At the headquarters of the Japanese army brigade in Laiyuan City, the communications staff officer rushed in in a hurry, looking nervous.

"General, our radio contact with Lingqiu City has been cut off, this is the last telegram they sent, and only half of the signal has been received."

The content of the telegram was very simple, only a dozen words: "The Eighth Route Army has attacked the garrison headquarters, and Yamaguchi Nakasa has died in battle......"

The brigade commander glanced at it, then stared at the communications staff officer and asked, "What about the chief of staff?" Don't hear from him yet? ”

"According to the normal marching speed, they should have arrived outside Lingqiu City three hours ago, why didn't the Lingqiu garrison even see the shadow of reinforcements!"

The communications staff officer shook his head and replied, "We had a contact with the chief of staff three and a half hours ago, and they were intercepted by the Eighth Route Army at a distance of five kilometers from Lingqiu. ”

"Chief of Staff report: Within half an hour, we will definitely break through the blocking position of the Eighth Route Army and reinforce Lingqiu."

"Then our contact with the Chief of Staff was cut off."

"Bang......" The brigade commander smashed his fist on the edge of the sand table, stared at the sand table and scolded: "Can anyone tell me what happened on the front line." ”

"Five kilometers away, the reinforcements can climb to Lingqiu City even if they climb, why is there no news at all now, more than 3,000 imperial troops seem to have disappeared out of thin air, is it possible that the garrison regiment has such a big appetite to wipe them out."

This guess was so bold that none of the staff officers dared to answer, and they all lowered their heads and did not say a word.

"Something's wrong, sir, the reinforcements are over, I want to see the brigade commander!" A voice suddenly rang out outside the war room.

The captain of the guard hurriedly ran in: "Sir, a second lieutenant came outside, claiming to be an officer of the heavy artillery brigade, and he was anxious to see you, but he didn't have papers!" ”

"Heavy artillery brigade?" A hint of bad premonition flashed through the brigade commander's mind.

"If I'm not mistaken, the Heavy Artillery Brigade went with the Chief of Staff to reinforce Lingqiu, and he must have come back with news from the Chief of Staff and let him in immediately."

"General, it's over, the heavy artillery brigade is over, and the reinforcements are over!" The lieutenant rushed in and shouted with a look of despair.

The brigade commander's heart tightened, and he scolded loudly: "Baga! What's over? You make it clear! ”

"General, the main force of the garrison regiment did not attack Lingqiu at all, they are besieging the city to send reinforcements."

"What we encountered on the road was not the blocking position of the garrison regiment, but the pocket formation that they had carefully prepared."

"They attacked us with twenty heavy guns, and the heavy artillery brigade was gone before they could go into battle, and the infantry suffered heavy losses. Then he was chased and killed by the infantry and cavalry of the garrison regiment all the way, and the whole army was destroyed! ”

"I only got my life back by burrowing into the woods next to the road, and on the way back, I saw the cavalry brigade that had been wiped out by the Eighth Route Army."

"Hundreds of cavalry are dead, corpses are paved with roads, there are cavalry, there are war horses, it's too miserable......"

When he heard the words "besiege the city and send reinforcements to ......", the brigade commander understood, and the whole person suddenly sat on the stool, and his whole body was weak.

He came up with this battle plan by himself, and in the end, not only did he not destroy the garrison, but counted thousands of imperial troops.

The brigade commander forced himself to calm down, and the more he did at this time, the more he could not panic.

The garrison regiment eats itself four or five thousand people in one night, and if it takes advantage of the fire to rob and eat a few thousand more people because of its own confusion, then the mixed brigade will be over.

After taking a deep breath, he asked, "You just said that the garrison regiment used twenty heavy artillery pieces in the battle to besiege you, is this information exaggerated, do you dare to make a military order?" ”

"I dare to vouch for it with my own head, and there is not a single exaggeration in the report just now." The second lieutenant replied with an oath.

"In addition to twenty heavy guns, they also used quite a few large-caliber mortars and ordinary mortars."

