At the command of the Yangquan Japanese Army Corps, the Chief of Staff was shocked when he received a telegram from Pingding.

The reinforcements and pacification were all from the field troops on the front line, and their combat effectiveness was more than one level stronger than the garrison. Even they were defeated by the National Salvation Army and the Eighth Route Army, which was too exaggerated.

Even if the Eighth Route Army and the National Salvation Army received news in advance that the Imperial Army was about to sweep the occupied areas and dug a pit and waited for the Imperial Army to drill, it would not have lost half an infantry brigade in one day, which would have been too shameful to the field troops.

The Chief of Staff was shocked and puzzled, but he still sent the telegram to the brigade commander as soon as possible.

Major General Honda's reaction was even more exaggerated than the Chief of Staff. After reading it, he slapped the telegram on the table and cursed: "Are they a group of pigs? They lost half an infantry brigade in just one day. He also said that this was a conspiracy between the Eighth Route Army and the National Salvation Army. It was obvious that they were incompetent and deliberately made excuses to shirke responsibility!"

"Call back to Pingding immediately and report the battle process truthfully."

"Tell the two captains that they were middle-level officers of the Imperial Army and the bravest samurai in the Great Japanese Empire. I don't want to see them not even have the courage to admit defeat!"

Facing the angry Major General Honda, the Chief of Staff did not dare to say a redundant word, and hurriedly left the war room after receiving the order.

In the north of Yangquan, half a brigade of Japanese soldiers divided into two groups to sweep the Eighth Route Army guerrillas in the Yangquan occupied area.

Since leaving the county town, the cold guns and landmines have not been cut off with the two sweeping troops. Although they have not caused many casualties to the Japanese army, it has greatly damaged the morale of the troops.

By noon, the Japanese on the official road began to become numb.

Facing the cold guns that sounded from time to time around, he continued to march forward with an indifferent attitude, neither concealed nor stopped.

If a soldier is shot and killed, the soldier next to him will immediately carry the body to the side of the road.

If injured, there will be baggage soldiers coming and carrying them forward.

At this moment, nearly twenty stretchers were added in the middle of the team that stretched for nearly two hundred meters, all of which were soldiers injured by cold guns and landmines.

In order to prevent himself from being targeted, the captain who was attacking with the team had given up his war horse. Even the grandfather's uniform was replaced by an ordinary soldier. He followed his subordinates to march on his legs, and his eyebrows were full of worry.

They had searched for two Eighth Route Army hiding sites, but they all found nothing.

If the next search target is still not rewarded, I will withdraw my troops because it is dark? Not only will I gain nothing during the whole day of the operation? I also lost dozens of subordinates, which simply lost my wife and soldiers.

It feels embarrassing to say such a result.

"Dongdongdongdong..."

The sound of heavy machine gun strafing, which was both familiar and unfamiliar to the captain, suddenly rang out on a high ground nearly three hundred meters away on the flank.

The reason why he is very familiar with it is because the heavy machine guns being fired are all Type 92 installed in the troop.

If you say it is unfamiliar, it is because you have been out of the city for almost a day? The heavy machine gun team that was attacking with the team has not fired the meat.

The captain quickly lay on the ground, raised his telescope and looked towards the high ground.

The sadness on his face disappeared when he saw it. The corners of his mouth slightly raised, and a smile flashed out. He was very excited to make a judgment.

"There are at least three heavy machine guns shooting at us on the opposite high ground!"

"The county garrison said: The Eighth Route Army is very poor? Only troops above the battalion are qualified to be equipped with heavy machine guns. Three heavy machine guns suddenly popped up on the high ground, so at least one battalion of Eighth Route Army troops were moved around us."

"Heavy machine gun squad, mortar squad, immediately counterattack? Suppress the heavy machine gun firepower of the Eighth Route Army."

"One or two teams attack immediately? The Eighth Route Army who were circling around the high ground, must not let them escape again this time!"

The captain was disappointed again. As soon as the surrounding troops began to operate, the gunfire on the high ground came to an abrupt end. You could vaguely see the Eighth Route Army carrying heavy machine guns and retreating...

"Sir? The Eighth Route Army is about to run away again. They slipped away from our noses when they two sneak attacks in the previous two times!" The squadron leader next to him was very anxious to remind.

The captain didn’t want to return empty-handed today? What’s more, the other party was still a piece of fat, so he couldn’t bear it.

Immediately ordered: "The whole army pursues? This time, no matter what, we can't let them run away!"

The Japanese, who had been walking for most of the day, quickly chased, but because the troops carried a large amount of heavy equipment, they also carried nearly twenty stretchers. Not only was the pursuit speed not fast, but they ran slower and slower. As they ran, the distance between the two sides gradually increased from more than 200 meters to four hundred meters at the beginning.

When the other party was almost no longer visible, the captain began to be anxious: "This time, we must not let the cooked duck slip away from our mouths!"

"Three infantry squads chased me lightly, and I must kill them."

"The heavy machine gun squad, artillery squad, baggage squad, and then it's very close, and start the action immediately!"

Without heavy equipment and the wounded, the Japanese pursued the enemy suddenly accelerated. In less than half an hour, the distance between the two sides was shortened from more than 400 meters to more than 200 meters.

