Half an hour is fleeting!

At this time, there is no need for Nakata Yama Lang to remind, the army commander also knows that something happened at the front line!

A force of nearly 2,000 people, even if they were attacked by the Eighth Route Army all the way, they should have been on the battlefield for such a long time, or close to the battlefield!

As soon as they get close to the battlefield, the stronghold will definitely get the message!

But now there is no news at all, as if they have disappeared into thin air!

However, the commander's reaction speed was also very fast, he didn't panic, and he began to give orders as soon as he raised his eyebrows!

"The aviation troops immediately followed Laiyuan to the blockade line to conduct a low-altitude search, so many people I don't believe that they will disappear out of thin air, life to see people and death to see corpses!"

"Contact Laiyuan City immediately and ask them to send troops out of the city to search, and report any news immediately?"

After speaking, the commander fell into contemplation with a calm face, his eyes staring at the sand table, his brows were sometimes tightened, sometimes relaxed!

He is re-analyzing the entire battle plan, looking for loopholes in the middle!

Disappointingly, after analyzing it over and over again, the entire battle plan seemed to him to be perfect, and there were no loopholes at all!

At this time, the commander's brows furrowed even deeper, and he couldn't figure it out!

"Sir, we have lost contact with Laiyuan City!" The communications staff officer suddenly barged in and interrupted his thoughts!

"Our phone contact with Laiyuan City was cut off, and we called by radio, and they didn't respond!"

"Nani!"

The commander's face became even more solemn!

Although he couldn't understand the accident in front of him, the premonition of an accident on the front line had become stronger and stronger, especially after Laiyuan City lost contact, he was already eighty percent sure that something had happened on the front line!

With a calm face, he ordered: "Contact the aviation corps, and immediately send a plane to Laiyuan to confirm what happened there?" ”

"By the way, and Guangling!"

"If something happens to Laiyuan City, Guangling will definitely be spared!"

"Call Guang Ling and the troops sent by Guang Ling immediately!"

"If they are contacted, let them strengthen their vigilance, and the attacking troops will immediately retreat to Guangling City under the cover of aircraft!"

"Although I haven't figured out what the conspiracy of the garrison is, where is the hole in the entire battle plan. But with my understanding of the garrison regiment, if it is really capable of taking Laiyuan, Guangling will definitely not let it go! ”

"Hey!"

The communications staff officer hastened to answer!

But before the person moved, another communications staff officer had already rushed in!

"Sir, Guangling is urgent, they were attacked by the main force of the Eighth Route Army, and the troops suffered heavy casualties!"

"The Eighth Route Army pretended to be their attacking troops and broke out, and suddenly launched an attack after approaching the city gate!"

"The left-behind troops were taken by surprise, and now the Eighth Route Army has entered Guangling City!"

"The troops are relying on the headquarters for the final insistence!"

"It's over!" The chief of staff shouted!

"Guangling has been attacked, it is in danger, Laiyuan City has also lost contact, no accident, it must have been taken by the garrison!"

"Coupled with the reinforcements sent out by the two county towns, in just a few hours, we have lost thousands of imperial troops!"

The commander was furious, his fists were clenched, and his eyes were as if they could breathe fire, red and red!

The whole counteroffensive was single-handedly planned and led by him, and he was full of confidence an hour ago, but the result was a fiasco.

More importantly, this battle itself was lost in a clear way, and until now, it has not been clear what went wrong with the entire battle plan.

This is what makes him the most aggrieved!

Of course, he also knew that he couldn't mess around now!

The front-line battle is not over yet, if you mess up, then the remaining thousands of troops in the front-line position don't have to fight!

Forcing himself to calm down, staring at the sand table, he sighed and said: "Although I don't want to admit it, and I don't know why, but we lost this battle!" ”

"The priority now is to reduce the losses and then figure out how the garrison defeated us!"

"The aviation continues to search for the two-way attack force that has lost contact, and it is necessary to see people in life and corpses in death!"

"The intelligence department is all dispatched, and at all costs find out what happened to Laiyuan and Guangling last night?"

"Aren't the main forces of the garrison regiment on the front line and on the blockade line? Where did they come out of so many main forces to attack Laiyuan and Guangling, and quietly eat some of our two-way attack troops! ”

"Chief of Staff, you personally send a telegram to the air force, we also need aircraft reinforcements, the more the better, go directly to the strongholds of the blockade line and cover the retreat of the troops there!"

"Order the remaining garrisons of the blockade line to prepare for a breakthrough and retreat now!"

"As soon as the planes reinforcing them arrive, immediately abandon the stronghold and break through and retreat to the nearest county town and large stronghold!"

"Laiyuan and Guangling are lost, and thousands of imperial troops and eighty percent of the imperial army are gone!"

"If those garrisons on the blockade line are lost again, then our losses tonight will be great!"

"Even if the independent mixed brigade is in place in time, we can't guarantee an absolute overwhelming advantage in front of the garrison!"

"So those thousands of troops must be saved!"

