At the entrance of Zhangzhuang Town, Akiyama Nakasa has been standing here for almost an hour. It will be dark from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm, and it will be dark in more than an hour.

The county town sent a telegram to itself at noon, which was clearly stated: the baggage team set off at 12 noon under escort of more than 300 troops and arrived at Zhangzhuang Town at the latest at 5 pm.

But when the time came, they did not arrive on time.

Akiyama Nakasa thought of the national rescue army that captured Zhangzhuang Town, and a bad premonition flashed out of his mind.

But soon this premonition was rejected by myself.

The troops escorting the baggage team are much more powerful than those left behind in Zhangzhuang Town. Not only are the troops twice as powerful as they are also strengthening a large number of heavy weapons.

The National Salvation Army, which was active outside the mountain, definitely did not have the strength to swallow so many imperial troops in one bite.

Even if they target the baggage team, they can only pose some threat to them.

After thinking about it, Akiyama Zhongzuo didn't believe that something would happen to the baggage team. The reason why he did not arrive at Zhangzhuang Town on time must be that something unexpected happened on the road was delayed.

After the army had eaten this meal tonight, there was nothing to eat tomorrow.

The food sent by the baggage team not only affects whether the troops will go hungry tomorrow, but also affects the troops' morale and combat effectiveness, so no accident will happen.

After the baggage team did not arrive on time, Akiyama Nakasa was very anxious.

In order to get news about the baggage team as soon as possible, I simply ran to the town entrance to wait for news.

After waiting for an hour, there was no sign of the baggage team at the end of the official road.

What made him even more worried was still behind. The cavalry he sent out an hour ago has not yet found any trace of the baggage team.

The cavalry is fast and can run along the official road for more than ten kilometers within an hour before running back.

Cavalry kept coming back to report the news on the official road, but no sign of the baggage team was found.

It means that starting from Zhangzhuang Town, I walked back along the official road for more than ten kilometers but couldn't find a baggage team.

This is so weird.

There are only a total of more than 20 kilometers from the county town to Zhangzhuang Town. If you don’t find more than ten kilometers close to Zhangzhuang Town, it means that the baggage team is still marching on the more than ten kilometers of official road near the county town.

This simply doesn't make sense.

The baggage team has been away from the county town for six hours, and has climbed more than ten kilometers. How could it be that it is still there unless something happens to the baggage team?

The previous bad premonition surged into Akiyama's heart again.

He frowned and ordered: "The cavalry squadron sent another team out for investigation. The troops walked separately and walked back along the official road twenty kilometers. I don't believe that I can't find the trace of the baggage team?"

In Beizhuang, several large pots were set up by the soldiers at the entrance of the village, with steaming mule and horse meat boiled on them. The soldiers sat around, smelling the aroma of meat in the air, and swallowing their saliva.

These were the mules and horses that were accidentally killed in the battle, with a total of five. Zhou Cheng asked the cooking team to stew three pots of mules and horse meat at one time, cooked three pots of white rice, and let the soldiers have a good meal after two days of dry food, treating it as a celebration banquet for the troops to win the Japanese baggage team.

After Xiang Feng finished counting the results and losses, he ran to Zhou Cheng as soon as possible.

My mouth was so happy that I couldn't close my mouth, and I was happier than eating honey: "Battery Commander, the results of the battle have been counted!"

"In this afternoon, we wiped out a total of 346 Japanese and puppet troops, captured 81 puppet troops, and 19 Japanese and puppet troops seriously injured. All the remaining Japanese and puppet troops were killed, which was a great victory."

"A mortar was seized, a heavy machine gun was thrust, four crooked handles were captured, a Czech light machine gun was built, 58 large 38 covers, 118 old sleeves and Hanyang were built, a box cannon, and 15 turtle boxes, and the remaining weapons were all blown up."

“There is a lot of ammunition.”

"We seized the bullets and artillery shells carried by the Japanese and puppet troops without much consumption, and we didn't even have a chance to destroy them."

"We seized all the twenty carriages of food and ammunition protected by the Japanese soldiers. Tonight we ate white rice from those big trucks. There were six carriages of 12,000 kilograms of white rice. I asked the captive puppet army that these white rice were prepared for the Japanese. They like to eat rice and are not used to the rise of the north and corn cakes!"

"The ammunition is one-third more than what we seized in Zhangzhuang Town. There are more than a thousand shells of various types, and the specific number is still counted!"

Zhou Cheng nodded repeatedly when he heard this. Seeing Xiang Feng's sudden stop, he immediately reminded: "Continue talking?"

"The next is the battle loss!" Xiang Feng said these words, and the expression on his face changed significantly.

The smile disappeared, slowly replaced by seriousness, and then became solemn again.

After taking a deep breath, hesitated and reported: "We killed a total of 69 people in battle, 18 people seriously injured and lost their combat effectiveness. More than half of the remaining soldiers were slightly injured."

"The casualties were mainly caused by the two Japanese attacks, especially the artillery bombardment before the general attack. Due to limited time, the troops did not have time to dig anti-aircraft artillery holes, and at least forty soldiers were killed and injured by the bombing."

"The casualties during the counterattack were actually very small."

"The Japanese's attention is all on the armored vehicles. The troops followed the armored vehicles and almost encountered no resistance!"

