Chapter 338: Lonely Army (National Day, Happy Holidays to everyone)
It's not just about licking your wounds.
Because the wound is too big to be cured by licking.
In this round of frenzied attacks, which far exceeded those of the previous days, the Chinese side suffered 800 casualties and nearly 1,000 serious wounded. Even medical laymen like Ji Yanxue and Liu Xueyuan have become the main force in rescuing the wounded.
In just this battle, the entire defense line was reduced by more than half again, and the number of soldiers who could still hold their positions had dropped to an extremely dangerous point. Even if Hawthorn Yukou has only 60 people left, but the strength of a platoon, Liu Lang can no longer send him even one reinforcement.
The independent regiment that he had worked so hard to build was crippled at one time, and even Liu Lang, who had been psychologically prepared, gave birth for the first time a plan to withdraw from the position overnight to preserve its strength.
It can be seen how much damage this brutal offensive has done to the Independent Regiment.
But even if Liu Lang wants to withdraw, it will not be so easy to withdraw at this time. Half an hour ago, Qi Guangyuan called painfully, and his cold mouth was broken.
The cold mouth was breached, which meant that the flank of the 29th Army suffered a major threat, and it was almost necessary for Qi Guangyuan to say in detail, Liu Lang knew that the 29th Army must be forced to retreat, otherwise, the 29th Army would be surrounded by nearly 20,000 Japanese troops.
Gubeikou was breached three days ago, and the three divisions belonging to the Central Army were beaten and fled in embarrassment.
The only thing that is different from the time and space is that because Liu Lang contained the main force of the Japanese army in Luo Wenyukou, the headquarters of the 6th Division in Gubeikou was not as strong as it once was, and with the help of the reinforcements quickly sent by Beiping, the three central divisions rearranged the defensive line in Miyun to confront the Japanese army, so as not to completely expose Luo Wenyu's left side to the Japanese army.
If that was the case, Liu Lang might have considered retreating three days ago. Naturally, there will be no later brilliant record of successively defeating the Japanese army and even killing the commander of a Japanese brigade.
But even so, when the cold mouth was broken, Liu Lang also knew that Luo Wenyu's war had basically come to an end. He created a series of miracles, but he still could not change history, after all, the Japanese army stepped on the Great Wall and approached the hinterland of northern China.
The two Japanese troops, which were separated by no more than 300 miles, were like two crab pincers, surround Luo Wenyu in the center, and if the independent regiment wanted to retreat, it would definitely be as ugly as it was to die.
This is the reason why Qi Guangyuan is in pain. In the front, more than 10,000 Japanese troops attacked desperately, and the two sides that should have been the safest flanks and rear have become the world of the Japanese army. And the three regiments of them, which can still fight, with a total of no more than 1,500 people, no matter how you look at it, are a certain death.
Even Song Zheyuan, the commander of the 29th Army who personally sent him a telegram, had the final military order to disperse and break through.
What is called a scattered breakout, to the effect that it is completely possible to ignore the establishment system, a few can go, and where there is a vacancy, they will run wherever there is a gap, which is almost synonymous with the annihilation of the whole army.
It can be seen that the entire 29th Army no longer has any hope for them. Qi Guangyuan knew that at the moment when the telegram was issued, the entire 29th Army, which still had 40,000 people left, had already begun a major retreat, and Luo Wenyu, the 3,000 people who could move and lay down and couldn't move, had become a lone army and an outcast.
However, it is almost impossible for him Qi Guangyuan to abandon thousands of seriously injured brothers and escape, otherwise he would not have called Liu Lang at the first moment of receiving the news, but took his men and horses to abandon his baggage and retreated desperately as soon as the Japanese army retreated, which had a 60% chance of jumping out of the encirclement before the Japanese army encircled.
Either the whole army will be wiped out or the strong man will break his wrist, this difficult choice was thrown in front of Liu Lang by Qi Guangyuan. Perhaps Qi Guangyuan himself didn't realize that he had put all his choices and even his own life in the hands of Liu Lang, and this trust level even exceeded that of his direct boss Liu Ruming.
In this battle, only death. Liu Lang did not disappoint him, and the choice he made was only heroic but not sad, perhaps this is what Qi Guangyuan wants.
