No, there is a way! The lieutenant thought for a moment and replied.

"We can't find the path of the tunnel underground, we can't find its specific location, but we can find its entrances and exits, as long as we destroy the tunnels and exits, no matter how deep the tunnels they dig, no matter how deep they dig them, and the Eighth Route Army that is digging the tunnels will be buried inside, turning the tunnels into the graves of their Eighth Route Army, killing two birds with one stone."

"Contact the command immediately, report the situation here, request artillery support, I want to cover the entrance and exit of the tunnel with artillery fire, and blow up there."

At five o'clock in the morning, the gunfire around Laiyuan City finally stopped, and the battlefield returned to quiet.

When the sky was completely bright, there was not even a shadow of the Eighth Route Army on the position outside the city.

All that remained were freshly dug trenches and craters.

"The garrison seems to have retreated, sir, do you want to send someone out to have a look!" A second lieutenant at the head of the city suggested.

The captain shook his head and refused: "No, the commander strictly ordered, without his order, no army can leave Laiyuan City for a single step." ”

"Report the situation here at the headquarters immediately, and let the commander decide whether to attack or not, we just need to obey the order."

At the headquarters of the Japanese army in Laiyuan City, the guns began to fire outside the city, and Dazuo stayed in the war room without resting.

Gather heavy troops, retreat to Laiyuan City, and rely on the Gundam and strong city fortifications to hold on, the flying thunder cannons equipped by the garrison regiment will lose their effect, and the initiative on the battlefield will return to the hands of the imperial army.

If the garrison regiment dispatches heavy artillery to storm Laiyuan City, with the strong fortifications of Laiyuan City, even if it is finally occupied, it can consume a large number of troops of the garrison regiment and achieve the goal of inflicting heavy losses on them.

If the garrison regiment besieges but does not attack, in order to protect the security of the base area around Laiyuan, they will definitely have to station a large number of troops outside the city to prevent themselves from suddenly killing out and sweeping their base area.

In this way, the main force of the garrison regiment will be dragged outside Laiyuan City by itself, which will not threaten the security of the area occupied by the imperial army, and buy time for the imperial army to prepare for the next sweep.

This battle plan of the military department can be called absolutely foolproof and there are no loopholes.

Of the two ideas, Osa thinks the first one is the most likely.

The garrison regiment is a unit with strong combat effectiveness and outstanding combat achievements.

Such troops are often very proud and will never allow themselves to stick a nail in their hearts.

Moreover, the garrison regiment has heavy artillery, and if it is attacked, it is fully capable of taking Laiyuan City.

The time, the location, the people, are all on their side, there is no reason not to attack, pull out the nail of Laiyuan City.

Therefore, when he heard the gunshots outside the city, Dazuo's first reaction was that the garrison regiment was going to attack Laiyuan City, and then ordered the troops to enter the position as soon as possible, and was ready to break the net with the garrison regiment.

I was disappointed: I waited for hours without hearing the sound of heavy artillery fire.

There is no heavy artillery, and the garrison regiment wants to use the general siege method to take Laiyuan City, and the possibility is almost zero, which is still confident that Dazuo still has.

But there was a premise: the defending troops had to counterattack with all their might, using intensive fire to intercept the attacking forces and not let the garrison approach the walls.

Otherwise, in the absence of heavy artillery, they can still use explosives packs to blow up the fortifications and kill into the city.

It's just that in this way, the defending troops will inevitably consume a lot of ammunition.

And this is what Dazuo worries the most in the middle of the night.

As long as the people are trapped in the city, the garrison will not dare to blockade Laiyuan City, and the food will flow in, and it will be used by the imperial army.

Ammunition could not be used, so it could only be transferred from the area occupied by the imperial army, and then passed through the garrison base area and entered Laiyuan City.

In this process, the garrison regiment will definitely intercept layer by layer.

No matter how much ammunition is sent from the occupied area, it is very likely that the last bullet will not enter Laiyuan City.

It is for this reason that he specifically emphasized at the meeting that the troops must conserve ammunition in the next operations.

And according to the way last night, the ammunition in Laiyuan City's inventory will be exhausted in half a month at most......

"Sir, the city defense force asks for instructions on whether the troops can go out of the city to reconnoiter and confirm that the Eighth Route Army has withdrawn from Laiyuan City." A Shaozo came over and reported.

"No......"

Dazuo frowned and refused.

A picture appeared in my mind on the spot, which often happened when I was stationed in the stronghold before I retreated to Laiyuan.

After dawn, it seemed calm outside the stronghold, and there was not a single Eighth Route Army.

As soon as the imperial army was killed, the style of painting changed.

The Eighth Route Army came out of the lurking point like a gopher, shot at the Imperial Army's attacking troops, and ran away, not giving the Imperial Army a chance to counterattack at all.

In one sortie, the imperial army could casually lose a dozen or twenty people.

Now Laiyuan City is bigger, and there are more places outside the city where people can hide.

If they repeat their old tricks, it is possible that the attacking force will lose hundreds of men.

Dazuo didn't want the same thing to happen again, so he frowned and began to give an order: "Order the reconnaissance troops to change into the clothes of the Chinese people, and go out of the city with the people after opening the city gate, and find out the situation outside the city." ”

Three hours later, a staff officer walked in and reported with a calm face: "Sir, the reconnaissance force has found out. ”

"The Eighth Route Army, which attacked us last night, has all retreated, and there is no one outside the city."

"Is the Eighth Route Army really digging tunnels outside the city?" A young man asked.

"Hey!" The staff officer hastened to answer.

"Not only dug up, but more than one, but all were destroyed in the artillery fire of the imperial army last night."

Another Shao Zuo analyzed: "Sir, I think that this is a feint attack by the garrison regiment, deliberately consuming our ammunition. ”

"Even if it is a feint, we must resolutely repel them, in case they touch the foot of the city wall and blow up the city with explosives packs, the feint can immediately become the main attack, and then kill into Laiyuan City." Another Shaozo replied.

"There are also tunnels, if you don't destroy the entrances and exits of the tunnels, let them keep digging, what if there are tunnels dug all the way to the foot of the city wall."

"I have been to Jizhong, where the Eighth Route Army often buried hundreds of kilograms of explosives in the tunnels, and no matter how strong the turrets and city walls were, they would be blown into ruins."

"In the words of the Eighth Route Army: let the Imperial Army take their earthen planes and disappear with the turrets."

"So we must put an end to all opportunities for the Eighth Route Army to get close to the city walls."

Da Zuo didn't speak, but his increasingly solemn face had already expressed his inner opinion.

In the face of the garrison's attack on Laiyuan City, he was also very tricky.

Even if he knew that this was a conspiracy of the garrison regiment to consume the limited ammunition of Laiyuan City, he still had to order his troops to counterattack at any cost.

Because once an accident happens in this matter, it is likely that he will die here in battle.

The price is too great to gamble on.

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