The eldest of the Yan family in the Siheyuan

Chapter 460 Relocation of Regiment Headquarters
Kusuyama Hideyoshi left the headquarters, trotted all the way to the telegraph reception room, and quickly asked the telegraph operator to send a telegram to Ping'an County asking about the battle situation.

But after the telegram was sent, I waited and waited, but there was no reply.Another half an hour passed unhurriedly, and sweat slowly appeared on Kusuyama Hideyoshi's forehead.

This made him have to suspect that Ping'an County was really brought down by Li Yunlong, and it was brought down in a very short period of time.

"Hurry up, quickly send a telegram to the 21st and 22nd Divisions and ask them to withdraw the troops that went to support Ping'an County." Kusuyama Hideyoshi yelled at the telegrapher before he had time to think about it.

Now that Li Yunlong has already brought down Ping'an County, sending troops to support it will have no effect. Maybe these troops who went to support Muto Triple will jump into the pit dug by Li Yunlong. Suffering.

But at this time, it was too late to send a telegram. The troops sent by the 21st and 22nd Divisions to support Ping'an County had already exchanged fire with the new regiment of soldiers on the way.

Ichiro Inoue, the captain of the second regiment of the 21st Division, was also in a dilemma after receiving the order from the commander of the division. After all, if he retreated at this time, the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side would definitely press up.

Maybe you will suffer a big loss, but you can't do it if you don't retreat. After all, Ping'an County has been defeated by the Eighth Route Army. If you continue to move forward, you will definitely be surrounded by the Eighth Route Army.

Although there were more than 1 troops who came to support Muto three times this time, these troops were not concentrated together.

Instead, they were divided into several teams to act separately, originally planning to meet up in Ping'an County.

But no one expected that Ping'an County would be defeated by Li Yunlong in such a short period of time, and their original battle plan was disrupted.

All they can do now is withdraw, otherwise, they will definitely be defeated one by one by Li Yunlong's troops.

After reading the telegram, Ichiro Inoue looked very ugly. After a moment of silence, he shouted to the adjutant at the side: "Quickly, let the troops turn around and retreat towards the station."

"Captain, what's the matter? Why are we retreating? Aren't we going to support Ping'an County?" Vice-captain Yoshino Heixiong asked suspiciously.

Hearing Masao Yoshino's words, Ichiro Inoue said helplessly: "The head of the division sent a telegram, saying that Ping'an County has been occupied by the Eighth Route Army, and let us withdraw immediately."

"Ah, Ping'an County has been taken down, how is it possible..." Yoshino Masao couldn't believe it. You must know that this is a county. Although there are not many defenders in Ping'an County, how could relying on the defense of the city be so short It is conquered within the time, unless.......

This made him dare not imagine. After all, if there is no evidence, no one will believe it if it is said. Moreover, the No. 60 Ninth Division Commander of the No. [-] Ninth Division of Ping'an County, Muto Sanbo, the family power in the local area should not be underestimated. He, a small military officer of civilian origin, can afford to offend him.

"Okay, hurry up and let the soldiers retreat. As for how Ping'an County was taken down by the Eighth Route Army, this kind of thing is not something you and I can discuss." Although Ichiro Inoue also had doubts, this kind of thing that undermined unity was not He can talk about it as a little captain.

Even if Mizo Muto made any mistakes, that's something the Commander should worry about. The only thing he can do now is to take the 800-odd soldiers in the regiment and safely withdraw to the station.As for other things, it's better for him to worry less. After all, knowing too much is not a good thing.

"Okay, I'm going to deliver the order for the soldiers to retreat." Masao Yoshino sighed, and then turned to deliver the order.

After a while, the devil's rear troops began to turn around and retreat slowly towards the rear.

The Eighth Route Army troops opposite the devils were led by two company commanders from the Eighth Battalion of the New First Regiment.

"Old Wu, do you think the little devil is going to withdraw?" After watching the devil's movements through the binoculars, the second company commander Wang Xiaochuan hurriedly said to the third company commander Wu Tian who was smoking a cigarette.

Hearing Wang Xiaochuan's words, Wu Tian was slightly taken aback, then snatched the binoculars from Wang Xiaochuan's hand, and while observing the situation of the devil opposite, he said to himself: "It shouldn't be, didn't they return the binoculars just now?" Do you want a desperate posture, why are you going to retreat, is it possible that the mission of the regiment leader is finished?"

