Once again, the commander was frightened.

The shock in my heart was no less than hearing someone attack Datong City just now.

Quickly stopped, turned to look at the chief of staff and asked, "What did you just say?" Say it again? Who is attacking Datong City? ”

"It was the garrison regiment that attacked Datong City, not the Jin Sui Army!" The chief of staff was ready to be scolded, and met the commander's gaze and affirmed.

"This can't be?" The commander was dumbfounded.

"Didn't you say a few days ago that the garrison regiment was losing its troops, and the troops were all new recruits, with poor combat effectiveness and no offensive capability? How long has it been since they went to attack Datong City? Are you kidding me? ”

The commander also had a feeling of slapping in the face, and if there was a crack in the ground under his feet, he would definitely be ashamed to get into it immediately.

The chief of staff lowered his head and didn't know how to interface.

The commander could only stride forward, very anxious, and then ordered with the last shred of hope.

"Go to the war room, I want to talk to the commander of the Datong garrison on the phone in person, I still don't believe that it is the garrison regiment that attacks Datong!"

The headquarters of the Datong Brigade and the chief of staff who went out of the city to fight finally had news.

A second lieutenant took a small road to bypass the blocking position arranged by Wang Xin and returned to Datong City, and was taken to the headquarters when he entered the city.

"General, Your Excellency the Chief of Staff is dead!" The second lieutenant lowered his head and reported the bad news to the brigade commander.

"After our failed attack on the heavy artillery position, we were assaulted by cavalry, and we saw the chief of staff being chased and killed by a dozen cavalrymen, and then hacked to death by a sabre!"

The brigade commander clenched his fists, his lips almost bitten by his teeth from anger.

Staring at the second lieutenant, he asked, "What about the troops?" What happened to the troops that the chief of staff brought out of the city? Are there any other troops who have escaped and retreated with you to Datong? ”

When this sentence was asked, the brigade commander himself was not hopeful, but the chief of staff brought out too many troops, accounting for half of the Datong garrison. Even if only one infantry squadron comes back, it is a new force that cannot be underestimated.

The second lieutenant's head was lowered, he didn't dare to look into the eyes of the brigade commander, and after thinking for a while, he replied: "The Eighth Route Army is too cunning. ”

"First set up a pocket formation in Chentouling, and then arranged the artillery position as an iron plate, so that we would hit our heads and bleed there, and even on the way we withdrew to Datong, we arranged interception troops."

"After the failure of the assault heavy artillery position, there was only one squadron of the Imperial Army that managed to get rid of the cavalry pursuit."

"Most of them were stopped on the road by the Eighth Route Army, and only a few people like Beizhi escaped the battlefield and returned here."

The brigade commander's hopes were dashed, but he was a short-tempered man who refused to admit defeat.

Quickly adjusted his depressed mood, stared at the second lieutenant and continued to ask.

"You are the highest-ranking soldier in the attack force who has returned to Datong at present, and I want you to report in detail all the encounters of the troops after they left the city."

"It's too embarrassing, the battle has been fought so far, and we have lost more than 4,000 people, and we haven't even figured out the specific identity and strength of our opponent."

"Now only you know the strength of the Eighth Route Army outside the city, report it now."

The second lieutenant was relieved and hurried to report.

When it came to the Chen Touling ambush battle, the brigade commander's expression obviously fluctuated slightly, and he suddenly interrupted.

"I have an impression of the fighting style of the Chentouling ambush, as if it has been used by troops."

The deputy chief of staff understood and hurriedly rummaged through the filing cabinet next to him.

Two minutes later, he came over with two documents and reported: "The general is wise, it is the garrison regiment that has used this method of play, and it has been used twice. ”

"This is a battle report issued to us by the military headquarters: the garrison regiment used this method of fighting, and at least 5,000 of us were killed in two battles."

After reading it, the brigade commander sighed with emotion: "The chief of staff reacted quickly, if his retreat order was five minutes late and did not divide the troops in advance, a Chen Touling ambush would have wiped them out, and there would be no chance to break through at all." ”

"It seems that the one who ambushed the chief of staff was the garrison regiment."

With this judgment, the brigade commander turned his gaze back to the sand table and the second lieutenant: "You go on! ”

The second lieutenant continued to report his experiences outside the city, and soon spoke of the heavy artillery battalion.

The brigade commander interrupted again: "You said that the Eighth Route Army used anti-aircraft machine guns in the defense of heavy artillery battalions. ”

The second lieutenant was very sure: "This is the judgment of the chief of staff." ”

"He was near him when he was attacked, and the chief of staff said that the Eighth Route Army was using anti-aircraft machine guns, and then ordered the troops to retreat."

"I haven't seen them with my own eyes, but I have seen their power."

"A bullet flew over and could penetrate the bodies of three soldiers in a row, leaving two large holes in the front and back, the size of a fist. If you hit your limbs, you will be interrupted on the spot. ”

Seeing that the brigade commander was deep in thought with a calm face, the deputy chief of staff next to him suddenly spoke: "Your Excellency General, the Eighth Route Army operating in Datong is definitely not equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns. ”

"We've fought so many battles with them, and we've exchanged fire not a hundred times but dozens of times, and we've never seen them use them."

The brigade commander replied: "There is intelligence that the Eighth Route Army received a batch of anti-aircraft machine guns two years ago, and only units at the brigade level and above have equipment. ”

"I don't know why, the garrison regiment is also equipped with more than a dozen."

"So these anti-aircraft machine guns that appeared in heavy artillery positions must have belonged to the garrison regiment."

"The heavy artillery battalion is coming, the air defense battalion is coming, the cavalry battalion is coming, and the ordinary infantry is definitely coming."

"I am now 100% sure that the Eighth Route Army that attacked us is the garrison regiment."

Speaking of this, a staff officer came over very carefully: "Your Excellency General, the military department has called, and the army commander wants to talk to you personally." ”

"I'll go over now." The brigade commander replied.

"Just now I was still thinking about what evidence to use to convince the army commander to convince him that the garrison regiment had arrived in Datong, and then send troops to attack the garrison base area and cooperate with us to defend Datong City."

"Now I have a lot of evidence."

In the stronghold of Wufeng Town in the south of Datong City, the mountain artillery is like a target, destroying a machine-gun bunker every ten minutes.

On the road three kilometers away from the battlefield, more than 30 cavalrymen rushed towards the battlefield with their horses, preparing to attack and harass the Eighth Route Army on the periphery of the battlefield, so that they would be exposed to the enemy on their backs and reduce the defensive pressure on the stronghold.

"The front is to the stronghold of Wufeng Town, and the sound of firefighting is coming, and the stronghold is still in our hands, so we will speed up and kill it." The leader of the cavalry squad was a lieutenant, on a war horse, holding the reins in both hands, shouting as he charged.

Suddenly, three flames, one long and two short, burst out from the road less than fifty meters ahead, and then a dense burst of gunfire rang out in my ears.

"Enemy attack...... Dispersal ......"

The squad leader reacted quickly, shouting and leaning his whole body on the horse's back.

The oncoming bullets did not hit him, but they did hit his warhorse.

The painful war horse fell to the ground instantly, because the inertia brought by the wild run was too great, the war horse rolled on the ground twice before stopping, and then fell into a corpse.

The squad leader was very lucky, and when the war horse fell, he quickly jumped down, although he was also thrown and eaten, but there was no fatal injury.

However, good luck did not stay with him all the time, and as soon as he got up from the ground and was about to hide behind the corpse of the war horse, a bullet happened to pass through his chest.

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