Liang Jian: Commander, save some for me

Chapter 838

The next morning, at six o'clock, the sky was just getting light.

The puppet army, who had stayed in the mountains for a night, finally chose to go down the mountain.

"Captain, a whole night has passed and we haven't seen the Japanese come back. Could they have been completely wiped out?!" A puppet soldier spoke with a slightly trembling voice and swallowed nervously.

"I'm not sure, but I feel the probability is quite high. Fortunately, we are not in good physical condition and did not follow the Japanese." The puppet army captain shook his head. How could he know what the situation was on the Japanese side.

Anyway, the probability of being killed by the enemy is very high.

"Let's go, let's go to the place where the gunshots were heard yesterday and see what's going on." The puppet army captain led the way.

"Ah?! Captain, why don't we just go back to the city? Why do we have to go and take a look?!" Upon hearing this, the other puppet soldiers were immediately frightened.

They were worried that the enemy had not left and that they might just be killed if they went over there.

"What are you afraid of? If the enemy had killed all the Japs, they would have left long ago. Do you think they would be waiting there foolishly?" said the puppet army captain unhappily.

After hearing this, everyone felt that it made sense.

The group came to the main road cautiously, and then walked forward along the road.

"Captain, there's a person over there!" A puppet soldier suddenly found a corpse in military uniform lying on the side of the road, and it seemed to be a Japanese soldier.

"I saw it, I'm not blind." The puppet army captain looked at these cowardly subordinates and shook his head helplessly, and he walked forward on his own.

The other puppet soldiers looked around, fearing that an enemy would suddenly appear and shoot them.

The puppet army captain came to the body and turned it over.

The left chest of the corpse was stained with blood, and it was obvious that he was shot dead.

The enemy's shooting is very accurate.

"Captain, is he dead?!" a puppet soldier stepped forward and asked.

"Well, we can't die anymore. Let's go and move forward." The puppet army captain stood up.

"Ah?! We still have to move forward." The other puppet soldiers were already somewhat reluctant, but still followed.

Soon, they arrived at the place where the Japanese were ambushed.

There were corpses lying all over the road, the air was filled with the smell of blood, there were pools of blood and broken limbs on the ground. This place was like hell on earth.

“Ugh…” After seeing this scene, many puppet soldiers ran to the side of the road and retched madly. They almost vomited out their gallbladders, and their mouths were full of the bitter taste of bile.

There was no way. They hadn't eaten anything in the morning, let alone anything to vomit.

Even the brave captain of the puppet army couldn't bear it and ran to the side of the road to vomit.

He felt a little regretful. Why did he come here to take a look? He should have gone back to the county directly, otherwise he would not have had this experience.

"Let's go, let's go back to the county town, go back to the county town quickly and report what happened here to the Japs." The puppet army captain gave orders hurriedly. He didn't want to stay here at all. It was too damn scary.

.........

In Xiangyang, the Japanese regiment commander Shang Jiuyifu was in his office, he didn't sleep all night.

"Damn it, it looks like Major Liku has died. The enemy should have retreated by now, right?!" Shang Jiuyi murmured.

Nearly two hours have passed since Major Lijiu called, and the enemy has most likely captured the county town.

I just don't know whether Major Lijiu burned the supplies according to his instructions. Anyway, Major Lijiu didn't call him at this time, so he must have died with honor.

"Why did these damn people come to Xiangyang for no reason?! Can't they stay in Shanxi and cause trouble for the soldiers over there?!" Shang Jiuyifu couldn't help but curse.

He really didn't expect that the enemy would run over here from Shanxi.

Shang Jiuyifu picked up the phone and called one of his lieutenant colonels.

"I am Shang Jiuyifu!"

"Good morning, Captain. Do you have any instructions for me?" A greeting came immediately over the phone.

"You must take a large group of soldiers with you and rush to Xiaoluo City immediately," Shang Jiuyifu ordered.

"Captain, what are you doing over there? Are there enemies?!" the Japanese lieutenant colonel asked, why did he inexplicably want to take people to the county town where Major Lijiu was staying.

"There are enemies, but they have most likely left. Just last night..." Shang Jiuyifu gave a brief explanation.

"What?! How is this possible?! Where did such a powerful enemy come from?!" The Japanese lieutenant colonel was shocked.

