Datong Japanese Army Garrison Headquarters!

The commander Major General Noda's face was very ugly, staring at the sand table and looking motionless for at least two hours!

"General!"

The communications staff officer suddenly rushed in, breaking the increasingly dignified atmosphere of the headquarters!

"There's news from the Nakata Brigade!" The chief of staff of the headquarters immediately asked!

"Hey!"

The communications staff officer hurriedly replied: "After they chased for nearly 20 kilometers, the traces left by the Eighth Route Army suddenly disappeared, and the Eighth Route Army that attacked the coal mine seemed to have suddenly disappeared!"

"Where is the place where the trail disappeared?" The chief of staff furrowed his brows and continued to ask!

"It's only five kilometers from our blockade!"

"The Nakata Brigade specially sent people to contact the garrison on the blockade line, and not a single Eighth Route Army attacked and crossed the blockade line last night and during the day today!"

"Yaga!"

Major General Noda finally made a move, and scolded directly!

"If the Eighth Route Army did not pass through the blockade line, where did the Eighth Route Army come from to sneak attack the coal mine!"

"There are more than 200 people in the coal mine guard, well-equipped, strong in combat, and strong turrets and hidden bunkers to rely on for defense!"

"Even if the attacking troops have fortified artillery, it would take at least twice the strength advantage to end the battle in less than half an hour!"

"With so many troops, apart from their base area of the Eighth Route Army in the northwest of Jin, I can't think of any other place that can be transferred!"

The chief of staff hesitated and reminded: "General, will the problem be with the Imperial Allied Army again!"

"The strength of the imperial army is limited, in order to ensure that the blockade line has a certain number of mobile troops, many smaller strongholds are jointly defended by the imperial army and the imperial army, and they are mainly based on the imperial army!"

"If they betray the Imperial Army and cooperate with the Eighth Route Army to cross the blockade line, they should be able to do it quietly!"

Major General Noda's eyes quickly shot out two fine lights: "There is such a possibility!"

Pointing to the sand table in front of him, he analyzed: "Five kilometers ahead of the disappearing point of the trace is the blockade line, and there are nearly twenty strongholds and turrets on the more than ten kilometers blockade line, and at least half of the defenders are mainly the Imperial Army!" If there were really people from the Eighth Route Army in these stronghold turrets, as long as one of the turrets was controlled, a battalion of troops would definitely be able to easily pass through the blockade line! ”

Speaking of this, Major General Noda was even angrier, and directly ordered with a murderous face!

"Check, this matter must be checked for me!"

"Chief of Staff, you are personally responsible, if there is really a gun tower controlled by the Eighth Route Army on the blockade line, then the defense line we have built with a lot of manpower and material resources will be useless!"

"The Eighth Route Army in the northwest of Jin can arbitrarily cross the blockade line and run behind us to attack us, so that we can't guard against it!"

"There are also materials, and they will continue to enter the base area of the Eighth Route Army in the northwest of Shanxi, and the economic blockade of them by the imperial army will also be useless!"

From noon to night, the chief of staff found nothing!

Returning to the command headquarters, he lowered his head and reported: "General, the lowly position is clear, and within two days, none of these strongholds we suspect have been attacked!"

"The stronghold dominated by the Imperial Allied Army also has the Imperial Army on duty at night, and they guarantee that not a single Eighth Route Army has crossed the blockade line!"

"Nani? How is this possible? ”

Major General Noda stared at a pair of big eyes, his face full of disbelief!

"General, something happened!"

The communications staff officer suddenly broke in and reported in a hurry!

"We've got another stronghold under attack, and the gunfire only lasted ten minutes before it ended, and reinforcements were on their way to kill them!"

The chief of staff took the telegram and only glanced at it, his brows twisted into a big Sichuan character, and then pointed to the sand table and introduced: "General, it is a small coal mine twenty kilometers northeast of Datong that has been attacked, but it is also controlled by the imperial army, and there are more than 100 escorts in it, and more than 500 people are absent from work, all of whom are Chinese soldiers captured by the empire on the frontal battlefield!"

"If the coal mine is breached, these 500 absentees are likely to become enemies of the imperial army again, posing a great threat to Datong's public security!"

"The telegram said that because of the lack of troops of the surrounding imperial army, they only sent one infantry squadron to reinforce the battlefield!"

"Eight Grids, is their commander a stupid pig?"

Major General Noda held back his anger as if he had found an outburst, and scolded directly!

"There are more than 100 people in the coal mine guard, and there are heavy machine guns, and the enemy dares to attack to show that they have at least twice the advantage of strength, and they also bring heavy weapons!"

"A squadron of imperial troops killed, and fought a mountain battle with the other party, don't when the enemy is not destroyed, but he will suffer heavy casualties!"

"Order: The front-line combat troops facing the Jin Sui Army will immediately send two infantry squadrons to reinforce the battlefield by car!"

"An infantry squadron that has been dispatched will kill the enemy first, hold off the enemy attacking the coal mine, and then gather and annihilate it when the follow-up reinforcements arrive!"

A few words popped up in the chief of staff's mind: "Jiang is still old and spicy!"

Just ready to give orders!

"Jingle Bell ......"

