"And what about the dozens of truckloads of supplies and weapons and ammunition we carry?" A second lieutenant reminded!

"People can walk on the slopes next to the road, but carts can't!"

"There are also those seriously injured and lightly injured people with leg and foot injuries, and they can't go on without a big cart to transport them!"

Matsumoto thought for a moment, gritted his teeth and ordered: "Food, supplies, all burned!" ”

"Since we can't bring it back, the Eighth Route Army can't even think of it!"

"All the weapons and ammunition are carried by the Imperial Association Army, and if they can be taken away, they will be taken away, and if they can't be taken away, they will be blown up!"

"As for the wounded, let the Imperial Cooperative Army carry them!"

The second lieutenant did not receive the order immediately, and continued to remind: "But in this way, the march of the troops will definitely slow down!" ”

Matsumoto glanced at his watch and replied, "It's okay to slow down, it's nearly eight hours before dark, and there are less than thirty kilometers left from here to the county seat, as long as we can get to the county seat before dark, it will be safe!" ”

On the high ground a few hundred meters away, watching the Japanese puppet army set carts of food and supplies on fire, and then burned them into fireballs, the commander of the first company of the mobile battalion was very heartbroken!

In his eyes, although the grain was still in the hands of the Japanese, it essentially belonged to the Eighth Route Army!

The little devil is burning food now, that is, burning his own things!

As more and more food is ignited, the heartache expression on his face becomes stronger, and he can't wait to rush out now, slaughter those Japanese puppet soldiers on the road, and snatch down the food that has not yet been ignited!

"Company commander, don't be impulsive, forget the battalion commander's order!" The instructor reassured in time!

"Look at the little devils on the road, machine guns, rifles, and grenadiers, all set up in good order, staring around with a vigilant face, just waiting for us to rush over and hit their muzzles, and throw ourselves into the net!"

"And the planes in the sky, hovering above us all the time!"

"Rush out now, that's to be a live target!"

"Don't look at the number of us, but we are still vulnerable in front of the plane, just one bomb can reimburse us all!"

The company commander slowly calmed down, clenched his fists and scolded: "Little devil wait, I don't believe that the plane can hover above us all the time!" ”

"I remember the regiment commander said that aircraft fuel is limited, and under normal circumstances, you have to return after flying less than two hours on the battlefield!"

"In an hour at most, the plane above us will leave!"

"When the time comes, take advantage of the time when the second plane hasn't come yet, and clean them up!"

"When the reinforcements arrive, we will act together and finish them out completely!"

Taiyuan Japanese Army Military Headquarters, time has passed little by little, and the atmosphere has become more and more dignified!

Half an hour ago, a farewell telegram was sent from Guangling County, and then contact was lost!

Twenty minutes ago, the plane going to Laiyuan City did not show any signs of developing the activities of the Imperial Army there!

The worst outcome of the entire counteroffensive is gradually appearing in front of the army commander!

The chief of staff suddenly walked in, holding a telegraph in his hand, with a solemn face!

Seeing the commander looking at him, he hurriedly walked to the sand table, pointed to a point and reported: "Sir, the aviation is in a hurry!" ”

"They are more than twenty kilometers away from Laiyuan City, in this hilly area, and they found a large number of corpses of imperial soldiers!"

"Along the road, nearly two kilometers of battlefield, there are corpses everywhere!"

"But they didn't find any troops of the Eighth Route Army nearby!"

Although he had expected it, the commander still replied with a calm face as if he had aged several years in an instant: "Sure enough, something happened!" ”

"I think I probably understand the combat thinking of the garrison regiment!"

"First find favorable terrain to ambush our attacking troops, quickly kill them, and then pretend to attack the troops to break the troops, open the gate of Laiyuan City, and kill them quietly!"

"Our left-behind troops in Laiyuan City must have been killed by the Eighth Route Army that entered the city before they could react, so they didn't have a chance to report the news of Laiyuan's attack!"

"Bage Yalu, can anyone tell me where the Eighth Route Army that attacked Laiyuan came from."

"Aren't their troops all on the front line? Why are there so many people lurking near Laiyuan! ”

The chief of staff shook his head and replied: "It's not clear for the time being!" ”

"But the lowly has already ordered the intelligence department to investigate."

"Also, in addition to the counteroffensive troops sent by Laiyuan, the troops sent by Guangling have also been found!"

"The plane has discovered the battlefield fifteen kilometers away from Guangling City!"

"Nearly a thousand corpses of the Imperial Army and the Imperial Association Army are lying there!"

"In addition, all the troops that broke through from the blockade line were intercepted and sneak attacked by small units of the Eighth Route Army!"

"The speed of the march of the troops is very slow, and the casualties are not small, and several troops have determined that they will not be able to reach the nearest county seat and stronghold before dark!"

"The attacking troops of the eight garrison regiments that penetrated deep into our hinterland were also difficult to deal with, and they disappeared from the battlefield after dawn!"

"No, to be precise, it's not to disappear, but to break it into pieces, and operate in the area occupied by the Imperial Army in a squad!"

"Attack the sustaining meeting that has not had time to retreat and the local armed forces that are working for the imperial army."

"Because their forces are too scattered and their targets are too small, the planes we sent to the battlefield have no threat to them, and several large strongholds and county garrisons took the initiative to attack them under the cover of aircraft, but they all returned in vain!"

"They did not engage in a head-to-head confrontation with our troops at all, constantly dispersed their forces, fought guerrilla warfare with us, waged warfare, and hid in the mountains with our attacking troops."

The army commander gasped and shouted, "The Eighth Route Army is trying to swallow our occupied area!" ”

"Imperial Army, Imperial Cooperative Army, Maintenance Society, Special Agent...... Don't let go of a single one! ”

"Eight Ge Yalu, swallowing so many things in one bite, aren't they afraid that they will be choked to death?"

"Order, the retreating troops can retreat to the nearest stronghold and county seat, and the imperial army that can't catch up with the stronghold before dark will not retreat, find favorable terrain to establish a defensive position, and fight to the death with the Eighth Route Army besieging them after dark!"

"They were consumed by the garrison in guerrilla warfare on the way to retreat, and they did not even see the shadow of the enemy before they died. It's better to stop and find favorable terrain and fight to the death with the garrison, so that they can still take out a few more Eighth Route Army before they are destroyed! ”

"At the same time, mobilize the intelligence services and find out at all costs what really happened last night? Where did the garrison regiment come out of so many troops? ”

"There are so many counteroffensive troops sent out by the two county towns, well-equipped and ample ammunition, how did they be quietly killed by the enemy, and they didn't even have time to send a farewell telegram!"

"Until these problems are clarified, this battle will not be able to continue."

"We are like blind and deaf people on the battlefield, and we don't even know how many opponents there are, where the troops are, and what the equipment is!"

"Finally, order all the large strongholds and county towns around Laiyuan and Guangling to strengthen their vigilance, these places must not be lost again!"

"Find a way to strengthen them with some heavy weapons, especially heavy mortars, which are sharp weapons against the flying thunder cannons of the garrison regiment and the siege mountain artillery!"

"I'm going to rely on them to build a new blockade and hold off the garrison!"

"If it is lost, the base area of the garrison regiment will continue to expand, the strategic maneuver space for fighting with us in the future will also be greatly increased, and the strength of the troops will also be greatly increased!" Fupin Chinese