Chapter 34: The Reluctant Retreat

  "Captain Luo, is there really no other way?"

  In the Beida Camp's barracks, Duan Yong held a walkie-talkie and asked Luo Xiang, seeing that he still had a glimmer of hope, hoping to hold on to Beida Camp!

  But Luo Xiang's words shattered his illusions: either to defend the Northern Camp, and burn with the barracks; or temporarily withdraw, avoid the enemy's edge, and wait for the future!

  "Duan Yingchang, think it through yourself. If a person dies, then everything is gone. Even if you can get the reputation of a hero, what's the use? It's better to leave behind a useful body and take back the North Great Camp in the future!" The voice on the other end of the walkie-talkie was very calm, but every sentence made sense, making Duan Yingchang have to think carefully.

  "After thinking for a full ten minutes, Duan Ying finally spoke again, saying, 'Alright, I'll temporarily withdraw from Beida Camp. I'll be back someday!'"

  "Believe me, in the near future, you will definitely be able to fight back, and even more comfortably!" Luo Xiang's bright voice came over, making Duan Ying feel extremely relieved.

  "Alright, I'll organize the troops to withdraw and meet you at the designated location as soon as possible!"

  Put down the walkie-talkie, Duan Ying stretched out his hand to pull the leather belt at his waist, then shouted outwards, "First platoon leader, second platoon leader!"

  Two soldiers wearing Northeast Army uniforms rushed in and saluted Duan Ying, asking loudly, "Battalion Commander, what's the matter?"

  Duan Ying looked at his two favorite generals, and couldn't help but think of the sacrificed Third Company Commander, that honest and kind-hearted Changchun man. His heart ached for a moment, but he immediately regained his spirit and ordered, "Command the troops to retreat immediately, take away all the equipment and supplies that can be carried, burn or blow up everything that cannot be taken, don't leave anything for the little devils!"

  "Why, Regimental Commander, the camp we guarded with such difficulty, how can we just give it to the Japanese like this!" The two battalion commanders heard Duanying's words and seemed not to understand why they were retreating.

  Time was pressing, Duan Ying didn't have time to explain to them, so he just shouted, "Cut the crap, execute my orders!"

  "Yes!"

  The company commander got angry, two battalion commanders hastily raised their hands in salute, then turned around and ran out, soon after the outside sounded the assembly call and password, followed by the chaotic footsteps of the soldiers, it seems they are starting to move!

  Duan Ying let out a sigh of relief, and he instructed some personnel from the headquarters to gather up the documents and other things that might be useful in the combat room, and they took everything away after a while.

  Several clerks were packing things while looking at the sandbox on the table in the middle of the house and asked Duan Ying, "Director, what about this sandbox?"

  "This thing is too big, we can't move it, smash it for me!" Duan Ying measured the sandbox for a long time, and finally, with one bite of his teeth and one stamp of his foot, he took action first, picked up a chair and smashed it on the sandbox.

  The whole regiment commander personally took action, a few people came up and dismantled the sandbox in a mess, and finally even dismantled the table!

  At this time, the warriors outside also began to withdraw in batches. Except for the 50 warriors responsible for cutting off and blocking, all the other warriors carried a part of their equipment and supplies with them. The five large trucks and twenty rubber-tyred vehicles parked inside the Beida Camp were also fully loaded with goods, which were withdrawn from the Beida Camp under the protection of the warriors!

  Of course, this is only a part of the inventory in Beida Camp. At most, it's just three or four tenths. Even if Luo Xiang and others come to help, it would be good to transport half of it!

  The remaining things will be burned down by someone after the main troops withdraw, definitely not leaving any roots or hair for the devils!

  Watching the warriors withdraw from Beida Camp in batches, Duan Ying led 50 warriors to stay behind and cut off the enemy. He climbed to a high place and looked out at the camp gate. Seeing that the Japanese troops were already visible in the distance, he ordered the warriors to enter the fortifications and prepare to block the enemy!

  "You little devils, come on! Even if I die, I'll take a bite out of you!" Duan Ying's eyes were cold and stern, the muzzle of his shotgun was fully open, ready for battle.

  But before he could fire, intense gunfire had already erupted outside the Beida camp, accompanied by the sound of rocket explosions!

  Duan Yingwen couldn't help but slap his thigh excitedly upon hearing the news, "It's Luo Xiang, it must be his special forces team coming to provide support!"

  He guessed it right, the one who ambushed the enemy outside Beida Camp was Luo Xiang. He led a squad of the First Special Warfare Squadron, these soldiers started out when Duan Ying answered to withdraw from Beida Camp, and went to support Beida Camp.

  Under the attack of a large number of automatic weapons and portable rockets by the special warfare troops, the artillery units of the Japanese army suffered heavy losses, with at least over ten mountain and field guns, as well as dozens of grenade launchers damaged to varying degrees, greatly weakening their ability to counterattack.

  Taking advantage of the terrain, Luo Xiang led the special forces to continuously move and intercept the enemy, making it impossible for them to find their location. They appeared and disappeared around the enemy, greatly slowing down their advance!

  The regimental commander, Tanaka Kuranosuke, was about to go mad. His soldiers searched and fired at the position where the gunfire was intense, but as a result, they couldn't see even a shadow of a person except for some shell casings. On the contrary, he himself was sniped at no less than three times. Once, a bullet flew past his cheek, and a bloody groove was scratched on his zygomatic bone!

  "Hachigatsu, a bunch of good-for-nothings! Can't even catch these scattered stragglers? Artillery, open fire! Infantry, charge forward! We must capture those Chinese troops!" Tanaka Kuranosuke bellowed in anger, his command sword pointing left and right, making the soldiers scurry about in all directions.

  Shells whizzed overhead, exploding in the surrounding weeds and forests, igniting one area after another, those raging flames scorching the sweat-drenched faces of Japanese soldiers!

  However, the Japanese soldiers were still struggling, and the muffled gunfire seemed to have never stopped, still unhurried, like a shadow following them, making the Japanese army feel suffocated and wanting to vomit blood!

  They fought and retreated, with the two sides entangled in a stalemate. The Japanese 16th Brigade spent more than twenty minutes before they finally saw the gate of the Beidaying camp and the empty courtyard inside.

  Along the way, there were at least 70 or 80 corpses and wounded soldiers in the Japanese army's ranks, as well as a pile of scrap metal emitting blue smoke, which was really distressing for Tienye Jiulang.

  As they approached the outskirts of Beidaying, the Chinese soldiers who were hiding in ambush suddenly disappeared, and the sound of gunfire suddenly stopped, which made the Japanese army, who had been used to being harassed, a little unadapted for a while.

  With Luo Xiang's special forces unit gone, Tian Yejiu felt a lot more at ease. He pointed his command knife forward and shouted, "Charge in, quick!"

  Japanese soldiers rushed into the empty camp of Beidaying like a tidal wave!

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