Chapter 928: The Battle of Nantou Ends

The battle is over, and this battle, from the beginning to the end, it didn't take long, a little more than 20 minutes, a full squadron, was wiped out, but the Wufeng Army was completely not excited and satisfied before, almost all the remaining soldiers of the Wufeng Army were weak in their legs, even as the commander, that is, Liu Ye, who is now the military commander of the Wufeng Army, was also slightly weak, this is scary, such a battle of only 20 minutes can be said to be the most fierce battle after coming to Taiwan, including himself and his men, almost lost in this battle.

Liu Ye reviewed his own slightly, after coming to Taiwan, it was too smooth, whether it was attacking Nantou County or attacking the Okada Brigade, everything before was quite smooth, which made the reconnaissance company and Liu Ye inevitably have the idea of underestimating the enemy, which also caused this battle in less than 20 minutes, but it was the most tragic battle after the northwest arrived in Taiwan.

In 20 minutes, facing the attack of a squadron, a team of 50 people, 27 died, and the rest, including Liu Ye, were wounded, and most importantly, the elite of the reconnaissance company brought out by Liu Ye single-handedly, in this battle, 9 died. This is not a small number, the reconnaissance company is only about 250 people, which is almost one-30th, you know, the previous battle of Nantou, the final loss was almost negligible, but this time, it can not be called a slight loss, it can be said that the loss is heavy.

Liu Ye was very curious, why such a squadron in the Okada Brigade would have such combat effectiveness, if the entire Okada Brigade had such strong combat effectiveness. I'm afraid that even if they can take it, they will suffer huge losses.

Liu Ye quickly adjusted his mood. At this point, the battle is not over, and there is no way to repeat the mistakes of the past. He used binoculars and radio almost all the way to direct the next battle, it is obvious that the combat effectiveness of such a squadron is just a single case, and the combat effectiveness and fighting will of other squadrons are far less powerful than this squadron, under the attack of Wei Ming and Lin Hu, it is already nearing the end.

Later, Liu Ye interrogated the prisoners of war. Only then did I know that the reason why the combat effectiveness of the original squadron was so strong and the will to fight was so resolute, the reason was very simple, this squadron leader named Fujii Masa, was the younger brother of Okada Murafu, because the surname was maternal, so when I investigated the information before, I didn't notice this. More importantly. Although this squadron is one of the three squadrons under Okada's command, it is the most important squadron, and most of the officers are Okada's immediate family members, and most of the soldiers are recruited in Okada's hometown.

In a sense. This squadron of soldiers, almost Okada's private soldiers, was under Okada's care. Not only is the treatment and training the best in all aspects, but the loyalty to Okada is also the highest. Several aspects are combined to achieve this battle. Even in the face of the muddy water stream, which may be attrition or even annihilation of the whole army, Fujii Masashi still chose to forcibly swim across the river, and even killed more than 30 soldiers because of it, and then launched a decisive attack on Wu Zhuang, almost breaking through Wu Zhuang's defense line, in order to rescue his eldest brother Okada Murafu.

Private soldiers, led by relatives and younger brothers, such combat effectiveness burst out, and they can actually give a large number of kills to the scouts in the northwest, of course, it also has a lot to do with Liu Ye's light enemy, if Liu Ye does not underestimate the enemy, after the battle, he will not send 100 supporters, or leave a part of the personnel on the Wuzhuang side, stationed in Muddy Water Creek, even if there are only 30 people, relying on automatic weapons and mortars in the northwest, not to mention the decisive impact of the Fujii squadron, even if it is the same Northwest Army, it is impossible to cross the river, Muddy Water Creek is a big river in Taiwan, and an unprotected armed swim crossing, facing the other side's defense, is definitely a risk, and with a few machine guns, they can be in a dilemma.

It was all kinds of coincidences that finally made this battle so fierce and hard, but in the end, under Liu Ye's reaction and strength, the battle was resolved, when the Fujii squadron was killed, everything was settled, and even the last squadron that might have escaped himself, because of the commander's misjudgment, chose to go down the mountain to continue the battle, but was left to work, and had already solved the confrontation between the other two squadrons of the Wufeng Army, but it was a machine gun squadron of more than a hundred people, even if there were a few machine guns, but in the face of the number of people, The Northwest Army, which had an advantage in combat effectiveness, even machine guns, did not resist for long at all, and after the fierce attack, they lost most of their strength, and finally the rest chose to surrender, and the whole army was annihilated, and the brigade of 1,100 people, 750 people were killed, 300 people were captured, and the rest were scattered into the surrounding mountains, and the battle against Okada's brigade was a complete victory.

