12 hours later.
At this moment, on the Japanese battlefield at Lijiapo.
Like most Japanese men in this era, the short, bow-legged, and well-built captain Yamazaki looked at the corpses on the ground and the retreating Eighth Route Army in a frenzy. He laughed and pulled out his commanding sword and roared,"Kill!"
"Kill!" The Japanese soldiers in the camp all stood up and launched a fierce counterattack against the retreating 8th Route Army.
More than 200 soldiers of the 8th Route Army, who were exposed to the Japanese's guns, were killed. It was not until the regiment retreated to the foot of the mountain that the Japanese did not continue to pursue. Instead, they returned to their positions and continued to defend.
Why didn't the surrounded devils take the opportunity to break out? Instead, he continued to stay here as if he wanted to continue defending?
"Are the reinforcements here?" Commander Yamazaki grinned and asked the signalman. He looked very proud. This battle was enough to make him famous in the military, so he was naturally very happy.
The signalman nodded and replied," Hey, the 201st Division and the 91st Brigade are quickly surrounding the 8th Route Army. The 52nd Brigade is also heading towards the 129th Division. The commander said that as long as we stall the 386th Brigade here, the 201st Division and the 91st Brigade can completely destroy the 8th Route Army headquarters.”
"Yuxi! As long as we succeed in this mission, you and I will be promoted. At that time, I will not treat you unfairly!”Commander Yamazaki said proudly.
This old devil Yamazaki indeed had the right to be proud of himself. He had originally gone to encircle and suppress Xue Li, but he did not expect to get lost. Moreover, he seemed to have angered the Eighth Route Army of China, causing the legendary Eighth Route Army's 386th Brigade, which had caused a lot of casualties to the Imperial Army of Japan, to launch a crazy attack. In the end, he was surrounded on Li Jiapo.
In the end, this old devil Yamazaki was not afraid. Instead, he sensed something and decisively reported it to the headquarters. After the sacrifice of five or six agents, they finally found out that the Eighth Route Army headquarters was in this area!
In this way.
The North China First Army Command decisively gave up on Xue Li and turned to study how to deal with the Eighth Route Army. According to the intelligence, the Eighth Route Army Headquarters only had the 386th Brigade. Although the other troops were stationed in the surrounding areas, they were slightly further away. If they wanted to rescue them, it would take at least half a day to march quickly.
The Japanese knew that the opportunity was coming, so the Japanese command immediately ordered a division to besiege the surrounding troops of the Eighth Route Headquarters. The purpose was to delay them and not let them reinforce.
After that, he ordered an exploration team to go straight to the 8th Route Army headquarters. With the strength of an exploration team, it was enough to destroy the remaining guards of the 8th Route Army headquarters. Then, they would completely destroy the 8th Route Army headquarters and obtain the greatest victory since the beginning of the battle in North China!
The Yamazaki Battalion was the most crucial existence, and that was to stall the 386th Brigade. Even if all of them died, they had to stall them. Otherwise, if the 386th Brigade returned to help, the decapitation operation would fail, and all of this would cause the Japanese army in the North China War Zone to fall into a completely passive position.
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386th Brigade Headquarters.
Brigadier Chen Geng's face was extremely gloomy. In less than seven hours, the battle at Lijiapo had changed five regiments. In the end, each regiment had suffered more than half of the casualties. It was extremely disastrous. In total, more than 2,500 people had died. The Japanese soldiers of the Yamazaki Brigade had gone through such a fierce attack, but only half of them had died?？The remaining half were still guarding Li Jiapo? And he didn't choose to break out?
If the Japanese had tried to break out of the encirclement, Chen Geng would have taught them a lesson. However, not only did the Japanese not break out, but they were also defending Li Jiapo. This made Chen Geng feel helpless. If it was a normal battle, Chen Geng was confident that he could take down this brigade with two regiments, and the casualties would not be so heavy. However, now that the Yamazaki Brigade had the geographical advantage, and their weapons and equipment were several times better than his, and they had sufficient pills, there was no way to take them down for the time being.
"What are these damn Japanese trying to do? They actually didn't break out of the encirclement and instead defended to the death? Was he stupid? Do you want to die?" Chen Geng frowned. He had set up ambushes on all sides. If the Yamazaki Battalion broke out, it would be a good thing. However, these Japanese did not break out, so his arrangements were ineffective. But this was not the main point. What was the main point?
At this moment, the 386th Brigade Chief of Staff, Zhou Xihan, thought for a long time before saying,""No matter what, we have to eliminate these devils and wash the shame of our army with blood! Why don't we send Li Yunlong? This guy is full of tricks!"
"Li Yunlong, that old fellow, sigh, forget it, forget it, just let him go. I hope he doesn't cause any trouble for me. Just tell me, if I don't destroy that bastard Yamazaki, then let him bring his head to me!”Chen Geng took a deep breath and said fiercely. If it still didn't work, then the entire brigade would attack at the same time. They couldn't sacrifice too many soldiers.
The reason why Chen Geng had not attacked with his entire brigade was because the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and the 129th Division were less than 20 miles away from him. If he attacked with his entire brigade, it would be easy to be wiped out.
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