At the division headquarters, a battalion commander rushed in in a panic, nervous and panicked.

"Master, something happened!"

"The Eighth Route Army planted mines everywhere outside the city overnight, and we were surrounded by mines!"

"Impossible!" The division commander did not hesitate to deny, and then expressed his opinion.

"Although Hunyuan City is not big, it is also a county seat. If you want to fence this place with mines, at least 3,000, I don't believe that the Eighth Route Army can come up with so many mines. ”

The chief of staff knew best the situation of mines equipped by the garrison regiment, and had seen it with his own eyes, so he quickly replied: "Division, it's not impossible to do so." ”

"When we were transporting grain, we often encountered minefields arranged by the Eighth Route Army, and they did have a lot of mines."

"And a lot of landmines are made of stone and ceramics, and they don't cost at all, and people can build them themselves."

"These mines are not very powerful, but they are numerous, they can hurt people, and the mine detectors do not respond to them, so they cannot be found."

"Most of the mines buried outside the city must have been made of ceramics and stone!"

Speaking of this, the chief of staff thought of the scene he often encountered on the way to transport grain, and stared at the battalion commander and asked.

"Are they still saying on the sign that the mines were planted by Japanese puppet army agents, and they are clearing mines, but it will take time."

The battalion commander immediately nodded: "Written!" ”

"It said that the minefield was laid by the Japanese puppet army agents, and the Eighth Route Army has arranged for sappers to start demining, but because the minefield is too large, it will take at least ten days to find out all the mines."

"Excuses!" The chief of staff continued.

"Shizao, I'm sure those mines were planted by the Eighth Route Army itself, and the Japanese puppet army spies are just an excuse they are looking for."

"If they want to, they can get all those mines out in one day."

"Now we are told that it will take ten days, obviously trying to trap us in Hunyuan City with mines, and we can't enter or exit."

The division commander replied angrily: "Don't you think this is an excuse?" But even if we knew, it wouldn't work. ”

"Hunyuan is still in the hands of the Eighth Route Army, whatever they say is what they say, and there is no reason for us to refute it."

"Let's talk about it, talk freely, what should we do next?"

"With today, we still have enough food to last for three days."

"When the time comes, the troops will run out of food."

"The brothers have not been able to eat enough for several days, if they run out of food again, the morale and morale of the army will definitely collapse, and if you don't know it, everyone will open the city gate and go to the Eighth Route Army as a prisoner, then our division will be completely finished."

The deputy division commander hesitated and replied: "Why don't we go to the Eighth Route Army to grab food and take the initiative to attack them?" ”

"Impossible!" Before the division commander could speak, the chief of staff shook his head in denial, and then explained.

"I transported grain three times, and I was constantly attacked by the Eighth Route Army in the middle, but I just couldn't find them."

"Slippery like loaches, and don't give us a chance to catch them."

"And the Eighth Route Army dealt with us secretly, in order not to give us the opportunity to trouble them, they never fought us head-on, and they used the Japanese puppet army spies to come out as an excuse to plant a mine."

"We haven't even touched their main force, we don't know where the station is, how to attack them and grab food."

A regiment commander boldly proposed: "Shizuo, or we will go to negotiate with the Eighth Route Army!" ”

This time it was the division commander who opened his mouth and shook his head in disagreement: "This road will not work either." ”

"Now the advantages are all in the hands of the Eighth Route Army, and we are like a piece of meat on the chopping block of the Eighth Route Army."

"If they want to use force, they can eat us casually, what do we use to negotiate with them."

The deputy division commander was anxious: "It is not possible to use force, nor can we negotiate, can we only be trapped in Hunyuan City and starved to death." ”

The chief of staff proposed: "Division, I think our division can only rely on the theater of operations now." ”

"If the food in the war zone arrives on time, we have hope."

"If the food can't be delivered, there is no hope, so we can only choose to negotiate with the Eighth Route Army, and let the theater talk to them, let the Eighth Route Army raise its noble hand, let us withdraw from their base area, and keep the troops first."

The operator suddenly walked in and interrupted: "Division, emergency ...... in the war zone"

"The three main divisions of our army entering Datong all have their own tasks, and they can only transfer one regiment of troops to escort the food and ammunition that the theater replenishes us to support Hunyuan City."

"The theater has issued an order to replenish our food, ammunition, equipment, and funds, and is loading vehicles in the theater, and we will arrive in Datong in three days, and we will march here in a hurry after joining a regiment transferred to us in Datong."

"It's over!" After listening to the telegram, the division commander spat out these two words.

The grain arrived in Datong three days later, and from Datong to here, it would take two days for the normal march to go, which meant that the troops would have to be hungry for two days at the shortest before they could have food.

And there is another prerequisite for this: the Eighth Route Army will not attack this batch of grain.

If they continue to use the old methods to deal with the grain transport team and reinforcements, they will not be able to reach Datong in five days from Datong, and the troops in the city will definitely not be able to hold out at that time.

And he was 100% sure that the Eighth Route Army would not watch the grain sent from the war zone arrive in Datong smoothly.

Therefore, it is a question whether the food, weapons and ammunition replenished by the war zone can safely reach Hunyuan.

Of course, if there are more reinforcements transferred from the theater, they can still learn the method of transporting grain from the chief of staff, and take the small road to carry some grain to Hunyuan City.

But they only had one regiment, and the little food they carried at one time was not enough to lose along the way, and they were completely sending food to the Eighth Route Army for nothing.

It was for these reasons that the division commander thought that he was hopeless.

The deputy division commander and chief of staff also had heavy faces, and their faces became more and more embarrassed.

I don't know how long it took, but the division commander finally moved, and replied with a long sigh: "We lost this operation." ”

"I will send a telegram to the war zone now, truthfully report our current situation, and ask the war zone to negotiate with the Eighth Route Army and take us back."

"I can take all the responsibility for the failure of this operation, but our division can't just collapse in Hunyuan City."

"The theater and the commander-in-chief spent a huge price to form our division, and we must not lose it without fighting."

The deputy division commander and the chief of staff glanced at each other, and stood up at the same time: "Division, we will also bear the responsibility together." ”

After finishing speaking, the division commander continued: "And I think that there is no problem with our command of this operation, and if you want to blame it, the Eighth Route Army is too cunning, and the people here are too supportive of them, and they are completely on their side and don't give us a chance." ”

The chief of staff said: "I also think that this operation is not a war, this place has long been developed by the Eighth Route Army into their base, the people's heart, the army's heart, all on their side, we want to take here, we can only slowly try to do it, the peak is too urgent." ”

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