the Eighth Route Army that attacked us, but what did you do, the Eighth Route Army did not eliminate it, but you lost your troops instead!" Do you know how much we lost in the shelling last night? ”

"Chief of Staff, you come to tell our Aso Shaosa!"

"Hey!" The chief of staff, who shouldered the rank of Zhongzuo, had a gloomy face from beginning to end.

The transport troops lost so much material at the transit station, and as the chief of staff of the transit station garrison, he also had an unshirkable responsibility.

"A total of 105 carts full of various supplies were parked at the transfer station last night."

"In the shelling, the ammunition of 25 carts was directly blown up or exploded, and the supplies of 22 carts were bombed, and some of them were all destroyed, and the advantage was greatly lost!"

"The material loss is still secondary, after analysis, the Eighth Route Army used a total of two artillery companies and 18 mortars, and fired a total of more than 500 shells at us, of which nearly 30% of the shells smashed into the transit station camp, causing huge casualties to the garrison. Excluding the troops you took with you, 154 Imperial soldiers were killed and 51 wounded in the camp alone. The losses of the Imperial Allied Army were even greater, with more than three hundred casualties! ”

Seeing that Aso Shaosa lowered his head and didn't speak, Kato Daisa's anger became even stronger.

"Why don't you speak, Aso-kun, it's your turn next, you swore to me at that time that you would destroy the Eighth Route Army that attacked us. Even though I didn't complete the mission, I want to know your achievements and losses! ”

Aso Shaozo could only stubbornly answer: "After dawn, we checked the battlefield and only found 49 corpses of the Eighth Route Army!" ”

"How much, I didn't hear clearly!" Kato Osa asked dissatisfied.

Aso Shaosa knew that the commander had heard clearly, but in order to vent his anger and dissatisfaction, he deliberately asked this question so as to make himself embarrassed.

But the officials crushed people to death, especially in the hierarchical Japanese army, and Aso Shaozo did not have the courage to disobey military orders.

Despite being suffocated, Aso Shaozo still lowered his head and replied: "49 corpses of the Eighth Route Army!" ”

"What about our casualties?" Kato Daisa, who was also holding back his anger, did not intend to let go of Aso Shaosa, stared at him and continued to question.

"The Imperial Army suffered 217 casualties, and the Imperial Allied Army suffered 451 casualties, with a casualty rate of more than eighty!" Aso couldn't lift his head anymore and replied in a mosquito-like voice.

Kato Osa was immediately enraged: "Eight Grid Yalu, that is to say, you only killed 49 Eighth Route Army with nearly 800 casualties!" ”

"Hey, please punish Your Excellency, Commander!" Aso Shaozo has no confidence at all.

Kato Osa scolded angrily: "Punishment? Can punishment bring hundreds of warriors back to life? ”