"Damn it, I'm counting a total of more than 180 Japanese corpses, and they probably didn't have to run away." Yaoma walked over slowly with a gun on his shoulder, his blood-stained face looked a little ferocious.

Long Weng picked up a samurai sword and rubbed blood on a corpse clothes. The continuous slashes in the battle just now made his arms a little ache, but the Japanese who died under the knife were no less than the number of hands.

"How about the casualties in the army?"

Yao Ma's eyebrows moved, raised his hand and sniffed his face: "Thirty-three died, twenty-six injured, eight of them were probably bad. The others were all minor injuries that would not affect the next battle."

Nearly 60 casualties were killed or killed in one battle, which was really heartbreaking. Fortunately, the entire Japanese squadron that had penetrated deep into the army was considered a huge profit.

The vanguards dare to get so close, which means that the main force of the Japanese army should be not far away. The noise was so big just now that it was even a few kilometers away, and it was estimated that the Japanese must be pressing towards this side now.

Thinking of this, Long Weng put his knife into the sheath and ordered sternly: "Cleaning the battlefield, collecting ammunition and food, and stripping me of everything I can."

"I know."

There are many Type 96 light machine guns in the army now, and they use the 6.5mm bullets on the Japanese. The soldiers who were in a crisis of shortage of materials have been in their old business, including grenades, ammunition, food... as long as they are useful, they can search all the useful things.

Although these Japanese soldiers were not large in number, they carried a lot of equipment and supplies. In addition to weapons and ammunition, each person also had food rations for two or three days in his backpack.

Soon the soldiers cleaned the battlefield, but Long Weng did not take them back to the station, but instead asked the Falcon Team to clear the way forward and quietly explored the main force of the Japanese army.

...

Shortly after the battle in the dense forest ended, a "mechanized" unit arrived 5 kilometers south of Lashio Station.

They slowly advanced along the highway, with several wheeled armored vehicles leading the way at the front of the team, followed by trucks and a small number of motorcycles, and finally a team of cavalry of about a hundred people.

In addition to pack men, some horses also had split mountain cannon parts and various ammunition boxes hanging on them. Although the entire army was not large in number, it looked well-equipped.

This team was officially under the 53rd Division, and the corps leader Tomoe Saito rode on a tall horse with a reins. This feeling of standing out to look down at all living beings made him very happy.

At this time, a war horse rushed towards him, and the rider shouted loudly: "Report to the corps leader, the Lashio Railway Station is three kilometers ahead. We found gunfire ten minutes ago, but the situation is not yet clear... Please issue combat orders."

"Gunshot? Did Gao Sen and the others encounter the enemy... The command was sent, and the whole team stopped moving forward and everyone rested on the spot!"

Saito immediately issued an order and tied the reins. The horse under his crotch sniffed and stopped as if he understood.

Logically speaking, if you encounter an enemy attack, Gao Sen should report the situation to the wing immediately. Why hasn't there any news yet?

After dismounting, Saito tried hard to straighten his back, striding forward with a high look, muttering to himself: "Takamori should have dealt with the other party for so long."

"Well... let the soldiers in front contact Gao Sen's squadron and find out the enemy's situation first."

"Hey!" the soldier replied respectfully. Facing the captain who was less than 1.6 meters tall but was trying hard to hold his head and chest out, he bent down and couldn't help but lower his curves.

As the commander of the only mechanized unit of the entire division, Saito has enough confidence and calmness to face it no matter what difficulties he encounters.

As the name suggests, the so-called search wing is responsible for important battle reconnaissance tasks, but not only stop there, it is also responsible for multiple tasks such as battle breakthrough, battle maneuver, and battle pursuit.

According to the 1940 military expansion plan, the Japanese army specially set up standards for the established divisions of the three new units (three infantry corps). Among them, divisions with larger numbers such as 53, 56, 31 were successively established from 40 to 41. The purpose was to expand the war to seize the South China Sea colonies of the Far East or the Western powers. Whether moving north or south, these divisions must strengthen their mobility and firepower.

However, due to the limitations of Japan's industrial capacity, the Japanese army lacked both maneuver and firepower in the middle and late periods of the war, and there was a serious shortage of heavy artillery to guns and even bullets in the organization.

Stimulated by the new war mission, Japan was forced to make a compromise plan, which is the search wing.

Compared with ordinary Japanese infantry corps, the search corps is a new organization with strong mobility and armor protection capabilities, and can be regarded as a small number of mechanized infantry units in a new division.

But this is also relatively speaking, because although they are known as mechanized infantry gangs, their teams are composed of a horse squadron and a chariot squadron. Sometimes an additional infantry squadron is set up for strengthening. The actual number is only between 400 and 600, which is similar to the organization of an ordinary battalion and far from the conventional infantry gangs.

Moreover, the artillery and infantry inside are at most semi-motorized, and most of them are mules and horses as the main means of transportation.

Such an organization does have relatively high mobility and protection. In the battlefields of China and Southeast Asia, which have low technical content, it can achieve a certain degree of rampage, especially after tearing open the defense line of the infantry-based troops, it is more likely to cause chaos and fear from the enemy and further develop the results of the battle.

Compared with the United States, Soviet and Germans, this kind of organization seems particularly shabby, but Japan cannot produce a lot of motorcycle equipment, so the organization of the search wing is destined to be very small.

Although it is nothing compared to the European and American battlefields at the same time, even the Third Division's Chariot Battalion dares to say that it completely crushes them in terms of equipment configuration.

Even so, the Japanese army still attached great importance to the search wing because this was already the highest mechanized force that Japan's national strength could give the infantry divisions its highest standard.

Captain Saito's regiment seemed very proud of this. Even though the overall scale was only one-sixth of the conventional infantry regiment, he also enjoyed the treatment of a colonel and the right to give priority to supply to the entire division.

As an infantry team with good mobility and certain armor strength, their record in Southeast Asia is still remarkable. They have never lost since their establishment in 1941 and have rich combat power. They can be said to be the most beautiful boy in the entire division.

Originally, when they surrounded the Self-Rescue Army, they were the vanguards of the entire army. They once fought the Self-Rescue Army and ran away with their heads in their arms and did not dare to step out of the jungle.
Chapter completed!