Five minutes passed quickly, and more than four hundred shells were fired from mountain artillery and heavy mortars on each high ground.

Every explosion is sounded, and a large amount of floating earth is inevitably blown up on the top of the mountain.

Li Hao felt that the hilltop high ground had been cut down by at least half a meter in the explosion just now.

Add to that the craters from the shells, and there must be one meter.

"Commander, it should be soon!" Hong Linfeng's eyes lit up and reminded.

Li Hao also became excited, staring at the battlefield order: "All the attacking troops and light mortars are ready for assault, the Japanese puppet army on the top of the mountain will start attacking as soon as they take the earthen plane, and I will solve all the Japanese puppet troops on the high ground in one battle." ”

After another two minutes, an orange-red fireball rose into the air from the top of the mountain.

The fireball was so large that it was tens of meters high.

The orange-red flames, the thick gunsmoke, and the smoke and dust rolled up, like a storm, quickly swept away, and the puppet army was shrouded in it for many days.

After another three seconds, the explosion of shaking mountains reached everyone's ears.

Li Hao immediately ordered: "Chief of Staff, send a signal to the attacking troops now and start attacking ......"

After the first line of defense was breached, the second line of defense where the co-captain was hiding immediately became the first line of defense.

It's too dangerous.

The squadron leader in the team, the captain of the group...... I don't worry about him continuing to stay here.

In order to let his subordinates fight with peace of mind, the wing commander could only move to the third line of pay-off, which was still under construction.

Unfortunately, the place where he stayed was closest to the top of the mountain.

The moment the explosives exploded, the billowing smoke and orange-red flames rolled up directly enveloped him.

Before he could say a word, he was shocked to death.

The commander of the Japanese army headquarters in Taiyuan was pacing back and forth in the room, very anxious.

In the telecommunications room next to the headquarters, two telegraph operators wore headphones and constantly used their radios to call the front-line two-way sweeping troops.

But no matter how they called, there was no response.

The deputy chief of staff stood right behind them, asking every five minutes if they had received a call back.

Every time it was a disappointment.

Glancing at his watch, the hour hand was already pointing to three o'clock in the morning, almost two hours after the breakthrough of the middle sweeping troops.

He knew that the army commander was also waiting for news at the headquarters, so he immediately ordered: "You continue to call, I will go and report to the army commander." ”

He walked to the side of the commander with his head down, shook his head and reported: "Your Excellency, we haven't contacted the middle lane sweeping force yet. ”

"More than an hour ago, the East Road Sweeping Force, which was besieged in Wushanwa, also lost contact, and no matter how the radio station called, there was no response from several radio stations equipped with the East Road Sweeping Force."

"Something must have happened to them!" The commander's face was gloomy and terrifying, and he stared at the sand table and replied.

The deputy chief of staff also had this hunch, but did not dare to admit it and did not dare to believe this fact.

The combined strength of the two sweeping forces is more than 11,000 people, and if the garrison regiment has the strength to swallow so many troops in one go, why not fight this battle in the previous sweeping battle.

If they had fought like this, their base area would not have been burned so many villages by the mopping forces.

This is what the deputy chief of staff is most puzzled about.

But if they didn't have an accident, why did so many radio stations lose contact together!

If it's a coincidence, it's definitely less than the odds of a pie falling from the sky.

Seeing that the expression on the commander's face was getting heavier and heavier, the deputy chief of staff was now holding back his incomprehension, and he didn't know how to comfort him.

At this moment, a communications chief of staff ran in with excitement on his face, and began to report from afar: "Sir, the troops that broke through from Pingshui Town have called back. ”

"It was a telegram from a brigade captain who commanded an infantry squad to successfully break through and get rid of the pursuit of the Eighth Route Army."

"Where's their co-captain?" The deputy chief of staff snatched the telegram and asked expectantly as he read it.

"Didn't find it!" The communications staff officer replied with his head bowed.

At this time, the deputy chief of staff had already finished reading the telegram in his hand, and the look of expectation on his face was immediately swept away, and he regained his solemnity.

Look at the commander and report.

"Your Excellency Army Commander, the one who successfully broke through was the captain of the second brigade of the middle lane sweeping force, and he only waited for more than 300 people in the agreed assembly area."

"His wing commander, wing chief of staff, and several other team leaders, none of them managed to break through."

This result had been expected by the commander just now, and his expression did not change much.

Looking at the deputy chief of staff, he was puzzled and asked, "Did the telegram say why they fought like this?" ”

"According to the planned breakthrough plan, as long as there are no accidents, the troops can stand out at least half, and now it is only one-tenth, and the disparity is too great."

The deputy chief of staff hurriedly handed the telegram to the army commander: "Said. ”

"The garrison regiment not only deployed a large number of heavy artillery, chariots, and cavalry on the battlefield of Pingshui Town, but also arranged a lot of infantry."

"After we began to break through, the cavalry of the garrison regiment pursued and killed separately in squads."

"The tanks are all scattered, and each tank is protected by at least one infantry squad along the way to ensure the safety of the tank."

As a result, most of the dozens of breakout troops scattered out had cavalry and chariots chasing behind. ”

"They are chasing too fast and have a lot of firepower, especially for the tanks."

"After killing our breakthrough troops all the way, there is still a chance to continue to kill our second breakthrough troops."

"So more than 3,000 people only ran out of tenths in the end."

"Smack...... "The commander slammed his fist on the table in front of him, gritting his teeth and scolding.

"Bage Yalu, this is definitely a shame for the empire, I must let the garrison pay for it with blood!"

The chief of staff reminded: "Sir, they asked in the telegram whether the troops would like to continue to reinforce Wushanwa. ”

"Of course I want to go!" The commander replied without hesitation.

"There are more than 300 of them, and the possibility of successfully evacuating the garrison base area on their own is too low, almost zero."

"Only by merging with the East Road Sweep Force will they have a chance to survive?"

The deputy chief of staff was puzzled and asked, "But the East Road Sweeping Force has lost contact, and you just said that something happened to them." ”

"Now let these more than 300 people be killed, isn't that a waste of death, isn't there any point?"

The commander confidently replied, "It must make sense, otherwise I wouldn't have let them pass." ”

"More than 300 people retreating alone will definitely not be able to escape from the garrison base area, since they can't survive, then help us find out what happened to Wushanwa before they die in battle? How the Eastern Road Sweep Force was killed by the garrison. ”

"In case they still have troops to survive, the combination of the two forces will also increase their chances of escaping from the garrison base area."

The chief of staff was dumbfounded when he heard this, he did not expect the army commander to say such a thing.

In his eyes, the more than 300 imperial troops who had successfully broken through were dead, and what he had to do now was to make their deaths more meaningful.

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