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Chapter 821 A bad start
When the 72nd Army left, relevant figures in the Japanese army were already planning the North China Incident. They believed that this time they were well prepared and that only the 29th Army and part of the Central Army's training corps could not be their opponents. No matter how they fought, this area would eventually belong to them. Moreover, they were full of confidence after several so-called actual combat verifications.
But now it has just begun, and various urgent battle reports have already filled up their combat command room. A group of people without identities have appeared everywhere, but these people are powerful and can fight back and forth with our regular combat troops if they encounter them.
Of course, saying this is purely to flatter ourselves. If we go to the battlefields everywhere, we will see that we are retreating step by step, and the enemy is constantly killing our manpower. Although it is a small battlefield, the loss is at most five or six people, which is nothing to the entire Japanese army.
But when the statistics were taken that night, the numbers were a bit scary. Take today for example, during the nine hours of the day, an average of hundreds of people died every hour. No large-scale battles were seen that day, but more than a thousand people had withdrawn from the battle sequence.
Among them, more than 950 people died, more than 100 were seriously injured, and there were even more people with minor injuries.
But what about the results of our battle? We didn't take any prisoners. Some people were surrounded by us, but when we finally rushed in, they chose to die for their country and perished together with the Japanese army.
"This is definitely not an ordinary army, nor a civilian anti-Japanese organization. It must be the 72nd Army. They didn't retreat last time. They used various methods to stay and wait for us to launch an attack."
General Terauchi said angrily that he was unwilling to believe that this was true, but apart from the people of the 72nd Army, no one in the entire Chinese continent should be able to cause such damage to the Japanese regular army.
People around us had already reached this conclusion, but the question was what to do? We were in the open, while others were in the dark.
Every time there was an operation, we were attacked by the enemy as soon as we left the gate of the military camp. No one knew where these people were hiding. They would either snipe your officers, or throw down several grenades from the upper floors, or even use mortars. It was simply impossible to defend against them.
These people seemed to have been carefully trained. There were not many people in each group, but they all had their own jobs. When they encountered different numbers of Japanese troops, they would use different tactics to deal with them. Anyway, one thing did not change, that is, they would just take a bite and then leave, and never fight to the end.
This is also one of the reasons why the Japanese side could not catch them. In today's search operation, they have already targeted two teams, but after the other party turned into a residential building, three two-wheeled motorcycles drove out from it. If these things start speeding on the road, the speed is no joke. At least the Japanese cars can't catch up.
One person was driving in front, and the person behind was carrying a backpack and constantly throwing grenades onto the road. After turning two corners, the Japanese troops following behind could not catch up and were killed instead. Some cars were too close, and the grenades thrown under the car directly killed everyone in the car.
So some Japanese officers came to the conclusion that if you don't chase us, maybe our losses will be less. If you chase us too closely, then there's no need to come back. There are only five or six guys in this group, but each of them is like a hedgehog. No matter what method you use, you can't get close to them.
Moreover, these people are locals and are much more familiar with the local area than we are. They remember all the forks on the road clearly. We thought there was no road ahead, after all, that's how it was marked on the map, but their motorcycles turned slightly and went up the hillside, which was very flexible.
On the other hand, the Japanese cars probably don't have such capabilities. If your soldiers get out of the car and run to catch up, it will play into their hands.
Those guys were riding motorcycles. When they saw the Japanese soldiers getting off, they immediately threw the motorcycles aside. Several of them picked up their submachine guns and fired for a while, not caring whether they hit the target or not. They would leave after they ran out of bullets.
There was not even a shelter on the hillside, and the Japanese soldiers were densely packed together. If no one died in this situation, he would be the illegitimate child of Amaterasu.
Looking at the reports sent by his subordinates, General Terauchi felt his temples throbbing. If he read a few more documents like this, he would probably explode.
He was a genuine Japanese army officer who had risen slowly from the bottom. He had participated in many wars against the Dragon Kingdom, but had never encountered anything like this. Was this the so-called urban street fighting?
No, they haven't reached the city yet, they are basically around our military camp. During this period, we thought we had the initiative and kept sending reinforcements to Tianjin. The 72nd Army didn't say a word. Now it seems that it's not that they don't want to care, but that they have already made countermeasures. Before they really launched a large-scale offensive, there were more than a thousand casualties in a single day. In just one day, an infantry battalion was wiped out. If it's still like this tomorrow, the North China Front Army will be left with no one before the start of regular combat.
"Reporting to His Excellency the Commander, Captain Aoi has sent a decisive telegram. Captain Aoi has already..."
Just when Commander Terauchi was furious, another telegram arrived, saying that the Aoi Battalion, which was responsible for attacking a county town in Peking, was completely destroyed.
According to their original battle plan, they would use the missing soldiers as an excuse to search a certain county town. Once the fighting started, the Japanese army would press towards Beijing in an all-out manner. But now, the vanguard troops, the so-called bait, were directly eaten by the enemy.
"Didn't they hold their ground and wait for help? Didn't I telegraph to him?"
The commander said with some anger that when the changes in Tianjin became too great, he knew that the army would not be able to support the areas around Peking as scheduled, so he asked them to temporarily stop the attack and hold their ground and wait for reinforcements. According to his idea, if they attacked according to the original plan, the losses might be greater, but if they held their ground and waited for reinforcements, there should be no problem. They are our nails in the Peking area and must not be lost.
The strength of this battalion is not important, but almost all the guides of the entire North China Front Army depend on the Kurai Battalion...