Chapter 278: Too Shameless
Chu Yunfei’s superior’s reply came quickly, and soon the feedback reached Chu Yunfei’s side.
Chu Yunfei found Li Yunlong: “Brother Yunlong, our superior has agreed to your combat plan. We can start right away.”
“Alright, no problem.” Li Yunlong nodded and said to Chu Yunfei, “I’ll turn around and head back to engage the Japanese invaders head-on right now, and then you Jin Sui Army troops hurry up and encircle the Japanese invaders.”
“Good.” Chu Yunfei nodded and quickly returned to his command post.
Since he had already discussed the action attack beforehand with Ding Wei, Gao Liujin, and Gao Xigang, when Li Yunlong’s side turned around to directly engage the Japanese invaders head-on, there was no need to pause at all; the troops quickly turned around.
Gao Liujin’s troops were the first to exchange fire with the Japanese invaders’ vanguard.
The result was without any suspense; Gao Liujin relied on powerful artillery fire advantage to forcibly halt the Japanese invaders’ vanguard’s advance.
Before the Japanese invaders’ vanguard troops could react, Ding Wei and Li Yunlong’s troops closely followed and pounced forward.
This Japanese invaders’ vanguard was directly split open from the middle, and a huge opening was cut in the frontline position.
Finally, Gao Xigang led his troops charging into this huge opening, rapidly thrusting deep into the enemy’s interior.
It didn’t take long before the Japanese invaders’ vanguard was split into two.
Then the Jin Sui Army troops immediately encircled this bifurcated Japanese invaders’ vanguard, while Li Yunlong and the others continued their fierce thrust toward the middle of the Yoshino Regiment.
Due to the fierce artillery fire directly washing the ground with cannonballs, a gap was also quickly torn open in the Yoshino Regiment’s middle defensive line.
Seeing that the troops were in danger of being rapidly split into two, Regimental Commander Yoshino’s eyes were bloodshot: “Baka, is this the Eighth Route Army? Their combat power is too strong; they’re going to thunderously cut our troops in half from the middle.”
Beside Regimental Commander Yoshino, a Japanese officer looked serious: “It’s obvious that the Eighth Route Army troops are responsible for cutting us in the middle, and then the Jin Sui Army troops are responsible for encircling and dividing us. Regimental Commander, we probably need to hurry and withdraw.”
“Baka, this was clearly us pursuing the enemy, how did it turn in an instant into the enemy turning around to annihilate us!” Regimental Commander Yoshino did not want to withdraw.
But seeing that the Eighth Route Army troops were about to kill right under his nose, plus the Jin Sui Army behind the Eighth Route Army was also moving quickly.
Regimental Commander Yoshino knew that continuing to hold out stubbornly would be futile, so he could only order a withdrawal.
But Regimental Commander Yoshino’s troops did not successfully withdraw; it wasn’t that they lacked time to withdraw, but that they had no opportunity at all.
Because several Jin Sui Army divisions had already circled behind the Yoshino Regiment beforehand.
By the time the Yoshino Regiment withdrew, these several Jin Sui Army divisions had already blocked them off.
Cooperating with Li Yunlong’s side, in the end, the Yoshino Regiment’s over ten thousand men were smoothly cut into two ends and separately encircled.
Next was the battle of annihilation.
Li Yunlong’s side and the Jin Sui Army went all out, launching fierce attacks on the Japanese invaders in the encirclement.
Although the Japanese invaders were at a disadvantage, even a cornered rabbit will bite; what’s more, these were a group of ferocious beasts.
The desperate Japanese invaders erupted with very strong combat power; they avoided Li Yunlong’s side and instead chose the Jin Sui Army as the soft target.
In the end, Regimental Commander Yoshino still led part of the Japanese invaders to successfully break through from the Jin Sui Army’s hands, while a large number of Japanese invaders were annihilated.
“Regiment Commander Chu, your Jin Sui Army troops are dragging their feet too much.” Gao Liujin shouted discontentedly at Chu Yunfei, “With so many of you, you couldn’t stop the Japanese invaders; otherwise, we could have eaten this bunch of Japanese invaders entirely!”
Chu Yunfei said solemnly: “At least not a single Japanese invader broke through from my side.”
