Liang Jian: Commander, save some for me

Chapter 803

"Then we have to try our best. Maybe the brigade commander will agree!" Li Yunlong said after hearing this.

If we really seized a lot of horses, we have to talk to the brigade commander about it. After all, the New 1st Regiment has made a lot of contributions, and the entire cavalry battalion can also be said to have made contributions.

"Then just try your best." Zhao Gang smiled and said, unless a lot of horses are seized, the chances of Li Yunlong setting up a cavalry battalion are slim.

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On the other side, Li Jin also led the soldiers of the special operations battalion and began to advance towards the base in the direction of Tianli Mountains.

Now they don't need to be overly cautious. They can set out during the day and travel through the mountain roads, because most of the Japanese on the road ahead have been eliminated.

Many counties are now managed by puppet troops, so they would not dare to do anything even if they discovered Li Jin.

Some soldiers from the special operations battalion had sad expressions on their faces, because the fallen soldiers were among their class.

"How much pension should be given to the fallen soldiers? Is fifty dollars enough?!" Xu Qingfeng said as he walked.

The special operations battalion left so much money, actually it was planning for sacrificing soldiers.

Make sure that after those soldiers sacrifice their lives, their families can live a good life in the future.

A pension of fifty dollars can be said to be extremely high. Many ordinary farmers may not be able to earn that much money in many years.

It can be said that at present there is no troop whose pension can be so high.

Even for the National Army's regular troops, when their soldiers died, the pensions they could receive were very small, and these pensions might even be deducted at various levels before being sent to the families of the fallen soldiers.

"A little more, sixty or so." Li Jin thought about it and added another ten dollars.

"Okay, I'll listen to you." Xu Qingfeng nodded.

He knew that this was the first time that the special operations battalion suffered casualties, and Li Jin was still very sad, but he did not show it.

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In Taiyuan, after seeing the telegram that more than 20,000 soldiers were likely to be wiped out, Itahira Seishirō's face turned pale.

"Division Commander, the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army cannot possibly have only this many people. They must have secretly sent more people to ambush in the Yunli Mountains. Together with the powerful soldiers trained by the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army,
This is why all the soldiers who entered the mountain died, and then there was the pincer attack from behind. "The Japanese colonel in front said, although it was all his guess, but only this guess could lead to the following situation.

"But this also shows that the troops trained by the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army are indeed quite powerful. Even with the cooperation of ordinary troops, they were able to cause such heavy casualties to us.

We have to make them our key targets. If we don't eliminate them, our soldiers in many areas will be threatened." The Japanese colonel continued.

To be honest, he had thought that this operation would go smoothly. After all, they sent two brigade commanders to lead the attack, and the number of people in each brigade reached more than 12,000. However, he did not expect that so many people would be killed.

"Baka!!! Does this mean that the troops trained by the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army are far stronger than our soldiers?! What a joke!!!" Itahene Seishiro was so angry that he started cursing.

How is it possible that more than 20,000 elite soldiers were annihilated by tens of thousands of Shanxi-Suiyuan troops?

How could the Jinsui Army be capable of training soldiers far superior to them? !

The intelligence sent to them previously said that the enemy's soldiers might be as strong as their own, and he chose to believe it. After all, soldiers in several areas suffered heavy casualties in the enemy's sneak attacks.

Therefore, in order to maintain subsequent stability, he sent so many people to encircle and suppress the rebellion, and even sent people to attack the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army’s garrison. However, what he did not expect was that this would be the result!

"Division Commander, it seems to be the case. If not, with so many of our elite soldiers, they would not be able to stop us even if we were defeated and wanted to escape.
The current situation can only mean that the enemies are much stronger than our soldiers.

However, judging from the situation, the enemy's troops must have suffered heavy casualties." The Japanese colonel continued.

If the enemy annihilated so many of their soldiers and only suffered a small number of casualties, then their strength would be too outrageous.

Therefore, it is certain that the enemy suffered heavy casualties.

Itakune Seishirō remained silent.

