Volume 1 Chapter 018 Surprise
Before Zhang Zhaohui could figure it out.
A bullet passed through, leaving a big hole in his forehead, and blood kept gushing out from the back of his head.
He tried to speak with sobs, but no sound came out. He fell down convulsing, and his eyes became empty.
Chu Yunfei pulled the bolt and a bullet casing popped out.
He glanced at the puppet army officer lying lifeless on the ground.
He sneered with disdain.
I have to retreat soon, and I have no interest in taking a puppet army officer who has done so many evil things with me.
Chu Yunfei pulled the bolt and shouted, "Get rid of the remaining enemies as soon as possible. If they don't surrender, use guns to kill them. Quick!"
The others either deserted or met their doom, and the battlefield was littered with puppet army corpses and weapons.
In this battle, the Eighth Mixed Brigade of the Imperial Army could be said to have been destroyed!
The Imperial Army was defeated in one blow, and the soldiers are cleaning up the battlefield.
Chu Yunfei sat on a rock and shook his head. "Damn it, these traitors are just weak. As soon as they encountered a little resistance, they ran away faster than rabbits. Clean up the battlefield and let's retreat!"
After running for fifty kilometers, the soldiers were very tired.
However, an understaffed puppet army brigade was wiped out.
The soldiers are still excited about the great victory and don’t feel the tiredness at all.
Even if they were asked to fight for another day and night, they could hold on!
After cleaning up the battlefield, carrying the spoils and escorting hundreds of prisoners, the 1st Battalion of the 358th Regiment immediately returned to the regiment headquarters in Wuzhai Town.
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Nearly 200 Japanese soldiers managed to escape and ran all the way until they saw the Yamazaki Battalion.
They immediately ran up to him as if they had seen their father. "Taijun! It's bad. There is an ambush of the Shanxi Suiyuan Army ahead. Their firepower is too strong. Each person has a machine gun, and there are more than ten or twenty artillery pieces. Our entire brigade was defeated in an instant. Let's retreat first!"
After listening to their report, Captain Yamazaki roared: "What a division of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army! It's ridiculous! You are cowardly and afraid of death, and you are deserters!"
The puppet soldiers who escaped back burst into tears and said, "Taijun, what we said was true! There really was a division. The enemy not only had a large number of machine guns, but also artillery . Just one salvo was enough to almost wipe out our entire brigade!"
Captain Yamazaki was furious: "Baka! Nonsense, complete nonsense. I think you are tired of living! Come, take them away and lock them up, and deal with them when you come back!"
A small group of Japanese troops took these puppet soldiers away, preparing to defeat the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army and then deal with them.
These puppet soldiers felt that they were more wronged than Dou E. They cried and swore that they were not lying and that the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army really had an division.
No matter how these defeated soldiers swore, Lieutenant Colonel Jihei Yamazaki did not believe them at all.
At first they said the Eighth Route Army, now they say the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army. They even say there is a division.
With a division of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army dispatched, how could the people from the Special High Technology Bureau not be able to find out any intelligence at all?
These puppet troops just like to exaggerate the enemy's situation in order to cover up their own incompetence.
Even if the enemy's Shanxi-Suiyuan Army has a division, it is nothing to our Imperial Army.
We have more artillery in one battalion than they do. Not to mention the brave soldiers of our imperial army are no match for the cowardly and fearful Shanxi-Suiyuan army.
Lieutenant Colonel Yamazaki drew his samurai sword and shouted towards Wanjia Town, "Warriors of the Imperial Japanese Army, march forward and use your swords and guns to show the Chinese pigs what the most heroic warrior is!"
When they arrived at Wanjia Town, there was no trace of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army. Apart from the corpses of puppet soldiers lying on the ground, there was not a single shadow to be seen.
Lieutenant Colonel Yamazaki was so angry that he immediately drew his officer's sword and hacked to death several puppet soldiers.
He blamed these puppet troops for being so rubbish that an entire brigade could not even hold out for half a day.
His team ran around for a long time but it was all in vain.
