The speed of the scouts was very fast, and it only took more than half an hour to reach the search area on horseback, and then began to search for the missing baggage team in a dragnet style.

Although the "good news" from the attacking troops soothed the captain's solemn expression a lot, his tense nerves did not ease, and he kept thinking about the missing baggage team, hoping that a surprise would happen.

In case something really happens to them, they must find out the reason, and then report to the base as soon as possible, and ask them to send a new baggage team to themselves.

"Wing Commander, the reconnaissance force is in an emergency!" The chief of staff hurriedly ran over and reported, his expression a little more dignified than just now.

The wing captain chuckled in his heart, knowing that something had really happened to the baggage team.

He immediately asked: "Where and how did they disappear, how did they disappear, how many troops did the Eighth Route Army send to besiege them, and they ended the battle in less than half an hour, diverting the ammunition supply of a full eighty carts of baggage troops." ”

The chief of staff shook his head and replied: "The specific situation has not been clarified, they just found eighty large vehicles passing by the road near Hongjia Town. ”

"A kilometer of searching around the perimeter did not find a battlefield, and not a single corpse of the imperial army was found."

"The reconnaissance force is expanding the search area, and first send a telegram back to report the situation!"

"How so?" The wing captain frowned, and he couldn't figure out what was going on.

Staring at the map with a puzzled face, he analyzed: "There is only half an hour for the handover of the air force, which means that the Eighth Route Army must end the battle within half an hour and transport the supplies of a full eighty carts. ”

"There are four hundred people in the baggage team, and they are all well-equipped imperial troops, not paper tigers."

"Even if the Eighth Route Army gathers four or five times as many troops to encircle and annihilate them, it will not want to end the battle within ten minutes."

"It also takes time for them to transfer supplies, so the battlefield must be near the baggage trucks, otherwise it will be too late."

"Can anyone tell me what the hell is going on?"

"If we can't find the battlefield, we don't know how the baggage team was killed, so we can't report to the base, and they don't dare to send a new baggage team to us."

Several of his subordinates stood nearby, all frowning.

They certainly can't figure it out even the captain of the wing.

"Sir, the reconnaissance force is in a hurry, they have found the battlefield." A telegraph operator burst in and interrupted.

The wing commander was anxious to solve the doubts in his heart, and directly bypassed the chief of staff to take the telegram handed by the telegrapher.

Glancing at the content on it, he shouted, "Where is Li Zhuang?" Find the location of Li Zhuang immediately. ”

"Captain, Li Zhuang is five kilometers away from Hongjia Town, exactly an hour away." The chief of staff replied, pointing to a point on the map.

"I see!" The wing captain suddenly realized and shouted.

"What a cunning Eighth Route Army, one battle was fought twice, and all of us were kept in the dark, allowing them to hide eighty carts of supplies and supplies under the escort of imperial army aircraft."

The chief of staff also understood: "First kill all the imperial troops of the baggage team in Lizhuang, and then disguise themselves as imperial troops, rush to Hongjia Town under the escort of the aircraft, and take advantage of the half-hour gap between our second and third planes to move all the supplies brought by the baggage team to the mountains and hide them." ”

"Wing Commander, if you fight like this, the Eighth Route Army only needs to prepare twice the strength of the troops and a certain amount of heavy firepower to do it."

Now that the problem has been figured out, it is much easier to deal with the next step.

The wing commander began to give the order on the spot: "Send a telegram to His Excellency the Chief of Staff of the base immediately." ”

"The baggage team was attacked ten kilometers into the garrison base area, the troops were completely annihilated, and all the baggage supplies were lost."

"Because the baggage brigade did not send a telegram asking for help, our unit learned the news of the total annihilation of the baggage brigade from the air force's briefing an hour after the end of the battle."

At this point, the Wing Captain paused, as if he was preparing for the rest of the story.

The chief of staff next to him came to him with admiration.

The wing captain is so powerful that he can completely wipe out the blame for the annihilation of the baggage team in a few words?

Although the annihilation of the baggage team has nothing to do with the wing, the battlefield is in the defense area of the wing, and if you really want to calculate it, you will definitely not be able to run away with joint and several responsibility.

Now with this telegram, even the responsibility is gone.

If we really want to pursue the case, the chief of staff and the person in charge of logistics who are far away at the base will have an unshirkable responsibility.

Who told them not to send more escorts when they sent baggage teams, and not to give them radio stations?

If the escort of the baggage team had been doubled and equipped with a radio station, the wing would not have received the news more than an hour after the attack on the baggage team.

At that time, the battle had been over for more than an hour, and even if the wing sent people to fly over, it would not be able to return to the sky.

I couldn't help but exclaim: "Wing Captain is wise! ”

"As long as this telegram is sent, the total annihilation of the baggage brigade has nothing to do with us, and the logistics base has no reason to drag us to send us ammunition supplies?"

The co-captain continued: "Moving on to the contents of the telegram, in order to avoid the same attack again. ”

"Your Excellency the Chief of Staff is requested to arrange for at least half of the infantry brigade to escort the baggage brigade, and equip them with no less than one radio station."

"Our department will dispatch an infantry brigade in advance to meet at the edge of the garrison regiment's base area to ensure that the baggage team reaches the front line safely."

After reading the telegram sent by the attacking troops on the front line, the chief of staff could see at a glance that they were shirking their responsibilities.

But there is no way.

The telegram was well-founded, and I could not find any reason to refute it.

If you really want to hold you accountable, you and the person in charge of logistics will bear the brunt.

So he could only act as a baggage team, and the whole army was wiped out, which didn't happen.

As for his dissatisfaction with the front-line commanders, he could only suppress it in his heart.

The sweep has just begun, and we must not let this little matter affect the harmony between ourselves and the front-line commanders, and thus affect the overall situation of the entire counter-sweep.

With a calm face, he ordered: "The overall situation is important, and a new batch of baggage supplies will be prepared immediately to send to the front line." ”

"The standard of escorting troops is arranged according to the weight of the front-line commander, and two radios are allocated to the baggage team to keep in touch with the front line at any time and let them send troops to respond?"

In Jinguling, the battle continues, but the positions of the protagonists and supporting characters have changed.

By three o'clock in the afternoon, Saburo Nakata still hadn't caught up with the hostages.

This was the last time agreed by the wing commander before the troops were dispatched.

After this point, even if the attacking troops do not complete their tasks, they must retreat, otherwise military law will be involved.

Saburo Nakata was very unwilling, but the military order could not be violated.

Li Zhiyong saw that the Japanese puppet army was about to run, and immediately ordered the troops to strengthen the offensive and seize the last opportunity to eliminate a few more devils.

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