At such a distance, coupled with the Dark Castle to resist, the shock wave that poured in was only a little bit of power, but it still shook Kato's ears, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses.

One can imagine how bad the situation was for the Imperial Army near the point of impact!

Kato hurriedly raised the binoculars and looked nervously at the impact point just now!

A touch of despair slowly appeared on his pale face!

The impact point has turned into a huge crater, and a machine-gun bunker next to it has gone silent, as if the soldiers inside have died!

In the trench next to the bunker, several soldiers were blown out of the trench and lay on the ground, not moving!

"Sir, it's a heavy mortar!" The squad leader reacted and shouted with horror on his face!

The squad leader on duty reacted, and then added: "The Eighth Route Army's fighting style is still the same as the attack on the turret just now, the infantry feints, forcing out all our firepower points, and then the artillery fires to destroy our firepower points, and eliminate us little by little!" ”

Captain Kato scolded with a calm face: "Eight Ge Yalu, are you all stupid pigs? ”

"The turret and the machine gun bunker are so big that you can see it clearly with your eyes, just bomb it with artillery, do you still need to force us to shoot and expose the target through infantry feints?"

"Then why do they keep sending troops against us?" The team leader didn't understand, and asked rhetorically with a frown!

Kato's face was even more ugly, and he replied with a calm face: "If I guessed correctly, the Eighth Route Army is using us to train their recruits to train their courage!" ”

A veteran who has been on the battlefield for a long time commands a group of elites and has become someone else's training object, a whetstone!

This can definitely be called a shame for Captain Kato, a big failure in his military career!

But even if he figured it out and knew that he had become a whetstone for the Eighth Route Army, there was still no solution in the face of the two major killing weapons of heavy mortars and mountain artillery!

"Boom ......"

The explosion sounded again, this time very close to them, less than five meters away!

The moment the flames rose in front of their eyes, powerful waves of qi and shockwaves had already poured into the Dark Castle, shaking them unconscious on the spot!

"Heavy mortars will fire another round of shells, and the flying thunder cannon will also be enjoyable, and when it is set up, it will be fired, and a round of explosives will be packed!" Yuan Shan's gaze never left the battlefield, he could see the picture of the heavy mortar shell exploding next to the dark fort clearly, and at the same time, a touch of excitement quickly flashed on his face, and he ordered very decisively!

"The infantry is ready to attack, all bayonets, and as soon as the explosion is over, rush me forward, leaving no reserves!"

"When the battle is over, regardless of the recruits and veterans, everyone's bayonets will be stained with blood!"

"The squad platoon leader is responsible for supervision, whose bayonet is not stained with blood, I will ask the squad platoon commander directly!"

"Boom ......"

After a series of more violent explosions rang out in the stronghold, the battlefield was completely silent!

There was no movement other than sporadic gunshots and ammunition explosions!

Yuan Shan held a telescope and could clearly see every move of the Japanese position!

Several huge craters were scattered across the position, and around each crater lay many corpses in various postures!

The machine gun bunker that remained as it was stood alone on the position, and although it was not damaged, there was no movement in the bunker!

Several devils were not killed on the spot, lying on the ground, dragging their injured bodies to squirm on the ground, constantly screaming, very painful!

Inside the stronghold, a few figures have become frightened birds, strung around in the stronghold, and they dare not come to block the position!

Seeing this scene, a smile slowly appeared on Yuan Shan's serious face, and he decisively ordered: "Commander...... Blowing the trumpet of the charge, the troops began to assault ......"

In less than half an hour, the gunfire in the stronghold completely stopped!

In the open space in the middle of the stronghold, more than 300 puppet soldiers squatted there, nervous, worried, and happy!

In the barracks where they had just been held, there were more than twenty corpses, which had just died, and were still bleeding out.

They are all officers and backbones planted by the devil in the middle of the puppet army, and there are traitors who are desperate to give their lives to the devil!

"Company commander, we won!" The instructor rushed to Yuan Shan and reported excitedly!

Until this time, he had not recovered from the shock that this battle had brought to him!

A group of recruits attack a stronghold heavily defended by devils, and they can still do it cleanly, and end the battle in less than an hour!

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed it!

"How about the casualties of the troops!" Yuan Shan asked calmly, pulling the instructor back to reality from the surprise!

For Yuan Shan, this result was expected!

In a hard-fought battle, strength represents everything, which is the original sentence of the regiment commander to all battalion and company commanders before the battle.

On the frontal battlefield, in the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy and trickery are vulnerable.

For the Ninth Company, one mountain gun, two heavy mortars, four flying thunder guns, as well as two 81 mm mortars and two Type 92 heavy machine guns are the absolute strength in the mouth of the regiment commander!

In front of the steel cannonballs and bullets they fired, on the battlefield, no matter whether the opponent is a recruit or a veteran, as long as they encounter it, they will die!

The only difference is that veterans are experienced in combat, can dodge some deadly attacks, and live a little longer on the battlefield! Recruits are inexperienced, easily scared, and live for a shorter time, but this does not affect the final result of the battle!