After hacking several puppet soldiers to death and scolding them for collecting the bodies, Lieutenant Colonel Yamazaki ordered the signalman to contact the headquarters and report the current situation.
I heard that the 8th Mixed Brigade of the Imperial Army was wiped out before it could even hold out for half a day.
Lieutenant General Yoshio Oozuka, commander of the 1st Army of the Japanese North China Expeditionary Army, smelled something unusual. He immediately ordered the Yokono Regiment and the Yamada Regiment to advance cautiously, and asked Ichiro Hirata, the captain of the gendarmerie in Heyuan County, to immediately investigate the situation.
At the Taiyuan First Army Headquarters, Lieutenant General Yoshio Yuzuka looked at Chief of Staff Major General Miyano with a stern expression.
"Have you found out which army was the enemy that ambushed our army when attacking Wanjia Town? Was it the Eighth Route Army or the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army?"
The Chief of Staff, Major General Miyano, stood up straight, bowed and shouted, "I'm sorry, but we haven't figured out which Chinese unit this is from yet."
Lieutenant General Yoshio Yuzuka was furious when he heard this. "Baka! You didn't even know the other party's number after all this time, what are you doing?"
Major General Miyano lowered his head and shouted, "I'll check it out right now!"
"We must find out which unit this enemy force belongs to, how many people there are, and how they were able to wipe out an entire brigade of the Imperial Army in such a short time!"
"yes!"
The Taiyuan devils sent out spies in panic to find out which troops attacked Wanjia Town and ambushed the imperial army today.
The news that 358 had captured Wanjia Town and defeated the Eighth Mixed Brigade of the Imperial Army reached the Eighth Route Army headquarters.
Everyone was shocked!
My goodness, what did the 358th Regiment eat? Why are they so fierce all of a sudden?
We have just wiped out a Japanese regiment, and now we have wiped out a brigade of the Imperial Army.
Although it is just a puppet army, it is a brigade!
There were more than 4,000 soldiers and horses.
And according to the telegram sent, it is clearly stated that the casualties of the 358th Regiment are not heavy!
We must find out what happened?
Not only the Japanese army, but also the Central Army and the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army were alarmed.
Yang Aiyuan of the Sixth Group shouted in astonishment: "What did you say? The 358th Regiment wiped out the Imperial Army?"
The military staff officer also said in disbelief: "Well, the most unbelievable thing is that the 358th Regiment itself did not suffer heavy casualties!"
Yang Aiyuan put his hands behind his back. "It's unbelievable! I know Chu Yunfei is capable, but I didn't expect him to be such a good fighter!"
He shouted immediately. "Let him report the battle situation immediately?"
He stood at attention and shouted, “Yes!”
For a time, the fact that the 358th Regiment attacked Wanjia Town and wiped out a brigade of the Imperial Army caused a great commotion in Shanxi. The Japanese Army, the Central Army, and the Eighth Route Army all sent spies to infiltrate Wanjia Town in order to find out the intelligence.
For a time, Wanjia Town became the focus of the entire northwest Shanxi!
He rushed back to the headquarters with the 358th Regiment.
The first battalion went to rest, and the cavalry battalion rested.
Let the logistics personnel count the spoils of this battle.
Let the people from the Fourth Battalion guard the prisoners.
Those who were willing to surrender were first assigned to the Fifth Battalion for training. Those who were unwilling to surrender were forced to feed horses and do odd jobs.
Chu Yunfei would never keep an idler.
The subordinates could all rest, but the two officers Chu Yunfei and Fang Ligong did not have a chance to rest.
One was responsible for handling the defense line to prevent retaliatory attacks from the Japanese army.
One is responsible for counting casualties and battle results.
After dispatching frontline scouts, arranging visible and covert sentries, and formulating defensive strategies, Chu Yunfei returned to the combat command center.
I just drank a cup of strong tea to wake me up.
Fang Ligong arrived feeling tired.
Although I was riding a horse, running 50 kilometers back and forth was not an easy task.
He held up a list and said, "Commander! The results of the battle are counted!"
