Quartermasters can also fight the devils

Commander Sun, acting commander of the Sixth War Zone of the Chinese government, and Chief of Staff Guo of the War Zone agreed that if they insisted on defending, they would be dead. The front-line troops should retreat step by step to consume the strength of the offensive forces of the Japanese 11th Army.

Sun Changjun, acting commander of the Sixth War Zone of the Chinese government, and Chief of Staff Guo of the War Zone issued an order one day after the war broke out, requiring the 66th and 79th Armies of the Tenth Army to resist the attacks of the offensive forces of the Japanese 11th Army in succession, and not to fight too long with the offensive forces of the Japanese 11th Army. Allow the various troops of the Tenth Army to gradually abandon their outer positions and retreat to the main positions of Wangjiachang and Nuanshui Street on the second line on November 4 to hold their ground and strive to kill a large number of offensive forces of the Japanese 11th Army.

Therefore, after the fierce fighting in the center until November 4, although the Tenth Army of the Chinese government retreated step by step under the pressure of more than 30,000 troops from the two Type A divisions of the Eleventh Army of the Japanese Army, it did not suffer a defeat because the Tenth Army retreated in a planned manner.

Therefore, the various troops of the Tenth Army maintained very good order during the retreat, which enabled the troops of the Tenth Army not only to fight well in positional warfare, but also to continuously launch blocking operations against the offensive forces of the Japanese Eleventh Army along the way during the retreat, causing considerable casualties to the offensive forces of the Japanese Eleventh Army.

The combat of the Tenth Army of the Chinese government was very effective. It was not until November 6 that the offensive forces of the Third Division and the Thirteenth Division of the Eleventh Army of the Japanese Army advanced to the outskirts of Nuanshui Street.

The attacking forces of the Japanese 11th Army launched a fierce attack on Jiangjiaping, Yuerping, Mataxi and Bajiaoxi near Nuanshui Street, which were all defensive positions under the charge of the 194th Division of the 79th Army of the 10th Group Army of the Chinese government.

The 79th Army of the 10th Army of the Chinese government relied on the favorable and dangerous terrain and solid fortifications to hold its ground. After many attacks and heavy casualties, the offensive forces of the Japanese 11th Army were still unable to break through the 79th Army's defense line.

Therefore, Lieutenant General Akashi Osamu, commander of the 13th Division of the Japanese Army, who was in charge of the attack, ordered the troops to rest first, and then launch an attack on the Chinese army's defense line after the follow-up troops followed up the next day.

The next morning, in the headquarters of the 13th Division, the commander of the 13th Division, Lieutenant General Akashika Osamu, had just finished his breakfast when he called in the division headquarters' operations staff Lieutenant Colonel Sakurai Saburo. The commander of the 13th Division, Lieutenant General Akashika Osamu, ordered the operations staff Lieutenant Colonel Sakurai Saburo to immediately go to Huolingpu, five kilometers south, to contact the 65th Regiment that had just arrived there.

Therefore, the 13th Division's operations staff Lieutenant Colonel Saburo Sakurai took two cavalrymen to the vicinity of Huolingpu to find the 65th Regiment of the Japanese Army for contact. However, this seemingly very simple contact mission caused the life of the 13th Division's operations staff Lieutenant Colonel Saburo Sakurai to stay forever on this day, because on the way, the operations staff Lieutenant Colonel Saburo Sakurai and two guards were discovered by a reconnaissance squad sent by the 79th Army of the Chinese government to scout the situation of the Japanese army.

Originally, this reconnaissance squad of the 79th Army of the Chinese government detoured back to the Japanese side from the edge of the defensive position last night. Their main task was to find out how many Japanese attacking forces had arrived and their current locations. After a night of reconnaissance, the officers and soldiers of this reconnaissance squad had roughly figured out the number and locations of the Japanese attacking forces that had arrived.

As a result, when preparing to return to the defensive position in the early morning, a soldier who was on guard in a tree saw three combat staff officers, Lieutenant Colonel Saburo Sakurai, riding horses and preparing to pass through the woods in the distance, so he quickly reported the situation to the reconnaissance squad leader Hu Hai.

Upon hearing that there were only three Japanese soldiers, Hu Hai became excited. His reconnaissance squad had nine people, and those who could serve as scouts were all capable people. It would be no problem to deal with these three Japanese soldiers. Moreover, if he killed these three Japanese soldiers, his contribution this time would be even greater, and he could go to the quartermaster to exchange the Japanese soldiers' belongings for big bucks.

In order to receive the credit for his achievement, Hu Hai ordered all the members of the reconnaissance squad to lie in ambush on the side of the road and assigned the combat targets. When the combat staff officer, Lieutenant Colonel Saburo Sakurai, and two soldiers were riding horses through the road in the woods without any warning, Hu Hai pulled the trigger of his rifle. With a few gunshots, the unsuspecting combat staff officer, Lieutenant Colonel Saburo Sakurai, and the two soldiers were all killed on the spot.

When the reconnaissance squad leader Hu Hai came to the body of Lieutenant Colonel Saburo Sakurai, he found that he had achieved a great deed this time. The lieutenant colonel's shoulder straps on the body were the best proof. Hu Hai excitedly searched the body of Lieutenant Colonel Saburo Sakurai, the combat staff officer. In addition to the pistol and command knife carried by Lieutenant Colonel Saburo Sakurai, Hu Hai also found a document bag.

When Hu Hai opened the briefcase of Lieutenant Colonel Saburo Sakurai, the operations staff officer, he found it was full of documents, including combat maps and combat orders targeting Changde, as well as a top-secret order for the Japanese 13th Division to be transferred to the Marianas after this operation.

Although Hu Hai and the soldiers of the reconnaissance squad could not understand what the Japanese on the documents said, fortunately Hu Hai had received some education and there were many Chinese characters in Japanese, so he was able to guess the general meaning. In particular, Hu Hai could see the word "Changde" on one of the documents clearly.

Just when Hu Hai was getting excited, two soldiers who had finished cleaning up on the other side came to Hu Hai carrying captured rifles and some belongings of Japanese soldiers. Hu Hai happened to be mumbling a document with an order to transfer to Mariana.

One of the soldiers asked curiously: "Sergeant, which province is Mariana in? I haven't heard of this place."

When Hu Hai heard the soldier's question, he immediately felt overwhelmed. He didn't know the answer himself, but he was the squad leader after all, and he couldn't let his soldiers look down on him. So Hu Hai said seriously, "It's normal that you don't know about this place. I only heard about it once, and it seems to be outside the Great Wall, in the northeast."

After hearing Hu Hai's words, several soldiers had no time to continue asking questions when suddenly a soldier on guard duty ran over and loudly reported that a Japanese patrol was coming over after hearing the sound of gunfire.

Hu Hai knew that his reconnaissance squad had only nine people and they could not confront the Japanese patrol team head-on. Looking at the documents in his hand, Hu Hai put them back into the file bag and placed them next to the body of the combat staff officer, Lieutenant Colonel Saburo Sakurai, and then led the brothers of the reconnaissance squad into the woods.

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