It was only after two minutes that the communications soldier had recovered under the watchful eye of the two guards, and his pale face had become rosy again.

Forcefully stood up from the ground and reported: "Division, something happened to the mountain artillery battalion!" ”

"We walked back along the road for nearly seven kilometers and didn't find the mountain artillery battalion."

"The engineer company had repaired the road six kilometers behind us, and then it stopped, and the engineer company disappeared without a trace."

"We also found rut marks left by heavy wagons and mountain artillery on the road, which had been repaired by the engineer company, but the rut marks suddenly disappeared when they were less than 300 meters away from the road that had not been repaired by the engineer company......"

"The battalion commander and everyone are still looking back, and they have sent people to search near the road, hoping to find some clues."

"In order not to let you be anxious, I specially sent a lowly post back to report."

"How is this possible?" The division commander was so shocked by the news that he almost didn't stand firm, and asked with a look of disbelief.

"The mountain artillery battalion, the baggage company, and half of the engineer company, add up to nearly 400 people, although they have no field combat ability, but they are also equipped with a lot of self-defense weapons, even if they are attacked, they will fight back, it is impossible to be captured, how can they all suddenly disappear without a trace, I don't believe it."

The other officers next to him were also shocked by this thunderous news, and they all showed shocked expressions.

The communications soldiers were in a hurry, and they were afraid that if the division was angry, they would put on a charge of lying about the military situation and then shoot themselves, which would be too unjust.

Hurriedly explained: "Division, we don't believe it either, but the mountain artillery battalion, the baggage company, and the engineer company have indeed disappeared." ”

"And where they disappeared, there was no trace of a firefight, as if they had disappeared out of thin air."

"If the chief doesn't believe it, you can send someone to ask!"

Speaking of this, the signal soldier seemed to have thought of something, and quickly rejected his proposal just now: "No need to send someone to ask, if the battalion commander finds something there?" I will definitely send someone back to report it as soon as possible, and it is possible that someone will be on the way by now. ”

The division commander finally reacted from the shock, and he believed the bad news reported by his subordinates.

With a calm face, he ordered: "Take him down to rest first, and the troops will continue to standby." ”

"Send twice as many guard posts out to ensure that there is no enemy within two kilometers of our perimeter."

"In particular, the direction of the Eighth Route Army should be on alert, and I will keep an eye on their blocking positions, and find out if the Eighth Route Army has bypassed us and returned to the position during this time."

The deputy chief of staff immediately saw the division commander's thoughts, and hurriedly asked: "Sir, do you suspect that the mountain artillery battalion and the baggage company were killed by the Eighth Route Army." ”

"It's very likely!" The division commander replied with a calm face.

"There is no longer a formed Japanese puppet army in Datong, and only the Eighth Route Army has the strength to swallow nearly 400 of us in one bite."

The deputy chief of staff was very skeptical of this judgment, looked at the division commander and asked, "But this is too mysterious, right?" ”

"Even if the Eighth Route Army has this strength, the mountain artillery battalion, the baggage company, and the engineer company are not vegetarians, and the guns in their hands are not burning sticks, so they will never be captured and disappear out of thin air."

The division commander's brows furrowed deeper and deeper, which was also what he didn't understand, and he replied with a long sigh.

"Now we can only wait for news from the guard battalion."

"By the way, by the way, send a telegram to the left and right commandos, asking if they have encountered the Eighth Route Army demonstration."

"If there is, the troops will stand still in front of their line of defense, waiting for my orders."

"If not, go directly to their base area and advance to the hinterland of their base area, the deeper the better."

Twenty minutes later, the division commander ushered in the second signal corpsman of the guard battalion.

"Division, we found a soldier from the mountain artillery battalion!"

"According to his report, the mountain artillery battalion happened to on the side of the road when it was attacked, and escaped."

"It was the Japanese who attacked the mountain artillery battalion, not the Eighth Route Army."

"Impossible!" The division commander subconsciously retorted.

"Although the Japanese are very strong in combat, it is impossible for them to quietly eat our mountain artillery battalion and baggage company."

"And there is no Japanese puppet army in Datong, how can we eat so many of our troops."

"Where is the gunner who escaped the catastrophe, bring him here, I will personally ask him how the mountain artillery battalion disappeared."

The communications soldier hurriedly reported: "We have brought back the people!" ”

Soon, an artillery officer with the rank of second lieutenant on his shoulder was brought over, and after seeing the division commander, he hurried to report.

"Report to the division's seat, the lowly position is the platoon commander of the second company of the mountain artillery battalion......"

The division commander didn't want to listen to this nonsense, so he decisively interrupted: "Tell me, what happened to your mountain artillery battalion?" ”

The second lieutenant panicked for a moment, but quickly reacted and hurriedly reported: "We came across a village when we were marching, in order to speed up the march, the battalion commander entered the village and arrested more than 100 people to help us repair roads and carts, but I didn't expect that these people were all Japanese puppet soldiers and spies pretending to be soldiers." ”

"They first control the engineer platoon, then our battalion commander, and finally the whole convoy a little bit."

"I was pooping in the bushes next to the highway to get away with it."

"Sir, you must send troops to rescue them, they are all alive, as long as you send troops to chase them, you will definitely be able to save them."

There were too many loopholes in this answer, and the division commander found several of them when he heard them, stared at the second lieutenant and continued to ask: "How do you know that the other party is Japanese?" ”

"They had full control of the convoy after a leading officer said it!" The second lieutenant hastened to say what he saw and heard.

"What did you say?" The division commander continued to ask.

The second lieutenant still had many doubts answered, and he had to figure it out, otherwise he could not believe that the second lieutenant's report was true.

"They said that they belonged to the special high school, and they gathered so many troops by gathering the remnants of the army."

"I originally wanted to lurk until the Japanese counterattacked Datong and then came out, but because there were too many people and the food reserves were not enough, I went out of the mountains to grab grain."

"He also said that they didn't want to kill people, as long as they cooperated with them, the division headquarters was willing to give food to ransom people from their mobile phones, and when the time came, they would unconditionally release the brothers of the mountain artillery battalion and the baggage company."

"In addition, I heard a lot of people speaking Japanese among them!"

"I thought all the way to figure out why the other party was saying this."

"They want to stabilize their captured brothers and prevent them from causing trouble."

The division commander's brows furrowed even deeper, and his subordinates' answers were as full of loopholes as just now, and it was difficult to convince himself.

But he is indeed a member of the mountain artillery battalion, and it is impossible for him to lie to himself, otherwise he is joking with his own life.

I haven't come up with one for a long time, so then, the division commander can only put aside these questions for the time being and continue to ask.

"Then you tell me, how did so many heavy trucks and mountain artillery disappear from the mountain artillery battalion and the baggage company."

"Guard Battalion Report: No rut marks have been found around the road, as if they had disappeared into thin air."

The second lieutenant hurriedly replied: "The baggage cart is hidden in a nearby ravine, and the guard battalion has found it." ”

"The materials and ammunition on the cart were all transported by mules and horses, and the twelve mountain guns were disassembled into parts, some were transported by mules and horses, and some were carried by people, and all of them left the battlefield on mountain roads, so there were no rut marks."

The communication soldier next to him immediately said: "Shizuo, we did find fifty dismantled carts under his guidance, which were hidden in a ravine fifty meters across the road. ”

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