There were six or seven hundred soldiers in Xiaoluo City, but they were annihilated by the enemy in one night? How strong must the enemy be to be able to do this?

"Don't ask so many questions. Take someone over to check the situation first.

If the soldiers there died, they would be burned and their ashes brought back.

By the way, when we set out, send an advance team to explore the way ahead. Whenever we find a place where there might be an enemy ambush, we must send someone to check to make sure there is no enemy ambush, understand? !” Shang Jiuyifu instructed.

He didn't want his men to be ambushed by the enemy when they passed by, otherwise, his regiment would suffer heavy casualties in two days!
"I understand." Although the Japanese lieutenant colonel couldn't understand, he still agreed to do so.

"Okay, go quickly." Shang Jiuyifu hung up the phone, and then started to call the nearby county town, asking them to immediately abandon guarding the county town, as well as the checkpoints and bunkers, and to gather in Xiangyang.

In response to this, the Japanese commanders in those counties expressed their incomprehension, but Shang Jiuyifu was too lazy to explain one by one. He just told the commanders not to ask too many questions and to follow orders.

After giving the instructions, Shang Jiuyifu immediately called the brigade commander and informed him of the matter.

"In other words, the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army has already run over to our side from Shanxi and wiped out six or seven hundred soldiers in one of our counties?!" The voice of the Japanese brigade commander, shocked and a little bit unbelievable, came from the phone.

"Yes, the enemy is most likely the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army. Otherwise, I can't think of anyone else who has this combat capability." Shang Jiuyifu affirmed.

As for the current situation, the troops that attacked them are extremely powerful and good at night combat. The situation they encountered is exactly the same as that of the soldiers in Shanxi.

"How can you repair it? You must immediately ask the soldiers from the surrounding counties to gather their forces and come to Xiangyang to avoid being defeated one by one by the enemy.
I will report this matter to the division commander now." After the Japanese brigade commander finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

"Huh...Luckily I wasn't blamed. It was just because we encountered that unit. If other units had suffered such heavy casualties, it would be hard to explain.

Come to think of it, this army did the same thing in Shanxi before, they are not thinking of repeating it, right?!" Shang Jiuyifu felt a little scared.

Fortunately, he also knew how powerful this army was. Otherwise, if he wanted to destroy this army, he might be destroyed by the other side. ………

Around noon, when the puppet army captain returned to the county town, he was completely dumbfounded.

The city gates were blown down. There was not a single puppet soldier at the gate, let alone any Japanese soldiers. There were only many civilians coming in and out.

"Captain, what's going on?!" The other puppet soldiers were also dumbfounded. They never expected that the city gate would disappear when they came back.

"Let's go up to the city wall and take a look." The puppet army captain took his men to the city wall as soon as he entered the city. As expected, they saw a horrifying scene again. On the walkway on the city wall, there were corpses lying all over the place, and the air was filled with the smell of blood.

The puppet army captain and his men leaned against the wall and vomited, and this time they almost vomited out their gallbladder.

.........

The people in the city were also talking about it, especially in the teahouses, where people were chatting more happily.

"I don't know which army attacked last night. The sound of gunfire was deafening."

"Yeah, I was frightened awake."

"Damn it, I was taking a shit at the time and I almost fell into the toilet, but the gunfire stopped within a few minutes."

"That's right. When I got up this morning and went to the city gate, guess what I saw?!"

"What's wrong?!"

"Hey, the city gate was blown down, which means that the attacking troops killed the Japanese and traitors defending the city in just a few minutes. It's amazing."

The people were discussing the event happily, and each one described it vividly, as if they had seen the scene with their own eyes.

"Have you ever been to the Japanese military camp? The entire camp was burned down by a fire."

"Which unit did this? They were so powerful that they beat the Japanese so badly."

"Who knows, but I feel it might be the Nationalist Army, because the Eighth Route Army doesn't have such fierce firepower."

"That makes sense, but the problem is, there shouldn't be any unit in the Nationalist Army that has such strong combat power, right?!"

"correct."

The people were chatting and suddenly fell silent. They really didn't know which unit had the strongest fighting ability and the most powerful firepower.

"No matter who did it, I feel happy when I see the devils being killed."

