"Push us back, let's stop attacking them!" The division commander explained with a calm face.

"In the first battle of Laiyuan, although the casualties of the garrison regiment were not as exaggerated as the mixed brigade, they definitely suffered a lot of losses, and they urgently needed time to rest. If we kill them at this time, even if we can't destroy them all, it will definitely be no problem to defeat them. ”

"The garrison took advantage of our unpreparedness to strike preemptively and eat more than a thousand of us."

"Use this dismount to tell us that although they suffered a lot of losses in the battle of Laiyuan, they still have a strong heavy artillery force, and the infantry also has the ability to attack."

"If we go on the offensive, these forces will definitely inflict a lot of losses on us, especially that heavy artillery group."

"Push them into a hurry, fight with us to the death, and in the end, no one will be good."

The chief of staff understood thoroughly, and then asked, "Sir." Since we already know that this battle was deliberately flexed by the garrison regiment and did not want us to continue attacking them, we must not be fooled. ”

"It is recommended that the troops speed up the dispatch of troops, take advantage of the weakest time of the garrison regiment to kill their base areas, take advantage of their illness, make them sick, and solve the great trouble of this empire at all costs."

The chief of staff's proposal was well-founded, and after speaking, he looked at the division commander and waited for his affirmation.

Half a minute passed, and the division commander did not speak.

A minute passed, and he didn't speak, but frowned and fell into deep thought, and no one knew what he was thinking.

Just when the chief of staff couldn't help but want to repeat what he had just said, the division commander finally spoke, and it was amazing.

"No, we're not attacking the garrison."

"The strength of the garrison regiment tonight is stronger than I expected, especially their heavy artillery unit, if you use it well, not a single infantry wing of ours is an opponent."

"Except for the aircraft, we have little strength that can confront the heavy artillery units head-on."

"With the cover of aircraft during the day, this heavy artillery unit will definitely not show its head, and after dark, the battlefield will become a world of heavy artillery. The effective range of more than seven kilometers means that they can shell us five or six kilometers away from the station. ”

"When the time comes, we will only be beaten passively."

"The troops are too concentrated, and if a heavy artillery shell falls down, the troops will definitely suffer heavy casualties."

"The troops were too scattered, and they gave the garrison a chance to attack us at night, and in the end they also lost their troops."

"Whether or not we can take out the garrison in the end, we will pay a huge price."

"Now for us, the most precious thing is the troops, we can't afford to lose so many troops in the garrison regiment, otherwise I wouldn't have formed such a large-scale Imperial Association Army in Datong."

The division commander took out two pieces of information that the chief of staff had not yet read, handed them over, and continued.

"This is something that the intelligence services just sent in."

"The Jin Sui army is very dissatisfied with our reoccupation of Datong, and is gathering troops to prepare for a counteroffensive, and many officers who surrendered to the Imperial Japanese Army have been rebelled by them, and want to attack inside and outside to recapture Datong."

"The intelligence department has already arrested two regiment commanders and three battalion commanders."

"In order to hold Datong and keep this important coal mining town for the empire, we must garrison a large number of troops in Datong."

"There is also the Eighth Route Army active in the northwest of Shanxi, recently they have been taking the initiative to attack, attacking the large and small strongholds occupied by the imperial army, the combat effectiveness is very strong, and the troops participating in the battle also exceed ten main regiments."

"At present, their activities have been found in the periphery of Datong."

"In order not to affect the imperial army's plundering of Datong's coal resources, we also have to allocate a part of our forces to deal with them?"

"If there is an accident in the troops attacking the garrison regiment, Datong will fall into power again due to insufficient troops, and the city of Datong, which our division has worked so hard to fight, will be in vain."

"It's more important to keep the fruits of the battle than to risk an unknown battle."

At the headquarters of the first battalion of the garrison regiment, Huang Sheng's face was full of smiles.

After being stationed in Hunyuan for so long, he finally fought a great victory.

"Report ......" The voice of Chen Wei, commander of the reconnaissance company, suddenly sounded at the door.

"Regiment Commander, the little devil Icheon Wing has withdrawn!"

"After burning all the corpses of the little devils in the stronghold into ashes, I hurriedly left the stronghold with more than a thousand urns and retreated to the direction of Datong, leaving only one reinforced squadron behind the guard."

Li Hao smiled, happy from the bottom of his heart, and then sighed with emotion: "The danger in the direction of Datong has been lifted. ”

"The effect of our flexing of muscles last night was achieved, and the little devil definitely didn't want to lose troops in our hands again, and then chose to retreat.

Then he ordered Huang Sheng: "Battalion Commander Huang, from now on, the Japanese troops in the Datong direction will not move, and you will not move." ”

"Restore the troops to full strength as soon as possible, and then strengthen training to enhance combat effectiveness."

"There is another task for you, after Datong was occupied by devils, the direct connection between us and the Jin Sui army was also broken."

"I ask you to re-establish contact with the Jin Suijun from the mountains within a month, and open three channels to get out."

"Every communication channel must be able to walk mules and horses to ensure that all kinds of transactions and contacts between us and the Jin Suijun will not be interrupted."

Huang Sheng hurriedly replied: "Don't worry, regiment commander, I promise to take a battalion, guard Hunyuan, and reopen the communication line connecting the Jin Sui army." ”

Half a month has passed in the blink of an eye, and the whole of North China is full of firefights, but there is no garrison here.

Production is being resumed and homes are being rebuilt throughout the base area.

The recruitment of the main force is also in full swing.

With the addition of prisoners of war who were willing to join the garrison regiment, the total strength of the garrison regiment had been restored to 3,000 men, and another 1,000 recruits would be able to restore the full strength.

The heavy mortar shells and heavy artillery shells that had been exhausted were also replenished with 300 each, all of which were sent to Xi'an by the garrison battalion of the pharmaceutical factory at risk, and then transferred to the base area.

With shells, the artillery equipped by the garrison regiment finally came into use, and it was no longer a pile of scrap metal.

The garrison regiments also regained some combat effectiveness because of their arrival.

As long as there are no accidents, the base areas will continue to develop step by step, and within a maximum of half a year, the garrison regiment will be able to return to its pre-war strength.

Just when Li Hao thought that he could rest for a while, Zhou Liang, the commander of the communications platoon, hurried over.

"Regiment Leader, Captain Xiao is in a hurry!"

In the entire garrison regiment, only Zhou Liang and himself knew what Xiao Yuan was doing in Chongqing.

Seeing Zhou Liang's solemn face and frowning, he immediately realized that something had happened in Chongqing, and it was a big matter that Xiao Yuan couldn't solve, otherwise he wouldn't have sent a telegram, which made Zhou Liang nervous.

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