"Use them to establish a new blockade line, continue to besiege the garrison, prevent them from continuing to develop and grow, and also give the imperial army some respite, restore strength, and create conditions for us to sweep the garrison with heavy troops in the future."

In the Xiaozhuang stronghold, the commander Lieutenant Matsumoto is like an ant on a hot pot, and he is so anxious that he will turn around!

He received an order to break through half an hour ago, and the troops had already been prepared, and all the equipment that needed to be taken away had also crashed!

Everything is ready, as long as you give an order, the troops can immediately kill and leave this stronghold that may be taken by the garrison at any time!

But he didn't dare to give orders!

The scene of the reconnaissance detachment being raided last night is still fresh in my memory.

He didn't want his more than 100 subordinates to be killed by a burst of fire attack by the Eighth Route Army when they left the stronghold, just like those scouts!

He was waiting for the air support army, the plane sent by the military department!

Although I don't know why the military department suddenly issued an order to withdraw troops, and directly denied the previous counterattack order!

But as an officer, the sixth sense tells Matsumoto that something must be wrong!

And he has a feeling that this major event is also related to his own life and death, and if he retreats late, he will probably not be able to leave.

Otherwise, the retreat order of the military headquarters would not have been so anxious, and even the planes would have been dispatched.

"Weng Hum ......"

The anxiously awaited roar of the engine finally sounded!

From far to near, slowly reach everyone's ears!

Soon, a small black dot appeared at the edge of the skyrim, and the black dot grew larger and larger, and then slowly turned into a silver-white fighter!

"Signal the planes immediately and let them cover our breakthrough!" Lieutenant Matsumoto ordered with a sigh of relief!

When the plane saw the signal smoke, it began to circle around the stronghold!

Seeing that the plane was in place, Lieutenant Matsumoto decisively ordered: "Open the stronghold gate and retreat!" ”

More than 100 devils, more than 200 puppet soldiers, and dozens of carts full of food, weapons and ammunition left the stronghold in a mighty way!

The roaring planes in the sky gave the Japanese puppet army a lot of confidence, and after leaving the stronghold, they marched in the direction of the county seat.

In the first half hour, the troops went particularly smoothly!

The Eighth Route Army, which lurked outside the stronghold last night, seemed to have really been scared away!

However, Lieutenant Matsumoto couldn't relax at all, and he always felt that there was a pair of eyes around him!

As the surrounding terrain becomes more and more complex, this sense of crisis becomes more and more intense!

"Da Da Da ......"

His hunch was confirmed by a series of machine-gun fire, which came from the high ground to the right of the line, and a scream was heard in the middle of the line.

The two imperial soldiers fell to the ground in response!

"Enemy attack, machine gun counterattack!" The captain of the squad next to him reacted quickly, and the moment he lay down, the command knife had already been pulled out of the scabbard, pointing at the mountain where the gun was fired and shouting!

It took only three seconds for the two crooked handles to react, and they landed on the ground and began to roar.

To their disappointment, all the thirty rounds of ammunition in the magazine were fired, and there was no response from the mountain where the gun was fired just now, as if no one had existed on the mountain all along, and the gunfire just now was also everyone's auditory hallucination!

The overhead escort plane also moved, almost clinging to the ground and passing over the hill, but again nothing was found.

"Stop firing, the troops move on!" Lieutenant Matsumoto ordered with a calm face!

"The sneak attack just now must have been done by the Eighth Route Army lurking around our stronghold, dividing the troops to hide in the mountains and sneak attack us, hit and run, as cunning as loaches, they can't hit them at all!"

"The troops march forward in a hurry, ignore them!"

"These Eighth Route Army must be trying to slow down our march and prevent us from returning to the county seat!"

Lieutenant Matsumoto's analysis was very correct, but it was too difficult to break the guerrilla warfare and movement warfare of the Eighth Route Army just by ignoring it!

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Soon, a string of explosions sounded on the highway!

Matsumoto's face suddenly turned pale, and when he heard the voice, he knew that the explosion just now was not small!

Two minutes later, a piece of bad news that made him feel painful was reported by his subordinates.

"Sir, we encountered a series of mines arranged on the highway by the Eighth Route Army!"

"They are so cunning, a whole six mines are laid out together, and there are two explosive packs buried next to the mines!"

"We directly killed 13 people, eight people were seriously injured and lost their combat effectiveness, and several lightly wounded people were injured in the legs and feet, so there is no way to continue this high-intensity and rapid march!"

Matsumoto was furious and wanted to order the troops to stop, find the Eighth Route Army that had attacked him, and kill them under the cover of the overhead plane!

But in the end, I held back!

If you do, you're fooled!

The Eighth Route Army was scattered in the mountains, and as long as it was not concentrated, the planes would be useless to them, and they would not even be found.

If they rush in, they will definitely take themselves to the mountains to hide and seek, and drag them until dark. When the plane is gone, it will come out of the woods in all directions to attack itself, and finally eat itself!

Thinking of this, Matsumoto could only suppress his anger and order!

"The troops leave the road and walk from the side of the road, and if they don't let the Eighth Road know our marching route, they won't have a chance to lay mines!" Fupin Chinese