Liang Jian: Commander, save some for me

Half a month later, the Japanese invaders had fought their way to a location twenty miles away from Changsha.

Commander Xue also assembled his troops for a decisive battle with the Japanese.

After several days of fierce fighting, the Japanese found that their logistics troops could not keep up, and the troops in the other two directions were unable to join them.

So the Japs chose to retreat to the rear.

In this situation, Commander Xue ordered his troops to pursue in order to further expand the results of the battle. However, the troops under him were hesitant, and the Japanese would beat them in return.

So, under this circumstance, the Japanese troops retreated all the way without encountering any major obstacles.

.........

On the other side, Li Jin had also met up with Liang Gu. At this time, Liang Gu's troops had already blocked the retreat routes of some Japanese troops.

Li Jin and Kong Sheng walked into the temporary command center.

At this time, Liang Gu was studying the sand table map.

"Captain Mu, you're here." Liang Gu smiled when he saw Li Jin.

"Commander Liang, what's the situation? Can we stop the Japanese successfully?!" Li Jin said with a smile.

"You ask even though you already know the answer. I don't have enough troops and it's impossible for me to stop so many devils." Liang Gu felt helpless.

There were tens of thousands of retreating Japanese soldiers. Although he also had tens of thousands of men under his command, it was simply impossible to stop the Japanese soldiers.

"The key is that the pursuing Japanese troops are all hesitating and are not trying their best. In this situation, it is impossible for me to stop them." Liang Gu continued.

In fact, he had long felt that those troops would not risk pursuing them. They were all worried that the Japanese would counterattack, causing heavy losses to their own troops.

Therefore, it was basically impossible for Liang Gu to stop these devils.

"We can't stop all the devils, but it's enough to intercept a part of them. When the time comes, I will cooperate with you to kill these devils. As for the others, we will symbolically stop them for two days.

It won't be a big problem if you can't stop it, but if the higher-ups want to punish you for this, it's impossible." Li Jin gave his opinion.

As long as Liang Gu and his men can eliminate some of the Japanese devils, then it cannot be Liang Gu's fault if they cannot stop the remaining ones.

Two days of interception was already Liang Gu’s limit. At this time, if the troops in the rear could not catch up, it would no longer be Liang Gu’s problem.

At this time, if Liang Gu eliminated some of the devils, then there would be no crime at all. On the contrary, Liang Gu would have made a great contribution.

"Captain Mu, you are really smart." Liang Gu praised.

"Commander Liang, you actually had this plan a long time ago, but I just said it out loud." Li Jin smiled. Liang Gu is not the kind of person who likes to suffer losses.

Knowing that his own troops would not pursue the Japanese with all their strength, Liang Gu would not allow his troops to suffer too great a sacrifice to intercept the Japanese.

If his own troops are willing to chase desperately without so many concerns, Liang Gu will naturally do his best.

But the problem is that our own troops are hesitant. In this situation, if Liang Gu tries desperately to intercept the retreating Japanese, the losses will be great.

"Sure enough, nothing can be hidden from you. In fact, I had already thought so when I first received this task.
At first, I thought that if other troops were willing to pursue the devils with all their strength,

Then I will definitely do my best to stop them, but judging from the performance of those troops, I overestimated them." Liang Gu couldn't help shaking his head when he said this.

He had previously held out a glimmer of hope for other troops, but those troops failed to live up to his expectations.

Therefore, it was impossible for him to try his best to intercept the Japanese.

"This is the current situation you are facing. You are all considering the losses and want to preserve your strength instead of uniting to fight the enemy." Li Jin said.

"Well, it's actually okay. At least, we won this time. It's just that it's difficult to expand the results. Generally speaking, it's enough as long as Changsha is preserved." Liang Gu nodded.

No matter what, they won this time, and that was enough. As for not being able to kill more devils, there was nothing he could do about it.

"That's right." Li Jin nodded.

There is no point in thinking too much.

"Captain Mu, look, I plan to destroy this brigade, the Oshima Brigade. They are retreating in the direction right here.
Didn't you blow them up once before? This time, I will cooperate with you and directly destroy these two regiments!" Liang Gu pointed to a place on the map and said.

He looked around and found that only the Oshima Brigade seemed easier to bully, and Mu Jin had caused a lot of trouble for this brigade before.

So, he decided to destroy the Oshima Brigade.