Regarding Regimental Commander Yoshino leading part of the Japanese invaders to break through, Chu Yunfei couldn’t do anything about it.
Because that bunch of Japanese invaders had escaped from Chu Yunfei’s superior’s side.
“Gao Liujin, say less. At least Regiment Commander Chu is sincerely killing Japanese invaders.” Li Yunlong pulled Gao Liujin and said to Chu Yunfei: “Brother Yunfei, my several brother regiments have fairly heavy casualties and need to hurry and rest. You go do what you need to do.”
“Brother Yunlong, this time we’re still grateful to you Eighth Route Army for acting as the vanguard and breaking the Japanese invaders’ morale; otherwise, there wouldn’t be such great results.” Chu Yunfei clasped his hands toward Li Yunlong and said, “Our superior said that you can take one-third of the battlefield captures.”
“Brother Yunfei, thank your superior for me.” Li Yunlong expressed thanks.
On the surface, Li Yunlong was thanking Chu Yunfei, but in reality, he could figure out what the Jin Sui Army was scheming even with his toes.
On the surface, letting us take one-third and clean up is to delay our time.
Then the Jin Sui Army troops can quickly pounce toward the Japanese invaders’ Taiyuan rear.
Actually, Li Yunlong had seen it: when the Yoshino Regiment led part of the Japanese invaders to break through, and the remaining Japanese invaders in the encirclement hadn’t been fully cleared, part of the Jin Sui Army troops had already moved toward the Japanese invaders’ Taiyuan rear.
“Brother Yunlong, my casualties are also fairly heavy; excuse me.” Chu Yunfei found an excuse and quickly left.
As soon as Chu Yunfei left, Gao Liujin immediately said to Li Yunlong: “Li Yunlong, the Jin Sui Army has already sent part of their troops to the Japanese invaders’ Taiyuan rear. Are we really just going to watch first?”
“Gao Liujin, to eat a big meal, you need patience. Watch; the Jin Sui Army is anxious and definitely won’t be able to eat hot tofu.” Li Yunlong looked at Gao Liujin seriously, “Now that this bunch of Japanese invaders is dealt with, we can’t catch up to those that escaped. Now it’s time to bring Takahashi Kōnosuke back. Gao Liujin, how about giving this task to you…”
Before Li Yunlong finished speaking, Gao Liujin immediately shook his head: “Li Yunlong, it was agreed; I still want to go to the Japanese invaders’ Taiyuan rear to loot profits.”
Gao Xigang took the initiative to step forward: “Li Yunlong, let my 28th Regiment escort Takahashi Kōnosuke back. Moreover, in this battle, our four regiments have quite a few wounded soldiers combined; I’ll take them back together.”
Don’t think this battle was fought beautifully; the four regiments’ firepower was fierce enough to press the little Japanese invaders and beat them.
But the little Japanese invaders weren’t pushovers either; the four regiments still had considerable casualties.
“Alright, Gao Xigang, then you take Takahashi Kōnosuke and our several regiments’ wounded soldiers back.” Li Yunlong nodded.
After quickly organizing, the battlefield was also cleaned up, and Gao Xigang led the 28th Regiment back immediately.
Li Yunlong, Gao Liujin, and Ding Wei’s troops chose to rest as soon as possible.
After all, this battle had consumed too much energy and physical strength from the troops.
Without recuperating well, how could they make a fortune later.
Regarding the Eighth Route Army’s attitude of resting, Fang Ligong from the Jin Sui Army’s 358th Regiment looked suspiciously at Chu Yunfei: “Regimental Commander, now that this bunch of Japanese invaders is dealt with, one Eighth Route Army regiment took wounded soldiers and battlefield captures back, but the other three regiments aren’t seizing the opportunity to go to the Japanese invaders’ Taiyuan rear. What are they trying to do? Could it be they’re not worried we’ll loot all the big profits?”
“Isn’t it obvious.” Chu Yunfei hit the nail on the head: “The Eighth Route Army acted as vanguard; their troops are too fatigued. They now need to hurry and rest.”
In this battle, the Jin Sui Army fought with the wind at their backs; the intensity wasn’t high.
The troops sent to the Taiyuan rear were actually reserve teams that hadn’t participated in the battle.
They were full of energy, so they could go first.
