At the Japanese military headquarters in Taiyuan, the time passed by second, and there was still no news from the front line, and the atmosphere in the war room became more and more tense.

The commander stood next to the sand table, supporting his body with both hands, and his expression was very heavy.

"Sir, the troops who swept away the Huaiyuan Independent Regiment have called back!" As soon as the chief of staff reached the door of the war room, he began to shout.

"The Huaiyuan Independent Regiment is still in their encirclement, and it is impossible to reinforce the garrison regiment if they have not left Huaiyuan."

This telegram should be considered good news for the army commander.

Because the Huaiyuan Independent Regiment did not reach Laiyuan, the chances of the attacking troops encountering danger on the front line would be much smaller.

But he didn't raise his head, and the expression on his face didn't change at all, and he continued to order with a calm face: "Give an order to the troops who swept the Huaiyuan Independent Regiment, and let them send more scouts into the base area of the Eighth Route Army to make sure that they really haven't left their base area." ”

"The Eighth Route Army is too cunning, and more than once it slipped out of our noses by means of golden cicadas shedding their shells."

"I also sent a telegram to the troops of the Laishui Independent Regiment: We must make sure that the content of the telegram we report is 100 percent accurate."

The chief of staff finally knew that the commander's expression had not changed at all.

It turned out that he didn't believe the telegram in his hand too much, and the Huaiyuan Independent Regiment was only one of all the potential threats to the front-line attacking forces, even if they didn't go to Laiyuan, it didn't mean that the other troops didn't go either.

He immediately replied: "I will call them back now and personally urge them to report after they have found out the conclusive evidence." ”

The chief of staff returned to the war room half an hour later and brought three pieces of good news at once.

"Army commander, after repeated confirmation from the front line, the main forces of the Huaiyuan Independent Regiment and the Laishui Independent Regiment are still in their base areas."

"The intelligence department also received a secret report: the Eighth Route Army that captured Datong City did not retreat."

"At least 10,000 troops of the Eighth Route Army have gathered in Datong City, and they are cleaning up the battlefield and rushing to transport supplies, with a posture of emptying Datong City."

Hearing this, the army commander's face finally changed, and he patted the sand table and said happily: "As long as these three troops do not reach Laiyuan, there will be no danger to the more than 5,000 attacking troops on the front line." ”

"The reason why they can't be contacted must be that the remaining troops of the garrison regiment jumped over the wall in a hurry, and luckily attacked our headquarters and destroyed the radio station."

"As long as the strongholds near the battlefield find them and send them a radio, we will know what happened to them?"

"Contact the large and small strongholds around the battlefield one more time: immediately send someone with a radio to find our attacking troops and connect them with the military headquarters."

The tense atmosphere in the war room became more relaxed as the commander became more relaxed.

Five kilometers away from the battlefield, there was a medium-sized stronghold of the Japanese army, which contained more than 80 devils and more than 100 puppet soldiers, who kept in touch with a large stronghold 20 kilometers away by telephone.

The orders given to them by the commander tossed and turned, and it was already eleven o'clock in the evening when they arrived.

The leader of the left-behind squadron did not dare to slack off, and immediately organized a ten-person reconnaissance detachment and rushed to the battlefield in a hurry.

The wooden gate of the stronghold was slowly opened with a "squeak...... sound, and the suspension bridge pulled by two ropes was lowered together and placed on top of a four-meter-wide trench.

Ten devils, armed with guns and carrying a light machine gun, left the stronghold like ghosts.

The squadron leader stood on top of the central turret and watched them disappear from his view before returning to his office.

As soon as he sat down, before he could catch his breath, gunshots rang out outside the stronghold.

"Eight Ge Yalu, what's going on!"

Shao Zuo got up from his seat, grabbed the binoculars on the table and climbed to the top of the turret, questioning his subordinates as he crawled, hoping that they could give him an explanation.

"Captain, there is an enemy hiding four hundred meters outside the stronghold!" The commander on duty Cao pointed to the sudden appearance of machine gun fire not far away.

The reconnaissance detachment did not fight back with machine guns after being attacked, and eighty percent of the machine gunners were killed at the first time......

But there must still be scouts alive, and from time to time there were a few gunshots from the road near the stronghold.

In the face of machine guns, such a counterattack looks particularly weak......

In less than a minute, the sporadic gunshots were nearly half as low as they had just been.

"Oh no, the reconnaissance detachment is in big trouble!" The squadron leader analyzed with a calm face.

"Captain, it looks like someone is running towards the stronghold!" Cao Chang reminded suddenly.

Under the darkness of night, several figures were faintly visible, holding rifles and retreating to the turret.

Bullets have no eyes, and no matter how fast they run, they can't match the speed of bullets. Every few tens of meters, a scout was shot in the back and threw himself forward on the way back.

It wasn't until the last scout fell thirty meters from the entrance to the stronghold that the machine-gun fire stopped.

The squadron leader immediately ordered: "All the troops left behind in the stronghold are ready for battle. ”

"Find a way to figure out how many Eighth Route Army there are outside the stronghold, and what their purpose is!"

"As soon as we received an order from the military department to send someone to contact the front line, the Eighth Route Army came, which is also too strange, there must be a conspiracy in it that we don't know about."

"Also, call the captain right away, I'm going to report this to him personally."

"Woo woo woo ......"

The piercing alarm soon sounded in the stronghold, and more than 200 Japanese puppet soldiers, like frightened birds, ran out of their respective barracks, holding weapons and rushing to their respective defensive turrets and hidden forts......

In the command room on the second floor of the turret, the second lieutenant kept shaking the telephone, trying to contact the captain twenty kilometers away.

Half a minute passed, and there was no response from the hand-cranked telephone.

A minute passed, and there was no response on the other end of the phone.

The second lieutenant was sweating profusely, and shook the telephone again with the last hope, but the other party still did not respond.

I had to put down the microphone and climb to the top of the turret to report: "Sir, we can't contact the brigade headquarters, it should be that the telephone line has been cut off." ”

The squadron leader had a bad premonition in his head, and he was very dissatisfied and asked, "Nani? The phone was fine a few minutes ago, how did it go wrong so quickly! ”

"It's not clear about the lowly position!" The second lieutenant replied with his head bowed.

Then he thought for a moment and proposed: "Do you want to send someone out to check the phone line?" ”

"No way!" The squadron leader refused without hesitation: "Ten scouts didn't run back when they went out, and a few phone soldiers definitely won't survive if they go out." ”

"Find out the enemy situation first, and then determine what we should do next?"

"Eighth Route Army...... The Eighth Route Army is coming at us......" Jun Cao suddenly shouted, pointing to the outside of the stronghold, his face dumbfounded, as if he had been frightened by something.

More than 300 meters away, a large number of figures suddenly appeared.

Some people wore the uniforms of the Eighth Route Army, and some people wore ordinary people's clothes, all sorts of things, but their equipment was very good.

Everyone had guns in their hands, and they were also armed with a large number of light and heavy machine guns and mortars, and quickly approached the stronghold.

"Wasn't the Eighth Route Army surrounded by the main force on the front line? Can anyone tell me where these troops came from? The squadron leader was also taken aback and shouted with bewilderment.

Seeing that his subordinates didn't react, he decisively ordered: "What are you doing in a daze, everyone is shooting, and we can't let them get close to our stronghold." ”

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