We must retreat to Datong City immediately, it's too dangerous here! The chief of staff forcibly suppressed the anger that was constantly surging in his heart, and said very calmly.

"The two strike troops don't care?" Shao Zuo asked very painfully.

The imperial troops in the attack force were all his subordinates, accounting for more than two-thirds of the total strength of the entire brigade.

Giving up all at once is a heartache for everyone, let alone him, the direct captain.

"Give it all up." The chief of staff replied categorically.

"There is a saying in China: A strong man breaks his wrist, and what we have to do now is to dare to break a strong man's wrist."

"Judging from the two farewell telegrams, the attacking troops have not been able to hold out for too long."

"Sending reinforcements to the troops not only can't change the situation, but they can't save them, and they will be trapped, and they will lose their wives and soldiers."

"And after the garrison takes out the two striking troops, it will definitely fight continuously, seize the opportunity to kill here, and eat us together."

Seeing Shao Zuo show a stunned and shocked expression, the chief of staff continued: "You don't have to doubt my judgment just now, they can divide their forces and eat our two attack troops, then they have the strength to swallow us in one bite." ”

"Today's losses are already big enough, if any more troops are completely annihilated, the defense system of Datong City will have loopholes due to insufficient troops, and the Chinese army will take advantage of loopholes."

"Datong City is too important to the imperial army, nothing can withstand the safety of Datong City, we must not become sinners for the imperial army to lose Datong."

"So we must take advantage of the fact that the two strike troops have not been wiped out and the main force of the garrison regiment is dragged in the gap of the battlefield, and seize the time to retreat to Datong City."

The chief of staff had a vicious eye, and at a glance he analyzed his dangerous situation from the two farewell telegrams.

But if you want the strong man to break his wrist and get out of here safely, he also needs the nod of Chen Wei, the commander of the reconnaissance company.

In addition to four field guns, four heavy guns, and twelve vehicles transporting artillery and shells, the division commander sent reinforcements early in the morning.

With so many things retreating together, there must have been more than a little bit of movement.

"Company commander, the little devil seems to be running!" The instructor of the reconnaissance company shouted with a twinkle in his eyes.

Since the Japanese army relied on the assembly area to build a defensive line, the reconnaissance company lost the opportunity to sneak attack them.

During the stalemate of more than an hour, every soldier of the reconnaissance company was suffocated, and the instructor was no exception.

In his eyes, as long as the Japanese army moved, whether it was retreating or reinforcing the two striking troops, there would be a hole in their defense, and the reconnaissance company would have an opportunity to take advantage of.

Company Commander Chen Wei thought farther.

The excited expression flashed on his face, and then he returned to seriousness, stared at the Japanese position that began to be chaotic and replied: "It must be the regiment commander and the Hunyuan Independent Battalion who have succeeded." ”

"The little devils here realize the danger and want the strong man to break his wrist and retreat to Datong City."

"The task given to us by the regiment commander is to keep an eye on them, drag them down, and buy time for the main force to return to help eliminate them."

"So in addition to continuing to attack them, we have another task that must be completed: to keep them out of Datong City at all costs."

On the position of the Japanese puppet army, four heavy artillery pieces and four field guns were all hung on the cars, the unused ammunition and materials were also loaded on the remaining cars, and the light and serious wounded were all transported by cars, which greatly lightened the burden of the combat troops.

"Let's go, the troops march quickly and withdraw to Datong City......" The chief of staff sat in the passenger seat of a car in the middle and ordered with a serious face.

"Boom ......"

The dull roar of the engine soon sounded in the ears, and the procession, which stretched for more than five hundred meters, slowly moved.

An infantry squad of the Japanese army and a platoon of the puppet army went to the front as the pioneers.

The convoy and the rest of the Japanese army walked in the middle, and behind the puppet army hall of a company, they rushed towards Datong.

"Boom ......"

No sooner had than five hundred meters from the position when an explosion rang out.

The marching convoy stopped instantly, and before the chief of staff could speak, a cavalryman rushing towards him came into view.

"Report to the sir, the forward troops encountered a mine planted by the enemy in advance, it was a serial mine, two imperial troops were killed in battle, two were seriously wounded, and the imperial army was killed and two were seriously wounded."

"Bageya Road, these mines must have just been laid by the Eighth Route Army, they want to drag us here and prevent us from retreating to Datong City." The chief of staff scolded with anger.

Then he began to give orders: "Go back and tell your commander, let the Imperial Alliance Army open the way, the troops continue to advance, and retreat to Datong City on a rapid march." ”

"Boom ......"

This time the chief of staff of the Japanese army miscalculated.

In order to hold them back, the reconnaissance company no longer cared about whether its opponent was a devil or a puppet army, and not only did not give up the use of mines, but also tried to increase the power of mines.

"Boom ......"

Another explosion came, and the sound was so loud and deafening that it was extraordinary as soon as you heard it.

Looking at the convoy that had stopped again, the chief of staff's brows were furrowed into a big Sichuan character again.

"Sir, the Eighth Route Army did not stop laying mines because the Imperial Allied Army opened the way, and there was an explosive under a mine just now."

"Two more Imperial Troops and seven Imperial Allies were killed in the forward troops, and nine Imperial Allies were seriously wounded."

"Also, the explosives are too powerful, and there is an explosion underground, and the road is directly blown out of a large crater more than two meters deep, and the big hole must be filled in before cars and heavy artillery can pass through." The chief of staff was angry, and he wanted to curse again.

But when the words came to his lips, he held back.

Scolding won't solve the problem, and it will also make you lose your mind.

The urgency of the troops' delay now is to get out of danger and return to Datong City, where one more minute will be more dangerous.

So it's better to save time for scolding to think of a solution, and then get out of here as soon as possible.

Looking at the heralds waiting outside, he hurriedly ordered: "The fourth squadron will draw an infantry squad to replace the Imperial Cooperative Army behind the palace, send all of them to the forward troops, open the road for the convoy and repair the road, hurry up." ”

"Tell you squad leader, I will transfer all the remaining Imperial Cooperative Army in the whole army to him, whether he lives or dies, the convoy must continue to move forward within ten minutes, otherwise military law will be involved."

The garrison regiment had its own arsenal, grenades, mines, all of which were the easiest to produce and the cheapest weapons.

Li Hao combined his memories of later generations, not only let the arsenal produce a large number of iron-shell mines, but also produced a lot of stone-shell mines that could not be detected by mine detectors.

The reconnaissance company is now using stone shell mines.

Even with mine detectors, the Japanese forward units could not avoid these mines.

In order to increase the power of the mines, the reconnaissance company came up with the ingenuity of burying the explosive packets left behind by the flying thunder cannons on the road.

The moment the mine exploded, the explosive packets were detonated together.

In the continuous sound of explosions, the convoy stopped and stopped, moving forward little by little.

The chief of staff sat in the co-pilot, his brows furrowed deeper and deeper, and the anxious look on his face became thicker and thicker.

At this time, he was even more convinced of the inference he had just made: the reason why the Eighth Route Army worked so hard to stop him, and even disregarded the lives of the Imperial Cooperative Army, there was only one reason, the garrison wanted to drag himself here, and then eat it together.

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