"By the way, they also used anti-aircraft machine guns,"

"The tanks and combat vehicles equipped with the reinforcements were destroyed by anti-aircraft machine guns."

The brigade commander's face became more and more solemn, stared at the second lieutenant and continued to ask: "What is the combat effectiveness they have exposed, and how many troops are there in total." ”

This time, the second lieutenant did not answer immediately, and thought for a while before speaking: "I don't know how many troops are lowly in the specific ranks. ”

"The lowly rank is an artilleryman and does not directly participate in the battle."

"Some of the information that is known is from the mouths of the infantry, and it is not certain."

"They said that there were only more than 1,000 people in the Eighth Route Army that pursued us, and the chief of staff originally wanted to counterattack, but he was caught off guard by the cavalry, and the counterattacking force was completely wiped out, and then he could only be chased and beaten by the Eighth Route Army all the way."

The brigade commander was silent for two minutes before replying: "I seem to understand." ”

"In the sweep ahead, the garrison regiment did suffer heavy casualties, but they had a very powerful artillery unit, so they dared to besiege the city and ambush our reinforcements."

"Once the battle begins, first kill our heavy artillery units with heavy artillery, and then hit our infantry with heavy artillery."

"Their power is too great, and no matter how strong the fighting power of the imperial army is, it can't fight under heavy artillery attacks, so the reinforcements can only retreat."

"In order to prevent the retreat from turning into a rout, the chief of staff can only continue to divide the troops behind the palace and give the Eighth Route Army a chance to divide and destroy us."

"And their cavalry units, on the way to retreat, our infantry has no heavy weapons, and there is almost no self-protection ability in the face of cavalry raids, so they can only be beaten passively......"

The brigade commander was very powerful, and he guessed Li Hao's entire battle plan in just a few words, but it was too late, and it was impossible for the wiped out troops to come back alive.

The battle is not over, though.

I still have troops in my hands, and I still have a chance to turn defeat into victory.

As soon as he raised his eyebrows, he began to give an order: "Send a telegram to the garrisons of the three surrounding county towns immediately." ”

"Immediately after dawn, gather troops to evacuate the county seat and return to Laiyuan."

"The garrison regiment is equipped with heavy artillery and has a very strong ability to attack fortifications, and ordinary county towns will definitely not be able to stop them from attacking."

"The division of troops to garrison these county towns is to give the garrison regiments a chance to break through, and it is a waste of troops."

"I want to concentrate all the troops in Laiyuan City, and build this place into an impenetrable fortress, like a nail, pierced in the heart of the garrison, threatening the safety of their base at any time."

"When the main force takes Datong, we will sweep the attacking garrison regiment together and kill them."

The former enemy headquarters of the garrison regiment, various battle reports were gathered here one after another.

Compared with the last time when the Zhonggu United team was annihilated, this time Hong Linfeng had a significantly more smile on his face.

The last time I fought a war of annihilation, it was hard-hitting, and the devils had time to destroy the excess weapons and ammunition.

This time in the war of annihilation, the devil wanted to grow one more leg and run faster, and there was no time to turn around and destroy the weapons of the soldiers who died in the battle.

In particular, in the assembly area covered by heavy artillery, in order to reduce the load and make himself run faster, many weapons and ammunition were directly thrown on the battlefield, and no one cared about them.

This was a big gain for the garrison regiment, which had run out of mortar shells.

With these captures, those mortars can finally be re-entered into the war, instead of being piled up as scrap metal in warehouses.

"The regiment commander, the chief of staff, the captured heavy artillery has been counted: eight heavy guns are intact, four were damaged and can only be dismantled for spare parts, and another 586 shells have been captured." Yuan Qingfeng, the commander of the heavy artillery battalion, rushed in and reported, looking excited.

With the addition of these eight heavy guns, the garrison regiment has twenty-eight heavy guns, and although he still holds the title of battalion commander, he commands a veritable heavy artillery regiment.

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