"Since the war has fought, there are 39 people left in the Seventh Company, 28 people left in the firepower Company, 19 people left in the Guard Platoon, and 21 people left in the Reconnaissance Platoon."

"When we set out from Zhangzhuang Town, there were more than 250 people, and now there are 107 people left, half of whom were slightly injured, and more than 140 soldiers were either killed in battle or seriously injured and lost their combat effectiveness..."

This is war. Any victory is exchanged for countless soldiers with their lives and blood. Even if they travel through time, know the history of the next few decades, and have decades of more war experience than others in their minds.

The only thing you can work hard is to achieve the greatest result with the minimum casualties.

Zhou Cheng didn't dare to say that he had done his best, but he dared to say that he had a clear conscience.

After sending troops from Donghui Town, the troops wiped out and captured more than 600 Japanese and puppet troops, and seized an armored vehicle and a large number of weapons, ammunition and supplies.

The third battalion suffered less than 150 direct combat losses, which was equivalent to a soldier of the third battalion killing four Japanese and puppet troops in just two days.

This is definitely an unprecedented victory.

Thinking of this, Zhou Cheng felt much better and quickly put away his grief: "The casualties are a bit big, but we won. Not only did we eliminate the Japanese and puppet troops several times their own, but we also seized a large amount of weapons, ammunition and supplies, and cut off the ammunition supplies of the Japanese and puppet troops in Zhangzhuang Town."

"If they don't want to run out of ammunition and food, they can only end the sweep early, return to the county town, and end the attack!"

Zhou Cheng's words made the company platoon leader, who was in grief, become more motivated again.

If there is a new battle now, they will definitely rush to fight.

"Smack it..."

Several gunshots suddenly came from the official road east of Beizhuang. Zhou Cheng thought that the Japanese in Zhangzhuang Town were attacking, so he stood up and ran outside the ancestral hall. He ran and ordered: "Enemy attack, the troops are ready for battle!"

As soon as the order was exited, the gunshots on the official road stopped, and Zhou Cheng also stopped, and then slowly calmed down.

If there were really heavy Japanese troops attacking, the gunshots would definitely not end so soon.

He placed three alert teams there, each alert team three soldiers. The gunshot just now were obviously coming from one location. If the Japanese soldiers really attacked, the other two alert teams would definitely have noticed it and fired guns to warn, but they did not.

That means there are very few enemies outside the village, and maybe they are the Japanese scouts who rushed here.

A few minutes later, a guard post ran over from the entrance of the village: "Battery Commander, several Japanese cavalry suddenly appeared on the official road east of the village. As soon as we fired, they retreated!"

"We are exposed!" Zhou Cheng blurted out after hearing the report.

Xiang Feng was a little unable to keep up with Zhou Cheng's rhythm and couldn't figure out what the relationship was.

Zhou Cheng had no time to explain to him, and immediately ordered: "The mule and horse meat in the cooking squad has been almost stewed. I will give everyone half an hour to eat and then prepare for transfer. An hour later, the entire army left Beizhuang and prepared to return to Donghui Town."

"The investigation team eats faster, and immediately replenish ammunition after eating, take a small road back to Donghui Town, and keep an eye on the Japanese and puppet troops there."

"They will probably withdraw after they know that the baggage team was attacked. If they have the chance, we will bite two pieces of meat from the Japanese. If they don't have the chance, they will forget it."

The Japanese Army Command of Zhangzhuang Town, Akiyama Nakasa, who returned from the entrance of the town, gradually became anxious and uneasy. He didn't even eat dinner. He paced back and forth at the command center, looking at the door from time to time, hoping that the cavalry team would come back soon.

"Kick and slap..."

At the entrance of the town, the familiar sound of horse hooves from Akiyama came from the sound of the horses, from far to near, the sound became louder and louder.

Qiushan, who had been in the command center for almost half an hour, stopped decisively, staring at the door.

The sound of horse hooves came to an abrupt end at the command department's mouth, and then a burst of rapid footsteps were heard.

Five seconds later, a cavalry squadron, a chief Cao, ran in with a heavy breath, with a very heavy expression: "Sir, we found traces of the National Salvation Army in Beizhuang, 17 or 18 kilometers away from Zhangzhuang Town, and also found traces of fire exchange on the official road there, and the ground was full of bullet craters and bloodstains!"

"I originally wanted to go to close and investigate and find out the opponent's troops and equipment, but the opponent's guard is too strict. Before he gets close, he was discovered by the guard post and can only temporarily withdraw it."

"Beizhuang!" Akiyama Nakasa quickly searched for its location on the map.

After finding it, he suddenly realized his mind and shouted: "Bageyalu, I didn't expect that the National Salvation Army, which attacked our left-behind troops, would hide there."

"No wonder we searched within ten kilometers around for a day but couldn't find them. They were not near Zhangzhuang Town, Bageya Road!"

"The cavalry team will investigate again, and the reconnaissance team will go there together. We must figure out the other party's true strength, find out whether the baggage team was really killed by them, and then come back and report it as soon as possible!"

Seeing the cavalry chief Cao disappear from his eyes, Akiyama Nakasa sat on the chair with a heavy face.

At this time, he was already 90% sure that something happened to the baggage team and continued to order: "Order all officers above the squadron to come here for a meeting immediately, and the speed should be fast!"
Chapter completed!