"Captain Li, something happened ......"

A herald panted and climbed to the commanding heights of Chentouling to report.

"I am a correspondent of the first battalion of the Huaiyuan Independent Regiment, and our chief of staff asked me to report: The devils who broke through from here did not return to Datong City."

"After running back three kilometers along the road, he suddenly turned and drilled into the mountains to the southeast, leaving many wounded to block the pursuers."

"After the pursuing troops arrived there, they left a company to deal with the wounded soldiers of the devils, and the chief of staff led the others around the battlefield to continue the pursuit of the devils, and they all entered the mountains."

Hong Linfeng was shocked and had an idea: "Regiment commander, eighty percent of the devils have killed our heavy artillery position." ”

"I want to take the sheep by the hand while retreating and kill our heavy artillery battalion."

"It's cloudy enough, I'll send a telegram to the heavy artillery battalion now, and tell them to move quickly."

"They have cars, and it's night again, and no matter how fast the devil runs on his two legs, he can't catch up with them."

Li Hao snorted coldly and replied: "Chief of Staff, don't worry, to be honest, I still admire the Japanese commander, if he can't make a plan, he will immediately have a new target, if he meets our other artillerymen, his idea will definitely come true, but tonight they miscalculated." ”

"The heavy artillery battalion is the killer weapon of our garrison regiment, and no matter how light I am, I will not let them act alone."

"Chief of Staff, immediately send a telegram to Yuan Qingfeng of the artillery battalion, and the puppet army has killed them in the past thousand days."

"Immediately command the cavalry battalion, the air defense battalion, and the guard company under the artillery battalion to prepare for battle."

"The little devils must think that the heavy artillery battalion is a soft persimmon, and they can pinch it as much as they want."

"In fact, our heavy artillery battalion is an iron plate, and if you rush into it, not only will you not take any advantage, but you will also hit your head and break your blood."

At the headquarters of the Japanese army brigade in Datong, the brigade commander has been waiting for news here, and even dinner is eaten in the office.

Whether or not he can destroy the equipment stolen by the Eighth Route Army and inflict heavy damage on the Eighth Route Army there will have a bearing on the long-term peace and stability of Datong in the next year or even longer, and he cannot afford not to pay attention to it.

At six o'clock, it was almost dark.

According to the planned battle plan, the attacking troops have now been handed over to the Eighth Route Army.

The brigade commander was full of confidence in his troops, and as long as the Eighth Route Army in Datong had no foreign aid, he would win this battle.

At seven o'clock, a communications staff officer hurried in, and the brigade commander thought he had brought the good news he had been waiting for.

But his face did not show any excitement after receiving the good news, but his expression was solemn and very anxious.

"Is something wrong?" The brigade commander's heart thumped.

"Sir, Chief of Staff urgent!" The communications staff officer handed the electric board to the brigade commander as he reported.

"The attacking force was attacked by the Eighth Route Army at Chentouling, and the enemy had a heavy artillery battalion participating in the battle, and we suffered great losses.

"First kill out of the encirclement of the Eighth Route Army, and then gather heavy troops to raid their heavy artillery positions, and then withdraw to Datong City after the battle."

"Finally, I will explain specifically: let us arrange for the troops to meet them at the city gate."

"How can this be......" The brigade commander shouted as he looked at the telegram in his hand and looked incredulous.

Except for the chief of staff, the headquarters are all ordinary staff officers, several levels lower than the brigade commander, so they have no problem doing things, and they will definitely not dare to rashly interface to help them analyze the battle situation.

The brigade commander saw everyone's thoughts at a glance, so he could only frown and analyze the matter himself.

Heavy artillery appeared on the battlefield, and the chief of staff thought that the other side was a garrison regiment, and his first reaction was that the attacking troops were in danger and that the battle plan must be changed immediately.

The brigade commander had a much wider vision, thinking about whether these heavy artillery would have an impact on the situation in Datong as a whole.