The phone rang urgently, and a staff officer quickly picked up the microphone, and after listening to it for less than a minute, the staff officer's face became more and more solemn!

Putting down the microphone, he hurriedly reported: "Sir, another coal mine has been attacked, and this coal mine is it!"

Seeing the position of the staff officer's finger, Major General Noda's face became more and more ugly!

As if thinking of something, his face sank and analyzed: "It is only ten kilometers away from the coal mine that was attacked last night, could it be that the Eighth Route Army that attacked the coal mine last night is still hiding in the forest?"

"If that's the case, don't let them slip away again this time anyway!"

"Order the Nakata Brigade to send troops immediately to reinforce the battlefield!"

"Jingle bell!"

The phone is ringing again!

The staff officer picked up the microphone and listened to it for half a minute, his face began to turn pale, he put down the microphone and rushed directly to the sand table, pointed to a coal mine above, and hurriedly reported: "General, this coal mine has also been attacked, but we have no mobile troops nearby to reinforce it!"

"Directly from the front-line troops!" Rear Admiral Noda made a decision after thinking about it for only a few seconds!

"The front-line troops who are facing off with the Jin Sui Army will draw two more squadrons out and march to reinforce the battlefield!"

"I judge that the enemy who is attacking our three coal mines is the Eighth Route Army that suddenly disappeared last night!"

"They gave us a plan to turn the tiger away from the mountain!"

"Let's mistake them for thinking they've returned to their base and focused all their attention on the blockade!"

"They took the opportunity to divide their troops, lurked around the three coal mines that were being attacked, and launched a surprise attack as soon as it was dark, trying to take down our three coal mines together!"

The chief of staff asked with a disbelieving expression: "How is this possible, does the Eighth Route Army have such a big appetite?"

Major General Noda replied with a murderous face: "Whether they have such a big appetite or not, they have done it now!"

"Three coal mines have been attacked one after another, and they have lost contact one after another, which is a bad start for us!"

"I wonder if there are coal mines occupied now, and the Eighth Route Army has begun to retreat!"

"Hiss......" The chief of staff was even more shocked, and gasped and shouted!

"General, even if this Eighth Route Army is very powerful, the attack speed can't be so fast!"

"The convoy of each coal mine has more than a hundred people, and they are also armed with heavy machine guns! Moreover, the members of the escort team are all retired veterans of the imperial army, and their combat effectiveness is very strong! There are more than 100 people, and it is not a problem to carry a battalion of the Eighth Route Army on the frontal battlefield! ”

Major General Noda replied with a calm face: "I also think that the analysis just now is alarmist, but I think this Eighth Route Army has such ability!"

"Last night, it took less than half an hour to kill our escort team of more than 200 people!"

"They have strong turrets and bunkers to defend and they are defeated so quickly! These three coal mines have no turrets and bunkers, and the defenders are also half reduced, so it is not impossible to be defeated in a short time! ”

"Let me think about it!"

"This Eighth Route Army is obviously different from the Eighth Route Army we usually encounter, they are well-equipped, strong in combat, and have the ability to attack fortifications, if they have taken three coal mines now, with the marching speed of our reinforcements, they will definitely run away when they arrive at the battlefield!"

"No, we can't pin all our hopes of killing this Eighth Route Army on reinforcements, they are likely to be in the three coal mines!"

"Here!"

Major General Noda pointed to a point on the sand table and ordered resolutely!

"The Eighth Route Army divided its forces to attack the three coal mines, and after the battle, it will definitely reunite and then return to their base area!"

"In order not to reveal their whereabouts, the most likely thing for them is to return to the base before dawn!"

"So their time must be very tight, if I were their commander, I would definitely choose a location close to the three coal mines as a meeting point!"

"It's very close to the three coal mines, so there's at least an eighty percent chance that they will meet here and then return to the base together!"

"Order: The Nakata Brigade is divided into a reinforced squadron to continue to reinforce the coal mines!"

"The other troops, under the personal command of Nakata Shaozuo, rushed here and put all the areas within a five-kilometer radius on alert!"

"As long as you find the retreating Eighth Route Army, surround them immediately!"

"Reinforcements rushed to the scene, once the air was pounced, the troops should not stop, immediately lead the troops to this point to kill, form a large encirclement around it, and wipe out the Eighth Route Army that came here to converge!"

Major General Noda is a battle-hardened veteran. If the sneak attack troops really came from the northwest of Jin, there was a ninety percent chance that his plan would have been in sight before!

However, his train of thought was wrong from the beginning!

It was not the Eighth Route Army in the northwest of Shanxi Province that attacked the coal mine, but the garrison regiment that he couldn't even think of killing!

Li Hao will not give him the opportunity to wipe out the three main companies in one go!

Li Hao has long been prepared for this!

Before the division of troops, there was a special order, complete the attack mission, and each company made a detour back to the secret camp on its own!

In this way, even if one company is targeted by the devils, the other two companies will be able to return to the secret camp safely!

And even if a company is targeted, with the command ability of three company commanders, they will try their best to lure the devil away from the secret camp to ensure the safety of the secret camp!

Despite the careful planning of Major General Noda's battle plan and the consideration of all aspects, it will still end in bankruptcy in the end!