Miyamoto originally wanted to break out, but now when he heard what the chief of staff of the devil said, he immediately nodded yes, and sent a devil squad of about ten people, asking them to hurry to the gap to carefully reconnoiter and search, and as soon as there was a situation, they immediately warned with signal flares.
Soon, Miyamoto saw a green signal flare rising from the gap over there, which was the safety signal agreed between those scouts and Miyamoto, Miyamoto looked at it, and immediately said to the chief of staff of the devil: "It seems that it is indeed safe over there, Zhou Wu has always been cautious and careful with his troops, why would he expose this flaw in such a critical place" The chief of staff of the devil saw that Miyamoto would be suspicious at this time, so he said to him angrily: "Your Excellency Brigade Commander, you are too worried, although Zhou Wu is cautious and thoughtful in his use of troops, but now he is working with the Kuomintang 79th Army to jointly deal with us, you know the quality of the Kuomintang army, they themselves are not right, and they can't do a good job of connecting with the junction between them, let alone the connection with the New Fourth Army, it would be strange if there were no flaws." ” Miyamoto listened to the explanation of the chief of staff of the devil, and immediately made up his mind, and ordered more than 700 little devils who were holding the position to take the wounded and immediately retreat towards the gap in the east.
As long as Lao Chen and his brothers from the First Brigade of the Jiangbei New Fourth Army can arrive before Miyamoto retreats to Hongze Lake, then these Miyamoto brigades retreating eastward from the encirclement of Lijiawan will really have no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the ground.
Zhou Wu immediately ordered the New Fourth Army team to retreat to the back, and the leader of the devil squadron in charge of the broken back saw that the New Fourth Army on the opposite side had retreated backwards, thinking that his counter-impact had taken effect, so he quickly retreated, and followed Miyamoto, who had retreated in front, and they hurriedly evacuated to the east, catching up with Miyamoto and them, Miyamoto was not at ease, and asked the leader of the broken devil squadron: "The New Fourth Army team has not caught up" The devil squadron leader bragged at the moment: "Those New Fourth Army were beaten by us and fled, how can they have the courage to catch up, they rely on the large number of people this time, otherwise our brigade would have wiped them all out" This devil squadron leader is really good at bragging, the team of 7,000 people of the Miyamoto Brigade was surrounded by Zhou Wu's Jiangbei New Fourth Army and the old commander's 79th Army Corps, and they were beaten hard, and now there are only less than 700 people left, with a loss of nine-tenths, and almost all the army was wiped out, at this time he was still strong, It can be seen that this devil squadron leader is dizzy and can't figure it out.
Miyamoto still understands the current situation, he is not interested in the braggadocio of this devil squadron leader, and hurriedly asked them to return to the team immediately, and immediately march towards the shore of Hongze Lake in the east, as long as they can retreat to that side, the two imperial brigades reinforced by Taizhou and Yangzhou can immediately rush to meet them, this time from Huai'an City, a whole brigade of more than 7,000 imperial soldiers, only 700 men and horses are left until now, it can be described as a big defeat and loss, regret that the enemy should not have advanced lightly, fell into the trap of Zhou Wu, and now it is too late to regret it, The most important thing is to run out first and rush to Huai'an City to reason.
Miyamoto took the remaining seven hundred little devils in a hurry towards the direction of Hongze Lake, running over along the way, those injured devil soldiers were miserable, running a few steps and stopping two steps, which greatly slowed down Miyamoto's retreat speed, Miyamoto saw that this was not good, and it was not good to affect his own run, so he ordered his ghost soldiers to throw all the devil wounded on the road, and it was important for him to flee for his life first, let the wounded devil soldiers cry and scream behind them, Miyamoto pretended not to hear, He quickly ran to the east with his subordinate devil soldiers.
After running for more than five hours in a hurry, the panting devil scout reported to Miyamoto: "Your Excellency Brigade Commander, we are about to rush to Dajie Town on the edge of Hongze Lake, as long as we pass this Dajie Town, then we will enter the territory of Huai'an, and we can join the Imperial Army Brigade that has been reinforced from the direction of Yangzhou in Taizhou." ” Hearing this exciting good news, Miyamoto and his subordinates let out bursts of cheers, and Miyamoto hurriedly radioed Shunroku Hatahata of the Nanjing Headquarters, asking His Excellency the Commander to order the two imperial brigades from the direction of Taizhou and Yangzhou to speed up their march, and they had now arrived at Dajie Town near Huai'an City.
