People are shining their swords, secretly helping the Iron Triangle in Northwest Shanxi

Chapter 159

In the original Pingcheng area, on the west side of the Tongpu Railway, the Japanese Sato detachment and Harada detachment failed to attack the Jinsui army and were forced to retreat to the original place and stick to it.

The two detachment leaders quickly arranged for the staff to count the casualties of each department, and when they learned that their remaining combat strength was only 4000.

Sato Nakasa and Harada Dazuo widened their eyes and showed disbelief, which was something they had never expected.

"Nani? Two detachments, including artillery, engineers, and transport personnel, we only have 4000 people left?"

"Baga, what the hell is going on? Before our Harada detachment set off, there were more than 5000 troops."

"We have three infantry brigades, two artillery brigades, and one engineering brigade. We have an absolute advantage."

"Even if successive battles failed to annihilate the troops of the Jinsui Army, we would not have paid such heavy casualties."

"Now counting the Sato detachment, we still have 4000 troops. With such a result, how should I go back and explain to the division headquarters!"

"Could it be possible to tell your Excellency, division commander, that our Harada detachment faced more than 2000 Jinsui troops and more than 1000 Eighth Route troops, and thus paid such heavy casualties?"

"Ba Ga Lu, don't forget, we have launched positional battles with them one after another, and we have also received aviation support!"

Colonel Harada couldn't accept the calculated casualties, and he roared angrily.

Since the Japanese army captured most of the cities and towns in Jin Province, the Jinsui army retreated to the western Shanxi area, and they rarely launched combat operations.

Especially after Yan Laoxi contacted the little devil, the Jinsui army focused on preserving their strength, and hardly launched combat operations with the Japanese army.

That's why the Japanese First Army in Jin Province said that they could scare away the Jinsui Army by beating their helmets with wooden sticks.

Even when the Jinsui army was at its best, a combat detachment of more than 5000 could fight at least [-] of their troops, and there was no problem at all.

As for the Eighth Route Army, they seldom engage in positional warfare due to the gap in weapons and equipment. Most of them use ambushes, guerrilla warfare and other combat methods.

But in the face of a Japanese combat detachment of more than 5000 people, it is almost difficult for the Eighth Route Army to obtain results.

However, now Harada detachment and Sato detachment have suffered such a level of casualties, which makes Harada Osamu feel that it is a shame.

This time leading the troops to the south to fight, Harada Colonel also wanted to obtain military exploits so as to increase his rank.

As a result, the army suffered a disastrous defeat and suffered such casualties. He couldn't imagine how to explain to Shigetoku Kuroda, the head of the division, after returning home.

"Your Majesty Harada, the casualty statistics of various ministries will not make mistakes. Currently, we have only 4000 combat troops."

"Up to now, our Sato detachment has suffered more than 3000 casualties, and the remaining troops are only 1000."

"Your Harada detachment suffered at least more than 2000 casualties, and there are currently about 3000 troops."

"In the battle with the Jinsui Army and the Eighth Route Army, most of our troops were killed, and only a small number of people were seriously injured."

"If we count the seriously wounded, we still have more than 4000 remaining troops, but these seriously wounded have completely lost their combat capabilities."

"Whether it is the Jinsui Army troops defending in the hilly area in the east, or the Eighth Route Army scattered and concealed in the south."

"They have achieved great results in this battle, and they continue to enhance their combat effectiveness by capturing them."

"And judging from the current situation, they have been replenished one after another, so from the beginning of the war to now, they have hardly weakened their combat effectiveness."

Sato Nakasa took a deep breath, he looked towards Harada Colonel, and said with a solemn expression.

Mr. Harada frowned, and looked at the map with complicated emotions on his face.

But soon, Colonel Harada called the communications soldiers, and he asked the communications soldiers to quickly generate electricity to contact the headquarters of the 26th Division.

After calming down, Colonel Harada soon had a worry.

That is, both the Harada detachment and the Sato detachment had relatively large losses, and their combat effectiveness was significantly weakened.

Now they can still rely on the aviation support to hold on to the spot, but once it is night, the aviation cannot be dispatched.

By that time, the nearby Jinsui Army and the Eighth Route Army may still carry out combat operations.

In the establishment of the Harada detachment, there is the 13th independent infantry regiment, and they are regular field regiments.

In this battle, they carried the alliance flag, and Harada Osamu, who was also the captain of the Ossa Alliance, began to worry that the alliance flag of his alliance would be seized.

After all, the army suffered casualties, and if it was more serious, they were removed from their posts, demoted and transferred to other troops.

