People kept leaving the brigade headquarters, or to check the intelligence personnel of the Eighth Route Army lurking in the city, or to check the telephone lines, and some to contact reinforcements......

These devils, without exception, all left the command and never returned.

In just over half an hour, the brigade headquarters lost nearly 100 people.

It's so perverse.

The deputy chief of staff assists the brigade commander in the management of the command and is well acquainted with everyone here.

Seeing that many familiar faces disappeared and never came back, he immediately realized that something was wrong, quickly found the brigade commander, and analyzed it with a frown.

"General, if I'm not mistaken, since half an hour ago, no one has entered the brigade headquarters, and not a single phone call has come in, and there must be an ambush outside the headquarters, and they want to completely cut off our contact with the front line."

"Are you saying that since half an hour ago, the people in the brigade headquarters have only been able to enter and exit?" The brigade commander asked with a calm face.

"Hey!" The deputy chief of staff nodded in reply.

"Yaga! Why is such an important matter being reported now? The brigade commander scolded dissatisfied, and the gloom on his face became more and more intense.

Then he continued to scold: "Every time the people we send out and the heralds sent from the front line are in groups of two or three, which is very scattered. As long as the enemy is ambushing a dozen people outside, they can break through each and kill them all. ”

"Still stunned for what to do, order the guard squadron to attack immediately, find the enemy lurking near us, and kill them."

"The battle is getting bigger and bigger, and the brigade command must not become blind and deaf."

A few minutes later, gunfire began to ring out around the command headquarters.

The heavy expression on the brigade commander's face slowly became relaxed, and he subconsciously thought that the guards had found the enemy who had attacked the herald and were gathering to annihilate him.

The fact is that the commandos and reconnaissance companies ambushed the Japanese guard units and continued to weaken the defense forces of the brigade and regiment headquarters.

After another ten minutes, the gunfire around the command slowly subsided, and finally disappeared completely.

The brigade commander immediately turned his eyes to the door, waiting for the squadron of guards to rush in and report his victory.

Two minutes later, the captain of the guard came, but not to report victory.

The whole person seemed to have lost his soul and rushed in in a panic.

"General, we were fooled, it was the troops lurking outside the command headquarters, not intelligence officers."

"They are dressed in the uniforms of the Imperial Army, well-equipped, and equipped with a large number of light machine guns, lurking around the headquarters, hunting our soldiers in groups of more than a dozen people."

"I sent two infantry squads to encircle and suppress them, not only did I not kill them, but I suffered heavy losses, only a dozen soldiers came back, and the others were all missing, so they should have been killed by this army."

"Nani?" This was definitely the most shocking news that the brigade commander received today.

There were more than a hundred Eighth Route Corps lurking around the headquarters, like hunters constantly consuming the strength of the brigade headquarters.

When the guards of the brigade headquarters are almost exhausted, are they going to attack the headquarters?

Thinking of this, the brigade commander's forehead was already in cold sweat.

Hurriedly ordered: "These Eighth Route Army must have come for our command." ”

"Although I don't know how they got into Baoding City, one thing is certain: the brigade headquarters is in danger and may be attacked by these Eighth Route Army at any time."

After speaking, the brigade commander stared at the captain of the guard and asked, "How many people do you still have?" How much was the defense system of the brigade command affected after the loss of two squads? If the Eighth Route Army lurking around us attacks us, how long will the remaining guard troops last?"

Cold sweat also began to break out on the forehead of the captain of the guard.

Just now he only thought about the heavy losses of the guards, and did not take into account the problem of the attack on the brigade headquarters.

As soon as the brigade commander reminded him, he immediately realized the seriousness of the problem and quickly answered.

"The guard is a reinforced squadron, and there are still two squads left."

"Originally, we arranged three lines of defense around the headquarters, but now that the guards have lost more than half, if we want to ensure that the headquarters has no defensive loopholes, we must give up the first line of defense and concentrate our forces to defend the second and third lines of defense."

"If the Eighth Route Army, which attacked us just now, gathers to attack the headquarters, there is no way to confirm how long the guards can last."

"The battle just now is just a general understanding of the strength of this Eighth Route Army, and it is not clear about their specific equipment level and combat effectiveness."

"If it is only a light infantry, it is humble and confident to hold it until dawn. If the opponent is an elite army equipped with heavy weapons, he can only defend for half an hour. ”

The cold sweat on the brigade commander's forehead increased.

Unexpectedly, in addition to attacking itself from outside the city, the Eighth Route Army also took a fancy to its own brigade headquarters.

If the brigade headquarters is killed, no matter how many troops defending the city are, they will be leaderless and fall into chaos, and finally be broken by the Eighth Route Army and wiped out in Baoding City.

Immediately ordered the captain of the guard: "Half an hour is too short, if the command is attacked, it must be held out for more than an hour." ”

"I'll give you command of all the miscellaneous personnel in the headquarters, and these people should be able to make a small team together."

The captain replied stubbornly: "The general is assured, and he guarantees the completion of the task." ”

The captain of the guard walked out of the war room and the brigade commander shifted his gaze to the deputy chief of staff: "The reinforcements have brought a radio, and we can contact them directly by radio." ”

"Immediately give the order: send a reinforced squadron and march to reinforce the headquarters."

"Hey!" The deputy chief of staff immediately received the order.

The crisis came sooner than the brigade commander had anticipated.

As soon as the miscellaneous personnel of the headquarters had completed their assembly and had not yet received their own weapons, the gunfire of the Eighth Route Army's attack rang out at the main gate.

"Boom ......"

Several explosions came into the command headquarters together, making the brigade commander's face even heavier.

The Eighth Route Army was equipped with heavy weapons, which was the worst situation that the brigade commander could think of, but he didn't expect to be bumped into by himself tonight, and he didn't know if he was too lucky or too unlucky.

"General, the enemy's offensive is twice as fierce as I expected!" The captain of the guard ran in in a frenzy to report.

"They are very strong in combat, even surpassing us. Equipped not only with a large number of light machine guns, but also with heavy machine guns and mortars, several machine gun positions arranged at the main entrance were all destroyed, and the machine gunners were also killed, and none of them were withdrawn. ”

"Can you hold it for an hour?" The brigade commander didn't care about this, he just wanted the result, stared at the captain of the guard and asked.

"It's hard!" The captain of the guard replied with his head down!

The brigade commander immediately ordered: "I will hand over all the heralds and half of the staff officers of the command headquarters to you for unified command, whether you can hold it." ”

"Hey!" The captain of the guard was still very mysterious in his heart, but he could only answer stubbornly.

The brigade commander gave himself all the people he could transfer, and if he couldn't hold it anymore, he could only go to the brigade commander himself.

As the captain of his guard, he couldn't allow this kind of thing to happen even if he tried his best.

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