Chapter 448: It's finally up to see who runs fast
This night, Gu Bei, who was waiting for Li Shoushan to call back, stayed awake all night.
Before the puppet army's radio station could be turned on, it was buried by a large number of rocks along with the telegraph operator.
From the evening, it was estimated that Li Shoushan and his Fengtian Independent Brigade had arrived in Chengde, and Gu Bu Zhaobei was anxious to go back and forth in the headquarters for several hours, but he still did not wait for the imaginary call, and he was basically sure that Li Shoushan's department had encountered an accident.
Even, Tanibe Terube had already thought that this was another plan by Liu Lang, and set up an ambush on the road to wipe out Li Shoushan's army. However, no matter how strong Liu Lang's Great Wall regiment is, it will not allow Li Shoushan's 2,000-strong troops to swallow it all before they even have time to send a message!
What's even more terrifying is that through the offensive of the Great Wall Regiment on this day, Tanibe Teru is sure that the main force of the Great Wall Regiment is still there. The only person who could ambush Li Shoushan's troops was the baggage troops who had left earlier.
One heavy force of the Great Wall Regiment can wipe out half of the independent brigade of nearly 2,000 people, so how strong will the combat effectiveness of the Great Wall Regiment be? The more Tanibe Terumi thought about it, the more he felt cold all over his body, and he would rather his guess was wrong.
After sitting in the middle of the night with a hope of one in ten thousand and still not waiting for Li Shoushan's call, Tanibe Terube finally desperately affirmed that Li Shoushan had encountered an accident.
And Tanibe Terube is finally sure that the so-called bullshit bandits in Chengde City are definitely pretending to be Liu Lang's department, otherwise Kagawa Maki's infantry squad would not be able to run out of even half a human hair, and a servant of a Chinese merchant would come to deliver information. Perhaps, the servant was also a fake.
If so, now, it is no longer a question of losing a single Chinese brigade, but of the entire Eighth Division having to lose its head.
The logistical baggage was swept away by the Great Wall Regiment, and even if they couldn't move it, they could burn it out. The direct consequence is that the tens of thousands of people of the Eighth Division will only be able to feed on the food that is only enough for two days in the next half a month, and what is even more terrible is that after nearly half a month of fighting, the entire division's logistics reserve ammunition has been exhausted, and the soldiers on the front line have an average of less than 20 bullets left in their bullet boxes.
It is said that the Japanese army likes to use white-knuckle combat to show its martial bravery, but in fact, it depends on the situation, and the Japanese army often only uses the ancient method of white-knuckle combat when the enemy's morale is already low and the ammunition is seriously insufficient, or when they want to launch a decisive charge.
To put it bluntly, no matter how willing the Japanese are to be loyal to their Emperor Majesty, no matter how willing they are to serve their Amaterasu, they are actually more willing to live.
The white-knuckle battle, which has more casualties, is also the last resort they will use as a last resort.
The fact that each soldier had only 20 rounds of ammunition left on average made Tanibe feel hopeless, but he did not know that if an army fighting with them on the North China Plain in a few years, an army known as "three guns and eight roads", had each soldier had 20 rounds of ammunition before the war, their commander would be so happy that he could not sleep all night, instead of tearing his hair out as quickly as Tanibe Terube.
After firing the last and all three rounds of their guns, the unit had to charge, fighting with bayonets and spears against the powerful enemy in close quarters for eight years. It was also eight years in which the whole of China suffered tremendous sacrifices.
Of course, Terube Tanibe would not have thought that there was such a resilient army in this world, and he even felt the urge to send a farewell message to His Excellency the Commander of the Kwantung Army.
There is no need to go to Chengde City, thinking with his ass, Tanibe Terube knows that the defenders of Chengde City only need to block themselves for an hour, and the main force of the swarming Great Wall Regiment can tear their 10,000 people who have run out of ammunition and food to pieces outside Chengde City.
The most terrible thing is that the 14th Brigade has already called, and it will take them five days to get to the battlefield, and if Liu Lang lays an ambush somewhere where he retreats, even if it is not much, as long as the back road is blocked, as long as the enemy's main force attacks with all his strength, the more than 10,000 officers and soldiers under his command who are already demoralized are likely to form a rout.
Once defeated, then the entire Eighth Division can only be slaughtered. The Eighth Division may become the first division in the entire history of the empire to be annihilated by the formation. As soon as he thought of this possibility, Terube Tanibe felt chills all over his body, and he was bitterly cold.
After struggling for several hours, Tanibe Terube finally made up his mind that even if he disobeyed the military orders of His Excellency Commander Muto Nobuyoshi, he had to leave this hellish place, leave the damned Great Wall Regiment, and he couldn't let the entire Kwantung Army become a laughing stock of the army because of the Eighth Division, let alone let the heads of tens of thousands of imperial warriors become the medal of the murderous Chinese colonel to show his military merits.
When Shanying, who was ambushed ten miles around the Japanese army, sent the news of the main force of the Japanese army retreating overnight to the headquarters of the Great Wall Regiment, it was already the second half of the night, and Qi Guangyuan, who was temporarily in charge of all the war, convened several school officers to hold an emergency military meeting overnight, and studied it for half an hour, only to find that although the monstrous achievement was in front of him, after all, it was only a flash in the pan---- and it could not be fished out.
As long as the lightly armed little devils want to escape, the Great Wall Regiment wants to bite them hard without paying huge casualties, and they can't do it in any way.
Although Qi Guangyuan and Dong Shengtang were more focused on the fact that they could bear heavy losses in order to kill the Eighth Division, this proposal was resisted by Chi Dakui and Tang Yongming.
As Liu Lang's confidant, Chi Dakui knew that Liu Lang attached great importance to the soldiers' battle losses, but the former subordinate Tang Yongming's clear choice to stand on Chi Dakui's side still surprised Qi Guangyuan and Dong Shengtang.
Of course, this is also the imagination of the two officers from the old warlord system, so that they can really lose the few elite veterans in this battlefield that is already a big victory, and they will be distressed and unable to sleep for a few nights.
Just watching a big pie leave their mouths like this, a few people were still not very willing after all, and after the telegram asked Liu Lang, they still sent the first and second infantry battalions to chase after them. Chi Dakui's three battalions protected the artillery battery and the baggage team followed.
However, the determination of Tanibe Terube to run this time made the Great Wall Regiment only dumbfounded, it was nearly an hour and a half later than the Japanese army who began to run, and the two infantry battalions that pursued for four hours in the middle of the night almost did not break their legs, nor did they catch up with the shadow of the main force of the Japanese army, but on the way they were desperately blocked by an infantry squadron of the Japanese army in ambush.
Although it took 1 hour to annihilate this fierce Japanese invader by virtue of superior strength and far superior firepower, the two infantry battalions actually killed 20 people and seriously injured more than 30 people, and the battle damage almost did not make Qi Guangyuan lift the table.
Liu Lang, who also stayed awake all night, did not reprimand Qi Guangyuan in the early morning after receiving a telegram with a bit of guilt, the Great Wall Regiment won successive victories, beating the Eighth Division like a dog, and also had a bit of the atmosphere of an arrogant soldier, and this small setback can be regarded as a wake-up call for them.
The Japanese were defeated, not because they were weak, but because they lost heavy firepower due to repeated mistakes, and even so, they were still one of the strongest armies in Asia, and anyone who underestimated them would pay the price, and the Great Wall Regiment was the same.
War, you can't make mistakes.
Every mistake needs the lives of thousands of warriors to fill in.
Not every general has the opportunity to learn and make amends.