At ten o'clock in the evening, there were black holes everywhere, with the exception of the stronghold. Several huge searchlights illuminated the place, and everywhere there were vaguely visible guard posts and patrolmen, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a post at five steps and a post at ten steps.

The first battalion had to stop when it reached a position of 800 meters.

However, this did not affect the rest of the attack.

Tonight, the real protagonist was the 28 heavy artillery pieces and nearly 500 heavy artillery shells of the heavy artillery battalion.

If they make a move, the stronghold will definitely be razed to the ground.

All the infantry needed to do was rush onto the battlefield under the cover of artillery fire to destroy the remnants of the enemy, and then clean up the battlefield.

Compared to the strict security outside the stronghold, the inside of the stronghold is much more lax.

It's not that the little devils don't want to strengthen their vigilance, but the conditions don't allow it.

In the past two days, the warehouses have already been filled with the supplies and ammunition sent into the stronghold, and nearly half of the materials and ammunition have to be piled up in the open space of the stronghold, piled up one after another, like small mountains.

The garrison of the stronghold also nearly doubled in two days, and the limited barracks were certainly not enough, so the Japanese had to erect a large number of tents in the open space of the stronghold and set up temporary camps.

The mountains of materials and ammunition, the tents, all concentrated in the open space of the stronghold, mixed together, the commander can ensure that the stronghold is not chaotic is already very good.

Of course, these were the treatment of ordinary soldiers of the Japanese puppet army, and the accommodation conditions of the officers were not affected, especially several senior officers at the level of several brigades and above.

In the colony's commandant's room, a welcome party had been going on for almost three hours, and it hadn't ended yet.

This was held by the Commander of the Stronghold to welcome the Captain who was stationed at the Stronghold during the day.

Just when they were planning to go to the surrounding villages tomorrow to sweep around, move their muscles, and make some extra money by the way.

"Woo woo woo ......" a piercing scream of breaking the air fell from the sky and reached their ears.

Although several of them were a little drunk, the vigilance of the servicemen did not suffer much.

They are all veterans of the battlefield, and many things have been deeply rooted in their bones, forming a conditioned reflex, and they can't forget it if they want to.

Two officers reacted on the spot, their faces turned white, and they shouted: "There are heavy artillery shells flying towards us, everyone disperses and hides ......."

"Boom ......"

Before he could finish speaking, the explosion rang out, deafening, and even the ground beneath his feet began to tremble, and layers of ash continued to fall from the roof.

The faces of the two officers turned even paler, and they were so frightened that they could not speak.

"Yes...... Heavy artillery group...... At least...... Yes...... The ...... of a heavy artillery group Artillery is attacking us......"

Two of the several officers belonged to the Icheon Wing, and they had fought with the garrison and reacted immediately.

"It must be the main force of the garrison regiment that has come over, only the garrison regiment around us is equipped with heavy artillery, and they definitely want to take our outpost."

The little devil with the highest military rank decisively took over the command and began to give orders: "Then what are you still doing in a daze, immediately command the troops to enter the position and defend the stronghold." ”

"The stronghold is stacked with supplies and ammunition for our offensive garrison, and there must be no accidents."

"Operator, immediately contact the division and regimental headquarters, we are under attack by the garrison, they have dispatched at least twenty heavy artillery, the troops have suffered heavy casualties, request reinforcements......"

The headquarters of the Japanese division in Datong sent a telegram asking for help to the division commander as soon as possible.

"Yaga ......"

The division commander slapped the telegram on the table with a slap and scolded with anger.

"The garrison bullied people too much, and before we could make a move, they dared to strike first and attack us first."

"What the mixed brigade is doing, I remember clearly, the mixed brigade said in the farewell telegram that they had severely damaged the garrison and made them incapacitated. All we need to do is fight their base. Destroy the remnants of the garrison and kill them once and for all to avoid a resurgence. ”

"Now they are attacking our heavily defended stronghold with more than twenty heavy artillery, does this seem like they have lost their offensive ability?"

"Order the stronghold garrison to stand by for reinforcements!"

"The Icheon Wing will set off immediately and march to reinforce the battlefield."

"Tell Icheon-kun to send scouts in advance to find out the specific location of the garrison regiment's heavy artillery group, eat this heavy artillery unit first, and then reinforce the stronghold."

"This heavy artillery group is too much of a threat to us."

"The reason why Laiyuan City was lost, and the reason why the mixed brigade was killed, was all caused by this heavy artillery group."

"As long as you can take out this heavy artillery group, it doesn't matter if you lose your stronghold."

The chief of staff of the division rushed into the telegraph room like the wind to send a telegram, and only returned ten minutes later, but he shrugged his head and looked solemn.

"Sir, the Icheon Wing has been contacted, the order has been given, the troops are assembling, and they will definitely be able to leave within twenty minutes."

"But we can't get in touch with the stronghold."

"Telephone, radio, no matter how much we called, they didn't respond."

"Judging by the humble judgment, it is likely that something has happened to the stronghold, or the radio station has been destroyed."

"However, the former is more likely, the reinforcements stationed in the stronghold in the past two days have also brought over two radios, even if the radio stations are destroyed, it is impossible for all three radio stations to be destroyed."

"Nani?"

The division commander couldn't sit still, got up from his chair with a rub, his eyes widened, looked at the chief of staff, and shouted in disbelief.

"How is this possible, it has only been a long time since the stronghold was attacked and contact was lost, but there are more than a thousand people stationed there, two-thirds of whom are imperial troops, how can it be killed so quickly."

"Even if there are more than a thousand pigs, it will take a lot of effort for the garrison to kill them all."

"Order the telecommunications room to continue to call them, contact the Icheon Wing, and speed up reinforcements......"

At three o'clock in the morning, the telegram from the Icheon United arrived.

The expectant expression on the face of the division commander disappeared in an instant, and then it was replaced by solemnity, and he sat on the chair with his butt screwed, twisting his brows and falling into deep thought.

The stronghold was still lost.

By the time the Icheon Wing arrived at the battlefield, the battle was over. And even the battlefield has been cleaned.

In the stronghold, which had been blown into ruins, there was not a single bullet casing left except for more than a thousand corpses.

"Sir, the Icheon Wing is in an emergency: they have found the heavy artillery position of the garrison, but it is empty." The chief of staff said with the second telegram from the Icheon Wing.

"A total of twenty-eight gun emplacements were found on the battlefield, all of which were left by large-caliber heavy artillery."

"Hundreds of craters were blown out of the stronghold, and preliminary statistics show that the heavy artillery group of the garrison regiment fired nearly 500 heavy artillery shells at the stronghold."

"Judging from the traces of engagement and lurking left on the battlefield, the Eighth Route Army participated in the offensive with at least 1,500 people."

The division commander replied with a calm face: "I understand, the garrison regiment is showing our muscles and showing its strength. ”

"Show your muscles?" The chief of staff looked puzzled.

The brigade commander replied in the affirmative: "The stronghold is so big, if you are the commander of the garrison regiment, will you send out twenty-eight heavy artillery pieces at one time and fire nearly 500 heavy artillery shells?" ”

"Even if the imperial army is wealthy, it will not do this."

The chief of staff suddenly realized and shouted: "It's true! In the Imperial Army, heavy artillery was used only in large battles or attacking fortresses, and in general battles, mountain artillery was used at most. ”

"But I don't understand, what are they doing this for?"

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