Tetsushiro Taga frowned deeply, and said with a bitter face: "I didn't expect this martial arts team to be able to annihilate a Watanabe brigade, it seems that their strength should not be underestimated!" The losses of the Imperial Army were so great that two infantry brigades were almost disabled, and only the artillery brigade remained intact. As for those Imperial Cooperative Army, they couldn't be expected to be able to fight against the martial arts team. ”

A devil officer next to him hurriedly said: "If the martial arts team rushes to Deng Zhuangzi, the consequences will be unimaginable." ”

Tetsushiro Taga shook his head and said, "But on the other hand, this is also a good opportunity to destroy this martial arts team. ”

Tetsushiro Taga knew very well in his heart that his troops had suffered such heavy losses, even if they eliminated the besieged Eighth Route Army, I am afraid that they would not be able to atone for their crimes, and the only way was to eliminate the martial arts team, because this martial arts team was not an ordinary Eighth Route Army, even Gangmura Ningji attached great importance to this martial arts team, if they could be eliminated, it would definitely be a great achievement, even if it was to pay twice the price, it would be enough to offset the credit.

The devil officer frowned and pondered Taga Tetsushiro's words, nodded and said: "Your Excellency the General is wise, but judging from our current situation, I am afraid that we will not be able to eliminate this hateful martial arts team, and the other three brigades must be transferred as soon as possible, only in this way can they be completely eliminated." ”

Tetsushiro Taga nodded and said, "The Fifth Brigade rushed to Gaozhai, according to which it is far away, the Fourth Brigade is only about twenty miles away from us, and the Third Brigade is estimated to be forty or fifty miles. ”

When Tetsushiro Taga said this, he suddenly stopped, and then ordered with a serious face: "Immediately order the Third Brigade, the Fourth Brigade and the Fifth Brigade to immediately stop all actions and rush to the headquarters of the Deng Zhuangzi Support Brigade as quickly as possible." In addition, he immediately sent a telegram to Nishijima-kun, saying that the armed engineering team was on the way to Deng Zhuangzi, hoping that they would send troops to Deng Zhuangzi together with the fifth brigade of our seventh brigade to gather superior forces and encircle and annihilate the armed engineering team. ”

"Hello!" A devil officer hurriedly answered, turned around and ran to deliver the order.

Tetsushiro Taga turned around and glanced at the direction of the battlefield, and found that the soldiers on both sides of the battlefield were still inextricably killed, Tetsushiro Taga frowned slightly, and then ordered: "Immediately pass the order, and the troops will withdraw from the battle immediately." The First Brigade and the Second Brigade, as well as the Imperial Army, switched from attack to defense on the spot to prevent the sneak attack of the Chinese people. ”

"Stop attacking?" The devil officer frowned and asked, "Your Excellency, Division Commander, are you sure you are not wrong?" Although these Tubalu resistance was stubborn, judging from the current situation, it was only a matter of time before the imperial army eliminated them, and the retreat now would not give them a chance to breathe. ”

Tetsushiro Taga sneered and said, "Let me ask you, why did the martial arts team come to Deng Zhuangzi?" ”

"Of course, it's to save these dirt roads?" The devil officer hurriedly replied.

"That's right!" Tetsushiro Taga said with a smile: "Now they are bait, the bait that lures the martial arts team to take the bait, if we eliminate them now, will the martial arts team still take the bait?" Anyway, these people are already at the end of their power, even if they are kept, they will not pose much of a threat to the imperial army, and it will be easy to wait until the imperial army defeats the martial arts team, and then free up their hands to deal with them. ”

"Hello! Your Excellency the General is wise. The devil officer hurriedly said, and then ordered someone to convey the order.

Tetsushiro Taga's retreat order quickly reached the front-line position, after the little devil received the retreat order, they were all puzzled, and they really couldn't understand why the brigade commander issued a retreat order at this time, seeing that victory was just around the corner, the Eighth Route Army could not support it for long, and retreating at this time didn't mean that all the previous efforts were in vain?

However, these little devils are well-trained after all, and although they don't understand why the brigade commander gave the order to retreat, no one has the courage to openly disobey the order.

Although the armies of the two sides were mixed together at this time, it was not so easy to retreat, but first, the Japanese army had the upper hand, and secondly, after the little devils began to retreat, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army also discovered this problem.

Especially Zhang Zhicheng, although he already has the belief of death, he plans to fight to the death with the little devil, and even has killed the red eye, fighting with the little devil like a madman, but when he saw the little devil start to retreat.

Zhang Zhicheng immediately woke up, and as an excellent commander, Zhang Zhicheng immediately realized that this was an opportunity, a rare opportunity.

Although in the current situation, it is impossible to turn defeat into victory, but as soon as the devil withdraws, they can at least get a little respite, and reason tells him that this opportunity should be grasped well.

So Zhang Zhicheng hurriedly ordered: "Stop the pursuit, the brothers immediately collect weapons and ammunition, and retreat quickly!" Fast~! ”

At this time, there were a large number of devil corpses scattered on the battlefield, and the corpses of these devils were more or less armed with ammunition. The ammunition of the little devils is much more than that of the Eighth Route Army, not to mention that the various squadrons of the little devils take turns to fight, and they consume relatively little, so most of these little devils still have more than half of the ammunition.

After receiving Zhang Zhicheng's order, the soldiers stopped one after another and began to quickly collect ammunition from the devil.

Originally, the armies of the two sides were mixed together, and it was not so easy for the little devils to withdraw, but now that the Eighth Route Army had stopped pursuing, the little devils took advantage of this opportunity and immediately retreated like the tide of the ebbing tide, and soon ran back to their own positions.

Zhang Zhicheng picked up four ammunition bags from the corpse of the devil, glanced at the retreating little devils, saw that they had run away, worried that they would be shelled by the devils like last time, Zhang Zhicheng hurriedly shouted: "Brothers, retreat quickly, hurry up~!" All retreated to their positions. ”

After the soldiers heard Zhang Zhicheng's shout, they hurriedly ran back to their positions with the weapons and ammunition they had collected, and the soldiers who survived brought back some weapons and ammunition to a greater or lesser extent.

Zhang Zhicheng ran back to the trench, hid in a safe place, sat on the ground with his buttocks, snorting and panting, at this time Zhang Zhicheng was tired and almost collapsed, and there were a few more injuries on his body, fortunately, the injuries were not too serious, they were all skin injuries, but there was no big problem.

At this time, a soldier hurriedly ran over, panting and said: "Report to the regiment commander, the martial arts team has sent a telegram again, saying that they are not far from Dengjiazhuang, and hope that we must hold out until dark, and they will come to meet us in the evening to break through." ”

(End of chapter)