The Eighth Route Army was different; they fought at high intensity with heavy energy and physical consumption. Even if he, Li Yunlong, was anxious to go to Taiyuan, without physical strength, he could only rest first.
“Li Yunlong got outsmarted by his own cleverness, huh.” Fang Ligong laughed.
“Maybe he’s playing the fool wisely.” Chu Yunfei turned his head to look toward the Japanese invaders’ Taiyuan rear direction, then said: “I don’t know why, but I always feel that the profits in the Japanese invaders’ Taiyuan rear won’t be that easy to loot. This little Japanese invader Shinozuka Yoshio probably won’t be that easy to deal with.”
Fang Ligong looked suspiciously: “Regimental Commander, do you mean that the Eighth Route Army side is resting on the surface but actually watching, letting us Jin Sui Army go test the depths of the Japanese invaders’ Taiyuan rear first?”
“High likelihood of that possibility. After all, Li Yunlong is a guy who always takes advantage and never suffers a loss.” Chu Yunfei nodded and still said, “But it’s not okay for the main force not to loot a bit in the Taiyuan rear before withdrawing.”
The Japanese invaders are dealt with, the Taiyuan rear is empty; we definitely have to go loot some.
Even if Shinozuka Yoshio has preparations, at least the Taiyuan rear being empty is a fact.
Fang Ligong said: “Better not to overthink it; maybe our main force operation will go smoothly…”
Before Fang Ligong finished speaking, someone ran over and shouted to Chu Yunfei: “Regimental Commander, call from superior.”
Chu Yunfei quickly came to the telephone, picked up the microphone: “This is Chu Yunfei.”
“Chu Yunfei, are the Eighth Route Army troops not moving now?” The superior asked over the telephone.
“Yes, they have one regiment that took wounded soldiers and captures back; the remaining three regiments are resting and haven’t gone toward the Taiyuan rear.” Chu Yunfei answered truthfully.
“Your 358th Regiment and 321st Regiment don’t go to Taiyuan; follow closely behind the Eighth Route Army troops.” The superior ordered.
Chu Yunfei was puzzled: “Division Commander, why is that? Shouldn’t my unit also go to the Taiyuan rear…”
Before Chu Yunfei finished speaking, the superior interrupted: “I’m telling you to follow the Eighth Route Army troops. One reason is that recently the Eighth Route Army troops have inflicted heavy damage on the Japanese invaders; they’ve captured a lot of Japanese invaders’ supplies and equipment. If you follow the Eighth Route Army and they have important actions in that regard, you can take advantage.”
“I’m afraid the Eighth Route Army won’t easily agree to let my unit and the 321st Regiment follow.” Chu Yunfei hesitated.
The superior’s line of thinking was pretty good; the Eighth Route Army troops had indeed made a lot of money recently.
Li Yunlong coming out to stir things up definitely wouldn’t return empty-handed easily.
Sticking to Li Yunlong and them indeed offered a real chance to take advantage. It’s just!
It’s just that this move was a bit too shameless.
“The legs are on your own body; how is walking on our own land obstructing his Li Yunlong?” The superior said solemnly.
“Yes, Division Commander.” Chu Yunfei agreed.
“Another thing is, our Jin Sui Army main force heading to the Taiyuan rear is very likely to loot big profits. Letting you and the 321st Regiment follow the Eighth Route Army is to prevent them from getting desperate and causing trouble, looting things from behind us.” The superior continued.
Chu Yunfei was a bit stunned: “Even if the Eighth Route Army gets desperate, they probably wouldn’t loot our things, right?”
“Why not? When that Li Yunlong of the Eighth Route Army gets desperate, doesn’t he just let his troops loot grain? He even dares to loot his own people; what wouldn’t he dare to do!” The superior said solemnly, “And that Gao Liujin, when he goes crazy, even uses his own division headquarters as bait. These two lunatics together, we have to guard against them.”
“Yes, Division Commander.” Chu Yunfei thought it made sense upon hearing it and agreed firmly.
This Li Yunlong and Gao Liujin weren’t just eating idle rice; if they got desperate, it probably wasn’t a joke.
And that Ding Wei, he looks unassuming, but anyone who can hang around with Li Yunlong and Gao Liujin definitely isn’t ordinary.