The losses of the Northwest Army were slightly larger, the soldiers of the original reconnaissance company lost 12 people, more than 40 people were wounded, fortunately, they were not too seriously injured, as for the recruits, more than 100 died, of which 4 were escaped from the battlefield and were killed, although this part was on the battlefield, because of the urgency of the situation and pressed down, after the war, it must be done a good job of pacifying and combing, otherwise, if the soldiers of the original Wufeng Army, which occupies the largest number of people, fluctuate, the problem will be big.

The battlefield was cleaned up a little, mainly the captured guns, ammunition and some supplies, and the opponent's brigade headquarters was taken with lightning speed, most of the materials were not consumed, plus the guns seized on the battlefield, a total of more than 800, and a small number of bullets, these cannot be given up. These will be sealed on the spot, and as long as the telegram informs the Nantou side, the convoy of about 500 people and more than 30 horse-drawn carriages left behind will immediately come over and transport the things away.

While waiting for the transport team to come, Liu Ye also used telegraphs to contact the special forces, but there was no result, the telegrams of the special forces were all closed, obviously, the other party was still in a high-intensity battle, and the imagination was normal, 36 people, even if it was a strictly trained and powerful special forces, the gap between them was huge, even if it was the best part of the special forces, they must be cautious and go all out.

In fact, before the battle started here, the special forces attacked the Inoue Wing Headquarters and the brigade directly under their jurisdiction almost 40 minutes earlier than them, and the special forces who came forward lightly, in addition to ordering their assistants to lay mines and traps in the necessary arteries, used mortars and sniper rifles to carry out non-stop attacks on the Inoue Wing, which were varied, and immediately made the Inoue Wing suffer a lot.

In the densely jungled mountainous area, the special forces are already like a fish in water, dense forests and complex terrain, giving them huge support, cold guns can be shot from anywhere, more than 800 meters, sniper rifles that still maintain accuracy, concealment ability and super fighting ability, so that Inoue United was the most powerful attack ever.

This toughness, is not manifested in the intensity of the attack, the cold gun will come anytime and anywhere, each may have to lose the life of a soldier, such an attack, maybe for a large-scale army is nothing, but for a small unit with only one wing and a brigade, it is simply unbearable, in just 4 hours, the entire brigade is tired of rushing left and right attack, and finally even Mao did not catch, but was pitted by several traps and mine arrays, in 4 hours, even the other party does not know, To lose the lives of 375 fighters, this is no joke, equal to almost one-sixth of the entire army, was killed.

Inoue is a smart officer, otherwise he would not be 5 years younger than Okada, and he has achieved such an important position as the captain of the wing, the other side is a small force, and under the premise of not being able to confront the other party head-on, only by leaving the area where he is active can he get rid of.

Inoue immediately ordered not to march in a hurry, ignoring the harassment of the cold guns around him, but he did not expect that this was the beginning of his tragic fate, the road he chose to go to Nantou happened to be the most tightly arranged road by the special forces, mine arrays and various traps emerged in endlessly, four hours, more than 100 people went all out to lay mines, a total of more than 700 mines, all over the key points on this road.

By 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when it was still 10 kilometers away from Nantou County, the Inoue Wing had lost more than 900 people, almost more than half of the losses, and at least 200 people were wounded and unable to move quickly.

Inoue probably never thought that he would encounter such a cruel and strange battle, in the case of more than half of the losses, and a large number of casualties, Inoue made a decisive decision, changed the road, and went directly to the direction of the other seaside, which was unexpected by the special forces, although they continued to pursue the Inoue Wing, but the Inoue Wing gave up a large number of logistics materials and wounded, advanced lightly, ran forward with a brain, and finally took more than 2 hours to get rid of the attack of the special forces, and finally escaped back to Taichung.

At this point, the Nantou campaign was completely over, from the beginning to the end, less than 7 days of fighting, and the real battle time was also very short, but the Inoue Wing of the Japanese Taiwan Army, full of 3,800 people, finally followed Inoue to escape back, less than 400 people, and the combat attrition was as high as 9 percent.

The whole battle spread all over Nantou County, northeast and southeast, more than 2,000 Japanese soldiers died in Nantou, including armed men, as high as 4,000, and more than 3,000 prisoners, which is equivalent to the entire Nantou, the Japanese army's forces were completely cleaned up, which is simply a huge loss that has never been seen for the Japanese, this battle not only did not end because the war on the Nantou side of the war disappeared, but began to become more and more intense. (To be continued......)