That's why the Ninth Company dared to attack the Xiaozhuang stronghold, and Li Hao also dared to use a group of recruits to counterattack the Japanese army on a large scale.

At the mention of the casualties of the troops, the smile on the instructor's face disappeared at that time, and he replied very painfully: "21 people were sacrificed, eight were seriously injured, and almost one platoon was gone!" ”

"Half of these casualties were caused during the attack, and half were caused by the devils who hid in the middle of the puppet army after the troops entered the stronghold!"

"They have accurate marksmanship and rich combat experience, as long as the fighters they are targeting, they will either die or be wounded!"

"Finally, we brought in heavy machine guns to kill them all!"

Yuan Shan was also heartbroken, especially those soldiers who sacrificed!

A lot of people die without even seeing what the devil looks like!

But he knew that for an army to grow, casualties could never be avoided!

Only by constantly experiencing and surviving the fittest in the flames of war can the troops be reborn and grow into a real elite!

With a long sigh, he replied: "The casualties are a bit large, but the remaining soldiers are definitely not as afraid of going to the battlefield as they were before the war!" ”

"I'm sure that although the unit has one less platoon, the overall combat effectiveness is definitely only stronger than before!"

"Immediately draw people from the recruit company to make up for the losses of each platoon! The troops rested for half an hour, and then continued to set off, marching quickly to Gufeng Town! ”

"Contact the district squadron behind, hand over all the prisoners and wounded to them, and then organize the villagers to carry the weapons, ammunition and food we captured in the stronghold overnight! I looked, there were 50,000 catties of grain in the warehouse, and the Japanese puppet army had two months' rations. All of them are shipped back, not a single grain or bullet casing can be left! ”

"The third company of the county brigade will follow us and go to the stronghold of Gufeng Town together!"

"The cavalry company is on guard around it, and report it immediately if you find the enemy!"

The Japanese military headquarters in Taiyuan, the war room that was still quiet just now was suddenly broken by the ringing of the telephone!

The staff officer on duty grabbed the microphone and listened to it for less than a minute, and his face became solemn!

The microphone hasn't had time to put it down yet!

"Jingle Bell ......"

A new phone rang again, and it was two phones ringing at the same time!

The remaining two staff officers on duty were blindfolded, you look at me, I look at you, they both saw a touch of solemnity from each other's eyes, and then quickly grabbed the microphone and put it to their ears!

Sure enough, in less than a minute, the faces of the two staff officers also became solemn!

"Chief of Staff, something happened!"

The staff officer who was the first to answer the phone put down the microphone and reported to the chief of staff on duty who was resting next to him!

"The garrison regiment suddenly attacked our defense line from the base area, and the Xiaozhuang stronghold on the Laiyuan defense line has lost contact!"

When the chief of staff opened his eyes, he had not fully woken up from his sleep, and he didn't know where the Xiaozhuang stronghold reported by his subordinates was!

As soon as he sat up and was about to ask a clear question, another staff officer had already put down the microphone and hurriedly reported.

"Sir, the Guangling defense line has also been attacked by the Eighth Route Army, and the Baosheng stronghold has lost contact!"

"Sir, the Laiyuan Tianshang stronghold has been attacked by the garrison and has lost contact!"

Three bad news in a row reached his ears, and finally the chief of staff came to his senses, sat up from the bed, and then hurriedly rushed to the sand table!

The three staff officers quickly marked their respective reported strongholds on the sand table!

Before I had time to catch my breath, the phone next to the sand table rang again, and there was an endless stream!

"Chief of Staff! The stronghold of Guangling Kangzhuang was attacked by the garrison regiment and lost contact......"

"Chief of Staff, the stronghold of Hongyuan Town in Laiyuan has been attacked, the Eighth Route Army has used mountain artillery, heavy mortars, and flying thunder artillery, the offensive is very fierce, and the garrison has suffered heavy casualties, so I ask for reinforcements!"

From the first telephone ringing, in less than an hour, eight small flags representing the strongholds of the imperial army have been pulled out on the sand table, and several strongholds are being attacked, and it is still unknown whether they can hold it!

Seeing that the defense line used to block the garrison regiment on the sand table has been cut out of a large number of gaps, and even several strongholds in the hinterland of the imperial army occupation area have been pulled out!

The chief of staff is blinded!

Don't understand what the garrison is for?

With puzzlement and shock, he shouted out in a lost voice: "Bage Yalu, is the garrison group crazy?" ”

"What is this for? Are they planning to launch a full-scale counterattack against the Imperial Army with a group of recruits? ”

"Their commander must be crazy, otherwise he wouldn't have made such a crazy decision!"

"More than a dozen strongholds have been attacked now, and more than half of the strongholds have lost contact, and the total number of imperial troops lost must be more than a thousand!"

"Can anyone tell me how the garrison did it, how could a group of recruits have such a strong fighting force?"

"No, this matter is too big, I can't be the master alone, and I can't judge the real conspiracy of the garrison to do this, I must report it to the commander immediately and ask him to decide!"