Chapter 1865 The Japanese retreat!
Wanjiazhai, Juyi Hall.
At night, the Dragon Boat Festival was watching the Wanjialing terrain map given to him by the White Snake in Juyi Hall.
This topographic map was surveyed and drawn by the White Snake himself. Although it has a bit more ancient charm, it is much stronger than the map given to Doihara by the tiger down the mountain.
The Dragon Boat Festival is very happy because with this thing, he can develop well in Wanjialing.
Of course, he also thought about fighting out, but his weapons and equipment were insufficient. If he fought out like this, there would be great casualties.
However, at this moment, Lao Nu hurriedly walked in and said, "Roun, the Japanese have indeed moved. I sent someone down the mountain to investigate and found that the Japanese's posts were all withdrawn secretly. Moreover, the Japanese troops were packing their luggage. Should we sneak attack them all at once?"
Dragon Boat Festival raised his eyes and looked at Lao Su and said, "What about then?"
"Then?"
Lao Nu was surprised, but thought for a while and said, "We will kill a few Japanese soldiers, just like a few. Isn't this what you said? We will assassinate every Japanese soldier until they are in trouble."
Dragon Boat Festival smiled and said, "You are right, but now, the enemy is strong and I am weak. We cannot lose watermelon just because we pick up a sesame seed. The commander of the 14th Division is called Tuhihara. This old Japanese devil is very smart. Not only did he prepare to evacuate immediately after the baggage force was attacked, but he also made sufficient preparations.
Logically speaking, after the Japanese supplies were attacked, in order to avoid being harassed by the enemy during the retreat, the Japanese commanders would take necessary military actions, such as launching a fierce attack on the enemy's positions, which would make the enemy afraid and dare not pursue them easily.
But Doihira didn't. He was as if nothing had happened. He prepared his daily routine in detail and then quietly evacuated."
Lao Nu said puzzledly: "That group, what do you mean is that we just let the Japanese gangs surround us for more than ten days, and then ran away like that?"
The Dragon Boat Festival said: "Don't worry, Doihira would not have retreated so easily. With his intelligence, he would definitely leave an ambush to trick himself. Although he had never thought about how much troops he could cheat us. But even a few scouts, he could disgust us."
Lao Nu said in confusion: "That group, this Tu Haihara is so cunning, so we will do nothing?"
At this time, Dragon Boat Festival said: "Do, of course do it. Do Hirahara wants to cheat us, but we don't want to cheat him. Observe from a distance. If Dohihara and Momotaro's large troops leave, it will be time for us to cheat the Japanese.
Our weapons and equipment are obviously insufficient now. If we don’t win a few battles, our lives will never be released."
"Hehe, then I'll do it now!"
This time, Lao Nu understood. The troupe still wanted to cheat the Japanese.
So Lao Nu immediately sent someone to arrange an investigation, and the Dragon Boat Festival also called the first and second battalions, the most capable of the Supervisory Corps.
Dragon Boat Festival issued a mission for Zhu Shengzhong and Sun Shiyu.
With the cooperation of the third battalion, the first battalion fought the main attack, while the second battalion was responsible for covering and cut off the Japanese's route of escape. The remaining fourth battalion, fifth battalion, the special battalion, the new battalion, etc. were left behind to various defensive fortifications in Wanjialing to guard against the Japanese invading the mountain in the chaos.
When everything is ready, I just wait for the team of Doihara and Momotaro to leave.
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At the same time, Doihira was ready to leave and looked at the direction of Wanjialing with some nostalgia.
How he wanted to take Wanjialing, but unfortunately he couldn't do it at all. He fought against Wanjialing for more than ten days, and except for seizing part of the position at the foot of Wanjialing Mountain, there was no progress at all.
And at night, the supervision team took it back.
And he calculated that during more than ten days of battle, his loss ratio with the opponent was at least five to one.
It's him five, the Supervisory Corps One.
So if he continues to attack, he may have lost tens of thousands of people in Wanjialing.
This is very unprofitable. Moreover, this is the position at the foot of the mountain. The more you go up the Wanjialing mountain, the more dangerous the terrain is. At that time, it is not a five-to-one battle loss ratio, but ten-to-one.
If this were the case, the few people he brought would probably not be enough to be buried with the Dragon Boat Festival.
So the old Japanese retreated directly and arranged a brigade to stay and ambush it.
In addition, Tu Feiyuan gave a time limit. Within two hours after the large army left, no matter how many people came down from the mountain, they would immediately evacuate after the ambush.
In other words, Doihara was still worried about the safety of the ambush troops and made preparations.
One hand is to prepare for the ambush, no matter whether it is successful, you must evacuate immediately. The second hand is the time limit.
With the marching speed of the Dohihara troops, it is impossible to go far in two hours. Once the battle is unfavorable, the ambush troops will quickly move closer to Dohihara. Dohihara will also quickly send reinforcements.
For this reason, Tu Feiyuan even planned to encircle and annihilate most of the Dragon Boat Festival, and even directly captured Wanjialing.
Because this is very likely, if the Dragon Boat Festival detects an ambushing them, more troops will be sent down the mountain. In this case, the ambush troops of Dohihara will quickly break through and move closer to Dohihara.
At this time, Tukaiyuan's troops quickly returned to defense, surrounded most of the Dragon Boat Festival troops outside Wanjialing and annihilated them on the spot.
If this happens, even if the supervision corps remains on Wanjialing, Dohihara will be sure to take Wanjialing.
However, the risk factor is very high when doing this. One of his infantry brigades may have been directly destroyed by Dragon Boat Festival before waiting for his reinforcements. After all, Dragon Boat Festival combat speed is very fast, even Doihira is a little uncomfortable.
So, Doihara gambling has more ingredients.
Of course, he also thought of taking the troops directly to retreat, because this is the safest.
But he was unwilling to give up. Even if he only ambushed a few scouts from the Supervision Corps, Doihara felt that he could still disgust the Dragon Boat Festival.
But he didn't know that Dragon Boat Festival had seen through his tricks.
Dragon Boat Festival did send scouts but they just observed from a distance and didn't get close at all.
So the Japanese scouts naturally did not see anyone coming down from Wanjialing.
So Doihara still retreated according to his original plan.
He and Momotaro took nearly 50,000 people toward Jiazhuang, and then divided the troops with Momotaro.
His 14th Division would go south and attack Xuzhou, while Momotaro would detour and launch an attack on the Fifth War Zone from west of Xuzhou. The two troops would echo each other and would surely achieve great results.
Of course, the reason why the two of them did this was to find the Eighth Route Army that ambushed their baggage troops.
Both Japanese devils were crazy. If it weren't for this bizarre Eighth Route Army unit, although they might not be able to get Wanjialing, at least there would be no problem with being trapped for a few more months.
Chapter completed!