As for the origin of the heavy artillery, like the chief of staff, what instantly popped into his head was the garrison regiment.

At the same time, another question comes to mind.

The heavy artillery battalion was the garrison's killer weapon against the imperial army, and it was impossible to take risks alone.

Now that these artillery pieces appear in the territory of Datong, there must be a large number of infantry coming in to protect the safety of the heavy artillery battalion.

He had read the latest information of the military headquarters about the garrison regiment, because the garrison was next to the garrison regiment, and the brigade commander often took it out for study, and he was already familiar with the contents of it.

It is said that the garrison regiment lost troops in a surprise attack by the imperial army, and now more than eighty percent of the soldiers in the unit are newly recruited recruits, and the overall combat effectiveness is less than two percent of the original.

Under such circumstances, it was impossible for any Eighth Route Army to send them to the battlefield to their deaths, let alone fight deep into enemy-occupied areas.

The garrison regiment has stricter rules in this regard, and recruits who have not undergone three months of recruit training are never allowed to go to the battlefield.

But the garrison regiment has just sent troops.

After thinking about it, there is only one possibility: the information reported to it by the military department is wrong, and the garrison regiment is far from being as bad as the intelligence says......

Then that's a big problem.

The garrison regiment was a big problem for the Shanxi garrison, and a large number of intelligence officers were watching it all the time, but they still got a piece of false information.

Front-line intelligence officers can't make mistakes, and this false information is deliberately created by the garrison.

They went to great lengths to make the military department think that the troops had many new recruits, poor combat effectiveness, and no offensive ability, and that there must be a big conspiracy hidden behind it.

Now that the heavy artillery battalion of the garrison regiment has appeared in Datong, and thinking of the losses of the Datong garrison in the past two days, three words instantly popped up in the mind of the brigade commander.

Datong City!

My heart was confused all of a sudden, and the more I thought about it, the more I felt that my judgment was right.

After subtracting last night's losses and the troops taken away by the chief of staff during the day, there are less than 4,000 people left in the Datong garrison, and most of them are unreliable imperial troops.

If the Eighth Route Army took the opportunity to attack Datong and had heavy artillery support, the brigade commander would not have any confidence at all.

Of course, if the chief of staff could really successfully raid the heavy artillery battalion of the garrison regiment, then the result would not have been the same.

Without heavy artillery, with the strong fortifications of Datong City, the 3,000 garrisons themselves could hold on for three months.

He immediately ordered the deputy chief of staff: "Send a telegram back to the chief of staff who raided the heavy artillery position now, it is best if the raid can be successful, if the raid cannot be successful, the troops will immediately withdraw back to Datong." ”

"The intelligence department acted overnight to find out how many Eighth Route Army troops were hidden in Datong."

"Order all strongholds and coal mines in Datong to strengthen their vigilance from now on to prevent enemy sneak attacks."

The brigade commander paused after saying this, then strode to the sand table, and continued to order after pointing more than a dozen strongholds in a row with his baton.

"These strongholds have been remembered, they are the closest to Datong City, and the total garrison is more than 2,000 people, which is a strong new force."

"Give them a special order: abandon the stronghold after dawn, and all the troops march to Datong."

After the deputy chief of staff left with the order, the brigade commander suddenly felt a lot more at ease.

There was also a less worried look on his face.

According to their own arrangement, even if the chief of staff failed in his operation, the Eighth Route Army really planned to attack Datong, and more than 2,000 people from outside the city entered the city, and it would definitely be no problem to defend it for ten days and half a month.

At that time, the reinforcements took the opportunity to attack the garrison base from other directions, and in order to avoid being attacked by the enemy on their own backs and occupying the old nest, the besieging garrison had only one way to retreat.

Thinking of this, the brigade commander was even more relieved.

But to achieve this goal, the military department needs to cooperate.

He immediately returned to his office and wrote a telegram to the military headquarters, writing down the situation of heavy artillery in Datong, his judgment, and his thoughts.

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