But once the alliance flag is lost or seized, it will be a dead end.

Under such circumstances, Colonel Harada must first ensure the safety of the alliance flag.

Secondly, he hopes that the division headquarters can quickly dispatch troops to support their troops to withdraw to the northern Shanxi area.

Da Zuo Harada was unwilling to stay here to continue fighting. He began to contact the division headquarters and asked for tactical guidance.

At the same time, in the telegram, Colonel Harada highlighted the situation of the alliance flag.

After all, the flag of the elite Third Wing under the First Army was seized, and this matter has already spread throughout North China.

It was precisely because the flag of the alliance was seized that the number of the third alliance was directly revoked.

Not to mention the First Army Command, even the North China Front Army Command has been affected here.

The commander of the front army, Tada Hayao, was also punished for this.

If there is an accident with the flag of the 13th Regiment of the Independent Infantry, Colonel Harada's life will be lost, and the head of the 26th Division will definitely be affected by it.

"The Flag Guard Squadron made every effort to ensure the safety of the Alliance Flag, and the Harada Detachment built a defensive position around the location of the Alliance Flag."

"Contact the flag guard squadron and prepare relevant items. Once the position is breached and the flag of the alliance is threatened, burn it quickly."

After the message was sent out, Colonel Harada had a serious expression on his face, and he immediately issued a combat order.

Now he wants to ensure that even if he can't protect the absolute safety of the alliance flag, at least he can burn it at a critical moment instead of being captured.

Seeing this scene, Nakazu Sato knew that the Harada detachment had no intention of fighting.

He sighed deeply, and hurriedly started to contact the military headquarters.

"I really didn't expect that the battle would fall into such a situation."

"The First Army formed the Sato Detachment with more than 4000 people, and the Mongolian Army formed the Harada Detachment with more than 5000 people."

"A 1-man army attacking from north to south clearly has an absolute advantage and can completely annihilate the troops of the Jinsui Army."

"But until now, the damn Jinsui Army joined forces with the Eighth Route Army again, causing us heavy casualties."

"Don't we have anything to do with these troops?"

After the Sato detachment arranged for the communication soldiers to generate electricity, he slumped on a chair and muttered to himself.

In fact, the little devil's combat effectiveness is not weak, as can be seen from the combat losses of the two detachments.

The Sato detachment formed by the independent mixed third brigade suffered the most losses.

However, the Harada Detachment organized by the 26th Field Division still has the ability to continue fighting.

And in a series of battles, the Harada detachment brought the biggest loss to Chen Ziyun's troops.

Whether it was fighting in the Suohe Town area or in the hilly area, they almost broke through the Jinsui Army's defense line several times.

Especially for this battle in the hilly area, if Li Yunlong's troops hadn't appeared in time, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

The little devil paid a lot of losses, while Chen Ziyun's troops continued to fight, and the overall casualties were not small.

The guard company of more than 200 people withdrew after eleven o'clock in the morning, and now they have suffered dozens of casualties.

Wu Ziqiang and Shi Yujia have two independent infantry battalions, with a total strength of 600 troops. Up to now, the remaining combat troops are less than 800.

This means that they paid half of the casualties, and their dead troops exceeded 400!
The cavalry company currently has more than 40 casualties, and there are still 200 combat troops left.

As for the artillery battalion troops, they have always been in an absolutely hidden position.

Except for more than a dozen people who suffered casualties from air strikes, there were no other casualties.

The Seventh Battalion of Zhang Fugui's Independent Infantry, which participated in the battle later, also suffered about 100 casualties.

The total casualties of the troops commanded by Chen Ziyun were more than a thousand people. The results they achieved in this battle were not small, but their own losses were not small either.

After the Japanese troops withdrew and started defense on the spot, Chen Ziyun contacted Chu Yunfei immediately.

The two sides communicated repeatedly through telegrams, and finally Chu Yunfei agreed to Chen Ziyun's request for combat.

All three independent infantry battalions withdrew, and Zhou Wenbo's field artillery company followed them.

Two mountain artillery companies, a guard company, a cavalry company, and a hundred heavy soldiers were left behind by Chen Ziyun.

Next, Chen Ziyun planned to use guerrilla tactics to attack the little devils' troops.

Otherwise, if you continue to fight positional warfare, the casualties and losses will be even greater.

The overall losses of Wu Ziqiang and Shi Yujian's two battalions are not small. If they continue to fight, they may be injured.

An army is the same as a young and middle-aged man. Skin trauma will not have much impact, but when it comes to the point of injury, it is difficult to recover without rest for a period of time.