However, Liu Lang doesn't like to die as much as Qi Guangyuan imagined, he still has a woman he likes who has not married a wife, and his parents have not provided for the elderly, and more importantly, how can he be missing in the magnificent Great Patriotic War five years later?
Since it has become a lonely army.
Since it is about to fall into a deep siege.
Then you can only survive in death.
Liu Lang has never had that moment of incomparable admiration for himself, originally, he just wanted to leave the fire and hope for the phoenix nirvana. Unexpectedly, now it has become the only lifeline.
Then do a big vote, Liu Lang walked out of the field hospital directly and entered the headquarters of the independent regiment. He was greeted by a pair of eyes of disbelief and desperately suppressed cheers, as well as a frightened figure who quickly lowered his head in an effort to stabilize his emotions and hid in the darkness.
At this moment, there is no need for Liu Lang to hide any more traces.
The last stop, not tomorrow, is tonight. The moon is dark and the wind is high and it is good to kill at night.
But the first military order issued by Liu Lang was not to kill, but to retreat.
Of course, those who could still walk and shoot could not retreat, and those who retreated were seriously wounded, and all the medical personnel of the three regiments and 2,000 seriously wounded began to retreat to Beiping.
The carriage used by the baggage company was not completed, the speed was not enough, the 29th Army was already beginning to retreat, and there were only two regiments used to block the enemy, and under the joint request of Liu Lang and Qi Guangyuan, Song Zheyuan reluctantly agreed to increase the number of troops blocking the enemy to three regiments. However, Song Zheyuan had already made it very clear in the telegram that they could only delay the 14th Mixed Brigade from Lengkou until noon tomorrow.
Song Zheyuan couldn't exchange the lives of all the soldiers of the three entire regiments for the three regiments that had been disabled, and the equipment that allowed them to resist was far superior to their nearly 10,000 Japanese troops for sixteen hours, which was already the maximum that Song Zheyuan could bear.
However, Liu Lang still has a hole card in his hand, the baggage battalion of the division headquarters. I don't know if Liu Lang has already thought about running away, since the day he came to Luo Wenyu, he has used various means to drag the baggage battalion and prevent it from returning.
No matter how Huang Jie urges over there, Liu Lang just sprinkles, rolls, grinds, and bubbles in various ways, and Huang Jie is short of people. After all, Liu Lang traveled thousands of miles and was the first to report to the Northern Military Commission on behalf of the Second Division, whether it was in front of the bigwigs of the Ministry of Military Affairs or in front of the people in the north.
At this time, he naturally can't unload the mill and kill the donkey, and Huang Jie can't take the military order to force Liu Lang, after all, a regiment on his side has a lot of pressure to defend the entire pass, and it is inevitable that he needs to carry out the capacity. Even, Huang Jie thought of a possibility for Liu Lang, once the war was unfavorable, he would get on the cart of the baggage battalion, and the whole regiment would slip away, and the four wheels would run, and the little devil would not be able to catch up with the two short legs.
As a result, the matter of the return of the baggage camp was dragged on. Until Liu Lang's independent regiment achieved a shocking feat and killed the Fourth Brigade. At this time, the baggage battalion couldn't go back at all, and Huang Jie didn't seem to have forgotten that there was still a baggage battalion, and he hadn't mentioned it at all in the past half a month.
In order to prevent the carts of the baggage battalion from being destroyed by Japanese artillery fire, Liu Lang has always ordered the baggage battalion to be stationed in a small village fifteen miles away from the Luo Wenyu Pass.
Now, it's finally coming in handy. The baggage battalion was enough to send more than 2,000 seriously wounded to Beiping, and the chief officer who led the team was Ji Yanxue, and the guard platoon responsible for the defense was a reinforced squad, and the leader of the team was the newly raised sergeant Sun Wu.
Ji Yanxue did not refuse this time, because she was the only one who had the ability to properly resettle the more than 2,000 seriously injured people in Beiping, an important northern town.
The two of them didn't even have time to say goodbye, and in the midst of their eyes, Ji Yanxue resolutely turned around to direct the retreat, which was no less difficult than a battle, and how many of the 2,000 seriously wounded could survive in the end depended on her.
Liu Lang's second military order was to have a huge Kong Ming lantern raised at the Luo Wenyu Pass, as if praying for the safety of the seriously wounded in the retreat.
This is also the second time that the devils on the opposite position have seen the Chinese release Kong Ming lanterns.