"They have come up with a new training method to train their soldiers, otherwise they would not be stronger than our soldiers!" said Itahira Seishirō.

He had seen the training methods of the National Army. With that level of training, even if the training volume was increased, it would not be possible to train very strong soldiers. Therefore, it can be seen that the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army may have come up with a more powerful training method.

"What the division commander said is that the soldiers they have trained, I estimate the number to be around three to four thousand, and they need to cooperate with the ordinary troops in the attack to exert their strength.

If they confront us head-on, the true strength of those enemies is probably only slightly stronger than ours.
At most, they can exchange one for one with our soldiers. Therefore, they suffered heavy casualties this time. It is highly unlikely that they will be able to train such soldiers again. "The Japanese colonel also agreed with this and put forward his own opinion.

But no matter how to say it, the enemy is indeed quite powerful and stronger than them. After all, under their firepower, they can fight them one on one, which means they are indeed stronger than them.

"Even if they suffer heavy casualties, we still have to be on guard. If we don't eliminate them, the threat to us will be too great." Itaige Seishirō said with a serious face.

"But the problem is that they are too few in number. It will take a lot of effort for us to successfully encircle and suppress them, and we may not even succeed!" The Japanese colonel frowned.

The enemy is in the dark, while they are in the light. After the enemy attacks, they can retreat quickly and run to other areas to continue fighting. It is basically impossible for them to encircle and annihilate the enemy.

Moreover, they were still targeting the Eighth Route Army. Now that so many people have suddenly died and been injured, their targeting of that side will probably have to be slowed down.

"I will apply to the commander and ask him to transfer another division to fill the vacancy and let the supporting division carry out the mission." Itahiro Seishirō thought for a while and said. He made a decision. No matter what, the threat from the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army is now much greater than that from the Eighth Route Army.

The focus in the future should be on the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army. As for the Eighth Route Army, they can only develop it for the time being.

At the very least, they couldn't just lose the county town they occupied, lest the enemy think they were doomed.

"Division commander, if the commander agrees, which division will be transferred here?!" The Japanese colonel was a little curious and asked.

"Let's see which division has no combat missions and transfer that division." Itakune Seishirō replied. How could he know which division the commander would transfer? Of course, he had to wait for the commander to communicate with the headquarters before deciding which division to transfer. As long as the Osaka Division was not transferred, there would be no problem.

"That's right." The Japanese colonel nodded and continued, "Division Commander, we can't really be sure that they have all died.

Didn't Endo send a telegram saying that if they could get help from the planes, they would probably be able to break out?! Maybe they can break out.
By then, we will be able to know more clearly the specific situation of this unit."

Judging from the current situation, it is not necessarily the worst outcome.

"Well, I hope so." Itagaki Seishiro was also thinking positively.

He didn't ask for half of the people to survive, even if only a small half survived, it would be enough, as long as not all of them died, that would be fine.

Just then, the sound of an airplane roared outside.

"Division commander, the air force that flew out has returned. Looks like we can wait for them to come over and report the situation." The Japanese colonel was overjoyed. He believed that the returning air force would bring good news.

After waiting for more than half an hour, a Japanese colonel walked in. He was Hengyuan Yuanzhu from the Air Force.

"Division Commander!" The Japanese colonel saluted Itakura Seishiro!
"What's the situation over there?!" asked Itakane Seishirō, his heart tense as he hoped to hear the news that Endo Ichirō and his men had successfully broken through under the cover of the plane.

"Captain, when I led the team over there, we could no longer see our men on the ground, let alone our flags.
Therefore, we could only drop a few bombs on the enemy symbolically. I sent people to fly and search for other locations, but we still didn't see anyone.
In other words, the soldiers over there may have died!" Hengyuan Yuanzhu slowly told the story.

He couldn't see his own people at that time, and he thought that they had broken through. However, when he sent people to look for them, he found nothing, so it was very likely that their soldiers had all been killed.

To be honest, he still couldn't quite believe it, but the facts he saw forced him to believe it.

So many soldiers of the empire were actually annihilated by the enemy. This was the first time such a large-scale destruction had occurred.