In order to ensure the follow-up combat capabilities of these two battalions, Chen Ziyun directly withdrew them.

As for the [-]th Battalion of Zhang Fugui's Independent Infantry, Chen Ziyun completely felt that it would be a hindrance for them to stay here.

Zhang Fugui couldn't believe it, if they stayed here, they would have to send special troops to guard them.

So Chen Ziyun kept all the troops he trusted, so that he could command them with ease.

Although Chen Ziyun is only in command of four companies now, he is full of confidence.

Because the reason why he withdrew the guard company was that the task issued by the system to destroy the blockhouses along the railway line and the northern section of the Tongpu Railway was completed!

It can be said that Chen Ziyun was looking forward to the reward given by the system this time.

The detailed shooting parameter table of two Liao-made wild cannons, and the detailed shooting parameter table of five [-]-style mountain cannons!
In addition to the shooting parameter tables of these six artillery pieces, the system also rewarded [-] rounds of various shells for the Bofors Mountain Cannon!

And the shells of the Bofors Mountain Cannon are in the ammunition boxes transported back by the guard company and the cavalry company!
They brought back a lot of ammunition boxes this time, and many of the ammunition boxes were not opened yet.

The system also found this exploit, which is equivalent to supplementing the shells of the Bofors Mountain Cannon in disguise.

Up to now, among the fifteen artillery pieces of the Artillery Battalion, nine of them have detailed shooting parameter tables.

Coupled with the fact that they have sufficient shells, this artillery battalion is very powerful.

The only pity is that Liyang Mountain Cannon has six Bofors Mountain Cannons in a series, and there is still no detailed shooting parameter table.

However, with their continuous shelling, the artillerymen also made a summary and gained some experience.

Relatively speaking, Sun Xiong's luck is very good.

He had just been transferred to the second company of the mountain artillery as the company commander, and the five [-]-type mountain artillery had a detailed shooting parameter table.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, Chen Ziyun met with the company commanders of each company and began to tell the follow-up battle plan.

Li Yang, Sun Xiong, Chu Yu, these are Chen Ziyun's old subordinates when he was the commander of the artillery company.

Although Zhang Wu, the company commander of the cavalry company, joined later, after getting along with him, he also obeyed Chen Ziyun's words, and he was considered one of his own.

Chen Ziyun is naturally handy in commanding them to fight.

Chen Ziyun intends to continue fighting, but the Japanese army has made major adjustments.

Harada Osamu sent the telegram to the headquarters of the 26th Division, and Lieutenant General Kuroda Shigetoku read the content in detail.

Knowing that the Harada detachment suffered heavy casualties, Shigetoku Kuroda immediately contacted his subordinate troops to assemble.

At the same time, he picked up the microphone and communicated directly with the commander of the Garrison in Mongolia Gang Arrangement Saburo.

The two talked on the phone for a long time, and they immediately made a decision, that is, to dispatch the troops of the 26th Division to go south quickly to meet the withdrawal of the Harada Detachment.

They don't want to see the flag of the 13th Regiment of the Independent Infantry being captured, so they want to stop fighting.

By the afternoon, the Mongolian Army had already greeted the headquarters of the First Army and the North China Front Army.

Kuroda Shigetoku, head of the 26th Division, ordered the 11th Independent Infantry Regiment, a reinforced artillery regiment, a engineer regiment and a search team of more than 6000 troops to set off.

In addition, the little devil also deliberately contacted the puppet Mongolian cavalry unit, and the puppet Mongolian army quickly dispatched a thousand cavalry units to follow.

The Mongolian army dispatched more than 7000 puppet troops to the south in a mighty manner, preparing to respond to the withdrawal of the Harada detachment.

Whether it is Kuroda Shigetoku or Okabe Naozaburo, they all know how serious the consequences will be if the alliance flag is captured.

Especially Naozaburo Okabe, the commander of the Mongolian Army, who had just lost a battle in Wuyuan City some time ago.

Fu Yisheng, who broke away from the Jinsui Army system, is currently commanding troops here in Sui Province.

After the winter counter-offensive launched by various war zones in 39, Fu Yisheng commanded troops to recover Wuyuan City, and became famous for a while.

Okabe Naozaburo has already made the high-level Japanese army very dissatisfied because of the recovery of Wuyuan Castle. If the flag of the united unit under his command is captured again.

Then he will definitely receive the most severe punishment, so Naozaburo Okabe attaches great importance to this.

He demanded that no matter what, the Harada detachment should be withdrawn.

The Mongolian army is about to withdraw its combat troops, but the First Army doesn't have many troops that can continue to fight.

(End of this chapter)