In the Nanjing Headquarters, Shunroku Hatata, who had been worried about the breakthrough of Miyamoto's brigade, immediately ordered the two devil brigades in the direction of Taizhou and Yangzhou to reinforce the two devil brigades in the past, and asked them to rush to Dajie Town to meet Miyamoto in six hours.
Miyamoto got Shunroku Hatata's assurance, and his heart was much more steady, thinking that although he lost a brigade and lost more than 6,000 imperial troops this time, he finally saved a small life, and he would definitely have to go to a military court after he returned, and he would not be able to run away if he was removed from his post and investigated, and maybe he would have to be escorted back to Japan to be imprisoned, but he finally picked up a life, and it was very worthwhile to think about it.
Just when Miyamoto was glad that he was about to escape from Zhou Wu's encirclement and join the devil brigade that rushed to reinforce him, suddenly there was a fierce gunfire in front, and Miyamoto's nerves that had just relaxed immediately jumped up tightly, and hurriedly asked the little devils in front of him with his throat: "What happened in front of you, did you encounter the enemy?"
Miyamoto is about to collapse at the moment, and he finally escaped from the wolf's den, and now he has entered this tiger's mouth, how is this good, a few devil soldiers in front hurriedly ran over and reported: "Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, I found a small team of the New Fourth Army in front, with only twenty or thirty people, it seems that it is armed in the local area of the New Fourth Army, and the weapons are backward, and they have been beaten away by our forward team. ” Miyamoto was frightened by this, and immediately ordered his ghost soldiers to immediately speed up the march, and quickly leave this place of right and wrong, he hurriedly used the radio to contact the devil brigade that rushed from the direction of Taizhou, when he heard that the brigade would not arrive to meet him in four hours, Miyamoto was disheartened, thinking that his side had run out of breath, and then ran to the south, then it was not necessary to run alive, forget it, let's wait here for the Taizhou brigade to come.
Miyamoto made up his mind, and hurriedly ordered his little devils to dig trenches and fortifications here on the spot, dug the fortifications into a large circle shape, which could be managed in all directions, and told his panting devil soldiers: Hold on for another two or three hours, and our reinforcements will arrive, so that everyone can go back As soon as these devil soldiers heard that their reinforcements were about to arrive, they dug up the trenches with great vigor, some of them have been coming to China for several years, and some bad news has come from Japan over the years, saying that the US bombers are bombing every day, and there are houses destroyed by fire everywhere, and the Japanese in the country are no longer able to eat.
Thinking of going back to Japan in the east, this time following Miyamoto out of Huai'an City, most of his companions were killed in Lijiawan, and they ran out hard, and now they have to dig trenches to defend against the enemy in this place near Hongze Lake, in order to be able to return to Huai'an City, back to the Japan in the east, these Japanese devils who escaped from the encirclement gritted their teeth and persevered, desperately digging trenches, in order to be able to meet with reinforcements earlier, and escape from this ghost place that made them frightened and had nightmares.
When Lao Chen found that their pursuit speed could not catch up with the Miyamoto Brigade that was fleeing towards Hongze Lake in a hurry, he sent out a small detachment disguised as a guerrilla, took a shortcut to catch up, harassed and attacked the Miyamoto devils running in front, delayed their movements, and bought time for the arrival of the large forces of the First Brigade.
When he heard that the little Miyamoto devil in front of him couldn't run, and was digging trenches there to prepare to hold on, he patted his head with his hand and said to his brothers: "Haha, this time Miyamoto's little devil can't run away, order all the troops in front to rush up and block Miyamoto's retreat, and the brothers in the back hurriedly speed up the march, even if they run to death, they will drag Miyamoto to death." ” Lao Chen's subordinates of the First Brigade were originally the first detachment of the New Fourth Army in Jiangbei, and its predecessor was the team of the Red Army who stayed in the south after the Long March to persist in guerrilla warfare, and has always competed with the Kuomintang troops who came to encircle and suppress in a sinister environment, and its combat effectiveness is also one of the best in the New Fourth Army.
The teams running in front threw away everything except guns and ammunition on their bodies, and under the encouragement of the slogans of the political work cadres and the propaganda team, they ran to the front with their heads bored, and soon, the brothers in charge of the investigation in front came back to report to Lao Chen: "Three miles ahead, I found the Miyamoto devils who were desperately digging trenches, the trenches have not yet been dug up, and there are no other devils and puppet army teams around, and many devil wounded soldiers who were dropped by Miyamoto's cabinet were found on the way, and some of the devil wounded soldiers were dying. ” When Lao Chen heard this, he hurriedly ordered: "The first battalion quickly sent a containment team to contain those devil wounded soldiers on the road, and all the other troops pressed up to surround and annihilate the Miyamoto brigade." t1706231537: