"Call the intelligence officer right away!" The brigade commander was already eighty percent sure of his judgment, and he was in a hurry to give orders to the door.

Then he wrinkled his brow and fell into deep thought, as if he had forgotten the telegram that the Zhouji stronghold had been attacked.

The operational staff officer hurriedly reminded: "General, do you want to send troops from the surrounding strongholds to reinforce the Zhouji strongholds?" ”

The brigade commander waved his hand and ordered with an impatient expression: "Don't bother me with such a trivial matter, what to do, you can give the order yourself." ”

"When the intelligence officer arrives, let him come in and find me, no need to report."

While anxiously waiting, a telegram for help was also sent from a stronghold in the west of the city, which was also a medium-sized stronghold and needed help.

After waiting for another five minutes, the intelligence officer in charge of the military rank of Shaozo on his shoulders ran in, looking inexplicable.

The brigade commander was angry when he saw him.

If his judgment is true, a large number of Eighth Route Army must have poured in from Datong, and it was mainly a garrison regiment.

But so far, the brigade headquarters has not received any relevant information.

Regardless of whether the garrison regiment is an ordinary unit or a heavy artillery battalion, if you want to enter Datong, you must cross the blockade line.

There are many bunkers and turrets, garrisons and intelligence officers everywhere, and they don't even notice it, are they all pigs?

If it weren't for the fact that the military situation is urgent now, people have to be employed everywhere, and the brigade commander would have the heart to kill.

Shao Zuo also sensed that the atmosphere in the war room was wrong, and hurriedly walked up to the brigade commander, like a child who had done something wrong, and lowered his head and asked, "Your Excellency General?" Is something wrong? ”

"Give him all the telegrams for help that the brigade headquarters received just now, and see for yourself what happened to Datong?" The brigade commander ordered with fire.

After a few minutes, Shaozo's face was already covered with shock, and after reading the last telegram, he couldn't help but exclaim.

"It can't be!"

"General, you asked me a few hours ago to find out how many Eighth Route Army there are in Datong, although the specific results have not yet come out, but it will definitely not exceed two thousand. Moreover, they are all guerrillas and local troops, the main forces are very few, and the equipment is poor, how can there be such a strong combat effectiveness, and so many of our troops can be killed in just two nights? ”

"There's definitely a conspiracy in here that we don't know about!"

"Humph!" The brigade commander snorted coldly and asked: "Do you think that the front-line commander will risk going to a military court to lie about the military situation?" ”

"Everything in the telegram is true."

"In the south, north, and west of the city, there are strongholds that have been attacked by the Eighth Route Army and may be captured at any time."

"And that's not even counting the chief of staff in the east of the city."

"He commanded more than 3,000 imperial troops and imperial alliance troops to fight out of the city, and lost two-thirds of his troops in the battle of Chentouling alone."

"The rest of the troops have changed to raid the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army, and there has been no news back so far, there must be something wrong again?"

Shao Zuo looked through the telegram in his hand again with shock, and finally focused on the telegram sent back by the chief of staff.

Discovered the New World, full of shocked reports: "Heavy artillery ......"

"General, there is a problem with attacking the chief of staff's troops, it is impossible for the Eighth Route Army in Datong to be equipped with heavy artillery, only the garrison regiment in the southeast direction has!"

"Could it be that the garrison group is really coming to Datong?"

Seeing that Shao Zuo looked thoughtful, as if he had thought of something, the brigade commander hurriedly asked: "Has your intelligence department received relevant information?" ”

"Hey!" Shaozo replied.

"In the past ten days, our intelligence officers lurking in the blockade line have discovered that many Eighth Route Army troops have crossed the blockade line back and forth between Datong and the garrison base area!"

When the brigade commander heard this, it was clear and he was very sure that the main force of the garrison regiment was coming to Datong.

If you had known the news in advance, you would definitely have taken precautions, and it would have been much more cautious to send troops out of the city.

Unlike now, because of lack of defense, more than 4,000 troops were sent out of the city to die in just two days.

This is obviously a conspiracy of the garrison regiment, first secretly entering Datong, taking advantage of their own unpreparedness, weakening the strength of the garrison in the city by encircling the point and sending reinforcements, and then achieving their unknown purpose.

The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and he stared at Shao Zuo and scolded: "Since you have received relevant information, why don't you report it!" ”

Shao Zuo replied with a look of grievance: "The general is angry!" ”

"The humble report has been made, and it has been reported to the military department."

"But the reply from the military headquarters to us was that there were too many recruits in the garrison regiment, the combat effectiveness was very poor, and it did not have the offensive ability, so it was impossible to fight deep into the areas occupied by the imperial army."

"All we see is that the surrounding Eighth Route Army will send raw materials to the garrison arsenal, just let us strengthen the blockade of the border."

"Then general, you will let us shift our attention to the territory, collect intelligence on the surrounding Eighth Route Army, and cooperate with the main force to kill them."

The brigade commander thought about it, and that was really the case.

There will certainly be no mistake in the notification and order from the higher-ups, this is the first reaction of the brigade commander after receiving the telegram from the military headquarters.

The military department is right, then it must be the intelligence department under its command who made a mistake.

In addition, the military headquarters strictly ordered itself to strengthen the border blockade and not allow a single bullet casing to enter the garrison base area.

I didn't think much about it, I directly handed over the task to the chief of staff, and then pounced on the Eighth Route Army in Datong, thinking about how to eliminate them.

In this way, the reason why he was fooled in the past two days and made the Datong garrison lose troops and lose his generals, the real culprit turned out to be the military department.

No matter how bold the brigade commander was, he didn't dare to trouble the military department, so he could only hold back his anger in his heart.

After taking a deep breath, he ordered: "There will be no accountability for this matter." ”

"But it is a fact that the garrison regiment has entered Datong, and we must find out as soon as possible how many people there are, how well they are equipped, and what is the final purpose?"

"If it is Datong City, everyone must do everything possible to increase the strength of the Datong garrison and hold on to it."

"Also, since the main force of the garrison regiment has come to Datong, the military headquarters' report on the enemy situation of the garrison regiment is false."

"The garrison base area is definitely empty of troops now."

"If an imperial army takes the opportunity to kill it, it will definitely achieve great results, and it will also be able to force the garrison that attacked us back."

"I'll give you a day to figure this stuff out."

Shao Zuo was relieved, ran faster than a rabbit, and left the war room in the blink of an eye, afraid that the grumpy brigade commander would change his mind.

"You two!" The brigade commander turned his head to look at the two nearest combat staff officers.

"Remember the 16 strongholds I picked out earlier? Send them a telegram now. ”

"The troops set off immediately, gave up all their baggage and ammunition and advanced lightly, and marched quickly to Datong City."

"There are too few troops in the city, and they are mainly composed of the Imperial Army, which is very dangerous."

"If the target of the garrison regiment is really us, with their combat style, they will definitely not let go of such a good opportunity to siege the city."

"I want to make up for the losses of the garrison as soon as possible and not give them any chance."

The two staff officers immediately received the order: "Send telegrams and phone calls to them now!" ”

The brigade commander nodded, stared at the other staff officer and continued the order: "Order the gendarmerie to gather all the Japanese in the city, issue them weapons and ammunition, and temporarily organize an infantry brigade as a reserve in case of emergency." ”

"For the time being, I will immediately contact the military department and personally report my latest findings and judgments to the military commander."

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