"No problem, I think so too, but when we attack this brigade, your troops must first hold back the other devils.
Otherwise, other devils will surely come to support us, and then it will be troublesome for us." Li Jin reminded.

They have to face not only the Oshima Brigade, but also the support of other devils.

Therefore, Liang Gu's troops must delay the Japanese and prevent them from providing support. Only in this way can they annihilate the Oshima Brigade.

"Don't worry, Captain Mu, I won't make this kind of mistake. Unfortunately, the two brigades before
I am unwilling to cooperate with you, otherwise, this Oshima Brigade would have been destroyed by you long ago. " Liang Gu thought of the two brigades of Tang Yiming and Luo Wancheng.

If these two brigades had cooperated with Mu Jin at that time, they would have come over to intercept the Japanese and might have been able to destroy an entire brigade of Japanese troops.

"There's nothing we can do. After all, they do have concerns and it's normal that they don't want to cooperate. If I were them, I wouldn't cooperate either." Li Jin said he could understand.

"Well, this situation will not happen again when I cooperate with you in the future. I trust you very much." Liang Gu nodded and smiled.

"Haha, thank you Commander Liang for your trust." Li Jin laughed twice.

"The record you have achieved here is indeed quite good. You have killed five to six thousand Japanese soldiers and caused them considerable losses." Liang Gu praised Mu Jin's performance over the past few days.

"That's because of the presence of Captain Kong and the others. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to eliminate so many Japanese devils on my own." Li Jin did not take all the credit.

What he said was indeed the truth. Without Kong Sheng and the others, it would be quite difficult for Li Jin to wipe out so many devils.

"They complement each other, they complement each other." Liang Gu also said.

"Commander Liang, you guys will fight in the front from now on. I will lead Captain Kong and his men to attack the Japanese from behind. Is that a problem?!" Li Jin stated the battle plan.

"Okay, I'll hold the Japanese back and create opportunities for you." Liang Gu nodded.

Although Mu Jin's troops are very powerful, they still need someone to hold back most of the Japanese on the front line.

"Well, that's settled then. By the way, Commander Liang, I hope you can help send someone to deliver the supplies I got after the battle. After all, there are too many supplies.
Of course, if Commander Liang is willing to buy it, then I will have to do the hard work. " Li Jin did not elaborate.
The supplies he seized were indeed too much, and it was impossible to take them all back, so if Liang Gu was willing to buy them, that would be the best. "I don't think it's a big deal, okay, I'll buy the supplies you can't take away, but I have to give you a discount, right?!" Liang Gu said with a smile.

"Commander Liang, I have contributed a lot to you, which is worth a lot. I will give you an 20% discount at most." Li Jin said.

"Okay, then it's settled." Liang Gu agreed without any hesitation.

"Commander Liang is straightforward. I'll leave first. Captain Kong, I'll wait for you outside." After Li Jin said this, he turned and left the tent.

"General, Commander!" Kong Sheng hurriedly saluted the two of them. When he just came in, the general started chatting with Mu Jin directly, and he didn't have time to salute.

"Well, Kong Sheng, you have made a great contribution this time. The 335th Regiment has grown a lot by following Mu Jin and his men in fighting the Japanese." Liang Gu nodded and began to praise.

"It's all thanks to Captain Mu. If it weren't for Captain Mu leading us, it would be difficult to grow the unit so quickly with minimal casualties." Kong Sheng didn't dare to take credit for it. He knew very well that the current status of the 335th Regiment was all thanks to Mu Jin.

"We have made great progress following them. Tell me what you were doing when Mu Jin was fighting the Japanese brigade commander." Liang Gu said.

"Yes!" Kong Sheng quickly told Li Jin that he asked them to split into two groups to ambush the Japanese.

"Mu Jin's brain is really quick. He understands the Japanese's psychology very well and made preparations in advance. He is really amazing." After hearing this, Han Mingyuan felt cold sweat on his back.

An opponent who can understand his opponent's psychology is indeed terrifying. No matter what the opponent is thinking, Mu Jin can guess it and prepare a response in advance.

It can even be said that Mu Jin was letting the Japanese fall into a trap themselves. This kind of person is truly scary.

"Yeah, if it were us fighting Mu Jin, he would probably be able to figure out our psychology and then let us fall into the trap he set." Kong Sheng couldn't help but say.

He has been with Mu Jin for so long, but until now he still can't figure out what Mu Jin is thinking.

For example, Mu Jin dared to take a small number of troops to the rear of the Japanese to find the Japanese command headquarters.

He would not have thought of this alone.

"You're overthinking it. Mu Jin will never set a trap for us. If our opponent is him, I'm afraid he will just find an opportunity to break through our defense line and get to the headquarters to capture us alive." Liang Gu interrupted at this time.

"What the commander said seems more likely." Han Mingyuan said and fell into deep thought.

For Mu Jin's troops, fighting the Japanese was as easy as killing chickens, let alone defeating them. They didn't need to use too many strategies, and they could probably take down their headquarters.

There was no way. The troops under Mu Jin's command were too powerful and there was no way to resist.

"Okay, don't think about these things now. No one can predict what will happen in the future." Liang Gu told them not to think about it.

Anyway, if he were to fight Mu Jin in the future, he would decisively give up the confrontation and reduce casualties, because he would not be able to win at all.

He would rather fight the Japanese than confront Mu Jin's troops.

"General, I'll be leaving first." Kong Sheng saluted Liang Gu and Han Mingyuan, then walked out of the tent.

"Old Kong, are you done talking?!" Li Jin turned and looked at Kong Sheng.

"Well, Captain Mu, let's go." Kong Sheng nodded.

Li Jin didn't say much, and left with the soldiers of the special operations battalion and Kong Sheng's soldiers.

A day later, the Japanese soldiers of the Oshima Brigade were less than three miles away from Liang Gu's position.

On a big mountain, Li Jin was holding a telescope and looking at the Japanese from the Oshima Brigade from afar.

The Japanese soldiers in the two regiments seemed to have lost a lot of men.

"Captain Mu, the current number of people in the Oshima Brigade is estimated to be only about 4,500 to 4,600. It seems that they suffered a loss in Changsha." Kong Sheng said.

"Well, not only they suffered losses, other Japanese troops also suffered losses." Li Jin nodded.

At this time, Captain Yoshida and Captain Yokoten were also talking.

"I didn't expect that the attack on Changsha would be so unsuccessful. Not only did we suffer heavy losses, but our brigade commander was also ambushed by the enemy." Captain Yoshida couldn't help but sigh when he said this.

"Yes, there are indeed a lot of terrains that the enemy can use. Just crossing the river has caused us a lot of losses.
A powerful troop appeared from behind and attacked our troops. Other troops also encountered the same situation.

But the troops they encountered were not the same ones we faced.” The leader of Hengtian also said.

The other troops have been flanked and ambushed by the enemy these days, and the logistics troops cannot arrive in time.

"So, in the end, it is our brigade that suffered the most serious losses," said Lieutenant Commander Yoshida.

He felt that they were a bit unlucky. There were so many options for the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army to choose, so they had to choose them.

"Alas...there's nothing we can do." Captain Hengtian Lian sighed helplessly.

.........

Liang Gu also received news that the Oshima Brigade would be arriving soon.

Liang Gu also conveyed the order immediately, asking the 127th Brigade and the 128th Brigade, with more than 12,000 people, to prepare for defense.

Ten minutes later, the Oshima Brigade arrived here. They were still about two miles away from Liang Gu.

"Something's wrong. Why are there enemies blocking us ahead?!" Captain Yoshida looked through a telescope at the horizontally connected hillsides in the distance and saw that there were actually many enemies.

"Looking at the number of people, it is estimated that there are more than 10,000 people. The enemy does not want us to retreat. They want to delay us and then let the pursuing troops arrive and destroy us." The captain of the Hengtian League reacted immediately.

There are still pursuers behind them. If they are delayed here by this group of enemies for a few days, they might be wiped out by the enemy.

"Hmph, if they want to stop us, it depends on whether they have the strength to break through their defense line in a day and a half and then retreat!" Captain Yoshida snorted coldly.

They still have a lot of ammunition now, so breaking through the enemy's defense line is not a problem at all!

"Then let's fight." Captain Hengtian didn't waste any words. Since there were pursuers from the front and back, they might as well break through the defense line in front and get rid of this group of enemies.

Soon, the two regiments of Japanese soldiers formed their battle formations and prepared for the attack.

The Japanese artillery were also building artillery positions.

(End of this chapter)