Chapter 5 Mountain Pursuit
Li San couldn't control the new recruits' thoughts. He just wanted to organize the troops as soon as possible! It was really thanks to the four Japanese planes. If they hadn't driven the new recruits running around together, the three hundred new recruits would have been dispersed in one go! If that were the case, Li San would have only one way to shoot himself.
Of course, while the Japanese plane helped Li San, it caused even more damage to the supplementary company! More than 60 recruits died directly under Japanese bombing and machine gun strafing, and more than 100 injured! Subtract the dozens of people who escaped while the chaos was missing. After Li San checked the number of people, he was surprised to find that there were only more than 80 people left in his supplementary company! Well, once the plane bombing and strafing, the supplementary company reduced its personnel by three quarters!
At the sound of horse hooves, Ji Jinbiao came with the cavalry company.
To supplement the current situation of the company, there is no way to block the Japanese. Li San can no longer issue a battle order to fight tenaciously and live and die with the positions. Just based on the performance of the recruits just now, if he dares to give this order, the more than 80 people in front of him will be able to disperse immediately!
The cavalry company came at the right time! After Li San and Ji Jinbiao discussed, they would just let the cavalry carry the more than 80 people and retreat!
When the Japanese Suzuki Squadron and Yamada Squadron rushed to the Yamaguchi, all the Chinese troops that were fighting with them half an hour ago had retreated.
Looking at the corpses and bullet shells everywhere, Captain Suzuki felt very uncomfortable. His squadron had suffered so many casualties but he could not defeat the Chinese army on the mountain. When the Yamada Squadron arrived, he did not fight a single battle and was not injured. The Chinese actually ran away! They were all elite field troops among the Japanese army. How could the gap be so big?
Victory was won without hurting one soldier, and Captain Yamada was naturally proud and confident. However, seeing that Captain Suzuki's face looked ugly, Captain Yamada, who was a friendly army, was not too arrogant.
"The only order of the brigade headquarters is to defeat the Chinese and capture Wangjiashan. Now we have achieved these two goals. The next military operation has not yet been instructed by the brigade headquarters. Suzuki Jun, do you have further orders from the brigade headquarters here?"
Before Yamada Squadron came up, Captain Suzuki was still thinking about how to rush to the Yamaguchi. How could he have time to ask the brigade headquarters for the next combat plan? Now he has occupied Wangjiashan, so it seems that he should report it too?
However, it seemed that this report was not so easy. Just as Captain Suzuki was chasing his mind, gunfire sounded again on the mountain, and it was the cavalry company that was harassing and attacking the Japanese.
After Ji Jinbiao's cavalry joined more than 80 soldiers from the Supplementary Company, he felt unsatisfied before leaving. Before leaving, Ji Jinbiao took his cavalry and fired another round of guns at the direction where the Japanese were. "Go!" Ji Jinbiao, who let go of the farewell gun, took his soldiers to the deep mountains happily.
Ji Jinbiao was very happy, but the round of guns before he left completely offended Captain Suzuki! The two armies suffered heavy soldiers and generals in battle. They invited reinforcements and the enemy turned around and ran away. Just as they were about to report the results of the battle, they encountered the cold guns of the Chinese! These consecutive events made Captain Suzuki feel that he had been intentionally humiliated by someone! It seemed that these Chinese people were deliberately embarrassing him!
"Yamada-kun, I want to lead the troops to pursue the Chinese army. Will Yamada-kun cooperate?" Captain Suzuki, who was in a furious state, was no longer ready to let go of the Chinese army that fled before the war.
"It is my honor to be able to fight side by side with Suzuki Jun! The order given to me by the General is also to cooperate with Suzuki Jun to occupy Wangjiashan! Please give orders from Suzuki Jun!"
The two Japanese said a few words of politeness to each other, and the two infantry squadrons joined together and chased them in the direction of the cavalry running.
Although this is in the mountains, it is still not easy for infantry to chase cavalry. It is even more difficult for the Japanese army who are unfamiliar with the terrain!
Half an hour later, the Japanese troops pursuing stopped. It was really difficult to march in the mountains! Especially the enemy that could be seen just now is completely invisible, which makes the Japanese army completely lose its target in the subsequent pursuit!
"Rest on the spot for ten minutes!" Captain Suzuki had to discuss the next action plan with Captain Yamada.
Half an hour of running down the mountain road was even more tired than running on the flat ground for an hour! The Japanese sat down on the ground, panting and wiping sweat, and whispering to their opponent's cunning.
"Suzuki, what should we do next?" Captain Yamada took off his military cap and took out a small white towel to wipe the sweat on his forehead. The weather was so hot!
Captain Suzuki was actually not interested in it. However, this pursuit was first initiated by him, so it seems that he had to make the decision on what to do next.
After looking around, he was stunned for a while when he was thinking, Captain Suzuki then said to Captain Yamada in a firm tone: "Our army searches forward and strives to find and destroy the Chinese cavalry!"
"What if I can't find it?" Captain Yamada was not optimistic about the current situation of the Imperial Army. This place was completely unfamiliar with giant trees and strange rocks. If you get lost in the mountains, it would be a joke!
"Can't find it?" Captain Suzuki obviously did not consider this issue before. "Then we will use an hour as the deadline. If we still do not find the Chinese army after advancing for an hour, we will immediately lead the troops back the same way! When we set out again, we will leave marks along the way. If we follow the marks on the return journey, we will not get lost!"
"Suzuki Jun is so smart!" Captain Yamada gave a thumbs up, but he didn't agree with it at all. He knew this way of keeping a mark when he was ten years old!
When the departure time was up, Captain Suzuki and Captain Yamada each sent an orderly soldier to mark the road he had walked. In fact, it was just to carve two words on the big tree or stone you were walking through and then draw an arrow indicating the direction.
In the woods, the Japanese had just walked over and slid down from a big locust tree. The man was wearing a blue national army uniform. The man stopped close to the tree for two minutes, and then he followed the Japanese in the direction.
After walking for more than a dozen steps, the man stopped. On a tree next to him, there were two words Suzuki carved with a knife, and there was an arrow facing forward under Suzuki.
The man grinned, pulled out the dagger from his waist, and walked to another big tree more than ten steps away with the same two words and an arrow, but the direction of the arrow was completely opposite to the other arrow more than ten steps away.
Chapter completed!