"You're right. These devils and traitors deserve no pity in death."

"Come to think of it, they have killed all the devils in the county, why don't they take the county back?! Should they continue to leave it to the devils?!"

"Needless to say, it's easy to capture this county, but it's not that easy to defend it. Do you think the devils are vegetarians?

As soon as they occupied the place, the Japanese sent a large force over. What's more, this force most likely had no reinforcements, which made the situation even more difficult.

Under such circumstances, it is impossible to defend the city. So, it is not that they don’t want to defend it, but that they cannot defend it, and there is no need to defend it! "

"I see."

The people continued to talk.

At this time, the Japanese lieutenant colonel also arrived halfway with a battalion of soldiers.

When the Japanese lieutenant colonel saw that there might be an ambush a few hundred meters ahead, he also sent people to check the situation.

After all, Major Lijiu had gotten into trouble, and when he passed by, he sent people to check the checkpoints and bunkers, and all the soldiers were killed. This had to make him alert.

"Major, all the soldiers at another checkpoint were killed, and they died when leaving the checkpoint. In addition, the checkpoint was burned down." A Japanese captain came over and brought bad news.

"Okay, I got it." The Japanese lieutenant colonel nodded. Just as the regiment commander said, the soldiers at the checkpoints and bunkers had basically died.

There are still two squadrons of soldiers, and no one knows where they are. In short, there is a high probability that they were ambushed by the enemy on the road and the entire army was wiped out.

"I never thought that one day we would encounter such a powerful opponent." The Japanese captain sighed.

He had always thought that there would be no enemies with strong combat power here, but he didn't expect that they would encounter one this time.

"So, we still have to be cautious." The Japanese lieutenant colonel responded. He didn't know what was going on, but based on the reaction of the regiment commander, the regiment commander seemed to know what was going on with this unit.

Otherwise, when they learned that so many soldiers had died, they would not have gathered their troops, but instead sent people to pursue the enemy.

This shows that the commander of the regiment is very clear about the situation of this unit, so he dare not pursue it easily, and can only choose to gather his troops to prevent the enemy from defeating them one by one.

"Report! Lieutenant Colonel, something happened. There are dead bodies of our people ahead, about four hundred in number." A soldier came running to report.

"Sure enough, I knew it." The Japanese lieutenant colonel murmured. He didn't see the two squadrons along the way, so he knew that he would encounter a situation halfway.

"Lieutenant Colonel, from what we can see at the scene, they were ambushed by the enemy, and the enemy's firepower was so fierce that they had no power to fight back!" The Japanese soldier told about the situation he had seen.

"That's right. The number of enemies is actually not large, but their combat effectiveness and firepower are very strong." The Japanese lieutenant colonel had a serious expression on his face. He walked forward and soon arrived at the scene.

Looking at the corpses lying all over the road, the Japanese lieutenant colonel felt nothing in his heart and was not affected at all, because he had seen this kind of scene many times and had experienced it a lot.

"Hey...you stay with some people to collect their bodies. After transporting them to the county town, we will burn them together. Do you understand?!" The Japanese lieutenant colonel sighed and gave an order to the Japanese captain beside him.

"Hi!" The Japanese captain nodded.

Around 1:30 in the afternoon.

The Japanese lieutenant colonel arrived at the county town and saw the destroyed city gate. He also climbed up the city wall and saw the bodies of the soldiers on the ground.

"Damn enemy, they actually broke through the county town we occupied!" A Japanese officer gritted his teeth in anger.

After the Japanese lieutenant colonel arrived at the military camp, he looked at the camp that had been burned to ashes and was speechless for a long time. He asked someone to connect the telephone line and then called Shang Jiuyifu.

"Hey, what's the situation?!" Shang Jiuyi asked.

"Captain, the situation is the same as you said. The checkpoints, bunkers, and the county town have all been lost, and the soldiers have basically died." The Japanese lieutenant colonel reported the matter truthfully.

"Okay, I understand. You should burn the bodies of the soldiers who died in battle as soon as possible and bring back the ashes. As for this county, temporarily hand it over to the Imperial Army. Do you understand?" Shang Jiuyi gave the orders.

The reason why he sent people over was to collect the bodies of those who had died in battle and take their ashes away.