The wing commander had just walked into the war room on his front foot when a staff officer came in on his heel.

He was an artillery staff officer in the command.

Looking at the Wing Captain, he reported with a solemn face: "Your Excellency, the Eighth Route Army is too cunning. ”

"They arranged more than a dozen mortars and mountain artillery that attacked us separately, and fired at the garrison of the baggage brigade in any direction, and the artillery needed time to distinguish and calculate their specific position before they could counterattack."

The wing commander immediately replied: "Hurry up and calculate, you must kill these artillerymen." ”

With that, he rushed out of the headquarters, climbed onto the roof, and raised his binoculars to look at the explosion site.

Explosions rang out one after another, and the fireballs rising from the ground had already joined into a sea of fire, illuminating the sky red.

"Boom ......"

Another series of earth-shaking explosions reached his ears, and the moment the fireball rose from the ground, a cart full of ammunition was blown away in an instant.

The ammo boxes were smashed everywhere like scattered flowers.

In the process of flying out, many munitions were detonated by flames and high temperatures, resulting in a larger explosion.

The Wing Captain's face became paler and paler, and his eyes were red, as if he were about to breathe fire.

Gritted his teeth and scolded: "What are the artillerymen doing to eat, why don't you fire the artillery!" ”

No one answered the Wing Commander's words, and everyone here knew that he was now furious, and whoever answered could be burned.

Half a minute later, the chief of staff suddenly shouted, with a look of excitement: "Sir, the enemy's shelling seems to have stopped!" ”

The sound of the explosion did fade, and the fireball began to thin out.

Half a minute later, the artillery unit began to counterattack, and the explosions at the baggage brigade station completely stopped.

The Wing Commander returned to the command and sat in his chair helplessly, knowing full well that he had lost the firefight tonight, and that he had suffered heavy losses.

As for the artillery counterattack, eighty percent will end in nothing.

The Eighth Route Army stopped firing half a minute earlier, which was enough time for them to evacuate their artillery positions and move to safety.

An hour later, the chief of staff, who had personally rushed to the garrison of the baggage brigade, returned.

His face was very ugly, and he lowered his head and replied: "Captain, the situation of the baggage team is even worse than we judged. ”

"Judging from the traces of explosions on the battlefield, in addition to the shelling, the Eighth Route Army also planted a large number of explosive packages in advance at the garrison of the baggage team, and these explosives were detonated during the shelling."

"The loud explosions we heard were all from explosives packs, not heavy artillery."

"The lowly had people light the crater, and they buried at least fifty explosive packs."

"Nearly eighty percent of the materials and ammunition of the baggage team were completely destroyed, and more than seventy percent of the troops were lost."

"The artillery unit lost one heavy gun, two mountain guns, four infantry guns, and 158 gunners, most of which were caused during the rescue of equipment."

"According to preliminary statistics, the remaining grain of the baggage team plus the dry food carried by the soldiers can last for six days."

"Ordinary ammunition can support the troops in two battles, and the shells are only enough for all artillery to fire for twenty minutes."

The wing commander forcibly suppressed the anger that was constantly surging out of his heart, listened to the report of the chief of staff, and then smashed his fist on the table in front of him, and shouted with a hideous expression: "The purpose of the Eighth Route Army's artillery bombardment tonight has been achieved, successfully destroying our baggage supplies, leaving us without food and ammunition. ”

"However, it is wishful thinking to use these carving insect skills to defeat us and force us to withdraw from the army."

"Immediately contact Your Excellency the Chief of Staff to report that the baggage team has been attacked and that the baggage ammunition has been lost heavily, and ask Your Excellency the Chief of Staff to immediately send troops to replenish our ammunition and baggage, and if possible, to make up for our lost ammunition."

"Tomorrow during the day, the troops will only attack and advance twenty kilometers."

"While waiting for logistical supplies, we searched for the Chinese who were hiding."

"The reason why the garrison dares to attack us so brazenly is that we don't have hostages in our hands that let them throw into the rat trap."

"As long as there are hostages in hand, their mines will be useless, and they will not dare to cover the imperial army garrison with artillery fire casually, let alone bury explosive packs in the imperial army garrison in advance."

The next day, as soon as the devil set off, just like yesterday during the day, the sappers manually cleared the mines in front, and the Imperial Allied Army followed to build the road, and finally the main force passed.

Hearing this news, Zhao Wen looked puzzled.

If it weren't for the fact that the remaining carts of the Japanese army were only 20% of the original ones, and there were several pieces of artillery, he would have doubted a little that the troops had really inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese baggage and artillery units last night.

Otherwise, in the style of the devil's eyes and retribution, he will definitely not be indifferent.

It wasn't until 12 o'clock in the afternoon that he figured out the Japanese army's operational thinking.

A scout rode a fast horse to catch up with the moving independent battalion headquarters, and saw that Zhao Wen was in a hurry to report.

"Battalion commander, instructor, there is movement in the Japanese puppet army!"

"A reinforced brigade of the Japanese army, a battalion of the puppet army, did not carry heavy weapons, and just suddenly broke away from the unit and killed it in the northeast direction."

"That's the direction into the mountain!" Zhao Wen blurted out.

The instructor's face changed at that time, and he said with a worried face: "Battalion commander, the people in the surrounding villages are hiding in the mountains, and you said that the purpose of the devils is not them."

Zhao Wen didn't speak, but his face had become more and more solemn.

The last face suddenly realized and shouted: "Instructor, the idea of the devil taking the common people as hostages has not been dispelled."

"After finding nothing in Huangcun yesterday and losing more than 100 cavalry, today I learned a lesson."

"On the surface, they are holding their troops and continuing to attack as steadily as yesterday, confusing us, but in fact they are secretly searching for the common people hiding in the base areas."

"When you find the target, you will directly send heavy troops to kill it, so as to avoid losing your wife and losing your troops again."

Liu Wenxuan also reacted, and replied with a solemn face: "Battalion commander, you must not let the villagers fall into the hands of devils."

"This is a death order given to us by the regimental headquarters."

Zhao Wen agreed and replied: "I really can't."

"If the Japanese puppet army has villagers as hostages, our mines will not be able to be used, and the artillery will not dare to cover their garrisons unscrupulously, and if they start a battle, they will definitely lose a lot of soldiers."

"The communication squad will immediately send people into the mountains to inform the local troops and guerrillas inside, and everyone will take action to cover the villagers and continue to move to the mountains."

"The guard company will set off now, march in a hurry to kill the devils, slow down their march at any cost, and buy time for the main force of the battalion to establish a blocking position."

"The first company, the second company, the fire company, rushed to the mountain pass to establish a blocking position."

"Build a few more lines of defense, block them layer by layer, and drag it until it gets dark, and the puppet army will definitely retreat."

"Other troops continue to keep an eye on the main force of the Japanese puppet army."

On the road, the face of the Japanese wing commander was very unexpected.

The garrison reacted too quickly.

The attacking troops were attacked less than an hour after they broke away from the main forces, and mine warfare, sparrow warfare, blocking warfare, all kinds of means.

As soon as the wing commander guessed, he knew that the Eighth Route Army saw its purpose: to slow down the marching speed of the attacking troops and buy time for the people in the mountains to transfer.

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