"Sir, the Eighth Route Army lost the heavy machine gun... A Type 92 heavy machine gun was found in front, covered with thatch!" The captain of the vanguard team reported excitedly.

Weapons are the second life of soldiers and will never be discarded unless they are absolutely necessary.

The Eighth Route Army has now begun to throw guns, and they are precious heavy machine guns, which means they can no longer run and have to throw away heavy machine guns in the face of life and death.

The captain was also very excited after hearing this: "The Eighth Route Army can't run anymore, we will continue to pursue, and we must kill them before dark."

Before we knew it, the two troops ran for more than an hour.

During this process, the Eighth Route Army also threw away the remaining two heavy machine guns.

Before the gun was dropped, the Japanese army had already chased the Eighth Route Army two hundred meters behind and was about to catch up.

After the gun was dropped, the distance between the two sides was further extended to 400 meters due to the weight load of the Eighth Route Army, and it continued.

It is precisely for this reason that the captain stubbornly ordered the troops to chase after him, not giving the Eighth Route Army a chance to breathe.

At this time, the sky had already darkened, but when he thought that he had chased after more than 200 meters behind the Eighth Route Army and chased forward seventy or eighty meters, he could launch a surprise attack. The captain decisively threw away his worries and concerns and continued to command the troops to pursue them.

He completely forgot that the artillery and baggage team had already been landed three or four kilometers behind him.

Because the main force of the mountain road ahead had just passed, the baggage team, artillery, and heavy machine gun troops followed were not at all alert.

Besides, even if they want to be alert now, they don’t have the energy.

He was 40 or 50 kilograms more than ordinary infantry, and he was very tired after marching in front for most of the day. He ran for another hour or two, which made everyone exhausted and panting. There were still many soldiers who could not even stand up even if they lay down. How could they be vigilant?

The captain and his main force had just passed through a ravine. The Eighth Route Army of the two companies quickly ran out of the hiding point one kilometer away and marched towards the ravine.

When the Japanese follow-up troops were less than two kilometers away from the ravine, the Eighth Route Army of two companies finally entered the ravine.

In less than five minutes, the two companies disappeared and all lie on the tops of the ditches on both sides of the ravine.

All fourteen light machine guns that were finally collected were placed on the high ground with the widest field of view, waiting for the Japanese to drill into the pocket formation!

The Japanese brigade commander continued to pursue the troops, and the distance between the two sides gradually shortened from 200 meters to 150 meters.

Although I was very tired, the corners of the captain's mouth still rose.

He felt that he had won the pursuit battle. He was about to pull out his command knife and order the troops to launch an assault, the battle between the Eighth Route Army to attack the baggage team began.

Although the captain was nearly four kilometers away from the battlefield, the dense sound of machine gun strafing and grenade explosions could be heard clearly. Then he saw the Eighth Route Army joining again, which lengthened the distance between the two armies a lot.

"The troops stopped moving forward!" The captain realized something was wrong and quickly waved his order.

After listening carefully to the gunshots coming from behind, my face became increasingly ugly.

The captain of the second team next to him also realized something was wrong: "Sir, the gunshots behind are too dense, and there is no way to shoot without ten light machine guns."

"Our follow-up troops only have a light machine gun equipped with a logistics team. The machine gun team is equipped with heavy machine guns, so the current gunshots must be fired by the Eighth Route Army. The follow-up troops are in danger, otherwise the heavy machine gun team will definitely fight back!"

The captain's face became increasingly ugly: "We were defeated by the Eighth Route Army's plan to lure the tiger out of the mountain."

"After transferring us, we concentrate our superior forces to attack our artillery, machine gun squad, and baggage squad."

"Without infantry cover, the combat effectiveness of the follow-up troops is very poor and they cannot even protect themselves."

When he said the last sentence, the captain had already clenched his hands into fists and gritted his teeth and ordered.

"The back team becomes the front team and reinforce the follow-up troops immediately. The Eighth Route Army's conspiracy must not be allowed to succeed."

As soon as the Japanese retreated, the Eighth Route Army, who was fleeing, also began to turn around and bit behind the Japanese.

The Japanese follow-up troops were too tired and had almost zero vigilance, which led to the entire ambush battle being particularly smooth.

Fourteen light machine guns and more than two hundred rifles suddenly fired, killing and injuring more than fifty Japanese devils in the first round of firepower alone.

Although the remaining fifty Japanese were lying on the ground, most of them were empty-handed.

The Japanese who were not empty-handed were only equipped with self-defense rifles. Their fatigue made them unable to even lift their guns, let alone counterattacks in self-defense.

In order to seize more weapons and ammunition, the Eighth Route Army did not give the Japanese too many opportunities to respond.

The charge was blown as soon as a round of firepower volleys ended, and more than 300 Eighth Route Army rushed towards the exhausted Japanese like hungry wolves...

The entire ambush was clean and in less than ten minutes, the gunshots on the battlefield stopped.

Five minutes later, each soldier carried the spoils on his body to evacuate the battlefield.

The Japanese brigade leader arrived at the battlefield ten minutes later, and no trace of the Eighth Route Army except for the corpse in a ravine.
Chapter completed!