Although some don't believe it, the facts are right in front of them, and there is no other explanation. Although their new regiment's weapons and equipment are not bad, the only thing they lack is a radio station.

For high-end products like radio stations, although their new regiment has seized several of them, they can only be equipped up to the battalion level, and the troops below are not equipped.

Unlike little devils, they can use the radio station to ask their superiors for instructions if there is any movement. If they want to contact their superiors, they can only let the soldiers ride on horses. Troops without horses can only run forward.

Therefore, when each is fighting on his own, he can only rely on his own judgment to fight.Although this approach is a bit primitive, it is not without benefits. After more experience, these low-level commanders have exercised their respective response capabilities.

"Don't worry about it so much, what shall we do now?" Seeing Wang Xiaochuan put down the binoculars, Wu Tian hurried forward and asked.

"What else can we do? Although we don't know why the little devil wants to retreat, we can't let the little devil do what he wants no matter what. No matter whether he wants to retreat, or change another way to continue to support Ping'an County, we can't let him out "Wang Xiaochuan thought for a while when he heard Wu Tian's words.

When they came here, the battalion commander said that they should stop the little devil here, and not let the little devil pass here, but the battalion commander didn't say what to do if the devil retreated.

"Why don't we send someone to ask the battalion commander for instructions." Hearing Wang Xiaochuan's words, Wu Tian said hesitantly.

After all, the Battalion Commander meant to let them come here to stop the little devils, and did not let them chase them. Although there were not many little devils on the opposite side, he was a little worried to catch up with the little devils in a field battle.

After all, their Eighth Battalion is a newly formed army, established less than half a year ago, most of them are recruits, and they have not even seen blood a few times.

If you rely on the commanding heights for defense, that's fine, but even if you can't win the field battle with the little devil, you will definitely suffer a lot of casualties.

"No, if you go to the battalion commander for instructions, how long will it take to go back and forth, and the little devil will have run away by then." Hearing what Wu Tian said, Wang Xiaochuan frowned and said.

"Then what should we do? Even if we catch up and wipe out all the little devils, how many casualties will we have? When the battalion commander blames them, who will bear the burden? Don't forget, when the time comes, the battalion commander will only let them stop the little devils. Let's pursue it." Wu Tian said with a cold face and displeasure.

"Otherwise, let's follow behind and fight coldly. If the devil stops and wants to fight us, then we will retreat. You must know that there are many devil corpses in front. We can't let the devil take all those guns back. In this way, we just fought for a long time and got nothing." Wang Xiaochuan said to Wu Tian who was next to him when he saw that the devils were collecting the corpses, cleaning the battlefield and preparing to retreat.

As soon as he mentioned the scattered weapons and equipment on the battlefield, Wu Tian's eyes lit up. Under the leadership of Li Yunlong, every commander in the new regiment, no matter whether they were high officials or small officials, was like a money fan.

Although there are not many weapons and equipment scattered on the battlefield, at most dozens of rifles, mosquitoes are still meat no matter how small they are.

He definitely couldn't let the little devil be taken back so easily, so Wu Tian shouted to the trumpeter behind him: "Blow the charge horn and drive the little devil out of the position."

Wu Tian thought very well, the little devil can leave if he wants to, but he must keep the weapons and equipment on the battlefield, and he cannot let himself work for nothing.

After seeing Wu Tian's actions, Wang Xiaochuan smiled slightly, took out a pistol from his waist, and rushed towards the little devil together with the soldiers.

"Your Excellency, Captain, the Eighth Route Army is rushing over, let's retreat quickly." Masao Yoshino, the deputy captain, saw the Eighth Route Army soldiers rushing towards him all over the sky and rushed to report to Ichiro Inoue.

After all, if you get entangled with the Eighth Route Army later, it will be difficult to think about retreating at that time.

"Okay, let the soldiers withdraw from the battlefield and retreat quickly." Inoue Ichiro also understood this truth, so he ordered to the adjutant.

Originally, Ichiro Inoue wanted to bring back the remains of the fallen soldiers in the army, but seeing that the Eighth Route Army was about to catch up, he couldn't care less about it, and now it's more important to retreat first.Otherwise, when the Eighth Route Army catches up, it will be difficult to retreat at that time.

So a brigade of troops was left to stop the Eighth Route Army's pursuit, and the rest of them all headed back.