Although many people died in previous wars, it has never happened that an entire brigade of so many people was wiped out!

"Alas..." Itahene Seishirō did not get angry but sighed deeply. What he feared was really what happened.

I don’t know the situation in the Yunli Mountains now, but I feel that the soldiers there have a low chance of surviving.

Because if any of their soldiers could survive, there would be no enemies to surround Endo Ichiro.

"Division Commander, what is going on? Why did this happen? In my impression, the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army is not that powerful!" Hengyuan Yuanzhu couldn't help but ask. He couldn't understand how the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army's combat effectiveness could be so strong.

It was obvious that when he led the team to carry out the mission before, their people had the upper hand, but the situation was reversed in an instant?!
"What has happened has already happened, you go down first!" Itaheng Seishirō waved his hand. He was very tired and didn't want to say anything more.

"Hi!" Hengyuan Zhunzi heard this and didn't ask any more questions. The one who was most uncomfortable right now was the division commander.

Hengyuan Cylinder slowly left the office.

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At this time, on the outskirts of the Yunli Mountains.

A squadron of devils came here.

The Japanese lieutenant who led the team looked at the forest in front of him and couldn't help swallowing his saliva. This time they went into the mountains to look for someone.

"Lieutenant, are we going into the mountains?!" the second lieutenant next to him reminded them that they had been waiting here for more than ten minutes.

"Go into the mountains, but be careful not to get ambushed by the enemy!" the Japanese lieutenant ordered and reminded.

"Lieutenant, has something happened?!" The Japanese second lieutenant was puzzled. He didn't understand. Aren't they just going to find the soldiers who went into the mountains? What was there to be careful about?

"I'm afraid all the soldiers who entered the mountains before died! We entered the mountains just to confirm this!" The Japanese lieutenant explained the situation.

"What?! How is this possible?!" The Japanese second lieutenant was shocked, his eyes widened and his face was full of disbelief.

If he remembered correctly, there were more than 12,000 soldiers who entered the mountains. How could they all die in battle?

"Lieutenant, you must be kidding me! We are going into the mountains just to bring the bodies of the fallen soldiers back to the county town, right?!" The Japanese second lieutenant calmed down and continued.

He thought the lieutenant was joking with him and wanted to scare him, and that the soldiers who went into the mountains must be going to support another brigade.

"I'm not kidding, it's true!" The Japanese lieutenant had a serious face. When he received the order, he confirmed it several times.

"But, how is this possible?! Even if the enemies in the mountains are very powerful, they can't wipe out all our people, right?! There will always be someone who can escape?!" The Japanese second lieutenant made several guesses in succession, all of which felt that such a thing would not happen.

"I also want to ask why! But even the major can't explain it. We need to go into the mountains to find out the situation." The Japanese lieutenant responded unhappily.

If possible, he wanted to know what was going on more than anyone else. So many soldiers were clearly going into the mountains to encircle and suppress the enemy, but now there was suddenly news that they might be wiped out by the enemy.

The biggest problem is that this could come true, which is pretty scary.

The Japanese second lieutenant still couldn't accept it. He thought that by sending so many soldiers into the mountains, the enemies in the mountains would definitely be wiped out, but he didn't expect this result.

"Let's go!" The Japanese lieutenant gave the order again, and nearly two hundred Japanese soldiers began to enter the mountains. They were very cautious along the way, especially when they saw places where there might be enemy ambushes, they sent people to the mountains to check to prevent them from being ambushed.

After going into the mountains for more than ten miles, the Japanese lieutenant and his men stopped because something had happened ahead of them. Hundreds of rotting corpses in their military uniforms were lying on the ground in all directions.

There were even traces of bullets on the nearby trees.

The Japanese lieutenant did not go there immediately, but went to a mountain nearby because this was a place extremely easy to be ambushed.

"Lieutenant, there are simple trenches dug here. It is basically certain that the enemy has ambushed our soldiers here!" A Japanese soldier shouted loudly.

He stood on the top of the trench, and after shouting, he continued to check the situation in the trench.