Seeing that the devils ran away regardless of the devil's corpses and scattered weapons and equipment left on the battlefield, Wu Tian and Wang Xiaochuan did not chase after them, and retreated after two kilometers.

At first let the soldiers clean up the battlefield, and then let the correspondents run to inform the battalion commander of the Eighth Battalion, report the situation here, and see if there are any other instructions.

Although there was no need to keep all the enemies behind in this battle, fortunately, the task given by the battalion commander was completed and the devils were not allowed to pass through their line of defense.

And even with the pursuit of the enemy just now, plus the gains from cleaning the battlefield, they can be regarded as making a small fortune.

I just don't know how the other troops are doing, whether they are the same as them.

At this time, here in Ping'an County, under the leadership of Zhao Gang, has returned to its usual appearance.

Previously, Li Yunlong thought that after Ping'an County was stabilized, he would take his troops to join other troops, and then fight a counterattack, severely inflicting heavy damage on the troops who came to support Mu Teng.

But I didn't expect the devil's reaction to be so fast. He hadn't started to act here, so the little devil withdrew.

So I had no choice but to give up, and sent a telegram to the five battalion commanders who were defending, telling them that they had already taken down Ping'an County, and asked them to return to the released area.

"Old Li, this battle has gained a lot. Just one Ping'an county has recovered the supplies we put in, and it's a lot richer." At this time, Zhao Gang was sitting in the devil's headquarters, looking at the delivery list and facing Li Yunlong said with a smile.

"Oh, how much have you gained?" Li Yunlong asked curiously after hearing Zhao Gang's words.

Before, he patronized the command and fought the war, but he didn't count the materials seized in Ping'an County.

Except for the weapons and equipment of the two battalions that extorted Muto three times before, he didn't know how much was seized.

Hearing Li Yunlong's inquiry, Zhao Gang didn't keep him waiting. He took a sip of tea and said, "This time we attacked Ping'an County, killing 2000, 12 Japanese soldiers and capturing 300 puppet soldiers. More than 155 rifles were seized, eight light and heavy machine guns, eight mortar grenade launchers, and we also found two [-]-type infantry guns and a [-]mm howitzer in the warehouse, with several bullets and shells... ...."

"This is not the most important thing. The most important thing is daily necessities, food and other supplies. It can be said that our Xinyi regiment conquered Ping'an County and made a fortune." The smile on Zhao Gang's face never went down.

After all, this battle was the battle he gained the most since he joined the new regiment.Relying on these abdomen tightening, Xinyituan's strength will be improved again.

As long as there is enough time, even if the force is expanded to more than 2 people, it will be a breeze.

You must know that although the Eighth Route Army has expanded rapidly in recent years, its total strength is less than 50.To be precise, the strength of the Xinyi Regiment already accounted for between one-fifteenth and one-twentieth of the total strength of the Eighth Route Army.

And the new regiment is still a regiment-level organization. There are indeed some problems, but there is no way to do it now. After all, since the cooperation with the national army, the Eighth Route Army has been reorganized into three divisions, six brigades, and twelve infantry regiments.

Even if the higher-ups want to improve the staffing of Xinyituan, they won't be able to do it for a while, unless the bald head in Chongqing agrees.Otherwise, we have to wait until the War of Resistance Against Japan is over and the Kuomintang and the Communist Party split, and then the Eighth Route Army's establishment can be decided by itself.

"By the way, there are also various blocking forces. He knows what their gains are, and he has to wait for them to come back to make statistics." Zhao Gang continued.

"By the way, Lao Zhao, since Ping'an County has been taken down by us, you must be responsible for the management of the city in the future. Do you see if our new regiment headquarters will move from Zhaojiayu?" Li Yunlong thought of this question and asked Zhao Gang asked.

The reason why he hurriedly wanted to move the regiment headquarters from Zhaojiayu to Ping'an County also had something to do with Yang Xiuqin. During this time, Li Yunlong could see that the girl Xiuqin must be interested in him, and she always pestered her whenever she had time. Looking at him makes him really depressed.

It's not that Xiuqin's girl is bad, the main reason is that Li Yunlong has no feelings for her. After all, Li Yunlong III is a man and has seen too many beautiful women, so he has no interest in Yang Xiuqin at all.

But if you refuse, you can't say it clearly. After all, he didn't do anything, just occasionally mend the soles of Nana's shoes, and then buy him two bottles of wine and fry peanuts if he has nothing to do.

(End of this chapter)